AB - Wednesday,

November 21,

1984 - North Shore News

Even the cat laughs!

HERE WAS A HELL of a good story in last

Friday’s paper.

It carried no news headline

but in more senses than one there was more
behind it than anything else that appeared that day.

I'm talking about that full-
page ad that took up the
whole of Page Two. ‘Our

Schools Are The Best,"" 1
trumpeted. “‘Let’s keep them
that way.’’ Then we saw the

smiling faces of four CARE
candidates for schoolboard,
three of whom were elected,
which means that CARE now
has six seats out of seven
So, what's the story?
This: that the B.C.
Teachers Federation retained
its control of the board and
won a key battle. One adver-

Gisement didn’t do it, ob-
viously. But ads like that
don’t come cheap. It was a

symbol of union-power and
teacher-power. lt also signall-
ed the feebleness of the pea-
sant Opposition.

The election was all
democratic, of
especially, in the sense that
the Squirearchy was
democratic in the U.k., and
the Family Compact in Up-
per Canada. The peasants
didn't stand a chance. Right
through the campaign,
money was no object to the
BOCTF, nor to ats child the
North Van Teachers
Association

They could afford an ot-
tice. The peasants could not
They didn't have to depend
on passing the hat round to
get the money. The peasants
did) They had fancy signs
The peasant’s stuff looked as
if wt had been put together in
somebody's basement The
peasant’s party didn’t even
have a mame

It the squire’s side spent a

very
course,

penny, it spent $20,000 It
also had all kinds of free
umon dabor (CUPE, for ain
stance, was in like Flynn)
But there's no point in asking
how much the BOCTE side
spent, because squires are
secretive about such things

The amprovernished peasants,

get this
straight

by =
Doug Collins

meanwhile, spent about
$2,500
The result was that Ross

Regan was the only one to be
elected who can truly claim to
represent the public at large
Margie Goodman lost her
seat by one vote, and if she
doesn’t get it back on a re-
count Regan won't even be
able fo get a seconder tor a

motion C AREF —meaning
the BC TE- will reign
supreme

Goodman hopes she

doesn't win on a recount A
businesswoman, she wonders

why in heaven she’s been try

Ing tO look after the mterests
of people who like
C ARE and Co don't care
about their interests She
could be out there making
more bucks instead of worry

Ing about school Costs
She's applying to pet her
L oSooitizenship back When

She does,

she plans to boy ott

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brave, where teachers and
unions don’t rule the roost.

Sour grapes, you May Say.
Good mddance, you may Say.
But she has a point.

The point is that a well-
heeled group with vested in-
terests (teachers’ salaries,
class sizes, Cadillac condi-
uions, etc.) can run things in
North Vancouver School
District No. 44, and District
No. 44 is to the BCTF what
the battleship Bismarck was
to Germany.

It was in District 44 that
the BCTF broke ground for
Restraint Bill exemptions. It
could do so because the
board chairman—Roy
Dungey—1s a member of the
BCGEU, which was prepared
to bring the province to a
standsull on the same issue.
That’s what you call net-
working.

You can now expect the
board to say yes to everything
the BCTF wants. Then the
board will blame the govern-
ment for any education cuts
and lay-offs sthat become
necessary. Never mund that
top teachers are already pull-
ing in $43,500, plus benefits.
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Dear Editor

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flagrant violation of the law
of this land.

He ts now able to continue
to flaunt the law and engage
in his lucrative business.

It is my earnest hope that
there will be an appeal on
behalf of the ones who are
given no choice — the
children who are deprived ot
hfe at the hands of a doctor
Eileen Burns
North Vancouver

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