Page 4, The Herald, Thursday, October 25, 1979

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EDITORIAL

We've had World Refugee Year, The
Year of the Environment, International
Women’s Year and now The In-
ternational Year of the Child.

There are more refugees than ever,
the environment is more troubling than
ever and women still do not have

vality in many parts of the world.

hen 1979 has come and gone, more
than half of the world’s children will still
face a bleak future. If they don’t solve
problems, what's the point of these
“special years? What are they all
about anyway?

We North Americans are conditioned
to the 30-minute solution, or in this case,
the 365-day solution. if problems are
raised, surely they should be solved.

There is a basi¢ misunderstanding of
what the special United Nations years of
focus are all about. The special “‘years”
are intended to provoke thought, and to
bring about discussion-thought and
discussion by overnments, by experts
and above all, by the public. They are
intended to pin-point specific in-
ternational problems and bring those
problems to the forefront of everyone’s
attention. The United Nations can ob-
tain international agreement on prin-
ciples but it has no power to make its
member nations adopt legislation that
world enshrine those principles in law.

It would seem however, that IYC.
has ‘‘set In motten(’:quite.a-number. ot

positive working: ms. and.Jn this...
respect, al the A special years have

done the same. The problems will still
be with us but the wheels are turning.
The year of focus Isn‘t just “all talk”.
On October 31 nearly a mililon
Canadian children will “trick or treat’
for UNICEF. By helping to flil their
UNICEF boxes you are helping to keep
the wheels in motion. The programs that
have been initiated are long term, they
must be carried out.

| LETTERS TO
| THE EDITOR

_——

u

Letter to
Health Minister Bob McCelland

Dear. Sir:

As you are no doubt aware, there have been over the
past number of months quite a few resignations from
the staff of the Mills Memorial Hospital in Terrace,
the latest being that of the hospital administrator.
These resignations alone would indicate that there
have been operational or administrative difficulties
at the hospital and that these difficulties have not been
resolved, .

Under normal conditions an examination of such a
situation would be bést left to the board of directors of
the hospital. However, recent information indicates
that the situation has net been normal and in my view
requires your direct Involvement.

The RCMP In Terrace have informed me that they
have been conducting an investigation with respect to
the hospital and that they are currently taking taps to
lay charges against one individual of what is alleged
as being fraud.

Since, in fact, those charges may already be laid I'm
sure you will be able to ascertain the full extent of any
RCMP activity by reference to the department of the
Attorney-General.

In any event it seems that the level of health care
has been interfered with by reason of the resignations
and by what I understand are current vacancies. It is
this situation that establishes the need for an inquiry
and I would urge you therefore to undertake one.

Because the Mills Memorial Hospital serves an area
of much greater than Terrace itself it may well be that
during the course of such an inquiry information will
be presented related to health care in areas other than
Terrace. 1 think, therefore, that the terms of reference
should be sufficiently broad to allow residents and
medical practitioners from the general area to par-

cipate.

Hoping to have an early and favourable reply fro
you,

Frank Howard
Skeena MLA

‘| see youre new here:

By GARRY FAIRBAIRN

OTTAWA (CP) — "Every
nation which, ia seriously
looking after the energy
security of its citizens has a.
national ofl company,'’
Liberal Leader Pierre
Trudeau declared recently,

Blasting the Conservative
plan to “privatire’? Petro-
Canada, Trudeau told the
Commons that “even Mrs.
Thatcher changed the
British Tecries' pledge to
privatize ‘Britlah National

The not-so-subtle slams at
President Carter’a energy
policies in the United States,

the only major nation

without e national oil

po!

From the Peralan Gulf to
the: Arctlc=Eglan
creaslng -
"world olf is Being foutid
produced by government-
owned enterprises. :

One of the first euch
national olf companies,
ironically, was created by
Winston Churchill shortly
before the Firat World War.
As Firat Lord of the Ad-.
miralty, the Conservative
Churchill presided over
creation of the Anglo-
Persian Ol) Co, to exploit and
secure Persian oll for the
navy, from the area that now
is Iran.

Anglo-Persian has become
British Petroleum, but is still
more than 40 per cent owned
by the British government.

