B4 CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, May 10, 1979

CANDIDATES °79

A News/Mirror Pre-Election Feature

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“I think that was an im-
portant thing because that
acquisition by B.C. interests for
‘one thing increased the prop-
erty taxes paid by that com-
pany to Castlegar substan-
tially,” he says,
3, Inaddition to supporting a
kurve and gutter project in
astlegar and fighting the dis-
Sontinuation of the Robson
ferry service on the Columbia
River, says D'Arcy, he also
stook part in the push for
‘installation of Syringa Creek
Park camping facilities after his
election as MLA.
And the legislation and
that

D’ARCY CONT‘D

provincial share of the cost of
Castlegar's planned new water
supply. The bill, which called
for 76-per-cent fund-

closely with B.C. Hydro and the
minister Bob Wi

“ness as the representative for

Rossland-Trail,
“Of course, the govern-
ment's at the local

the private sector were going
to do,’

“There's been many other

level — I suppose I'm being
partisan here — is not nearly as
effective because their policies
are different,” he adds,

“The former government
was more oriented toward local
and local projects

liams, in getting ‘Approval for,"
the d-Trail

ing over two mills, was unique,
he says, because itis “very rare
that a private member's bill
becomes law, ‘especially if it
involves money.”

Another private bill before
the house he hopes will become
law is his Hydro Fair Taxation
Act, calling for payment of full
taxes by B.C. Hydro — in-
cluding on the assessed value of
its Columbia River Treaty
properties,

“The McMath Royal Com-
mission on Property Taxation

inabled the city to go ahead
with Castlegar's Regional Rec-
Yeation Complex resulted in
$650,000 in provincial funds for
the project, “one of the largest
‘ingle grants ever given out at
‘the time” in 1974,

z The incumbent New Demo-
‘grat says he sold the idea of the
Glenmerry to Montrose high-
way reconstruction “the first
Your-lane stretch of highway in
sthe Kootenays" to highway
‘officials and worked closely
with them in all aspects of its
eventual completion.

D'Arcy also lists major
‘reconstruction of Trail Regional
‘Hospital, to include new oper-
ating and emergency rooms,
intensive care units-and other
facilities among the health care
projects in which he has been
involved since 1972.
oa “I was involved in nego-
ations for the intermediate
care home at Columbia View
Lodge in Trail, which got the
last 35-per-cent outright grant
‘ever issued in B.C.," he says.

Trail's bus system, the
asia for the planned intercity
service which will eventually
link the city with Castlegar and
‘Nelson, is “completely a crea-
sture of NDP government poli-
Ges,” and the “long and painful
process of reaching a concensus
on the West Trail Approach”
‘required he work closely for
‘everal years with highways

inistry engineers, consult-
ants, Cominco and the City of

‘I was in total agreement.

‘with the total “D" proposal and .

‘we spent the last five or
‘four-and-a-half years with the
highways not wanting to force
anything down the. throats of
the city,” he says. “Yet high-
ways at the same time didn't
want to go ahead and spend $16

to $19 million on something
they felt they were ill-advised
‘to do.”

‘Eventually when the city,
through its advisory planning
commission and technical plan
ning committee agreed unani-
mously on the highways D
Proposal we had quick agree-
ment — and maybe the election
chming has to do with it — that
was the route that should be
adopted.

D'Arcy also cites as an
apcomplishment a private mem-
ber's bill, the Water Facilities
Assistance Act, which he intro-
duc ed in 1974 as a basis for the

d that B.C, Hydro
and the government pay full
taxes on all their properties.
The government has gone along

with the recommendations as-

far as government property,
highway yards and so on, They
have not yet gone along with
the recommendations as far as
the Columbia River Treaty
projects are concerned.”

Other breakthroughs the
Rossland-Trail incumbent notes
took place in the construction of
the Selkirk College gymnasium
and fitness facility entirely at
provincial government expense
in 1976 and the freeing of
several one-third grants to the
Kootenay Doukhobor Historical
Society ‘for projects at their
Doukhobor Village complex
near Castlegar.

