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With the weather changing and the evenings growing dark earlier, now is not the time for pedestrians to fall back into bad, and unsafe habits when crossing streets.

That was the message a group of Richmond RCMP volunteers were impressing upon commuters early Wednesday morning as they streamed across the pedestrian crossing adjacent to the Canada Line’s Brighouse station on No. For a 3 Road. video The volunteers were on handing out reflective safety armbands and a safety tip blitz sheet, as this is the time of the year when there is a spike in pedestrian-related incidents.

“In Richmond, from October to December there is an average of 45 pedestrians injured,” said Joanne Bergman, a road safety coordinator with ICBC watching the waves of heavy foot traffic passing in and out of the SkyTrain station.

“People are in a hurry and they forget,” Bergman said, adding some tips to remember is to make eye contact with drivers when crossing the street, and to wear bright clothing. see Fine page 4

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The Richmond campus of Kwantlen Polytechnic University is hoping to help grow its enrolment numbers by having a place for students to live close to the school.

And part of that increase is anticipated to come from overseas.

Jeff Norris, KPU’s chief advancement officer, told the Richmond News the establishment of a new, $36-million design school — scheduled to open in July 2015 — is one aspect driving the need for adjacent housing.

“Having that building and that particular program in there as a national and international destination is one of the factors,” said Norris following a presentation to the City of Richmond’s general purposes committee earlier this week.

“What we are envisioning for

our student housing is that it will be something for those outside of the Lower Mainland,” Norris said, adding it will also be an option for the 1,200 to 1,400 international students — about 10 per cent of the school’s overall enrolment — who come to KPU on a yearly basis.

Still in the planing stages, the housing project is expected to provide room for about 600 students.

But just where it might be situated has yet to be decided.

“Our preference is to have it located as close to the campus as possible, if not on the campus itself,” Norris said. “But we are limited to the 10 acres (at the Lansdowne Road location). It could fit there, if it made sense, but that would hamper future growth.”

And that growth is anticipated to be quite significant.

“We’re targeting five per cent growth annually for the next five

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years. And when you start to compound that, we’re really looking to double our institutional initiatives over the next 10 years,” Norris said.

Moreover, that growth is expected to be fueled by an increase in international students who pay a premium — about four times more in tuition

— to attend school here.

According to KPU’s website, students who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents pay between $126 to $194 per credit for tuition.

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That difference accounts, in part, for the lack of a government subsidy for education which only domestic students are granted. However, even with the government subsidy, the institution receives about twice as much from international students than from domestic students.

Norris said the province’s contribution amounts to roughly 40 per cent of the total tuition cost, with the student also paying 40 per cent, and outside fundraising by the school taking up the remaining 20 per cent.

The $500 per credit for international students also provides for some additional services specific to those from outside the country, including co-ordination of home stays, Norris said.

Still, there is a profit to be made from that segment of the school’s population.

While it is difficult to determine exactly how much is made in Kwantlen’s case — due to ranging program fees — Norris said that overall in B.C., international student fees

accounted for $1.8 billion in tuition for postsecondary institutions.

In most cases that money is used to help provide additional classroom seats for domestic students, said Norris. “For every 10 to 11 international students that allows for an entire class of domestic students, over and above the government subsidy.”

But drawing international stuFor a dents is not an avenue Kwantlen video of is pursuing solely for the greater the new economic return it can bring, design school Norris noted.

“We really talk about having global citizens, or internationalizing the curriculum,” he said. “It’s really important to have a strong mix that reflects the world right now.”

Topping the list of countries sending students to Kwantlen is China, next is India. and in third place is Saudi Arabia. The majority from overseas enrol in business courses.

Also helping spur the growth of enrolment locally is Kwantlen’s application to the provincial government to start up a school for traditional Chinese medicine.

“We would love to be able to offer it, but are still awaiting approvals from the province as to which institution they would like to have offering that program,” Norris said.

Fine: Hefty for rules many know Continued from page 3 Obeying the signals at the Brighouse station crosswalk seemed to be a hard one for pedestrians to follow Wednesday morning as many crossed against the lights.

The fine for crossing improperly is $109 — a hefty hit to the pocketbook for a reminder of rules many people learned when they were young, said Sgt. Robert Quilley of the Richmond RCMP’s traffic section.

At one point, a pedestrian who readily accepted the reflective armband and tip sheet proceeded to walk across the street without any regard for the “don’t walk” signal.

And another commuter who Quilley took aside and informed them they had just jaywalked turned a multitude of red hues when schooled about the importance of proper crosswalk use.

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Steveston secondary sale to help new school funding

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Tuesday’s announcement that the Steveston secondary school site had finally been sold for just over $41 million will act like a bargaining chip for the establishment of some new, local schools.

That’s according to Richmond Board of Education chair Donna Sargent who said she was “ecstatic” the sale to Polygon Pacific Homes Limited had finally been completed six years after the site on No. 2 Road had been closed and a replacement school — Steveston-London — had taken its place in 2007.

Sargent said the district is limited to using the proceeds of the sale — $41,125,000 for the 13-acre parcel, of which eight acres were sold and five acres were allocated to the city for park use — strictly for capital projects.

