B.C. Green leader makes foray north GREEN PARTY leader Stuart Parker is beating the bushes for new members in the northwest, The Green leader toured the region a week ago and met with ‘the handful of lo- -cal members here, While this has never been a hotbed of activily for the environmental left, Parker says the partly is growing _. everywhere-and now stands al around six per cent in the “polis, - Support is highest among voters under 35, notes the 26-year-old Victoria _resi- dent, **Our share of the vote in- creases as each new chunk of the population turns 18,7? ‘he says, He says the party has also gained. ground in response to: what he called - the ~ dramatic shift to the right of - the NDP, ~ A-key to the party’s Strategy is to fight for elec- toral change. “Under the current first- -past-the-post system, the Greens’. six per cent never translates into a single seat in the legislature. But under "a ‘proportional —representa- “ tion’ system, they’d get six “per cent of the seats. "The first past the post system is why 61 per cent of British Columbians voted against. the NDP govern- Ment yel we not only have an NDP government, but we have ‘an’ NDP majority govemnment,’’ says Parker, ~who is also vice-president of the B.C. Electoral Change Coalition. Parker says the Liberals and-NDP put too much em- phasis on economic growth as the key to jobs, when he says much economic prowth stems from the loss of jobs through downsizing and me- chanization, Greens, Parker said, -would replace the Forest Practices Code with a strong Forest Act that would end Stuart Parker its wood in the rapidly growing market for ecologi- cally certified wood. ‘That's the markel Mac- Millan Bloedel is looking at getting into over ihe next five years,” he added, Parker also calls for broader reform of the forest industry ta stop favouring large companies at the ex- pense of small operators. Parker attacks NDP deficit financing as vigouronsly as a Reformer, saying they would ban deficit financing. But he also defines clearcut logging in B.C, ATG een btn Teneo increase the number of jobs: without increasing the amount of timber cunt, Rather than try to be the low cost producer, he said, B.C. should be trying to sell Food Bank broke record THE TERRACE Churches Food Bank broke all distrib- ulion records this year. More bags of groceries ‘were given out this year - than ever before, said caor- dinator Kathy Miller, Miller said 3,704 bags of food were given out in six _- months. She’s never seen such much food donated before either. **Peaple were just excep- tional with giving — this year," she said. ‘It has been outstanding,’ The food bank delivered its last food hampers April 15 and is closed until next October. -Miller sald the 633 bags of groceries that were. given out this month, emptied the - food bank’s shelves. *We're all out of food,’? she said. ‘Everything is gone,” : . The shelves were cleaned out because the food bank’s distribution centre on Walsh Avenue is being sold, Miller is looking for a new building that is user friend- ly, accessible and rent free, Locals in need of food this summer can visit the Ter- race Pentecostal Assembly - . Mondays: ' from 1-3. However, the food will not be distributed April 29, May 3, May 27 or May 31. , The Seventh Day Ad- ventist Church also runs a soup kitchen every Saturday from 3-5 pam, in the Health Unit Auditorium or Litile Park. ~ Food donations are always welcome ai both churches. and Thursdays ‘deficit’? in not strictly financial terms. “The province doesn’t just run a monetary deficit, but a timber deficit and a topsoil deficit as well,’’ he said. Parker also has a position on the Nisga’a Treaty — which he tried to enunciate when he crashed a televised CBC-TV debate of party | leaders last winter and was physically removed by CBC staffers. “I was pounced on and dragged out of the build- ing,’’ he said. Parker says the CBC broke an agreement with the party to include it in future debates during elections, The network says this didn’t count because there was no election — Parker says it did because - the Parksville byelection was in progress, “The Nisga’a treaty as it stands is better than no treaty,’’ he said. But he’s opposed to the transfer to the Nisga’a of lands in the upper Nass that are contested by the neigh- bouring Gitanyow without first resolving treaty over- laps. We'd like to thank all t! 1e Canadians | ivan by | The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 2B, 1999 - A AU Y2K OK, BC? You, Your Business and the Year 2000 Problem What exactly is Y2K? And what does it mean for you? Your home? . Your Business? Find out for yourself by coming to the BC government’s — a “Action2000 town meeting. 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