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A tradition that
* With each year

F ane ve a -

___ Editorial ~

Hallowe'en comes at a time of
the year soon. after the agricul-
tural harvest is gathered and
stored in the temperate northern

latitudes of the planet, and to
the ancient Celts it seemed an
appropriate time for feasting
and reflection on the past.

The Druidic priesthood in-

" jected an added significance. to
the holiday, and it evolved into a
ceremonial night in which not

only the Earth but also the ‘Trick or Treat” is a legitimized tse
spirits of the dead whom the continued on page 18 "ge

Celts believed to inhabit it were
honored. The shades of the
dead, whose apparitions are now
imitated in costume, were given
free reign in the material world
on that one evening.

‘The Catholic Christians, with
their usual strategy of pre-
‘emption, kept the ‘holiday dur-
ing their efforts to convert the
Celts, but. established. a new sig-
nificance for it and created All

_ Saints Day in which those saints

who had no calendar honor of
their own were all commemor-
ated in one fell swoop. The
Druidic line persisted, however,

and the night before became .
known as All Hallows Eve, and.
the souls of the departed con-
tinued to stalk the countryside in
the British Isles, . -

What with the dead crossing .
the border into the world of the
living, Hallowe’en. has always
been a night of confusion and -
mischief, and the mischievious _
quick have often played a larger.
role than the vengeful dead.

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_ The flow of hot air increases"
_from Victoria |

Hf you live anywhere north of Victoria or Vancouver and you had
high hopes that Premier Vander Zalm will go through with his plan of
sending thousands of government workers to the province’s remote =
regions, boosting regional economies with swelling payrolls, my ad-
vice is —- forget it.

I’ve been suspicious of the scheme ever since the premier dropped
his’ first. decentralization hints at the recent Union of B.C, already in the system’’, according to the premier.

Municipalities convention. My suspicions were confirmed when the What the premier has.given us is the equivalent of eight royal com-

; Hubert Bey er

| Victoria Correspondent

Ecennemes POCMICT'S press secretary delivered to the press gallery what Vander Missions, looking at things, the inadequacy of which has long been -

Letters to the editor will be con- Zalm considers a detailed outline of the plan.

sidered for publication only when , . .
e y your ever had the misfortune to be subjected to. It’s so bad that even the more money for education, more money for health care, more money

signed. Please include
telephone number.

The editor

known,

The outline consisted of eight pages of the worst hot-air attack I’ve The only thing that would make a difference ‘to this province is

premier’s speech writer should avoid confessing to its authorship. for social services,

more money for parks, more money for
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are not necessarily those of the

Anyone in on the draft should seek early retirement. —_— everything.
The only substance in the outline is the appointment of the Money, however, the

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ministers of state who are going to lead the eight new regions to alleg- short supply.

ed economic prosperity, The rest is pure and unadulterated nonsense.

Here are the lucky cabinet ministers charged with state ministerial |

responsibilities for the regions; their parliamentary secretaries. are
named in brackets. . :

Stan Hagen (Harold Long) — Vancouver Island/Coast; Elwood
Veitch (John Jansen and Norman Jacobsen) — Mainland/South-

west; Claude Richmond (Ivan Messmer) — Okanagan; Rita Johnston |

(Howard Dirks) — Kootenay; Bruce Strachan (Neil Vant) —
Cariboo; Dave Parker (Graham Bruce) — North Coast; Stephen
Rogers (Larry Chalmers) — Nechako; Tony -Brummet (Jack
Weisgerber) — Peace River. —_ a

Now for the details, also referred to by the premier as “the govern-
ment’s action plan to implement the regional policy unveiled Sept.
24.”

First some new terms. The whole package calls for the appointment:
of not only the ministers of state, but also for a “*Regional Economic

Diversification Development .Group”’, a ‘Provincial Resource
Team” and a ‘Services Development Group”’ in each of the eight
regions. All three will have representation from local and regional
governments, labor and business.

You follow.me so far? We’re now. four pages into the detailed plan.
Let’s look at what all these groups and teams and ministers of state
will do. Ss .

The diversification groups will.“‘develop a full inventory: of each
region’s manpower, infrastructure, facilities and natural resources
and identify and make recommendations on what additional facilities
and resources are needed to maximize each region’s existing resource
base.”’

The service development groups ‘will
and taking inventory of the quality, quantity and availability of
health, justice, educational and other provincial services, and to
recommend how these servicés can be better delivered in each of the
regions,’’

be responsible for evaluating

The resource teams ‘will develop profiles of job seekers in the.

various regions, according to education, skills and training.’® . . -

I'll top off the government’s $1 million economic Start-up fund for
each region with 10 bucks if anyone, including the premier, can tell
me what all that means.

A meeting in Kamloops of whatever group or team was held Oct.
20 ‘‘to commence review of telecommunications-systems to determine
hi tech and state-of-the-art solutions for communications between
regions.”’ Seems to me that information can be had from B.C. Tel for

nothing, just like Canada Manpower would be happy to provide the |

job-seeker profiles.

The setup itself -will create no new jobs. The government's «

representatives on the various teams and groups will be ‘‘people

premier says witha smile, is a commodity in

Commentary |

Honorable intentions?

by Frank Howard

B.C, Mayors and aldermen
are objects in a scheme of seduc-
tion. As in many seductions the
full. intention has not been
revealed, but courting has

Started.

Courting and seduction have a
preliminary phase in which the
person being courted is told how
important, attractive, intelli-
gent, capable, etc. he or she is.
Whether the person being
courted has these capacities is
not important; the importance is
in being told so. -..

I’m reminded of the near-
classic question of the-father to
the suitor: ‘‘Are your intentions
towards my daughter honor-

.able?”’
Courting started at the Union

of B.C. Municipalities’ conven-
tion with Premier Vander

Zalm’s announcement about es-—

tablishing an additional eight
development regions. He told
the mayors and aldermen, di-
rectly or by implication, that it
was they who had the smarts to
deal with economic matters.
Many in attendance lapped it up
as if they were adolescents on a
first date. Fantastic, they said.
The Premier said that each
region will be under the control
of a Cabinet Minister who will

have responsibility to co-.

ordinate government services.
These ministers will be under the
control of the Premier,

Some Cabinet Ministers, in
the vernacular of politics, are
“political animals’’. That means ~
their basic drive is to get full
political party support from
everything they do. To such
‘‘political animals’’ party
politics comes first and
foremost, = = |

If one of these ‘‘political

animals’? becomes a Cabinet . .

Minister in charge of a region.
you can bet your last dollar that
he or she will do everything
possible to get every mayor and
alderman on the side of Sacial
Credit. ;

Such a Cabinet Minister will
have the full resources of
government at his or her dis-
posal in the process. Whether
the. pressure or blandishments
will be-subtle or direct will de-

_pend upon the initial response of

each mayor and alderman.
Regardless of the approach, a
strong attempt may be made to
seduce mayors and aldermen, to
lure them into a stance of affec-
tion for the provincial govern-
ment. How many will be so se-
duced? Some will want to be, for
that is the way they are. Others
will be able to see through the

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