| Page 12, April 25, this summer”’, he. ‘added. | an . port ‘in. Canada: ‘and handles - . More: cargo than’ ‘Halifax; - plans :for.the area ‘and .an- . Montreal * _ combined, yet our ship repair . facilities cannot handle‘2 out. - and Toronto . of every 3 ships. that’ come here. The ‘ships are too big _ and our repair. facilities are... ' too small"’, continued Davis: — ““The.- new: . drydock: willl, handle ships. up| to. - 150,000 tans : “The NDP: candidate for. ~ . North’ Vancouver-Capilano © see~a False Creek - type park, with playing. fields built-on|.1t.S acres, of land | next to° ‘the: “Seabus. terminal on Lower Lonsdale. a” L- wants: t In a “press: conference Monday, Mike ‘Copes, condemned Social. Credit. nounced “his support for a. _ park to be. built on at Jeast half of the 21. acre parcel of land owned, by the British Columbia ‘Development Corporation, adjacent to the Seabusterminal. — . “There is very little open space: Lower Lonsdale that has grass on it,” Copes said. ton ‘ Labor set to. regain lost wages Goverhnient interference in labor relations must stop, said Jim Kinnaird, president of the B.C. Federation of Labor, at a Vancouver Jaycees meeting last week, because it undermines the improved record of negotia-— tion evolved over the past decade. One example, said Kinnaird was the 1975-78 wage and price control legislation imposed by the federal government, which was supposed to do away with inflation. It didn’t, Kinnaird, and those who grudgingly accepted wage controls because they were told such controls would end inflation are angry. declared Labor and management now have to go to the bargaining table, he said, faced with employees and members. determined to make up what they had lost. 1979-NorthShoreNews “ “Besides shipbuilding and | ‘Vancouver i is: the’ busiest” “ship repairs, 2 huge modern: facility like this, © “complete with large machine’ Shops, _can build heavy. equipment .for..our pulp...and paper’ -industry. and for, mining”, said Davis. : SS tion of the drydock onsdale dia front p “Such a park would be -able ~to accommodate the ‘high density population ¢ of . Lower Lonsdale,” oe Copes commented on the . fact. the public only has access” to 60 feet of: water- Yeon “The. Lower | Lonsdale “parcel of land is the only- already government owned piece of land on the waterfront,” Copes said, which is available for a park. Copes admitted the idea of © a waterfront park adjacent to the Seabus terminal is not new. He said that in 1977, 1600 Lower Lonsdale residents signed a petition asking for an 11.2 acre park next to the Seabus terminal. . In ‘August, 1978 the federal: government - ‘offered’ “ $28. 8. ‘million towards the construc . Ne . Vancouver en is ee “done. “by ‘the. engineering . | ‘North Vancouver,. no negoti- ations. with Victoria to get his im ortant project - under . “said. ea EC : his | is’ such ‘a serious decision, ' “all -of - the «: ww federal. "and" provincial: « candidates affected: by’ this p: “should: stand. up and. -be""’ “counted”, Dayis " concluded. : ’ - > - Copes attacked « present plans for the area, which he said consists of a smaller park set within the © ~ context of other develop- ment including a 15 storey. | . office tower and a 12 stotey’ | apartment complex. oe front between Ambleside ~ -Park and Cates Park. the Social . Credit government -through the B.C. Development. Cor-. poration will go ahead with . proposed plans with only a small portion of park overshadowed : by concrete | and steel.” Copes said the development has the potential of becoming an eyesore and would. at least obscure the vision of area residents. “I challenge my Socred opponent to justify, if he All fi berglass, built in Denmark. single station sun bridge, double cabins, finished in teok & mahogany, stand up head, galley with electric refrigerqtor, sleeps 6 cockpit, dual wipers, depth sounder, radio. , self bailing aft Repowered with twin 355 Ford V8's fresh water cooled and new Volvo 280 outdrives in late 1975 with approx. 100 hrs. use. Anchor package, teak swim grid, dingy, power winch ond more. immeciare DS4,97 5 7 yr. bank financing available Cors, Boats, Trucks accepted in trade phone Gil Smith 684-6113 Eves. & Weekends 922-5502 Dominion Yacht Sales a division of Dominion Vancouver Motors . “The issue., is whether or, “not the cam the _government, _ proposal,” -Copes said, “and ’ show. reasons why Lower | - -Lonsdale residents should be - ‘deprived of this opportunity for substantial ‘open space, ‘and’ reason why North Van residents in general should Vbe:: ‘deprived :: of adequate - “access to their waterfront.” -Burnaby «federal : “expressed: ‘concern ‘about.-th : ‘conipleted -: ‘and ‘attempted ‘In a speech last week to - Commerce, North Vancouver -Liberal candidate’ “Gordon | Gibso “increasing concentration of power. within the Canadian : corporate community. wee “The; recent wave of takeovers’ -has'-been: alarm- ing,” “Gibson said. **Canadian ior to’ ‘the: Pacific almost-got MacMillan, - Bloedel, ~the Bay got. ~ Simpsons, then Weston tried _ for. the Bay’ and ‘lost out to Thomson. Brascan.-is after’. -Woolworth!s...and.. Edper- is after:;Brascan..'In. the past year. there have been dozens, that: have never hit the popular press.” + Gibson noted that during '-1968, of the 300 major ' companies © onthe Toronto. | Stock Exchange, ‘about $2. 35 billion’ or six per cent of the’ January’1, 1978 market value outstanding, after deducting controlling -‘interest,, were absorbed by takeovers. Of the 38 companies undergoing significant takeover; 29 are no longer publicly traded. a The takeovers and mergers the Burnaby Chamber. of- : 7 fee ie vhich: r ‘concentration “of ‘economi¢ -;.. ' decision making in Canada, ~ -- already too small i a country i in © ‘Gibson... ” cir of these 4 factors. “apply, e.is one ‘commonnegative EE all) ‘takeovers. and © - ¢ 28; further © that sense." *. ore Too reat: a “concentration a of’ “décision - ‘making - power’ » was not good: “It had" been * going: on_in_ the government -_. sector..for most -:of - this” . century,-and ‘People. wanted: _. jt reversed. | 5 The same lesson applied in the business. world, said ‘7 ‘More - election news. page 14 _ineluded such major firms as . t ‘Crowsnest, Voyager Petro- leums, Block:, Brothers; .. _Koffler, Zellers, Laurentide and many others. - The: Financial Post. called: “it: