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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1986
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TARIFF CLAIMS MORE MILL JOBS
Fifty workers at Lakeland Mills in Prince George have been laid off, the most recent victims of the 15-per-cent countervailing duty on lumber going to the U.S., bringing the number out of work in the north to nearly 500.
Lakeland shut down one shift due to “insufficient demand,” according to managing director George Killy.
Although early November is usually a slow time of year for sawmills, “the countervailing duty has moved the time frame to earlier in the year,” Killy said.
Peace Wood Products in Taylor, about 10 kilome-
tres south of Fort St. John, shut down a week before the tariff announcement, affecting 184 employees.
Carrier Lumber has shut down its planer operation at Houston, laying off 25 employees.
L and M lumber in Vanderhoof has shut down, with 100 workers now off the job.
Apollo Forest Products in Fort St. James has cut one shift, involving 15 employees.
Bond Bros, sawmill in Vanderhoof is running its green wood mill, but not its planer.
The effects of the countervailing duty are also being felt in Quebec, according to Mike Robson, head of the Canadian Wood Council in Ottawa.
'POLICY DECISION'
High bidder wins big gov't contract
NEW CITY BYLAW
Saturday: butt out
Saturday is the day smokers in Pi-ince George will have to butt out In certain indoor public places as the city’s new smoking bylaw comes into effect.
The non-smoking bylaw, which received final approval at city council Sept. 22, is designed as a co-operative community effort, but it can provjde for fines up to $500 for offenders found guilty.
Under the bylaw:
■ No person is allowed to smoke in public access places like elevators, staircases, school and city buses and reception areas frequented by customers or clients.
■ in taxis, smoking is allowed only if all occupants agree.
II Proprietors, owners, managers and others in control of businesses may choose smoking policies in the workplace, business place or public assembly place as long as they post signs at entrances to inform staff and public. Smoking areas within a premises must be identified by signs.
Bylaw enforcement officer John Hacock says the city has no intention of enforcing the bylaw for at least a year to give time to explain its clauses to business people in the city.
He said it's also possible there may be requests for amendements to the bylaw during the year.
Conflict keeps unionist out of council election
KAMLOOPS (CP) — A provincial court judge has upheld a decision by the Kamloops returning officer that a member of the Canadian Union of Public Employees would be in a potential conflict of
.. .and in tomorrow's Citizen...
Most of us dream of winning a lottery jackpot and for a lucky few, this dream becomes a reality. But not everyone lives happily ever after, as you’ll find in our Saturday forum.
Also planned:
■ A look at the upcoming basketball season.
■ Small business opinions about big shopping malls.
BULLETIN
OTTAWA (CP) — Three Armenians charged with the slaying of a security guard at the Turkish Embassy here were convicted Friday of first-degree murder.
interest by running in the Nov. 15 municipal election.
Lance Brooks, who until Tuesday was president of the union’s Kamloops local, was rejected from the aldermanic slate Monday by returning officer Wayne Thiessen.
The decision was upheld Wednesday by Judge Jurgen Behncke.
“Being president of the local raises a reasonable appearance of an indirect interest,” said Behncke.
Although Brooks, an employee of the Kamloops school district, resigned as president of the union local Tuesday. Behncke said that did not matter because Monday noon was the nomination deadline.
Brooks was to be an aldermanic candidate for the Municipal Electors for Responsible Action civic party. John Harper, party leader and candidate for mayor, said today a lawyer has been retained and the case may be appealed to county court.
Behncke accepted Brooks' argument that as a member of the school district unit of CUPE 900, he has no direct monetary interest in the city’s contract with the union, but said that “cannot affect the nature of the contractual agreement’’ between the union and the municipality.
by Canadian Press OTTAWA — The Mulroney government confirmed today the worst kept secret in Ottawa and handed a bitterly-contested maintenance contract for CF-18 jet fighters to Canadair Ltd. of Montreal.
But Treasury Board President Robert de Cotret served up some startling surprises at a news conference.
■ Although the government was originally looking for a 20-year contract worth between $1.2 billion and $1.4 billion to maintain 138 CF-18s, Canadair is only getting a three-year contract worth $104 million.
De Cotret said renewal after three years is not automatic, but Canadair “will have a leg up” on any competitor if the work is done properly.
■ Technically, Canadair’s nearest competitor, Bristol Aerospace Ltd. of Winnipeg, won the bidding. Bristol gained more points in an evaluation test by 75 civil servants from three departments and had the lower bid, $100.5 million versus $104 million.
■ But de Cotret revealed that the government made a major policy decision in overturning the civil servants’ recommendation to Treasury Board because it wanted Canadair to benefit from the opportunities of technology transfers to be gained from the contract.
“Canadair, being a producer of aircraft, is in a better position to apply the technology,” he said.
“Unlike competitors for the contract. Canadair is a Canadian company that builds as well as repairs aircraft. The government believes the benefits to Canada as a whole, in terms of the technology transfer, have greater potential in the hands of Canadair after consideration of the future role of that company as a producer of airplanes.”
Canadair, a Crown corporation that has cost the taxpayers more than $1.2 billion in seed money since 1976, was sold to Bombardier Inc., also of Montreal, Aug. 18. The sale agreement closes at midnight tonight.
