Dear Sir:

Gordon Campbell had
- to personally come.to town.
to announce: the Northern: °
Developmerit Fund. and the’
local’ folks .who would’ be”
making decisions, as to how. -

to spend it. -

AS “Mayor jack Talsira

said the ground. rulés‘are not cS ;
: peels thatthe public can: be:

: “bought off”-on the eve of:
-an election and it -has con-
‘veniéatly. placed the respon- ..
sibility for the.“New-Era of ~
Prosperity: for. lhe: “North” 2
“pramised-in the last election, ©
into .the hands ‘of Jocal” ap-
“-pointees:who oversee a Par

what is there,” he added. -

of BC Rail,

Dear Sir: :. ° oo

‘OK, class, come fo order.
No, you ‘did come: “here to
order fries and: bun,:you are

~ stuff.

sprinkled i in..

altention. -

go. Pay attention. The train
as left and yous missed it,:
The: Premier’ tells * the
crowd that this. train, be-
cause of the sale of: BC Rail:
to CN Rail, will, make it-to
Chicago: 46: hours -soone

Can anyone tell me. hoi this

could be? -<..
Yes, Sally?. No, the track
to Chicago “hasn't.

clear yet but “you know $15.
‘million ‘sounds like a lot: of.
money but-by the.time you.
spredd it around who: knows ”

Lets be''clear, the $135, .
million dollars. came out ‘of
the sale of BC: Rail, It is'a: °
cynical attempt to,soften the.

_ anger of the ‘public’as a-re-)
sult of the deceit and broken ~
promise manifest in. the, sale.

here at the: end of your 4 day:
week to, earn some: b00d

Today we ‘will: ‘explore
math: and . géography. with. .
some, commerce,” “questions

CN ‘rail ‘ha’. purchased
BC Rail: Now. Joey, that was, :
‘not monkey business; pay a
: se that. the. old ‘record was cal-
“culated by: loading” a. car of
“lumber on: BC Rail in. Prince
George,’ running thal-car to -.
Vancouver, then: ‘gwitching _
the car to.CN: Rail for its trip
to Chicago? What, a way: to-

The premier was in nPrince ;
George towatch the first CN:
train leave from‘there to go *
to Chicago... No,’ Priscilla: -
Trains want.to ‘B0 to Chica-.-

been.’
shortened by. thie removal of a

North 1ern mm money one way
of ee off the public —

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tion ‘of the fund...

“The fact: is: that. $135. mil-*
“tow | in: northern ‘investment
a could have been achieved by

- Now \ ‘who is is working on hee

, ‘to Chicago i is still the same.”
‘No, Joey: The: CN has not...
‘brought i ii the NewEy : ‘bul-:.
“ let.to take. the: Chicago: run?
They are still’ using World:
“War One: ‘equipment for all...
~their-runs. a .
“Yes, Jetiny: “No, ‘Jenny.
The: information.is that the
train left.the‘old:CN yard in...
a Prince George; arid not some
other: placé -on, the old. BC ;
“Rail. ‘route.’

* Class; do: you " suppose

una failroad. :

~ The’government now X=.

-Yes,. Joey, it does ‘sound.
ike: ‘monkey: business, . Po-

-litically speaking, of course.:
Here jis the homework as-..
_signment f for today; class, te
.- You are to write a letter.

“*"t0-the CN‘ President; and a
” separate letter to our Premier
‘asking them: to explain how
the purchase of BC Rail, by -

using, the last four years: of.
BC Rail profits: We would”
- then still’ have owned: thé
‘railroad. .The government

can-now. wash its hafids ‘of:

‘the: ‘concern around | Alcan:
power’ sales arid. ‘the con,
tinued: soidid - saga ‘of! the «

NWBC closure.

“political inaneuver be’ ‘seen oe
for ‘what it is. ee A or
AS lo the Jocal appointees :

- shave 46 hours off the travel

lime, given that il will use ©
‘the same track from ‘Prince: .
- Gearge -to Chicago as - the’
: train did last week. |

"The ‘only. austion te

‘On. the board ‘of directors :
who will oversee: ‘the fund, I oan

‘of fer my ‘con gratul lations...

: "We all trust and hope that |
they-will be successful ine.
Belting » the ‘economy -in‘the 7. |
--northwest, thai has.beén ne-." :
‘> glected: ‘by ‘the Liberal pov «|.
_empment and. its “MLAS, “BO- |

ing again and ‘soon.

railroad?

And because the BC Rail
never did run to Chicago.

: Les Watmough,
. Terrace, B.C..

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