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Adamski, Melissa Beedle, Janice Bennett, Brandon Ferguson, George Heyman, Brian Huntley, Karen Larsen, Matthew Little, CF Miley, Ted Morrison, Dave Pearcy, Justin Ray, Laura Schneider New Westminster Room 1020-700 Royal Avenue New Westminster V3L 5B2 Ph//604.525.3542 Fax//604.525.3505 hetp://www.otherpress.ca editor@otherpress.ca Mail Bag Re: Response to Iraj Taher’s letter (issue 4/vol. 29) I whole-heartedly agree with the long let- ter by Iraj Taher with respect to his opin- ion about Bush and his criticism of Mr. McCullough. Canada should be very careful about the US. Why? In some 40 years we have often been recognized, internationally, for our low crime rates, low poverty rates, our education system, universal health care (unique to the socialistic ideology), our dedication to world peace, contributions to health, science and technology, and our very high standard of living. We have our high’ standard because, historically, our government decided to implement common sense _ social policy ensuring all citizens had fair and equal access to essential services. This was an attitude of “While we all move forward, no one gets left behind.” But it is contrary to the capitalist American dream, which is closer to: “Forge ahead, each of us alone, paving our way, and to heck with those who of living lag, are left behind, or led astray!” This chosen path is GREED. And there are those in our midst, in Canada, who have taken notice of the American Dream. They have already led us to this path when they introduced Free Trade and signed into NAFTA. These agreements have forced us to make concessions and abandon our own, Canadian made values. Canada, in the last decade, has been steadily Americanized through privatization and deregulations, effectively moving control over our own business and affairs out of the hands of our elected representatives and placing it in the hands of multi-national and American corporations with no allegiance to Canada or feelings of responsibility to the Canadian public. Prior to Free Trade, there were no tent cities. Poverty was hardly an issue. The old socialistic welfare state has been inten- tionally eroded and neglected in the 20 years since Free Trade. Americanization will speed up, no question in my mind, as soon as Mr. Martin takes control. He is an honourary member of the CFC (Council on Foreign Relations), an American based neo-new world order think tank. I am very afraid of this guy. He is a conservative neo-liberal who is only pretending he is a true liberal. Regards, Wojciech Langer New Westminster math student at the College To Kali Thurber Re: Water Gluttony: I live in the New Westminster area, near the College, where almost every free corner and lot is covered with junk (oops, sorry, by old and cars). I watched all summer with a new feeling of hopelessness. Car dealers waste precious water by pouring it over their “treasures.” I tried to explain to one of them about the water shortage, but he rebuked me. Then I warned him to send the appropriate email to GVD. He stopped for a couple of days, and then resumed his activi- ties. I guess he was not very afraid. Businesses can get away with much more than private citizens. Wojciech Langer, New Westminster The Other Press is Douglas College’s autonomous student news- paper. The Other Press is run as a collective and is published weekly dur- ing the fall and winter semesters, and monthly (as a magazine) during the summer. 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