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Ross Spence says the HST didn’t have much of an impact on his Chez Meme Baguette Bistro in Burnaby Heights, so he suspects the return to PST, which doesn’t apply to restaurant meals, won’t help his bottom line too much.
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The return of the provincial sales tax system will be a welcome respite for the restaurant industry, says the British Columbia Restaurant & Foodservices Association (BCRFA). The industry has taken a hit in recent years, not least of which was the Harmonized Sales Tax which added seven per cent to restaurant meals, which were previously not subject to PST, said association
president and CEO Ian Tostenson. When the HST came into effect in July 2010, “we probably saw in the first month a drop off of sales of seven to nine per cent,” Tostenson said. “That wasn’t surprising because when we woke up and HST was implemented I think everybody had a little bit of sticker shock.” In 2011, the industry was at minus two per cent in sales. “Basically the industry has not seen any growth since the HST was introduced.” Tostenson noted that the impact was not all due to the HST but a
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number of factors including the recent recession and new drinkingand-driving regulations. With the return of the PST system, and no sales tax on restaurant meals, the forecasts are for the industry to see growth in the four to six per cent range. That’s due to a combination of the tax cut—“we never see taxes going down so that’s quite something, that’s a first actually”—and the fact the BC economy is starting to show signs of strengthening. The BCRFA estimates the average
family will save $200 a year while dining out as a result of the tax going down, he said. As for the HST, often it was servers who felt the brunt of it, with customers reducing their tips to reduce the hit to their wallets, he said, noting people started to budget more and increase expectations, seeking value. Servers also saw reduced hours as business declined. And while the HST provided efficiencies and benefits to some sectors, the restaurant industry wasn’t one of them. Please see RESTAURANTS, A3
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Ishwar Maisuria is used to yelling “cut” when he’s sitting in the director’s chair. He’s also used to being told to cut when he’s behind the chair. The barber’s chair. Maisuria is an independent filmmaker who’s about to release his second feature, In the End. But his job that pays the rent, and helps finance his passion for making movies, is wielding the scissors at his family’s Burnaby salon, Harmony Hairworks on Sixth Street. The two worlds have been intertwined since Maisuria was a boy growing up in Fiji. His parents ran a barber shop in the small town of Labasa and while they were working his babysitter was the movie theatre next door. Maisuria spent hours in the darkened hall watching everything that came to town, from Star Wars to Bollywood films. After his family immigrated to Canada when he was 12, Maisuria developed a passion for photography. He spent much
of his high school years again in the dark, learning about composition and exposure, developing film and making prints. As the real world of adulthood beckoned, Maisuria studied sciences with an eye to becoming a doctor. But his love for film never waned. So Maisuria ditched his lab coat and enrolled at Vancouver Film School. His parents, he says, “were shocked.” With his degree in film production in his back pocket, Maisuria got gofer gigs at Cannell Studios, did a little work as an assistant editor, started writing his first screenplay, a semiautobiographical story about a new immigrant family. He also apprenticed at his family’s salon, earning his certification to cut hair as a fall-back. And as a way to finance turning his screenplay into his first feature, First Generation. Maisuria, 44, is under no illusions of directing his way to a glamourous life of red carpet premieres and palatial mansions. Making self-financed independent films is a hardscrabble business of calling in favours, relying on friends and colleagues willing to
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Ishwar Maisuria finances his independent films with the money he earns cutting hair at the family salon, Harmony Hairworks. His second feature, In the End, is receiving an award for filmmaking excellence at the Canada International Film Festival.
