4 ~ Friday, October 22, 1993 - North Shore News Collins bears a catalogue of good Trevor Lautens GARDEN OF BIASES | ASKED the candidate what the local issues were in our riding. “Well,” said he, “one of the big issues that [’ve come across is the question of marijuana.” Huh? “Nobody efse seems to be talk- ing about it,” William Tomlinson went on, So true, ‘But up in the (Squamish) Valley there are quite a few entrepreneurs that have their little gardens round in the forest ... and we Libertarians are in favor of decriminalization, and any prohibition in that respect.’*’ Tomlinson, who is grey-haired and terribly straight in appear- ance, could easily pass for a plumber. Which in fact he is. But the Libertarians are very big on, as you imight guess, liberty. 1 have a soft spot.for them, though { don’t share their views (some | | Libertarians’ view they argue lot) on decriminalizing drugs -~ including cocaine or whatever, f hinted that he didn't look like the sort who'd roll up a Red Col- wmbian, of whatever the good stuffis called, “You know, never in my life have [had an opportunity to try the stuff," said Tomlinson mildly, which is — both the statement and the mildness ~ classically Liber- tarian, They urge rights that they’d never dream of exercising themselves, Well, | relate the above for two reasons, One, it is a plug for the Libertarians, and you may wish to mark your ballot for Mr, Tomlinson if you live in Capilano-Howe Sound. Two, this was by far the most original and stimulating policy statement | have heard in this . election. Briefly, though, today’ 's column is otherwise a fast skate over the three candidates in Capilano- Howe Sound with any serious hope of winning. Also a superficial glance at the situation in North Vancouver, the other North Shore riding. Mary Collins is so well known in the riding — which runs from the Capilano River border with North Vancouver way up to beyond Whistler, thus embracing the province’s richest town, West Vancouver, and North America’s best and trendiest ski resort, Whistler — that to write about her is a little like explaining family members to one another. She began her career as a recruitment officer for the Ontario government. She moved up Van. man jailed 60 days A 33-YEAR- OLD North. Van- couver man was recently jailed 60 days’ in connection with a charge of “stealing batteries belonging ‘to . Save-On-Foods:’ in’ North couver, a Willem Cornelitis Van Tunen pleaded guilty to the. charge in “connection with an Oct. 5 -inci- _dent. 7 : Van Tunen was also sentenced to seven more days in jail on an ‘unrelated assault charge involving Van-- a female on Aug. 6 in North Vancouver City. He received 12 mosths’ proba- tion in connection with that inci- dent.” Judge Jerome Paradis sentenced Van Tunen on the shoplifting charge on Oct. 8. Judge Bill Rodgers handed out the assault sentence on Oct. 13. ! ‘Van Tunen appeared in North Vancouver. provincial court; on both charges. "PUBLIC ‘NOTICE ‘One of North Vancouver's well known, established carpet dealers is closing its _doors forever. GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE! 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She has carried out a million programs and initiatives and all that, and she ought to have about the same number of markers out for her many good works. Collins’ good-natured fuce is familiar throughout the riding and beyond. She is not at all publicly pushy, graciously keeps in the background when other big-name Tories visit, and | believe is actu- ally rather shy, In contrast, Herb Grubel, the Reform party candidate, has ab- solutely nil political experience and a list of academic books, papers and other scholarly credits as long as your arm. He is known in economics faculties around the world much more than at, say, Marine Drive and 16th Street. 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German-born, his family retreated toa remote rural area during the war and he is a natural out- doorsman and zealous skier, He teaches at Simon Fraser University and is a favorite of the Fraser Institute, the liberal (9th-century definition) think- tank, Audrey Sojonky, an engaging woman with business experience and a former chairman of the West Vancouver School Board, is the Liberal candidate — and, with fewer credits than cither Collins or Grubel (but a lot of appearances in Malcolm Perry’s ‘‘Town Talk” column in the Sun), the one to watch. The wise money is on her to be the spoiler in this race. She’s Manitoba-born, Saskat- chewan-raised, and of Ukrainian background on both sides. (An immigration official made such a hash of spelling the name of her husband’s forebear when he entered Canada that it’s unrecognizable as Ukrainian.) She had serious cancer surgery a year or two ago but looks and sounds in spritely good health. Her campaign has had an assured touch, and has attracted Liberal heavies like Paul Martin Jr. and John Turner. With Jean Chretien’s rise and the apparent collapse of Kim Campbell, plus the recent attack — some of it grossly unfair — on the Reform party and on Grubet personally, Sojonky is confidently predicted to be the winner by those whose career is built oa confidence. Only a couple of weeks ago a shrewd observer of the landscape declared that the North Shore was going massively Reform. Since then, it’s been learned that Ted White suffered a serious attack of political amnesia about running provincially in 1983 for the separatist Western Canada Concept, led by Doug Christie, lawyer of choice for the likes of neo-Nazi Ernst Zundel and Jim Keegstra. In fairness, that was after White's brief dalliance with the WCC, he never met Christie, he says, and was drawn to it only in the cra of western outrage against Pierre Trudeau. 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