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Costly court case $42,000 spent to prosecute Sto:lo woman for fishing

BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com

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ent herself, and she has learned first hand what it’s like to have strangers help her undress and shower.

“There was a while where I didn’t shower,” she said, “and I’m sure the worker could have given me one . . . but you just don’t feel right because when you’re in the shower and totally naked, especially with me because I don’t have arms and

he federal government paid a lawyer more than $40,000 over nine years to prosecute a local First Nations woman for a Fisheries Act violation, the Times has learned.

Hope lawyer Finn Jensen was hired by the Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC) to act as Crown counsel in the case of Patricia Kelly, a Sto:lo woman charged in 2004 with “purchasing, selling and possession of fish against the Fisheries Act.” She pleaded not guilty but after a four-year fight she was convicted on July 3, 2008.

She then made an aboriginal rights defence, which slowly proceeded through Supreme Court in Chilliwack, ending May 9 with an absolute discharge and an order that Kelly be paid $2,482 for the confiscated fish.

The case enraged local First Nations leaders who lament that Kelly was treated like a criminal for exercising her constitutional right to fish.

“There is no fairness about it,” Sto:lo Tribal Council Grand Chief Doug Kelly (no relation to Patricia) told the Times last week.

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Since becoming a Chilliwack Home Support client, Cindy Thomsen has learned how important continuity of care is for people getting support in their homes.

The strain of relying on others This is part one in a two-part series about Chilliwack Home Support and clients who say the service is dropping the ball when it comes to continuity of care.

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hen Cindy Thomsen was a community health care worker seven years ago, she didn’t get why it was such a big deal to some clients to have multiple workers come into their homes and help them shower.

Helping clients (the elderly and people with disabilities) undress

An endless stream of strangers coming into the home can be stressful for Home Support clients and shower was all in a day’s work for her, and just one part of her job with Chilliwack Home Support.

But the subject kept coming up.

“I’d go into clients’ places, especially the elderly, and they’d tell me the same thing, that they didn’t like undressing for 30 different girls,” Thomsen said. “They only wanted one girl to give them a shower, and I’d sort of wonder why.”

Her learning curve has been

steep since then.

In 2006, a sudden and vicious blood infection devastated her body.

It almost killed her and destroyed tissue on her face, arms and legs. The threat of gangrene forced the amputation of her legs mid-calf and her arms just below the elbow.

Parts of her face—her nose, mouth and lips—fell off.

Now she is a Home Support cli-

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group of activists opposed to salmon farming held their eighth rally at local grocery stores.

Led by Sto:lo elder Eddie Gardner, the Chilliwack chapter of the group Salmon Feedlot Boycott held placards and demonstrated in front of Superstore on Thursday.

The protest was the group’s third at Superstore. They have also been at Walmart three times, Safeway once and Costco in Abbotsford once.

All the stores sell Atlantic salmon produced by fish farms off Vancouver Island.

The focus of the protesters has shifted from environmental sustainability to human health. Critics of fish farms suggest diseases can move from farmed fish in the ocean onto wild fish. The salmon farming industry says this isn’t true and, in fact, the industr y has helped scientists learn about salmon diseases because of the

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measures they take to examine fish after the die.

But Thursday’s protest in Chilliwack was more focused on the supposed human health risks of farmed salmon.

In a press release issued Wednesday, the group said a Norwegian scientist, Dr. Anne-Lise Birch Monson, has raised concerns about contaminants in

KELLY, from page 1 After B.C. Chief Justice Thomas Crabtree granted Kelly the absolute discharge, the Times filed a request under the Access to Information Act asking how much Jensen was paid to prosecute Kelly.

Last week the PPSC replied with information that his firm, Kennedy, Jensen, was paid $41,968.84 between Dec. 31, 2004 and April 29, 2013.

Of that total, $14,854.52 was for the first stage of the case, and $27,114.32 for the latter, aboriginalrights defence part.

The total amount for legal fees actually sounded low to Doug Kelly, who criticized what he calls the criminalization of First Nations fishers.

“The real question for me is not how much was spent on Patricia Kelly, but how much is Finn Jensen and others just like him, how much do they make prosecuting aboriginal fishers, for prosecuting constitutionally protected rights. That dollar value would be scandalous.”

As the case concluded in May, Jensen asked the court for a conditional discharge and a “modest fine” as a sentence for the 2008 fisheries act conviction.

Kelly asked for an absolute discharge and repayment for 276 of the 296 fish she had confiscated in 2004, since the court only proved 20 of those fish were caught outside of the legal opening.

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farmed salmon that have a negative effect on brain development and are associated with autism, ADD/ADHD and reduced IQ. The group says also that the European Union has granted Norway’s request to raise permissible levels of toxins in salmon feed.

“Yes, this is a true story, and you can read all about this in the August edition of our publication Legacy,” said Jim Wilcox of the U.S.-based Wild Game Fish Conservation International.

The activists said Superstore has

Courts are no place for Sto:lo fishing disputes Crabtree gave the absolute discharge and ordered her paid the value of the fish confiscated that day on the Fraser River in 2004.

