More sports facilities needed

Dear Editor:

It is with great sadness that I
read Boh Tarplett’s letter in the
North Shore News, Oct. 2 —
“Schools shouldn't bankroll reere-
ation.” He obviously has not fol-
lowed the Caulfeild school project
and its development for the past
four years as many of us have.

The fact that the West
Vancouver School Board is $1 mil-
fion short on the project is because
of poor planning and nothing else.

They said there would be no
blasting on the site and yet they
have had to blast. About two years
ago many expert citizens warned
them that this may be necessary and
asked about the possible budget. No
direct answer was ever given.

ties, good PLE. cla
teams bring to the life of a school

Also the original idea was to tie

in a recreational facility with the
school and that the board office
denies this now is unbelievable,

What bothers me most about

Mr. Tarplett’s letter is the notion
that the responsibility of the educa-
tion system is not recreation and
that schools without gyms should
he considered.

This gentleman has obviously
forgotten the joy that good facili-
es and sports

population,
We are short-changing our chil-

dren by not providing enough gym
space in the schools.

What we need is more reere-

ational space and a society that val-

ene ene

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ues physical activity and youth that
are well-rounded not just academic
achievers.

Let me leave Mr. ‘Tarplett with
one thought: how would he fike it if
his school board was bankrolling a
project where they were supporting
the destruction of a 30-year-old
school, which seats 1,000 students,
for a school that halds anly 750
(with smaller PLE. and counselling
offices than at Hliliside ta mention a
few design glitzes) and thus the foss
of anather piece af public land?

The citizens need to be able to
plan with municipalities and school
boards to build a community that
supparts hot youth and adults,
Andree Vaida Janyk
West Vancouver

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November 09/94

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Wednesday, November 9, 1994 ~ North Shore News - 9

Advertorial

Ted White, M.P.
#302 1200 Lynn Vailey Rd.

NO
In Ottawa, on November 3rd, the
Standing Committee on Citizenship and
reviewed the latest
appointments to the Immigration and
Refugee Board.
QUALIFIED CANDIDATES?
During the meeting, Reform’s
tmmigration Critic, Art Hanger, revealed

T that one of the appointees, Mr Inderit
# Bal, had come to Canada as a sailor on
Ha ship in 1976 and had remained in
1 Canada as an illegal immigrant until he

obtained landed immigrant status by
marrying a Canadian woman. Mr Bal
also admitted that during a radio
interview, while running for nomination
as a Liberal candidate in the last

J election, he had said that “nobody came
f to Canada tegally since 1972 in my

opinion.” Unfortunately, questioning by
the committee failed to get to the bottom

fof a suggestion that Mr Bal had

subsequently divorced his Canadian
wife and brought a wife to Canada from

i india.

Mr Bal became politically active in
1984 “when the Government of India
attacked the Golden Temple in India."
He joined the World Sikh Organization

fand admitted to getting involved in

“disruptive activities” although the nature

f of these activities was not revealed. He
f was introduced to Mr Marchi, who is now

the Immigration Minister, in 1987 and
was a member of the Liberal Party in Mr
Marchi’s Riding. Mr Bal says he has a

f B.A. from india but told the committee
f that this was the equivalent of Canadian

Grade 12,
Reform's exposure of his past forced

i Mr Bal to resign last Sunday. He will not
E get to collect $85,000 per year as an
Appointee to our Immigration and
} Refugee Board. Mr Marchi should be
5 very embarrassed by this development.

North Vancouver
V7I 2A2

Telephone: 666-0585
Fax: 666-0509

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had a letter of reference trom Pierre
Trudeau and one had run as the
candidate for the Liberal Party in the
Quebec Riding of Brome-Missisquoi.
Patronage is alive ard well in this
Government despite the Liberal Red F
Book promises!
THE COST ?

The Immigration Minister, in reply to
a Reform question in Parliament,
confirmed that the Refugee Settlement
Program now costs $700 million par
year. In addition, a confidential report, |
which my office obtained from the
Department of Finance under Access To §
Information, identifies present
immigration levels as a possible source
of our high levels of unemployment. }
(Any Reform MP saying this gets |
labelled as a racist but apparently it is
acceptable coming (rom the Department J
of Finance.) .

The report explains that unemploy-
ment levels have been drifting upwards
during tha same period that the number
of immigrants of working age has been
rising. On page 14 it states that “classes
of immigrants such as family |
reunification and refugees tend to
experience difficulty entering the job j
market since they are admitted on {
humanitarian and equity consider-
ations”. |
In 1993 Canada’s unemployment
rate, at 11,29, was the highest amongs!
the G-7 countries and 6th highest on the 7
list of the 24 OECD countries. Despite
tiis, we accepted immigrants at double
the rate of other immigration-receiving
countries on a per capita basis. As a
result, the cost of settlement programs,
ESL training, and administration is
becoming unmanageable. Unfortunately |
Mr. Marchi’s recently announced
immigration quotas do not address this

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