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NDP better for trade: Mulcair
Samantha WRIGHT ALLEN
Citizen staff sallen@pgcitizen.ca
As the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber agreement expired Monday, NDP leader Tom Mulcair said his government would do a better job at the trade table.
Mulcair called Conservative leader Stephen Harper’s approach “last minute,” also taking the chance to criticize what he’s called the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.
“We’re in an extension period of one year and that’s not a good way to plan long term,” said Mulcair of the current softwood lumber deal, which will remain in effect one year after Monday’s expiry date.
“We would have been on this for a prolonged time because we know the importance of it for the region and, far more importantly, for jobs in the region and families in the region,” said Mulcair in a phone interview with The Citizen from downtown Abbotsford on his way to Saskatoon.
Mulcair was canvassing on Vancouver Island over Thanksgiving weekend, where he is hoping to gain seats.
“We want reliability and predictability for businesses and that’s the approach we would take.”
After five years of court proceedings, the 2006 agreement returned $4 billion to Canadian producers of $5 billion in duties collected by the U.S.
More than half of that money went to B.C. companies, which represent 55 per cent of Canada’s lumber exports to the U.S.
When asked what specifically an NDP government would do to secure a renewal, he said “we would sit down with the province and with industry and we would make sure that the concerns of both were met in this new agreement.”
B.C. Premier Christy Clark told the legislature last week the U.S. has not been willing
NDP leader Tom Mulcair speaks to supporters a town hall meeting Oct. 8 in Toronto. Mulcair was in B.C. this weekend, canvassing on Vancouver Island before heading to Saskatoon Monday.
to start talks.
“When the new federal government is formed later this month, this is the first
issue I’ll be raising with the new prime minister,” Clark said in a statement, which noted the province had been working with
the federal government to try for an extension or renewal.
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Search continues for woman missing 45 years
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Helen Claire Frost, left, when the 17-year-old went missing and right, an age-enhanced photo showing what Frost might have looked like in 2004 at the age of 52.
Mark NIELSEN Citizen staff mnielsen@pgcitizen.ca
It was 45 years ago today that Helen Claire Frost walked out the door of her Prince George apartment, but her family and the RCMP have not yet given up on seeing the mystery surrounding her disappearance finally solved.
As she has on anniversaries past, her sister has issued a call for anyone who may have information on what exactly happened to Frost.
“Helen’s family will never give up hope of finding out what has happened to her,” Sandy Barnet said. “We don’t know if she was taken by someone or left on her own accord and doesn’t know how to resurface.
“We just know that we miss her ever and every day for all these years.”
Frost was last seen late in the evening of Oct. 13, 1970, just four days before her 18th birthday. She had been sharing an apartment in the 1600 block of Queensway Street with her sister and told her she was going for a walk.
Frost left and has never been seen since.
RCMP also continue to pursue the case.
They’ve re-issued an age enhanced photo, indicating what Frost would probably have looked like in 2004 when she would have been 52 years old as well as photos from about the time she disappeared.
“Of all the many investigations that we
are involved with over our careers, missing persons weigh on us more than most others - and this case is no different” said Sgt. Todd Wilson of the Prince George RCMP’s Serious Crime Unit.
“We want to find Helen and be able to bring her home to her family. Someone out
there has information that can help us, that can bring answers to Helen’s family.”
Frost was last seen wearing a three-quarter length navy blue coat with a furry-trimmed hood and blue slacks and is described as five-feet-five inches tall, with a slim build, short brown hair and a fair com-
plexion. A left eye that opens less wide than her right eye is among her distinguishing features and was known to use the aliases Debbie Soles and Lana Lunn.
Barnet has said her sister was going through a difficult time. Then only 17 years old, Frost had given up a baby for adoption that she had with a boyfriend, who had left her.
Barnet has also described herself and her sister as being free spirits. About two years before when they were still living in Nanaimo with their parents, they ran away to Vancouver, not because of any trouble at home but for the sake of adventure, “not wanting to be tied down.”
From there, Frost moved with a friend from high school to Prince George and Barnet followed shortly after. Prior to her disappearance, Frost had been working in the cafeteria of The Hudson’s Bay Company which was then located downtown while Barnet worked in the cafe at the Greyhound bus station.
Barnet has also stressed Frost was not involved in drugs, barely drank alcohol, and was not mixed up in crime. She has described Frost as friendly and outgoing.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Prince George RCMP at 250561-3300 or anonymously contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477, online at pgcrimestoppers.bc.ca or Text-A-Tip to 274637 using keyword “pgtips.”
— with files from Frank Peebles
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