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Friday, May 4, 1984

' Legislati

VICTORIA (CP) — ‘The Social
Credit government used its superior ~-
numbers to easily obtain approval in:

principle early today for .a new

human rights code in British

Columbia,

The New Democratle Party put up
a relatively-short and spirited op-

position even though a planned.

masilye protest rally outside the

legislature fizzled in the drizzle after -

only. two days. to

Only 75 people took. part in what .
was to be a massive four-day anti- .

government . protest . by: .represen-
tatives of women’s groups, visible

minorities, gay-and lesbian com: -
-and « tenants’ -

labor..
organizations. and senior citizens’
Sroups.

Serving the
Progressive -
Northwest

New: ‘Human R

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rane’ and ‘thie. “Him Rights
‘Commission and. reduces. figes for
‘violators. "It algo. ‘rewrites
uman Rights’ Code. : og
“1s one of the saddest ‘days for
” British Columbia,” sald Solldarity
Coalltion’ ‘spokesman - _Penute
Shearer. : ;

- reading to the humen rights act on a,
' vote of 22-9. Social Credit holds 35 of ; :
the 57 seats in the'two-party.house,:
- The NDP sought to delay passage’.

of the bill by having the government: -.

- pull it for six months; but after two

daysofdebate the motion failed on a

:, Vote of 21-0 during an a tng — for .

this-session — late night sitting of _. she said passage of the bill ‘takes
» the legislature. -~ us back to the stage where we've lost

‘The night sitting, which ended at . All the rights that have been ee
1:13 a.m. today, prompted several . _the last number of: years.” ia ae

Opposition members to accuse the:
This, is: the governmen ,
government of trying to: ram. the- attenipt at human rights le

+.

lation.

legislation through before the public
‘The “earlier bill’ and.” thers
ental. to understand what it presented by the govern ait last

“July prompted a massive ‘gutery
headed by the Solidarity Co: Hon,
the ‘broadly-based ‘organiiatl
groups‘ opposed to the legis tion

it resulted in a two-week & by”

REWRITES CODE _
.. The bill creates a human rights
" council appointed by the provincial
cabinet, “scraps. the human rights

government € employees that nearly’

mushroomed into a general strike,
The atest bill contains many of

the game features found in‘the '

“earlier bill though Labor Minister
Bob McClelland'sald it'was drafted
after getting input from interested

. groups and consultation from an
' advisory committee,

Shearer said the changes made by

_ the government to the bill were -

~ goametic “but there’s no process for
anybody to make a complaint,
there’s no access for people ta have

; _ Protection. ‘

“It's very very sad, and I think
what we've seen in the chamber,
with people sitting and joking, you
can tell that the Jegislation and
everything it stands for and
protection for people is just a joke

for the Sociat Credit party.’ ™
She said the fight is far from over
_ though she did not know what action
Solidarity would be taking, =

SHOW INTENT .

Criticism has centred around the
fact that a person now will have to
prove there was intent to
discriminate; and on-the elimination
of the “reasonable cause” provision
in the old legislation that provided
protection for those categories not
specifically named,

Gays and lesbians say elimination

- of the reasonable cause clause
means they no longer are protected.

McClelland said the bill will be

thanged to clarify the intent’

provisions of the bill...
He sald it never was meant that
itent would have to be proved, and “I

; gains “appro\ val in n principle

am "prepared to accept an amend-
ment that will deal with that
problem.” .

Speaking against the bill, labor?
critic Colin Gablemann said there is
a flaw in the legislation in that the
new council would be responsible to
the labor minister instead of to the
legislature as is the case with the
auditor general and the ome
budsman.

He also complained that there ig
no provision for staff to police
human rights, and said .it is lke
enacting the Criminal Code but not ,
hiring any police officers or setting’
speed limits and not hiring: traffic
officers.

Gabelmann suggested there is no
provision for enforcement becausé
the government does not believe the
code should be enforced.

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People You Should Know

activities.

or inter-city functions..
Winter Games, this year,

the previous: year’s games. ,
- Chriatit

“to put her name in the race.
As it turned out, her father is
evening.
The matter was brought up,
sponsor Christine.
workshop.
July 1 parade in Kitimat.

decision was made.

the judges asked us,"’ she said.

‘Miss Terrace,
- Christine
Timmerman:

by RALPH RESCHKE
Herald Staff Writer
TERRACE— Summer is almost upon uz, the time
of year when Terrace begins gearing up for ry 8
Riverboat Days festival and other summer holiday

But for Christine Timmerman, summer means the
end of her year as Miss Terrace, a year of being the —_
city’s goodwill ambassador: when the mayor's +:
schedule prevented him from attending civic évents

She. attended the opening of the Northern B.C.
spoke on behalf of Terrace

and accepted an award for Terrace's participation in

Chriatine: owned ‘Misa ecrace in inlay
|: siongesie s even. planned-to-enter.the com":
petition. : After hearing about the cone she: decided

It waa the last night for contestants to eater 50 she
had to find a ‘sponsor. very quickly.

