A2 - Sunday, January 9, 1983 - North Shore News fainiand ts operate which processes six and a half million pounds of soiled items each year -- including _jaundry | from three other hospitals (Burnaby, Dogwood and Sunnyhill). NEWS photo Terry Peters ate Hospital, — y Lions The corruption of the highest is the worst, as the saying goes. Certainly that is the case in Canada, home of Michael Pitfield and his friend. Fhe fhittle Daisy Chain — A corrupting system would serve as a chamber for representatives from the regions, older chaps who would take a sober second look at legislation spewed out by the hotheads in the e of Commons. But from the very beginning, appointments to _the Senate were abused by. uncoiling from the Prime — Minister's Office in darkest Ottawa would be merely an Recession increases health service demands | Proposed budget cuts will mean the end of the screening clinic for three- year-olds, Leighton warned. FROM PAGE A1 say in how much money the Union Board of Health gets. “To lose this well-used service is a backward step, Leighton said cutting delayed diagnosis and services is “a paper solution” treatment inevitably result in and will lead to greater increased costs to the -problems. in. the. future. community and because most of the board’s measurable stress and work is concerned with prevention — such as detection of early physical and emotional problems in young children. If these are not detected at an early stage they will cause far more trouble and expense later. anxiety to the famihes in- volved.” Nurses will visit schools and pre-schools less often, will not be able to remind parents of immanizations for their children and will be delayed in getting to families in trouble. They will also have to take on extra bur- dens, meaning they will shortchange the people they are supposed to help, Leighton said. Al) this comes at a time when the Umon Board of Health's services are needed even more, because of cutbacks in other areas of health care and because of the difficult cconomic times She said the Umon Board of Health has already phased oul the equivalent of four full-time nursing jobs, and there are fewer nurses working on Mondays “These people are already so overloaded that they can't cope with the demands of today, let alone tomorrow.” she saad. Video committee set up FROMPAGE A1 | tykeman and Mary Segal The Committee wall report . back to uneils time t Cuy and West Van Dastrict FOU E omentie an Instnct's commitice will compnse aldermen Murray March with the commuittecs Icuuolbibciudalans. 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Agencies operating the Christmas Bureau, crisis counselling and psychiatric services all report greater demand than ever before upon their services... Crime is up, as are the reported incidences of rape, sexual abuse, family violence and poverty.” Leighton compared health services to fire and police services, Saying the one 1s as essential as the other two LONSDALE the party in Straightforward advantage. Just power for partisan embarrassment, fike Nelson — Skalbania weeping in public, if. if weren't that the money for the Pitfield pay-off comes out of my pocket and my children's pockets. It dawns on me that Pierre Trudeau's yaunted Machievellianism has passed into a new stage. Rather than bothering to be devious any more, he is as blatant as the last of the Bourbons. Pitfield, of course, is a political bum for accepting his tainted appointment to the Senate, and so is Trudeau-§gg spooning it out. Yet they are only as bum as the system of patronage which sustains them. ~~ And when it comes to the Canadian Senate, ‘twas ever thus. Rather than being some kind of politieal height to which an honorable person might aspire, it is by far the most contemptible - in- stitution in the land -— and becoming more con- temptible by the day. The Fathers of Con- federation had a vague noon that the Senate Tories and Liberals alike abused their privileges . doesn't. make it any -less dirty. It just normal. The Senate's main func- tion has always been to provide tenure for over-age pols who were either revealing their senility in the House or who were too lame any longer to serve as bagmen. The tendency in the past was to offer people Senate posts only when their useful political lives were over. As a reward, they were retired to the Red Chamber -- a perfect welfare ‘state ending to life that was the real makes dirtiness forerunner of modern pension plans. 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Apart from its function as The Pork Barrel At The Top of The Stairs, the Senate is supposed to take a bit of the workload off. .the backs of Members of Parlhament. Senate committees are said avoiding the setting-up of more useless royal Missions, --—-— —--— -—~—- For this we pay fortunes tn patronage to compromised men and women who have served the establishment There is no point talking about reforming the Senate. ‘There is nothing that can be done to redeem it except make it elective, in which case you'd wind up creating a duplicate House of Commons. Horrors! The Senate should be abolished, pure and simple. Its very existence is an insult ot democracy. It has corrupted every government since Confedéfation. ~ Down with the Upper House! 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