Ad - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 15, 1999 TERRACE STANDARD ESTABLISHED APRIL 27, 1988 PUBLISHER: ROD LINK ADDRESS: 3210 Clinton Street Terrace, B.C. * V8G SR2 TELEPHONE: (250) 638-7283 ¢ FAX: (250) 638-8432 EMAIL: standard@kermode.net Bad round SKEENA REFORM MP Mike Scott has found himself in the sand bunker of politics when it comes to the $456,854 in federal government grants given to the Skeena Valley Golf and Country Club over the last two years. There’s no way he can finish the round with a respectable score. Consider the following: u The vast majority of Canadians will say they are being taxed too much and that what they pay is too often spent on wasteful or frivolous items. s The bread and butter of opposition politicians is pointing out the most flagrant of this kind of spending in hopes of embarrassing the party in power. « The money came from the feds’ Transitional Jobs Fund. It’s been a target of opposition politicians who say it’s a convenient way to sluice some of that money around. Now consider that if this money had gone to any other golf club ina riding held by the federal Liberals, Mr. Scott would have been one of the first to offer his criticism. After all, such things are an affront to the bedrock philosophy of the Reform party. But when it came to his own riding he didn’t. Instead, Mr. Scott says he rubber stamps all such applications that cross his desk for his own riding because he says he doesn’t have the capa- bility to decide what should or should not be given approval. Besides, says Mr. Scott, placing MPs in the position of approving applications puts them in a conflict of interest. So what Mr. Scott is saying that while he may not have the capability to decide what should happen in Skeena, he sure as heck — if he is to fulfill his role as a.critic of..the. government — - has the capability todo that in the ridings: of other MPs. Which doesn’t make sense.. Politicians are judged by their actions. How can Mr. Scott now be taken seriously in his criticisms of federal policy when he can’t or won’t do it in his own backyard? The green on 18 is a long way away. The coach IN PROFESSIONAL sports, they say coaches are hired to be fired. When the team’s doing fine, life is grand. When the team is in trouble, the coach is the first out the door. And that’s the context in which to place the departure to a job in Prince George of Terrace Area Health Council chief executive officer Michael Leisinger. Rightly or wrongly, somebody had to pay a price for the position the health council found it- self in when it came to the finances at Mills Memorial Hospital. Mr. Leisinger leaves with more losses than wins. And as is the case in professional sports, the ownership and the players remain. 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Slories, photographs, illustrations, designs and typastyles In the Terrace Standard exe tha property of the oe holders, including Cariboo Press (1969) Ltd,, Ils iltustralion repro services and advertising agancies. Rsproduction in whole or in part, without written permission, is specifically prohibited. Avthorizad as second-class mail pending the Post Offica Department, lor payment of postage in cash. Special thanks to all our contributors and correspondents for their time and talents OK FOLKS. LET'S GO OVER THE B.S. ONE MORE TIME... . YOU TRAVELLED FOR 75 DAYS ON THIS TUB,. D. YOU'VE LOST ALL YOUR IDENTITY PAPERS IN ASTORM.. 3, YOU ARE APOLITICAL REFUGEE AND YOUR LIFE WAS IN DANGER... AND MOST IMPORTANT : TRY NOT TO SNICKER.. CHUCKLE OR GIGGLE... ri Re hig =, iB | ad A aK sat rig i t ~ ee ee a ee Resisting needn't be futile = VICTORIA ~ Two weeks ago, the Defence of Canadian Liberty Committee held a two- day conference in Ottawa. The DCLC is a left-wing activist group concerned about the no longer gradual assimila- tion of Canada into a global economic structure that does not allow for a lol of national interests and sovereignty. Many Canadians, and not necessarily only those leaning to the left of the political spec- trum, share that concern. You don’t have to be a constitutional expert to realize that the forces of globalization, finding form in free trade agreements, the World Trade Organization and the dead but soon to be reborn Multilateral Agreement on Investment erode and ullti- mately eliminale the sover- _ elgnty of nations. ‘Among the speakers at the conference was Ovide Mer- credi, the former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, one of the most elo- quent spokesmen for the cause of Canada’s indigenous peo- ples. Mercredi brought a mest unusual offer to the conference. The First Nations’ centuries of struggle against the forces of assimilation in Canada, he said, uniquely qualifies them to help out in, indeed, lead the battle against the modern-day forces FROM THE’CAPITAL HUBERT BEYER of globalization that may even- tually wipe out whatever national identity Canada has, “I believe that our experi- ences with imperialism, colo- nialism and federalism can be instructive to those Canadians who fear the loss of their inde- pendence, loss of their Jand, water and economies and the loss of