4 - Sunday, August 28, 1988 - North Shore News THE NUCLEAR submarine program seems to be on hold. Very good. When the good old boys and persons from Parliament got out on the road this summer, they If you oppose free trade and the subs, you can, in fact, safely vote for “Twister Turner and the Lib- significance than at this precise time, when the superpowers are actually shambling toward a build-down in nuclear weaponry. As fate would have it, this long-awaited moment comes just | Now, You Can Increase Your After-Tax Retirement Income By Over 17%! » CLOSET | Cry ee «| h what afeeling! _.=3 | found the home-town folks not too happy about spending $8 billion on nukes, while everything else was going, as usual, down the tubes. Members of Parliament have discovered a certain amount of erals. Although he might twist another 160 degrees any moment... If you like free trade but loathe the crazy nuclear sub flect idea, you’ve got a political problem, friend. 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If Ottawa picked the British nu- clear sub, the Quebecois would be tres miffed, and if the French design was the choice, there would be backlash in the rest of the coun- try. It could be the worst long-term source of gricf since metric. Another problem Tory MFs found is the contradictions the sub issue raised. Voters don't like being forced into impossible corners. And look at the dilemma that has taken shape! There are plenty of people who like free trade, for instance, but who can only scratch their heads when it comes to the insane sub purchase. In the long run, which is the more important issue — whether Canada builds a fleet of nuclear- powered submarines or gets into bed with the Americans in a free- trade deal? If you oppose both free trade and the subs, you can safely vote NDP. NORTH VANCOUVER | | against the economic pig- headedness of the NDP. There aren’t all that many choices, after all. Our political parties in Canada are like our banks — few and immense. 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