Page 12A The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, October 20, 1993 FASHION WATCH SALE i Date: Sunday, Oct. 24 Time: 11 am-4 pm Place: Crown Point Hotel, Trail JOHN VAN PUTTEN Sun Sports The Castlegar Rebels had their clocks cleaned this past week end—twice Their unexpected attitude clocksmiths were, the Rossland Warriors and the Nelson Maple Leafs Rebels Assistant Coach, John Phillips said, although they lost the two games, their biggest problem was their enemies within themselves. “Our biggest prob lem is the team in the same color jersey, it was not the other team, it was all us.” In the weekend Kootenay Inter national Junior Hockey League action Rossland edged the Rebels | 3 se ow Fs Walter Flux for Council ‘Units Available November 1 365-7798 Standard driver. & passenger air bags (Wf New! Standard front dual airbags (A New! Side door, steel impact NEW 6-5 as Castlegar travelled Friday to play on the Warriors turf. Host ing the Leafs in Castlegar the fol lowing night netted a similar result, Nelson won 6-4. A full hockey game requires the players to play.a full 60 min utes of hockey, The main prob lem for the Rebels, according to Phillips, has been keeping the intensity levels up during the full game. “We played the first 20 minutes of each game, then they did fot play after that.” Before each of the two games the coaching staff outlined the game plan, which was to dump the puck in and use the body “The players got away from the game plan and quit hitting, they Started to lose the puck on the blue line,” Phillips said So far this ason, Phillips noted the end result of each game has been the exact opposite how they start the game. “If we have a good start them we end bad, when we start off bad then we finish stronly.” As the 1993/94 KUHL season progresses, the Rebels have hit a grove from which they are having trouble breaking out. 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John Phillips and Wayne Saliken join the team to take up the roles as the assistant coaches. Practice time for the players will have them concentrating on sticking to the game plan as they prepare for an East Kootenay three-game road swing. They open in Golden on Friday, Columbia Valley Saturday and their full slate comes to an end Sunday afternoon against Elk Valley. Side door, steel impact beams [Af Roof ra Ww 7 passe Castlegar’s Craig Swanson gets leveled by Nelson's Jamie Hooker in Saturday’s KIJHL match in Castle- gar. With the 6-4 win Nelson took over first in the West division. SUN SPORTS PHOTO / John Van Putten CASTLE BREW Wine & Beer Making Centre Start your party supplies Come see us at 926 Columbia Ave Nelson Castlegar 352-3711 365-3839 EXECUTIVE HIGH BACK CHAIR ex. cond., asking $100. Call 365-5266 ask for Marilyn Redesigned interior & exterior ck nger seating age appointments and frivolous spending? All candidates except Liberal Candidate G who stated the Senate question was “interesting but of no priority or significance,” Brian Zacharias Christian Heritage The Christian Heritage Party supports an elected, equal and effective Senate In order to reform the Sen- ate, constitutional reform must be initiated in the House of Commons by a free vote and ratified by the Senate In order to change the pre- sent system, no direct agree ment by the provinces should be necessary This is what has thwarted constitutionaf change “in the past. Six months should be allocated for public debate and a national referendum should have a 60 per cent approval rate to pass. The Senate should not be an extension of party politics from the House of Com- mons. Members of an elect- ed senate are there to protect different regions of the coun- try and not political party interests. The present roles in the Senate of government leader and opposition leader should be abolished in favor of a | speaker elected by a majority of the Senate. Senators should be scaied in a provincial delegations regardless of any party affili- ation. The Senate should have the power to veto any bill except a supply bill. If the Senate is not amended, it might as well be abolished, it is a burden on the Canadian people Jack Ress Green The Senate has an official Purpose, the Chamber of Sober Second Thought, and an unofficial purpose, the Patronage awards for the friends of the party in power. The latter has come to over- shadow the former, and hence the Senate must be abolished How then can the legit mate purpose: of the Senate be preserved within a result ing single chamber system? Sober Second Thought” is not needed if ther is sober first thought. A more effective house would have: more important for back benchers, more free votes, more representative of minor- ity part and in time, more decisions made by consensus Canada is starting to take con- sensus seriously. The North es legislature roles cess is developing an interesting version. Con- sensus is a powerful tool for government reform. Taken seriously, decisions emerge with content everyone can live with. Unity emerges from conflict Intemal rules that provide for decision review can be devised that eliminate need for a Senate. Systems have been devised and put into use by which minority -par- ties may be proportionately represented. The result is a Parliament that more nearly represents the people, restricts domination by one Party, and restores confi- dence in government. Unsound policies, Kicking around in Victoria and in Edmonton I actually have met some of these people who want the ulcerous task of handling our political