Cabinet shuffle

Claims meeting cancelled

A meeting between
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leaders and government
officials scheduled for this
Monday in Kisp
has been cancelled because
of: the federal cabinet
shuffle.

Land claims co-ordinator
for the seven native bands
Neil Sterritt said he had
been informed by Hugh
Falkner’s office that ‘the
newly appointed minister of
Indian affairs would not
attend the meeting which
had been set up by former
Indian Affairs Minister
Warren Allmand.

“We're very  disap-

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pointed,” Sterritt said, but
added that the cancellation
was understandable in light
of the fact the Falkner is
unfamiliar with the and
claim negotiations of nor-
thern B.C. natives.
_ Tribal council members
are proceeding with plans to
set up another meeting with
Falkner, hopefully by the
beginning of November,
Sterritt said. ;
Leaders of the seven
bands from the Upper
Skeena and lower Bulkley
Valley rivers will go ahead

VEKNUN, B.C. (CP) —
Delegates at the Union of
British Columbia
Municipalities’ . convention
Wednesday approved a
policy statement calling for
ocal residency as the sole
qualification for holding
locallyelected office.

By a 198 to 173 margin,
delegates voted that
property-owners _non-
resident in a community be
denied the right to run for
office.

Alderman Harry Rankin
of Vancouver said he was
pleased the UBCM had
chosen to remove ownership
of property ‘“‘as the sole
basis for running for office.”

“JT think it recognizes the
problem of the urban
reality.’’

Rankin said the policy,
which will be forwarded for
consideration by the
provincial government,
prevents a person who lives

Burnaby and owns a
husiness in Vancouver from
running in Vancouver where
his interests might be.in

residents.

OTION APPROVED’

However the convention
decided that property
ownership was sufficient
qualification to allow a
person to vote in a com-
munity.

MOVE REJECTED

Delegates rejected an
amendment to another

licy statement that would

ve denied a vote to those
owning property but not
living in a community, then
defeated a motion allowing
voters to vote in only. one
municipality.

Jim Campbell of Saturna
Island said the votes of non-
residents usually work
against improved services
for locals.

“Summer visitors and
those who own summer
camps come te vote against
any move to increase
taxes," he said.

Alderman George Turner
of Valemount in east-central
B.C, said property-owning
qualifications allow some
. people to run all over the
province.

“T could be mayor of three
of four communities,” he
said, ‘as long as they didn’t
have meetings on the same
nights.”

“ONE MAN, ONE VOTE”

But the majority of
delegates agreed with
Marilyn Baker of North
Vancouver district as they

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conflict with those on local:

native claims of the
department of Indian Af-
fairs on Monday.

The cancelled meeting.

was to have.been the first
step: land claim
negotiations for the Gitksan-
Carrier tribes involving an
aboriginal claim of 20,500
square miles from outside
Cedarvale to the head water
of the Skeena River.
Negotiations will involve
about 4,500 native people in
that area from the villages
of Kitwanga, Kitseqeucla,

for the positions.

municipality and another

‘ls.

Commission looks
for volunteer

Terrace Recreation Commission is seeking to fill
two vacancies on its board and is inviting all persons
interested in recreation in the community to volunteer

One person will be appointed from within the
T

om the Thornhill area.

Anyone wishing to volunteer for a seat on therad-
visory body can contact Bill Casey, superintendent of
parks and recreation for the district, at 635-6311, or
Gerry Martin, chairman of the commission, at 635-

Commission members are hoping to have the ap- -
pointments made by their next meeting in October

Weather
blamed

FORT NELSON, B.C.
(CP) — A coroner's j
Tuesday found that the
United States pilots of two
private airplanes thal
trashed 160 kilometres
south of here July 11 killing
eight people were negligent
by flying in bad weather.

Coroner Jim Thompson
said evidence during the 3 1-
2 hour inquest showed that
the weather was so bad July

\11 that cloud cover came
down to tree top level.

IWA allies withNDP
to restore power

VANCOUVER (CP{- The
International Woodworkers
of America voted Tuesday

with a scheduled meeting Kispiox, Glen owell,
with Brian Hartley, Gitanmaax, Moricetown
negotiator for the office of and Hagwilget.

