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NATIONAL NEWS

Senate stuffing angers most premiers

By The Canadian Press

stitutionality of the extra Senate seats, and Alberta has

Prime Minister Brian Mul y's use of a Constitutional clause to push through eight new Senate appointments drew a mostly angry reaction from the provinces.

“*The best way out of an impasse is to negotiate, not to simply impose some one-way street and say ‘It’s my Way or the highway,’ ** said Bob Rae, who'll be sworn in on Monday as Ontario's first-ever NDP premier.

Mulroney should call a first ministers’ meeting on the goods and services tax rather than force the measure through the Senate, Rae said.

“*I don’t think it’s a great idea for the country to see the Senate stuffed even more than it already is.’*

Mulroney went to the Queen to get permission to enlarge the Senate, enabling him to appoint Conservative loyalists in a bid to defeat Liberal efforts to block the tax.

@ separate on some aspects of the tax itself.

In Nova Scotia, Premier Roger Bacon acknowledged that Mulroney will draw criticism for the appointments but stood by the Tory line that the Liberal-dominated Senate had no right to thwart major government legislation. $ an "

Politicians in the Hause of Comaions ait elegted by the peoplg and the Sepate under the present set-up: probably hasn't the right t hold up adecision of the.elec- ted government

“That doesn't say I agree or disagree with what he's doing.”’

Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells called for an elected Senate with equal representation from ead province.

“It’s undemocratic to have the Senate unelected,"’ he said. ‘‘It goes down very hard with most Canadians that

an unelected body is doing what it’s doing.’’ At the same time, Wells condemned Mulroney’s t tics. “‘It’s an abuse of our constitutional process for the prime minsiter to be using this old, long.

sultant Janis Johnson; and Eric Berntson, former deputy Premier of Saskatchewan. .

The of is political Patronage, Saskatchewan's NDP House Leader Dwain

sion to now stack the Senate,”

Manitoba Premier Gary Filmon echoed those sen- timents.

“I think it’s pretty well accepted that what is being done by the Literal majority in the Senate is an abuse of thé’Senate, (But) what Prime Minister Mulroney is doing is an abuse of the Senate,”’ the Tory premier said.

The eight new senators include Ottawa heart surgeon Wilbert Keon, Michael Meighen, former national President of the Conservative party; and Michael Forrestal, a former Nova Scotia Tory MP.

The others are: Quebec lawyer Normand Grimard; Therese Lavoie-Roux, a one-time Quebec Liberal cabinet minister; Fredericton lawyer James Ross; Winnipeg con-

said Thursday.

“I think it is one of the worst possible.”’

Premier Grant Devine called Berntson and congratulated him .but had reser Mulroney swamping the Senate. Devine said he would rather see the upper chamber abolished, or have an elec- ted Senate.

In another development, Alberta Senator Martha Biclish resigned. Mulroney replaced her with businessman Walter Twinn of Slave Lake, Alta., chief of the Sawridge Indian band. ,

There will be 54 Conservatives in the upper house, 52 Liberals, one Reform party member, four Independents and one Independent Liberal.

appointments

LOCAL/PROVINCIAL NEWS

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BRIEFLY

By CasNews and Wire Service

The concert will be si inearly June. The entert

during Silver City Days next May.

City selected as concert site

Castlegar has been selected as one of the sites for a Music "91 concert featuring a well-known entertainer

ed as part of the Sunfest weekend next year iner will be named later.

“*We're very excited that Castlegar, and a number of other Kootenay communities, will host the Music '91 RoadShow,"’ said Provincial Secretary Howard Dirks, who made the announcement on behalf of Tourism Minister Cliff Michael

Trail has also been selected as a site of a concert which will be held

Red Cross makes contribution

The Canadian Red Cross Society has contributed an initial $10,000

British Columbia has said it will challenge the con-

Oka may be over, but hard feelings remain

By The Canadian Press

There will be more confrontations between Indians and Canadian authorities if the federal government fails to dMivet on promises to deal with aboriginal claims, native leaders said.