The case garnered considerable interest in the Sto:lo community and among First Nations, particularly after Kelly’s mug shot appeared in a June 12, 2009 Crime Stoppers advertisement in the Times.

“There’s got to be a more fair way of dealing

“[We] are put in a difficult spot where we have to choose between going hungry or going fishing.”

Doug Kelly with these issues rather than turning well-meaning and honest people into what’s being perceived as hardened criminals,” Sto:lo Nation president Chief Joe Hall said in 2009.

During her final court appearance on May 9, Kelly told the court that her fight, which she said was about the very nature of aboriginal rights and

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been bragging about selling pork without hormones or antibiotics yet the company sells farmed salmon in which antibiotics are used.

“This is why we are encouraging customers to ask Superstore to remove farmed Atlantic salmon from their shelves, as it is the ethical and moral thing to do,” Eddie Gardner said.

When asked about the protest on Thursday, a Loblaw spokesperson said the company takes environmental concerns seriously and they are “committed to providing our customers with products that are sourced, handled and produced responsibly.”

Senior manager of public relations, Elaine Quan, told the Times in an email that Loblaw has a world-leading sustainable seafood policy. She said that increased demand is why the company sources both wild and farmed salmon. “ When there are responsible farming practices, through waste and disease management, water pollution from fish farming can be mitigated,” Quan said. “The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) standards are currently being developed to address these issues.”

She added that the company’s goal is to source all seafood in the company’s stores from sustainable sources by the end of this year.

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title, led her to become homeless and penniless.

“I’ve suffered politically, socially, emotionally, economically,” she said.

For Doug Kelly, the case is symptomatic of the mistaken way that fisheries are managed in Canada. He emphasized that the courts are not the place to resolve disputes over fishing with First Nations people.

Kelly said prosecutions like Patricia Kelly’s are “too damn common” and the situation is getting worse.

“DFO management has resulted in a significant reduction of the availability of fish stocks,” he said. “So now we are put in a difficult spot where we have to choose between going hungry or going fishing.”

He added that there should be a tribunal process to deal with fishing grievances outside of the court system.

“The solution is the federal government, the province of B.C. working with First Nations, on creating a tribunal process akin to a human rights process that creates the opportunity for citizens to resolve grievances in an informal, objective fashion.”

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Aggressive cougar killed Animal threatened hikers on two trails near Cultus Lake

BY PAUL J. HENDERSON pauljhenderson@chilliwacktimes.com

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onservation officers shot an aggressive cougar near hiking trails and campsites in Cultus Lake Provincial Park Thursday after it threatened a second group of people.

The cougar, which had boldly approached several hikers on Teapot Hill trail the day before, confronted a group of hikers on the nearby Seven Sisters trail Thursday afternoon.

The cougar hissed at the hikers and tried to prevent them from leaving the area, according to Sgt. Steve Jacobi with the Conservation Officer Service.

“People were trying to come down and it was hissing and snarling,” Jacobi told the Times near the trailhead for Seven Sisters in Entrance Bay Campground.

On Wednesday, the cougar was reported to have behaved extremely aggressively towards hikers on Teapot Hill. One woman reported that the cougar cornered her and her dog. It refused to back off and pursued the woman when she sprinted down the hill.

Conservation officers had been alerted to the cougar’s presence after and had rushed to the scene.

They quickly found the cat, and shot and killed it just 60 feet away from the campground road.

Jacobi said that at an estimated 30 to 40 pounds, the cat was underweight.

“It’s very, very skinny,” he said. “It’s juvenile so it’s trying to find territory, figure out a food source.

But for whatever reason, its mother didn’t teach it too properly or it is on its own too young because it doesn’t seem to know how to hunt for itself.”

Jacobi said the pristine state of the cougar’s teeth and gums illustrated that the animal had not been eating.

Cougars are quite common in the area due to high populations of deer, rabbits and other prey animals, according to Jacobi.

When a cougar comes this close to humans and is threatening, relocation simply does not work and the animals have to be destroyed, he said.

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Make yourself look as large as possible. Keep the cougar in front of you at all times.

Never run or turn your back on a cougar. Sudden movement may provoke an attack.

If a cougar shows interest or follows you, respond aggressively. Maintain eye contact with the cougar, show your teeth and make loud noise. Arm yourself with rocks or sticks as weapons. Crouch down as little as possible when bending down to pick up things off of the ground.

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Sgt. Steve Jacobi of the Conservation Officer Service talks about the aggressive cougar shot Thursday in Cultus Lake Provincial Park

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s locals and tourists alike hit Chilliwackarea trails over the summer, not everyone is able to get off the mountain on their own.

A dozen Chilliwack search and rescue members helped find a family of four who got lost during a day hike on Vedder Mountain on July 27.

Upon trying to return to their vehicle, the mother, father and two young children found themselves lost on an unmarked trail.

For tunately, the family were in cell range. Just after 8 p.m., they contacted police, who in turn called in Chilliwack Search and Rescue (SAR).

The family was able to describe a yellow gate they

were near, and search crews were able to find them and help them off the mountain within a couple of hours.

