Ai4 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 3, 1996 THAT GAVEL being held by Socred leader Larry Gil- landers is being used as a prop in his paity's campaign to make judges more accountable. Socreds want judges to be accountable PROVINCIAL COURT judges shouldn’t be ap- pointed until retirement, says Social Credit party leader Larry Gillanders., - He favours five-ycar ap- pointnents subject. to reviews by a committee of the provincial Icgistature. That committee. would monitor sentences and sentencing pallerns and then compare those with sentences given clsewhere in Canada. The idca comes from the public’s belief that sentences in B.C. are too lenient, said Gillanders who toured the area last week. “We believe there is a strong cortelatian between sentencing and the rising crime rate,”’ he said. Gillanders adds that con- victed criminals in B.C. constantly receive lighter sentences than the national average, “We think it’s the system that should be changed. There should be accoun- tability,”’ he said. The review committee being proposed by Gil- landers would keep in con- lact with the public to determine how it felt about . the kinds of sentences given out, . Gillanders did concede that the present system was administered for years by previous. Social Credit governments. “‘T’m not saying it’s a bad thing but I am saying it’s time to make a change, It’s time to look at the solu- tions,’’ he said. Gillanders is making his point about sentencing by Party likes its election chances LARRY GILLANDERS holds his hand out horizontal, then angles it steeply downward. It's the motion the Social Credit party leader uses to de- scribe what he says is the declining popularity of his Liber- al and Reform opposition when compared to the NDP. The opposite of that downward angle is up and that’s where Gillanders says his party is heading. ‘Campbell crowned. It’s not happening ali over the pro- vince,’’ says Gillanders in the area last week for the Social Credit party nomination meeting which selected David Serry. “The problem Gordon Campbell's got, true or not, is that there is a sincerity problem. in terms of perception,”’ Gillanders continues of the leader of the Liberal party. Gillanders is critical of the people surrounding Camp- bell, dismissing them as the same group who ran the last Social Credit government of Bill Vander Zalm and Rita Johnston into the ground. As for the Reform party, Gillanders says they haven't nominated candidates in the lower mainland and are weak elsewhere. That means voters looking for an alternative to the NDP have nowhere to go but to Social Credit, he adds, “Something’s been happening over the past several weeks, We're getting phone calls from around the province expressing interest.’” Gillanders Jast year spoke both to Liberal leader Gordon Campbell and to Reform party leader Jack Weisgerber about combining forces to run against the NDP. Both tumed him down, he says, and that’s a mistake given polls which indicate a Liberal and Reform slide and an NDP upsurge. Gillanders says the Socreds already have 35‘ nominated candidates out of the 75 provincial ridings. He’s looking to the undecided vote — estimated as high as 50 per cent in the Latest opinion polls — as the key to electing Socreds in the next election. “Ideally we'd like to run a full slate of candidates but we're going to run people where it makes sense,’’ says Gillanders, ' He compares Social Credit strategy to that of running a business — concentrating resources for the best possible y \e Congratulations Krista & Bruno On your | March 22nd Wedding! From All The Girls At ; > Gemma S mw ALDOFF AUCTION SERVICE PRESENTS 2 Large Auctions Sale No. 1: Car & Truck Auction Sat., April 13/96 1 p.m. indoors At Terrace Curling Club School Ave, Terrace, B.C. Approximately 100 cars, trucks, 4x4 vans & Boats. Viewing Fri., April 12/96 Sale No. 2: Complete Closeout Auction Sale of Kitimat Builders Supplies Sun., April 14/96 11 a.m. 422 Industrial Ave, Kitimat, B.C. On offer will be: lumber, carpet, linoleum, paint, hardware, nails, fixtures, doors, windows, atfice Sale Conducted By Aldoff Auction Service Kamloops, B.C, Autotel: 372-6808 Phone: 376-6940 Fax: 376-0990 As evidence, Gillanders says the party has paid off the $1.3 million debt rung up in the 1991 provincial election. But Gillanders docs have a lot of work to do, The party lost ail but one of its MLAs elected in 1991 to the provincial Reform party, And its remaining MLA, Cliff Serwa, won’t be running again in bis Okanagan riding. -Gillanders sold his real estate appraisal business last year to work full time for his party. He’s nominated in the West Vancouver-Capilano riding on the north shore. Iv’s now held by Liberal Jeremy Dalton. using a gavel as a prop. Iv’s similar to an earlier campaign by Gillanders ta highlight his party’s posi- tion on land claims. For that campaign, Gil- landers toured with a sign saying “Land Claims. B.C.’s already paid’’ to prove his point. Gillanders says the props help promote his party as well as push its policies, The Social Credit land claims position is that Ot- tawa should be paying B.C. to turn over land and resources to natives, “This is not a B.C. versus native issue but an Ottawa versus B.C, issue,’’ says Gillanders, The Socred leader does like some parts of the Nisga’a land claims agree- ment in principle but does worry about the signing over of land, surface and sub surface rights, ‘It’s not what's in the document; it’s what it doesn't say,’ said Gil- landers of the loss to the’ province of the land value being tumed over and from: annual logging stumpage: revenue. FIGHT THE LUNG CRIPPLERS CITY OF TERRACE NOTICE \ TERRACE| CEMETERY MAINTENANCE Tho City of Tarrace hereby gives notice that any fences, tokens or oma- ments on, around or near graves in the Terrace Municipal Cemetary and found to ba decrapit of disrapair will be ramoved by City craws, begin- ning May 1, 1996. 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