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VIN SH4 jews reserves the ods under ap HUMAN RIGHTS ACT H . 5 3 23, WEATHER Vol. 44, No. 16 Kidnapped Shopping tours : rte aenmberte life. tout health srearrace ney Sony ‘ SBectionsA BA J a ee +++ A6 peeps ner pt cnt 78 Conte = Mi ye Saints seek triple as he waits for a ruling from conflict-o! commissioner Ted Hughes on whether last summer. chats with community newspapers. The premier discussed a number o: during the 45-minute conversation. Wednesday's Castlegar News. conétantly hear that, and you’re made liar or a thief or something. It’s awful. terrible. interest commissioner Ted Hughes will regarding the sale of Fantasy Gardens? News on Thursday he’s under ‘‘enormous pressures”’ f-interest the premier violated his own conflict guidelines in the’ $16 million sale of Fantasy Gardens to a. Taiwanese businessman Vander Zalm called the CasNews from his Victoria office as part of a province-wide series of f local issues Rather than paraphrase the premier and use selective quotes, we've decided to publish the interview verbatim. Because of the length, the interview will run in two parts with the conclusion in Birch: How are you hanging in there? Vander Zaim: Enormous pressures, unaccustomed to that. It’s difficult though. It’s much easier to deal with issues than to deal with personal things, and it hurts me, but more so my wife and family. After all I’ve been in politics for 25 years so you become a little hardened to some of these things. But it’s difficult for the wife and the kids when they jut I'm not out to look a That's Birch: Do you hope the inquiry by conflict-of- lay to rest once and for all the accusations made against you Vander Zaim: I’m satisfied that Mr. Hughes is a fair and thorough individual. As a matter of fact, I suppose, some people would suggest I, perhaps from a political standpoint, would have been better to have left it alone. But once it was suggested that Mr. Hughes should take it on, I volunteered immediately because I'd like to see this over with. I doubt if all of these things will ever go away completely because some people would prefer to use personal attacks in the course of a campaign even where it’s innuendo or suggestion or simply leaving impressions. We have to put up with that. It’s the American trend which is finding its way into Canada more and more all the time. But still, I’ll be happy to have him deal with it and to see an end to it. I’m satisfied that itll come out great. Birch: From your comments, can I assume you think the next campaign will inevitably take on some kind of personal tone? Vander Zalm: Oh, I’m privy a little bit to some of the contacts that have been made by the Opposition (NDP) in the U.S. with people in the business and therefore a little bit aware of the record these people have in other campaigns. So I’m convinced it will be much a personal campaign. Birch: Do you think you can come out of it reasonably unscathed? Vander Zaim: Well, the beauty is people, by and large, are much, much smarter than many, many politicians will give people credit for and people can see through things and beyond things and assess reasonably well for themselves, number one. BILL VANDER ZALM Secondly, I also think people are generally fair ++» ‘difficult for the wife and kids’ negativism sells. that. Co. is Accusations ‘hurt me,’ premier says and they don’t like this personal attack, although some would argue, including people in our Py that it works and therefore it ought to be used, that That's why Coke says don’t drink Pepsi and Pepsi says don’t drink Coke, and Safeway says we're better: than Save On and Save On says don’t go to Safeway. I mean negativism seems to sell. But in the final analysis | still believe the majority of people are fair minded and I count on Birch: I’m sure you're aware that Celgar Pulp 2 $700 million and it? review process.) modernization project here in Castlegar. The company had to go through the provincial government's mew major project review process. That was criticized by some people for delaying the project to some extent. What's your assessment of the MPRP and is your government looking at changes to Vander Zaim: No, we still believe it to be a good Process given the alternatives. If we do not have this major review process involving both federal and provincial people, then we leave ourselves open to being EARPed, the review coming out of Ottawa. (EARP is the federal environmental assessment A review coming out of Ottawa is far less of communities within our province than what a provincial review is. So that while it’s long and burdensome and we appreciate that, it’s still better than the alternative which would be to go through a whole provincial process only to see the feds come over on top with a much more difficult process still. please see VANDER ZALM page