Page A4 — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August. 28, 1991

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‘DITORIAL,

projected cost.

Submitted this spring, the proposal
calls for two piers and a coastal cargo
dock at Kitimat. The idea has been
around for some time but took off last
year when Mr. Parker expanded it to in-
clude a port authority concept of involv-
ing land development and the purchase
of the Terrace-Kitimat airport.

_ The submission entered the province’s
Major Project Review Process. It con-
siders environmental and socio-
economic implications. All of that infor-
mation lands up with the cabinet com-

iffee oN, sustainable, development, on. ,

hieh'sit Mr. Parker and Mr..Mercier, ..

' This.cominittee.can either reject the
project outright, give it approval or ask
that more studies and reviews take place.
If the decision is the latter one, the
results are put back before the commit-
tee for an approval decision. Ultimately,
final approval rests with the whole

cabinet,

Mr. Mercier says an elected govern-
ment representative has essentially two
functions. One is to represent those who ~
elected him and their aspirations and the

Arm's
length |

~ Environment’ minister Dave Mercier
says there’s nothing wrong with having a
cabinet minister who backs a major
development. project sitting on a com-
mittee that decides if the project will
receive government approval.
Neither does Skeena MLA and lands
and parks minister Dave Parker, about
whom Mr. Mercier was referring to in
making that above comment. This all
relates to the plan to build a public port
at Kitimat. It’ll need $23 million in pro-
vincial money, about one-third of the

terms as the

membership

other to make public oa decisions.
This brings into play what Mr. Mercier

“‘arnis length’? process and

what that means. With Mr. Parker; these
two functions are joined together by his

on the sustainable develop-

ment committee.

Mr. Parker says that while he backs
the port development, it’s being pro-
moted by a society of northwest officials
and that he doesn’t belong to that socie-
ty. “‘That’s not conflict, that’s perfor-
mance,’’ says Mr. Parker of his member-

ship on the cabinet committee.

balances. to

curred. In

Both ministers”
teresting questions. Mr. Mercier says it is
a benefit to have a person lobbying for a
project sit on a committee that makes
decisions affecting its future. And he
says a minister is simply one member of. yiCTORIA —There is
the committee. Mr. Parker says backing southern British Columbia,
the port is his job.

Yet the review process through which
the port proposal is now going is said to and day.
be based on its merits. In reality, those
merits last only up until the time the pro-
posal lands with the cabinet committee. _

. After that, , the decision to /approye or,
. ‘not.to. approve becomes: a. ‘Political ONne....; yolvémeiit! of some young’ peo
And that's the way things work in the
system of government we have in place.
In some senses it is comforting because it
is elected officials who do make those .
final decisions. —

The one expectation we should expect
is a sufficient number of checks and
ensure that what does .
ultimately occur, is what should have oc-

positions raise in-

other words, the issue -

becomes whose arms are involved and ©
how long they might be.

-Licensed door-to-door ped-
dlers are at liberty to roam our

. streets, arousing the suspicions

of Neighbourhood Watch, and
meeting annoyed Canadians at
every knock.

Legally, the city cannot deny
anyone a licence; council can
only attach restrictions. The
Municipal Act lets each city
draft its own licencing by-laws.
Thus fees and conditions vary
across B.C.

Smithers has a flat annual fee
of $136, regardless of crew size.
Kitimat collects* $46 for the
company, plus $73 for each
peddler. Prince Rupert charges
160 per,:peddler and imposes

two restrictions. No peddling is :

permitted 1 after 6 p.m. All ped-
dlers must wear vexterior iden-
tification — none of this “My
identifi cation. is: “ine “the van’?
bunkum. - ,

- Terrace ‘charges. according to
the ‘number. of: staff, $90 for
three'to five, $200 for-15..:

On August 755 Interprovincial
Ltdi, the magazine. subscription
sellers now in town, paid for: a
half-year license entitling’ ‘chem

‘to one manager and 14 salesper-
. Pat Riley's dictum. “Don't let FF
* other ‘people tell you what you,
“> want,” “Who's Pat Riley? So-
_meone famous enough to bein ff
The Quotable Quote Book...

sons. in| Kitimat they're lic
ed forithree.) 2 a
” Because ‘Terrace has eva

their'license in the past follow-
ing complaints, ' ‘they’ were re-
quired'to post $1,000 bond and =:

submit the: names: of- their: 15

personnel, in
‘Piaywright Arthur’ “Milter

Death ofa Salesman described a

One way for relief

Through

Bifocals
by Claudette Sandeckl

salesman thusly: ‘‘He don’t put
a’bolt to a nut, he don’t tell you
the law or give you medicine,
He's aman way out there in the
blue riding on a smile and a
shoeshine."”
_ Sometimes he’s a pest whe
knocks on front doors while his
partner leaps backyard fences
Debbie Brill style. That's what,
Interprovincial people did in
Thornhill in April, 1990, Usual-
ly he ignores ‘‘No Soliciting’?
signs, catches you at awkward
moments, and won't take No
for an answer, Often, he claims’
not to be selling anything. Hal
Since a city license is no con-

sumer safeguard, how should -

you deal with pushy, persistent

peddlers?

Lock the door and pretend to.
be in Mexico. If they- find you
hiding behind the ATV, recall

Remember Nancy Reagan. Just
fay No.

