- Council of Forest

_ PAGE 82, THE HERALD, Wednesday, Novernber 27, 1974

Leisurely fishing trips are in immediate plans for Ted Whiting (eft) and Jack“
Long who retire this month from B.C. Forest Service after combined total of

85 years’ service.

(Forest Service photo).

Industry meets Williams
on Bill 171

‘Industry representatives
from all’ parts of the Province
met the Minister of Forests and
were told: that the purpose of
Bill 171 was to regulate Interior

‘chip prices and participate in

- Ihe-coastal log market, He said
there are no other purposes in
mind. :

“Members of the Council have
differing views on the matler of

- Interior chips, and the Council,

therefore, takes no position on
this,part of the Bill. :

~. Fhe |. COFI members
unanimously oppose govern-
ment inlerference in the Coastal
lug market. The Council con- .

"siders the rest of Ihe ‘Bill very
<. dangerous and is gravely

concerned at, ihe effect the
“Timber Products Stabilization
Act will have on the investment
climate for industry expansion

‘Hf it passes in its present form, ~

-G. L, Draeseke, President of the’
Industries
said Thursday.

“The -Bill ‘received’ secand
reading in the Legislature on
Wednesday. ’

Earlier in the day, a

. delegation fram ‘the Council of

Forest. Industries mel wilh
“Resources Minister HA.
Williams. 0 express specific
concern aboul this Bill,

"Included in the. delegation
-Were representatives of . the
Interior: Lumber Manufac-
turers’ Agsocialion, Cariboo
Lumber | Manufacturers’
Association, Northern Interior
Lumber Seefor, and COFI,
representing both — pulp

producers. and independent -
 sawmillers.
With regard to the Cuastal log -

market, the Pearse Task Force
recammended a timber
authority. relating -l0 the
markeling arrangements for
intermediate forest products
- logs and chips .. . veneer and...
hog fuel.”’ Our Industry
_ Unanimously opposes this idea
because the Coastal log market
is a very complex, continuous,
buying-selling-Irading activity
designed to put the right logs in
. Ihe’ right. conversion plant,
_. Unlike the
‘praduced by ane company do
» hol heeessartly get processed in
that company’s mill-instead the
“mills specialize in cerlain types
“af “grades and species, and
“acquire these in the Coastal log
i. mgrket process. Government
“intervention in this process
‘would be a “bull in a china
shop". ‘The buyers and sellers
o have had years of -specialised

oa ‘experience in the types of logs

- ‘bast suited for their company's
mills.: No person, and cerlainly
na govenrment authorily, could
ever be. in’ a position to un-
“derstand the detailed |

“requirements of. every Coastal”

mill, ven in more stralgh-

“forward products such as eggs

cor wheal, government

* “marketing authorities have a

very poor record, ..
_ We, therefore, warn the
.|government lhat interfering in’

Whe Cuaslal log market will be:

. disruplive;:and will reduce our

os, gampetitive * position in world
- 'markels,

Apart fram the log market

“and, much more serious, is thal

athe. Bill, as written, goes far,

» beyond 4he-inlermediate. con-
“cept but forward by Pearse,
“Phe Bill could also control (he
“marketing of luthber, plywood,
~<<pulp, paper, and newsprint,
“i This-is a completely mew con-

cent and, ff Implemented, would

Interior, logs:

should

be fatal te the industry.

The Minister agreed thal this
was not the inlention, and un-
deriook to review lhe language
wilh his legislative counsel, We ©
look forward lo a suilable
amendment being intréduced
by the government,

Another unprecedented
provision of the Billis lo provide
that, if the Governmen! Board
buys a share or debenture in.
any company, they can appoint |
a representalive fo any board
meeling af thal Company, Mr,
Williams also agreed that il was
an unnecessary provision, and
undertook to review with
legisialive counsel.

Draeseke said the Minister
has demonsiraled that the

. government: is determined to

proceed with the legislation’ in
spite of the many requests for
its withdrawal and despite
widespread opposition to ils
contents, especially those
setting up: @ B.C. Forest
Products Board with awesome
powers.

“In our meeting with the
Minister, we discussed with him .
many aspects of the Bill,” said
Draeseke, “and the Minister *
agreed only lo consider changes
1d meet some, of our ob-
jections.”’

The staled intention of (he
Minister is (o inerease the price
paid for chips by the pulp mills ~
tu independent mills, and Jo
enable
corporalion (o enler the Van-
couver log markel. However,
the Bill goes far beyond ‘this.

COFI members are
unanimous in Lheir opposition to
the rest of the Bill under which:

-- exisling legal contracts in’
many inslances would be made
meaningless; .

- lhe proposed B.C, ‘Forest
Products Board would be able
lo inquire into the affairs and
finances of any privaleor public
company, and, in fact, of any
individual comected in any way
wilh the forest products in
dustry,

-- th resources minister
could obtain from the provincial
treasury; withdul question, any
amount of money he wished for
(his new board's use simply by
presenting a requisition to the
finance minister. .

These, ‘COFI feels, are nul
powers - common fo a free
sogiely,

And, while it may well be that
the present: Minister ‘und his
cabinet colleagues have no
inlention of using them in the
-ways in which the ‘legislation
would permit ihem.to be used,
such powers should nat be on
-the slatute books in a
democratic society.”

I) is vilal‘that all British
Columbians. recognize. - the
ominous nature of the powers
‘this Act would create and the

_ fael that these powers would be

concentrated largely ‘In “the

' office of one Minister,

: ‘The first two of 21 sections in’
the Bill deal with control” of
wood chip: prices, which: Mr,
Williams has said is the purpose
of the Bill,

Nonetheless, it is the
remainder of the Bill which
create» the most
widespread’ concern for it in-
fringes heqvily upon individual
freedom.

