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Report says
people needed

OTTAWA (CP) — Canada will
have to pump up immigration, baby
production—or—both if_it-wants-the
population to grow beyond 32.7
million people, a Statistics Canada
report says,

The study, released Thursday, says
the population — now at 26 million
— will peak in the year 2030 if current
immigration and birth rates hold.

After that the population would
decline slowly.

On the other hand, the report says,
the population might peak at 34.2
million in 2035, or it could keep
growing.

It all depends — on everything
from how many babies women have
to how long people live and how wide
the immigration gates are opened.

The report, which describes itself as
a valuable tool for planners and
policy makers, makes a number of
population projections for Canada,
the provinces and territories.

It_was two phenomena will
dominate the demographic future.

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population — the median age of
Canadians will be 45-by the year 2036,

“The evolving demographic trend
— the drastic slowdown in growth
and the aging of the population —
will have major implications for a
wide range of social and economic
Policy sectors,’’ says the report.

“Pension costs, health care,
housing, quality of life and leisure are
issiies likely to figure prominently on
Political and economic agendas.’’

‘Women now have an average of 1.7
babies each and Canada allows in
about 145,000 immigrants annually.

To maintain the current annual
growth rate of one per cent, Canada
would have to accept 200,000 im-
migrants by 1995, and 320,000 by
2011 and 560,000 in 2036.

At any growth rate, Canadians will
be substantially older than they are
now, the study adds.

The. median age now is 33 and
11.3 per cent are over age 65. By 201T,
if current trends continue, the median
age will be 41 years and 15.5 per cent
will be over 65.

By 2036, the median age will be up

to 45 and 24.5 per cent of people will
be over 65.

As Canada’s population-changes;
so will the relative populations of the
provinces, the study says.

Ontario will continue to have the
most people and get even more.
Current trends would give Ontario
11.8 million people by 2011, up from
9.6 million now. Quebec would have
7.5 million inhabitants, up from 6.7
million.

Saskatchewan is the only province
predicted to not grow, staying at its
current population of one million.

Under the same scenario, the

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“Weare to restoring the
wilderness of :

boundaries by introducing amen-
dments to the Park Act during the
legislative session.

The 10,000-hectare addition would
‘be about three times the sizeof the
provincial park proposed by the B:C.
for the lower Carmanah

Messmer said.

The announcement comes three
years after huge areas of B.C.’s oldest
park were turned into ‘“‘recreation
areas’’ — which allow for logging an-
d_ mining — and deleted from the
park on central Vancouver Island.

And it comes two years after the «

arrests of 64 people who interfered
with_exploratory_drilling in a park
that has been mined, dammed and
logged since its creation in 1911.
Messmer, appointed parks minister
in November, promised to change the

Valley.

Messmer said another 10,000 hec-
tares of former park land will be kept
in reserve, as ‘‘exchange lands’’ that
will only be used to acquire parkland
Alsewhere.

Strathcona’s boundaries were
redrawn with a cabinet order-in-coun-
cil announced in January 1987 by
Stephen Rogers, then environment
and parks minister.

The government's justification for
allowing some logging and mining
was a 1985 Supreme Court of Canada

decision that ordered the province to
pay compensation for refusing to
allow mining in Wells Gray Provincial
Park.

Rogers said the only alternative to
permitting Controlled exploration
would be to pay unacceptably high
compensation fees to owners of
existing tenures.

However, one environmental group
obtained a legal opinion that the
government didn’t have to compen-
Sate all mining-claim owners.

And when Cream Silver Mines
began exploratory drilling in 1987 on
its mineral claims in the “‘recreation
areas,"’ _protestersdemonstrated at
the drilling rig. Those arrested
ignored a court injunction not to in-
terfere with drilling operations.

Women fear walking
after dark, poll says

TORONTO (CP) — Fifty per cent
of Canadian women are afraid to go
out after dark in areas a short distan-
ce from home, a Gallup poll suggests.

That’s more than three times the
Portion of men who feel threatened,
the poll published in the Toronto Star
indicates.

Only 16 per cent of males surveyed
said there are areas close to home in
which they wouldn't want to walk at
night, Gallup said.