“The family was very appreciative and thankful of the efforts of the Search and Rescue” said Const. Gary Parrish of the RCMP’s summer policing unit. “These volunteers can always be counted on and they give selflessly of their time. We certainly appreciate what they do” Po l i c e a re re m i n d i n g people to take precautions before hitting the trail. They should stay on marked trails, bring food, water, clothing and a cell phone, and tell someone else about their destination and projected return time.

The Vedder hikers weren’t the only people who’ve turned to search and rescue

for help in recent weeks.

On July 26, 10 Kent-Harrison Search and Rescue members helped take out an injured hiker from the Bridal Falls area.

The next day, nine members assisted a 70-year-old male kayaker who needed help on Harrison Lake.

And in mid-July, Chilliwack search and rescue crews were called in to help execute a helicopter longline rescue of an injured man who fell down a cliff in the Mission area.

Despite the incidents and the recent warm weather, Chilliwack SAR search manager Doug Fraser said they actually received a belowaverage number of call-outs for the month of July, which is typically one of the busiest for the volunteer searchand-rescue crews.

ounties are again warning the public that thieves are targeting batteries for recreational vehicles.

The Chilliwack RCMP’s crime reduction unit has reported a rash of thefts of batteries from RVs parked at local homes.

Mounties say the batteries can be cashed in for their metal content at recycling facilities.

RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Len vanNieuwenhuizen said RV owners can buy special locks for their vehicles. Police also recommend vehicle owners engrave their driver’s licence number on their batteries, which makes it easier for police to return stolen batteries that are recovered. Recycling busi-

nesses won’t accept items marked with the surname and address of owners.

“If your vehicle is not currently in use and is in storage it is recommended to remove your battery and store it securely,” Cpl. Brock Rayworth said.

Last November, police warned the public about a thief who was targeting RV batteries in Yarrow.

For home security information, visit the RCMP’s Crime Prevention Services Office at 45877 Wellington Ave., Chilliwack or phone 604-393-3000.

Anyone with knowledge of the thefts can call Chilliwack RCMP at 604-792-4611 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).

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Betty Tuytel (pictured at her Chilliwack home) said she rarely feels disabled until Chilliwack Home Support calls and tells her there’s no one available to get her out of bed. all, hardly ever, until they call—then I feel disabled.”

The stream of new workers is another strain.

“They like to have 20 girls in here,” Tuytel said. “To have 20 different girls coming in, it’s not even reasonable or fair to ask.”

“If you don’t know the person, it’s almost like you don’t feel safe— emotionally safe, and that’s a huge part of it.”

Cindy Thomsen Besides having to overcome the emotional discomfort of having so many strangers involved in her showers and other personal care, Tuytel also has to start from scratch with most new workers on a practical level as they learn her needs.

“You have to walk these people through everything they have to do for you, and it’s exhausting,” she said.

“And the next morning you have to do it again.”

“Right now they are trying to institutionalize our homes.”

Betty Tuytel She doesn’t blame the home care workers, though; she knows they are in a tough spot.

“They have to walk into these people’s houses and they get blasted because there’s a another new girl walking through the door,” she said. “A lot of people w o n’t e v e n l e t t h e m i n

because they’re so upset there’s another new girl.”

What Tuytel wants is for Home Support higher-ups to show more respect for the sanctity and dignity of clients’ homes when they make staffing and policy decisions.

“Right now they’re trying to institutionalize our homes,” she said. “That’s what you expect when you’re in a hospital situation, but when it’s your own home, you should just have a select few people who come in, and they should be trained for your area specifically.”

Home Support is designed to help people with physical and mental disabilities manage everyday tasks, like dressing, grooming, taking medication, bathing and other personal care, in their own homes.

It falls under the Fraser Health Authority’s Home Health Ser vices, whose motto is “home is best.’

“We support a philosophy that home, with appropriate supports, is the best place to recover from illness and injury, manage chronic conditions and live out final days,” reads the website.

Home is also cheapest, costing between 40 and 75 per cent less than hospital and other institutional care, according to a seminal University of Victoria report.

The union that represents community health care workers says the problems at Chilliwack Home Health stem from the fact that funding hasn’t kept pace with the provincial push towards “home is best.”

Chilliwack Home Care’s manager, however, says the service is addressing challenges posed by a big jump in demand in recent years with changes that will improve both its efficiency and effectiveness.

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legs or hands and feet, I’m totally helpless. I just feel totally helpless. If you don’t know the person, it’s almost like you don’t feel safe—emotionally safe, and that’s a huge part of it.”

With every new worker, the process starts all over again, and Thomsen never quite knows how each will react to her disfigurement.

“There has been times when you can see it on their face,” she said. “I notice when they’re washing too.

They’re almost scared to touch.”

It takes an emotional toll, but when she first started on Home Support, Thomsen only had to get used to a small group of regular workers.

That’s changed.

In recent years, according clients interviewed by the Times, Chilliwack Home Support has dropped the ball when it comes to what health officials call “continuity of care,” sending what seems to clients like an endless stream of strangers into their homes and sometimes missing visits altogether on short notice.

More than just an inconvenience, the situation is causing clients serious stress, they say, driving some to use anti-anxiety medication to cope.