Kinsmen and they happened to have a meeting that —

Kinsmen had thought about having a representative
jin the Miss Terrace contest earlier, they agreed to

“rom there Christine spent the next-month going ”
through workshops dealing with hygiene, etiquette,
hair and makeup sessions, as well as a modelling ,

The girls attended various banquets and also the

_ Although the 12 girls who entered didn't know it,
_ they were being judged alt the time, even during the —
| workshops and right up to the final night, when a

“The worst part of the final night was getting up in
” front of the audience and talking about the question

She explained that the day before the final judging,
the girls were given.a list of questions, of which they
had to choose one to study: for, but the anxious
moments came because they didn’t know for certain
which question would be asked of them. .

On the final night when a new Miss Terrace was to
be decided, she really didn’t expect to hear her name
called, so it was to her great surprise that the master

- Christine Timmerman

a member of the

of ceremonies declared Christine Timmerman Miss
Terrace for 1903.
It was then that she began to wonder if she could
~ live up te the expectations that would be placed on her
as Migs Terrace.

Christine says the last year has been a really in-

- teresting experience for her, meeting with people and
attending publicity.events. “It's something T've
really enjoyed doing.”’

A Terrace resident for over 15 years, Christine has:
no immediate plans to move but she would like td
travel and see the world. She will be going to Europe
in September for a holiday in Germany..

“She graduated from Caledonia in 1982 and attended
a 10-month dental assistants’ course at Northwest
Community College.

Christine is very involved with her. coaching
position in. the Terrace Peaks -Gymnastica Club,
enjoys reading and rug “hooking and has played. the -
flute for the last five years,

As Miss. Terrace, Christine will be part of ‘the
pageant committee this year, offering tips to the new
contestants.

She offers this advice to these wishing to enter the

contest, “Don't get carried away, just enjoy the
experience and stay natural,” ” .

and because the

Civil rights group says agency
‘could spy on almost anyone’

OTTAWA (CP) — The govern-
ment's controversial national
security legislation is ‘'an affront to
Canadians” and should be with-
drawn, the Canadian Rights and
Liberties Federation said Thursday,

The legislation creating a civilian”

security agency is so flawed it could
not simply be amended, the
federation of-11 regional civil rights
groups told thé Commons . justice
‘committee.

Federation presidént ‘Don
Whiteside sald he would prefer to
-live with the present RCMP security
service,
cabinet orders... rather." than
legislation and has, no external
review.

The mandate ‘of the proposed

Canadian Security. Intelligence |
Service ia so broad and ambiguous _.

that the service could spy on almost

which operates | ‘imder

anyone or anything, Whiteside said.

But the Czechoslovak National

Association of Canada later told the .

committee the legislation strikes a

delicate balance between national

security and individual rights.

The association recommended the
security agency be given additional
powers toinvestigate those who seek
to . overthrow the government

through peaceful means such as-

communism.
- But the civil rights group sald the
powers of the new agency are 50

awesome that - individual privacy

will no longer be protected.
’. Whiteside also said the legislation
makes no reference to the govern-
ment's ultra-secret eavesdropping
agency, the | Communications
Security Establishment.

” Several opposition MPa have said
they will propose an amendment

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bringing the agency under control of
the external review committee that
will monitor operations of the
security service,

The MPs fear the eavesdropping
agency will be asked to conduct -
investigations that would be beyond
the scope of the security service.

As the committee hearings got
under way, a coalition of civil
libertarians and church ieaders
emerged disappointed from a one-
hour meeting with Solicitor General
Robert Kaplan,

The group made an unsuccessful
bid to curb powers of the new

civilian agency to deal with

Gomestic threats to security,
Domestic threats are essentially
criminal in nature and could be
handled by exiating police forces,
they said.

Alan Horovoy, general counsel for
the Canadian Civil Liberties
Association, said the bill gives the
spy agency the same powers to
investigate Jaw-abiding Canadian
dissenters and Soviet spies.

Kaplan sald after the meeting that
the government considered making’
a distinction between foreign and
domestic threats but decided it
would be unworkable. Kaplan did
not rule out the possibility of an
amendment, but sald he'd like to
hear the reaction from the justice
committee.

TORONTO (CP). —. Allegations
against police officers and Crown
attorneys that they wrongly charged
and prosecuted nurse’ Susan Nelies
with -. murdering ‘four babies at

Toronto's Hospital for Slek Children.

may not be able to be heard by a
royal commission investigating 36

. mysterious’ baby deaths at the

hospital.
Mr. Justice Samuel Grange, head

.-of the commission, raised the
- question Thursday after he decided
_ fot to appeal an Ontario Court of
Appeal ruling that prevents him
‘from naming aryone in his final

report he believes responsible for
‘the deaths,

An appeal to the Supreme Court of -
)| Canada wouldlast long past the date -
. +he plang to submit eset onthe”

deaths, he said.

