i aia a al RRACE STANDARD The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 29, 1993 - Page Ag fully for what happened Dear Sir: I couldn't help but agree with the main part of a letter from Ma. Brian Gregg which appeared in The Terrace Standard on Sept 22. I agree with you, Mr. Gregg, that it sounds Iike B.C. Tel is again trying to make the little guy pay and let the big guy get away with the breaks, Why, it almost appears that B.C. Tel is refusing to accept money from customers. Although: I’m: not in. the same financial situalion as- you are, I~. still don’t like spending any more. money than’ have to, especially. when it comes to paying bills. |. However, Mr. Gregg, I must. ask, when B.C. Tel sent out Elyers . to its customers last year, ouilin- ing plans to deregulate. the telecommunications industry, did you join B.C, Tel in protesting deregulation? When B.C, Tel put out ads as- “king customers to write to the C.R.T.C. and lct this venerable : organization know that deregula- Must o . An open letter to: Kim Campbell, Prime Minister, - Dear Prime Ministers... . Just recently. friends and family . members observed the first’ an-. . “niversary of the killings of four - professors at Concordia univer- - sity in Montreal. - oe "<. What should we do about some- - thing: like thé senseless killing by Professor. Valery Fabrikant. of... four of his colf¢agues af the uni- versity? ue _ tion was not good for anyane ex- cept other phone companies, did you bother to send a letter to Ol- lawa? Or did you do like the ma- jority of Canadians. who just sat around and waited until deregula- tion caused the pocket-book to be hil? You see, Mr. Gregg, ‘the truth is, B.C. Tel doesn’t make much money . on. your standard, residence telephone. As a matter of fact, your. phone at home, as -well as “mine, is. largely. sub- ‘sidized by. the one money maker: business long-distance, - Now that deregulation has put that business into the. hands of other companies, B.C, Tel has no choice but to make cuts, And, as usual, the cuts start down at the bottom. You can argue that B.C. Tel isn’! losing money at all, but just take this into account: all those other long-distance phone com- panies haven’t had to put too o right ‘Maybe what we should do is “analyze the reason why the four were. killed, then ask ourselves, can we stop this kind of thing by “changing our attitudes and ac- tions. The following are some of the reasons I feel may contribute to the problem. Many people in our society do not get a fair shake in their workplace or when secking -employment. Many.are eased out “By ‘power plays of some'sdrt. 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As a matter of fact, we have the second best telephone sysiem in the world, right here in Canada - or, rather, we used to! Anyway, these other companies just move in, access long-distance through equipment already set up by B.C. Tel, and, fora nominal . fee, take up the lucrative aspect © of telecommunications, business long-dislance. Notice, Mr. Gregg, these people don’t have to fork out large amounts of money for equipment, for training manpower, for tech- nologies. Their people. don’t have to go out and install miles upon miles whal they know but who they know. This sort of thing takes place in large and small individuals in management ensure that friends only are given opportunities and nepotism is rampantas well. Many are not promoted because of racial bias and society simply , buries ils head in the sand in this * regard, 7°" With over 3D years in one in- ‘vice ... ~ have let them down when they businesses, . government agencies, ect. Certain of cables; their people don’t have to climb poles in sub-zero weather to fix someone’s tcle- phone; their people don’t carry huge ladders through mounds of dog droppings lo put in a new in- stallation; their people don’t have to travel to outlying areas to ser- vice customers; their people don’t have to put up with irate customers. B.C, Tel has put everything in motion, they have all kinds of equipment, they offer their customers the best possible ser- and we, the customers, needed us, . Next time you see a B.C, Tel vehicle, don’t grind your teeth and call the company bad names. The fact is, if you didn’t stand be- hind B.C. Tel when it needed you, why should it stand behind you now? J.D. Roy, Terrace, B.C. dustry and with more then haif ihat time in management I believe that I can speak with authority when I say that people are frus- trated and my solution is simply that we must do right by people. We are dealing with living crea- - ures, with feelings, not some ma- chine that can be shut off by the turn of a key. _.. Yours truly, 4 oh iA Nabess | Terrace,B.C. ed by the Province of Things heading right downhill Dear Sir: When I came to Canada in 1951, this was a land of un- limited opportunity. It was land where hard work, self reliance and minimal govern- ment interference encouraged individnal accomplishment, which. built. a. strong, well motivated, competitive. work- force. ro, My recent news clipping file paints a vasily different pic- ture, Here are some. random snapshots from the last few - monihs. Kitimat teachers threaten strike over boards request for 3 minutes extra instruction time. (Yes, that’s right. Three minutes: per day), B.C. Rail employees sitting. on their packsides. for six weeks, hold- "ing up the taxpayer for a few more pennies than we can af- ford and. callously bringing "half the., provincial. revenue base toa halt. There is a worm gnawing at “our Canadian apple. It-is a worm made up of many seg- - ments, some of ‘them made in “Ottawa ‘and Victoria by vote hungry politicians. Some by greedy public sector unions who want bigger and. bigger slices of an. ever-diminishing or non-existing pie, Public policy is callously designed to buy votes and to increase. bureaucracy. It dis- courages self reliance by con- _ tinually adding 1o our so-called social safety net. As individual responsibility _4s replaced ‘by ubiquitous so- “s oes rit Ange ati jel cial programs, the net has fumed into a hammock for ever-growing numbers of Ca- nadians who find it easier to live of the system than by their own efforts. Now the hammock is turning into a straight jacket as fewer and fewer Canadians work har- der and harder to support an every expanding web of more and: more social services, which is producing fewer and fewer working Canadians and taxpayers, “There is a worm gnaw- ing at our Canadian ap- ple.” . We have long since given up trying 10 pay for this wonderful Canadian lifestyle. We borrow over 30 per cent of every dol- lar we spend, We never pay any of it back, we jusi borrow more and more. And our social safety - net/hammock/straight jacket is now taking on the shape and feel for a hangman's noose. -- And our public debt, like some obscene, pulsating. blob that threatens to envelop everything we hold dear about Canada, keeps gtowing... growing... a8 relentless as the law of gravity. Yes, it’s still a nice country to live in, if only we could afford it. Lost Pete Weeber, oo + New Hazelton, B.C,, “ik oth View a The carr ites savings grow asyou help B.C. grow. , Savings Bonds. The rock-solid oa eapfetientt These bonds are your chance to Inve Canada’s fastest growing province, the. provil the highest credit rating in the country, They able only to B.C. residents, in denc in| Toei. ovata Hh UParigay get