A6 - Wednesday, April 27, 1983 - North Shore News c EE editorial page Hardly an issue With just one week left to polling day it becomes important to distinguish the major issues from the minor issues. The parties themselves won't help us. For them, any situ- ation deemed capable of being turned to their advantage automatically becomes an issue of apocalytic proportions. A local case in point is the prediction that as many as 2,500 North Vancouver shipyard workers will soon be unemployed for a year or more because all five North Shore shipyards have run out of contracts. If it happens, the resultant human distress will unquestionably be a concern of the first magnitude. Understandably, therefore election campaigns being what they are — NDP candidates are seizing on the forecast layoffs as a Stick with which to belabor their Socred opponents. They argue that, if the Bennett government had insisted on 25% of Nor- theast coal being transported to Japan in Canadian vessels, four new freighters might have been built on the North Shore. Nevertheless, both management and union leaders in the industry are unanimous in naming, as the foremost culprit, the federal government with its complete lack of long ~— range maritime policy and constant procrastination in putting shipbuilding projects out for tender. Whatever Victoria’s passing sins of omission or oversight, they are insignificant compared to the permanent albatross around the industry's neck — Ottawa's longstanding lack of interest in a viable Canadian mer- chant marine. No provincial government can hope to change that situation quickly. In the current election, therefore, it can hardly rank as an issue at all. 1939 brain cells Albert Einstein said nuclear science had chang- ed everything except our thinking. He would have been happy to see himself proved wrong by Satur- day's 65,000 Vancouver peace marchers and hun- dreds of thousands like them around the world. Only politicians with 1939-model brain cells still fail to grasp the grim new reality of which Einstein warmed. 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VERIPIE DL) TRC UA TION 64 450 Wednesday 64 779 unde, Loy sx & THIS PAPER IS REC YC LABL ON JANUARY 18, 1983 a Toronto butcher, Michael Desborough, filed suit in federal court charging that lawyers, Clayton Ruby. ws Election scores Canada’s violation of the Charter of Rights. M: Desborough is represented by one of Canada’s best known "y metric laws ope, » \\ TWENTY-ONE DAYS down and seven to-go. In sports parlance we're now into the fourth quarter of the provincial elecuon campaign — the main difference from a CFL game being that nobody yet has a clue about the true score. Newspaper folk are widely supposed to Anow the score in an election campaign, and there's never any shortage of people purporting to tell them what wois But the hardest thing for a newsman to assess is the effect of the door-to-door canvass at which some candidates pro ve to be much better than others Ive known candidates from whom the news desk has heard hardly a squeak throughout the campaign whe have come oul near the top of the pile as a result of patient footslogging = and door kKoocking by themsctves and thei bud hes Conversely Ive known candidates who have provid cdoous inky fingered scribes with handouts interviews and photo Opportunities every hour on the hour only too wind upon Che cellar In clections you mever can tell So fust to Combuse you still further with one week teomaiming heres the view from Che press tron MYSTERY WOMAN ian North Vancouver Capilane incumbent Soa rec MIA Amgus Kee is) upset over the Sunday News poll which stowed tam baa toe fod leach over the NEE s Olga Kempo trance cf rey thee {pret cemt oof alte acty chew cal voters Hes SAMA WOK OES worrted in fais .aaec vortie babe that Angusis a dead cert and freesire Ce cathy leaving him to cope alone with the 63 per cent of those surveyed who have so far declined to commit themselves A good point, though Angus’s very comfy 6,000) mayortty) last time shouldn't be discounted. ctther We haven't heard about the poll from = mystery woman Dr Kempo (How old is she? Where was she born?’ Is she marned” Really, peo ple are so imquisitive ) But she’s pumping out preas releases daily and = main strecting merniy, definitely carning A’ for effort Jean = Drtscoll-Bell the third Capilano contender. ts mad at the poll over the zloh per cent it registercd for the Liberals presumably because nobody at the date of the poll knew that she or any othes Liberal was runn inp Ms | Driscoll Beil ot viously has oowhere to BO butup In North Van Seymour Socrcd thoumbent Jack Davia is alse upset over his showinp oon the poll caghe pornts be thine ALBECISIS New David Schreck among the decided VOCEN Doe ace rat with OO per cent soll for sbrow Cheon Marreds UNIVERSE UNFOLDS? lo dact Ihnowever 1 NUPN pve oil (has preliminary ceacing will toe proved feo Jack Sime poll was publashed his «ae Ufre Par Croneps Cat any pate tn he media relations depart are in By ROBERT RUNCIMAN, M.P.P. What many of the news reports failed to m¢ntion is the fact that Mr. Ruby was retained by an Ontario based organization fighting forced metric, Measure Canadian, and that this citizens’ group is paying all Mr. Desborough’s costs. Measure Canadian was founded in February 1982 by a group of small bu- sinessmen in Brockville, On- tario. Since that time, we have grown to have members in all provinces of Canada and from all walks of life and age groups. Measure Canadian was formed because of our frustration with the failure of political institutions, and a multitude of other organiza- tions such as the Consumer and Civil Liberties Associa- tions and the Canadian Labour Congress, to repre- sent the concerns of Cana- dians over the way in which metric was being im- plemented in this country. It was obvious Canadians needed a credible vehicle to carry the fight to the govern- ment and Measure Canadian grew out of that need. The directors of Measure Canadian are all responsible and respected members of their community. They in- clude several city aldermen, a newspaper editor, a former still to focus Noel Wright ment) have awakened with a yoolt Nothing like a cold shower to freshen you up Meanwhile, Me Schreck himsclt finally crossed the divide the West tod and found timse a homeoun North Van whieh adds to his political resape. has Bical from tability in che mang VY ouny Seu McNish the cere pes cent Liberal white thope as Gastiap acouad with a tevy Of beauties ta popeitig: stir ts And several pecple trace phoned bhe News fo cin matic ol Che Westeru © aie da Comet camadbebate led | Separatinm Can Watt: White br West Vianarecrtre er Pfii we corcreved bye septs ese ppc ane Feet Uva stis oetpeune ' Yo un Pootedvnny as ordarie dl four Sow read potas thoiis John Reynolds with oti pres + Key to metric fight is money M.P., a police sergeant and an accountant. Measure Canadian 1s com. mitted to paying all costs fur the first stage of Mr. Desborough’s challenge out of funds raised primanily in eastern Ontario. The direc- tors of Measure Canadian have given freely of their time and money to carry the fight to this stage but to con- tinue, a much larger number of Canadians must get in- volved. We are fighting a Metric Commission with a 26.5 million dollar budget and the only effective way we can combat them is with money. If only one million Canadians gave just a dollar. we could not only take on the Metric Commission on the legal front but also counteract their massive advertising and promotion campaign’ Measure Canadian has provided Canadians with a credible, viable and respected vehicle of protest against forced metric. Its court case is providing Cana- dians with their first day in court. Caring and concerned citizens-ean help in the fight by wrifing to: Measure Cana- dian, P.O. Box 415. Brockville, Ontario K6V 5V6. (Robert Runciman is Con- servative Government Whip in the Ontario Lepislauve Assembly.) come tacular bankroll and reassur ing 47-point lead over wor thy NDP school principal! Claus Splekermann among the S57 per cent of decided voters The tip Blue-and Red machine weaves to and tro along Manne Drive. and up and down the Hollyburn hillside, with a tireless effi creacy that even Ontanos Bill Davis would admirc But Liberal Mon Graham is making a considerably stronger showing here than either of bis North Van col leagues Given the unhap piness in parts of the Socred camp he could) at very least. have a measurable im pacton the final result Little has been heard to date from Lory hopeful Neil Thompson. investment dealer who offers broad o1 an penience gained from a rags tomeches carect And if youre allergic to a// political parties nial there s always peren Bert asian dn local candidate hleming running dependent tollowtng his un bid foot thre mayor So trans last fall succernsfal We ll be holding anothes poll this week to cheek oo how they ce all downy The final poll were leas pop te the otaet cles toral of fhoet con May > Read Noel Wright's Sunday Brunch - every Sunday