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HE RECENT Ministry of

Transportation and Highways

announcement of a joint govern- ment and industry task force on truck safety is welcome news.

The question now is will it lead to better safety compliance on the part of truckers?

A cynic might say Highways Minister Pat Boone needed to score some points by imitating decisive action.

Task forces are favored tools used by governments when they wish to be per- ceived as responding to a political hot potato. :

The task force ploys fob the potato

off on an advisory level.

The spud is cooled down and some- times even forgotten by those hunger- ing for action in the heat of the moment.

At the end of the process we get rec- ommendations.

In this case recommendations layered upon recommendations already made by an inquest jury examining the deaths of two involved in a terrible truck acci- dent last year in North Vancouver.

The press release issued by the min- istry last week reeks of damage control. The public affairs missive is quick to point out that truck brake adjustment

| TELL YER BYES, THAT EA STORY.

compliance observed on the road this year in a three-day random roadside § inspection blitz found less than one in

for failure to adjust brakes. Tell that to the North Vancouver j Mounties and the Motor Vehicle inspec- | tor who last Wednesday pulled over 18 J commercial trucks and determined that only six of the 18 were working with, brakes that gave a passable perfor: fj rnance. ; A task force is fine and dandy. Immediate actiow, for example more manpower for more inspections, would be better.

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Dear Editor: 000 0 3 Re: Doug Collins Sept. 8 articl “Down, the “Drain with Muiticulturalism.” Ts As a young Canadian citizen thai has a lot of pride and respect for h

_ country, I feel ashamed to call Dou Collins a fellow Canadian... -

' Mr. Collins “has obvious!

. had the privilege of being surround ed bi ‘people of different. cul which I am sure has contributed to his closé-mindedness. °°) 03-0",

_ By ‘insulting. multiculturalism

Collins is the one who. is‘trul “non-citizen.” He has failed to.rec:

_. -- ognize this country. for what it act

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cultures that: has .brought. abou world renowned respect'for Cans time and time again.Too bad ‘we can’t save the country. from peo like him. > rots Afiya Khan ; North Vancouver.

litical castrati from her family interests as mother. of fou and recreation centre volunteer: “J, went off on this recreation-culture thing because it was some- thing I was interested in and that nobody else was doing.” | fay

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: Z wo aan jid bulls beware of po ~ CONFESSION of conflict of interest: West Van councillor and mayoral can- didate Pat Boname and I share a deep, * mystical bond, and I hope her husband’ ~dsn’t the jealous type. /

(women) could go” — for the program Close- _ Up, with Frank Willis, Charles Templeton and Blair. Fraser (and if you'can remember those people as ! do, friend, you are no kid either). Eventually she suffered from “what they now call burn-out.” She'd once holidayed in Italy, So

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/ Wewere both *» born in beautiful’

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Hamilton, Ontario.

Her father was a druggist at the ‘Tamblyn store (remember that chain, Ontario refugees?) at the Delta, steps from the Delta Theatre and just blocks from my school, Delta Collegiate.

This could prejudice me. Hamilton has pro- duced all the best people, including hockey’s Pat Quinn and ballerina Karen Kain, as well as Rocco Perri, a 1930s mobster who ts believed to be wearing a cement suit at the botvom of Hamilton Bay.

Patrica Ann Boname was born in Hamilton on June 25, 1933, approximately 14 months ahead of me. Tamblyn moved her father to ‘Toronto when she was 10, though she vividly recalls emotional trips back to see her grand- roother and her dog, who had to be left behind.

Pat Boname has been shaped by a certain time, as { have, and her experiences belong to that — very different — time. Most women didn’t dream of much beyond home, family and suburban life,

Afier Grade 13 graduation she went to busi- ness college and did secretarial work for CBC. In those carly days of live television she rose to script girl — “at that time that was as far as

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she quit and went back.

And here fate wove a curious twist. She sang (and still does, in the West Vancouver ‘Presbyterian Church choir). Her Toronto music teacher had moved to Naples. And at his classes she met another student, one Phil Boname, 4 Franco-American who organized recreation facilities at the U.S, Navy base in Naples.

What romance. They married, and after” Phil's navy service lived a year in Rome. They shared a love — of fast cars. She cherishes the memory of their long-ago Alfa Romco; Phil today drives a Jaguar, and they atrended the recent Indy race in Vancouver.

Missing the creature comforts of North America, they moved to Canada in 1963, They were living in Toronto when Phil came out in his role asa retail consultant to cheek the Pacific Centre. The couple took a few looks at Vancouver and left the Town of the Hog forev- er.

So far, no politics. Pat Bonaine began her political apprenticeship under the wing of... wait for it, wait for it... Derrick, Humphreys, who has now dropped out of the mayoral race,

“One of the most difficult things T ever had to do was to tell Derrick that ifhe was going to run, L would toe (conditional on Sager’s retire- ment). He gave me my start. He appointed me to the parks commission and encouraged me to run for school board and council.”

After 10 years on council and four successful election campaigns, Mrs. Boname thinks she’s the logical candidate. Her civic service sprang

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the Harmony Arts Festival, the Ferry. Buildi the Silk Purse and the Youth Advisory.” Committee. Her political constituency? It's “home-based ... a lot of the. old-girl network that | had frorn the rec centre, and a fot of guy as well — not just female.” DM ‘This focus has, perversely, stuck, reflected in some males’ mocking whispers — making even an alleged male chauvinist like me uncomfort able — that (quite visibly, and may I say very attractively?) she’s a woman, and that she lacks.

_depth, Has she heard about that?

“Sure, Well, 1 think that’s to be expected, ... I’m sure that there are people who feel chat way, including women who, though they have spent. their lives organizing families and houses and. holding enarmous responsibilities, still have that jack of confidence either in themselves or in other women. E think it’s changitig, but it’s still there.” . .

And, expanding on the insinuation, she - smiles: “T’n) not as smart as some women are,: either.” ; :

Speaking as one of the old bulls who enjoys the company of other old bulls, and inthe man- ner of the soothsayer who warned Big Julie” Caesar about the Ides of March, | would cau-” tion some of my cocky pals: Beware political cas-., tration in November.

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