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_EDITORIA

All about trees

At first glance it looks like a board game.
A series of boxes are drawn out on a piece
of paper. They’re connected by a multitude
of lines. The impulse is to take a wooden
piece from a Monopoly game and throw
the dice,

But it’s not a board game. What those
boxes are, according to the provincial
forest industry, is the multitude of agen-
cies, boards and commissions established
by the NDP government to govern the
manner in which the companies operate,
The lines are the government highways the
industry must travel,

The. obvious implication is that the forest
industry is being drowned by a growing
bureaucralic beast. To some extent, the in-
dustry is correct. The NDP has created a
bewildering number of agencies and all
have a stake in what happens. Any
bureaucracy should be approached with a
certain amount of suspicion.

Yet the industry is wrong in its unstated
point that the former Social Credit govern-

ment didn’t burden it with a lot of un-
wanted and unnecessary baggage. A lot of
what is now in place, the Commission on
Resources and the Environment and
aboriginal advisory groups, for example,
had their beginnings with the Social Credit
government.

The difference with the NDP is that it is
trying to replace an informal but just as
complex Socred. system. with one that at
least has a structure and has some ground
tules. Remove all the fancy language and

terms and the ‘central question is very.

siniple: How many trees are out there and
how many can be logged? |

The answer to this no longer rests with

just the forest industry. Trees are a public
resource and decisions on what to do with

them must involve as many people as pos- ~

sible.
Of course, this suggests that reasonable
people can come together to make rea-

- sonable decisions. And in the end that

presents the biggest challenge of them all.

It’s undemocratic

Once again the province of Quebec has
shown that it can’t — or won’t — take a
bit of criticism. The target of the slightly
paranoid Quebec attitude was Skeena NDP
Jim Fulton. His.sin was to appear in a doc-
umentary on the massive James Bay power
projects, Mr. Fulton said there would be
“blood on that electricity” if developed _

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is remarks were construed to. mean hu-;;:

man, blood, For.that, Mr, Fulton was called
an, ‘intellectual’ ‘racist’? and .. ‘‘anti-
Quebecois”” by Quebec newspapers and
politicians. ‘Mr. Fulton..says the comment
was contained: in remarks made about the
drowning’ ‘of thousands of caribou some
years ago when the waters rose in connec:
tion with James Bay I. And he says he was
never given the opportunity to explain the.

context of his remarks once the you know
what hit the fan.

The reaction to Mr. Fulton’s comments
combines two of the touchiest issues in
Quebec. One is the sanctity with which
Quebec holds its hydro-electric develop-
ments, They are not only a way-to make
money but are the biggest example of

“Quebec's. econoinic | nationalism. ésttack.,,

aed ad

-those and: you attack.the:soul-of the pro-

vince, The other is the manner in-which. -
natives are treated in Quebec. We may

think we have some. in-grown anti-native
attitudes in B.C. but, they are nothing com-
pared to what happens i in Quebec,

Quebec must: learn that a free exchange
of ideas and opinions is important if it is to
grow and to mature. And it’s something we
should also remember.

Three necessities

Here’s another chapter in the

continuing saga to replace ob-
solete but prized possessions
destroyed in an arson house
fire,

Soon after the September
fire, I began hunting for a re-
placement hand-operated cof-
fee grinder, an all-metal drip

- Through
Bifocals |
_by Cla udette Sandeckl

coffee maker, and a Royal
_ Standard - manual typewriter,
model KMG with elite type..
(Typewriters print ‘letters in
one of two sizes, either large
or pica, or: small type: called
elite.)
Advertisements i in a local ad
sheet and in’a prairie newspa-
per, the Western Producer,

raised no response. However, | -

my column printed in the Ter-
race Standard brought 11 of-
fers of typewriters; none was a
Royal KMG :though. Even a
Saskatoon secondhand store
which claims ‘If ‘we don’t
have it, we'll find it for you”
failed to make good on. its
promise,

So a month ago I wrote. to.
Kerry Moore’s Hard-To-Find
column published in The Pro-
vince. Three days later my let-
ter — minus Dear Kerry and
Sincerely yours — appeared in
the Living section of the news-
paper as a 2 1/2 x 5 inch
notice titled Can You Help
This Reader? ‘A classified ad
of equal size costs $630.66,

Days later I had offers of
four coffee. grinders, four cof-

fee makers, . and five, Royal L
~ That’s when. he. bought this

typewriters, °
A North” Vancouver jady “
mailed me..a. _German-made

coffee grinder no bigger than:

six’ music. -tapes: stacked...

Crammed: with, as many coftee a

i

A tanto pec guganm gedees te

beans as the ‘hopper will hold

before the lid is closed to pre-

vent splattering, “in ‘two
minutes it grinds enough to
brew twelve cups.

“That's lightning compared to
the hand grinders stores sell
for up to $80 that grind less

than a teaspoonful after fifteen.’

minutes of diligent cranking.
A Port. Coquitlam lady. sent
an all-aluminum drip - cof-

‘feemaker she had bought years

ago to make drip coffee when
her European in-laws visited,
“They don’t visit much any
more,” she said. For several

-years she had lived in Kitimat.

