a4 November 13, 1988

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MARAAMER OF THE B.C. PRESS COUNCH
y TWICE WEEKLY MAY 4, 1900
PUBLISHED SEIPEMBER 12, 1978. AUGUST 27,1900
PUBLISHER, AUGUST 7, 1947. FEBRUARY 15, 1973
PUBLISHER — Burt Compbel!
EDITOR — Ron Norman
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INCORPORATING
LV. CAMPBELL

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OFFICE MANAGER
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Feeling the squeeze

The Castlegar school board is feeling the squeeze these days —
the funding squeeze. On the one side are district teachers concerned
about overcrowded classes and overworked teachers. On the other

are taxpayers upset by hefty increases to their tax bill.
It’s a no-win situation for the board.

The problem of overly large classes is a real one. The Castlegar
and District Teachers’ Association has listed nearly 100 classes that
are too crowded. The teachers say there should be no more than 20-
Yet, some classes have as many as 35

25 students in each class
students.

The Castlegar school board acknowledges the problem, saying
both more teachers and more teacher aides are needed. But the

board pleads poverty; it just doesn't have the funding.

In part, that is true. The provincial government isn’t providing
enough funds, so the school board has been forced to raise local

taxes — this year by an average of $55 for each homeowner.

But that tax hike just wasn't enough. Class sizes are still too
large. Yet, the board couldn't very well increase local taxes any fur-
ther without fear of some taxpayer backlash. Already, there have
been rumblings of discontent from local homeowners unhappy with
the more than 10 per cent increase in their school taxes — the third
tax increase in. as many years.

However, Victoria isn't wholly to blame for the situation. Provin-
cial funding is also down because of the declining school enrolment
The province provides funding to each school district based on the
number of students enrolled. Funding drops as enrolment drops.

This decline in provincial funding has presented a dilemma for
the local board. It has to try to provide the same number and quality

ot programs, but with less funding. >

It means either the programs remain the samé and some class
sizes increase, or programs are cut and some class sizes shrink..It
appears the board has opted for the former — keeping its programs

and increasing class sizes

But the problem dould get worse. The board is looking at expan-
ding its program offerings still further. A recent survey went out to
district parents asking them what language programs they would
like to see introduced in the district; this while classrooms are
ulging at the seams.

While it would be wondertul to have an ever-larger number of
school programs, certainly it doesn't make sense if it means some
class sizes Rave to increase.

The board would be better to address basic issues like class
sizes before setting about looking at ways to expand programs.

Remember
when

40 YEARS AGO
From the Nov. 18, 1948
Castlegar News

The Sanitary Inspector, Mr. Nor.
man Stephenson has been appointed
by the department of Health and
Welfare to this district and his
headquarters will be in Trail. His
duties will comprise the inspection of
milk production, restaurant sapita-
tion, tourist camps, industrial camps,
garbage disposal, sewage disposal
and water supply.

¢ ‘ied ile

The Castlegar Board of Trade has
received an invitation from Mr. R.W.
Diamond, Vice-President and Gener-
al Manager of the Consolidated
Mining and Smelting Company of
Canada Limited, to visit the Tadanac
and Warfield plants next Wednesday
and attend the company’s banquet in
the Legion Hall, Trail, in the evening.

ee

The members of the Kiwanis Club
and the high school students have
been busy enlarging and recondition-
ing the Community Skating Rink.
When finished it will be a real credit
‘to the Village. The Kinnaird-Robson.
Castlegar Recreational and Welfare
Society has made a generous grant
towards the cost of the material.

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The Kinnaird Improvement

Letters to the editor

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Where is patriotism?

Canadians are in a furore over free
trade. But in all the discussions I
have not heard the case for individual
responsibility or Canadian patriotism
brought into the issue.