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Two items topping the district’s five-year capital plan that was just submitted to the Ministry of Education include new elementary schools for the city centre and Hamilton area on the eastern end of Lulu Island.

Densification of the city’s core and an expected doubling of enrolment in Hamilton are driving the need for new schools.

Sargent said that while the province is still responsible for providing funding for new schools, there is an increasing trend for districts to “bring something to the table” when discussions start.

“There seems to be a real shift,” Sargent said, adding, “We’ll still be advocating for the ministry to provide for the facility that we need.”

The Steveston school sale does represent a lot of money, “but it will not pay for all the needs that we have,” Sargent said.

“It’s very exciting that we could put

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But more than just the infusion of funds is what the sale means for the community.

“It was a piece of land that people either walked or drove by every day, and it had become so dilapidated,” Sargent said. “That’s not really the memory of what happened in that school for 50 years.”

Trustees primed to meet Education Minister

Soccer players try and get a favourable result over the course of a 90-minute match.

And that’s exactly how long Richmond’s school trustees will be given to score some points with B.C.’s Minister of Education when he comes to town Friday to meet them face to face as part of his province-wide sweep of school districts.

The opportunity is to have Peter

Fassbender come away with an understanding of the challenges to deliver education under the constraints of the ministry’s budget, said local school board chair Donna Sargent, adding there are three main points trustees want to stress.

“Basically, it’s keeping education a priority, as far as funding, by ensuring public education receives increased, stable and consistent funding, re-instating a capital plan for facilities, and providing support for new initiatives in education,” Sargent said.

Another topic on the agenda is co-governance, which is topical given the province’s recently negotiated agreement with unionized, non-teaching and support staff for a 3.5 per cent wage increase over two years.

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A 21-year-old man has been charged with armed robbery after allegedly stealing cologne from a drug store.

Travis Heath is alleged to have pulled out a handgun in the store and threatened the staff in the 9100 block of Blundell Road after they confronted him about taking the cologne.

According to police, Heath then fled the store on a bicycle. Police saw him and after a brief foot chase he was taken into custody.

A black replica handgun was seized from Heath and the stolen goods were located.

Heath is known to police and has two outstanding warrants on top of the charges for this incident. He has been charged with one count of robbery and one count of using an imitation firearm.

Heath is set to appear next in court on Oct. 29 in Richmond.

Charges laid in fatal crash

The driver of a car involved in a fatal crash that killed two young brothers has been charged with causing their deaths.

Ryan Jeffrey Webster, aged 20 at the time, was behind the wheel of a BMW when it spun off the road near Steveston Highway and No. 4 Road and hit a tree in May 2012.

Webster sustained minor injuries, while his two passengers that fateful night — Shane and Jess Moses, age 19 and 16 — died instantly.

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Meeting: To remind minister about co-governance Continued from page 5 the cost on school districts across B.C. under the province’s cooperative gains mandate, rather than being funded by the government.

That meant with no new funding, savings in the district have to be found to fund the raise.

In Richmond that is expected to cost $703,992 in the first year of the agreement and will be covered by dipping into the district’s modest $6.1 million operating surplus.

But job cuts are expected to fund the $1.34 million needed in year two.

Faced with that imposed settle-

ment, Sargent said she and her fellow trustees want to remind Fassbender that the ministry and BCSTA (British Columbia School Trustees Association) had previously signed a protocol agreement to be co-governors of the public education system.

“We just want to bring that forward again and talk about what co-governance means,” Sargent said, adding that as part of the partnership longterm planning should be at the forefront to avoid situations where school districts that are not represented at the negotiating table are then required to fund agreements they have no say in.

Sargent added there is also a need for more consultation and feedback.

“We want two-way communication rather than being told, ‘here’s the information, this is what will be happening.’”

Sargent also called for trustee groups around B.C. to be present at the bargaining table for future negotiations.

“As really the only employer of these employees, we need to be bargaining with them. So, it’s not just a matter of consulting with us, we are part of it.”

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e have previously criticized the federal government for its heavy-handed approach in controlling what is said to media by scientists working for Canada.

The results of a poll by Environics Research Group published Monday make clear the problem is both worse and more widespread than we had imagined.

The online survey was commissioned by the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada and took place in June.

Four thousand scientists took part — about 26 per cent of the government’s scientific workers — and the results are said to accurately reflect the opinions of all government scientists within 1.6 percentage points 19 times out of 20.

The poll’s response size convincingly establishes that this poll is not of the “hamburger” variety and merits serious consideration. The startling — and depressing — results show that more than 70 per cent of the respondents believe the government is not using the best scientific evidence to develop laws and policies.

Worse: Almost 25 per cent said they had been asked to alter or exclude scientific information in federal documents. Sixtyseven per cent of DFO scientists and 59 per cent of Environment Canada scientists said they knew of cases where their department had suppressed information, leaving the public with misleading or inaccurate information.

Eighty-eight per cent of respondents supported improved whistleblower protection to better serve the public. That idea makes sense scientifically, statistically and ethically.

Unfortunately, that would seem like three reasons for the Conservatives not to consider such legislation.

