AB - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 28, 2000

Terrace’s RCMP highway patrol prepares for another busy year (frorn left: Cnst.
Warren McBeath, Cnst. Eric Vachon, Cnst. Daryl Ralnkie, Cpl. Larry Burke)

Police take to the air

to nab area speeders

DANGEROUS drivers be warned. The
Terrace RCMP highway patrol will be
everywhere this summer.

The RCMP started their enhanced cor-
ridor enforcement program on June 11 in
an atlempt lo stop excessive speeding on
highway 16 this summer.

Every year, the highway patroi unit
heads to known speeding corridors with
laser radar to pull over speeders and ag-
gressive drivers near Terrace and Kitimat.

That’s in addition to the RCMP air-
craft enforcement program, where officers
book an airplane to monitor traffic be-
tween a set of painted white lines on the
highway and communicate with an officer
on the road to ticket speeders.

scheduled on clear long weekends on
highway 16 east near Shames Mountain
and highway 16 west at Gossen Creek
and Big Oliver Creek.

Drivers planning on staying around
town for the summer should be aware that
the program is also targeting municipal
traffic for the first time.

“Driving complaints about people not
obeying traffic signs, cutting people off
and not signalling make up a large share
of what we do,” said Cnst. Warren Mc-
Beath of the highway patrol unit.

The corridor program is paid for by the
RCMP, which dedicates a number of offi-
cer hours each summer to traffic enforce-
ment and ICBC, which pays for the same

Decision day soon
on treaty challenge

A DECISION is expected
any day now in the B.C.
Liberal party constitutional
court challenge of the
Nisga’a treaty,

Arguments in the case
wrapped up May 29 with
each side presenting writ-
ten arguments.

Judgment has been re-
served and B.C. Supreme
Court Justice L. Paul Wil-
liamson is expected .to

hand. down. a..decision

soon.

B.C. Liberal leader Gor-
don Campbell and two
members of his shadow
cabinet have filed the
challenge.

It argues that the self-
government provisions in
the Nisga’a treaty amount
to a third order of govern-
ment and is therefore un-
constitutional.

They have also put for-
ward concerns about vo-
ting rights for non-natives
in the Nass valley potenti-
ally affected by the treaty
and the new government,

It’s the first in a number
of court cases and chal-
lenges poised to take on
the treaty.

Whatever the outcome,
it’s quite possible the Lib-
eral challenge will be ap-
pealed to higher courts,
pushing back a final reso-
lution much farther.

The federal, provincial
and Nisga’a governments
are named as defendants
in the case,

The treaty was passed a

This summer, aircraft enforcement is

number of overtime hours .

year ago by the B.C. legis-

Court goes in the bush for tree trial

A TERRACE judge took a walk in
the woods last week during the trial
of a local man charged with dama-
ging and removing culturally mod-
ified trees.

George Charles Halpert was
charged last summer under the Her-
itage Conservation Act — the first
case of its kind in B.C.

Halpert, Judge Edmond De Walle,
Crown prosecutor: ‘Christirié: Birnie,
and defence lawyer. David -Mardiros
all went to the site of the modified
lrees last Wednesday on the slopes
of Kitsumkalum Mountain for what,

in legal terms, is called “taking a
view.”

The request to view the site was
put forward by the defence.

“It was for the judge’s benefit — so
he could see what a culturally mod-
ified tree is,” said Mardiros,

Under the Heritage Conservation
Act a tree must have been modified
by First Natians prior to 1846 to be

“Classed ‘ as culturally modified.

According to Morley Eldridge of
Millennia Research, a Victoria ar-
chaeological research firm, the stan-
dard types of modification include

bark peeling, test holes, as welt as
partially or fully chopped trees and
stumps.

Eldridge was on the stand earlier
in the day, giving expert testimony.

The trees are important for treaty
negotiations as evidence that abori-
ginal people inhabited and utilized
the resources of an area.

“By an agreement between the

“Crown and the defence no evidence

was taken [during. the viewing],”
said Mardiros.

The trial is set to resume Septem-
ber 8.

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