Across Canada, 34 per cent of
adults surveyed said there are areas
within a kilometre of their residence

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3 Sections (A, B & D)

Celgar studies may be ready by June

By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI

Staff Writer

The second round of studies Celgar Pulp Co. has
been asked to conduct on the impacts of its proposed pulp
mill expansion will likely be close to completion by the

end of May and public hearings on the

could begin in July, Celgar general manager Jim Browne

said Tuesday.

Details of the new studies, contained in terms of
reference released late last week by the provincial commit-
tee overseeing the major project review process Celgar is
undergoing, as well as the hearings, are part of stage two
of the review. Celgar was denied approval in principle of
its expansion plans earlier this month and must complete

The new studies include re-evaluation of the air

emission data provided in the first report Celgar com-

Columbia River,
expansion plans

pleted for the committee as well as evaluation of a variety
of other areas including fibre contamination of the
possible effects on Celgar water
emissions because of changes to B.C. Hydro dams, the
source of wood chips for the expanded mill and the

possible impacts of the expansion on local transportation

and highways.

Stage two before the i will
the project.

Robson
gets
reprieve

By CasNews Staff

The deadline has passed but the
Robson post office has been given a
limited reprieve and will remain open
for several more weeks while Canada
Post negotiates with local
businesspeople interested in a postal
franchise, Canada—Post—media— and.
public_affairs-officer-Colteen Frick |
said from Vancouver Tuesday.

Robson residents were told the post
office, which Canada Post wants to
privatize, was to be closed April 20 if
a local business could not be found to
accept a postal franchise by the end of
March.

Frick said Canada Post is talking to
Larry-Koftinoff, the owner of John-
ny’s Grocery, and another person
who does not yet own a businesss but
plans to open one in the future. Frick
declined to name the would-be
businessperson.

Koftinoff. who said previously he
had “no interest in a franchise, said
Tuesday he —is—diseussing—the
Possibility of a postal outlet in his
store with Canada Post and is having
a lawyer look at the contract.

“I don’t think it’s fair to the com-
munity to lose total service,’’ Kof-
tinoff said in explaining his change of
heart

Canada Post officials have said
Robson residents will have their post
office replaced by some form _of
locked boxes if no franchise operator
is found.

Frick. said Koftinoff’s con-
sideration of a franchise can likely be

PPI 8

“*I guess (the government) wants all the ammunition

+ it may ever need to answer any questions that may come
up” about the effects the mill expansion will have on the
area, Browne said i ini

teasons for the extra

He said many of the requests for new studies were

not surprises since Celgar officials. were given an idea of

continued on page A2

Group asks forexplanatio

By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI
Staff Writer

m—- .

BREATHTAKING

—

if Paul Oster were old enough to get hié licence he would be able to drive safely after he
passed the breathalyzer test with ease. Const. Larry Oster had his son demonstrate the
machine at one of the booths set up Sunday at the Community Complex as part of local
government awareness week April 20 to 26. —cosrews photo by Ed mitts

what was coming with a draft copy of the terms of

reference.

Celgar began preparing the new data ‘‘as soon as we
got a hint of what would be required,"! he said. The con-
‘Sultants Celgar hired to do the original analysis have put
more of their employees to work on the new studies,

Browne said.

‘However, some of the work done ahead of time is
likely wasted because the terms of reference were slightly

different in the final draft, he said.

And some of the studies were not expected, Browne
added, such as evaluation of how B.C. Hydro dam con-
‘struction or modification could affect the mill’s water
emissions and how greater traffic volumes to the expan-
ded mill may affect local transportation systems.

“You're normally asked to present plans within

“Almost everything Dirks has done
(in connection with the ferry) is ad-

The Robs: ty Ferry Users
Ad Hoc Committee will ask provin-
cial ombudsman Stephen Owen to
reconsider his decision not to study
the role Nelson-Creston MLA
Howard Dirks played in the closure
and removal of the Castlegar-Robson
ferry from the area, committee lawyer
Fe said
Last month, Owen told the com-
mittee, ‘‘I assess these allegations (of
interference by Dirks in the ferry
issue) as matters of a political nature,
not matters of administrati

and many decisions could
only be made on his governmental
authority,’’ Dalton said.

