Page 4, The Herald, Thursday, July. 3, "y980 a : : o @ TIMAT | CIRCULATION. TERRACE - 638-4357 , Published every weekday at 2212 Kalum Street, Terrace, B.C. Authorized as second class mall... Reproduction is not permitted without the written | —— heraid " to-the provinces.” permission of the Pubilshar. - vk he , a, | EDITORIAL | It|s an accepted fact that nothing worthwhile or lasting ever comes without sacrifice of some kind. And In the process, feathers occaslonally — become ruffled and some of those Involved pa a higher price than others. | That seems to be the case In -the recent. Terrace courtroom Incident In which a court counsellor saw her son jalled 60 days for a first- offence crime of intent to: break and enter. The courtworker, in a letter fo the editor elsewhere on this page, outlines her motives for requesting the jall term. The Incident was chronicled In a front-page story In the Herald and a more-sensationalized version was published In a Vancouver dally. Her concerns for the parent-child relationship In Instances where the offspring are invoived with crime are well-founded. Every courtroom In the province sees a dally parade of young people appearing without benefit of parental guidance and, In many cases, concern Is lacking. That {s the sole reason the Incident became front-page news. It Is a noteworthy example of . what role parents should play in such cases. We all pay 1 should take as much responsibility for their, children’s anti-social actions as they do In ac- cepting credit for their accomplishments. _ Human frailty. belng what it Is, that Is all too often not the case. We do not choose our children and they do not even parental - lip service to the fact that parents . - auto industry? . ” ” _ Yes, the idea is laughable. But. it is hardly any - _ more far-fetched than the: gas revenues.that belong - Such a move js in no way an attempt to salve the country’s energy crisis or its petroleum shortages. Quite frankiy, it is a money grab to restore a depleted federal treasury that this year alone, because of past.” policies and past mismanagement, will have. an_in-. ‘crease in the deficit of $14 billion. "+ an «To now single out.the West, for special taxes, ‘to ‘attempt to.cast the province of British Columbia as a greedy villian, unwilling to share with the rest of the country, is not only a gross distortion of the facts, but — in. view of the way federal (politicians have mismanaged their own house, is faintly ludicrous. I don't believe the federal government's financial record gives them the right to make those demands. Our record speaks for itself, too, The use to which we are putting our resource wealth, works to the advantage of-all Canadians, not just to the advantage .. of Britis’a Columbians. It is not greed that makes the West maintain its traditional right toresources ownership. It is because we know that in their development they will serve not _ only as a heritage for our children, but are there to be built up, and husbanded and developed for ail Canada. We know by the record that we can manage our _ resources much better for the common good than any - federal government could. | ] object, as a Canadian and a Westerner, the ap- parent attempts to portray Premier Peter Lougheed of Alberta as some kind of villian because he seeks a reasonable raise in the $14.75 Alberta gets for oil, & "Report from the legislatu ‘Canadian {jigsaw puzzle will not be complete’ if the Alberta piece is left outi<. 00-0 es - on the resource reyen ' Manitoba, or Quebec; or Ontario, ‘that binds us together. ~ -, course: will change their minds for the good ‘of the: ~ eounffy. 9 ES m x n '*Qur country cannot survive on confrontation. It can only survive ‘on good ‘will, on mutual. trust and equitable sharing, the type of sharing “that British Columbia has been used to doing with the rest of the country :through such- things as equalization payments, = we a ~ Our country cannot be the kind of country we want under the present, atmosphere of grasping for each others’ jurisdictions, grasping for each . others’ revenues and trying to olatée parts of the country from the rest.’ Ss But I am optimistic that the sabre rattling wall end, that good will can prevail. | Ta, ’ Itis time to come together and time the federal government recognized that if they want a spirit of co- operation, they must be willing to take the lead in showing cooperation, -Linvite British Columbians to help build not only our. ‘province but a better country. ; Oo The challenge of that is beyond governments. It is a challenge for all Canadians...to respect one -another, to compromise, to be conciliatory, to work for the best our country can be. a, . “LG : = 3 a Alternatives + PACIFIC as are possible, — VIEW! ‘It makes for far quieter living. People who wish to Canadian, mosaic. But like any. jigsaw puzzle, the’ ™ Now will it be complete if thay attempt, as hag been, nues, or the energy revenues of ™ Such a move should be discriminatory. It would be a move against the spirit of this country, the very. spirit : __ Sicha move would set in motion events that.1 would “be. fearful of. I hope those who are advocating such a. _ .balamais, takes issue with ‘special exemption is. cn}y ert General Office. 