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[" Transcontinental a anne Largest @ Showroom 2004 -04- o 5 PATTY (314) 725-5295 | Canadian Publication no 1375822 Vol.69, No.13 - Thursday, April 1* 2004 + (514) 484-5610 « 9,800 copies = DEMERGER IMPACT STUDIES EXPECTED IN APRIL Martin C.Barry here are \u201cstrong chances\u201d Quebec will table studies on the impact of municipal demergers during the month of April, paving the way towards demerger referendums as early as June, says a spokesman for the province's municipal affairs ministry.Stéphane Gosselin, an aide to Municipal Affairs Minister Jean-Marc Fournier, told the Examiner that he couldn\u2019t specify a date for the release of the MAKING ALL OF WESTMOUNT YOUR HOME them involved.According to Quebec's demerger legislation, the studies must all be made public at the same time.A total of 42 studies on the impact the demerger would have on former municipalities across the province\u2014including Westmount\u2014will be released.According to the terms of Bill 9, registers for residents to sigh requesting demerger referendums, would open within 30 days and stay open for five days.A referendum would take place in each municipality 30 days after the closing of the registers\u2014if 10 per cent of residents requested a referendum.\u201cDepending on the date when the studies will be made public, we will know if it is possible to have referendums in June,\u201d Gosselin said.\u201cIf this were not possible, it will be at the end of September.\u201d ORE Osu JB Former Westmount mayor Peter Trent, who has been working on alternate impact studies with a coalition of former municipalities across Quebec seeking demerger, speculated that the government\u2019s impact studies would probably be tabled between April 6 and 15.(continued on page 13) SRE Ga | : : 2 See details inside Page 2 - THE WESTMOUNT EXAMINER - Thursday, April 1, 2004 Beautiful flowers for Easter & Passover A happy holiday to all our customers and friends, from the Pickrell family and staff.Westmount Florist Ww 343 Lakeshore Road 360 Victoria 697-5858 u | æBlizzard (ANY FLAVOR, REGULAR price) Limited time offer.For a muted tune at participating Dairy Queen restaurants.$2003 AM.0.0 Corp.Mpis.MN.Pnce Valid on specified sizes only.See store for detasis.dai ryqueen.com 4890 SHERBROOKE ST.W.«© ® (Between Prince Albert & Victoria) 485-6583 VENDÔME SOMETHING DIFFERENT Library gets new computer hardware Some new computer hardware additions were recently installed at the Westmount Public Library's circulation desk\u2014two new flat screen computer monitors.The screens, according to a recent report compiled by the borough director's office, have created more counter space, less reflection and makes it easier for staff to serve patrons.Following up on patron complaints, disk drives on word processing stations, which were causing problems.were also changed and reformatted.The library was pleased with the recent donation of a painting created by Westmount resident and library member Susie Fairbrother.The unnamed work depicting the library will be given a title by children participating in a literacy program.The library was paid a visit in the last few months by a professor from the University of Vermont, who is conducting research on the differences between Vermont and Quebec public libraries.The library will be obtaining copies of his research paper when they become available.Biographies to be bought with library donations More than $5,000 raised by the Friends of the Library at their last book sale will be used to purchase biographies for Westmount Public Library's collection.The Friends, who are holding a book sale this Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m.to 4 p.m.at the library, are still accepting donations of any and all \u2018like new\u2019 quality books.All proceeds raised at Friends\u2019 book sales are used to purchase new bo and materials for the benefit of library patrons.Hear Ye! 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B - 5100 Sherbrooke St.W.(corner Grey) 488- 2266: Take your little ducklings on an Easter egg hunt EASTER BRUNCH A LA PROVENCALE Saturday and Sunday, April 10 and 11 2 sittings: 10 am.and 1 p.m.ADULT MENU: from $22.50 (including kit, appetizer, main course and dessert) LITTLE DUCKLINGS MENU (12 years and under): $12.50 (including appetizer.main course, provengale chocolate fondue and Easter egg hunt) Indoor parking available NT Y \u2014 petite tetrasse PROVENCE i es LOCAL NEWS CHEMICAL BARRELS FOUND DUMPED IN GLEN YARDS Martin C.Barry Westmounter casually walking in the Glen Yards has made a discovery that is raising questions about the environmental state of the McGill University Health Centre's future location.Like many Westmount residents, John Fretz of Lansdowne Avenue likes to take the family dog for a stroll across the former railway yard.Owned until recent years by Canadian Pacific, the Glen Yards site has been chosen by the MUHC for its projected mega-hospital campus.While approaching a cluster of trees on the yard\u2019s south-eastern side last week, he noticed, nestled in their midst, assortment of industrial containers 1ich appeared to have been dumped.The rusted steel and plastic drums\u2014 19 in all, according to Fretz\u2014were oozing a chemical which he could not identify Leaking onto the surrounding ground, the unknown substance formed an ankle-deep pool of oil.