Interior to get new pulp mill
Citizen news services
Fibreco Export Inc. announced Thursday a $170-million pulp mill that will employ 84 people will be built in the British Columbia Interior.
The chemical thermal mechanical pulp mill will be the second of its type in B.C. CTMP mills cost less to construct than traditional kraft pulp mills, and turn out more pulp per ton of wood chips used. However, the finished product usually sells for less than kraft pulp.
"We haven’t yet decided on the site,” company president Tony Jarrett told The Citizen. “We expect to be able to announce one within four to six weeks. However, we can begin the detailed engineering planning immediately.”
In past months discussion has focused on the Kamloops and Merritt areas.
The mill will have a capacity of 180,000 tonnes of bleached chemi-thermo mechanical pulp and will be completed by late 1988.
Fibreco Export was formed in 1977 by 38 B.C. Interior sawmill companies to develop an international market for wood chips.
N.S. LEGISLATURE
Out you go, Billy Joe
Southam News HALIFAX — Premier John Buchanan cried, the opposition fumed and Billy Joe MacLean vowed to fight “in the top court of the land” as Nova Scotia legislators made history by ousting the first sitting member convicted of an indictable offence.
While MacLean, the province’s former culture minister, told television viewers he would prove his innocence, the House of Assembly Thursday afternoon unanimously passed legislation to eject him from the legislature.
The bill, which was quickly signed into law by Lt.-Gov. Alan Abraham at 5:20 p.m., bars MacLean from running for office for another five years.
“This is a very sad day for me as a member of this House and it’s even a sadder day for me on a personal basis,” Buchanan saia in supporting the bill.
“1 have no difficulty saying that the member (MacLean) is a personal friend of many years standing. Nor do I deny that friendship now. . .but the interest of the people of Nova Scotia must take precedence.”
When Buchanan took his seat, MacLean, sitting as an independent near the opposition seats, handed an assembly page a note for the premier irj which he scrawled: “Thank you, John. B.J.”
It was at this point that Buchanan. who is godfather to one of Mac-Lean’s children, broke into tears and had to be consoled by cabinet ministers sitting beside him.
“It was the hardest speech I’ve ever had to make in 20 years in politics," Buchanan said later.
“I’ve been a very close friend and time, I hope, will heal what happened today.”
MacLean, 49, pleaded guilty on Oct. 3 to four counts of uttering forged documents to obtain $22,000 in expense claims. Despite promising to resign on Oct. 8. MacLean changed his mind when told he would not be permitted to run as a
Conservative.
He was sentenced to one day in jail and fined $6,000. The offence carried a maximum 14-year prison term.
The legislation prohibits members found guilty of an indictable offence carrying a sentence of five years or more from holding office or seeking office for five years.
The bill was introduced at Thursday’s special session, given three readings, passed and given royal assent in seven hours and 20 minutes.
With his wife and two of his eight children looking down from a packed gallery, MacLean gave a
short but emotional address, apologizing to his family and colleagues “for the hurt I have caused.”
But he said the undue haste with which the matter was being handled showed the government was more concerned with “self preservation” than making “a moral statement.”
A few hours later, while members were voting to eject him, MacLean said in a live televised interview that he will challenge the law under the democratic rights section of the Charter of Rights. Section 3 states that everyone has a right to vote and belong to a legislative assembly.
Cabinet to be named before vote confirmed
VICTORIA (CP) - Premier Bill Vander Zalm will announce his new cabinet next Thursday, the day before the official results of the Oct. 22 British Columbia election will be known.
The cabinet will be sworn in shortly before noon. Cabinet ministers and their families will attend a brief lunch reception at Government House, then the new cabinet
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■ Tonight’s Monster Splash at Four Seasons Leisure Pool has proved to be so popular that parks and recreation department organizers say there are no tickets left. If you don’t have a ticket already, you’ve left it too late — there are none to sell at the door. Youngsters eight years and older who have tickets will be admitted to pool party from 8-10 p.m.
will hold its first meeting.
Vander Zalm said if there are any changes in the election night results — which showed Social Credit defeating the NDP 49-20 — because of the tabulation of what is known as Section 80 voting, he will deal with it when it happens.
Under Section 80 of the provincial Election Act, Canadian citizens who have lived in British Columbia for six months before the election, but are not on the voters’ list, can swear a declaration and vote. But their ballots are sealed and not counted until after the election, while officials ensure they did not vote twice.
Chief electoral officer Harry Goldberg said counting of the sealed ballots will begin next Tuesday, but will not be completed until next Friday.
At least one member of the current cabinet, International Trade Minister Pat McGeer. could be affected by the outcome of the count.
"So then I said, 'The turning point in the women's liberation movement came when some guy invented the automatic transmission.'"
Tony Amreiter normally bench presses 220 pounds of cold, hard steel, but takes extra care when lifting 28-pound Sean Casavant, 2. Amreiter and his co-lifters at Gold’s Gym have been collecting pledges recently to boost finances for the Child Development Centre. They’ll be bench pressing on a per pound basis Saturday and
Sunday. Citizen photo by Brock Gable
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