“You worry,” said Betty Tuytel, “and it’s not a good feeling.”

Tuytel has been a Home Support client since 1988, when a car accident left her quadriplegic.

Today, she works, does h e r ow n s h o p p i n g a n d lives on her own in a Chilliwack farm house, but she depends on Home Support workers to get her out of bed in the morning and back into bed at night.

That means when a scheduler calls on a Saturday night (as she said one recently did) to inform her no one can come until 1:30 p.m. the next day, Tuytel has to wait in bed without food, fluids or the ability to empty her night jug until a family member can come get her.

“It’s like taking my legs away from me,” she said. “If they just send somebody to get me up, I’m good for the rest of the day. I don’t even feel really disabled at

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River with his stepdad changed his hilliwack angling devotee life forever. and Vancouver Island Uni“It created a passion for fishing versity student Daniel Krenz that still continues to drive much of has hooked one of three $2,000 what I do today, both as a career and Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC in my personal life,” he wrote.

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The Sardis grad, who counts the A non-profit organization dediCoquihalla and Vedder Rivers as his cated to maintaining an accessible, favourite local fishenjoyable and susing areas, is going tainable freshwainto his fourth year ter fishing in B.C., “Hopefully future of a resource manFFSBC hands out generations will be agement degree with the three scholaran eye to working ships every year to able to enjoy what in environmental students enrolled in I am because it’s an protection, river resfish culture or fishawesome way to get toration and stock eries management assessment or fishprograms within a outside and enjoy eries enhancement. recognized post-secthe outdoors.”

For him it’s all ondary education about giving future institution in B.C. Daniel Krenz generations a Krenz and his chance to have their fellow scholarship own life-changing winners were chofishing experience. sen based on a number of criteria, “I love being on remote rivers and including a short essay outlining kind of want to keep them pristine their career aspirations and how their experiences, interests and edu- and keep them fishing as well as they are now and hopefully even cation will positively impact B.C.’s better in the future,” he told the freshwater recreational fisheries Times. “Hopefully future generawhen they graduate. tions will be able to enjoy what I am In his essay, the 21-year-old Krenz because it’s an awesome way to get wrote about how his first fishing outside and enjoy the outdoors.” experience at age 11 on the Vedder

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Auto enthusiasts flocked to the Chilliwack Alliance Church parking lot last month for a charity car show that raised $8,100 for a local youth with cerebral palsy.

Chris Dutour’s sister Sarah is hoping to raise half the cost of a wheelchair-accessible van through fundraising efforts in the community.

RCMP give a push to cycling safety

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ocal police are reminding the public to cycle safely when they hit the road on two wheels this summer.

“We have seen an increase in people cycling this summer.

With the advent of beautiful summer weather we have more recreational cyclists, more people cycling to work, and with school starting in less than a month we want to educate cyclists, especially our youth, to travel safely,” RCMP spokesperson

Cpl. Len vanNieuwenhuizen said in a press release.

VanNieuwenhuizen said a few concerns from Rotary Vedder River Trail pedestrians and some business owners helped spark the safety awareness campaign.

Mounties are reminding cyclists that bicycles must follow the same rules of the road as cars.

That means cyclists should ride on the right side of the road, and should stay off sidewalks. Bicycles must have a white reflector

on the front, and a red one on the back.

Cyclists are also encouraged to wear reflective clothing.

And, of course, they need to wear a helmet.

“Broken arms and legs can mend fairly well. A broken skull can be fatal. Therefore we will be diligent in enforcing this requirement,” vanNieuwenhuizen said. “I cycle to work myself and I love it but our roads are busy and the rules of the road need to be followed to ensure your safety.”

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ere’s a question that our provincial government ought to be able to answer but can’t: How much water is the world’s biggest bottled water seller withdrawing from wells in British Columbia?

The province doesn’t know because it isn’t asking. It does not require Nestlé Waters Canada to obtain a permit to withdraw water. It does not require Nestlé to report its withdrawals.

And it does not charge Nestlé a penny for the water it uses, even though the company profits handsomely from the hundreds of millions of bottles it sells under popular brand names like Perrier, Montclair and Vittel.

To its credit, Nestlé has in the past (it no longer does) voluntarily filed written reports on its water withdrawals with the District of Hope, which draws from the same aquifer as the company and uses it to supply 6,500 local residents with their drinking water.

But voluntary disclosure misses the point. The provincial government is responsible for managing public waters for our collective good. In the absence of basic information, the question must be asked: Is government doing all it can to look after

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Again to its credit, when I contacted Nestlé to ask how much water it withdraws at Hope it quickly volunteered the information. In 2012, corporate affairs spokesperson John Challinor said, Nestlé withdrew 71 million gallons, or enough water to fill more than 537 million half-litre bottles. Immense as this sounds, Challinor called it the proverbial drop in the bucket.

“Based on our mapping we drew less than 7/10ths of one per cent of all available water in the subwatershed for drawing,” Challinor said in an email.

But once again, this misses the point. Our mapping? Surely it is government that should know what water is available for Nestlé and other commercial interests to use, not the other way around.