The provincial government shut
down the ferry service two years ago
today and the vessel was towed from
its mooring at Robson in January to
be refurbished before it is put into

If the ombudsman rules the gover-
nment did in fact sell the ferry to the.
committee for $1 as was discussed
when the ferry was first closed, then
the committee's court case could be in
jeopardy, Dalton said.

“No judge would force the gover-
nment to restart the ferry’’ if Owen
determined it belonged to another
party, Dalton explained. He said the

service on Upper Arrow Lake in
Dirks’ riding.

Dirks, the former minister of state
for Kootenay, told the Castlegar
News he never interfered in ad-

i isi about the ferry

“As such, my office is without
authority to respond,’’ Owen said
“The file will therefore be closed.””

The committee will ask Owen to
explain the term ‘‘political nature,"’
Dalton said.

Dalton said he has urged the ferry
users committee not to seek the om-
budsman’s opinion on whether
Premier Bill Vander Zalm breached a

Will bring its ca:
the B.C. Court of Appeal in the near
future.

If Owen refuses to act on the
question of Dirks’ involvement, the
committee will ask that the ombud-
sman use his authority under the law
of disclosure of documents to obtain
and look over government papers
concerning the ferry that have been
declared i because they are

promise to the 4
the purchase of the ferry.

By CasNews Staff

The two frontrunners in the
face to succeed John Turner as
leader of the federal Liberal Party
will be in Castlegar later this week.

Jean Chretien, who has a com-
manding lead in the number of
committed delegates according to
recent polls, is scheduled to speak
at a luncheon Friday at the San-
dman Inn at 1 p.m.

He will be followed into the city
by Paul Martin who is slated to
speak at a dinner Sunday at 6
p.m., also at the Sandman Inn.

Chretien, Martin
here on weekend

Both leadership contenders are
travelling through the Kootenay
West-Revelstoke riding to attend
the B.C. Liberal convention and
are seeking support in the up-
coming delegate selection meeting
in this riding May 3 at 7:30 p.m.,
the Kootenay West-Revelstoke
Liberal Association says in a news
release.

The public is invited to the tun-
ch with Chretien and the dinner
with Martin. Both then will be
available after their speeches to
meet with local residents,

cabinet documents, Dalton added

Dalton, in an interview with the
Castlegar News, said statements last
week by Finance Minister Mel
Couvelier in the budget speech con
tradict the actions the government has
taken over the ferry and the resulting
changes to the Castlegar-Robson
area.

Couvelier committed $3.5 billion to
provincial transportation, including a
‘new generation of ferries," and
declared ‘‘this province is linked
together by more than just its roads
and ferries."’

“We are bound by our commit
ment to see that every region shares
our advantages and achieves its
Potential,’ he said.

That commitment is not evident in
Castlegar and Robson where the ferry
closure has caused businesses to lose
customers, and in some cases has-led
to the closure of shops, Dalton said.

“The closure of our ferry ensures

our region's not having prosperity at
all,"’ Dalton said.

The loss-of a quick route between
the communities has pushed down
Property values in Robson, hurt local
businesspeople and may be ‘‘driving
us back to the worst of the récession
years,’* he added.

Meanwhile, Dalton has written
John Jansen, minister responsible for
Seniors, pointing out a portion of the
recently released task-force report on
issues concerning seniors that suggests
the Robson ferry service is needed.

“You will see . . . that the task for-
ce can be seen, by inference, to be
clearly recommending that the Rob-
son ferry service be rei ”* said

today’s world,’ Browne said. ‘‘And they've asked us to

4 look at a lot of stuff that’s normally not expected.’’

However, some of the extra studies, such as the ones
involving B.C, Hydro and transportation, will not be as
complicated as they may seem since B.C. Hydro and the
Ministry of Transportation and Highways already has

much of the information Celgar needs to complete the

evaluations.

For instance, Celgar will ‘superimpose our impact
on (ministry) data”
Browne said, adding the transportation study and an
evaluation of the supply, origin and impact of increased
pulpwood demand on the regional economy are ‘actually
one and the same."”

