-A4 - The Terrace Standard, SRR AE October 31, 2001

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An invitation

THE EXPERTS call it “cocooning,” the withdra-
wal of people into the comfort and security of
their own homes when faced with external wor-

ries about their safety or economic circumstances.
~ Cocooning will be a big factor in decision-mak-

ing about recreation and vacation opportunities
“given the terrible events of Sept. 11 and the after-
:math which is now being played on the world
“Stage.

This is where the northwest can play a role
‘through its bountiful tourism opportunities. We
“live in a beautiful region, relatively unknown to
the great number of people who live in North

’ America.

We have clean air, clean water, good roads,
“good air connections, ferry service and, from Via
“Rail, a daytime service geared to tourists. We
have a vibrant history waiting to be told and a rich
and visible aboriginal presence. We have fishing,

hunting, skiing, hiking and a variety of other out-
‘door adventure offerings.
: We’re a safe place to visit. When it comes to
our American cousins, we share a language, We
‘also share a culture with them that while close en-
‘ ough to be familiar, is also different enough to be
: appealing. Our low dollar when compared to the
: American one offers an immediate increase in
: purchasing power.
In short, the northwest has the chance to vault —
‘ahead when it comes to the potential of tourism. :

‘ We can offer our own version of cocooning. The :

: job is now to promote this potential. Spread the
: , word — ~ come to the great northwest.

“pee “Good news .-

“ata! ab aD febert

‘THERE? S MORE than ‘enough bad news to § go.
“around when it comes to health care.

. But there’s also good news. Last Saturday wit-
“nessed the re-opening of the refurbished regional
psychiatric unit at Mills Memorial Hospital. Even
“better is that there are now two psychiatrists —
soon to number three — to work there and to pro-
“vide a regional service.

A full range of telemedicine facilities are soon
~to become the norm at Mills Memorial for physi-
“cian and nurse training and for emergency, psy-
-chiatric and pediatric services. This will not only
improve patient care but it will help recruit physi-
cians and nurses by curing an often-heard criti-
cism that it is hard for them to keep up with edu-
cation in smaller locations such as Terrace.
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, a kid-

ney dialysis unit will be open next year at Mills
which will bring about a vast quality of life im-
provement. And up beside Terraceview Lodge,
“work is progressing on the supportive housing
“complex.

All in all, this is an impressive list on the part

‘of local health care officials and physicians.

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Freedom can‘t be a casualty

VICTORIA — By now, I,m be-
ginning to be only fractionally
less frightened of our politi-
cians than of bin Laden.

Not that I don’t want the
man caught and brought to
justice. 1 do. What scares me
are the losses to my personal
freedom I appear to be forced
to accept.

In the name of protecting
me from terrorism, I appear to
have to make concessions that
were unthinkable seven weeks
ago, concessions that assault
the very values that separate
me from the bin Ladens.

The anti-terrorist legisla-
tion, tabled by federal justice
minister Anne McLellan, pro-
poses, among other things, to
allow police to arrest anyone
if they're about to commit a
terrorist act — even without a
warrant.

Critics of the legislation,
who say it's an affront to rights
guaranteed under the. Charter

“of Rights and Freedoms, say it __,

makes for a slippery, slope...
Slippery slope, indeed, and
made even more slippery by

_ Prime Minister Jean Chre-

tien’s refusal to build a sunset
clause into the legislation.

David Loukidelis, B.C.’s in-
formation and privacy com-
missioner, has joined a grow-
ing chorus of critics who say
the anti-terrorism legislation,
Bill C-36, infringes on the
tights of Canadians by ereatly
expanding government and po-
lice powers.

“I urge Parliament to move
with caution and do only that
which is minimally necessary

The glo

WHILE DISGUSTED readers
fire off to the editor letters of
outrage denouncing the current
president of School District
82's District Parents’ Advisory
Council, Ul snatch the lull to
ship my ten-foot pole ta the
Tepair shop.

Most columnists own at
least one ten-foot pole. Full
time professionals like Allan
Fotheringham have more than
one, as poles do wear down
quickly depending upon the
flow of irresistible topics.

Jack Webster used one pole
for each comment category,
similar to Tiger Woods’ array
of golf clubs for varying ter-
rains.

‘ Columnists who shrink from
wriling anything that could
whip up a backlash have no
use for ten-foot poles. Other
writers, though, couldn’t sur-
vive without them.

Susan Musgrave, author of
almost two dozen published
books and many more essays,
and wife of bank robber Ste-

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FROM. THE. CAPITAL
HUBERT BEYER

to boost the powers to invest-
igate and deter terrorist acts,
Loukidelis said.

With police being on what
is generally described as “high
alert,” they are bound to arrest
innocent people and hold them
for investigation. I do not want
police to have such powers.
Arresting people without a

Warrant. is what the Taliban

does, ‘not we, :

In the US. people 2 are so
pumped by the mix of patriot-
ism and wat coverage fed the
populace 24 hours a day
they'd accept just about any-
thing to feel protected,

In times of war, the first ca-
sualty is truth. Freedom is a
close second. During the FLQ

‘ crisis, Canadians meekly ac-

cepted the fact that the War
Measures Act, invoked by
Pierre Elliot Trudeau, stripped
the nation of its basic rights
and freedoms.

