| A4- The Tenace Standard, Wednesday, April 26, 1995

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Phone a friend

IT USED to be that tourism was treated as a
casual kind of affair. Just because we have tall
mountains, trees, lakes, rivers, fish and wildlife,
we assumed people would flock to the region.

But no more, Tourism is now a high stakes in-
dustry with fierce competition for travellers, The
money generated places tourism on an equal
footing with forestry and mining.

To be sure, our natural attractions remain as an
attraction to potential visitors to our area, Yet
landing that catch after they’ve taken the bait is
crucial. That’s why governments have developed
advertising and promotion campaigns in con-
junction with regional tourism associations and
businesses.

These have proven tremendously successful in
drawing people from Europe. It’s no longer a
surprise to view tour buses lined up on city
streets in the summer. And encounters with
groups of people from other countries in grocery
stores and in provincial parks is commonplace.

There should be an increase in foreign travel-
lers this summer given the attractive exchange
tates of many currencies in comparison to the
Canadian dollar. The exchange rate situation
should work in our favour in a different way —
Canadians are finding it increasingly expensive
to travel in other countries.

And that creates a golden opportunity for the
northwest, With that high cost of travel outside
of the country, more and more Canadians will be
looking for homegrown tourist opportunities.

So here’s what you can do. Phone a friend in

“Alberta, contact-a relative in-Surrey..-Remind -
them of all those trips you’ve made down south -

and elsewhere over the years. Tell them it’s time
for them to venture up north,

Not only will you get a chance to renew and
strengthen family and other ties, you’ll be doing
the local economy a great service. As they say on
those telethons — pick up the phone. Do it now.

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Workers’ blues

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IF THERE’S on issue gnawing at the friendship
between the NDP and organized labour it’s out
of province workers. On the surface it appears to
be simply a spat between political pals that could
lead to some difficulty for the NDP at the next
election.

But the growth of the out-of-province work-
force in this province is a disturbing trend to
British Columbians. The simple question is this:
‘Why are people from outside working in B.C.
when B.C, residents could do the job?”’

The answer is more complex, having every-
thing to do with trade and commerce agreements
between B.C. and the Prairie provinces, free en-
terprise and political philosophies.

Yet those.answers are absolutely no comfort at
all to an unemployed worker driving by a project
and noticing out-of-province licence plates.

Just recently the provincial government an-
nounced an industrial inquiry commission. Out-
of-province workers will undoubtedly come up
as a timely and well-deserved topic.

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Forest war fought overseas

VICTORIA — Earlier this
month, two British Colum-
bians squared off before the
European Parliament’s Inter-
group on Conservation and
Development. At stake was
nothing less than an important
part of our province's standard
of living.

The meeting, an account of
which came into my hands via
the Canadian Mission tw the
European Union, took place in
Strasbourg on April 5.

The two combatants were
Peter McAllister of the Raia-
coast Conservation Society and
Stephen Owen, chief of the
Commission on Resources and
Environment (CORE).

According to Rory McAl-
pine, counsellor on Forestry
Affairs with the Canadian Mis-
sion to the European Union,
McAllister opened the meeting
with a 45-minute presentation
and slide show,

“He used a kind of eco-
rhetoric not heard in Europe
for some time. The audience
heard about forests being
‘liquidated,’ pristine valleys
being ‘destroyed .. crimes
against nature om a massive
scale,’ salmon beds being
‘smothered.’””

‘He began by saying that
British Columbia’s primary
coastal rainforests would only

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HUBERT BEYER

be saved by exposing the truth
to the world, as neither British
Columbia nor the federal
government were taking the
necessary action, |

“In fact, be said, the B.C.
Zovernment and industry were
engaged in a huge PR
campaign to hide the truth and
propagate ‘mischievous non-
sense.’’?

“McAllister said his mission
is ‘to save the big trees.” He
said one valley after another is
being clearcut before any
ecological inventorics are
taken. The original forests are
being replaced with even-aged
plantations and all bio. diver-
sily is lost.”

McAlpine sald that McAl-
lister’s presentation prompted
immediate statements and

questions from the  par-
liamentarians, How could B.C,
claim to practice sustainable
forestry if this was what was
teally happening?

