THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER SUNDAY . WEDNESDAY . TRIDAY 1139 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 56,245 (average, Wednesday : Friday & Sunday) Dear Editor: There are two things that I feel I must bring forward to the atten- tion of all North Shore residents. 1. The ban on all outside burn- ing. The month granted to us, last year was more than welcome and made it possible to spread out the burning. An advantage to all. I can well imagine the pall that will hang over the North Shore when the burning is all done at the dump. 2. The total disregard of people who shop at the supermarkets and then take the buggies off the lot. I counted 32 buggies in three blocks. The markets have to charge some- one and who else but the shoppers. Evelyn Dourvan North Vancouver Consider entire picture in Fox case Dear Editor: We take umbrage with your editorial, Wed., Jan. 15, entitled Arrogant A.G. in which you con- demned Attorney General Smith for his decision on the settlement paid Norman Fox (formerly War- wick). Our organization is known to be critical of officials and gov- ernments, regardless of party, when we feel justice is not served; but we do attempt to question and understand the circumstances be- 6 - Friday, March 7, 1986 - North Shore News SDA DIVISION Display Advertising 980-0511 Publisher: Peter Speck Classified Advertising 986-6222 Editor-in-Chief .. Noel Wright Newsroom 985-2133 Managing Editor Nancy Weatherley Circulation 986-1337 Operations Manager Berni Hilliard Subscriptions 986-1337 Advertising Director Linda Stewart North Shore News, founded on 1089 ay an independent sububat newspaper and queued under Sobedule 1, Paragaot lt of te Enctsa Tae Act 1s pu tne North Shore Sec: death Wednesday Feday and Sunday by Narth Shore Free Press Lid and distntuted to ety door nn ass Mail Registrahon Number 3685 Subscrprons North and West vant cueer $25 pet pirat Wading ta'es available On request SubmAsions ate walcome but we Cannot accept tesponsidrhty for uNsUbcilad maternal incluchng Manse ngs a%d pictures wiuch should ba accompar.ed by a Stamped, addressed envetones Dear Editor: "I have been following with special interest the recent articles in your paper on the abuse of the federal government Scientific Research Tax Credits program. In my opinion, your Timothy Renshaw has done an ex- cellent job in researching and writ- ing these articles, and your news- Mr.- Entire contents © 1986 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All tights reserved. q paper has performed a necessary public service in publishing them. The program, conceived to ad- vance Canadian research ability, has become in many cases nothing but a boondoggle — one that will cost the taxpayers dearly, both directly in lost opportunities for legitimate research and develop- ment and essential economic Teachers have C the population density. But why, Lonsdale merchants. the country attest. lent t job uncovering it ‘boondoggles’ assistance to re-build existing in- dustries. Thank you for publicizing this subject and for taking a critical stand on the issue. Let us hope the attention you have focused on this will help move Revenue Canada to recover all possible misappropri- ated funds. For my part, I. intend to cir- News Viewpoint - Peopie first ANADIAN National (CN) Railways has made a recommendation to the Railway Transport Com- mittee (RTC) that 100 carloads of anhydrous ammonia be rerouted from downtown Vancouver’s Cana- dian Pacific (CP) dock to North Vancouver’s Lynn Yard. The recommendation comes as a result of a December RTC decision to stop transporting danger- ous goods through Vancouver as of April 15, due to The North Vancouver rail yard is already the second busiest in the Lower Mainland, carrying dangerous goods such as methanol over its tracks. We value our lives just as much as the next guy. And trains in Canada are not the safest, as recent accidents all over Perhaps we have to ask a tough question — what’s more important, the health of Canadian industries us- ing the deadly chemicals, or the health of PEOPLE? Fair enough. These are honorable intentions that not many could disagree with. If a train carrying propane crashed and leaked, downtown Vancouver would turn into a lit Roman candle with all the fireworks, but none of the pleasure. If similar accidents occurred to trains carrying anyhydrous ammonia or sulphur diox- ide, the gases would seep through the streets claiming victims with their deadly breath. we ask, would CN anhydrous ammonia through North Vancouver would be an improvement, when it would in fact only be relieving one populated area to burden another? __ North Vancouver’s train yard is surrounded by Lonsdaie Quay developments, such as a public market, a hotel, condominiums, 2 public park, a SeaBus ter- minal and bus depot, the ICBC building, the B.C. Rail building, the Marine Training Institute and Lower think shipping culate the articles- both within MacMillian Bloedel and outside the company, for their content and as an example of what an incensed publisher and reporter can ac- complish. . Roger N. Wiewel Senior Vice-President MacMillian Bloedel Ltd. Vancouver broader scope Dear Editor: Your letter to the editor column recently included a large heading “Democracy at Risk’’, and a short letter from MLA Jack Davis telling us that electing teachers as MLAs was a threat to democracy. Certainly 1 would agree that the election of an NDP government would clearly change the priorities of our provincial legislature. f would suspect that some of the legacies of the Social Credit government would be re- examined: cutbacks in education and health services, major financial losses in North-east cos!, and Expo costs. As a parent of children suffering from education cutbacks, I would be delighted to see a change in priorities. To suggest that teachers could only act as a special interest group could be a logical fallacy, however. A teacher must often analyse probiems, and determine fair and equitable assessments. Perhaps Mr. Davis’ real dilemma stems from his knowledge that when car salesmen got into the Social Credit Party, the Motor Vehicle check stations were all disbanded? Bob Gribling North Vancouver fore we accuse or condemn. We ask if, before you spewed forth your venom, you considered the entire picture and process that preceeded this settlement. If, as you state, the credibility of our justice system was damaged; we ask if this did not occur when Norman Fox, found guilty of rape through two courts, was given a pardon without this case being referred back to the courts, This method of finding Norman Fox innocent, in essence, convicted a deceased person of the crime without the benefit of a trial. It is our understanding that Norman Fox was asking for over a million dollars for eight years of wrongful imprisonment and thus a commission was established to consider the sum to be paid. It was during this hearing, we believe, that Norman Fox agreed to share the compensation with his 1960 victim. We do not have privilege to the information and documents to which Attorney General Smith gave grave consideration. We would presume that he recognized that at the time of the wrongful conviction Norman Fox was on parole and serving a life sentence for a most vicious rape. Undoubtedly he is only too aware that a life sentence is also being suffered by the victim of this 1960 vicious rape. You begrudge that this victim is receiving four times the amount that she is entitled to under the B.C. Criminal Injuries Compensa- tion, and we do not doubt that your statement is correct. We do believe that Attorney General Smith was placed in a most difficult position and feel that under the circumstances, a caring society would commend him for considering the long forgotten victim, and for weighing her lifetime of anguish and suffering with the eight years of imprison- ment. Fred Bodnaruk Chairman Citizens United for Safety and Justice