work for a free meal and sometimes dodging the police, as occurred when he overstayed a permit while shooting on location in Burnaby and a neighbour complained. “You do it quickly, you get in and you get out,” says Maisuria. “You have to improvise and sometimes you have to beg and plead.” While In the End took Maisuria only 28 days to shoot, its gestation from script to final cut spanned 10 years, interrupted by studying for his Masters of Fine Arts at SFU, learning new digital technology and
dealing with a family health crisis. The noir suspense drama about infidelity and deception has been screened at film festivals in Mexico and La Jolla, California and on Saturday it will be recognized with an Award of Excellence for a Canadian film at the Canada International Film Festival in Vancouver that features independent productions from more than 90 countries. Maisuria doesn’t have the luxury of resting on his accolades though. He’s working with a distributor
to try to get the film into theatres and then there’s the development of his next project, this time a semiautobiographical buddy comedy. It’s only an idea in his head right now, but he’ll flesh it out by bouncing thoughts off his customers in the barber shop, captive in their chairs. And to get it into production, he’ll squirrel away their tips. • For more about Maisuria’s latest feature go to www.intheendmovie.com • For more about the Canada International Film Festival go to www. canadafilmfestival.com
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Those benefiting could write off the HST on goods they purchased for their business, but most of the costs in restaurants are for labour and food, neither of which were taxed to begin with, he said. “In our perfect world it would have been keep HST but don’t tax restaurants. We had this untaxed
competitor called grocery stores that people said, ‘you know what, we’ll just stay home and eat, not go out,’ and that was our biggest problem.” The BCRFA has been placing ads reminding people that as of April 1 it costs seven per cent less to eat out, and asking them to support local restaurants. The restaurant industry is the
third largest employer in the province, with about 170,000 people working in the industry, and “it really has a great effect on the economy in B.C.,” Tostenson said. In Burnaby at Chez Meme Baguette Bistro on Hastings Street, owner Ross Spence said he doesn’t expect to see much of an impact from the tax cut to restaurant meals.
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to it having to increasingly share capacity on the pipeline with other users. Already it has to bring in crude by tanker truck and is Wanda Chow preparing to bring in more by wchow@burnabynewsleader.com rail. While Chevron Canada Both politicians had planned initially said it hadn’t changed to speak on Chevron’s behalf its position on Kinder Morgan’s at the hearings, being held in proposed pipeline expansion, Calgary over two weeks ending on further investigation it April 5. actually has, says Ray Lord, But with both being spokesperson for Chevron’s outspoken in opposition to Burnaby refinery. the proposed expansion of Lord contacted the the Trans Mountain pipeline, NewsLeader Thursday wanting which runs from Edmonton to to acknowledge and clarify the Burnaby, they felt it would be discrepancy. hypocritical to support Chevron if it was no longer neutral. Lord confirmed Ray Lord, Burnaby Chevron refinery the company We certainly understand the withdrawal had originally that the mayor has decided is appropriate for the city to take a stand on. taken a neutral position. He has since As reported in the learned that back in January NewsLeader, the change, it indicated its support for the from a neutral to a supportive expansion during hearings for stance, is significant because Kinder Morgan’s commercial it’s the reason cited by both tolling application, in which Burnaby Mayor Derek it is attempting to set the rate Corrigan and Burnaby-Douglas structure for customers on the New Democrat MP Kennedy eventual twinned pipeline. Stewart for why they are no “Chevron made that decision longer supporting Chevron during the hearing because it at its National Energy Board felt that it was required to do hearings. so as we were challenging the The hearings are for tolls that would potentially Chevron’s application for a be charged and would apply priority destination designation to Chevron on an expanded on Kinder Morgan’s Trans pipeline if and when it was Mountain pipeline to ensure built,” Lord said in an email. a steady supply of crude oil In short, the company’s for its North Burnaby refinery. representatives at the hearings The company applied for the decided they couldn’t argue status last year in response to as effectively against Kinder ongoing supply shortages due Morgan’s proposed rates
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It was perhaps fitting that B.C. returned to the Provincial Sales Tax on April Fool’s Day. The rollout of the Harmonized Sales Tax by then-Premier Gordon Campbell was a colossal bungle during his time in office. The HST was praised by economists as sensible tax policy, and approved by many in the business community as easier to administer. But too many people felt betrayed by the way the tax was introduced, particularly due to the fact it came on the heels of an election where no mention of the HST was made. And after the damage had been done, and after people learned that, in general, most folks would pay more under the new regime, no attempts at explanation could turn the tide of opposition. In the summer of 2011, residents had their say in a province-wide referendum, rejecting the HST in favour of a return to the PST. So here we are, again. Back in a world with two taxes, the GST with a few exemptions, and the PST with quite a few. There’s a great explainer on the provinces website to untangle it all—just visit http://gov.bc.ca/pst and click “What’s taxable, what’s not.” Suffice to say, for many things the average British Columbian will save money with the return to the PST. On things like home repairs and renovations, child safety equipment, smoke detectors, bikes, movie tickets, golf memberships, haircuts, basic cable, gym memberships and buying a new house, the return of the PST is good news and will mean significant savings. The unfortunate impact, however, is the loss of the provincial rebate of up to $230 a year for low-income individuals, which now drops to $75. As usual, the most vulnerable feel the shift most keenly. Meantime, the rest of us will adjust, as we always do.
