March 12, 1989 OPINION Hidden tax a greedy move The Provincigl government is swimming in money Finance Minister Mel Couvelier is-reluctant to admit it, Speaks about “buts” and “what ifs, and but the truth of the matter is that when he brings down his budget March 30, there will be plenty of funds with which to make people happy and brighten the gover nment's tarnished image A good deal of the “credit must. go-to former premier (if that's what you want to call it), Bill Bennett While the recession/depression was wrepking this province and our country he took some very tough measures to cut costs. But he also increased almost every tee the government levies from the charges made tor driver's licences to medical insurance premiums Now, with the economy vastly improved; and such major expen se items as welfare not growing at the alarming rates they were more money is flowing into government coffers from such sources as the six per cent social services tax and other fees increased by the Bennett government. t is with this background in mind that the latest action by Vic toria, that of levying the six per cent sales tax on the rentals theatres Pay to distributors for films, is very disturbing Under the guise of responding to complaints from video rental outlets, who are asking for a leveling of the playing field, the gover nment has theatres imposed the social services tax on neighborhood What is particularly disturbing is that the tax is.a hidden ome something the social services tax has never been, It's being levied against the theatres on the rental costs. of film, not at the cashier's booth where the customer buys his admission ticket Independent theatres are in dire straits The ones at Grand Forks and Nakusp have just recently reopened while plans for im provements to the theatre in our.community will likely be long delayed, if not postponed indefinitely On some films theatres pay 90 per cent of admission revenues to the film companies as film rental fees. With another four per cent paid by independents such as the Castle-Theatre to booking-tirmns that leaves only six per cent for the theatre — ts that! and now Victoria wan Premier Bill Vander Zalm expressed concern, while ora recent trip to California, that some B.C: companies are “becoming a little bit greedy” with film companies who ore making movies in this provin ce Because (B.C.) commented while in Burbank is doing a lot more movie business some. people are saying Hey, this the premier may be a cow to milk, some money to get This move by the provincial government appears to be the same type of action: A greedy move to put a hidden tax in place to provide yet further dollars for Victoria's healthy cotters and to remove yet more money from the pockets of British Columbia's citizens Premier kept under wraps By MIRO CERNETIG VICTORIA (CP) — There's a kind of bunker mentality about Premier Bil Vander Zalm of late. ~ Orrather, Vander Zalm’s new image emanates from The Bunker, the nickname for a dingy warren of offices behind the legislature that is inhabited By his advisers Out of The Bunker current plan for nursing Vander Zalm back to the top of popularity_polls: tone down the premier’s flamboyance and make him as bland and unquotable as, well, Bill Bennett It’s a stratagem some say will never fly “It’s like trying to put a cork on Mount says Mike Har court, leader of the opposition new Democrats. ‘‘It’s the dream.”* Nevertheless, with his governme trailing the New Demograts in the polls, Vander Zalm seems attached to the new image Returning to Inter national Airport after a European trip, an ebullient Vander Zalm found him self surrounded by a headline-hungry scrum of reporters. He proceeded to deftly defuse what for him has been a politcaly minefield abortion Usually an outspoken tionist, Vander Zalm said the issue was comes the former premier Vesuvius, "* impossible Vancouver questions on anti-abor in the hands of the federal government and expressed no support for those jailed after protests couver’s abortion clinic “1 can’t talk about this, outside Van he an. swered Tt was a public relations success for the Premiers handters. There would be no front-page headlines the next day something the opinionated Vander Zalm has shown an uncanny knack for generating “It is the time-honored, traditional and tested way in which the people whe work forla leader react to criticisr says Gerry Kristianson, a political commentator and longtime friend of the premier. ‘They try to wrap him in cotton wool and reduce his profile.” One _of tht architects of the new, moré disciplined Vander Zalm is Dave Laundy, a public relations expert'who worked in the past to fine-tune Ben: After taundy set-up ground rutes similar to those he used in Bennett's veteran television reporter Eli Sopow and respected radio reporter lan Jessop took over as V daily handlers The two, office, ander Zalm’s who don't like to be quoted, have done aremarkable job of keeping fromthe lip ANSWERS RARE The new Vander Zalm from shooting strategy devised