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VisHing Terrace recently for a “Women In Politics” conference, Margaret Mitchell (center), MP (NDP) for Vancouver
‘East, said her experience here “Illustrated very strongly how we must be much more sensitive to the particular pro-
blems. of the north and northern women also.” Seated with Mitchell are Louise Kilby of Quick, President of New.

Democrat’ 8 1 North and a member of the provincial executive for the NDP Party, and locai conference organizer Lynne

Bomford.

“Golden Rule starts Christmas drive

‘Juanita Hatton has collected

’ food and necessary personal

items to give to the poor at

- Christmas time for the past 16
years, and she’s working her

way to her twentieth anniversary
of giving — and probably more.
“Christmas is a terrible time

to be without any kind of ©
-food,’’ says Hatton who, .al-' t

though she no longer has a

‘downtown office, is still giving -

Christmas “Goody Bags”’ to the
needy through her non-profit

“*Golden Rule”’ program. out of

her own home,

She said the program is not
necessarily for people on wel-
fare, or any particular color or
creed.

ont ‘never ask them,”’ said Hat-

n. ‘‘If they need the food they -
come’and get it,’”
“They don’t. get money or

beer or anything like that,”’ she
explained. ‘‘They get good solid

. food. Enough to last a week.”’

Hatton said she needs public
support to run the program and
asks everyone to ‘take a box,
mark it for the Golden Rule and
if they have a can of something,
or an excess of one certain kind
of vegetable, please put it in the
box and later on I?ll let them

continued on page 19

_ presentation”

Terrace Review — Wednesday, September 30, ‘1987 6 a

National child care a
reportexpected soon |

Mitchell, MP-

Margaret M
(NDP) for Vancouver East, said
during a recent visit to Terrace
that the Progressive ‘Conserva-
tive government has been drag-
ging their heels in presenting na-
tional child care objectives but
she expects an announcement

| -soon on the findings of a year
long Task Force on Child Care
- services in Canada.

by Tod Strachan

‘Mitchell, the only NDP
member on a task force which
also.included five Conservatives
and one Liberal, said the group
travelled throughout the country
investigating the need for a
government supported child care
system and made a ‘‘majority
to parliament

earlier this year.

She said the government was
supposed to respond to the
report in June but delayed the
announcement until-later in the
summer, when they again refus-

- ed to respond.
‘“*They’re ‘supposed to “be

developing national objectives,’
Mitchell said. ‘‘They’ve just
constantly postponed it.’’

Mitchell said she now expects
a government response to coin-
cide with Family Week, Oct. 4 to
10.- “‘That’s the rumor I hear
now,’’ she stated.

‘At the same time, however,

she said she expects they will
also have to ‘‘fight pretty hard

at this:end as well,’’ accusing the
provincial’ government of
‘“‘wanting to use the money as

sort of token amounts — going

to parents rather than services”
According to Mitchell, the
federal NDP didn’t support the

majority task force report and -
filed (a “minority report’? of
- their own on its findings. . ,
Although she didn’t have. the.
exact. figures, Mitchell-said the.
main thrust of majority report.
was to provide child. care ©
assistance. through tax - breaks‘

rather than providing ‘child care
services,

“1 don’t know the details,””

she said. ‘‘But the government
members (Conservatives) felt
there should be something like

$700 million go into child care in

a broad sense.

“But $400 million of that was
through tax credits, which we
believe is not the way to go,

‘There is no point.in having
tax write-offs and tax incentives.

if people don’t have quality —
child care to use for their™

children,’” Mitchell said. ‘‘Our

position has been that the-
-federal government should be |
putting some. ‘out front money’ -

into child care throughout the

country to help deal with the

present crisis,” ~

Mitchell suggested a funding
system to increase the number of —

licenced spaces available for
children would be more respon-
sive to public need and, al-
though she admitted it was still a
controversial item within the
party, ‘‘We would like to see it
non-profit. ”

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