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Castlégar News March 19, 1989

OPINION

Byelection boost

The NDP got a real shot in the arm Wednesday with convincing
victories in two byelections, one in Nanaimo the party was expected
to win and thé second in the fairly affluent bastion of Vancouver-
Point Grey where the NDP’s Tom Perry somewhat surprisingly
crushed Socred Michael Levy by a more than two:to-one margin.

The old adage that byelections typically are used by voters to
send a message to the government of the day appears to be true in
both the byelections but especially in Point Grey — even more so
when you considér that the Socreds have typically been successful in
byel lections during their time in power. Until recently. Another

| Socred strong dary-Similk — went NDP

last year.

Premier Bill Vander Zalm, are you listening?

That voters are unhappy with the current government was par-
ticulary clear in Point Grey where the Socred tally plummetted by
some 10,000 votes from the last election while the NDP's and the
Liberals’ vote. count remdined-almost static. In other words; some
10,000 people who voted Social-Credit-in the last election either jum-
ped ship to one of the other two parties or stayed at home while their
candidate floundered

The Social Credit government has about 2’ years left in its
mandate (although if the party follows the traditional four-year cycle
an election.is likely next year). Meanwhile, the New Democrats un-
der Mike Harcourt appear to have taken’a fundamental shift away
from the socialist philosophies the party d in the 1970s and
are staking a claim to the political centre.

Unless the Socreds also moderate Mr. Vander Zalm's radical
right-wing tendencies — perhaps by choosing a new leader — the
party will find itself all alone ona limb come election time, The noise
you're hearing now is NDP leader Mike Harcourt starting his chain
saw.

New spots

Can a leopard change its spots?

Provincial NDP leader Mike Harcourt wants voters to think so.

In Mr. Harcourt's case, the leopard is the “socialist horde” and
the spots are-the political philosophies that rightly or-wrengly
have been associated with the’New Democrats, philosophies such as
advocating public ownership of key industries, an “anti-business” at
titude and the promotion of expanded social programs.

But there is a fresh breeze blowing through the British Columbia
NDP which some are calling "a fundamental shift” in the party's
policies

In a recent speech in Vancouver to about 120 officials from
banking, forestry, mining and other industries, Mr. Harcourt said
that government-limited growth is a philosophy of his party's past

The creation of wealth is what we think we have to do — you
just can't redistribute a shrinking pie,” Mr. Harcourt said at the NDP.
sponsored meeting at the posh Pan Pacific Hotel

The New Democrats advocating the creation of wealth? What's
going on here?

What's going on is a New Democratic Party which, under a
moderate leader who is an intelligent and astute politician, has
realized it will never again form a government in this province with
worn out socialist policies that just won't work

What Mr. Harcourt appears to be proposing with his speech to
business leaders and his comprehensive 20-point program for
sustainable development which the NDP will introduce in this session
of the legislature as a series of private members’ bills is, for want of

—abetter term, tree enterprise witha conscience:

It just may work

Wacky wouldn

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Letters to the editor

Forestry's statements
are not encouraging

In‘its recent_publication regarding
{ree farm licences, the Forest Service
states that it is a myth that
licensees can do whatever they like on
their licence area with no regard for the

“Tree farm

environment
After making this rather fatuous
statement, the publication goes on to
say that ‘‘all tree farm licensees must
meet the same environmental standar-
ds as any other harvesting and forestry
operations on Crown land.””
1 don’t find this to be very en
couraging. In fact, quite the opposite.
the crux here is that the Forest Ser-
vice doesn’t have adequate standards.
In fact, it is exceedingly difficult. to
determine what Forest Service stan
dards are and on what basis they were
establistied
‘On-—what—basis;,—for—exampie,—tas
clearcutting been determined to be the

't like

current Socred problems

By MIRO CERNETIG and rail-building programs to open up
VICTORIA (CP) the Interior. Factories and homes are
ago that Socreds wept in a tiny red- _ still powered by the mammoth dams he
brick church in Kelowna, bidding built’ on the Columbia and Peace
farewell to the man some say shaped River. The Bank of British Columbia
British Columbia more than the ice since bought out by the Hongkong
age Bank of Canada — was opened ina bid

