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| Relea ed “last week, the Forest
Resources Commission’s 117 page report
is a ‘challenging document to wade
through. °

The 108 ‘recommendations it contains
also promise to revolutionize the ap-
proach to forestry in this province.
Forest companies will also have to make
significant adjustments if all the pro-
posals go through.

Given that, it is perhaps not surprising
Forests minister Claude Richmond

" struck a cautious note in his initial state-
ment. on the document.

Suggesting it would take the govern-
ment “*some time to digest the report’,
the” tninister said it would have to “look
very.carefclly’’ at major changes effec-
ting the industry.

“However, his characterization of the
commission *s recommendations as ‘‘a
useful contribution” to Victoria’s cur-
rent examination of land use planning i is
troubling. oo

‘The phrase : “damning with faint
praise’* comes to mind.

On i assumes the . government

4 Playing with figure is an: ‘essential: a or @freourst, 4

part of putting together any budget.”

Ite can ‘also be useful when presenting
one.

Ens summarizing its 1991 budget, coun-
cil laid claim to a minor miracle. It had
managed, apparently, to find a way to
increase spending by nearly nine per cent
even though revenue was only going up
by 5.44 per cent.

At the same time, local taxes for many

“residents would actually go down and .

_ the budget would be balanced at the end
of it alll
‘The figures suggested a genius thet
could solve our national fiscal plight vir-
tually overnight.

‘Action now

established the commission pd sent it
on its province-wide search for-forestry’s’
Holy Grail because it recognized there
were serious problems that: needed to be
addressed.

Nearly two years work and more than

1,700 submissions would appear to add
up to more than just “a useful contribu- .
tion”.

And while Mr. Richmond and his col-
leagues may well require time to fully
evaluate the report, they might be well
advised to heed a warning found on page
22.

Suggesting two years should be suffi-
cient time to develop land use plans at a
district level, it adds, ‘‘Little will be gain-
ed, and much may be lost through fur-
ther delays.”’

Also worthy of note is a comment
from commission chairman Sandy Peel
in his introduction to the report.
Describing the recommendations as
‘pieces in a jigsaw puzzle’, he adds,
**Leave some pieces out, and the vision is
not complete.” .

i :

2 besorgen of sleight of

» haridiiivolved ne pear a

The figures used afe:correct,, The point.
is they compare this year’s projected
figures with last year’s actuals, not those.
used in preparing the 1990 budget. ~

According to the city’s own figures,
last year’s revenue exceeded expectations
by nearly $600,000. Even though ex-
penses were also up, the end result was a.
$400,000 surplus at the end of the year’.

So, all you have to do is draw up a new
budget, one that does not include
another big surplus, compare it to what
actually happened last year rather than.
what you originally forecast, and voila; a
miracle.

Discrimination no joke

- Instead of erasing discrimina-
tion in our schools, we're pro-
moting’ it to high office.

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extra skill in addition to the Dy Claudette Sandeck | your é artic nous Suzu ; hp ; he we

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Extremism. needs.

careful response

VICTORIA —On February 3 |
this year, the Canadian Broad-
casting Corporation aired
David Suzuki’s Vaices in the

‘; Forest, and quite predictably,
o all hell broke loose on the in- ‘

dustry front. ‘
-S Fletcher Challenge said the
progam was one-sided, pro-

_, mMoted a narrow preservationist
“point of view and had more

~ than a dozen errors, Mac-
Millan Bloedel reacted in much
the: same way, ‘launching | a

* plistering attack on Suzuki i in.
MB Journal, a publication that
goes mainly to employees.

On a recent trip to.the .
Cariboo, I came-across the
same sentiments. Three months
after the program aired, a lot

.of the people invalved in the
lumber industry were still
angry.at the CBC in ‘general
and Suzuki in particular.

Among all the-screeching,

there was on voice of reason,
- and it'didn’t come from what
could be considered an impar- .

tial quarter, but from one of

_ the top people in the industry

— Adam Zimmerman, chair-*"
man of Noranda Forests Inc.

and former. chairman of. Mac- :

Millan: Bloedel.

In a. letter: to MB ‘Journal, -
Zimmerman chides the com-..-
_pany’s ‘overzealous ‘approach ©.

to the program, oe .
-” enough to be given a wi ire
: “more we dump on him, the

ing. Here is the letter:
**While always. an ‘admirer

of your. paper (MB Journal), 1. 2

_ moved to write a letter an ‘Te

community leader, The ad asks
for ‘a sense of humour.

’ Now, a sense of humour is
something you have to be born
with, tike brown eyes or narrow
hips. It can’t be grafted on by a
plastic surgeon although like
muscles, it can be developed

_ through exercise.

Certainly there’s. room’ for
humour. in: education. Our
school district has a humour

niche the size of a Roger’s Pass _

‘CNR tunnel. After negotiating
fourteen months at the pace of
chess-by-mail, exhanging offers
as variable as the rental rates for
Terrace's thet, 150 items remain
on the table. Teachers are now
in a. strike position. That’s not
funny. -

Humour is the one thing so
far educators haven't touted,:

then abandoned. It may. be a -

way for VP's to deal. with
copiers thit don't copy, com-

puters that don’t compute, and”

students that don’t study.