Most Canadians live within an
hour's drive of the U.S. border. Each
time a “loyal” Canadian citizen
crosses this border to scoop-up the
so-called bargains or take advantage
of the variety of goods available they
are taking jobs away from their

This year’s municipal election,
dwarfed by the free-trade mania of
the federal campaign, should be a
sleeper. How quiet will it be? Let
me just say that when I mentioned
it to my neighbor he stared at me
in amazement and asked: “What
municipal election?”

The fact the municipal election is
just two days before the federal
election doesn’t help, but there are
other reasons the municipal cam
paign has a lower profile. For one
thing, there isn't much time for
municipal candidates to mount a
campaign. Where the federal cont-
enders have six weeks to get their
message across, their municipal
counterparts have less than three
weeks.

Nominations for city council and Castlegar school board closed
Oct. 31. The election is next Saturday, Nov. 19. That leaves only 20
days to campaign.

Add to that the fact that municipal candidates don't run under a
party banner. That means getting your friends, neighbors and
relatives to help with the campaign.

And this year there isn’t any race for the mayor's chair. If it
wasn’t for the fact that two of the three incumbent aldermen aren't
seeking re-election, this campaign might even be slower than it is.
The absence of those incumbents, means council will get a major
facelift this year.

Most noticeable in this municipal campaign is that three of the six
candidates seeking election are women. And all are good quality.
Patti Richards is the lone incumbent, so she’s proved she can win. So
has Marilyn Mathiesen. She served 1 terms on council before her
family was transferred to the Lower Mainland three years ago.

And Doreen Smecher may be new to council, but she’s not new to
local polities. She has served nine years as a Castlegar school
trustee — several of them as board chairman.

If all three are elected, they would give council a distinctly
female face. Along with Mayor Audrey Moore, four of the seven
council seats would be occupied by women.

But the three men vying for a seat on council are no slouches. Joe
Irving has taken a run at council twice before, the last time a year ago
when he was narrowly edged by Bob MacBain by 80 votes.

Dan Shields has lived in this area for years, and though the
quietest of the candidates, showed at Thursday's all-candidates’
forum that he knows his stuff. He placed air pollution and road pavifig
among his priorities; those are common complaints hereabouts.

Newcomer Bob Branning — he's been here only six months —
was the biggest surprise at the candidates’ meeting. He was
articulate, well-spoken and came prepared to tackle any question.

While the city’s air quality seemed to get the biggest play from
the candidates, economic growth was a close second. Year-in and
year-out the city’s economy is always an issue in the municipal
election. Candidate after candidate pledges to bring new businesses
into the city or increase tourism or make us a retirement centre.

What most don’t realize is that economic progress is a slow,
laborious, time-consuming process. Just ask Richard Maddocks.
Maddocks is the economic development officer with the Castlegar and
District Development Board. He was there Thursday listening to the
candidates, so it must have made him twinge a little to hear
the candidates suggest ways to improve the area economy — most of
them things Maddocks and his board have been doing for several
years already.

The problem is successes are small. There are no major new
secondary industries, no influx of tenants for the industrial park, no
new shopping mall. But Maddocks says we have to realize that an
increase of five jobs in Castlegar is the same as a jump of 75 jobs in a
community‘ the size of Kelowna or Prince George.

Once in office, those who tout economic growth quickly learn it is
more difficult than simply saying they are in favor of increased
economic activity. Just ask the incumbent and those presently on
council. It's a good chance they made the same statement when they
first ran.

fellow Canad It is this “loyal”
Canadian who will vote against free
trade.

When Canadian products are al
lowed to flow freely across the
border, our Canadian manufacturers
will be able to increase production to
fill this ten-fold increase in market
Our B.C. lumber and mining indus
tries will be able to manufacture the
finished products in Canada before
exporting to the States. These
manufactured goods can then also be
sent to other countries throughout
the world.

That Fisher-Price toy or baseball
glove that is now manufactured in

Attitude
cavalier

In the recent nationally-televised
debate, NDP leader Ed Broadbent
confirmed that he supported all of his
party's resolutions.