“I’m damned sure that the aboriginal leadership and its member- ship-are not going to sit back,"’ said Bill Traverse of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs.

“You will see more Okas and Kahnawakes across this land.””

Traverse said the standoff in Quebec was a victory because it for- ced Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to make a commitment to address native issues.

Indian Affairs Minister Tom Sid- don counselled natives to be patient.

Siddon said he would soon provide

Georges Erasmus, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, said the lesson he learned from the 78-day conflict at Oka and its chaotic ending is that the government doesn’t want to deal seriously with native concerns.

“All that happened was once again Canada showed the first nations that they’re insensitive and that might is right,’’ Erasmus said.

“The Canadian army has bigger guns and the Canadian government is totally intolerant and unable to deal Politically with our situation.’’

Erasmus said another confron- tation is brewing in northern Quebec over Hydro development

“We're going to have a battle royal with James Bay Two like we’ve never had before in this country,’’ he said, “tand we expect violence.””

Siddon said he found it ‘‘surprising

details of by Mulroney earlier this week.

Mulroney told the Commons on Tuesday that Ottawa will overhaul native policies to deal with concerns ranging from land claims and self- government to social and housing problems on reserves.

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= — that the man who Purports to represent Canada’s first nations would somehow show such lack of trust, such bitterness.’ Alberta Indian leaders said the

stand by the Quebec Mohawks hi forever changed the lives of Canada’s native people.

Said Richard Davis, Indian

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“What happened at Oka opened a lot of Canadians’ eyes.”’

Saul Terry, president of the B.C. Union of Indian Chiefs, said the Mohawk Warriors have shown Canadians the extent of the problems afflicting Indians.

“They have given Indian people across the country a great deal of pride,’’ he said. ‘‘It’s time we stopped getting pushed around and put for- ward some positive solutions.”

Gitksan Wet’suwet’en Chief Wii Seeks told a meeting of the First Nations Congress that road and railway blockades in B.C. must con- tinue.

Fifty protesters outside Van- couver’s art gallery vowed not to leave until they were certain Mohawks who surrendered aren’t going to be prosecuted.

LOTTERIES

The $1,000,000 winning number in Friday’s Provincial lottery draw is

3679. There are also subsidiary prizes.

The winning numbers drawn Thur- sday in the B.C. Keno lottery were 1, 5, 12, 15, 16, 20, 24 and 56.

The winning numbers in Wed- nesday’s Lotto-649 draw were 4, 5, 7, 18, 33 and 42. The bonus number was 39.

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The four Extra winning numbers for British Columbia on Wednesday were 5, 11, 15 and 97

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The winning numbers drawn Wed- nesday in the B.C. Keno lottery were 2,4, 11, 15, 32, 33, 35 and 51

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natives rallied. Some toppled hydro towers and blocked bridges, train tracks and highways in sup- Port of Mohawks at Oka.

When the holed-up Warriors, women and children left the

A nation’s attention is Mohawks legacy

ANALYSIS

government commission on laying any charges, no special Prosecutor, no amnesty and no negotiations on the major issue of sovereignty.

But natives say the one power- ful legacy of the standoff is an elevated consciousness among Cc. i on the plight of

centre at K on Wednesday night in a final wild scuffle with soldiers and Police officers, it meant the loss of an ace in the hole for Canadian natives.

As long as the natives remained inside the encampment at the Oka treatment centre, Mohawk issues — and other native concerns — were guaranteed a spot in Canadian homes via television, radio and newspaper reports.

But the question remains: What has been gained?

Kahnesatake Mohawks have been promised the land where the golf course expansion, which star- ted the whole crisis, was to have been built.

But beyond that a seemingly endless stream of Mohawk demands, followed by proposals to end the conflict, all fell on deaf ears inside the inner sanctum of the provincial and federal gover- nments.

Mohawk proposals were scrap- ped: There was no joint native and

aboriginals.

