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OPINION

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EDITORIAL

End doesn't
justify means

Politics in British Columbia, never a pursuit for anyone unwilling
to take off the gloves and brawl, took a nasty turn this week after New
Democrat justice critic Moe Sihota made public taped cellular

g Attorney General Bud Smith.

Mr, Smith resigned Thursday amid allegations he attempted to ob-
struct justice after the tapes revealed he seemed anxious to damage the

reputation of a lawyer Mr.

Sihota had hired to prosecute former

Provincial Secretary Bill Reid over Mr. Reid’s alleged mishandling of

lottery funds.

There’s no question Mr. Smith did the right thing in resigning. The
allegations are serious and Mr. Smith will now be the subjeet of a police
investigation into the allegations. The province could not have an at-
torney general operating under such a cloud.

But what about the cloud now over the New Democrats?

Making public a taped private telephone conversation is distasteful

to us to say the least.

Monitoring cellular telephone conversations is not illegal in
Canada. But taping and making them public is, we think, unethical.

The NDP denies it made the tapes, saying the party came about
them by other means. But that doesn’t let the New Democrats off the

hook.

Armed with the information from the tapes, they should have pur-
sued the matter in other, more ethical, ways.
If the investigation of Mr. Smith finds he acted improperly, then

his resignation must stand.

If that happens, though, the end still wouldn’t justify the means.

VIEWPOINT

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Rebuttal
**Whe flings most filth, and wide pollutes around
The stream, be his the Weekly Journals bound.””
— Alexander Pope

I note with not too little hufhor Mr. Charters’
“‘epistle’’ appropriately shuffled back to his home
at Reflections and Recollections.

T'must say it took some diligence to locate.
I’m happy not to be so disap ited as he,
however, and shall attempt to avoid a lengthy
litany on the subject of how I feel.

I would hold the editor to indulge me awhile,
since Mr. Charters’ article seems to beg for a reply.

The column, for all its epic grandeur, seems to
avoid the point I made in my response to the

ist’s rousing tale entitled Time to Sail on

Comparisons
need adjustment

By JOHN MARRITT

In a lengthy four-part article en-
titled More Than Meets the Eye, Mr.
Copeland and Ms. Sherrod of the
Valhalla Society attempted to
discredit criticism of their organiza-
tion’s cross border forest industry
comparisons.

In support of the contention that
the public of B.C. is not getting an
adequate return from its public
forests, Mr. Copeland and Ms.
Sherrod state that ‘‘Americans also
realize 800 times more net earnings
per cubic metre from the forest.’’

Before people make up their minds
on the credibility of such a claim, I
hope they will consider that while the
U.S. and B.C. publications cited in
the Valhalla Society study are both
credible, they reflect totally different
administrative circumstances and are
not comparible without considerable
adjustment.

The tax systems, the responsibility
for access road development and
reforestation responsibilities are some
examples of why this data is not direc-
tly comparable. Making this analysis
all the more suspect is the fact that the
study makes direct comparisons on
U.S. and B.C. data from different
* years.

The Price Waterhouse analysis of
the forest industry economic results
during 1989 has just been released.
This analysis indicates that forest in-
dustry stumpage, current taxes and

other payments
remained fairly constant at
billion.

In addition, a further $1.2 billion in
income taxes and other payments to
governments was made on behalf of
employees for a combined total of
$2.8 billion. Perhaps Mr. Copeland
and Ms. Sherrod were unaware of this
economic contribution when they
suggested the Americans get 800 times
more out of their resource than we
do.

On the issue of employment, Mr.
Copeland and Ms. Sherrod state, ‘‘In
the last decade 26,000 forest industry
jobs were lost mostly due to moder-
nization.””

Statistics Canada data, available in
most libraries, suggests this figure is
incorrect. The annual census figure
for 1979 indicated there were 96,800
people employed in the B.C. forest
industry. While the 1989 annual cen-
sus figure has not yet been prepared,
the Stats Canada monthly survey in-
dicates there were 84,500 people em-
ployed in the B.C. forest industry last
year.

