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Government hesitation in enfor- cing the polygamy law means in- nocent women and children are being abused, said Debbie Palmer, a mother of seven who fled the East Kootenay commune in 1988 after she and her children were sexually abused. “This has got to stop,’’ Palmer, who now lives in Calgary, told a conference called Women and Men- tal Health — Women In A Violent Society. Although the Criminal Code says polygamy is punishable by up to five years in prison, members of the United Effort Order commune near Creston have practised it for almost a half century without being charged. During the last year, Creston RC- MP have brought to. court three sexual abuse cases involving men abusing their wives and children. Police have recommended polygamy charges against an elder of the commune, but that recommen- dation filed almost a year ago is still awaiting a decision by Crown coun- sel. 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Trail is part of an economic region that includes Grand Forks and the Central Okanagan. solicitor for an authority.”’ © Couvelier will not ask Owen to look into his role in the Fantasy Gardens affair that caused Bill Van- der Zalm to resign as premier April 2. He is asking whether he broke the law. in passing on a confidential document related to the sale. The former finance minister's role in the affair became public through the former premier’s court challenge of the report of a conflict-of-interest commissioner into the theme park sale. Documents released to the court showed Couvelier turned over con- fidential information about the real estate agent in the deal, Faye Leung, to the premier’s deputy minister, David Emerson. Johnston fired Couvelier Monday after ivi init from the At- Attorney General Ministry’s con- clusions, as it prohibits an in- vestigation into a decision or recom- mendation ‘‘of a person acting as a iB torney General’s Ministry that he violated the act. é Couvelier challenged her decision, saying his reputation has been un- workload outside his legislative duties ‘had increased significantly’’ and that his business interests were demanding. He also said he did not believe it would be wise for him to remain as a member of the legislature when the NDP is preparing for an election in which it hopes to form the next government. It is my further view that any atives on the part of the Op- Position during this session should be those of the members who are run- ning again and will, I expect, be part of a new government,” he said. Williams was first elected in Van- couver East in 1966. fairly damaged by the action and that outside counsel disagree with the Attorney General’s conclusions. His public protest included a guard er. Y . «. longest serving deal Owen’s conclusions, if he does take the case and finds in Couvelier’s favor. “It will review Mel Couvelier’s in- that Joh was trying to a possible itor in as it relates to the (Finan- cial Inti Act... I'll have to the Social Credit party leadership convention this July. Johnston said Thursday night that she will not necessarily submit to deal with it at the time," she said. “There was no official charge or Penalty (to reverse) so I guess I'll wait until we get that report.’ Harcourt issues tough conflict bill VICTORIA (CP) — Former cab- inet ministers should not be allowed to use information relating to their ministries for up to two years after they leave office, an NDP bill Proposes. The private member's bill, which Proposes fines of up to $50,000, was introduced Thursday by NDP Leader Michael Harcourt. It includes one-year bans for related work on parliamentary secre- taries and appointed ministerial staff. 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Although private members’ bills are rarely passed, Harcourt said his party will bring the bill back if it forms the next government. The NDP has dubbed the legislation “the R Bill” after former environment minister John Reynolds, who quit his Post last year. His is now president and chief executive officer of Silver Drake Resources, which has acquired rights to @ process for destroying poly- chlorinated biphenyls and _ toxic wastes. The bill is one of 36 pieces of legislation proposed by the NDP in the past year that would open the involved in the vadalism of to and Christine et 2017 Glode Road, Glade. CONTACT RCMP 3665-7721 OR 362-3511 to more public scrutiny. The bill seeks to prevent former consulting Companies on the workings of the ministry. May 11, 1901 BRIEFLY From News Service Minister disputes conflict Environment Minister Dave Mercier is in contempt of the legislature for his refusal to file timely disclosure statements under the ew Conflict of Interest Act, says NDP member Joan Smallwood. Joan Smallwood. In a motion of privilege, Smallwood asked Speaker Stephen Rogers to find that a prima facie case exists that Mercier flouted the act by not filing his statements by the Feb. 19 deadline. Mercier was the only one of 69 MLAs who failed to file disclosure with conflict-of. st i Ted Hughes by the Feb. 19 deadline, ij He said he was not in any conflict and would not comply with the regulations because there were ‘‘certain inequities’’ and ‘‘deficiencies’’ in (he new act, But he complied with the rules four days before he was appointed environment minister on April 15 and said he'd held back because he was in the middle of a divorce settlement. B.C. offers ‘fair share’ The B.C. government now is willing to pay a ‘fair share’’ of the cost of native land-claim settlements, said provincial Native Affairs Minister John Savage. He said the change in policy is “significant,”’ but British Columbia is still not willing to agree to a federal proposal that the Province pay 30 per cent of the costs. “We've been under discussion on this whole issue for some time javage said. “Up until now, we've always said it was a matter between the now, POWERPLAY There was a time when work on an ib but West Kk. d line was i Power employees Mike McCormack (Right) and Marcel Apels were b Wed: saves bo! doing just that at a th th municipal police force. Under current federal government and native groups. But the third-party interest is important as well, and the Province is the third party.’” Squamish Chief Joe Mathias said thé announcement is nothing new, and is meaningless until the province has an agreement on cost- sharing with the federal government Changes force review Osoyoos is considering replacing the RCMP with its own Faced with a possible expansion and the accompanying increase in the town’s share of Policing costs, Mayor Tom Shields is encouraging council to look into forming a force. With just over 3,000 people, the South Okanagan town currently does not pay for the policing services it receives. But if the town expands its boundaries to the nearby rural areas, taking in an additional 2,000 people, Shields said local taxpayers will then be faced with shouldering a high portion of the policing cost with under Provincial budget to May 24. 5,000 residents have their policing costs covered by the provincial government. Municipalities of between 5,000 and 15,000 people must pay 70 per cent of their policing cost. Budget delayed Finance Minister John Jansen has rescheduled delivery of the The budget, originally scheduled May 16, was delayed to give Jansen a chance to get familiar with his new portfolio. He was moved from the Health Ministry on Tuesday after Mel Couvelier was forced to resign over a breach of confidenti lity. “The change in the date will give me time to review, understand and make final decisions on the budget, Jansen said cow Pulp C joltars in lost man hours and down time. Dump site draws criticism VANCOUVER (CP) — The B.C. government is being criticized for a plan to dump toxic soil from the former Expo 86 site on land in the suburb of Richmond. Farmers, Richmond council, -en- i and one local Socred all say they were left out of the planning process. “When everybody knows what is going to be dumped in this area does it do your p.r. (public relations) any good in trying to sell the crops you Produce?"’ Don Gilmore, a farmer who owns land next to the dumpsite, asked Thursday. The Expo site, on the north shore of False Creek in downtown Van- couver, was for years an industrial area. Gilmore, 60, vice-president of the Richmond East Social Credit Con- stituency Association, has previously called for former premier Bill Vander Zalm — who represents the area — to resign over the issue. “The position the NDP has taken is that it will be treated on the (Ex- Po) site and left there,"’ Gilmore told a news conference Thursday. ‘For once I agree with them.”” Within. weeks, a contractor will begin weeks trucking 90,000 cubic metres of lightly contaminated soil from an area of the former Expo lands to an industrial-zoned site in Richmond. The site — a dump closed since 1982 — is owned by the Fraser River Har¥ér Commission. Project manager Barry Olsen said 70 per cent-of the soil is safe enough for fill in residential areas. “These are not threatening soils,”” he said. Environment Minister Dave Mer- cier said Richmond residents have nothing to worry about “I think there's a danger this could be blown out of proportion if people don’t understand the amount of scientific analysis that went into this,"” he said in Victoria. Rich: Staticic uncovers — Chinese mystery STOCKHOLM (Reuter) — A Swedish statistician has brought more than one million Chinese girls back to life, dispelling suspicions of massive female infanticide in China. “We have found the girls in our computer,"’ Sten Johansson, chief of Sweden's Central Bureau of Statistics told Reuters news agency. A study done by Johansson and his colleagues showed more than one million girls — many believed killed by their parents as an indirect result of China’s strict family-planning policy — had been secretly adopted by foster parents. “it - would be a terrible judgment over Chinese culture if it were so that infant girls were killed on @ large scale. Our study goes a long way to disproving that,” he said. Johansson’s study, On Intriguing Sex Ratios Among Live Births In China In The 1980s, was prompied by the abnormally high number of boys among reported births in China, a riddle which has puzzled demographers for years. Statisticians agree that for every 100 girls, between 105 and 106 boys are born — nature’s bias is thought to be a way of compensating for the higher rates of miscarriage, stillbirth and infant mortality among boys. But an official Chinese fertility survey published in 1988 showed sex ratios of up to 120 boys per 100 girls among children born between 1980 and 1987 The figures implied some 2.5 million female births were never 28 eek Mayor Halsey-Brandi reported during that time. D wants public hearings held. Council will meet with Environment Ministry officials May 22. “The province should have been holding meetings while public ten- dering on the contract was going on,” Halsey-Brandt said. the girls were either killed or hidden. Johansson said he believed scrutiny of China’s 1990 census, which registered 13 million people more than expected, would confirm the theory that many of the girls still “‘missing”’ were with their parents. Canada launches retail battle OTTAWA (CP) — Revenue Minister Otto Jelinek has promised Ontario mayors he will immediately begin developing tailor-made solutions to customs issues involving cross-border shopping in Ontario and other provinces. “There are no two border com- munities that have the same problem,”’ Jelinek said at a news con- ference after meeting representatives of a coalition of 14 Ontario com- munities affected by cross-border shopping **Tgave the mayors my commit- ment we will begin doing that forth- with,” he said, adding he will look at going to cabinet to get the additional money needed. A meeting will be held possibly by late this month on the issue in On- tario with representatives from the federal and Ontario governments, labor, the retail sector and consumer groups, Jelinek added. Cross border shopping facts Some figures on Ontario-U.S. cross-border shopping © Those making same-day car trips shot up by 22.2 per cent in February over the same month last year — 1.7 million compared with $1.4 million. * Loss in Ontario retail sales expected to reach at least $1 billion this year; loss in provincial retail taxes, $50 million. * About 1,000 jobs lost in Sault Ste. Marie last year because of shopping in the United States. The city estimates its loss at more than $140 million. © Ontarians will spend about $250 million at U.S. super~ markets this year, the Canadian Council of Grocery Distributors has said. That represents a loss of 1,700 retailing jobs. © The tax bill for small Buf- falo, N.Y., retailers is typically between SO and 70 per cent of their Toronto counterparts. People at the meeting will be ex- pected to arrive with a list of things they can do right away to help alleviate the problem. John Millson, mayor of Windsor, Ont., said municipalities acting alone don’t have the money to cope with the cross-border shopping problem. “*You've heard the minister in- dicate that they're taking back messages directly to cabinet for some very immediate response and resour- ces to back up those reponses,”" said Millson, who led the Ontario delegation. -The consumer should be the win- ner from any programs that result from the meeting, Millson said The Ontario municipalities want to be as competitive as their American counterparts whether they’re selling gasoline or clothes ‘‘so that Canadians want to come back and shop in their own community.” The coalition estimates Ontario will lose $1 billion in retail sales to American stores this year. That would mean a loss of $50 million in provincial retail sales taxes. Jelinek said ‘‘What we can do from the customs perspective is a fine balancing act between collecting as much duty and taxes that are owing legally to the government as possible,”” At the same time, the government must try to relieve long lineups and congestion at border points where it's become a problem. Jelinek also said he would consider a request from the Ontario gover- nment that Ottawa collect provincial Sales tax on cross-border purchases at border points. “*There are great difficulties in the way, including the potential free- trade agreement jurisdictional problems,’’ he added but said he would listen with an open mind. Harmonization of the Ontario Sales tax with the GST would make such collection easier, Jelinek said. No resolutions that are reached on the cross-border shopping issue will penalize consumers, Jelinek said. “This government does not in- tend, never has and never will, to tell Canadians where to shop and where not to shop."’ Jelinek said he didn’t consider cross-border shopping a sign of tax revolt because it was a problem that had been increasing for several years. Earlier this week, Millson called cross-border shopping part of @ tax tevolt across the country. re tnennaimant D-sar-D DINING LOUNGE OPEN DAILY AT 4 P.M. * LICENCED * 365-3294 CELGAR, WESTAR & COMINCO MEAL VOUCHERS ACCEPTED Located I Mile South of Weigh Scale in Ootischenia E DRESSMAKERS @ Make patterns in minutes! @ Discover money saving tips! @ Learn designer’s secrets! @ Fit pants perfectly! ATTEND ONE 2 HOUR CLINIC FOR ONLY $5.00 TERRA NOVA MOTOR INN, TRAIL MONDAY, MAY 13 — 7:00 p.m. ONLY! IN SANDMAN I TUESDAY, MAY 14 — 1:30 P.M. or 7:00 P.M. CLIP ENTIRE AL AND RECEIVE 2 FREE PATTERNS CASTLEGAR 601-18th Street TAIT. 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