MAILBOX Be patient with immigrants Dear Editor: In response to the letter of Me. Scott Sutton, Collins praised for patriotism: These immigrants are willing to learn from the local people. No one intends to change the Canadian culture. However, these immigrants came from different cultural backgrounds. They definitely cannot thoroughly give up their cultures. This world is changing; almost everything is changing. No mat- ter whether you like it or not, it is a fact. No one is going to hurt or take anything away from others. We just have to be pa- tient with cach other. Every immigrant can con- tribute to this country one way or another. Yes, it is (rue that some immigrants are not wel- comed to this society because of their attitudes and the crimes which they may bring. Yet most of the immigrants are as good and kindly as you are. What they want is to live here peace- fully. They have to get used to this cultural system. It takes time. Have you ever helped them one way or another? Generosity, kindness and friendship used to be a part of Canada’s European heritage. Ken Huang North Vancouver Give Doug pink slip Dear Editor: it’s long past due that your family newspaper gave Doug Collins the pink slip. His recent ludicrous pomposi- ty that immigrants are mongrelizing Canadian society is a bunch of gobbledygook. Adolf Hitler quoted “that a picture is worth 10,000 words.” A picture of Doug Collins is only worth one word — racist. I would write to Doug Collins, but he may write back. O.J. Minichielio North Vancouver Population growth needed Dear Editor: I am a little puzzled by Noel Wright’s Oct. 19 article when, having lamented the increase in population in the Third World, he goes on to attack Canada’s pro- posed abortion laws as being responsible for doctors’ withdrawal from these ‘‘services.”’ I suspect that these doctors recognize that killing their pre- born patients is incompatible with their training to heal and support life, and are simply using the new law to exit gracefully. Quite apart from ihat, Mr. Wright must realize that Canada is a dying nation, not even pro- ducing enough children to sustain, zero. grow:h, so why would a decline in the number of deaths by abortion be such a bad thing for Canada? He sees the abortion law as a denial of a woman’s right to control her own -body. If only both women and men would con- trol their own bodies by abstain- ing from sexual intercourse when they are not prepared to accept the responsibility of parenthood there would be no need for aber- tion. The fear of overpopulation is not shared by everyone who has studied population growth. For instance, Jacqueline R. Kasun, Ph.D. reports in her book, Popu- lation Control of the Family that fone Colin Clark, former director of the Agricultural Economic In- stitute at Oxford University, has estimated that the earth could raise enough food for an Ameri- can-type diet for 35.1 billion peo- ple, whilst leaving nearly half the land surface in conservation areas, Raj Krishna, Indian economist, has estimated that India is capable of increasing crop yicids to the point of providing the entire world food supply. Taiwan has a population density five times that of China and produces more than eight times as much output per person. Manipulation of population br- ings disastrous results, as the Prime Minister of Singapore has fearned. Having enticed women to have fewer children, he is now faced with too few people to maintain economic growth and the .impossible task of changing peo- ple’s selfish attitudes towards the raising of children. J.M. White West Vancouver CANADIAN CLOSET Ba Free home estimates 986-4263 1385 Crown St., N.Van. \ SILK POINSETTIA PLANTS 95 while quantities fast 985-9859] Hydro defends environment policy Dear Editor: Bob Hunter has apparently been spending too niuch of his dime out of B.C. over the last couple of years. What other expkination can there be for his very obvious dearth of knowledge about B.C. Hydro's innovative Power Ssiart conservation program? In his Oct. 3 column he most unfairly singles out our company in his blanket condemnation of the Canadian energy industry for what he sees as a lack of com- mitment to the conservation ethic. It's a pity he chose to put pen to paper before asking for more information on Hydro’s Power Smart approach to energy conser- vation, one that involves an in- vestment of $225 million over 10 years and the introduction of 27 specific programs, all designed to provide very real incentives to res- idential and commercial customers to conserve electricity. We are very proud of what we have achieved already through Power Smart and of the recogni- tion given to the program as one of the best of its kind in North America. It is certainly being well supported by our customers and, when combined with other very specific approaches, is allowing us to delay the need to start con- Struction on expensive new generating projects. Power Smart communicates in 21 languages, has created energy savings of 120 million kilowatt hours since its inception 19 months ago, and aims, by the year 2000, to be providing annual energy savings of 2,400 million kilowatt hours, enough for 240,000 B.C. homes. 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