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Dear Editor:
~ | am becoming — increasingly
_ concerted about North Vancouver
District, Council’s inability to keep
abreast of the issues facing our
municipality and deal with’ the
business they were elected to do.
Hoping that an organizational
"restructuring might help to im-
‘prove the situation and assist the
“mayor to do liis job, I supported
‘:.@ corporate review. and subsequent
Seorganization to a council com-
"; mittee system. *
_. This along with other organiza-
‘tional remedies, including addi-
_tional staff, cost the taxpayers
* several hundred thousand dollars.
“. This committee system was
supposed ta shorten council
“meetings, provide more depth to
_ debate, enable staff and the public
a better opportunity to provide
and generally improve
council efficiency.

None’ of these. goals has been

achieved, however.
_2, To be. sure, council meetings
“start earlier and they fast longer.
- ° . But council hardly ever manages
- sto complete its agenda prior to the

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Dear Editor: . ..
Smoking is considered to be the
_. Single most Preventabie cause of
~..dlness and death in Canada.
~.. Despite a decline in the number
of smokers in Canada over the
* past 10 years, 30% of Canadian
> adults still smoke. oan

The recent focus by our provin-
-tial government on health promo-

* tion strategies, including the licen-
~ sing of tobacco vendors, is to be
applauded.
Unfortunately, a major loop-
hole in the fight against smoking
still exists in our present anti-
smoking legislation.
Advertising of tobacco products
on billboards and in newspapers is
prohibited under both the federal
_ Tobacco Products Control Act
‘and the provincial Tobacco FPro-
duct Act.

Tobacco companies have

‘members of council, es 7
those who are new, voted in favor .

i} p.m. deadline.

After this self-imposed deadline
has been extended and usually
without full council, items still left
on the agenda are, as a rule, hur-
riediy dealt with to get them out
of the way.

You would think that in such a
situation council would either
schedule additional meetings or
improve its efficiency.

Not in the District of North
Vancouver. Instead the clerk, act-
ing on behalf of the mayor, I am
convinced, suggested that hence-
forth council will skip two of its
four monthly meetings and reduce
them to two per month instead.

How this will help has escaped
me. In my opinion it will only
produce more difficulties.

Unfortunately, I. was the only
member of council voting against

-this crazy proposal, both Coun-

cillors Harris and Gadsby having
left before this issue came up.

1 am sure the reason
especially

of such an absurdity, is simply
that they have no idea how an ef-

Fill anti-smoking loophole

managed to circumvent this legis-
lation by creating ‘“‘shell’”? com-
panies under various cigarette
brand names.

As a consequence, cigarette

brand names and colors are pro- ~

minently displayed on billboards
ard in newspapers in this pro-
vince. The newspaper ads pro-
moting the ‘du Maurier Ltd.
Vancouver Jazz Festival’’ were lit-
tle more than cigarette advertise-
ments,

This creates a direct association
between lifestyle activities and
smoking, which targets the youth
and disadvantaged of our society.

lit is hoped that our provincial
government will continue their
fight against this dreadful plague
in our society, and plug this
legislative loophole.

Cathy Farrow, R.N.
North Vancouver

that

ficient council should be run.

Also, J cannot help but think
that this whole idea was concocted
to paper over a more fundamental
weakness.

The real reason is lack of exec-
utive ability, lack of: political
leadership and just. plain in-
competence -- expensive in-
competence.

Coun. Ernie Crist,
District of North Vancouver

Sunday, September 6, 1992 - North Shore News - 7

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North Vancouver-Seymour

**It appears that by laie September or early October the Legislature will
again be sitting. Two principle items will be:

(i) The Constitution and referendum, and

(2) the new N.DP. Fair Wage labour proposals.

Both items deserve your attention, and to be accountable to my:
constituents | am interested in your opinions. Please contact me
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