635-6357 Published by , Oo 4, re re eee. - wen) fo : oi Ciraulation. 635-4357 Sterling Publishers’ f.. =. BYBILLBENNETT =. ©.) when Canada pays Mexico $35.00 a barrel’. > f° JBN aes: a hee PUBLISHER. Calvin McCarth . : J, Should bustling General Motors'tura its profits over . What Ifear 1 see right now, isan attempt by Ottawa |. - mes - EDITOR: Greg Middleton y . to financially ailing Chrysler for distribution t he — to isolate Alberta and -make’ jt the. villain ‘in -the- ¥ pe . oe aa ae a -. gyGORDONHARDY - 4A: détermined landlord can get a rant increase of pretty’. bedroom apartments that . would come’ under rent controls. ’ three-bedroom sultes usually rent at well above that figure ” However, whether the seven percent celling applies or not, ~~ Jandlords,muat give three months written notice of dny in- crease.” so _ “Rent controls do more'than regulate the increase - they also requiate how often the “rent ceiling docsn't: apply to any rental ac a + pommodation that rents'at more than $400.4 month, meaning | ~~” that most large families are not likely to get protection since = amount of a ent,” they can-occur. ”. Registration number 1201. Postage paldin cash, return [| “current ‘thinking by the ~ . suggested they may do to drive British Coliumbia‘into’ ne pees postage guaranteed. ae | federal government ‘in’ ~ the same position: ri re ne ceritical of B.C. Fen ea often takes'tenants’. cases, NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT —_ looking to. : British _ I fear that ls what would happen if, as I have heard, | one oles in the rent controls make tenants easy prey “The Herald retains full complete and sole copyright In Colunibia and Alberta for" the federal government ‘moves.in a discriminatory :-.,o¢ some unscrupulous landlords. « oa any advertisement produced and-or any ealtorial or a resource grab in the way on ‘the export gas resources revenues of British ~~ ag of 1977, landlords can only raise the rent 7 percent t 3 photographie content published In’ the Herald. form of oil and natural - Columbia and Alberta in a way.they have not moyed In year, ‘But the rent ceiling only applies to very modes: ' § for example, does ~ ~ 4a va _ Landlords are permitted to increase the rent justonceayear | on each Euite - the increase is fixed to the premised, not the." tenants. . . “The problem ‘they can wse them. For instance, under rent controls there's, nothing that says a landlord has to tell a new tenant what the” old ‘rent was. It’s classic for landlords to jack the rent up every time’a new tenant comes in.” - . He suggests that tensnts who suspect they've been saddled’ with an illegal rent increase check Commisslon where all rent increases are registered. « . Rent controls are supervised and regulated by the Rent with. the Rent Review is enforcement,’ MacLean says, “It's one °° thing to give people rights but another thing to see whether - te ae at ad med we oh at ' Review Commission, a. special tribunal set up by the _provincial government under the Reasldential Tenancy Act. .”"” MacLean complains that the commission is ‘fairly Bym- “ - pathetle"’ to Jandlords. He is particularly crit! al of the fact | . that the commission is empaiyered tp alve.lan: lords special’ . permission to Increase rents certain circumstances, 7. eg But Jim Patterson, commigsion member, and,B:€. Ren-. sve . ‘Enforcement [s no problem pe, Hie say We enforced rent controls ny Re its, ae ' dangel Of"fore particularly low rent. dilbject to hardship because of a ve the sevén percent levelin — ; many'of MacLean’s contentions, the most nth Amerie, says the, ed in Where diandlord isin“ val H i nae a q it 4 “We look at people who got caught with very low rents at .° 3 would be'where a landlord has kept the rent low in order to ‘make things easier for an old-age pensioner. pensioner dies- or .moves on, the landlord is stuck with. providing an unfairly low rent to the newtenant. ~ ° Patterson told the Province newspaper in November: last _ thetime when rent controls came in,” hesays. A typical case 53 When the , ce) ty choose thelr parents, but there Is a respon-° +. ByEARLHAMILTON .. - - year that his office had been deluged with applications from sibility involved. and the Impetus for the The claim is that the West Skeena Logging Road js _ visit here have no difficulty as it is a repular rail stop, nee a ieally begging for permission to increase rent . “ establishment ofthattwo-way responsibility "les necessary in order to- keep the mills in se and those people who come are careful about making above the seven percent level. He said he was lending a: (+, withthe parent. 