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-JO THE TERRACE STANDARD

“A Children’s

Dear Sir:

I was stunned and angered by
the story of a six year old Amer-
ican girl who is suffering from a
chronic fibrotic lung condition.

-) The American medical system
refused to treat this child because
“the family was poor and had no

medical insurance.
The family just happened to

‘bring the child for a visit to rela-

tives in Canada two years ago and

“the child just happened to get ill

while visiting here.

-The-child was treated in the sick
Hospital in Van-
couver. In July 1992 the Cana-
dian. immigration depariment
gave the family until Sept 22,
1992 to leave Canada as their
visitation had ran owt. What a

coincidence that that was the day
the child was able to be released
from hospital.

I wonder - in a two-year period
just how much effort was really
given in searching out suitable ar-
rangements for the child to be
looked after in her own country.

I am a mother and grandmother
and have great sympathy for any
child in disiress. [ volunteer many
hours in charities within my com-
munity to ‘assist people in un-
fortunate situations. ] take excep-
tion whereby the citizens of this
province are expected to pick up
the tab to the tune of $1.25 mil-
lion for the care of this child
without an effort to collect any
amount of the debt from our
American friends or American

government who would not look
after this child because they had
no medical insurance.

Are there no charitable organi-
zations in the United States who
could financially support this

. family in their crisis? We have a

saturation of organizations in our
country who assist thousands of
people here in need, and do not
expect any government to pick up
the tab.

I know people in this com-
munity who cannot afford medi-
cal insurance but still have to pay
their debt somehow. The hospi-
tals in Terrace, Kitimat, Prince
Rupert and other communities in
this province are being asked to
keep cutting down because we
cannot afford to give proper

Accord politics shameless

Dear Sir: ~

I read with interest in The Ter-
race Standard, Sept. 30, 1992, the
comments of Jim Fulton while on
his constitutional wagon train
somewhere up Hwy. 37.

By his .own admission, the
small towns: and villages of the

northern region express a com-

mitted 40. per cent against the

, Charlottetown Accord. What Mr.
. Fulion fails to tell you is that the

other 60 per cent are undecided.
’ And why doesn’t Mr. Fulton

" wait to visit the big centers in his

constituency? Probably because
he knows that his yes sign will be

tipped down and it would be well
after Oct. 26 before he was free
of the ‘no’ ringing in his ears.
Poor Mr. Fulton, why can’t the
constitutional issue go away so he
can get back to chasing subs in
the Dixon entrance while having
a publicly funded lunch with Col-
leen McCrory and David Suzuki.
In all honesty, I have some
sympathy for Mr. Fulton. He
probably knows this is a bad deal
but because he is obliged to tow
the NDP line he is keeping a low
profile and hoping to save his
reputation in the large centers and
hence his seat in the next elec-

lion,
This whole orchestrated
charade is indicative of the

shameless political process in this
country,

The constitution is supposed to
unit this country, something we
can all be proud of, rally for and
gather round.

Instead, the divisive nature and
lack of vision in the deat has now
got half-hearted politicians telling
the electorate what they should
do and think, Where did our dem-
ocracy get turned around?

Greg Cowman
Terrace, B.C.

Flood money a bit much

Dear Sir:

As a long time Lakelse Lake
resident, I read Rob Brown's Oct.
7 column with much interest.

Cerlain combinations of
restricted outflow, intensive log-
ging in watersheds, tremendous

rainfalls’ and residents’ com-
placency are bound to end in
calamity.

My major concern about our
beloved lake is the prolonged and
ever accumulating silting of the
water and lakebed.

In 1978 my property was
devastated by the fload, and my
hand was out along with every-
one else’s.

T understood it was ta be a one
time assist. That seemed fair then,

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and it seems fair now.

Rob’s position on compensation
is shared by at least one
permanent resident. We all know
the lake floods, and expecting
public funds to support our
choice of lifestyle seems 4 ‘bit
much to me.

Anne Anson
Lakelse Lake
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medical attention to our own
citizens.

We cannot afford to keep our
hospitals running yet we do not
question such a situation. What
kind of precedent are we setting?
Are we going to allow this prac-

tice to continue in the future, as 1 -

could almost assure that if we al-
low this practice to continue, we
won’t be able to find room in our
own hospitals for our own
citizens whether we can afford it
or not.

These are my tax dollars paying
this bill and that docs not make
me happy. I want to know low
many more of these situations are
we accepting before we draw the
line. I am also not interested in
hearing from people who say we
must assist our neighbours to the
south.

We always hear how much the
Americans assist the poor of the
world, etc. Well, I say put some
of that goodwill into the coffers
of the American medical system
which would allow you to look
after the citizens of the United
States.

Viola E. Bonick
Terrace, B.C.

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