Dear Editor:

- This letter is in response to
Ania Peled, who was angered
M because the bus driver kicked
a her friends off the bus.

; tOO, was once a teen,
and I, too, did the things you

“ I speak’ of, ‘but perhaps when

you grow up and mature, you

too will realize that society is

‘sick and tired of dealing with

inquent teens.

; ere do you get off
inking that just because
me. Of you were drinking,
¢ bus driver should be giad

weren’t driving a car.
sIt-is not. the ‘responsibility
driver to make sure you
get home: when you drink —

is your responsibility!

fLyou want to act like you
age, be responsible for
self, but ifit’s not a prob-
your parents that

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ea today’ s kids have it all and they Know it

you are outal nig, because,”
hey, they did it too, then ask
them for a ride.

I’m sure the driver didn’t

governments.

You can move out when
you are 12, drive when you
are 16, vote when you are 18,

drink when you are 19. God
knows what age will be legal
for heroin use when the gov-
ernment decides to legalize

Wednesday, November 26, 1997 — North Shore News — 9

that.

Mechele Wilson
North Vancouver
Mother of Four

(= Capilano
@ ex College

AT CAP

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Once again, the
Capilano College
Music Department is
presenting its very

just kick you off for nothing,
or maybe he did.

We live in a society, where
people are frightened of teens.

I'm not saying all are bad
by any means, but there cer-
tainly aren’t any laws to show
you children right from
wrong.

Parents can try to be as
wonderful, strict, forgiving,
and encouraging, as they can
possibly be, but let’s face the
facts here, we have no rights
and the police have no
authority.

You kids have it all, and
the saddest part is, you know
it!

I am_ not blaming
teenagers, | am blaming the

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CRAFT FAIR

Fight for freedom is never over

Dear Editor:

As an intermittent reader of the North
Shore News, I mourn the absence of the
Doug Collins articles, but find it sweet news
that the case against him and your newspaper
has come to nothing. As the whole free world
knows, he was not guilty of anything except

saying something that pernaps was derogatory

to those that held to sacred ideas.
Agree with him or disagree is your choice.
c miss him dearly. And let’s give thanks

ted white, m.p.

THE SEAL HUNT

Over the past few weeks | have
received a large number of phone calls
and pre-printed postcards protesting the
seal hunt, so | decided to share with you
the results of my investigation into this
emotionally charged subject.

First, by way of background, | have to
congratulate the International Fund for
Animal Welfare for managing to organize
such a significant “anti-seal hunt’? campaign,
although, as my enquiry found, not
everyone agrees that IFAW's portrayal of
the present day sea! hunt is fully consistent
with the facts. Nevertheless, their
“phonathon” into North Vancouver has been
well orchestrated, beginning with the sales
pitch, and then foliowing through with a
transfer of the call directly to my after-hours
voicemail at the Constituency Office. On
several occasions, my voicemail was filled
to capacity, with almost all of the calls
coming between 7pm and 9:30pm. Then,
two weeks ago the postcards started to
arrive at my Ottawa office, complete with
comments such as “How can you
politicians allow such slaughter” and
“I am absolutely disqusted that
people of your status and
intelligence are this stupid.”

CLUBBING SEAL PUPS

For the record, a decade or so ago, |
personally joined with many other
Canadians in opposing the clubbing, and
skinning alive, of baby seals. These days
however, contrary to impressions apparently
being leit by callers from the IFAW, the
killing of seal pups is illegal and is
not part of the licensed seai huni.
Unfortunately, this fact does not seem to
have deterred protest groups from using a
picture of a terror stricken sea! pup on the
pre-printed postcards they are handing out
for mailing to MPs, and, as a result, they are
managing to whip up some fairly emotional
reactions amongst those who are contacting
me.

Of course, for those opposed to ANY

_ Our supermarkets. in case you did not know,

entering the hunt, and the quotas are being

_ licensed activity. In other words, apart

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thar in this over-regulated, pedantic, sanctimo-
nious community we live in, common sense
does sometimes shine through. We need your
voice, Doug ... are you sure you want to retire?
This day is a victory for free specch, but let us
never forget that freedom is something we will
forever have to fight to maintain or, as current-
ly is the case, it will slowly be eroded away by
bureaucracy and regulation.

Warwick Palmer

Vancouver

advertorial, November 26/97

the seal harvest is restricted to adult seals
will be of no: comfort, even though there is
little or no difference between the seal hunt
and the commercial processing of cattle,
pigs, sheep, and chickens for the freezers of

in Atlantic Canada seat meat is featured in
some restaurants and can also be
purchased fresh, frozen and canned in local
supermarkets.

SUBSIDIES

The Reform position on the seal hunt is
that we are not opposed to the humane
harvesting of adult seals in numbers
consistent with maintenance of the
population, but we ARE opposed to the
Present practice of providing taxpayer
subsidies to those invoived in the hunt. We
feel that, just as for any other business, the
marketplace should be left to determine
whether the business is economically viable
and intemationally competitive, while the
role of the Government should be restricted
to regulating the industry and setting the
annual quota.

According to Reform's researcher on this
subject, the regulations already in place
appear to be working well. License holders
must complete a training program before

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set by Department of Fisheries and Oceans
scientists. In addition, there is no evidence
of depletion of stocks ~ the seai population
is so large that quotas are actually being set
at levels higher than can be reached via the

from protesting the systera of subsidies,
it is difficult to find anything significant
to criticize in the way the present day
harvest is conducted. The International
Fund for Animal Welfare may weil be
attracting a lot of donations through the
use of seal pup imagery, but as far as !
have been able to determine, saving seal
pups is no longer an issue. As
mentioned above, the killing of seal pups
is illegal and is not part of the licensed
Canadian seat hunt.

. killing ofa animals for human use, the fact that
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