; wy The re etl Sr Sun iS PUBLISHER JON JARRETT SHARLENE IMHOFF DONNA JORY EDITOR ADVERTISING REP, JOHN SHELGHOVE. PRODUCTION MANAGER: CATHERINE ROSS ADVERTISING REP, DENISE GOLDSTONE ROBERT PROCTOR IRCULATION MANAGE! ADVERTISING REP. iM ZEEBEN NICOLE BI REPORTER PRODUCTION/OFFICE BRENDAN HALPER MARION ANDERSON REPORTER PRODUCTIONREPORTER Direct Department Phones General OFf1CO .....sscsssserseseseseee 65-5268 Cl 36 Cl ied Ads Display Advertising Fax wee Columnist ao MONA CHAREN Even before the announcement of Justice Thurgood Marshall's resignation from the Supreme Court, there were inklings suggesting that the abortion debate in'A like a wisdom tooth for 18 years,"is about to resume. It won't be the stale old'‘baby killers” versus “religious fanatics” slugfest, but rather a more subtle of the kind of aborti laws we can live with as a nation. :' That debate was ongoing in 1973 when the Supreme Court careened out of control and decid- ed to become a legislature. One critic said of Roe v. Wade that it more closely resembled a hospital manual than a ruling of law. By legislating when abortion could be permitted and: when not, the court removed abortion from the political realm. Because Roe v. Wade represented such a coup for the pro-choice forces, they seemed to forget that they had ever set out to persuade the nation of it was legal. Indeed, they addressed their lobbying efforts exclusively at the court. (If the Supreme Court acts like a legislature, it will be So treated by the people.) Often, they found in the e goe oat chat dak oould fall Roo Sedes onectase: Pro-life’ groups were ‘similarly focused ‘on the court because Roe v.'Wade stood like'a Vast majorities of the American people, accord- ing to Polls, favor parental notification in cases of for ‘minor girls, Several states preventing even the most peripheral are experi ing with waiting periods. Most on the abortion “right.” That began to change' in 1989, when the court handed down the Webster decision. The citadel ‘was breached, and the states were once again free to regulate abortion: ‘In the two years since, it has become clear to both sides of the abortion debate that'Roe v. Wade is doomed og wal everuually be Justice seals it. Interestingly, both sides now recta to favor this ‘Tom Oliphant, for the Boston ' Globe, confides that liberals are whispering among themselves that they will profit politically from a reversal of Roc. They reason that if Roe is overtumed, abortion will become a hot issue in hundreds, possibly thousands of races across the . Ration and that liberal candidates will have a new edge over their conservative opponents, That's possible, but by no means bankable. If Roe is reversed, all 50 states will reconsider their abortion laws. In the process, they are likely to find the middle ground that has been unreachable during the era of Roe. Despite the claims of abortion advo- cates, the vast majority of the American people take a Pasitoh on abortion: And wea legis anomalous position of arguing that the vast major- ity of the American people were on their side, and tures (rather than courts) begin to a ee aa moderate views will be reflected in the law, Americans believe that abortions ‘performed because the mother would be financially unable to care for a child are unj (Presumably, they believe adoption is the proper solution in such cases.) ‘And they feel strongly that abortion should not be permitted as a method of birth control.) "’ On the other hand, Americans are tolerant of abortion in cases of rope, incest, life or health of the mother, and where there is a strong lilclihood of fetal abnormality. But those cases represent'a tiny fraction of the actual abortions performed in Amer- ica, According to a study by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, the most common reason cited by women for seeking an abortion is “concern about how a baby would change my life.” The second most common reason is the inability to afford a baby. '' ‘When Roe falls; the nation will have to confront the moral wreckage the decision left in its wake, We will have to confront the reality that abortion on demand has permitted a whole generation to be casual about contraception and about killing. Liberals may think they have a winning politi- cal issue. But when the people begin to think this through, the results are likely to be a step toward reason and compassion - and that means toward stricter abortion laws, The theme for small business week in 1991 is, of small Itis in: make to our y and is formation. Entrepreneurship - A Natural Resource’ and is a dto the ibution that small ard medium-sized a time when entrepreneurs meet, learn and exchange Whether it’s.the landscaping, the stereo sales, the cor- of British Ci ia’s ‘her store or the plumber, it doesn’t matter. Small busi- esses are the ru I's s your next door neighbor, someone in your family, ly even you, who are responsible for creating 95 per cent of all new jobs in the province and generating ':537 billion in gross operating revenues annually. Besides the fact that this is a time to recognize local '3small business, it’s also a good time to realize how it is to support those same businesses, particu- f larly those in the retail sector—by shopping at home. y H The men and women operating, and employed by, small businesses in British Columbia are