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Taxpayers should not pay
for recycling incentives

Dear Editor:

There is no valid reason why the
taxpayers of this province should
be asked to dip into their pockets
yet again to provide incentives for
manufacturers to use recycled ma-
terial derived from household
waste.

Entrepreneurs have just as much
responsibility to protect our en-
vironment as anybody else. The
use of recycled material does not
constitute any additional cost to
them, and if it did, they would
surely pass it on to the consumer.

Legislation to ensure that they

Civil war
down the road?

Dear Editor:

Clearly there is something wrong
with how this country is governed,
especially when it comes to im-
migration.

One can see the country beginn-
ing to fracture; we might call it
culture clash. Are civil wars only
down the road?

Australia has now given recon-
sideration time for its not-so-old
multicultural program and I!
believe our politicians should note
this. Chuck Cook held the debate
but has yet to represent us in
Parliameni.

We fly the Union Jack officially
on B.C.’s flag. Not only should
our MPs wear that on their Japel,
it’s about time they began to wave
it a little in Parliament for, after
all, our federa] system of govern-
ment was derived from the United

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use a percentage of recycled mate-
tial has worked in other countries
and there is no reason why it can't
here.

The Minister of the Environ-
ment and Premier Bill Vander
Zalm are quite familiar with the
effectiveness of appropriate legis-

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lation in other countries including
Mr. Vander Zalm’s native
Hoiland.

Their reluctance looks more like
another excuse to subsidize
business at taxpayers’ expense.
Ernie Crist, Alderman
District of North Vancouver

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