Ao - Wednesday, July 25, 1984 - North Shore News GE editorial page CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT SOME PEOPLE KNOW SO LITTLE ABOUT LOCAL POLINCS, THEY ACTURLLS VOTE. FOR THE PEOPLE Voting image emocracy is a great” institution. There’s probably nothing any better that has yet been tried, however, it does have its drawbacks. Tonight the leaders of the three main par- ties will strut their stuff for the English speaking TV audience across the nation while the French speaking viewers had their show last night. And this is one of the pro- blems of what we have created in the western world. In a day when the image is so important to a persons political success can you imagine a person who is overweight, unsightly, or one who has a speech impediment ever making it to the top of the heap in our political socie- ty? Regretably we have reached a time when the total ‘picture’ is so important that the candidate for office has to have the ap- pearance and presentation of a TV personali- How many times have you heard people on the street talk about how the candidate looked, before anything is said about what he, or she, may have spoken about? It almost appears that we have become such a society of watchers and spectators rather than thinkers that’ we are often suckered in by ‘just another pretty face’. Maybe instead of watching the debate tonight we should try listening. And maybe remember that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a cripple and Winston Churchill had a speech impediment. They wouldn't look too good on TV debates today, would they? Hear Ini S ONTHE LAST SIGNS = wl | ps i THEY SEE BEFORE i _ un THE POLLING BOOTH. NO PARKING, SIELD. AND EMIERGENGS EXIT. WELL, WHO DID YOU NOTE FOR? Simma straightens out Bob ob Hunter always had to reach to find a col- umn subject. constituencies were difterent wasted on scatterbrain pro. Hunter June 4 he found it in the old if had any idea jects) Crime is inevitably fashioned male chauvinist game of compar- what is entailed in an MP's cause for deep community & p job, his comparison might pain. have some substance. We initiated experiments in What | did was Team Pohcing (police work. i : - : - Kee runnin ing women in like situations. p g His Strictlh, Personal By SIMMA HOLT hardly column entitled ‘Pat over empty headed, directed only ing with social agencies in hen news was received on the | Svmma’ on June 6 was a by my heart, a Bob main preventive vorrection, as op ~: cOMPparnson oO Iwo who thought | wou ose $ . weekend that James Fixx, the became Members of When the reality struck those who serve care about established the earliest celebrated) guru’ of running for Parliament that | had won with the old = people: However. | learned) 9 Operation Identification tor fitness, had died while running, tens of He perceives himself as an line, establishment Liberals very early in lite, that the every home in the riding. got thousands of runners and joggers were pro- expert of Carney and Hol his anget was magnificent heart is for feehng, the brain tunding to save the then dy bably a bit more aware of their hearts poun- because, in his words, ‘the When | thought about it, 1s for thinking ing Trout Lake and stock u ding while they were doing their miles. But to say that running is bad for you makes as much sense as saying the same about cars, planes, crossing streets and breathing polluted air. The vast majority benefit, and they benefit because of nice guys like James Fixx who helped us to be aware of our bodies. CW VOCCE OF HUNT AsD WEST VANCOUVER Display Advertising 980-0511 north shore Classified Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom 985.2131 n ews Circulation 986. 1337 CUNDAY WEDNESDAY emIDAY Subscriptions 980.2707 1139 Lonsdale Ave... North Vancouver, BC V7M 2H4 Publisher Pele Speck Editor-in-Chief Advertising Director Noel Wright Yaere bo tae. Associate Publisher Rober Grahann Personne! 