TOMORROW IS Feb. 15, the 36th anniversary -
of the Maple Leaf becoming Canada’s flag.
’ With that in mind — and to provide a way to
Spend a winter's night — here's a quiz about the
_. .€@untry’s past, present and future.

1) In what year did women gain
vote in federai etections?
a). 1918
“. b) 1930 . _
1980 ose “Teapots

= 2) Who' was Canada's first French Canadian .

Prime Minister (1896 - 1911)?
“> a) Jean Beliveau

“-b} Jacques: Cartier
-¢) Sic Wilfred Laurier

3) What document, reflecting Canada's funda-

mental, democratic equality and linguistic © ~~

rights, became part of the Constitution ‘in ~
1982? :
a) The Canadian Charter of Rights and Free-
doms
b) The British North America Act
-¢) The Act of Union
4) What strait divides New Brunswick from
‘Prince Edward Island?
“-a)-Northumberland Strait
_ b) Strait of Juan de Fuca.
“-¢) Northwest Passage

5). What is the name of the Nova Scotia ‘

schooner pictured on the Canadian dime? -
. 8) The Intrepid

- b) The Bonaventure

c) The Biuenose

6): What city, founded in 1846, has been given
the nickname "Steel City"?

, @):Sault St. Marie «

 .b) Windsor -

c) Hamilton

7) Where can you see the world’s highest
tides?

a) Hudson Bay

b) Bay of Fundy

c} James Bay

8) What is another name for the northern

lights?

a) The Milky Way

b) Aurora borealis

c) Orion’s Belt

9) Which province or territory has the fewest

‘ people? . . i, . a Bay
‘a)-Baffin Island = *
b) Nunavut :
c) Vancouver Island

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heias

10) How much of Canada Lies: in the: perma-
frost region? Soy) Uneaten ee
a) 1/4 ©
b) 1/2

c).2/3 °

11) What strait separates:
and the mainiand? — «-.-..:
- a) Strait of Georgia. **
b) Juan de Fuca Strait
¢) Vancouver Strait —

12) How old are Canada's oldest trees?
a) 500 years
b) 650 years
c) 800 years

13) How many hours of sunlight per day does
Iqaluit get in the month of June?

a) 18

b) 24

c) 20

14) What is the only walled city in North
America?

a) Louisbourg

b) Halifax

c) Quebec City

15) The Okanagan Valley contains what per-
centage of British Columbia's orchards?

_a) 50 percent
b) 75 percent
¢) 90 percent

Barbar

By ROD LINE
JUST IN time for the lead up to the provincial
election is Mark Milke’s Barbarians In the
Garden City, a book about the NDP in power.

Call it a political obituary by a person who
clearly has no use for the current provincial
povernment.

Milke is the B.C. director for the Canadian
Taxpayers Federation, the constant thorn in
the side of governments across Canada when it
comes to the use of power, spending and pub-
lic policy making. = -

It was, for instance, Milke’s predecessor,
Troy Lanigan, who helped put together the
failed recall effort here to oust Skeena NDP
MLA: Helmut Giesbrecht in 1998. 7

Milke says his book is about putting forth

. ideas to British Columbians so they can begin
the debate of how governments should work.
’ “Simply put — | dislike bullies,” says Milke
in his introduction. . -
It shows in the 175 pages of what follows.
_Milke’s thesis is that the province has been
-govemed for the past decade by a group of
 jdeologically-driven people who regularly and
consistently abuse the power entrusted to a
_government. by: the people it is supposed to
er

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he Canada Quiz —

Test our knowledge of the couniry

Maple

‘AT THE stroke of noon on Feb. 15, 1965, Ca-
nada’s red and white maple leaf flag was
raised for the very first time.

And that makes tomorrow, the 36th anni-
versary of having the maple leaf flag replace
‘the Red Ensign. .

A parliamentary committee looked at more
than 1,500 designs in search for a flag it felt
would represent the country before choosing

‘Leaf flag 36 years old -

the red maple leaf.

