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A6 Terrace Review — Wednesday, June 13, 1990

If the B.C. government is to be believed, all of us in this
region will soon be tooting 20-year-old Scotch out of gold-
plated vessels, comfortably watching our wealth accumulate
while we sit in our palaces, or perhaps while being driven to
the yacht club in chauffeured Bentleys. In the past month the
amount of investment-in-waiting being described by people
who want to get re-elected to people who should know better
is enough to make Donald Trump drool.

The type of hallucinatory investment that taxpayers and
voters like best is the kind they don’t have to pay for, namely
private investment. Suddenly, six months before an election
writ is expected to hit the floor, the government thinks China
Steel is ready to dump $4 billion on Prince Rupert (an NDP
riding). Here we also have a couple of government ministries
helping out Jack Davis in Energy, who has a bit of a knotty
problem — a few million tons of coal that an arbitration panel
ordered the operator (in which the government has a large
stake) to sell at a cost below production. Gee, a steel mill right
at the end of the rail line. .

The only problem is that the chance of a steel mill going into
Rupert or anywhere else in B.C. is approximately that of a
snowball surviving a trip through a blast furnace, to put a little
spin on the old simile. There’s no iron ore around here, and
the Chinese already have a reliable source of ore and coal in
Australia. One characteristic of 54 billion is that it doesn’t land
in the hands of idiots, which is what the Chinese would have
to be if they decided to ship ore and coal to Rupert and ship
the steel back to Taiwan.

Then there’s the Kitimat copper smelter (also in a localized
pocket of NDP support), which has been announced like an
industrial investment prospectus run backwards. First the
location scouting was disclosed in concert by the government
and the consultant doing the scouting, but with no information
on interested investors. Then the screen went blank. Copper
prices are forecast to hold up well in the next 10 years, but one
B.C. copper mine recently closed forever, another is reaching ~-
the tail end of its ore body, and the biggest deposit in Canada
at Windy Craggy Mountain is going to be held up for years by
environmental tangles. There’s a lot of copper ore coming on
stream, but it all happens to be on the wrong side of the
equator. |

Now we’ve got a call for exploration at the hot springs
south of Terrace to determine if electricity can be generated
from the heat. We've also got a study from 1982 by one of

: B.C. Hydro’s Meager Creek veterans saying that in all
likelihood it.can’t. . ce

Skeena voters would be well-advised this summer to keep

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In compliance with the 8.C. Human Rights Act, |

- The view from
Victoria —

by John Pifer

VICTORIA — ‘“‘We are a”
political party, not a religious
organization.”” - -

With those words, MLA . |
Grace McCarthy, the grande
dame of the Social Credit Par-
ty, welcomed the news that the
party group reviewing the con-
stitution had recommended
elimination of a reference to
Christian-only principles.

For years, the Socred con-

_ stitution’s first objective urged

members ‘‘to foster and en-

- courage the universally recog-

nized principles of Christianity

fea | in human relationships’’,

(It should be noted that the. ,

. change calls for party members

to recognize ‘‘the supremacy of

= God”, thus opening the way

for non-Christians to feel in-
cluded). .
McCarthy, the former long- -
serving Cabinet minister,
believes that a more wide-
ranging declaration of faith is
required in this era of multi-
culturalism and the growing
numbers of those coming to
and living in-B.C; who follow —
other religions. —. r
It was she who led the charge

‘to get the amendment, despite

a repeated defence of the ex-. .
isting phrase by everyone from
Premier Bill Vander Zalm to*
senior party officials, who said

’ that “everyone”? knew the won-

derfulness of Christianity.
Now, if all goes according to

. plan, the constitutional amend-
“ments will be placed before Oc-
.. tober’s Socred convention.

You may recall'the embar-_

/ - fassment of last year’s event,”
” -whien former-Socred candidate

Me Michael Levy; a Jew, was

- booed off the floor for trying; .
tthe government in power in
_ B.C,witl-milk, for all it’s - .--

foe

‘to discuss. the-issue:-

Party and goyernment

- and Jews and Muslims and

_ pre-feasibility study which has

.even begin.

- _ be taken on whether to go

‘ without the pre-.

“next three. or four years is that -.

leaders.are-praying-(you'should worth, the possibility of all
excuse the expression) that the those jobs and a ‘‘non-
constitutional change will pass _— polluting’’. mill becoming a
quietly, and will show Sikhs reality.

It’s called politics.

other non-Christians in B.C.
that any suggestion of narrow
thinking in Social Credit has

He's Baaaaacckk!
For those of you who

ended. - thought Peter Toigo was out of
And quite frankly, itis long the picture as far as being seen
overdue. in public with his pal, the. .
premier, think again.
’ Don’t hold your breath Late last month, the Delta

don was visible by his presence,
along with the premier and his
wife, Miz Lillian, at the official
opening of a small office in
North Vancouver.

No doubt you recall how Mr.
Toigo, the rotund owner of a
hamburger chain and assorted
dog food companies and other
interests, became notorious
during 1987/88 for his associa-
tion with Mr. Vander Zalm.

After being the main bagman
for the premier's 1986 leader-
ship bid, the millionaire Mr. T.
got unprecedented access to the
premier’s former principal
secretary (David Poole), and to
the Cabinet table.

Whether it was the Expo
lands controversy and his 11th-
hour ‘‘bid’’ for all of that
property and more, or his
bullying of liquor board of-
ficials in the Knight Street Pub
affair, the usually private Mr.
Toigo got onehelluva. lot more
attention than he wanted or ex-
pected. — |

So when he faded into the |
background —- taking the
disgraced Poole with him as
chief flunky — few expected to
- ‘About the only thing you _ see his name in lights again.

maybe certain about over the © - Perhaps the irresistible fact
y ; ° that the office being opened

about the prospect of a }4
billion steel plant coming to
B.C.

I know there has been a pre-

narrowed potential sites down.
to Port Hardy ‘and Prince
Rupert.

And I know there have been |
glowing news reports about
4,500 potential jobs and a new
market for B.C. coal.

But, even if China Steel Cor-
poration is actually serious
about locating in this province
instead of in one of several
Third World countries where
the labor is cheaper, the unions
weaker, and the environmental
regulations more puny, it
would be several years before
phase one construction could.

Once. Port Hardy ‘‘wins’’ as
the ideal B.C. site (a peerless
Pife prediction), a decision will

ahead with a detailed pre-
feasibility study.
It makes this scribe wonder
if they will ever get down toa
serious real feasibility study,

. -was for once-renowned broad-
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