Toe ea iene belt . beat More alerten eb gta ace le AY 6 ~- Wednesday, November 9, 1994 - North Shore News Se WA Se OWA RING DOWN the junk mail jugger- naut. Derail the Canada Post deliver- jaunk-mail-or-else steam train. All those in favor say aye. Now, ail those in favor of forcing the Byzantine machinery of Canada Post to abide by the wishes of householders who don’t want to receive junk mail through their mail slots call, phone or otherwise button- hole their federal representative and tell them you support Liberal MP Andrew Telegdi and his private member’s bill to stem the tide of unwanted junk mail. Telegdi’s bill would prohibit Canada Post from delivering junk mail to householders who don’t want it. And a lot of people don’t use and don’t want junk mail, but they have no choice as far as Canada Post ts concerned. You want your mail? You also get junk mail, Peter Speck Doug Foot Chris Johnson REGULAR, LIGHT, OR ENTRALIGHT? Ih No matter that many people simply deposit junk mail directly in recycling con- tainers and that apartments provide large bins in mail areas for tenants for that same purpose, The whole business is an exercise in waste and bureaucracy run amok. Canadians are servicing Canada Post with its ever-escalat- ing costs to the consumer of doing business, when the reverse should be the case. We have lost control of our postal system, and it’s time to get some of that control back. Forget party politics. Support MP Telegdi any way you cen. Let’s make this private member’s biil work. Let’s force Canada Post to focus on the business of efficiently delivering the coun- try’s mail. A monumental challenge, it seems, at the best of times. Timothy Renshaw Linda Stewart FO Ul megacy of war dead is sti TIME TO THINK again about standing on guard — as Friday's Remembrance Day ceremonies honor the 114,000 men and women of the Canadian armed Forces who died guarding freedom in two world wars and Korea. Since then, today’s middic-aged baby-hoomers have lived their fives personally untouched by war for nearly halla century. And despite a unique record of participation in every UN peacekeeping operation since the 1956 Suez crisis, as well as their contributions to NATO and the Gulf War, Canada’s armed forees have lost ground steadily in the government's order of priori- lies, Today, with the Cold War over and Ottawa facing a desperate debt situation, (ederal deficit-cuters are again casting threatening looks at the $11.6 billion defence budget. The question now being asked in numerous qttarters is whether, in this entirely new global climate. Canada any longer needs conven- tional military forces, Since the country is no longer under any immediate threat, the argument goes, why maintain forces to be put in harm's way.in far-off corners of the earth if there are no direct benefits to Canada? Why nat simply reorganize a reduced military establishment into a national police force with search- and-rescue duties — leaving the great big world outside to deal with its own troubles? We'll know next month how far this disastrous thinking prevails when Defence Minister David Collenette unveils Ottawa's new forces policy — the first since 1987. Meanwhile, there are hopeful signs in fast week’s report by the parliamentary committee on defence. “The world,” it notes, “is in many ways a more dangerous place than it has been for the last 40 years.” The relative stability of the Cold War has been replaced by a mass of new regional and ethnic conflicts. Nuclear weapons still abound. Environmental problems are mounting, New economic rivalries are developing. All these threats to international Poter Kvarnstrom Valerie Stephenson HITHER AND YON order also threaten Canada gs a worldwide trading and investing nation. “If we believe Canada stands for values,” says the committee. “that are worth promoting in the larger world community. we must be pre- pared to invest resources and com- mit Canadian troops in defence of those values. “If we are not prepared to do so, then what do we stand for as a country?” In continuing to honor that com- mitment, defence budget economies are undoubtedly possi- ble -— especially through smarter equipment procurement and cuts in administrative staffs. But the tradi- tional global roie of our armed forces should never be in question. Canada’s emergence between 1914 and 1953 from colonial status to G-7 world power owes far more to the men and women we honor this Friday than is often understood by later generations. As peacekeepers now com- manding the respect of the entire warld, we simply cannot afford to abandon their proud legacy. eee SIGN-OFF: Happy birthday today, Nov. 9, to West Van’s irrepressible Kiwanian Bert Fleming ... The same again Friday, Nov.11, to his fellow Kiwanian Bill Atkinson ... And many happy returns of this same Remembrance Day to North Van City Coun. Stelia Jo Dean. eee WRIGHT OR WRONG: Manana is often the busiest day of the week (Spanish proverb). 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