leaders in this ‘Sprovince’s economy. They are the ones who have decid- ‘ed to stray from under the wing of the corporate giant, stake a chance and work hard, Those who have stuck with it have received their just éteward. Owners of small businesses have injected about 564 billion in the form of salaries into the Canadian : economy and created 2 million jobs over the last 10 ears. So let’s hear it for small business - and for shopping locally. ‘A Little A lariptsie ie ee 3) A blue flag with a yellow cross; what} nation would that be? 4) When you pay.54 cents fo alte of L DUNNO... | KINDA LIKE THE WILD AND WINDBLOWN Look! (© 1991 Creators Syndicate, ie. PEN retro IS POLITICALLY INDEPENDENT AND A MEMBER OF THE STERLING NEWS SERVICE Established November 28, 1990 ‘ ‘Second Class Mailing Parmit Pending Published by The Wontiogar Sun ys ‘465 oan Ave., “Castlegar, B.C. VIN 168 exercise a little common sense and >-.;5 sy ‘elough’s eriough’ before the Hannaford 3 Syndicated 3 Columnist *O Canada’ sexist? So says Kim Campbell, federal Justice Minister, who told a group of Vancouver stu- dents last week that the line ‘true patriot love in all thy sons command’ ignores the role of women in society. We have already made one change, to include all those ‘from far and wide’ and an so doing d one ref on guard’ for our comisy. (Objec- tionable though that might be, it seems to accurately reflect the low priority given to defence by the government of which Ms Compbell isa ber. And its ‘Rational symbols of this country are ‘0 Changed that we end up calling the national anthem “Oh Canada!” eee You will notice that Mike Har- court, answering charges that the needed proof .of citizenship | to Bet, _ back into thé country.” Now, it would be fair to "as not merely ‘alright’ but desirable. Ari episode of Empty Nest shows the daughter bound on ivi suggest that anything as elementary ‘ing a baby through a sperm bank; in the @ person should have coed out with certainty, rather than to travel on assumptions. Still, that said, in an age when i fi * which NDP would be as fiscally i sible in BC as they have been in Ontario, has been promising to bal- ance the provincial budget ‘over a five year period’. ‘What he is actually saying there- by is that he has no intention of bal- ancing it in 1992 and probably not in 1993 either. see The Canadian Press recently reported that a 68-year-old Toronto woman. who though born in the USA, had lived in Canada for 60 years, married a Canadian in 1946 and gave birth to four children in Canada has been given until Decem- ber 23 to give proof of citizenship. The lady, a Gwen Templeton, June 23 from Miami where “peels ineapeadally to satisfy the demands of those parts of society who continually demand recognition, but I suspect that one Goal eves. go Eat encues fo Sey them all. Personally, I say it’s time to she had been attending a funeral. Although she had a US passport, she had assumed that she had dual Cc A ‘ican i any d of manages to stumble ashore on a Canadian beach gets accommodat- ed in a decent motel and quietly integrated into Canadian society, one can hope that a person with Mrs Templeton’s credentials will have her case dealt with quickly, efficiently and above all, sympa- thetically. eee A few years ago, the cry went up that what this c needed was a good 50 cent hamburger, Well, I'd like to:add something else to the table family confrontation, father is made to look like an old- fashioned fuddy-duddy, while the same message is expounded in Mur- phy Brown, that our cultural taboo on pregnancy before marriage is just that - a relic of a bygone age which sophisticated people of today can and should ignore. All this while the fruits of the so- called homosexual lifestyle are to be seen in the pathetic men dying of AIDS in their thousands and the breakdown of family life is causing massive social problems ing poverty, rising juvenile crime and the emergence of a new ty among youngsters which psychol- ogists fey to the door of that list, namely a isn’t conspicuously trying to advo- cate a change in social mores. According to the Globe and Mail, October 1, Star Trek - The Next Gen- eration is to begin featuring homo- sexual and lesbian crew-members of the starship Enterprise in ‘normal’ if that is not a di series that in bonding which comes of a desperate single mother being obliged to farm her infant out to multiple babysitters. Ideally, that which is offered in the name of entertainment should do just that, entertain. But if they must preach, for Heaven's sake, let them Y- However, an immigration officer at Toronto International told her she tion in terms. In various sitcoms, unwed motherhood is being pushed not preach ing that’s going to tuin people's dives: Performance bonuses Watching federal ministers ty to explain why hundreds of senior are to get p bonuses reminds me of a guy trying to stuff toothpaste back into the tube. Noted champions of “ordinary Cenadians” like former NDP nation- al leader ED Broadbent and former NDP-MP Ian Deans are both among these eligible for bonuses of up to 15% of their pay. Broadbent makes between $113,600 and $138,300 as president of the International Centre for should be put on hold was paid $350,000 and could take home an additional $87,000; Claude Taylor, eams $260,000 as Air Cana- da president and could get $65,000 more; and