6 - Friday, September 13, 1991 - North Shore News INSIGHTS HEY!... NO FAIR... YOURE SUFPOSED TO HAVE ONE HAND TIED BEHIND YouR, BACK! NEWS VIEWPOINT It’s all at the mail EST VANCOUVER residents should offer three hearty cheers for the plans by Park Royal Shopping Centre owners to bring the 41- year-old shopping mall up to date and back into the community. The Larco Group of Companies an- nounced iz a Sept. 8 News story that it plans to invest over $20 million in a pro- ject to overhaul the mall. The overhaul will also be aimed at pro- viding Canada’s richest per-capita municipality with an entranceway that befits its natural and social assets. Anyone entering West Vancouver west- bound from Marine Drive now is met with 32 chronically clogged intersection and a dreary congiomeration of drab mall park- ing lots and cement walls. Larco hopes to change those drab watis to wide-open plaza vistas and bring inall stores out onio the street where they will greet rather than retreat from customers. tt is a worthy plan. Park Royal, after all, is West Van- couver’s biggest single commercial entity; it is also an historic site: it was the first regional shopping centre of its kind in Canada when it opened Sept. 1, 1950. Malls, the new social gathering centres for North Americans, should be made to serve the community, not the reverse. Let’s hope that the new Park Royal becomes more a part of the community and less apart from the community. NVD practice has precedents Dear Editor: The recent letter from North Vancouver District Ald. Crist in the North Shore News describes the practice of district council restricting attendance at meetings of council committees to members of those committees, as being an- ti-democratic and against the basic tenets of civic democracy. This practice actually is in line with good parliamentary practice and is supported by several authorities on parliamentary pro- cedure. Robert’s Rules of Order state Publisher Managing Editor Associate Editor. Advertising Dirocter Comptroller Peter Speck . Timothy Renshaw . Noel Wright -Linda Stewart . Doug Foot on page 491, ‘‘During actual de- liberations of the committee, only committee members have the right to be present.’” Alice Sturgis in her Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure, page 171, states **..the privacy of a committee must be protected. No officer, memter, employee, or outside person has the right to at- tend any meeting of a board or committee except by invitation of the committee.”’ George Demeter in his Manual of Parliamentary Law _ states, “This is especially true in public Display Advertising 960-0511 Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom 985-2131 Th VONCE OF mOMTH ANG WEST VANCOUVER Distribution Subscriptions Fax Aaministvation bodies such as legislatures, city councils, etc., because only the members comprising the commit- tee can be present, and any others who are non-members or who have no business with the commit- tee are excluded from the deliber- ations.” A recent legal opinion obtained by district council confirms that an individual alderman has neither lesser nor greater privileges and rights than other members of the community. 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Friday & Suadayi 1991 North Shore Free Press Ltd All nghtis reserved Public service strikes create true mob rule REFERENDUM INITIATIVES and recall of MLAs, the Reform Party policies pinched by Premier Rita Johnston, have been attacked as the start of ‘‘mob rule.’” Wrong again. We already have mob rule. What else did you see in that TV clip of the harmless-looking elderly gent in a business suit be- ing literally hurled back across the sidewalk by a 250]b picket-line goon — simply because aforesaid gent was trying to go about his lawful business of entering the Sinclair Centre shopping mall? Similar picket-line thuggery has flared all over the country since two-thirds of Daryt Bean's 170,000-member Public Service Alliance of Canada hit the bricks Monday. The remainder, ‘‘essen- tial workers,”’ are hamstringing the public for hours by working to rule. Strikes by public servants are an abomination for two reasons. First, because their victims are not the government but their tax- ravaged fellow citizens who pay their wages. It’s the latter they punish, not cabinet ministers or senior mandarins. it’s farmers, already cash-starv- ed, who are driven to bankruptcy because their grain can’t be mov- ed. Plus thousands of businesses and individuals who suffer serious financial losses caused by air- port, shipping and railway shut- downs or slowdowns. Plus jobless deprived of employment centre help. And truckers forfeiting tens of thousands during interminable border crossing defays. Secondly, of course, public ser- vice strikes make a mockery of the very collective bargaining system they're suppposed to uphold. No government can allow detnocracy to be flouted by han- ding over the country indefinitely toa tiny, bullying minority. After letting the boys and giris blow off steam for a short time, govern- ment can (and most frequently does) blow the whistle by simply legislating the strikers back to work, The only sane way to resolve public service disputes —- whether they involve the federal PSAC, provincial government servants, postal workers, teachers, health care or social welfare employees — is by automatic binding ar- bitration, backstopped by final appeals to the courts allowable for either side. But NO job action. Anything else means TRUE mob rule — with law-abiding pen- sioners trying to do a little shopp- ROONEY GLYNN-MORAIS... a new doctor in the house? Noel HITHER AND YON ing being roughed up by burly hooligans. POSTSCRIPTS: West Van pro- ducer Gary Payne's full-length movie ‘'Kootenai Brown"’ starring Tom Burtinson, Donnelly Rhodes and Raymond S8urr premieres Sept. 27 at the Starlight on Den- man before moving to the Roya! Centre Cinemas. The $3 million film — screenplay by John Gray with music by North Van’s Michael Conway Baker and par- tially shot in North Van — is the subject of 2 CBC Channel 2 documentary Saturday, Sept. 14, at 8:30 p.m. ... Also on Saturday don’: miss a free Heritage Har- bour Tour aboard the S.S. Con- stitution — part of North Van’s Heritage Sea to Sky Weekend — with departures every hour be- tween 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. from Waterfront Park pier, where you pick up your free ticket ... And West Van-Garibaldi voters (everyone west of 22nd Street) can get acquainted with their Socred candidate, humor-loving medic Dr. Rodney Glyna-Morris, Sun- day, Sept. 15, between 4 and 7 p.m. at his campaign office open house, 2425 Marine Dr., right nextdoor to the Dundarave Cafe. een WRIGHT OR WRONG: Printed speeches are like dried flowers: substance only — no color and no fragrance, 2 OS GARY PAYNE... hitting the big-time movie Circuit.