Cabinet shuffle

Claims meeting cancelled

A meeting between @ arnrders kta rr leaders and government officials scheduled for this Monday in Kisp has been cancelled because of: the federal cabinet shuffle.

Land claims co-ordinator for the seven native bands Neil Sterritt said he had been informed by Hugh Falkner’s office that ‘the newly appointed minister of Indian affairs would not attend the meeting which had been set up by former Indian Affairs Minister Warren Allmand.

“We're very disap-

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pointed,” Sterritt said, but added that the cancellation was understandable in light of the fact the Falkner is unfamiliar with the and claim negotiations of nor- thern B.C. natives. _ Tribal council members are proceeding with plans to set up another meeting with Falkner, hopefully by the beginning of November, Sterritt said. ; Leaders of the seven bands from the Upper Skeena and lower Bulkley Valley rivers will go ahead

VEKNUN, B.C. (CP) — Delegates at the Union of British Columbia Municipalities’ . convention Wednesday approved a policy statement calling for ocal residency as the sole qualification for holding locallyelected office.

By a 198 to 173 margin, delegates voted that property-owners _non- resident in a community be denied the right to run for office.

Alderman Harry Rankin of Vancouver said he was pleased the UBCM had chosen to remove ownership of property ‘“‘as the sole basis for running for office.”

“JT think it recognizes the problem of the urban reality.’’

Rankin said the policy, which will be forwarded for consideration by the provincial government, prevents a person who lives

Burnaby and owns a husiness in Vancouver from running in Vancouver where his interests might be.in

residents.

OTION APPROVED’

However the convention decided that property ownership was sufficient qualification to allow a person to vote in a com- munity.

MOVE REJECTED

Delegates rejected an amendment to another

licy statement that would

ve denied a vote to those owning property but not living in a community, then defeated a motion allowing voters to vote in only. one municipality.

Jim Campbell of Saturna Island said the votes of non- residents usually work against improved services for locals.

“Summer visitors and those who own summer camps come te vote against any move to increase taxes," he said.

Alderman George Turner of Valemount in east-central B.C, said property-owning qualifications allow some . people to run all over the province.

“T could be mayor of three of four communities,” he said, ‘as long as they didn’t have meetings on the same nights.”

“ONE MAN, ONE VOTE”

But the majority of delegates agreed with Marilyn Baker of North Vancouver district as they

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native claims of the department of Indian Af- fairs on Monday.

The cancelled meeting.

was to have.been the first step: land claim negotiations for the Gitksan- Carrier tribes involving an aboriginal claim of 20,500 square miles from outside Cedarvale to the head water of the Skeena River. Negotiations will involve about 4,500 native people in that area from the villages of Kitwanga, Kitseqeucla,

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Commission looks for volunteer

Terrace Recreation Commission is seeking to fill two vacancies on its board and is inviting all persons interested in recreation in the community to volunteer

One person will be appointed from within the T

om the Thornhill area.

Anyone wishing to volunteer for a seat on therad- visory body can contact Bill Casey, superintendent of parks and recreation for the district, at 635-6311, or Gerry Martin, chairman of the commission, at 635-

Commission members are hoping to have the ap- - pointments made by their next meeting in October

Weather blamed

FORT NELSON, B.C. (CP) — A coroner's j Tuesday found that the United States pilots of two private airplanes thal trashed 160 kilometres south of here July 11 killing eight people were negligent by flying in bad weather.

Coroner Jim Thompson said evidence during the 3 1- 2 hour inquest showed that the weather was so bad July

\11 that cloud cover came down to tree top level.

IWA allies withNDP to restore power

VANCOUVER (CP{- The International Woodworkers of America voted Tuesday

with a scheduled meeting Kispiox, Glen owell, with Brian Hartley, Gitanmaax, Moricetown negotiator for the office of and Hagwilget.