20. jo wae g, “ONSTating{or a period hat: I haye,heand ranges.trom, .. ai because. they can't, just jump.in their car.or. _symphathetic ear to. the legitimate ¢ cana ttt “yOu ‘ar, th This? sayWette wilt ree to.siacveurk,’ ean, wie’s doine, ana Bee io lg stan stot ~siabral “ER PATHE rly, COMRATnE tibeth lee js.956. lan: blind not afimpting to set an exaWHite by asking talkingMtiese ‘estimates’ sHoule bis: considerably”. A. béautitakiapot (hat has:fbad-aceestals the! bmiaiiouq gona EF hy. ie higher infeyess.ral iy Bitte, ' her son be jailed. It was simply the course of more exact before the public purse is tapped to _ pool in the woods at Lakelse hot springs. In spiteofthe £5" see i Wwreater gain from their rental i ncOMe.. ie action she felt would be most beneficial to him in the future. The Terrace. courtworker, however unin: tentionally, has set behoove every parent to take a their own situation... The -learning process ( easiest way Is to learn from others. ‘an example. it would close look at never. ends and the LETTERS TO - THE EDITOR | -of us take it tor granted that Dear Sir: The headline in your paper because we are fairly . A a ‘ . of June 25 read “Court. respectable members of the quarter of-a mile long. The train runs noticeabl¥ tg them by accident. The peace and quiet that we refunding legal rent. In the cage of an illegal rentincrease, worker Sets Example For community and we. do set. smoother and presumably increased speed is possible. enjoy now is something that every person I know along the commission usually orders the landlord to cance] the Area Parents” and with the preatest respect to the lovely lady who asked to interview mi (because she stated that she had been watching me at work for the past three days and my job: looked in- teresting) 1 would like to clarify just one thing. I did state to her that more _ serious ones. . Anyone is capable of com- ‘ mitting a crime at one time fairly good examples for our.’ children that they cannot make mistakes, and very It isn’t so. or another, whether they get caught or not. : - -On a technicality, my son chad a fairly good case. recognized that as a court: the road. The mills in Terrace can be sustained by this timber ‘just as well if it comes to town on the train. So, the issue of the provincial forestry ministry favouring the road option has nothing ‘to do with employment in _ Terrace. The forest is-there and will be used. How it is - to be used is too important an issue to be left to the forestry people alone. The multiple use philosophy of resource management is becoming more important all the time. If we don’t observe it, we are going toend — up wasting resources and making a mess thatis going places I.know where people have to convey them- premises. ‘This, MacLean charges, encoura * ‘ : . f burages landlords to. to be far more expensive to cléan up than we were, selves from place to place. * : i evade the ceiling by evicting their tendints and performing, : ever led to believe. - = i - > 4, Dorreen dnd Usk have some roads. Fine places for major renovations. Then they go a inate the and ask: short bike ridés though because there is no through _ itto designate their premises as new, atning for themselves t The Canadian National Railway line from Prince George to Prince Rupert is being upgraded to handle. increased grain and coal traffic. Continuous rail has ‘just been laid past Pacific. Each section of rail is a. If the West Skeena Road is built it will necessarily " be very close to this rail line. It will have to cross the iracks at many points. At other points, fill will have to be dumped into the Skeena to form its. bed. After its construction the train and logging traffic will be operating side by side; through the slide area on Kitselas Mountain, and along ihe Skeena in some very tight places. | wonder if an actuary has been ap- proached to give the statistical probability of an ac- cident? What arrangements are being made between ’ great natural beauty of this place many times it is littered with broken liquor and beer bottles. The trees have been slashed down in inept attempts to build greenwood fires. Deep ruts in the adjacent bush testify to four-by-four machismo. ; ol SECOND OF A SERIES 7 coe r . . ? In Pacific we do not have fraffic. Cedarvale and