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Giesbrecht named
highways r minister

DON’T EXPECT Helmut
Giesbrecht to make any
major changes in his new
job as highways minister.

With just weeks before
an expected provincial
election, Giesbrecht,
named as highways mini-
ster Feb. 15, said he'll be
overseeing large projects
already underway.

“There’s the Lions Gate
Bridge Project and the
need to improve the high-
way from Cache Creek to
the Rockies, particularly
around Revelstoke,” said
Giesbrecht just hours after
his swearing in ceremony.

Giesbrecht replaces
southern interior MLA
Harry Lali who resigned
from his cabinet post two
weeks apo, citing a differ-

‘ence of opinion with the

way Premier Ujjal Dosanjh
is running the province and
apposition to the three-
year ban on grizzly bear
hunting.

Giesbrecht also opposed
the ban and made his
views known to Dosanjh

_ prior to his appointment.

Recovering from cancer
treatments, Giesbrecht

--taok a day to think about

the new job before taking

it,

*. “If there was a whole

ot of travel, that could be
-a-bit of a problem, but it
“can. work. I’m going to
~ pace myself,” he said.

 Giesbrecht is not only

‘Tesponsible for highways,

but for all transportation

«programs. within the pro-

vincial government.
. His portfolio includes
the B.C. Transportation Fi-

_-hancing Authority, a crea-
- tion of the NDP govern-:

ment, which borrows
money for major projects.

~~ Tt’s the agency, for ex-
ample, which is financing
improvements -

Toad

They'll keep
this ministry.

B.C: LIBERALS have’ re:

“treated from an earlier po-
-sition to eliminate the
women’s equality ministry |

“if they are elected.

“We're going to keep.

, “those programs there,”*
said party leader Gordon ,

Campbell of the ministry
the NDP. created when it
“first took office.

“Tf you have a political-

--ly,.accountable govern-
~./.ment,.you have to have a
“Minister held politically to:
account,” he said.

“: What that means,
Campbell added, is having
enough ministers in a ca-

“binet who know what is
“going on-so they can take
-Tesponsibility for what
happens.

-:. Having too few cabinet

. ‘vministers ‘responsible for

~ stoo-many departments only

_ makes it. more difficult to
“control what is going on,
he said,

“Campbell declined to

give any details on how |
“many ‘cabinet ministers '
. he'll have, if elected, or
«how he will structure pov-
ernment ministries.

ERIKA LANGER

The Realtors of Royal
Lepage Terrace would
like to congratulate Erika
Po with managing
Lepage Terrace,
hel has alse acheived
> the prestigious Sales
~ Achievement award from
2 the national
. Reel Lepage Franchise
for the year 2000.

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SKEENA NDP MLA Helmut Giesbrecht, left, stands
with Deputy Premier Joy MacPhail and Lieutenant-

Governor Garde Gardom

highways minister Feb. 15,

after being sworn in as

leading into the Nass Val-
ley and is managing the
$30 ‘million road connec-
tion between Greenville

‘and Kincolith in the Nass.

And now that he can sit ~
around the cabinet table,.
Giesbrecht can lobby fel-
low ministers.

He said hell continue
to pursue health minister
Corky Evans for a separate
ward at Mills Memorial
Hospital for elderly pa-
tients awaiting spaces at
extended care facilities.

This is Giesbrecht’s
second cabinet posting.

He was named. public

services minister by then-
Premier Glen Clark in July
1999 until February 2000
when Dosanjh became
premier after. a leadership
tace and shuffled the cabi-
net.

Giesbrecht supported
Dosanjh rival Gordon Wil-
son in that leadership con-
test.

A teacher by profession,
Giesbrecht was first elec-

. ted in 1991 and re-elected
" in 1996,

He was also a Terrace
alderman from 1976 to
1981 and mayor from 1981
to 1985.

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