6 - Sunday, April 12, 1992 — North Shore News Arc ne ONE OF-fle MANY PRopOsSED METHODS OF ERADICATING THE ASIAN GYPSY MoTH YC NEWS VIEWPOINT Dubious declaration O MATTER which side of the issue one chooses to support in the escalating hubbub over the planned aerial insecticide assault on the Asian gyp- sy moth, the provincial cabinet emergency declaration issued this week stinks. The anti-spray contingent has quite rightly cried foul. Wednesday’s emergency declaration, enacted by cabinet under Section 2 of the Pesticide Conivel Act and Section 3 of the Plant Protection Act, effectively advances the first possible spraying date to April 15. According to Agriculture Minister Bill Barlee, the shadowy moth is hatching early because of the warm spring weather, therefore the emergency. But an important democratic right has been trampled in the rush. When asked in March to comment on the moth issue prior to government is- suance of a pesticide use permit, En- vironment Minister John Cashore refused even to address the topic, claiming a respect for due process. But that due process has been eradicated in the emergency declaration. The process enabling the approval of the pesticide use permit included a 30-day ap- peal procedure. The intent of that process has not been respected. NEWS QUOTES OF THE WEEK “le may not be as exciting as the Academy Awards, but it will be with you longer.’ North Vancouver District Ald. Paul Turner, on the reorganiza- tion of district hall operations. “We could take distilled water and spray it from helicopters at 300 feet and it would cause a fot of concern.”* North Vancouver-Lonsdale MLA David Schreck, on the visu- ally upsetting aspects of Agriculture Canada’s aerial plan Publisher Peter Speck to spray a bacteriaS insecticide over areas of the North Shore to halt the spread of the Asian gypsy moth. “it's a great experience for me. One minute you're dealing with lawyers and the next you’re in- structing people on where the gravel will be dumped.”’ World Affairs Dinner chairper- son Barbara Cupit, on organizing the organization's dinner events. “lt really does take a lot of plan- ning.”’ West Vancouver resident Scott Display Advertising 980-0511 Distribution Killon, on his quest to break the world handshaking record. “He was like a little boy lost all the time, so you had to take care of him. But once you played music, he took care of you.”’ Deep Cove musician Rene Worst, on jazz legend Chet Baker. “God only knows where that rab- bit came frem. He was just dodg- ing; it scared the liver out of him.’ West Vancouver resident Harry Thomas, recalling the First World War battle of Vimy Ridge. 986-1337 au North Shore 986-1337 7 if it all makes sense, you have the wrong job! SO WHAT’S new (yawn) with the Constitution? Where do we go from wherever we were? Will Canada survive with Quebec still on board? If Sir John A.’s nation disintegrates, will it hurt? The three-word answers are: Confusion. Confusion. Confu- ston. Nationally, no more gabfests involving the great unwashed public. Now everything is back with the 10 premiers (just like Meech). They have to come up with an agreed package by the end of May. Coach Joe Clark can’t get goalminder Roberi Bourassa to play on the team at all. Other players don’t buy all of Joe’s game plan. Three say they won’t play unless they get a Triple-E Senate with an equal number of members from each province — which Joe has told them to forget. They agree on native self-government in theory, just don’t bother them about details right now. Quebce as a ‘‘distinct society’' is OK (sort of), as long as it gets no extra powers. But even this shaky harmony remains iffy. Most provinces have indicated they may, or will, hold referendums of their own — which could unravel the whole bali of wax again. Many B.C. peasants, for example, show signs of mutinying against the wishy- washy approach so far of Mike Harcourt and his constitutional sidekick Moc Sihots. If the premiers DO sing roughly the same song by Muay 3st, then it must be sold to Bourassa by Brian Mulroney --- whom 80% of Canadians in the dastest poll don’t trust with the job. © now Brian is also mumbling abyut a national referendum, which he earlier re- jected. Now, too, more economists are warning of « horrible drop in JOE CLARK...coach meets some deaf ears. HITHER AND YON everyone’s living standard if the nation splits. Foreign investors, whose money saves us from drowning in our own red ink, won't be eager to risk any more, they say, on two such dubious bets as a go-it-alone Quebec and a beheaded Rest- Of-Canada. And New York's **no"’ to the Great Whale power export deal is making even some Quebec separatists ponder the dollars-and-cents message. Bankruptcies hit new highs monthly. The unemployed count sticks glued to 10% plus. All reports suggest far more anglophones and francophones alike worry about their next pay cheque -— or its absence — than about who does what and how in Canada’s 11 parliaments, Meanwhile, the clock ticks on towards Quebec's October separa- . tion referendum — which separatist Icader Jacques Parizeau himself now says he’d have preferred to postpone if he had his druthers. If all this makes complete sense and it’s perfectly clear to you where Canada is headed, you're obviously in the wrong job. Unless, of course, you're al- ready an astrologer. TAILPIECES: Well worth seeing is an unusual Arts Council display at the Silk Purse, 1570 Argyle, West Van, consisting of 28 works by local artists using widely varied media — oil, watercolor, steel, stone, crystal, sisal, acrylic, gouache, beads, photos and et- ching — all awarded honorabie mentions by the North Shore Spr- ing Juried Art Show. It’s on until Aprii 24 ... Learn a lifetime spert with the beginner golf fessons a: Ron Andrews Rec Centre, 7:30- 9:30 p.m. Fridays — call 987- PLAY to register ... Give your Easter gift of life at the 2:30 to 8 p.m. LGH blood donor clinics tomorrow and Tuesday, April 13-14 ... Tomorrow, too, wisha — Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Sudscriptions Classified Advertising 986-6222 Fax 985-3227 Newsroom 985-2131 Administration 985-2131 MEMBER Managing Editor . . . 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V7M 2H4 Entire contents © 1992 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. SDA DIMISION eo€¢ WRIGHT OR WRONG: The years teach much that the days never know. ; ad 61,582 (average circulation, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday) JACQUES PARIZEAU...if | had my druthers.