A6 - Sunday, June 24, 1984 - North Shore News EM editorial page Ee Chicken game? ho’s playing chicken with whom at the Expo 86 site? Expo chairman Jimmy Pattison reportedly wants to close a deal with Roy Gautier, president of the Building Trades Council, under which labor peace would be assured, provided non-union workers are paid union wages. Expo directors, however, refuse to apply such a deal retroactively to J. C. Kerkhoff & Sons Construction, the sole non-union firm already working on the site, which says its $4.5 million contract will have to be revised upward if its wage bill jumps by 20-30% to the union level. Mr. Gautier will hear of no exceptions and calls the deal off, with a renewed strike looming tomorrow. Then, Labor Minister Bob McClelland warns that recent legislation empowering the government to outlaw strikes at the site cannot, in itself, guarantee no work stop- pages. In that case why was the legislation passed at all? Cheaper non-union labor would obviously help Expo management in its efforts to cut costs by $129 million. Meanwhile, with under 700 days left to opening date, the time clock is now ticking away at an alarming rate. If Mr. McClelland is right, and if Mr. Gautier hangs tough, Premier Bennett would seem, despite his brave words, to be left with just two options: hope for the best, at the risk of Expo not being ready in time -- or cancel it after all and hang the blame for the disastrous loss and embarrassment to B.C. firmly around Mr. Gautier’s neck. With hundreds of millions of everyone’s money riding on the answer, is it too much to ask what is REALLY going on with Expo? Fast honeymoon olitical honeymoons are notoriously brief but that of new Liberal leader John Turner looks like being the fastest on record. Less than a week after his victory he‘s under fire for his directorships, the dollar is nosediving towards 75¢, Brian Mulroney is hobnobbing with President Reagan and defeated rival Jean Chretien shows signs of neither forgiving nor for- getting. Why on earth do politicians lust after such punishment! (1 VORCE OF WORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER , Display Advertising 980-0511 north shore | Classified Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom 985.2131 rn ews Circutation 986 1337 sunoay wandksnay - rman Subscriptions 980.2707 1139 Lonsdale Ave . North Vancouver. BC V7M 2H4 Publisher Potter oped tk Editor-in-Chiet Noer Wright Associate Publisher Hobect Cat ativan: Advertising Director Tiers boeeseveasy Personne! 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Press Council e 66.596 (average Wodnasday aA DAHON P Er = oe MO songs td Te " tousay A nueday! smi G THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE MAC, ROD AND MARY ... counting on the numbers game can be dicey. sunday brunch by Noel Wright THE NUMBERS GAME will play an important role in deciding which of the ‘‘three C’s’’ -- Mac Camp- bell, Rod Clark or Mary Collins -- will win the nod as Ron Huntington’s Tory successor in Capilano Riding at the nominating meeting this Wednesday (June 27) in Carson Graham School, but it’s not everything. The meeting is shaping up as a five-hour marathon, with registration of eligible voting members of the PC riding association from 5 to ‘7:30 p.m., candidates’ ‘speeches starting at 8 p.m. and the vote at 9 p.m. As many as 1,000 of the party faithful may make the final! choice if the efforts of the three hopefuls over the past 12 weeks bear fruit. - Mac’s and Marty's handlers have been selling memberships since March like popcorn at English Bay, though both refuse to give figures. Rod, who entered the race only two and a halt weeks ago, has to be trailing here, despite the aggressive hawking of party cards by his wife Jamey in the short time available. But there's more to oat than the mere number of supporters cach of them enrolled as new associauion members up to the June 20 cut off date GRAHAM CROCKART You must make sure your own recruits actually show up at the meeting (their average turnout, say the political pundits, is around 60 per cent). Once there, they must also be persuaded -- by your closing speech or whatever -- to stick with you when the ballot forms are handed out. Jean Chretien knows all about that. The other imponderable, of course, is the 1,000 or so original and uncommitted association members who were card-carriers long be- fore the ‘‘three C’s’’ were heard of. Treading these shifting sands, the three contenders are all personable speakers with sound political creden- uals. Mac, national veepee of the PC Pacific Region, 1s heavy on business-world and community involvement. Mary, who claims the back. ing of Ron Huntington and Pat Carney, 1s strong on communicavion and contacts in Canada-wide government circles. Latecomer Rod, of the Jaycee generation, is the only one of them actually to have been elected (as a City alderman) to public office It could wind up, regardless of the numbers game, as a close finish) Politics tsa wracking business eo e eo nerve The Mosaic without bagpipes SAILORS IN LOVE with traditional craftsmanship will be flocking to Granville Island Hotel Marina next Saturday through Monday for the second annual Classic Wooden Boat Show. Co-sponsored by Cassidy’s Yacht Charters, the Gran- ville Island Hotel and the Boys and Girls Club of Vancouver, it features wooden boats of all shapes and sizes, together with a sail-past and many other dockside activities. For ad- vance boat registration and/ or tickets, call Bob Jolley (681-3474) or Chris Patrick (321-5548). s s s HITHER AND YON: North Shore Tenants Association chieftain Richard Blackburn and wife Margaret are holding an open house with distinct political overtones today at their Deep Cove home -- Richard 1s one of the declared seekers after the North Van-Burnaby NDP nomination for the upcom. ing federal election and one of the expected guests 1s centre-of-left| Prince Rupert MLA Graham Lea who, true to this column’s prediction, quit the provincial NDP last week to sit) as an indepen. dent Moving smartly to the right, North Van Bur. naby MP Chuck Cook, Tory chief whip in Ottawa, forecasts November rather than August as the election date Chuck figures John Turner needs to ‘‘distance’’ himself from Trudeau and get) fresh blood into the cabinet before tacing the navion Meanwhile, 10 day old Scott Hannay, son of) West Van's Rick and Lynne Hannay, alicady has a head start oo a political Career his godparents are West Van MILA Joha Reynolds and wife Yvonne Meanwhile, Scott's busy, busy dad Rick has just hung out his notary’s his new Royalk Mosaic ts shingle at office oan Park The © anadian alive and well on the upper cchelons of the North Van Chamber of Commetce whose new president, Scottish born at chitect Graham Crochart, took over the gavel day from his Thurs predecessor, Itahan born Franco ( eccont Sall with the movers and shakers, North Van's Michacl Ashby) a sents Touche Ross Canada cace utive, has been clected president of the 4 BOO membce Institute of Accountants of KH ¢ Retire Creve gycolstne asf C harctred life if directorships are your thing. The latest for former attorney general Allan Williams of West Van is his appointment to the B.C. Hydro board ... Congrats to Grade 12 students Philip Carroll of Sutherland and Jennifer Hutteman of Car- son Graham, second and third prizewinners respec- tively in the annual essay contest sponsored by the Association of Professional Engineers ... The same again to North Van's Nicholas Maloff, 14, awarded top marks for piano, 16 and under, in the B.C. semifinals of the Canadian Music Competitions ... Retirement good wishes to Dr. Jack Allan who hung up his den- tist’s drill this month after 27 years with the North Shore Health Dept. .. $33,000 happier is West Van’s Sue Suelgrove, chairman of the Red Cross Parent Support Program which helps parents of critically ill children. The donation came from the Telephone Employees Community Fund ... And that should help you remember the Red Cross blood donor clinics tomor- row and Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Lions Gate Hospital. , , , WRIGHT OR WRONG: The trouble with people who have only one idea in their mind is that their mind usually shrinks to fit it. econ CHUCK COOK November suits Turner y| ALLAN WILLIAMS ' boards come beckoning. MEiC HABE. ASHBY heads the dollar-counters NICHOLAS MALOFF a Liberace in (he making?