6 — Wednesday, Apri! 15, 1998 — North Shore News north shore news VIEWPOINT Youth works UTH need employment help. Premier Glen Clark has got that much right, but the kind of help being offered by the NDP government is misplaced. The premier announced April 6 that the province will be. providing $36 million to create up to 17,000 new job vand training positions for youth in B.C. With B.C.’s. youth unemploy- ment currently hovering around 18.6%, youth need all the help they can get. . But the reality is that governments .do not create real jobs. Make-work projects are temporary measures at best. What governments can do is cre- ate the kind of positive economic cli- - mate in which businesses can flourish and stimulate the free market system “to generate real jots:.. anti-free market philosophies and big government approach to life and busi- ness, has worked steadily to render that climate destructive to alf forms of job generation. The most recent: example of the NDP’s hare-brained approach to ‘improving the lot of entry-level work- ers is to raise B.C.’s minimum wage to $7.15 per hour. That inflated hourly rate makes it virtually impossible for small businesses to hire casual or other inexperienced help. If the NDP wants to help youth get jobs it should subsidize such business- es as restaurants with a differential ‘minimum wage. It would help cover the cost of training and provide much- needed experience for youth. That would really help youth and the job’ market create real employ- But the NDP government, with its "ment: THE UNARMED conquest of the world by the U.S. proceeds apace. That’s one lasting impres-_ -” sion of a 21-day, 23,000-mile “Re: Leash laws flouted ‘i in West Van (March: 22). ‘Leash laws 2 ¢ flouted all over the North Shore, “not just in West Var ‘ouver. 7We have two young | boy: Ne do not go for walks in designated “off-leash” areas, yet most of the dogs we mect are not on leashes. ; A few owners, upon seeing the kids are nervous (it's very. obvious), ' will call their: dogs and leash them, always “Oh; he’s good with kids.” Well, maybe, your ‘dog is good with kids, -but I don’t in.the meantime your dog hag his muzzle : n_my (by now Screaming) three-year- old’s’ ‘face, which’ does’ nothing to- improve his confidence Your dog may love kids, ‘but at the moment my.kids do t love dogs. =" | . 2; We. are: irying to help them overcome their fear, “See, Ot: paying any. attention to you, he’s just running ut it is extremely hard. when large; unknown animals, __ are‘generally about the same size as a three-year-old, come bounding up to them and just. get too close. -The: owners usually do nothing except make excuses and we them to remove their pet or try to push it away. Do they | not ‘see’ that their dog is terrifying a small: ( fe course they do, the only possible conclusion i is they. ; imply do not care... I like dogs and hope my ‘boys will one ‘day like dogs, . tI'stire don’t think very much of many of the dog own- : orth Shore News, founded 1 1969 as an iNdependent suburban newspaper and quattied ; under Schedule 111, Paragraph 111 of the > Eacise Tas Act, is published each Wednesday, : Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press td. anid distributed to every door on the North ‘Shore. Canada Post Canadian Publications Mil * Sales Product Agreement #0. 0087238. fading rates available on cequest. : > ¢ Dist ion Manage" . ‘586-1337 (124) | who are very nervous of dogs. fel . bombers, tanks or assault ften meet_a' total lack of understanding if we ask - he Mage eS “geez (2y 61.582 (average cirelation, Wednestiay, Friday & Sunday) swing around three . continents by your = faithful scribe. It’s aconquest _ requiring no fighter-. infantry. Its shock troops . are the salesmen of - _multinational corpora- “tions with their boards ie rest just let their dog run right up ‘to the boys,” ” and bank accounts in » New York, Seattle, San Francisco and Houston. : Its mop-up bartalions are millions of elderly globe-trotting U.S. tourists . -who’ve achieved the American Dream __ with cash to sparc. 7 ‘Our odyssey began with a 17-hour flight via New York to Bucnos Aires. ° er two days in the Argentine capital we ’ boarded the Royal Pritivess for a 7,200- mile cruise to Barcelona ‘Spain. It gave us day visits in seven fascinating ports-of-. call — Uruguay’s' Montevideo, Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro and Reciie. Then across the Adantic to Dakar, capital of the West African state of Senegal, on to the fovely « ‘Portuguese island of Madcira, finally Morocco’s Casablanca and Britain’s Gibraltar. All except Madeira and Gibraltar may be described as “developing” countries, with Senegal still very much a Third World nation. Rural villages and the poorer suburbs leave one in no doubt about the meaning of those terms: But PETER SPECK ay Publisher.” 985-2131 (101) 905-2131, (177) Photography Manager: Classified Manager ‘985-2131 (160) 906-3222 (202) uT = = ieee DETERMINED To RECEIVE COMPENSATION, EDWARD TAKES, ACTION. 2 Coca-Cola colonies catch g on material symbols of poverty fade away "where the city centre begins. From Montevideo to Dakar to Casablanca the bustling downtown core ©’ gos — Spanish, Portuguese, French;, areas are virtually indistinguishable from one another (and even from many of their U.S. counterparts). Towering business and hotel highrises in the contemporary North American architectural tradition. Familiar reas- - ‘ suring names like: - Hyatt, Sheraton, Holiday Inn: The gi battling, billboards or Coca-Cola and Pepsi. The ubiquitous Golden - Arches, sometimes with a Burger King or |” Pizza Hut just along rhe block. The U.S. _o Gmbassy pointed our by tour guides, with: | “the reverence normally reserved. for. 2 "cathedrals. moe Tos, . And everywhere (“Third World”: ; Dakar no exception) late-model cars by the thousands swirling endlessly in every.” direction, interrupted only by periodic. - bouts of total gridlock. How't ie natives - of countries where the average income, . -we're told,-runs between $200 and. $400 US per month ever afford what appears ...*- to be last year’s toral combined output of - GM, Ford and Volvo remains one of the’ tour’s major unsolved mysteries. Communication problems for the off: Shore visitor? Forget it. Aside from ig Foot Human Resouices Manager Compile 2 © a5-2131 (183): : ¢ Afghanistan and North Korea, tourism is: ‘ now.a major world industry —its most <. : tucrative marker the growing millions of a well-heeled, globe-trotting, 60-ish- -plus*: . American retirees (1,1C0 of them on our’ _ ship alone).: ‘From Argentina:to Morocco. and points far beyond both; th _shave long ago got the score. “< By all means keep the quaint focal. fi Arabic, whatever. traffic signs. But the U.S: dol Virtually an international « ) right down to the sidewalk postcard atv Sid - souvenir booths. And since the lar speaks _ English, so Will almost. ever merchant, street vendor, restau nt ope tor and cabbie you're ‘likely’ Much tetail trade in Thi o is the “third-t ‘offers: you English-lan: guag Buenos Aires Heralk these developing count on’ fast to the, US’ row, April 16; to retired We: ; cillor Don Griffiths. 5 " LETTERS TO THE EDITOR " Letters must include your name, ‘full address & telephone number. - . Managing Editor 985-2131 (116) 960-0519 (166) ~’ Entire contenis © 1997 North Shore Free Press Ltd. Alt rights reserved. - MiA e-mail: trenshaw @ direct.ca _ Ctasstid, Accounting . & Main Office Fax. Michael Becker - News - 985-2131 (14):