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Landowners actions are slap in ALC’s face The Editor, Re: “Farm neighbours raise concerns about more dumping,” News, Oct. 18.

I happened to read your article on the dumping of asphalt grindings at the property located just east of Fong’s Market on Westminster Highway just east of No. 6 Road. I would like to say I’m shocked and dismayed, but honestly I’m not. I was previously with the ALC Compliance & Enforcement section.

From what I can recall, not only did I place a stop work order on the property, but because of continued non-compliance I requested the CEO of the ALC issue an order for rehabilitation against the property. I believe that I served the order on the owner some time ago. Neither order was appealed.

So, technically speaking, the ALC can at any time proceed to court for an enforcement order to compel the owner to remove all the fill and rehabilitate the land to some level of agricultural capability. You should be able to confirm the documents via FOI to the ALC or perhaps the City of Richmond.

Technically speaking, residential construction would be permitted and the fill necessary could be permitted, but they would only be permitted to fill a certain area. From what I recall, the landowners have vastly exceeded that footprint.

To continue to import and deposit anything on the site pretty much slaps the ALC in the face and shows no respect for the regulations. Hopefully, as the ALC gets my vacancy back-filled, and the government can stay out of their business, the ALC can get on with the enforcement.

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I may have a bridge to sell you

Today, I’m raising a glass to the greatest salesmen of all time — the ones who sold the Eiffel Tower, the Brooklyn Bridge and various other landmarks.

A good salesman can sell you something you need or want. A great salesman will sell you something you didn’t know you needed.

A con man will sell you something you don’t need, don’t want, and which he doesn’t own. By the 1930s, the idea of selling the Brooklyn Bridge had become a cliché. But in the late 1800s, it was a very real full-time business for half a dozen tricksters.

A swindler named Reed C. Waddell would prop up a sign reading “Bridge for sale,” and would be open for business. He’d take anywhere from $250 to $1,000 — not a bad day’s pay then.

The bridge sellers’ targets were new immigrants, those so enraptured by the American dream that they imagined anyone could buy a famous public landmark.

By the 1920s, Ellis Island was handing out pamphlets warning that streets, bridges, and other public objects were not for sale.

In Europe, the scam was reversed. The Czech con man Harry Jelinek once sold Karlstejn Castle to American industrialists, allegedly while pretending to be a local baron.

Another Czech-born con man was the greatest of them all. Victor Lustig left his home country at a relatively young age, so he

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had to sell the landmarks of other nations.

Fortunately, he was fluent in many languages, and he chose to settle down in Paris. In 1925, French newspapers were wondering what was to become of the Eiffel Tower. It was rusting, far older than its intended lifespan. What would become of the monument?

Lustig capitalized on the rumours by using nothing more than some forged government stationery and a room at a swanky hotel. He called together the six most prominent metal scrap dealers in Paris and swore them to secrecy: the government had decided to tear down the tower, and one of them would get the contract for the metal.

The mark seemed suspicious of all the secrecy, so Lustig one-upped himself.

He was simply an underpaid government bureaucrat, he told the unlucky scrap dealer. Perhaps a little extra cash would help the right bidder get the rights to the landmark? Reassured, the mark gave Lustig both the cash for the tower and a bribe to top it off.

Lustig skipped town, but returned later and tried the scam again when the first victim proved too ashamed

to go to the police. He would later get caught in the States, and died in Alcatraz on a counterfeiting charge.

One of the reasons I can feel some degree of admiration for these swindlers is they knew they were crooks.

Once they were caught, they seldom attempted to pretend they were anything other than clever.

You still see this sort of scam every so often these days, but far more often, we see the descendents of the other style of scam artist, Charles Ponzi.

Ponzi realized that scamming one gullible mark with a lot of cash could be replaced by scamming lots and lots of poor people out of what little money they had. He invented the industrial-sized scam, and is the direct cause of people like Bernie Madoff and the folks who rope you into buying fraudulent stocks that are “guaranteed” to go up 200 per cent. Even worse are those who work at the big banks and trading houses. JPMorgan recently agreed to pay $13 billion in exchange for a wide range of financial improprieties — which is a nice way of saying they ripped off an awful lot of people, mostly through mortgage-related shenanigans.

These men are cannier than Lustig, as they have taken more, have kept most of it, and are unlikely to die in a prison cell.

Matthew Claxton is a reporter for the Langley Advance.

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Steveston sale lacks clarity The Editor, Re: “Steveston secondary site sale to help talks on new school funding,” Online, Oct. 23.

The reported details are quite intriguing insofar as serious lack of clarity and transparency. Ultimately, have the Richmond citizens and taxpayers best interests been addressed ?

The Steveston site currently has SPU zoning, and hence restricted uses, i.e., on par with the status quo of school and park use.

The school district reports it has sold the 13-acre site to an established developer for $41.125 million. In addition, five of these acres will be donated to the City of Richmond.

At this juncture, and consistent with the current zoning, the city would possess five acres of land zoned SPU, and the developer retains eight acres of land zoned SPU. The sales completion date is in December 2014 (note: approximately the time a new

city council is sworn in).