\u201cWho dumped this?\u201d he said, adding, however, that neither he nor environmental workers who later arrived found any readily identifiable markings on the barrels to indicate who the polluter might have been.But there were batch numbers, which he is attempting to have verified.According to Fretz, the drums were dumped in the woods about 75 feet from the road.\u201cThere was all this oil on the ground,\u201d he said.\"They were these rusty old barrels that look like they were going to break just by being picked up.They were scattered on two sites.There was oil on the ground at both, oil coming out from the barrels.They didn\u2019t even put a plastic sheet on the ground.They didn't take into account that these barrels cracked during winter and were seeping oil.\u201d Responding to an inquiry from Fretz, Bruce St.Louis, director of the Borough of Westmount, said in a letter; \u201cThere is no indication as to who dumped the barrels at this location, but the provincial environmental service has been advised.CN/CP police have been Update from defusionwestmount.com MY WESTMOUNT MY VILLAGE, MY HOME Barbara Moore estmount is the only place | would want to live.To understand this statement you need to know something about me.My family moved to Westmount in 1941 and except for 18 months in the late 1950s, I have lived here ever since.I learned to swim at the old Westmount Y and to skate on the outdoor rink in Prince Albert Park.I went to Westmount schools and was a student at Westmount Senior High School when it was in the building which Selwyn House occupies today.1 brought up my four children here and the youngest, Geoffrey, will soon be moving back to Westmount with his family.By population Westmount is a small city, but in terms of size and ease of getting around it is, for me, like a village\u2014but what a village! In what other \u2018village\u2019 in Canada can you ind such a variety of ethnic back- rounds, occupations, incomes and Interests?While the home language of almost 90 per cent of the population is either English or French, there are also 22 other world languages represented here.Where else can you meet people from all over the world without ever leaving home?It is an endless fascination for me.Our \u2018village\u2019 breeds a sense of community not easy to find in larger, more impersonal communities.During the time my children were in school I was involved first in Home # o* ES AR ; 40336919 + Westinouat Squere, suife 164 http://www.royallepage.ca westmount1@royallepage.ca & School, then in the school committee at Westmount High School, and only after that, in the Westmount Municipal Association.| attended council meetings with my husband, Herb, in the days when the most pressing issues seemed to be \u2018picking up\u2019 after dogs and the traffic on Cote St.Antoine Road (later closed at its eastern extremity).At one point I met Sally Aitken, who invited me to a meeting early in 1991 to discuss Westmount\u2019s involvement in the Healthy City Project, part of a worldwide movement under the umbrella of the World Health Organization and known in Quebec as Villes et Villages en Santé.At that meeting Sally outlined a number of projects that needed researching in Westmount, one of which was to establish a local directory of facilities available to the disabled.No one volunteered to take on any of the projects and I made the mistake of speaking to Sally after the meeting, saying that putting together the directory would be easy.She then asked me \u201chow about you doing it?\u201d My plan involved contacting Dawson College in the hopes of using students to do the detailed work as a \u2018stage\u2019 and, by following criteria which I would establish, visit public buildings, stores and restaurants to determine which could be listed.I also needed a teacher from Dawson to oversee their work, after which I would put together the finished product.What 1 hadn\u2019t counted on was that the students\u2019 knowledge of Westmount was how to get from the metro station to the old Selby Street campus and the REALTOR advised.\u201d A cleanup team from Onyx Industries\u2014an environmental contractor which specializes in the removal of hazardous waste\u2014arrived last Friday.\u201cThey picked up all the barrels, they sealed them\u2014because many of them were opened-\u2014and numbered them all,\u201d said Fretz, who was on the scene.According to Fretz, an environmental department employee estimated the cost to dispose of the containers at $2,500 each if they have PCBs in them, and $500 each if the contents are only hydrocarbon oil.In addition, he added, a representative of the Corporation d'Hébergement du Québec, which now owns the Glen Yards after it acquired the site on behalf of the MUHC some years back, said two tons of soil would have to be removed.Since Quebec environmental law stipulates that current owners are held responsible for paying the cost of cleaning up a contaminated property regardless of whether they polluted it or not.Fretz said, \u201cyou and I as taxpayers are going to pay for this,\u201d because the Glen Yards site now belongs to the provincial government.While acknowledging that a railway yard which was in use for atound a cen- fury is bound to be thoroughly contaminated, Fretz remains convinced, without naming anyone, that somebody took advantage of the situation to dump contaminants.