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Greenhouse gas leaks from trust VICTORIA – The Pacific Carbon Trust orchestrated a months-long campaign of calls and letters to discredit a report from B.C.’s Auditor General on its first two big carbon offset projects, before it could be released. Just as the audit report was about to be made public, the trust, a Crown corporation created at taxpayer expense, participated in the leaking of selected critical letters to media outlets. Then the Speaker of the B.C. legislature, Bill Barisoff, made a final, clumsy effort to delay the release of the report. As soon as it was out, Environment Minister Terry Lake tried to discredit it, by blustering about all the highly paid experts who swore up and down that a forest reserve near Kootenay Lake, and a gas flaring reduction project near Fort Nelson, were bona fide carbon offsets worth $6 million of taxpayers’ money. The audit states in plain language, with charts and timelines, that the $6 million was basically given away for nothing.
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I look forward to further audits on this carbon offset scheme, assuming it survives after the May election, because these two projects aren’t the only boondoggles. The Pacific Carbon Trust was set up in 2008 as part of former premier Gordon Campbell’s climate change program. To make the B.C. government’s operations “carbon neutral,” the government and all of its agencies were required to pay the trust $25 per tonne for their carbon dioxide emissions from fuel use. In 2011 alone, B.C. universities paid $4.46 million to the trust. B.C.’s 60 school districts paid a total of $5.36 million the same year, and the province’s six health authorities paid $5.79 million. The money is supposed to go to projects that capture carbon, thus “offsetting” the heating
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of schools, the fuel burned by ambulances and so forth. The 55,000-hectare forest reserve is known as Darkwoods. The audit shows that the Nature Conservancy of Canada decided in 2006 to buy it, using $25 million of federal taxpayers’ money. The deal closed in 2008, the same year the Pacific Carbon Trust was formed. From 2008 to 2010, the trust bought 450,000 tonnes of carbon offset, based on independent evaluations that all rested on the assumption that Darkwoods would be clear-cut logged. Since the forest was already owned by Canada’s leading conservancy, this assumption makes no sense. Was the conservancy going to log it, or flip it to someone who would, after accepting $25 million in tax money to acquire it? Legally, it could not. (I would add that the assumption that logging releases all of the carbon in a forest is also false. Lumber actually sequesters carbon for longer than trees, which eventually die and rot.) The audit found a similar case
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against EnCana’s flare reduction program, which the company used on many wells before the trust started offering money. EnCana was saving money as well as reducing emissions without collecting offsets. Therefore, the audit concluded, neither of these projects was a credible offset because the emissions savings would have occurred anyway. Here’s the next Pacific Carbon Trust project that should be audited. In a complicated transaction, the trust bought offsets from something called the Great Bear Carbon Credit Limited Partnership. Yes, this is the world-famous forest on B.C.’s North Coast that was subject to a preservation deal hammered out between the Coastal First Nations, the B.C. government and three U.S.-backed environmental groups. That was in 2006. The offset purchases were in 2009 and 2010, years after detailed preservation areas were mapped and codified in law. Again, the trust paid for forest that was already preserved. tfletcher@blackpress.ca
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Subsidized daycare a worthwhile investment Re: Why should I subsidize $10 a day daycare? (Letters, NewsLeader, March 27) It’s so disappointing to read letters that seem to say young parents are just not trying hard enough and don’t deserve community support. Sadly Norma seems unaware of the very real stats that clearly show it is far more difficult for young people to thrive today than it was in the 1970s. In terms of real wages, housing costs and child care costs, life is simply more expensive now and government investment in services for young parents has not kept pace— although young parents are taxpayers too. Whether Norma knows it or not, there is a crisis for young families. Child care costs have reached $1,915/month in Metro Vancouver, quality spaces are difficult to find and early childhood educators earn poverty
