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MLA beats bushes for work ©
for those affected by SCI

“| want to minimize the transition”

ROGER HARRIS wants to
be very clear. {t's not wel-
fare and it’s not make
work,

But the Skeena Liberal
MLA is lobbying his gov-
ernment for ways to help
find work for those affec-
ted by Skeena Cellulose’s
lates! financial crisis.

Although the first prior-
ity is to sell the company
and have it resume opera-
tions, Harris said he’s also
moving ahead on plans
should there be a protrac-
ted closure.

One short term plan is
to find out what road work
is on the books for the re-
gion, said Harris.

“I'd be looking for a
way for contracts to be of
such a size they could be
bid an by local compa-
nies,” said Harris.

“This wouldn’t be a
preferential bid. It would
be a matter of how they
could do it to meet the
size of businesses up
here,” he added,

Harris said these pro-
jects would have ta make
sense: and wouldn’t take
place simply to put people
back ta work.

“It wouldn’t be a case
of a road to nowhere.”

He said the kinds of
road work contracts he
wants may not be needed
should the uncertainty sur-
rounding Skeena Cellulose
be short term.

But Harris said it was
better to start thinking and

talking about what might
happen now instead of
later.

He hopes any economic
downturn from Skeena

Roger Harris

Cellulose will be short
term.

One thing Harris won’t
endorse or support is the
opening any of Skeena’s
mills — if they remain
closed — simply to put
people back to work.

“I don’t think you'd find
anybody in favour of that,”
said Harris.

He will support opening
mills if they canbe run on
a profitable basis if there
is any long term transition
from creditor protection to
private ownership.

Harris has spent the last

- several weeks making

contacts with municipal
and other officials to begin

the job of figuring out what
post-Skeena Cellulose life
might be like up here.

“fd think we'd be look-
ing at any number of

Judith Reid

things. Tenure reform is
one,” Harris continued.

“What I want to do is
minimize the transition.
That’s my job,” said the
MLA. “There is a future
for forestry up here. I be-
lieve that.”

Harris said he hasn’t
asked yet if anybody in the
government has put toge-
ther an estimate of em-
ployment insurance and
social assistance costs
should there be a sustained
period of no activity at
Skeena’s mills.

“ve not taken that
step,” added Harris who
noted he’ il be working first
on other alternatives.

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Transportation minister
Judith Reid and her offi-
cials are examining ways
to affer work here in light
of the Skeena Cellulose
meltdown.

One of the possibilities
is hiring people and equip-
ment on a daily basis — ly-
pically called day labour -
in addition to establishing
smaller contracts for smal-
ler, local companies.

But Reid, who has been
urged to look at ways of
creating work here by
Skeena Liberal MLA
Roger Harris, said she and
her officials first have to
make sure the planned
work makes sense.

“We're not given those
kinds of budgets,” said

Reid when asked if she

would put people to work
just for the sake of having
them work.

“And that’s philoso-
phically not where we're
headed,” she added.

Reid did say that re-
quests for more day labour
work came up most every-
where she visited in the
course of a northwestern
tour recently.

“I’ve directed my offi-
cialis to examine day la-
bour and to clarify the
policy,” said Reid.

“There may be areas
where it will work, and
areas where it may not ~
for instance the type of
equipment need for a par-

. ticular project,” she said.

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