A4- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 28, 1998

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CHAIRMAN MAO once said that a journey of a
thousand miles begins with the first step. And he
should know for the Communist Chinese leader
spent years traipsing around the countryside be-
fore coming to power.

An equally long but terribly uncertain journey
concems northwestern efforts to improve
psychiatric services. It’s going on nine years now
that the provincial government grandly announc-
ed it was closing down the Riverview hospital
complex on the lower mainland in favour of put-
ting beds and services into the regions.

Over these many years northwestern officials
have worked hard on a plan to reflect the provin-
cial targets. There’s been a flock of committees,
a mountain of studies and a neverending stream
of southern health officials involved.

The northwestern plan is two-fold. One is to
improve services so people with problems can
live in their home communities and avoid being
placed in hospitals, for instance, or other un-
suitable facilities. The other is to improve the ex-
isting regional psychiatric ward at Mills
Memorial Hospital, add a higher level of in-
patient care and to build community housing on
the hospital grounds.

It’s not a bad pian but it’s one that has yet to
bear any fruit until last week. That’s when the .

northwest got word it could receive just over

$252,000 a year from now on for community -

psychiatric services.
Now that’s better than a poke in the eye with a
dirty stick. But after waiting all these long years
and with a multitude of key issues remaining un-
solved, the provincial government needs more
reminding that psychiatric services here are sore-
ly lacking in depth and scope.

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ONE OF the strengths of the RCMP in B.C.
comes from it being a federal police force. Al-
though under contract to the provincial govern-
ment and to municipalities, it is a step removed
from direct provincial control.

Yet Attorney-General Ujjal Dosanjh has
stepped forward as the latest B.C. politician to
suggest replacing the RCMP with a provincial
force because of budget problems affecting it.

He’s due to meet Solicitor-General Andy Scott,
the federal minister responsible for the RCMP,
the end of this month to talk over the budget
situation. One of Mr. Dosanjh’s suggestions to

bolster the RCMP budget is to tap into the juicy’

Employment Insurance surplus. .
It might be tempting for Mr. Dosanjh to pursu
a separate provincial police force. Yet it is some-
thing that should be opposed. Yes, the province
did have its own force until the early 1950s and

yes it did serve with distinction.

But the prospect of a provincial force under the
control of a provincia) government is a bit too
close for our liking. A federal force removed
from the vagaries of provincial control gives
citizens the best chance for an impartial and
responsive policing body.

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VICTORIA — “This treaty
establishes apartheid throughout
British Columbia forever. [t also
sets up 50 ta 60 communistic ter-
ritories within British Columbia
forever.” - Newspaper publisher
David Black”on the Nisga’a
Treaty,

Let me make a couple of
points clear before I go on. One:
I believe the publisher has the
Tight to call the shots on his or
her newspaper’s editorial policy.

Way back, when ] worked
for the Winnipeg Free Press, the
paper’s editorial policy was to
support the Liberals, no matter
what. If the person charged with
writing pro-Liberal editorials
had a problem with that, he
would be replaced in short order

., With someone who didn’t.
«If Black wants his papers’ to
oppose the treaty editorially,
that’s his right, as long as he also
allows dissenting opinions,
which he has said he does, |
intend to make use of that right.

The other point is that ] have
heard and read a lot of nonsense
about Black in recent weeks.
He's been accused of everything,
including naivete, bigotry and
racism, I have known Black for
15 years and I can tell you that
he’s neither naive, nor racist, nor
bigoted.

EVERY YEAR at this time
peese wing south, bears den, and
housewives reupholster their fur-
nilure, Geese and bears succeed
on instinct. Do-it-yourselfers
often need some guidance.

Here are a few tips for reup-
holstering a chair or sofa if
you've never upholstered before:

1. Buy the right amount of
fabric to do the job. Trying to
stretch five yards into six never
works. Nor is it economical to
have a yard or twa left over.

2. Measure, plan, and chalk a
rectangle on your fabric for every
piece you need before you touch
the fabric with scissors, Then, if
you discover you're short of fab-
ric, you can switch to another or
make alternate arrangements
before you get yourself into an
irreversible situation.