wages. It would seem more Canadian-like to appreciate that while my taxes contribute to Norma’s pension and health care services, some taxes should also support an affordable child care system. We all contribute to the K-12 education system because it is good for all of us in the long run and the same should be true of child care. High quality child care for children that is affordable for parents and accessible in communities is proven to be a good economic investment. Norma should talk with the chief economist of the TD Bank of Canada because he’ll tell her that government investment in child care in the best bang for the taxpayers’ buck. Sharon Elizabeth Gregson -online comment burnabynewsleader.com
Change the rules to proteCt house priCes Last year it was suggested that Canadian housing prices were, on average, approaching an astounding 40 per cent overvaluation. If that wasn’t sufficiently alarming, then three backto-back reports which came out earlier this month should be sufficient to send ice-cold shivers of fear through every realtor, mortgage lender and mortgaged homeowner across Canada. Moody’s, the ratings service, completed an assessment of housing prices in those countries – Spain, the UK, Australia and Canada - where housing prices over the past decade have gone well beyond sustainable market fundamentals. Its analysis contemplates a 44 per cent drop in Canadian housing
prices, given a severe economic shock. Meanwhile a subsequent report issued by the Toronto Dominion Bank’s chief economist predicts an annual two per cent rise in prices over the coming decade. However, this report also concedes that prices are out of whack with underlying fundamentals. Lastly, the Canadian Real Estate Association has just come out with its own report, bemoaning that while the number of sales nationally has dropped some 16 per cent this February from last, the average cross-Canada price—if sales from Greater Vancouver were excluded— continues to rise. So what is going on? How is it that despite what is recognized as a growing affordability gap homes are still being bought at vastly inflated prices? How is it that despite a
substantial drop in sales, prices are not—as might be expected—falling but are in fact continuing to climb? The answer is to be found within the verymuch changed makeup of the Canadian real estate market. The “traditional” market - last recognized in the last quarter of the last century – was a pure supply-and-demand model driven by families who wanted to own their own home. Since then, steadily rising prices combined with restricted growth in real incomes combined with tightened-up mortgage regulations have all conspired to exclude more and ever more families from home ownership. At the same time, speculative activities— encouraged by a generous Capital Gain tax regime and a voracious appetite by non-Canadians for ownership of real estate—
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VICTORIA – The brief era of the harmonized sales tax ended in B.C. Monday, with a last-minute scramble by thousands of businesses to register as collectors of the revived provincial sales tax. About 100,000 businesses in B.C. are required to register and collect PST from customers. By the Easter weekend, about 80,000 of them had done so, said Naomi Yamamoto, B.C.’s minister of state for small business. “I think what most consumers will be doing is looking at their receipts,” Yamamoto said Sunday. “In most cases they’ll be paying the same as they did prior to April 1, unless you’re getting your hair cut, or buying
a ski ticket or you’re paying your golf membership or going to a restaurant, or buying a bike.” The good news for barbers, bike shops, restaurants and other labour service providers is that they see a seven per cent tax reduction. The bad news is that they have to administer two sales taxes. There are a few anomalies, such as insulation and weatherstripping, where sales tax falls by seven per cent as historic PST exemptions resume Monday, but most retail purchases will remain subject to both GST and PST at a combined rate of 12 per cent. Yamamoto said businesses can register online by going to www.pstinbc.ca and selecting the registration link. Using
incorporation documents, the process should take about 15 minutes. Business owners who don’t register immediately can still correct transactions made after the deadline, because the first online remittance of PST is expected at the end of May. NDP finance critic Bruce Ralston said a statistically average family will be about $350 ahead with the removal of the HST, which was rejected in a mail-in referendum in June 2011. Ralston acknowledged that low-income people will lose the increased HST rebates that have been paid quarterly since the HST took effect in 2010. But he said that will be balanced by the reduced sales taxes they pay in restaurants and other service purchases.