7 Grange introdticed a new twist’ ‘to

the commission’s procedures by
suggesting the Appeal Court ruling
on “naming names" may go beyond
those-who might be implicated in the
deaths. :

He sald the Appeal Court decision,

‘Established 1908

- weport,

wey Those.
“deeision on thé” matter will have a’.

Commission may not. hear
of. wrongful charges

that he cannot ‘bring ‘down ‘any
finding of criminal or civil liability
against any individual in his final
‘raises the’ question of

whether he can “receive evidence or
submissions or ‘report on the
propriety or otherwise of the con-
‘ duct of any person in the course of
the inveatigatipn and prosecution.
“To cite only one example, this

might encompass anything that —

-tends to show either negligence or
malice or the lack of it on the part of
the attorney general or his servants,
Crown counsel or of the police, who
are being sued in a pending action by

- Susan Nelfes,” he sald..
Grange will hear submissions on

the issue next ‘Wednesday.

pIREGy IPAS” ms
- submissions ‘and his

:

direct impact on the conduct of
phase two of. the commission's
inquiry, which will examine the
police investigation of the deaths.

The commission is expected to
start hearing evidence in early June

Volume: 76 No.8,

on why police charged elles in
March 1931 with murdering four
babies at the hospital, within five
days of beginning their investigation
into the deaths.

: Nelles was discharged on alt four
counts. in May 1982 after a
preliminary hearing found jack of
evidence to proceed to trial.

‘At . Thursday's: hearing, the
mystery deepened about what was
in two ampules of medication given
te baby Justin Cook shortly before
he died of what medical in-

.vestigators believe. was a massive

overdose of digoxin. |

. Nurse Patricia Palmer, who was a
relief aurse ‘onthe fardlac ward the

* night the Baby iléd March 29, 1981

—sqid she could not remember what

‘was in the. two ampules she placed

on the baby’s bed before she left the

. hospital the night of March 21.

’. She said the ampulés were filled
with a drug by a nyrse on the cardiac
ward and the medication was ap-

proved by a doctor.

Tumultuous welcome given Pope

KWANGJU, South Korea (AP) —
With a strong call for forgiveness

. and reconciliation, Pope John Paul

brought his Asian pilgrimage to a
tumultuous welcome today in this
southern city that was the scene of a

bloody. antl: ‘government: ‘uprising in |

1980.

“I am keenly aware of the deep
wounds that pain your hearts and:
souls from personal experiences and
from recent tragedies,” the pontiff

said to more than 65,000 people

packing the municipal stadium.

In a clear reference to the riot,
which officials said left 189 dead but
dissidents claimed cost hundreds
more lives, John Paul said such
tragedies ‘are difficult to overcome
from a merely human point of view,
especially for thore of you from
Kwangju. ”

king in English, the Pope said

; Speaking
‘ that being Christian means to “keep

yourselves free .. . from hatred and’
rancor. It means being reconciled to
one another and to God in
forgiveness and love.” =~

- South Korea’s Roman Catholic

bishops proclaimed today a day of
reconciliation — the basic theme of
the Pope’s visit — and urged
Catholics to work for peace and

Skeena Valley Rebekahs, Lodge No.68,
made a $500 donation to the Terraceview
Lodge Society for furnishings to give the

lodge a cozler atmosphere.

right are: Denny Beaudin, Terraceview

harmony.
Repeated shouts of ‘Mansei!”’
(Long Life) and “Viva Papa!”

broke out as the white-robed pontiff
entered the stadium standing on a
bulletproot “Popemobile. ” :

VICTORIA—- Health Minister,
Jim Nielsen announced today
that the Treasury Board has
approved the construction of the
New Aiyansh Community Health
Center in northern B.C,

The new center, expected to be
built by 1986, will serve the 1,600
residents of :the Nass Valley
which is 75 km (46 miles) via
logging road from the nearest
hospital at Terrace,

_ Communities to be served
include New Alyansh, Canyon
City, Greenville, and Kincolith.
As well, the center will serve
logging operations at Nass Camp
and Kseaden Camp. :

The center is unique in that it
will howe both federal and
provincial services. Provincial
services will include a doctor's
office, a diagnostic and treat-
ment center with basic X-ray,

Medical centre set
for New Aiyansh

- project is estimated at $715,000.

laboratory and treatment ser-
vices, holding beds, am! an
ambulance station.

Federal ‘services will include
‘dental facilities, preventive |
health services, and health |
education. . :

B.C, will fund 60 per cent of the
construction costs of the ap-
proved diagnostic and treatment
areas with the federal govern-
ment arid the Kitimat-Stkine
Regional] Hospital District
providing the remaining 40 per |
cent. .

Cost of: this portion of the

A project building committee
representing the community, the
federal government, the regional
hospital district and the
provincial government will be
responsible for planning and
building the project.

Fram left to
No.68.

administrator, Norman King, president,

Terraceview Lodge Society, Muriel Michiel
president, Skeena Valley Rebehah‘s, Lodge
No.68, Gladys Ollver, secretary, Lodge
No.68 and Aileen Frank treasure, Lodge