last came after months of tur moil over the abortion issue, sale of the summer Expo lands, the resignation of two cabinet. ministers and the political aide and allegations of political interference in senior premier’s top the granting of a liquor licence to a Vancouver pub The RCMP. even investigated~ the premier and_ his millionaire friend Peter Toigo over allegations of in fluence peddling. No~ evidence was found and no charges were laid These days Vander Zalm is largely kept at arm’s length from reporters in Victoria, though he exhibits some of his high-energy exuberance out of own During a recent-visit-to-Nanaimo, Vander Zalm chatted and joked with reporters, thinking he was back to his old ‘self. Getting concrete ‘answers to ‘policy questions, leaving somie however, proved difficult Formal Zalm, by routinely answering his own phone, interviews with Vander who once delighted journalists are also rare MEDIA DODGED Reporters*-hacktes-have-also_been phasing out of That raised by a Vander Zalm’s delayed reporters from finding out daily itinerary ploy about a speech to a religious group during whith Vander Zalm said even Jesus Christ would be low in the polls. “It looks mouse with the media like he’s playing cat and says Barry Bell, president of the legislative press gallery Vander Zalm’s greatest asset is how he interacts with people. I don’t think this is in his best interest can’t last Kristianson Cocoons, Jost however, warns 2) Castlégar News MEMBER OF THE B.C. PRESS COUNCIL ESTABLISHED AU INCORPORATING THE Mi PUBLISHER EDITOR PUBLISHER. AU Burt Campbell Simon Birch PLANT FOREMAN — Pater Harvey ADVERTISING MANAGER OFFICE MANAGER CIRCULATION MANAGER Gary Fleming Lindo Kositsir Heather Hadley Letters to the editor Quality of life should be considered As_a reader-and subscriber of your paper, I’m getting sick and tired of, reading the letters printed in your paper defending the right to life writ ten mostly by man who undoubtedly has no clue of what giving birth is all about L.would like to express my opinion on this issue as-an individual-and as a woman and challenge you to print this lettér, which is addressed to all of you out there who claim to be prolife Let me asking Bob Sahlstrom and all the others who have written Tettery to the public on this issue, and all of the people of this community who claim to be pro life, if most of you have any children of your own, or if you-have-taken upon your selves to adopt some of the unwanted children of today, or at least provide start by foster care for them I very much will like to hear their responses, as many of thent foctts their attention on the issue of life, But life itself has a lot of meanings To live is to eat, to be warm, to have shelter and, in our society, to have an education and most important of all to be loved ° If any unborn child has the right to live, then he, too, has the right to be loved. The truth is many of you have no idea what life really is Instead of spending money having More TFELs, I believe the people of B.C. should continue to own and manage our forests The privatized tree farm licences are going to decrease local control and in put. This} will democracy result in a lack of The logging companies do track managing wildlife or streamlife It seems priority rather with the entire ecosystem in mind. Ido know that -kokanee cannot spawn in not have a good record of wood value takes top than tree harvesting the Slocan River due to the heavy siltation of gravet spawning beds. The siltation came from soil erosion caused by logging access roads Instead of this step backwards in logging practice, more policing should be ‘provided by independent chers. Clean-up funds provided for—total—tree stream reclamation and resear should be utilization immediate seeding of logging access roads with thoisture-holding clovers and grasses. lunches and discussing how wonderful life is, then marching, protesting, and paying for bonds to get out of jail, you should be raising money for all of these unwanted children to have homes and for their care In fact, if you are such strong believers of this cause, then you should be raising these kids yourselves just to make sure that they maintain the right to live past the delivery room What's the point of giving them the right to live only to watch them die later, if not. by neglect, physical and se€ual abuse, then by broken hearts There isn’t enough adequate care for these children. Foster homes are inadequate for them. They go from one to another and, to be truthful, many people doing the aren’t really interested in the children foster care as much as they are interested in the monetary reward which they receive for them Fhis has-been the-case in-many-in- Stances. I'm not everybody. I’m sure many do find the saying this for experience of fostering a child rewar ding and fulfilling but the fact is there aren't many I really think that before anybody goes around forcing women to have children they don’t want, take into consideration that ‘‘we women” We are not here