Many reasons for recall AG - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 19, 1997 Premier’s words haunt him An open letter to: The Skeena Taxpayers Association Dear Sirs: I spologise for reacting with anger to some of the things your organization, and your NDP MLAs and leaders have said and done in this recall campaign. | am referring to my call to the Rafe Mair show. Though I believe that what I said was true, how I said it was not. I am dedicated Christian and a pastor, which means I am committed to some very founda- tional ethics and principles. One is to honour and support those in authority, which includes Premier Clark and Mr. Giesbrecht. I have taught our church to live this way. We pray regularly for all those in authority in our land, including Mr. Clark and Mr, Giesbrecht. But there are moral limits to what we can obey and support, because there are higher laws than the laws of men. Where the laws and ac- tions of men violate the laws of God, we can no longer obey and support. , . The higher laws include things like love, mercy, truth, justice, purity, and right living as defined by God. AH men will give an account to God for how they have obeyed His laws, includ- ing me, and you, and including Mr. Clark and Mr. Giesbrecht. And so it is, that I must confront Premier Clark, Mr. Giesbrecht, and now you, with what I believe is a very damaging and misleading lie regarding recall. This is that recall was designed to throw out an MLA acting unethically, in a cormpt fashion, or for illega] acts or for serious misconduct or CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TEARACE STANDARD The for criminal activity. ; . That this is a lie can be easily seen listening to Mr, Clark’s own words in his 1994 speech in the legislature defending the recall legislation. Mr. Clark said it was intended to. ‘‘empower British Columbians to make change, indepen- dent of what politicians say, No longer in B.C, can ay politician of any party simply say, ‘Too bad! We're here for four or five years; we'll do whatever we want, and you can defeat us four years from now.’ With this bill, we now have to be conscious of the wisdom of our con- stituents... We have faith that the voters of B.C. . have the wisdom to make decisions, and all of that wisdom certainly does not lic in this cham- ber.”’ oe According to Mr. Clark, the intent of recall was to set in place a counter balance to the - tendency of politicians to act toward their people in a way that says to them, ‘‘we’ll do whatever we want’? in total disregard of what the voters want. This legislation is intended to make politicians more responsive and accoun- lable to the people they were elected to . fepresent, If the wise voter's judgment is that the MLA is doing whalever he or bis party wants, rather. than what the people want, they are empowered to make a change, namely, they may change their elected representative, legal, unethical, or corrupt acts,. serious mis- conduct, or criminal activity, There are many just reasons people may wish to recall an MLA, therefore, the legislation, rightly, puts no restric- tions here. This décision is left entirely up to the wise voters. ~ ‘ bo eos ee 7 ay pgs coor +o. There not one statement. in the recall legisla-. a i ag tion that ‘says it was intended to deal with il- We already have a very comprehensive law, and justice system that deals with illegal acts, conflict of interest, and corruption on the part of politicians and all other citizens. ; No ‘thinking government would cver create recall legislation for this purpose, because it would open the door for peopte to take things into-theiy own hands that are to be handled by the justice system. It would also bypass all the - checks and balances that make for the fair and just treatment of all citizens under the law. “Whe -you manufacture a lie like this one, I am left to conclude that your purpose can only be to deceive the people of this community so that they will not support the recall of Mr. Gies- brecht; How can you expect people to trust you, or this government, when you are willing to do this to keep him in power. 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But nevertheless there will be at least one place where the teens can indulge at their favoured sport, skate board- - ing. __ Lets Jook at that proposed location of the skate board park a litile closer. Very few skate boarders live down town. From the south side it will be quite a task to get to George Little Park, How- ever, from the Uplands area, whizzing down Kalum Hill will be great fun to get to the skate park. , Skate boarers from Thorahill, the Kirkaldy, Woodland Heights and Queensway aress will set a daily Olympic record to get to the skate park. Now, if those teens could get our regional district directors involved maybe they could enlighten those teens with a skate park at every populated place. Especially where they live and like to play after being safely delivered by bus from school. 1 hope our regional district directors are mot so narrow minded and let Terrace city - hall plant only one — an- other very popular recrea- tional facility smack in the middle of Terrace. 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