The coffeemaker arrived

packed in shredded Paper. It is”
well used; it’s lustre is lost,

Because it weighs almost
nothing, postage was only
$2.87,

~ Wonder of wonders, one of
the Royals was a KMG ... with .
_ the same elite type face as my -
original machine, The ma-—

chine belonged to John, a
Vancouver. man who had
worked. for Canadian

Freightways in Prince George |

at the time ‘the company up-
graded from manual to elecitic
typewriters in the 1960's.

machine; now he was willing
to sell it.

In“ an. exchange ' of phone -
- calls we. worked, out. APP

and “payment = “detalls.

packed it between two old
four-inch-thick foam sofa
cushions. A courier company
picked it up from his third-
floor apartment’ Monday
forenoon and delivered it 48
hours later.

At first glance the machine

‘seemed unlike the one I had
used for thirty years, But by

the time I had scrubbed a layer
of grubby fingerprints from
the frame; unclogged © the
typeface with Archie’s cleaner
and ‘a brush; scoured the rub-
ber roller free of an accumula-
tion of black carbon; and
lubricated friction points with
sewing machine oil, it looked

. familiar.

So thanks to the generosity
of readers, Kerry Moore and
The Province, three precious
pieces of my life have been

restored,

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Lideral Wilson rolls
dice to keep job

VICTORIA — The Liberal
leadership plot is thickening,
and Gordon Wilson is trying
desperately to retain a Part i in

oe it.

é Indiana fureardtind thé gts
who tight have foréed hin
submit to a leadership review,
which would probably have ‘
resulted in an embarrassing _
no-confidence vote, Wilson
has called for a full-blown
leadership convention to be
held early this summer.

Al the time of writing, Wil-
son had not yet declared him-
self in race for. the leadership,
but some of his comments ..
“T’m not a quitter” .. leave
no doubt in my mind that he
will try to reassert his grip on
the party.

In theory, he can do it. If he .
travels to every riding during —
the next few months and
garners enough support from
potential delegates to the con-
vention, he could carry it off.

But it’s an outside chance at -
best. The deck is stacked
against him, and let me be
very clear that it wasn’t some
“dark forces’’ within the party
who dealt the cards, but Wil-
son himself,

The big problem with Wil-
son is that he never should
have been where he is now.
He never had a ‘‘vision for
British Columbia,’’ a phrase
he uses a little too often for
credibility, ;

He was swept into the posi-
tion as leader of the official
opposition as a result of a
seven-second clip on televi-
sion, during Mike Harcourt’s
and Rita Johnston’s infamous
fish-wife exchange:

The votes into which his. -
little quip translated at the

polls were not cast for the Lib-

erals, but against the oldline
parties, The Liberals hadn’t”.
earned their success,

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by Hubert Beyer

A good leader, on the other
hand, could have turned the
electoral fluke into a serious
political power base. Alas,
Wilson tumed out to be no as

good leader. That’s why he is -

in trouble, and that’s why he
‘will not get a second mandate
from the party.

~ The names of several poten-
tial replacements for Wilson
are being bandied about, with
Vancouver Mayor Gordon
Campbell’s among the more
prominent ones,

In the past, Campbell has
side-stepped questions of
whether he’s interested in bec-
oming leader of the Liberal
Party with the obvious answer
that the job is filled, but that’s
no longer the case,

Campbell is also the candi-
date the NDP fears most, be-
cause he has the political

' Smarts to forge a credible and

effective free-enterprise al-
liance that could give the NDP
Severe headaches at the next
election.

Another name that keeps
popping up is that of Gordon
Gibson Jr. Gibson was once
leader of the Liberal Party. and
its lone representative in the

legislature, following the big
defection to the Socreds of his

_ colleagues Pat McGeer, Allan

_ Williams and Garde Gardom,:
Gibson was a good

politician, but it’s doubtful

‘whether he can Stage a come-

back or is even interested i in

the job.
We also shouldn’t count out -
Gary Farrell-Collins, the Lib-
eral MLA for Fort Langley-
Aldergrove. He resigned his
job as party whip. when Wil-
son refused to rule out a future
relationship with Judy Tyabji.
Farrell-Collins has proven.
himself as a stable and effec-
tive debater in the legislature,

* but his lack of experience

would prove to be a bid dis-
advantage,

Then there is David
Mitchell, Liberal MLA for
Vancouver-Garibaldi, who
quit the house leader’s job and
caucus over disagreements
with Wilson.

Mitchell probably wants the
job so badly he can taste it, but
his reputation as a maverick
could now come back to haunt
him. He would definitely have
been better off not to quit
caucus when he did.

Last but no least, the list of
potential successors to Wilson
includes Fred Gingell, the man

~ who is serving as interim

leader of the official opposi-
tion in the legislature.

For my money, Gingell is the
best of the lot, by far. He is
one the most honourable
politicians to have arrived in
Victoria in some time. He has
every asset to be a good
leader, including his fervent
wish not to be one. A party
couldn’t wish for a better man
to lead it,

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