“None of these grants were
available prior. to my taking
office," D'Arcy says. “They
simply weren't on the books.”

Other accomplishments
since his election include the
start and completion of con-
struction of the Deer Park road,
the construction of campground
facilities at Beaver Creek Park
and the reconstruction of camp-
ing facilities at Champion Lakes
Park, he says.

And the major capital
project undertaken by the pro-
vincial government or its agen-
cies between 1972 and 1975
took place in this riding “and is
still taking place,” he adds,

“The Seven Mile Dam was
something I worked on quite

MLA explains.

“It maybe would have
happened anyway but it was
something that when I entered
office I felt was not an environ-
mentally sensitive project, it
took advantage of upstream
controls in the U.S, rather than
Canada for a change and it was
something we should do here
with good cheap power,”

Although Hydro manage-
ment was not ready to go" with
the project when he entered
office, but “by 1974 we turned
that around,” he says.

Yet unveiled but expected
soon are a provincial govern-
ment commitment ona highway
to Fauquier and details on B.C.
Hydro’s agreement to install
fish channels in the Inanoaklin
River,

“I've always hoped to re-
solve the Arrow Lakes land
settlement issue around Deer
Park, which once again is
sitting on (Environment Minis-
ter) Rafe Mair's desk,” D'Arcy
says.

“Something that once again
T hoped would happen this year
— we've got preliminary ap-
proval from highways on this —
is what I call the missing link,
the four-mile connector be-
tween the Salmo highway and
the Champion Lakes Park,” the
NDP candidate says,

“They come within four
miles of each other on fairly flat
land and we would have in
Castlegar easy access to that
park‘ for both winter and
summer sports.”

The proposed route link
would reduce the driving dis-
tance to Fruitvale by about 10
miles “which if you commute
from Fruitvale to Castlegar or
back and forth I think is some-
thing the public would really
appreciate.”

No stranger to either side
of the legislature, D'Arcy says
his current status as an oppo-
sition MLA has not. funda-
mentally altered his effective-

and there were more programs,
and things available, there

were more things on the shelf.

so you could produce more.”
The NDP MLA agrees the
present government's policies

that have been re-
atricted — cutbacks in health
care services, cutbacks in sup-
port services to non-profit
societics assisting people with
mental and phystcal disabilities,
that sort of thing in programs
and people services — but as
far as capital works is con-
cerned I would say that build-
ing was the only thing we have
lost with the change of govern-
ment.”

_, Despite a recent series of

have not d the
same “detailed largesse,” but
he says ‘their effect is not
peculiar to Rossland-Trail.

“I found individually the
cabinet members of the present
government every bit as easy
to work with as those of the
former government," he con-
tinues.

“I could say only the one
thing that was on the drawing
board and ready to go at the
change of government which a
policy change screwed us out of
was the joint venture office
‘building-retail development on
the Esplanade in Trail which
the public works ministry and

financial com-
bite made to the riding by
the provincial government in
alleged response to queries by
Social Credit candidate Phil

Brooks, D'Arcy says he is “not.

looking over my shoulder” at
the Brooks campaign.

“I got a notice from Hugh
Curtis, the minister in charge of
lotteries,- én many of these
things, and privately I‘ had
phoned the ‘entities involved
and said we'd had approval for
them,” he explains,

“I don't believe in grand-
standing or making big pub-
licity out of these things, and if
Phil Brooks or anyone else

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Also, we have new additions to
our staff of stylists — Nadine
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Burnaby; Kelly Weeber, formerly of
Beautiful Reasons in Trail, now

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wants to d on these
issues they're quite welcome to
do so. Maybe it's good for votes,’
maybe it’s nol, I know some
people tell me it’s insulting to
their intelligence and the whole
thing is ridiculous, but other
people are somewhat impress-

ed.”

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While showing disdain for
what he: describes aos “crass
politicking,” D'Arcy says, “I
consider myself available.”

“I like. to explain myself

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