Don Lander, who get $250,000 for running Canada Post and whose bonus is about $62,000. But, Crown corporations have balance sheets where performance Benen Rights and D. ic can be d. If we are to get while Deans who is Tr not only doesn’ esn't work,-you cre- ” ate a hell of a mess in the process. The Liberals and New Democrats have glommed onto’ the issue, argu-'-: as much as $22,000 extra. irig ‘with great effect ‘that ‘giving top managers a bonus when rank and file government workers have their pay frozen is unfair: ception out there is that Mulro looks ‘ after his friends, and ‘cares ‘little for. ae of the public service staff rela- tions board earns even more - . between $124, 400 and $151,300 annually. competent people to run these com- panies they they must.be paid com- petitive salaries, Performance bonuses in line with the Private sector are not unreason- My PEL ‘math says B could get .a'bonus as high as $20,000, awhile’ Deans could collect That's not to say that both these men, and others who are in line for {these payments, do not deserve ‘But thése’ bonuses ore for LAST ie year, and there will be: no bonus next mandarins. them. It is just that coming after the _ bitter PSAC strike, it doesn't look uses are small compared to the rewards going to the heads: of large Crown corporations. 23. | CN Rail President Ron Lawless able for these if the cor Porations meet pre-set performance targets, - But order-in-council appointments to agencies with no private sector counterparts : ‘are another matter. Broadbent, Deans, or any one of the hundreds of Tories who" ve been appointed ‘to various boards and‘; : commissions,’ should: be paid an: adequate perform witfibut a bon . |, How’do: you ‘assess the perfor- mance of the chair of the public: "sere vice staff relations Board, or the president of the International Centre. for Human Rights anyway? If they’re worth the money - and Deans and Broadbent are - they should be paid it up front, not after some phoney “performance review.” Public service managers: on “line projects like ship construction or design of “secure yuter com- munications networks”, should be paid a borius for bringing their pro- ject in under budget. Most of the-time, Brian Mul- roney reminds me of the Old Chief John Diefenbaker in the way he can smell the political wind. |: But lately he’s developed a bad case of sinusi If he were smart he'd ‘put the bonuses on “hold” and order a third- It's the kind of populist move his old hero Dief would have made - Salary, and be expected to and one’ which Wednesday, October 9, 1991 The Castlegar Sun ‘Letters to the Editor . Recalling. the events surrounding the ferry disappearance Dear Editor:: In the’ current clection cam- jPaign the Robson ferry, has been ‘discussed occasionally, The mat- ‘ter, is.seon asa transportation jissuo, which of course it is, but ‘there is another aspect that cries out for equal consideration. There is the precipitate manner in which the ferry was shut down, ,ond, in the same spirit, physically stolen away in the dark of the night an event unprecedented so far as I know, in the annals of our Ministry of Transport. Many of us felt,so strongly about the obvious ‘injustice of the whole affair and ‘the flouting of recognized and been assured that there is nothing in my record of my recollection of ing of uneasiness, My! nature, my defo a since it already had in it events and in my musings on them that precludes the publica- tion of my diary, If you wish to do so you may print it, with this Iet- ter as an introduction. i Fred G. Marsh Robson Ferry Hearing sion in Nelson where the status of my b are such that I usually take a posi- tion on an issue after considering fundamental principles, looking at actual physical works where this is possible, and thinking about what was in the minds of those who put the works in place. » Nevertheless I realize that. we are here in involved with what is largely an exercise in semantics:.I got out my dictionaries and the Robson ferry was ined. To @ spectator the case appeared to hinge on the question of whether the ferry is or is not. a highway within pted p for ng a dink in our highway system that jwe sought advice on the legality .of the closure, :, ‘We found that we had a good case, we devoted time and money ‘to. it, our.case was heard in Nel- son, and we lost. We lost the bat- tle, but, we have not lost the war. Our appeal to the Supreme Court is *_-L attended the case in Nelson. At the end of the one day hearing, after ‘having listened to the argu- ments of both sides, and allowing for the honest conviction or even ‘bias that I might have, I was confi- dent that the finding would be in our favour, The next day I leamed that we had lost, and I recall well the gasp that was heard in the court when the decision was the Act is crucial to the resolution of the question and the definition given in the Act was the subject of a great deal of di some to help me to. develop more insight into aspects of the word “highway.” Of the several dictionaries I had at hand I found most useful the 1955. edition of the Oxford Universal Dictionary. This may be because it is the largest and provides the most detail in its descriptions, The definition (Interpretation” is the word actually used) states “In the Act “highway” includes all public streets, roads, way, trails, lanes, bridges, trestles, ferry