justto reproduce children, we should are not slaves. This is what I'd like to see my tax dollars benefitting; not providing the Ministry of Forests with the power to take my resources away from me. Many wells in this area are going dry, after being reliable for 12 years and more it’s the drought causing the water shor ge. | know that the water shortage is an after-effect of logging. There is no I'm not so naive to believe longer the forest-cover’ to hold the moisture on the mountains, Each tree is a well unto itself, gradually releasing water throughout the seasons. Once the trees are gone, the water sluices down the mountain sides into the rivers at spring run off and we're faced with low water and parched hillsides for the rest of the year. High water and low water tevels are getting more extreme If there is too much logging, we'll have floods. That would be a good excuse to put another dam in much The public is more We own\our bodies and we should have the right to choose if we want a child which perhaps is the product of a rape, incest, or even failing to take the pill for fear of dying of cancer, or perhaps of going through the painful delivery Of course, many-efuus will se all worth it children and they turned out normal, but what-about-severly-retarded, malformed and handicapped children, whose devastated mothers must care for them, or be forced to put them in facilities because they aren't able to look after them. Sometimes this can be over whelming. Just because many can do it, doesn’t mean we all can, Let’s not forget the guilt that one must endure at the thought that you are the gne responsible for bringing such a child to this world with never a hope to watch him play, walk, talk or haveachancetohaveanormattife To have a child with the previous knowledge that this child is going to be crippled for life, unable to look after himself and unable to enjoy-tife to its full&t, is totally selfish and should be criminal and punishable. Further justifying such action with the pretence of protecting a life is un forgiveable and despicable. Mimi Negrey Castlegar it was because we love our less control knowledgeable about the effects of logging; we've been given a practical education. I realize if | must appeal to Fletcher Challenge for a change in its local logging practice, | might as well audition as a stand-up comic. That is what an appeal will be — a joke, Would you like a multinational company, Mr. Parker, to manage your backyard, your supply, the wildtife antl some of your recreational interests? You could have no say or pathetically little water 1.thought politicians got to their posts by exercising their democratic right to speak for themselves. Yet, you seem to be pushing the privatization of tree farm licences, a move that is going to take away the citizens" democratic right to speak for themselves. You're not going to speak on my behalf, Mr. Parker Susan Eyre" Slocan Park Public control favored Forest. management in B.C. “has always been controlled by the forest industry In the past, this control wa: questioned the seldom forest resource seemed limitless and fully renewable Many people were employed directly by the Now, decades of overcutting, flagrant waste, and peor to reforestation; we are beginning to see the limits of our forest resource and we wonder how much longer it can last forest industry after non-existent Through automatio: volumes are increasing while forest in: dustry employment is decreasing. This is good for company shareholders but bad for everyone else creasing numbers of concerned citizens, labor groups and environ mental groups are calling for a public inquiry into forest management prac tices in B.C harvested As a result, in: The forest industry’s prime objec tive is to maximize profits. This is done: by maximizing production and minimizing through automation maximizing production is by obtaining increased security of timber supply. Conversion of existing licences into tree fag licen ces will increase this security I don’t think you'll find too much of the forest industry disagreeing with this proposal. The Forest Service tells us that providing increases in tree farm licences to the industry will give them the security and incentive to invest in secondary and tertiary manufacturing of wood products Surely our government could simply legislate an appropriate level of value added manufacturing, regardless of the type of licence. Surely they could begin by banning the export of logs. Or cary they? Who's running the show manpower Part of anyway? Obviously, the current system of forest management is still largely con trolled by the forest industry. The TFL proposal will further increase that con trol I feel that the way to increase the amount of secondary and tertiary manufacturing of wood products is not by increasing tree farm licences, which shift power to industry, but by legislative changes which requife. in creased manufacturing of these products. In short, we should shift control of forest away dustry and into the