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6 ~ Sunday, April 16, 1995 — North Shore News

eal experts promise, we. ‘are.

, due for the Big Shake: When:
it comes, we may. have some: ;
‘mighty harsh thoughts about.
one of Jean Chretien’ s less

our huffing-and- -puffing defence +.
minister who’ — because of a few
bad eggs. who'd already been ‘dealt ©
with months earlier — axed the
entire Airborne Regiment, despite .

its otherwise distinguished record.”;':-

The other. ‘week Mr. ‘Collenette ~
surfaced again in Chilliwac
tiie to confirm beyond all doubt
that’ the Canadian Forces Bas

there was to be closed and ‘its engi-* ”

“neers relocated elsewhere i in.
Canada...’

“When you consider the cost of
moving and providing new facili- ”
ties in Edmonton and Gagetown for:
personnel ‘and their families, plus”
the civilian employees thrown on

UI and the $470-million’ investment -

in the base’s buildings, it’s hard to’:
figuse how.on earth the exercise.
will help the Gefi cit much, if at all.
“But a far more urgent question ©
is how fescue gear, medical aid,
“food and water will reach the North
Shore, Richmond and other com- *”
munities of Greater Naricouver if
the nt badges and major rae wipes

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demonstrated, the first 24 hours
after the disaster are vital.

The Chilliwack’ engineers a : “

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whose whole training and purpose ..

is to deal fast.with just that kind of
scenario — could be in’.

'! -Mancouver's suburbs and ‘down: -

town with their equipment within

‘Now, the luna acy announced by”

© Mr, Collenette means the country’s

third largest metropolis — and the
* only one located on ‘a major fault

line —‘can expect to be on its own
~ for days after buildings crumble, |

' bridges and freeways collapse,
* water and power are cut off. .
Also apparently ignored by the, .

:~ shoot-from-the-lip minister is the

‘constitutional obligation of the fed-

eral government to provide aid to’
the civil power in cases of major:
emergency, °-)

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WELCOME volley of good sense has

been discharged from the cloistered
halls of justice.
This one comes courtesy of Madame

‘ Justice Mary Southin, and it deals with an

area of Canadian justice that has rarely been
associated with much good sense: the Young
Offenders Act.

Writing in the Vancouver Bar Association’s |

The Advocate publication, the B.C. Appeal
Court judge questions the YOA’s value as a
deterrent in preventing young hoods from
becoming killers and zeroes in on provisions
of the YOA that protect the identities of young
killers and other teens involved-in serious
crimes.

Anonymity, as most right-thinking mem-

bers of the law enforcement services could tell

you, is a key to cultivating scofflaws and set-

eris is

career in the crime trade.

It removes responsibility from the perpe-
trator by shielding criminals from the uncom-
fortable glare of publicity.: | ;

It removes the public from the courtrooms
and undermines confidence in the justice sys-
tem by limiting public knowledge of what
happens to juvenile hoodlums.

It is another example of the danger and.

ineffectiveness of closing courtrooms to pub-:

lic scrutiny. - moog

' But, as Justice Southin points out, preserv-
ing the anonymity of. young offende: “s also -
protects officials from exposure and'scrutiny
in cases where young thugs. are returned to
society to re-offend with tragic resulis,

The good generated by the YOA has long :
since been outweighed by the bad. o :

“It needs overhauling. Just ask your local :

ting apprentice criminals on: a_ successful

take

will leave Canada’s third largest.”
province with no major military |
installation capable of speedily ..
meeting ANY. obligation. -. {
Maybe, of course —.as B.C.’s
sole cabinet representative,
Revenue Minister David Anderson,
is wont to hint — it's all our own
‘ fault for failing to return mere. .
Liberals to Ottawa in 1993. But-
that’s hardly likely to comfort
quake-shocked victims wandering
around thirsty, hungry, cold and
homeless amid the rubble, with no
help in sight.
For some 1.5 million individual
‘ British Columbians the engineers’

_» from Chilliwack could spell the

_ difference between life and death.

”- Since moving them appears to offer
little or no saving to taxpayers, Mr.
Collenette should bite the bullet |

and reverse his decision. ©".

_ >. If not, Prime Minister Chretien
must do it for him. Stupidity and
pride are no excuse for putting

i countless B, C. lives at stake, «

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B. Cc. CHAMBER of Commerce

'- President Terry Farmer addresses :
* the 7:30 a.m. North Van Chamber

_ of Commerce breakfast meeting °
Thursday in Cheers restaurant —
book (987-4488) by Tuesday ...
And happy birthday this Easter:

» Sunday, April_16, to former-West
Van alderman Don Griffiths.

. ‘you must give three times before
you ta take once (Brazilian’ Proverb).

. criminal court judge.

quotes af the week m

“Cars used to be gassed in the
inorning; now pecple will be get-

ting gassed in the evening.”

North Vancouver District Coun.

_. Pat Munroe, on a pub proposal for

the northwest corner of Marine
Drive and Capilano Road. (From
an April M4 News story.)

“This is only a bid. By the
time we get them I will qualify
for competition.” ;

North Vancouver District Coun.
Don Bell, on North Vancouver's

‘bid to host the B.C. Seniors Games

in 1998 and the long road to mak-
ing that bid a reality. (From an -

April 12 News story.)

“She was absolutely paranoid

of those trees, She would literally

sleep in the basement.” :
West. Vancouver resident Laurie

Richardson, who was s found guilty .

mailbox .

North -

saying that’ the B.C. government's

' debt -wili continue’ to “increase
‘because of. continuing: investments -
in roads and such programs as forest ie

renewal and Skills Now.
‘I'm wondering if this spending

on forest renewal is in excess of the
$450 million ‘4, superstumpage and.’
over and ehufet the: $245 tnillion

April 12 News Story.)

“from ‘the -.fores

of chopping down three 110-year-

old trees in Lighthouse Park,‘on-his

wife's fear that the trees would fall .
on their adjacent house. (From, an:

“Tt got him in the face; in ithe:
mouth, on his arm. He never
came out to help us again?’ 2.

North Vancouver District sanita- :
tion worker Jan Overby, ‘déscribing
how a resident. was inadvertently -. -
sprayed with dog excrement that.
exploded from a garbage packer.’
(From an April 14 News story. y :

hd oe :

“It's like living next to a ‘ham:
burger stand.”

Gleneagles resident Roy ¢
Dougans, on the disturbancé to re:
idents from a public address sys--

., tem at the Gleneagles golf course
that announces golfers’ tee time

(From an April: 9 News story ae :

Where. are. bucks bound?

: Dear Editor: : oe
" Vancouver-Lonsdale :
MLA David Schreck: is quoted as :

* windfall ‘the government, collectec
industry in: fiscal
1994? os
My understanding is that a majo:
part of the $450 miilion‘in supers-
tumpage was to be reinvested in for).
est renewal and job retraining,

Or is Mr. Schreck ‘suggesting =
that. the $450 million. disappeared ..

* into’ general revenues?!

Jaak Pousepp -
West Vancouver

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