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MEMORANDUM
— JUN 27 1983
TOs Mayor and Council June 21st, 1983.

FROM: Alderman D.J. Vater

SUBJECT: Referendum on Balanced Nuclear or General Disarmament

RECOMMENDATION:
THAT the City of Port Coquitlam hold a referendum on the above.

BACKGROUND AND COMMENTS:
—S ES CONSENTS

; Occasionally issues emerge that capture the imagination and commitment
of entire nations. Such an issue was the 2nd World War when thousands

and justice and their memory is still honoured by us today. It is now

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; know it may he destroyed in a few momenta of madness. All life on earth .

i is in jeopardy of destruction, and the Planet itself might remain sterile

! for a hundred thousand “years. I am of course referring to the escalating
arms Yace and the growing Possibility of a nuclear holocaust.

about the problems, and then if we believed can make a contribution to
do so with the sama conviction displayed by our fathers and brothers when

they went away to war. ‘

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Alderman D.J. vater

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