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of the vote in the House. Stewart has secured key endorsements from opposite ends of the political spectrum for his motion, which is scheduled to be debated in the House starting on May 1. Former federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent has stated his support as has Reform Party founder Preston Manning.
“Once I did that I was able to talk to the Conservatives,” Stewart said of gaining the support of Manning, whose party “always talked about grassroots democracy and reform.” Both Broadbent and Manning are “senior statesmen” who can help influence those who have a vote on the issue. Stewart, a political scientist on leave from teaching at Simon Fraser University, said his background, as well as that of his wife, political science instructor Jeanette Ashe, have proven helpful in getting the motion as far as it has. “I wanted to change Parliament not because I wanted to score political points,” he said. Instead, he wants to engage the electorate and give people a way to Free Hearing Tests thru April 30th be heard by government. Discreet advanced technology now t gh Pointing out that y ri p * o c exceptionally priced at about per day. I ma g e politicians’ careers *Life span of hearing aid conservatively estimated at 5 years. have a limited lifespan, Stewart said he wants Burnaby N. Hearing Services New Westminster to make a difference in 604.544.5136 604.444.9115 improving the political 255 - 9600 Cameron St. 25A - 800 McBride Blvd process while he can. Lougheed Plaza, behind Walmart Royal Square Mall “If I’m able to make one little change for the good I could probably be happy with that.” Info: http:// kennedystewart.ndp. Proudly non-manufacturer owned since 1993 ca/e-petitions/.
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who wants to return to the U.S. A pot dispensary is expected to open in Blaine, he said, but the licence Jeff Nagel hasn’t been granted yet. Black Press “It’s legal to possess,” Secrets of the Forest: an Archaeologist Explores the Pot-smoking B.C. Saunders said. North Shore: Archaeologist Bob Muckle provides an residents are increasingly “So if you make it over overview of what he and his students have discovered being banned from entering the border you can buy it in North Vancouver’s Seymour Valley, along with a the U.S. as American border and you can use it.” selection of the more than 2,000 artifacts that have guards try to stem the flow Saunders noted been recovered from the ground where early residences and logging camps once stood. Seating is limited, please of Canadian marijuana Washington’s legalization arrive early, no pre-registration. When: Tuesday, April tourists in the wake of of pot doesn’t extend to use 9, 7 to 8:45 p.m. Where: McGill Branch, Burnaby Public Washington State’s weed by minors age 18 or under. Library, 4595 Albert St., Burnaby. Info: 604 299-8955. legalization vote late last And anyone who brings year. a “truckload” of pot over Canadians who admit that they’ve ever smoked or used marijuana in the border can still expect Burnaby’s Got Talent: Burnaby’s District Student Blaine lawyer Len their life are finding themselves deemed inadmissable to the U.S., a Advisory Council presents a fun and entertaining Saunders said he’s seeing to be prosecuted under U.S. Blaine lawyer says, because they’ve confessed to a crime of moral talent show that will feature two finalists from each of more cases of B.C. residents turpitude. federal law. Burnaby’s eight high schools. The night will also include being permanently denied Ironically, he said, while a silent auction and some great door prizes. Proceeds entry after trying to carry pot across use at the border, whether Customs an admission of marijuana use in the to the Burnaby Task Force on Homelessness. When: Wednesday, April 10, 6:30 p.m. Where: Michael J. Fox the border, thinking it’s no longer an and Border Protection agents find pot distant past can bar you from the U.S. Theatre, 7373 MacPherson Ave., Burnaby. Tickets: $7 and issue. on them or not. for life, convicted drunk drivers face $10, available at burnabydsac@sd41.bc.ca. Because marijuana is now legal to Past studies have found a majority no such problem. possess under state law, Canadians of B.C. residents report using “If you have multiple DUIs you 51 Shades of Spring: The Burnaby Artists’ Guild is caught bringing less than an ounce marijuana at least once. are admissable to the U.S.,” Saunders holding its spring exhibition and sale, “51 Shades across aren’t charged, as they were in Saunders said he’s increasingly said. of Spring,” with featured artist Luise Schulz joining the past. had calls from Canadians deemed “A DUI is not a crime of moral many talented artists in discussing their work and “I’m seeing no prosecutions – zero inadmissable over pot use who say turpitude because you didn’t have the giving demonstrations. When: Friday, April 