lewing Canatia
by the numbers

Robert Galster

News Repor
roberr@nusnews.com

IMAGINE a world
where names of young,
offenders are published,
a visit to a doctor's
office costs $10 and
politicians voting on the
Nisga‘a agreement reject
the deal in its entirety.

Prisca glimpse inte the
world many diving in the West
Vancouver-Sunsbine Coast
constituency told their MEP
they would like to five in. More
than 5.060 have said: as much
within a mail-out questionnaire
they recently returned to the
office of John Revnolds.

Rovaolds, who has mailed
out severak Gf the qtiestion-
naires in the past, said: che pre
vious highest aumber of
returns was about 2,000.

“TE othink the returns were
phenomenal ... getting 2.000
back was a big number,” said
Revnolds.

‘This ume around the ques-
tionnaire featured nine ques-
tions covering five topics.

Sixty seven per cent of
respondents favoured a refer-
endum on the recent: Nisga'a

ment wade OP sand thes

Pohike ther MP ote vote
aganst the deal ta reterendiins
stot held

haivoure:
West Coast
fursaheton,

A bare mayonn ot the sur
vevs respondents, Abts. said
they want te see Canada main
tain the monarchy. Fort per
cent would like to see the
monarchy abolished with rhe
balance undecided.

The subject ot health care
saw 49% oppose user fees 7a
improve services while EP) saw
user fees asa viable oprion. OF
the 41sin support of user toes,
the vast majorits 48% -~
said STO is a reasonabte
amount to Charge per Visit toa
he-spital or doctor's offices,

In the area of pusiece, 82 at
respondents indicated they
support the publication of
names of voung offenders
while a further 68% also sup:
port lowering the age of young
offenders to 10. Finally, 82%
also support changing
Canada’s laws to incorporate
consecutive sentencing as
opposed to the concurrent sen-
tencing currently in use.

YTS Lo pras inal

Sireet vendors
debated for City

. Liam Lahey
Contributing Writer

STREET vendors may
be welcomed on North
Vancouver City streets.

Despite several letters and
~ phone calls in recent weeks to
city hall which overwhelming-
ly and _ strongly opposed the
implementation of — street
vending, council voted 4-2
Monday in favour of referring
the matter to the Policy
Committee for review and
public input.

Coun. Stella Jo Dean and
Mayor Jack Loucks voted in
opposition of the motion.

“Let’s put the number of
responses into perspective,”
Coun. Barbara Sharp said.
“Council has to be aware of
business in North Vancouver
bur we don’t just represent
business, We represent the
public too.”

Sharp suggested sending
out a survey to the general
public and discussing the mat-
ter further via the policy com-
mittee. “The public may want
this service made available to

them,” she added.

Council heard street ven-
dors, which can include hor
dog vendors to jewelry stands,
create unfair competition for
established — businesses, an
increased demand for arking,
a lack of washroom facilities,
and litter.

“We're always calking
about animating our streets
and this is one way that we
can,” said) Coun. Darrell
Mussatto. *
areas in the city where busi-
nesses don’t mind street ven-
dors.”

City staff has suggested
seven proposed sites: within
the Lonsdale corridor for
street vending including
Rogers Court and West
Esplanade.

West Vancouver council
passed a motion banning
street vendors in their munici-
pality recently.

The city had forwarded
about 1,100 letters to business
owners in the Lower Lonsdale
region secking their opinions
on the matter. The 22
responses they received were
opposed to street vending.

Sentinel students gain
national math honours

THE only school in
Canada to place two stu-
dents in the top five of the
Canadian Open
Mathematics Challenge
was West Vancouver’s
Sentinel secondary school.
Pin Chang Liu achieved a
perfect score of 80/80, one
of only two students in
Canada to do so. Daniel Brox
was the second Sentinel! stu-
dent to achieve the honour of
being in the top five in
Canada. No other British
Columbia student reached

the top five.

“We are very proud of
these students,” said School
District 45 board chairman
David Stevenson.

Brent Speidel, principal of
Sentinel, noted that this is the
second consecutive year
Sentinel Secondary school
has achieved top marks in this
competition.

“Special credit goes to
teacher Dave McClenahan
who has inspired and men-
tored these students,” said
Speidel.

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