Dear Editor:

I am -writing in regards to
council's decision to invoke
a 10 p.m: - 6.a.m. curfew
affecting Cates, Princess,
tyne and other parks in the

o"Reing a: resident in. Lynn
Valley I have regarded it asa
basic right to partake in an
evening walk through the
park. Like most tax payers I
work during the ~ and as

‘Boot li

such - enjoy: the
parks the. evenings: An
after dinner walk. from’ my
house beginning. at: 8:30: -
:00 means that. unless Ego
through. the: park:. with ©
Boston Marathon: en-
thusiasm it is unlikely that I

can
in:

will clear the exit- gate by.

10:00 at which tise council
has declared my~ “shoes.
should no longer tread on.
park turf.

us nowh here

Dear Editor:

. With regard to Alderman
Don Lanskail’s request in
connection with the article
in your paper of June 20
concerning B.C. bigotry,
may I comment as follows?
He is accusing the wrong
people of being bigoted. The
ones he should be looking at
are those he is trying to
impress, the Quebecers.
This. sort of boot-licking by
English Canada is going to
get us nowhere, and is only
going to worsen matters. Let
us examine a few facts in this
connection.

Examine - first the
educational system in
Quebec. The Federal

Government supplies that

province with about 50% of

the funds that are supposed

to be going into supporting
minority language. They put
this entirely into the French
educational system, and the
minorities get nothing. They
will not allow pupils coming
from other provinces to
enter anything but French
schools, even if their family
speaks the other “official”
language. To cap this off,
Quebec supplies funds to
trouble-making Fran-
cophones in English
provinces so that they can
agitate for the erection of
French schools. They are
not even content with
bilingaal ones. To make it
worse, some of the funding

practised

of these people comes from
English-speaking Canadians,
and is supplied by the
French-controlied Federal
Liberal Government.
Quebec practises in-
stitutionalized bilingualism,
which is different from the
personal bilingualism some
English Canadians try to
follow. This ensures that less
than 1% of the employees of

‘the Provincia] Government,

or those working for the
Quebec urban establish-
ments are of non-French
extraction, regardless of the
ability of the nou-French to
master the French. language.
This is opposite to what. is

Cornwall and Ottawa, where
we see the French minority

groups, funded oy the
Ministry of Human
Resources are under the
impression that their funding
for 1980-81 cannot be dealt
with because the govern-
ment has not yet brought the
estimates of that ministry
before the Legislature for
approval.

Twice now the povern-
ment has requested interim
supply to provide for the full
operation of government up
to September 30, 1980. On

in cities like -

So. a curfew will solve
problems, or so council
thinks.. Lynn Canyon Park
- .has:so many trails and is so
‘virtually unpatrollable that
the. very people (young
rowdies): council wants: to
‘keep out will most likely be
-the only. ones to go into the
park. The: people who stay
out are those who will read
and obey council's decision,
the people who weren't a

ll get |

demanding that heads of all
departments must be
bilingual, and that any
French resident com-
municating with the cor-
poration must be dealt with
in bis own tongue. If
English-speaking Quebecers
made similar requests, a
large proportion of the
French would die laughing.
Mr. Lanskail should ask
himself why so many
English-speaking Quebece-
rs, along with their com-
panies, are leaving Quebec
for other provinces, while so
few Francophones, if any,
move back into La Belle

community groups should
have received approval of
their budgets as well as

funding up to that date.

Any community group
which is being told otherwise
should immediately contact
me providing full details so
that I may take up the matter
with the Ministry of Human

Resources on their bchalf.

Rosemary Brown M.L._A.
Burnaby-Edmonds

problem in the first place.
Even if the park is patrolled
and these people are kept
out it will merely mean
theyll move to the other
parks and following more

AT {Wednesiiay, Augest 20, 1980- North Shore News

effect. This would make the
streets-much easier to patrol.
Maybe courcil members
should read “1984” and

‘ consider what they are doing

to the quality of life of the.

curfews they'll start people of the North Shore.
inhabiting the various

ravines and . lots and

finally the streets. This also | Norman Rittberg.
means that early morming North Vancouver :

fishermen heading out from 7
Cates Park will no longer be
so early. Perhaps’ council
members aren't late nighters
or early risers but others are
and they should have their
rights at least until 11:00 or
12:00 and after 5:00 a.m. to
facilitate early morning
joggers and boaters.

I feel that council has
caused a deterioration in the
free society. Maybe they’ve
been taking lessons from the
Kremlin, maybe_we won't be
allowed in the streets at all
after 11:00 and a state of
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