With a skirl of bagpipes and sobs to reduce reliance on eastern money
from the bereaved, the earthly remains _ lenders.
of W.A.C. (Wacky) Bennett were Back then, the Socred_ philosophy
carried away, his coffin draped with was simple — unwavering loyalty to
the sun-emblazoned provincial flag he the leader, adherence to straight-ldced,
introduced during 20 years of iron- small-town values and a healthy
fisted rule disdain for big business

It was a bittersweet moment for par ‘You never, never criticized the
ty stalwarts. leader in the press,’’ remembers

True, an era Kamloops Mayor Phil Gaglardi, Ben:
man’’ — as the faithful liked-to call nett’s flamboyant minister of high-
him — died in his sleep Feb. 23, 1979, “Wacky demanded loyalty and
at the age of 78. The funeral was held he gotit.”

Feb. 27. Now, such values seem quaint,
But there was guarded opftimysm. strangely out of touch with events over
The Social Credit party was still in the last decade.

power, its leader still a Bennett Today, the party is rife with

Wacky’s son Bill backroom cabals gunning for Premier

hordes’’ so dreaded by Wacky were _ Bill Vander Zalm, who succeeded Bill

still inopposition Bennett in 1986.

A_decade later, however, the With _the_government_trailing the
widespread popularity Bennett stret- NDP in recent polls by about a dozen
ched into seven consecutive election points, hallways are filled with
victories from 1952 to 1972 is in short speculation of whether Vander Zalm
supply. will step down, making way for those

*“Wacky would be very distraught at__in his caucus who want to replace him
what's going on right now,” says Ben Things are no better for Bill Bennett,
nett biographer David Mitchell. charged recently with violating insider
“There doesn’t seem to be a vision as. trading provisions of the B.C
there was in the past.” Securities Act

Bennett embodied Social Credit for Several cabinet ministers have been
20 years, a square-jawed teatotaller embroiled in messy scandals. One
with a penchant for grey suits and — resigned after reporters dis¢overed he
mega-projects bought first-class airline tickets for

In his burning desire to transform government business, traded them in
British Columbia from a ‘thave-not to for economy tickets and pocketed the
a have province,’’ Bennett embarked difference:
ona visionary plan to bring the provin “I think if Wacky looked down he'd
ce into modern times. be very disappointed,” says Grace

He steered through “massive road MCarthy, the former Socred cabinet

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minister who read the eulogy at Ben
nett’s funeral. ‘He would not be hap-
py with some of the things, especially
moral issues.”*

Mitchell, who has spent hours inter-
viewing all three Socred leaders, says
the decade has seen the Social Credit
party struggle to redefine its grass
roots.

“It’s no longer a party of little old
ladies in tennis shoes,”’ says Mitchell.

The traditional roots began to
wither in 1972, when the New
Democratic Party came to power, says
Mitchell

Within a year Bennett retired, to be
replaced by his son Bill who-would be
elected premier in 1975

But the sobs of joy Wacky choked
back when his son won the leadership
Turned into misgivings as he watched
the philosophical bent of the party
change, says Mitchell

HAS DOUBTS

“Wacky was_a critic of his son’s
government,”’ says Mitchell, “though
he never expressed his doubts
publicty."*

Mm contrast to his father, the younger
Bennett began to openly court big
business. It was a move symbolized by
the Top Twenty Club, a collection of
powerful B.C. interests who supported
Social Credit and had the new
premier’s ear

Bill Bennett also modernized the
Socreds, importing organizers from
the Ontario Conservative's Big Blue
Machine toruna party unfamiliar with
men with silk ties and expensive suits.

“Bill Bennett built a modern
political machine unrivalled in the
"" says Mitchell. ‘He tried to
draw the circle ever larger."”

Some in the party were disillusioned

Vander Zalm, who replaced the
younger Bennett as leader and premier
in 1986, tried to re-establish the party's
populist roots

He spoke out against the Top Twen
ty Club and an insiders’ party. It was
tough talk that alienated the business
interests Bennett had_painstakenly
brought into the fold, says Mitchell

“*Vander Zalm has alienated many
of the people Bill Bennett treid to at
tract,’’ says Mitchell. ‘‘He has tried to
return the Social Credit party to its
roots.”""

