PAGE Aé, THE HERALD, Wednesday, March 30, 1977

Report from Victoria

by Cyril M. Shelford, MLA

Once again we see
unemployment the top news
story of the week with the
latest report of over 900,000
people out of work across
Canada, which is a
disgraceful figure in a
nation as rich as we are.
This demands the undivided
attention of both federal and
provincial governments
along with people that will
send in ideas how best to
resolve this problem.
Certainly mere job creation
programs which are a form
of relief will not bring any
long-term solution as all
they do is take money by
taxes from those that work,
so they too have less to
spend on goods and ser-
vices,

There is only one long-
term solution and that is
bring our costs down to that
of our competitors in other
countries and this will
require cooperation from all
levels of society which has
been and still is sadly
lacking in our society for
many years, where we see
pressure groups springing
up every day asking for
more for themselves and
trying to stop others from

doing anything. In fact there’

has only been one project in
the northwest during the life
of the last government and
the two years of this
government that hasn’t
brought massive protests to
have them stopped.

There is simply no way
any government can ef-
fectively deal with the
unemployment problem
until attitudes change.
Demands by pressure
groups appearing under
various names pressure
governments into making
excessive regulations that
not only will but are
strangling the economy and
making our industry non-
competitive on not only the

_ markets of the world but

‘sight here at home where
gmpanies building large
Pisiects in B.C. can now
M™Mhort plywood from the

From

tna position Members of
» Legislature are con-
Viaced that the only hope for
She poor people of B.C, is the
removal from office of the
present minister of human
resources, according to
William §. King, New
Democratic M.L.A, for
Revelstoke-Slocan and
Qpposition House Leader.
Speaking in the
Legislature recently on a
motion of non-confidence in
the minister, William N.
Vander Zalm, Mr. King
said: “At this particular
time when unemployment is
over the 100,000 levei, itis a
natural consequence that
more and more people will
have to turn to the govern-
ment and to the human
resources ministry for
sustenance ‘ta maintain
themselves until once again

they can become self-
sufficient.”
Mr. Vander Zalm

“displays in his public
statement and in his jibes
across the floor of this
legislature an attitude
which convince the op-
position that the only
measure of benefit and the
only measure of hope that
people who are unfortunate
in this province can look
forward to is the removal of

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from our plants right here in
B.C.
it is interesting to note
that in 1971 the U.S. ex-

rted 132 million square
eet of plywood and Canada
363 million square feet,
nearly three times as much,
but by 1975 the U.S. was up
to 791 million while Canada
had dropped to 282. The U.S.
increased its export by six
times while we lost ground
by nearly one-third. To

make it worse, in 1971 the °

U.S. sold only 18 million
square feet to Canada. By
1975 they sold 394 million in

Canada, 22 times as much. :,
Government regulations \:

also contribute to key
company people being tied
up with a mountain of
reports instead of doing the
work they should be doing
and that is making the
company efficient so it can
make money which in turn

enables it to hire people and |

expand production.

This was pointed out
clearly this week by one
group appearing before
Caucus. They pointed out in
survey 14 firms had con-
tracts with some 14 different
federal agencies, 19 B.C.
agencies and ~—_ eight
municipal agencies. They
were inspected by 41 in-
spectors which required the
attention of senior plant
personnel and are non-
productive in nature,

One majar
carried this survey further
and compiled a list of
government agencies that
required reports for many
reasons and no one report
was acceptable to another,
the survey showed, which
should shock us all that they
filed 421 reports in one year.
It was made of:

29 monthly reports 348
12 quarterly reports 48
25 annual reports 25
for a total of 421

Man days used in making
these reports is staggering
and required positive
government action to see if
all these reports are of
benefit to society at large.

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ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS

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rthern Screen

Prints and Signs shows the new Golden Anniversary t-shirt with Ted
Taylor, chairman of the Terrace Golden Anniversary Committee who
holds up the new bumper stickers. The t-shirts will soon be available
through the service clubs. The bumper stickers are available for 50 cents

each from many merchants in Terrace.

Bursaries available for second

More than 600 bursaries,
each worth $800, are now
available from the Ministry
of Education and the federal
government to post-
secondary students of
British Columbia wishing to
improve their knowledge of
one of Canada’s official
languages.

e bursaries are offered
as part of the Summer
Language Bursary

Program established six -

years ago to provide young

the Opposition

that minister from that
particular portfolio.”’

