A Wyma fines Coes 7) 6 - Sunday, March 25, 1990 - North Shore News (A re LISTEN, WHEN | SAID | WANTED 10 TRANSFORM Ws OFFICE INTO A PRESIDENCY... oY Rees Market the environment ing North Shore-based Mohawk Oil Co. Ltd. illustrate the prob- lems facing the entire recycling move- ment: the concept has to be sold to the consumer or it will remain only a con- Tie MARKETING problems fac- cept. Mohawk, which participated with a host of North Shore companies in the past week’s Globe ‘90 environmental conference, has been a leader in recycling used B.C. oil since 1982. The company has sunk over $15 mil- product. new oil. dirty oil generated in B.C. But Mohawk’s plant is currently runn- ing at about 60 per cent capacity because consumers have not been sold on the Re-refined oil misguided stigma of being inferior to retains the While the provincial government is committed to using recycled oil products in government vehicles, companies like Mohawk need more participants if they are to survive and make such invaluable lion into the oil recycling business, and it has refined its operation to the point where its technology is being sold abroad and the oil it produces is as good as the oil produced from virgin crude. Mohawk's North Vancouver plant can process 33 million litres of used oi! an- nually, which is virtually all the usable QUOTES OF THE WEEK?” “At a time of restraint, when there’s not enough money for health care, Lions Gate seems to be spending money on health destruction.’’ Dr. Rodney Glynn-Morris, commenting on the decision by Lions Gate Hospital administra- tion to spend $25,000 to build a smokers’ lounge at the hospital. “I really get annoyed when I’m exposed to someone else’s smoke. I try to make it a practice of not associating with smokers. I can’t understand why people persist in it.” Dr. Brian O’Connor, the North Shore's chief medical health of- ficer, commenting on smoking. “*t thought he (Mulroney) was cut- Publisher . Associate Editor welcome but we cannol envelope Peter Speck Managing Editor Timothy Renshaw Noe! Wright Advertising Director Linda Stewart North Shore News, fousded in 1969 as an independent subutban newspaper ang qualitied under Schedule 111 Paragraph Il of the Eacese Tax Act. 1s published each Wednesday. Friday and Sunday by Norih Shore Free Press Lid and distributed to every door on the Nort Shore Second Class Mail Registration Number 3669. Subscriptions North and West Vancouver, $25 per year Maiting rales avaiable on request Submissions are accept tesponsibilty tor unsolicited Matertal including Manusenpts and pictures oy which should be accompanied oy a stamped. address.2d ting back (women’s centres) to o if- set the deficit. It must de very dif- ficult to be a Conservative today.”’ North Vancouver City Ald. Stella Jo Dean, commenting on federal government fiscal management. “Much of the abuse stems from using the question period as a forum for making a speech to council, often in a very uncivilized manner.”’ West Vancouver District Mayor Don Lanskail, commenting on reasons for limiting to 15 minutes the question period at the beginn- ing of each council meeting. “On this occasion you have a municipality which is not par- ticularly cognizant of the way in THE VONCE OF NOMTHO ANNE WELT VARCOUVER 1139 Lonsdale Avenue. North Vancouver, BC. V7M 2H4 59,170 (average. Wednesday Friday & Sunday) SDA DIVISION Display Advertsing Classified Advernsing 986-6222 Newsroom 985-2131 Distribution 986-1337 SUNDAY | WEDNESOAY + FRIDAY Subscriptions 286-1337 North Shore owned and managed Entire contents © 1990 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. concepts as recycling work. Governments must do more than pe- nalize polluters. They must provide en- vironmentally-driven companies with tax breaks and marketing support. must help seli the concept of recycling in the open market. Without that help nei- ther recyclers nor recycling will survive. They which projects are tendered and how the construction industry operates. They got themselves into a bit of a mess on this project.’” David Webbe. vice-president of Darwin Construction Ltd., com- menting on North Vancouver District Council’s decision to pull the plug on the proposed $5- million Karen Magnussen wave- pool project. “Civil disobedience may be the order of the day.”’ North Vancouver Association president Jack Stevens, describing what action might be necessary if the provincial government forces the North Van- couver School Board to go to ref- erendum to pass the board's 1990-91 budget. Teachers’ 980-0511 MEMBER Therapy for Meech x _ — and its audience! THE AILING patient named Meech Lake has revived slightly after being given an experimental injection and is no longer looking quite as sick as a week ago. Such was the gist of Prime Minister Mulroney's TV address to the nation on Thursday. Aside from that, neither the PM nor the political heavyweights who follow- ed him did much to enlighten two out of three of their viewers about the patient’s true condition or its causes. A recent poll showed that 70 per cent of Canadians haven't a clue what Mecch is all about. Since each of Thursday's speakers im- plied, in effect, that Canada itself could die if we don’t ‘‘accept the challenge”’ of restoring the patient to health within the next 12 weeks, the situation, to say the least, is unique. It could be the first time in his- tory a nation has expired with two-thirds of its citizens unaware that their home and native land was suffering anything worse than a mild bout of indigestion. But now, they’re going to be in- volved willy-nilly in crash therapy for Meech, prescribed by New Brunswick Premier Frank McKen- na and endorsed on Thursday by Mulroney. The issue is to be hand- ed over to a special Parliamentary committee, which will hastily or- ganize public hearings across the land. PUBLIC hearingz, please note — at which citizens at long last will be able to sound off on Meech face to face with their elected repre- sentatives, as should have happen- ed two years ago. Given the very short time frame, the hearings could become quite a donnybrook — dominated by those members of critical interest groups such as native peoples, feminists and Senate reformers, who have grasped what Meech does to them. They’ll be watched — if the polls are right — by a bemused majority of the population grow- ing more confused all the time by the din. Yet the gut problem with Meech is relatively simple. The document as it stands denies the right of the nation’s electorate to decide national policy. Firstly, because it retains the obnoxious 1981 ‘‘notwithstanding”’ clause which allows any province to over- ride the Charter of Rights —- as Quebec did on. English signs. te CONSTANTINE Orbelian ... world acclaimed. QUEBEC’S Bourassa ...not even a comma. Secondly, because future constitu- tional amendments can be vetoed by any single province, making Senate reform, among other things, virtually impossible. All 10 provinces must ratify the accord by June 23, or it’s dead. Three (including N.B.} refuse to do so without changes. st so far, Mulroney and his client, Quebec Premier Bourassa, woni‘t let even a comma be altered. Hence, the im- passe they're talking about. Whether Dr. McKenna’s crash therapy will work is anyone’s guess. While we wait, the only medication Dr. Wright can prescribe for those readers who have difficulty digesting Meech is to take three newspapers a day and one newscast every hour on the hour. CAUTION: Do not exceed stated dose. If symptoms persist, consult your psychiatrist. net TAILPIECES: Looking forward again to an early sell-out for its next season is North Shore Com- munity Concerts, the association whose members enjoy world-class talent during the fall and winter at the Centennial Theatre — tomor- row, March 26, bringing them in- ternationally acclaimed pianist Constantine Orbelian. The 1990-91 subscription campaign is now under way and new member ap- plications can be made to NSCC at 316-1345 Chesterfield Ave., North- Van V7M 2N1 ... Get tips on in- expensive cooking for entertain- ment on Wednesday, March 28, from Mona Brua — 1:30-2:30 p.m. at Silver Harbour Centre ... And congrats to the newest ““Golden Club”’ recruits — Wilf and Daphne Bancroft, 37-year North Van residents and active members of St. Andrews U.C., who tomorrow, March 26, celc- brate their 50th anniversary. nee WRIGHT OR WRONG — a prayer by Peter Marshall: Lord, when we're wrong, help us to change. And when we're right, make us easy to live with!