January 24th, 1977 /5.

Moved by Alderman Ranger:

Seconded by Alderman Traboulay:

WHEREAS the British Columbia Telephone Company is making application
to the Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission for a
rate increase and it is appropriate for The Corporation of the City of
Port Coquitlam to comment thereon;

AND WHEREAS the Municipal Council of The Corporation of the City of
Port Coquitlam finds particularly objectionable the proliferation of
rate groups in the Lower Mainland area and particularly the Greater

Vancouver Regional District;

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Municipal Council of The

Corporation of the City of Port Coquitlam register its protests with
the Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission over the
continued division of the Lower Mainland of British Columbia and the
Greater Vancouver Regional District in particular, into different ate
groupings;

AND THAT the following points be presented to the Commission supporting
the view of this Council:
1. Neither B.C. Hydro, the Greater Vancouver Water District, the
Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District, nor the various Cablevision
companies, have differential rate structures in the Lower Mainland.
2. The present system of differential rates is based on a policy
established and , tition taken (for Port Coquitlam) some fifteen years

ago before the Lower Mainland Area was as greatly developed as it is
today.

3. Port Coquitlam subscribers cannot reach as many subscribers as
Vancouver subscribers can but are still charged 85¢ per month more at
present and the proposed difference is $1.00 more per month and that the
phone service is not as valuable to Port Coquitlam residents as Vancouver
residents, as Port Coquitlam residents cannot reach as many subscribers

toll free.

AND FURTHER THAT the Municipal Council of The Corporation of the

City of Port Coquitlam strongly oppeses the continued differential
between Vancouver subscribers, other subscribers in the Lower Mainland
Area and particularly, the penalizing of the City of Port Coquitlam
based on a 1962 policy of the Telephone Company and its regulatory
agency that is sadly in need of revision. Carried.

Prior to passage of the foregoing resolution, Alderman Laking
mentioned that last year the Greater Vancouver Regional District supported
a similar motion on equal rates for all the area within the Greater Vancouver
Regional District, and it was the intent at that time to approach the

B.C. Telephone Company thereon; however, he stated he did not know what

action had been taken in that regard, and members of Council generally