Mr. King said he was
“very alarmed to hear the
minister’s recent comment
when the Member for
Cowichan-Malahat (Mrs.
Barbara Wallace) was
describing the sorry and sad
plight of an individual who
was reduced to the position
of begging on the streets of
the capital city of British
Columbia. The minister
responded by suggesting
that that was initiative.”

Mr. King said ‘that rather
contemptuous remark...-
prompted the motion of non-
confidence in the minister’s
performance as_ chief
custodian of human
resources in this province. It

is a further indication, a
further demonstration, -of
the disdain that the minister
holds for human resources
in this province.
Mr. King, who read letters
from constituents com-

plaining about the treat-
they had received:
from the human resources * §
department under the Social -

ment

Credit administration, said

complaints about the
handicapped _, allowances,
social assistance and

pharmacare have ‘‘fallen
upon deaf ears’’. In one
case, he cited'a crippled
person was told that the
department ‘is quite
prepared to let him starve
rather than provide
assistance.”

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Alcan’s manager of B.C.
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Duncan, announced
recently that a project to
replace the Skins Lake
Spillway, a structure some
4) miles south of Burns
Lake, B.C. where excess
water is discharged from
Alcan's Nechako Reservoir,
is scheduled to begin about
the 20th of this month by
Commonwealth Con-
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couver, B.C. ;

The Skins Lake Spillway
has been in service for 26

ears. Its concrete structure

as deteriorated to the point
that it is no longer practical
to continue repairs.

“Preparatory work, such
as stockpiling of aggregate
for concrete work and
erecting a campsite, wads
done last year,” said Mr.
Duncan. “The bulk of the
two year construction

rogram is scheduled to be
inished this year and will
probably involve a crew of
50 workers at the peak of
construction.” .

The new spillway, which
will cost several million
dollars to construct, will be
similar in design to and will
be located immediately
downstream of the present
one. “In fact’, said Mr.
Dunean, ‘‘we'll be using the
same spillway gates again.
While there won’t be any
operating
procedures for the new
spillway, the construction of

its foundations will
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necessitate a complete
closure, for about seven to
eight weeks, starting on
April 12, 1977. Similar
closures took place in 1972
and 1974 for periods up to
eight weeks,” he said.
“We'll be increasing the
present spill rate of 6,000
cubic feet per second to
12,000 cubic feet per second
for one prior to the closure,”
said Mr. Duncan. “By doing
this, Cheslatta Lake will be
surcharged higher than
normal. During the
following two to three
weeks, water from
Cheslatta Lake, combined
with the increased flow fram
the Nautley River, should
result in good water con-
ditions at Vanderhoof. It is
estimated that the Nechako
River gauge reading at
Vanderhoof, during the
heavy pre-closure spilling,
will be about 12 feet,” ac-
cording to Duncan. -
“During the seven to eight
week closure, the water
from the Nautley River
system, plus the local spring
runoff, is estimated to result
in a river level of about five

_ to six feet at Vanderhoof,”

said Dunean. “It should,
however, be pointed out that

the Nautley River system is
not controlled so its con-
tribution to the total flow
can only be roughi
estimated,” he said. =>

The replacement of the
spillway will not affect the
elevation of the Nechako -
reservoir, according to
Duncan. “It is in no. way
connected with expansion of
our generating facilities at
Kemano,” he said. ‘Alcan
has .no plans for develop-
ment of additional power at
Kemano. The fact is, .in late
1978, with the completion of
B.C, Hydro’s line between
Prince George and Terrace,
Hydro will be supplying,
from their own generating
sources, the communities of
Terrace, Kitimat and
Prince Rupert, thereby
freeing additional power for
Alean,’” he said.

The Nechako Reservoir,
which supplies water for

Alean’s hydro-electric
generating station at
Kemano, drains almost

§,400 square miles ‘and
stretches from West Tahtsa
Lake, 10 miles east of
Kemano, to Knewstubb
Lake, some 150 miles to the
east. ,

Alcan increases prices

Aluminum Company of
Canada, Ltd announced that
its export price for primary
aluminum ingot will be
increased by three cents to
(U.S.) 51 cents per pound,
C.F. major world ports,
except Latin America and
West Africa where the
C.LF. price is increased to
52.5 cents per pound from
49.5 cents per pound. The
changes are effective April
I

In the United States,
_Alean Aluminum = Cor-
poration is increasing its
ingat price by three cents to
51 cents per pound on new

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