Section 3 would establish the
B.C, Forest Board, which is
unnecessary lo. vthip “price

“regulation,”

the new government. |

Seciion 4 provides for ap-
pointment of the Board’s
directors by the cabinel and it
creates conditions under which
it would be possible’ for the
Resources Minister and civil
servant ultimately responsible
lo the Minister to excercise all
of the powers of the Board,

The Board is given very broad
and exlraordinary powers by
other sections of the Bill -- and.
aven {hese may be added to by:
tha cabinel without reference lo
the legislature.

.For instance,. this: Board is
given the powers .of an in,
corporaled .company bul is
exempied from “provisions, ‘of.
the’ Companies Acl, except.
those which the cabine! cheeses
lo impose.
nese conditions for this Board

io vinta business in com-
neift tion with existing com-
panies without any disclosure

It is possible under —

obligations to the public under

the Companies Act.

Al the same lime, the Bill
would empower the new Board
lo compel disclosure of in-
formation from its competitors.

In section 8 of the Bill, the
Minister and the cabinel are
given unlimited power to direct
the Board (o inguire into the
fores! indusiry in every aspect
of its operalion. This section
would enable the Minister ta

_ direct tHe Board to examine the

affairs and finances of private

companies, public companies
and individuals - and the Board
would have power‘lo require the
production of all documents,
papers, financial slalements or
books of account of anyone
engaged in any maiter relating
ta fores! resources and forest
" produc! marketing.

i Is inconceivable.in this age
that any cabinel or any Minisler
would even’. conlemplate
directing examination of the
affairs and finances of in-

‘dividuals employed in the forest -

‘industry - but under this
legislation as it has been
presented, this is possible.

In the area of financing, the
legislation would give [he Board
temporary and longterm

borrowing facilities limited only .

by the financial resources of the
enlire province «- and these
could be exercised without
reference to the legislature.
Section 20 of the Bill sets out
the following:
“(1) Upon the requisition of
the Minister, the Minister of

Finance shall pay such moneys:

as may be, required for the
administration of, or for any of
the purposes of, ihis Act.

“91'In the absence of an -

appropriation therefore,’ sub-
section (1) also applies during
the fiscal year of the Govern-

’ ment ending on March 31, 1676,"!

‘Plainly, -this would obligate
(he Minister of Finance lo pay
whalever sums were asked by
the Minister responsible for the
Act. when thal. Minister
presented a requisilion, There
would be.no reference 10 the

legislature for approval of the .

expendilures and the Finance
Minister would not even have
the right to refuse the
requisilion.

The Bill's section 15 contains
_ an unprecedented provision. It
* makes it passible for the Forest

* Products Board to hold one:

share of a company.and thereby
have power (eo appoint ‘a

representalive to altend any.

meeting of the directors of thal”

company.

|B. Cc. Forest

. ~ Syru ee

* Pure maple pedis is taken from
“wo varielies of maple trees—
both of which grew predom-

_ nantly in the eastern and north--

eastern states and parts, of Can

“Used To Be
The tourist stopped and asked
how far to the’ city. The farmer
‘replied: “Used to be ‘bout 26
miles but the way things 13 goin‘
-in this countr? it might be closet

vets retire

mostly in the Sayward Forest,

Two veterans with 85 years’
service between (them retire
this month from the B.C. Forest

® . Service, They are E.G, (Ted)

Whiting, of Victoria; and J.R.-
(Jack) Long, of Duncan. Both.
men are altached to the ser-
vice's Reforestation Division.

Ted, as he is known to-
thousands of people throughout
the province, commenced his
career with the Forest Service
in 1926 as a fire lookoulman in
the Kettle River area. For the
past i4 years he has played a
leading role in 5.C.’s forest
camp program in which prison
inmates work on a variety of
forestry projects. There are 10
such camps in_ British
Columbia. ’

Earlier appointments saw
him at Grand Forks with whal
was then known as ihe Young -
Men's Forest Training
Program; ‘and with. forest
development projects al John
Dean Park, near Sidney on
Vancouver Island, Thetis Lake
park near Victoria, and
Medicine Bowls near Cour-
lenay, Between 1940 and [343 he
served as assistant ranger in
the Sooke region; and later
specialized in reforestation
programs on, Vancouver Island,

_year — will

near Campbell River.

+ Jack Long's service started in
1935 as a dispatcher in the
ranger station at Burns Lake,
where he was also busy with
timber cruising, inspections,
and related work. He worked on
development projects at Elk
Falls Park, near Campbell
River, and at Medicine Bowls.
Early
specializing
operations and sn active in
developing lhe Forest Service
nurseries at Green Timbers,
near Vancouver; and at
Campbell River. .

In 1945 he went to the ser-

. Vice’s’ nursery al Duncan as a

reforestation specialist, and
from there took part in nursery
programs ali over B.C. - The
Duncan nursery complex now
covers about 80 acres and this
_ produce  ap-
proximately ‘nine .million
seedlings. for the province's
reforestation program.

And while their Forest Ser-
vice careers followed almost
parallel lines, there is
similarity in immediate plans
for both of the retiring Forest
Service officers - they and their
wives are planning holidays in
New Zealand.

in 1908 te started
nursery *

ada ~ to 50 miles by now.

We carry a complete
line of hay, feed,
grains and feed:
supplements.

_ Also custom hay hauling .

-YELLOWHEAD HAY:
& GRAIN

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OR PHONE 635-7480.

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