_ By ALLAN R, TAYLOR
“Allan R. Taylor is the chair-
man and chief executive officer
of the Royal Bank of Canada.

Born in Saskatchewan, Mr.
Taylor joined the bank in 1949.
He became in i986.

‘The following is.an excerpt af
a speech given to shareholders
earlier this year.

Nations can make mistakes,
and pay heavily for them. Now
even we seem to be embarking

‘on our own march of folly.

Too many Canadians are in-

different to a possible breakup
- of the country.

We hear too many predic-
tions that separation would be
relatively smooth and inexpen-
sive’ — a divorce between
‘friends.

Notyonly is; our. country. i

danger’ of, breaking up, but: tod
few Canadians have “really
begun to discuss the real issues.
What a waste. What a waste of
' ‘precious time.
Many Canadians still do not
understand that national unity
and economic prosperity are cut
from the same cloth. Some do
not want to hear about the cost
of disunity. Same are deterred
from discussing it because of
_the risk of being labelled ‘‘fear
mongers”’. Discussing the costs
of disunity with care is not fear
mongering, it is facing reality.
This, above all, is what Cana-
dians must do now — face reali-
ty.

‘Marches of folly are made
possible by the existence of

. dangerous delusions. It is the
~ delusion that a national
-breakup would’ involve only

Allan R. Taylor

would have begun te take shape
for Canadians.

Instead, partisan floundering
has led too many Canadians to
turn off their minds, and to
close their hearts. Too many

challenges we face.
Do we really need to blow
Canada apart to meet Quebec’s

historic concerns? Quebec is a.

unique cultural island of 6

million French-speaking people

understand Canada is really

part of a much larger interna-
tional economic union and so
must have a strong domestic
economic union to survive?
Again I say no.

That separation would be
relatively easy and without cost
is not just a dangerous delusion;
it is a real world impossibility.

It is my éstimation that, the
costs of a break-up would be
huge and long-term, and paid
by everyone in Canada — here
in Quebec, and in every other

province and territory. No one .

would escape lightly; no one
would fare well,

Now constitutions making is
for citizens, not banks. We do
not have, or pretend to have any
spécial expertise or knowledge
in this area, But this bank is

: almost..as,.old, as, Canada; |
Throvigh't more than é a, century of.

‘we’ hav

. gained.some knowledge of how

our economic system works —

‘and what it needs to work. Our

business is Canada — all of
Canada.

It requires no constitutional
expertise to see that many

assumptions in this debate are ©

simplistic nonsense.

They assume, for example,
the continuation of a common
currency, a common market, a
common international trade
policy, and a stabilizing fiscal
structure. This is not a credible
scenario even in a environment
of harmony and selflessness.

They suppose that all deci-
sions would be made purely on
rational economic grounds,
Even if that were possible, the
costs would be enormous, But

Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 29, 1992 — Paga A5

LETTERS _

. TO THE TERRACE STANDARD

1 5 Hon.

Miller, Minister of Forests:

Dear Sir: . :
' In the spring of 1990 1
wrote the following letter to
the forest minister Claude
Richmond and he replied
that the select standing com-
mittee on forests and lands
was ‘looking into the log
market situation.

I] never received any fur-
ther correspondence from
him and the pulp log market
situation still remains the
~ ‘same today.

“Brian Mould,

* Meziadin Lake, B.C.

Claude Richmond,

‘Minister of Forests:

Dear Sir!

_. The present artificially low
cost of pulp logs just has to

_ change. It is not only hurting

|. the logging industry but is

’. also responsible for the high
cost of sawlogs as well.

' The present system forces
up the price of sawlogs as
this is the only way the logg-
ing industry can survive. No
matter what the percentage
of pulp and sawlogs in a
timber stand, the only way
the logging operation is made

. Viable is by getting enough
dollars for the sawlogs to

Maternity

. Dear Sir:

’ Tam answering the column
of Mrs. Claudette Sandecki,
“Helping out Mom’’, April
8, 1992.

I would like very much to
inform her that we have been
carrying a beautiful line of
maternity for 18 years.
‘Three-quarters of our line is

wees bu

Dear Sir:
_ Recent protests by parents
over the public school’s Year
2000 education program may
be more-‘clearly understood
when one studies U.S. Presi-
dent George Bush’s own
claim as the education presi-
dent under his own System
2000. ©

What has B.C. parents
angry is the lack of emphasis
on academic skills involved
in the Year 2000 approach to
education, Instead it focuses
on psychological testing
which appears to encourage a
self-actualization approach.

Students get to pick their
education like they would a
happy meal in a fast food

System must change

° An open letter to: Hon. Dan

overcome the loss incurred
by the pulp log volume.

‘This is wrong and if the
logging industry is to survive
this has to change.

B.C. pulp mills have had a
free ride for too long. The
profits made ina good year
with a pulp mill in B.C, are
almost unbelievable, but no
matter, how mushc profit
they show It is never reflected
in the price paid for
pulpwood.,

In. countries such as
Sweden and Norway pulp
mills are paying the
equivalent of $100 Canadian
per cubic meter. for their
pulpwood and they are com-
peting very well with B.C.

’ pulp mills. This shows us just

how artificially low
pulpwood prices in B.C. real-
ly are.
_ The present price of pulp
logs will not change in B.C
without some intervention by
government as the price is
controlled by a handful of
large companies and it is not’
hard to understand why they
don’t want this to change,

I would urge your ministry
to conduct an inquiry into
the pulpwood industry in
B.C.

wear here

Canadian made, and is very
affordable.

