Page 16 January 1989 Cassiar Courier

A Point
of View

by Don Campbell

Overs the course of a month we receive a
variety of press releases from government depart-
ments, trade and industrial groups, and other spe-
cial interest sources.

The items we choose to run are what we
hope will be of interest to our readers and are
printed as received, with no comment. This
month, however, | want to comment on two
separate issues that we have printed.

The first is an announcement by the B.C.
government that they are delaying a decision on
the granting of a Tree Farm Licence. This is no
ordinary licence. This entails the biggest block of
land ever considered, in any type of transaction
to the private sector, and covers some 25,000
square miles.

The company involved and the government
have been quietly pursuing this deal for some
time. Jam convinced that if not for the efforts
of some very determined “tree huggers’ (and | do
not use that phrase disparagingly), this deal would
have slipped through unnoticed. It still may, un-
less the rest of the people in B.C. wake up and
act.

When the first tree farm licences were gran-
ted, hundreds of small companies were forced out
of business or became dependent on the big com-
panies. If the government continues in this style
of mega-giveaway to the large corporations, hun-
dreds more will go.

Is this the way we want to go, with three or
four giant companies controlling our public land?

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Or worse, will it eventually lead to the end of
public land as we now know it? I believe we
should get on the bandwagon with the tree hug-
gers - they need us.

Although I do not wish to appear anti-
government, my second concern is also with a
governinent news release.

After the news last month of the big high-
way improvement projects to be launched in the
Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island, comes
word of a province-wide Highway Improvement
Plan called “Freedom to Move’. This is an 18-
volume study on the transportation issues, and
recommendations for highway projects in all the
regions of B.C. Everyone of us who drives High-
way 37 should read it (starting with the summary
printed on Pages 8-9) and make sure we are not
the last on the list, twenty years down the road.
We need improved roads now.

Well, in MY opinion, we do.

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British Columbia

Bed Subsidy Home Required

A two bed subsidy home for short
term placements of foster children, ages new-
born to 16 years, is needed in Cassiar. This
Ministry is prepared to provide $150.00 per
month per bed. In addition to this, the basic

foster home rate and any necessary expenses
will be implemented once a_ child is placed.

Any interested parties or applicants

are encouraged to phone or write:

Ministry of Social Services and Housing
Box 310, Cassiar, B.C.

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