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Castlegar News November 25,1967

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Privatization attacked

By DAPHNE BRAMBAM
Canadian Press

VICTORIA — 0; New Dy came out

Vander Zalm returned Harcourt’s fire by accusing the
NDP leader of attempting to create fear and advocating
because

fighting Tuesday by attacking Premier Bill Vander Zalm, his
privatization plans and his conflict-of-interest guidelines
when the British Columbia legislature resumed sitting.

The rambunctious start by the NDP and their leader
Mike Harcourt was given a full airing because Tuesday was
the first time radio reporters were allowed to broadcast
legislative proceedings.

Vander Zalm rejected calls for debate on privatization
saying there will be “ample opportunity” to talk about it
when legislation is introduced and followed the throne
speech and budget in the spring.

Vander Zalm unveiled his privatization initiative at last
month's Social Credit convention.

He put $3-billion worth of assets up for immediate sale
including the rail and natural gas divisions of B.C. Hydro,
highways maintenance and snow removal as well as various
ministries’ laboratories and portions of the Queen's Printer.

‘The premier also put the province's 35,000 civil servants
on notice that Up to one-third of them will be affected by

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use Harcourt supports the B.C. Govern-

ment Employees Union's call for work stoppages to protest.

But Harcourt said if Vander Zalm had kept his election

promise of co-operation and i sae pot “we wouldn't be
having these

An Attorney General's investigation determined Hagen
breached two conflict-of-interest guidelines but not the B.C.

Constitution Act that governs the conduct of members of the °

mn was
The New Democrats, who have repeatedly called the
guidelines too weak even though three ministers have
resigned i conflict in the past year, want. an all-party

He charged the Socreds with bringing in
“without support, without consent and without consulta-
tion.”

Harcourt said it is creating “massive social upheaval”
and called for an emergency debate on the issue. Speaker
John Reynolds reserved decision on the request.

Harcourt said New Democrats are not the only ones
concerned about privatization. He noted both. former
highways minister Alex Fraser and government) house
leader Bruce Strachan have said the public might be at risk
if the private sector maintains highways and removes snow.

The New Democrats also started the process to

blish to business
dealings of Advanced Education Minister Stan Hagen.

Hagen resigned in July after it was reported he was the
manager of a company that had a contract with a govern.

and program restructuring.

POVERTY LEVEL

ment agency.

Fewer poor Canadians

OTTAWA (CP) — More
than one million Canadian
children still live in poverty,
Statistics Canada figures re-
leased Tuesday indicate.

In 1986, 1,016,000 children
under age 16 years — about
one out of every six kids —
were members of families
whose incomes were below
the poverty line.

The proportion — 17.6 per
cent — is down from the peak
of 20.8 per cent, or more than
one in five, recorded in 1984.

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16.5 per cent recorded just
prior to the 1981-82 reces-
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“That's still a lot of kids,”
said Ken Battle, director of
the National Council of Wel-
fare, an advisory body to
Health and Welfare Minister
Jake Epp.

The Statistics Canada level
is based on income levels up
to which an individual or
family would have to spend
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See who now has his a
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Skelly said in an interview!
Tuesday night he will resign
his seat “sometime before the
next general election” but
that doesn't mean his politi-
cal career is over.

“If the next federal elec-
tion is called after July 13,
1988, when the new bound-
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nomination in the new fed-
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But if Prime Minister
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election before that date,
“['m looking for a rocking
chair.”

Skelly said he wouldn't run
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effect.

sites of food, clothing and
shelter.

In 1986, that income level
was $21,666 for a family of
four living in a major city and
$10,651 for an individual.

FEWER POOR

The decline in the number
below the poverty line last
year, not just for children but
for single mothers and fam-
ilies in general, is encour-
aging, Battle said.

“With the increase in em-
ployment, we're finally see-
ing some easing of the
poverty situation.”

In 1986, there were 3.7
million people living below
the poverty line, 262,000
fewer than in 1985, Statistics
Canada said.

But the number and pro-
portion of children growing
up in poverty is still higher
now than it was before the
recession, he said. “And
that’s just kids under 16, and
if you take kids under, 18 that
number is

Also, the figures ighore the
fact cet beat of those living

below the poverty line are
well below, he said.

Battle said the Statistics
Canada low-income levels are
lower than what most social
agencies describe as the
poverty line.

Further, in recent years
there has been a reduction in
social

low-income elderly Canad-
ians last year was especially
significant.

