AME 8 et,

‘Socreds
“the tapes &

VICTORIA (CP) — New

"Democrat Bob - Skelly has
.. launched a Libel.sult against,

the Social Credit caucus and

a ‘cabinet ‘minister has af

demanded that. B.C.

Television Broadcasting |

System Ltd. turn over tapes >?
“Of a news report...which -

_ Buggested poor, relations

between the Opposition and

the Speaker,
. Both‘actions were sparked

" Tuesay: by a. ruling last

week.’ by deputy : speaker . i

. Walter. Pavidson, Social
_, Credit MLA for Delta. -

. by statements-in the May °

Skelly said he was libelled

issue of the Social Credit
newsletter Government

Chris Sabean, Skelly’s.

Jawyer, Said a writ was

““§gsued: Tuesday in. B.C.
* ‘Supreme Court in Port.
“ Alberni claiming punitive .
‘and specific damages. -
Premier Bill Bennett atid his

19° cabinet ministers were
named in’the suit, Speaker

Instructed hib‘ataff to. obtain.
copies of thé
which included comments
from three NDP MLAs —
Bill King (Shuswap-
Revelstoke), Gary Lauk

~.(Vaneouver Centre), and

Graham Lea -
* Rupert).

(Prince

‘‘phese statements im-

“ plied and alleged bias on the

‘part of Mr. Speaker," Mair

+ intended

He told the house he
to raise - the

said.
question-of privilege. -

ai 4 ‘Opposition. leader. Dave

oiBa
ove DAAC A

+

4
ai

Lawyer
‘blames .

¥ "918

purposes.

police...

"”- VANGOUVER (CP) — The
lawyer ‘whose defence of 8.

prostitute resulted in the 1978
Supreme Court of: Canada

" yuling blamed for allowing

open prostitution to flourish
says police here fail to use

antl-soliciting Jaws properly.

“+ tp contro} the problem.

- “The vice-squad is just
sitting on their thumbs,”
said Tony Serka, whose plea
before ‘the Supreme Court

| . resulted in the February,

_ somebody’s back?”

1978, ruling that a. woman

could not be charged with .

soliciting unless she was
pressing and persistent,
“Some of those girls are

pressing and persistent,’

Serka said in an interview

Tuesday. -

He said he has acted as a
lawyer in at least five cases
since the ruling where
charges of soliciting were
dropped before the trial date
came up. . ,

J] don’t think police are
giving the evidence
‘necessary for a conviction.
What do they (prostitutes)
have to do, jump. on

~ Settlement

expensive

FORT NELSON, B.C.
(CP). Chief George Behn

_spys the Fort Nelson Indian

band will have to pay %
million in legal fees for a
recent. settlement which
gives it a share in mineral
and gas rights on its reserve.

The settlement will result
in a multi-milllon-dollar
annual income for the
reserve.

Betn said the band ac-
cepted legal services on
basis that lawyer's fees
would be paid only if the case
were successful.

The fee is based on the
amount of the. settlement.

Behn said the band will
pay the fee but has asked a
Vancouver lawyer to look
into the matter.

“Harvey Schroeder: and -
“Davidson were excluded.
"> Skelly tried earlier to have-
a committee set up to in-.
» vestigate thé matter but the
~ bid was ruled out'of order in
- the legislature’ lasf-week.
-.. Health Minister Rafe —-
Mair, meanwhile; said he

he

some quarters. to, B.C.

- Premier. Bill Bennett's

‘demand that Ottawa ‘turn
over control of fisheries lo

. the provincial, government.

“We support what we

believe ta: be, the. existing

BCTV repat, oJ" adictional split,'’ said

Gerry Spitz of ihe Fisheries
Association of B.C. ‘The
federal system Is at least in

tt .

aut) lat
nly thy

Many’fishermenIn British Columbia remain idle, as this scene In
. Prince Rupert Indicates,.

a while the federa! and provincial govern-. _
> ments haggle over who's i

ncontrolofthe country’s fishstocks.

where, neat that capabiljty

s"yBut:Bob Matthew: of the
Mining Association of B.C.
‘siys, "We .would welcome

seaing: one jurisdiction: We
‘don't support’ orie side or the

“other; but itt4s< easier. to

travel to Victoria than ,Ot-

dtiveay iand!sperhaps they.
‘hwodld' be thee! sympathetic

40 ourconcerns.” ';

__ BROMMNCIL CONTROL

"VANCOUVER (CB) -— ‘jihGE> TA provinee has iio.
There.is mixed.reaction in Biace. The provi ait

