_A4 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 18, 1995.

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Bad promises

PREMIER MIKE Harcourt’s promise that there
won’t be.a single forestry job lost as a result of

diminishing logging activity is a time bomb

ready to’blow up in his face. |

‘It was a silly thing to say, reminiscent of former

Prime. Minister Brian Mulroney’s ‘jobs, jobs,

jobs’’ line touted as part of the free trade deal

with the United States. That didn’t work for Mr.

Mulroney and Mr. Harcourt’s version won’t
work either, .

There is no way to protect or replace every. job
lost as logging is cut back to reflect declining
timber volumes. Reduce annual allowable cuts
and you reduce the workforce,

What’s going on now is Part Two of a massive
change. in the forest industry. Part One, starting
in the 1980s, featured forest companies turning
to high technology. Those measures to replace
people with machines resulted in job loss and
what’s happening under Part Two won’t be any
different.

' To be sure,: the NDP is the first provincial
government to recognize that there is a declining
amount of wood out there that can be logged.
And it is doing the right thing in addressing the
‘need to protect and nurture trees being grown to
replace those that have been cut. -

And the NDP is correct in saying those in-
creased silviculture duties are resulting in more
jobs in those areas. But the logging side can’t be
easily switched to the silviculture side and that
means there willbe ahumancost. si

Add it all up and the NDP has done the: right .
thing in practical, brutal and realistic terms. Yet
Mr. Harcourt’s attempt to put a rosy political
spin on the situation can only raise’ false hopes °
‘and expectations: "When those ‘hopes are"dashed,

the result is ugly and destructive...

ct quickly

ONCE AGAIN there’s an investigation into al-
legations of missing bingo money. It seems that
whatever happened as a result of a similar inves-
tigation two years ago hasn’t worked.

If the provincial government is bound and
determined to encourage gambling in the
dubious practice of converting a vice into
revenues for charitable works, then it has a re-
sponsibility to act quickly when there are sug-
gestions of wrongdoing.

The responsibility takes several forms. The first
is that suggestions of wrongdoing paint all
groups and individuals involved in bingo with
the same brush. The second is that people pay to
take part in bingo with the expectation of their
money going where they expect it to go. And
thirdly, since the provincial government also
derives revenue from bingos, it’s losing out if
there is something wrong. |

Bingo is based on trust. When something hap-
pens to break that trust, the entire system is at
risk.

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Family violence must sto

VICTORIA — It isn’t too
often a politician will freely
admit that something govern-
ment is doing doesn’t work

_ and needs fixing.

But in the wake of last
week’s horrific murder of a

woman and her parents in Co- .

quitlam, Attorney General Uj-
jal Dosanjh said restraining or-
ders issued by the courts
against perpetrators of family
violence are a failure,

Dosanjh said his ministry is |
Jooking at electronic monitor-

ing to keep dangerous spouses
from their targets. ,

The monitoring devices are
equipped with a transmitter
that will set off an alarm at the
spouse’s residence or place of

. .work the moment he goes.any- _
,where near. the: intended .vic-..
tint. It’s nota fool-proof meth- :

od, but beats court orders.
In the latest case of family
‘violence resulting in death,

Darcy Richard Bertrand, 29,

faces three counts of first- de-
‘gree murder in the stabbing

deaths of Annette Roufosse,

29, Celine Rovfosse, 60, and
Henry Roufosse, 63.

The man accused in the kill-
ing, the younger woman's
estranged husband, was under
court order not to go anywhere
-near his family.

"Bill triumphs over adversity

EACH OCTOBER CEC’s
Morningside offers a list of
new children’s books to help
parents choose Christmas gifis.
The books are selected by
three people familiar with
kids’ tastes.

Last week as the series be-
gan, one presenter said, ‘‘ ‘The
Moccasin Goalie’ is the story
of a boy who loves to play
hockey though he can’t wear
Skates because. he has a
crippled leg.’'

I went to school with a kid
named Bill who ‘couldn’t skate
because he had one short,
turned out leg which he
hitched along sideways step-
ping on the inside of the foot.

’ He was a super goalie nonethe-
less; his team won the league
championship in 1952-53,

Then the presenter added,
‘This is a true story written by
William Roy Brownridge.’’

That’s Bill. He was two
years older than me, the same
age as my brolher Ron. Ron
and Bill were buddies though

SIGH! MorE
CITY SLICKER
g TOURISTS /!

FROM. THE. CAPITAL
HUBERT BEYER

These latest killings came
less than a week after another
Lower Mainland man was
charged in the murder of his

ex-wife, He, too, had been or- _

dered by the courts to stay

““Why*on earth “anyone, ‘the
courts included, ever thought
that forbidding somcone filled
with rage to go near the target
of that rage would work is
beyond comprehension.