12, 7-10 since November,” Saunders said. “But they can’t believe it happened to them intention to drive drunk. Because you p.m., Saturday, April 13, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, April 14, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Where: Shadbolt Centre for there’s more confusion.” and must now apply for a tough-towere drunk.” the Arts, 6540 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby. Info: www. What happens now, he said, is obtain re-entry waiver also required Burnabyartistsguild.com. twitter.com/jeffnagel pot-packing Canucks have their stash for anyone with a criminal conviction confiscated and are then interrogated under oath about their drug-using habits. Admit that you’ve ever smoked or used marijuana in your life, he said, and you’re aby Board of Trade’s rn Bu e th r fo TAKE NOTICE THAT the City Council proposes to adopt Bylaw No. 13181 cited deemed inadmissable to ! ts en Ev g in om pc U the U.S. because you’ve as “Burnaby Highway Closure Bylaw No. 2, 2013” pursuant to Section 40 confessed to a crime of of the Community Charter. The purpose of the proposed bylaw is to close a APRIL moral turpitude. portion of Alpha Avenue (entrance off of Lougheed Highway into Brentwood PST Seminar wiTh The miniSTry of finance “The key is to not Mall) and a portion of Beta Avenue (north entrance off of Beta Avenue into wednesday, april 10th, 12:00pm – 2:00pm admit that you’ve ever Burnaby Public Library- Bob Prittie metrotown Branch Brentwood Mall) adjacent to 4515 and 4567 Lougheed Highway (Brentwood used it,” Saunders The PST is back----did your business make the switch? Join representatives Mall) (all those portions of road in District Lot 124, Group 1, New Westminster said, stressing he isn’t from the Ministry of Finance to learn what your businesses needs to do now to District, dedicated as road by Plan 1543 and Plan 26085 containing 266.0 m², counselling anyone to lie be in compliance with the new Provincial Sales Tax (PST), including registration, and dedicated as road by Plan 26085 containing 302.9 m²) shown outlined collection requirements and rules for remittance. under oath. and described as Parcel A and Parcel B on Reference Plan prepared by Eugene He noted anyone IL APR Wong, B.C.L.S. could be questioned STaTe of The ciTy LUncheon about past marijuana wednesday, april 17, 11:30am -2:00pm It is proposed to place this bylaw before City Council for consideration of Final hilton Vancouver metrotown Adoption at the regular Council Meeting scheduled for 2013 May 06.
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The provincial government was right to choose SkyTrain technology to build the Evergreen Line to Coquitlam, but it did so with incomplete information, according to B.C.’s Auditor
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General. John Doyle’s latest audit concludes SkyTrain and not light rail was the best option because of its greater capacity at similar cost, its easy integration with the existing rapid transit system and because it’s well understood by transit users. But he also found the 2008 and 2010 business cases for the 11-kilometre line left out information needed to understand the cost, benefits and risks of comparing SkyTrain, light rail and bus rapid transit options. “They also did not explain that the SkyTrain ridership forecasts were based on assumptions that placed them at the upper end of the estimated range,” Doyle said. “Omitting this information meant government did not have the opportunity to understand these risks and endorse actions for protecting and enhancing the benefits of the Evergreen Line over its useful life.” While the $1.4-billion Evergreen Line is already under construction, the findings may influence
the debate underway in Surrey and Vancouver over whether rapid transit extensions in those cities should be done with gradeseparated SkyTrain or street-level light rail. If the province takes the same approach with future lines, Doyle’s audit said, it runs the risk of making different decisions than if it understands all costs, benefits and risks. Among the concerns raised by Doyle, is that information presented to the Treasury Board didn’t meet the government’s own Capital Asset Management Framework guidelines, and ridership projections were at the top end, and assumed “extensive” investments in other parts of the transit system. The higher range ridership forecasts for use of SkyTrain in part assumed Broadway and Surrey SkyTrain extensions would be built by 2021, very frequent bus service to Evergreen Line stations and that owning and running a car will be much more expensive in the coming years. The report noted
CHOICEquotes Mary Polak, Transportation Minister We are confident that the Evergreen Line can achieve ridership projections as we have seen with the popularity of the Millennium Line and Canada Line where ridership has met or exceeded projections.