hands of the public We can do this by restructuring and empowering the Forest Service so that it carries out the-people’s will, rather than the will of the much-too-powerful management from in forest industry Nicholas Morris Appledale LETTERS Heritage support liked On behalf of the Castlegar and District Heritage Society, | would like. to express my thanks and appreciation to the Castlegar News and, publisher Burt Campbell for your strong support and promotion of heritage in the West Kootenay May I also. acknowledge the part played by radio. station-€KQR, TV Channel 10,'Neil Gillon, CBC’s Mor ning host, and the long list of industrial community and business organizations which appear in the Castlegar Rail Station and the many individual citizens whose names ap: pear on the numerous artifacts on display All. have tribution to. the broadening interest in our local history and the preservation made a valuable con. ‘of.a fragile heritage which forms an irreplaceable dimension on us and our children’s education Four classes of elementary children and one troop of Cubs visited the fail station. Their interest and enthusiasm madeall the hard work worthwhile More than 700 people visited the rail 150 the chapel house on Zuckerberg Island (a record for the three years that they have been station and another open to the public.) It is also a record i community support arid €o-operation: Castlegar has moved into a new era. Both buildings will continue to remain open on a regular schedule and restoration work will continue, thanks in part to the Ministry of Tourism, B.C. Heritage Trust and the City of Castlegar, in part to the support of those mentioned above and the éom fiunity volunteers To you and all concerned our sincere thanks John Charters President Castlegar and District Heritage Sos Small pets missing In the area of Arrow Lakes Drive and Lakeview Drive we are losing our pets to someone who has no feelings. In two separate incidents, small dogs disappeared from the owners’ yards. A family with small children had their two pet cats disappear Our neutered tabby cat, who was kept in at vanished sometime during the morning of Feb nights, just He always came back within an hour or so, We tooked-around for him-and asked some neighbors if they had seen him. No onedid Two ads on the radio and one in the Castlegar. News under “‘lost and found’* A few complained their pets were got no response missing. It seems it’s someone within our own neighborhood who is taking part in this. Whoever is doing this, we hope you're caught These pets were part of the families Florence Dow Castlegar Grace goes too far None of_us likes to criticize a fellow Socred who has worked so hard for the party in the past but Grace McCarthy has gone too far Many of us feel that she should stop the “‘sour grapes’ track with Premier Bill and teanr who are making B.C the country I happen tobe one of the “* routine and get on the best province in kookie * Bill Vander Zalm did listen sources to, as have many other ‘grass roots”’ people Did Grace forget the video she made in 1986, wanted to be premier so she could * We ap- preciate that that was also part of Bill Zalm's platform and we are grateful that he honors his commit the one where she says she represent the. “grass-roots? Vander ments! Everyone who lives in this province has a right to be heard, “*kookie"’ or not Iris Bakken Please address all Letters to the Editor to: The Castlegar News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar B.C. VIN 3H4, or deliver them to our office at 197 Columbia Ave nue, Castlegar Letters must be signed arid the writer's tull name and address in very exceptional cases will lette published without the writers Nevertheless, the name and addre the writer must be disclosed. + editor The Castlegar News rese right to edit letters for brevity legality and grammar March 12, 1989 Mulroney ‘embarrassed’ THE HAGUE (CP) Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said he’s em- bairassedsby.the“ridiculous"’ decision of a federal bureaucrat to temporarily block the'entry into Canada of Salman Rushdie’ s'novel The Satanic Verses: He told reporters that no member of his government had been consulted before the decision was made last mon th by a customs official of the Depar tment of National Revenue And he said Canada will have to review the process that allowed this to occur, °, Mulroney, in the Netherlands for an environmental conference, said the death sentence pronounced on Rush: die by Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is. ‘*completely unacceptable.’” Khomeini“ says the book is blasphemous toward the Islamic faith nd urged Muslims to kill the author, MORE LETTERS BRIAN MULRONEY . . . decision ‘ridiculous’ who lives in Britain Canada, the: 12 members of the European Community and. other countries have recalled their envoys from Iran to protest the threat In French, Mulroney told reporters “1 was somewhat embarrassed by the reaction of the bureaucratic process, I found it ridiculous.” “We will