October 31, 1982 - North Shore News

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moribund - Canadian ;

‘housed in good apartments. . ‘B com would pola with

I have another great, idea!

It’s so original that. at first
a lot of people: are going to
reject it, but that’s the fate of
most true... revolutionary -
breakthroughs.

You may have caught ‘the -

news that the .Communist
rulers in Peking have an-

nounced... they intend to”;

regain~ ‘sovereignty over

_ the local economy. This has -
‘ been going on for years, but
you can expect to see the
flow of cash from the South

-China Sea to start spurting

under the pressure of China’s
"announcement to take
“control. «~~

One of the more intriguing

“theories put’ forward as, to

Hong Kong when-the British‘. why‘the British government .

lease runs out in 1997.

That's very bad news for.

Hong Kong.
Peking . Promises to let

Maggie: ‘Thatcher makes .
soothing ‘noises: ‘to. head off”
any panic. “4
But" the truth” is: — and.
everybody knows ‘it.— your.
can’t ‘expect a Communist
government to restrain its
urge to meddle in capitalist
affairs when it gets into
power... .
Once Hong Kong is ab-
sorbed into China, its raison
d etre ceases to be. It is as a
haven for maybe the most,
_ freewheeling capitalist |
economy left in the world,

Ligl

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“reacted. so. Mecisively i in the

: Falklands ‘was:‘because the .
“Hong I Kong question loomed
in the background.

- Why :: not simply bring ‘the
1800. ‘Falkland: Islanders
. home “to Britain and let
Argentina have ‘the islands?
It would havé been alot
chéaper-‘than’ a. war. -And
“infinitely: cheaper in the long --
_run in terms of maintaining a
gatrison.

According to the theory,
Britain couldn't do _ that
because there were 5.5
million people in Hong Kong _

who have essentially the -

same kind of technical

citizenship status in England °

_as the Falkland Islanders.

A precédent in’ the”

Kong f functions so: Falklands would have led to” ;

a mass- exodus from Hong —

_'» That's > - ‘Something the”
* Hong. ‘Kong British apparently don’ t
umped into ‘want,

I visited Hong Kong a-year

~ago and fell in love with the

place. It is, after all, very
Similar to Vancouver. Pastel
apartment towers cling to
the slopes of Victoria Peak,
rather like: the West. End,
only on a much larger scale.
‘It is no‘accident that so

"many Hong. Kong people

‘have already invested in
Vanicouver..They must feel
as at home here as I did

there,

Hong Kong has no heavy
industry; so it retains a

delicate feel,. like ornately-

carved chess pieces.
There. are. tar-paper
shacks “perched | along" the
shoreline.and a lot of people
live in®: ‘Sampans,, junks: and
. houseboats, . but the soyer-
whelming”™ “majority are

" ~ sharpest *.

They are among - tht
- busiessmen_

-economy around. Van-
couver’ ‘would. beconie one of -

enterprise.

cessful economy:
world.

The ‘impressiéa I was left

with of Hong Kong was of a
barren rock that-had become
a resting place’.for a vast,

migrating flock — a rookery :
‘rather than a’ ‘city. That flock. -

is now looking for another
nest.

I suggest that Canada
announce an open-door
-policy~to all. Hong Kong

residents... Let them come.
here with their ‘wealth’ ‘and :

their energy ‘and their
business savvy. °°

. Within’
guarantee, they. would, turn. a

ten: ‘years;. ot ‘

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