TransLink does not yet have committed funding for broader transit expansion. Nor, it said, has the provincial government yet decided to increase the cost of car use – the province assumed the cost of driving would jump 70 per cent between 2021 and 2031 to 23.5 cents per kilometre, spurring more motorists to take transit. Despite the information gaps, Doyle said he was “satisfied” the cost estimates for using light rail were in line with comparable North American light rail systems – addressing a key complaint of SkyTrain critics who believe light rail estimates are routinely inflated here due to pro-SkyTrain bias. The audit also noted the Evergreen Line will carry more riders to the big SkyTrain pinch points at BroadwayCommercial and Main Street stations.
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“Not effectively addressing these capacity issues means Evergreen ridership is likely to suffer as downtown commuters face more crowded and less reliable journeys.” Doyle backed the use of a short-term P3 partnership to build the new line but not operate it, as happened with the Canada Line. Instead TransLink will maintain and run the northeast sector line. Meanwhile, the province has accepted the results of the audit, and will take steps to carry out the recommendations. “The Evergreen Line has been studied and reviewed extensively for years by multiple levels of government and transit experts,” Transportation Minister Mary Polak said in a statement. “We are confident that the Evergreen Line can achieve ridership projections as we have seen with the popularity of the Millennium Line and Canada Line where ridership has met or exceeded projections.” – with files from Diane Strandberg
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750
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752
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SCRAP CAR REMOVAL
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329 PAINTING & DECORATING CALL
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1 & 2 Bedroom Reno’d suites located in upgraded blding in cul-du-sac. Next to large green space. Incl’s heat, hot water and basic cable. Walk to Highgate mall. Quiet and clean. Cat okay. Deposit required. For viewing....
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COQUITLAM
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FURNITURE
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560
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A16 NewsLeader Wednesday, April 3, 2013
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Starting April 1st, make a donation at any Kin’s location to get a Canadian Cancer Society Daffodil pin!
Did you know...
fruits and veggies can help reduce the risk of cancer?
For more health tips, visit www.kinsgreenfighters.com! Prices effective: April 3rd to April 7th, 2013 *While * Quantities Last Nutritious & Delicious
Fresh & Sweet
Strawberries (1lb)
3
/$5.00
BOXES
California Grown
2
Asparagus
/$4.00
BUNCHES
Mexico Grown
Fresh New Item! Convenient & Super Healthy
Sweet Kale Salad Kit
$3.99 ea California Grown
Sweet & Juicy
Healthy & Tasty
Seedless Mini Watermelons
Field Tomatoes
Mexico Grown
Mexico Grown
2/$4.00
69¢/lb
Royal City Centre
Marine Way Market
Brentwood Town Centre Lougheed Town Centre
103 - 610 6th Street Near Dollarama 604.520.9923
200-7515 Market Crossing Burnaby, Beside PriceSmart
58 - 4567 Lougheed Hwy Beside IHOP 604.298.8299
206 - 9855 Austin Rd Beside Purdy’s 604.420.0788
OPEN same as mall hours
OPEN same as mall hours
OPEN same as mall hours
604.432.6199 OPEN 9am to 8pm
Now Hiring Shift Leaders at Royal City Centre and other locations. Great benefits and advancement opportunities. FAX: (604) 272-8065 EMAIL: HR@kinsfarmmarket.com