6 ~ Horth Shore News - Wednesday, November 10, 1999

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VIEWPOINT

Sounds of si

SJEYRE making noise about
silence. And it’s a silence that
speaks volumes.

The Royal Canadian Legion wants
all Canadians to pause in silence for
two minutes at 11] a.m. tomorrow.

Its naembers have rnore than solidar-
ity of thought oa their minds. Their
Remembrance Day message is one of
gratitude and of honour and, ultimate-
ly, of peace.

As Legion Dominion president
Chuck Murphy has pointed ous, the
“Two-Minute ‘Wave of Silence” pro-
vides much more than a universal ces-
sation of human static in the hurley
burley of the modern world.

“It will,” he says, “serve as an elo-
‘quent tribute to the 116,000 young
..men and.women who died defending
’: our country during the 20th century.”
“" Te will also heip focus-our collective

: DK bere storm has raged i in th Lower Mainland since carly
October, when Rogers reduced election coverage. -

Rob Carver, Rogers’ ‘Director of Community

Progranimi ig, announced on the Ingram Show that Rogers

‘will air mayoral candidates. Then David and Rob chatted about

how, wonderful ‘bornor Cable 4 is for viewers — some

3°This' month: = FOCCSS ing for minimal election cov-

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in'tiie’40 years or's

ny,

Govetnments will then be'powerfiul ennugh ro guide i insti-
garding citizen or viewer rights.
not surc if Rob Carver or Ted Rogers is
ions, *but-we are sure that these actions
gain a majority vote from Rogers viewers — so

like Roger:

deceptive misnomer,

conance structute badly needs sccountabil-
at our-civic ane

me

renda will be a major
x Lansky Township,

minds, no matter how briefly, on the
price that has been paid in this country
to defend what so many now take for
granted.

The growing distance that most
Canadians have from the savage reali-
ties of war continues to erode the
meaning of Remembrance Day for
upcoming generations. Each year the
number of those who fought and sur-
vived the 20ch century’s two world
wars grows fewer and with them dies
the remembrance of war’s real horvors.

Until a few decades ago, the obser-
vance of a two-minute silence on
Remembrance Day was commonplace
in Canada. It’s time to make it com-
monplace again. Not only to honour
those who sacrificed all in the name cf
democracy, but to ensure that what led
to that sacrifice never gets a chance to
take root again.

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t nic seriously astray
‘that I have me ep governance. And I>.
believe that swift changes are necessary. I am not focused sole-
ly nt’ Rogers, On the contrary. I believe. that a_very simple
structural’ change’ known as “citizeri-initiated referenda”
that will make our governments accountable to.”

THE good news is that those
irritating full-page Air Canada

vs. Onex newspaper ads every
singie day are history at last. But

that still leaves the
one vital question
unanswered.

Now that Air Canada
has won the costly battle
to absorb near-bankrupt’
Canadian Airlines and
emerge (in fact, if not
name) as Canada’s single

. major air carrier, who .
* will eventually pay the
bills?

As you’ may have . ;
neted in those huge; ¢ expensive ads, the.
appeals by both Air Canada and rival bid-

ler Onex were primaril to the share-
is a” ” holders involved — and, in the Onex
case, to supportive ‘union leader Buzz
; Hargrove.

there in all that sound and fury for ordi-*
nary, non-sharcholder Canadians? |.

Rising airfares and fewer flight choic-"
es, that’s what.

- airline titans we're talking billions, not
mere millions.
- Up to last Friday — when a ‘Quebec :

illegal because it involved more than 10%
offering $2.2 billion to buy the:

Montreal-based airline. Air Canada, for
its part, had a $2.2 billion share buyback ,

But at the end of the day what was +. °

Don’t forget, i in this recent battle of oe
* * “tion the sole source of the vast, sums
- needed to satisfy Air Canada’s 1a

Superior Court judge ruled the Onex bid. .
. ownership of Air Canada —-'Onex was.

- from ‘bein :
_one solution the transport

- proposal on the table.

_CAW boss Hargrove" 's promise thar;

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not a single airline job would be lost if:

Gxex won now points to 4 further cost.

factor down the tarmac. .
Meaniwhile, Transport Minister David“

Collenette continues to insist that a single

major airline monopoly

-is.a vital national, inter

> So who'll fork out all
‘the billions involved in:
this ugly and financially
_Araining takeover. strug:
ge for unchallenged
- doniinance, with |
* Minister Collenette’s |
blessing, of Canada’s
Skies? Why, you and I;
.. of course, every. t
we book an econom

on our new, competition-iree national
carrier — only to tind “economy” ‘class
has become a sick joke.

. But it’s business ‘class traveller:

‘bate hit b i monopoly airline:
-. $3,100 Vancouver-Toronto full fare'could
well become:a fixture. Go ‘figure what;

that:would add to Canada’s already exc

sive business costs. In a monopoly. situa-

and the union is their hapless customers
denied any. alternative long-haul choic
ithin Canada itself.
‘The only way. to save the fying public :
taken to the cledners is the

prescntly refuses'to ‘consider. If long-haul ;
domestic competition is dead —- the
It of Canadian Airlines

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