A4 - Friday, August 24, 1984 - North Shore News strictly personal by Bob Hunter N THIS ELECTION which is still not decided, let us remind ourselves, it is wonderful to see how ‘‘peace’’ has become an issue. I have no trouble believing Deep Cove lawyer Nancy Morrison, putting her down payment on a senate seat by running for the Liberals in darkest Burnaby, when she says she is in favor of a nuclear freeze. Nancy has been around long enough to remember the Easter Be-Ins at Stanley Park and all of that, although I’m sure she never went within a mile of such a gathering. Still, it’s interesting hearing her echo the sentiments of the early peaceniks. I’m an early peacenik myself, having got my first taste of peace rallying at Speaker’s Corner at the end of an Aldermaston march in London in the early 60s when Bertie Russell got hauled away by the Bobbies for us- ing a loudhailer to urge one and all to ban the bomb for- evermore. We all know of course that the ‘‘peace thing’’ keeps coming up big in opinion polls. And that might explain the likes of ex-B.C. Place VP Paul Manning, another Liberal aspirant to senator- ship, suddenly getting very keen on a nuclear freeze him- * PLUS x Over 8 models of tables to choose from starting at $59.00 aaa self. 1 can’t remember Paul ever having views along these lines before. The most radical thing he ever did was arrange to have Maggie Trudeau _ splish- splash along Spanish Banks at the Habitat Forum to make everybody think about water. Well, okay, what about peace? What about nuclear freezes? lt doesn’t take an enor- mous wad of brain cells to figure out that a nuclear freeze sure beats a nuclear barbecue. 1 won’t bore you with figures. The nice thing about motherhood issues is that nobody is ever publicly in favor of nuking babies. Besides, have you ever tried listing all the nuclear superpowers who would listen to Canada’s opinion on the matter? Sorry, Nancy — you too, Paul — the nuclear freeze ploy can be dismissed as bathtub politics. If you slosh a lot, maybe the ring won't show. But peace — that’s an issue. Legitimate. Probably more legitimate than any other issue, barring a carbon Peace at issue monoxide-induced collapse of the biosphere. That’s why it is so sad to see it being given merely token kisses and winks in this campaign. One of the great mysteries of human history has been the trick of getting to live out your life in a boring, peaceful way. Ideally, that should be the function of governments. Keep out of our hair — and keep things peaceful. Why ts peace even remote- ly an issue in a Canadian federal election, of all places? We are famous as being roughly as ferocious as the taxpayers in Luxembourg. Everybody and their duck knows that Canada is a satellite (lucky us!) of the United States and that we couldn’t beat New Zealand on our own in a pitched bat- tle for Vancouver Island. I hate to say this, but when il comes to peace, Canadians are quite possibly the most hypocritical people on earth. The idea of Canada’s leader lecturing other nations about Peace is flabbergasting. Of course, the guys with actual power just laugh. The tragedy is that there isn't a serious debate about peace. How do we maintain as much peace as we enjoy? How do we add to what little peace that already exists in the world? How do we avoid war? One of the special hells in this election is reserved for peace-loving types who nevertheless realize the cor- rupt Liberals have to be thrown out of office. That doesn’t leave much choice, since it ts true that a vote for the NDP, in any kind of a minority government situa- tion, would automatically translate into another Liberal regime. So. I think the issue of how Canada gets serious about helping peace needs to be ex- amined. As we say in showbiz, tune in. 1 have a point to make to fellow peace freaks. Municipal voters list IT MAY be overlooked in the fuss over the feder- al election, but the deadline for making the municipal voters lists for this November’s civic elections is approaching. Residents of the _ three North Shore municipalities have until August 31 to make it on to the lists. Residents who qualify to vote — Canadian citizens or British subjects over the age of 19 who have lived in the municipality for three mon- ths, the province for six and the country for a year — can register by filling out a regis- tration card at the ap- propriate municipal hall. Missing the deadline for registration won’t, however, leave you unable to vote when election time rolls around. Courts of revision for the printed voters lists will be held in all three municipalities the first Mon- day in October. Finally, unlike the current federal election, municipal election voters can register at the polls on voting day and then cast their votes. BACK AGAIN OUR SUPER SPECIAL DINNERS “S699 . 8 oz. 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