While this is approximately 12,000
fewer than at the previous all-time
employment peak in 1979, it is essen-
tially at the same level which existed
before the economic boom occurred
at the end of the 1970s. Also, accor-
ding to Stats Canada, while there are
annual fluctuations, there has been an
please see COMPARISONS page AS

to governments
$1.6

Celgar’s Tide which appeared June 24. It was my
impression that this piece prodded a little much:
Mr. Charters invoked the ‘‘honorable”’ Brutus who
dutifully prophesied ‘‘shadows and miseries”
should the ‘‘tide’’ be missed.

Mr. Charters venerably echoed the sentiment
with a small speech about “‘wise captains’’ and
““delinquent captains,’’ and climaxed with another
**incidental”’ tip of the hat to the “‘honorable”’
Brutus intoning ‘‘Like it or not, it is time to close
debate and get all hands to readying the ship to
sail on the new, the flood it’s tide (sic) we (sic) are
all in this boat together and it’s either get on with
the job . . .”’ ete. etc.

1 must confess I found myself tasting salt and
smelling the sea until | remembered the unhappy
fate of Brutus. I found this kind of emotional
wrangling rather puzzling and upon reviewing the
whole column discovered that it was likely Mr.
Charters had decided to help out the company in
whom he apparently recognized ‘‘the voice of
experience speaking — it’s getting late; the time is
now and we need help to get on with the job."”

This came as an even greater mystery to me
when I realized that Celgar was in the process of
doing its second stage review (since the first one
apparently lacked “‘snuff’’) and that if they wanted
to do it faster, they likely could.

Being a vigilant citizen, and smelling rotten
fish, I voiced my displeasure to the editor of this
paper. I thought Mr. Charters was not playing fair
with his readers by using dramatic tones and

rustling up what appeared to me to be a stampede
to the trough.

I felt the people of this area were intelligent
enough to decide the merits of the proposed

Well, to this Mr. Charters replied with an
apparent bombastic fury, scurrying to borrow wit,
invoking the name of Christ and Holy Writ,
magnifying nits to pick at and, yes, that ultimate,
final weapon of pricked pride, the Writer’s
Manual. One of Leacock’s characters came to
mind: the man who in a frenzy of “doing” jumped
on his horse and galloped off in all di ‘at

The report was completed, according to the
introductions, ‘‘to pressure the federal government
to put into practice the principles of sustainable
development.””

The convention that elected McLaughlin as
leader adopted this task force report and passed
resolutions spelling out that the NDP understands

once.
Lastly, I want to assure the thatI

that 1 collapse is i ** But not to
worry, the NDP has the answer: “Sustainable

conspire with no one and that if after careful
consideration of all the facts I find good reason to
believe that this expansion is environmentally
sound and that it won’t turn this community into a
treeless hell, a la Kootenay, I will support it.

Paul Maloff

Castlegar

Use it or lose it

What’s that? Lyle Kristiansen doesn’t appear
to have read the report of the air tragedy in
Cranbrook before making outrageous claims in the
press. Why, that would imply that Lyle was seeking
to enhance his own image to the voters of Kootenay
West-Revelstoke. Tsk! Tsk! And pension day for
Lyle so close, too.

Isn’t it apparent, with the Celgar expansion
hanging fire, that Lyle is busy doing, er, busy, or
working on, er, ah, hum working for, about, on
or??

I mean Lyle must be very busy, otherwise
surely he would be working on behalf of the
expansion. Wouldn't he?

Perhaps now that Lyle has, it seems, got his
seed bins in order he feels that 100 per cent of his
time should be devoted to the loss of a few hours of
work at the airport. But the truth is, you either use
it or you lose it, and without Celgar expansion we
won’t need the airport at all.

Fred Peitzsche
Ross Spur

Policy thin
Audrey McLaughlin doesn’t like being called
an ‘‘ecopornographer.””
Who would? 7
A prominent Canadian Green, David Orton,
: capt

“‘ecopornography”’ and wrote that McLaughlin
and the NDP bought the concept hook, line and
sinker.

ne flashed off a letter to Canadian

expansion on the basis of fact and
reliable opinion (that is, with snuff)

I also let Mr. Charters know, after a certain
fashion, that the practice of revving people up to
run hither and tither, with much “‘zeal”’ and little
“*knowledge,”’ spurring them on with vacuous
slogans like ‘‘get on with the job”’ and “‘it’s getting
late’’ was very, very unkind and smacked of

Di “prog: ** left-wing
denying that she ever bought it.