\u201cWhoever dumped this stuff was thinking \u2018this area is contaminated, it\u2019s going to be decontaminated, I can save myself fifty to a hundred thousand by just dumping these barrels,\u201d he said.Although Canadian Pacific no longer owns the Glen Yards, Michel Spénard, a spokesman for CP's Montreal office, said the company still leases a small portion of the site to carry on some operations for the Agence Métropolitaine de Transport\u2019s commuter rail service.Spénard made it clear that CP had nothing to do with the dumped barrels.\u201cOf course we wouldn't do that,\u201d he said.\u201cWe're a lot more responsible than to dump barrels of oil.\u201d Barbara Moore teacher-supervisor\u2019s idea of his role was to have the students bring the finished product to his office.I immedi: ately became more involved than I had ever intended and have been involved with Westmount\u2019s Healthy City project ever since.For two short years, until our forced merger into \u201cla grande ville\u201d, I was also a Westmount city councillor for Ward 4 and commissioner of Protective Services.These responsibilities gave me an opportunity to see firsthand the workings of this small city of 20,000\u2014my \u2018village.\u2019 I saw the interest the city employees took in their work and the responsible way in which the tax dollars were being spent.When a city is as small as Westmount was, it is much easier for citizens to communicate with their elected representatives and with the city departments that serve them.The attitude was always how best to meet the needs of the people here, not how to push everyone into a \u2018norm\u2019 aimed at 1.8 million people but which, in actual fact, hardly meets the needs of anyone.I support demerger so that once again Westmount can IN WESTMOUNT ACCORDING TO G.M.R.B.STATISTICS 8 ROYALLEPAGE 4 AIAN HERITAGE Courtier immobilier agréé Franchise indépendante et autonome de Royal LePage respond to local needs.We have in the past, and will continue, to pay our share of services common to all: police, fire protection and public transportation.I look forward to the day when employees of a restored City of Westmount will be able to use their energies to serve our local citizenry rather filling in forms which will end up in a study on a shelf in downtown Montreal, and ! look forward to an improved sports complex, which was next on the agenda when we were forced to merge.| look forward to stabilized property taxes, to improved local services and restored control over local issues.We have only one opportunity to demerge from la grande ville; the chance is here, the time is now.1 will do my part by volunteering in whatever way | am needed, by signing the register asking for a referendum, by voting in the referendum and by persuading friends and neighbours to do likewise.Call the Défusion Westmount office at 931-0885 to find out how you can help.- Barbara Moore served as a Westmount city councillor from 1999 to 2001.She is still active in the Westmount Healthy City Project and is chair of the Westmount Public Library Committee.In 1998 she wus awarded Québec's Mérite Municipale and in 2002 the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal, both for community service.Also featured this week on www.defusionwestmount.com + Mu Westmount: La série d'articles en français.« Bill 9 procedure explained: A step- by-step demerger timetable.\u20ac 3bey - +007 \"1 dy Kepsinuy - YININYXT 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good program that teaches the children to be aware of conflict and how not to get into it.\u201d The Peace by Peace program culminates at the end of the university school year with a peace festival.This year Montreal will host the first ever bilingual Peace Festival on April 8 from 9:30 a.m.to 2:30 p.m.at Just for Laughs, 2101 St.Laurent Boul.932-1444 WESTMOUNT - 37 BARAT RD.| One of the best loca- I tions in front of the park on Barat Rd.| Classy, A yvely, A 2-1/2 baths'g@v eplaces, finished basement, gar- | den, 1 garage $799,000 40224380 COLLINS CLARKE FUNERAL HOME 5610 Sherbrooke St.W., Montreal | 483-1870 FUNERAL DIRECTORS John B.Fraser - Manager | Pre-arranged funeral information available upon request MACGILLIVRAY WHITE 40203302 @S/he 8C0® A cream like Botox 1361 Greer 50% Off First Treatment Grade 5 students and their parents are welcome to join in the festivities.Hart exhibits a decade of images Westmount artist Caroline Hart used over 10 years worth of imagery to create her exhibition \u2018Les Barricades Mysterieuses\u2019, now showing at the Eric Devlin Gallery at 1407 St.Alexandre, Hart, who teaches painting at the Visual Arts Centre, says that oil monotype is one of the media she uses.\u201cThey are not all winners though,\u201d she says.Hart has saved all the images, however, and was recently inspired to tear the best of them into pieces and reformat onl into intriguing collages th gave the work a completely different feel.The result is the exhibition of 12 collages.Hart\u2019s exhibition continues at the gallery until April 10.Phone the gallery at 866-6272 for information.(continued on page 5) Freee 24 For more information call S/be & Co.932-1444 Westmount 40224354 PERMANENT Las SUEN LAS e Painless (limited time offer) Call to reserve Lisa Donna 830-2880 816-8046 2 LOCATIONS Carina Coiffure, 7016 Cate St-Luc Road, CS.L.Lure Ï 3 2 = Page 4 - THE WESTMOUNT EXAMINER - Thursday, April 1, 2004 al la Closerse elivery starting now ! 