A4 - Wednesday, June 6, 1984 - North Shore News HERE WAS A TIME, Strictly personal by Bob Hunter Pat over Simma in what seems like a previous incarnation, when | shared a small with two formidable females. One of them was Simma Holt. The other, office downtown Pat Carney. As you can imagine, | seldom got a word in edgewise. The three of us were writing columns at the time. When Simma ran for the Liberal Party, I coined a phrase to describe her which followed her around for years. She was ‘‘Mary Worth on speed.”’ lt was fair comment. Sim- ma viewed the universe through passionately heart- shaped glasses. She didn’t tackle issues, she flattened them. Around the newspaper where we worked, there was a lot of support for Simma’s candidacy. Give Ottawa a Holt! We gloated the night she was elected. The Grits were in for a rough time. A loose cannon had been sneak- PEMBERTON AREA ed aboard. Sure enough, Simma’s brief tenure as a Member of Parliament was all smoke and gunpowder, a lot of thunderous crashing about. But in the end, I didn’t notice that she’d left much of a thumbprint on the grey wall of Canadian history. I'm still scratching my head trying to find a phase to pin on Pat. She’s definitely not a Mary Worth type. Whereas Simma wore her heart on her sleeve, Pat Carney wears-a digital pocket calculator. She has a chipped, faintly amused air about her, like a smart missile relaxing in or- bit. Her temper is legendary. There is more than a hint of the Iron Lady. She has good teeth. *“Simma’s brief tenure as an MP was all smoke and gunpowder, a lot of thunderous crashing about.’’ Several years were to pass before my other fellow col- umnist, Pat Carney, decided to take the plunge. Maybe she learned something from Simma’s futile foray among the Grits. Pat went Tory. Put it this way wrestle to the death with Liberal strongwoman lona Campognolo, I’d put my money on Carney. 1 went to see her speaking to a small group of business , in a mud- Pub proposal facing battle From page A3 several peviencing voning mtiactions such as llega parking, and until these ate add cssed by Council, that hay Association cannot sug ort the pub application oltecant Gseorge Mckay oft he public hearing that cdohis two partners have wssed oa total of Kl nulatise years on the North TENA Vancouver business “Being part of ao residen fool area IS a fequircmernt of © neighborhood pub Said s Kay “And the oon aedion oof the pat would ride 40 Construe tron peortes Hobe petirane nt pots Nabe cee appli tte Pootia So Atadiew Woitdy ttre pre ( oWortthb bee tree peerbie cia ‘he aa whith wank wath othe cCxrstina pte est the residents Plas catia traffa on Weld will bee taker ate of ty ‘ prreprosxcd feew te ce bor cond The pub will not be like the Avalon or like a basi bees parlor dts going to be a respectable establishment A poll of the area's owners and Oceuptiers by District staff showed that ol DVO) distributed ballots, 14a persons or S24 per cent were myo favour oof the proposal with 47 persons, or 22 40 per cent against One quarter of the ballors were hol returned Coun reserved comment on the proposal pending Ald Juort Ball sand he felt the prt proposal further discussion. but would be an oii provcmenbntl Over Some oh the Comminens tal proposals rrracde peesvioustv in the areca No foortrver tesxiderc ot hve Nota area Bal bebe td tee Sy ayp atthe d wiih rdye Net mate recderiete ote saad “hay coed treet bearahay rvcrhated rodebisitedy Sore Chee s Lota Wal ayy tbr tra tery. : Vag Noo twat retplit ' ! wnat pcb Me cubes Firemen get shelter Wood NAW COL NE K boovk ali we Pooctriy lieve A cary baa be of net x0 ee vat om ced a] bn po Cabee tt a tber ae eS or ‘ roy baer ' c ' a “ay wbytens ae “Ny roy roti tthake ste! ratty thye P Verna wt woke tre teak vy tone \ hae torte rr co NV tee | re cr an betel But fo don’t feel the pub would prove to be detrimental to the area,” said Ball The District Socal Plan ner has recommended that Council reyect the applioa tion on the grounds at could lead to the crosron of the atcea’s industrial base as threaten Norpate's dential bharacter The Jas well Pest Planning department Is alsa against the proposal specifically since oat oat tects Pemberton Ave and threatens the proposed dow leveb rowed whith ors benip tarpeted boa moa lto purischie fhetral asses Highlands Community School Council Annual General Meeting Thursday June 14 7:30 pm in the school library types recently — and came away impressed with her analysis of the grim economic legacy of the Trudeau years. Her criticism of the Na- tional Energy Program came down to the fact that it means different things in different parts of the country. In the West it meant a retroactive 12 per cent tax that drained the cash flow out of the oil patch, whereas, in the Maritimes, it meant colossal grants for development. Contrary to popular xenophobic belief, much of the money that fled Alberta in the wake of the NEP was Canadian, she said. She noted that the federal government is borrowing $20 million a year just to pay the interest on the $32 billion deficit — and in the process consuming 90 per cent of our personal savings. Canada today ranks 37th among trading nations, right behind Guatemala. In 1968, the year that M. Trudeau began his reign, Canada’s share of international trade was 5.7 per cent. It has drop- ped under the _ professor’s steersmanship to 3.8 per cent. Carney pointed out that if we had done nothing more than cling to our previous trading position, we would have been able to provide 1.4 milhon jobs — which hap- pens to be awesomely close to SKYLITE SALE 28 x 28 $99 00 36 x 36 $119 00 28 x 52 $129 00 Ome BK x CAPILANO GLASS BUILDERS WAREHOUSE aK Ha ow Moa) Noett van ouwe: 980-3735 the total number of unemployed. What are we doing to recapture past efficiency, if not glory? Not much. Accor- ding to Carney, we have been the hands-down loser in the global high-tech race. While we like to dwell on the per- formance of a few Canadian winners, the truth is we spend the same percentage of our 80 exercise stations with over 20,000 Ibs. of the finest equipment in the world. elsolator «Nautilus *World Class *Flex «Global «Monarch Bikes *Free weights *Sprung hardwood Aerobics floor Engineered for comfort and safety. *separate change rooms, lockers, and saunas If vou are club, Gross National Product on vital research and develop- ment now as we did in 1963. My personal battleplan for the coming federal election is to be fiercely uncommitted, to make the various parties sweat for my vote. 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