Woodcock are.about the same: In Pacific there is no traffic. All of these’ communities will be disrupted by the West Skeena logging road. Most of the people in these cammunities did not come this side of the river values highly. Logging on this side of the river will disrupt this peace somewhat, but the construction of the road will shatter it beyond repair. This fact has not: been taken into forestry's assessment of the cost of the road. of Another ovérlooked factor in forestry's pian is that much of the route of the road will go through land that _is claimed by the Gitksan-Carrier Nation. This fact seems of little importance to ‘forestry officials however. Last fall, Dave Lawrie, a forestry engineer, them. It is one of the few _ Patterson says the special exemption is only made for a ‘few hundred rental units a year aut of a total of 200,000 BC. rental units. oo oo. But recently Patterson has announced a get-tough policy with landlords who unfairly gouge their tenants, He showed _ he meant what he said when he authorized his officers to - geize files from two big rental comainiés thought to be im- . ‘posing illegal rént increases and evictions. The companies have been charged with ~-145 °- illegal increases. Patterson’s proposals for changes In the law will be discussed in the next‘columain this series. the right to put the rent up as much as they like, Patterson, however. insists these special designations take place very rarely, . ‘MacLean also hits the commission over the question of increase and refund the amount of the illegal rent increase -‘eollected. But a section of the Residential Tenancy Act empowers the commission to allow the landlord to keep th: illegal rent. . “I think that's a horrible section of the act,” he says. “What would happen is thata tenant goes to the Rent Review ‘Commission and says ‘] would like a ruling that my landlord jacked up the rent illegally and owes me $1400.’ The landlord says, ‘Oh Dear, it was Hlegal but I'm going to’ suffer tremendous hardship If I have.to pay it back, Why don't you let mo keep it?” . As mentioned, the rent celling. does, not apply to new. aA eet ies rents should get involved. ee when their children get into worker, but looking at it- forestry, CanCel, and CN to ensure that'safety stan’ tig the Terrace Public Advisory Committee that ‘ 7 . trouble, but I did not set my from Parents Pale oo dards are met? —. . ‘ Indians of both the Kitselas. and Kitwanga Bands MacLean says the section promotes contempt for the law anyone here or severe. I situation and the kind of _ if even.once chemicals or other toxic substances welcomed the construction of the road through their eecunes fhacLean of conjectaring, Its only been used two o did what [ did to set an person [ would encourage being hauled by CN end up in the Skeena River or the _ reserves. The following night when Lawrie ventured three times, he says, and only in exceptional cases where a u example for hin and for no hmiobeafierhetcldmethe valley air because of an eecident between a train and .. to Kitwanga to explain the road to the PAC there, tandiord had in good falth falled to realize he was violating } other reason. -1 want him to circumstances, Would he be logging traffic ' then the cost of the West Skeena Road’ ir Acta at ee acted paper repudiated rent controla. : ; ‘ et a taste of incarceration like many e yo will be too ._ 7S this ¢ . ’ ited ni he a . . for breaking the law. people who have deliberately .- Why not mee logs through this area by rail? It’s - its present form, The fact that forestry officials can Next: Tougher times for rent gougers. committed a crime, Rotten = aiready there. Conflicts between logging and CN make such false representations and get away with it. Formoreinformation about landlord and tenant laws, send If Kevin had not in any off on a technicality and would then be worked out because they would be has led me to the conclusion that they must become 50 cents plus 20 cents postage to the People’s Law School at ¢ . way sbeen involved in the walk oni ty to be back working ‘together. The dangers inherent in tran- responsible to someone other than themselves. Lawrie 2110¢ West Tweltth Ave., Vaneouver, V@K 2N2, for their ¢ if he was just at the wrong jn that same courtroom a Sportation along the Skeena would not be increased, . |S apparently still in good standing. Vern Strain, who a —— place at the wrong time and week or so later with the It takes six times as much energy to haul a ton a © corroborated Lawrie’s misrepresentation of the ‘ . he was not involved, there is same type of offense? mile by truck than it does to haul it by rail. According native Indian point of view certainly is. Forestry (: ~ | Scaetraiake “Peas we Betdhiseulmniniery oman nine SE Eocstargetion wt soase | ETTERS TO]: m ple y to sucn’ a maelf, Too ma cle, i ix times more efficient to " { . serious offense. times we, as parenis, get The Closing than ie six tim fel sa tion is | answered. _ ; Jam not the almighty and 1 defensive about our children. havi by 2 an truck as far as {uel consumption Frank Howard, Skeena MLA has publicly stated H F- DITOR cannot use my children as and to me, defensiveness is . ; "that logs.on the West Skeena should be moved by rail. epee, a example for anyone. [am like prejudice. We can't Even the B.C. government is saying that we have to Surely the viewpoint of our democratically elected . = ~ a not a dopooder, either. grow on it. L think those two start conserving energy, so 1 am forced to question member should hold some. sway. Jim Fulton, federal Dear Sir: . who benefit by the r Mereare Crough‘degooders characterisiics in & person their sincerity when they say as Rafe Mair did in . MP for the region, has indicated that he is not in, Tie Comyn fal eee ote yone Programs with net enough intelligence are & crippling he i Ae letter last spring that the road option is the most ‘cost favour of the road option. Coming from.the Queen Society is pleased to convey The 1979 benefits éxtended ruining, around who don’t ae Who pivoted effective’ way to move the logs on the West Skeena.I Charlottes, Jim is familiar with the excesses that are the residents. of Terrace to the communities of realize the damage they are, erview me’ I've gotten to aim still waiting to find out what costs he was referring occuring in logging practice in the Prince Rupert and Hazelton that the 180 Terrace and Hazelton: in fact, doing. 1 evaluate , > to. It is certainly no fuel saving proposition and asthe forest district. I ask m self why we should trust this campaign for funds has amounted to $26,541 ap- / myself ona constant basis as Know one more lovely per ; sapyort it j y y : lected $677.34. On b P 1 a parent, 88a worker, andas Son, ard [ pray that my son road is to serve a function that could be served in large particular managenient unit when they have allowed St the Canadian Hed hall proximately. The programe a community member, will do some very serious part by the railroad line, its entire construction can be - logging companies t¢ make such messes a8 the Society, T would like ta halk included Blood Donor ‘there is nothing more 1 thinking during the next viewed as waste. Furthermore, Itscostis tobe pald by Kitimat Valley, Chapman Lake and Riley Creek. the citizens for this financial - Recruitment ain ‘well as would like to see that more sixty day. 1 want to thank the forestry with motey they get from taxes. _ Now is the time for sound forest management policy support. ee Safety Service. Re 4 Water Miventa get involved in the Judge Collins for allowing = Weare the ones paying for the road. What doweget to be implernented. We cannot tet forestry tell us that Robert Cooper, campaign “Youth and Sick Rosey © justice system, not only me to apeak to te mater out of it? a "we are almost out of timber in one breath and how to chairperson, and his team of |Equipment Loan Service when their children get into ever ua ii ow better For me, the answer is less than nothing because manage that which remains in the next. Their policies CR-12 students of Caledonia We thank the Citizens of trouble, but before they do fet ement, and also for tiroumh the road we will loge the privacy thal we have after all have brought us to the dilemma which con- Senior Secondary School, Terrace and Hazellon once a Fe eet they are tut we granting my recom. come to know and need In Pacific. Atthe present time fronts us in timber supply. At the very least thelr conducted this mail cam- again for thelr financial . : woo EL know what they are mendation. Itwasdonefora in this place and a few others along the Skeena it js recommendations should be subjected to some im- eer verance. fitort and — support, doing, at least not all the purpose; not for me,and aot possible to live without private vehicle traffic. partial questioning. : thie compaign ane veattiont Yours sincerely, time. And most probably, for anyone else except Kevin Although most people seem to think that this would be Are they in fact acting in the public interest? appreciated by not only ie Dir Zaring Daya we don’t know what they are Supernault. a great cause of incorivenience, it has become My answer to this question is becoming an in- Canadian Red Cross Society, Resources ector, Financtat up to moat of the time. Moat Rosemary Supernaull something very valuable to those of us who live here. creasingly definite no. but also the many persons B.C.-Yukon Division |