A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 19, 2002 Fees may repel foreign nurses New policy undermines recruitment efforts A NEW provincial policy could hurt the chances of health care authorities to recruit foreign-trained nurses to fill crilical va- cancies in B,C, Up until last month, children of skilled workers, such as nurses coming to B.C, under one-year work visas, did not have ta pay fees to send their children to public school. That's now changed and school districts are free to set fees to recover the full cost of what it takes to educate a foreign student, “How it was changed is that the ministry removed an exemption,” said edu- cation ministry official Terry Foster last week. It raises the prospect of one part of the provincial government putting in place programs to recruit foreign-trained nurses yet having another part of the government making it too expensive for those nurses and B.C. employers to take advantage of those pro- grams. Foster did say there are other ways for foreign workers to educate their children than to pay fees Logging rate Cut. in Nass THE CHIEF forester has chopped the maximum rate of logging in the Nass timber supply area by nearly a quarter. Larry Pedersen last week said the new allow- able annual cut for the Nass will be 865,000 cubic metres, down from the pre- vious limil of 1,142,400 cubic metre previously al- lowed. “The reduction in the allowable annual cut is necessary to ensure long- term sustainability,” he said. The new cut limit will be in place for five years. The decision could limit logging operators in the Cranberry-Meziadin area. They've cut an average of 553,000 cubic metres in the Nass from 1997 to 2000, although mos} would have hoped to log consid: erably more than that had markets been better and Skeena Cellulose not cal- lapsed. “We're not expecting any immediate economic impacts,” said Dave Be- wick, the forest service’s acting operations manager here. The 865,00G cubic metre cut limit now also includes 200,000 cubic metres per year in the Upper Nass, an undeve- loped region that planners doubt will be logged any time soon, Pedersen said he allo- cated a cut level for that atea so that the rest of the Nass isn’t overharvested. That means the logging limit for the rest of the Nass is effectively 665,000 cubic metres a year, only about 20 per cent more than the recent depressed harvest rate. If that’s not enough, operators have the option to develop the Upper Nass, Bewick noted. “We want to test the level of interest in this area,” he said, Main operators in the Nass are West Fraser, SC] subsidiary Orenda Forest Products, and Buffalo Head -a former SCI sub- sidiary that buyers didn’t want and is now in the hands of the provincial government. The region covers about 1,6 million hectares in northwest B.C. The War Amps MN fi: AGAIN! N EVE R video Series To aow a vies Mating, vibll oo oie at . WH eTRINBM.CR fh ~"Tesctaetsaté""™ at public schools, “There are other options such as home schooling or distance education with the home country,” she said. Ethel Davis of Health Match, an agency. fi- nanced by health employ- ers and the province which helps connect employers with nurses and doctors, is worried. “We're being hit from all sides right now,” she said in referring to another recruiting problem, the de- cision by the B.C. Nurses’ Union to withhold approval of granting visas to forei- gn-trained nurses. “You could be looking at fees in (he thousands. It will have a major, major PONTIAC. MORE CANADIANS CHOOSE SUNFIRE OVER COROLLA+ adverse impact,” she said of the education ministry decision. The decision to impose fees does not affect foreign workers who have landed immigrant status or who have applied for the same, said Foster. 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