. © — Wednesday, July 29, 1998 — North Shore News
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___ VIEWPOINT
Family values

RE’S a novel idea from
Ottawa: help for the tradi-
tional family.

Could be some kind of anti-daycare
plot, but MP Paul Szabo appears to be
sincere in his proposal that parents
who choose to stay home and nurture
their children — rather than diving
right back into the work force and Jeav-
ing that vital work to others — should
be rewarded. Szabo, the chairman of a
Liberal caucus committee looking into
the matter, proposes that stay-at-home
parents should get $50 per week from
the federal government. .

: That there is need for such govern-
" ment incentive is goofy enough, but

the state of affairs has been bent so far

against the traditional family that ic
-. The. committee was formed in April
‘to seek ‘solutions to rectify what has

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become an inequitable tax situation for
the traditional family approach to
child-rearing: one parent working,
whiie one stays at home with the fami-
ly’s children.

Calgary’s Beverley Smith started the
ball rolling after she lodged a com-
plaint with the United Nations’
Coimmission on the Status of Women.

She argued rightly that traditional
homemakers in Canada are discrimi-
nated against by the federal govern-
ment because, among otker issues,
families can qualify for tax write-offs cf
up to $7,000 for farming their kids out
to non-family members but parents
providing that care themselves do not
qualify for the same tax break.

Tay breaks are long overdue for
‘what remains, battered and betrayed
though it has been, the core material of
Canada’s social fabric.

THE ‘Nise ‘a, bless ’em, have the
chance to become the saviours of
British Columbia. We should be

- eternally grateful to them and,

_ once the dust set-

“¢Sunimer noise. break needed” fetter to the editor
Del Kiistalovich Quly 15 News.)
thougti Mr. Kristalovich has painted a pezception of
ce with. ect to the North Vancouver Remote

, it is'a trineed Perception which lacks -

ed ‘hours: never

x Sundays:
the lowest sound levels of any club .

boasts
till the club endures the constant complain-
Mr. Resales Le .

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as complained about kids
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bout Capilano College: The list eroba.

in the city is this: we live in a commu-
" to get along. Bob from down the street
rod which he drives on Sundays. It is louder than
es, Gut I live with it:
door likes to build things. I hear the sounds of
wing, but I live with it.
nd of the block have put together a
em practicing, ‘but I five with it~
r rtantly, there is nothing wrong with these
in :
: ings don’t bother me nor do they Dother m neighbors.
that I find extremely annoying.

Korth Straps News, lo.ceaed in: 3.28 an
independent suburtvan newspaper sad gushed
under Scteduts 111, Paragraph $11 of the
Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday.
Friday and Sunday ty Noh Shore Free Prez,
Und, and distributed bo every Gar on the Nort
° ‘Shore. Canada Post Canadian Pubicatons Ml

Last week’s y
following Libezal leader
Gorden Campbell’s pre-
mature release of details
of the final draft treaty
with the far northwest-
ern Indian band finally
brought light at the end
of the tunnel for the
70%-plus of voters
aching to free B.C. from the blight that
descended on it in October 199%,

Over nearly seven long years NDP
governments ave dragged B.C. down

nm Number One to Number 10 in
Canada’s economic pecking order. For
the Fest time in decades British
Columbians are fleeing to Alberta and
points east and south in search of jobs to
put bread on the table.

Ditto long-established B.C. business:
es, unable to stand any longer the noose
of red tape and exorbitant taxes being
drawn ever tighter around their necks by
Glen Clark and his “co-premier,” BC
Federation of Labor boss Ken Georgetd.
As to much-needed new investment, for-
get it, Almost anywhere in North
America today is seen as 2 safer haven for
capital than socialist B.C, — a fact adding
further to the woes inflicted locally by the
sinking loonie.

Clark’s concept of the truth has made

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OF THIS CASE IS EXTREMELY
IMPORTANT To THE PQ:
FOR IF SADOMASOCHISM IS.
OUTLAWED, WHAT HOPE

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ANGLO
BUSINESSES

“balanced budgets” a sick joke, adding
untold miilions to the provincial debt.
Charities are cheated of further millions
by an NDP government desperate for
fiesh sources of cash.
New jobs promised in
the vital forest industry
_ have turned into ever
growing job losses. And
lon’t forget, also, such
NDP abominations
against individual tiber-
tics as the, Human ..
". Rights Commission, :
the election gag la
and restrictions to the
Freedom of...
Information ct

Liberals and d Reform at last singing the.
same tune on an issue suddenly seer ;
most British Columbians to. threaten dire. fe
financial, jurisdicticmal and racial prob-
lems down the road, the opportunity to
end the totalitarian socialism that’s
wrecking B.C. has at last arrived,

Both the Liberals’ Gordon:Campbell.
and Reform’s Bill Vander Zalm aré ly
demanding, a provincial referendu:

draft treaty befor
in che legislature — just-as gas
themselves will ‘referendumon it.
Clark rejects a referendum, claiming his
government has “solid legal opinions”.
that the treaty docs not represent a...
change.in the constitution. But since the
treaty, once ratified, cannot be modified
or repealed by any future government, it .
would clearly seem to amount to an addi- ,
tion to the constitution, for which a ref-
erendum is mandatory.

And s since Clark describes the Nisga’ a

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