The UBCM convention

Candidates to be residents

defeated the amendment that would have supported removing the vote from non- resident property owners. “T don't feel that when we have taxpayers we shouldnt remove irom them the right to vote,” she said, However Baker moved an amendment that would have made it UBCM policy: to support the restriction of gac voter to one voters’ st. Said Ian Case of Saanich, supporting the motion: “It’s a simple matter of whether we believe in one man, one vote.” : However, the delegates, by a margin of 177-148, supported the, rights of a property owner to vote in e community where he owns property, whether or not heis a full-time resident. All policy statements passed y the UBC will be orwarded to the provincial government

Role.of districts

Human rights

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UBCM—GIif,obk VERNON, B.C, (CP) — The Canadian con-stitution should be rejuvenated to include a declaration of fun-daniental human rights and lib-erties, Jean-Robert Gauthier parliamentary secretary to fed-eral Urban Affairs Minister Andre Ouellet, said Wednesday. ‘

“Each province should also adopt a charter. which would respect the rights and liberties of its linguistic minorities and be liberal in their support towards them,” he said.

Gauthier, MP for Ottawa- Vanier, made his remarks during a speech, made

ly in English, to the annual convention of the Union of British Columbia Municipalities (UBCM). . Gauthier, noting that the delegates will consider three resolutions on national unity, urged the UBCM to provide leadership on the

to be studied

VERNON, B.C. (CP) — Municipal Affairs Minister Hugh Curtis Wednesday announced the formation of a five-member committee that will examine the role of regional districts in British Columbia.

Curtis said the committee would include Phil Farmer of Kaleden, _Rendina Hamilton of Penticton, Alfred Hood of Victoria, Daphne Phillips of Dawson Creek and Ron Thompson of Galiano Island.

“Each member of the committee brings extensive knowledge and background in local government or regional districts," Curtis told delegates attending the annual convention of the

Union of British Columbia Municipalities.

Farmer served eight years as chairman of the Okanagan-Similkameen regional district while Hamilton is past president of the B.C, School Trustees Association. Hood was a Victoria alderman for five

ears, Phillips was a

awson Creek alderman for 18 years and Thompson was Vancouver’s city clerk for 28

years.

Curtis said the committee will begin its study next month.

There are 28 regional districts in the province, set up under legislation in- troduced by the Social Credit government in 1967,

VIPS TO MEET DELEGATES

VERNON, 3.C. (CP)- Representatives of 20 federal ‘and provincial government departments are on hand to meet with delegates to the annual convention of the Union of British Columbia Municipalities UBCM, union reisdent Pat Duke of umby said today.

Duke said the number of government departments attending this year's con- vention, which started today, is up slightly from last yeat.

“A lot of individual

municipalities have their own problems that dun’t come up on the floor,”’ said Duke, “and this gives them a chance to meet without the expens Ise of going to Vic-

The largest contingent is one from the ministry of municipal affairs who will have at least 20 senior staff persons available for meetings with the delegates. Municipal Affairs Minister Hugh Curtis is also scheduled to attend the three-day conference,

Five-year plans needed to stabilize growth

VERNON, B.C. (CP) — Local governments should put more emphasis on five-

year capltal planning, . Stuart, chairman of the. Municipal Finance Au- thority (MFA) of British Columbia, said Wednesday.

Stuart, a Kelowna alderman and chairman of the Central Okanagan Regional District, told

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delegates attending the Un- ion of B.C. Municipalities’ convention that the MFA has raised $364.4 million since its first issue in 1971, and has just received ap- proval to raise another $44.5 million. ‘ The MFA borrows capital funds on behalf of municipalities and reglonal districts, he explained.

He said five-year capital

lanning would help ease

e concerns of national and international investors.

“More emphasis on a five- year capital planning would no only make our borrowing job a bit easier, it also makes good sense in- sofar as the munici ality or regional district itself is concerned,"

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Quebec issue. -

"You have before you resolutions which could clearly indicate where you Stand,’’ he said.

GREAT CONTRIBUTION

He mentioned one resolution which calls on B.C., together with Quebec, to ensure reasonable op- portunity for educational instruction in either French or English to those who desire it.

“If all the provinces agreed to this principle, you

have made a great contribution in adapting our federation to our times.”