Section A.5.2 of the NDP resol
utions book states, “a balanced
budget is an irrelevant goal.”

Is reducing the interest cost on our
growing national debt an irrelevant
goal?

Is fiscal responsibility an irrele.
vant goal?

Is it irrevelant to ask how we
intend to someday reduce the budget
deficit and Canada’s national debt?

We cannot afford to let Mr.
Broadbent and the NDP bankrupt
this country with their cavalier at
titude toward the budget deficit.

R. McGall
Balfour

Scaring
seniors

Re: “Honest Ed.”

I watched the “great debate” on
TV the other night and I found it
very instructive.

NDP leader Ed Broadbent, when
asked by Prime Minister Brian Mul
roney to name even one section of the
free-trade agreement that would en.
danger Canada’s social programs,
could not.

Why then is Mr. Broadbent and
the NDP flying all over the country
talking about the danger to Canada’s
social programs? Why is he scaring
pensioners? Why scare everyone
about medicare?

Surely, “Honest Ed” would tell us
the truth wouldn’t he? Or would he?
Maybe he wants to become leader of
the Opposition too much to worry
about scaring a few seniors.

Ruby Buskas
Castlegar

the U.S. and which you rush to
Spokane to save money on will now
be available in your local store at the
reduced price and you will be able to
support your local small business.
Think of this when you vote against
free trade.

What does the apgument against
free trade have td do with patrio-
tism? Oh, ye of little faith. You have
so little faith in the ability of Can
adians to remain Canadian.

We Canadians have developed our
unique way of life over the past 200
years. We were the haven for draft
dodgers throughout the Vietnam
war. We have opened our arms to
refugees and displaced persons
throughout our history. We have
fought for freedom in the world wars
and are peace-keepers extraordinaire
throughout the world today. We
have formed a country without a civil
war. We have done all this and yet
we don't have the confidence to
believe that we can be Canadian.

I believe in Canadians as a people

f individual r ibility. I believe

I also realize that the closest large
market for us to supply is that of the
United States. Once the Canadian
manufactures have expanded to fill
this market they can supply the more
distant and more populous Asian
market.

Have faith in individual respon-
sibility. Have faith in Canadian
patriotism.

Vote for the government which has
lowered taxes and increased employ-
ment. Vote for the government that
has faith in you as Canadians, who
will not let your social services be
eroded. Vote for the candidate who
has worked diligently for all people of
the West Kootenay; the man who
convinced the federal government
that the West Kootenay needed
assistance and received $120 million
for our region.

Don't let yourself, your fellow
Canadians, \or your fellow West
Kootenay residents down. Vote Bob
Brisco and you will be voting your

in Canadians as people who help the
less fortunate. I believe in Canadians
who can compete successfully in a
world market.

fidence in a better more prosper-
ous Canada.

Marilyn Johnstone
Castlegar

Return Bob Brisco

Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco has
done a good job. He got the funding
to secure the jobs and future of our
area. Now let's fire him.

That seems to be the message of
Local 480 president Doug Swanson
in recent media coverage.

Generally, outside of politics, peo-
ple are rewarded for good work.
Should not a union president be more
concerned about the welfare of his
workers than his own political per.
suasion.

The scare-mongering by Liberal
leader John Turner and NDP leader
Ed Broadbent about loss of sov
ereignty, distinct Canadian identity,

social programs, etc. is just that:
scare tactics. There is nothing in the
free-trade agreement giving any
direct basis to their attacks or fears.
Obviously, they don’t consider them-
selves strong enough leaders to look

C has planned a new type of
entertainment for you, to take the
form of a “Cabaret” to be held in the
hall Friday, Nov. 26. Only residents
of Kinnaird will be able to obtain
invitations. .

