& - Wednesday, September 28, 1988 - North Shore News

NMUCLEAR SUBS NECESSAKY

lavy needs submarines

Dear Editor:

Should you or the repre-
sentatives of the North Shore's
three municipalities ever take the
time to understand the issues jn-
volved in modernizing the Cana-
dian Navy you would be shamed
into withdrawing your Nuclear
Nonsense editoria) with the
municipal representatives pleading
ignorance.

Canada is a sovereign nation
with the second largest Jand mass
in the world fronting on three
oceans. The livelihvuod of some 25
per cent of its people derives from
import and export trade carried by
ocean shipping. The Navy is ob-
solete.

In order to provide a modern
‘balanced fleet’? professionals
have determined the best option.
Nuclear-pewered submarines were
chosen over diesel-powered as they
are vastly superior in speed, en-
durance and power. The cost for
either of these options is the same.

While the cost is significant | do
not observe in your editorial that
the $8 billion will be spent over 25
years — about $300 million an-
nually. Nor do you identify that
this is less than 3 per cent of
Canada’s current defence budget
of some SII billion a year. Lux-
embourg is the anly country in
NATO which spends less of its
gross domestic product on defence

than Canada.

ht is impossible to equate pro-
viding some modern protection for
our sovereignty to overhauling
municipal infrastructures. Both
should be kept modern, But if the
Navy is required to use old techno-
logy (i.e. diesel-powered — sub-
marines) then the infrastructure
should be subject to the same con-
cept (.e. 1950 sewer plant design
for the 24st century),

You and our municipal repre-
sentatives are guilty of a disservice
to both our local communities and
the nation,

Sohn E. Hall
Lt.-Cmdr. RCN (R) Ret'd.
North Vancouver

Hunter spewed ‘venom, hatred’

Dear Editor:

Mr. Bob Hunter's vituperative
piece on Mr. Turner, the Senate
and the Free Trade Bill demands
comment.

It has been said that there could
be occasions when a government
with a large majority may attempt
to force legislation through
Parliament which was so much
against the best intercsts of
Canada that the Senate would not

only be justified in delaying its
passage to allow for sober second
thought but that such cir-
cumstances by themselves justified
the existence of that body.

There are arguments that the
trade bill with its peripheral implica-
tions and the rush for its passage
with limited public and parliamen-
tary scrutiny is such an occasion,
There are other arguments that it is
not,

Mr. Hunter did not contribute

to the debate by making those
arguments. He chose instead to
spew venom and hatred. Perhaps
that is Mr. Hunter's personal trag-
edy.

Charles M, Campbell

West Vancouver

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