The question is whether that ap
proach — wildly successful for Bennett

will work in modern British Colum:
bia.

country,

harvesting method of choice? On what
basis was the rotation age decreased
from 120 to 80 years? Not only are the
Forest Service standards, where they
exist, completely inadequate to sustain
our forests, but they're not enforced
anyway

Often, substandard practices by
forest companies, such as excessive
wood wastage, are not investigated un-
til the public outcry is embarrassingly
loud. Currently, the Forest Service
doesn’t allocate enough staff to police
logging shows, and now, through this
TFL proposal, they are suggesting we
further privatize BC’s forests.

This proposal moves in the wrong
direction. The truth of the matter is
that the forest industry already has too,
much power and too much control

Programa

It has long been a concern of mine
that the Russian immersion program,
is being used as a scapegoat to mask
underlying prejudicial feeling toward
the Russian speaking community of
this area.

This was never more evident than on
Sunday, March 12 after reading the
many articles denouncing|this program
in the Castlegar News

The crowding in the existing schools
is not caused by the Russian immersion
program. It is caused by a direct
closure of yhree of the outlying
schools. Why were these schools closed
to begin with? To fill up Twin Rivers
and Woodland Park
ironically. Without the kids from Pass
Creek, Ootischenia and Blueberry,
there was a likelihood that the above
mentioned schools would be facing

schools,

closure
To the Taxpayers Education Com
mittee, I suggest that the voters of this

over our Crown land. The forest com
panies can log our watersheds without
our blessing. They can continue with
the incredibly insensitive but standard
routine_of clearcut_and_slashburn
without our approval.

We, the people whose water is at
risk, the people whose view is being
blighted, are not given any decision-
making rights in how our Crown land,
our water, our forests are managed.

Conversion of existing forest licen:
ces intp tree farm licences further con:
centrates power into the hands of the
forest industry. Such a’conversion is in
the best interest of multinational
profiteers and in the poorest interest of
the citizens of this country

Nicholas Morris
Appledale

scapegoat

area have spoken. They have elected
trustees that they believe in, If these
trustees support the Russian immer-
sion program, it is their every right
That is democracy! If you do not like
it, perhaps then you should voice your
concerns at election time

Having meetings denouncing such a
meafingful program is about as
relevant at this point as belonging to
the Ku Klux Klan. If it is prejudice that
we are facing, come out and say it; do
not use this great and successful
educational program to be a cause for
your internal problems

1 would think in this day and age our
society has progressed to the point that
such bigotry does not exist any more. |
would hope this for the sake of
everyone's children (Russian immer
sion or not).
Phillip Kanigan
Pass Creek

Meeting a surprise

It was with great surprise that the
March 8 Taxpayers Education Com
mittee meeting turned out to bea direct
attack on the Russian bilingual
program.

I was amazed that the ad hoc com:
mittee did not apprach the executive of
the Parents for Russian with its con
cerns prior to having an open forum.
We are concerned too — we do not
want to pit one program against the
other

All programs in the school system
are important to our children’s
education. We do not want to take
away any space or any funding from
other programs. We would like to
work together for the betterment of
our children

Most people say they feel the
Russian bilingual program is a good
program, yet this is the first program

people attack

To say, “I'd gladly pay more taxes
to fund ... but not a special language
program that should be offered
somewhere else” in this day and age is
antiquated. It is important that
children be given the opportunity to
learna second language

I wish the late French immersion
program success and hope the Parents
for French are given the opportunity of
working alongside other parent
groups. We certainly would

Let's work together towards the best
education possible for. our children
and if you do have concerns regarding
the Russian bilingual program please
meet with the executive who, Iam sure,
would be happy to discuss your con-
cerns.

Bev Maloff
Castlegar

Minister wrong

I'd just like to makea comment con-
cerning the forestry forums that were
held for the public to air its views on
TFLs

Among other things, it was obvious
that the public doesn’t think much
about the way the B.C Forests
Ministry runs out forests. Among
those who expressed themselves were
many professionals and represen
atives of small and large groups, in
cluding unions and cities.

