Cut spending

NOW,

Dear Editor:

Open letter to Finance Minister
aul Martin:

Eowish to join my veice with
thousands of others in protesting
any Ux increases in your fertheom:-
ing budget and to tell you tht 1 trust
you will listen to the Canadian pub-
lic and inake meaning fil reductions
in government spending,

foam a senior citizen and am
more than willing to accept a redue-
tion in my old age pension benefits
and pay a reasonable user fee for
medical services to assist the
Government of Canada in reversing
the financial mess that your party
and the Conservatives have visited
upon us, providing that other gov-
ermment spending is likewise
slashed.

[Cis not necessary for me to enu-
merate herein all the likely places to
reduce spending, all you have to do
is glance at the proposals put for-
ward by the Reform party, which [
am sure you have quite readily to
hand. :

ir, Viartin

Mr. Martin, we elegted yeu and
your purty as a pretest te the proth-
gate spending and arrogance of the
Mulroney years. and: you can rest
assured that b will try my: best to
vote you and your party out of office
in the next election if you increase
taxes and do not seriously address
the dire financial straits we find our-
sulves in by substantial cuts in gov-
ernment spending.

Mere tinkering by a Tew billions
of dollars is not enough. He must be
in the tens of billions UF we are not to
follow New Zealand down the pike.

Confidence in the government's
ability to solve Canada’s financial
woes rests in your hands, ‘Time will
tell if you are a true statesman with
the interest of all Canadians at heart
of just another politician unable to
see beyond the next election.

f have fost my faith in potiti-
chins, but not the political process.
You could, in some small measure,
help restore this futh,

D.L. Bishop
West Vancouver

Burrard Inlet tunnel is
best crossing solution

Dear Editor:

Your Jan. 13 editorial (Crossing
Crisis} and the continuing focus on
governments’ spending deficits
prompts me to suggest again that
you and your readers press the
Harcourt government to accept my
proposal for a self-financing tun-
‘nel crossing the Burrard Init.

You are absolutely right in sug-
gesting that “an adequate third
crossing” is needed.

That is what my propasat is
about: the Bentzen tunnel will
have six vehicle Janes and two
light-rail transit tracks to meet pre-
sent and future needs of this
important regional transportation
corridor.

In addition to meeting the trans-
portation needs, the Bentzen cross-
ing will take the heavy committer
traffic off the Lions Gate Bridge
and out of Stanley Park. enhancing

the future of the park and ending
the daily gridlock at the north end
of the bridge and in Vancouver's
West End.

The island development | have
propased as the means to pity the
bulk of the cost of this crossing
sun become a new jewel in
Vancouver harbor. while adding 50
acres or so of periineter, waterfront
parkland accessible from Stanley
Park by foot and bicycle bridges.

In omy conversations with
MLAs, MPs. civie politicians and
other members of the community.
Vin told my idea is the best solu-
tion for this crossing.

Some object to the island devel-
opment, but 1 suggest that ts a bet-
ter way than tax increases to deliv-
cr the solution, sooner rather than
later. that your editorial demands.
Hans Bentzen
Jancouver

Some criminals won't change

Dear Editor:

Is it not time our justice system
recognized there are some criminals
who cannot. or will not, change?
Rapists are repeaters, and eventual-
ly apt to commit murder. By com-
mitting rape they have shown them-
selves'to be violent people and as
such, should not be allowed their
freedom again.

The prime objective of socicty
should be protection of the general

public, particularly women and chil-
dren.

Our so-called experts keep
telling us that crime and murder
have not increased, the trouble is
they do not go back far enough.

T have been around a Jong time,
and I can assure you, all crime has
increased many times over in recent
years. .

Jack Taylor
West Vancouver

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