affairs for the next four years. So why, I asked myself, he Castlegar Sun WEDNE October 20, 1993 | li ie its current proble! FOR THE RECORD The following editorial comments represent the last opinion pieces written by seven candid question requested candidates to provide their own thoughts on the Senate, is at the root of voter distaste for politicians, we felt the question of the Senate was a vz ates running in the Kootenay West-Revelstoke riding. This final ms and future role. Since government waste of tax dollars alid one. Is the Senate a reflection of government waste, patron- Garry J MD arry Jenkins answered the question. A representative for Jenkins, instead sent The Sun Jenkin’s thoughts on Civil Disobedience. Heather Suggitt Liberal This and other areas in B.C. continues to have a lot of controversial land use decisions. Should the federal government get involved in land use decisions? No. Certainly to stop the civil disobedience that is happening. Protest of this sort is healthy. It clears wax from trom the Sol government in a most effec tive way. Civil disobedjence is a legitimate form of protest. It is a.positive agpeci of our democratic way. It protects us and our system. It is. to be hon ored. A referendum is a rea sonable approach, but it 1s not going to end the disappoint ment felt by a large segment of the population. The fact is people are beginning to value many of the things that our resource-based economy is using up at a rapid rate. A ref- erendum is not part of a solu- tion. Solutions must be found. Protest is a good way to iden. tify real problems; it does not help develop solutions. Once a problem is identified then it’s time to stop the protest and start working on develop- ing solutions. But confronta tion, adversarial approaches and protest appear to be the order of the day. It's clear from the polls that eight years of unresponsive Tory govern- ment is at an end. If you want better land use decisions, if you want better solutions to the problems faced by most residents of Kootenay West- Revelstoke, then work with a Member of Parliament who sits on the government side of the house. Participate in developing solutions. not in order New Democrat New Democrats believe there is no room in a modern democratic society for an appointed upper chamber The Senate has failed to pro vide a voice for Canadians in the vanous re failed as a Chambe foe] gions and it has | “sober second thought.” It has worked well as at | of privilege at the exper wdinary Canadians Senate as it curt proposals had included thése considerations * There must not be appointments to body 1 legislative + Regional representation must be given greater promi nence; + Attention must be given to greater accountability, public access and regional fairness at all levels of gov emment Audrey McLaughlin pro- posed putting the idea of Senate abolition on the ballot in the upcoming election She stated that “there is no place in Canada for a power ful parliamepfaty institution that is unelécted, undemo cratic and unaccountable to the people it'is osténsibly there to serve”. To lay the legal framework for such a ballot question would have required reconvening the House of Commons. This did not happen. Was it too difficult for Conservatives and Liberals to give up their Patronage machine? Blair Suffredine Progressive Conservative As the Progressive Con- servative Canadiate I have been asked to comment on the need for Senate Reform. I believe that reform of¢he enate 1S appropriate. As an individual I favor the Triple proposal for Senate clear that we can not ave the Senate as it is but ouavons To Change it at this time would require the opening of constitutional uks as the changes must be igreed upon by the provinces too. We are all tired of hear- ing about the constitution I believe we have all had enough of the constitution for now. Economic issues must remain our priority. We must focus first on the deficit and the economy. Once that has been prop- etly addressed perhaps we can give consideration to the Senate again. Jim Gouk Reform It is not surprising that Canadians appear to favor abolishing the existing Sen- ate. The people currently in the Senate are patronage appointed political hacks who are only interested in Supporting the party who made than a gift of their position One alternative is to have no Senate. This would leave us with a one house parlia- ment in which the heavily populated centres would have an absolute majority of seats. In a large country with an unevenly divided popula- tion, this would lead to regional alienation and destabilizing the federation. We do need a Senate, but one that follows the guide- lines of the Reform Party’s Triple E proposal: an Equal number from each province; Elected by the residents of that province, and; Effective in their powers to reflect the interests of all Canadian Provinces and thinly populat- ed regions. Pay, perks and pensions for our new Senate must be set by an independent review board, but don't be fooled by the hypocritical protests of current MPs who spoke against the recent attempt by the existing Senators to pro- vide themselves with a $6,000 raise. These same MPs voted themselves the same allowance last year, without regard to the opinion of the majority of Canadians. Bev Collins National It should be the Canadians who determine by referen- dum the fate of the Senate Should it be abolished? Should it be elected? Should it be based on provinces or regions? Should they be apo- litical people? We are opposed