A6 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 20, 1993 ELECTION '93 ‘TERRACE STANDARD Right choice, naturally CALVIN DANYLUK is a 34- year-old campground manager at Long Beach. He’s never been to the Skcena riding prior to running in this election. For the Jast year and a half he’s lived ina cabin with no electricity on the edge of Pacific Rim Na- tional Park on Vancouver Island's west coast, The Natural Law candidate grew up in Winnipeg, traveled the world — Bangkok, Philippines, Japan, India, Holland, the U.S., all of Canada and Central Amer- ica — and worked four years as a stress management consultant in Toronto before moving out west for this latest job with the federal park service, He's been a.. transcendental - meditation Instructor for 12 years. In Toronto, Danyluk worked for the Transcendental Meditation Organization, and: was on. its. World Plan Executive Council for four years. That organization is headed by a Canadian-bom magician, Doug Henning. Danyluk would have run for the Natural Law Party in Tofino, but a local: woman had already de- cided to Hill the nomination. “‘They.. needed somebody. to represent the. ‘riding up. there Calvin Danyluk (Skeena), so I volunteered,’’ he Says, Danyluk described the Natural Law: Party as a different party with a new perspective. With candidates in all 32 B.C. tidings, and 231 nationwide, it is the fourth largest party running in the federal election. - ' Although the candidates come from widely varied backgrounds, they are united around the same goal — enlivening natural law and increasing harmony in society. The party’s message is that all negative trends in society sttm from disharmony, and that can be solved through deep meditation. “Natural Law is the basis of life that’s found everywhere, at all times. It’s the laws of nature that connect everything,’’ Danyluk explains, Parity members usé — and as government representatives would encourage others to start — meditation as a means of get- ting to the source of life by con- tacting the basis of thought. — “Tt increases harmony in society, and all other probiems, due to lack of coherence, like the environment (and) law and order, diminish.”’ Independent research shows society benefits when large per- centages of people meditate, he says, “Positive trends are seen to flourish. Crime, hospital admis- sions, and suicides go down. “The present politicians are dealing with problems on the level of problems, but we'd be going to the root... **A gardener doesn’t do any- thing to the surface of the tree — Greens concentrate on the environment TRADING IN the life of a giobe- trotting engineer for accounting may seem a little boring, but not to Peter Mehling. . « ‘The Green Party: candidate. for: Skeena has taken a few turns on his carcer path. The 34-year-old fj graduated with an engineering de- gree in the early Os. and headed off to Saudia Arabia. He exam- ined ways of teducing corrosion in oil pipelines and wellheads in the desert” “Bor wanted to learn the busi- ness side of things,’’-he says. So it-was‘ back to the University of B.C. for yet another degree, this time in economics. Mehling became a chartered ac- countant and docsn’t hesitate to shake off the popular image ‘of that profession: ... “Accounting | can be. exciting,”’ he says. ‘I make a lot of trips to Haida: Gwai (the Quéen Char- lottes),' Bella Bella .and Bella Coola, I'meet-a lot of interesting peop ple.”* : - ‘Mehling ‘smiles when asked where he’s from:‘*I was born in ~ the orth and raised in the north —North‘Vancouver.”** ‘Single, «Mehling ‘moved to Prince Rupert-two years ago to take a job with ‘an accounting firm * Mehling’s latést occupation asa federal Green ‘candidate in the far-flung Skeena riding wasn’t one he hed planned exactly. “T found it hard to find some- one else to run,”’ he ‘admits. “I had ads in imost-of the papers in the Northwest. I had a ‘couple. ‘of people who were considering run- ning, but when it came down to the final days, ‘there was a con-. cern about ‘putting: themselves forward as a Green Party candi- . date. ed ‘He says they 4 were " oncemed . about the. potential consequences linked to running as 4° Green’ in the resource-dependent riding. - “Certain people had a fear of backlash,‘ of - maybe not getting presenting - employment: themselves as a- oreo Party cati- didate,”” Mchling days. So he stepped in as candidate at the last moment But his links to the environmentally. oriented party go back to. the. last provin- cial election Frustrated _ that mainstream parties weren't addressing the is- sues he found intportant, Mebling says. he ‘looked: around ‘and looked up Greenpeace and the Green Party. and was. impressed enough with Green: ‘Party: policy that I ended up’ ‘helping them out in the last