In addition, this purchase price “may” increase if certain undisclosed conditions are met, yet the details also claim the sale is “not conditional” on city rezoning.

Thus, the question is, why would a developer pay such a substantial amount and donate almost 40 per cent of the land with no “subject to” assurances of rezoning by the city?

As it stands, the developer may ultimately be stuck with an old high school building on eight acres of park, correct?

The only other plausible scenario, with no evidence to the contrary, is that some “incamera” negotiations will be taking place, “token” public hearings held and then the fait accompli “rezoning rubber stamp” comes out.

Clarity? Transparency?

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Richmond has changed a lot over the last five years, some would argue for the worse, but I would say most has been positive.

We’ve welcomed the Canada Line, supported a burgeoning restaurant scene, began to densify the city centre and, most recently, built the Railway Greenway, which is transforming recreation for families in West Richmond. These are things that make people proud to live here and I would argue our city is more vibrant than ever before.

We are beginning to identify ourselves as residents of our own city, rather than merely another suburb of Vancouver.

This is why the proposed Walmart development just doesn’t feel right. We can do better than this. The development turns its back on the street and the Garden City Lands.

It is far too large for the neighbourhood it’s part of, so clearly meant for those coming from other places. It will be made for larger chain stores, not the small businesses that dominate much of our core. It’s an entirely suburban design for an increasingly urban city. It’s part of Richmond’s past, not its future.

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Media finally stepping up to talk climate crisis The Editor, Re: “Worry about empty nets,” Editorial, Oct. 18.

I applaud you loudly for stating clearly the climate crisis that we find ourselves in. And for stating the important link it has to our extraction, production and consumption of carbon fuels. This is something I know is difficult for corporate mainstream media to do for

various reasons. Well done.

More and more media editorials are finally breaking out from their silence with the overwhelming number of extreme events and dire observations of the warming global climate.

It can no longer be ignored. They are also addressing the campaign of misinformation by “skeptics” with bold

action like that taken by the LA Times in not echoing blatantly wrong and misleading information or comments on the topic. (See the US Today editorial: www. usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/10/14/climate-changeglobal-warming-ipcc-editorials-debates/2983979/.)

It requires action and brave leadership on the part of our elected lawmakers and government. This will not come unless citizens are aware of the risks, dangers and what our choices are — so that they can demand action and support them in tackling the calamity.

Yes, I too have had a very uneasy feeling with the recent perplexing and disturbing events, which seem to have a vague connection to global warming and ocean acidification. First, it was the starfish dying off around North America, then there are massive moose (populations) dying off continent wide.

Now this week, we hear of the sardines disappearance, and there was the extremely low run this season of sockeye salmon. There is a large ongoing dolphin die off on the east coast. Honey bees are disappearing here and in Europe. This is alarming stuff.

Coral colonies are collapsing and there are massive jellyfish population explosions across all our oceans.

Our forests are being devastated by pine beetle and extreme fires. Biodiversity is taking a hit big time.

This reduction is something that has appeared in the past whenever carbon dioxide levels and temperatures have risen to extremes.

The public is just not aware of the connection and the critical risks we face. They also do not realize how pressing and urgent the situation is. Huge effort and sacrifices are need to address the issue. It’s good to see the media rising to the challenge, at last.

Paul Magnus Richmond

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Friday Feature PEELING THE PORT

Port giant now too big for its boots: Biologist

Coal export expansion, fuel delivery plan, tunnel replacement leads to the question: Who’s making the calls?

“When we go to the transport ministry for answers, they say it’s not their place to answer and tell us to go to PMV. But when we go to PMV, they refer us to the ministry, it’s ridiculous.”

BY ALAN CAMPBELL

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ive years ago, a “monolithic, concretefaced structure with a soul of growth and development” rose from the ground.

Speaking with Otto Langer, there’s little room for doubt as to his mind on the creation of Port Metro Vancouver, borne of the federal government-approved merger in 2008 of the Port of Vancouver, the Fraser River Port Authority and the North Fraser Port Authority.

It was a ménage-a-trois that Langer — a respected environmentalist and retired Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) senior biologist of 32 years — insists was another “nail in the coffin” in terms of protecting the Fraser River estuary.

Port Metro Vancouver (PMV), put simply, acts as judge, jury and executioner, according to Langer, when it comes to expansion proposals on the river and the federal policing of environmental concerns.

“The accessibility and accountability to the public was lost when it became one port authority,” said Langer.

“The big landowner now looks after environmental assessments. It’s the classic wolf looking after the sheep. That alone makes them unaccountable.

“Where’s the unbiased review of anything that comes in front of the port?”

Prior to the 2008 merger, brought to bear out of apparent inefficiencies in running three separate federal authorities, Langer — working for the DFO at the time as head of habitat protection for the Fraser River, northern B.C. and the Yukon — regularly butted heads in the ’70s and ’80s with the aforementioned ports.

But despite often crossing swords from opposite sides of the environmental fence, Langer said they were easier to work and reason with due to the nature of their size.

“They were smaller, they had local appointees, you could walk right into their offices and meet with their CEOs easily and at the drop of a hat,” said Langer.