If injunctions and court or-
ders failed to keep environ-
mental protesters out of Clayo-
quot Sound last year, they
certainly won't keep a man
bent on revenge from attacking
his estranged spouse.

‘The consequences of our

- - failure to deal with this prob-

lem have been tragic, as shown
by the two latest examples of
murder, According to Statistics
‘Canada, spousal homicides ac-
counted for one in six solved
homicides in 1994, Three in
every four victims were

| women,

Women’s advocates say
there’s nothing unusual in
’ Violence, that threatens women.
Karen Sawatzky of the Nation-
al Action Committee on the
Siatus of Women says she is
shocked by the details of the
Roufosse murders, but not by
the fact that they happened.
“The justice system is not
serving women, and men con-
tinue to get away wilh these
things,” she says,
‘Tt’s-clear that’ the! present sys-

cicetee e Coste a stem isn’t! ‘enough, i y
‘away from his foniner spouse. | em isn’t'good' enough, not by

* atone’ shot: If we can’t even
protect ‘women who are
threatened with violence by
their former spouses from
being killed, we may as well
turn the justice system over to
the Heli’s Angels.

The attomey general’s
proposal has definite merit, If
the accused killer of the
Roufosse family had been
forced by the courts to wear an
anklet with built-in transmitter,
he might have thought twice
about going near his former

t

THROUGH BIFOCALS
CLAUDETTE SANDECKI

- Were non-existent in the 1940s.
Anyway, Bill never thought of
himself as handicapped; nei-
ther did we. Except for not jos-
tling him, and always saving

no special consideration nor
did he want any.
He was absent from school

stretch due to complications

Ron wasn’t caught up in
Sports,

All three of us got schooling
in the two-room school in
Vawn, a speck among Sas-
katchewan wheat fields one
hundred miles northwest of
Saskatoon, Bill's father, a
career CNR agent, raised mink
on the side to help pay for
Bill’s frequent visits to a Win-
nipeg bone specialist.

Medicare, and  teacher’s
aides for handicapped children,

Hi THERE!
WE'RE FROM
CHESAPEAKE.
‘BAY AND.

with the spinal problem he'd

! been bom with. Finally, in his

mid tcens, he had his shrunken
leg amputated above the knee.

Surgery curtailed his
athletics until be learned to
wear an artificial limb, That's
when we found out the litle
fellow who scuffed along on
moccasins was ialler than be-
fore, wilh powerful shoulders

and a man’s hands, In a tweed

jacket and ‘slacks, lic was a
stranger to me. ; ;
‘From the time Bill, could
hold a pencil, he drew, left-
handed, with swift strokes, aud
rarely erased a line. Durlig
recess he’d hobble along the

AFTER

him a scat, we accorded him .

sometimes for weeks at a-

YOU BET! So? Hows ABOUT

wife and her parents.

world will uot work as long as

sociely confines its abhorrence
of family violence to being °
shocked after the fact. Society _

must be mobilized to take a
greater collective interest in
solving the problem of family

violence before it cuts down its --

victims.

Simply being shocked by oa

family. violence, but otherwise
leaving the problem to. police

and the courts is a cop-out.

Spouse abusers must be made
aware that society regards

them as pariahs. And so far,
. Vm afraid, that isn’t the case...
Smokers are held in lower pub-

lic esteem than wife beaters,
“sPerpetrators: ..of.. family

violeuce must be made to real-i:.
‘ize that-they are: held in ex-.
treme contempt, That means . _
everyone of us must speak out -

at the slightest hint of someone
in danger of becoming a victim
of family violence. s
Governments, police and the
courts can only do so much.
The rest is up to society's col-
leclive will to battle a problem
that shames us all.
Beyer can be reached at;
Tel; 604-360-6442; Fax: 604-
383-6783;
hbeyer@direct.ca

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blackboard, from right to left,
reaching high, covering all
four blackboards with an ac-

tion scene af cowboys or hock--

cy players.

He also read voraciously. |

When a quiz asked for a
hamonym for ‘key’ Bill knew
the ward ‘quay’, I didn’t. I felt
stupid and inferior despite my
healthy body. -. —_

Bill graduated from the Al-
berta Institute of Technology

and Art, worked in graphic de-
sign, produced .work for. the
1988 Winter Olympics in.Cal-

gary, and helped design the. .-
Flames’) new : =

Calgary
uniforms.
awarded a Canada

In 1976: he ‘was

of the Prairies, Having lived 17

years in railway stations, he. ~.

knew his subject...

‘The Moccasin Goalie,’ his .

first children’s bock, is his

childhood in print. The open- |
ing illustration is 1940s Vawn

as though photographed,

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