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cans em Page 6, News, Tuesday, June 2, 1990 Northern Insights- continued from page 5 can cope with our problem better than we're coping with it now. I also assume that any technol- ogy we come up with to deal with the problem now will be obsolete almost as soon as we invent it. Future generations will be faced with the same situation. That means any solution we come up with now will really be tempo- rary, whether we call our waste site "disposal" (burying the stuff so it can be forgotten) or "stor- age" (just putting it somewhere safe for now, until we get better technology or ideas for dealing with the stuff). Storage seems like a more ethical solution - since we will then be forced to build in permanent safeguards that will allow future regulators to deal with either our mistakes, or with the simple passage of time - where buildings deteriorate, foun- dations crumble, and legal agree- ments fade into the archives. 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If you wish to discuss this opportunity con- fidentially, please phone Grant Beatson or Godfrey Chowne at (604) @ CHOWNE, BEATSON 1500 - 701 WEST GEORGIA STREET, VANCOUVER, B.C. V7Y 1A1 Consultants in Human Resources & Information Systems EXECUTIVE SEARCH SERVICES a CLG recommended to the Atikokan township council that the community opt out of the site selection process. Eventually, the council voted to accept that rec- ommendation. In May, the Atikokan CLG completed a unan- imous report, explaining its rea- son for that choice. That report raises fundamental questions about the whole approach we're taking to nuclear energy, and waste disposal. It praises the federal government "for establishing a process of citi- zen involvement and participation to deal with a very contentious issue." But the report adds "the implementation of the process with the community liaison groups was seriously flawed and may well have been self-defeat- ing." Among other things, the Atikokan report questions: -the willingness "on the part of the technocrats associated with the Siting Task Force and the nuclear industry to discuss ethical issues related to the radioactive waste problem." -"the whole philosophy about which this process revolves seems to be one of finding a site, monitoring it for a short time, and then walking away from it. This is totally unacceptable to this CLG." -the ethics of "transferrin waste liabilities from political] strong populations (in the soutl to weaker communities" (in tt north). "Offering to financial! compensate a northern town wi! short-term jobs and grants in lic of taxes is sufficiently seductiy to border on coercion. Sma towns with vulnerable economi have few options with which ° secure economic survival. Th poverty of alternatives clouds tl ability of people to evaluate ris! against potential benefits." Powerful stuff. Marcel Mass are you listening? All the World's a circus- cont'd from page 9 tle sex on a Saturday night. We'd like to have a lot but we're Canadian. It is our amazing diversities - the thick and rich heritage of French Canadians ladled onto canvasses and versified by Acadian folksingers that line the boardwalk in Old Quebec City, the beautiful confusion of Toronto's Chinatown, the charm- ing innocence of our Anglo Saxon east contrasted against the lotus-like dreaminess of our Asian west, the weekend warriors of Alberta's old west who use the bestial fury of the summer Stampede as a tune-up to the real rodeo when they ride their trusty steeds into the lobby of the Royal York Hotel during Grey Cup week and spread the fruits of freedom on the plush, red carpets - it is these incredible and indeli- ble contradictions that are at once uniquely Canadian, gutsy, gen- uine and silently boastful of our tolerant nature. The very pride of being Canadian is that we are not proud to the error of arrogance but mod- est and accommodating and when someone says something nice about us the best we can do is blush. Strange that we have shown the world this most virtu- ous shade of our character and now we darkly savage each other from within. The burning of the Fleur-de- Lils and other ugly incidents of English-only, French baiting - this is not us, not mainstream take- out-the-garbage, pay-your-park- ing-fines Canadians. All this front page fodder is the forum of fanatics on both sides who never would have been called to the front except by dangerous deal makers on both sides who need these examples of violence and hatred to put punch up their polit- ical dog and pony shows. At the heart of all this and at the fault of all this is the consum- mate compromiser and grand daddy of dealmaking - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. INOMMINe a ; Norinenn FAMILY ALLOWANCE DRAW Cash your family allowance cheque at your Northern Store in Schreiber and enter our Draw. You could win the amount of your family allowance cheque. Draw to take place at the store Compromisers and dealmakers make great car salesmen and real estate developers but a prime minister needs a little more....like policy and principles. Now that Mulroney's back is to the wall, the back with Lucien Bouchard's knife still in it, ar the Meech Lake deal continues sour and smell bad - he can cor promise no more, there are 1 more deals to be done. Normal a leader could stand on policy be steeled by principle but in tt case there is none and so he s brooding and broken atop a he of half-secret concessions a! too, too many trade-offs. And seeing this, Canadiai panic. We choose up sides | language and lineage - it's g¢ even, last-straw, blackmail time and at once we feel rightful guilty and falsely self-righteous. This is not our fault, it is n even our fight. It's important to remember th the Meech Lake debacle is the 7 prejudicial project of elev: elected leaders who, by and lar; couldn't organize sex in a bord: lo or sell bandages in downto\ Chernobyl. The June 23 deadline, typi of the man that set it, is arbitrz and artificial. Trash it! Then we'll all take a de breath, a long walk, a stiff dri and we'll approach the consti! tional problem at such a tir when cooler heads can preva Or, ideally, when heads wi something in them can prevail. THANK YOU Thank you to Wom, Pau, Rod, Linda, Erte, Marisa, Michelle, Rene, "Tony, Lisa, Dad and Carbegue and dad, also far the bCaguet of flamers. ail ed ook eae tance for the CNIB ONTARIO MEDICAL MOBILE EY! CARE UNIT Do you have an eye problerr yet no way of getting to see an Ophthalmologist? 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