8 - Friday, December 20, 1991 ~ North Shore News

Lanskail fights for nat’! unity

FORMER WEST Vancouver District mayor Don Lanskail
has said it is the responsibility of al] Canadians to do their
part to keep Quebec in Confederation.

Lanskail, vice-chairman of the
Council of Canadian Unity, a
group dedicated to keeping
Canada together, said one of the
organization’s objectives is to
become involved with constitu-
tional issues and debates.

“One program is to initiate the
Friends of Canada. It’s a mass
citizens’ movement and gives the
ordinary Canadian something to
do by joining the group,” said
Lanskail.

He added that Friends of
Canada has a branch in every
province and includes a_nation-
wide membership of 4,000 and a
B.C. membership of 500.

B.C. executive members of the
group include North Vancouver
residents Arthur Grant and Billy
Garton.

“We're simply trying to do our
bit to keep Canada together,”
said Lanskail. ‘‘The unity of
Canada is far too important to be
left to only the politicians. The
ordinary Canadian has to get in-
volved to help keep this country
together.’’ :

The Council for Canadian Uni-
ty was founded in 1964 and is a
non-profit, non-partisan national
organization.

Its main goals, according to
Lanskail, are to keep Canada
together and to foster a better
understanding of Canadian
regional, historical and linguistic
issues.

He said the council played a
major role in the 1980 referendum
question in Quebec that resulted
in a majority of the province's
respondents voting against separa-
tion.

It also worked in establishing
and operating the Terry Fox
Youth Centre in Ottawa and has
provided a forum in which more
than 36,000 Canadian students
have met and learned about the
country and the federal govern-
ments.

Other North Shore council
directors include Merrill Leckie,
chairman of the B.C. branch, and
secretary Bill McEwen.

A recent News poll asked 434
residents across the North Shore if
they are in favor of Quebec
separating from Canada.

Out of those polled, 72% (313)
said no, 9% (38) said yes, 14%
(60) were undecided and 5% (23)
said they did not care one way or
the other.

North Vancouver MP Chuck
Cook recently mailed to his con-
stituents his answers to a ques-

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In the questionnaire, Cook said
he would like to see constitutional
reform in Canada only if it is
reform that means equality for all
provinces.

He added that B.C. should con-
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“If one province is to have
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then it should remain independent
and not join the United States.

“Jt (B.C.) would become one of
the richest and most prosperous
areas of North America, similar to
Switzerland's position with
Europe,’’ said Cook.

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