The committee has asked Celgar to re-evaluate the

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to complete the transportation study,

Council wants
monitoring of
project impacts

By SIMON BIRCH
Editor

Castlegar city council said Tuesday
the city and other local governments
in the West Kootenay such as the
Castlegar school board shouldn’t
have to deal with any surprises if the
Proposed expansion and environmen-
tal-cleanup of the Celgar pulp mill
goes ahead.

Council voted unanimously to ap-
proach the provincial governmient's
major project review process commit-
tee with a request that a ‘‘monitoring
system’’ be in place if the project
proceeds to keep tabs on the social
and economic impacts of the expan-
sion and to ensure that Celgar or the
appropriate government ministry ad-
dresses those impacts as they occur to
the satisfaction of local governments.

“‘What we’re asking is that Ceigar
be_aware_of the impacts_on_com-
munities if and when something
major is happening,”’~ said Ald.
Doreen Smecher, council’s represen-
tative on the city’s Celgar expansion
advisoty group which made the
recommendation following a meeting
Monday.

She said the monitoring system
could consist simply of someone from
Celgar’s management team who

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says
letter

n divisive

By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI
Staff writer
A letter from Castlegar Chamber of
Commerce president Jim Craig to
chamber bers. is

would be responsible for notifying
local agencies of major developments
during the project.

“It’s not going to mean any major
financial commitment by the com-
pany,’’ she said.

Smecher, who is also a trustee on
the Castlegar school board, used the
example of a large influx of workers
with families which would put
demands on local schools and other
services in the community. She said if
Celgar knows when the workers will
arrive, the company could notify the
school district.

“Then the school district_would
have the opportunity to gear up for
it,’ Smecher said.

Council also agreed to the ad-
visory group’s recommendation that
Celgar should investigate the
possibility of obtaining the infor-
mation_B.C. Hydro _has acquired
through a socio-economic impact
Study done by a private consultant as
part of Hydro’s proposed powerplant
project for the Hugh Keenleyside dam
north of Castlegar.

Smecher said“information con-
tained in that study includes con-
sideration of the Celgar project and
the advisory group felt a second study

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and will deepen the divisions in the
community over the proposal to ex-
pand and modernize the Celgar pulp
mill, a spokesman for the Coalition
for Information on the Pulp Mill Ex-
pansion said.

“‘I_don't want to see divisions —
promoted because they're not going
to benefit anyone,’’ Craig Lawrence
said

But Craig said today he did not in-
tend the letter to be inflammatory and
only wanted to inform chamber
members that ‘‘there is a lot of fear

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Dalton, who made a presentation last
year to the task force on behalf of
Robson seniors. In his letter, Dalton
urges Jansen to ask Vander Zalm and
Highways Minister Rita Johnston to
reinstate the ferry service.

Dalton praised the task-force
report, called Toward A Better Age,
as ‘‘compassionate and humane,"’ but
said the report should have included
specifics on implementing programs
for seniors.

“I felt that in addition to enun-
ciating general principles, it would
have been of great help to suggest
some very practical programs that
could see these principles realize,"’ he
said.

Dalton said the report may allow a
number of seniors who live in ‘‘abject
poverty’’ to be overlooked by saying
“the reality is that most seniors are
neither poor nor rich."*

“Most are somewhere in between,””
the report states.

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to be just if it effectively addresses the

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and we have to be aware of what's
going on."’

“I don’t want to see the fear and
frustration increased but it’s unfor-
tunate a small group with a strong
viewpoint is taking (the issue) out of
the hands of people in the com:
munity."’ Craig said he was referring
to “‘uninformed** people who- write
letters and make presentations on the
expansion without knowing all the
facts.

“*It (the letter to chamber members)
was not intended as a swipe against
CIPE or anyone else,’’ Craig said in
explaining the reference in the letter
to a “‘vocal minority’’ that ‘‘seems in
tent upon delaying and causing the
Project to lapse for reasons beyond
the control of Ceigar, you or me.""

“The frustration felt in our com
munity is in response to the feeling
that we are losing control of our lives
due to the wellorchestrated op-
position to the modernization by a
vocal minority, mainly residents dut
side the community,"* Craig wrote.

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