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adopted a long-range strategy of abandoning: the

transportation business in favor of real estate manage-*

ment. Last year the City of Terracé’got hit with a
whopping increase on the Fisherman’s Park lease. We
recently discovered that the local taxpayer is also re-
sponsible for replacing damaged warning signals at
level rail crossings, and this week (see page 10A) the
city accepted a non-negotiable offer‘to continue leas-
ing a few cubic feet of CN-owned dirt where sewer
and water lines cross rail rights-of-way, prepaid for 20
years at a rate increase that would make a slumlord
blanch. | .

Anyone in this region who has attempted to ship.
goods by rail has come to realize in short order that
our national railway is in the business of moving
trains around without the inconvenience of actually
having to transport anything. Unless, of course,
you’ve got a contract to send a few million tons of
coal to Japan for the next 20 years. Until recently the

railway provided employment for a substantial number ©

of people in the Terrace area, but mechanization and
technical change are eroding that benefit. |

‘With this in mind, we'd like to suggest that CN rip
up the rail and replace it with pavement. It would —
allow CN to-do-what it appears to feel most-com-
fortable with = property management — and solve a
number of long-term problems for the city. The short-
age of parking, spaces in the downtown core would —
vanish overnight, and for next year’s Riverboat Days
we could-havera really monumental civic celebration
by ceremonially blowing OP the Sande Overpass...

in‘this issue of the Terrace Review we've examined —

the collaborative efforts of utility companies, ~
manufacturers and local businesses. to use energy, -
resources efficiently. It’s an established fact that
railways are by far the most fuel-efficient method of.
moving anything overland. The railway has-been a
significant factor in the historical development of the |
Northwest, and it still has an important role to play.
Up to this point, however, its performance in that role
has been abysmal. ST

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“VICTORIA — Somedesk-
‘.. gleaning thoughts at the start . :
of the last month of the year..."

@ Reports of the death of the

“real” Social Credit Party ap-.

pear to have been premature.
On Wednesday last, a found-

"ing meeting for the Social.

Credit executive in Fort

_ Langley/Aldergrove came
‘down to a battle of the old

guard versus an upstart, anti-
abortion group seeking to take

_ control on behalf of their
* ‘favored candidate.

" ‘Langley MLA Dan Peterson,

- government whip, watched as
. the one-issue wonders were
- defeated by a two-to-one:

margin, thanks to the ap-
pearance of dozens of long-
serving Socreds who attended
their first meeting in years,
determined to stop the ad-
vocates who want to mix
religion with their politics.
More than 800 people at-
tended, 650 of whom were reg-

‘

istered to vote, When the

smoke cleared, the Peterson
slate for all of the executive
positions had prevailed easily.
The event has significance
elsewhere in the province,
where anti-abortion candidates
are organizing to take a run at
their sitting member. New
members in some of the new
ridings are being signed up in
the hundreds, and there could
be a few surprises between now

and next March when all of the.

75 ridings are fully structured.
We'll keep an eye on it all for

m= you, dear readers.

@ The by-election in Oak ~

: Bay/Gordon Head on Dec. 13
“0! is shaping up as more of a bat-

tle than matty pundits forecast.

~The view from |

-. by John Pifer .

sift

yp ots

Socred Susan Brice has been
scoring points on. local matters,
and with her born-and-raised

‘knowledge of the constituency. -

But she also has been losing
ground — through no fault of
her own —- on provincial -

‘issues.’

It seems that when the
‘Vander Zalm factor” is

“ealculated into the equation,
_some loyal supporters of form-
er attorney general Brian Smith

have a hard time figuring out
what to do.

The NDP is trying to cash in
on that uncertainty by beating

the drum that a vote for Brice. -

is a vote for Vander Zalm, and.

it could result in a considerable

number of Socreds staying
home. They would never for a

minute consider voting NDP; —

but they want to punish the
Zalm for his shoddy treatment
of Smith. :

Meanwhile, Brice continues
to distance herself from the
premier whenever possible, and
to run on her considerable rec-
ord of service and achievement
as mayor of Oak Bay.

School trustee Elizabeth
Cull, 37, has handled herself
fairly well so far in the cam-
paign, but it is hard to believe
that this riding would defy

- tradition and elect her over the

46-year-old Brice.

.T expect the Socred candidate |

will eke out a narrow win on

‘the night, but I’m not confi-
‘dent enough of that to place a

bet!

@ Looking for a Christmas
gift for a friend or relative who
has been somewhat fascinated
by the politics of B.C. over the
past few yeats? —

This correspondent does not
hesitate to recommend a visit —

‘to Fantasyland, which in this:

instance is a new book, ‘‘Fan-- ~

-tasyland: Inside the Reign of —-

Bill Vander Zalm”’ (McGraw

. Hill Ryerson, 323 pages,

$26.95),

‘. Written by Gary Mason and

Keith Baldrey, legislative

reporters for the Vancouver

Sun, it,follows the enigmatic

premier from-his ascension to.

the Social Credit throne in 1986

to minute details of his tur-

bulent, scandal-plagued reign. —
“Fantasyland” provides an

incisive look at The Zalm, - .

thanks to some valuable details. -

‘given by aides within his inner

circle. Although many of the
quotes from private meetings in ~

‘the premier’s office are recon-_ .

structed from various sources
(a fact which the authors
should have, but did not,
acknowledge), they carry a ring
of truth and have not te2n
challenged.
The result is a fast-paced
book which includes two
chapters that I believe should
be required reading for all
British Columbians if they
want to get a real handle on
who this man really is, and
what he is really like.
Those chapters describe the .-—
premier’s ignorance of, or dis- ..

‘regard for, potential conflicts:

of interest in the sale of the ae
former Expo 86 lands in down- ~~
town Vancouver. a

‘Vander Zalm repeatedly _
championed a private bid for .

‘the property by his friend and

financial contributor Peter
Toigo, despite an agreed inter-
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