It’s
By TRISH WORRON

TORONTO (CP)
Twenty yeara ago, all the
Kids on the block were
playlng Davy Crockett and
Daniel Boone. Duncan
Regehr still is at it,

“But now I'm getting pald
todeit," says the 26-year-old
actor, one of the four stara of
anew Canadian television
series,

Loading musketa, wearing
buckakin clothes, horseback
riding and canoelng in the
wilderness -~ “‘all the things
I wanted to do a5 a kid” —
now are part of a day's work
for Regehr, who plays a
frontieraman in the series,
Matt and Jenny.

The show follows two
British children travelling
through the Canadian
wilderness of the 18508. Matt
and Jenny Tanner, orphaned
on the soyeee to Canada,

refuse sent back to
England, jump ship In
Halifax and begin their

search for an uncle living
somewhere in the West,

It's an outdoor-adventure
eeriea, and the children meet
a wild assortment of ec-
centrics and heroes —
outlaws on the run, a woman
dlaguiaed aa a mate
preacher: an Indian shaman
who puls a curse on them;
fugitive black slaves; a Eu-
ropean family circus —
elong with the required
number of hears, rat-
tHlesnakes and near-fatal

they elude the
authorities, they are
befriended by Kit, the

.

dg, AT ihe

percentage:~on a
i ‘and

| ‘Mos ST HAVE. ONE
Petro-Canada is the rule

Churchill's initlative was
followed over the deéades by
similar actlon in other
European countries and by
governments such 4s
Mexico, which nationalized
their oll induatries.

The Organization of Petro-
leum Exporting Countrlec
(OPEC) started late in this
regard, but made up fox it
with price Increases. Two
years ago, the National
Iranian Oi] Co, had sales of
more than §22 billion

With the emergence of
powerful national ol] com-
panies, said Petro-Canada
chairman Wilbert Hopper
recently, has come a
growing role for govern:
ments in arranging oll saleg..,

‘It a quite possible that a
of today am much as 90 per
cent of oil in world trade ls
-paitig obtained: on a gavern-\,

Implications of this ~
shift are clear: The politics
of oll have changed and
escalated, It is unlikely that
we shall ever again regard
international ofl as a private
commercial commodity.”
Significantly, the speech,
to the Toronto Empire Club
has been the only major one
by Hopper sinece election of
e privatization-minded —
Conservatives and it
stressed heavily the
national-company theme.
Hopper observed that
there is no proof t{n-
tergovernmental deals mean
cheaper oi] imports. But, he

sald, there is a “reasonatle
preaumption’’ that the range
of governmental powers can
make oil-supply a ents
more durable and reliable.

The response to arguments -

Illke Hopper’s has been
varied in Ottawa.

While the former Liberal
goverament encouraged
Petro-Canada to take a
leading role ‘In negotiating
some ol-import contracts,
the New Democrats have
demanded that it get a
monopoly on such arrange-
ments,

The new: Conservative .

government, despite stated
Venezuelan preference for

with a government
arm, have sought to upset
Petro-Canada’s exclusive
status as Canadian importer
of Venezuelan oll and to open
-guch purchases to private

Md «week's task. ‘farce

report on Petro-Canada
recommended that after the
corporation becomes
private, a new government
agency should handle state-
to-state cil import negotla-
tions “as necessary.”

Left undiscussed was the-
question of how effective:
sich an agency can be
Niphuat elther an, army of
ifvestigators to' Identify
world pricing factora or
corporate ties to auch in~
formation.

‘Two year's ago, a Canadian
court case demonstrated the
‘maze of complications and
ambigulties in international

IN REAL LIFE 7
fantasy come true_

character played by Regehr,
a young man brought up by
the Indians, and Adam
Cardston, a gentleman-
adventurer played by actor
Nell Dainard.

Dainard agrees with
‘Regehr that the serles “‘leta
me be akid again — my own
kids are In awe."

"T can come to work and
play with an elephant (used

one show about an old-
time circus) or learn about
rattlesnakes, canoeing. and
riding," says Dainard.

‘Tt'a getting to the‘polnt
where I don’t get sore, any
more when [ ride.” ¥

Twenty-six eplsodea were:
shot this summer at Totd
International Studios, 0a
Canada’s busiest std!

a

A recent day's filming
proved what the youngsters

ow as old hands in the
business, after having both
Appeared in numerous
movies and comme
a lot of their job is far from
glamorous, _

“Lines have to be learned ”

every night of the 16-week
shooting schedule; it's up
before dawn and back home
lateinthe day and, of course,
the interminable delays as
peones are shot and reshot.
“Some of it ia boring, but
you get to learn a lot of neat
things,” says Jones, who
eapecially likes the riding
and the canoeing, “It’s a lot
more fun than golng to

.” tehool,!!

a

ve Says Megan: "They don’t

The CBC's AGHttoLart and” freat us like kids. We've

a multi-milllon-dollar
Japanese thriller were being
filmed at the studio at the
same time.