Federal Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon said in Ottawa that the playing field has been radically changed.

“I doubt that Canadians will ever again be able to regard the native peoples of this country with disinterest, as has been the sad case of our history for most of the life of the nation.’’

Siddon also said he is waiting for approval for more federal funds to speed up the land claims Process, but he doubted a royal commission would be created on native concerns. Such an inquiry would only delay the plans Ottawa already has to deal with the problems.

Native leaders and Mohawks involved in the standoff feel they have advanced the cause of natives in Canada.

“*We have a Canadian public that is listening, they want to hear more,’’ Georges Erasmus, national chief of the Assembly of

First Nation, said in Ottawa on Thursday.

“+I think we got a window for at least a year or so where people will want to know more what is the specific situation in different parts of the country (for natives),"” said Erasmus,

Erasmus agreed natives across Canada now are united, but ex- pressed concern about the flip side of the Oka legacy.

“*What has probably happened is that there has probably been hatred and racial intolerence bred into native people, and probably created more radicals among us, in the last month than in the last 50 years."’

Erasmus is also not convinced government policy toWards natives will change, despite the 78- day standoff. Oka, he said, might bring nothing more than. ‘‘beads and trinkets.

On Sept. 6, when the Warriors were still entrenched in the treatment centre in the middle of a pine forest, Robert Skidders, nicknamed Mad Jap, reflected on what benefits the standoff -had brought.

“Should the pines fall, we have not lost, we have gained 1,000 per cent,’ he said passionately.

“The most important thing is that natives are now calling them- selves brothers and sisters, which has never been accomplished before.’’

Talks won't affect

WASHINGTON (CP) — Bringing Canada into free trade negotiations between the United States and Mexico will not-undermine the Canada-U.S. free trade agreement, says President George Bush.

In a letter to Congress, Bush dismissed suggestions that the United States would try to reopen its trade pact with Canada if the Canadian government formally joins the Proposed U.S.-Mexico free trade negotiations.

“I want to emphasize that such trilateral consultations will not affect the continued validity of the existing free trade agreement with Canada,”’ the president said, as he asked Congress for authority to negotiate a comprehensive trade pact with Mexico.

Trade Minister John Crosbie an- nounced this week that the United States and Mexico have agreed to Canadian participation in the talks, set to begin next spring. Successful three-way negotiations could create a continental free trade zone of 360 million people.

Critics in Canada have warned that by joining the free trade bargaining

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table, the Canadian government may be putting its own trade pact with the Americans in jeopardy.

Canadian trade officials, however, insist they will not reopen the Ottawa- Washington agréement, but try to use it instead as a blueprint for a con- tinental trade agreement covering all three countries.

A senior Bush administration trade official said that while the United States will not try to renegotiate the trade pact with Canada, it will seek agreements in areas such as patent protection and Canadian drug licen- sing policy where the two governmen- ts failed to agree.

In Montreal, Mexican Industry Minister Jaime Serra dismissed fears that a free-trade deal with Mexico will mean fewer Canadian jobs.

Eighty per cent of all Mexican ex- ports already pass tariff-free into Canada ‘‘and nothing has hap- pened,”’ said Serra at a news con- ference.

In his letter to Congress, Bush said the United States will consult with Canada in the next few months on the viability of three-way trade negotiations.

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“*We see substantial opportunities for mutual benefit in-further lowering impediments to bilateral trade in goods and services and to invest- ment,’’ said the letter, sent to key trade committees in the Senate and the House of Representatives.

In a related matter, a Republican senator from the Pacific Northwest urged the administration Wednesday to resist any attempts by Canada during trilateral free trade talks to reopen agreements on softwood lum- ber and plywood standards, issues

to a worldwide appeal for $3.2 million to help thousands of people crossing the border from Iraq into Jordan, the Kootenay region office of the Red Cross says in a news release.

In addition, the Red Cross has helped establish a larger, better- equipped camp closer to Amman, the Jordanian capital, the Red Cross says.

