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' Winnipeg delegates, has swung hard to the right .

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Little e guy $

ECENT shenanigans i in the health field
point to the need for someone to stick
p for who appears to be the little guy

— those receiving and paying for health care.
Take the example of a new contract negoti-
ated on behalf of North Shore Home Support
workers by the B.C. Government and Service

“ Employees’ Union.

Workers were represented at.the table and so
was management. The clients —- the elderly and

. others who require in-home care — weren't. If .
they were, the agreement ‘reached would cer-

tainly not have been approved. Home. support
workers, who had been with their clients for

_ years, were removed and placed elsewhere.

That’s very stressful for older people and a
needless byproduct of negotiations.
It’s indicative of where clients rate in the

‘totem pole of i importance,

THE confusion in which.
Canada’s small-c conserva-
tives find themselves this
week almost tempts one to’
fantasize about drafting Bob

. Dole here.

We're talking about the 1,200-
delegate Progressive Conservative
policy convention opening tomor-
row in Winnipeg. Its goal: to figure
out a platform and strategy that
will sweep it from its present two MPs to at least
Official Opposition status in the election expected
next year.

To its right, in the western prairies and moun-
tains, the de facto Opposition — a nervy Reform
Party — talks bravely about forming the next gov-
ernment in Ottawa. But it has slumped in the polls
to tic now with the PCs at 12% each, and remains
virtually shut out in Ontario, Quebec and Auantic ~
Canada. Sympathetic onlookers politely bite their
lips.

P Meanwhile, charismatic PC leader Jean Charest
has troubles in his own backyard..His party’s youth
wing, representing nearly one-third of the

with a series of amendments to official policy reso-
lutions that make last month’s Reform Party con-

vention in Vancouver look almost like a gathering

of pinkos.

“deenseavasersrenscecsreqeertesss iioal

CHIEF?... | THINK
WE'VE LOCATED THE
CAUSE OF THAT BIG

SINKHOLE.

lament

Someone is s needed to keep an eye on health _
care expenditures. For example, Lions Gate
Hospital boss Bob Smith resigned and received

Not all
teens are
monsters

Dear Editor: .
lam writing in regard to the
cartoon that was in the paper

“on Sunday, Aug. 11..The car- «

toon was called The Five Stages *
of Man, and depicted men from
infant through senior. The

~ teenage male in the cartoon was

drawn as a drooling beast. The -,
senior in the cartoon Was. read ii
ing a newspaper, upon which all .
ue the headlines Pere about
teen violence. I found this car-
toon disgusting and very insult- ;
ing.

I am a: 16-year-old girl,
going into Grade 12. This car- .
tec may imply that it is only”.
the teenage males who are ‘the
monsters, but this implication’

f also extends to teenage females’

as well. There are a select few.
teenagers who think it’s cool to
commit violent'crimes, and do,
but why use’ these: few. to ruin

‘the image: of all teens?) We:

aren’t all alike. We are -the
future generation, and most’ of,

“us are trying to. change’ thing

Don't blame us for, everything
that is’ happening

‘now, because much’ of i it ‘is

: : problems and fears,” prejuidic

a payout of nearly $330,000 — $250, 000 of

that in severance pay.

He left after he was passed over for the job / |

of North Shore Health. Board CEO. That job ©

went to Inge Schamborzki, who: received
$212,752.44 in salary aud $28, 262 in benefits’
when she left her Vancouver Hospital post in.
1993. We can’t afford this merry-go-round,

With more. payouts and contract niegotia- |
tions looming, and patients complaining ‘of,
long waits for surgery and terrible’ food. at
Lions Gate, it’s time for the little guy ‘to have; a
strong voice in health care.

We need someone at the, negotiating ‘table,
approving payouts and listening to patient
complaints. And reporting to the he public.

|

ing fi future still

‘for the brief interludes of Joe Clark and John:

Among the demands of the

‘-we learned from you. Sure; Ww
hi

sometimes do: stupid
but we're human too,

| For once,’ Why. can’
-media: write‘a story “about: the’
. positive. things’ teenagers ‘do.
Our negative image is partiall
aided ‘by the tnedia. Cartoons’
like this don't help! ‘Hopeful

‘someday the older generations’

will realize we are: their equals
however much they may hate i

-Please.don’s think ‘all teenager

are bad; we have our faults,

(every age group. does,

* discriminate: against us

we're all in‘it together and

to respect cach other.
Geddes ‘

North Vancouver

Preston Manning's
one glaring exception.

Alas, it's the one exception that torpedoes any
hope ofa PC-Reform alliance to oust the cynical,
fumbling, bumbling Chretien Liberals.

Charest insists on enshrining the concept of
“distinct society” for Quebec, Manning righdy
knows that “distinct society” status for Quebec has
no hope of acceptance in B.C. and Alberta —- and
that the harder it is pushed there, the more the
flames of western separatism are fanned. °

Aside from underestimating how strongly the
west rejects any special privileges for Quebec,
Charest has one other strike against him. Except

Tory under-26s are: capital pun-

~ ishment; a 20% fax cut; an end

to affirmative action; immediate
deportation of law-breaking
immigrants and refugees;
restricted social programs based
on “deserving” need; and boot
camps for bad teenagers.”
harest, who believes
Conservatives must show “a
hunian face,” will have none of
it and commands enough mod-.

" erate convention votes to shoot down the radical
youth proposals. That may still leave an uncom-
fortable internal rift in the party. At the same time
it will confirm how minor the policy differences -
now are between mainstream PC members and

*s “sanitized” Reformers -— with

’ Chretien a

', with the prob!

/ Turner, Canada has had a prime minister from
“ Quebec for the past 28 years. Indeed, ‘the birth’:
and growth of today's “Quebec’ problem s the
direct legacy of the Trudeau, Mulroney: and -
ministrations.

, Why would yet another French-Canadian
minister be expected to have any more succes:

lem than his three predecessors?

Despite Charest’s persona! popularity natio
wide, that’s the further question that can’t be
ignored by the five million ‘or more’ small-c conser
vatives among Canada’s 14 million voters in 1993

“On all these counts they still face a political;

«future shrouded in fog. ft's unlikely ' to lift much, i

at all, this week in Winnipeg. ..
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STILL 10 DAYS to catch Michael Brouillet’s e
watercolor and ege tempera works, and Wilfred
Alinas’ innovative pencil and mixed’ media studies
on exhibit at West Van Library until Aug. 31. Active
Canadian Federation of Artists members, the tw
have many paintings in private collections. we
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WRIGHT OR WRONG: To’ break a bad habit
drop it.

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