Keep it up

Dear Editor:

Your article en North
Vancouver Liberal candi-
date Warren Kinsella was
very interesting = and to the
informative. I would like because it
to commend your
reporter, as well,
avoiding the sort of
vicious persona! attacks
Mr. Kinsella has been
subjected to by other
senior individuals at the
North Shore News.

Two recent examples
of this include the vicious
column your pro-racist
columnist Doug Collins
wrote about Mr. Kinsella,
and the attack your man-
aging cditor Timothy
Renshaw made on Mr.
Kinsella in Vancouver
magazine.

Tt was nice to see jour-
nalistic fairness, for a
change. Keep it up.
Christopher Shahabi
North Vancouver

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ted white, m.p.

Parliament over the past week or two
provides plenty of evidence that our
parliamentary system is badly in need of
mejor reforms. it is possibly the most
repressive and feast democratic in the
industrialized world, and serves almost
exclusively as a tool for the enactment of
. @ political agenda, instead of being a too!
for enactment of the will of the peapte of
Canada. In contrast, the Parilament of
Britain, mother of cur own Parliament, is
way ahead in terms of permitting free
votes by MPs, and the parliaments of
other countries, Australia and New
Zealand for example, have changed their
House rules to facilitate a more
democratic approach.

Here are a few examples which —

illustrate the scale of the problems within
the Parliament of Canada.

BREAKING THE RULES

On March 11th, Liberal MP John Bryden
rose in the House to complain that his
privileges as an MP had been breached
because the Justice Committee was already
studying a. Bill which had not yet been
debated in the House. He pointed out that
this was a blatant infringement of the rules of
Parliament which state that a Bill cannot be
considered by the Committee until after
debate in the House.

Jotin argued that because there had not
been a.debate, he had _ insufficient
information to allow him to ask pertinent
questions in the committee hearings. | also
spoke in support of John, thanking him for
bringing the problem to the attention of the
House, and asking the Speaker to consider
that the actions of the Justice Committee
impinged upon the rights of every MP, not
just John. In rebuttal, the Liberal Chair of the
Committee stated that she had the right to
hold the hearings because committees can
make their own rules of conduct. She made
it clear that she considered it within the
powers of her Committee to ignore the rules
of the House so that Justice Minister Allan
Rock could ram the Bill through as quickly as
possible.

OLSON AND SECTION 745

On March 10th, Reform forced an entire
day of debate on the Justice Minister's
refusal to repeal Section 745 of the Criminat
Code, the provision which made i possible
for Clifford Olson to ask for early release.
The mainstream media ignored our efforts of
course, no surprise there, but the really
annoying aspect of the day’s work came

Dear Editor:

Lteel that I must respond
March 16
reflects similar
responses [ received trom
for various pet associations when
1 contracted them asking for
help in locating my missing
was reprimanded for
tving my dog up.

My dog did not live out-
side on achain. If Tam guilty
of anything it is of indulging

On the night Lizzie was
taken, she was playing with a
rawhide chewy toy.

T tet her have this favorite
of hers a little too soon after

The rawhide expanded in
her already full tummy and
made her sick.

I thought that a little
fresh air would help her
while I cleaned up the mess.
That is when I did what !

rarely do and tied her up
outside.

Tt took me 10 t0 15 min-
utes to clean up and when IJ
went out to get her I found
my puppy was gone and the
search began.

Anyone who knows my
family knows that my dogs
are relatively spoiled but well
behaved. .When someone is
home, they are almost always
inside with us.

Lizzie and my other dog
had so many toys in the
house we were contemplat-
ing building them a toy box.

They go for walks daily,
camping or fishing on week-
ends and in Lizzie’ s case,

letter

once an hour to relieve her-
self (since we were still house
training her.)

Many have criticized
tying up a pet, One cannot
let chem run free for safety

advertorial, March 26/97

A FRUSTRATING WEEK

An analysis of the proceedings of -

the Government used its power to defer the
vote to a different day. This had the
effect of denying us any media coverage of
the vote, which if it had taken place would
have clearly shown the Liberals to be
responsible for the tack of action with respect
to Section 745.

It is interesting to note that the
Government power to manipulate the
outcome of a vote by choosing when it will
take piace has been virtually eliminated in
the New Zealand Parliament. New Zealand
MPs’ when they are absent from Partiarnent
attending constituency events or fulfilling
other commitments, can vote by proxy. They
simply phone their votes in to the Party Whip.
We can only dream of such a civilized
approach in Canadall! -

TIME ALLOCATION AND VOTES

Surpassing its already impressive record,
the Government on March 13th once again
moved time allocation to restrict debate on a
Bill. This raises the question of course: “If
Reform is such an_ ineffective
opposition, as the media would ask
you to believe, how come the Liberals
have moved time allocation and
closure on more Bills than ever
occurred under the Muironey
Government?” The fact, is Reform is so
effective as an Opposition, that moving time
allocation has become commonplace for this
Government. ~

A further distortion of democracy
occurred on March 13th when the
Government commenced a vote almost 10
minutes before the expiry of the 30 minute
bells which were ringing to call MPs to the
House. As a result, many MPs were denied
an opportunity to vote, and in yet another
denial of voting rights, the Speaker on March
12th ruled that a group of clauses in a bill
had passed, even though it was clear that
there were more NAYS than YEAS. She
ignored Reform MP Ken Epp's Point of Order
on the subject and repeated that the clauses
had passed. So, in what is called “Committee
of the Whole”, with no debate whatsoever,
the Government easily voted itseif another
$30 billion in spending money.

A FARCE
Sad though it is, much of what
happens in the House amounts to
nothing more than a farce, with all of the
decisions made well before a vote ever
takes place. Unfortunately, our Parliament
is destined to remain a place of the
parties instead of a place of the pecple,
as long as old-line politicians have

control of the proceedings.

Ted White, M.P. , #302-1200 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver, B.C. V7J 2A2, Tel.: 666-0585 Fax: 666-0509

she was also taken outside”

Wednesday, March 26, 1997 — North Shore News —

AN ETT PN S12 aT

reasons. What can you do?
Keep them in the house 24
hours 2 cay?

Not everyone can afford a
coupie of thousand dollars to
fence a yard and 3 penned
dog is, to me, the worst
option.

So what are the options
when vou have a pet that is
bigger thar, a lap dog?

Like many others I do nor
betieve that a dog should
spend its life tied on a chain.

Bur I do believe it is a rea-
sonable method to keep the
pet home and out of harm
providing the following con-

Pet treatment defended

ditions are met: this is not
how the dog spends the
majority of the day; there is
sufficient room to move and
play; exercise/play and lov-
Ing attention are freely pro-
vided; fresh water is easily
within reach; afl waste is
cleaned up daily; and the dog
has protection from the ele-
ments.

If these minimum basics
are provided, I see no reason
why one cannot have a happy
dog that is confined to the
yard by being tied up.
Kathleen Smith
North Vancouver

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