Local residents wanting to help the people in Jordan can make monetary donations at the Kootenay region office of the Red Cross in Castlegar. Monetary donations only will be accepted. All donations are income tax deductible.

Post office opening planned

The new Robson post office in Johnny’s Grocery will be open to the public in mid-October, although a firm date for the opening has not been set, store owner Randy Morris said.

Construction of a building to house lock boxes is almost completed expect for the floor, Morris said, adding he is also waiting for box keys

The current post office will be closed when Morris's operation opens, Canada Post spokesmen said earlier.

Negotiations on a post office franchise were concluded between Canada Post and Morris in August. The federal Crown corporation began negotiations with the previous owner of the store, Larry Koftinoff, after announcing in January that the post office would be privatized.

B.C. schools get low marks

VANCOUVER — Almost half of British Columbia doesn’t think much of the province’s school system.

In a poll commissioned by the Canadian Education Association, 48.2 per cent of British Columbians gave B.C. schools a grade of C or lower.

Only two per cent gave B.C. an A rating, while eight per cent gave it a failing grade.

““We're never satisfied with results like that,"’ Jack Fleming, assistant deputy minister of education, said.

The Decima Research poll asked 1,200 randomly selected Canadians 18 or-over what they thought of their provinces’ education systém.

B.C.'s bright spots were multiculturalism and race relations.

Respondents gave low marks for B.C.’s preparation of students for the workplace, and for the low number of female students in science, math and technology.

Fleming said the report will be analyzed and compared to the B.C Education Ministry's own studies.

Moose hunt death

VANCOUVER — Mounting public pressure has forced B.C wildlife officials to kill a controversial moose hunt.

After January, the annual moose hunt in Wells Gray provincial park will probably be scrapped, Dan Blower, wildlife branch ungulate specialist, said from Victoria.

Complaints from skiers and nearby property owners and political Pressure from regional and provincial representatives put paid to the 20- year-old hunt, he said

“It'll be going on this year, but the proposal is to cancel it for the following year and from then on.””

The hunt in the 500,000-hectare park occurs in early January when snow forces the moose down from higher elevations.

Traditionally, hunters can shoot any of the creatures, including Pregnant females with calves. Usually, 10 to 15 animals are bagged during the week-long hunt

But growing criticism has forced officials to make modifications in recent years, including limiting the number of hunters to 50.

important to his forestry region.

“The focus of the (three-way) negotiations should be on bringing Mexico into a free and fair trading partnership with the United States and Canada,’’ said Oregon Senator Bob Packwood, a Republican on Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen’s Senate finance committee.

The American lumber industry nas been critical of Canadian efforts to reopen the 1987 softwood lumber agreement, which averted a lumber trade war between the two countries.

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continued from front page request funding for their own studies of the project, he said

And allowing intervenor funding will make the process ‘‘drag on and on and on,"’ he added.

Many people who spoke about the review also criticized the amount of time given to study Celgar’s report and other materials before the hearings began. People who must study in between work and family commitments need more time than was given to review such a complicated subject, they said.

Hammond said there also should have been public consultation before the panel members were chosen and public input into the panel's terms of reference.

The three-member panel is too small to include people with enough expertisein all-the areas of concern to people making presentations, she added.

The panel was appointed by the federal and provin- cial ministries of environment who also wrote the panel’s terms of reference. The panel consists of chairman Jill Bodkin, director of financial services and a partner with Ernst and Young chartered accountants and management consultants in Vancouver and a former B.C. deputy Ininister of consumer and corporate affairs, Thomas Nor- Rthcote, a professgr_at the University of B.C., who is a specialist on the impact of man on inland aquatic ecosystems, and Paul Thomas, president of Paul R. Thomas Pulp Consulting, which provides technical con- sulting services to pulp and paper companies.

Hammond said Northcote is the only panel member with technical background in environmental issues and his expertise is mainly in the area of waterways

Ann Hillyer, a lawyer for the West Coast Environ- mental Law Association, recommended that some of the components of the current review be kept in place the next time a B.C. industry goes through such a process.

