The second stage of the federal-provincial. Forest . i
Resource Development Agreement has gone. through. .
so many reported demises and resurrections and
changes in form over the past year that it'seems more
like a politician than it does a political agreement.

_A few months ago Forest Minister Dave Parker said °
almost conclusively that it was a dead issue, thena =~
few weeks ago he started talking about a billion -
dollars over ten years rather than a FRDA similar to
the five-year $750 million joint reforestation venture -.
that had gone before. The provincial government was —
ready to commit its side whenever the feds would =  *
come in, Parker said. es

Last week MP Frank Oberle, sporting the recently
created title of Minister of State for Forests, said in
Terrace that in fact he’s confident there will be a |
FRDA II and will be worth a billion. The uncertainty
remains on the split, how much federal and how much
‘provincial money go into the agreement. . -_ |

- We have to wonder if this might the sound of the
federal Tories dishing out some of the additional
revenue they’re expecting from the Goods and Services
Tax coming around in 1991. Without criticizing the
reforestation concept of FRDA, which would be great
for this region, we also have to wonder how truly
depleted the woods in B.C. are if it requires a billion
dollars and ten years just to restock the backlog and
‘stand tend what’s been replanted.

— Restricted Raeside.

Adrian Raeside, the cartoonist who hits the nail on
the head once a week with one image for us on the © .
Terrace Review editorial page, has ventured into the -
theatrical arts. .

Adrian was one of four artists to submit winning =,

entries in a competition to design new warning
messages that precede “‘restricted’’ classification
movies shown in B.C. theaters.

‘Mary Lou McCausland of the B.C. Film Board’s
classification division said the brief warning clip shows
a sleek black cat with yellow eyes, stalking city streets
and bouncing off buildings. The cat disappears
through the back door of a theater, reappearing on
‘the screen initially as a pair of yellow eyes around ~
which the image of a cougar gradually forms.

Now that we have Adrian warning us about

restricted viewing material, who’s going to warn peo-
ple about Adrian?

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The view from _
‘Victoria —

by John Pifer |

VICTORIA — All of us here |
in the Legislative Press Gallery
have known for some time that
Forests Minister Dave Parker
is, to be polite, somewhat
neaniderthal in his outlook on
life.

The stoic Parker was one of .
half-a-dozen little-known
MLA’s who were elevated into
the Gabinet-in-July 1988 for all
the wrong reasons, such as be-

_ing blindly supportive of
Premier Bill Vander Zalm, be-

ing anti-abortionist, and being
unlikely to object to doing what

‘they were told when it came to.

running their ministries.

But surely even Vander Zalm
now will have to bow to the
pressures to dump Parker from
Cabinet next month, when he
shuffles the deckchairs on the
Titanic that is S.S, Social _
Credit,

It was bad enough when, in
‘July, Parker quipped in the
Legislature that the NDP
should change its theme song
to Sodomy Forever because of
its support for action against
the AIDS plague. But earlier
this month, the minister of the
Crown told a Terrace reporter
that those suffering the disease
have only themselves to blame,

- and that AIDS “‘is a self-
. inflicted wound’’.

Setting aside Parker’s ob-
vious anti-homosexual fears,
just think of the lack of com-

~ passion and understanding that

statement shows for those who
contracted the disease through
no apparent fault of their own. _
There are more than a dozen
known cases in B.C. of people
who got it through blood trans-
fusions, and another dozen or

more are heterosexuals who do

hot deserve to be tarred by Mr.

Parker’s bigotry any more than
the gays do.

With hundreds dying annual-
ly from it in this province’
alone, AIDS cannot be dis-—
missed simply as divine ret- _
ribution for those ‘‘queers’’,
which is probably how Parker
still describes them. _ :

It needs all of the attention,
resources-and: Compasion possi-
ble. But given the attitude of

Parker — and yes, the Premier,

the health minister and others
now “leading’’ this province,
as shown in the two AIDS-

video fiascos — it’s not likely
to get them. .

Is there any elected MLA on_

the government side prepared
to stand up and express their
concern and regret at the whole
mess? Not-on your nellie... be-
cause they all have a few Sac-
red voters in each of their
ridings who think like Parker;
and because they all kéep pray-
ing that a miracle will make
things better for their future
prospects — a miracle which
would allow them to-continue
to avoid having to deal with
the sad, sick attitudes among
some of their colleagues. _

This item falls into the
category of when — if ever —
will Premier Bill Vander Zalm
recognize when he is being us-
ed? |

On Tuesday last, Vancouver
stock promoter and publicity-
conscious millionaire Murray.
Pezim dined with his latest
“project”, former NFL star

Marc Gastineau and his lanky, |

pregnant wife, ‘‘actress”’
Brigitte Neilsen. Seems The Pez
wants to lure the huge .
Gastineau to Vancouver to —
train as a boxer to také.or'the
invinciblé Mike Tyson, of all —

people

So who does Pezim trot out,

_ on cue to impress the visiting

Americans? Why, Premier Bill =

and wife Lillian, of course,

who had dinner with the group :
at the Four Seasons Hotel. It |

shows the clout Pezim and his
money has, and apparently was |
designed to impress Marc and
Brigitte, thelatest-celebrity
Odd Couple.
Incidentally, don’t for a m

ment think that sportor

- politics has anything to do with

all of this; it's all about money,

big money, that.any heavy-
weight title fight generates —
in purses, in gambling returns,
in television revenue, etc. .

If Pezim can convince people —

_ to part with millions to view °

such a farce, so be it; but sure- -

ly we British Columbians .
would be better served if the
Premier were not involved,
looking like Bill the Shill?
One other question: Was
there any room for any other

diners there that night, with so —
many over-inflated egos in one
oom. |

Parting Thought: There is
some considerable puzzlement -

in Social Credit Party ranks as .

to'why Vander Zaim has not
_ dropped the writ for the .
Cariboo byelection, which must
be called by Nov. 10. After all,
they reason, it would be
politically stupid to delay the
yote until after Sept. 25, which -
is the date that the entire NDP
cauicus meets at 108 Mile
Ranch in the Cariboo — an.
event from which they could
make great political mileage
during a campaign. To avoid
that, the Socreds would be wise’
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