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THE PRESSURE CONTINUES

news viewpoint

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Not neighboriy

North Vancouver District. It separates
new arrivals from established neighbors
and residents are rightly perturbed.

The issue revolves around the Panorama
Drive area and a two-year neighborhood
rhubarb over a Deep Cove marina owned by
K.J. Kim. For those who might have missed
the stery as it unfolded, Indian Arm boat
commuters who used the marina’s dock facil-
ities initially complained to the district about
the dilapidated state of the marina and
demanded it be overhauled. Council agreed.

But Mr. Kim pleaded poverty, telling coun-
cil that he could not afford to repair the mari-
na, which raised the ire of local boaters.

He could, however, afford to upgrade the
marina and dock if approval from council
allowed the affixed upland property te be
rezoned into expensive waterfront housing

est cone IS alive and well in

lots. The move further raised the ire of some
Deep Cove residents, who saw a lucrative
trade-off in favor of the marina owner.

But approval-in-principle was granted in
November 1994 for a seven-lot singte-family
subdivision on the marina site.

At council’s Nov. 27 meeting, some resi-
dents voiced approval for the proposed subdi-
vision and how the marina had been run over
the past few years. But not everyone was
happy with the deal.

A development with security gates that will
separate the subdivision from the rest of the
surrounding community is not neighborly.

One resident at the Nov. 27 meeting opined
that the gated development signalled the start
of Los Angeles-style yuppie subdivisions.

Hyperbole, perhaps. But it does signal the
erosion of open neighborliness in Deep Cove.
Let’s hope it’s not the next North Shore trend.

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Dear Editor:

Your article “Photo radar
receives rough ride” by Anna
Marie D'Angelo was very wel-
come.

It says that there will be a
speed tolerance of !0 knvh or
the speed traveled by 85% of
the vehicles. This in itself is an
indictment of the speed limits.

No one wants to speed; we
want the speed limits changed,
Most highway speed limits go
back to the concept of energy
conservation, not engineering
or traffic accident studies,

The poiice, some politi-
cians, and ICBC say ‘t is for
safety. Well then, why are not
speed limits of 30 km/h in the ©
city and 60 knvh on the hi;
way? Wouldn't that be sai

If tickets are not for cash
then why do the police use se
many tricks and traps to catch
speeders.?

The entrapment is worse
than that used for criminals, I
saw them setting up a photo
radar unit at the bottom of a
long downhill on the highway.
And, this stretch was just after a
passing zone where the passing .
cars, those going fastest, would
te coming downhill. Tell me
that won't be a money camera.

Here are some reasons
speed limits should be raised
where it makes sense:

@ All drivers will save time,
and this is worth a lot to them;
@ Drivers will not have to pay
as many speeding tickets;

M Police attention will be
diverted back to prevention and
apprehension of crime;

Respect for the police will ne
up. How can you respect a .
son hiding behind a hill all the
time? .
Bart Brooks
West Vancouver

Beancounters go racial in ‘96

PARDON ME, but do you
happen to be a “black
white” or a “Korean Latin
American’? None of my
(blankety-blank) business,
you retort.

Personally, I agree with you.
Oniy don’t give that answer next
May 14. It will cost you $500.

For the first time the 1996 cen-
sus will ask Canadians to identify
their racial background or back-
grounds.

The 11 census form boxes
dreamed up by Statistics Canada’s
beancounters for this purpose are
already causing howls of protest—
mixed with hoots cf mirth.

Wright

Lebanese, Moroccan).

grating into the mainstream tend to
teject hyphenated titles and prefer
to think of themselves merely as
“Canadians.”

Numerous of them have already
expressed disgust with the ques-
tions, which some say smack of
“apartheid,”

For white racists, on the other
hand, statistical proof of the highly
visible changes in the population
over the past 15 years is like wav-
ing a red rag at a bull — especially
as StatsCan freely admits the data
will be used by Ottawa to beef up
equal-opportunity laws.

Happily, for students of the
ridiculous, there's a lighter side to
the race quiz — as noted at the

hither
and yon

On the detailed census form to
be sent to one in five households
tespondents are instructed to “mark
or specify more than one, if applic-
able” of the following for each
household member:

° White. ¢ Chinese. « South
Asian (e.g., East indian, Pakistani,
Punjabi, Sri Lankan).

* Black (e.g., African, Haitian,
Jamaican, Somali).

¢ Arab/West Asian (e.g.,
Armenian, Egyptian, Iranian,

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* Filipino » South East Asian
(e.g., Cambodian, Indonesian,
Laotian, Vietnamese).

¢ Latin American ¢ Japanese. «
Korean.

¢ Other — Specify.

The howls of disgust from all
points on the spectrum are easy to
understand. Race remains a power-
fully divisive issue in Canadian
society as a result of the country’s
immigration policies since 1978.

Immigrants successfully inte-

beginning of this column.

First the classification oddities.
Turks are “West Asians,” Greeks
next door are “white.” Somalis and
Haitians —— 8,500 miles apart and
with very different traits — are
lumped together simply as “black.”

Then there's the immigrant,
born and bred in Britain of a
Jamaican mother and English
father? He must tick off both
“black” and “white” on the form.
What about that “Latin

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American/West Asian” Brazilian
(he had an Armenian great-
mother)? Or the blond, blue-eyed :
“Japanese” girl (dad was a Swede)?
And how about their offspring? .
The fact is that the endless vari-
ety of racially mixed kids being
produced by growing immigration
and intermarc: ese will make this —
1996 snaps‘acx .. our multicultural
mosuic obsDlete ing before the
2006 census. ok
Its only other effect will be to _
needlessly stir up social tensions

and raise too many blood pressures . -- §

to dangerous levels.

Why can’t the politically correct
bean-counters at StatsCan figure
out more peaceful and useful ways
to amuse themselves?

SING ALONG with the Christmas
Carol Service from Highlands
United Church Sunday, Dec. 24,
at [2 noon on CBUT-TV, Cable 3
.. And a very happy 80th birthday
Friday, Dec. 22, to West Van's
Mary Pearson.

WRIGHT OR WRONG: Success
is making a living doing what you
like best.

: ~48sayr