A6 - The Terrace Standare, Wednesday, January 30, 2002

There is just no compassion
in the gov’t spending cuts

bent on trying to rationa-
lize spending cuts, deli-
vered in whatever manner,
as something that we all
voted for. Now, if you are a

Dear Sir:

Your coverage of the an-
nounced cuts to the British
Columbia government | staff

CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD
missed a very important ote
component. The victim/ wit- victim or witness of a

The Mail B
ness services program at the crime, you will have can-

Attorney-General's office has been been decimated, re- sole yourself, you will have to manage your ‘anger your-
moved, killed, While this program only involved two — self, you will have to get over it.
workers, locally, it was an absolutely vital bit of human- Now, crown lawyers, who are paid much more, and
ity that is now gone. who may or may not show compassion, or who may or
The office dealt with victims of crime and prepared may not be trained i in grief counselling, or who may or
them for the intimidation that is the judicial system. may not have time to ery with you, are going to be your
Imagine being a 4-year-old child that has witnessed a only connection to the “justice system.”
crime or an abusive situation. Now imagine that child I can agree that cuts are a fiscally responsible thing
being put on the-stand to testify. Imagine that child's . to do, but how and where and why has not been truly
trauma when defence lawyers try to rip the child's story thought-out by this Liberal government. A wealthy, busi-
apart. One of the job components of the victim/witness ness-oriented premier may save you a few bucks, but it
services program was to hold the hand of such vulner- is what he is taking from you, that you don’t even real-
able beings and to let them know that all the bad stuff ize yet-— thal is what scares me most. We are all vic-
was nol their fault tims. :
The compassion has been removed by a government

No need to be mean-spirited

Dear Sir:

Chris Spangl, Terrace, B.C.

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Whatever a person’s cial security, many of

political proclivities may
be, nobody can have failed
to notice that members of
Gordon Campbell's
“Liberal” government
have been nothing if not
successful in harnessing,
and exemplifying them-
selves, the mean-spirited
attitudes that generally
have come to characterize
the age and place in which
we live.

whom do not have the
wherewithal or means to
secure gainful employment
(not everyone on welfare
these days, surely, should
be regarded as lazy and
indolent), are all part of
the same spirit that led the
Premier at the inception of
his tenure to refuse opposi-
tion status to the elected
NDP members.

At least Mr. Campbell

consistency in asking all
citizens to make sacrifices
for the benefit of British
Columbia.

All that is, except him-
self and his colleagues
who gave themselves a
raise of more than 30 per
cent immediately after the
election.

If it is true, however, (I
think it was Bertrand Rus-
sell who said $0) that the
best index of the level of

is the manner in which it
treals ils most vulnerable
members, then there has
been a significant deter-
icration in this province,

Fiscal responsibility

need not logically and in-
evitably entail a total lack
of human charity, or an
evident indifference to the
lot of those least able to
defend their own interests.

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Terrace, B.C.
To take away free bus ER
passes from senior citizens
and to reduce by $50 pay-

A waste
of money

Dear Sir:

] have spent a great
deal of time with young
people in Terrace but I am
very disappointed in a cer-
tain few. My daughter is a
hard working mom who
doesn’t have lot. of.
money to waste. sity

While at work” one
evening recently her car
was vandalized in the
parking lot. It will cost
over $1,000 to repair.
ICBC has told her that it
was a person on a moun-
tain bike bouncing off her
hoad.

They dented the fender
and scratched the paint so
bad the whole front end
will have to be painted.

This is a terrible waste
of tax dollars. I doubt it but
I hope these young people
will feel bad and try to
find something more con-
structive to fill their idle
time.

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Terrace, B.C.

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