provincial election,” His: ambition. is to: concentrate ; Peter Mehling on environmental issucs. These include dmwing a frm line in the Dixon Entrance to keep U.S. nuclear subs out of Ca- nadian water, Northwest coastal communities and the region’s entire fishery would be affected } by a nuclear accident, Mebling “Tr im. says. - : According loa press release an- eg pet nouncing his intention to seck election: ‘‘I realize that if elected, I will have to be quite vocal in the House. Therefore, I will need to be a grandsiander during Ques- tion Period after the fashion of Jim Fulton slapping northern sal- mon on Mulroney's desk.’” . Mehling admits it’s’ along shot that Greens will get seats in the election. But he points to the suc- cess Greens have enjoyed in. Europe, in particular in Germany. “Highteen Greens were elected to the German parliament recent- ly,’” he says. Repeating that success in Cana- da will be difficult, particularly with a ‘‘first past the post’’ elec- toral system. Germany uses a dif- ferent system, to elect its reels lators. 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"Or, there could be a more .ad- vanced program where people meditate for one hour or more,” The Natural Law Party’s 44- page, tabloid newspaper sized, draft document sets out a four- part hierarchy for government. At the top is the Government of lhe Universe, followed by the Government of the Solar System, the Government of Natural. Law, and finally the Government of a Nation. é Box 22, . IMPROVING ‘Terrace, B.C. 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Facts about KCP Nuniber four in a series answering the questions most often raised with Alcan about the Kemano Completion Project : Why did Alcan decide to open information centres” aa and run a series of. advertisements now; just before:, public hearings this fall? © Itis precisely because of the public hearings that we want to be sure people have access to facts about the Kemano Completion Project. When we. decided to enter the public review process, we said we intended to be a full, ~ and cooperative participant. Part of that commitment is sharing information on the project, and that’s what we're doing. A lot of this information has been available for a long time. Ever since the. a -Kemano powerhouse started up in 1954, we have made no-secret of out: plans - a to divert more of the water granted to us under the original agreement of: (7.1950. The B.C. government wanted Alcan to invest in this region. back then) ; and futher diversion rights were essential to Justify that massive investment.” eee However, two major factors have changed since the first phase of the project: a public: concerns over the environment and (in response to these concerns) | aE Alcan’ s readiness to redesign the second phase to ensure sufficient water for ee ‘salmon protection, and other needs on the Nechako. Alcan voluntarily surrendered its rights i in the Nanika watershed. It has cee “reached agreement on waler management that will protect salmon stocks and still provide for other economic uses.. Where remedial measures are. needed ~. for-individuat property owners, they are being worked out, and Alcan is: paying for them, _ With half a billion dollars already spent ona project that i is expected to cost “about. $1.3 billion, we feel it’s important to make sure that people taking part | hand it the hearings are well informed. News coverage does not always contribute a to this goal: some of the "facts" that have been brought forward by other sources relate to former plans, long since abandoned. For example, some --” -people still think we're building a dani. as part.of KCP -- which we are not. “Even though we have stated many, many times that there is no.new dam.in :-gonnection with our project, the word "dam" shows up in headlines about aa a KcP with alarmin g regularity. . - : . So, we're operating the information centres and buying this space as an- : “investment in awareness. If it succeeds i in contributing to informed discussion ~ at, the public hearings, the i investment. will have been worthwhile, oe eer Seb its River watching: its prospects. ‘ha This is a good time of year for anew look al the Nechaks und perhaps a better awareness of - If you're driving south this.week and want an ‘idea of how the Nechaka River will be affected al this time of year after KCP, take a look out ‘the window. “At Vanderhoof and Prince George, the river this week looks the same as it will Took i in mid- October afler KCP. KITIMAT 224 City Centre Tel: 632-4712 KCP Information Centre now open in Kitimat nce Alcan has opened a Kemano Completion Project Information Centre in: inna or Friday from 10.a.m. to 4 p.m. Kemano Completion Project INFORMATION CENTRE Kitimat, B.C. V8C 1T6