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IEWPOINT

One voice

HE three-headed monster that
.@ is North Shore government is
once again wildly spinning in

three different directions.

This time, the issue is the Lions
Gate Bridge.

North Vancouver District says the
three-lane, $70- tnillion option is the
way to go.

Not so, states West Vancouver
councillors, who lean toward a four-
lane bridge without tolls — even
though they can’t have it.

, And. if July 14’s council debate i is
any: indication, ,, determining what

North, Vancouver’ City: wants. borders

“on. ‘the impossible.,

- What" is: certain, however, is that
‘ Coun. Barbara Sharp’s roll-over-and-
et-Victoria-do-what‘it-wants atti-
‘tude: Serves no. one on the North’:

North Shore bands together to form
a united front, Sharp’s t&e on the
situation is realistic,

Local boundaries have proved to
be a knife neutering the municipali-
ties’ ability to influence. provincial
political decisions affecting the North
Shore, No ane speaks for the North
Shore so no one listens,

Victoria doesn’t even need carplugs
to ignore the North Shore’s spirited
but Jargely pointless debate on’ the
bridge’s future.

More than ever, the North Shore .

needs to work together to go forward
with a strong voice, It’s time for a
single North Shore municipality.

At the same time, perhaps we'll

‘save some money and kick-start’ a

thorough review, of municipal bound-

é Tu esday,_ donations from over’1,300, ‘News

“specs supporters, to: the fund’ stood : at
y $200,000

ed will, selp

:"The final bill will be much

on*May

on June 27 with final began at the

'1015:Burrard St. \,
tya Hyer, the tribunal of one
is. Expected some time later

‘Plaza Hor
The desi from’

cerpts ftom the hundreds of respondents to
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tf publication and Dm very happy i that we °

‘ Jon

Sy havea pee like Dong to say what some of us can
only thank. If people don’t like the country we fought.
' fr; they don’t bave o stay. It brings to mind thar *
_ Meleat we bave now is what we served against 50- odd

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2 —jS. Amodeo of Vancouver

‘ Fre speech must always By ‘jtawed even as inevitably all.
Of Ws at some i tine.will not elways agree and occasionally | will be
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Harte idee Mews, founded in (989 a8 an
Indapendent subuiben newspaper and quintet
under Scheckee $11, Faragrap?: 111 of the

Excise Tax Act, is published exch Wednesday,

Friday and Sunday by Mort) Shore Free Press

them — West Coast
“politics grow ever
x Wackier,

nded, this far by the News have «

‘aries across our over-governed coun-

‘

. AS Glen Clark unilaterally
declares war on the Yanks —..
horrifying Ottawa’s Grits who
\« Gesperately need both B. C. and
the U.S. to love

’ Gordon Campbell's
Liberais, who “managed

. to lose by a whisker the

1996 clection that

: nobody ever thought
they could lose, now

_ totter from‘ one public

“. relations disaster to the
next. In the back rooms,

the revolt against Campbell's inept lead-
ership is gathering momentum, The lat-
est Marktrend poll shows the Grits, at
34%, trailing 8.C. Reform (only two |
MLAs, no leader and no moncy), at 35%,
while the misgoverning NDP languishes
- at. 25%.

‘At the same time, the most popular: :
-polten in B.C., at "45% in the last Reid
poll, is the one-man Progressive. .

lemocratic Alliance caucus in the
of former: Liberal leader Gordon

Meanwhile, the effective Serostticn
{as distinct from the official one) doesn't
sit in the Legislature any longer, though
it occasionally uses its lawns, fn the past
month Premier Clark has been forced to
cave in on two once-sacred NDP initia-..
tives —- no-fault insurance and a radical
“new labor bill — not by the stumbling
Liberals but by. well-heeled lobby groups

“able co mount hard-hitting media cam-

paigns..

fh :

eee Hoel

non: ‘NDP Beitish Co

‘

"political pipsqueaks,

‘trate his image- -building efforts on the

A tt oa

All this has led the premier to concen: «

salmon war with the Americans, culmi-
Usk last weekend in the hijacking ofa" a
ferry in Prince Rupert by enraged
Canadian fishboat. »
“crews, who blockaded
it from sailing. In this
context, at least, Ciark’s
». tactics sem to'be

modelled oii former.
fisherics minister Brian
Tobin's successful cast.

~ Cgast cod war against
the Spaniards'a year or”
two ago — is.undoubt- .

eal backed by many :
lumbians, as well: as,
by the party and union faithful,

What happens next, however, may be
very different from chasing a few Spanish

ssing U
Fe phy bal they p

, Wilsor’, hea

“a Bennett. .

Sat

‘Remember that guy bac cin 195

rs. When th

fay’ hardba
_Clark’s current NDP. miandate:7u

until at least the year. 2000, by. whe!

"could well become’d have-not provin
, like'Nova Scotia. So, at least; say al
© today’s ‘economic signals, Yet until B.C

fight-of-centre parties get th

‘together;: the'only Pros ct i
; ; ing miseries 0
~ working. His Davidevs- ”
Goliath number 2.5. 5

. Don't be toe ape ;
the latest silly-season tittle?
Victoria’s corridors of | power I

.C.’s mo: u lisician;
ing a new: Refai
Party in: which all. good ‘Libe
welcome, once they've dis
Gordon Campbell).

Crazy, you say}: Remember that’ ‘gu
Victoria 45 years age 'N A

trawlers back to their home waters 3,000,° - :

-kin ftom Canada’s coast especially if,

Clark should get away with his threat t0°
close the Nanoose Hay undetwater *:
weapon-testing range used by the
Americans, Uncle Sam doesn’t.take -
ly to being pushed around by foreign * ,

Hence the Chretien government's.
dilemma, It badly needs more B.C. sup:

rt. But it’s also keenly aware that the
DS. has vast retaliatory clout if Glen
Clark pushes his fish war too hard,

Lumber and other NAFTA exports”
could be affected, as could the current
tricky negotiations over Canadian cultural

" sovereignty in the field of American. TV
». and magazine imports, Even B.C. Ferries

might have to be re- routed to avoid

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