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Wednesday, July 4, 2012 Terrace Standard
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So much more training could be done in region A similar project agreement is already in place for the Alcan modernization. The same could easily have been required for the LNG plant – they want the gas, they follow the plan. What the jobs czar cannot do and a project agreement would do is provide written goals and requirements in the first instance and both security and mobility in the longer term for the workers themselves. It also would guarantee that there will be a core workforce that is competent, efficient and from the local area and then British Columbia. Mind you, this provincial government has never paid much mind to the needs of BC workers or taxpayers in their planning. One need look only to major projects on the lower mainland. Although touted as on budget, the BC Place roof and Port Mann Bridge are many times more than the original estimates. It is easy to be on budget when that budget is inflated dramatically. You can also see how jobs were filled – many times the vehicle lots for both Port Mann and Golden Ears had many many more cars and trucks with out-of-province licences that from B.C. Wages, benefits and conditions were suppressed
on the convention centre, and Port Mann thanks to a sweetheart deal with a group called the Christian Labour Association that masquerades as a union. Already, changes in the financing of the transmission line have shifted cost to the BC Hydro ratepayer from the corporate sector. Remember how the mining companies were once to be contributors. Now they sit back and await power to be delivered at rates already below those charged residential customers. On training, one wonders how the jobs czar will be of any use. Tradespeople take years to train, not weeks or months. The apprenticeship system in B.C. has already been undermined through changes introduced early in the Campbell years. Now a joint training facility for linesman, the only one in B.C., is closing thanks to yet another provincial direction. Waste and lack of consideration for the security and mobility of workers is the result of foolish moves taken simply because the Liberals have a visceral hatred for democratic workers’ organizations. They play politics, corporations profit and both workers and ratepayers pay the bills. Paul Johnston, Roberts Creek, BC
Missed these three Dear Sir: Les Watmough left out some important information in his June 27, 2012 letter to the editor, “Good luck, Madam Premier,” regarding women in politics and B.C. premier Christy Clark. Catherine Callbeck of Prince Edward Island ran for the leadership
of her party, the Liberal party, won the leadership, and won the job to be premier of Prince Edward Island. She was the first women to be elected as a premier. Kathy Dunderdale of Newfoundland and Labrador ran for the leadership of her party, the Progressive Conservative party, won
Man sent to jail for sexual assault A TERRACE man will spend more than three years in jail for sexually assaulting a minor three years ago. Nathan McNamara was sentenced to three years and 94 days for one charge of sexual assault against a teenage girl in Prince George Supreme Court June 22. McNamara was also given a three month sentence on one charge of unlawful confinement or imprisonment and three months on one charge of uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm -- both to run concurrently to the longer sentence. He must also provide a DNA sample to police and is prohibited from owning or possessing firearms for 10 years. One charge of sexual interference of a person under 16 and one charge of assault with a weapon were stayed by the court. The sentence stems from an incident that took place during a May 2009 camping trip at Chubb Lake, about 100 kilometres south of Prince George. McNamara and the girl were were in two different groups which then joined to share a campfire. McNamara, then 24, was accused of raping the teenage girl, then 14. In testimony, the girl said McNamara forced himself upon her against her will, warning her to keep quiet afterward. In a statement he gave to police, McNamara admitted that he had sex with the girl and that it was consensual. He said he thought she was 17 because other people there were at least that old.
the leadership, and won the job to be premier of Newfoundland and Labrador. Alison Redford of Alberta ran for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative party, won the leadership, and won the job to be premier of Alberta. Joe Sawchuk, Duncan, B.C.
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