“I can’t see that happening now, that’s for sure. Back then, those organizations were also more accountable because they essentially had smaller interests.”

Richmond’s mayor, Malcolm Brodie, remembers feeling closer to the decisionmaking table when dealing with the two smaller port authorities that affected his city.

“We had an excellent working relationship,” said Brodie. “Everything was smaller.”

Brodie recalls the three cities situated in the North Fraser authority’s region having one representative between them on the board and the six or seven cities in the Fraser River authority’s region having one representative between them on that board.

Currently, under the PMV 11-director model, only one person represents all of the

Jet fuel plan, tunnel

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Former government biologist Otto Langer stands on the banks of the Fraser River’s north arm. Langer said Port Metro Vancouver has too many conflicts of interest to be able to draw unbiased conclusions on environmental issues. cities in the Lower Mainland affected by PMV’s operations.

Accountability

PMV, under the federal eye of Transport Canada, now has too much power over what happens on the Fraser River, said Langer.

A concern, he stressed, simmered to the surface earlier this year with the cost-cutting loss of FREMP, an intergovernmental program that helped protect the environment of the Fraser River and Burrard Inlet. FREMP’s responsibilities were handed over to PMV to oversee.

And the fact the public has no part to play in the appointment of PMV’s board of directors, predominantly hand-picked by industry user groups, sucks even more life, said Langer, out of the credibility of the port’s role to conduct unbiased environmental reviews.

“There are no checks and balances in there,” he said. “If there was a properly run, independent environmental assessment procedure, then I think we would all be a little more tolerant and accepting of the system.

“Port Metro can decide, environmentally, on proposals they stand to gain financially from; it’s a total conflict of interest.”

Brodie — who also sits on Metro Vancouver’s transportation committee, which deals directly with PMV on a number of regional issues — recognizes the positive role the port authority plays, especially in his community.

Citing PMV as a “significant economic generator, responsible for many operations on the Fraser River,” the mayor also high-

lighted dredging initiatives, the Highway 91 overpass project and the support the authority lends to many community and city-run events.

But as grateful as the City of Richmond is to the port, there’s no getting away, admits Brodie, from the “challenge” his administration faces in getting its voice heard through the thick panel of the PMV boardroom door.

“Port issues tend to be very large and their decisions can often impact the city positively or negatively without us having any say.

“And shortly after the amalgamation in 2008, there was the port’s purchase of the Gilmore Farms land. If ever a red flag was raised to show Port Metro had an agenda not in sync with the city, that was it.”

For a PMV determined right there video and then, said Brodie, that it can on pick up farmland, locked in the VAPOR Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR), for port operations and then designate it as industrial without any real public process.

Coun. Harold Steves — Metro Vancouver’s vice chair of the regional planning and agriculture committee — has engaged in several verbal battles with PMV over the decades, especially on issues such as the port’s farmland acquisition and its perceived attack on the need for an ALR. “They answer to themselves, plain and simple, with the support of the federal government,” said Steves.

“But they keep on telling us that all they do is ‘just decide who can ship the stuff, we have no say in what is shipped.’

“The big question everyone always has for them is who gives the ‘yes’ or ‘no’ on proposals?

Now almost two and a half years old, the so-called provincial/federal “harmonized” environmental review into an airline consortium’s aviation fuel delivery proposal, has shed the spotlight on the assertion that the port simply shouldn’t be acting as an environmental watchdog for the Fraser River, according to PMV detractors.

The consortium, VAFFC, wants to barge aviation fuel up the south arm of the Fraser, off-load it to a tank farm in southeast Richmond and then pipe it mostly along Highway 99 to YVR. Before the plan can proceed, VAFFC requires a permit from the provincial government’s environmental assessment office (BCEAO) and from PMV, which, in this instance, is the federal entity.

The B.C. government said this week that its review decision will finally be made public on or before Christmas Eve — a calendar decision which adds even more fuel to the fire, no pun intended, of protest group VAPOR’s skepticism of the entire review process.

“There’s no agreement written down on what this (harmonized) review should look like or how it operates,” questioned Langer, who acts as VAPOR’s environment expert.

“Will PMV accept what the BCEAO says? I don’t think they really are true partners in all of this.

“How can they be when there’s nothing written down? It’s the old tail and the dog story. PMV is both and they seem to have full authority over the river.”

Langer said that, because the PMV board has no public input and the review has had little or no public input, few people hold out any hope for the decision when it finally comes out.

Brodie said he and his council has, almost from the outset, red-flagged the “conflict of interest PMV Metro has in this proposal.”

“Each time, they’ve chosen to minimalize that conflict. The port stands to gain as a landlord, but it doesn’t seem to understand why this is a problem.”

And when it comes to PMV’s role in bringing the Massey Tunnel replacement project to the top of the B.C. government’s transportation agenda, Brodie questions how influential the port authority has been.

“What we do know is that the port wants the tunnel gone,” he said. “The concern from that is the potential industrialization of the whole area. The Panamax tankers that would use the river, if the tunnel was gone, are gigantic.” see Langer page 13

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PEELING THE PORT

We’re listening to the people However, CEO Robin Silvester admits PMV could communicate better

BY ALAN CAMPBELL

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anaging the day-to day operations of North America’s largest export port, while mitigating its impact on the local community, is a delicate balancing act not lost on Port Metro Vancouver’s CEO Robin Silvester.

