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LAST WEEK Zap asked if you agreed with sugges- tions to have police patrolling Lynn Canyon Park to stop people from drinking and risky behavior that often leads to accidents or death.

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I think that the risk-takers will find it even more fun trying to dodge police patrols. The idea of trying to stop people to let alcohol in the park is a good idea to stop the senseless deaths. In general I think it's a good idea but I think they should have Jlots of policemen.

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(N (81S A PRIVATE IN THE BRITIGH ARMY WAS SERVING IN INDIA AND REFUSED TO ORINK THE PAILY DOSE OF RUM THAT WAS SUPPLIEE 70 THE SOLDIERS. HE HAD SEEN A TEETOTALLER ALL HIS LIFE BUT THAT DID NOT PREVENT HIM FROM BEING COURT- MARTIALLED AND EXECUTED 8Y FIRING SQUAD!

1 don’t think I'd enforce it. Enforce the protection of people in Lynn Canyon by putting up gates so people wouldn’t be able to climb up them.

They should check for alcohol because that’s why most of the people got hurt. But I don’t

think there’s any point putting up higher fences because if someone is crazy enough to take a cisk like thai they'll find a way to get over a fence no matter what the height. And if someone does get hurt and the rescue squad does have to come they should have to pay ail the costs.

Getting tough with Quebec

BEFORE I start, I’d better make a couple of things clear: One, I am a Federalist. That is, I want Canada to stay together as a nation. Quebec and all. Two, I am a Cana-

dian Nationalist.

In case any province, say Quebec, for example, decided to leave, I would fight my hardest to keep as much of it for Canada (as you'll probably see if you con- tinue reading). If this is starting to seem like the gripes of a West Van resident and ‘‘private school kid,” heck, I can’t change that.

As Canadians, we are faced.

with the stark reality of a sad, very possible destruction of our ‘excessive’? country. The separa- tion would spell the end of a true Canada, and would be a sad mo- ment for all of us. As much as I want Quebec to be a part of Canada, it seems to be that our only ‘‘French-Canadian”’ province wants to be its own country.

If it gets to the point where we can’t do anything more about it, we had better remember a couple of things.

If Quebec leaves our union, it must leave with exactly the same amount of land with which .it entered into Confederation. This means Quebec would be one-third the size it is now, it would be un petit strip of land along the shores of the St. Lawrence. As far as I’m concerned, if they’re going to leave the country, they should get the land they had before the

- country existed.

Why do I say this? Because it was after Confederation that Quebec gained much of its current territory, with the purchase of the Hudson’s Bay Company lands, along with the addition of Ungava and other territories.

Secondly, it must concede all the ‘‘Canadian’’ assets, transpor- tation routes, Crown projects such as various industries, ports and airports among other things. This way, we still get to keep the im- portant stuff after Quebec says au revoir. In all seriousness, though, it provides Canada with another steady source of income which can

By Taleeb Noormohamed Zap writer

help our pathetic economic situa- tion, all thanks to Mr. Mulroney (but that’s another story).

Time for a_ strange-but-true fact: In the last 10 years, Quebec has received more money from Ottawa than any other province. It seems that Quebec gets all the little perks of being in Canada, and if it wants to leave it had bet- ter give all the little perks back.

They also ran up a huge part of our national debt. (You’ve got to pay for those perks somehow.) This means that with their popu- lation base (approximately 24- 26% of Canada), the new Quebec must shoulder its portion of Canada’s national debt, 25% of it. Ouch.

Third, there might still be some unhappy guys in the new Quebec who might want to have access to Canadian defence systems. No dice.

In better English, that would be something like this. Quebec would and must not have the right to gain any men or arms now utilized by the Canadian Armed Forces. All equipment, men and bases in Quebec would remain Canadian- controlled, and would remain Ca- nadian until all the money owed to Canada by Quebec (as stated

- above) was repaid.

But everybody’s got to keep the situation in perspective. If every Canadian thought seriously about our state of affairs for a while, we - would all probably realize that Canada doesn’t need amputations. All it needs is some therapy and some tender loving care ... eh?

— Taleeb Noormohamed is a Grade 10 student of St. George’s school. He lives in West Van- couver.

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