She claims that there is an NDP report titled
Sustainable Society which, unfortunately, is not
true. The NDP Task Force on Environment
produced a report Towards a Future, in

is an achievable goal in Canada.”’

Even a cursory reading of the Brundtland
report shows that the commission fejects that there
could be limits to growth. Its careful assessment of
the best that can be accomplished is a doubled
human population and five to 10 times the
manufacturing of goods as now, with vastly
increased energy requirements.

Brundtland is a social democrat. This whole
concept that it is possible to impose political
requirements, (that is, the First World population
won’t give up anything, therefore to stabilize the
human population a tremendous new round of
growth in the Third World is required) on a finite
natural system is the result of a failure of the Vision
of social democracy.

Federal NDP environmental policy amounts to
little more than coopting enough environmentalists
to hold up a figleaf in front of their solid
commitment to the status quo of continued
economic growth. This may be fine for political
survival but has nothing to do with the survival of
the human race,

The political task of the 1990s is to figure out
how to reduce the impact of human beings on the
biosphere and the will to do this can only come
from politics that has recognized that the impact is
clearly far in excess of what can be sustained now.
David Lewis
Crescent Valley

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contempt to me, and for the he
professed to ‘‘love so well.””

** from the Br
Commission document Our Common Future.

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By JUDY WEARMOUTH

‘Weat has been painting for over
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friend and colleague Dosie Craw-
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Lately she’s been experimenting
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TOURIST
ALERT

Comparisons.

continued from page A4

increase in forest industry em-

{Ey Ployment by nearty 9,000 jobs over

the past five years.

Mr. Copeland and Ms. Sherrod
also point the finger at the export of
unfinished forest products in an ef-
fort to support the contention that the
public isn’t getting its fair share out
of the resource.

“It is also true that there (the
United States), as here, companies are
allowed to sell their logs to overseas
‘buyers, who pay nearly double what
local mills can pay thus restricting the
supply of wood to those local mills,"”
they said.

“It is nearly criminal that B.C. —
whose forests are the .greatest
provider of trees on the continent,
and one of the greatest in the world —
ship so much of its wood to other
countries, which get the jobs and the
revenue from manufacturing it into
products.””

The subject of log exports that Mr.
Copeland and Ms. Sherrod raise is an

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Al and Edith Wiklos, Seattle, call
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Edmonton, call

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interesting one. Mr. Copeland was
recently quoted in the Arrow Lakes
News as saying that the export of logs
to Japan and other countries is ‘‘a
process which robs B.C. wood-
workers of jobs for no other reason
than the profits of B.C. logging com-
panies.”

To put B.C. log ‘exports into per-
spective, the percentage of the log
harvest exported between 1990 and
1989 inclusive was 3.19 per cent. Last
year, log exports had declined to 2.2
per cent of the harvest.

People may also be interested to
know that ‘log exports from public
lands are now subject to a 100 per
cent tax on the difference between
what the export market and the
domestic market will pay for the same

creased manufacturing of wood
products in B.C. as they appear to be
saying, then presumably they would
be anxious to see the proposed Ceigar
pulp mill expansion go ahead. This
x can achieve two objectives
that they should support.

Firstly, it would make more com-
plete use of the chip supply resource
im the southern interior. Currently,
some chips are not used because no
economically viable market exists.

Secondly, it would discourage the
export of our manufacturing jobs and
related revenues to other countries
which they describe as ‘‘nearly

In closing, 1 would like people to
understand just how fragile the
ics of the B.C. lumber indus-

logs. This tax any

to sell logs outside of the province
where those logs could be sold
domestically.

If Mr. Copeland and Ms. Sherrod
are genuinely committed to secing in-

try actually are what the future could
hold. The above-noted Price Water-
house report indicates that on lumber
sales of $4.6 billion last year there was
a net profit of $37 million. This
amounts to a return of just under one

per cent and 3.1 per cent on capital
employed.