Bennett's startling
‘ proposal came, Monday on
the eve of federal-provincial
constitutional negotiations at

Montreal. ‘The new position

was relayed by him to the
federal government without

. the knowledge of the full pro-
 yinclal:, cabinet or’: that: of

B.C, Environment: Minister
Stephen “Rogers, who

“pépresents B.C: in fisheries

talks with Otlawa. |):

not charging extra.

busetet ahe riles 0: SOPs dby f@ OBER

charging a surcharge on
ICBC claims.
Some shops expressed

’ dissatisfaction with the rates

but did not have any im-
mediate plans to charge the
customer more, so
_ About .20° body: shop

’* workers set up. information
‘pickets at the Insurance

Corp. of B.C. claim centre in

Prince George,an,,Wed-

“nesday to protest cor-

poration ‘plans to move
damaged cars to the
Okanagan,” an

~ Pat Franklin, president of .
‘the Northern Interior Auto

Body Association, said the

workers are upset ICBC, .

wants to move a truckload of

serlously-damaged cars for .

Seniors getting grant

repairs. te .

Most body shops in Prince
George are adding a 16 to 22
per cent surcharge to the
labor rate paid by ICBC,

saying $25.60 an hour la not. Project. aie

is tp go to furnish and equip the centre |,
ens in town have worked hard to
their centre which is planned to be

A corporation spokesman
‘aad the cara are being
moved to the Okanagan
because body shops there
don’t add a surcharge. —
‘Franklin said the workers
want the public to know
about what they call the
unnecessary expenditure of’
moving cars for repairs.

ICBC spokesman Bev
Penhall ‘said the Crown-
owned insurance compa
will continue fo ship ‘out
vehicles as’ long as the
surcharge is added.

Judge
says |
sorry.

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Provincial court judge John
McCarthy has -issued a
formal apology to” his
superior, associate chief
judge L.A. Goulet, ‘about
comments which prompted
criticism from the police,
lawyers and the judiciary.

McCarthy, a: Vancouver
judge, said In a speech to
prisoners at Mission medium
security institution in the
Fraser Valley, that police
evidence isn't always to be
trusted and judges know it

The’ Vancouver police
union, particularly incensed
because the comments were
made to prisoners, advised
Vancouver police chief Don

Winterton of the many .

complaints from its metn-
bers. Winterton sent a for-
mal complaint to Goulet.

.

' ~ 7: ooh we wyal oer er aemee = at say
pareiveatied:-Mair’saction A Survey ol auf Sate
of the house for ‘political " 20Ws thats: none -.are ‘ at HH oF “ICHC

repait service raté’bf $25.60
anhour, °° + 77?)

> ICBC has. refused, to .

consider a further, increase
in the rate after. it was raised
$2.an:hqur in April, Perhall
saig.the rates re highest in
North America. and only.a
few of the 1,500-body. shops in
B.C. feel they, are,unfair.

nit
ars

i ageae ation *'*géneral
Se ae. ane ana iy
sh eet ie previtice
‘are’ feeling the pinch: of
“higher material costs: and
The association is taking a
‘durvey of body shop owners
in the Vancouver area and
Fraser Valley to see if they

- are satisfied with the ICBC.

rate, and what type of action

they would be willing to take .

" to get the rate increased,

Yast April, body shop |

“operators in’ the eastern
Vancouver Island com-
munity of Campbell River
also set surcharges but until
they were .droppéd, ICBC
trucked accident-damaged
vehicles, to Courtenay and
_the Nanaimo area."

The drop-in cehtre-for senior citizens in Terrace

'

will receive $14,260 from

- The money

. The senior cit

raise money for

completed in the fall,,

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‘

It also apparently con-
tradicts an earlier cabinet
committee .; decision \ , to
maintain the status quo, ”

“What we want is not to be
caught ‘in the middle of a

. jurisdictional dispute,” said

Don’ Lanskail of the Council
of. Forest Industries. “We

want: to’ only: go to ‘one |

authority.’ We “want “some
appropriate arrangement to
be worked out.” =;

‘) Environmentalists’ . are
‘also ‘concerned ‘should the
province wrest control of the

fisheries. © -

cerned if they get it,” said

" Clif, Stainsby of the Society

for Pollution and En-
vironmental Control. "They
don’t have the money ‘or the
iwill to proteetsoiisheriqs

' apainst:forestry:"The federal “wit
x ober

'Bisheries Act‘is still the best
act. to control fisheries; It's
much stricter than the (B.C.
Pollution Control Act,”

_ : 7 ry

“We-would be" very con-

rE ea a ee ee ee

I

By GAIL DOTINGA
Herald Staff Writer
The Skeena Protection
Coalition féels court action
‘against Aluminum Company
of Canada for refusing to
raise the water level in the
Nechako river is necessary.

