Page A4 — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August. 28, 1991

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‘DITORIAL,

projected cost.

Submitted this spring, the proposal calls for two piers and a coastal cargo dock at Kitimat. The idea has been around for some time but took off last year when Mr. Parker expanded it to in- clude a port authority concept of involv- ing land development and the purchase of the Terrace-Kitimat airport.

_ The submission entered the province’s Major Project Review Process. It con- siders environmental and socio- economic implications. All of that infor- mation lands up with the cabinet com-

iffee oN, sustainable, development, on. ,

hieh'sit Mr. Parker and Mr..Mercier, ..

' This.cominittee.can either reject the project outright, give it approval or ask that more studies and reviews take place. If the decision is the latter one, the results are put back before the commit- tee for an approval decision. Ultimately, final approval rests with the whole

cabinet,

Mr. Mercier says an elected govern- ment representative has essentially two functions. One is to represent those who ~ elected him and their aspirations and the

Arm's length |

~ Environment’ minister Dave Mercier says there’s nothing wrong with having a cabinet minister who backs a major development. project sitting on a com- mittee that decides if the project will receive government approval. Neither does Skeena MLA and lands and parks minister Dave Parker, about whom Mr. Mercier was referring to in making that above comment. This all relates to the plan to build a public port at Kitimat. It’ll need $23 million in pro- vincial money, about one-third of the

terms as the

membership

other to make public oa decisions. This brings into play what Mr. Mercier

“‘arnis length’? process and

what that means. With Mr. Parker; these two functions are joined together by his

on the sustainable develop-

ment committee.

Mr. Parker says that while he backs the port development, it’s being pro- moted by a society of northwest officials and that he doesn’t belong to that socie- ty. “‘That’s not conflict, that’s perfor- mance,’’ says Mr. Parker of his member-

ship on the cabinet committee.

balances. to

curred. In

Both ministers” teresting questions. Mr. Mercier says it is a benefit to have a person lobbying for a project sit on a committee that makes decisions affecting its future. And he says a minister is simply one member of. yiCTORIA —There is the committee. Mr. Parker says backing southern British Columbia, the port is his job.

Yet the review process through which the port proposal is now going is said to and day. be based on its merits. In reality, those merits last only up until the time the pro- posal lands with the cabinet committee. _

. After that, , the decision to /approye or, . ‘not.to. approve becomes: a. ‘Political ONne....; yolvémeiit! of some young’ peo And that's the way things work in the system of government we have in place. In some senses it is comforting because it is elected officials who do make those . final decisions. —

The one expectation we should expect is a sufficient number of checks and ensure that what does . ultimately occur, is what should have oc-

positions raise in-

other words, the issue -

becomes whose arms are involved and © how long they might be.

-Licensed door-to-door ped- dlers are at liberty to roam our

. streets, arousing the suspicions

of Neighbourhood Watch, and meeting annoyed Canadians at every knock.

Legally, the city cannot deny anyone a licence; council can only attach restrictions. The Municipal Act lets each city draft its own licencing by-laws. Thus fees and conditions vary across B.C.

Smithers has a flat annual fee of $136, regardless of crew size. Kitimat collects* $46 for the company, plus $73 for each peddler. Prince Rupert charges 160 per,:peddler and imposes

two restrictions. No peddling is :

permitted 1 after 6 p.m. All ped- dlers must wear vexterior iden- tification — none of this “My identifi cation. is: “ine “the van’? bunkum. - ,

- Terrace ‘charges. according to the ‘number. of: staff, $90 for three'to five, $200 for-15..:

On August 755 Interprovincial Ltdi, the magazine. subscription sellers now in town, paid for: a half-year license entitling’ ‘chem

‘to one manager and 14 salesper- . Pat Riley's dictum. “Don't let FF * other ‘people tell you what you, “> want,” “Who's Pat Riley? So- _meone famous enough to bein ff The Quotable Quote Book...

sons. in| Kitimat they're lic ed forithree.) 2 a ” Because ‘Terrace has eva

their'license in the past follow- ing complaints, ' ‘they’ were re- quired'to post $1,000 bond and =:

submit the: names: of- their: 15

personnel, in ‘Piaywright Arthur’ “Milter

Death ofa Salesman described a

One way for relief

Through

Bifocals by Claudette Sandeckl

salesman thusly: ‘‘He don’t put a’bolt to a nut, he don’t tell you the law or give you medicine, He's aman way out there in the blue riding on a smile and a shoeshine."” _ Sometimes he’s a pest whe knocks on front doors while his partner leaps backyard fences Debbie Brill style. That's what, Interprovincial people did in Thornhill in April, 1990, Usual- ly he ignores ‘‘No Soliciting’? signs, catches you at awkward moments, and won't take No for an answer, Often, he claims’ not to be selling anything. Hal Since a city license is no con-

sumer safeguard, how should -

you deal with pushy, persistent

peddlers?

Lock the door and pretend to. be in Mexico. If they- find you hiding behind the ATV, recall

Remember Nancy Reagan. Just fay No.