In spite of this reality, we have
Valhalla Society directors, Mr
Copeland and Ms. Sherrod, alleging
we should be charged higher stum-
page rates. That would, of course,
make the lumber industry even less
economically viable than it is at
Present.

At the same time, we understand
that Mr. McAllister, Sierra Club
director, is helping to organize an in-
ternational boycott of British Colum-
bia wood products. If these two effor-
ts are successful, and the lumber in-
dustry becomes less economically
sustainable, then the economic con-
sequences won’t be limited to the
lumber industry and will touch
everyone in our resource-dependent
Southern Interior communities.

There is in fact “‘more than meets
the eye.”” Please think about that.

John Marritt is president of the In-
terior Lumber Manufacturers
Association.

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family members should make the
decision easier

| suggest that the family answer
the following questions betore
deciding where they would like to
live and the type of home they would
like to buy
1) Is the distance to your place of

employment an important con:

Are the city's
jant to

4 YEARS AGO
From the July 13, 1950
Castle News

The Castlegar Public Library
Board met at the home of Mrs. C.H
King last Thursday afternoon with
Mr. J.A. Charters in the chair, and
members Mrs. E. Hopland, Mrs. R.
Whittaker, Mrs. C.H. King, Miss
A.C. Bloomer and Secretary-
Treasurer Mr. W. Markin present.

. .

The first official telephone call in

Castlegar was made by Mr. J.R.

SUN LOVERS
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T-SHIRTS & SHORTS

fp. POOR BOYS

Elliott, President of the Castlegar &
District Board of Trade, from the
telephone banquet to the Honorable
A.D. Turnbull, Minister of Health &
Welfare, Victoria.

Mr. Turnball had just returned to
Victoria that morning after officiating
at the opening jes of Mt.

(The former Robson _resident’s
Property was expropriated by B.C.
Hydro.)

.

Strong recommendations that Kin-
naird ‘‘make arrangements for
adequate and effective standby

Saint Francis in Nelson.
25 YEARS AGO
From the July 15, 1965
News

Fred Pressacco yesterday announ-
ced settlement of his dispute with
B.C. Hydro.

He ‘said he received a wire Tuesday

r
of Hydro’s offer of $12,500 and
yesterday sent a wire accepting it.

He would make no further com-
ment.

pumping rather

than relying on the use of river water
in the case of any extreme emergen-
cy,”” has been made by medical health
officer Dr. Nick Schmitt.
15 YEARS AGO
From the July 17, 1975

Seven hundred and five hourly
rated CanCel employees are out of
work here — 325 at the pulp mill and
380 at the sawmill — as a regplt of a
strike by the Pulp, Paper and Wood-
workers of Canada.

~>

Vandalism at Pass Creek Park will
leave a permanent loss to the residen-
ts.

Regional Recreation Commission
No. 1 director Pat Metge told the
Castlegar News a lifeguard chair,
signs and some of.the benches have
been put ablaze, now > and

) tt would be.

one or more members ot
family must rely on public tran.
sportation, bus or car pool for get
ting to work, schoo! or play

ts the family more city or more
suburban and: rural oriented? It
sometimes proves difficult to oc
climate yourself to a style of living
you are unfamiliar with. If rural is
© consideration, will the family
require an extra car? Is someone
prepared to take youngers mem.
bers to and from work or
recreation facilities?

call or'drop in ot

1695 Columbia A;

families might f

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te Of decor but not its location

3) Would the family be unhappy with
‘only a small plot of land surroun
ding the home, or does it need a
quarter acre or more’

cultural advantas
your tamily? Soi
| “deprived
If hour or more
museums.

libraries or cultural centers

hurches and
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5 YEARS AGO
From the July 14, 1985
Castlegar News

Expansion of the Westar pulp mill
in Castlegar is one of the investment
possibilities suggested in a com-
prehensive report released this week
analyzing forest products industry
and forestry resources in the Central
Kootenay.

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Senate receive numerous benefits on top of their salaries
and tax-free allowances. But the perks don’t match what's
available in the private sector.