' g fortified, do some: leaning
your own,

a)

‘With: your sales resistence”

Demand identification you .

can trust — and not name,
height, weight, and eye colour
typewritten on a_ haif-sheet.
Prepare to pinpoint the obnox-
ious individual; note name,
physical description; and time.

Assess the sales offer. Unsure
whether it’s financially. advan-
tageous for you? Ask for a

- phone number, say you'll have

to get back to them. Then waich ©
them vanish quicker than a sock .
into a shoe,

If, in the end, they give you a
royal pain, complaining to the.
‘city’s license inspector, ‘That.

will give you more rellef than«

Preparation H, ae

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Different here

from down there

and then there's the rest of the
province. The two have about
as much in common as night

The chasm that separates the
urban south and the. rural
north was illustrated very
: forcefully in the reaction I got

“td wrecent:colummn-on’the in-

ple in the controversy-over the
proposed logging of the
Walbran Valley on Vancouver
Island.

In that column, | criticized
environmental activists for en-
couraging teenagers to go ons
hunger strikes, throw Met
themselves in front of logging »
trucks and do whatever-else
they can come up-.with to-pre-
vent crews from entering the —
area to be logged.

The reaction was swift and
mixed, Generally speaking, I |

‘got a huge shellacking in the

south, while.in the north, peo-
ple tended to agree with me.

One reader wrote-a letter to
the Oak-Bay Star, accusing me
of ‘’great insensitivity to the”.
environmental damage alfec-
ting this planet.”

Another reader said 1 _

’ yidiculed and patronized the

young people who opposed the
logging of the Walbran Valley.
-“'Those who have gone on .
hunger strikes or carried their
protests to up-[sland logging
sites are depicted as strident,
emotional and ignorant victims
of manipulative adults,” he
said.

“Those who choose to use
their limited power to implare
the rest of us to behave decent-
ly, should be admired,” he ad-
ded.

Not to be outdone by its
readers, the Star's editorial __
pointed out that the paper ©

. didn't necessarily share the

opinion of its columnist. In

fact, it definitely disagreed in

’ this instance. “‘Maybe it's

unusual, but in this case, we

take exception to the

staterients made by our colum-—
nist,’” the editorial said,

-“‘As for the young people. -

0 SMART 2 !

From the

Capital
by Hubert Beyer

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THAI You RE. HECK No
dj BART YOU.

taking the brave stand against

the forces that be, they are. of,

the same ilk as youth around _ "
watershed on the southwest’

the world who have initiated
social changes in fascist and
socialist countries, and in our —
own nation in the. 1960's. It
takes nerve, conviction,
Stamina and intelligence to go
the the lengths they have. To
mock them as we have is
wrong,’ it concluded, *

The reaction from northern
communities was different.
Most letters supported my
statements, and so did nine out

of ten phone calls 1 got.

’ “I'm glad someone down

- there understands northern -

B.C. The politicians don’t and

‘the environmentalists certainly

don’t” one caller from
Vanderhoof told me. Many
others had similar comments.
Let me be clear on one.
point, I never ridiculed the’
youngsters for what they do. I
said they are misguided and
ruled more by their emotions

_ than by intellect, not to men-

tion that ‘they broke the law,
‘Sometimes it is necessary to
break the law to affect social
change, but only when the
state asks immoral things of its

citizens, That is not the case

here.

. To compare the recent ac-
tions of these high school
students to young people who
risked and often lost their
freedom and their lives oppos-
ing immoral and murderous
regines is ludicrous.

. And I know all about —

- murderous regimes, I grew up

in Nazi Germany, I was once -
beaten and kicked unconscious
by a small-town m ayor and.
local Nazi bigshot for having |

given’ food to some starving ©
‘Russian prisoners of war. 1
_ was seven years old at the
. “dis, ar

_ Sierra Club had promised to’
document Fletcher Challenge

reac you aor A .
SECOND BRAIN\
IN YOUR BUTT

|] Just To CONTROL
YOUR HIND LEGS!

Fletcher Challenge has a * “*
, legal, Fight . tologinthe head
” -Walbran; a 10, Cot li, er
coast of Vancouver Island.
And to keep matters in
perspective, it’s important-to
point out that the company’
plans to log only 70 hectares...

The teenagers protesting the -
logging did so despite a.
Supreme Court injunction ~*:"!
which prohibited interference |!

"with the logging crews. They.’ ..

did anyway. That’s breaking -
the law, and not an Immoral:
one. on
As for emotions versus in- +
tellect, I saw one young girl, . °*
no older than 13 or 14, yelling ,
at one of the Sergeants at —

‘Arms in front of the Parlia-

ment Buildings. ‘You hate ©“ -
kids, you hate kids," she = SS
chanted, That's not very in- :
telligent. ‘.
But what | criticized most of mae
all in my previous piece on ‘the: .
subject was the role en- a
vironmental groups played in .°
the confrontation, either ac-. an
tively encouraging the.) 3 "~~"
youngsters to break the. law: ‘or,
at the very least, not counstll
ing them against doing so: °
Qne final point. During:
28-day hunger strike by:
16-year-old Sarah Turner and
14-year-old Katie Meglic,.- the.

checkered reputation as ste art’
of the forest resource. They...
would release the damning s
documents after the girls stop :
ped their hunger strike, the ar
Sierra Club said.

It turned out they had. .
nothing on Fletcher Challeng
The documentation the group. .
released related to environmen-. :

“tal: damage that resulted: ‘from: :°

egging in the 60s and: 70s, 0, ye
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