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Economic summit

in two weeks

OTTAWA — Prime
Minister Pierre Trudeau
invited the provincial
premiers Tuesday to join
him in a private economic
summit at the close of a
first

ministers’ con-
stitutional conference in
two weeks.

Trudeau has _ refused
premiers’ requests during
the last nine months to
bold a pubh onomi

conference on grounds it
would be used for little
more than “fed-bashing”’.

“I would be pleased to
host the meeting

perhaps on the evening of

March 16, if that is
possible, and would favor
essentially the same

format we used for the
meeting on the economy
last June,” Trudeau said

in his telegram.

The invitation came a
day after Statistics
Canada reported there
were _ Signs the worst
recession nce the 1930s
was easing, although

Canada's Gross National
Product last year posted
its worst performance in
50 years.

Royal Bank
profits soar

MONTREAL — The
Royal Bank of Canada's
profits for the first
quarter ended Jan. 31
surged almost 40 percent
from year-earlier levels to
$112.4 million or 1.22 a
common share, Canada’s

largest bank = said
Tuesday.
Chairman Rowland

Frazee said the bank was
“optimistic that a general

economic recovery is
commencing and that its
effects will be reflected in
the bank’s earnings
performance” this year.

However, a lingering
sign of the recession was
evident when the bank
noted its provisions for
possible loan losses in-
creased 13 percent from
the fourth quarter to $113
million.

Banks described
as ‘Banditos’

OTTAWA — Canadian
Labor Congress president
Dennis McDermott
advocated Tuesday a
worker-based alternative
economic recovery
program that would
impose strict) public
control on Canada’s
banks

MecbDermott said
five major
like
huge
workers
from a
depression”
wages and

the
banks) were
“banditos” reaping

profits whale
were recling
‘planned
that cut real

promoted

unemployment.

“The power of the
banks to allocate credit
and manage the
movement of capital
within Canada and in-
ternationally must be
controlled,” McDermott
told 700 delegates at the
opening of ai two-day
labor ecconomic con-
ference. -

“The functions are far
too important, especially
in the context of an in-

dustrial strategy im the
national interest, to be
left to an unfettered

banking cltte

Seal hunt issue
confused

S1 JOHNS Ihe
Canadian Scalers
Association said bucsday

there was still a chance

common sense and
reason” could save the
$14) millhon East Coast
soaking industry

A buropean Com
munity decision to bap
importation of seal pup
pelts was “the best that
could be hoped for.” said
Kirk = Smith exccutive
darector of the CSA

Scaling Captaio
Mornsscy Johnson = said

the decision would oot

affect plans to send three
ships out) next month,
although hunters would
kill only adult scals The
land based hunt for adult
scals began in December

la Washington
Greonpcace spokesman
Peter Dykstra said the

EED yotc was “newWher a
victory nor a defeat ”

The proposal only
confused the tssuc and
raised the possibility the
15-year battle over the
hunt would be won by
whocver “gets through
the loopholes = first”
Dykstra said

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darndest but that’s it. I can't
take it any further.”

He adamantly refused
pleas to fight on by sup
porters who rallied round
after the council decision:
“No, I won't contest it
further, I want to be a good
loser and go down with
dignity. After 28 years (in
business in Dundarave) I'm
through. 'm going to retire.
It will be a relief to be over
with all this.”

However, it was “unfair”
he said, that council would
not even consider a last
minute compromise
suggested by Alderman
Dorreen Blackburn which
offered a glimmer of hope
for the pub plan.

She put forward a motion -

0 Ipport the application on

could simply have tabled the
matter, we often do that.”

This is the fourth time that
West Vancouver council has
turned down an application
for a neighbourhood pub in
Dundarave.

This latest attempt split
the community in con-
troversy with fierce feelings
for and against the pub.
Even the church was in-
volved.

Dr. C. Paul McKinnon,
from the pulpit of West
Vancouver United Church

Sunday, warned parishioners
at both services to be aware
of the public hearing and the
fact that a pub licence would
allow over-the-counter sale
of alcohol.

