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r ith the approach of Riverboat Days, Terrace begins to

Vi take a self-conscious attitude toward appearances, Tour-

ism has become an increasingly important consideration

. for the annua! B.C, Day celebration here, and the

events are now shaped to draw visitors as much as to
provide permanent residents with a chance to blow off some steam.
The city is literally on parade and under inspection, in both appear-
ance and attitude.

On page B1 of this issue is a story describing widespread and
persistent acts of destruction directed against recreation sites built and
maintained by the Kalum District office of the Ministry of Forests.
‘The people who have invested time and. effort into creating and
grooming these rustic and pleasant places in the forest — on behalf
of all of us — are pleading for public help in their effort to keep this
common resource as it was intended, a series of unvandalized sanctu-
aries in the woods. They deserve our help. -

British Columbia has come under international scrutiny as a result
of cutting methods used by the forest industry. Parallels drawn with
Brazil, as ill-founded and misinformed as they may be, have taken
root in the public conscience throughout the developed world. No
matter what sort of counter-campaign is launched, the projected
impression of B.C. as a place that allows the landscape to be raped
and pillaged at will by a cadre of bottom-line corporate pirates will
not change without an overwhelming shift in attitude, a shift that is
perceived as being overwhelming, by the forest industry and the
government, These issues are emotional to their core, and the facts
are nearly irrelevant. |

But at the same time B.C. is promoted — and perceived as — a
naiural paradise to people living in areas of the world where the

- environment has been degraded to the point beyond which people can
only dream of forests. Along side images of clear cut moonscapes
and bare mountainsides, there exist in tandem visions of immaculate
ski slopes, alpine meadows browsed by creatures known to most —
people only from coffee table books, spectacular marine fjords walled.
by untouched mountains and trails through remote forests winding
around the upreaching trunks of trees centuries old.

It isn’t possible to predict how long these two conflicting images
can coexist in the public mind, but it’s been a long time since we've
heard Brazil touted as a tourist destination.

In the context of these vast and complex issues, vandalism at forest
recreation sites may seem a small thing. But those sites, along with
provincial parks and even road side rest stops, are for visitors the
gateways to our region’s vast forests and wild places, the natural
magnet that draws people here and makes them happy when they
come. The sight of overturned outhouses, smashed and scorched
picnic tables, scattered trash and broken glass conveys an impression
of carelessness and neglect.

It’s a small thirig, but it makes us all look like fools.

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VANCOUVER — Thirty-one
votes the other way, and Grace
MeCarthy finally would have
fulfilled her lifelong goal — to
be the leader of the Social
Credit Party she once loved.

But there are several reasons
why those 31 delegates cast
their second ballots for Premier
Rita Johnston instead, giving
her a majority of 60 out of
1,822 valid votes cast.

The outcome, which shat-
tered Mrs. McCarthy’s last
hope of grabbing the brass
ring, also shattered any illusion
that this divided party would
heal its wounds and be truly
united for the fall election.

_ How and why did the Mc-
Carthy camp falter less than a
foot from the finish line? I
believe that there were three
deciding factors in Mrs. Mc-
Carthy’s defeat and Mrs.
Johnston's victory.

1, Win-with-Grace workers
were out-lobbied by Rita J’s
crew, and the
‘‘disinformation’’ campaigns
showed a slight edge to Mrs.
Johnston's manipulators.

From thursday night through
Saturday afternoon, the 17 or
18 MLAs backing the sitting
Premier — including virtually
all of the Cabinet — were out
‘‘working the room’, pressur-
ing the undecided delegates to
consider how much easier it
would be for election prepara-
tion if Mrs. Johnston were to —
stay in office.

They were joined by as many
as a dozen professional com-
municators linked to political
strategist Patrick Kinsella, the
true manager of Johnston’s
campaign.

Those workers, through

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various methods, all had snared
delegate status so that they
could chat one-on-one with the
people they were trying to per-
suade, rather than sporting a
badge labelled observer, or
staff, or media, or floor
worker.

Obviously, an undecided
delegate will speak more freely
with one of their own, who

professes to be in the same

state of indecision.

Rita Johnston: Downtown
Vancouver versus rural B.C.

While both sides had a well-
organized whisper campaign
against their opponents’ alleged
faults or closeted skeletons,
neither emerged a clear-cut
winner in the category of sleazy
tactics.

2. The downtown Vancouver
versus rural B.C. syndrome.
One of the most consistent
themes raised agaisnt Mrs. Mc-
Carthy during the aforemen- —
tioned lobbying was that she
was too tied to the Lower
Mainland and was said not to

care for the rest of the pro-
vince. .

This scribe does not doubt
for a minute that those 31 who
made the difference subscribed
to that theory. Whether it was
accurate or not is irrelevant.

And when assessments are
made of the role played in the
outcome by Mel Couvelier (or
“Judas” as he is now known
by half the party) in going to
Rita rather than to Grace, that
urban-vs-rural factor will.be
seen as crucial,

Solicitor-General Ivan
Messmer, Okanagan-
Similkameen MLA, told me
before the balloting began on
Saturday that the contest hing-
ed on those delegates in the
other three camps —
Couvelier’s, Norm Jacobsen’s
and Duane Crandall’s.

A Johnston supporter, Mr.
Messmer said then: ‘‘If we can
convince enough of them that
Social Credit is about all of the
people of the province, and not
just the movers and shakers in:
downtown Vancouver, we will
win. And I’m convinced we can
convince them.”’

Evidently they did... just.

3. The absence of Bill
Vander Zalm. The disgraced
former Premier’s decision not
to attent the convention must
now be seen as a step taken
deliberately to give the advan-
tage to Mrs. Johnston.

_ Vander Zalm insiders have
often said that during the latter
months of his term as Premier,
he professed to wanting only
one of two people to succeed
him, to carry on his reforms —
Rita Johnston or Mel
Couveller,

— Continued on page A7 |

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