ioe ‘6 - Sunday, Saptember 27, 1992 - North Shore News AirCareless deeper. ¥, the AirCare system. : Initisl lineups stretched to” over two “hours at the North Shore AirCare station -and longer at other stations as drivers at- “tempting to have thelr cars tested, some “well before they were required io do so, encountered. inexperienced staff and new computer equipment. The public was then ' - told to bring only those vehicles whose in- =~ surance needed. to be renewed during ‘September. T HE AIRCARE fiasco continues to The suto emissions testing pro- gram was launched on Sept. 1 as part of. othe B.C. government’s commitment to cut ‘ guto emissions, which account for approx- - imately 75% of local air pollution. And . while. mast local residents would have no quibble with reducing air poilution, most -would have more than a quibble with how “vehicles. have thus far been processed by With Hneups still horrendous, AirCare station hours were extended and AirCare policy was changed to exempt all cars newer than 1985. Attorney General Colin Gablemann was then quoted as saying people would not be prevented from getting their cars insured because of AirCare ‘‘screwups.’’ Now he says they better have a good reason for missing AirCare approval. if they want to get their insurance. More confusion from the NDP government. $200, will bothered. Meanwhile, all those who have paid their $16.05 testing fee, perhaps twice, and have had their cays brought up to emission specifications, perhaps at costs of up to be wondering why they Lower Maialanders surely want clean air, but they just as surely want an effi- cient and consistent testing system. vehicle emissions destroyed. Hollyburn is the iast ' “This is not about iand. It’s not: about money. It’s about our children’s future.” ' Burrard Band Chief Leonard . George, on the signing of the B.C. Treaty Commission agreement on “the Squamish Nation’s Capilano Reserve. “A lot of these songs of. mine were just waiting for this album to be made se they could hop on.”’ North Yancouver singer/ ‘ songwriter Roy Forbes on his new “ ‘gountry album, The Human Kind. Publisher . .- Managing Editor . Associate Editor Advertising Director . Comptrofier .. pot — :,..Peter Speck . . Timothy Renshaw Noel Wright . Linda Stewart bec eee eee Doug Foot “think you meke. yourself an antenna for songs and songs want to be around you. And then they - bring other songs along, and then: they’re all sittin’ around. And they’re drinkin’ your’ beer, and they’re sleeping on the floor. 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NAFTA pitch to the jobless needs editing CANADA’S TOP business spokesman gave North Van | Chamber of Commerce members surprising and welcome relief from the Constitution when he addressed their : Thursday lunch meetizg. Everyone was geared up to listen to a resounding ‘‘Yes’’ message from Timothy Reid, president of the 170,000-member Canadian Chamber of Commerce — the only natione! body repre- senting firms of every type and size in every region. “Yes"’ is what they got — but net, this time, to the Constitution. Instead, he neatly sidestepped the issue by tackling the equally thor- ny topic of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). As you'd expect, Mr. Reid is 500% in favor of it and what he said about it made complete sense. We'll get to what he did NOT say about it — which is another thing, again — in a moment. Reminding us that 25% of Canada's Gross Domestic Product and the resultant jobs come from exports, he stressed that the latest deal (like the earlier Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement) can pro- tect our access to North American export markets and open up new ones. Among the latter he saw a special opportunity in Mexico’s lousy eavironmental standards. Canada being the world’s en- vironmenta! boy scout, he sug- gested a lot of new export bucks could be earned by firms equipped to teach Juan and Jose how tc. clean up their act. He dismissed fears that $2-an- hour Mexicans weuld steal Cana- dian jobs. Canadian workers were | ‘ta better deal’’ because they were : much more productive. His most emphatic (and ; repeated) point was the therapeu- tic value of free trade in smarten- . ing up Canadian business, TIMOTHY REID... trade “message for the comfortable. JACQUELINE GIJSSEN... museum gets down to business. HITHER AND YON teaching it the stark realities of : global competition and turning . Canada into ‘‘an international en: trepreneur on (through) . ooo MEW, thinking.”’ Over the long hau! — and pro- vided Mexican workers, one fi ine day, earn a fot more than $2 42 hour — Mr. Reid is undoubted right. What he omitted to‘add was that this sea change i in Canadian‘ corporate and union attitudes du ing a stubborn world recession is bound to be lengthy, with gut wrenching side-effects before it’s completed. There'll be no quick fix for 11%-plus employment. Many free” trade benefits are phased in only over periods up to 10-years.- And - smart Canadian firms, who today "5 gee a chance of fast bucks by. us- -ing cheaper offshore lator, will seize it while it’s still there.“ -No gain without pain. But M Reid's message.was for the con verted —~ and comfortable. It needs a lot of editing fo . . Canada’s one in seven jobless an , job-market dropouts now on.U or. welfare. ‘SCRATCHPAD: West Van's as smart new museum ‘will soon cease: “to be merely a ‘warehouse, as its. “first curator gets to work readying: the masses of memorabilia for ; display. Recently ‘appointed Jac: -. queline Gijssen, with myseum Studies degrées from UEC ard“ . San Francisco, has worked for 10 _ years with other B.C. museums, »: . inchuding the Anthropology :.”. - Muscum ... For a “‘diffezent’? . Sunday outing enjoy a salmon‘: ‘barbecue and refreshments at to- day’s Open Honse at the Seymour ” River Hatchery ... Congrats to: West Van's Hugh and Mariié -Miubie — who've lived for the past 43 years at: 1205 Mathers and. . today, Sept. 27, celebrate their: , 52nd aiiniversary ... Tuesday, ” Sept. 29, wish happy birthday to. : | North’ Van’ 's Brian McCreadie’. . And many happy returns of .. tomorrow, Sept. 28, to Wood-- croft’s globetrotting Dorothy: _ Wilson. - . WRIGHT OR WRONG: Oppos tion can be helpful. Remember, kites rise against the wind - - Rot” with it. : ;