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even unfair weapons: honesty, courage, and plain speaking.This was perhaps not as difficult for him as it might have been because, unlike so many other politicians, Paul Martin isn\u2019t a lawyer.True, he hasn\u2019t succeeded in slaying the beast, but that\u2019s because it has turned out to be a Hydra rather than a dragon.Also, he has had \u201chelp\u201d from Alfonso Gagliano and Myriam Bedard.Not all the loonies are on the money.Alfonso Gagliano is not a leader.He has adopted the \u2018reverse-Nuremburg\u2019 defence: \u201cI was just giving orders!\u201d He should know that although crap flows downhill, fish rots from the head.His behaviour contrasts vividly with Mr.Martin's.Mr.Martin appears to be ready to shoulder the responsibility for almost anything and everything.After he confessed to being a Bowser and Blue fan, the rest was easy.The NHL needs leadership.You can\u2019t blame the players if the game seems to be polluted by out-of-control emotions.It\u2019s a very intense sport, but not more intense than boxing, or wrestling, which aren't supposed to be a part of it.NHL hockey players are latter-day knights in armour who in an ideal world would embody the masculine ideals of strength, skill, loyalty and perseverance.But active boys need leaders or they run amok.The game of hockey has fallen victim to a lack of leadership, and players like Todd Bertuzzi have been overwhelmed by a kind of ice rage, with potentially tragic results.This is an era when the best of the old masculine code must be reabsorbed in a new, inclusive code of conduct that both genders can embrace.How do you say to a man that it\u2019s \u201cokay\u201d to report a colleague's misconduct, to be a whistle- blower, and that it\u2019s \u201cnot okay\u201d to leap to the defence of another who has been, or is being, attacked?Well, you could offer Daniele Sauvageau as an example.She it was who coached the women\u2019s hockey team to gold in the 2002 Olympics.That was leadership.Grace under pressure.The other team was against her, the referees were against her, the crowd was against her, and still she kept a cool head.Even Don Cherry remarked in his confused fashion that in Ms.Sauvageau\u2019s case \u201ca woman was the best man for the job.\u201d It\u2019s probably not a coincidence that Ms.Sauvageau is a trained police officer.If police officers cannot master their emotions, they simply can\u2019t be effective.It\u2019s more dramatic on a physical level, but politicians face similar, if non-phys- ical attacks, all the time.Verbal abuse, innuendo, smears, insults\u2014and that\u2019s just question period.The price of leadership is that you don't get to be everybody\u2019s buddy.In fact, some people won't like you at all.It\u2019s lonely at the top.Paul Martin may find himself going down with the sponsorship, but that\u2019s what happens to captains.George Bowser « George Bowser is one half of the musical comedy duo Bowser & Blue.Goov NEWS ,SIR.SEEMS OUR WESTMOUNT Focus FoulD YouR OR\\GINAL PRoPoSAL Would Do THE TRICK.JUST HAVE A BALLOT WITH \u2018YES\u2019 AND \u2018NOC BOXES.LET THEM CHOOSE, AND, A WEEK.LATER WE TELL THEM WHAT THE REFERENDUM QUESTION 7-4 Letters to the editor Chagnon stays quiet on demerger issue To the editor: The referendum rules for demerger, as presented by our provincial government, rigs the free democratic process in a manner that could be in tune with many banana republics or other third-world dictatorships.In a March 18 letter to the Examiner, a question was posed to our MNA, Jacques Chagnon: \u201cWill you publicly.condemn the unfair process openly?\u201d In his Examiner column of March 25, Mr.Chagnon talks about writing his column personally and his thoughts on the late Claude Ryan\u2014but absolutely nothing about the demerger.His constituents deserve a reply and commitment.Stanley Grossman De Maisonneuve Boulevard Anti-semitism is no joke To the editor: I would like to comment on George Bowser\u2019s March 18 column regarding the movie The Passion of the Christ.I write as a Canadian-born Jew, neither paranoid about anti-semitism nor blind to its implications.Jewish sensitivity to what we often perceive as anti-semitism is sometimes compared to Italian sensitivity to-emphasis on the Italian Mafia, or even to Scottish sensitivity to jokes about Scottish parsimoniousness\u2014 not to mention poor Newfoundlanders being the butt of \u2018stupid\u2019 jokes.There is, however, a huge difference between our sensitivity and that of others.To my knowledge, throughout history only the Jews have been denied citizenship, denied the right to own land and denied access to many jobs, simply because they were Jews\u2014culminating in the \u2018Final Solution\u2019 of the Nazis.Although the Nazis did not play the \u2018Christ-killer\u2019 card, it always resonated with the masses, justifying any action, including total murder of all Jews, because of the \u2018blood libel\u2019 charge of the officigy church, 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est interdite sans la permission ecrite de l'éditeur.Responsabilité de l'éditeur en matière de réclame l'éditeur ne peut être tenu responsable des changements mineurs Du des erreurs