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THIS PAPER (IS RECYCLABLE three of us were writing col umns together "" Hunter and | shared a small room oun which we were allegedly vicative, your nalistically speaking Chat coom had nao win dows, 3f was oso clauster phobs . that the late Jack Wasserman, my room mate prior to Bob's arrival. hired an artist to give us 4a view We soon had a window framing a landscape Superimposed on that window were prison bars Hunter came on The Sun as ao clderin the hippy move tment spent much time sear ching fora revolution and any anti establishment ¢ ause His description of ine Marty Worth oon Speed was clever still gives him great prude and was totally predi table tn those days his intellect was drug onented cteblishing the writer guru role in a CONC porary milieu af beards drop outs and beads Atte: | fame of the nomination for announced accep the Vancouver Kingsway seat Bob The first was in Pachament wrote twee about me wal Ne urvitas ¢ cven flattering Apart (from the Marty Worth eeferemee tl seemed to rexeal tespect tans my achievements sore ro a bype of you eabistic coats work Right after Tl won he wrote agate Dt abd Ueasnape coset Pde was angty abd situperative My Petrie tN wand Bee way walleeng tobe generous in the first col ume out of pity because he which was seldom, | wondered if he was jealous that | escaped the lithe room and he was still a prisoner Ten years later. his ooluma “Pat over Stmma "ous sal seething Again wt all hangs out Not only is he stall locked tnto has hitthe room mentality, but he has not grown out of the car ly 1970085) Chauvenism, another prison But most tething ts his con tinucd inabilty to do his homework Hic did not bother to find out what my contribution was in Ottawa, what | gained for my nding and for other many C ana dhans whe contacted me for help the truch of that period he called ‘brief (five years) os readily available Bul) truth would have deprived film of a column And to compare Pat with a contemporary male in his cyes. would also have dimunished it worth Thus the contrived com panison with a peren who has been out five years of Parhament Butt helped bam get rid of bes sail festering foustia toon focanm weite wt off as ser vac toa fragile male psyche No doube Pat © arney deserves gratitude for the pot she is doing Bato my work on 1974 1979 tn no way us tele vat ote what she os doing now We each served tut our | Noel Wright lam gratetul to my parents for contributing both towards my lite in four dif ferent, distinet Careers As an MP. 1 did the basin ombuds yobo tor my &4.000 constituents, and all others who sought my help With my staff | dealt with between 70 of more problems a week It they were soluble we solved them If they were not, 1 did the best possible to inform, and hnk people with those who could help We responded to cvery contact One weekend alone, | dic tated almost SOO letters and memos celevant fo matters tansed by phone and mail Ay well -ooserved oom mayen parhamentary and Committees had the highest atten dance cate for any Member. the for all MPs In the 2 a00 woot ¢ tchabslitated through KRAP and two Neighborhood fan provement Projects | began the work as a journalist and one year later of Parchament The Southeas: western fourth highest riding more tbh Wooomcs as a Membcr sQuadiant of Vancouver highest trad one of tte cbmc oratex oom thy country This became a toy: PPOtOethy CCmEUst etre th Y preenpend booscruaghet advice of Con maby leaders ag with three determined the reest needed arca for cte able atu ob as aelatbe Cody cpre se tcnasdy on vacation with fish, worked with Kens ington Community leaders and three levels of govern ment. finally resulting in con struction of them community centre, the barely used Cstandview (now © edar © ot tage) Community Centre restored and revitalized to become onc of centres in the city the busiest In Parhament. | was the fast noo lawyer and woman to become vice-chairman of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee, and there took an active role in developing some of the most umportant legislation Chat Came out of the Thirticth Partrament (1 adit | tried) and often tatled to stop bad legislation) The last legislation in whet | was involved might have resolved the disturbing, complex problem of west end prostitution Parchament disvsolyed betuore rts compliction On the special COmenitteoc on penctentiary violence chaircd by Mark MacQGuitgan., ! was a primary draftsman of the report ot recerved all party approval in the bdowse of Commons and prare from the media and COeree trons community of thas Contact Stree Bob probably didi aot bother to fimd owt bt wall tell three of as then beoticahe truer on the © om moitlec Rotiason fteom Lakeshore tn Jota ‘het ME fo Noorth Lootennte Reyes Delta ren. 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