“Floating along in| the market’s wake "There are many significant issues worthy of ¢ ex- amination in the news this week, . ‘It appears that after years of rethinking our ap-— ‘proach to the forest industry in this. region — tealizing. ~ that there are betier ways to use a tree but seeing little ~ “saction in that.direction — the market forces have » ~~ finally accomplished what nothing else could. West of. town. behind the Kitsumkalum Reserve a new sawmill is being built that can use virtually any cut of hemlock or spruce and turn it into a saleable and profitable ar- _ ticle: Westar is doing a lot of breast-beating and “moaning about not being able to feed its mills after ‘giving up five years ago all the timber it now wants to buy. from licensees in the North Kalum. Having threat- ened to shut down or severely curtail its operation in _ Kitwanga, Westar says it’s now toying with the idea of opening a value-added plant to the existing mill. Conditions have now come to the point that there is “ino choice left but to make the maximum use of every- — thing cut in the woods. The market pressure on stand- _ing trees is such that the sheer cost of them is going to demand a total-use, maximum value approach to allow mills to continue operating economically. It’s a marvel what the market forces can accomplish — and the export market is part of that — but it’s also a ‘shame that the forces of conservation couldn’t ac- “complish the same thing years ago. It appears that the market. has also triumphed, ‘for - good or for ill, in the local issue of whether the city ‘has the authority to control the hours of opening in ‘the retail business community. Although the decision - of city council not to enact a restrictive bylaw aimed at Sunday shopping is a disappointment to many peo- '. ple and in a sense makes a joke of local control over -our own affairs, it is probably just as well the mayor and aldermen didn’t take this one on. 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LAHAINA, MAUS — When I decided to take a week’s holi- day here in Hawaii, before this week’s Social Credit Party con- - yention in Vancouver, I knew there was no guarantee that | would bump into Premier Bill Vander Zalm... but it would have been an added bonus. ’ As it happens, when I landed on Maui a few days ago, the premier and his wife Lillian had just left for Oahu and Honolulu, so I have had to make do with sunshine, surf- ing, snorkeling, sightseeing, and sexy seaside sirens. It’s a tough life, ‘but someone has to. do it... ! I did case out the million- dollar condo of Nanaimo's own Dr. Mladen Zorkin, where the Vander Zalms spent the first part of their Hawaiian . holiday. It’s in the Bay Villas at exclusive Kapalua on the ‘northwestern. tip of Maui, where a round of golf will set you back about $100 WU. Sas and the cotton T-shirts in the pro shop go for a paltry $60 (U.S.). A maid at the luxurious con- do which hovers on perfectly manicured grounds high above the azure-blue Pacific bay con- firmed that B.C.’s first lady and her premier husband had been there. Even Zorkin, the real estate magtiate and Croatian freedom fighter from central Vancouver Island, acknowledged to this scribe.that the Vander Zalms had been at his luxury resort in paradise, . and hot. for the first time. “But I don’t go there when they are-there; because other- The’ view from Victoria - —_ a Be - by John Pifer wise people say I’m ‘somehow taking advantage of them or of our friendship,” the influential Zorkin told me from Nanaimo. Before the zealously-loyal: Zalmoids out there start writing in about journalists hounding their hero when he’s on holi- day, I offer a quick reminder - of the mess the premier left behind him-to primp up his tan * for the convention, In the week before he flew | away; @ four MLAs quit the Socred caucus over his leadership or lack of it ® another eight or 10 told him to his face he was the party’s greatest liability towards win- ‘ning an election @ and worst of all, perhaps, . Mr, Vander Zalm also heard similar sentiments from within his own Cabinet. ‘To go ahead with a carefree holiday amid that turmoil and a phoney ‘‘we’re all united now’’ farce after an emergency caucus meeting, may not have been too wise. Is there something significant being prepared for him at this week’s convention, such as 4 further challenge to his lame- duck leadership? I doubt it; but if he or his supporters think for a moment that the worst has passed, they’d best think. again. Shortly after raising the issue of religion in politics, in last week’s column, I received a copy of a startling letter to Socred party president Hope Rust, a letter which threatens to blow the lid off the whole matter at the convertion. — -Michael Levy, the unsuc- cessful Socred candidate in the Point Grey by-election in Van- couver in March, expresses — *‘great exception” to the premier’s running mate, Nick ‘“‘The Puppet?’ Loenen pressing for the party constitution to contain a reference to “‘the principles of Christianity’. Levy, who is ‘Jewish, says it suggests that the party itself en- dorses this stance, ‘‘One that is entirely insensitive to the racial and ethnic mix in B.C.” He tells Rust (and the premier, who received a copy of the letter four. weeks ago), that to include the Christianity _ reference ‘implies that Jews, Sikhs, Muslims, etc., do not believe... in brotherhood, in- . dividual rights and the golden . rule,”’ _ Levy adds: ‘‘A separation of church and state in Canada is” something I thought fundamen- tal in Canadian politics, and thus any reference to religion should have no place in the. ‘constitution of a political party planning for the 1990's. ‘(Loenen’s) statement was - endorsed by the premier. (It) has hurt and disappointed a lot of non-Christian members of . the party and the community,”’ Levy’s letter ends.” All this writer can add to that i is... Amen! Parting Thought: Truly, we are becoming a better, more | loving, compassionate and peaceful world — as exempli-’ fiéd by the international out- pouring of support, concern .- and prayer at times of major: catastrophes such as the Sait © _-Franeis¢o- earthquake.