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Treat all equally

Dear Editor:

I} am convinced the aboriginal
cause has been greatly advanced
over the course of the referendum
debates. However, the current po-
litical approach to the issue raises
some profound questions for all
Canadians.

1 read in a recent column by
Bob Hunter in the North Shore
News where he referred to there
being over 600 separate aboriginal
bands in Canada.

If this is the case then it brings
into sharp focus the need for
aboriginal self-government to be
well-defined both in terms of
what exactly it means and what it
will cost the Canadian taxpayer.

When Chief Mercredi and
others talk about nation-to-nation
negotiations, all | see is a map of
Canada riddled with holes like a
giant Swiss cheese.

A united Canada has room for
everyone in it to be unhyphenated
Canadians, yet to enjoy their
diverse cultural backgrounds.

Politicians have turned Canada

into one of the largest debtor na-
tions in the industrialized world.
Canadian taxpayers cannot be
asked to write any more blank
cheques.

Canadians want each citizen,
aboriginal or non-aboriginal, to
have the same access to health
care, individual rights and
freedoms, economic opportunity
and standard of living.

To achieve these goals I expect
there must be more integration
with the existing governmental
structures in Canada, not less as
some leaders claim.

The high-minded rhetoric of all
political leaders during the refer-
endum may have been good for
the Canadian psyche, however
impractical in content.

Now someone has to find an
affordable, workable, and fair
solution to help our aboriginal
friends achieve their legitimate
needs within Canada.

David B. Finlay
North Vancouver

MOBINA

JAFFER

} stated “THURSDAY,

Is Crist on
the payroll?

Dear Editor:

May we ask why you car-
tied nothing in your paper
about the Northlands § golf
course and neighborhood
plan and Coun. Crist’s ac-
tions at the Oct. 27 meeting?

We note that you are for-
ever printing quotes or letters
from Crist, setting out his
views.

What is the score? Is he on
your payroll too?

J.K. Campbell
North Vancouver

District of
North Vancouver
Correction Notice
Board of Variance

i In our advertisement on page 57 of
the North Shore News dated |

November 18, 1992, the ad states
that the Board of Variance meeting

4 willbe held on “Tuesday, November

26, 1992". The ad should have
NOVEMBER
26." We apologize for any
inconvenience this may have
caused.

{PETER BARKER

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