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Make Haste Slowly

Fish like to feed near shore
and along shallow underwater
reefs where food is more plen-
tiful and easy to obtain, But
they are also more wary in
such areas than if in deep
water; shallow water offera
little protection from enemies,

Keep this in mind the next
time you see a likely shore-
line or weedbed. When fright-
ened by a potential danger—
such as the noisy approach
of an eager angler—fish will
rush away to deep water and
safety. Too much haste may
ruin the fishing before you
get start

On the other and you'll
never a wrong by approach-
ing fishing areas with exag-

gerated caution. Red Fisher, .

the angling expert at Mercury
outboards, has some advice
about how to sneak your hont
into the right spot . and
keep things quiet while there.

en searching the shore
for places to fish, stay as far
away from shallow water as

ssible. You can ugually tell

ow deep water ia near shore

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by _ mentally projecting the

underwater terrain as it goes .

away from the shoreline.

Select where you want to
fish and slow your motor
some distance away, Take
several minutes to move into
Position; time spent doing this
will be worthwhile if it means
fewer fish frightened away.

If you. change locations to

another nearby area, do it.
lowly. ish aren't spooked '
— they see them’

Bt thes the Time — but unneces-
sary noise and movement by
a fisherman is quickly reco;
nized as something unusual,
and therefore potentially dan:
gerous.

If you stay in one place to ; c
fish, slip the anchor quietly - |

overboard letting it enter the
water without gi splashing. Use
rope on the anchor instead of
chain.

And o final thought from —

Red is to have the rig. t tackle
and jearn to cast long dis-
tances. This keepa pouls farther
away from the a

chance of them okay ieee
cause of shadows, reflected
light or sudden movement.

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Introducing.

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{ PAY ANY ATTENTION
TO ME AT THE

BREAKFAST TABLE

THAT'S NOT TRUE:
I ALWAYS KNOW
YOU'RE THERE!

DAVE BARRETT

When you’re Number Two, you have to try har-
der. .

Dave Barrett is Number Two. He’s the Leader of
the B.C, New Democratic Party, which means he’s
also Official Leader of the Opposition in the B.C.
legislature. ,

Barrett tries harder. He has to. Fortunately fot
the citizens of B.C., Barrett's efforts usualiy benefit
them despite the fact that Barrett and his 11 fellow
NDP MLAs are political underdogs in the 55-seat
legislature.

TOUCHING BATTLES

Barrett’s efforts have been on behalf of many
causes from park preservation to Medicare. But one

‘of his most touching and typical battles wason behalf

of a 22-year-old widow who was being deprived of
insurance compensation for the death of her husband
in a car accident.

Mrs. Donna Taylor was 22 when her husband was
involved in a traffic accident on Jan. 2, 1970, one day
after B.C.’s no-fault car insurance legislation came
into effect. Mrs Taylor's husband died in hospital

Sept. 27, 1970. His death came 269 days after the .

accident but his death was still due to the accident.

Mrs. Taylor could net collect any insurance
compensation because the government's new car
insurance laws stated that a person must die within
180 days of an accident to be eligible for insurance
benefits. She appealed to the Attorney General but
received no.satisfaction, She didn't get a penny of the
$10,000 she would normally be entitled to if her
husband had died within 190 days of the accident.

Enter Dave Barreft, Official Leader of the Op-
position. Barrett heard, about Mrs. Taylor’s plight
and brought it up in the legislature on March 4, 1971,
after Mrs. Taylor had given up trying to reason with
the Attorney-General’s Department.

Barrett asked the Attorney-General, Les
Peterson, to instruct the insurance companies to pay
Mrs, Taylor the money she deserved. Peterson
refused.

INSURANCE COMPANIES

Barrett asked Peterson to at least write the in-
surance companies and ask for a compassionate
settlement. Petersan turned his back on Barrett and
began reading a book in the legislature. Barrett kept
demanding that Peterson write the letter. Peterson
kept reading.

Sixty-seven times Barrett made the demand that
the government take action on Mrs. Taylor's behalf.
Finally, at 1:10 a.m..on March 5, the Social Credit
majority moved to eject Barrett from the legislature

_for one week. It was the first time in the Com-

monwealth that an Opposition Leader was: barred
from the House.
- Though Barrett’s battle resulted in his ejection,

later events proved Barrett right. Only four months

after re. was ejected fromthe legislature, Barrett

watched the government change the car insurance .

law by removing the 180-day clause. In the process,
Mrs. Taylor received a portion of the $10,000 she
deserved. It was just one more accomplishment ‘by
the party that has pioneered policies such as
Medicare long before they are adopted by the
government.

But who-is Dave Barrett, the politician so willing

o ‘to fight on behalf of. forgotten citizens?

- BORN IN VANCOUVER |

~ ‘Barrett -was born Oct. 2,: -1930 in Vancouver. His.
father. a veteran of W.W. 1, started out on’ a fruit, —
truck and built.a very sucessful business i in the East
End. Young Barrett learned the economic facts of.

lile. working in the business. And he learned social

lessons while attending Britannia High ‘School’ ‘until’

1948, i.

“Barrett also learned endurance at. Britannia, -
‘Though not a natural athlete; hé was obliged to play’
'. on the’ school’s rugby team. and now,.more than 20:
years later, he Stills plays-an annual: game of rugby

with the. Ex- Brit team.

From Britannia Barrett went

philosophy in 1953. That qualified him for a job as a
social worker and probation officer when he was only
23, but Barrett scon learned that the B.A. was
meaningless. And he said so. Loudly. To his bosses.
His job didn’t last long and he headed for the
University of St. Louis for a Master of Social Work
degree so he so he could become an authority i in his
field.

