Page 6A @ Letters The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, October 13, 1993 Voters encouraged to investigate alternatives Dear Editor The writer is a disillusioned 72 year-old Canadian, ex-Service man and former entrepreneur with a grade eight education. Not a political analyst, but smart enough to recognize at least two historical problems...Grits and Tories. Canadians are once again being bombarded from all sides by political hopefuls. Some sin cere in respect to bringing about legislative changes that would give some integrity, credibility and common sense to our parlis ment in Ottawa, along with sensi ble answers for relief from our burgeoning national debt. Others are more than anxious to maintain their status quo or get a foothold on the gravy train fueled by us taxpayers. Most with the gift of the gab, forthcothing with promises that anyone of sound mind and average intelligence would have to be very naive to accept as gospel An understanding of each can didates party philosophy is easily accessible through a good family dictionary. Of five political party hopefuls in the upcoming federal election the dictionary clearly ism, Nationalism, Separatism , and Reform Liberal and conservative philoso- phy remain somewhat of a mys tery by dictionary standards, unless it be borrow, tax and spend. So take your choice The federal political system in Canada has always been con trolled by the ideologies of the liberal or conservative parties. It has been very difficult through the past decades for any other political establishment to gain any sort of foothold in our Ca dian Parliamentary System. The NDP (Socialist) party have been the only exception. The NDP not only claim to represent the work Christian Herit government to be all things, at all times, to all people, a cradle to grave society The Liberals and the Conserva. tives are buttered with the same brush. If you pay attention to media sources it seems to remain 4 toss-up for which of these par ies we can't stomach any longer, so we non-intellectuals cast our batlot for the other, die-hards always vote the same. We are continually led to believe we only have two alternatives the Tories or the Grits, or which dog's breakfast do we want served up for another four years, Kim Campbell's or Jean Chretien's? How do these two political machines inevitably lead us down ing class society but also the ele: ment amongst us that expect the garden path? It's methodically done by the manure spreaders press, radio, television, and poll Sters, unless ofcourse we are skeptical and do a little head work on our own. 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The purveyors of monetary funds in the high tech world of financing would be out of work arid out of money if countries such as ours Where not supporting them with vast interest payments = Deficit Money is not a commodity of exchange when we are being financially drained by the money lenders. Billions going into the wrong coffers. Dollars that could support a carefully balanced and planned social structure in our industrialized nation. Instead we havé the working people of Cana- da ed to death to prop up an obviously unworkable system The average consumer has lost his ability to purchase consumer goods in the quantities required to maintain a healthy economy. Bureaucratic growth is out Stripping our ability to cope in today's market and the under- ground economy flourishes. ..time is running out and our “political wizards” have been busy taking turns fulfilling their “legislative fantasies", while the taxpayer jis suffering malnutrition of his pock- etbook. 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For more information call 365-7143 NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS - Friday 7:30 p.m. Sandpiper Motel taller #21. 365-5934, DAMBUSTERS SCUBA CLUB: Meeting Frida y, October 15, Selkirk College Wednesday, October 13, 1993 The Castlegar Sun Mike and Moe feud over f STEVE WEATHERBE Sterling News Services Environment Minister Moe Sihota attacked both bad logging Practices and the forest ministry in a speech last week, only to be swiftly contradicted by Premier Mike Harcourt Sihota accused the industry of building roads badly and overcut- ling in a speech Thursday to the Juan de Fuca Chamber of Com- merce The newly-appointed minister said that not only had bad forestry continued to the present, but so had the forest ministry's complicity. “We still have in British Columbia large-scale clear cuts,” Sihota said. “We still have need- less damage of salmon streams through British Columbia.” Sihota said these and other practices such as sloppy road- building and logging stream and river banks had been allowed by a forest ministry practicing “sym- * pathetic administration.” This term was coined duringéthe eco- nomic downturn of the early 1980s when the ministry allowed forestry companies to ignore costly logging guidelines. “Sympathetic administra tion...to some degree, to