TERRACE STANDARD

Business Review

Chamber wants better use

made of airport, fisheries’

President will take proposals to annual meeting In May

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provificial government
to help develop’ smaller -

airports into becoming part
. of the overall transportation

system in B.C.

« That kind of involvement

can only help B.C. work on.
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says chamber president Bert. ae

Husband.
He and other local mem-
bers are taking down their
plan for airport. develop-
ment to the B.C. Chamber of
Commerce ‘annual general .
meeting next month at Har-
rison Hot Springs in the Fra-
» ser Valiey.
; Although there are 19
-. designated airports-in B.C.,
only five are considered part
" of the federal system, leaving
the remaining<14 (including
the. Terrace airport) out in
the cold, said Husband.
» ‘We think. that needs to
change,” ‘he said, adding
more effective. lobbying to

connect’. all airports with |

other. transportation systems
is essential.

The proposal will be de-
-bated and then accepted or

“not accepted by the chamber ;

membership. .
- The chamber also feels -
. it is time to. transfer ‘fisher-
__ies responsibilities from the
federal government to the
provincial government. .
That’s to ensure vari-
ous initiatives to: improve
the fishery fits’ the needs of
British Columbia, Said Hus-
' band.
- “It’s a huge bureaucracy.
in Ottawa and we don’t -
think it’s producing. much
that helps us,” he said.
-A third proposal being
taken down is to have the .

facturing.

“If we want to move into

more technology-based and

value-added businesses, then
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The proposal also says a

ministry of this kind would land.’

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