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ners. ©
_ .A report prepared for the Vancouver
‘Port’ Corp. by Gary Duke & Associates
Ltd. identifies four potential sites for a
new cruise ship terminal in Burrard Inlet.
Fwo of them are located in North Van-

couver.
The port corporation favors the siting of
a new cruise ship terininal in the central
waterfront area between Canada Place and
Main Street on the south side of the inlet.

But criteria identified by cruise line of-
ficials place a site east of Lonsdale Quay,
_ the Versatile-Cassiar complex, as the se-
cond ‘best site upon which to locate a

cruise ship terminal.

The Alaskan cruise business has grown
dramatically over the past decade.

This year,’ 18 ships representing eight
major cruise lines will bring more than
$106 million and over 360,000 tourists to
the Vancouver area,

The North Shore would benefit directly
and greatly, by the location of a cruise ship
terminal in North Vancouver.

There are seme missing pieces to the in-
frastructural puzzle to be solved in support
of such a facitity, but the investment
would be worthwhile.

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Let’s push for our share of the love boat

industry.:

LETTER OF THE DAY —

Defend anyone’ S right to express Views

Dear Editor:

Although most of. the time I
consider myself to be one of the
silent majority, I feel compelled to
uwrite to. you regarding the recent

-. ‘anti-hate amendments to the B. con
‘Human Rights Act... ; ;
These amendments are “nothing
more than'a vehement attack’ on
British Columbians’ freedom -of

speech, and a frightening abuse of .
power ‘by an. apprehensive gov- |

ernment.
This could very well be my last
. chance to speak out, because my
comments might be construed as

Publisher...
Managing Editor
Associate Editor
Sales & Marketing Director
Comptroller .

... . Pater Speck
“Timothy Renshaw
Noel Wright
Linda Stewart
Doug Foot

“likely to expose” our NDP dic-
tatorship to ‘‘hatred and con-
tempt,’’ as if they haven’t done
enough damage on their own.

I} am convinced that most of
what Doug Collins writes reflects
what the silent majority of Cana-
dians believe, only they are too
apathetic to speak up.

Even though I sometimes
disagree with Collins, those times
are few, and i defend anyone’s
right to express their views,
whether | agree with them or not. ©

As Noel Wright suggests in his
coluinn (Friday, June 11),

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“Freedom of speech always hurts
SOMEBODY’S feelings.’’

Government and special interest
groups have to realize that life is a
two-way street.

Commeats made by some
groups are completely against my
beliefs, and yes, a few might even
hurt my feelings.

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DEAR CANADA: Just a few lines to wish you meny
happy returns of tomorrow — your 126th birthday. To
me, having lived with you now for 38 years, you're looking

better than ever.

And why not? You're still, and
always will be, one fabulous hunk
of real estate — now, since the
Soviet Union split up, the largest
in the world under single Gwner-
ship. Rich in resources, much of
you is spectacularly beautiful,

~ with sophisticated modern cities

and a Prairie breadbasket big
enough to feed an entire conti-
nent.

No wonder the UN named you
last year the best place on Earth
to live. So why all the moaning we
constantly hear on every side to-
day?

Since there's obviously nothing
wrong with you yourself, Canada,

there must be something a bit odd “

about quite a number of Cana-
dians. Including the 1.6 million or
more jobless and the 10% on.
welfare. ‘

Maybe it's understandable for
them to feel this country isn’t
working right for them any more.
But naturally they're wrong, None
of their misery is YOUR fault,
Canada.

it's PEOPLE, not countries,
who produce global recessions like
the one that’s brought grief to
every industrialized western na-
tion, not just to Canadians.

It's PEOPLE, not countries,
who let themselves be bribed into
electing politicians incapable of
doing their job — and who then
despair of the whole system, cry-
ing that the sky is falling in.

And it's PEOPLE, not coun-
tries, who suffer identity problems
like the one afflicting many Ca-
nadians as a result of living too
close to Uncle Sam. After all, we

talk and eat like Americans, watch -

“mostly American TV and read

" American magazines. ‘
We play American footbail Gor

of) and America’s national ga
baseball. We copy American
cheerleaders and marching
bands. We hold American-style ,
political conventions. We run our
election campaigns with Ameri-
can-style hoopla. And according
to a recent Maclean’s/CTV pall,
20% of Canadians would like to
join the U.S.

In short, Canada, you're inhab-
ited by some pretty forgetful types
and tomorrow's the day to jog

{ thoroughly accept that it is ~

their right to say what they want,

so long as I am able to refute

their opinions without fear of be-
ing. carted off to the hoosegow.
Rand French

North Vancouver

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HITHER AND YON

their memorics again.

To remind them that there’s no
more magnificent land on Earth in
which to succeed or fail, to be —
happy or miserable. Nowhere on
the planet offers greater physical
opportunities for achievement, en-
joyment and self-fulfilment. What
we mike of them is up to us.

Twenty years ago Trudeau's
election campaign theme was:
“The land is strong.’’ When un-
tainted by politics, that phrase
says it all.

Havea wonderful Canada Day,:
my great big beautiful country —
and the same to all fellow Cana- -
dians who see you with MY eyes!

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... Congrats to publisher Will
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Tory candidate to succeed the late
Chuck Cook — but don’t sell

your magazine too fast, Will. By
November an important female
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today, June 30, to West Van’s -,*
Mary Speck, wife of News.’

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‘publisher Peter. ... And also to-

clay, a 94-candle birthday salute:
to North Van’s Violet Robinson.

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