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Jim Humphries

Charles

Lawrence Boothroyd
West Vancouver

Bob Hunter’s stand
on zoos supported

Dear Editor:

This letter is a rebuttal to Cap-
tain R.L. Hall’s open letter to Bob
Hunter, Reader Slams Hunter on
Aquarium Stance. His letter was in
response to Bob Hunter’s Dec. 21,
1988, column on the death of the
baby killer whale in the Stanicy
Park Aquarium.

1 want to say that I am in total
agreement with Mr. Hunter's views
and I feel that Captain Hall was
overly critical and, also, misin-
formed. | feel Mr. Hunter is a car-
ing, sensitive individual who is op-
posed to cruelty and the exploita-
tion of animals and mammals, in
sharp contrast to the policies and
practices of many zoos.

Animals in zoos are often kept
in inadequate, unnatural condi-
tions and live out their tives cou-

fined to pathetic boredom and
apathy.

I wonder if Captain Hall is
aware that, to get a ‘“‘specimen"’
for display in a zoo, whole animal
families in the wild are often killed
to get one baby of the species. |
refer to Dian Fossey’s accounts of
the slaughter of families of African
mountain gorillas and the conse-
quent injury and suffering endured
by the captured baby gorillas while
awaiting shipment to zoos.

I am completely opposed to the
principles of zoos. An animal
should not be subjected to a life-
time of confinement just to give
mankind something at which to
gawk. How much nicer, and more
realistic, to view wildl,. on film in
their natural, wild state.

D. de la Mare
North Vancouver

Statement may cause grief

Dear Editor:

I attended a recent open house
in the District of North Van-
couver. The house for sale includ-
ed an illegal registered suite, which
a prospective buyer was concerned
about.

She required this mortgage-
helper in order to purchase, but
wondered what would happen in
1995, when she would no longer be
able to rent the basement suite.

“There won’t be any problem,’’
the real estate agent assured her.

“You'll be able to continue renting
as before. Council isn’t serious
about this, or there may even be a
new council by then.”’

It’s obvious that this type of
say-anything-to-get-a-sale philoso-
phy is going to cause a great deal
of unnecessary hardship six years
from now.

Is this the line being taken by
local realtors? Or did I just stum-
ble across a bad egg?

G. Carrol
North Vancouver

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JIGRATION ISSUE

7 - Friday, April 21, 1989 - North Shore News

, Different opinions sought

Dear Editor:

In his column of March 12, Mr. Doug Collins pro-
ceeds to further illustrate the alleged evils of certain
immigrants ‘‘...their kids are going to school as
English as a Second Language students, we are the
suckers who have to pay for it. So maybe they are
stealing after all.”’

Can it be assumed that immigrants who buy homes
pay school taxes? If so, then they are stealing as much
as any of us who have children in the public school
system.

One of the main reasons we get a ‘free’ education is
so that our children will have the qualifications to
become employable and productive citizens. This in
the end is a benefit for all of us. Possibly Mr. Collins

would like to see a user-pay educational system in
Canada.

In the same issue of March 12, Mr. Bob Hunter
sends mixed feelings in his column. On the one hand
he tells us not to be ethno-centric, but on the other
hand he warns us that we are for sale and aie about to
be bought just like the Indians were bought out. This
begs the question: Are we going to end up on white
reservations? And how soon?

The current immigration trends and policies are
challenging our perceptions of what is Canada and
who is a Canadian. | would appreciate reading some
opinions that do not provoke fear or hate.

Irene Mohr
North Vancouver

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