The UBCM convention

Candidates
to be residents

defeated the amendment
that would have supported
removing the vote from non-
resident property owners.
“T don't feel that when we
have taxpayers we shouldnt
remove irom them the right
to vote,” she said,
However Baker moved an
amendment that would have
made it UBCM policy: to
support the restriction of
gac voter to one voters’
st.
Said Ian Case of Saanich,
supporting the motion: “It’s
a simple matter of whether
we believe in one man, one
vote.” :
However, the delegates,
by a margin of 177-148,
supported the, rights of a
property owner to vote in
e community where he
owns property, whether or
not heis a full-time resident.
All policy statements
passed y the UBC will be
orwarded to the provincial
government

Role.of districts

Human rights

should

UBCM—GIif,obk VERNON,
B.C, (CP) — The Canadian
con-stitution should be
rejuvenated to include a
declaration of fun-daniental
human rights and lib-erties,
Jean-Robert Gauthier
parliamentary secretary to
fed-eral Urban Affairs
Minister Andre Ouellet, said
Wednesday. ‘

“Each province should
also adopt a charter. which
would respect the rights and
liberties of its linguistic
minorities and be liberal in
their support towards
them,” he said.

Gauthier, MP for Ottawa-
Vanier, made his remarks
during a speech, made

ly in English, to the
annual convention of the
Union of British Columbia
Municipalities (UBCM).
. Gauthier, noting that the
delegates will consider
three resolutions on national
unity, urged the UBCM to
provide leadership on the

to be studied

VERNON, B.C. (CP) —
Municipal Affairs Minister
Hugh Curtis Wednesday
announced the formation of
a five-member committee
that will examine the role of
regional districts in British
Columbia.

Curtis said the committee
would include Phil Farmer
of Kaleden, _Rendina
Hamilton of Penticton,
Alfred Hood of Victoria,
Daphne Phillips of Dawson
Creek and Ron Thompson of
Galiano Island.

“Each member of the
committee brings extensive
knowledge and background
in local government or
regional districts," Curtis
told delegates attending the
annual convention of the

Union of British Columbia
Municipalities.

Farmer served eight
years as chairman of the
Okanagan-Similkameen
regional district while
Hamilton is past president
of the B.C, School Trustees
Association. Hood was a
Victoria alderman for five

ears, Phillips was a

awson Creek alderman for
18 years and Thompson was
Vancouver’s city clerk for 28

years.

Curtis said the committee
will begin its study next
month.

There are 28 regional
districts in the province, set
up under legislation in-
troduced by the Social
Credit government in 1967,

VIPS TO MEET
DELEGATES

VERNON, 3.C. (CP)-
Representatives of 20
federal ‘and provincial
government departments
are on hand to meet with
delegates to the annual
convention of the Union of
British Columbia
Municipalities UBCM, union
reisdent Pat Duke of
umby said today.

Duke said the number of
government departments
attending this year's con-
vention, which started
today, is up slightly from
last yeat.

“A lot of individual

municipalities have their
own problems that dun’t
come up on the floor,”’ said
Duke, “and this gives them
a chance to meet without the
expens Ise of going to Vic-

The largest contingent is
one from the ministry of
municipal affairs who will
have at least 20 senior staff
persons available for
meetings with the delegates.
Municipal Affairs Minister
Hugh Curtis is also
scheduled to attend the
three-day conference,

Five-year plans needed
to stabilize growth

VERNON, B.C. (CP) —
Local governments should
put more emphasis on five-

year capltal planning,
. Stuart, chairman of the.
Municipal Finance Au-
thority (MFA) of British
Columbia, said Wednesday.

Stuart, a Kelowna
alderman and chairman of
the Central Okanagan
Regional District, told

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delegates attending the Un-
ion of B.C. Municipalities’
convention that the MFA
has raised $364.4 million
since its first issue in 1971,
and has just received ap-
proval to raise another $44.5
million. ‘
The MFA borrows capital
funds on behalf of
municipalities and reglonal
districts, he explained.

He said five-year capital

lanning would help ease

e concerns of national and
international investors.

“More emphasis on a five-
year capital planning would
no only make our
borrowing job a bit easier, it
also makes good sense in-
sofar as the munici ality or
regional district itself is
concerned,"

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Quebec issue. -

"You have before you
resolutions which could
clearly indicate where you
Stand,’’ he said.

GREAT CONTRIBUTION

He mentioned one
resolution which calls on
B.C., together with Quebec,
to ensure reasonable op-
portunity for educational
instruction in either French
or English to those who
desire it.

“If all the provinces
agreed to this principle, you

have made a great
contribution in adapting our
federation to our times.”

Gauthier said he hoped
the future of Canada wasn’t
to have French spoken in

Quebec and English spoken pos

in the rest of the country.