' g fortified, do some: leaning your own,

a)

‘With: your sales resistence”

Demand identification you .

can trust — and not name, height, weight, and eye colour typewritten on a_ haif-sheet. Prepare to pinpoint the obnox- ious individual; note name, physical description; and time.

Assess the sales offer. Unsure whether it’s financially. advan- tageous for you? Ask for a

- phone number, say you'll have

to get back to them. Then waich © them vanish quicker than a sock . into a shoe,

If, in the end, they give you a royal pain, complaining to the. ‘city’s license inspector, ‘That.

will give you more rellef than«

Preparation H, ae

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Different here

from down there

and then there's the rest of the province. The two have about as much in common as night

The chasm that separates the urban south and the. rural north was illustrated very : forcefully in the reaction I got

“td wrecent:colummn-on’the in-

ple in the controversy-over the proposed logging of the Walbran Valley on Vancouver Island.

In that column, | criticized environmental activists for en- couraging teenagers to go ons hunger strikes, throw Met themselves in front of logging » trucks and do whatever-else they can come up-.with to-pre- vent crews from entering the — area to be logged.

The reaction was swift and mixed, Generally speaking, I |

‘got a huge shellacking in the

south, while.in the north, peo- ple tended to agree with me.

One reader wrote-a letter to the Oak-Bay Star, accusing me of ‘’great insensitivity to the”. environmental damage alfec- ting this planet.”

Another reader said 1 _

’ yidiculed and patronized the

young people who opposed the logging of the Walbran Valley. -“'Those who have gone on . hunger strikes or carried their protests to up-[sland logging sites are depicted as strident, emotional and ignorant victims of manipulative adults,” he said.

“Those who choose to use their limited power to implare the rest of us to behave decent- ly, should be admired,” he ad- ded.

Not to be outdone by its readers, the Star's editorial __ pointed out that the paper ©

. didn't necessarily share the

opinion of its columnist. In

fact, it definitely disagreed in

’ this instance. “‘Maybe it's

unusual, but in this case, we

take exception to the

staterients made by our colum-— nist,’” the editorial said,

-“‘As for the young people. -

0 SMART 2 !

From the

Capital by Hubert Beyer

emkinonm" : 7 THAI You RE. HECK No dj BART YOU.

taking the brave stand against

the forces that be, they are. of,

the same ilk as youth around _ " watershed on the southwest’

the world who have initiated social changes in fascist and socialist countries, and in our — own nation in the. 1960's. It takes nerve, conviction, Stamina and intelligence to go the the lengths they have. To mock them as we have is wrong,’ it concluded, *

The reaction from northern communities was different. Most letters supported my statements, and so did nine out

of ten phone calls 1 got.

’ “I'm glad someone down

- there understands northern -

B.C. The politicians don’t and

‘the environmentalists certainly

don’t” one caller from Vanderhoof told me. Many others had similar comments. Let me be clear on one. point, I never ridiculed the’ youngsters for what they do. I said they are misguided and ruled more by their emotions

_ than by intellect, not to men-

tion that ‘they broke the law, ‘Sometimes it is necessary to break the law to affect social change, but only when the state asks immoral things of its

citizens, That is not the case

here.

. To compare the recent ac- tions of these high school students to young people who risked and often lost their freedom and their lives oppos- ing immoral and murderous regines is ludicrous.

. And I know all about —

- murderous regimes, I grew up

in Nazi Germany, I was once - beaten and kicked unconscious by a small-town m ayor and. local Nazi bigshot for having |

given’ food to some starving © ‘Russian prisoners of war. 1 _ was seven years old at the . “dis, ar

_ Sierra Club had promised to’ document Fletcher Challenge

reac you aor A . SECOND BRAIN\ IN YOUR BUTT

|] Just To CONTROL YOUR HIND LEGS!

Fletcher Challenge has a * “* , legal, Fight . tologinthe head ” -Walbran; a 10, Cot li, er coast of Vancouver Island. And to keep matters in perspective, it’s important-to point out that the company’ plans to log only 70 hectares...

The teenagers protesting the - logging did so despite a. Supreme Court injunction ~*:"! which prohibited interference |!

"with the logging crews. They.’ ..

did anyway. That’s breaking - the law, and not an Immoral: one. on As for emotions versus in- + tellect, I saw one young girl, . °* no older than 13 or 14, yelling , at one of the Sergeants at —

‘Arms in front of the Parlia-

ment Buildings. ‘You hate ©“ - kids, you hate kids," she = SS chanted, That's not very in- : telligent. ‘. But what | criticized most of mae all in my previous piece on ‘the: . subject was the role en- a vironmental groups played in .° the confrontation, either ac-. an tively encouraging the.) 3 "~~" youngsters to break the. law: ‘or, at the very least, not counstll ing them against doing so: ° Qne final point. During: 28-day hunger strike by: 16-year-old Sarah Turner and 14-year-old Katie Meglic,.- the.

checkered reputation as ste art’ of the forest resource. They... would release the damning s documents after the girls stop : ped their hunger strike, the ar Sierra Club said.

It turned out they had. . nothing on Fletcher Challeng The documentation the group. . released related to environmen-. :

“tal: damage that resulted: ‘from: :°

egging in the 60s and: 70s, 0, ye S220, -