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_'TED WHITE is under fire for
_- his rejection of a federal grant

. for a Lower Lonsdale “beauti-
“fication”

” project.

By lan Noble

and employment

News Reporter «

- White, : the North Vancouver
Reform:.MP, said he has’ studied
taxpayer funded job: creation - pro-
grams: and: concludes they — “are

White announced he had given a

‘thumbs ‘down to.a Lower Lonsdale

‘for... more

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. Association (LLBA)
pplication for an $11,734 grant in

March JS: ‘advertisement in the

‘The full LLBA application was

Maintaining urban areas is. not
municipal-tax specific, éspecially
in. areas attracting —_ tourism,
Kranenburg said.

White added he was shocked to
learn the LLBA was approached by
the Job Creation Program directly
to’ participate in a “job creation”
Program using federal funds,

The program is not dead. —

North Shore. Job — Creation.

Program officer Salim Kaba said

White's rejection presents a‘ road-

block ‘that Lloyd Axworthy, the
Minister”: of-. Human ‘Resources

Development’ Canada, can drive:
over.

If. Kaba and. others, at his office -
‘want ‘the | program to” go through,
“they will send it to the minister for
.a decision. ;

Kaba’ said he supports the pro-

than:,:$35,500,.. with ~:

7800 going “to: pay. three .UI°.”

efit
$425 a-week and the rest to mate

ae)

ie Kranenburg,

topped ‘up, to:

.posal, but it. has not been fully —

assessed by the Jocal review board.
. Previous proposals rejected by

White have met a mixed fate at the .

hands of Axworthy, who has reject-
ed some and accepted others, said

‘Kaba.

Input from North Vancouver
City on the proposal has also been
requested,

Although federal Job Creation
Program supervisor Mary Nolan
said the application was for the UI
benefits, .Kranenburg said the
LLBA hoped both would be
approved,

Nolan added the aim of the Job
Creation Program is not to specifi-
cally create long-term employ-
ment. Instead, the program aims to
maintain and enhance skills of
workers.

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