Not everybody was in favour. Progressive
Conservative leader John Diefenbaker op-
posed the idea of a new flag which, in turn,
was backed by the Liberal government lead
by Lester B. Pearson.

The idea of using red and white wasn’t new
as there were appointed as Canada's official
colours by King George V. in 1921.

16) In 1959, what Montreal Canadiens goalie |

was the first to wear a face mask in
the goal crease?

a) Jacques Plante

b) Felix Potvin

c) Emil Francis

17) What Canadian city hosted
ter Olympic Games?
a) Winnipeg

b) Calgary

c) Toronto

18) Name the First World War flying ace who
was awarded the Victoria Cross and. was credi-
ted with shooting down 72 enemy planes,
a) Jimmy Doolittle ee se
b) Billy Bishop

medals at-one,Olympics?.. sn

- b) Gaétan Boucher °

sa) Trevor Linden
7 20) Jacques Cartier first gave Canada its name
“..- in 1535.'What does the Huron word “Canada”

the 1988 Win-.

~b) Roy Romanow
~..-, ¢) Harry Lali.

mean?

a) snow-covered graund
b) vast land

c) village or settlement — . _
21) What former Canadian hockey player.
‘wants to own a piece of a NHL hockey team?.
He’s also be responsible for the Canadian }
‘men’s hockey team at the next Winter Olym- :
pics? ; -

a) Bobby Ore

~b) Guy Lafleur

c) Wayne Gretzky

-22) Who recently retired
mier of Saskatchewan?
a) Brian Tobin :

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Hand in hand with ideclogy, says Milke, is

the NDP’s failure to properly manage the bud-

et.

. There are particularly telling chapters on
the fast ferry fiasco, the Nanaimo charities
scandal, the establishment of a human rights
bureaucracy. and the absolute abuse of power
by the NDP when it comes to matters such as
free speech.

And because the Canadian Taxpayers Fe-
deration's. specialty is to point out the finan-
cial wanderings of governments, Mr. Milke is
persistent and persuasive in outlining his per-
spective on how the government used its sig-
nificant resources to go after citizens and
groups with which it had disagreements.

There’s even a chapter on the Nisga’a trea-
ty and Milke’s treatment of that document
fails neatly into line with his own political
philosophy. It is also the weakest chapter of
the book. ‘ oo

He believes, for instance, that the: treaty by
and of itself will not assist in self sufficiency.

Mr. Milke may very well have a point and.
he continues with this quote:

treaty was a case study in just how far... | the Gi .
“ke treaty som . NDP in Power”. Mark Milke. Thomas and Black.

‘modern governments strayed from the protec-
tion ‘of individual ‘rights and how willing they

and balances on virtually unlimited power,
save the courts,” Milke writes.

“OF Victoria,

were to sacrifice the same on the altar of col- -
lective entitlements,” he writes.

That’s fine as far as it goes from Milke’s
perspective but he forgets that the essential
nature of native society is to act collectively
rather than individually.

To be fair, Mr. Milke doesn’t appear to be
exactly enthralled with the provincial Liberals
either,

And he does give a bit of credit to the re-
cent change in how the NDP approaches
budgeting and spending. 8
' In the end, Milke wants citizen referenda, a
more workable method of MLA recalt and to
bust up the concentration of power which ex-
ists through our adaptation of the British par-
liamentary form of government.

“Our parliamentary. system has few checks

He and his supporters will have their
chance to change things later this spring.

A final note: The “garden city” in the title
refers to the many and varied outdoor offerings

“Barbarians In the Garden City. The B.C.

Book review

Spirit Dance

|opens door to

treaty drama

By JENNIFER LANG

- A NEW book by an insider to the Nisga’a treaty had the

potential to be seen as a final sales pitch for The Client
or a tell-all account of what really went on behind the
scenes,

Spirit Dance at Meziadin: Chief Joseph Gosnell and the
Nisga'a Treaty, by West Vancouver writer Alex Rose,
doesn’t really fall into either category.

