A12 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 22, 1999 NDP hopefuls differ over health care fix THE FOUR peopie who want to be the next leader - Of the NDP have different ’ remedies for what’s ailing - horthwest health care. : Ujjal Dosanjh, Corky - Evans, Joy MacPhail. and « Gordon Wilson were in : Terrace Dec. 13 as part of : @ provincial tour leading, + up to the Feb. 2000 leader- - ship convention. - Wilson. welcomed .the - idea of electing health * councils, but former health > minister MacPhail is » apainst it. She bristled at Kitimat - NDP member Ray Brady's ~ suggestion: heallh council ’ appointments ate seen as _ “lackeys” of the provincial ’ health ministry, a descrip- ' tion she described as “awful,” "I think that's wrong," ’ MacPhail said, warning * elected hospital boards be- * come dominated by people * opposed to abortion. : Corky Evans and Ujjal Dosanjh said they would consider the idea. More than 70 Skeena New Democrats turned out. "The system. isn't. work- ing here,” declared Wil- son, adding, the northwest's ‘problems with health care aren't unique because of the way money is spent on health care. He wants a per capita system. based..on four-year. - budget blocks. "Annualized formula funding does not work,” he maintained. "It penalizes rural communities in decline." MacPhail didn't pro- mise to spend more. She favours re-examining how the money is spent and wants health councils to have more say over bud- gets and money for doc- tors. Evans warmed a vote for the Liberals is a vote for “a U.S.-style, two-tiered system,” while Dosanjh - hey ‘general, says the government should at lcast consider per capita dollars. Dosanjh, current attar- ylames ‘the region's current health care problems on the growing bureaucracy: that's ‘seen a “quadrupling” of manage- ment positions. Skeena MLA . Helmut Giesbrecht says. he’ll de-. ; cide who he..will-support - --- wo eats gene Me ceca ell ace ei dieanetes ety eta vette ay tg gue after the holidays. And he says he’ll choose the: person best capable of returning the NDP to power. And if his -choice doesn’t win, Giesbrecht said hell still want to run in the next election. The debate had been criticized for not opening the floor to questions from non-party members. ~ Giesbrecht said only party members were al- lowed to-ask questions be- cause the debale is part of the leadership process, Police nab jail breaker THE RECENT jail break of a Terrace man, convic- ted two and a half months ago on multiple charges of break enter and theft, had RCMP here on alert last week. RCMP say Jean Paul Boutin, 20, escaped from Prince George Regional Correctional Centre Dec. 16 while he was on com- munity work program. RCMP believe Boutin, who has friends in Terrace and family near Meziadin, may have been on his way back here. Officers here issued a public alert the same evening. “It was just a heads up in case somebody saw him,” said Constable Jamie MacDonald, But by noon Friday, Jean Paul Boutin Boutin was back in cust- ody, Cortections B.C. official Sheldon Green said RCMP apprehended Boutin the moming of Dec. 17 in Prince George. He'll ap- pear in court, charged with escaping The escape will also change Boutin’s classifi- cation al the correctional centre, forbidding him from working im the com- munity in the future. Boutin was given a one- year sentence Oct. 29 for a string of break and enters, possession of stolen prop- erty and a fraud charge be- tween Sept. 17 and 24, 1999, The break and enters - on Keefer, Sparks and south Kalum Streets ~ were committed with co- accused Richard Allen MacGregor, who is also serving jail time for the robberies. Boutin and MacGrégor session of a number of sto- len articles including a jacket, rifle and laptop computer from one home and a cell phone from an- other. Boutin was also charged with attempted fraud after forging a $500 cheque. Additional fraud charges against Boutin ‘were stayed by the Crown. Boutin also pleaded guilty to dangerous driv- ing, theft under $5,000 and possession of slolen prop- erly over $5,000 for the Aug. 28 theft of a wallet and 1998 Dodge 4 “x-4 truck. He received a concur- tent one-year sentence for those offences, Save Up To 5 Oo” Off Regular Priced Merchandise Dec 27 - Jan 2/2000 SKEENA MALL OP PERS We don’t know what causes DR MART Correction multiple sclerosis, but research is On page 8 of the Shonpers Drug closer to finding the answer. " oe TBer in elles from. Sunday December 19 unill Saturday, Multiple Sclerosis Senbe25" 198 he Flr 60 or Speck Film (1 Society of Canada should read *Save up to $12. 1-800-268-7582 with a Polaroid maik In Rebata. 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