PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Wednesday, June 28, 1978

Graham Lea

Claims Forest Act is to
fatten Socred party purse

VICTORIA -— The new
Forest Act is not based on
principles .or policy but
rather on the need ofthe
Social Credit Party for
campaign funds, Graham
Lea, New Democrat NLA for
Prince Rupert, has charged
in the Legislaturé,

Speaking in the debate on
the controverslallegislation
which the Sccial Credit
government has refused to
detay to allow public debate,
Lea asked: ‘How can there
be principle in a bill that
sells out our heritage, our
children’s heritage and our

children’s children’:
heritage? ... How can you
take a government that
brings in that kind of bill and
find eny principle in-
volved?” ;

He said “‘the bill is in this
House for campaign funds,
How can it be for any other

reason when everybody elae, &
except the major forest §

companies, is opposed to —

it?’

“For the most part they'd
just: Jike it to gothrough the
House as quietly as
possible,” he said.

How about this now:-
A “Log Marketing Board”?

VICTORIA =
Lockstead, New Democrat’
MLA for Mackenzie, has
called for the establishment
of a log marketing board to
ensure the supply of logs to
independent mills and break
the artificial pricing now
imposed by major foreatry
corporations.

He said the agency should
have been provided for in the
new Forest Act put before
the Legislature earlier this
month by. the Social Credit

Electoral boundary changes

“Gerrymandering”

Vietoria --- Opposition
mambers of the provincial
Legislature have attacked
the redistribution of the
electoral boundaries as a
callous effort of the Social
Credit Party to guarantee its
re-election.

“The view of the govern-
ment is that the people will
fall for this crude re-drawing
of the electoral boundaries,’’
commented Opposition
leader Dave Barrett. “The
way redistribution was
handled shows panic,
desperation and bad
judgement by the Socreds. 1
‘am hopeful the public will
show this government that
their demberati¢ ‘rights and
their franchise cannot be
treated with such con-
tempt.”

The redistribution bill was
introduced in the Legislature
only 24 hours after the
tabling of the interim report
af Judge Lawrence 5S,
Eckardt, a defeated Social
Credit candidate who was
named a one-man royal
commission to look into
electoral reform,

The bill was sponsored by
Provincial Secretary Grace
McCarthy who, as MLA for
Vancouver-Little Mountain,
appeared to have much to
gain by the recom-

' mendations of the report

‘Guides aid
enrollment

Student guides at Simon
Fraser University switch
over to their summer
schedule on Saturday, July 1,
offering free guided tours
daily until the Labor Day
weekend, Six tours will be
given daily.

Tours vtart from the
Administration Building
every hour at half-past the
hour, from 10:30 a.m., with
the last tour leaving at 3:30
pM,

Free parking space is
available for visitors on
weekdays at the north-east
end of the campus. All
parking areas are open and
free to visitors on Saturday,
Sunday and holidays,

“Thousands of visitors are
expected during July and
August,"’ saya Education
student Bruce Jupp, who is
tours co-ordinator for the
summer, ‘The guide service
has been in operation since
the University opened in 1965.
and over the years people
from all around the world
have visited the campus.

“Many people come just to
see the SFU architecture and
others come because they
are interested in our
academic programs, Many
ofthe students now enrolled
had their firat glimpse of

imon Fraser during a
guided tour,”

Visltors to the University
receive a small brodhute,
contain ng a map of the

mpus amd a_ brief
description of the Univer-
sity’s history, its

achievements and points of
interest,
Special group tours may

be arranged by calling the -

Student Guide Service at the
University News Service
office at 291-3219,

government.

Lockstead said a
marketing board would be
able to guarantee supply to
operators outside of the
major corporations as well
as to new companies coming
into the industry. Specialty
firms, such as hoat-buildérs,
would be able to count on a
supply of lumber as they are
not now, he said.

Lockstead noted that 92
percent of the supply of logs
from B.B. forests are now

. stumpage

controlled by eight major
corporations, all but one of
which is U.S. dominated.

“These corporations set
the price of logs artificially
and that price does not
reflect the true market value
of the product,’ Locksteas
said, “Whent that price is set
too low, the province loses
and royalty
revenue. That loss is
reflected in the standard of
government services in

attacked as

which carefully added to ber
riding Social Credit voting

polls from the Shaugnessy
tistrict while deleting from
it NDP-voting polls in
Vancouver’s South Slope
district.

New Democratic Party
Members unanimously
condemned the redistriction,

which will increase the

number of seats in the house
from 55 deteg” 57, a6
“gerrymander'

3 what was described as
the most errant case of
trying to fix the election
results, three seats now held
by New. Democrats were
simply abolished. These
included the .two-member
riding Vancouver-
Burrard, ala by Rosemary
Brown and Norman Levi,
and the riding of Revelstoke-
Slocan held by Bill King.

