by WOMEN rather than feminists.

6 - Friday, October 25, 1985 - North Shore News

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Happy medium?

he women of {ccland united yesterday
in a strike to protest the lack of good
jobs for women in that country.

It’s the second time they’ve had to go so far
~~ the first time was 10 years ago, and the lack
of success of the strike is evident in that they
had to have another one yesterday.
But one has to admire them for two reasons.
One, they've stuck to their guns, undaunted,
holding the struggle for 10 years. Two, they
are united. Getting 120,000 women both in
and out of the home to refuse to work —
whether as typists or as housewives — al! on
the same day is a feat.

Perhaps it’s the salubrious climate that
makes us lazier or maybe we’re just better off.
While Iceland’s women are refusing to wash
socks and cook meals for their husbands,
we’re worrying about women fighting in the
armed forces, and what to wear to the office
when we're pregnant. a,

Somewhere between the sublime and the
ridiculous is the unified effort that will in-
evitably change the future for women.

It’s not one-day strikes every decade, or af-
firmative action plans that FORCE women in-
to jobs where they aren't wanted, | causing
unbearable stress on BOTH parties, that will
cause changes. It’s a steady, intelligent effort

Join ‘em
| t looks for all the world like the Federal
Government has joined the Coia-Wars.
In its million dollar campaign to stop
teens from smoking, it has created a vision of

dancing boppers in street crowds enough to
make one think the Blue Jays HAD won.

-Can’t. wait to see the campaign to stop the
other big teen dilemma — _ unplanned

pregnancy! Back to you, Mr. Epp.

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Dear Editor:

Soon Ottawa and Victoria
are going to discuss the
ownership and control of
our West Coast’s extensive
underwater lands inside of
B.C.’s coastal islands.

The recent confirmation
of extensive ore deposits on
the seabed about 100. kilo-
meters off Vancouver Island
emphasizes the importance

_ of this for all British Col-

umpbians.
What will be dealt with is

- only the ownership and use

of underwater land inside
and outside of our offshore
islands. The federal gov-
ernment will. continue to re-
tain its usual powers over
shipping, navigation,
customs, fisheries and simi-
lar areas of responsibility —
as it should.

On May 17, 1984, the
Supreme Court of Canada
concluded, as B.C. always
said was the case, that the
submerged land between
Vancouver Island and our
mainland was indeed part of
British Columbia. There can
be no difficulty in applying

this principle to the relatively -

shallow underwater land
separating the Queen
Charlottes from the
mainland. This is correct,
fair and appropriate, as this
region has also always been
considered historically as an
integral part of B.C.

Next is the seabed of the
territorial sea, a 12-mile strip
running down the west
coasts of the Queen Charlot-
tes and Vancouver Island.

For guidance toward a
practical understanding,
look first to Ontario, and at
the Great Lakes with their
heavy international maritime
interests. The southern
border of Ontarie actually
tuns under the shipping
routes: right to the Canada-
‘U.S. boundary along the

is entitled
to off-shore ri

middle of the Great Lakes,
and that province owns-and
collects all revenue from the
resources of this underwater
land — some $21 million
over about 10 years.

Further, if we can con-
sider Newfoundland, where
the Newfoundland Court of
Appeal ruled on Feb. 17,
1983, that the original,
three-miles-wide _ territorial
sea off Newfoundland’s
coast belongs to that pro-
vince.

an

Finally, the 200-mile
economic zone to the west of
the territorial sea is also far
from being difficult . to
resolve. ;

My colleaque, the
Honorable Stephen ‘ Rogers,
Minister of Energy, Mines
and Petroleum Resources, .
and I are optimistic that our
message, which we consider
to be one of fundamental
logic and fairness, will
prevail. British Columbians
are surely entitled to similar

North Shore’s
beckons local goblins

Dear Editor:

Every year at this time, |
start planning and devising
new ways of scaring children
seeking a treat on my
doorstep at Halloween... You
see, I'm the wicked witch of
the North Shore and I relish
the thought of getting even
once more with all the little
goblins and ghosts!

I have quite a following

by now: ‘for the past 12
years, friends and my own
two children have had great
fun in handing out 400 (last
year’s count) bags of goodies
to young and not-so-young
trick-or-treaters.

Only this time I have a
problem: we moved in July
you see and I’m afraid they
won't find me! We intend to
put up many signposts in the
area but, unless I can enlist

treatment to that -accorded
to the people of Ontario and
Newfoundland concerning
their inshore and offshore
submerged lands.

The issue is straight for-
ward. Based on these and
other precedents, we are ex-
pecting not only a harmoni-
ous agreement, but a prompt

one. ©

Garde B. Gardom, Q.C.,
Minister, toe
Intergovernmental Rela-
tions, , .

witch

the help of your community
paper, I’m afraid we'll only
attract children in our im-
mediate neighborhood.

Would you be kind
enough to advertise the
witch’s new address for all
to see? It’s: 333 Wellington
Drive (off St. Andrews) in
North Vancouver.

Lyse Hales
North Vancouver

Paying for fireworks
is robbing taxpayers

Dear Editor:

Electors in North Van-
couver District will soon be
able to see a_ graphic
demonstration of the way in
which their elected repre-
sentatives value the tax
monies collected from them.

Council’s decision to ap-
propriate $500 from public

funds in order to provide a
few minutes of entertain-
ment at Norgate School with
a Halloween firework
display indicates an attitude
of contempt toward their
constituency. Had they
reached into their own
pockets one could have ap-
plauded their action as a
generous and public-spirited

gesture, but to reach into the
pockets of others for the
same purpose indicates only
a poor understanding of the
values upon which our socie-
ty may stand or fall. Taxa-
tion, when used for purposes
such as this, is theft.

Bill Tomlinson
North Vancouver