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TheReview Wednesday, May 16,1990 — A5

Packed hall of support for Couvelier

Saanich and The Islands MLA
and Finance Minister Mel Couvel-
ier was acclaimed as the Social
Credit candidate in the new Saa-
nich North and The Islands consti-
tuency Saturday by 265 voting
delegates cheering in Sanscha
Hall.

In his acceptance speech, Cou-
velier promised to “do my very
best to live up to your expecta-
tions.”

He criticized the oppositions
“weak-kneed’” attempt to discred-
it the government’s latest budget
and said “there's no way in the
world they can deny the govern-
ment reduced the deficit from nine
figures.”

“We are the only administration
in the world that has said we will
not spend the profits of privatiza-
tion,” Couvelier said.

He spoke about business-cycle
budgeting and expanded on money
the Social Credit government has
put aside in a ramy day fund.

Then Couvelier went on the
attack, inviting delegates to talk
about the NDP policy.

“There are a number of narrow-
issue candidates but it seems the
winner could be an ex-union lead-
er, Couvelier said. “It would be a
great pleasure to carry that debate
to the province.

“The intrusion into the free
marketplace is still their vision —
it’s a retread philosophy,” he said.
“There is no way the people of
this province will embrace this

Draft private

going ahead

Central Saanich council will
further consider a draft bylaw that
would restrict the height, length
and weight of vehicles parked on
private property Monday.

Sitting at the community ser-
vices and legislation committee,
council members wrestled with
how to determine the maximum
size of a vehicle that would be
allowed to park on private property
in a residential neighborhood.

The issue was recently brought
before the committee by a petition
signed by a number of residents of
Skyline Crescent who objected to
the parking of a large gravel truck
on their street.

The owner of the truck,Phyllis
Cullis, presented the committee
Monday with a counter-petition
with 181 names arguing that truc-
kers should be allowed to park
commercial vehicles in the drive-
ways of their own homes.

Ald. Ed Hernblad supported
Cullis’ argument, saying that
neighborhood residents should not
be allowed to discriminate against
other neighbors’ vehicles merely
because they consider them
unsightly.

“Tn my books there is no differ-
ence between a 26 to 28-foot truck
to a 26 to 28-foot motor home
parked in a private drive. This is
not Uplands. This is Central Saa-
nich,”*he said.

Ald. Wayne Watkins disagreed,
saying, “large dump trucks and
gravel trucks simply don’t belong
in a residential zone.”

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SAANICH AND THE ISLANDS MLA Mel Couvelier gestures
during his acceptance speech after an overwhelming
afternoon of support Saturday at Sanscha Hall. The
provincial Finance Ministers Social Credit party workers
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philosophical argument.”
Couvelier went on to attack
Clive Tanner, the Liberal party
candidate in Saanich North.
“Another party, I understand,
has the same retread candidate
we’ ve seen before,’ Couvelier
said. “I’m surprised they had to
regurgitate this candidate from the
Yukon.

“Ts that the best they could do?”

Couvelier said there is only one
party that has a vision toward the
future of economic prosperity in
the Pacific Rim.

He said he’s looking forward to
a trip that began Sunday to Eastern
cities and is “certain to carry the
fight to the feds on the GST.”

properly parking bylaw

Ald. Arlene Box said that she
respected the fact that commercial
vehicles do not pose a serious
threat to aesthetics of a neighbor-
hood but that she did not want to
see Central Saanich become a
“truckers’ heaven.”

Council voted 5-1 to bring the
bylaw before a public hearing and
to consider it further at the regular
council meeting on Monday. Hern-

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Another bylaw, to restrict the
parking of commercial vehicles on
public streets, was referred to
council for its first reading.

That bylaw refers to all commer-
cial vehicles over 5,000 kilograms,
prohibiting them from parking on
the street in residential neighbor-
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