..AND | CAN NOW SAY WITHOUT HESITATION THAT THE MAIN
REASON FOR THE FLOODING IS WATER...

Pe er ee |

They must be careful though, not to gloat too
much, or the appalling facts unveiled by the investi-
gators may be overshadowed by a perception of a
zeal for revenge.

Already some commentators have labelled the
proceedings as "getting even" with the Socreds for
what they did in 1975, when they gleefully bashed
the financial operations of the province's first NDP
government, which had just been thrown from power.

I do not doubt there is an element of that within
all of this.

But that is more likely to stem from some of the
old stagers still around — such as former 70’s NDP
cabinet minister Bob Williams, say, rather than
from Mr. Clark, once his student, now his master.

Parting Thought: A final note, without com-
ment, on all of the above.

The chief Peat Marwick spokesman on the report,
partner Ron Hikel, served as deputy minister in the
Saskatchewan NDP government of Alan Blakeney,
and after that as a senior bureaucrat in the Howard
Pawley NDP government in Manitoba. That’s all.

A DROP IN THE BUCKET >
FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION

Every time the phone rings or the door swings
open at the Terrace Women’s Resource Centre it
costs you, the taxpayer, about $10, That is, it costs
the government of Canada about $10, including
salaries, hydro, and photocopying, as the federal
Secretary of State (women’s program) grants about
$30,000 a year to the centre in Terrace to respond to
literally hundreds of requests each month. |

When asked what all these women need help
with, coordinator Karla Hennig replies, “Everything
from abuse to resume writing." But there’s already a
transition house and an employment centre in
Terrace: what do we need a women’s centre for?
Hennig responds, "We help those who would other-
wise fall between the cracks. Some are unfamiliar
with the system and are worried that someone will
start a file on them or ask for payment. And we’re
often the first contact for people in crisis who don’t

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