That vital information, along with data on what major consumers actually use, should be in the public domain for all to see.

And it should fall to government

to gather and report it, while also ensuring the public that our water resources are not at risk of being overdrawn.

It is worth noting that these gaps in information apply to groundwater, not surface water.

B.C. has no comprehensive groundwater regulation, so withdrawals from wells are virtually untracked. The province does issue water licences governing withdrawals from surface sources such as rivers, lakes and streams.

And it places terms in such licences that limit water takings.

Even so, B.C.’s sound management of surface waters is itself in question given three significant deficiencies. One, B.C. has no single agency tracking and reporting water use. Two, the province does not impose across-the-board water-metering requirements. And three, while the government does charge surface water users fees for what they use, the fees are often embarrassingly low.

As one example, in natural gas industry hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) operations, immense amounts of water are rendered so toxic that the water can never be returned to the rivers, lakes and streams from where it came.

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here are bound to be plenty of people who think conservation officers shouldn’t have killed the cougar that was threatening people near Cultus Lake.

The theory goes that the cougar should have been relocated away from humanity so it could go upon its predatory way without threatening people.

It’s a nice theory, but it’s naive.

You can’t rehabilitate an anti-social cougar.

Once a cougar—or a bear—gets to the point where it starts menacing people on a popular hiking trail, it has lost its fear of humans. At that point, relocation becomes hopeless.

How, exactly, does one successfully relocate an animal that A) can roam hundreds of kilometres; B) has lost its fear of humans; and C) has come to see those same humans as an easy source of food.

You can’t.

Once those animals learn just how easy it is to steal food from humans, relocation becomes a fool’s errand.

Worse, for a young cougar that doesn’t know how to hunt—like the one killed Thursday—relocation to some mythical place far removed from humans would simply draw out the animal’s death away from the sensitive eyes of us humans.

Is it fair that the habitat of North America’s large mammals is shrinking so that we humans can expand into Mother Nature’s domain? Probably not.

But we’re all culpable. The presence of the most environmentally conscious hiker is an intrusion on the natural home of cougars, bears and other forest animals.

Almost every piece of property in British Columbia was carved out of wilderness.

And the food we eat requires land that also was once wild nature.

We can’t absolve ourselves of that guilt by decrying last week’s killing of a cougar.

Indeed, doing so only shows an insensitivity to the everyday moral compromises humans make in order to live happy, prosperous lives in the 21st century.

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Corporate welfare often overlooked Editor: For years, I have noted many references to the supposed “fact” that the NDP has received major funding from unions. Despite the fact that this is untrue, the perception is there.

However, few newspapers in Canada have commented on the major funding of conservative parties such as the BC Liberals by the corporate sector.

There was an interesting article recently in the Vancouver Sun where Mark Milke of the Fraser Institute commented on the billions of dollars given to large corporate interests through taxpayerfunded dollars. I did not think that there would ever be a time where I agreed with a Fraser Institute analysis, but that time has come.

Milke pointed out that, over the past 50 years, $22.1 billion have been handed out to large corporations. Apparently, industry Canada and other government institutions have been very generous with our tax dollars.

Milke claims that, since 1972, Pratt and Whitney has made 75 requests for hand-outs and has received $3.3 billion. Bombardier has received over $11 billion.

In the more recent era of the years 1994-2007, an alarming $202 billion has been disbursed.

To quote former federal NDP leader, David Lewis, these free handouts have amounted to a system of “corporate welfare,” and these “corporate welfare bums” have been bleeding the taxpayer. Who really is to blame are the voters, who have been electing successive governments of Liberals and Conservatives, who in turn are quite willing to “kiss-up” to their financial masters.

The next time you hear someone crying in their beer about “welfare bums,” please remember that much more of their hard-earned money is going to the large corporate masters. It is so easy for them to cry about socialism until that socialism benefits them personally.

This hypocrisy is rampant in Canada and even more noticeable in that great corporate welfare system known as the United States. While our respective governments stress over the ever-increasing deficits, they continue

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MSP premiums make no sense Editor: In December of 2012, I moved to this beautiful province from Manitoba. Friends and family members had many reasons that I shouldn’t come. They told me that I would never be happy with all the rain and that it was more expensive here for everything, but I chose to move here to be closer to my children and grandchildren, and away from the terribly cold Manitoba winters. I expected higher rent, gas, car insurance, groceries—but what I didn’t expect is the MSP. In Manitoba, we did not pay anything monthly for health care. Everything was free—which is what I expected all across Canada—but that is not the case in British Columbia! I have multiple sclerosis (MS), and in 2010, spent $15,000 (USD) to go to Mexico to have the Liberation Treatment—a simple angioplasty that isn’t available to those suffering from MS in Canada yet is done every day on heart and stroke patients.

Prior to the procedure, my prescription drug cost was $1,600 per month —almost all of which was paid by the Canadian taxpayer (thank you). Upon returning from Mexico, my drug costs went to $50 per month—which I pay myself. Now that I am in British Columbia, and found that I had to pay monthly for my health care because I am a Canadian citizen and make over $30,000 per year, I had some real questions and concerns. I wrote to B.C.’s health

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Well, my letter went unanswered. In it, I raised concerns about a two-tiered, health-care system and asked the question “what am I getting for my money?” I also asked how the provincial government can justify this “mandatory” expense.