She said review by an independent panel is important and public hearings are ‘‘absolutely essential.’”

However, Hillyer also said the panel's mandate must be broad enough to allow the panel to make recom- mendations on all the issues that may result in environ-

mental or social and economic impacts in the area affec- ted by the company’s plans

For instance, the panel looking at Celgar’s proposal should have a mandate to consider forestry in general, rather than just whether or not an adequate long-term supply of wood chips exists to feed a larger puip mill, she said.

She also recommended that reviews by the two levels of government should have similar requirements for the industry undergoing review.

During the hearings, Bodkin said the panel is in- terested in criticism of the review. She said the panel takes comments on the process ‘‘very seriously.””

4 David Parsons, chairman of the Major Project Review Process steering committee, said any recommen- dations on the process from the panel will be considered: by the committee. The committee could then make recommendations to the provincial government for changes to the process, Parsons said Friday.

The provincial process is new and the committee is “always looking for guidance,"’ he said

Paul Scott, deputy regional director with the Federal Environmental Assessment Review Office in Vancouver, said any recommendations from the panel on the federal review process will be given consideration. Other federal panels have made suggestions for changes in the past, he said

Scott said new legislation including the federal review process is currently before the House of Commons

A Commons committee is seeking public input into the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, although most of the changes will be to guidelines that do not concern panels, he said.

The new regulations will require the federal Ministry’

of Environment to be the main body of review, making environmental impact assessment the focus of the review, Scott said

However, the new bill is not likely to be passed into law before next spring “‘at the earliest,"’ Scott said. Par- sons said the provincial process may also become law some day

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discharges that meet the provincial

membership fees

By CasNews Staff

The Castlegar Chamber of Com- merce has raised its membership fees for the first time since 1987

The changes were needed to bring the chamber’s fees in line with fees charged by the majority of chambers in the province and smooth out some uneven jumps between categories, chamber president Jim Craig said. As well, a heavier burden has been placed on larger firms that can afford to pay higher fees, Craig added.

All categories have gone up’ by at least $10 except for category D which includes firms with 10 to. 15 employees — which has gone down to $225 from $285. Ron Armbruster, who was membership chairman when the new fee schedule was set up, said the lowering of that fee will help smooth out the gaps between categories

The chamber has also redesignated a category which was reserved for the City of Castlegar and the Regional District of Central Kootenay and is now designated for businesses with 100 or more employees.

The city and regional district will now pay a fee based on the number of workers each government body em ploys, Armbruster said

The following fee schedule is now in effect (last year's fees in paren. theses):

\ JIM CRAIG . . derger firms pay more

Firms with one to three employees — $85 ($75); four to six — $125 ($110); seven to nine — $170 ($150); 10 to 15 — $225 ($285); 16 to 100 — $325 ($300); 100 or more $450 ($300); church and non-profit organizations — $85 ($75); private in- dividual $35 ($35).

The City of Castlegar and the regional district paid fees of $300 last year

“I doubt that we would see half of these people if Celgar were not in operation."’

Answering critics of Celgar's plans and the environmental impact assessment report the company com. missioned, Ross said he believes Celgar’s consultants who predict a cleaner environment and a stable economy for the area if the project goes ahead

“As professionals ourselves, we

The Celgar project, estimated to cost in excess of $630 million, will double the pulp-making capacity of the miltto 420,000 tonnes a year and use hydrogen peroxide to reduce the level of organochloride compounds in the mill's effluent, the company says.

The modernized mill will achieve

government's proposed level of 1.5 kilograms of organochlorides per tonne of pulp, Celgar says Organochlorides is the name given to a family of chemicals which include dioxins and furans, the toxic chemicals pulp mills produce wher they use chlorine to bleach pulp.

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know that the ind consultan ts working for Celgar have a vested in terest in telling the truth. How long would these consultants stay in business if it became known that they had offered erroneous advice?””

