Dear Editor:
I totally support the effort to amalgamate the North Shore into a single municipality, for no other reason than because it just makes sense.
In fact, the present situation - three separate municipalities on the North Shore - is just about the best proof you could find anywhere in the world that we have too much government.
But I'm worried the "solution" will be worse than the problem.
Government being government, they will probably come up with a "government solution," which is to add more government. A brand new shiny upper layer of government, to run the three puppet municipalities, rather than by eliminating the duplication and redundant departments that we currently have. We may end up with a sort of a Soviet North Shore Union, if you will.
I wish the united North Shore movement godspeed and good luck, but they should also remember the old saying: "Be careful what you wish for; you might get it."
Brock Bishop
North Vancouver
