Alz - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 19, 1995 Growing group THE NEW body which soon will be responsible for local health care decisions is slowly taking shape. -:. : It’s looking fora person to manage the process'of taking over the responsibilities of ex- isting health service agencies, And the newly-formed com- munity health council is also working on the management structure that will be in place once it assumes control, says chairman Bob Kelly. The community health coun- cll will be directly responsible for the operations of Mills Memorial Hospital and Ter- raceview Lodge, It will also have a say in the other health “care ° services being provided in the city, “The tentative date is Octo- ber or November,”’ said Kelly last week. “But we don’t want to rush things. We want to do this properly.’? It has moved toward that end with Kelly, and Sandy Sand- hals, another member of the health council, being named to the Terrace ‘Regional Health Care Society board. That society now runs Mills and Terraceview but will wind up its affairs when the health council takes over. . ; The addition of Kelly and Sandhals makes. for - three taembers of the council on the health care society board. Peggy Julseth is. already a director of the health care society, “This way the community health council can become aware of the operations of the. soclety so we won't be flying blind when it takes over,”’ said Kelly. The transition manager will be an existing health ministry - employee and an appointment is wanted as soon as possible. There: will be a permanent executive head reporting to the community health council when it assumes all of its responsibilitics. ] FROM FRONT Nisga’a treaty talks collapse © Japse in talks and pinned the blame a province will hold the feds to the cost-sharing deal they signed and accuses Watson of “artfully twist- ing the facts.” “They know full well that stumpage rates and other rates are variable,” he said. “They went in _ with their eyes wide open.” The $30 ‘million difference . separating the two governments from a Nisga’a deal: balloons to $1.8 billion when multiplied out - across the other 60 or so native land claims in B.C., he says. “Nobody can justify cutting a - deal at any price — a deal that would put the burden on B.C. tax- payers and reduce the burden for ' Canada,” Cashore said. . “We’ve walked from the talks ‘until the federal. government ~ decides they're going to do the right thing and abide. by- the Memorandum of Understanding.” ‘Watson questions whether the province really wants a deal. “They’re holding the Nisga’ a negotiations for ransom,” Watson ‘said. “Only history will judge what - their motivations were. We cannot agree to that kind of brinkmanship.” Cashore says it's the feds who don’t wantadeal. . “They don’t have the will to do this, It’s becoming. very obvious. More has been acocomplished in the last eight-weeks than in the entire course of the negotiations — ~ because the province’set a date.” “The federal government is more interested in paying negotia- tion costs than paying settlement costs,” he added. “They’ve been quite happy to do this ‘for the jast 20 years.” Talks were to continue last "Friday — the day the province had set as a deadline for reathing a consensus agreement on a the main principles of the treaty. But a front page story in that day’s Vancouver Sun — headlined ‘B.C, deal with Nisga’a torpedoed by Ottawa’ — predicted. the col- TRACE CO-OP on the feds. “We woke up this morning ‘to find that the province had ‘stage- managed a press release and some headlines in the Vancouver Sun,” federal treaty negotiator David Osbom said Friday. * He refuted the idea that Ottawa is to blame. “If there’s an impasse it’s the province who declared it," Osbom said. ‘They pulled the plug.” He said provincial negotiator Jack Ebbels unilaterally moved to “stand down” the talks. “Tt wasn't a joint decision that the negotiations were at an © impasse, which is usually a deci- | sion that both parties make in good faith negotiations.” ' “Both we and the Nisga’a were prepared to continue talking.” _ Osborn said federal and Nisga’a negotiators want to contin- ue treaty talks this week, while oth- _er negotiators ty to resolve the cost-sharing issue. -- “But thie province dassn’t see it that way,” he said. . Asked if he thought a pending provincial election was a factor, Osborn said: “Somebody’s always having an election. That shouldn’s | be used as an excuse to do nothing — unless you want it to be.” Nisga’a Tribal Council presi- dent Joe Gosnell attacked the two governments for the breakdown talks. “{t's degenerated to a finger- ‘ pointing exercise,” Gosnell said. “So close to everyone's common goal, and we have now been hung © up as a direct result of federal-pro- vincial bickering.” “We refuse to let this process be pushed aside because ofa politi- cal battle between levels of government.” Federal and Nisga’a negotia- tors were to hold a conference call with Ebbels this week to determine whether the talks will resume. FAMILY FASHIONS DEPARTMENT BUY 1 1/2 MEN‘S Haggar, Kediak, tkeda........ 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