“Tf it is, ll have no part of
it,” he said. “I want to fee!
at home everywhere in
Canada. ;

“Tam a Canadian and the
Canadian society will, like
all other societies in the
world, be judged by history
by the way it treats its

. Mmonirities, be they racial -
' linguistic, social or eco-

nomic.”
One resolution before the
UBCM says bilingualism
should be wholly voluntary.
However, Gauthier said
some motivation, in the
form of mandatory bili-
ngualism, is desirable.
“Universities, at least at
the undergraduate level,
should insist on some.
knowledge of the second
oficial language,” he said.

‘other

to launch a political action
program aimed at restoring
a New Democratic Part:
government in Britis
Columbia.

Delegates to the annual
convention of the. Western
Canadian Regional Council
No. 1 approved the program
after several speakers
admitted that many of the
union's members support
political parties in
both provincial and federal
elections.

But G.A. Stoney,
president of Local 1-357, who
proposed establishing the
program, said that 95
percent of all the resolutions
currently before the con-
vention would be un-
necessary ‘‘if the New
Democratic Party was in
power today.””

His motion urged the IWA
to “reaffirm its all out
support for the NDP” and
urged all union locals to
affilitate to the Barty. The
motion also called for a
political action program to

e started as. soon as
sible ‘to co-ordinate the
activities of all union
locals.” , .

The delegates also a

roved resolutions calling
or:

-a Teduction in the rate of
provincial sales tax to five
percent from the present
seven per cent;

-all workers to be allowed
an income tax allowance for

travel expenses incurred in:

getting to and from their
obs;

} - support for the Canadian
Labor Congress in its
refusal to agree to the
fe deral
proposed program
voluntary controls’

- no discrimination
against workers on the basis
of race, creed, sex, religion
or political belief in the

of

B.C. Tel’s long distance
weekend rates have really got
people talking.

Because between 5 p.m.
Friday and 5 p.m. Sunday you

hiring policies of forest
campanies,

- publication of a complete
history of the union to be
written by ‘‘an outside,
impartial body;

- elimination of the

present $1a day hospital co-

urance fee charged to all
patients;

- and the takeover of the’
B.C, Telephone Co. by the
provincial govenrment.

Earlier, delegates were
addressed by Jean Bedard,
president of the IWA’s
regional council No. 2
Eastern Canada.

He said that while the
union has so far not had an
official position on the
subject of Quebec in-

ence, “like it or not
we, the wor! class will be
faced with taking sides and
having a position on the
matter,”

“I think that one cannot
understand the Quebec
question if one doesn’t
understand that Quebec is
not just an ethnic group but
a nation.”

Bedard said that Canada’s
os tid ut ion
recognize the fact that the
country consists of two
nations each with their t
to self-determination, but
said it was in the interest of
the “working class” that
Canada remian a united
country.

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THE HERALO, Thursday, September 22. 1977, PAGE 3

Provincial court proceedings

~ On the docket

A terrace man was fined
$100 in Terrace provinci

court yesterday after
Pleading quilty to a charge
of prowling.

Bernard Desjardins was
charged after going to a
woman's home at 2 a.m.
August 6and knocking at the

door asking for a woman .

who was not home at the
time.

The woman who answered
refused to let him in and
shortly after found that a
screen had been removed
froma window.

She locked herself in the
bathroom until the morning.

Desjardins admitted to
having removed the screen,
but gave no reason for doin
gio except that he had been

‘inking.

Ronald Eichhorst pleaded
ilty to a charge of willful
mage not exceeding $50
as a result of an incident on
July 20. ; .
Eichhost was visiting his
girl friend when an
argument began and he hit a
door with his fist, knocking
down a mirror on the other
side.
He was fined $

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Michael McNaughton was
al fined $5 for en in

possession of alcohol when
underage.

McNaughton, 17, was
discovered by police in a
parking lot at Furlong Bay
with a case of beer.

In proceedings Wed-
nesday, September 14:

Darcy Redmond was fined
$100 for supplying liquor to a

after police obtained a
warrent and broke into his
house where several people.
under legal age were
discovered drinking, court
was told.

Following persons were
charged with driving with a
blood alcohol level in excess

of .08:
Howard Fowler on July
at tworeadings of .20; finec

5.

Robert Johnson on August
28; tworeadings of .21; fined
$350 and placed on six
months probation.

Frank Pongrace 08
Septem 2; readings .
and .17 fined $250 and placed
on six months probation.

Richard Hay on August.
28: two readings of .21,fined —
$500 and placed on six
months probation.

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