http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0421828
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issued: 1987-06-11
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note: ■»■ COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED Toll-free dialling under study MURRAYVILLE - Deputy mayor, Aid. Len Fowler, says B.C. Tel "is conducting a new study" into the demands from Aldergrove for an expansion of the 856-telephone exchange. "Langley (municipality) has been asked to supply three people to that study," he told his fellow councilors here Monday night. Fowler suggested that he himself, Aid. Patrick Boyle, and Langley's new economic development commissioner be appointed to the panel. In the past, municipal council as a body has supported Aldergrove's petition for toll-free calling to exchanges in the Greater Vancouver area. More than 10 years ago, a public referendum was held on the issue and won majority support from telephone subscribers in the Aldergrove exchange. After some hesitation by B.C. Tel, company officials said that following discussions with commissioners from the CRTC in Ottawa they had decided not to fill the request because it would cost B.C. Tel "millions of dollars" annually in lost long distance revenue. The Aldergrove "lllegitimus non carborundum' VOL. 29 No. 23 THURSDAY, JUNE 11,1987 30 CENTS Established 1957 3089 - 272 Street, Aldergrove, B.C. Call 856-8303 or 856-5212 ALSO INSIDE: FALL FAIR PRIZE BOOKS. Accord or discord? By RUDY LANGMANN MURRAYVILLE - Referring to it as "the Meech Lake Discord," Aid. Aubrey Searle said Monday night that prime minister Brian Mulroney's crowning constitutional achievement could herald in "the beginning of the disembowelment of Canada." Other councilors seemed just as intense on the wording of the accord reached recently between Mulroney and Canada's 10 premiers. The accord, loudly criticized by former prime minister Pierre Tru- deau and other liberal politicians, was arrived at in order to draw Quebec into full membership in the Canadian constitution, something Trudeau failed to do during his years in office. Critics say it will transfer too much power from the federal government to the provinces. But it was not t…
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