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_EDITORIA

All about trees

At first glance it looks like a board game. A series of boxes are drawn out on a piece of paper. They’re connected by a multitude of lines. The impulse is to take a wooden piece from a Monopoly game and throw the dice,

But it’s not a board game. What those boxes are, according to the provincial forest industry, is the multitude of agen- cies, boards and commissions established by the NDP government to govern the manner in which the companies operate, The lines are the government highways the industry must travel,

The. obvious implication is that the forest industry is being drowned by a growing bureaucralic beast. To some extent, the in- dustry is correct. The NDP has created a bewildering number of agencies and all have a stake in what happens. Any bureaucracy should be approached with a certain amount of suspicion.

Yet the industry is wrong in its unstated point that the former Social Credit govern-

ment didn’t burden it with a lot of un- wanted and unnecessary baggage. A lot of what is now in place, the Commission on Resources and the Environment and aboriginal advisory groups, for example, had their beginnings with the Social Credit government.

The difference with the NDP is that it is trying to replace an informal but just as complex Socred. system. with one that at least has a structure and has some ground tules. Remove all the fancy language and

terms and the ‘central question is very.

siniple: How many trees are out there and how many can be logged? |

The answer to this no longer rests with

just the forest industry. Trees are a public resource and decisions on what to do with

them must involve as many people as pos- ~

sible. Of course, this suggests that reasonable people can come together to make rea-

- sonable decisions. And in the end that

presents the biggest challenge of them all.

It’s undemocratic

Once again the province of Quebec has shown that it can’t — or won’t — take a bit of criticism. The target of the slightly paranoid Quebec attitude was Skeena NDP Jim Fulton. His.sin was to appear in a doc- umentary on the massive James Bay power projects, Mr. Fulton said there would be “blood on that electricity” if developed _

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man, blood, For.that, Mr, Fulton was called an, ‘intellectual’ ‘racist’? and .. ‘‘anti- Quebecois”” by Quebec newspapers and politicians. ‘Mr. Fulton..says the comment was contained: in remarks made about the drowning’ ‘of thousands of caribou some years ago when the waters rose in connec: tion with James Bay I. And he says he was never given the opportunity to explain the.

context of his remarks once the you know what hit the fan.

The reaction to Mr. Fulton’s comments combines two of the touchiest issues in Quebec. One is the sanctity with which Quebec holds its hydro-electric develop- ments, They are not only a way-to make money but are the biggest example of

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-those and: you attack.the:soul-of the pro-

vince, The other is the manner in-which. - natives are treated in Quebec. We may

think we have some. in-grown anti-native attitudes in B.C. but, they are nothing com- pared to what happens i in Quebec,

Quebec must: learn that a free exchange of ideas and opinions is important if it is to grow and to mature. And it’s something we should also remember.

Three necessities

Here’s another chapter in the

continuing saga to replace ob- solete but prized possessions destroyed in an arson house fire,

Soon after the September fire, I began hunting for a re- placement hand-operated cof- fee grinder, an all-metal drip

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coffee maker, and a Royal _ Standard - manual typewriter, model KMG with elite type.. (Typewriters print ‘letters in one of two sizes, either large or pica, or: small type: called elite.) Advertisements i in a local ad sheet and in’a prairie newspa- per, the Western Producer,

raised no response. However, | -

my column printed in the Ter- race Standard brought 11 of- fers of typewriters; none was a Royal KMG :though. Even a Saskatoon secondhand store which claims ‘If ‘we don’t have it, we'll find it for you” failed to make good on. its promise,

So a month ago I wrote. to. Kerry Moore’s Hard-To-Find column published in The Pro- vince. Three days later my let- ter — minus Dear Kerry and Sincerely yours — appeared in the Living section of the news- paper as a 2 1/2 x 5 inch notice titled Can You Help This Reader? ‘A classified ad of equal size costs $630.66,

Days later I had offers of four coffee. grinders, four cof-

fee makers, . and five, Royal L ~ That’s when. he. bought this

typewriters, ° A North” Vancouver jady “ mailed me..a. _German-made

coffee grinder no bigger than:

six’ music. -tapes: stacked...

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beans as the ‘hopper will hold

before the lid is closed to pre-

vent splattering, “in ‘two minutes it grinds enough to brew twelve cups.

“That's lightning compared to the hand grinders stores sell for up to $80 that grind less

than a teaspoonful after fifteen.’

minutes of diligent cranking. A Port. Coquitlam lady. sent an all-aluminum drip - cof-

‘feemaker she had bought years

ago to make drip coffee when her European in-laws visited, “They don’t visit much any more,” she said. For several

-years she had lived in Kitimat.

