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A6 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 30, 1997

Bail out not deserved |

Dear Sir;

I'm responding to Lloyd Hull’s letter to the editor of
April 16 (‘‘Resign, Mr. Zirnhelt, resign).

There is no need for name-calling. If a person cannot
make a legitimate point without it, they must not have a
very valid argument.

Mr. Hull, do you honestly expect the government to
change the Forest Renewal B.C. (FRBC) legislation lo suit
a bunch of businessmen from Terrace, who cannot even
follow through on an agreed-upon action? Thal is — the
suppliers of logs in Terrace did hold meetings and agreed
not to supply Repap with any more timber unless they paid
up in 30 days, not the 60 or 90 days that Repap used to
funne! the money out of Terrace to their other branches.

These. same strong businessmen in Terrace slit each
others throats and took logs into Repap, expressly against
the agreement they had with each other. Is that, Mr. Bull,
why you wanted the forest minister to change the legisla-
tion, because you could not even work with each other?

Do you feel strong businesses are not obligated lo pay
their own bills in a timely fashion?

Do you feel that strong businesses should hound their
customers who are in a worse financial position than you
are — small businessmen that are trying to keep their
homes and trying desperately to feed their families?

Do you honestly expect the population of this town to
have forgotien that it was the Social Credit government
that gave lock, stock and barrel, for the princely sum of
one dollar - the mill and the forest licences to Repap?

Do you honestly think that the taxpayers of this province,

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via the FRBC, actually owe you a bail out?

Do you think, Mr. Hull, that because you did not mua
your strong business better, thal the forest minister must do
as you tell him to do, rather than what is right for the pro-
vince and the population as a whole?

Give it up, Mr. Hull, get a realily check, and enter the
real world. I am tired of listening to you and your ilk, who
have a tendency to cry foul when the people of this pro-
vince get tired of ‘‘strong” businesses gutting the
resources of this province to line their own pockets.

Quite frankly I am pleased to see the NDP government
try and make sure that at least the resources that belong to
each of us contribute to the overall well being of the popu-
lation of this province and not the self-centered minority.

So who made the bed you lie in, Mr, Hull? I say you did
it to yourself with your patronage of a political party that
promoted business at the expense of people, and by nol
following through with your own business plans with
regard to your relationship with Repap. If you need to
point a finger, buy a mirror.

If you had an ounce of decency you would stop crying
and realize we owe you nothing.

, Mary Bond, Terrace 3.C.

Letter a “load of crap”

Dear Sir:

Letlers to the editor, one by Joe Zak and another by
Lloyd Hull, of April 16 deserve a response.

Joe Zak should know, based on Repap’s own figures,
that their problems are the result of George Petty’s busi-
ness decisions. Stewart is affected by them and Repap’s
debt load was of Repap’s own making. Stumpage fees
were increased to prevent « reimposition of U.S. import
tariffs. At the time, the British Columbia forest industry
was in agreement with the measure — the extra was going
inio Forest Renewal B.C.

The ferry service to Prince Rupert has been revised to ac-
commodate peak traffic and reduce the amount of the sub-
sidization of northern runs.

BC Tel is a private business responding to icderal
deregulation of the communications industry.

Joe Zak should know that provinces do not function in
isolation from what happens in Ottawa — off loading,
deregulation, etc., nor do provinces operate in isolation
from what happens in the U.S. Both the Honourable Dan

Miller and I are actively working for solutions to issues in-
volving Repap, KCP, stumpage and the Forest Practices
Code within the constraints of available resources. Joc
Zak's comments remind me of the remark I once heard —
“for every complex problem someone comes up wilh a
simple solution that won’t work,’’

Then there is Lloyd Hull’s letter huffing and puffing be-
cause the forests minister dares to question the motives of
some forest companies. Lloyd Hull is dead wrong. The
forest licence transfers to Repap were not oppased by log-
ging contractors. I was there. Only the people in
Kitwanga/Gitwangak and Hazelton expressed reservations
about the transfers, In any event, Mr. Hull, who else of-
fered to buy Orenda?

Tlie repeated notion that by the government approving a
transfer of a forest licence agreed to by the two parties
(forest companies) constitutes approval of either com-
panics’ business practices with their contractors is the big-
gestload of crap I’ve heard in years.

Helmut Giesbrecht, MLA for Skeena

Wrong on Nisga’a ads

Dear Sir: must be introduced and

I would also like to clarify
the committee’s mandate,

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Re: ‘‘Liberals wary of
Nisga’a ads,”’ (story, The
Terrace Standard, April 16).

I would like to correct
some inaccuracies in your
recent slory regarding the
land transfcrs that ate pro-
posed under the Nisga’a
agreement-in-principle
(AIP).

The provincial govern-
ment is not implementing
the AIP as the official oppo-
sition suggests in the article.
The AIP is not a legally
binding document and its
provisions cannot be imple-
mented by a government or
process.

The Nisga’a AIP will be’

followed by a final agree-
ment — which is being ne-
gotiated — and after that by
settlement legislation which

passed in the B.C. legisla-
ture and the House of Com-
mons. The final agreement
must also be ratified by the
Nisga’a. It is only after
these processes have been
concluded that ihe Nisga’a
agreement becomes a treaty,

The purpose of the ad-
verlisements was to seek
public input on the creation
of 15 Nisga’a fee simple
sites and eight Nisga’a
reserve expansions. These
were all identified on a pro-
visional basis in the AIP, for
possible inclusion in a final
agreement,

This public referral pro-
cess is being conducted by
the environment, lauds and
parks ministry and is a stan-
dard practice for anyone ap-
plying to acquire Crown

Under the Nisga’a AIP,
the province is required to
“carry out such consulla-
tions as may be necessary,”’
prior to finalizing the loca-
tion and boundaries of each
site,

The reserve sites must be
adjusted, the fee simple sites
must be created and the
boundaries and conditions
of land transfers must be set
out in the final agreement.

The process of consulting
with the public must occur
before the final agreement is
concluded, not after the fact.

The Select Standing Com-
mittee on Aboriginal Affairs
continues to meet regularly,
and it is anticipated the
committee’s report will be
tabled in the legislature dur-
ing the current session.

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which is to ‘‘examine, in-
quire Into and make recom-
mendations on the applica-
tion of key issues arising out
of the Nisga’a Agreement in
Principle to treaty negotia-
tions throughout British
Columbia.”’

Negotiations toward a
final Nisga’a agreement are
underway and the work of
the commitice does not —
and was never intended to
— delay that process.

Peter Smith,

Ministry of Aboriginal
Affairs,

Victoria, B.C.

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