There were 480,000 elderly
poor last year, a drop of
120,000 over the last three
years, a period over which
the number of elderly in-
creased by 200,000.

In general, the situation
also improved for families as
the average family income
last year was $40,356. Once
adjusted for inflation, that
was 1.9-per-cent higher than
in 1985.

Provincially, average fam-
ily imeome ranged from
$29,446 in Newfoundland ‘to.

more than $45,000 in Ontario.”

Highways shop
to stay union

VICTORIA (CP) ind
Workers at the provincial
Highways Ministry sign shop
in suburban Langford say
they will remain union mem-
bers even if they take over
the operation as part of the
government's _ privatization

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Ross McLean, a British
Columbia Government Em-
ployees’ Union shop steward,
said Tuesday the workers
voted 13-1 in favor of re-
taining the union.

He said the vote was taken
in response to comments by
plant manager Gordon Dam-

that a successful pri-
vatization bid would be the
end of the union in the sign
shop.

McLean said the workers
have no intention of giving up
the contract which “guar-

antees their jobs, wages apd-

working conditions.” fa “

government's $3-billion priv-
atigation program unveiled in
October. Workers and the

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However, Moe Sihota, the member for Derotealt Port
Renfrew, said he would not present details until the judicial
inquiry into the $1-billion highway is completed. He said he
didn't want to prejudice the inquiry’s work.

Tuesday also marked the first time since the October
1986 general election that the voters in the Vancouver
suburb of Delta were represented in the legislature.

Former speaker Walter Davidson did not take his seat
on the Socreds’ back bench during the last sitting while
criminal charges were pending against him. He returned
Tuesday after his conviction this summer for counselling to
commit a fraud involving election funds.

Davidson was fined $1,500 and given 90 days on pro-
bation, but he is appealing.

NDP BLASTS
NEW HEALTH
LEGISLATION

VICTORIA (CP) — An amendment which allows
Health Minister Peter Dueck to determine whether some
hospital treatments should be paid for by the government
infringes on patients’ rights, the NDP said Tuesday.

Opposition health critic Lois Boone said Tuesday the
amendment virtually gives the minister or his designate
the power to decide what medical treatments are not
essential and not eligible for medicare coverage.

Boone said she is worried the minister could decide
heart surgery for a 75-year-old is not necessary or
abortions should not be covered. She said those decisions
should be between a doctor and his patient.

Dueck said the amendment does not affect services
like abortion or heart surgery which are covered by the
Canada Health Act but the province could decide not to
pay for hospital visits for cosmetic surgery.

The government has not said what procedures will
be excluded but Dueck said he expects an announcement
soon.

“Well we will have a range of recom:
will be coming to cabinet soon, I hope wit
days or 60 days.”

ndations that
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BOONE WARY

Boone, who represents Prince,George North, said
she doesn't trust the government and thinks the health
legislation amendment should clearly spell out what
treatments. will not be covered under

Dr. David Jones, president of the B.C. Medical
A called the “another intrusion of
the bureaucrats into the health care system.

“Who do you want looking after health care —

“Why are they Picking on health care? Health care
costs are on the C
Highway would take care hina doctors’ fees for a year.”

The government also introduced an amendment
changing the wording, but not the intent, of legislation
that would allow medical health officers to quarantine
people with comunicable diseases like AIDS if they act
irresponsibly.

the amendment now includes people who act
“wilfully, carelessly or because of mental incompetence.”

The Opposition continued to criticize the legislation,
first introduced July 8 but not passed, as conflicting with
human rights legislation.

Dueck said the bill was originally prompted by fears
about tuberculosis carriers but will bg applicable to
anyone with serious communicable diseases.

ADVICE SOUGHT

He said he consulted with the Ombudsman and the
B.C. Civil Liberties Union during the drafting of the
amendments.

Boone said anonymity of carriers is not adequately
protected in the reporting requirements and if govern-
ment privatization plans are expanded to include the
medical services plan or research facilities people “won't
know where the information will end up.”

Boone also said she is concerned about an amend-
ment to the Railway Act which gives the minister power
to set health and competence standards for different
classes of railway employees.

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DRIVERS
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VANCOUVER (CP) — It might be the winding
mountain roads or just vestiges of the pioneer spirit, but
British Columbia drivers are among the worst in the country
and they're. going to pay for it.

