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The. problems facing B.C..
Hydro are more serious than
$80,000 in- expenses for its
chairman’ (Laxton : a’ likable
* socialist — July 7). Following: :
the cancellation of Kemano I, a:.
* B.C, Hydro-Alcan compensa-
tion deal threatens British
Columbians with a $6-billion
tax hike, 4,000 job losses: and
no increase in’ generating
capacity. . MR Es
- The deal is scary: Alcan pa
$900 million to Hydro for. the
use of 285, megawatts of exist-’
ing capacity for about 70 years.
Alter using $900-million worth

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© NEXT SPRING,

Hill. Unfortunately,. taxpayers are not

invited, even though their money is foat-.

ing the bill for the festivities. ,
'. The subject today is an issue raised by the
British. Columbia Taxpayers Association

. (BCTA). And as with most news about: the.

high jinks: in Ottawa, it will infuriate
Canadians ‘earning an honest living. :

‘<The BCTA delivers the goods on a report o

into the Contributions “and Expenses | of

Registered Political Parties and Candidates. -.

Don’t fall asleep yet, because the sound you

hear is more of your money heading down the .

and their parties following the 1988 federal.

election. So, dear taxpayer in the West, you
helped prop.up. the separatist campzign of

to mention the campaigns of Jean Chretien,
Jean Charest, Preston Manning ‘and Audrey
McLaughtin. LEE EE ea 7

Why? Back to the BCTA: “... the Canada

* Elections Act allows. for® candidates who:

of power in, say, 10 years. Alcan
gets free power,’ worth ‘about $6
billion, for the next 60. years.:
_ Hydro. © meanwhile! must
replace. this ;$6° billion “of lost
income by increasing the tariffs
' (taxes) charged) to household
and local business customers:
When Hydro collects'$6 bil-
lion. from. B.C. taxpayers: for
Alcan, it removes $100 million
“per year of" local spending:
power, eliminates -4,000: jobs
and exports “money” urgently
needed “to ‘upgrade ‘the. over-'
-loaded transmission ‘system i

‘Lucien Bouchard and his Bloc Quebecois, not |

© Bancorp
its legal owners, loners
Let's give Laxton & Co. a shot

receive-more than 15% of the vote to have |’

50% of their election expenses reimbursed. A

‘registered party, meanwhile, gets 22.5% of.
the money it spent “back provided that: it ”
spends at least-10% of its election expenses.

Himit?

“political toilet.’ According. to the: BCTA, -
Canadian taxpayers contributed $22 million
_“in the 1993 federai election campaign to reim-

“785 megawatts of peak der and:
-and creates‘ new ‘jobs’ through
out the province. Win, wi

A Canadian Taxpayers Federation analysis”
of the aforementioned report found that 54%. |

‘North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an
: ” independent suburban newspaper and qualified
‘under Schedule JET, Paragraph I11-of the | -
Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday,
”: Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press’,
+ Ltd, and distributed to every door on the North

burse political parties and

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‘, sums up the future of
, democracy. —

jt

_’- There are'signs everywhere

-«that big government as we've
known it for centuries is doomed.
=, In the brave new. world of the Info
will be at city hall.
. Today, computers and the. -.

candidates’ for.
their election expenses. The 1993 figure is up’
22% over the.total paid back to politicians **

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“SMALL IS beautiful”

Highway democracy’s last refuge -

Internet ‘are achieving bloodiessly

of candidates who accepted tax doilars for -
reimbursement ran a campaign surplus,”

“Have nice day.:

social policy powers to smal
municipal-size administrative « :
“units like Switzerland's cantons
“and cities'——leaving at mosta’- “
tiny central ‘government to look © :
‘after the courts, defence and cul-.”
~ ture, Cy Grow a Betas
Hence the significance of":
Libera! leader Gordon Campbell's
draft.“Municipail Charter” to |
teplace the cumbersome
‘Municipal Act — which now *

«. David C. Hawkins
West Vancouver

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: p.mveuniow reception’

-"\what long centuries of war, geno-
cide and tyranny failed'to achieve:
“the destruction of the once’all-.-
powerful nation-state. v0 or!
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“to do business wherever in the
, world is most favorable. Capital
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earth within seconds; operations
‘speedily moved to more tax-
friendly or worker-friend!y envi-: :.
ronments.“ se A
- For traditional governments the
results threaten to be fatal. The." ~:, Increasingly,.educated voters ure |
tate can no longer contro! its citi; "demanding “direct” democracy, .
zens’ economic activities and its“; meaning public control of govern:
most vital source of power —:.tax-. ment BETWEEN elections ;
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