typographiques qui n'affectent pas la valeur d'une réclame.En ce qui conceme les autres erreurs, 2 responsabilité se limite strictement à La publication de l'annonce dans une édition subséquente où Je remboursement des frars de publication.ranscontinental vr Prism (from the examiner archives) One Year Ago April 3, 2003 BYLAW SUPPORT: \u201cA proposed City of Montreal bylaw to control the use of pesticides across the island has gained the support of some Westmounters who say it compares favourably with legislation originally in place here.Westmount's existing bylaw and the new city-wide one are \u2018not that far off\u2019 from one another, although \u2018there are some differences,\u2019 id borough councillor John de tell, who said he was surprised the Centre City would get around to a piece of pesticides legislation so soon.\u2018A pesticide bylaw in its draft state so early in the game, frankly, only a year after merger, is something that could have been shelved for a lot longer than that and probably would have been had some people had their way,\u201d he said.The difference between the two bylaws lies in the degree of precision of their definitions.The definition of \u2018extreme infestation\u2019 by pests or weeds is similar in both, said de Castell, although the Westmount bylaw is more specific in defining it as being 40 per cent of an entire lawn surface, or 60 per cent of an entire surface with a weed density of 25 per cent.\u201d Five Years Ago April 1, 1999 GUBBAY\u2019S BESTSELLER: \u201cA View of Their Own: The Story of Westmount\u2019, by Westmount Historical Association president and Examiner columnist Aline Gubbay, is currently number 10 on the Gazette's non-fiction bestseller list.Nobody was more surprised than Gubbay herself when she heard the news last week.\u2018I really think it\u2019s a fluke,\u2019 she said after receiving calls from several friends who noticed her book listed in last Saturday\u2019s Gazette book section.\u2018I'm sure it will be off the list next week.\u201d Fifty-Five Years Ago March 27, 1949 PYRO PRANKSTER: \u201cWestmount and Montreal firemen would like to get their hoses on the impractical joker who phones in false alarms during the 5 p.m.traffic rush.The Westmount Fire Department received an anonymous phone call reporting a fire on water Avenue.When fire trucks rived they found that the number didn\u2019t exist.Fire Chief Harper calls the joker \u2018a threat to pedestrians and traffic alike,\u2019 as there is the possibility of injury to the public, to firemen, and vehicles in congested traffic.\u201d Sixty-Five Years Ago March 30 1939 FOSSIL FUN: \u201cThe Fossil Frolics of 1939, staged March 17 and 18 in Victoria Hall by the Fossils Club of Westmount, proved again that this organization knows exactly what west- end audiences want\u2014and how to give it to them.John Rice in his characterization of Hitler was magnificent; his speech in \u2018German\u2019\u2014with just enough English words thrown in to make it understandable\u2014was the highlight of the production.He also played the part of Mayor Camilien Houde, the role which was so popular last year.Cam Grant shone as usual, first in the part of an unsuspecting tourist who spends his life in a Montreal jail for spitting on the floor of a streetcar.\u201d Scandal, Chrétien still haunting Martin Tommy Schnurmacher about the sponsorship scandal, Canadians are about to be inundated with the fallout of Auditor- General Sheila Fraser's detailed peek at the cavalier way the Liberals hoovered through $7.7 billion of spending on post 9/11 security.Former prime minister Jean Chrétien would never have allowed it to get to this.He would have insisted that the Solicitor-General stick to the facts and leave the sermons to others.Chrétien would probably have thrown in a quip and a shrug, and promptly changed the subject to his popular anti-Bush position on the war with Iraq.Alfonso Gagliano would still be in Copenhagen and we would have been spared the wit and wisdom of Myriam Bedard.Had Chrétien stayed, the Liberals would be well on their way to a fourth consecutive landslide majority.But Martin is a different kettle of fish.Instead of circling the wagons, he has set his sights on the Chrétien wing I t's far from over.Already furious of the party.The man is the prime minister.He\u2019s got the gig, yet he still keeps fighting the battle he has already won.Martin has been touted as a man of ideas.True enough.Too bad most of those ideas have consisted primarily of an endless series of ploys and stratagems devoted to undermining Chrétien at every turn and ousting him as party leader.Martin's impressive backroom machinations were ruthless and thorough, yet it still took him a nearly a decade to turn most of the Liberal Party and the majority of Canadians against Chrétien.Martin insists he\u2019s very mad at what has happened.He\u2019s mad all right.Mad that he has been denied an easy landslide.Privately, he lays the blame at the feet of the former prime minister.Pundits have often remarked on the rivalry between the two men, but this goes way beyond political rivalry.This is an epic hatred so deep-seated that the two men could not bring themselves to so much as nod at one another at the Ottawa funeral of long-serv- ing Liberal stalwart Mitchell Sharp.Chrétien never thought much of Stephen Harper in the past.But you can bet