The coffeemaker arrived

packed in shredded Paper. It is” well used; it’s lustre is lost,

Because it weighs almost nothing, postage was only $2.87,

~ Wonder of wonders, one of the Royals was a KMG ... with . _ the same elite type face as my - original machine, The ma-—

chine belonged to John, a Vancouver. man who had worked. for Canadian

Freightways in Prince George |

at the time ‘the company up- graded from manual to elecitic typewriters in the 1960's.

machine; now he was willing to sell it.

In“ an. exchange ' of phone - - calls we. worked, out. APP

and “payment = “detalls.

packed it between two old four-inch-thick foam sofa cushions. A courier company picked it up from his third- floor apartment’ Monday forenoon and delivered it 48 hours later.

At first glance the machine

‘seemed unlike the one I had used for thirty years, But by

the time I had scrubbed a layer of grubby fingerprints from the frame; unclogged © the typeface with Archie’s cleaner and ‘a brush; scoured the rub- ber roller free of an accumula- tion of black carbon; and lubricated friction points with sewing machine oil, it looked

. familiar.

So thanks to the generosity of readers, Kerry Moore and The Province, three precious pieces of my life have been

restored,

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Lideral Wilson rolls dice to keep job

VICTORIA — The Liberal leadership plot is thickening, and Gordon Wilson is trying desperately to retain a Part i in

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é Indiana fureardtind thé gts who tight have foréed hin submit to a leadership review, which would probably have ‘ resulted in an embarrassing _ no-confidence vote, Wilson has called for a full-blown leadership convention to be held early this summer.

Al the time of writing, Wil- son had not yet declared him- self in race for. the leadership, but some of his comments .. “T’m not a quitter” .. leave no doubt in my mind that he will try to reassert his grip on the party.

In theory, he can do it. If he . travels to every riding during — the next few months and garners enough support from potential delegates to the con- vention, he could carry it off.

But it’s an outside chance at - best. The deck is stacked against him, and let me be very clear that it wasn’t some “dark forces’’ within the party who dealt the cards, but Wil- son himself,

The big problem with Wil- son is that he never should have been where he is now. He never had a ‘‘vision for British Columbia,’’ a phrase he uses a little too often for credibility, ;

He was swept into the posi- tion as leader of the official opposition as a result of a seven-second clip on televi- sion, during Mike Harcourt’s and Rita Johnston’s infamous fish-wife exchange:

The votes into which his. - little quip translated at the

polls were not cast for the Lib-

erals, but against the oldline parties, The Liberals hadn’t”. earned their success,

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A good leader, on the other hand, could have turned the electoral fluke into a serious political power base. Alas, Wilson tumed out to be no as

good leader. That’s why he is -

in trouble, and that’s why he ‘will not get a second mandate from the party.

~ The names of several poten- tial replacements for Wilson are being bandied about, with Vancouver Mayor Gordon Campbell’s among the more prominent ones,

In the past, Campbell has side-stepped questions of whether he’s interested in bec- oming leader of the Liberal Party with the obvious answer that the job is filled, but that’s no longer the case,

Campbell is also the candi- date the NDP fears most, be- cause he has the political

' Smarts to forge a credible and

effective free-enterprise al- liance that could give the NDP Severe headaches at the next election.

Another name that keeps popping up is that of Gordon Gibson Jr. Gibson was once leader of the Liberal Party. and its lone representative in the

legislature, following the big defection to the Socreds of his

_ colleagues Pat McGeer, Allan

_ Williams and Garde Gardom,: Gibson was a good

politician, but it’s doubtful

‘whether he can Stage a come-

back or is even interested i in

the job. We also shouldn’t count out - Gary Farrell-Collins, the Lib- eral MLA for Fort Langley- Aldergrove. He resigned his job as party whip. when Wil- son refused to rule out a future relationship with Judy Tyabji. Farrell-Collins has proven. himself as a stable and effec- tive debater in the legislature,

* but his lack of experience

would prove to be a bid dis- advantage,

Then there is David Mitchell, Liberal MLA for Vancouver-Garibaldi, who quit the house leader’s job and caucus over disagreements with Wilson.

Mitchell probably wants the job so badly he can taste it, but his reputation as a maverick could now come back to haunt him. He would definitely have been better off not to quit caucus when he did.

Last but no least, the list of potential successors to Wilson includes Fred Gingell, the man

~ who is serving as interim

leader of the official opposi- tion in the legislature.

For my money, Gingell is the best of the lot, by far. He is one the most honourable politicians to have arrived in Victoria in some time. He has every asset to be a good leader, including his fervent wish not to be one. A party couldn’t wish for a better man to lead it,

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