Meanwhile, Barrett had married Shirley Hack-
man of West Vancouver in 1953 and the couple had
two sons, Dan, born in 1954 and Joe, born in 1956.

Barrett returned to B.C. from St. Louis in May,
1957, to become personnel and staff training officer
at Haney Correctional Institute. But the Masters
degree again proved useless in making his job
meaningful for humanity. With a young family to
support most men choose job security instead of
risking one’s employment for social improvement.
Not Barrett.

HANEY JOB FUTILE —

“The job at Haney Correctional ‘Institie was

absolutely futile,” says Barrett. ‘‘The institute sets
out to train people in trades which take a minimum
three years to acquire yet the maximum sentence is
two years less a day and the average sentence was.
only nine months.”

“Except for barbers, there hasn't been one ¢
certified tradesman come out uf there yet.”

Barrett's mouth opened again. And again. But
there were no improvements in the social system.
About then Barrett looked up the CCF party so he

could get elected and started improving the system ,

from within the legislature.

“T went around making speeches heavy in social .
content but void of political content. I told how the
system chewed up its victims; how money was.
wasted. ”

“Next thing I know I'm told by. (then Attorney-
Genera}) Robert Bonner to quit speaking on the job. 1
told him I was speaking on my own lime and there
wereno rules against that in the civil service.”

Typically, Barrett also needled Bonner with the .
fact that certain Social Credit MLAs who were
originally civil servants had spoken out politically
right up to their election but were allowed to retain
their jobs,

Bonner fired the young family man in June, 1959,
Barrett's third child, Jane, was born in September .
1960, about the same time.the novice CCF candidate
was elected to the legislature in the Dewdney riding.
Since then. he has been re-elected in every provincial
election though his riding i is now Coquitlam following’
re-distribution in 1966.

‘A PROBATION OFFICER.

Though his first interest was changing: the... ;

province's social services department, Barrett soon '
branched into other areas,

“Thad worked in child welfare. prisons and, asa
probation officer.” says Barrett. “1! Found that these
institutions were doing more harm than’ good to
people.”

[tried to change these institutions from within but»

time was wasting | away while: 1 and, others. were
making speeches.”
Among the legislation that Barrett succeeded in:

» :pushiing through.the legistature are improvements in |
-child welfare system and the preservation of Cypress
Bowl asa dient. park: ‘More recently, Barrett ‘moved
‘an amen

gauranteed '
‘senior: citize

ent: to the: budget speech calling: for a~
imum monthly income’ of $200 for.
ut.the amendment was defeated’ by.

e: Social: Credit: government...”

- Barrett also visited Washington State in January.’

* 1972, for taiks “with Gov: Dan Evans’ and other .
“Jegislators about preventing oil spills. off the. coast
:of B.C; When‘ Barrett and the'NDP cauciis-returned:

Victoria with the news that.Washington State was
ady and willing to:co-operate on oil spill controls,
Social Credit government r refed to take etl on

to Seattle j
‘University where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in

Says Barrett of his NDP MLA

DAVE BARRETT

Only after an oil spill did occur a few months later
did the present. government finally do’ something
about joint oil pollution control.

Barrett’s style was also shown when he visited
Alberta this summer for talks with Alberta govern-
ment officials on such things as environment

protection, modernization of legisiative procedures
- and tourist promotion. ‘‘We’re the Opposition that

gets things done.. They're the government that

throws sand in the gears,’’ says Barrett.

Barrett liked what he was learning about politics.
“Politics is simple, clearcut. The access to power
that is built into the British parliamentary system
allows people to use that power ta make social im-
provements.”

“And that system is still open to us if we want to
..take control of our lives.”

Barrett used the system to. save Cypress Bowl
from real estate speculators, which he describes as

his most satisfying moment in politics, ‘“‘I fought six
“years for that park. I broke the story and I m glad I

never gave up the fight in the legislature.”

FOR ALL PEOPLE

‘When Barrett became leader of the NDP, he
made his position clear that the party was for all
residents of B.C. Since then Barrett has taken firm
control of the party that in the past has suffered from
internal strife. Under Barrett the NDP is notable for
its team efforts in both the caucus (MLAs) and,
membership. And Barrett has. learned his .

‘political lessons without becoming stigmatized by.

any confining images. -
“T'm loose.” he smiles. “T have 3 no ideological
hangups.”’

Any hangups he was: born with: were lost in the coe

lengthy list of jobs he has held since he.was a young -

-man. At various times he has shaken hides, worked « ° o
‘in a newspaper mailing room, run papers in Seattle,

‘cooked on Canadian National Railways, dug ditches, | ;

built roads in West Vancouver, refereed football and |.

done agricultural work with Mexicans in Washington

State— — Where he’ 8 learned to ) Prosper in nthe je political 7 _
4 jungle.

“STAKING HIS FUTURE ES

"Barrett is staking his political future on n the belief

7 that: B.C. citizens will’choose his brand of: social

‘democracy “as. the. means of throwing .out:the

<-> -Bennett - government and building - ao.
“ shrbhger, ‘healthier province. ey

‘Meanwhile, Barrett and the 11 other NDP ‘MLAs ae
are fighting agains ial: Pas

in the legislature -
““We may:be cunuinbéred,

“'They'te hoping the next ‘election ‘will provide the :

” NDP ranks with a few mdére fighters’ like

lot of people ‘in'B. o. ‘jike Mrs. Donna: Te