6 — North Shore News — Sunday, April 9, 2000

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RE is probably something
symbolic in the parking ticket
that West Vancouver-Capilano

Liberal MLA Jeremy Dalton fought
in provincial court last summer.

The ticket was for parking his car
facing traffic flow outside of his
Edgemont home. It’s a perfect sym-
bol to complement the image of a
feisty little bantam rooster willing to
take on anyone, at anytime on any
subject matter — whether it’s swim-
ming against the tide of NDY boon-
Goggles and chicanery or standing
up to North Vancouver District’s
limiting of private property rights.

Of course the same image is capa-
’ ble of a different interpretation: that

A. of someone who marches to the beat
? of his own drum with no thought of
~ playing by the rules. Certainly the
- latter interpretation is more in our

head.

you said it

“We're kind of like doctors here. You do an analysis, you
“do a diagnosis, then a prognosis.”

Environment Canada meteorologist Don Tatar, on pre-
~ dicting the weather. (From ¢ an m April’ ” News Sunday Focus.)

“I like to see a tolerant and compassionate country and
Fd like to see us set an ing to fos for the rest of the world,
bat I think we're/go! lose all of that by pursuing
Our current policies eof imply bringing in too m any peo-
» ple“ At the moment we've got a national disaster 4
_ place and until Canadians get uP and acest about it
don’t think we’re goin Bet any

“S\ Former Canadian one sca lor Mean ‘Callacott, speaking
orth: Shore Canadian Association for Immigration
meeting, on the need to reform current immigra-
‘(From an April 2 2 News sory.)

“Those who say they would like a pub show little con-
cet or the ‘ampact on local residents. This demonstrates
» petsonal satisfaction, not public interest.”
fest VaticGuver District Coun. Allan Williams, opposing
an: <pplication fo for ‘a neighbourhood ‘pub in a’ Dundarave
(From an April 5 LS News story.)

“She: (an giclfriend) said, ‘Promise you won't do it
won't promise’. You just dow what you
en it happens, it hap

using. Alliance. Plaza, on: running into. 2 buming

ickly as post
dangerous to
West Vancouver Police Sgt. Jim Almas, explaining how

jana growers funnel carbon dioxide from the
vent of a house directly to the marijuana plants.

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minds given Dalton’s latest episode
of using MLA letterhead to conduct
personal business.

Dalton was suspended from cau-
cus Wednesday for using his govern-
ment notepaper to lobby for action
in a land matter related to his father-
in-law. It was the second time he has
been on the carpet over the issue.

And last year Dalton was booted
out of his post as deputy whip and
education critic after complaining to
the North Vancouver school board
about a personnel matter in the
school his children attend. The com-
plaint was also on his MLA letter-

Was his use of letterhead an
attempt to intimidate, or just plain
thoughtlessness? Either way, his con-
stituents have a right to expect
Dalton to embody the ethics he

the: Mo , Tmmigrat
Laurent, manager of Mount tae ymour

townhouse: to extinguish tie e fire, : (From an April 5 News

replacement

ig bank robber who got. ‘stuck in raf. From 8 an an Apri :
d.

IF Canadians will no longer do

their duty — as distinct from

merely having fun
— in the bedroom,
it seems we're in
bigger trouble than
Immigration
Canada would have
us believe.

For years they've
assured us the only solu-
tion to our aging popu-
lation is to import up to
a quarter of a million
immigrants a year.

Otherwise there soon won't be enough
working Canadians to provide our cver-
growing army of seniors with their need-
ed pensions, health care and other social
services.

Better think again, says a new UN

rt enticed Replacement Migration
which puts a very different slant on the
tion Canada propaganda and
tight directly on our family
irst, however, the basic statis-

shines the sj
bedrooms.
tics.

Today, each Canadian senior aged 65-
plus is supported by about 5.7 working- -
age Canadians. But in about 25 years,

when the youngest boomers hit 65, the —

ratio —- if nothing is done — could be
getting uncomfortably close to a mere
wor workers per senior.

pulations result when the
bine ps below the population

igure of an average 2.1 chil-

dren per woman. Canada’s is now a total-
ly inadequate 1.5. But in the European

‘” Union (population 377 million) with an

average 1.4 birthrate the situation is even
worse and it’s there that’ the new UN” *

VIEW POINT:

report studies the effect of trying to
replace the shrinking working population
with mass immigration from non-
European countries.
Just to maintain the
population by 2050,
regardless of age pat-
terns, the report calcu-
lates 47 million immi-
fons (nearly one mil-
ion a year) would be
needed.
To keep the workfarce
at its present size would
call for 80 million immi-
grants by 2050. And to
retain the current sup-
port ratio of working-age Europeans to
pensioners a staggering 701 million
immigrants would be required by the
mid-centu

At whic! point, the report notes, 75%
of the EU population would be of non-
European immigrant descent (presumably
Asian and African) — as opposed to orig-
inal Europe

The smudy also shows that Canadisn’
immigration policy scores a pitiabie ‘F” in
mai

It concentrates on simple head-count-
ing ng while fargely ignoring what kind of

Its “family reunification” program,
accepting hordes of non-productive
dependants, makes a joke of any atcempt

to reach an accurate workers-to seniots

support ratio. .
It seems to pay scant regard to the
ageing of immigrants themselves and the

fact that, once in Canada, the higher

; birthrates of their home countries are
often abandoned.

In summary, Replacement Migration

finds i immigration i is no cure for popula-

. Asian -African country, whil

mighty bie gp between 3

tion aging unless the volume of i
grants is so large that it leads to a massive
population increase, replacing the exis
population with one that is langely fo
¢ign. Which, if you prefer Canada’s
already rich cthnic mix not to excced its
resent proportion, lobs the whole pro
lem t bad squarely into our family bed:

°CNot that Canadian v wives and moth
of-one are unwilling: they repeatedly state
their ambition to have more than one:
child, if only they and their hubb'
ners could afford it.

an aging, unbalanced p
soot of all evil — MO’

kind.
How to solve the salt _—
ing drastic reforms to the workp!
the tax and weifare systems
another column. But if we, wai : t
Canada from becoming 2 p:

im future oft inter-gene!
wih grans an

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LIGHT 92 ‘Ba
today, April 9, for’
Hughes ... Also many happy recurs
today (but with just 17 candles!) te het :

~ young West Van neighbour. J
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