One in every five dollars worth of trade in Canada moves through the port (PMV), sustaining, in the process, 60,000 jobs across the Metro Vancouver region.

It would be naive to assume the vibrations from such footfall don’t register at ground level in the region where the port does business.

“To give you an example of how we engage with the community; last year we had two meetings a day, everyday, that involved the public,” Silvester told the News.

“We hear people and we understand. We understand

their frustrations, especially with regard to traffic and noise.”

Decision-making

One of the single, biggest public relations problems PMV currently faces is confusion over its authority, its accountability and how it decides on proposals for new operations in its waters.

“We recognize this as a problem and we are working on making it clearer to the public,” admitted Silvester.

“If we use the coal export expansion as an example: It’s land that comes under our jurisdiction, For a it’s in our land video use plan. For on (the exporter) the to be able to do port this, they have to apply for a permit from us.”

Addressing accusations that PMV, the federal entity on the aforementioned coal expansion proposal, was working too closely with the proponent (Fraser Surrey Docks) — apparently inappropriate email exchanges

between a public relations firm representing a coal industry lobby group and the port were made public — Silvester drew comparisons to dealings at city hall.

“The same accusations could be leveled at city hall, where staff usually work very closely with developers,” he said.

The difference, however, is that local developments are accepted or rejected by city council, which is elected by voters.

Tunnel, fuel plan

Ever since Premier Christy Clark announced the tearing up of the jam-packed Massey Tunnel last month, skeptics began questioning the government’s motives and the role PMV played in pushing the “Tube’s” replacement with a bridge.

Some critics have even gone as far as to suggest the only reason the region is getting a multi-billion dollar transportation project is to facilitate larger vessels’ passage up the shallow tunnel section of the Fraser River.

Not so, said Silvester, who insists the tunnel replacement has been on the cards for a long time.

“Ask someone in Delta what’s the most important issue for them,” he said.

“We’ve seen the potential for growth south of the river and seen major infrastructure investment, so logically, the government is looking to help that growth. The tunnel is one of those critical impediments to that growth.”

And when it comes to the review of the controversial proposal to ship aviation fuel up the river and then off-load it onto land that the port would rent out, Silvester insists it doesn’t have the power to trump the province.

“This (project) needs both the B.C. permit and the federal permit to proceed. We can’t override the other.”

Although, PMV has shown its ability to override the province’s Agricultural Land Commission by buying up farmland for its own purposes. " See full story at www.richmond-news.com

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Port Metro Vancouver’s CEO, Robin Silvester, admits the port needs to do a better job explaining to the public how decisions are made. Below, a map of the port’s interests across the Lower Mainland region.

Langer: Review Who runs Port Metro Vancouver? must be neutral Continued from page 12 The only way to restore public confidence in the environmental review process of projects affecting the Fraser River is for PMV to get up from the table and leave the room, according to Langer and Brodie.

“If the likes of the port has an interest in a project going ahead, it has to step away from it,” said Langer.

“We need better federal oversight, better public oversight and more public input by way of local representation on the PMV board, perhaps in the shape of someone from a marine conservation background. We need more transparency.”

Langer understands PMV has a mandate to grow the economy and its operations.

“That’s fine, but when it comes to the likes of environmental reviews, it simply has to be carried out independently to make

it credible.

“It cannot be a self-centred club, pushing the port’s business and nothing else.”

Brodie said there’s no guarantee he would ultimately agree with a decision handed down by an independent environmental review body, “but at least the port wouldn’t have been part of the game.”

Looking ahead, Langer sees even more worrying times for the Fraser estuary, professing that the “stars have well and truly been lining up for years for these kinds of developments.”

“It really is a disillusioning time for people such as myself.

“For many of us who, for the past 30 years or so, have been trying to get proper reviews, it’s a sad time. But this is not all about the current Harper government; it started way back (with cuts from previous provincial and federal governments).

Port Metro Vancouver (PMV) is run by a board of 11 directors and all appointments are subject to approval by Transport Canada.

Seven of them are handpicked by a “nomination committee.” That committee, also known as the “Port User Group” is made up of representatives from PMV’s user groups.

Each of the remaining four directors are put forward by the federal transport minister; the B.C. government; the Port Metro Vancouver Port Cities Committee (municipalities with PMV operations) and, lastly, by a rotation of either Manitoba and Saskatchewan or Alberta.

A typical project permit decision, such as the VAFFC aviation fuel delivery proposal, would not get as far as the board. The board meets six times a year. PMV’s team of executives, including CEO Robin Silvester, answers to the board.

PMV board:

Craig Neeser: Chair (appointed

by Port User Group). Neeser is the former president of the forest industry’s Weyerhaeuser Company Ltd. Marcella Szel: Vice-chair (appointed by Port User Group).

Szel is the former senior vice-president of sales and marketing at CP Rail.

Anne Bancroft-Jones (appointed by the federal government).