land- ings and approaches and many other public way; ...” ing of “highway”, but that “Sferry’ or “ferries” are not. The Ministry of Highways lawyer, George Cop- ley, took this to mean that the absence of ‘‘ferry” or ferries” shows that ferries were not intend- ed to be id ‘The outcome was to contrary to my expectations that I wrote a brief diary on the case and my thoughts of it while it was still fresh in my mind. I am not a lawyer, and like many others I jhave difficulty with knowing how ‘far I may go in discussing matters that are still caught up in the judi- cial process. However, I have d as | by those who framed the Act. In the ruling delivered orally iples of usage. It soon became apparent that “public street, roads, trail, lanes, bridges, trestles,” do not present us with any difficulties. The key to resolution will be found in “ways”, or “public way.” “Way” is a old word in our Ian- guage, has many uses going a long way back, My Oxford Universal takes just a few lines short of a full Page to discuss it. For our pur- + Pose, broadly transportation, the pertinent definition appears under 11.“ A line or course of travel or progression by which a place my be reached, or along which @ per son or thing may Consideration ‘of the definition on Tuesday afternoon Mr. Justice Allan Stewart said that her found Mr. Copley’s argument persuasive and that it largely influenced his finding in favour of the and against the Ferry Users’ Ad Hoc Committee. This finding left me with a feel- or inter as used in the Act, and tof the meaning of “way” in its transportation con- text, brings me to the conclusion that those who put together the Act and provided its interpretation of “highway” new exactly what they were doing. By intent they did not include “ferry,” or “ferries” in their Was it extreme and unwarranted? Dear Editor: Do my actions at Hasty and Lasca Creek seem extreme and unwarranted? I hope the proof of the latter, such as when logging of tershe: of the reason IJ am sitting in jail Tight now, to prevent that. I cannot pretend that I knew the answers as to how thing should be. I can only stand in testimony with my friends and neighbours to the fact that things are not at present working, that this is unfair and unjust. How can it be fair and me to arrest peaceful men, women, the future of this planet? To my mind, and many others, we are on a Toller coaster ride to disaster. At Lasca I make my stand, at Lasca I speak my truth. Need one wait till the engines of greed are in one’s own watershed? Is that not how we are kept apart and more easily picked off, one by one? No, for moyself I will take my stand here, in the hopes that my action will help bring change BEFORE my water- shed, or my favourite park, or my special wild place is at direct risk. ‘We, the multitudes, the people, we have the power, and we always have had. We just need to Stand together and use it. And to accept the consequences of our actions. As I do. Sixty four people were arrested at-Lasca; what if thousands were arrested, being fully aware of and Goings on - a report from Hasty Creek t Dear Editor:. Big A Report From the Hasty. . Creek Monitoring Committee, ‘ October 2, 1991 . ‘It's logging as usual on the right-of-ways in Hasty Creek. ‘The Integrated Watershed Man- toring Committee has found these guidelines bent or bro- ken in favour of a cheaper, faster Operation. Slocan Forest Product has rectifies some problems after the fact, but there appears to be little initiative to foresee and Climinate problems without the My them o SFP ation See HASTY CREEK Teady to accept the co! The power in that would be stag- gering; I think Atco, SFP and the Forestry and Parks Ministries would be more. willing to deal with us on an‘EQUAL basis. The * way things are now, there is now equality and our wishes are heard and then brushed quickly (as at Lasca) aside by the power of eco- nomic interest. Thope and pray for the sake of this planet, and the future of all life on it, that we can make the necessary changes quickly enough. But I do cather doubt it. Michael Gilfillan, Thrums For people wishing to show sup- _ Port for Michael and Lasca Creek, . we ask that postcards with a picture and “ways,” and “other public way,”? But could the intent have been that the water itself: between the ferry landings was to be seen as a, “highway” within the meaning of the Act? Not likely: those who wrote the definition were perfectly aware that vehicles are When they omitted “ferry” or “fer- ries” from their list of examples. No, it was clear to them that the putting in of “ferry” or “ferries” would have created a redundancy, “It is my belief that the Court has Selling something? : Phone 365-5266, ‘ie not given proper to the of “way” and “ways” and that it pis not sufficiently seldom seen on our highways and the intent of those who wrote the, Act and under di Haley Park Project Committee with a Lottery Grant i 2 Teceive no special And as for a person making the crossing on foot, they were aware that popular literature records one case of walking.on water and they most certainly did not have this means of passage in mind Had it done so it would have been clear that a ferry is an integral portion of a highway in the sense : required by a reading of the Act. KG. 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