Mandatory? Are you kidding me? Does that not reek of communism to anyone else? Living so close to the U.S. border and being an MS patient who cannot get health care for my condition, why can’t I purchase health care insurance in the U.S. and go there for my health-care needs? Again, questions that I felt were justified. Then the phone calls started. Revenue Services of British Columbia was calling me to remind me that my MSP bill wasn’t paid, and asked if they could expect payment today. I said “not until my questions are answered by the Minister.”

They told me that if I do not pay the bill, that it will be sent to collections. Really? So, not only are you going to rob me of $65 per month, but you are going to destroy my credit rating too? Nice.

So, begrudgingly, I paid the bill but, again, not being accustomed to paying monthly for health care, I forgot the fourth month, and revenue services called me again. By this time, I had been laid off. (I am an employment specialist, specifically dealing with “at risk” youth —yay for the Economic Action Plan —but that’s another story.) I asked them if my healthcare payments are income tax deductible —as they would be if I was buying Blue Cross or any other health care

insurance. I was told that it is not, which made me feel like just driving down the road and tossing out $20 bills, as at least this would make me feel good, unlike any dealings I have had with the health-care system. I did ask, however, how much the person on the phone was making hourly to make these calls. He did not divulge this information to me, telling me it was irrelevant. He did tell me, however, that I may qualify for premium assistance now that I am laid off. He asked me if I’ve been in Canada for over a year. Then I was asked if I made over $30,000 last year, to which I replied yes. He said that I did not qualify, so I posed the question —“you mean if I was a new Canadian or on welfare, that I could get free health care, but because I work and earn money and pay taxes that I have to pay?”

He hesitated and said “yes.”

Does anyone else see a problem with this? I saw the story on the news about the woman who had to pay each day for parking to visit her husband and son in the hospital, putting a strain on her fixed income. So, again I ask, what is all this MSP going towards? If there are 4.4 million people in BC, with 6.3 per cent being unemployed and let’s assume that the MSP payment is $30/month for working people, then the big haul for the government is quite a bit of money and then if you tack on the transfer payments from the federal government each year, well, yikes!

Millions of Canadians with multiple sclerosis are being shuffled out of hospitals untreated across the country because there is no cure for MS. We are pumped full of injections and pills to help us manage the symptoms, but the best management for symptoms is being ignored. I have not had any MS symptoms since my Liberation treatment and this I had to pay for myself.

All I want is to get what I’ve paid for. The MSP is wrong, and British Columbians need to speak out and refuse to pay for services that everyone else in Canada is not being billed for monthly. We need to stop throwing money out the window and start questioning why we have to pay.

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Chilliwack Huskers quarterback Cody Parray says he has confidence that this year’s squad will be able to put points on the board.

Receiver turned QB

a lot less room for error compared to the younger leagues,” he said. “I felt like it would take a few games to adapt to that.”

It didn’t. Instead, Parray showed his pedigree right away, completing 17 of 22 passes for 96 yards in the Huskers’ first game against the Okanagan Sun. “I feel like I’ve done a lot better than I first

BY TYLER OLSEN expected,” Parray said. He also impressed his tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com head coach, Tyson St. James, who praised Parray’s leadership and said he was excited about n the end, the Valley Huskers’ Cody Parray his pivot’s potential to lead the offence. was too good a quarterback to ever stick But while he may have spent two years as a receiver. catching balls, instead of throwing them, ParQuarterback might be the most glamorous ray said that experience has made him a betjob on the football field, but Parray always ter quarterback. wanted to be the guy tasked with catching “I feel like [by playing receiver] I learned a footballs and sprinting into the end zone. lot more about how my receivers get open, It didn’t turn out that way though—not for timing purposes,” he said. in community football with the Chilliwack That receiving experience has also given him Giants, nor with the Huskers. a new appreciation for the level of in-game As Parray tells it, he ended up quarterbacking control that playing quarterback provides. a dozen Chilliwack Giants teams—including “The best part about playing quarterback for the 2009 provincial chamme is the play starts with the pionship-winning midget ball in my hands,” he said. “If squad—pretty much by “The speed of junior it’s a pass, I have the option default; after all, somebody is a lot faster and to run, I have the option to had to take the snap. make something happen, But when he graduated to there’s a lot less room as opposed to when you’re junior football, Parray finally for error.” playing receiver, there’s four got his chance to try his hand or five other guys who could at receiver.

Cody Parray get the ball.”

Parray did well enough, The one thing the fivescoring a pair of touchdowns f o o t - t e n P a r r a y c a n’t over his first two years with the Huskers. But improve is his height. “I’m a short guy and he didn’t see much of the ball for a good rea- most quarterbacks are big tall guys,” he said. son: when your quarterback is finding him- To overcome that, Parray leans on his game self under constant pressure and assault, he smarts and a knowledge of the playbook. doesn’t exactly have a lot of time to pick out A lack of height is a disadvantage, the reareceivers downfield. soning goes, if you’ve got to continually be All that pressure also made it hard for the searching for your receivers downfield. KnowHuskers to recruit a new quarterback for their ing where they’ll be ahead of time makes that 2013 season. job a lot easier.

