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EDITORIAL

_ Over

0 spoof, Every day we whittle

"Gust exactly who i is running the provin-
“ial government?

Ask yourself that question in relation
to the two’ Outstanding health care issues

a athe. city.. Both concern the Terrace

ealth Care Society: One is the

NERO
“plan. “for supportive ' housing and. the

other -ig the lack of money at °Mills
. Memorial: ‘Hospital. “pt
And ‘each ‘points to the complete lack
‘of: control the Social Credit. _ party: has
er th government it was” elected to

~ Supportive housing i is a new 1 concept.

the? ‘mid point between independent liv-
ing and ‘the kind . of intermediate care
provided at the lodge. ~~

This idea has been pursued by the
' health care society for about three years.
What is wants is a guarantee from the
 provingial government of the mortgage
needed to provide the money to build the
Units.

~ Mills Memorial Hospital has for some
years ‘now been positioning itself as a
~ regional health care centre. It’s done that
without the kind of money or official
blessing needed,

. The idea is that northern residents
deserve. the same services as those en-
_joyed, Agwn south. Also, providing those

services at.one location in:the:northwest -
is more-efficient than: ‘transporting peo-

ple back and forth from down south.
In both cases, the health care society
“has been: ‘getting precious itile help from
_the province's elected leaders.
Ministers have given lip service to sup-
-portive housing but then defer to their
. bureaucrats. They say no such program
‘exists. Consequently, there can’t be sup-
“portive housing. Nice and tidy. End of
“story. -
Mills Memorial Hospital has been told
~ by the government what it can spend this
« year. That amount seems to be based on
‘the hospital serving only the city and not
‘the area. But ‘the hospital has been

involves: constructing 40 units beside
“‘Tertaceview Lodge. They are intended as

don’t." can nos, trys we set

ust do if! _ 4

denied the information upon which the 7

government made its. decision. Tough
luck. Lay off nurses and close beds...
And what is government’s response |
when faced by a huge outcry from nor-
thwesterners about’ the lack of money?

Hire someone from: ‘Outside government | -

to make the decision for them,

Each of these examples obviously con: - meee

cerns money. Modern health care is ex-

pensive. That’s why new ideas are need- .

ed to spend what is there more effi cient.

an \ eee 1.
It would be cheaper. ‘by about $1 mn i
million a year to have supportive hous-
ing than to place the people who would ee

live there in intermediate care,
Establishing a regional. health care
centre is more cost effective — not to

-. mention humane — than shipping. peo-

ple back and forth from down south.
Instead, Social Credit cabinet |

“ministers — those same people who, say

they live and die by the bottom line —
hide behind the civil servants who work
for them — and, theoretically. at least, :
for us.

Skeena MLA Dave Parker admitted as
much during a recent television inter-
view. He said he supports the hospital
and.so does health minister Bruce
Strachan. But those nasty bureaucrats
with their computers and formulae

Can these be the same guys who last
year paid for a health care study which
recommended more regional control.
over all facets of health care?

Can these be the same guys who very
soon are going to ask for your vote after
16 years of saying they have Provided
good government?

And can these be the same guys to
whom the multi-thousand name petition
supporting the hospital was.sent?

If they say they need this kind of ham-
mer to bring in policies which should be.
common sense, than perhaps we need a
new bunch of carpenters. -

comedians: and |

- Farewell free speech |

Soon,

-;eators of commercial ads will

“9e hard put to finda safe topic

Through |

“en of speech rushing 10 - Bifecals

emonstrate our sensitivity...

: The Prince Edward. Island. . by Claudette Sandeck! |

‘potato marketing commission

‘was steamed wh : ite has
> Watchers of Canada wey .. brightens. “1 could be the teen sitters. What Sprite has.

list.

_ showed a woman holding a.

burlap sack of potatoes: with,
"P.E.I. stamped across. the

“i front. The dieter confessed, “I”

‘guess; four years ago, | looked
- like a sack of potatoes.”

' Potato growers felt the ad
. made” viewers think potatoes
cause weight gain -~ and that’s
nov true. While the commission.
* stopped short of asking Weight
“Watchers to pull the ad, they .

awere miffed no one had asked :-

“their okay. -
Halifax's . Kentucky Fried

“Chicken ‘shops advertised | a’ &
“hot meal deal” using a TV ‘ad’

ads were’ Pulled after viewer
‘protests aboit’ using Satan ‘to |
promote products, A Nova

Scotia church group called th

ad “‘disgusting and offensive,”
_ Recently the Victoria regional :
translt commission forced B.C. ‘

Lotteries to eapicel a TV

Be oe Wo ET,

party evi

Owner Of a new Chrysler instead
‘of a pillow for Rip Van
-Winkle.”

The transit commission noted
since several government
departments were also trying to

"increase use of public transit to
- ‘ease traffic and environmental

- problems, ‘Ads portraying
‘buses as uncomfortable: and:

“crowded send the wrong

message."”

Fora time, McDonald's rana
TV. ad of Ali Baba asa satisfied

_ customer. Muslims objected. In

per: flash, the ad disappeared from

abysitting service grouched

that"a new Sprite commercial.

protrays techage sitters a party

guardians, .

breaking oul as soon as

dence is heii hidden,
r the pizza on the ceil-

arn

fren for the
ie service. says
of skepllcisen’ about

Meo

. Magazine.

ast week a Vancouver |
“ment, 100, by: wallet.

animals rather than. responsible
The'ad shows an impromptu 7

arent leave he house.

7 We: A

done is perpetuate the idea: that’

a teen sitter is all set to have a
good time in your house at.your
expense, bring a boyfriend over,
spend time on the phone, and
neglect the kids."