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—HAS'A BUDGET

“FROM THE. CAPITAL:
'_ HUBERT BEYER

His concerns about the
Nisga’a Treaty are genuine. It’s
just that I don’t share them. And
since the exchange of opinions in
the public forum is at the heart of
a free society, I will try to make
my points... eo

se, but they fear that the 2,000
square kilometres of land that
will accrue to the Nisga’a as a
result of the proposed treaty, as
well as the self-administered
reserves will, aver time, become
giant reserves, akin to the hated
home lands of South Africa’s
former apartheid regime.

They also fear that the
Nisga’a will not benefit indi-
vidually, since all money accru-
ing to the Nisga’a will be admin-

THROUGH BIFOCALS
CLAUDETTE SANDECKI

3. When using old fabric
pieces as patterns, add an extra
inch to every stapled edge for
handling.

4, Today many homes boast

an electric staple gun. But 3 ©

ounce tacks and a magnetic tack
hammer are handy for lining up
fabric before stapling. A Berry

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HUMAN-EARED Adj.

istered communally.

Black would rather parcel
out the land and the money indi-
vidually, giving each member a
portion of the entire pot.

. Sounds like a good proposal.
The problem is that it would take
just a few years, and both the
land and the money would be in
the hands and pockets of non-
natives.

If every Nisga’a man,
woman and child had, say
$100,000 cash, the carpet bag-
gers would be all over them like
locusts, selling them everything
from cemetery plots, new cars
and boats to world cruises and
time shares,

In no time at ail, the money
would be gone, the land sold,
andthe individuals as wretch-

lems caused by 150 years of
oppression wouldn’t be solved.
They would be magnified.

This view isn’t paternalistic,
it’s shared by Nisga’a leaders.
They know that both land and

money held communally will

give them an economic base
from which to lift their people
out of their poverly and despair.
As for creating future home-
lands from existing reserves,
nothing could be further from the
truth. Self-government doesn’t

staple puller and a pair of side-
culting pliers help to remove old
staples or tacks.

Begin stripping old upholstery
fabric from the bottom of the fur-
niture. Remove pieces in order,
noting their sequence,
Reupholster in reverse order.

6. If you can set your furniture
on sawhorses or an old table,
you'll save your back.

7. Before removing old fabric,
draw perpendicular and horizon-
tal lines on curved pieces such as
rounded arms. These lines keep
your fabric level, especially if it
has a stripe or plaid.

8 Label each piece as you
remove it.

9, Before ripping any seam,
draw hatch marks across it to
serve as notches when sewing
together the new fabric pieces.

~ 10. To. guard against loss of -

Hens PREAKFAST HUMAN AND

+ Black and miatiy other érities “edly poor ‘a8"before. The prob-’“"*"

aren’t opposed to the-treaty per--

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NR MARTIN
SURPLOS.

Thumbs up to Nisga’‘a treaty:

mean the creation of sovereign’ °
states within British Columbia."
Vancouver has a City Charter”
that gives it certain rights no
other municipality has. That)
doesn’t make it an apartheid,
creation. . .
Natives would have auton--
omy over certain areas such as:
education, health care, and adop-'
tion. They would not, however,
override the Criminal Code or"
the Charter of Rights. | fail to see’
the threat in that. ‘
In return, the Nisga’a give,
up all future claims arid will lose,
their tax-exempt status over an
eight-to 12-year adjustment.
period. Canada will also save the-
montey now spent on them by the:
federal department of Indian‘
Affairs. + na oS ype eet
“Above all; ‘implenientifig
this treaty is the right thing to do.’
A recent study has shown that,
Canada’s aboriginal people’s
standard of living is equal to that:
of a third-world country, That’s:
an ugly blot on the image of a’ -
nation voted three times in a row:
as the best country in which to,
live. ;
Beyer can be reached at: Tel:
(250) 920-9300; Fax: (250) 356-'
9597; ~ E-mail:
hubert@coolcom.com

Hang in there, it'll work out |

pattern pieces, padding, legs,
screws, or foam cushions should
your project be interrupted for
several weeks or longer, keep
everything together in a box or
bundled in plastic.

11, Before making a pattern
from an inside back cushion or
any other sewn together, sym-
metrical piece, use only half of
the cushion. Leave the remaining
side intact to serve as an assem-
bly guide.

"12. If you get sluck part way
through the project, ask for direc-
tions. If necessary, drive. the
piece of furniture to an uphol-
sterer for explicit instructions. —
Every upholsterer has atonetime’ . -
or another sobbed for a coach. ©

13. Don't quit. Hang in, Be.
patient. Persevere. You, too, can:

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