a. large degree I would argue, continues today in terms of a blind eye being turned,” Sihota said. However Premier Mike Har court said Sihota had simply got carried away. “Mr. Sihdta is an impetuous new minister in his first week in his new ministry. He is full of enthusiasm about his new duties,” the premier said. The premier went on to say he was sure Sihota had not meant to put forest policy under Social Credit on a par with that of the New Democrats. “The govern- ment is not allowing sympathetic Practices that occur 'systematical- ly,” said Harcourt But the premier admitted log- ging was not done as well as the government wished and Promised the government was working on it. Harcourt told European parlia- Mentanians during a stopover in Brussels this January that bad forestry was a thing of the past The forest industry took the same line as the premier, admit ting that bad practices persisted while insisting that they were improving “Both men are right,” said Scott Alexander, public affairs director for MacMillan Bloedel, B.C.'s largest forest company “Things have changed, the huge clearcuts are gone. But you are still going to have problems.” Jack Munro, chairman of the Forest Alliance, an industry lobby group, said that bad log- ging was exceptional. “The min- ister has to recognize that there have been vast improvements ation of the for- est sector is unfair and based on bad information.” But Sierra Club director Vicky Husband said Sihota's comments confirmed what environmental- ists had been saying all along Husband also said she was Pleased that Sihota had become the environment minister. She to spend an afternoon Tracks through time — Enjoying the crispness of a fine fall day are two young women from Castlegar, who thought a walk down the tracks would be a great way SUN STAFF PHOTO Big pulp mill laying off workers STERLING NEWS SERVICE PRINCE RUPERT — British Columbia's second largest pulp mill said Monday it will lay off 250 workers after Christmas while shutting down part of the plant for about three months. Skeena Cellulose Inc. blamed the coming shutdown of the ‘B’ mill, responsible for 40 per cent of the plant's overall output, on a world pulp glut “A global recession and over- supply of pulp have driven down Prices to unprecedented levels,’ said Skeena pulp general man- ager Tom Boughner in a news release. The ‘A’ mill, which employs 500 people, will not be affected by the decision. Skeena Cellulose added that the plant, now closed for an inventory shutdown, will resume limited operations on October 18 and full Operations on October 25, The northwestern B.C. plant has a daily rated capacity of between 1,300 and 1,350 tonnes of bleached softwood kraft pulp Killer flu strikes early STERLING NEWS SERVICE Health officials are warning that a particularly dangerous strain of the Beijing flu could hit B.C. soon. They say the killer flu, which contributes to the death of 500 people in the province in a bad year, has already reached the United States. In normal years, the strain does not appear until late Novem- ber, peaks in January and ends in March. Dr. Ted McLean, of Vancou- ver's health department, warmed the flu could move very quickly. “You could end up with a rip- roaring flu season earlier than usual,” he said. Doctors have already started vaccinating against the flu in Vic- toria, with supplies set to reach clinics around the province by late October. 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Complica tions from the illness caused severe damage to her lungs afd her activities were limited by breathing irregularities and recur ring. infection In July, Stelaeff underwent a three-hour operation in which her heart and lungs were replaced with healthy organs British Columbia's Children's Hospital said late last week she remains on medication for gas tro-intestinal problems and to inhibit her body's rejection of the New organs. “Release from the hospital will enable Teresa to slowly begin to resume more normal activities,” a hospital spokesman said. “She has been keeping up with her school work with sup port of the teachers at Children’s and will continue with an in home teacher this fall.” Strelaeff and her family will remain in the Lower Mainland for several months so she can be monitored by specialists as a hos. pital out-patient The family hopes to return to their Nelson area home after Christmas Having a child receive a transplant ts a difficult and stress AS l a4 Page 7A Kids & Tobacco t's a crime. string minister,” he saic The same person added that he knew of no one from the ministry who had briefed Sihota before his Cy TEMPTING MENUS TO SATISFY YOUR TASTE & BUDGET Tuncnedible Food ¢ Price * Service Book your Christmas & Spring wedding NOW Vucnedible Edibles Call Chris MacPherson 365-2607 | references available wedding + banquets * receptions s / speech Forest Minister Andrew Petter could not be reached for com ment. 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