The group, which will pe
meeting tonight at 8 p.m. in

thelibrary basement, agrees —

-with federal fisheries
department that the water

. flow from the Skins Lake
’ Spillway should be a 1,000

cubic feet per second (cfs) to
protect spawning grounds.
"It is unnerving to have a
large multinational - com-
pany like Alcan in Kitimat
telling our government what
they Intend and don’t intend
to do about water supplies to
rivers from dams controlled
by the company,” said Jim
Culp, coordinator of ‘the
_ Skeena Protection Coalition.
“The Federal Fisherles
Ministry of Canada has

’ repeatedly told Alcan. that

1,000 cfs Is necessary to
meintain fish habitat in the’
Nechako River system and

""- Alean has: repeatedly

refused to allow this much
flow from its‘spillway.”

-. The ‘company’ last’ winter

- cut the water flow in half to
500° cfs. The Skeena:

". Protection Coalition says

ensive _

that Alcan used low
precipitation, Jevels as. an
excuse for the reduction but

“at the same tlme is‘aelllng

excess power to B.C. Hydro
_for export to the , United
States. . _
Recently the company
announced. that despite’ its
belief that the 500 cfs was
sufficient to protect fish
habitat it has increased the
water flow.to 650 cfs. Culp
,and his group are not
‘satisfied with that increase.
-They.are.also not satlafied

‘with the provincial govern: -

(WEATHER)

The weather forecast for

Friday sees clouds with

some sunny periods, . The
high is expected to be around
21 degrees Celsius and the
low around 12,
The outlook, for the
“weeeends'is,, millily’“dunhy
a little" warpher=tem-
hides, Gf 1 AbesH'E Hien
out: that way, don’t ‘throw

rpcks ‘at the weatherman,’
he's doing his best.

“Tha Herald, Thursday, July 10, 1990, Page 3

ment who they claim are

taking a “timid position” on
the matter.

Victoria has stated that it

is investigating what
authority it has under, a
clause in the Industrial
Development Act that was

drown upbetween Alcan and .
safe guarding.of fisheries in
‘the Nechako River.

the provincial government,
which gives allowance for

fisheries protection ‘in the
Nechako river. . 2

The environmentalist .

group claims that Victoria
has the legal responsibility

‘to protect “all. freshwater

gamefish In the province and
that they should carry -out
thele commitments for the

Gov't cancels
budworm study

VICTORIA, (CBR) — A
largescale |. research
program to combat. spruce
budworm is being held up
due to lack of funds, says a
forest ministry official.

Mike Finnis, off the
protection branch of the B.C.

forest service said budworm

attacks on Douglas fir will
damage at ‘least 120,000
acres (48,000 hectares) in the
province this year.

The provincial govern-

ment caricelled a 1977 plan to

use chemical sprays on. a.’

severe budworm infestation
in the Fraser Canyon area
because ‘of opposition from
environmentalists and. local
residents. °
- Finnis said there: are
Canadian-U.8, - research
programs for budworm

‘Mineral
processing .
encouraged ~

VICTORIA -(CP) — In a
move to encourage further
processing of . mineral

_ resources in B,C., the
“provineial government is
proposing to alter several
. tax barriers contained in the
Mineral. Resource Tax Act.

“Amendments to the act, in-
troduced in the legislature
Wednesday by Energy

' Minister Bob McClelland,
establish a new processing

allowance base of eight per .

p-bent-ef-oviginal-capital-oost

eM Golonce was

based on residual or un-
claimed depreciation of
. those assets;

we

UNION MADE

Ae oe re

T

control but the western

branch; based in. Portland
Ore., is suffering from a

‘ghortage of funds.

The Portland. branch,
called Canusa West, was to
gtart-research this year on

programs using viruses,
bacteria ‘and, chemicals .
‘which would, disrupt the

budworm’s. reproductive
cycle, -

"Finnis said American

participants in Canusa West,
were victims of ‘a U.S.
austerity -drive and ‘the
Canadian Forestry Service

was short of. funds so. the’

research has not:' been
started. te Coan
“It's my» hope. we. can
revive it next year,": Finnis
said. He added the forestry
service should be ready for’

- the next budworm outbreak.

' * CRC
. - Notice of

- following.

submit a8

Public Hearing

Ottawa, 30 June 1980

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