6 - Friday, March 29, 1985 - North Shor: News Editorial Page News Viewpoint Running to win The main fear of rightwing and centre voters may ke lessened somewhat by the time the next provincial election i is called, possibly as carly as 1986. The fear has been that ballots cast for a third party could split the anti-socialist vote and so let in the NDP. But some recent developments may encourage risk-taking next time by those seeking a viable alter- native, The Liberals, led by Art Lee, have finally received an open-ended endorsement by fed- eral Liberal leader John Turner and are now busy seeking out quality candidates for all B.C. ridings. Wholehearted support at fast from their federal brethren should, in itself, ersure a measurable improvement on their dismal 2.7% of the popular vote two years ago. Moreover, Premier Bennett's fortunes deteriorate further--and if the national ‘hone:moon with Prime Minister Mulroney is _ by. then turning sour--the backing of the Ot- » tawa Grits could prove even more effective a year or.so down the road. :There’s a joker in the pack, too, in the shape of fermer NDP cabinet minister ' Graham. Lea’s fledgling United Party, which claims: ‘some modest growth even among disenchanted Socreds. Lea, however, is a re- ‘alist who'has already flirted once with the Liberals, If the combined strength of the two groups eventually suggested some reasonable hope of an electoral majority, the possibility . ~ that they might yet cut a deal seems at least: “Togical.. If the acute polarization of B.C. politics i is ever to change, a ‘third force’ alone is not _enough. It must also convince voters that it can WIN. |The other. foot! ps y; ignoring . _bells summoning MPs to ™ vote: the -Tories, ‘then’ in opposition, once, shut’ down, Parliament for 15 - days—forcing the Trudeau grits to reconsider an horrendous piece of - legislation. / Now (laugh)). the governing Tories wani to end this hey should. blush with shame.: ‘A small “opposition pirty needs ‘all the legitimate “| -weapons available against the arrogance of 2 |” overwhelming government. majority. | ’ Display Advertising - * 90. 0511. 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Maiting rates available on request. No ‘esponsibility, accepted for unsolicited material including manuscripts and pictures which should be accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope. Member of the B.C. Press Council . n't 65,770 (average. Wednesday SDA DIMISION Friday & Sunday) , Beto, ag seers asst THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE I ,on January Led by Roy Rogers or The Lone Ranger, the White Hats, after suitaodle escapades in dry gulches and up blind canyons, dispatched Black Bart and other desperados to jail, or better, to Boot Hiil. That honorable tradition . is upheld today in cinemas. The settings may have changed from Dodge City to another galaxy, laser guns may have replaced Colt 45s, but Luke Skywalker rides _just as tall in his version of a saddle, and his victories are just as clear cut. Judging from the popu- larity. of this type of movie, there is. a great collective need for such unambiguous conflicts, The problem comes when we apply the same stereo- | types outside of the fabulous ~ of reforming ‘indelibly “‘right wing’’. _ many, such a label conjures” up visions of Simon Legree. or a sweatshop master, - at. N THE THEATRES of my youth, it was com- forting to sit back and watch the White Hats battle the Black Hats. By TONY CARLSON world of entertainment. There, the simplistic pigeon-holing of groups and individuals fails ta reflect the complexities of reality. Take, for instance, * the political theatre,’ where Good Guy-Bad Guy labels .are too often -replaced by Right Wint-Left Wing. .Of course, who's’ good and ‘who's bad depends on your point of view. If a person speaks in favor the Unemployment Insurance system, or against legislated ‘affirmative action, he or she is branded immediately and For the very least. There are just as many: people who would rise to denounce as ‘‘left-wing’’ those who hold opposing opinions on those issues, with all the negative images those words can convey. The point is two-fold: first, terms like “‘left-’? and ‘right-wing’? have taken on a life of their own. They are. loaded with emotional bag- -: gage and provoke in many people strong reaction that - cloud the real issues. Second, such stereotyping cannot hope to do justice to the overall viewpoint of a. group or person. Labels do provide handy references for all:ofus to sort out the variety of in- formation with which we are confronted daily. But to think that a peison who supports a revamped UI system is a “'right-wing’’ in- sensitive, irresponsible bad person, is to simplify to the point of absurdity. LETTER OF THE DAY | ; Go for one big incinerator Dear Editor: At the District of North Vancouver Council meeting 14 Alderman McMinn moved words to the effect that.the District pro- ceed with all haste to close the Premier Street Dump and transfer our garbage to the Burns Bog Landfill site. This is all very fine and who could really argue against it. However, it was the same Alderman wearing the hat of general manager of Con- tinental Environmental Systems Ltd. who proposed bundling and transportation of Lower Mainland waste to the defunct Craigmont Mine mar Lower Nicola which is short distance from Merritt, B.C., saying in effect ‘‘Let us get rid of our garbage by dumping it on someone elses doorstep?”’ Lower Nicola and other , Small communities like it are still people like the rest of us who don’t want their water . supply polluted, their streams killed, their air polluted or their health threatened. We are all in this together and one person’s garbage is no better than the others, it all stinks and now like no other time have we got to start thinking about each other. It is going to cost a couple of bucks but this senseless jum- ping at substitutes for’ the right solution is going to cost us not only more bucks but in . the end a threat to the health of the entire nation, Leaders in our govern- ments are going to have to forget their petty political ex- pediences and. make the: plunge across. all; political ::” lines and come up with what appears to me as .the’ only sane..solution to. the. whole problem, and that is the one outlined in Scenario 1 — Mass Incineration-— of the recent report put out by the Lower Mainland‘Refuse Pro- ject. This would see all bur- nable waste taken to a 3,000 tonne per day mass burning Incinerator on Annacis Island. The residue ash would be buried in Burns Bog along with non-incinerable waste. The key factor here would: be a State of the Art installa- tion with the best modern technology applied to reduce embarrassed - him. That kind ‘of knee-jerk classsification as about as much chance‘of. giving a true picture of the total person as . does a -;biitterfly\: collector who thinks his . specimens, pinned : in’ meticulous order in cases, capture the essence of those living breathing’ or- _ ganisms which _ flutter so « freely i in nature, :. : It’s? like’ “callin, Roosevelt’ '*handicapoped’’ because: he required? a wheelchair; an : accomplishments. Het Think “too” what . would have beceme of Einstein had ° he been branded ‘slow’, because’ he took so long: to’. learn to speak; or Churchill, who had such a poor school - record because his stuttering _ Tinto . Silence. . In the finial analysis, from whatever . perspective, any pigeon hole is. still very ¢ con- ” fining. ° _CFIB Feature s Service the chance of air pollution to the lowest possible point. . Coupled with this would have to bea program of education Of the people in the matter of ‘recycling, the encouragement “of industry by governemnit to modernize their production methods to eliminate many harmful substances contain- ed in their present products. We better bite the bullet now - as later. Time is running out, the joyride is over, Now is the time for strong’ leadership. Small regional ‘incinerators are not going tobe the solu- tion since it is unlikely. that their standards would be as high as one central one fund- ed sufficiently to demand the highest standards. ‘ C.F. Vage North Vancouver