r AS - The. Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 3, 1998 More letters Gov't accused of voodoo | Dear Slr: Mr. Clayton Lloyd Jones’ Ictier in The Terrace Staa- dard, May 6, 1998 answer- ing Mr. Parr's letter borders on the absurd. His tirade against meat fishing reads more like some bizarre Monty Python skit gone _ bad. What shines through Mr, Jones’ smothering sarcasm and his holier than thou elitist attitude is his disdain for common fishing folk, If Mr. Jones along with the Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks would stick to pure science and sound biological: © management policies such as harvestable surpluses they could gain a lot of credibility, Instead what we get is sinoke and mirrors, voodoo science, coupled with More about doctor fees Dear Sir: A recent letter by Odd Eidsvik of. Prince Rupert contains incorrect facts on health care. . Eidsvik compares Surrey__ Memorial?s —_ arrangement with its medical staff to the situation in Bums Lake and Vanderhoof. Surrey Memorial, not the government, pays doctors to be on duty in the hospital for 12.hours a-night. Surrey doctors take turns at being on duty during weekends. The 22 northern doctors want to be paid while they are off duty, but on call. The Surrey Memorial doc- tor is-on duty, present at the hospital, -to treat the large in-patient. population — receiving an average of 15 calls a night. Northern doctors are also. paid a MSP fee premium when they are called to the hospital the Surrey Memorial doctors do not receive the MSP on call premium. This is on top of the additional Northern iso- lation Allowance (an addi- tional 6 to 20 per cent per fee item) which the Surrey doctor does not get paid, Tt is important to under- stand that the northem doc- lors’ demands would in- crease their incomes by $60,000 each, per year, for the same level of service. The issue is very different and more complex than Eidsvik of Prince Rupert would have us believe. Helmut Giesbrecht, MLA, Skeena Wicked weed Dear Slr: In the last few years I’ve seen smoking go from normal to subversive. Thirty years ago kids bought a pack of smokes in drug Stores to obscure the fact they wanted condoms. Now they buy condoms to obscure the fact they want smokes in some super- markets. One of the arguments against legalizing marijuana was it couldn't be detected from tobacco cigarettes. With new regulations it’s no longer a-problem. Office workers huddle at dump sters in the alleys of busi- - ness to feed their nicotine habits. And with NAFTA that old Cheech and Chong ad! "Acapulco Gold is baaaad weed!" takes on new meati- ing. Give these politicians enough hemp rope and they'll hang themselves, - Brian Gregg, Terrace B.C, biostitutes that put philo- sophical beliefs and social engineering before hard data. A classic example of this is the stark difference in Management policy between Skeena River steclhead and Bella Coola River steelhead, - On the Bella Coola the en- vironment ministry con- tinvally trices to show that there are more steelhead than the counts show so as nal to have to enhance. While on the, Skeena they continually try to show that there are less steelhead than ihe counts show so as not to have even a token catch kill fishery (one a year, sumgner mun). . So In both cases the medel used for counting is highly suspect and unreliable as is pointed out in The Nortec Consulting critique, by Sean Mitchell, April 28, 1998, This report clearly spells out in academic terms that the model the environment min- istry is using is flawed to say the least. - It seems strange that such a simple thing as sharing a resource held in common can bring such vicious: at- lacks on those doing the as- king. Perhaps if we could get the Steelhead Society surgically removed from. the environment | ministry's backside we would get a more common sense ap- praach to steelhead, ‘It’s mot: our freezers we have to worry about locking up. It’s our minds. C.David Hall, M.B., Regional President, BCWF, Caribou-Chilcotin emy 0 Performing Arts accepting PIANO GUITAR VIOLIN ACCORDIAN BRASS FLUTE PRESCHOOL PIANO GROUP ALL THEORY SUBJECTS 638-1183 RESERVE EARLY FOR CHOICE OF TIMES ~ Classified Advertising Service ~ Best Buy Optious... BC’s Interior Vancouver Island The Lower Mainland $80. All ofthe Above $199. 40 Newspapers with a combined circulation of 794,860!! . Per Insertion 25 Words ea. add'l $80. $80. $5.00