25 YEARS AGO
From the Nov. 14, 1963
Castlegar News

Annual school meetings for the
ratepayers in various attendance
areas of School District No. 9 have
now been completed, state school
board officials.
. .
Castlegar council reaffirmed its
desire to have the Project Society
operate the arena for the balance of
the 1963-64 season at its meeting last
week by a 3-2 vote.
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Highways Minister P.A. Gaglardi
intends to apply in one month's time
to the federal minister of public
works for approval of plans and a site
for a bridge crossing the Kootenay
River at Brilliant.
. «
The B.C. Research Council at the
University of B.C. has estimated that
the order of costs for a survey: of the
possible amalgamation of Castlegar
and Kinnaird “is likely to be between

$4,000 and $10,000.”

15 YEARS AGO
From the Nov. 15, 1973
Castlegar News

The annual 581 Squadron Promo-

tions Parade and Parents’ Night took

place last night at Stanley Hum-

phries secondary school with its

traditional dignity.

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A lively and sometimes heated

public forum was conducted at

Selkirk College last Thursday even-

ing to introduce the candidates for

the local municipal elections now
underway.

. 8

Castlegar council has turned down

the proposed apartment develop-

ment of the old cenotaph property on

Bloomer Hill and is retaining the land

after the best ii of C.

Our area has just started to
prosper. Let's keep it going. Let's
continue to get federal government
help. Let's continue to have the ad-
vantage of a strong, effective voice in
Ottawa. Be a bit selfish. Put aside
your politics. Think about the future
of our area and your family. Return
Bob Brisco to Ottawa to work for us.

Walter A. Siemens
Trail

Free-trade pact
‘envy of world’

I keep hearing the claim that the
Canada-United States auto pact is an
example of “managed” trade.

The only thing “managed” in the
auto pact is the fact that the auto-
motive companies must produce
approximately 11 per cent of their
total North American production in
Canada.

The governments of either country
do not tell the companies what to
produce or where — they do not
manage the trade. They set a frame-
work for free trade inthe automotive
business and let private enterprise
get on with the job.

What has been the result?

Canadian workers have been so
productive, and the costs of produc:
tion significantly lower than the
United States, that today — 20 years
after the auto pact was signed —
Canada now produces approximately
18 per cent of total North American
automotive production.

Simon Reisman was the man who
negotiated the auto pact. He calls it
an example of “sectoral” free trade.
GATT would not allow new “sec
toral” free-trade agreements and the
United States is not interested in
“sectoral” free trade.

Mr. Reisman was the man who
negotiated the free-trade agreement.
He calls it “the envy of the world.”

‘The questions that Canadians have
to answer include:

e are Canadian automotive work-
ers less Canadian than 20 years ago?

e haven't our social programs im-
proved in the past 20years?

wouldn't everyone in the country
like to have the $3 billion that GM
has invested in Oshawa in their area?

wouldn't everyone like to have
those jobs in their area?
Tony Brand
Nelson

more letters A5

to be di ped into a park similar to
Nelson's Gyro Park.
* *# 6

A game between the 1961 World
Champion Trail Smoke Eaters and a
team of former Swedish National
Team players will be held here on
Jan. 4.

Sponsored by the Castlegar and
District Minor Hockey Association,
the game will be one of four to be
played in the West Kootenay area.

* *

West Kootenay Power has re-
peated its view that the under-
grounding of 6,000 feet of power lines
along Columbia Ave. would be an ex.
tremely expensive project.

5 YEARS AGO
From the Nov. 13, 1983
Castlegar News
Despite describing the current
labor situation in the province as
close to anarchy,” Mayor
Audrey Moore Saturday could not
say if the city plans to seek an
injunction to send Castlegar's 37
unionized employees back to work
should they walk out Monday.
Moore said council will make the
decision on a court injunction in
cooperation with city staff.
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Anybody who tries to rob the
Monte Carlo Motor Inn will get his
own back — in spades.