Bancroft-Jones is the vice-president of First Nations Relations and Special Projects for Polygon Homes Ltd. Tim Chapman (appointed by the Port User Group). Chapman is the former president of Western Stevedoring Co. Ltd., a deep-sea break-bulk stevedoring, terminal operator and off-dock provider in North Vancouver.

Satnam Johal (appointed by the provincial government). Johal is the founder and CEO of Nu Tek Doors Ltd. and served on the Mayor’s 2010 Task Committee and was a torchbearer for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.

Eugene Kwan (appointed by Port User Group). Kwan is president and CEO of Agincourt Capital Corporation, a privately held investment company that advises offshore investors.

Paul Landry (appointed by Port User Group). Landry is vice-president of business development with GroupHEALTH Global Systems

and was previously president and CEO of the British Columbia Trucking Association.

Tom Longworth (appointed

by Port User Group). Longworth is founder of Longworth Advisory Services Ltd., an independent business advisor.

Penny Priddy (appointed by Port Metro Vancouver Port Cities Committee). Priddy is the founder of Penny Priddy Consulting, a management consulting firm, but is known better from her more than 30 years of public and private sector experience as an MP and MLA and was the first female politician to be elected to all four levels of government in Canada.

T. Richard Turner (appointed

by Port User Group). Turner is president and CEO of TitanStar Investment Group Inc. and is past chair and governor of the Vancouver Board of Trade.

Carmen Loberg (appointed by the Western Prairie Provinces).

Loberg is the former president and CEO of NorTerra Inc., an Edmonton-based investment company with interests in air and marine transportation, logistics, and industrial supplies.

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Many Wills written in B.C. include bequests to individuals. It is very common for Wills writers (including Lawyers and Notaries) to allow for the possibility that a beneficiary may die before the Testator/Testatrix (the person making the Will). In such a situation, it is common to bequeath the particular gift to the individual’s issue.

The main reason for that is to make sure that any gift in a Will always has somewhere to go. If a Will is drafted without a clause allowing for an alternate beneficiary, the risk is that a gift left to a predeceased beneficiary may end up in several different hands, some (or none) of which would have been intended by the Will maker. Put another way, a person making a Will should be careful in identifying who a gift should go to. An interesting case decided earlier this month illustrates.

Barnes Estate v. Barnes Background In this case, the deceased made her Will in 1992 and died in 2010. The Estate was modest (valued at around $220,000). In this rather litigious case, the Court had to give an opinion as to the proper distribution of the assets under the Will. Part of that opinion was to make a declaration as to whether two “grandchildren” (I use quotation marks because their status wasn't clear) of the Will maker are not the “issue” of the Will Maker’s son (who died before his late mother).

The word “issue” is at the centre of the case, because the definition of that word, so commonly used in Wills, was critical to the outcome.

DNA testing was done to help determine whether there was a biological connection between the deceased son and the two “grandchildren” purported to be his sons.

The Will divided the Estate equally between the Will maker’s two sons.

And if any son predeceased, their share was to go to that deceased son’s own “issue.” If a son had no “issue,” his half-share would, pursuant to the Will, go to the other son or the other son’s “issue” (if that other son also predeceased, which happened in this case).

Court’s discussion The question, briefly, is whether the word “issue” really means “children.”

The applicant tried to argue that, because the DNA testing done did not conclude a biological connection between the deceased son of the Will maker and his own “son,” the son is not an “issue” of the deceased Will maker’s son (and so does not get the half-share of the Will maker’s deceased son).

It appeared that the Court was not willing to give paternity the same emphasis that the parties did in determining whether the two grandsons of the Will maker were entitled to a share of the Estate.

The Court first examined the old “armchair rule” in attempting to interpret the Will, and stated that the Court must ascertain the intent of the Will maker as expressed in the Will. And, the Will is to be read as a whole.

The Court is also permitted to consider evidence to identify the circumstances of the Will maker, which might influence the Will maker in his or her choice of distribution.

The Court then considered the meaning of the word “issue,” and considered various scholastic definitions. The Court seemed to settle on the word as “including all lineal descendants of the Will maker.”

However, the Court held that this did not conclusively define the word “issue.” The Court emphasized that it had to determine what the Will maker intended by her words in the Will, and so the simple dictionary definition of the word “issue” did not end the matter!

The Court ultimately found that the meaning of “issue” is not clear and unequivocal. It was not prepared to hold that “issue” refers only to blood descendants. Thus, the Court sought to interpret the word in the context of the Will of the late Will maker.

The parties did agree, in this case, that the Will maker’s son held out and treated his two sons as if they were his biological sons. The Court held that the Will maker knew well of her two grandsons, and likely believed they were her grandsons. Therefore, she intended that they would inherit if their father predeceased (which he did).

There were also some doubts with respect to the DNA evidence, which further clouded the matter of the biological connection, but that had become a non-factor by this point in the case. The Court held that the two grandsons of the Will maker would take the half-share intended for their father.

Conclusion This important case somewhat clarifies the definition of the word “issue.” It also suggests that if a person making a Will wants to benefit a certain person or group of people (such as a grandchildren), it would be preferable and clearer to simply identify the beneficiaries as “grandchildren” rather than “issue.” The word “issue” probably connotes a broader group of people than “children.” So the use of such wording, as you can see, is important in a Will.