Enter Parray. Eventually. Midway through “I feel like my knowledge is there, which gives training camp this year, with the Huskers’ me a bit of an edge,” he said. “Coach [and Huskquarterback situation in flux, a frustrated, ers offensive co-ordinator] Corey [Hamade] has half-joking Parray floated the idea of trying got me prepared very well. I know my reads, I his hand behind centre. know where the ball has to go according to what “Not yet,” he was told. the defence shows. I feel confident that way.The Soon the Huskers’ brain trust reconsidered, challenge is just making it happen.” at which point Parray actually had to wrap his After two years spent on Huskers teams that mind around a return to quarterback. found it difficult, if not impossible, to score “At first I wasn’t really interested because any points against BCFC opposition, Parray is I always wanted to play receiver,” he said. confident that this year’s squad will be able to “The first few days I wasn’t really into it, but find the end zone on a regular basis. after that, I realized that I could have a bigger “I have a lot of faith in my teammates this impact on the team.” year,” he said. “If we just keep working I feel Suddenly every play was starting with the like we can do some positive things this year. ball in Parray’s hands. And he wasn’t quite “I feel like there are some athletes on this sure whether he was ready for the leap. team who can make me look good as well as I “The speed of junior is lot faster and there’s can make them look good,” he said.

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With hockey season approaching, crews carefully painted the lines at Prospera Centre Thursday.

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According to their website, the Chiefs have added forwards Jordan Kawaguchi, Zach Diamantoni and Cole Sartorio and defenceman Michael Willms. The roster also includes forward Blake Gober and defenceman T.J. Roche, who had previously announced via Twitter that they were joining the Chiefs.

Diamantoni is a five-foot11 1995-born forward from Kalamazoo, Mich. He has already accepted a Division 1 scholarship to Northern Michigan University for next season.

Kawaguchi hails from Abbotsford. He was picked 80th overall in the Western Hockey League’s 2012 bantam draft. He’s small, standing five-foot-eight, and is the youngest of the bunch of new recruits, having just turned 16 in April. He played two games last year for the

West Kelowna Warriors.

Sartorio hails from Calgary, where he played midget hockey last year and registered five points in 18 games. The 1995-born product is listed at six-foot-one, 205 pounds.

Willms, another 1995born addition, stands five-foot-10 and played last year for the Vancouver North East Chiefs in the BC Major Midget League. He put up good numbers for a defenceman, registering 24 points in 40 games.

Olafson takes two silvers in Montreal C hilliwack’s Carson Olafson won a pair of medals at the recent Age Group Nationals swimming championships in Montreal.

The 16-year-old Olafson, a member of Chilliwack’s Spartan Swim Club, won silver in both the 50- and 200-metre backstroke events. He also placed fourth in the 100metre backstroke, eighth in the 50-metre butterfly and 10th in the 100-metre butterfly.

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Teammate Jessie Gibson, competing in the 15-year-old girls division, also had a solid meet, finishing fourth in the 200-metre butterfly and 10th in the 100-metre butterfly.

Registration for the Spartans’ fall season takes place Aug. 17 from noon to 2 p.m. at the Cheam Leisure Centre. For more information email spartans@spartanswimclub. com or call 604-858-7946.

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Chilliwack Cougars pitcher Dan Rogers (above) throws during the midget AAA provincial baseball championships over the weekend at Fairfield Island. Baserunner Blake Peeling (right) slides into first during a pickoff attempt. For results, check Thursday’s Times.

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Community Car clubbers wanted

The Chilliwack Chapter of the Vintage Car Club of Canada meets the first Tuesday of each month (Aug. 6) at 7:30 p.m. at the Atchelitz Threshermen’s building on Luckakuck Way. Newcomers welcome. For details call Barb or Ross at 604-8241807.

Summer nature camps

August is an exciting month at the Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve. Kids ages five to 12 are invited to sign up for the reserve’s exciting summer camps and family art workshops. For more information, visit www. chilliwackblueheron.com or email herons@shawbiz.ca.

Terry Fox volunteers needed

This year marks the 33rd annual Terry Fox Run and volunteers are needed to help organize and execute the run. Volunteers are needed to join the organizing committee and also for various run-day duties on Sept. 15. If you are interested volunteering, contact organizer Margaret Kostrzewa at Margaret@ crystalridgemanor.ca or 604-798-3652. For more information about The Terry Fox Foundation, visit www. terryfox.org.

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Music and More

The Chilliwack Library’s annual Music and More events take place every Wednesday until Aug. 21 at Salish Park behind the Chilliwack Library. The series features weekly children’s activities and evening concerts. Admission is free. On Aug. 7 at 12:15 p.m. kids can learn all about the turtles that live at the Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve and how their amazing adaptation helps them live in the wetlands. At 7 p.m., tap your toes to music from Dog Mountain Dixie.