If you've been disap-
pointed about how the preg-
nant lady looks, it is not
because the maternity clothes
are not available.

Cecile Lechasseur,
Elegance Fashions,
Terrace, B.C.

: rot ifgnoats coc
“Bush league ‘education:

listed. in the U.S, federal
education manual! -

Since Free Trade is design-
ed to integrate Canadian and
Mexican markets into the
United States by the year
2000 -- with the eventual
takeover of the two countries
by the U.S, —. what Bush
does now will also affect
Canadian students in 10
years.

By taking education out of
the local state levels the new
U.S. federal system will turn
the school system over to in-
dustry by privatizing it.

Once the multinationals

- get control of public school

education they will determine
which students will be train-

have unthinkingly accepted the
agendas of groups whose
policies, if implemented, would
mean the ultimate destruction
of Canada.

Most lethal of all is the
assumption that the departure

in an ocean of 270 million peo-
ple working and living in
English. Quebec is a distinct
society. Do we reatly need to
destroy Canada to recognize
and protect that reality? 1 say
no,

restaurant.

Bush’s Educational Quali-
ty Assessment plan is as
bizarre as a CJA takeover of
a foreign power.

It is a six-point program

minimal costs that risks sending

- Canada down this road of ir-
‘reversible folly.

A recent poll shows that fully

56 per cent of the people outside

- . Quebec believe that, if Quebec

history warns us that emotions
would not be kept out of the
picture.

We are told that, once the
process of destroying Canada
was over, the two smaller much
less viable new countries could

ed as local industrial serfs;
who will be trained for yup-
pie, post-secondary educa-
tion; and who will be trained
for various global programs

ae such as government and
designed to 8

"separates, the economy of what
--remains. of Canada will be un-

changed, or even stronger. 1 am ,

deeply. disturbed: and saddened
~ by: this, Like other polls, it
reveals dangerous delusions
“about what would happen to the
“Canadian: economy if Quebec
~ leaves,
“Who, I wonder, are these 56
: per cent-who think it would be
‘safe and easy for them if
Quebec: left? Where do these
-$deas come from? How much
time have these Candians spent
“> thinking about what would real-
oly happen?
Six.months ago, 1 hoped to-
‘day’ s remarks would not be nec-
cesary. By this time, ] expected,
a vision. of renewed federation

of Quebec would resolve our
difficulties. That it would solve
the problems of Quebec; that it

Do we really need to blaw

Canada apart to give the First
Nations to powers to participate

Partisan floundering has led too many Canadians
- to turn off their minds, and to close their hearis.

would solve the problems of the
West: that it would redress the
wrongs done to our First Peo-

ple.
This is only one of the
dangerous delusions that .

beckon Canadians down the
march of historic folly. .
What: Canadians shold be
asking themselves first — and
very explicitly, — is whether
disunity is the answer to the

directly in determining their
own destiny within Canada —

rights they have been denied for
too long? Again, I say no,

Do we really need to blow -
Canada apart to address the-

vital need for greater har-

- monization of federal and pro-

vincial policies and cutting the

wasteful duplication of costs?
Do we really need to blow

Canada apart to make us

easily renegotiate the very
economic structures that
assured prosperity in the first
place.

Let us realize that this com-
forting view is not just
simplistic nonsense, but
nonsense of a kind that destroys
nations. [t is not original but is

very much worth repeating: If

we ignore history’s lessons, we
repeat its mistakes. History tells
us thal the breakup of a country
is costly, painful and long-term;
it leaves very deep economic

-§Cars.

In a dismal parade of folly,
the people have lost, — ar a still
losing — peace, stability and
prosperity.

I) determine
what is the best means of
controlling the students
through psychological
testing; 2-3)determine if each
student can be subliminally
manipulated or will conform
fo the New World Order
without question;

4) develop in each student
a herd mentality; 5) deter-
mine how students will best
comply to an authoritarian
figure (such as, 1 presume,a
New World Order dictator);
6) how to best alter a
student’s perception, ie,
from a Judeo-Christian view
to a New World Order view.
These points are actually

scientific development,

As in the USSR, serendipi-
ty will be outlawed by the
New World Order, along
with organized labor.

I have long held the view
that the USSR agreed to be
disbanded because they real-
ly won the Cold ‘War. After
reading about Bush’s goals
for America 2000 I'm con-
vinced that with people like
George Bush and Brian
Mulroney as leaders, we no
longer need to look to the
communists of this world as
the enemies of democracy,

” Brian Gregg,
. Terrace, B.C.

Showtime |
Forestry Week events
\..] start this weekend.
+, |. On Saturday, May 2
ai there will be a parade of
“| Jogging trucks, They
will drive from Terrace
| to Thornhill. The
parade begins at 1i a.m.
At I p.m. local log-
' ‘gers § will show what they
-.-|- can do at the Thornhill
|Community Grounds.

learning how to read,’

Cleanup

Last Wednesday was
Earth Day.

Local students were
busy picking up litter to
make Terrace cleaner.

In the picture at the
right, Stephen Dunfield

- and Matthew Smith

from Parkside school

. and Jarod Holmo from

- Caledonia school help

The Start is for peo. ~> Clean up around Howe
Creek,

SOCCER

Youth soccer begins
again this Saturday.

This year there are
560 players in the
league. There are 43
teams and five of them ©
are girls’ teams.

There will be a lot of
games this Saturday, |
They will be played at
Christy Park, |