Justification for abolishing
Revelstoke-Slocan was that
the seat, with 10,493
registered voters, was too
amall, However, Eckardt
did not do away with the
riding of Atlin, held by Social
Credit, which has 3,159
registered voters.

In another case of alleged
political manipulation, NDP-
voting polls in ‘the Victoria

West district were removed
from Esquimalt riding and
NDP-voting polls in Saanich
were removed from Saanich
and the Islands riding in an
apparent effort to protect the
interests of Social Credit
MLAs in those two ridings.
There was little con-
sistency in the redistribution
measures, Opposition critics
pointed out. For example,
the suburban riding of Delta,
now held by Social Credit,
was made a two-member
riding apparently in an effort
to insure the election of two
Socreds because of the high
concentration of Social
Credit votes in that riding,
while another suburban
riding, Coquitlam, was
divided into two one-member
ridings, apparently because’
it went Social Credit by only
a few votes in the last
election and the careful
division of the riding would
guarantee the election of at
least ‘one Social Credit
member in the next election.
There was no effort to seek
representation by population
in the Eckardt report or in
the bill that followed it, For
example, in the previously
under-represented City of
Vancouver, the number of

other areas, such as social
programs. ”

‘It is simply not ae-
ceptable for foreign-owned
companies to determine

eir own prices, outside of
the realities of the market
place, and for those prices to
be reflected in the quality of
government services

received by the people of the .

province who own the forests
in the first place,” -

seats was actually cut from
12 to 10.

Critics noted that Eckardt
was appointed to his one-
man commission on January
12, 1978 and announced
immediately that he was
Jeaving on a monthlong
vacation outside the
province, Premier Bill
Bennett defended the holiday
in a report in the Victoria
Daily Colonist on January 19
because ‘before the com-

missioner left on holiday, the —

preliminary work was

already in progress and-

until
from

would continue
Eekardt’s return
vacation.” .

When the report was
suddenly tabled in the house
at 2 p.m. June 2, the
Queen's Printer did not have
sufficient time to provide all
members of the house with a
copy and only one copy was
provided to the entire 18-
member NDP Caucus.
Nonetheless within 24 hours
the government -— was
presumably able to read,
digest and adopt the
recommendations and have
itdrafied into legislation and
printed in time for all
members to receive a copy
by 2p.m_ the next dav.

ORAND
DPENING |
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4441 Lakelse

HellRiders proved beyond a doubt that they are capable of

Another action shot taken at the Terrace Speedway. The

mind boggling stunts.

given five year extension

Five year extensions have been granted to the
holders of 103 ‘B’ category salmon fishing
licences by the federal Department of Fisheries,
it was announced on last week by Fisheries
Minister Romeo LeBlanc. These licences had
been scheduled to expire, and their owners
required to leave the salmon fishery, as of
December 31 of this year. The licences will now
continue in effect, subject to certain conditions,
until December 31, 1983.

The vessels affected are those which have been
continuously owned and licenced by the original

- licensees since the Salmon Vessel Licence

Control Program was out into effect in 1969, The
purpose of the program had been to improve
‘economic conditions in the west coast salmon
fishing industry, where the fleet had been too
large in relation to the salmon available.

All ‘B’ licences not covered by the extension
today will expire either at the end of this year, or

_ at the conclusion of their 10 year life span,

depending on when the vessel was designated as
falling in this category. There are 484 such
vessels, and they are either vessels which have
been sold by the origina] owner since 1969, or
voluntarily dropped from the ‘‘A” vessel to the
“B” vessel category in order to take advantage
ofthe much lower licence fee.

after

These vessels do not qualify for the exemption
granted today to the original “B” licensees
because thev have been voluntarilv placed in the
“B” category, with full knowledge of the time
limits of the licences. The original ‘‘B’’ licensees
were given no choice in the matter when Salmon
Vessel Licence Control Program was im-
plemented.

“The decision to grant them an extension was
made by Fisheries Minister Romeo LeBlanc
r consultation with fishermen’s
organizations”, said Skeena MP Iona Cam-
pagnolo, ‘and following an assessment which
showed that the impact of these 103 vessels ‘on
the west coast fishery was minimal. Their total
gross earnings was $245,611 in 1977, including
non-salmon landings.”

In order to maintain their status for the ad-
ditional 5 years, these vessels are now subject to
the following conditions: - The licences are non-.
transferable; the vessels must be owner-
operated; and the vessel must have successfully
participated in the salmon fishery each year.

The appeal process, for individuals affected by
this decision who feel there are extenuating
circumstances in their particular case, will
remain openfor the duration of the five years.

wed
must
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