4 Terrace Review — Wednesday, May 21, 1986 Hayes submits small business logging proposal TERRACE — William Hayes, the Liberal can- didate for Skeena, has submitted a proposal to the Small Business Enterprises Steering Committee which he believes will improve small business logging opportunities. “The problem is the lack of wood allocation for small business. For instance, in the Terrace area only four percent is provided to smaller enterprises. I believe that a 25 to 30 percent alloca- tion to small businesses would be a _ proper balance between developing security for the larger enterprises and opportunity for the smaller ones,’? Hayes said. It is generally acknowledged by all political parties, that Editor's Quote Book What people say behind your back is your standing in thecommunity. Edgar Watson Howe Letters to the editor will be considered for publication only when signed. Please include your phone * number. The editor rasetves the right to condense and edit letters. 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There has been a Small Business Enterprise Pro- gram (SBEP) that has been moderately suc- cessful since it was in- troduced in 1979, but it needs a larger share of the annual cut to provide greater security and greater confidence from the financial community; banks will then be more willing to provide back- "TORN LIP FROM SPORT FISHERMAN 4 SPAWNING SALMON, Ditsune Heanes oF 8G" Gare MARK FRon NATE Net marks From ae @ ee DAVIS | ing to these en- trepreneuring enter- prises. Commentary - _ by Brian Gregg Terrace Contributor I’m. not boycotting Expo — it’s a wonderful thing — but I’m not going. On $200 a month, who can af- ford it? I reckon over 30 percent of Terrace is in the same boat as I am. It’s called the Titanic. From 1976-80, the number of jobs created in Canada were 1.23 million. By 1984, the number of jobs created dropped to 290,000. In 1980 the number of unemployed had reached $60,000 and by 1984, it had gone up to 1.4 million. At the same time infla- tion went down from 10.2 percent in 1980 to 4.4 per- cent in 1984, while both family and individual in-. comes remained at about the same level. ce In 1980 the federal deficit was $10.40 billion and in 1984 it was at $29.2 billion. Is it any wonder that our governments, as broke and in debt as the rest of us, called for restraint. Everybody missed that during the so-called Solidarity Coalition days: the government had to introduce restraint because it didn’t have the money. And I really don’t care that a few schools ’ suffered — why should they be any different than the 35 percent unemployed in Terrace. (The government borrowed the money for Expo from Japan even though the IMF told it not to). °* Bishop Remi De Roo, of Victoria, says in his book, ‘‘Cry of Victims — Voice of God’’, we need to stop exporting our resources. First, he says, it was furs, then buffalo, then wheat, lumber and fish, and now hydro-electricity, petroleum and minerals. This produces low population, high technology and a limited.group of people enjoying the biggest share of - the nation’s profits. We need job-producing in- dustries, with employment recognized as a right. Technology is for the well-being of all people and so should produce better, more meaningful jobs, not more unemployment. The Bishop says we have all been infected by the prevailing profit-centered, technology-enamored priorities. Even union values have been mis-shapened by our culture’s economic priorities, so much that some unions may be criticized at times for being Reporter gets thanks To the editor, I would like to extend our sincere thanks to the Terrace Review reporter Mike Kelly for the ex- cellent coverage provid- ed during our 25th An- niversary celebration. It’s important that the community knows about their hospital and sup- ports its programs — you helped us immensely in bringing this to their attention. With sincere thanks, Norman Carelius, Executive Director Mills Memorial Hospital The write stuff short-sighted, introverted, concerned with their own members to the exclusion of the unemployed and of fellow workers in less powerful sectors, even putting the corporate image and executive welfare of the union ahead of the needs of workers. We of the unemployed are learning that it does not demean the dignity of a human being ‘to be unemployed, to be on welfare. But society takes Dar- win’s view on the survival of the fittest. People think progress is an inevitable, evolutionary force at work in the lives of individuals and assume that the crises are local and temporary. The economy, like government, was created for the benefit of people, not the oppression of the unemployed by machines. In my opinion, modern technology has destroyed the Protestant work ethic which most people assume is the standard we must live by. The idea that people who are not productive in the economic system should not eat, is archaic in this age of technocracy. It was fine to say that 100 years ago when a person could hunt and fish whenever he got hungry 12 mon- ths of the year. Today it’s bargain hunting in the local supermarket or picking weeds on the side of the road. That’s not a pro-choice issue, that’s a pro-life issue. You won’t find working people picking weeds on the side of the road. I know unemployed people who do because they can’t afford the cost of super- market living. . Liberation theology is coming to Canada and it is concerned with the rights and responsibilities of every human created in the image of God; the right of all humanity to the gifts of the earth; the need for economic development to encompass social, economic, cultural and spiritual needs; the priority of ‘human labor over profits and machines; the need for capital and technology to be understood as means, not ends, and to be used constructively, not destruc- tively; the right of all people to self-determination; the need for self-reliance in which local communities organize and control their social and economic development to serve their own basic needs; the need for responsible stewardship of natural resources; and, the principle of universal solidarity — all peoples are called to live in harmonious in- terdependence. Yes, Expo 86 is a global shrine to technology, and while B.C. invited the world, some of us got our in- vitation but could not go. Thanks anyway. HAVE A SAFE GRAD '86 MLA wants northwest aluminum processing Frank Howard, MLA for Skeena, has in- troduced a Bill in the legislature designed to ~ increase the possibility of getting an aluminum processing or manufac- turing industry developed in the nor- thwestern region of the province. Howard said, ‘‘The current government has viewed the north in general and the nor- thwest in particular as an area destined to ship out raw materials for others to process and manufac- ture. In the north, we are just as innovative and entrepreneurial as anyone else. ‘We want to create jobs in our area. We want to see the value- added concept apply to us as well as to others. “My bill would establish a Northwestern Aluminum Products Development Council comprised of people liv- ing in the northwest whose purpose would be specifically to zero in on the processing and manufacturing of aluminum and make recommendations to the government with respect thereto, “I’ve always held the view that people will develop ideas and solu- tions to problems and concerns if they are given a challenge and en- couragement. My bill does both and I’m confi- dent some very positive results would come from such a council as is pro- posed in the Bill,’’ Food stock Over 5,000 products can be made from wood, including lumber; pulp, paper; furniture; vanillin; cellophane; shatterproof glass; moulded plastics; wood alcohol; adhesives and animal food stock. Bombers The famed Mosquito Bombers of World War II were constructed from Sitka spruce that grows on the Queen Charlotte Islands. B.C. Tree The oldest B.C. tree on record is a Douglas fir located southwest of Duncan and aged ap- proximately 1,350 years.