Al 4 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 29, 1999

News In Brief

Man killed in crash

A TWO-VEHICLE accident on Hwy 37 South
claimed the life of a Burnaby man Dec. 17.. _

Mark Angelo Baldonaro, 26, was the lone occup-
ant of a 1986 Prelude that went out of control about
one kilometre north of the Kitimat. River bridge,
crossed-the centre line and collided with an on-

coming Ford pick-up,

minor injuries.

land Lake for. disposal.

cial, he says.

The-pick-up struck the Prelude's driver's door,
killing Baldonaro instantly. ~~

The driver of the pick up, a 68-year-old Kitimat
man, was taken to Kitimat General Hospital with

About that garbage

MIGHTY MOE has an idea to solve the area’s
dilemma over where its garbage should go.

He favours a concept developed by five compa-
nies in Ontario to handle that province’s -garbag
from its major urban centres.

The five have a system whereby they’ll. collect
the garbage, recycle as much of it'as possible. and
then ship it by rail north to a Former mine at Kirk-

Mighty Moe says he knows of the system be-
cause ‘Kirkland Lake is his home territory and a
goad friend of his is involved in the effort.

Doing something like that here would be benefi-
nclude Canadian . Waste
operation here), and CN

The five companies i
Services (which has an
Rail; -

From front

Reformer says
he’ll be held
accountabie

hoped would force govern-
ments to shift their stance.

The first test of the
treaty came in the 1996
provincial election. The
treaty — then at the agree-
ment-in-principle stage
that laid out most of the
provisions — never became
a massive issue either lo-
cally or province-wide.

The NDP government
and Skeena NDP MLA
Helmut Giesbrecht were
re-elected, with consider-
able help from a split of
the right-wing vote.

“It was a failure on the
patt of the media in Van-
couver to understand the
importance of the agree-
ment-in-principle,” Scott
says. “It was extremely
difficult to. make it an
election issue because the
media wasn’t interested.”

Two years of detailed
negotiations ensued and
the final treaty was con-
cluded in August of 1998,

Terrace mayor Jack
Talstra and city council-
lors came out in general
support of the trealy that
fall, although they avoided
at every turn having a for-
mal debate about it.

An effort to have all

B.C. municipalities add a
referendum question on the
treaty to the ballot in No-
vember’s municipal elec-
tions was rejected in all
but two north Okanagan
communities.

This fall, Talstra and
other northwest municipal
leaders voiced their coun-
cils’ support for the treaty
before House of Commons
committee hearings that
travelled to Terrace.

Scott denounced Tal-
stra’s stand, saying he had
no mandate to take a pro-
treaty position on behalf of
Terrace residents.

By then ‘new municipal
elections were underway —
the ultimate test of wheth-
er mayors and councillors
reflect voters” wishes.

Virtually every can-
didate for ‘Terrace council
came out in support of the
treaty, [t was a non-issue
in. all-candidates debates

relative to the multiplex:

and local spending priori-
ties. Talstra and all incum-
bents were re-elected.

Scott says it was frus-
trating to see politicians in
his own down line. up
against him on the issue.

It was also a weakness
that the Liberals in Ottawa
exploited, raising Terrace
council’s treaty support in
debate -with. Scott in the
House of Commons,

“| found it surprising
that virtually ‘everyone
running for office in mu-
nicipal elections was. sup-

porting’ the ‘treaty,”. he

said,

“[ believe that everyone
taking that position is
making a fundamental
mistake in supporting the
treaty and I believe they
are offside with what the
majority of people in the
communities of Terrace
and Kitimat believe.”

Terrace city councillor
David Hull says he voted
for Scott but won’t do so
again.

“At the end of the day,
what has Mike Scott ac-
complished?” Hull asks.
“A lot af people who were
Mike Scott supporters in
the past are saying they
wouldn’t vote for him
again.”

“I don’t honestly think
he does represent the real
concerns of the people of
this riding,” he says.

Hull said Scott’s futile
fight against the treaty has
becn a waste of time and
energy that could have
been spent working for the

riding on other issues, and:

playing an important role
as the treaty moves into
the implementation phase.

“He seems to have
trouble accepting reality,”
Hull said. “The reality is
the Nisga’a agreement is
done. Get over it and let’s
spend the time on what
could make a difference.”

Scott has also been un-
der steady fire from native
leaders in the riding who
claim they have trouble
gelling meetings or results
from their MP. The latest
shot came from the Kita-
maat Village band coun-
cil, which wrote a letter to
the prime minister asking
that a Liberal MP be ap-
pointed to act for them in
Skeena.

Scott says the volume
of criticism docs give him
pause,

“There’s no single issue
that’s consumed as much
of my time as the Nisga’a
treaty,” he says. “At some
point I’m going to have to
evaluate where I po from
here personally.”

Scott says he wants to
continue as Reform’s abo-
riginal affairs critic, but is
rethinking his role,

“You have to evaluate
whether ‘efforts you’ve
made are making a
difference,” he said. “You
have to evaluate whether
you are in some way off-
side with people who you
are trying to represent. If
you are offside you have to
question whal you are
doing.”

“I recognize that [ will
be held accountable. for
the positions I’ve held with
respect to. the tréaty and
I'm. most prepared to do
that.” Sak

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