TERRACE.- —_ Mike Harcourt, a

New Democratic Party MLA for .
Vancouver Centre and the leader. -

of the province’s official opposi-
tion, addressed members of the
Terrace and District Chamber of
Commerce: Monday. His mes-
sage was that the NDP is a.party
that can get, along with business.

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We have* to” ‘produce more
using fewer, trees, a

that,. “We: intend to play an
enlarged role,” says Oberle,

“We have to meet the needs.in © 15
“of native land claims.

the province to the year 2000 to
restock: the ° forests,”
Oberle, and he says Sweden has
shown us how it can be done.
‘They manage: their forests
much more intensively, increas-
ing their annual cut and getting

far more out of acubic metre of

- wood than we ever have. Ac-
cording to Oberle, Sweden has
only half the land base that B.C.

does but they get four times the

value from their forest resource.
' .. Oberle says there is one other
matter that needs to .be ad-
dressed as well — environmental
issues. ‘‘Forestry is not just a
means to simply supply industry
with raw. = miterials,”” he ex-
plains. “The. “forests are the
lungs of tlie planet and we have
to have a very strong commit-
ment to maintain them. We have

to improve our management,”

according to.
Oberle, and: jn accomplishing ©

‘Says

“Like Terrace, we've, e under
gone change. We're a new .

group of young ‘professionals, a

“team,” he told.-the noon-hour

luncheon crowd. After a series
of . personal: sketches of his
caucus - colleagues; «.
called ithe & ‘a tremendous mix

Harcourt | said the NDP’s goal
is te make: B.C.-a model ‘for

perception of ‘northern: B.C.’s

role in that platform is three-’

e-'said: sustained yield
forest Management, preserva-
tion of wilderness for the tour-
ism industry, and the resolution

- To accomplish those goals, he
went on, the province needs to
“quit exploiting the differences,
work cooperatively on common
strengths and common goals,
and establish a process to re-
solve conflicts.” He described
the means to achieve that as
‘willingness to reach a reason-
able accommodation’.

On a provincial level, Har-
court said, the goal of an NDP
government would be to create
‘a bigger economic pie’. He
said the NDP’s philosophy of a
mixed economy is ‘‘right in the
mainstream..of Canadian eco-

nomic tradition’, a mixture of

private and publi 3. sector in-
fluences, with the tpublic sector
— government — acting as
**stewards of the resources’’ and

the private sector initiative being

‘Harcourt .

“vital. toa. higher standard ‘of.

living’’.

With regard to policy toward Jo
‘business, Harcourt said ‘an NDP
government would. ‘adapt: a “no.

surprises” policy.
‘Pay: your: “tanes) treat your

: employees ~ ‘fairly, “and don’t
mess up the eivironment”* was:
his condensed policy message.
_ He. also said an NDP govern- .
‘ment would .“‘live ‘within ‘the
~~ sustainable develdpment. His —

means of B.C.” , alluding again
to the his previous statement
that many of the B.C. NDP
caucus members are ‘indepen-
dent business people accustomed
to balancing budgets.

‘Harcourt also took a run at
forest policies, saying a New
Democrat administration would
award Tree Farm Licenses to
companies that put forward the
best economic development and
value-added plan for use of tim-
ber. He also expressed disap-
pointment in the low level of
forest product research and de-
velopment spending in B.C.,
noting that the NDP would es-
tablish a provincial R&D. agency
**to. achieve the maximum po-
tential from every unit of
wood’’,

Harcourt concluded by urging
the audience, ‘‘I say ‘share our
vision’ to those who say it can’t
be done. Let’s end the conflict,
make tough decisions together,
like a family.” ~

Harcourt was. accompanied
by Atlin MLA Larry Guno and
Prince Rupert MLA Dan Miller.

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