2 Terrace Review — Wednesday, October, 22,1986 TERRACE — A deci- sion. Canadians have been waiting for with trepidation has been an- nounced by the U.S, Commerce Department. Their preliminary verdict is that softwood lumber exports from Canada to the U.S. are unfairly subsidized, and the recommendation is for a 15 percent tariff on products crossing the border. The ruling has receiv- ed mixed reaction north a . oi oe mi. x Me “ 6 e for B.C. wood of the border. Lumber stocks went up on the Toronto Stock Exchange because investors had ex- pected the duty to be higher in view of the U.S. industry coalition’s request for 36 percent. B.C. and federal opposi- tion politicians have con- demned their govern- ment counterparts for | Man in Motion — from page I | tween the Spring Creek and Wilson St. reser- voirs, installing 400 meters of 450 millimeter pipe to the Deep Creek reservoir, and putting in connections and fixtures to unite all three sources. Any work delayed by the onset of winter weather will be budgeted for 1987. 1987 ARTS FESTIVAL The B.C. Festival of the Arts is now inviting application proposals to host the 1987 festival. B.C. communities wish- ing to host the festival have until Nov. 15, less than a month, to submit applications to the Ministry of Provincial Secretary and Govern- ment Services. A suc- cessful bid to host the event carries a govern- ment grant of $300,000 toward costs and a legacy of $70,000 follow- ing the festival. Terrace council will invite the community arts council to a Committee of the Whole meeting in the near future to discuss the possibility of a local ap- plication. PAVING PETITION DENIED A request from the residents at the top of the Birch Ave. hill for pave- ment on the steep grade has been rejected by Ter- race: council as.an un- feasible project. Public Works Committee Chairman Ruth Hallock told council at a meeting Oct. 14 that the hill ‘‘is not paving material’’. Hallock indicated that a ‘‘monumental’’ amount of work and ~expense would be involved in widening, straightening and levelling the surface, and she said additional problems would be en- countered due to the sharply angled approach at the bottom of the slope and an adverse geological profile. The committee put forward optional recommenda- tions which included the construction of road links between the broken segments of Birch Ave. at the tops of the Birch and Park Ave. hills, joining the east of Walsh Ave. with Johnstone St., | and extending Olson Ave. from the top of Kalum St. hill to Pedrini St. BOUNDARY REVIEW REJECTED A request from the Kitimat-Stikine Regional District for the City of Terrace to participate in a reassessment of the municipal boundaries has been rejected by a resolution of the city council. The review would have examined the possibility of extending the city limits to include developed areas which could be included in the municipal servicing system and tax base. ‘This is not the time to extend our boun- daries,’’ Ald. Ruth Hallock remarked. With regard to the Kalum Lake Dr. area north of Terrace, Ald. Robert Cooper stated, ‘‘This in- volves 18 families and a couple of miles of road, it’s simply not worth it, there’s no way it can be worth it.’’ Ald George Clark and Doug Smith both commented that a meeting with the regional district could not do any harm and might be worthwhile in terms of gathering information. There appeared to be a general consensus that a meeting should take place, but council voted to notify the regional district that a boundary extension is out of the question. Ald. Doug Smith was recorded op- posed to the resolution. HOWARD nop 4 bungling negotiations, and statistics from a variety of sources con- cerning job losses, cost increases to producers and market shrinkage have whizzed around the province like alphabet soup in a blender, Peter Pearse, a forest ‘economist with the UBC faculty of forestry, has estimated that the deci- sion, if ratified by the U.S. International Trade Commission, will even-— tually result in the loss of 2,000 to 3,000 jobs na- tionally, a net increase of nine percent in cost to B.C. producers, and a loss of six percent of ‘Canada’s share in the U.S. lumber market. The Commerce Department’s tariff recommendation will go to the Interna- tional Trade Commis- sion for a final ruling in Feb. 1987, and any arguments against the - recommendation must be filed in Washington no later than Dec. 30 of this year. . B.C. Minister of Forests and Lands Jack Kempf was in Terrace campaigning for the Social Credit Party on the day the tariff deci- sion was announced, and his reaction to it was a combination of regret and determination. “Nobody’s happy about any kind of tariff, but it’s something we can live with; it’s not a disaster,’’ he said. Kempf, however, ex- pressed the intention to continue fighting the tariff. “I'll be meeting with my federal and pro- vincial counterparts in Toronto Tuesday (Oct. 21),”"’ he said, adding that the time and options still exist to have the duty removed or minimize its negative effect. He stated the belief that Americans are not con- cerned with collecting revenue from the duty as long as the price of the product is raised by some means. The means, he speculated, could take the form of higher stumpage fees and royalties levied by the province, an action which -would satisfy the U.S. protectionists while keeping the revenue on this side of the border. “I’m very optimistic about this,’’ he conclud- ed. ‘If the duty stays, itens. border — well, } don’t think it’s ‘fair, but I don’t believe jobs. will be lost. over this. Our forest industry is one of the best in the world; it’s weathered many storms and it will survive this one.’’ Kempf said that the current . forest management review will not be af- fected by the tariff deci- sion, and he expects the. results in a short time. Frank Howard, MLA for Skeena and NDP | forestry critic, began by condemning the Social Credit government for “pleading guilty while the jury was still out’’, “giving the Americans the ammunition to beat us with”, and using the trade negotiations as an election issue; after de- nouncing the actions of the Premier and. the government, however, he recommended a strategy identical to that of the Forest Minister: increase stumpage to § drive up the price of lumber exported to the § U.S. and keep the addi- § tional revenues in B.C., and continue the appeal § process to the U.S. Com- §f merce Department in the [ meantime. Howard also recommended that the # provincial government § launch a cooperative ef- fort with the forest in- § dustry to find and secure alternate markets for B.C. lumber in order to make the industry less vulnerable to the vagaries of U.S. politics. Nie Jack Kemp!, MLA for Omineca and Minister of Forests and Lands, was In Terrace on the day the U.S. Commerce Department announced recommendation of a 15 percent duty against Canadian lumber imports. “It's not a disaster,” Kampf said, and expressed optimism that a more favorable decision !s still possible by appeals to the International Trade Commission. OCTOBER CAR & TRUCK SALE 10% Discount on all units ~ purchased for Cash. 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