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Ever watch those nature shows? You know, like Lorne
Greene’s New Wilderness, Untamed Kingdom or that Mutual
of Omaha show. It’s fascinating to study the way that predators
stalk prey. There was this one show on the other night where
a tribe of lions was stalking a herd of gazelles. Did you know
that most predators only kill the members of the herd that fall
behind? Usually the lions feast on the young, the old or the
sick members of the herd.

Ironic, isn’t it, when you look at the victims of the
government’s proposed cutbacks to transfer payments. Who
is it that takes the brunt? Why, the young, the old and the sick.

Makes you wonder, doesn’t it? Have our elected officials
become predators, preying on those who can’t fight back?
Those who, in an age when the herd is composed of billion
dollar corporations and hundred-thousand-dollars-a-year
executives, can’t keep up.

What’s wrong with this picture? Do we elect officials to
Ottawa to serve us, or do we elect them so that they can, in
turn, devour us? Whether we like it or not, we students have
become the prey.

What options do we have? Give up the fight? Or band
together and fight back? We are easily victimized if we remain
apart. But if we join our strengths we can defend our
weaknesses. Now is not the time for inaction. Be there
February 7th to fight cuts to transfer payments.

 

January 23, 1996 Vol. 20, Issue 9

 

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Editorial Resource Assistants - Neila Dandy, Boyd Pearson

January 23, 1996

 

 

 

 

The Government of Canada has
magnanimously offered our province a
veto on future constitutional change and
is now referring to us in some circle as a
“Region” in Canada.

At the same time, they have been
moving to make us a second-class
region, as we will soon be the only such
region in Canada without land-based
military troops stationed within our
borders to assist in times of natural
disaster such as flood, earthquake and
forest fire.

This is, to put it plainly, shameful!

Recently, I was honoured as an
independent Member of our Legislative
Assembly to be asked to look into this
matter and participate in an MLA TASK
FORCE by Premier Harcourt. The task
force had a mandate to examine the
impact of the closure of CFB Chilliwack

on the province’s state of emergency
preparedness.

As reported in December, that task
force has now made its submission
back to the Premier and among other
things has made a number of
recommendations for immediate
action that the Premier is taking under
advisement.

Basically, the MLA Task Force
concluded that:

1. British Columbia needs an army
presence;

2. Closing the Chilliwack Base will
represent a marked loss to our
Province’s ability to cope with the
early hours of a major disaster;

3. There will be a definite gap in the
federal commitment to provide the
logistical support during a catastrophic
earthquake, without the base.

4. The Province will be at a
disadvantage in calling out the Army

 

 

 

 

 

in the aid of the civil power (i.e. for
incidents such as at Gustafson Lake).

On December 15, 1995 Premier
Harcourt said upon receipt of this report
that he would personally discuss it with
the Prime Minister.

This province’s Premier needs the
support of his citizens on this issue. I
encourage all concerned British
Columbians to write today to Prime
Minister Jean Chretien, House of
Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, KIA 0A6
and urge that land forces be maintained
in British Columbia

(For copies of the Task Force Report,
write: Premier’s Office, Parliament
Buildings, Victoria, B.C., V8V 1X4 or
my office.)

Yours truly,
Bob Chisholm, MLA
Chilliwack

Friendless
Dear Other Press:

We, two Print Futures students, and
friends of niether Boyd Pearson nor Jet
Girl, wish to state that we do not hate
men despite the heinous crimes more
than a “minority” of them inflict on
women. Our views, unlike some others,
are reality-based. We are suprised and
dismayed at your uninformed belief that
women “rape and murder just like
men”!! How can you possibly march for
“survivors” under the weight of such a
disastrous misconception?

Wishing peace for all bodies, and
knowledge for the uninformed,

-Thelma & Louise

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