Enter Stephen Owen, who
had been invited by the Buro-
pean Parliament to speak on
British Columbia’s new
policies of sustainable forestry.
After listening to McAllister’s
inflammatory _ presentation,
Owen scrapped his original
speech and waded in for a
rebuttal,

*‘He told the MEPs that
while pressuze from environ-
mentalisis like McAlister is
absolutely essential to achiev-
ing sustainable forestry in
B.C., he had never heard such
‘over-slated and ill-founded’
comments from a Canadian en-
vironmentalists.

‘Turning McAllister’s own
words against him, he called
his presentation ‘mischievous
nonsense’ and asked him to
join the consultative process at
home rather than making
Speeches in Europe,

‘“Owen then described the
tremendous controversy sur-
rounding forestry and land-use
in B.C. and the strong demo-
cratic demand for change. He
talked about loggers marching
on Victoria, hundreds of
protesters being arrested at

Clayoquot Sound, huge indus-
try PR campaigns, all to make
the point that the situation is
far more complex than McAI-
lister suggests,

‘He said progressive change
can only be achieved through
thoughtful consideration and
participatory democracy. In
this regard, he said, ‘B.C. does
not need a lesson in demo-
cracy,’”?

According to McAlpine’s ac-
count of the meeting, Owen,
having ‘drastically altered the
atmosphere in the room,’’ then
described CORE, its various
land-use plans and particularly
his proposal for a
Sustainability Act in B.C.

This incident shows that as
long as dangerous fringe en- —
vironmentalists like McAllister
are on the loose, eager to
spread outright lies, Canada in
general and British Columbia
in particular need a_ strong
presence in Europe. Owen just
happened to be there. Had he
not been, McAllister might
have done a lot more damage.

All the changes we're trying
to implement here at home
won't amount to anything if |
we can’t convince the ©
customers of our products that
the changes are real and for the
better, ;

Listen up, you young studs _

VICTORIA — Adults of the
community must take more re-
sponsibility for teen parents
and their babies, concludes a
survey released earlier this
month by School District 88
and Human Resources Devel-
opment Canada,

Terrace has 81 babies with
teen mothers. Another 10 or 12
teens are pregnant, And all of a
sudden I’m responsible for
them.

Why?

Is it my fault these teens
lacked for anything better to
do? That they think experi-
menting with sex is 4
worthwhile pastime like biking
or rollerblading? That they
were too embarrassed to men-
tion birth control but had no
qualms about engaging in sex.
ual intercourse?

I can imagine what some of
these teens might have said
had I cautioned them about sex
without birth control, '“Whal
business is it of yours, you old
busybody?’’ Or if I'd sug-
gested she peel herself off the

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stud and try silting at, rather
than lying on, the picnic table.
She’d have piven me a
Trudeau salute.

Yet now I’m responsible for
her and her progeny,

What about the responsibility
of the eager sex partner? And
their parents? Parents are
legally responsible for their
offspring until they attain the
age of 19, Hold them to it.

If the law can — if it ever
chooses — collect child sup-

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port by gamishecing the wages
of an ex-spouse, why not of a
reluctant parent?

Maybe birth control was toa
expensive for some teen
mothers, Or maybe they
preferred to spend their al-
lowances on makeup,
cigarettes, and music tapes, If
they truly didn’t realize the
tisk of pregnancy and disease
from unprotected sex, they
probably wouldn’t swallow
birth control pills with the reg-
ularity needed to make the pills
effective anyway. Let’s hope
they have a better tack record
giving the baby its feedings.

Ferrace has about 2000
lcens. Many of the boys spend
hundreds of dollars on a sound
system for their trucks. They
have unlimited funds for
booze, partying, and wild
times, Yet they’re too stingy to
buy a condom, too immature to
consider using one,

At a local drugstore, a con-
dom sells for 32 to 75 cents.
To think every time a stud
saves 32 cents, I could become

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responsible for another tecn
mother and her baby. That
angers me,

Nevertheless, teen mothers
and their babies need com-
munity support, Murderers
don't serve life sentences, Why
should newboms?

The babies have my
sympathy. They deserve better
prospects in life. Statistically,
babies of single mothers tend
to be both physically and
sexually abused by successive
“fathers’’, And growing up in
poverty isn’t healthy,

Free birth control for every
teenager would cost far Jess
than a lifetime of welfare or
$45,000 a year for jail, ihe fate
of many a child warped by an -
uncaring family and com-
munity.

Terrace already has Big
Brothers. We could use
Volunteer Grandparents. I’m
betting we have plenty of
caring candidates willing to
spell teen mothers for an hour
or two ona regular basis.

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