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AG - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Just where are these jobs?

Dear Sir: .
Could the log truck driver
in Premier Gordon Camp-

-bell’s recent $11 million ad
‘campaign please tell us what .

benefits he received from
his part in the campaign by
’ standing in front of his truck
saying, “This is where the
jobs are”?

There’s an old saying that
“figures don’t-lic, “but liars
do figure.”

' As an example, if a hos-
pital.with a staff of 50 em-
_ Ployees laid off 25 employ:

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ces.and those workers had to
leave thé*province because

of no employment available,

the Premier could boast that
the hospital has 100 per cent

" employment.

But there would be no

B.C. can be

Dear Sir:

‘When! read the paper :
-“or watch the ceaseless ads -

on television telling me that
“f live in’ the best: place on
carth, | have toagree." >
British Columbia ‘ts the
‘best place. on carth to be —
unless you are a child whose
community can’t afford five
days-of education or a spe-.
cial needs child who can’t
“get help in‘the classroom.

It is the best place to be’

unless you are one of the
children making up the 43
per cent increase in food
bank use by ‘children; un-
less you have finished high
-'school, want. to apprentice

_ and find there are.no pro-

grams left or: want to-go to
university but can’t afford
‘tuition anymore.

British Columbia isn’ tthe
, greatest place to. be a’ child

or a youth anymore?

*

Nor is it the best’ place to”
> be. a working. adult —a mill
worker i in Térrace or an idled
smelter worker in Kitimat or
any union person’ who has -
had their contract stripped
of benefits, ~
British Columbia is not
the best place on earth to live
if you need an operation and

especially if you are old and

much better

Rob Hart —

“need a chronic care bed.
The beautiful place we -

want 10 live in is one where
we give our children fully
funded education, where

teachers can teach and chil-

* dren can fearn.:
It'is a place where we
havea sustainable

ging ‘trucks no longer roll by

- empty Terrace mills,

_Itis a place where Kema-
_ no power fuels Kitimat jobs. .
It isa place where we

provide patient care before

propaganda.
_ Robert Hart,
Terrace, B.C..

. = i .
mention of the poor souls . oS
Editor’s note: Following

that had to leave ~ the prov-—
ince. government policy for the
==Does that guy really drive period leading up to the May

election, the canpaign Mr.
Brinson Fefers to has ended.
1 . ;

that truck?
Lloyd Brinson, —
Nass Camp, B.C,

Workshops - Workshops — Workshops

‘ Do you need help writing a resume?
Do you need help writing a cover letter?
Do you need interviewing skills?

Do you need basic computer skills?

Throughout January, InterConnect
i will be putting on workshops

Monday to Friday
‘1:00 pm — 4:00 pm

Telephone to register 250 635 7995
InterConnect Training & Employment .
4530 Lakelse Avenue, Terrace, BC V8G 1P4
Canada ADESS..
' InterConnect & Youth Opportunities are programs

of Terrace & District Community Services Society ..
T he Government of Canada has contributed funding to this initiative

forest -
industry and loaded” log- .

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' December: 31,:2004. , ee

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