TERRACE STANDARD Business ReEvIEW Out & About Law firm grows A TERRACE LAW firm is ex- panding and changing its name. Wamer Bandstra is becoming Warner Bandstra Brown with the addition of local lawyer Don Brown as a partner on June 1. Brown is ending 22 years with the firm Crampton, Brown and Amdt after the departure to Duncan of that firm’s other partner, Jeff Arndt, car- lier this year. Gordon Crampton said he’s going to continue for now as a solo legal practitioner, John Bandstra, of Warner Band- stra Brown, said the firm now grows to six lawyers with the addition of Brown and articling student Scott Mulder, who has decided to stay here as a staff lawyer after being called to the bar, “Well actually be the largest firm this side of Prince George in terms of numbers,”? Bandstra said. Building slow THE CITY of Terrace recorded $833,000 worth of new building permits in April, including four Single Family homes and a scattering of renovations and additions. Construction started so far this year now totals $1.96 million. That’s a sluggish start for Terrace, well behind the $9 million recorded to the same points in 1996 and 1997. Seeking youth THE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Bank of Canada is hunting for young entrepreneurs aged 29 or un- der for an award program. One young person from each pro- vince and territory is to be given an award based on success, innovation and other criteria. Winners are matched with a business leader for a year’s worth of advice and help. Get application forms at the local bank office or call 1-888-463-6232, Canada’s most affordat le- | sais at Masset, i in B.€.’s beautiful Queen Charlotte Islands 3&4 bedroom houses World-famous salmon fishing Pristine beaches, golf, kayaking, sailing and www.selectpropertygroup.com AL Galbroith & Associates kid Treaties will open Investment doors Economist backs claim negotiations RESOLVING NATIVE land claims will lift a weight of uncerlainty from B.C. and unleash a flow of investment and development, says noted economist Roslyn Kunin. Kunin spoke to a meeting of the Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce last Tuesday. Here to promote a book edited by herself and published by the Laurier Institution, Kunin said her economic assessment of treaties is that they will result in a net benefit to society, rather than a net cost. “There is a big pile of money wait- ing at the borders of B.C. that is not coming in because investors are | hesitant to invest in B.C. because of the uncertainty of native land claims,’ she said. Remove that uncertainty, and the cash will come, she added. Kunin claimed an estimated $100 million per year in new investment could come into B.C, if the issuc was settled. And she said that could add up to the equivalent of $5.9 billion in new investment to the province over the lifetime of a young person, At a time when transfer payments from Ottawa have been declining and the province could reaily use a break, she said native land claim settlements — whose cash components come ¢x- clusively from the federal government — are a way of directing large amounts of money here from the east. More court battles are not the ans- wer to resolving land claims, Kunin said. “They — keep us fighting forever.’? —— - And likewise, She said, referendums on the issue are not a good idea, call- ing them ‘‘the ultimate win-lose situa- tion,’? ECONOMIST Roslyn Kunin, of the Laurier institution, spoke to Chamber members last week, “We have had referendums where 49.5 per cent of the population said one thing and 50.5 per cent of the population said another thing,”’ she noted. “TE we are all going to live together we don’t want to do it as winners and losers,’ Kunin added. ‘“We’ve been doing that for 120 years and that's not the way to do that.”’ Nisga’a speaker Rod Robinson echoed Kunin’s thoughts, adding na- tive people spend more than $11 mil- lion a year in Terrace. “This is where we buy everything,’’ he said, adding that trend will only in- crease after a treaty. Support for treaties only make sense, he added, when the benefits are slacked against what he called the fol- ly of federal policy of spending “millions of taxpayers’ dollars to keep us beggars in our own land.” Robinson said non-natives will criti- cize the treaty and even fellow natives will say the Nisga’a settled for too little. ‘They have taken their eye off the financial bettom line,” he said. in re Presents Art Lingren Author of “Irresistible Waters” will be at the Terrace Public Library Tuesday, May 26 at 7:30 pm Art Lingren will be presenting a slide show featuring excerpts from his new book “Irresistible Waters”. Art will also be available after- fy wards for book signings a Fes bhtty Gil BOOKS Rose Hertel Falkenhagen Author of “Wilderness Beginnings" will be at Ground Works Thursday, May 28 at 7:30 pm Rose Hertel Falkenhagen will be reading fram her book “Wilder- ness Beginnings” Rose will also be available afterwards for book signings. 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