a Shawiningan water fountain that he\u2019ll be quietly rooting for the Conservative leader during the inevitable TV debate that will be part of the upcoming election campaign.If Martin starts to crow about how well he balanced the budget, Harper will undoubtedly ask him if that balancing act included the $500 million Liberal \u2018national unity\u2019 slush fund.While Martin will sputter and stutter about his many inquiries, Harper might loosen up and whip out his Brian Mulroney impression that is supposed to be impeccably accurate.Just like Mulroney pointed a finger at John Turner and said, \u201cYou had a choice, sir\u201d during the Mulroney- Turner debate, Harper might use precisely the same line on Martin.Not only would it prove devastatingly effective, but it might finally demonstrate that Harper does indeed have a sense of humor.And a sharp one at that.Harper is a generation younger than Paul Martin and despite Liberal attacks to the contrary, the new Conservative Party is more youthful and ethnically diverse than are the Liberals.While there are many differences between Stephen Harper and Paul Martin, there is one profound one that might make all the difference.Harper has succeeded in uniting the Conservative Party.Martin has spent the past decade tearing his party apart.- Tommy Schnurmacher is heard weekdays 9 a.m.to noon on CJAD 800 Radio.His e-mail address is tommystotal.net.This Model T is running on empty promises! érald Tremblay's decentral- G ization plan, the famous Model T, is running on empty promises! Independence for the boroughs was the claim.Plus mini-mayors! No need to demerge! But his words on the megacity are as phony as a used car dealer putting chrome hubs on an old banger.Tremblay-style home-rule is a shallow myth, as he has twice demonstrated already.First, St.Leonard councillors voted themselves major salary increases.They were quickly asked to back off until downtown could devise a policy for everyone.So much for autonomy in the boroughs.Then Mount Royal decided it would use a little of its pre-annexation surplus to fund the local demerger efforts.This time the megacity brought out its heavy artillery and ordered the borough's staff not to pay.So much for the touted local control over managing money and employees! \u201cThe ink\u2019s not dry on the decentralization law and Tremblay is overruling local control,\u201d pointed out Kell Warshaw of DémocraCité.Meantime, the mega-mayor must be growing desperate.More than $2 million of taxpayer's funds are set aside to promote \u201cthe new city.\u201d An example is the dull advertisements about the megacity charter in local papers this week (including the Examiner).To avoid being classed as political statements the advertisements have diminished salesmanship.They read like the work of lawyers, not pitch men.Their cool talk of guaranteed autonomy has already been shown to be false.Model T boroughs can be autonomous, but only when the megacity controls the brakes! Chagnon should help Charest explain Jacques Chagnon\u2014ruefully and in his laid-back, polite way\u2014said on TV last month: politicians are not regarded very highly these days.So true.Our MNA was speaking as Minister of Public Security, but it also applies somewhat to his role as our Quebec City representative.The preeminent local issue is undoing the forced mergers.Jean Charest owes us an explanation of how he went from promising to undo them to supporting the megacity Regretfully, he probably no longer cares that politicians are \u201cnot highly regarded.\u201d But Chagnon, as he was part of the process, might try to explain instead.He makes notable efforts to account to constituents through his personal articles in this newspaper.We should be grateful that despite his ministerial duties, Chagnon perseveres with his columns.They contrast so clearly with the mostly machine output from his federal colleague.Claccia gets it wrong?The mega-mayor has a supporter on Beaconsfield borough council and now John Ciaccia has come out of retirement to \u201chelp.\u201d His initial effort at invoking the outdated language issue may be dubious help.It conflicted with a poll of Gatineau for Radio Canada and the daily Le Droit.This showed that citizens of four of the six former cities that make up \u201cmega\u201d Gatineau want out, including Hull, which is hardly an anglo fortress! Fateful month for referendums The fate of the referendum in some boroughs could be determined by the end of the month when the mega- city\u2019s electoral list will have been corrected\u2014or not\u2014by the boroughs\u2019 revision staffs.In some places, the \u2018dead\u2019 names\u2014 absent people who are listed inaccurately and therefore regarded as pro- megacity even if they do not vote\u2014 could decide the future of their former city.The list of residential voters is based on Medicare registers, which are habitually only updated every four years, when a card is renewed.It especially applies to itinerant tenants.Westmount houses many of them, particularly students, in its 99 apartment buildings.