It appears now that the forests
minister is wrong in saying that it is
only- special interest groups that are
calling for a full public inquiry in the
running of B.C. Forests. It seems very
obvious now that it is the government
of British Columbia and the B.C
Forests Ministry that is the special in-
terest group, the small group of people
trying to shove unpopular policy and
ideas down the majority’s throat

LETTERS
Company
should

pay

On March 8 in Rossland, on the final
day of the B.C, Utilitites Commission
hearings into West Kootenay Power's
rate increase application, the Electri¢
Consumers Association (EC ‘A) argued
that WKP's owner should foot the bill
for the proceedings

UtiliCorp, through its wholly ow ned
subsidiary, is asking the BCUC (0
make WKP customers pay 6.7 per cent
more for the same service. The onty

are UiliCorp
shareholders and they should pay for
the hearings. The 8,000-member
grassroots organization objects
especially to the utility’s-payment_of
nearly $40,000 to an expert from
Toronto who tried to justify a greater
return on WKP’s investment

It heaps insult upon injury if
customers end up paying this fee,
along with whatever rate increase the
BCUEC sees fit to grant WKP

The ECA vigorously fought against
the rate increase requested by the
utility because it may allow UtiliCorp
to recover the 70-per cent premiunett
paid in its 1987 takeover of WKP.
UtiliCorp promised in writing never to
do so, but a financial expert speaking
on behalf of WKP's
customers suggested the American
holding company. may > cpunt. on
receiving a rate of return greater than
necessary, combined with large capital
expenditures to increase ratebase, to

wholesale

get around its promise

The ECA learned at the Rossland
hearings that WKP has now spent over
$1 million on the Okanagan gas tur
bine project, despite the fact that the
company may never obtain permission
to build it

We're concerned that customers will
be forced to pay for this fiasco even if it
isn’t approved. Either WKP doesn’t
take the public hearing process
seriously and assumes it will get
anything it asks for, or it believes once
it has spent so much on a project, the
B.C. Utilities Commission won't dare
to refuse permission tocomplete it

It’s even worse in this case, since
WKP may not even be able to obtain
the turbine it’s spent so much for

Fhe ECA _learned—at_ the Rosstand
hearing that the (urbine WKP intends
to purchase is still in Venezuela, a
country now racked by economic and
political turmoil

Donald Scarlett
Electric Consumers Association
Kalso

Elk
woes
continue

The provincial government is voted
in by the taxpayers. When the current
government is in, its members thumb
their noses at the people who gave
them the power

The farmers of British Columbia
not only here in Robson and Pass
Creek, but also around Cranbrook,
are bothered by about 2,500 animals.

What I can’t figure out is that the
Environment Ministry has all the
history on elk and they must know that
elk move in on crops because it’s easier
than foraging in the bush. Elk can
destroy a farmer's crop in one night

Of course, you cannot sue an elk

The farmer has lost his crop and his
living. The government says the elk
were here first. It’s quite an attitude in
this dear land of British Columbia.

Since the B.C. government will not
put in some sort of damage control or
insurance of loss, they should let some
farmers domesticate these animals
since it is the majority of taxpayers
who control the vote and any
declaration on what to do with the elk

Atleast the government should have
the decency to meet with the disturbed
districts and decide some control

If this isn’t done, we farmers could
decide to really eradicate the elk
Could be that environment officials
would be looking for new jobs. | know
something has to be done with the elk

It would seem that this Social Credit
government is a dictatorial gover
nment, not a democratic one. It should
be removed.

Angus Thodeson
Robson

Please address all Letters to
the Editor The Castlegar
News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar
B.C. VIN 3H4, or deliver them to
our office at 197 Columbia Ave
nue, Castlegar

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the writer's full name oa oddre sive

writer s
Nevertheless, the name and oddr
the writer must be disclose.
jar Me losed

The Costlegor News
right to edit letters for
legality and gramme

reserves the

brevity, clority

oy
March 19, 1989 Castlegar News _“* a

MORE LETTERS.

