2%, 1990 ~ North Shore News mSTY, 6 - Friday, Septembr.~ eee _-ANNLBONEY APPOINTED 3 MORE HACKS To COSY SENATE..... BC EX- ATORNEY GENERAL WAS HIE TM HEAE To ENUMERATE YOU, 50 YOU CAN VOTE... INSIGHTS CLEARED OF CHARGES OF WRONGDOING IN THE BILL REID AFFAIB.... ~ANOPEL WISN a AND Nov A i C,, MOMENT T00 SOON! NEWS VIEWPOINT Unwell water HE SOBERING news that North Shore water is not what it used to be should disturb a lot of people. Yn a report released Monday, the Greater Vancouver Water District called for implementation of a $500 million, three-phase plan to upgrade the Lower — Mainland water supply system. And the upgrade is net just for esthetic reasons. The report presents a list of serious problems with local drinking water that range from high turbidity, especially in the North Shore’s Capilano reservoir, to unacceptable coliform level<, to ineffectual water disinfection. North Shore residents have traditionally been proud of local drinking water quality, but that pride has been dealt a soggy shot in the guts. Someone has obviously been feeding us a line about our water ali these years. The compliance level of GVWD water with national water quality standards, ac- cording to the GYWD report, is a shock- ing 40 per cent. The report, which was two years in the making, recommends diverting more water from the cleaner Coquitlam watershed to areas currently serviced by the Capilano and Seymour reservoirs, installing fiitra- tion systems at both Capilano and Seymour and installing large chlorine con- tact tanks at the Capilano and Coquitlam reservoirs. The financial cost of the plan, while considerable, is incidental to the need for clean water. The cost to local pride in North Shore water quality exacted by the report’s reve- lations will be far more difficult to write off. LETTER OF THE DAY . Socred slams housing policy OPEN LETTER TO PREMIER BILL VANDER ZALM: My husband and I have been members of the Social Credit Par- ty for 20 years and have made many donations to your party, but you will not receive another pen- ny. This decision came after reading an article in the North Shore News, that as of Sept. J all apartment owners will have to ac- cept parents and their children as tenants. As if we are not governed enough, this is the last straw. Who are you to tell us who we are to live with? We have owned two apartments in North Van for 20 years and it has always been an adult block and that is why most Pubiisher Peter Speck of our tenants moved here — because it has no children and no pets and is very quiet. Our building is wood frame with stucco on the outside; we have no play area for little children so every noise on the top or bottom sounds throughout the whole building. How would you like to live under a family with a bunch of little kids who in turn have all their little friends in to play running up and down the stairs and hallways? With dirty hands on the walls, wearing out your carpets, it’s no wonder apartment owners who allow children have to charge too much rent. We are not discriminating, we just like our peace and quiet. THE VOICE OF NOWT ANG WEST VANCOUVER Display Advertising With this new human rights bill, you are not even able to discipline the young people without having the parents threatening action against you. This is not only un- fair to ourselves but to our other tenants, some of whom have been with us 25 years and more, and it is especially unfair to the children who have to live under these cir- cumstances. I think it is time for the gov- ernment to get off their duff and create low rental housing for fam- ilies on « ‘ow income scale, in- stead of all these departments that Produce nothing and cater to special groups. 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Having given Bourassa some -oldiers to play with, the PM was tble to spend his summer vacation n relative peace. But when Parliament reassem- sles on Monday, the GST — due © Start attacking your wallet in ust over three months — will be ‘ight back on the front burner. Together with politics in the ‘aw. Everywhere during its summer of coast-to-coast public hearings the Liberal-dominated Senate has received the sarne message loud and clear: Kill the GST! Even if the Senate — as pres- ently constituted — didn’t oblige immediately, it would almost cer- tainly send Bill C-62 back to the Commons for amendments and continue to delay its passage. Meanwhile, the Grits’ new Jead- er Jean Chretien has at last sur- faced, beating his chest and declaring the GST will ‘‘never become the law of the land.”’ Brave words, but the PM re- mains undaunted. Our wacky constitution entitles Mulroney to simply stack the upper house with Tory Senators until he has a ma- jority there. With 10 new Tories already named, including the shameless Buchanan appointment, he’s moving fast. Senate standings now are 52 Liberals, 41 Tories, six indepen- dents and five vacancies. So by filling the latter and adding the eight extra Senators he’s allowed — as seems sure to happen — Brian will control the Red Chamber. Well, perhaps, not QUITE. Unlike the Commons, the Senate has no rules to limit debate or in- voke closure. Even as a minority, therefore, the Liberals could still delay passage of the GST for quite a time, causing the Jan. 1, 1991 deadline to be missed. Which prompts a flashback to 1988, when the Senate was similarly delaying the Free Trade Pact. Mutlroney’s answer then was to call an election, in which he managed to sell the electorate on free trade and win a still healthy majority. Whereupon the Senate did the decent thing and finally passed the trade bill. Except for one snag, the elec- tion option might be tempting to- day, given the present disarray of the Liberals — short of both money and policies, in the dog- house in Quebec and shut out provincially from Ontario to B.C. But in 1988 public opinion on free trade was fairly evenly split. Net so with the GST. The way things have gone in recent weeks, BRIAN Mulroney ... every trick in the bag. Noel HITHER AND YON a last-ditch bid to sell the tax di- rectly to voters could even wind up with Audrey McLaughlin heading a minority NDP govern- ment. Desperate for revenue (the defi- cit is already running $1.5 billion over February’s budget) and by now presumably resigned to defeat by 1993, Brian Mulroney has nothing to lose by using every trick in the bag — and bending constitutional conventions without a blink — to get the GST on the books. At least it may help meet Ot- tawa’s payroll for his final year or two! tat TAILPIECES: The surmise (accu- rate or not) that West Van School Trustee Margot Furk lost the Socred nomination last week to Dr. Rodney Glynn-Morris because of her legally correct stand on dual entry underscores the golden ruie of politics. Perception, not performance, is what it’s all about. As Ronnie Reagan proved, winning votes and doing things right are two separate games ... For local entrepreneurs Economic Development Minister Stan Hagen hosts tomorrow’s (Sept. 22) ‘Business at your Doorstep" con- ference in North Van — try 987- 4488 or 926-6614 today for any remaining seats ... And Deep Cove Stage auditions I p.m. Sun- day, Sept. 23, at Presentation House for its annual pantomime at Presentation House — call 929-5246 for info. the WRIGHT OR WRONG: How wonderful the world would be if everyone was as nice as the person trying to sell you something. MARGOT Furk ... vote-winning a separate game.