; TERRACE. ~ ~ Anti-poverty

warrior Gus Long's answering _

machine greets you with the
" question: “"Did you know that

the original torles: were a band~

of Irish outlaws?: .

And that. is-about as close ag,

she gets to complimenting: the
government —, especially its
’ welfare system which’ she wants

to. “blow out of the water.""." -
“ “(Never - believe’ anything’

social services tell you because

they’re going to lie to you," was |.

her advice to welfare recipients
at a workshop on welfare Tights

_ in Terrace July 3.
. That advice is important, says
Long, because the social’ ser-

vices ministry. doesn’t -have
enough employees to give out
information and. changes. its,

policies every ‘week.

“They . aren’t interested in

rights and wrongs and people,”’

she told the around 20 people at -
the workshop. “They are in- .

terested. in rules, and regula-

we

Measures

- afoot to.
- prevent —

~ bear parts.
- trading ©

TERRACE — New provincial
regulations have been approved
to discourage bear-poaching for
the commercial trade in bear
parts.

Bear parts and organs —
usually gall bladders, paws,
claws and teeth — fetch high
prices in Asia, where they are
used as aphrodisiacs.

. Conservation officers say
although the problem isn't as
severe as in the western U.S,
States, bears are poached in
B.C. for their parts.

Al Breitkruetz, the. nor-
thwest’s senior conservation of-
ficer, said last week - environ-
ment ministry officials have lit-
tle way of knowing how heavy
the northwest trade in bear
parts is. Most poachers are
adept at hiding the evidence, he
added, predicting conservation
officers never find most of the
carcasses,

* But he said bear population -

levels don’t signal any large

decreases as a_ result of:

' poaching.

The new regulations will Te-
quire anyone killing a bear to
take either the hide or at least a
quarter of the meat to their
home, to a taxidermist-or to a
fur trader. They also-make it il-
legal to traffic in bear parts
without a fur trader’s licence or
a special permit from the en-
vironment ministry.

In the past it has been dif-

ficult for wildlife officers to:

trace the sale of bear parts.

bely her stature.

community

tions and units.”
A small woman, Long's hefty
handshake and excess of energy

political stature also contradicts

_ her. casual - T-shirt . and jeans.

because for more than: 15 years

she has been the main force.
behind: the Federated Anti--

Poverty “Groups” of. B.C, an

umbrella organization _ for 41°
anti- “poverty.

- ‘harder for poor people and that,
An: acknowledged expert on

groups.

poverty in B,C., she sat on ana-
tional council,on welfare for six

years, and has a library of.
reference books and studies on.

poverty in her Burnaby: home.
Her poverty fight is con-

ducted ‘on ‘paper and in the

courts, mot- through public

‘demonstrations~ although she

does remember being here

_ several. years. ago when she car-
-ried a sign thanking Safeway for

donating to the food bank:

| Longs _ who was a single

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. Her’ poverty’: fight’ is
conducted on paper
and. in: the courts, not
through.’ --public -
demonstrations:

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mother’ on: -~welfate with ‘1Wo
young - children in: the: early
1970's, says itis: becoming

their number is-increasing. .
Her solution: to ‘poverty. is

written on-her. business card. It

has a picture-of her daughter on

her third. birthday. on ity: and

says, ‘Poverty’ is‘ Preventable:
Support ‘a Guaranteed Ade-
quate Income.”*: °°.

: An-adequate- income. ib im-
portant as current welfare'rates
bring only ‘drawn-out. starva-
tion that create hungry children

and: people living. “on the:

streets.)
The poor have an infant mor-

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poor; they commit suicide twice.
as often and die twice as often,
she says.

Hf all forms of social,
assistance cme in one common
cheque format, those on
welfare, particularly in smail
towns, couldn't’ be identified.
and so be open to discrimina-
tion, she said. :

Long added- that landlords
can legally discriminate against

’ a welfare recipient.
Noting that. 50 per cent of |

people on welfare are single
parents and 36 per cent

children, Long says, “People -

think that “if you’ re getting
welfare — you know those
bums on park benches — you're
lazy or weak, and that's simply
not the case.’? ..

The one in ‘six ‘Canadian
children living i in poverty suffer

.the -most’ from inadequate.

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“Long says one of the biggest
suiccesses of the past decade is

‘the recognition that child pover-

ty. and hunger i isa reality i in B.C.
. «Long is also involved in a

lawsuit ‘against the Provincial ,

family maintenance enforce-
ment program, She says it
violates the charter of rights by
discriminating against single
parents in making them sign
away: their rights to enforce
their payments as a condition of
getting welfare.

Long spoke in Terrace as part

of a tour sponsored by the Law ©

Foundation of B.C, She'll be
back in-September to give more

workshops,

When asked if she ever get

tired, Long, who also helped

establish the Vancouver Food.
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Gus Long

of the lower mainland’s United —
Way, said she quits at least once

a-year when she gets discourag- - —

ed that no one cares about the

poor,

‘But then someone will call” _—
me to say ] helped them, and :

; that keeps me going. "

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