It's only a balf-hour’s drive
to the Klelnburg studio from
downtown Toronto.

But, with the exception of
the occasional overhead buzz
of an airplane, it Is almoat
like stepping back a century
out on the back lots, Log
cablns have been faithfully
re-created — completed to
the minutest detalls, quill
pens, old canned goods,
rough-hewn furniture —
there are etagecoaches and,
animals and the surroun
countryside is untouched.
’ Megan Follows, 11, and
Derrick Jones, 14, have the
juvenile leads,

made a lot of friends here,"

.The show is produced by
the independent Manitou
Productiona, in association

_with Ontario's Global
Television, which premiered
the show Oct, 21, Polytel
Films of London and Shelter
Corp. of Winnipeg.

The $3.¢-million series al-
ready has been sold in Italy,
France and Weat Germany,
says executive producer
Ralph Eliis of Manitou.
Arrangements are being
made to show the series
begiuning in January in
other Canadian centres, In-
cluding Winnipeg, Calgary,
Edmonton and Vancouver,

"Outdoor action adventure
and wildlife documentaries
are in demand all over the

to-go baal es alsa
mnt-to-government: : basis.

oll pricing
finding that Maritimes
utilities had been sub-
stantially overcharged by
the glant Exxon Corp.

ite Imperial Oil Co.
subsl .

Would a government

agency, without working
experience in the in-
ternational oll industry, be
as vulnerable to Venezuelan
or other OPEC accounting as
the utilities were to Exxon?
Or would It, because of lack
of corporate distractions,

better than Petro-
Canada now does?

Another Issue raised in the
debate over government in-
volvement in the world oll
trade ls the increasing role of
barter. The much-courted oll
producers can seek
everythin from 80:

pais cated weapons to food
relurn for their all.

~ygoreetiy avoiding direct
reference to weapons,
Hopper told his Toronto
audience; :
“We will have to continue
to offer, as do all other oll
im; , food, technology
capital goods and ser-
vices in return for cil.

muster.

“These represent limited
choices for any government.
The fact ls we have no op-
tons. We have to play in a
new game.”

world,” says Ellis, who
expects to sell the show to
additional countries at the
Milan televiaion festival.

Eliie’s earlier series,
Adventures in Rainbow
Country, Wildlife Cinema
and Audubon Wildlife
Theatre, have been sold
worldwide.

“Wuropeans love these
kinds of shows. They
practically buy them alght
unseen.’

Ellis hopes the series will
do well enough to continue
for several more seasons —
in the flrat year's 28 episodes
the children don’t make it
out of the Maritimes in.the
search for thelr uncle.

Each episode features a

est star — including Barry

orm, Cameron Mitchell,
Keenan Wynn, Julle Som-
mers, Michael Ansara and
Tessie O'Shea.

And Ia this serlea, which
has adapted authentic
legends and personalities

from Canada of the 1960e, the
Indians are not the bad guys
a la Hollywood, saya

Ells.
Several Canadian Indian
actors, most notably Chief
Dan George, will teach the
children about native crafts
and survival, The two
children will meet such
characters as Handsome
Jack, a Mohawk chieftaln
who went on a one-man
crusade to stop the slaughter
of wild animals in hia
young Midian, princess: who
young Indian wi
can bunt, fish and ride the
rapids ina birchbark cance,

‘ OTTAWA
VIEWPOINT |

by JIM FULTON

_ firat propos

asd ended with a-

required).