to the pre- sent political system that supports the Senate. It is that «System that allowed for the appointment of eight sena “tors for the express purpose of passing the GST. It is that system that allows the Senate to determine their own salaries, perks and pensions! Where is our democracy? Who is representing us? Stevie Cameron from the Toronto Globe and Mail reported that the patronage appointments made by the Tories were so extensive they could not list them all in their newspaper (more than 3,000!) The National Party of Canada is the only party committed to ending corrup- tion, patronage appointments and pork barrelling ‘in Ottawa. These have every- thing to do with our debt, our deficit, the high unemploy- ment rate and loss of control Over our resources. We are the only party that does not accept corporate, union or special interest group dona tions. The Reform, Liberals and PC’s also accept foreign corporate donations. How can they serve the people when they allow themselves to be compromised? unpopular arrogance and idiot-fringe whackos The Council, you'll recall, was a vehicle for Hur tig's crusade against free trade. The tariff system which Hurtig has always preferred to free trade reached its full flowering in the 1870s under the gerous thing.” Of course, this turned out to be an utterly mistaken view of Vander Zalm, who dreamed up more policy novelties over lunch than Campbell has come up with the entire feder- Campbell's too. I asked Socred leader Jack Weisgerber about his experience with Campbell when they sat together as backbenchers in the caucus. Had she shown any al civil service at her beck and call: privatization, regionalization, labor code reform etc Vander Zalm not only defeated Campbell, he then declined to bring the genius into his cabi- net, preferring self-made types who had actually run businesses to some- An analysis by Steve Weatherbe one who'd spent her tife Political Reporter teaching and giving oth- Sterling News Service ers advice. Campbell broke the Zalm openly over his plan to ability to build consensus or cooperate? “She didn’t have the chance,” he said tactfully Come on, Jack: two years in caucus afforded plen- ty of chances. Her overweening vanity is what robbed her of any chance Now Preston Manning, possibly the next leader of the opposition. I've covered him since the Reform movement's convention in Vancouver in 1987: Manning comes across personally as the humblest of the three by an Alberta country mile But by all reports, he runs the Reform Party with an iron hand and a velvet glove. Some dissidents are expelled. Others are silenced with the plain tive appeal that unrest might upset Manning's fragile health Having observed first hand the idiot-fringe whackos his party attracted in Victoria, I don't blame him for ruling any way he can. Most Reform members are not at all weird, just old er Conservatives of John A. Macdonald. The tariffs were supposed to force American manufacturers to buildi branch plants in Canada rather than flooding us with products built south of the border. It worked, with the result that much of Canada’s industry has been don't I share my impressions? Mel Hurtig first. Hurtig was a book seller who became a publisher of worthy Canadian books mightily subsidized by us taxpayers. The worthiest of these, and the most mightily supplemented out of the public purse, was the Canadian Encyclope- dia. I happened to interview Mel in his office once about the project and couldn't help but notice the walls covered with pictures and newspaper clip- American-owned ever.. pings of the great man hiniself. since and on too small Mel is a lapsed Liberal of the 1960s Walter Gor a scale to compete don stripe, an anti-American businessman of the internationally ilk which thrived until lately behind high tariff It is an ironic testi walls. When the Liberals were pushed away from tariffs by the increasing internationalization of business, Hurtig had only two choices: join the New Democrats or start a party of his own. Having seen the writing, literally, on the wall, I was not surprised to see him choose the latter Mind you, it took him 10 years, if we consider his Council of Canadians a kind of preliminary (Af Electronic AM/FM stereo (A Power liftgate release "* Includes Special ~ Introductory $1000 >) Factory Rebate (A 3.0 litre V6 engine (Af Front wheel drive 89 beams for added protection (Af New! Redesigned interior & exterior Our '93’s sold so well we're mirocuciag S our ‘94's early! A Sails defund abortion. He had no right 1 principles so at odds with the public's ufda’t politicians act on principle then? Not s the principle was backed up by intelligence said Kim What arrogance! mony to the unsoundness of Hurtig's policies she said, to act that he is both opposed to American owne rshiy of Canadian industry and a proponent of the pol- St icy which fostered that ownership Now Kim Campbell: she achieved Stardom with one pithy putdown of Bill Vander Zalm dur ing the 1986 Social Credit leadership race, to the effect that “charisma without substance is a dan unk TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS GREAT OF! YOUR LOCAL CHRYSLER DEA! Pome restrictions apply See dealer for details. Dodge Caravon/Plymouth Voyager 241 price includes freight S695 and $1,000 fectory rebate assigned te dealer in liev of finonce offer Prce excludes license, insurance and taxes. Rebate includes GST. Limited time offer. Dealer order may be necessary. 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