The wonder : is so few con-

_ Sumer complaints can kill even

expensive ads. ‘‘'Ten- opinions

on one person's desk do:make a:.

difference,'” ‘says Sally Arm-
strong, editor of Homemaker's

readers’ letters,’ “she. pulled. a,
four-page Kraft food ad show-
ing four foods and four men as"
“dishes”. aren

Af only w ‘could steet govern-

ACTUALLY 1'M
aaa STUDYING THE _

AoW wHATT'
TALKING ABouT:

- ment-ministry. The two .

‘local'governments have been _
dropped from the December oe
list. fo.
_In response to-

‘and rightly : 50. -They went °

MUSTELIOS BUT
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MANAGE ‘UR FININCES...

VICTORIA ~ Say: what, you
will-about the Socreds; they

‘are taking the industrial assault

on our environment seriously,
" As recently as ‘five years:

ago, ‘it would have been all but -

impossible for this,“‘free- ->.- -
enterprise government” to
publicly go after big business.”

_ These are, after all, the

LEB

Socreds’ soul brothers who-

“have béen ingttumentafin
' keeping them in Office for 36.
* of the past ‘39 years, 0

But times have changed: The
latest list of major industrial:

polluters, released last week by —

Environment Minister Dave
Mercier, has some powerful
names on it, including Alcan,
Cominco, B.C. Packers,
Eurocan Pulp and Paper, Flet-
cher Challenge, Imperiat Oil,
MacMillan Bloedel; Skeena
Cellulose and Western Pulp.
‘More than 100 companies

- and municipalities are on the
list, and 39 of them are repeat
- offenders, And while that may _

indicate a certain reluctance on

the part of these companies

and towns to mend their ways
"there is another ‘aspect to-the

- hit list. Some previous of-
fenders have cleaned up their
act and are no longer on the

Both the ‘Greater Vancouver’

-and Capital Regional districts
are on the list of offenders for -

dumping raw sewage into the

ocean. Both districts have. been

warned by tourism officials. .
that. failure to remedy the”
situation could seriously

‘threaten the rich tourism

markets: of Vancouver and Vic:

toria: rene
lawyer with the West Coast
"Environmental. Law Assdcia-
“1, ton, said the lists ‘are valuable. ‘
“because, the public can‘look for . .
’,feglonal hotspots or industry: 7
“Wide. problems: and see, what.”
<<-government is doing'to make:
firms. comply with its. podltion
“laws. oe an t

The current list is the third
one released by the environ--...

previous ones.came out in July

and December 1990.- ‘Mercier «

said that‘58 companies and

The’ minister congratulated
those’ firms and municipalities,

through the trouble of making
the necessary changes, at con-
siderable cost in some cases,

* Needless to say that the

OKAY! MR PhD, !
WHAT'S THE
BIG DIFFERENCE
OETWEEN. A.
WEASELAND.
ASTOAT.?27 ..

- by Hubert Beyer

: publication of the list has rais-

ut wei meres. i
& UMe THAT 1S
TavoNOMICALLY.. =
- THERE'S gt

From the
. Capital

* ‘the Business Council of B.C.

‘claimed’ that there is “anele- °

“ment of deception in ~
; publishing the Tist.?*

:, Matkin said a firm may be
technically i in breach of some
complicated pollution standard

_tather than be guilty of a clear.

offence, involving, for exam-
ple, the dumping of chemical
compounds into: the environ- |

_ ment.

Chevron Canada i i one of
the companies identifi ed for

‘significant non-compliance of
Waste Management Permits,’
The list says Chevron ‘‘exceed-
ed its permit for pH, oil and

’ grease and suspended solids”

at its Burnaby refinery, but

~ Dave Reed, vice-president and
refi nery’ manager, said it was

“unreasonable” that Chevron
was placed on the list..

oo “What we have been listed
for is rain water, which falls
‘ON Our property and on the hill
“behind us. It has nothing to do
- with our refining process. If

tap water were subjected to the

same permit requirements, it.

would not meet the specifica

- tions Chevron i is- required to -
meet on this rain water, run- ben
“OFF? Reed said.”

* But Ann. Hillyer, a staff

‘ And’ speaking, of what".

government is” doing, the one
‘placing weakness:i in the govern. .
~ ment’s efforts to bring in- -
“dustrial polluters to heel are

: the, Felatively low fines the’

MF case 1s
ASELY

We f
IDENTIPABLE,

Courts drag feet
on enviro-fines — :

The maximum: fine for at
“el the ire-of some Of the’ com:"*>"legsr halt of the offences that
_ Panies fingered. Jifti'Matkin of}: ahd ine’ firms’diid Vera

. Municipalities on the hit list is

” $1 million, but the combined
~ fines for 119° convictions didn’ t
amount to that’fi igure, °

In only 20 cases, the fines:
-exceeded $1,000, while three
were in the $100, 000 range.
The largest fine was $275,000
. against Cariboo Pulp and
Papér in Quesnel;

Ctearly, in most cases, the
. fines imposed by ‘the courts are
no deterrent, but that will
change. Our courts have
always been slow in ‘catching.
up to society's concerns.

It took judges years to im-
pose stiff penalties for drunk:
driving, even though the laws

’ ‘provided for them. And the

furore over a number: iof ©
judgments involving physical -
and sexual abuse offences also
shows thal the public expects
more from the courts.
Eventually, we will see stil:
> fer fines, perhaps even jail
sentences for gross: -violations.
of environmental. laws. In! :
some European countries com-
: pany execulives have-al
__ been seit 16° ek fo bri

“company. out’ to-de

- could do: no wrong: Itwas - ,
, public pressure that: b jught 8
-about the change. The: isihart -

Money is Fesponding: and gat. - a

ting off the hit lis| fast,

WSterALLy.

“8BO,, no Social Ciedit'govern-
- Ment would have ti gany big

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