6 - Sunday, May 19, 1991 - North Shore News “CANT COME. IN TODAY BOSS... GOT THE PLAQUE.’. NOT BAD BUT NOT THERE YET... T HAPPENED TO ME...” WiLL ACROSS THe COUNTRY, OFFICE WoRK@RS Re PREPARING FOR © JONG, HOF SUMMER... GOT THE (coucH) FLU.” ... NOPE NOT CONVINCING ENOUGH... “SORRY B0SS,1'D LOVE To Come IN TO WORK. BUT CCOUGH, HACK) BUT I'VE "BOSS CWHEEZE) YOU WONT BELIEVE eer i x \N Tides of anger ESIDENT frustration over the chronic fecal coliform pollution at Panorama Beach is understandabie, but the growing acrimony between the Deep Cove Community Association (DCCA) and North Vancouver District wil! ‘do nothing to solve the problem. DCCA frustration over the illusive cause of Deep Cove harbor pollution is shared by North Vancouver District Council and all district officials. The district has been searching for the pollution’s cause since 1985. High coliform counts have plagued Deep Cove harbor and Pancrama Beach since the mid-’70s. Studies have pointed the finger at everything from geese droppings ‘0 urban runoff and the poor flushing action of the harbor. The Deep Cove technical steering com- mittee is now proposing that new tests be run to isolate what they believe is a single major pollution source. But while council should support every effort to secure more testing this summer, DCCA members should brace themselves for answers they have heard before because there is likely no single source of pollution. Deep Cove, it is becoming increasing ev- ident, is a victim of urban development and population growth; its pollution a combination of many sources, iscluding area residents themselves. It might be a bitter pill to swallow, but residents might have to accept that there is no single magic solution to lowering col- iform counts in Deep Cove harbor, that they can rail at local government officials as long and hard as they want to, but anger is not going to make the pollution go away. **The rats have taken over.”’ North Vancouver City Ald. Rod Clark, on the current status of the North Vancouver yard of Versatile’ Pacific Shipyards inc. **Those guys (Versatile employees) have been getting hit over the head for years. V've been telling “t's time to get this away from the public’s eyes and Versatile’s ears.”’ North Vancouver City Ald. Bill Bell, disagreeing with a council motion to have the city investigate a possible purchase of the North Vancouver waterfront property owned by Versatile. **,..education is the most exciting field to work in. You can touch the future each day.’’ Doug Player, West Vancouver School District 45 superintendent, on the career of education. “Pm sick and tired of this game. those silly buggers for years to get the hell out of there and fied a job. I know that statement wen't get me any votes."’ : North Vancouver MP Chuck Cook, on the fight by shipyard unions to block what they main- tain is the plan by Versatile Pacific Shipyards Inc. to sell the shipyard’s $60-million Panamax floating dry dock. “How Hamilton, Peter Speck Timothy Renshaw Noel Wright Linda Stewart Gaug Foot Publisher Managing Editor Associate Editor . Advertising Director Comptroller Newsroom North Shore News, founded in 1959 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualified under Schedule 111, Paragraph Ul of the Excise Tax Act. is published each Wednesday. 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Some forgotten 1988 clippings [ came across the other day still sound exciting. Free trade, the Mulroneyites promised, was the highway to Canada’s economic salvation. It would give our manufacturers and resource industries access to the huge U.S. market cf 260 million consumers. With that would come more jobs and greater prosperity for Canadians from sea to shining sea. Meanwhile, lower-priced cars, VCRs, clothes, microwaves and you-name-it would flow duty-free over the border into Canadian stores thronged with happy shop- pers. There might be a short ‘‘ad- justment”’ period. But Ottawa would see nobody got hurt. And very soon — what with all those increased export sales and the new jobs they created — Canadians would be living in a North Ameri- can heaven. So what's new since Jan. 1, 1989? Everything costs MORE than two years ago — with 7% on top of that. We're in the worst reces- sion, with the highest unemploy- ment, in a decade. And it’s no longer just the naughty NDP and CLC telling us quite a lot of the lost jobs will never come back. Plants closing for good or relocating in the States, where labor is cheaper, are facts of life. The Mulroreyites now remain strangely silent about the whole thing. A year ago the then trade minister John Crosbie allowed it was “too early to make a definitive judgment on the eco- nomic impact.’’ Since then they JOHN CROSBIE... ‘‘teo early to judge’. PRESTON MANNING... box of- fice sell-out. Noel Wright ate HITHER AND YON haven’t even said that much. And there seems a marked lack of en- thusiasm by Ottawa about exten- ding the Canada-US. deal to Mexico. Meanwhile, tax-clobbered Ca- nadians in droves are now into their own form of ‘‘free trade.”’ Overnight trips to bargain para- dises below the border have soared 24% since January, threatening local Canadian mer- chants with bankruptcy. And let’s also face the horrid truth: all that lost tax revenue can only add to Canada’s $400 billion debt. But maybe there’s a bright side after all. ‘‘Short term pain for fong term gain’’ I guess Brian would call it. If that horrendous debt keeps ballooning, we'll be a northern Argentina in about eight years — with a drastic devaluation of the Canadian dollar then the ONLY solution. After that we'll have so much cheap labor that the Yanks will come Nooding into Canada with their own plants and jobs. Free trade, U.S.-style, will be a reality at last. A pity our 10-cent dollar will make us too poor to afford their goods, But then everything in life is a trade-off! WRAP-UP: Would-be Socred candidate in Seymour riding, John Parks, has asked Premier Rita Johnston to take over Lynn Can- yon Park and rename it ‘‘Jack Davis Provincial Park’’ in honor of the riding’s late longtime in- cumbent. Earlier, Jack Davis was also Canada’s first federal en- vironment minister ... Tickets ($10) are disappearing fast for the big June 5 Reform Party rally with Preston Manning live at 8 p.m. in the Vancouver Trade & Convention Centre -— call 688- 8090 soonest if you want to be there ... And the good guys at West Van Kiwanis Club recently joined with 300 other Kiwanis Clubs across Canada to share the $150,000 tab for a plane to carry relief material from Canadian Kurds to their stricken fellow- countrymen in Iraq. WRIGHT OR WRONG: Learn to laugh at trouble — or you'll have nothing at all to laugh at when you grow old. Ee ES ms