Dazzling duplication of costs

Dear Editor:
In a recent survey by Jack
Davis big government was

considered the greatest
threat by the majority.

I don't believe any
government, provincial or

federal, are innocent of this
offence in Canada.

Like a cancerous growth
government programs just
grow and grow with very
IMtle consideration of ef-
ficiency or cost to the
taxpayer.

There is one example I
would lke to cite which
Started very innocently. It
came home from school -
under the heading “Captain
Click program”. It was
sponsored by ICBC (the I
Can't Bear It Corporation).

The idea was to encourage
children to wear their seat
belts which seems

reasonable until one looks at
the highly moralizing and
emotional approach
posters which read “Dear
Grandma, my friend Tommy
got killed today. The driver
was drunk” done in a child's
handwriting. Or the page in
the coloring book with a

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Enjoying our
heritage news

Dear Editor:

We have been receiving
the North Shore News since
it began and have enjoyed it.

We read especially news
of City council, St. Paul's
Indian Church, Old Houses
and Pioneers like the story
on the daughter of John
Lawson and her stove house.

The North Shore Heritage
Advisory Council will be
making recommendations
soon for designation of

heritage buildings.

Also whatever happened
to the illegal suites hassle
that George Alexander
wrote about in your issue of
Oct. 13, 1976?

My wife reminds me there
was a referendum in the City
recently and the verdict was
in favour of legalising the
illegal suites.

David C. Grubbe
North Vancouver

Not those
guys again

Dear Editor:

I read your paper twice
weekly as most people do
but I have finally felt it
necessary to take the pen in
hand and wnite about a re-
ocurring feature I have seen
in your paper that really irks
me.

I'll set the scence:

Location - this vanes from a
park toa garbage dump
Action - a shovel of dirt or
the snip of a nbbon

Actor - City Mayor Jack
Loucks and District Mayor

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huge child lecturing minute
parents on safety. I decided
to look further into this
program. To my amazement
it was mammoth with
curriculum books, animated

films, puppets, conferences,
etc.

The total of the ICBC
safety programs in our
schools is just over two

million dollars!

Why should any caring
parent object to safety being
taught in our schools? I don't
but I question why ICBC has
such an extensive and ex-
pensive program designed
{which some school boards
have refused) and of which
only portions may ‘be used
throughout the province.

I also question’ the
program because already the
RCMP (paid with our tax
dollars) are in the schools.

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The B.C. Safety Council
(which received a B.C.
government” grant of
$200,000) has an extensive
school program as well.

Surely it would make
more sense and save tax
dollars if ail these groups
were amalgamated under
one umbrella so they would
not be duplicating each
other?

How many other
“educational” programs are
being presented at huge
costs to our school boards

and why aren't they
questioning the worth,
duplication and costs of

these programs?

If big government is going
to be controlled it would
seem to me this must begin
at the local level.

Sue Cook
North Vancouver

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