ee Don Rell: PITA rarer om en rene Wednesday, September 8, 1993 ~ North Shore News ~ NEWS BRIEFS Axworthy’s comments blasted Liberal accused of ‘bribing’ voters with shipbuilding promises LIBERAL EXTERNAL Affairs critic Lloyd Axworthy has “resorting to the same trick in the Motorcycle crash A 58-YEAR-OLD Quebec man suffered a broken teg recently after his motorcycle collided with a semi-tractor truck in West Vancouver. A West Vancouver Potice Department spokesman said Claude LeBiane lost control of his motorcycle at 9:03 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 3, while travelling cust along the Upper Levels Highway near the Nelson Creek bridge. The motorcycle bounced off a tire of a semi-tractor truck unit that was travelling beside him. The crash tossed LeBlanc from his motorcycle onto the roadway. He was transported by ambulance to Lions Gate Hos- pital, where he was treated for a broken leg. . Water levels OK NORTH SHORE residents are free to sprinkle their lawns without fear of contributing to a water shortage. Water levels in North Shore reservoirs are at 79% of capacity, according to the Greater Vancouver Regional District’s (GVRD) latest estimate. i - » GVRD spokesman Bud Elsie said water reservoir levels are not usually this high in early September. , But.Elsie said lawn sprinkling restrictions — residents with even home addresses can sprinkle their lawns on Saturdays and Wednesdays; those at odd addresses can sprinkle on Sundays and Thursdays — are still in effect. He said watering restrictions will likely.continue to the end of September. . Raise delay is key to board’s ability to pay From page 4 teacher evaluation procedures. Prior. to the contract .settIment, - North Vancouver teachers earned between $30,856 and $66,328 an- nually, not including benefits. “This agreement reflects a fair middlé ground to both parties and - will, benefit the students in’ our schools,’’ © said NVTA “president : Keith Denley. . Added District 44 chairman “The thrée-year. term and revised provisions will greatly ‘improve our. ability’ to predict, plan for, and administer. our ‘ school district’s operations.”’ _ Bell. said a _key.to the NVSB’s _ ability’ to pay a.4.5% wage in- crease was-the union’s decision to- accept no ‘wage increase ‘in the first year of the contract. 7 " Bell said there are savings for the school board in other provi- sions of the collective agreement which will go. towards funding the 4.5% salary hike. “-.“1f this had gone ‘to arbitration, there would have been some wage increase settlement. : “We don’t have to. fund any- thing this year. We’ll be reviewing our. budget and making ’ priorities,’ said Bell. West Van. MLA blasts “ ’ District 44 was one of 11 B.C. school districts without a teachers’ contract going into September. Last week Premier Mike Har- court signed a cabinet order in- voking Bill 31, the Education Pro- grams Continuation Act, after the Burnaby school board: threatened to lock its teachers out. West Vancouver-Capilano MLA Jeremy Daltcn, the Opposition education cri‘ic, said if the Har- court, government had listened to the Liberals one year ago and designated education as an essen- tial service, B.C.’s school system would not-be faced with continu- ing labor disputes. “The premier and his cabinet “colleagues have shown weak lead- ership on this i issue. “The Harcourt government’s “handling of labor disputes in the public school system is a reminder of why people of the province have ‘distrusted the NDP in deal- ing. with public-sector workers,’’ - said Dalton. He added that. the provincial ‘government has failed the students of B.C. and the education system by. not treating education as an essential service. political payoff” for Shaughnessy ‘workers ‘WEST. VANCOUVER- Garibaldi MLA David Mitchell has criticized . a promise by the provincial government to pay full - salaries for three years to all : former unionized employees * -of Shaughnessy Hospital. " Mitchell called the move ‘one of the’ most blatant political payoffs in B.C. history.’’ “This is the way the NDP apol- ogizes to its friends in the health-care unions. © . “First, they announce the per- _Manent closure of a major hospi- tal. Then they try to make amends ‘with an outrageous severance set- uement that B.C. taxpayers can- not afford,”’ said Mitchell. He added that over the next three years the settlement is estimated to cost at least. $1 mil- lion a month in salaries: for per- manently laid off. hospital employees. an “The NDP has committed yet another political obscenity with this deal. They have clearly dem- - onstrated that they cannot pro- perly manage tax dollars in the face of pressure from their union friends,” said Mitchell. come under attack for comments he made recently while touring Vancouver Shipyards Co. Ltd. in North Vancouver. who toured the site with North Vancouver Liberal cundidate Mobina Jaffer, sug- gested that North Vancouver ship- yards might be awarded more federal shipbuilding and ship Maintenance contracts under a Liberal government. Axworthy, “With the enarnious fleet that’s out here and tne necessity to upgrade (aging fleets), it's clear there has to be some blueprint on re-capitalization, and that means you're (North Shore) going to have to have some players here,”’ Axworthy told the News. But the Winnipeg-South Centre MP has been criticized by North Vancouver Progressive Conser- vative candidate Will McMartin and North Vancouver NDP can- didate Graeme Bowbrick for his . comments. By Surj Rattan News Reporter “Lloyd Axworthy and Mobina Jaffer, shackled by an old, tired leader in Jean Chretien, are des- perately trying to bribe North Vancouver voters with their own tax dollars,’’ said McMartin. ‘““As a member of the Trudeau government, Axworthy was the king of patronage, delivering .costly federal agencies and con- tracts to Winnipeg in an effort to maintain a Liberal presence on the parties.”” McMartin added that in the 1970s and the 1980s Axworthy and Chretien helped former prime minister Pierre Trudeau ‘‘run up a mountain of debt to buy votes’’ and now Axworthy and Jaffer are 1990s,"" “Lioyd Axworthy has been at the public trough for more than two decades and neither he nor Jean’ Chretien realize that Cana- dian voters are demanding a change in the way elected officials operate on behalf of citizens and taxpayers, “The days. of Liberal vote- buying are over,’’ said McMartin. 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