20 Terrace Review — Wednesday, April 9, 1986

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To the editor,

Politics has earned a
pretty low reputation
over the past few years.
Very few people really
seem to feel that they can
look to politicians to
provide the leadership to
get the economy moving
again. At least that’s the
way people in British
Columbia tend to feel
these days.

In Ontario and
Manitoba people are
thinking differently. In
those two provinces peo-
ple are going back to
work; in fact, residents
from B.C. are going to
Ontario and Manitoba to
find work.

- It should come as no
surprise to working peo-

etters to the &ditor
Election better come soon

ple that the NDP is in
power in Manitoba and
holds the balance of
‘power in Ontario and
that this is the reason, in
my opinion, that people
are going to work in
those two areas.

When the NDP was
formed as the CCF over
50 years ago it was to
give the working people
a fair chance to make
their way in the world.
Here in B.C. we still hear
people talk sceptically
about the NDP as if to
suggest that the NDP is
no different than the
Social Credit. I know
that is not true but
somehow the myths of
ultra conservatives
manage to distort reality.

But each day our.
workers are getting in
their cars or grabbing a
bus for Manitoba or On-
tario where there are
governments concerned
about working people.

There will be an elec-
tion in B.C. within the
next year, Will we follow
the lead of Manitoba and
Ontario and put people
to work or will we stick
our heads in the sand
and pretend that politics
doesn’t really make a
difference? But the elec-
tion better come soon
before everyone moves
away.

- Bill Goodacre
Terrace, B.C,

Peaceful moves promoted

To the editor,

Ina recent letter to the
editor regarding abor-
tion, Maureen Bostock
made some statements
that I consider to be ob-
jectionable as well as
quite irrelevant to the
points of contention in
the current local debate
about whether the
municipal taxpayers’
money should be used to
subsidize abortion
counselling.

I found especially of-
fensive the sentence, “In
my opinion, the anti-
choice movement ad-
vocates violence, ter-
rorism, destruction of
property and in-
terference with in-
dividual liberty in the
pursuance of its goal.’’

Quite to the contrary,
the Right-to-Life move-
ment has .always ad-
vocated peaceful means
of preventing the violent
destruction of innocent
unborn human person.
In addition the pro-lifers
are opposed to the so-
called mercy killing of
the unwanted handicap-
ped infants, the elderly,
the infirm, and the ter-
minally ill — all of
whom are increasingly at
risk in a society which in
my opinion, tends to give
ever greater homage to
the ethics of ‘‘absolute
freedom of the in-
dividual’’ rather than to
the traditional moral
obligation to sustain and
nurture the helpless.

Certainly the pro-life
goals of preserving life

Unqualified success

To the editor,

Wouldn’t you know it,
come up with a budget
which doesn’t raise
taxes, in fact, does just
the opposite and what
seems to be the response
from the Socialist Op-
position? ‘It can’t be
done.”’

We have heard the
same phrase before
though. Weren’t these
the same people who just
a few short years ago
said Expo 86, ‘It can’t
be done’’?

Weren’t these the
same people who said
that the Coquihalla,
Anansis Island Bridge,
Skytrain, Northeast
Coal, could not be done,
let alone in time, but
under budget.

Now I ask you, who
should one believe now?

Expo 86 looks to be an
unqualified success with
in excess of 13 million
tickets sold.

Skytrain is complete

and has been in opera-
tion since Jan. 15, 1986.
Three and a half months
before Expo and under
budget.

Both the Coquihalla
and Anansis Island pro-
jects are scheduled for
opening in early May,
both under budget.

Northeast Coal,
despite the fact that the
hole was in the wrong
place and that a private
company required re-
financing, both of which
cost the taxpayers
nothing, is still alive and
well. The coal is rolling
through the north, to the
Port of Prince Rupert at
Ridley Island.

Now, as the govern-
ment, because of fiscal
Tesponsibility, brings
down a budget tuned to
our times they say again,
“Tt can’t be done’.

I leave it to you to
draw your own conclu-
sion in that regard.

Honorable Jack Kempf
MLA, for Omineca

are at odds with tactics
of violence and ter-
rorism. Indeed the
record shows that even in
the U.S. where it has
been said that ‘‘violence

is as American as apple |

pie’? that, as of 1985
there has not been even
one instance of arson or
violence against an abor-
tion facility that has been
proven to be planned or
carried out by a Right-
to-Life group.

This is
when it is known that
there are millions of
outraged citizens in
North America who feel

frustrated when they ff

consider the strength of

the government funded §

and celebrity supported
organizations that con-
done the killing of the
unborn.

It has been my obser-
vation that these angry
individuals, nearly all
Christians upon coming

into a Right-to-Life J

Organization, soon find
that their hostility is
displaced by the group’s
common conviction that
only the loving power of
Jesus Christ is adequate
to change the hearts and
minds of those who op-
pose us.

If I seem biased and
overly generous in my
estimation of pro-life ac-
tivists, may I offer a
statement by Canada’s
best known abortionist,
Henry Morgentaler.
Despite his fears of what
he called the ‘‘lunatic
fringe,’ Morgentaler
conceded: ‘‘Most of the
people who are anti-
abortion are peace-
loving, law-abiding peo-
ple who just believe that
abortion is wrong.”

Yes, Henry, I agree.
And may I add, “If
abortion is not wrong,
then nothing is wrong.”
Tom Brophy

Usk, B.C,

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