Chairman replies

Last Sinday’s front page announ
cement in the Castlegar News (Mar
ch 12) headlined “Russian classes up-
Set parents” and “Fairness the issue
presented a riddled and twisted litany
of half truths, rumors and gossip

Why, | ask, would any “group”
embark upon such an isolated attack
on a ssingle program without first
Presenting its cone
manner

‘ns in an informed

Not five minutes before your
newspaper arrived at my home, a
spokesman for the Taxpayers’
Education Committve apologized to
me personally for never having ad
dressed any of these concerns or wild
allegations with me

More imporiantly, never were any
such concerns addressed to the Parents
for Russian, of which | am the chair
man. There must be many in our com
munity deserving of such an apology

I reply specifically to the statements
made on behalf of this “group” ard
state as follows

* A commitment to the Russian
bilingual program is consistent with
government policy guidelines relating

Repen

Are we going to grow wings or
spraqut horns in the 1990s?

Many people agree that through our
pursuit of power, possessions, pride,
sex and self we will bring our world to
ruin ” financially,
ecologically and by revotution”-and
war

economically,

Turning to God our Father through
His Son Jesus Christ and be changed
by His Holy Spirt is our only alter
native.

Well over 300 documented catholic
prophecies by recognized holy men
and women over the last 2,000 years,
by Christ and prophecies in the Bible,

. all corroborate on the shape and

nature of events to come in the 1990s
anda limited time beyond

In the course of my
analysis and study of prophecies over
the last 12 years, some recent events
must also be evaluated.

Many people accept that the Virgin
Mary has appeared in Lourdes and
Fatima and is now every day appearing

continuous

to multicultural language programs;
the report of the Sullivan Royal Com-
mission on Education. ‘specifically
recognizes the necessity:of such gover
Ament commitment to provide predic
table funding sp as to accommodate
long-term planning of such projects.

* Surely, no one could seriously
argue that the Russian language does
not represent a heritage tradition
within our community. Hopefully, the
proposed. extension. of the Russian
bilingual program will be designated as
a heritage language project

* It is possible thas the entire
Russian. bilingual program will be
Fecognized as a heritage language
project and presented as a guide model
implementation of
multicultural heritage language pilot
projects generally throughout the
province.

to assist in

* To suggest that the present fun\
ding requirements of the Russian
bilingual program place some unjust
burden on another program entirely
distorts this issue out of any-context of

Tt, turn to

near Mostar, Yugoslavia to six young
people since June 24, 1981. About 4.5
millién people have gone there on a
pilgrimage, including myself, in Oc
tober 1984.

The messages in all these incidents
exhort us to repent, turn to God aid
pray. and foretells what awaits us

Only by careful correlation can a
reasonable time frame be assigned and
the sequence of events to come be
narrated to reflect fairly closely’ all
prophetical sources of information
here cited.

Within about three to seven years,
fiscal, economic distress, drought and
communist subversion will trigger
revolutions in Europe.

While Europe is weakened many
Arab nations will become involved in
invading Europe

After three years of revolutions and.
world war, a Comet will appear in the
spring. This major natural disaster will
signal steady defeats for the Arab-
Russian bloc

reality; the’ program's present costs
represent less than a fraction of a per
cent of the total school budget

* To suggest that if a school
trustee's child or grandchild is affected
by altering a program the trustees dre
thereby Tendered “‘biased"’ is nonsen
se. For example, would a trustee be
Fequired to exempt himself or herself if
a child were affected by any number of
important issues such as school closure
or changes in busing? This is a formula
for-chaos,

On March 9, | met with members of
the Robson Parent Group and ex
plained to them the structure of the
Russian bilingual program and heard
their specific Com-
munications were exchanged in an at
mosphere of open and informed
dialogue

The executive of Parents for Russian
is willing to. meet with any person or
goup who has any such specific con-
cerns or who wants to properly under
stand the structure of the Russian
bilingual program.

Ken Wyllie
Robson

God

Thé pope will die in exile within a
year of the end of the four-year war
period. Then only two legitimate hopes
will reign yet afterwards.

After 12 to about 22 years of peace,
the antichrist will come when faith has
become weak again

After the calamities of the late 1990s
our subjective views on our morality,
ethics and our cherished. democratic
rights (which have resulted through
our general loss of our Christian
Judean heritage in a steady
deterioration of our moral fiber
divorces, abortions,
drugs, homosexualtiy and other sexual
abuses) will change to objective
recognition of responsibilites that go
with rights, of Gods due place in our

concerns,

euthanasia,

lives.