In their panic not to be con-
sidered unpatriotic, the oppo-
sition parties slavishly suppor-

‘THROUGH BIFOCALS
CLAUDETTE SANDECKI

phen Reid, thinks it’s the job
of writers to silr things up, to
make people think. Her pale
has to be more scarred than
mine.

Rita Moir, a Kootenays
creative non-fiction writer, for-
merly a journalist, was told by
her mother, “If you're not p.....g¢
somebody off, you’re nat doing
you job as a columnist.”

I rarely reach for my ten-

ted the draconian law.

I still remember being told
by readers to “go back where
the hell you came from,” when
I spoke out against what I con-
sidered an outrage.

There are others signs that
we’te on the proverbial slip-
pery slope, Premier Gordon
Campbell has criticized a
judge's decision to release Ali
Adham Ambhaz, a Canadian
wanted in the United States on
allegations of praviding sup-
port to a terrorist organization.

“T don't believe the decision
will do anything to increase
the public's confidence in
these sorts af decisions,”
Campbell said in Toronto,
where he was giving a speech
when Ambhaz was released.

Campbell, who has made
several speeches weeks call-
ing for a security perimeter
around North America in the
wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks in. the US.,, said:

(tele ‘al a, time ‘right now,
“where we have to have an ex.
cess of caution.”

He said the court should
have detained Amhaz, of Bur-
naby, until his extradition
hearing. For his edification,
Justice Marvyn Koenigsberg
was not given one shred of
evidence that would have al-
lowed the man’s detention.

1 can understand when
judges get pummelled by the
beer parlour crowd, but I find it
highly offensive when the pre-
mie? starts criticizing the judi-
ciary. There was another pre-
mier once who did that. His in-
itials were Bill Vander Zalm.

foot pole when I’m contempla-
ting a column topic. Mostly,
féaders take umbrage at my
writing where they see fit. And
whenever they do, J suffer in-
sults to my family and ances-
tors; my pole shrinks another
centimetre,

Over the past 13 years, my
ten-foot pole has been dented
by the mother of drunken dri-
ver, clawed by unwed teenage
mothers, crimped by hairdres-
sers, droned out by bagpipers,
raked by a cafagana castiga-
tor, and punctured by nurses.
Most recently it was blamed
by a grandmother for her court
date.

These poles can be made of
any flexible but sturdy mater-
ial. Hickory and yellow cedar
top the ranks. Mine is bamboo.
Stee! tips, while they preserve
the length of the pole are
frowned upon by editors for
being too much to the point.

My pole was originally a
binder whip used by my Dad
when he drove horses. He gave

He compared British Colum-
bia’s court system to that of
Nazi Germany. He didn’t know
any better. Campbell should.

He should know how Hitler
dealt with matters of law. The
Nazi-dominated Reichstag pas-
sed the infamous Nuremberg
Laws, stripping Jews of all
Tights, got himself the power to
fire all judges, appointed his
own cronies to the bench and,
bingo, all that followed was os-
tensibly legal.

It is the very judicial system
Campbell has lashed out at
that stands between tyranny
and freedom. This is a nation
and a province governed by
Jaw, not the premier’s whim.

A cousin sent me an e-mail
from Germany yesterday, say-
ing that the PDS, the successor
to the farmer Communist Party,
led by the brilliant Gregor
Gysi, had shown dismal results
in the polls leading up to the
recent elections in Berlin. The
‘PDS was the only party sup-

Doosan

porting a peaceful course in
~ déaling with the terrorist threat.

When it was over, the PDS
got 22.5 per cent overall and
mere than 50 per cenit in the
former East Berlin. Why the
discrepancy between the polis
and the actual results?

Rudy believes that in the
current climate of sabre-rat-
tling, people were fearful ad-
mitting publicly that they sup-
ported the PDS. [f that was the
reason, E think we’re in trouble.

Beyer can be reached at:
E-mail: hubert@coelcom.cam;
Tel (250) 381-6900; Web
http://www.hubertbeyer.com

vy of a ten- foot pole

it to me at age 19 when my
first letter to the editor was
published, anonymously.

I didn’t have the guts to sign
my name to the letter because
everyone would have known [
was writing from Dad’s view-

~ point. The neighbours guessed

anyway and gave Dad a hard
time. but they never learned
my identity until the commun-
ity published a history 38 years
later,

Fortunately, columnists of
the stature of Toronto’s Pierre
Berton and Montreal’s Morde-
cai Richler provided enough
refinishing work to grow a spe-
cially repair shop.

Shipping a slender object of
this length is a problem Cana-
da Post would as soon process
an envelope with a hand let-
tered address and a New Jersey
postmark.

So it will have to travel by
courier,

Or hitchhike on a truck with
a red flannel swatch taped to
its protruding tip,

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