gust 16, 1992 - North Shore News

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State satiety

ORTH VANCOUVER District
Coun. Ernie Crist’s renewed call for
a ban on diving and swimming in
Lynn Canyon Park maybe iouder.now, but
it makes no more sense than ft did the last
time he raised the issue.
‘It foilows Tuesday’s death of a 16-
year-old Burnaby youth ir the treacherous
Lynn Creek waters. The fatality is the
third this year in the canyon; it is ‘he
18th death in the canyon over the past iz
years. ;
“+ Both. statistics are shocking, but si-
‘tempting to legislate the canyon out of the
reach of Lower Mainland residents is far
* from practical.

It is an attempt io institute state-con-
trolled safety, a futile attempt to legisiate
common sense.

As. North Vancouver

District Mayor

Murray Dykeman said, the Lynn Canyon
area is not a prison, and governments can
go only so far in protecting citizens from
the natural dangers of fife on Earth.

Policing any swimming ban in Lyan
Canyon would be costly and extremely
difficult. It would likely require 24-hour
patrols, because many of the accidents in
the canyon have eccurred when the park is
officially closed.

The ban also raises the question of
where to draw the fine at Lynn Canyon.

In a recent near-tragedy 2 24-yenr-old
woman fell backwards off the Lynn Can-
yon suspension bridge and miraculously
survived. Should crossing the suspension
bridge also be banned?

Loca! governments have neither the abil-
ity nor the mandate to place wilderness
areas off-fimits to the public.

- “Its the anti-competition theory.
The. guy with three joints of mari-
juana isn’t going to carry a han-
dgun but the guy with the
hydroponic operation is, and peo-
ple don’t understand that.”’

North Vancouver Crown
counsel Jay Straith, on the in-
crease in the use of guns in the

: drug underworld.

“They (BCFC) can say bloody
well what they want; they’re
above everything. Anything that is

- what

boys’ club doesn't matter.”*

Ingrid Fischer, spokesman fur
the Herseshoe Bay group Stop
Overnight Sailings (SOS), on the
B.C. Ferry Corp.'s claim that the
first half of its 24-hour sailing
schedule experiment has been a
success.

“Some things are helpirg, but the
tragedies are above and beyond
we have coniro! eof. If
somebody jumps off at what they
call the 90 Foot Pool... it's not a
prison.”’

Mayor Murray Dykemaa, oppos-
ing the latest call for a ban on
diving and swimming in Lynn
Creek.

“The other concern that § have —
memory tells me — when we have
one of these (deaths) we seem to
go into a spurt so that’s why I'm
trying to say: ‘Guys, t:ne it in,
get with the program here.’ * —
RCMP diver Sgt. Paul Giffin,
pleading with Lynn Creek thrill-
seekers to stop leaping into the

not part of their iittle Mogicai

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Shakespeare no
match for Baie _
‘Comeau prodigy!

SIXTY-EIGHT-SIXTY are numbers to remember in order
to follow what will be happening to Canada during the

mext two months.

Last Sunday in this space I
again underestimated Brian
Mulroney. 1 suggested the nine
angio premiers had it in their
power to stand united against any
basic changes to the constitutional
package they hammered out with
Joe Clark early in June — and
should do so.

But after two weeks of arm-
twisting it now seems clear they’l!
do no such thing. Heading for
Tuesday's constitutional con-
ference with Bourassa. most have
already packed a white flag in
their briefcases.

Joe has been rewarded for an
exhausting year as Captain
Canada by being sent back to his
place among the performing seals.
Quebec’s co-premier Mulroney is
ringmaster once more, cracking
his whip for the final spectacular
of the Meech II Circus to cegia.

There are two alternate scripts.
In the first, six or seven of the
nine anglo premiers —- with
Alberta’s Don Getty and New-
foundland’s Clyde Wells possibly
the honorable exceptions — tear
up their June 7 package after a
brief token show of resistance.

The Triple-E senate dies. Ovide
Mercredi and his tribes are chased
back tc their reserves. Quebec gets
all ts demands. With at Jeast six
angio provinces on side, approval:
of the Bourassa-Mulroney
constitution under the 7-50
amending formula is guaranteed.

Getty and Wells —~ whose pro-
vinces now promise few if any
federal Tory seats — can twist in
the wind if they want to hang
tough.

BRIAN MULAONEY...iast grand
roll of the dice :

tn script No.2 a majority of
anglo premiers DO hang tough
behind their June deal—__-
whereupon Mulroney finally sends
them ALL packing. Declaring the
feds alone must now speak for |
Canada, he makes his own pre-
arranged unilateral offer to
Bourassa, who naturally accepts
it. Brian emerges as the elev-
enth-hour hero saving Canada
from itself,

There remains, of course, the
little formaiity of having the rest
of Canada OK. his deal. That may
be less difficult than it seems.

The alternatives here are a na-
tional referendum or a snap fed-
eral election — wiich is where
those 68-60 numbers become the
key. Either would be on one single
motherhood issue: vote AGAINST
the deal and you vote to destroy
Canada by 1993. That’s mighty
powerful stuff.

In a referendum Quebec and

ue:

HITHER AND YON.

Ontario could likely produce at
least a 51% “‘yes’’ vote, even if:
most of ‘‘outer Canada’’ remain:
ed opposed. :

Faced with such a result, the
latter’s premiers —- who must still
ratify the deal in their owa :
legislatures — would be in a nasty
spot. Should they order their
caucuses to “destroy Canada’’:”
regardless? Or personally held
their noses and go with the.
Quebec-Ontario flow? None hav
to face their own voters fur
ancther two to four years,

Ina snap election Mulroney
now “‘savior of the nation” —
would gamble on boosting his 63
Quebec seats in 1988 to at Icast'63:
out of the 75, and his 46 in On
tario to 60 or more of that pro-
vince’s 99... Tonal

If he couldn’t cajole the extra
20 or less needed for a majozity
out of the Maritimes, Saskat
chewan and Manitoba — writi
off-B.C., Aiberta and New. ©:
foundland io the NDP, Reform:
party and Liberals ~ something
strange indeed would have hap-
pened to the Blarney Stone. °-

The last grand roil of the dice.
You have to hand it to him — as +
a dramatist; Shakespeare was no
match at all for the Baie-Comeau”:
boy! : Ns

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SCRATCHPAD: Grateful reci-
pient of more than $11,000 from
the three North Shore 2) >
municipalities — over three-fifths
‘of it from North Van District —

is Chesterfield House..The mone
will go to the facility’s preventive
and remedial programs for
troubled families with pre-teen: :
children ... Late-hotiday treat for.
the kids could be the Beaver Fu
Day Camp at Camp Capilano, -
Aug.24-27 from 10 to 2 each day
-— call 987-0400 for info ... The
North Shore Multicultural Sovie-
ty’s new home is at tire recCentre, *
Mickey McDougal] Buiiding, 200
block East 23rd. Phone 983-6445 |
— enquiries are welcomed...
Meanwhile, birthday greetings to-
day, Aug. 16, to West Van’s -,
Denese Izzard ... And more of the’.
same Tuesday, Aug.18 to North ©:
Van’s Clara Peters. cet

WRIGHT OR WRONG: Faults - :
are like car headlights. The glaring-:
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