But Green Party member Angela Price registered strong opposition to the expansion proposal

She noted that those in favor of the Project and those with reservations all want many of the same things quality of life, a clean environment and jobs

But she criticized Celgar’s desire to expand, likening the pulp company to a baby that “‘devours the breast” of its mother rather than just taking enough milk to be satisfied.

Other presentations were made by Walter Siemens, who is seeking the Social Credit party nomination in Rossland-Trail, and Jim Lippert, secretary-treasurer of the B.C. and Yukon Térritory Building and Con struction Trades Council, who made a presentation on behalf of the trades council and the B.C. Fedefation of

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in Saskatchewan and has taught and written widely on health care.

David Sinclair, who retired this year as a long-time senior partner of a major national accounting firm. He was actively involved in annual audits of Vancouver General Hospital and has extensive experience as chairman

of the Cancer Control Agency and President of the B.C. Cancer Foun- dation

The Trail hearing is scheduled for Oct. 15 at the Terra Nova Motor Inn. Nelson's hearing is slated for Oct. 16 at the Slumber Lodge Motor Inn Sessions in each city are set for 1:30 p.m. to S'p.m. and 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m

NDP makes promises

VANCOUVER (CP) — An NDP. government in British Columbia would tie forest cutting rights to jobs, fight the GST and sign a land claims deal with the Nisga within a year, NDP Leader Mike Harcourt said

“In a Harcourt government, the right to cut the people's trees will be directly linked to forest jobs,"’ he told 200 delegates at the annual IWA Canada convention.

“In return for trees, we must have jobs, not just jobs in the working forest. but jobs imghe mills and the

plants that products.”*

Produce manufactured

Later, Harcourt told reporters at

Hearings have their moments

By CasNews Staff

Not everyone who made presentations to the Celgar Ex- pansion Review Panel chose con- ventional methods of getting their message across.

Some of the more colorful moments from the six days of public hearings into Celgar’s Proposal to expand and moder nize its Castlegar mill included:

© Ken Ormerod of the Slocan Valley who dropped a large card- board box full of junk mail on the floor of the Silverton Gallery and announced it was his ‘‘weighty”’ submission

© Michael Gilfillan of Thrums who sang a capella for several minutes before reading from his written text.

© An electrician from Robson, John Coyle, who apologized for the ‘‘colorful language’’ he expec- ted he would use during his presentation. He spoke about the amount of time he and other elec tricians in the area have spent away from home since the mid 1980s when construction jobs dried up in the Kootenays.

© “I'm sick and bloody tired of travelling. | want a job for once at home.""

© Two 13-year-old Slocan Valley boys who made presen tations in Slocan about their con. cerns over Celgar’s plans.

Baird Connelly said he moved to the valley from Toronto when he was five.

“*It took me about five seconds to climb and fall out of my first tree."”

But he said he soon mastered that feat and went on to learn about other ways to enjoy himself in the forest

“*And I never, ever missed the sidewalks of Toronto."

© Castlegar businessman Tom Larsen who drew a comparison between Celgar’s proposal and an obviously smaller expansion he made on his own business

If Celgar is going to be made accountable for any increased traffic due to its expansion plans, then all business people who ex pand their facilities should be responsible for the extra traffic they generate on local sidewalks and streets, he said

© Libby and Frank Ruljancich of Deer Park who acted out a skit during the Castlegar hearings. The couple dramatized the feelings of those who favor the expansion and those who oppose it while discussing the issues that are being debated. as the panel gathers in formation on the company's proposal

the kers’ c that an NDP government would negotiate land claims, ensure the federal gover nment pays its share towards the claims and proceed to sign an agreement with the Nisga “within a year.”"

“I'm very excited about negotiating a fair settlement with the aboriginal

he said

FOR THE RECORD

A photograph on page BS of Wed nesday’s Castlegar News was in correctly cropped during production of the newspaper. Jill Bodkin, chair man of the Celgar Expansion Review Panel, is in fact not seen in the photo