Recenteventsregarding Alaska Oll movement have
overshadowed thé Throne Speech to a great extent, at
least for. British Columbians. The American plan that
is being recommended to President Carter involves
the use of large numbers of super tankers along the
B.C, coast. This is unacceptable to me and has been,
unacceptable to the B.C. public generally since it was
ed some years ago. ;

The root of the problem is the lack of sue .
communications.and consultation between US.
and the Canadian governments, Both the Trudeau and
Clark administrations failed to establish our presence
in U.S. government circles. In Washington, D.C. major
decisions are being made that affect our country and
our economy, Yet Canadian interests are not
heard as those decisions are being made. One U.S..
Energy Department official is quoted as saying he
“gould not understand why the Clark government has
not been making more noise about Canadian interests
in the matter.” Do we need coaxing from Americans

-before we will take a position? :

Irecently asked Prime Minister Clark in the House
of Commons {f his government had made represen-
tation to the U.S. in order to give Canada time to
assess the options. I received a non-~answer from the
Prime Minister, The next day, I introduced an.
emergency resolution calling on the House of Com-
mons to consider the whole question of this Alaskan oll -
movement, The Conservatives refused the unanimous
support required for such a resolution. After these

ences, must question this government’s ability ,
to stand up for Canadian interests.

. Lfeel Canada must be given the chance by the U.S.
to scrutinize the possible choices before us. Public

on is solidly against super ers moving
ney our costal waters. We fought the Kitimat
proposal on those grounds and won.

The tanker traffic is known to be Unsafe and un-
suitable, particularly in cold, northern waters. The
recent spill in the Gulf of Mexico demonstrates how
able we are to cope with such accidents: not at all. A
senior U.S, Coast Guard official at that spill aaid the
useful technology is such a situation “would fit in a
thimble.” But we are now faced with the prospect of
greatly increased tanker traffic and the risk of such
spills.

‘The Clark and Trudeau ‘administrations expressed
preference for an “‘all-land route,” fet the in-depth
examination and preparation for the Foothills oll
pipeline was never done. The Yukon Indians’ land
claim was never dealt with and it must be settled first.
The necessary studies on environmental, financial,
social, and economic impact have not been completed.
In short, the all-lanid route may be viable but time is
required to ensure that social and environmental
damage is minimal, that Canada and the communities
affected get some real economic benefits, and that.
such a project is done on our terms, not those of the

‘The efforts of myself and our party, force Americans,
eonsidefation of our Interests; whether on sea OF.ons
land, will be continued. Too often we defer to our
friendJy neighbour to the south on important matters
such as this. ;

In closing, I'd like to quote from Dr. Andrew
Thompsgn, who conducted the West Coast Oil Port
Inquiry in 1977-78: “The public concern In British
Columbia is that these negotiations are not being
given the priority they deserve, nor is the range of
subjects under discussion of sufficient scope. Out of
thése negotiations should come...agreement between
Caidda.and the United:States covering the entire
range of oil tanker traffic issues." That agreement
must aleo be required for an all-land route. Have our
governments learned nothing since 19787

I would appreciate receiving your views on this and
other questions. To reach me, or to get assistance or
information, please call 638-1819 or write to me care of
House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario (no postage |

CONSUMER -
COMMENT

No matter what region of the country they live in,
the problem of vehicle rusting has long been a thorn in
the side of many motor vehicle owners. It has always
seemed that if there wasn't salt on the roads to eat |
away at a car, then the humidity or rainy weather
would do it, “Rust-resistant” just wasn’t a term that
could easily be applied to motor-vehicles.

‘In recognition of the problem, the federal govern-
ment and the provinces formed a task force on:
automobile corrosion, and in cooperation with
automobile manufacturers and importers, develo
an Anti-Corrosion Code for moter vehicles.
Establishing time perlods during which corrosion

‘should not occur, including external corrosion, per-

foration, and structural damage, the code clear!
defines the responsibilities of hoth manufacturers an

owners in producing and maintalning t-fi
vehicle, P 8 oo ee

In cases where corrosion does occur, the code
Jefines the responsibilities for repairs. Where repairs
are hecessary due to damage to the vehicle, their cost
shall be the responsibility of the owner, while repairs
necessitated as a result of vehicle defect or

ate the manufacturer’ ”
responeibility turer’s or importer’s

Effective with the 1978 model year, the code cannot
offer relief to owners of pre-1978 vehicles which are ;
suffering the effects of premature rusting; recourse
for such owners would generally lie in legal action. :
But for newer vehicles, and for all future model years, -
the Anti-Corrosion Code should quite effectively .
remove that thorn in the side, and facilitate the —
production of vehicles that, with proper care, will |

remain rust-free over a I : ‘ :
their life. considerably longer'part of ;

To receive a copy of the Anti-Corrosion Coue and
Owner's Care Guide for Motor Vehicles, contact your -

district office of Co
Canada. msumer and Corporate Affairs