Humour would certainly bea.
life ring to VP"s. when they're -

half of. the team. supervising
mobs of rowdy youngsters while
striking teachers hoist, placards,

from a safe distance. Kids don't
want to see adults cry. And
already Bobe Hope deadpan is a

. superiniendency must,

Students raised with TV have
short attention spans. To rivet
their focus, administrators must.
make sheool resemble Saturday
Night Live improvising rap
routines: despite budget short-
falls, overcrowded classrooms,
and teacher walkouts.

Though as welcome as apart-
ment houses, in “our province
teacher strikes are as inevitable
as cabinet resignalions. A
postive atitude taward picketing
might -help. ‘*Hilting the
bricks’? echoes drudgery,
routine, and poverty,

On the other hard, ‘treading
the boards’’ has a fun-filled
zing reminiscent. of Broadway.
hits, show tunes, and glamour. I

Applicants will tap dance’.

sideways, Daffy Duck style, to’
the centre of the stage. Their
schtick may begin “A funny.
thing happened to me on the:
way to this interview...” They’Il
speak about ACTRA and their”
talent agents, never mentioning ;

TDTA,

‘Trustees’ hiring choice will:
depend on the level of their
entertainment and jeftover pop- :
com. -

“Trouble i is, when it comes to a”
sense of humour, we're not !

created equal,

“This ad accentuates that *

discrimination.

expect respondents to this ad is

won't sit throught humdrum
board room interviews. No, sir.

-Auditions wilt be held in the
REM Lee theatre where ‘ap-.
plicants will be introduced from

‘the - wings by an upbeal ;
secrelary-{reasurer, cordless
_Microphone in hand.

* gihest i its publication. ». aoe,

Wk fe “To begin with, Lam hot |
ily chairman of Noranda .
Forests Inc, but have been the

me : for MB for eight years

shairman of the executive

answer. I.

“know. te ‘risk of being edited.
/ Vs Bor i instance; I was:

- choose my ‘Spots to, we. a
Seals ies t'to ton . treme,than itwas,i

answer these requests, direlly _

‘and honestly, even’ “when yous =

From the

Capital
by Hubert Beyer

program for two hours. What
you saw was perhaps one and
a half. minutes out of-all this,
so imagine hoWiRaa ed ;
‘could have made me Iq
would have looked even worse - |
if | had refused to interview, -'
which several others did.

“After filming; J invited
" Suzuki and his producer Jim
Murray to stay for a drink (or
two). We had a lively and con-
structive conversation which 1 -
believe (and Murray says)
moderated .to tone and slant or
bias of the program.

after the airing was not to

compliment but just to say, as

you reported, that it had been -
better than expected. There —
was lots of time given to cur
loggers ‘and foresters,’ and the
lady. environinentalist v was pret-
ty: reasonable.

“£ know Suzuki is extreme,
‘dubious and often incredible.
- He also has a particular thing
about:our: forests..On the -
other hand, he has a’huge
Following: of believers and the ©

wider the gulf between us and
those we would like as. SUP,
porters, ote
ag “Accordingly, L believe we.

* and resonable and work -

“towards a rapprochement. with: .
oe those: who: ‘believe differently: :
' We-are riot ‘all, fight ‘more'than.»

they are, even ‘though they.
have moved ‘lis to-a much

in'your vice-chairman. more: environmentally. responsi-

ble and reponsive posture. ‘than

cominittee. With such respon; -: we had five or 10-years. ago.

’ siblities Tami called on, ‘almost “Had COFI's (Council of
daily by. the incdia and.try to 74: “Fores st Induspries} response:

been: less immediate and ex- |

a@fighting chance".
vent ‘moderate ‘teprise::

ft PonT GET in!
L STAKED THS °
CLAIM LAST.
YEAR AND Noll
I CAn'T Find
HE BLAZES! Ay

regarded. wvith.some cautions.
+ Hetis-eqrtainly no-journaliat

ment. To attack him un-
. “My comment to Murray -

should be articulate, objective.

. change of attitude.’ ee

d. Saries, but: ‘the Tesource Of GG

"which they are ‘stewards on the :

iz public's. 5 behalf. 5
As it ig: think the industry

- -objectians ' ‘to that particular’:

Nobody could have said it. es
better. I agree with Zimm
man that Suzuki is to be

as-he sometimes: fancies in
himself;-His: bias are clearly
showing, In fact, he doesn’t.
even make an effort to disguise —_
them.) = CL
But as Zimmerman says, Ue
he’s gol a huge following. In ay
real sense Suzuki is one of the”
most high-profile spokesmen
of the environmental move:

necessarily is to invite a public. feo
backlash rather than narrow |...
the gulf between the indusiry.,
and its critics,

Equally. noteworthy i is that m
Zimmeran publicly gives credit, oan
to the environmental move: ©. ~
ment for having pushed the i ine
dustry towards a more respon-*-
sible stand on environmental, :
matters, .

For some years now, I have

considered myself a rather con- noe

structive critic of the forest i in
dustry. have had little. use. fo
the environmental fringe, ele
ment, ] have taken the i in-.:
dustry’s side at tines. and... a
spoken out against the indus Ty.
at others... ms
Above all, Lhave: always
believed strongly that.coiifron-""
tation will not solve any pro-!
blems and have advocated
tolerance. For that reason
find Zimmerman's redction't
the Suzuki speciai‘a refreshiny

Wish that all. B, on rest ‘in
dustry representatives exhibite
such an enlightened attitude, 7.
not only towards their adver-

Perhaps Zinniermman could

a ‘be convinced to write a: regular: |
».,eolumn.For-all. Forest: compari
_ Publications: “