A6 Terrace Review — Wednesday, July 25, 1990

~~ Yes, you can
No, you can’t

There were at least two families of American tourists in this

area last week that left Terrace in a state of disappointment
and confusion. Two that we’re aware of, anyway, which almost
certainly indicates there were others like them who just left
without telling anyone and probably won’t come back.

Their stated reason for departing ahead of schedule was a fee
of $10 a day per angler (or rod, as the terminology goes) for
fishing in restricted areas, a commodity in which the Terrace
area seems to abound. The fee was introduced in April, and
although it is given prominent coverage in the annual fresh-
water fishing guide published by the B.C. government, it is
apparently not mentioned in the government’s out-of-country
advertising designed to lure American holiday campers up

here.

The people who earn their living by creating these ads and
the people who regulate the fisheries appear to be working
toward contradictory ends here. One group is extolling the
virtues of our fish-heavy rivers and streams while another is -
actively discouraging those who come here from crowding the
river and stream banks. Perhaps it would be a good idea for
these two groups of people — both of whom work for the
same government — to get together and have a chat.

The effort to regulate numbers of fishermen on local rivers is
a well-intended and necessary step, but it’s hardly reasonable
to invite people to come fishing here and then treat them like
pariahs when they want to get their lines wet.

This situation is one example of a host of problems that
could damage the tourism industry. Conservation policies that
work for the fish rather than for political careers will have to
be put in place, particularly in light of the Sparrow decision.
Tourists aren’t customarily drawn to a place where a low-level
state of civil war exists, so there will have to be positive work

rather than stalling done on the land-question and native-run
tourism ventures will have to take their position in the overall

scheme of

things.

In a recent bulletin from the Terrace and District Chamber of
Commerce, president Doug Smith writes, "Today's first-time
visitors will be telling others about our community. We need
those first-time visitors to come back and we need the exercise
to be repeated by those they talk to upon their return home."

To get that, what we need is accurate information in interna-
tional advertising, and the social stability and natural resources
to deliver what tourists expect from a first-class destination.

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Victoria —

by John Plifer

Questions, °”
questions and more questions
surrounding the Bud Smith
tapes affair.

As much as I would love to
be able to provide the answers,
it is obvious that it will be a
long time before everything is
covered to everyone’s satisfac-
tion.

Meanwhile, three questions
which spring to mind are:

1. Do other cases in which
Smith and his assistant deputy
Bill Stewart, were involved,
deserve to be reviewed?

For example, should all of
the players in the preparation
of, and the conducting of, the
Bill Bennett/Herb Doman trial
on insider trading charges to
re-examined, given the ap-
parent inclinations of A-G
Smith to be political even in
matters of criminal justice? .

Let us not forget the unusual
speed with which the case was
brought before a court in the
.spring of 1989, nor the fact
that Mr. Stewart was the one
to announce the laying of

charges.
Let us not forget that the ap-

pointment of a judge perceived
to be ‘‘soft’’? on white-collar
crime was of concern to the
prosecutors and others.

Nor should it be forgotten
that having the B.C. case pro-
ceed so expeditiously, basically
ruled out charges proceeding to
trial in Ontario because of

_ ‘double jeopardy’’.

This is not to suggest any
questions about the guilt or in-
‘nocence of the accused — that
has been ‘dealt with. But it is to
ask whether questions raised at
that. time about-possible .

_ -political interference in the-pro-

“¢ess should be resurrected.

2. How severely are the
Socreds being hurt by the
whole mess? Is the close per-
sonal relationship between
Smith and a female TV
reporter causing even more
angst within the party than is
the question of any political in-
terference by an A-G?

After all, Premiere Bill
Vander Zalm campaigned in
1986 on upright family values
and rigid morality. Could his
anger or indignation about this
aspect of the issue be the main
reason he has been careful not
to comment directly on Smith’s
actions?

3. When can the Socreds
possibly fit an election into all
of this?

Fallout from the police in-
vestigation and from the probe
by Ombudsman Stephen Owen
will be around through the
autumn and into winter; the
NDP are bragging that they
‘have a couple more bombshells
to drop, although not of the
Smith magnitude; and surely
the socreds cannot face another
session in March.

It narrows the options down
to October or April for the
vote, as far as this scribe sees it

- —- October to use the NDP’s

actions with the tapes as an
issué, and to run before
Owen’s probably-volatile fin-

- dings are public; and April
because dropping the writ in
March when the House is to
return is the only other course.

The answers to all of the
above will prove to be nearly as
fascinating as four years of
Vander Zalm politics have

been.
_.. To see ourselves as.others see

us is said to be the ultimate
way to assess ourselves.

In the midst of the current
Bud Smith affair, it was unset-

fling in the extreme for me to

have a media colleague, who
also happened to be a friend,
tell me that I ‘‘take delight in
the misery of others.’’

That is an accusation often
levelled at the media, rather
than by members of it, and
although we may believe it to
be untrue, that does not stop
others from believing it is true.

Personal, difficult exchanges
such as that serve as an exam-
ple of the tense, highly-charged
atmosphere in the press gallery
since the story broke, because
of the implication in it of at
least two gallery members.

- Discussing publicly the role
of the press in such a major
scandal is, methinks, a general-
ly healthy attitude. However,
some feel we have passed the
limit of how much discussion
that should entail.

Many of us have con- |

templated our navels to such an»

extent over the past 10 days
that we have enough lint to
knit three sweaters,

What must be kept pro-
minently in the public’s mind,
is that despite the fact that
their friends and colleagues
were involved in this whole _
mess, reporters here were the
ones who tracked down and
identified the.person who taped
the calls, and pinned down -—
to some degree — how the
tapes got to the NDP, via.a
reporter-as-intermediary.

To this scribe, that is a good
example of how well-served the

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