To keep up with the poor driving records and
increasingly litigious drivers and victims, the Insurance
Corp. of B.C. says it will increase insurance rates by an
average of 22 per cent next year, The Crown-owned agency
has raised rates 4.5 per cent this year after a 6.5-per-cent
drop in 1986,

“All know is that our driving habits are not good,” said
corporation spokesman Brian Katon. “We tend to follow too
close, run yellow lights and go too fast.”

Transport Canada statistics bear out the poor road
skills on the West Coast.

In 1986, B.C. had the highest number of accidents per
driver at more than 190 for every 100 million kilometres
driven.

Road deaths were the second highest in the country at
2.8 for every 100 million kilometres driven. Only Prince
Edward Island — which unlike B.C. did not have a seat belt
law in 1986 — was higher at 3.28 deaths for every 100 million
kilometres driven.

DRIVERS PAY

Those figures mean drivers don't go unpunished by
insurance firms.

No precise it are available because
of the wide diversity of coverages. But figures prepared by
the Insurance Bureau of Canada, which represents most of
the country’s private insurance firms, show that British
Columbians pay some of the highest insurance rates in the

ntry.

In 1987, the average Toronto driver paid $682 for
insurance — $3 more than his Vancouver counterpart. But
next year, Vancouverites will take the lead, paying an
average of $828.

In the 11 cities looked at, Lethbridge, Alta., had the
lowest average premiums at just $416.

The hike in insurance rates is algo linked to a national
trend by Canadians to go to court after a smash-up.

“In the past people got into accidents and saw the police
and maybe a doctor,” said Rick Godding of the Canadian
Automobile Association. “Now they call a lawyer as well and
sue the pants off someone.”

More court dates has meant more settlements and
hundreds of millions of dollars in extra costs for B.C.'s
insurance corporation, said Katon.

“It's the old lottery mentality,” said Brian Stanhope, the

of the Bureau of
Canada. “Everyone wants a big settlement and thinks ICBC
is a soft touch, which by the way they aren't.”

Last year, more than $472 million in injury-related
claims were paid out by ICBC — a 61-per-cent jump since
1983. The cost of repairing damaged cars jumped by 27 per
cent over the same period to a total of almost $300 million
last year.

What makes drivers less skilled in B.C. than other
regions is a mystery, though ordinary drivers and experts
have their pet theories,

“L think it’s, just because no one can catch the drivers in

Columbians, may also explain the dubious driving record.

“T've got a funny feeling that’s what it is,” said
Stanhope. “The drivers here are just odd.”

Stanhope thinks some drivers are just plain rude as well
— and bad manners can mean accidents.

“TI had one guy in front of me dump gravel from his truck

regardless if they lead to an accident or not will soon cost
drivers more.

In addition to its rate hikes, ICBC, effective Jan. 1, is
increasing penalty points premiums, which are tied to all
driving ‘infractions. Points are assessed for infractions
ranging from speeding (three) to impaired driving (10).

ICBC spokesman Roberta Prepchuk said the new
system is designed to charge more per point as the total
number of points goes up.

pay as much as $119 more
than they did last year to
drive their cars to work,

with older cars will pay $66
more to insure their cars
for pleasure only. Drivers
with medium-priced cars
will pay $87 more for
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drivers will pay from $82
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ICBC says premiums are
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of injury-related claims
which rose by 61 per cent,
to $472 million at the end of

1986.
ICBC will calculate

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Points will affect drivers
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Drivers with five points
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Alberta and Ontario.
Short-term insurance
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Man bolts from police,
caught in Pacific Ocean

WEST VANCOUVER,

.C. (CP) — Police in this
well-to-do community finally
got their man but they nearly
had to be triathletes to do it.

The high-speed driving
event began Sept. 3 when
burglar Gary LeClare left a
house in his girlfriend's car; a
sentencing hearing was told
Tuesday.

The running stage started
when LeClare, 37, vaulted
the hood of a police cruiser to
escape a roadblock and
sprinted away.

fired a warning shot. Both of
the suspect's hands came into
view again and he continued
running.”

Pollitt pulled to within
three metres of LeClare
when he jumped a fence and
escaped until a police dog
tracked him to the water-
front.

“The suspect entered the
ocean. . . and began swim.
ming south,” read Pollitt's
report.
Two other officers began
the rowing event in a bor-

Const. Tim Pollitt and red boat and followed
Dick Clancy were runnin; swam.
about 4% metres behind him !

when LeClare’s hand went
“up underneath his jacket
and began turning toward
me,” according to Pollitt's
report read by prosecutor
Kevin Blair.

“I drew my revolver and

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