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Castlégat News July 13,

Decision criticized

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week. There will be another concert in the park
tomorrow as part of a summer concert series.

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Talbot graduates

Julianne Marie Talbot (nee Par.
tridge) has received a Bachelor of
Arts Degree with distinction in
German and French at recent convo-
cation ceremonies at the University
of Victoria.

She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Stan Partridge of Castlegar and
is a graduate of Stanley Humphries
secondary school. She will be attend-
ing the Faculty of Law at the
University of Calgary in September.

groups and the Haida Nation have criticized an
agreement between the federal and British Columbia
governments that formally declared the pristine
South Moresby region of the Queen Charlotte
Islands as a national park reserve.

The environmentalists said the agreement sets a
dangerous precedent because it allows mining within
the park's boundaries.

And the Haida Nation, which claims aboriginal
title to the area, say ‘they will not honor the
agreement because they were not consulted.

B.C. Parks Minister Terry Huberts and federal
Fisheries Minister Tom Siddon '‘signed.the formal
agreement Tuesday at a news conference.

The signing came exactly one year and a day
after Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Premier
Bill Vander Zalm signed a memorandum of
understanding on creating the park.

The Yormal agreement gives the federal
government ownership of 147,000 hectares on the
southern end of the Queen Charlottes, located about
100 kilometres off the north coast of British
Columbia.

Even though the agreement has been signed,
both Huberts and Siddon admitted there are still
unresolved issues regarding the park's future.

Among those are the amount of compensation to
be awarded to forest products companies with
timber rights in the area, an estimated 130 valid
mineral rights claims in 11,000 hectares of the park
and the long-standing issue of aboriginal claims to
the Queen Charlottes.

Colleen McCrory, spokesman for the Save South
Moresby group, was critical of the mineral rights
claims.

“It looks like it is going to be a park riddled with
industrial development,” said McCrory.

HAIDA UNHAPPY

Miles Richardson, president of the Council of
Haida Nations, said they would not recognize the
agreement without acknowledgment of the Haida
rights to the area.

“It takes two to negotiate,” said Richardson. “It
takes two to come to an agreement . . . We can't sell
out the future of our nation for a national park and

The area has been designated a reserve rather
than a national park to recognize that the resident
Haida nation has an aboriginal claim to the Queen
Charlottes, said Siddon.

“In anticipation of a settlement of that claim it is
important to reserve these lands so we can get on
with the development of the park,” the federal
minister said. °

will scone exploration for or a gas in the
regi

‘Slivaine Zimmermann claimed the dea! outlines
a plan to assess oil and gas reserves within the
boundaries of the park, with funding from the federal
Energy Ministry.

Jeff Gibbs, spokesman for the Sierra Olub
welcomed the agreement, but said he too was
concerned about the exclusion of mineral claims
areas,

“Why work for 14 years for a national park and
have polka dots, little holes where they're going to
have mining,” he said. “It makes no sense.”

Huberts said he was confident the governments
could deal with the minieral claims, many of which he
expected to lapse with no development.

APPROVAL NEEDED

He said any companies wanting to develop
mines would have to obtain approval from both
levels of government and could also be subjected to
strict controls by the provincial government.

The region is a living treasurehouse and home to
unique mammals, including the largest-boned black
bear, dozens of mosses and ferns found nowhere else
in the world.and the highest denisty of peregrine
falcons anywhere.

British Columbia balked at signing the agree-
ment last year, after Ottawa refused to pay more
than $23 million to forest companies who would lose
timber rights in the park. British Columbia has
allowed $8 million for compensation.

But Siddon said that while MacMillan Bloedel
and Western Forest Products have had appraisals
done, the federal government's own independent
assessments last year show “$31 million is an
adequate amount to meet the displaced claims of
these two forest companies.”

The agreement commits Ottawa to spend $106
million for the park reserve, including a $50-million
fund over the next eight years to help the island
economy change from logging to tourism, Siddon
said.

The government hopes to have a plan in place by
March 31, 1989.

And $12 million of that fund will be used for
reforestation and silvaculture for replacing forests
on South Moresby, with the provincial government
putting up an equal amount.

It was the forests and the Haida on South
Moresby, harboring giant centuries-old cedars and
firs that escalated a 14-year battle to protect the
island from destruction.

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Jurisdiction up in air

LONDON (CP) — There is no
Canadian law or direct legal pre
cedent giving Canadian courts juris-
diction to try a person on man-
slaughter charges if the deaths
occurred in another country, a
British court was told Wed day.

Canada ruling on another matter
should apply to the current Canadian
attempt to extradite Inderjit Singh
Reyat, a Canadian legal expert tes-
tified.

Reyat is wanted on eight char-

But a 1985 Supreme Court of

ges incl iL for the
1985 bombing at a Tokyo airport.

make

happen.

Two baggage-h ‘s
were killed in the blast.

“My opinion is that the principle . .
. (of the 1985; Supreme Court de-
cision) is applicable to all offences in
the Canadian Criminal Code,” Lyman
Robinson, former dean of law at the
University of Victoria, told magis-
trate’s court.

The decision in 1985 concerned a
commercial fraud that took place in
both Canada and another country.

Reyat is a former resident of
Duncan, who moved to England two
years ago."Canada’s attempt to ex-
tradite him has run into its toughest
test on two questions: whether there
is enough evidence to convict Reyat
of manslaughter and whether the
Canadian courts even have jurisdic-
tion to try those two counts.

CROSS EXAMINED

Robinson, testifying for the Can-
adian government, was cross-exam-
ined Wednesday by defence lawyer
Harjit Singh.

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Robinson said there is “no express
statutory provision” in Canadian
manslaughter law to cover a case
such as this where the deaths oc-
curred in another country.

He also said he knew of no
precedent-setting manslaughter case
tried in Canada where the deaths
occurred elsewhere

But he added he feels the Supreme
Court's 1985 decision is adequate
precedent even though it has been
used directly only in international
commercial fraud or international
drug trafficking cases.

Popoff
funeral

Funeral services for Gordon Ken-
neth Popoff of Tarrys will be held
Thursday, July 14, 1988 at 7 p.m. in
the chapel of the Thompson Funeral
Home, Nelson. Services will continue
Friday July 15 at 10 a.m. in the
Shoreacres community hall until 1
p.m. when interment will take place
in the Shoreacres cemetery. Popoff
passed away June 6, 1988. He was 34.
The Thompson Funeral Home, Nel-
son is in care of arrangements.

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