(Dorval is another borough affected, with about 40 per cent of its population living in apartments, most of them completely uninvolved in their locality.) Unlikely to vote, they will automatically inflate the count in favour of the megacity.These are people who are difficult to reach and a great challenge to the < volunteers working to make sure that the 35 per cent referendum threshold = is met.While the megacity sits on the basic list for four weeks, the revisors g have only one week from April 13 to ! make local corrections.YININYXI LNNOWLSIM IHL .epsiny | v > , (continued on page 9) y Page 8 - THE WESTMOUNT EXAMINER - Thursday, April 1, 2004 Budget 2004: Investing in small businesses and entrepreneurship he 2004 Budget was I announced early last week and the media have spent an important amount of time conveying to you, the citizen, the main headlines.I would rather take this opportunity to highlight some measures that were not so much publicized in the past week, but that are nevertheless excel- Lucienne Robillard lent news for all the entrepreneurs of Westmount.Furthermore, I rejoice in these measures, as they stimulate me to pursue the mandate given to me by the Prime Minister, as Minister of Industry and as Minister responsible for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the regions of Quebec.Over the past seven years we have dramatically increased federal support for research, especially at universities, colleges and research hospitals, by some $13 billion, which have benefited DOLLHOUSE & MINIATURE SHOW & SALE MINIATURE ENTHUSIASTS OF MONTREAL 24™ ANNIVERSARY ARTISANS AND DEALERS NEW LOCATION Holiday Inn Airport 6500 Côte de Liesse St.Laurent, Montreal, Quebec Saturday, April 3, 2004 (11:00 am to 6:00 pm) Sunday, April 4, 2004 (10:00 am to 5:00 pm) RATES $7.00 Adults $5.00 Senior Citizens (65 plus) $5.00 Children under 12 accompanied by an adult 40225135 » Asphalt * Uni-Stone Les Pavages Spinelli inc.Serving Westmount for over 10 years 7 29% * Cement Work * General Work Free Estimates Carlo : 327-6462 / 494-4981 40224385 Why UFile?* By Canadians for Canadians » UFile's MaxBack refund analyzer saves you money! 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+007 \u20181 dy \u201cCepsinus - YININVXZ LNNONLSIAN 3HL Page 10 - THE WESTMOUNT EXAMINER - Thursday, April 1, 2004 The new city of Montréal charter The new city of Montréal charter gives boroughs more management flexibility to reflect their specific character.The borough mayor, who is elected by popular vote, and the borough council: * Manage and maintain parks and cultural, sports and recreation facilities.* Plan and maintain the local road network, and are in charge of snow removal.* Are responsible for solid waste collection and recycling pick-up.* Support organizations involved in community, social, cultural and economic development activities.* Manage personnel (hiring, firing, etc.).May create departments and appoint directors.* Negotiate certain aspects of collective agreements.* May go to court on matters under their jurisdiction.* Prepare their budget.* Manage revenue and expenditure.* Establish their capital works program.: * May set up a working capital fund, adopt certain loan by-laws with the approval of citizens, and impose certain taxes.© «Have jurisdiction in local matters, including nuisance control and use of pesticides.0 Keep any huge surplus.; The new city o of Montréal charter: Keeping services closer to residents.Montréal &3 Ce abn ea dE FO eme A i= EL YMCA lectures aim to inspire better living If you're out of shape, having trouble exercising and looking for inspiration, then you're invited to the Westmount YMCA's upcoming lecture on healthy living and humour hosted by local comic George Bowser.The lecture, entitled \u2018Chuckle Your Way to a Chiseled Physique, or Which One is My Dumbbell?\u201d\u2019, will be held on April 8 at the Westmount YMCA, 4585 Sherbrooke St.W, at 7 p.m.Bowser, one half of the musical comedy duo Bowser & Blue, will emphasize the importance of good humour and laugher in addition to exercise as an important ingredient for a long, healthy and happy life.\u201cIt\u2019s great to have someone like George to launch the series,\u201d said Gary White, executive director of the Westmount Y.\u201cHe\u2019s been a member of our Y off and on for years and he also plays hockey and cross-country skis.He'll be talking to us about humour as an antidote to stress, which he identifies as the enemy of good health.\u201d The Westmount Y lecture series is a community outreach program providing the public with an opportunity to attend a variety of lectures relating to various topics of interest.\u201cWe're really excited about this year\u2019s lecture series\u2014we felt it is part of our role as a community service organization to inspire, motivate and educate, and the speakers we have lined up this year are perfectly suited for this goal,\u201d said White.ave?help others.The Rotary Club of Westmount will again hold its giant Garage Sale and Auction in the spring.We are ready to pickup saleable household or office articles.We need useful, quality and working items: furniture, antiques, paintings, lamps, housewares, toys, books, etc.100% of the funds raised will be used on community, national and international projects.as we have been doing for over 70 years.You can help The Rotary Club of Westmount For local pickups call 935-3344 or e-mail info@rotarywestmount.org a Co) FIETH FLOOR Sainte-Catherine |.atdela Montagne Other speakers scheduled for later lectures are Toni Cochand, former director of the Westmount Y and current director of Le Bon Dieu Dans la Rue, on May 27, and Fr.Ernie Schibli, member of the Social Justice Committee and recipient of a YMCA Peace Medal for his work in developing countries, who will lecture on June 17.