On Wednesday at about 6:30 p.m. a
man wearing a stocking mask held
Monte Carlo desk clerk Joy Ramsden
at knifepoint and demanded money
Ramsden took one look at the knife
with the 12-inch blade and ran into
the restaurant kitehen returning
with two large kitchen knives,

sy

November 13,1988 Castlegar News 4s

MORE LETTERS

Auto pact ‘controlled’

A friend of mine recently told me
that he was tired of listening to the
various arguments over free trade,
and I reckon his feelings are being
echoed by a lot of people out there. I

to those who agree with
him, but I just can't help bringing up
a few last arguments against the deal
in light of certain recent Tory state.
ments. I promise these are the last
words I will write on the subject.

Shortly after the debate, Prime
Minister Brian Mulroney said that if
we think that we are having a hard
time negotiating an acid rain treaty
now, just wait until we reject free
trade. He obviously has little respect
for the intelligence of Americans if he
thinks they would refuse to negotiate
such a mutually-beneficial treaty for
that reason. If we have to open our
borders and allow the Americans
free access to our resources in order
to get an acid rain treaty, then to hell
with the acid rain treaty.

Next, I heard Simon Reisman say
ing how amazed he was that the
Americans decided to treat sis, little

Canada, as equals. As I understand it
the free-trade agreement-says’ that
Canadian laws are subject to the
free-trade agreement but that Amer-
ican laws overrule the free-trade
agreement. Boy, that cigar-chompin’
Simon sur a hard-nosed negotia-
tor, That's quite a compromise he
worked out. Equal? BS.

Finally I see Kootenay West MP
Bob Brisco bad mouthing NDP leader
Ed Broadbent for condoning the auto.
pact because he comes from Oshawa
and then renouncing the free-trade
agreement thereby denying prosper-
ity to the rest of the country. Ac-
cording to Bob every economist in
the country says that the auto pact is
a “de facto” free-trade agreement.
‘The auto pact says that the American
automakers must produce one car in
Canada for every car they sell here.
Does this sound like free trade to
you? Of course it’s not; it’s controlled
trade. For Mr. Brisco to suggest that
it is free trade is proof that he doesn't
have a very high opinion of the

the simple fact that the reason some
things are not mentioned specifically
by name in a contract, is because
they have nothing to do with it and it
‘has nothing to do with them? It is

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intelligence of his constituents.
Bnough free trade talk.

Mr. Brisco’s campaign again
seems to be based on his presump-
tion that it is better to have a
member of the ruling party as our
MP and the assumption that the
Tories will be it. By saying that he
gave us $120 million while former
NDP MP Lyle Kristiansen only
brought us $9.8 million is he saying
that he worked over 12 times as hard
as Lyle, or is he saying that only
Tory ridings do well under a Tory
government?

I don't think that the latter case is
acceptable to the majority of us as
Canadians. If we accept that, we are
on our way to becoming a northern
banana republic. My vote is not for
sale.

To quote someone much wiser than
I whose name I forget: better to-vote
for. what you want and not get it,
than to vote for what you don’t want
and get it.

Rod Retzlaff
Glade

Free-trade common sense

Why can't people see and accept

cussion.

Why are details of the various
(Canadian and U.S.) railways and
waterways not listed and specified in
the auto pact? Because they are ir-
relevant to the matters under dis-

simply logic, common sense.
Why is ownership and operation of
the Bessborough Hotel not in our
marriage vows? Because they don't
belong there.
Why is management of Banff Na-

So, why aren't Canadian sovereig-
nty, medical coverage. and senior
citizens’ pensions mentioned and
listed in the free-trade agreement?
Obviously, because they do not
belong there. They have nothing to

tional Park not mentioned in the
White Spot controversy? Because it
doesn't belong there.

with them.

Why is free trade

do with it and it has nothing to do

The answer is so glaringly obvious

suddenly vital?

Free trade. Strange how Canada
could have done without it for so
long.

Free trade was proposed about 80
years ago and it was turned down
then for the same reasons we are
questioning it at this time.

