Treaty referendum results
ignored, warns Unity head

THE B.C, LIBERALS are breaking most of the
treaty-making principles voters approved in a
referendum a year ago, Unity B.C. leader Chris
Delaney charges,

He said native groups are getting much
broader self-government powers than the mu-
nicipal-style governance the referendum prom-
ised. And he says a series of agreements are
proceeding that violate’ the principles in other
ways.

turn,”: he said. “The Liberals have completely
betrayed-all the referendum principles.”
Delaney visited Terrace late last month .as
part. of -a provincial tour:to meet Unity B.C.
members and drum up support.
‘He said the Liberals: have also abandoned
the principle that treaties will deliver certainty

and finality, and are now pursuing “open-end-

ed ongoing relationships.” :

‘: Delaney said the government’s “socialist-
style” move to hand over timber tracts to First
Nations amounts to-a double standard.

“The ‘Liberals claim free enterprise, is the
way to create wealth for all of British Colum-
bia —unless you’re a native,” Delaney said.

“If you're a native what you need-is gover-
nment-financed mills. You need government-
supported programs. You need special timber
allocations - which goes completely contrary

‘They've c completely done a 180- -degree.

‘natives is ‘You’re not good enough.’

to the new forest
policy.”

Delaney said tim-
ber to be trans-
ferred to native
groups amounts to
a shield against
the ravages of for-
est reform that the
Liberals refuse to
extend to non-na-
tive towns.
“They’re telling
communities like
Terrace and
Smithers ‘We're
not going to pro-
cess the logs we
cul in your com-
munities any
more because we think that’s hurtful to free
enlerprise,’” he said.

“But if you’re a native that’s what you need
to do to be successful. You need to cut the
logs and mill them where you live.”

~ “It’s racist, isn’t it? What they’re saying to

But it's
disguised as benevolence. It’s profoundly
wrong and it will not work.”

‘Delaney favours individual one-time pay-

Chris Delaney

outs to aboriginals to settle land claims, rather
than treaties conveying collective lands, re-
sources and cash.

Unity BC has eight per cent of the decided
vote in the north and interior — its strongest re-
gion — in the latest Ipsos Reid poll released
May 29.

But Delaney thinks the party has a chance
to make inroads now and take advantage of
anger atthe Liberals, .. :

“People feel very betrayed after two years,”

.Delaney said. “The government itself is per-

ceived ‘as almost heartless.”

Delaney also ridiculed government efforts
to paint itself as friendly-to rural B.C. — the ar-
eas beyond the Lower Mainland the Liberals
now call the “Heartlands.”

“The Liberals realized two years into their
term they had- basically destroyed the Heart-
lands’ so they came up with a fancy name for
it. ”

He said anger is welling up in the region’

over government handling of B.C. Rail, the
split up of. B.C. Hydro, the Alcan power issue

here and now the planned 55-year quasi-priva-_

tization of the Coquihalla highway.
He said the Coquihalla proposal ‘is being
touted to raise money to fix roads, something

voters thought was already covered off when

the gas tax was raised by 3.5 cents in March.

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WORK WAS underway
along Queensway last
week as crews put in
sewer lines. The work is
being done on behalf
of the Kitseals band for
its Kulspai subdivision.
Residents had been on
septic tanks. The sewer
line project is costing
$1 million and will con-
nect the subdivision
with the Queensway-
Churchill Drive system.
This is one of two
major projects under-
way by the Kitselas
band:: The other is the
construction of a $1.4
million multipurpose
-building going up at its
Gitaus subdivision on
Hwy16 east of Terrace.
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News In Brief

Local named to chair
2010 community group

A LOCAL MAN is heading up a special commit-
tee to highlight the Terrace aren should Vancouver
win the 2010 Olympic bid on July 2. John Taylor
was named the community committee’s chair at a
ceremony yesterday afternoon at the Terrace arena.

Taylor worked in sales for Skeena Broadcasters,
now called Telemedia Radio, for 25 years before
retiring two years ago.

The committee is made up of ‘local’ business
_. people, First Nations representatives, youth and
economic development officials. It will try to find
ways to promote tourism: and economic. opportuai-
‘ties for people in the northwest. .

Harcourt’s new job

FORMER NEW Democratic premier Mike Har- |.
court has been named to be the federal govern- [!
ment’s representative on the B.C, Treaty Commis- |
sion for two years.

The commission also has representatives from
the provincial government and native groups and is
intended to. be the neutral third-party body. in land
claims talks between.the two governments and na-
tive peoples.

Harcourt was premier between 1991 and 1996
and is also a former mayor of Vancouver.

He was badly injured in’a fall from the deck of
his home on the Gulf Islands last year and since
then, has become involved with Rick Hansen in
the Rick Hansen Man in Motion Foundation deal-
ing with spinal cord injury research.

Yo-yos pose health risk

YO-YOs have become a cause for concern recent-
ly, resulting in a push by Health Canada for the re-
moval of some toys from product shelves.

Tanya Evans, product safety officer for Health
Canada, has received reports of children getting
the cord wrapped around their neck, unable to un-
tie it without help.

“What we're concerned about is a strangulation
hazard,” Evans said. '

There have been no reported incidence of stran-
gulation, but Health Canada has asked suppliers to
take the yo-yos off the market and is also warning
consumers not to buy them. The yo-yos have alrea-
dy been banned in France and the U.K.

Forest fire quenched

THE FIRE that was burning near Quill Creek, 60
kilometres east of Terrace, is under control accord-
ing to the Northwest Fire Centre.

This is the 32nd fire recorded since April | in the
Terrace area, a normal number similar to last
year’s figures said Aimee Grieve of the centre.

The fire was cauked by const u¢tion ‘debris left”

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