Alé~ The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 30, 2002

Third rally attacks gov't cuts

FURY WITH the provincial government spilled out onto
the streets for the third time in nearly as many days Jan.
25 when 90 people rallied in front of the Terrace Inn to
protest Northwest Community College layoffs and the
legislated teachers’ contract,

The plan, even’ before the cuts to the college and le-
gislation affection teachers were announced, was to
have a counter rally to a $50 a plate Robbie Burns night
fundraiser sponsored by lacal Liberals.

The demonstration went ahead even though local Lib-
crals had’ cancelled their planned Robbie Burns night,
citing bad optics of its timing-as government cutbacks
pile on top of the region’s economic malaise. :

“We just’ didn’t think it was an appropriate time lo
have a get-together when there is so much suffering
going on in the northwest,” said Liberal organizer Lael
McKeown. She said ticket sales weren t a factor in can-
celling the evening.

The cancellation didn't stop. critics like government ..

union rep Don Philpott, who told the crowd Robbie
Burns was a Scottish civil servant who would “roll-over
in his grave” if he knew his name was connected to the
party overseeing the massive cuts.

“They were going to pay $50 a plate to come here

and eat haggis and besmirch the name of Robbie
Burns,” Philpott said,

“They couldn’t come up with enough Liberals to
come out and support the dismantling of the social safe-
ty nel,” another speaker, Maureen Bostock, added.

Tearing up contracts sends a chilling signal out to
other labour groups and even business and industry that
might invest in B.C, about the province’s reliability,

‘Philpott said.

“Who can trust them to make a contract now?” he
asked. “What does that say for anything they might sipn
in the future if they can just rip them up?”

“If your word is not what you say, who will continue
to make agreements? Who will trust you?”

Bostock said locals should consider the idea now tak-
ing hold in Smithers — recall the local MLA for support-
ing the cutbacks.

“They should be taken down one by one through the

use of recall, and failing that in the next-general™

election,” she said.

Philpott denied having any interest in an effort to re-
call MLA Roger Harris at this time.

But he said protests will have to get bigger if the gov-
ernment is to listen,

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Keep jail here open,
Terrace mayor urges

TERRACE’S mayor wants the provin-
cial government to keep the jail here
open.

“Money is one thing,” Jack Talstra
said. “Being people sensitive is an-
other thing. There should be a balance
between the two.”

Ten jails across the province, in-
cluding the Terrace Regional Cortec-
tional Centre, will be shut down as
part of sweeping cutbacks announced
to B.C,’s civil service and government
programs. Thirteen jobs. will be lost
when the jail closes.

Talstea, a lawyer by profession, said
Tertace’s jail was originally set up to
house younger offenders, and mast cur-
rent inmates are under the age of 30,
serving short sentences.

“They're not hardened criminals.
They’re usually first-time offenders,”

he said, adding they usually. mend
their ways once they mature,

The old jail in Prince George will
be reopened, and along with the newer
Prince George Correctional Centre,
will house additional inmates from
across the province.

Talstra said that means first-time
offenders from northwest comimunities
will end up rubbing shoulders with
hardened criminals in a jail that’s far
from home.

“They become more of a number
than a person and a relative can’t visit
as easily,” Talstra said. “Tt just. makes
it harder.”

Talstra, who also sits ¢ on the Kiti-
mat-Stikine regional district board,
earned the support of his fellow direc-
tors in writing a letter urging the gov-
ernment to reconsider the decision.

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