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ning of an era and the end of an encouraging"

demonstration thats shows what a large and ‘determin-_

tion of a common cause.

The number of people and organizations involved in
the realization of the bandshell are so:numerous and’.
d complex that documentation —

its history so lengthy-a

count). The venture’s success runs, somehow contrary.

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but that is not justificati

which was dumped from the original Ex
‘plans, now stands whole and: complete, whi
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pansion. of the aqx
approval, barely exists on paper... .
“"P.A.S.S. deserves more than pas: |
effort — a gold star would be more in order;

The Terrace Duplicate Sridge Club meets every Wednes-
day at 7:15 p.m. at Caledonia Senior Secondary in the
cafeteria. Anyone interested in playing please contact
Ellen Smith at 635-4096 or May McFarland at 635-2875.
Everyone welcome.

One Parent Familles meet the second Wednesday of.
every month at the Terrace Public Library.

Skeena Valley Rebekah Lodge holds regular meetings
every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 8
p.m. in the Oddfellow’s Hall, 3222 Munroe, Terrace. For
more information call 635-2470.

Star performance _
The opening this Sunday of the performing arts:
shell in George Little Memorial Park marks the begin

ed group of local citizenry can do under the mobiliza-

of it could fill an archive (see.page 19 for a brief.ac-.

jes an interesting reflection that the bandshell, -

passing marks for this"

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by Victoria correspondent
Mark Collins

Judge Thomas Fisher did a
good job of meeting his terms of
reference with the new electoral
boundaries he drew for the pro-
vince, but too much emphasis

was placed on fixing non-

existent problems.

Elimination of dual-member
ridings was his first order of
business. Premier Vander Zalm
doesn’t like them, so the Fisher
Royal Commission on Electoral
Boundaries was given the task of
splitting them up. When that
proved to be too restrictive, the
terms of reference were changed
to include all the electoral boun-
daries.

What emerged in the prelim-
inary report released May 27 was
a recommendation that we elect

~7§5:MLAs to the B.C. Legislature

instead of 69. We are already

" -spending $6.8 million each year

to pay MLAs and their consti-
tuency staff, so implementing
that recommendation would add
another half a million dollars to
our taxes.

Modifications to the Legis-
lative Chamber itself would take
more money. When 12 MLAs
were added before the 1986
general election, the government

spent $48,000 to move wiring

and to move the elaborately

carved, false wall behind the

Speaker's chair back three feet.
The beautifully carved wooden
desks are now jammed tightly
together so any further expan-
sion would require major struc-
tural changes to the building’or a
whole new set of narrower
desks. Those desks cost $2,150
each and the chairs $2,500 each.
It makes no sense to spend this
money when the current number
of MLAs seem to be working
well,

Dual-member ridings are

another situation that has been ~

incorrectly perceived as a prob-
lem. Rather than adjusting
boundaries on a regular basis, if
the. population of an area gets
too large for one MLA to hand-
le, we simply elect two MLAs
from that area. Voters have
almost always elected two MLAs
from the same party and: they
seem to be able to cooperate to
serve their constituents.

The Kelowna split seems fairly
sensible compared to some of
the others but neither of the two
Okanagan South MLAs like the
idea. The Penticton split draws a
line down Main Street and puts
the west half of the city in the
same riding as Westbank, the
Kelowna suburb 60 kilometers
to the north. Similarly on Van-
couver Island, the northern part
of Nanaimo has been split away
from the rest of the city and
placed in a riding with Parks-
ville, Qualicum Beach, and
other communities as far north
as Fanny Bay.

It is difficult to tell who would
benefit from these boundaries
but it is easy to pick the losers,
northern British Columbians.
The six additional seats have all

mars Boundary Commission ideas
in Ter raoranee, WOUId Create a few

problems

been added to the southern part
of the province to reduce the dif-
ferences in population between
northern and southern ridings.
Fisher has adopted the popula-
tion standard of plus or minus
25 percent which is used by the
Federal Government and the
provinces of Alberta, Manitoba,
Ontario, Quebec and New-
foundland. .
Dividing B.C.’s population by
69 MLAs, there should ideally
be 41,873 people in each consti-
tuency. In fact, there are §,511
in the Atlin constituency and
68,347 in Surrey-Newton. Fish-
er’s plan would include Prince .
Rupert with much of Atlin to
create a riding called North
Coast-Stikine with 29,606 peo-
ple. Burnaby-Willingdon would
have the largest population with
44,825. _
Fisher has given the popula-
tion equality argument too much
weight. Rural.area MLAs spend
their time on agriculture, |
forestry, wildlife and highways
problems in addition to all the
social questions handled by the
urban MLAs. .
Vancouver-Point Grey MLAs
Kim Campbell and Darlene
Marzari told the commission
their duties are no less demand-
ing than those. of northern
MLAs. They said their consti-
tuents expect them to be avail-
able in Vancouver at any time
because it is so. close to Victoria.
That may be so but the high
expectations of their big-city
constituents is no reason to give
them better service than people
outside Greater Vancouver can
receive, The existing boundaries
are far from perfect but they are —
better than this Royal Commis-
sion has proposed. ;

always on.

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