By GERRY ARNOLD

OTTAWA — First-class air travel,
dining room and a private health club.

Sound like the kinds of perks one might expect for
directors of a top private corporation?

In fact, they're just-a few of the benefits-at the Senators get $9,600 annually tax-free for expenses,
“disposal of every member of Parliament and senator. Plus about $153 # day in expense money just for showing

Granted, life as an MP has a lot of hassles. ve

But it’s not all bad, either.

How many Canadians unwind after a hard day at
work by having a sauna and rub-down from the company
masseur?

Pent-up parliamentarians can. They just head for the
health club in the Confederation Building down the street
from Parliament Hill.

Don’t try visiting the club — it’s off-limits to all but
the elected and appointed.

Tain Angus, an NDP member from Thunder Bay-
Atikokan, chuckles when asked about MPs’ pay and
perks. People, he says, will complain no matter what

“People’s attitudes, well, it comes with the job,” h

is the parliamentary restaurant, on the sixth floor of Weicwuc’ Carpet & Uphotstery Cleaners

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dine at tables draped in fine linen cloth. They sit under the
high, soft-colored ceilings which arch into domed E
skylights. One side of the an is pocked with alcoves for ON CARPET CLEANING
more private conversations. OF $45.00 oR MORE!

The price is right, too. The luncheon buffet, for wT oaons OMCOUNT
example, is $9.50 for a spread fit for a king. A couple of
parliamentary cafeterias offer more spartan surroun-
dings.

There's more.

Two barber shops charge $6 for a haircut, and a shoe
shine goes for $1. There are a beauty salon and five post
offices where MPs and senators mail and
correspondence free:

There are a tailor shop,
locksmith, a drycleaner and a
~— On the other hand, the" mentary liquor store is
one of the few places on the Hill where things cost more
than outside in the real world. It charges 50 cents more
per item than regular outlets, to discourage staff from
shopping there.

Gerry Arnold is a writer with The Canadian Press

says. ‘‘If we were only making $30,000 a year total and we
asked for another $5,000, we would still get a lot of
criticism."’

For the record, MPs and senators earn about $62,100
each. MPs get an extra $20,600 in tax-free expense
allowance, and they soon may get another $6,000 tax-free
annually to offset the cost of keeping a residence in Ot-
tawa.

OK, so the money’s not really great for a member of
Parliament. But there’s more than money involved.

Travel, for example.

MPs each receive 64 return airfare trips a year, first
class, to or from anywhere in Canada. Their spouses can
also fly free, and other family members are allotted some
free travel as well. Senators receive the same amount of
free travel but have more restrictions on who can use it.

Further, every MP, senator, spouse and dependent
child receives free passes for untimited travet on Via Rail.

Cabinet ministers have a fleet of Challenger business
jets which they can use instead of commercial airlines.

And to get to the airport, cabinet ministers don’t
need to bother with cabs. They have chauffeur-driven cars
which line up outside the various Parliament buildings,

-often waiting for hours with the engines running.

In all, there are more than 100 chauffeur-driven cars
on the government tab, with an annual cost in excess of
$800,000.

For those members _lacking-a -chauffeur-driven car,
there’s a network of free buses to ferry them around the
sprawling Parliament Hill complex. The buses drop MPs
off near their cars, which are parked free on the Hill.

Where does everybody go when they get into their
cars? Well, a favorite place for MPs and senators to meet

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James King, president of Hay Management Con-
sultants in Toronto, says the perks that MPs and senators
receive pale by comparison with those available to
private-sector executives. eomve

“In comparing MPs with jobs of the same size in the
private sector, they are underpaid by a significant
amount,"’ said Kirig. He suggested in a 1989 report that
MPs and senators would earn salaries of about $78,600 in
the private sector. 7

That report said a cabinet minister now earning
about $110,000 in straight salary would make from
$190,000 to $390,000 for the same private-sector respon-
sibilities

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Living & dining
room, 3 bdrms This 1s a call for expressions of interest only.
pannel for future contracts will be based upon

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‘OPEN SUNDAYS Community Owned &
10a.m.-6 p.m 2717 Columbia, C

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