In fact, this was a non
issue because the Sagers
stated categorically that they
never had any intention of

in favour of the pub and 11
against.

Most opponents spoke out
against the increased traffic
and parking problems, the
dangers to children and
spoiling the quiet peaceful
residential atmosphere of
Dundarave: “If this is ap-
proved it will tear the fabric
of Dundarave apart,” said
Harold Kalke of Kalico
Developments Ltd.

Many of the pub sup
porters felt that people were
ovyer-reacting to i
problems. They were
concerned that if the pub
was not approved it might
mean the end of the Sagers’
restored building which
would be a great loss to the
community.

“This building is one of the
outstanding features of
Marine Drive,” said Julian

ger: ‘I’m going to retire’

“It would be a major over-
sight not to include a village
pub in the development,” he
said.

Tom Bellamy urged the
people of Dundarave to
grow up: “It's time we grew
up and took a = more
cosmopolitan view of these
things,” he said.

William Calder said it was
unfair to brand all young
people as a “pot smoking,
cocaine snorting, Ddottle
smashing bunch”. “You will

the pub with respect and act
responsibly,” he said.
Rosemary Willis pointed
out that she had grown up in
Manchester and on her way
to school passed half a dozen
pubs. “We never even
thought about it and we
never had any problems. It
was perfectly

condition that during the
week the pub would be open
from five o'clock in_ the
evening instead of 11 a.m. to
10:45 p.m.

This would solve the
problems— expressed by the
majority of objectors — that
the pub would be too close
to Irwin Park School and
that there would be a lack of
parking during the day, she
said.

She called on council to
allow Sager to comment on
the alternative hours.

But Mayor Derrick
Humphreys was fiercely
opposed to letting council
vete on a changed ap
plication and he overruled
her request to allow Sager to
speak on the issue.

“We have just held the
public hearing based on the
original application. This
would seriously deviate from
it,” he said. “From
discussions I have had with
our laywer 1 believe this
would make it a _ totally
different application and
there would have to be
another survey and another
hearing.”But Sager said later
he would have been
delighted with the reduced
hours of pub operation: “We
could have run it as a tea
room during the day and a
pub at night, that would have
been fine,” he commented.

And Alderman Blackburn
said afterwards she was
disappointed council would
not grant the leeway it
usually gives to applicants at
a public hearing and allow
Sager to speak.

And if it was a case of

getting more information on
the alternative hours) we

allowing over-the-counter
sales.

Although a private survey,
carried out at the Sagers’
expense, revealed that 66
per cent of residents within a
half mile radius of the
proposed pub were in favour
of the plan, council was
inundated with letters of
protest. Out of 58 letters
presented at the council
meeting 47 were against the
plan, 10 in support and one
undecided.

Marny Peirson, who wrote
to council and spoke at the
public hearing to protest the
plan on behalf of the Irwin
Park School parents group,
said that she feared “the
great danger to children
from intoxicated drivers.”

Also, she said, “police
reports indicate violence,
vandalism, theft. rape,
assaults, drugs increase in
areas with a pub.”

The West Vancouver
police department made a
study of the pub plan and
concluded that if a pub was
approved the police “could
expect a growth in crime
activity in the Dundarave
area.”

The police suggested a
number of conditions —
including hours’ of
operation, sufficient
parking. adequate lighting
and a hot line to a taxi
service — that the Sagers
be prepared to meet.

Although the crowd
packed uncomfortably into
the council chamber scemed
evenly divided for and
against the issue (the
children carrying placards
saying “No pub for Dun-
darave” went home before
the mecting ended) 13 spoke

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Rutherford, senior partner
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He commented that the
building was ideally suited to
be a pub and that residents

should be proud = and
thankful that the Sagers
were proposing it.

commented.

One of the most surprising
supporters was an avowed
lifelong teetotaller: “I
support this application 100
per cent,” he said. “I would
be pleased to patronize the
pub, not for the beer but for
the atmosphere.”

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