Dear Sir: | . mo
In régards to. your. reports.
about. our redoubtable “MP °

Aé- The. Terrace Standard, Wednescay, February 25, 2004.

Don’t count out the NDI

~ CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD _

for. Skeena,- ‘Andy Burton, ©
relishing” ‘the’ next. election, . a
Mr. Button ‘in his lame: ver--

sion of ‘bring i it on’ is‘surely
indulging «in @ bit of " bragea-
docio. a
‘To -me he comes ‘across 7
more. like... ‘Ichabod » -Crane*. |

whistling nervously: as. “he rides his’ nag £ ( the 1 new, ‘Con-
servative Party). past that haunted place where ‘he and .

“his political ‘pals’ will ‘be. buried. after the’ next election.

In his- misplaced bid for, i irony, he” likened the» ‘Liberal. :

aspirants . for. ‘that party" 's candidacy in this’ ‘riding :as
ground hogs popping up all: over’ the- place. Interesting.

that he should use that analogy, for this is the first’ time:

I've seen him pop up ‘to say anything close to felling his
constituents what he is abouty. oad

I: doubt, though, that: he: can: see: hig ‘shadow because
he has been. largely: ‘invisible. = = . totally: in. vital issues’
such as health, the disastrous economic straits thal.we in

this part of. the world, are in’ and.the tragic, fact that as’.
the rich in this country. pet ‘richer, the’ ‘poor in increasing °

number are-forced: tothe-streets; homeless.:
Interesting too that: he: ‘brought: my name ‘forward in his

‘not too clever’ allusion. to-his. nation ‘that’ being’ First Na-

tion still didnot help me in that election. At-the risk of
sounding like sour- -grapes, ‘the ‘political climate in’ the
area at that time was such: the’ Alliance ‘aka Reform Par--

ty could have run: Mickey. Mouse, or. Andy ~ = ‘And. win. a

And, of course, they did. -

But ‘the political: climate i is -chaiging, new “and more :
humane alternatives are “now, coming to fore, and the
outdated ideolagy. of the: neo-conservatives or the radical” °
right that Mr. Burton and his ‘new’ -party Tepresents. have:
been promoting, on ‘behalf of their‘corporate sponsors, is... :
"in the: process. of being. relegated to the. ‘dust-ins- of his- “and integrity. They were .ablé. to’ bring the issues, vital

_.t0, this-ared; to national altention, In. fact, all‘New Dem-..
‘oeratic Party: representalives federally ‘and: provincially,.
shave fought couragéously to preserve'a. way of life-in the ||.
horthwest, in ‘which: Family” and” community play. a cen. ame

: “tral role: ”:

tory..
In the. next federal ‘(as- well. as the provincial) elec:

tion, I have: a: hunch that the people. in this:riding are go

ing to’be much iougher i in demanding. clear: answers ‘from: .

the all candidates about. real life. and health ‘issues..I sus
pect that.Mr.-Burton: will be-hard-put | to: ‘explain’ to those

‘who are. out of work, the seniors who now, have to choose.
 belween: food: and - needed drugs;.and the ‘youth who face: .
Just. what has'h he e being doing. in.

‘diminishing prospec
the last. four years.’

- = A healthy

_ [lifestyle begins with
: ~{shalthy tet

We pay
for them

’ Dear Sirs: we
How. much’. mioney “did
school. district taxpayers.
“save” in flying four fuac-:
tionaries to: Vancouver. for.
the “ywo- “day ‘Supre
Court: “hearing | that“‘de-
clared. the new: four-day
Schedule illegal?: And. why
send. four officials?. - .
Officially. the: junketeers
were there 10: ‘manifest:
their concern. Concem: for.
what: for. saving “money?::
| That'sa rather. - expensive
"way of expressing i it. © o50
 Or'was it instead: ‘to.ex-
press: their: concern’ ‘for: the
smooth functioning and in-.
tegrity of the public: school
~ system?. They could. have -
shown. that earlier on by ff
respecting © ‘proper: proce- .
dure: and. conducting’ sin-
cére consultations with the ”
’ district ,communities- they a
50 ‘arbitrarily. inconven-—
ienced and. affronted.
‘The. adversarial. situa- .
tion school. “Officials found - .
themselves in in that Van- .
couver courtroom was lar"
gely one of theit own con-" *
trivance. ‘It’ S78 Pily. we'll 5
have: to pay ihe: ‘Price: for
their hubris once. again.
John: How,
Terrace, B. Cc.

Ard whet
did it cost?

Dear Sir:
I read with ‘interest that
the school board: which: is.
so strapped for cash ‘ihat‘it
has to: ¢lose « schools, ‘and
illegally impose a four-da
week has enough 1 money.
send four Tepresentatives -
to Vancouver for.a two- “day
hearing.
We: all: would. like’ to
get. away to the ‘big ily OL
a couple of.days,.
larly when. the- daffodils.
are coming -up, : bul Surely
one would suffice to. fepre;: “A
~ sent school. district: me
One presumes that there’ ‘
were hotel .rooms,. per-'
diems, - ‘and ‘meals ins °_
volved, as. well.as.air fare,
which ‘probably was |. not - .
bought at’ seat-sale. prices.

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‘fearful

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previous, federal: Liberal

regime: for the huge and- rep:
rehensible, abuse of power. -

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So whoever will be:the can-" 7
‘didate for the Liberal party:
here in the ‘great ‘Skeena’
: riding ‘will have. to’ come.
“clean to- the voters about the.
Liberal « party.” “squandering:
. hundreds of: millions-of dol-
lars when basic social, health and: économic infrastruce *
tures. have. deteriorated here in the’ northwest. dué ‘to he- 2
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