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Agriculture and Fisheries, -Clark said programs : slotted: ‘budget is. the inerédse
the Ministry of Transportation
and Highways: a towering 46.9

Energy. Mines and: Petroleum: ‘under -énvironment: “‘are ~ te-"
Resources, Forests and Regional . packaged ~ from’ ° other
eS . ministries... only a . Socred
The section on environment is government could: call ‘the Van-
ambiguous, being noted: on the. .couyer.Island gas pipeline an en-
balance sheet in combination’ ‘vironmental expenditure.”
with the Minister. of, State for Clark said there is actually
Cariboo (Bruce Strachan) as an about $28 million of new money’
overall increase of 34.8 percent in the Ministry of Environment
. to $121.6 million, but’ stated budget, and termed “positive” a
- elsewhere as a.90 percent in- $7.5 million commitment to en-
- crease to $200 million. Glen. forcement of existing pollution

percent increase
billion,
-Clark' questioned

percent during the

‘|. Doctors have been practising “wellness”.
-- for years, and we welcome the B.C. Govern: .
~ “ment’s interest in what we've always called

~ preventive medicine.

We spend years in medical school and —

pr ctical training so we can specialize in you and :

with c iality @
- wharwe do-every day,

belches’ dollars

ministry actually has the exper-
tise left to undertake-a capital
improvement program of. the
magnitude that this budget im-
plies. His figures show that the
civil service overall was cut by 25

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question "percentage of the total. budget). .
ty of the government to deliver and an, increase of 9.9 percent
‘on these increasés... do we have. for Health (also a cut in terms of.

to $1.016
whether the

‘We'll undertake further in-
Be vestigations. into the way the-
_~ Other aspects of the 1989-90 provincial government is spend-
budget include a reduction of ing our money, specifically in

$250 million in the overall pro- this region, in future issues ‘of

vincial debt (which now stands the Terrace Review. ”

Bennett ad-

Our job is to keep our patients healthy
and heal them when they're sick. And that’s what

wellness is all about.

BC Doctors —
‘SPEAKING OUT FOR YOURHEALTH
British Columbia Medical Association _

the engineering capability to the total budget). = ot,

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