wet (— | MY SON IS A PUSHER AT THE UNVERSITY.... i WRI BUUDING [F puts the bite — |Hubert Beyer| Victoria Correspondent There are two ways of looking at the provincial government’s new forest policies. You can don your Jaycee hat and call the changes better than anything you had hoped for, or you can be a cynic and ask where the catch is. - : Being a bruised idealist from way back, 1 find myself somewhere but some nagging doubts remain. Greater deterrents by Frank Howard Reading about sex can be ag- gravating and disquieting. Read- ‘ing about sex can be irritating, Hardly a day goes by without a news item dealing with sex and abuses relating thereto. The sexual matters to which ] am referring are those involving attacks upon both male and fe- male children. 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The younger children are, the more readily they will take orders from adults, Those who sexually abuse . children are basically exhibiting ‘their own lack of maturity and are mis-using their sense of power. In my view they are weak, wimpering, warren- wallowers who should have the full force of the law applied to them for sexually attacking children. A child who is sexually abused will, at the very least, have a feeling of shame about sexual questions as that person grows into adulthood. It is more likely that growth into adulthood will bring severe emotional and so- cial problems with it. The sex- ually abused child will have his or her future seriously impaired all because some fiend refuses to - function sexually in a respectful manner. Sexual matters are a funda- mental part of the human psyche. Those who engage in sexually abusing children or ad- olescents are not, therefore, con- fined to any professional, social, economic, class, or other group. Examples from current news items show that those charged with sexual abuse can range from a soccer’ coach to a psychiatrist or from a stranger to a relative. One of the theories, which I support, relating to aberrant behaviour is that of deterrence founded on punishment. A per- son, so goes the theory, will be deterred from aberrant behav- iour if that person faces a severe enough punishment, If the pun- ishment is life imprisonment with no parole then that person will certainly be deterred, or - prevented, from sexually abus- ing children, More importantly, such a sentence would certainly deter others. Quite frankly I find reading about ‘sexual abuse of children very disquieting, because I often read of court leniency in the sentencing of those so found guilty. Quite frankly I find defence arguments about emotional and psychiatric problems of the ac- cused as reasons for light sen- tences to be specious arguments, to be rhetorical sophistry. Punish the person for the crime against children so that the message in that regard is clear. If the guilty party has emotional or psychiatric problems, then treat for those as separate matters. Shifty tax policy — Letter To the editor, Interesting, that Education Minister Tony Brummet has not responded to the Terrace School Board’s protest, on behalf of taxpayers, of increased residen- tial school taxes, What could the Honourable Minister say? The Vander Zalm government’s policy, like that of the Bennett government before it, is to lower school taxes on in- dustry, thus forcing local boards to raise taxes on homeowners, if education services are to be maintained. This shifting of the tax burden for public education onto home- owners really amounts to a dis- First the new policies. On Oct. 1, a new pricing system for timber will be implemented in British Columbia. The new system will give British Columbians a much fairer return on their forests. . . The cost of replacing the forests, until now largely the govern- ‘ment’s (taxpayers’).responsibility, will be borne by the companies harvesting the timber. ; - More timber will be made available for competition on the open market, and small-operators will get a larger slice of the timber pie. At the same time, the government promises to create more jobs in the forest industry by launching initiatives in wood marketing, forest product research, forest renewal activities, and by increasing timber processing and the manufacture of: value-added products. Last but not least, the government will no longer forego potential revenue by allowing forest companies to accumulate credits against . their stumpage payments under section 88 of the Forest Act in ex- change for basic silviculture and the construction of roads and bridges. = : What’s all that mean? To the forest companies, it means they'll -have to dig deeper into their pockets. To you and me it means that the government will collect more money from the forest industry, . which will be reflected in the taxes we pay. Translated into dollars, the forest industry’s mother tongue, the revised pricing structure will increase provincial revenues from the forest industry by $100 million from $580 million to $680 million. -If you add to that the $73 million we allowed the industry in sec- tion 88 credits last year and a further $55 million in deferred credits, additional revenue to the government will be $228 million. Those calculation, however, are based on last year’s figures when the 15 percent export tax was already in effect, That tax will have generated another $400 million by the end of the first 12 mon- ths. The government will continue collecting that $400 million a year, even if the self-imposed tariff is lifted, which means that com- pared with the last pre-export tariff year, the government will ac- tually collect an estimated $628 million a year more from the forest industry. . Another policy change that will have the industry ina flap is the removal of five percent of the allowable annual cut from licences. that come up for sale or transfer. The five percent will be plowed in- to competitive timber sales. _ That move is long overdue. At present, only 5.2 million cubic- metres of timber, less. than eight percent of the total annual harvest, is sold competitively, The minister says the Forest Act will be changed to make ‘'pre- harvest silviculture planning’? mandatory. Performance will be en- forced, he says, and audits required. That’s where my nagging doubts come in. Impressive as the minister’s announcement is, we won’t know just how tough the government intends to get with the industry over its new silviculture obligations until the amendments to the Forest Act are tabled in the ~ legislature. Buised tax increase. And now the Regional District chairman, ‘Mr, Watmough, re- minds us that the tax base for hospital funding is headed in the same direction, Political parties often get their candidates elected on the basis of vague ideologies, like free enterprise. But governments don’t just have ideologies, they have speci- fic policies. The policy here seems to be ‘If you want quality . services, pay for them locally.’ George Stanley Terrace Nothing short of full legislative clout will make the industry assume its role as proper manager of the province's forests. Unless" that role is clearly specified in legislation, and failure to comply is suitably punished, the industry will try to cut corners wherever and whenever it can. _ If, on the other hand, the government means what it says and doesn’t dilute the changes Parker announced; British Columbians will, for the first time in the history of forest exploitation, get a fair return on their resource. Like I said, I’m not a cynic, but [ have learned to regard govern. ° ment pronouncements with some caution. I hope my doubts will turn out to be unjustified. a The Terrace Minor Hockey Association would like to hear from anyone interested In being Involved with the Minor Hockey Concession Commit- tee: Please contact Yvonne Hill, 638-1111 or Sharon Larmour, 635-3161 or write to Box 121, Terrace, 8.C. V8G 4A2. Also: Anyone Interested in coaching for Terrace Minor Hockey's 1987-88 season please contact: Lew Larmour, 635-3161 or Clair Irwin, 638-8314 or write to Box 121, Ter: race, B.C. V8G 4A2,. Co, Forest policy on industry in between the booster and the cynic. On the face of it, the changes, . announced by Forest Minister Dave Parker, are great news, indeed, °