The U.S. wants Canada. The U.S.
needs Canada... badly. The U.S. has
always championed large families.
Now, some 250 years and some 266
million people later the U.S. is
awfully crowded and the natural
resources of the country are very
quickly becoming depleted, Much of
the water is polluted and there is no
hope in sight for improvements. The
U.S., needs clean water and soon.
Today, tanker trucks are hauling
water from Canada to the U.S.

The Americans have a lifestyle
second to none in the world, an
extremely wasteful lifestyle. If the
Americans can’t obtain more re-
sources soon, the lifestyle they are
now enjoying will certainly deter
orate. The Americans can't and
won't let that happen.

If free trade is instituted in Canada
we won't see threatening changes
right away. The political party
attempting to institute this law tells
us that it can be cancelled in six
months if found to be i A

that even professional hecklers,
rat-packs and seare-mongers can't
help but see it.

You don't mention something in a
deal or contract that has absolutely
nothing to do with the subject under
discussion. It doesn’t take an MP PC
after your name to know that. All it
takes is a return to good old-fash-
ioned common-sense.

The free-trade agreement con-
cerns “duties” on imported and ex-
ported goods and has no more to do
with the U.S. annexing Canada than
the one between Australia and New
Zealand had to do with Australia
taking over the sovereignty and pen-
sions of New Zealand.

It simply makes them better
friends and neighbors. So, ignore the
scare-mongers and begin to trust
your common sense.

Just a closing tidbit regarding
Canadian finances: John Turner was
finance minister under former Lib-
eral prime minister Pierre Trudeau
from 1972-75 and our deficit rose by
$4 billion while the inflation rate rose
5.1 per cent to 10.6 per cent. An

y
By the time Canada has found free
trade to have been a bad choice it will
be too late!

The U.S., a country with 10 times
the population of Canada, will surely
have arranged the financial situation
to make it impossible for Canada to
turn back. Free trade will be nothing
more than a colossal sellout to the
United States.

We already have 80 per cent free
trade with the U.S. so the deal is on
only 20 per cent. Why has it
suddenly become so important to
make a deal with the U.S. on this
remaining 20 per cent? Could it be
the awful dilemma the Americans are
in? Never in the history of the U.S.
Senate has a bill been passed so
unanimously and so quickly.

Allen 0. Woodrow

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Deal
benefits
the rich

Ms. Baaken's need to educate the
ignorant public on the facts of free
trade is becoming more than a little
tiresome. I did not have the patience
to read through this time. No need.

Free trade appears to be of benefit
to the rich; employers, rather than
employees. I would suggest that with
the number of unemployed in the
U.S., the lack of even a minimum
wage in some states, and their real
need for our resources, Canada looks
very good indeed. The U.S. is
anxious for this deal to go through.
This, alone, should give one pause for
thought.

Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
began this campdign by saying
nothing about free trade. That, ob-
viously, didn't work. He then made
an about turn and became very vocal.
He is still, however, saying nothing.

Our prime minister assures us that
our medical and social programs are
not negotiable. Why, then, was this
loud and clear?
Should free trade go through, we
may keep our medical and social
programs. We will also be paying for
it — one way or another.

L. Morrison
Castlegar

not spelled out

Embargo

In the interest of fairness, the
Castlegar News has placed an
embargo on letters to the
editor. The Wednesday, Nov. 16
issue will be the last issue in
which letters to the editor on the
federal election will be
published.

Of course, the news pages
will continue to report in full
detail the views and opinions
expressed by candidates. And
the Sunday, Nov. 20 issue will
feature special in-depth inter-
views with each of the can-
didates

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your monthly statement, either
If it’s time for a kid you know to stash-
their cash, call us today. And find out
how they can
become a
Kootenay Kid

Where You Belong

@ Trail @ Fruitvale

@ Castlegar
South Slocan @ Nakusp @New Denver @ Waneta Plaza

@ Salmo
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