& ~— Sunday, October 17, 1999 — North Shore News
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VIEWPOINT

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_» WHORE THY LANGUiSH
FOR OVER 2 YeaRs,

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MOKING is not only hazardous
to your health, it’s expensive.
Seil or supply the smokes to
minors and it could get very expensive
for those williug to break the jaw.
Provincial legisiation changed in
1997, allowing for tickets to be issued
for non-compliance. The cost: $575.
A good thing too but a few more
tickets might be in order however.
Tobacco’ enforcement officers
working for the North Shore Health
Region have received 199 complaints

ce from the public since April about.

stores selfing cigarettes to minors.
“If you think that number high,
there were 744 complaints in the 12
~mionths prior to April. |
- But. the number of tickets issued
-fail to reflect the concerns of the pub-

fic? seven’ ince April and 19 for the

ng Sm

Acting on complaint, investigators
employ teens aged 14-16 tc attempt
to buy cigarettes in offending stores.
Tegal sales net a warning letter, a sec-
ond sale warrants a ticket. After two
tickets a st_ ~’s licence to sell tobacco
is suspended for six months and it is
required to post a notice on its door
explaining why it is not selling the
unhealthy weed.

More tickets and a few suspensions
would raise awareness that it is not
OK to buy cigarettes for your younger
friends, kid brother or, heaven help
us, your children.

As a socicty we don’t allow teens to
drink alcohol at a young age because
of the potential. for harm and the
knowledge that teens do not ali ac:
responsibly.

The effects of tobacco are insidi-
ously cumulative and no less harmful.

we ennag GOvERNNENT 6

MOVED TO VqNCOLVER..

SOSING TaISOF MONCY

‘Ona holiday vieekend, we have 4 full load of j pas-"
nigers, and everybody wants to-use the washroom: at
just before the ship. docks.” i

firms: Many, a make valuable cg contri

a hope consultant Douglas Palmer
butions to Canada, col mically and

 Gidn’t tion Canada -

sometimes waiting years for theit applica-
tions to be processed by our snail-like

BC Ferries? Clay Suddaby, explaining the discharge of
chemi lly untre=ted sewage into Horseshoe Bay from the
PacifiCat. Explorer. (From an Oct. 17 News story).

much for that coufidential survey

‘of attitudes to immigration which

he carried out for’

s excessive ‘for a cemetery where the
” .

jle are dead

civers Feo aot Saunders, i is dubious :
levelopment™ costs” to,'the ..
:on ‘proposed mausoleum. :

‘Lange on winning ‘the
Ht. Ort. 13 New:

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jucation ‘minister lease cali
he uses distinguis between .

y2””

afsdottir.— “leatly a. fan of. “Bing Sisede

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department.
Completed in July as
an “internal” report, it was
released last week only ~:~
after the department was | ~
prodded under freedom ©.
of information laws. Its”
‘garth shaking, findings — .
’ based, 20 years of polls
i: += were that the mores. ©
: immigrants. a city or com-..
munity takes in, the mi
racism and prejudice
- against them is géneratéd. I coitld have
given Inimigration Canada the same
anne over the phone for fice : :
. and Ontario, especi immigrant
~ crowded Vancouver and Toromo, top the.
', intolerance list. The immii
Maritimés, Manitoba and ‘Saskatchewan.

*s Despité which; the study notes that’.

: even in B.C. 2nd Ontario only 258 and
respectively 'sai imimigrants a

", negative effect, while 43-44% in both ..

xen this”

provinces felt they had a positive “effect. But m family

far more relevance is what the’ survey ’

‘“aimits to say about the current i immigration :

ee partichtas; it ftiakes no distinction

~ between legal i immigrants, who settle in
Canada afer
malitics, and sclf- cayled “refugees” arriving
without papers or any proof of the suffer-_
ing they claim to be ft fecin ; These latter
cost taxpa rs + millio f dollars while:

ing all immigration | for-

refugee determination machine. ‘That’s why

B.C.*s recent flood of Chinese boat peuple - <.

were the last straw fe many Canadians.
__ Asowell, the report
“ignores the results of -
_ drastic changes in immi-
gration policy 30 years.
: ago —- presumably”
-_ because to mention
thent, however objec- >.
tively, can. bring heated
| charges of “racism.”
_ 7 Nonetheless; the basic °

: Middle East providing a mere 3% By i

yi
an immigrants totalled tinder 25%:
hile in Varicouver and Toronto visible’
ofthe

: on over ‘he past three d

©. In the early 19703'one
ants were. cdiicated “i

igrants — the °
to. 17%, only hi

_ them speating one of our oficia! hn-
‘ guages. 1n'1998 teaching’ min EStecou

$77 million i

“Aside from bog Ss refugees” one.
an a quite tod

minority of Canadians hold noti-European

immigrants to be “bad” for Canada —.as..
the we [mimigration Canada study clearly.co