(continued on page 12) AQUATALIA = MARVIN K, MADE IN ITALY WOMEN\u2019S SAMPLE SHOE SALE Sizes 6 - 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Call for more details AE 4839 Sherbraoke West, Westmount (continued from page 11) \u201cHaving Toni Cochand as our second lecturer is a bit of a homecoming situation,\u201d said White.\u201cToni was the director of our YMCA for a number of years.\u201d White believes Cochand\u2019s previous experience of working with youth at the YMCA and her current position at Le Bon Dieu Dans la Rue have given her valuable insight into youth today.Her lecture, \u2018Youth at Risk: The View from Both Sides,\u201d hopes to shed light on the subject.\u201cThe YMCAs engage young people and families in activities that promote nformation: Yves Fleurent © sc Tel.: (514) 342-9342 #5365- y Fax: (514) 342-3881 : g e-mail : yfleurent@brebeuf.qc.ca ,Public Information and Consultation Meeting ly JNA Creation of 12 Health and Social Services Centres in Montreal health, exercise, respect, sharing and responsibility, while her recent work with Le Bon Dieu Dans La Rue has her working with young people who have made conscious choices to live on their own in the streets instead of in the supposed comfort of a supposedly supportive home with a so-called family,\u201d said White.Schibli\u2019s lecture, entitled \u2018Drop the Debt,\u201d will examine the impact of debt upon third world countries, and the recent movement to encourage G7 members to absolve these countries of their debt.\u201cWe're really proud to invite Ernie to our Y to speak,\u201d said White.Those interested in attending these free lectures are asked to RSVP in advance by calling 931-8046.NASD IL «@ (individuel) @» Réalisez votre désir d'écrire votre histoire, vos rêves, vos souvenirs ou une fiction.J.Martin m.5025, Sherbrooke Ouest bureau #333 Westmount Montreal will soon be undergoing a reorganization of its health and social services for the purpose of bringing the services closer to the population and improving access.The changes are also aimed at making it easier for people to make their way through the health and social services network.To that end, the Agence de développement de réseaux locaux de services de santé et de services sociaux is proposing the creation of 12 health and social services centres in Montreal.Each centre is to include the CLSCs, residential and long-term care centres and, if applicable, the community hospital, that are located on its territory.In your neighbourhood, this means the creation of two health and social services Grâce / Montréal-Ouest, the CLSC René-Cassin, the Grace Dart Extended Care Centre, the Maimonides Geriatric Hospital, the Mount Sinai Hospital, the Richardson Hospital Centre and the Salvation Army Catherine Booth Hospital.The second health and social services centre would include the CLSC Côte-des- Neiges, the CLSC Métro, the CLSC Parc Extension, the CHSLD juif de Montréal, the Centre d'accueil Father Dowd, the Centre d'accueil St-Margaret, the Centre d'accueil des Foyers prssbytériens de St-Andrew, the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal, the Lindsay Rehabilitation Hospital and the St.Mary's Hospital Centre.Hypothesis 2 The first health and social services centre would include the CLSC Notre-Dame-de- Grâce / Montréal-Ouest, the CLSC Métro, the Centre d'accueil Father Dowd, the Centre d'accueil St-Margaret, the Centre d'accueil des Foyers presbytériens de St-Andrew, the Grace Dart Extended Care Centre, the Richardson Hospital Centre and the Salvation Army Catherine Booth Hospital.- The second health and social services centre would include the CLSC Côte-des- { Neiges, the CLSC René-Cassin, the CLSC Parc Extension, the CHSLD juif de Montréal, the Lindsay Rehabilitation Hospital, the Maimonides Geriatric Hospital, the Mount Sinai Hospital, the Institut universitaire de gériatne de Montréal and the St.Mary's Hospital Centre.The Agence is inviting Montrealers to attend a public information and consultation meeting in order to explain the plan and seek the opinions of the city\u2019s residents on: « the proposed territorial boundaries; * and the composition of the health and social services centres.L Consultation paper Registration for public meeting People who are interested in participating in this meeting are requested to register in advance with the réseaux locaux de services de santé et de services sociaux de Montréal: (514) 286-6500, ext.5223.For residents of the CLSC Parc Extension.CLSC Côte-des-Neiges, CLSC René-Cassin, CLSC NDG / Montréal-Ouest and centres.The Agency proposes two hypotheses.CLSC Métro territories: Hypothesis 1 Wednesda The first health and social services centre would include the CLSC Notre-Dame-de- y.April 7 7 p.m.to 10 p.m.Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Church Marie-des-Neiges Room 5320 Cote-des-Neiges [© Cote-des-Neiges metro A consultation paper on the proposed changes is available on the Web site of the Agence at www.santemontreal.qc.ca Parc Extension Agence de développement de CO Agence de développement de réseaux locaux de services de santé et de services sociaux \u2018 se Québec Bm 260028 WE ET el TS Sane AAS\u201d RB ri 5e «d bE vd OY et AN NAS Ane oO a ir