. Rose was hired by the Nisga’a Tribal Council in 1989
to help explain the Nisga’a and their quest for a treaty to
a largely unaware Canadian public.

His role as spin doctor meant he helped shape some
of the strategies the Nisga’a used to gain acceptance for
the treaty, a ground-breaking agreement that’s been al-
ternately hailed and criticized.

It also gave him unparalleled
access to the key players on. the
negotiating team,

Spirit Dance at Meziadin ef-
fortiessly brings us up to speed
on the complex components of
the treaty, its historical context, and the central figures
who toiled away,.duty bound, for more than a century in
the struggle to settle the land question.

While’ other’aative groups have chosen’ confrontation
over -negotialion, the .Nisga’a decided very. early onto
play by the white men’s rules and beat them at their own
game.

Former MLA and Nisga’a leader Frank Calder recalls
how at age four his father held him up to a group of
chiefs and proclaimed he would jearn how to speak,
walk, and eat like a white man. “He is the one that’s
going to bring this case to the highest court in the land.”

With history on their side, and armed with key legal
victories like the Calder decision, the Nisga’a embarked
on 23 long. years of negotiations.

. The high road took its toll; contemporary Nisga’a men
like Joseph Gosnell, Edmund Wright, Nelson Leeson and
others are sensitively portrayed as- scarred, even da-
maged by the endless succession of meetings, flights,
and more meetings as negotiations dragged on.

_ Gosneil, who became for many Canadians the very
face of the treaty itself, not coincidentally, remains an
enigmatic figure.

Only after his return from residential school would he
realize that the carved beams in his prandfather’s crawl
space were the remnants of totem poles chopped down
from Gitwinksihlkw’s main street on the advice of
Christian missionaries. DC ,

Shy well into adulthood and only: truly at home on the
waler as a commercial fishermen, Gosnell was thrust!
into a leadership role after the death of his elder brother
James, a charismatic firebrand.

Like the other key members of the team, he emerges
aa a tragic figure; a lonely man who spent years of his
life away from his wife and children, his face and body

Spirit Dance at
Meziadin
Harbour House
By Alex Rose

| language. communicating an “unutterable loneliness and

weariness.”
~_ Illustrated on nearly every page, the book functions as

_|-|a documentary, seamlessly blending the spare, fluid nar-
~ |4-rative with dazzling photographs, most by Vancouver

‘freelance photographer Gary Fiegehen, who himself
played a key role in promoting the treaty. -

Fiegehen spent years taking pictures of the Nisga'a
.and produced a number of books, brochures and calen-
dars.

The Nisga’a leadership realized it was crucial to hire
certain specialists.

They actively recruited white consultants, people who
were experts in their respective fields and sympathetic
to the cause.

The “spirit dance” of the title could well describe the
altempt by both sides to straddle the cultural divide se-
paraling the Nisga’a and their white counterparts...

But Rose is being a little coy here about the extent of
his job. oo

Although he doesn’t say so in the book, Rose was a
main crafter of the acclaimed speech Chief Joseph Gos-
nell delivered to. the B.C. Legistature when the province
introduced the treaty for debate,

That speech is reprinted in full in Spirit Dance at Me-
ziadin, a baok that sheds few tears for the treaty’s appo-
nents. ‘ ,

Former Skeena MP Mike Scott, the Reform party's
aboriginal affairs critic, is just-one detractor that’s been
ctushed under the heft of the Nisga’a juggernaut as it
rolled over the opposition. _

“The neighbouring Gitanyow, who've accused the
Nispa’a of shutting the door on at unresolved territorial
overlap, are another casualty. ee

It’s hard to determine if Rose is stilt playing the part
of a dutiful consultant. :

But there’s no doubt as to Rose’s impressive storytel-
ling abilities ag he compresses 130 years of history into
a readable, informative overview that contains plenty of

Publishers. $19.95.° - a

sutprising information, even if te ‘doesn’t spill much dirt.

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