procedures,” He stressed the freedom of expression in the western mocracies and reiterated it should apply to all books except demonstrable pornography or hate literature The question of whether the book is hate literature led bureaucrats to tem porarily stop it from entering ¢ On Feb. 17, the tment said it would block any more copies of the . book Canada after receiving a complaint have to review our importance of Revenue Depar from entering Parents have right to know about changes A meeting on Wednesday, March 8 on behalf of the Taxpayers Education Committee was held to question our schootboard—trustees~on—their decisions regarding recommendations from the second language committee's report, as the board prepares this year’s budget In the from the language committee, it was indicated that it would like to see the Russian bilingual program. expanded into Grade 4. We were told by trustee Gor- don Turner that this expansion would not take place this-coming year, so-if our taxes went up it would not have anything to do with this program. But! wonder if the cost with regards to this program in curriculum development and materials will be included in this year’s budget? Lalso have to wonder as well, why a vote for this expansion has already taken place (to which I might add two of our board members were not in favor of)? A lot of parents may wonder why they didn’t know about the Taxpayers Education Committee’s meeting. Our superintendent would not let the letters report second Arts Council apologizes When the Castlegar Arts Council promoted the Feb, 21 performance of the Alberta Ballet Company at the Brilliant Cultural Centre, the implied offering was made in good faith Inasmuch as ticket holders to the ballet expected to view the performan ce on stage, they were short-changed We offer as our explanation the infor mation that the last-minute relocation to the main floor was an unexpected surprise and a complete shock to us. The intention of this letter is neither to shift blame nor to shirk our respon- sibility to our patrons, but rather to of fer our sincere apology to those who endured with.us through that most un fortunate circumstance Your tolerance, your patience, and your understanding are appreciated We thank you all and hope you will continue t@ support our endeavors as enthusiastigally in the future as in the past Donna Moyer President Castlegar Arts Councit concerning this meeting go home with stiidents, saying ‘‘it was not fair to use them in this manner.”* tean'rhetp bur wonder; then; wher the second language. committee sent home its survey to be completed, if our children weren't being ‘* in the same way I feel the Russian bilingual program is a good program, but that the expan sion of such a program had-better be looked at long and hard, making sure that space is available for it, without moving classes or programs from our schools to accommodate it We were told the public would not be informed of any changes or infor mation regarding the final budget submission because we elected used board's our school board to make these decisions for us As trustee Bill Hadikin put it, “you'H find out about them alter they're done.”” Lurge the parents of children in our school district as well as all taxpayers in our community to become involved, get answers to your questions and con cerns either by talking to your trustee, or by writing to your school board of fice. = We do have a right to know if and when major changes are being made in and-the right to know how these changes will affect our children our school district, Wendy Savinkoff Castlegar Heart Foundation happy wit On behalf of the Heart Foundation, Ld _lilee-to-say-how-happy-We-areto have had the chance to canvass the people of Castlegar during Heart Mon th Like the United Way, raise also go directly back into this community Those funds return fo Castlegar through the heart health promotion we do: to schools through aids that teach our kids how to be heart healthy, to the public through pamphlets and our toll- free information hotline Research isn’t something’ remote that happens in a far off university. It touches the lives of everyone in Castlegar who suffers from heart disease. It provides them the comfort of knowing that strides in the treat ment of this number one killer are being made every day the funds we tment dons les Federal Business Development Bank ® A representative of the Bank will be in CASTLEGAR on MARCH 15, 1989 ta, discuss your Business’ Financial and Management needs. Why not call us today at 426-7241 to arrange an appoin: Lo Banque offre ses wa Tongues oticielion BACKING INDEPENDENT BUSINESS h canvass In 1987, 58 people in--the West Kootenay—died—from—heart_disease That's too many. We'd like to beat the odds against heart disease and thank you for giving us the chance Sharon Kemball Provincial Regional Co-ordinator West Kootenay Region stitutional accord’ by former "til Saturday at BODY SHAPERS from an unnamed Muslim group. 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