For those who honor God in a
committed mannerthere is ne-reason
to éver fear. Those lukewarm or op:
posed to Gods laws do not postpone
our conversion

Herman J. Kemperman

Environment not

CALGARY (CP) -
ads promote the province's clear rivers
and sprawling forests. Glossy photos
offer sweeping vistas of unspoiled

Alberta tourist

wilderness — home to the mighty griz
zly bear and caribou

Yet in a province offering so much
natural beauty, the environment has
failed to catch on as an issue in the 28
day campaign for Monday’ election

The three party leaders, apart from
some general murmurings, have been
about as silent as a hibernating bear in
winter

Meanwhile at least six
projects — recently announced by the
Tories — will eat into 200,000 square
kilometres of timber in northern
Alberta likea giant Pac-Man

Some voters say that an easy-going
attitude towards pollution offenders
shows the government hasn't enforced
environmental
strongly enough.

Further development of the rugged
Kananaskis Country west of Calgary is
also becoming an uncertain issue

But the most concern hasbeen
voiced over the Tories’ forestry binge,

forestry

protection laws

which took off
hearings
Residents in communities such as
Fort McMurray, Grande Prairie and
Peace River are afraid that harmful
byproducts from pulp mills — such as
furans and dioxins — will contaminate
fish in nearby rivers and make drinking

without public

water unsafe

Dioxins, which are suspected of
causing liver disease and birth defects,
are formed in the chlorine bleaching
process pulp mills use to turn brown
paper white

Rob Gardner, president of the
Federation of Alberta Naturalists, said
the government refuses to listen to
people.

‘Already 10 to 12 different projects
have been announced and the lands
have been allotted,"” he said. ‘*The
federation is very concerned they have
all taken place with no public con-
sultationatall.”*

GROUPS COMPLAIN

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vice-president of a group opposed to
the construction of the $350-million
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Alberta, said the Tories have avoided
environment issues

‘The Conservatives haven't said
anything about the environment ex
cept some motherhood statements
about how they care about our en-
* said Kostuch

Kostuch and her group, the Friends
of the Oldman Dam Society, had
hoped the environment would become
enough of an election isque to em
barrass the Tories into halting con-
struction on the project

Sheldon Chumir, Liberal candidate
in Calgary Buffalo, has keptaclose tab
on the government's environmental
record since he was first elected three
years ago.

“L think the government has such a
bad record on environmental matters
that they really would prefer that the
environment not be discussed at all."”

Liberal Leader Laurence Decore has
come up with some &lternatives.

vironment,’

Postal
service
records

profit

OTTAWA (CP) — Canada’s postal
service has recorded its first profit in 30
years and Canada Post is celebrating
with a new corporate image.

However, there is some grumbling
about how it reversed its financial
woes.

Tha Crown corporation expects to
announce~a~$26-million profit this
year, just five years after running an
annual $400-million deficit

And Canada Post boasted of im-
proved service that can ensure that 92
per cent of its deliveries are on time:

“Heretofore, no one knew anything
about where anything was in the
distribution system,’’ president
Donald Lander told the CBC.

“Today we know exactly where the
mail is, where it's running, when it will
arrive and what day it is that it needs to
be delivered

NEW LOGO

At a news conference Friday,
executives—said—Canada—Post—is
changing its logo and the color
schemes on trucks and mail boxes, It
has also launched a $3-million adver-
tising campaign to promote a new
image

Canada Post has achieved the tur-
naround in its bottom line through a
combination of increases in. revenue
and cuts in expenses.

Revenues are up 39 percent over five
years, thanks in part to an 18-per-cent
increase in mail volume

Meanwhile, the agency estimates it
will save $1.3 billion over five years by
replacing home delivery with super
mailboxes in new areas. A further $1
billion will be saved by franchising
rural post offices to the public sector.

But the franchising has deprived
smaller communities of the post of-
fices they’re entitled to, said Cynthia
Sams, a member of an anti-franchising
group called Rural Dignity.

“The postal service is there to
provide people with a good, quality

* she said. ‘The people in
smaller communities have a right to a
federally-operated post office
Whether that -means—e~defieitfor
Canada~ Post or not, think, is
irrelevant.””

Jean-Claude Parrot, president of
the Canadian Union of Postal
Workers, has also said his members,
have been hurt as post offices were
franchised to private operations
paying lower wages.

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