Gauthier said he hoped the future of Canada wasn’t to have French spoken in

Quebec and English spoken pos

in the rest of the country.

“Tf it is, ll have no part of it,” he said. “I want to fee! at home everywhere in Canada. ;

“Tam a Canadian and the Canadian society will, like all other societies in the world, be judged by history by the way it treats its

. Mmonirities, be they racial - ' linguistic, social or eco-

nomic.” One resolution before the UBCM says bilingualism should be wholly voluntary. However, Gauthier said some motivation, in the form of mandatory bili- ngualism, is desirable. “Universities, at least at the undergraduate level, should insist on some. knowledge of the second oficial language,” he said.

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to launch a political action program aimed at restoring a New Democratic Part: government in Britis Columbia.

Delegates to the annual convention of the. Western Canadian Regional Council No. 1 approved the program after several speakers admitted that many of the union's members support political parties in both provincial and federal elections.

But G.A. Stoney, president of Local 1-357, who proposed establishing the program, said that 95 percent of all the resolutions currently before the con- vention would be un- necessary ‘‘if the New Democratic Party was in power today.””

His motion urged the IWA to “reaffirm its all out support for the NDP” and urged all union locals to affilitate to the Barty. The motion also called for a political action program to

e started as. soon as sible ‘to co-ordinate the activities of all union locals.” , .

The delegates also a

roved resolutions calling or:

-a Teduction in the rate of provincial sales tax to five percent from the present seven per cent;

-all workers to be allowed an income tax allowance for

travel expenses incurred in:

getting to and from their obs;

} - support for the Canadian Labor Congress in its refusal to agree to the fe deral proposed program voluntary controls’

- no discrimination against workers on the basis of race, creed, sex, religion or political belief in the

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Because between 5 p.m. Friday and 5 p.m. Sunday you

hiring policies of forest campanies,

- publication of a complete history of the union to be written by ‘‘an outside, impartial body;

- elimination of the

present $1a day hospital co-

urance fee charged to all patients;

- and the takeover of the’ B.C, Telephone Co. by the provincial govenrment.

Earlier, delegates were addressed by Jean Bedard, president of the IWA’s regional council No. 2 Eastern Canada.

He said that while the union has so far not had an official position on the subject of Quebec in-

ence, “like it or not we, the wor! class will be faced with taking sides and having a position on the matter,”

“I think that one cannot understand the Quebec question if one doesn’t understand that Quebec is not just an ethnic group but a nation.”

Bedard said that Canada’s os tid ut ion recognize the fact that the country consists of two nations each with their t to self-determination, but said it was in the interest of the “working class” that Canada remian a united country.

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THE HERALO, Thursday, September 22. 1977, PAGE 3

Provincial court proceedings

~ On the docket

A terrace man was fined $100 in Terrace provinci

court yesterday after Pleading quilty to a charge of prowling.

Bernard Desjardins was charged after going to a woman's home at 2 a.m. August 6and knocking at the

door asking for a woman .

who was not home at the time.

The woman who answered refused to let him in and shortly after found that a screen had been removed froma window.

She locked herself in the bathroom until the morning.

Desjardins admitted to having removed the screen, but gave no reason for doin gio except that he had been

‘inking.

Ronald Eichhorst pleaded ilty to a charge of willful mage not exceeding $50 as a result of an incident on July 20. ; . Eichhost was visiting his girl friend when an argument began and he hit a door with his fist, knocking down a mirror on the other side. He was fined $

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possession of alcohol when underage.

McNaughton, 17, was discovered by police in a parking lot at Furlong Bay with a case of beer.

In proceedings Wed- nesday, September 14:

Darcy Redmond was fined $100 for supplying liquor to a

after police obtained a warrent and broke into his house where several people. under legal age were discovered drinking, court was told.

Following persons were charged with driving with a blood alcohol level in excess

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Robert Johnson on August 28; tworeadings of .21; fined $350 and placed on six months probation.

Frank Pongrace 08 Septem 2; readings . and .17 fined $250 and placed on six months probation.

Richard Hay on August. 28: two readings of .21,fined — $500 and placed on six months probation.

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