{Dear Editor: | AGREE WITH FEDERAL HEALTH OFFINALS... HERBS CAN BE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS IN THE WRONG HANDO..... WHY, JUST THE OTHER DAY, | DRANK 700 MUCH COMFREY TEA. AND WENT TEMPORARILY INSANE? AD GONE DOWN TO THE POST OFFICE AND (NAILED $100 OFF To WE TORES RE- ELECTION FIND! thx amnesty 1 AX. CHEATERS “deserve no sym- “pathy, : but they are more and more ‘becoming. a byproduct of federal ‘overtaxation. Jn.an effort to convince tax cheaters to ceme clean, . Revenue: Minister. Garth - ‘Turner recently . announced that Ottawa had come up with an income tax amnesty program. i The pian, it appears, is designed to help coax, rather: than wring, delinquent tax dollars from Canadians. Mr. Turner. was quoted as saying. the - government could “harass people to try and get blood out of a stone or we can try and: work with 1 people and keep them on side.” We travel Indeed. : The federal government has long excelled in squeezing blood from the long-suffering stone of Canadian taxpayerdom, whose worn and fleeced members are being squeezed undergrouad. Canada’s underground economy has now been estimated at a staggering $90 billion. Little wonder when the government debt in Canada has ballooned to $460 billion,. and almost one out of every 11 Canadians . is on the government payroll. Canada is overgoverned and overtaxed. Its residents have. been GSTed end PSTed into inertia. We don’t need an. amnesty for tax cheaters; we need a moratorium cn tax. LETTER OF THE DAY Discourteous service hurts reputation extensively - heard about this individual to- ~.On Aug. 4, my wife and I set out to Horseshoe Bay to‘catch the iferry to Nanaimo. ' (| At about 1:30 p.m., we pulled -up behind a long lineup on the Upper Levels Highway. | Our first contact was with an obnoxious, rude young man from Capilano Highway Services. — ’ He didn’t seem the least bit in- terested in helping with informa- tion. Publisher... Managing Editor Associate Editor Sales & Marketing Director Peter Speck Timothy Renshaw -Noel Wright Linda Stewart throughout B.C. and Washington, and normally see friendly, courte- ous service along the ferry and highway systems. We issued a complaint with B.C. Ferries about the discourteous service, but were told that they do not have anything io do with Capilano Highway Ser- vices. They remarked, ‘'This is cer- tainly not this first time we've Display Advertising 980-0511 Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom 985-2131 Distribution Subscriptions 986-1337 Fax day.” {t is bad enough to put up with B.C. Ferries’ higher prices for less service, without the travelling public being subjected to this type of behavior by contractors or employees. Wouldn’t it be better to have a feputation as a friendly place to travel and visit? Dale Zunke | North Vancouver 986-1337 This newsoaper contains, 985-3227 ' Bia secycled tine Comptroller Doug Foot North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualified under Schedule 111, Paragraph Ill of the Excise Tax Act, is published ¢ gach Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Prass Lid, and distributed to every door on the North Shore. Canada Post Canadian Publications Mail Sales Product Agreement No. 0087238. Mailing rates available on request. Submissions are welcome but we Cannot accept esponsibility for unsolicited material including manuscripts and pictures which should be accompanied by a stamped, self-setf- ‘addressed envelope. V7M 2H4, Nottn Snore managed —— MEMBER su WEDNESDAY + FRIDAY 1139 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, B.C. SDA DIVISION 61,582 (average circulation, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday) Entire contents © 1993 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. ce again? ‘*A.B.C”’ (as in Anyone But Campbell) is a factor we're likely to hear about more and more during these final 17 days preceding the Sept. 11 B.C. Liberal leadership v vote. Noel Wen As everyone and his dog now know, Vancouver Mayor Gordon Campbell is currently seen as the front-runner in a three-cornered contest with the two other heavyweight contenders, well respected former jJeader Gordon Gibson and incumbent leader Gordon Wiison. Campbell — widely regarded as an archetypical yuppy — is backed by apparently untimited funds, He_ refuses to divulge their sources, though Howe Street is suspected of being a prime contributor. Since June he has campaigned hard to sign up instant Liberals in Greater Vancouver. His urban recruits have played a major part in swelling party membership to over 12,000 from a mere 4,000 or so at the beginning of the year. AS a result, an estimated four out of every five paid-up B.C. Grits are now Lower Mainland residents. His campaign paid off hand- somely at the July 31 party con- | vention. Campbell was able to muster just enough support to have the Sept. 11 selection of a leader car- tied out by an overall — as op- posed to riding — phone-in ballot. This means in effect that the new leader will be chosen NOT by the province as a whole, but by Greater, Vancouver, swamped as it is with new Campbell recruits. However, the universe may still not unfold exactly as His Worship has planned, especially if he fails to win on the first ballot. Although the lingering scandal -of Gordon Wilson's affair with fellow MLA Judi Tyabjiseems. likely to keep him in third place, he still. commands some solid toy- alty among longstanding party members. There are rumors that when it comes down to the wire, he might even join forces with Gordon Gibson in an ‘‘anyone but Camp- bell’? bid. ' Wilson has already broadly. hinted that he would not serve under Campbell, opening up the potential! for more internal Liberal bloodletting — the party’s major — skill to date. Meanwhile, smal) business owners in Vancouver, mad about the level of city taxes, have started their own campaign to persuade - HITHER AND YON Liberals to reject the mayo: Even if Campbell wins, his: : power base would be confined. almost exclusively to the metro: area, With no province-wide constit- uency, his i image in the Interior.“ would remain basically that of a. distant, city slicker.” Vals Of the three principal contes- tants, Gordon Gibson is un- © doubtedly the party’s smartest be for the long haul — by virtue of intellect, political experience.at’ federal and provincial levels; province-wide (as distinct from “big city’) appeal. . But given the B.C. Grits’... suicide-prone record, it may take. a miracle to convince them of. that : by Sept. Hi. SCRATCHPAD: Returned by.ac- claniation for a further term are. ~ all 1992-93 officers of Wést Van Legion Branch 60 — president’ Dick Davenport past prez Jean - Coull; first veepee Peggy Allen; second ditto Michael Wood, treasurer Tony Panton and secre-’ oe tary Norris Spence ... Register for” the fall term at RNB Dance and.” ‘Theatre Arts Studio, 3355 Moun-’: tain Highway Saturday, ‘Aug. 28," : from 11 a.m. to ! p.m: ~— call ©: " 980-3040 for info ... North Shore Chorus needs additional tenors | - interested in Schubert, Brahms, Gershwin and Murray Schafer —. «. contact 987-9818 ... And happy <".. birthday today, Aug.-25, to West. Van Kiwanian Arthur Holmes. .- WILL THEY join forces t to stem Campbell's yuppy tide? Liberal, leadership contenders Wilson (left) and Gibson. ; :