Uke club

Ukulele club meets the first and third Wednesday of each month (Aug. 7) from 7 to 9 p.m. at Decades. All levels welcome for an enjoyable evening of singing and playing.

Friends of the Library

Wednesday of every month (Aug. 7) from 2 to 3 p.m.

New friends are always welcome.

Summer Day Camp

Celebrate summer day camp Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Rosedale Traditional Community School Society. Call 604-3780300 to register. For more information, visit www.rtcss. ca.

Woodworkers meet

The Fraser Valley Woodworkers Guild meets at Robert Bateman secondary school’s wood shop, 35045 Exbury Ave., Abbotsford, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on the first Wednesday (Aug. 7) of each month. The group shares projects, information and enthusiasm and learns from specialists. All are welcome.

For more information visit www.fvwwg.ca.

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Instructor Simon Lau helps aspiring archer Justine Campbell, 9, take aim at a target during the Sto:lo Annual Gathering at the Coqualeetza Grounds recently.

classes start Aug. 12 and run from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Evergreen Hall, 9291 Corbould St.

Lace Club meets

The Chilliwack Lace Club meets every month on the second and fourth Thursdays (Aug. 8) from noon to 3 p.m. in the Slesse Room of Evergreen Hall. Bring your lunch. Anyone interested in lace is welcome. Lessons in

bobbin lace are available.

For more information call Hylda Law at 604-858-4953 or Jenny Althoff at 604-8234705.

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Free admission; free-will offering.

A Parkinson’s support group meets the second Tuesday of every month (Aug. 13) at 2 p.m. at Evergreen Hall. The group is for anyone with Parkinson’s and their care givers or

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Vehicles and just completely over- respectful,” CEG president Virginia ada’s top court.

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The district saw a 3.3 per cent Instead, he BY PAUL J. Hthe board’s ing for nearly half of the 28,076 across huge burden lifted the a said.

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Chilliwack had consistently come Health Canada has told the Times country, from under 500 authorized in about 10 per cent below the there are now 666 persons in Chilliwack persons in 2002 to more than 28,000 provincial average for more than a who hold a licence to possess marijua- today. decade.

Mayor Sharon Gaetz and several city na for medical purposes.

But local officials now say those That’s a 180 per cent increase in one councillors have made no secret of their figures haven’t accurately reflectyear and mirrors provincial increases. health and safety concerns regarding ed the real picture in Chilliwack As of Feb. 18, there were 13,362 people medical marijuana licences. because the traditional six-year in B.C. authorized to possess, up 190 per cent from a year ago, and accountSee MARIJUANA, Page 4 See GRAD RATE, Page 4

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Opinion WATER, from page 8 Dawson Creek currently charges energy companies the equivalent of $11,000 for every Olympic swimming pool’s worth of water purchased from the city. The corresponding charge to the same companies by the provincial government amounts to less than $3.

MLA Steve Thomson, whose Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations is responsible for water authorizations, acknowledged recently that the government must reform B.C.’s century-old Water Act.

The government has acknowledged that they must reform B.C.’s century-old Water Act In response to questions in the provincial legislature, Thomson said he generally supports policies that would address the three deficiencies noted above.

Thomson also said that as part of its promised Water Act “modernization,” the government is considering new groundwater legislation.

Environment minister Mary Polak has said further that

“improved measurement and reporting of water use will be a key feature” in legislation that is now expected in 2014. All of this is to be applauded and cannot come soon enough.

In Ontario recently, the provincial government imposed rules on Nestlé when it renewed the company’s water-taking permit at a well near the community of Guelph.

The new rules made it mandatory that Nestlé limit withdrawals in times of drought.

Nestlé appealed that decision to Ontario’s Environmental Appeals Tribunal and then negotiated a new set of proposed terms to its permit with provincial authorities.

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Outdoor gas grills and charcoal barbecues however never produce moist heat and this is where you, the home chef, come in. As the ribs are cooking, a wet liquid called a “mopping solution” will need to be applied to the ribs regularly as they cook. I make a simple mopping solution by combining half cup of beer, half cup of vinegar, four chopped garlic cloves, a few slices of onion, and a tablespoon of dry meat spice rub. This is enough mopping liquid for two racks of ribs and can be easily applied with a basting brush.

You will be cooking the ribs over indirect heat, so purchase only enough racks of ribs that will fit on your grill in this manner. Indirect heat means that there will be a heat source not directly under where the ribs will be.

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Once you hit the three-hour mark, lift the lid and coat the tops with your favourite sauce. Close the lid and cook for 10 minutes, then sauce again, cook another 10 minutes, sauce once more, and then a final 10 more minutes.

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These cooked ribs won’t be as tender and delicate as ribs that are braised in liquid in the oven, but they will definitely have more “flamelicked” taste. Charcoal grills are great for adding real barbecue flavor, while gas grills tend to be lacking in this department. Buying a smoker box designed for your gas grill with soaked wood smoking chips will help to improve this. I recommend soaking your wood chips for at least one hour before draining and using. Smoker boxes and wood chips can usually be found at local department stores, hardware stores, barbecue shops, or gourmet food stores.

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