A3 Board has budget blues By CasNews Staff The Ministry of Education’s decision to hold increases in funding for school boards to 3.75 per cent this ‘year could hurt the Castlegar school district, local trustees say. But they declined this week to support a series of recommendations from Lower Mainland school boards designed to put pressure on the ministry to reconsider the level of the budget increase. “We don’t know yet what our budget is and what the implications of the budget will be,”’ Castlegar board chairman Gordon Turner said. have enough information. The Lower Mainland boards — known collectively as the Metropolitan Branch of the B.C. School Trustees Association — are Proposing: * No board go to asa means of funding its 1991-92 budget. * All boards identify their real financial needs in a “minimum needs budget."” * Boards and the BCSTA con- tinue to pressure the provincial government to increase block fun- ding to meet minimum needs budgets. Turner noted that the 3.75 per cent increase in school board budgets is down from tast year’s “‘reasonable’’ increase of 6.1 per hardly status quo,” he said. “‘It'll mean We're in trouble. ‘We'll. really have to look at our budget and make some tough decisions on supplies and «staff allocations.’’ d Dirks, MLA for Nelson-Creston, talks about hiring practices with some of the frustrated local workers who feel they've been passed over for jobs on the Celgar expansion project. About 40 Arms Hotel to discuss the situation. people gather Thursday night at the Hi Arrow CasNews photo by Ed Mills Local workers protest hiring practices We get stabbed in the back,” said union construction worker ‘Wayne Voykin. Nelson-Creston MLA Howard taken. I think the pressure to hire local people will be stepped up. I hope it will."* As ammunition for Regional district — likes idea of tax breaks for rail By SIMON BIRCH Editor Regional District of Central Kootenay directors want the provin- cial government to give tax breaks to operators of small rail lines. The regional district board voted each division into a separate com- pany and getting the lower rate?’ he asked. The board agreed to Herchmer’s suggestion to forward the regional district’s recommendation to the Association of Kootenay Boundary to urge the pi government “to establish a two tier tax structure which would have small rail lines paying a reduced rate.”’ The board passed the recommen- dation from its resources committee in the wake of CP Rail’s continuing abandonment of rail lines in the West Kootenay. The National Transportation Agency gave Canadian Pacific per- mission last fall to abandon the company’s Castlegar-to-Midway line. CP abandoned the line in December and could begin tearing up the tracks in the spring. “‘Basically, the railroads are on the way out,”” said Josh Smienk, direc- tor for Area E (Balfour, Procter, Harrop), echoing comments made earlier this year by Provincial Secretary Howard Dirks, MLA for Nelson-Creston. ‘‘They’re pulling their tracks up behind them.’” Director Bill Herchmer of Creston Wondered if a large company like Canadian Pacific would take advan- tage of a two-tier tax rate. “What's to stop CPR breaking up lor Late last month, John Meade, a Revelstoke businessman who has been pursuing the feasibility of operating a rail service on low- density rail lines, told the resources committee high taxes are the major obstacle rail operators face. Meade, general manager of Boun- dary Transportation, said efforts are being made to sponsor a private members’ bill in the provincial legislature to deal with the issue of Property tax on railroads. He said he feels the ‘opportunity exists for an independent rail service im the West Kootenay which could compete with trucking. Rail service would create employment, pay taxes and avoid possible environmental damage associated with increased trucking and conflicts with tourist traffic, Meade said. Supporters of rail service have touted the Castlegar-to-Midway line as one alternate to trucking for hauling wood chips from the Grand Forks area to the Celgat pulp mill in Castlegar. Selkirk College keeps co-op education afloat By CHERYL CALDERBANK said that although students are relieved to hear the news of the self to keeping the co-op education Program afloat next year, but the of- fice will be staffed by one person, in- stead of two. A with Selkirk co-op must not face cutbacks under any circum- stance so that it can function properly as a beneficial program for the students, employers and Selkirk College business networking. “*T cannot understand how such a commitment (with cutbacks) can be made when education and job ex- perience is so important in today’s job market,"’ Leggat said. The co-op program began five years ago with the federal gover- nment providing funding through seed money for co-op education and please soe COLLEGE pege AZ