2 - Sunday, April 25, 1999 - North Shore News ‘ Saal a a etna ARN NEWS photo Mike Wekotieid The goed earth FRASER Academy studsnts celebrated Earth Day on Thursday by picking up trash at Ambleside beach. [SPRING IS HERE!| Be Ready for Mountain Biking & Spring Skiing Bike Racks & Ski Carriers Same Day Servic: (most hitches) Bike/Ski Rocks & Carrlors - Soid & Instaiod Sport Utitity, Van & Pick-up Specisiists Ask us sbout ‘Gemco’ 6 million watershed Study no hit Anna Marie D’Angrin News Reporter dangelo@nsnews.com WATERSHED logging opponents are critcal of a $6 million GVRD study that attempts to predict risks to drinking water quality. The veport was prepared by Compass Resource Management Lrd. for the Greater Vancouver Water District. information in the thick technical report, released fast week, took six years to compile and includes an_ ecological inventory of all three water- sheds, Capilano, Seymour and Coquitlam. : Scientists analyzed the data from the Capilano watershed BUDGET 1999 A ROAD TO RUIN DANIEL JARVIS. MLA and made computer modeling predictions that addressed tur- bidity, sediment, fires and caterpillar problems. 1 chink it’s a waste of tax- pavers’ dollars,” said Ross Muirhead, Friends of the Watersheds. “Ie’s (the analysis and report) been a make-work pro- ject for GVRD consultants,” he said. Watershed = management administrator Bob Cavill said the GVRD has gone through “great pains” to get good sci- entists and the best science for the report. “This project is world class in terms of the information that we've got,” said Cavill. Cavill said there is probably no other group of watersheds See Public page 8 There’s plenty of waste to cut Of the province's total annual interest tab, $900 million is due to NDP debt. The NDP’s extra annual interest costs are equal to more than the combined budget for 10 of the 20 ministries in government; or almost the total amount raised through Medical Services Plan premiums; or about half of all spending on Advanced Education, Training and Technology. Total government spen‘ing has increased faster than the growth rate of BC’s econoray. BC experienced the steepest rise in per capita spending among all the provinces from 1992 to 1997. By the end of 1999- 2000, consolidated revenue fund spending will have increased by 40% to $21.045 billion. On top of debt- interest payments, the NDP has wasted billions of tax dollars on patronage appointments, propaganda campaigns, needless regulations and red tape, and bureaucratic bloat, Examples of waste include: $350 million on the Skeena Cellulose buy-out, $215 million in cost overruns on “Ferrari” fast ferries, $1.5 billion in extra costs for rapid transit (for SkyTrain), $250 million on the fixed wage policy, $8 million on ne « : Clot verano FOR ALL YOUR PAINT & AUTOBODY NEEDS | Press Release April 25, 1999 For Immediate Refcase SEYMOUR SIGNS LEASE EXTENSION After long and careful deliberations a lease extension has been signed by the Corporation of the District of North Vancouver and Seymour Golf & Country Club. ” This extension allows members and public players the privilege of golfing year round. Seymour Golf & Country Club was founded in 1952. It is a premier 18-hole course featuring an exception- ally well-groomed and picturesque championship lay- out with lakes, streams and sand bunkers set amongst towering evergreens and rolling greens. Paved cart paths and four sets of tees on each hole provide enjoy- able golf and challenge for golfers of all handicap lev- els. Public play is available every Monday and Friday (excluding holidays) and is terrific value at $45 for 18 holes...our grill room is also epen to the public on Friday evenings. Currently Seymour has immediate openings and is ‘accepting applications for Full Play, Assaciate and , Social Members. Please call Ann Sheldon at our office 929-5491 for farther information ard rates. SEYMOUR GOLF & COUNTHY CLUB Nisga’a treaty propaganda and $500 million “sweetheart” deais for NDP friends. NDP tax hikes are not sustainable -——-~ 4% 1994 Taxation ($ Millions) ¢ GDP % Change ($ 1992) Tax hikes are ultimetely counter productive, because 3% they reduce revenus. As this chart shows, the NDP massive tax hikes in the early 90s have destroyed GDP growth, As wealth- creation has slipped, tax revenues have stopped growing. From 1992 to the end of the 1998 fiscal year, tax revenues rose from $9 billion to $13 billion — a 44% increase. In the first two years in office alone, the NDP hiked yearly taxes by $1.6 billion, and when increases in fees, licences and other charges are factored in, more than $2 billion has been added to the amount British Columbians pay to the government each and every year. The result is that BC is the only province in Canada where the Jevel of new private sector investment in 1999 is projected to be below the 1992 level. Private sector investment in BC has dropped in each of the last three years, and BC now has the highest unemployment rate west of Quebec. Investors are fleeing. Over 200 companies moved to Alberta in the last two years, and the Business Council of BC reported last month that, “British Columbia has had the weakest investment performance among the provinces in the past half decade, with capital spending shrinking in four out of five years.” For further information contact Daniel Jarvis at his Constituency Office #4 - 1501 Lynn Valley Road, North Vancouver, B.C. V7J 2B1 Fax: 775-1061