The case is also important for clarifying the method by which a Court can interpret a Will. To me, it indicates that the more carefully a Will is worded, the easier a Court can determine what the Will maker intended to do with his or her Estate. So give a lot of thought to the words in your Will!

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For more information on the Blue blend of six varieties, most of it Besides the food and location, Canoe Waterfront Restaurant, visit Gewurtztraminer, Riesling and Pinot Robertson is impressed with the owner, Blanc.

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Sports

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Richmond Lacrosse U10 and U14 field team hosted Port Coquitlam and Delta respectively in Pacific Coast League action last Sunday at Minoru Park. After a month’s worth of tiering action, the regular season starts this weekend.

MAJOR MIDGET HOCKEY

Canadians snap losing streak with two game sweep Kyle Uy and Dante Hannoun each scored twice as the Greater Vancouver Canadians completed a much-needed weekend sweep of the Fraser Valley Thunderbirds with a 7-3 victory in B.C. Major Midget Hockey League action at the Richmond Olympic Oval.

Riding a six-game losing streak into the series, the regional rep team snapped

the slump behind the shutout goaltending of Tyler Shugrue for a 3-0 victory on Saturday. Hannoun’s first period power play goal proved to be the game winner.

The Victoria Royals’ top 2013 Bantam draft pick added another in the third period. Uy also scored.

The rematch proved to be a much more wide open affair as the Canadians opened

up a 4-1 second period lead and cruised to victory. Nathan McCarnan, Ryan Jones and Scott Munro had the other goals for the Canadians.

Alex Whitwham and Braeden Gurney each had three assists. Whitwham rejoined the Canadians late last month after the 17-year-old sophomore forward from Richmond received a long look from the

Spokane Chiefs before being among the team’s final cuts.

Owen Seidel added a pair of helpers.

The Canadians (4-6-0) will look to continue their newfound momentum with a pair of games against the Vancouver Northeast Chiefs (5-2-3), including Sunday at 10 a.m. at the Richmond Olympic Oval.

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The Richmond News October 25, 2013 A27

Sports Connaught skaters off to busy start A busy start to the competitive season has Connaught Skating Club members competing around the world.

Mitchell Gordon continues to represent Canada at international competitions, recently returning from the ISU Junior Grand Prix Czech Skate in Ostrava where the 2012 Canadian Junior Men’s champion finished 11th overall.

Meanwhile, 2013 Junior Women’s champion Larykn Austman was at another ISU Junior Grand Prix event, this time the Tallinn Cup in Estonia, where she turned in a solid eighth overall finish.

Closer to home, Connaught sent six skaters to the SaskSkate Competition in Regina.

Leading the way was a silver medal finish for Phoebe Yan in the Pre-Juvenile U11 Ladies division. Teammate Haleigha Bull almost joined her on the podium, settling for fourth place. Monsie Godlinez also returned home with a medal, winning bronze in Pre-Juvenile U14 Ladies. Mary-Jo Yun was right behind her in fourth.

In Juvenile U14 Men, Martin Yushko skated to a solid fourth place finish, while Danielle Gordon continued her impressive progress with a fifth place showing in Novice Ladies.

At the Northwest Pacific Regionals in Tacoma, WA, Micha Lynette made the most of his trip down south with a silver medal finish thanks to a strong free skate program.

The club also sent a large contingent to the annual Autumn Leaves competition in Chilliwack.

Kurtis Schreiver led the way by winning the Novice Men’s event, while Shawn Cuevas was second in Junior Men. In PreNovice U14 Women, Danica Vangsgaard and Rachel De Mello finished fifth. Elvie Carroll was sixth, while Claudia Makhanko-Tang and Jessica Mchugh were seventh. Megan Kan was eighth.

The grassroots level included podium finishes for Jocelyn Chui (1st place, Start 5 Girls U10), Ronald Chang (2nd, Star 4 Boys), Phoebe Yan (2nd place, U11 Juvenile Women), Beres Clements (2nd, U14 Juvenile Men), and Wesley Chiu (3rd, Star 4 Boys).

Also performing well were Maria Mesotopitis, Ellie Cheung, Dorothy Yuen, Yijia Liu, Elizabeth Shepelev, YolandaZhang, Ariel Sheng, Silvia Li, Solana Wong, Roanna Lu, Nicole Gustavsson, Viktoria Tryfofonova, Isabella Jin, Vanessa Rong, Alexandra Kofler, Kailan, Sasha Lynette, Averyn Ngan, Samantha Yeung, Jamie Cheung, Avia Dobres, Emily Ni, Catherine Yuen, Daniel Han, Wilson Leung, Hayleigha Bull, Caitlin Tai, Madge Sheung, Katie Carleton, Mavis Sheung, Basil Wang and Martin Yushko.

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Connaught skaters (left to right) Phoebe Yan, Martin Yushko, Danielle Gordon and Haleigha Bull turned in strong performances at the recent SaskSkate in Regina.

The club is now getting ready to host the upcoming B.C./Yukon Sectionals which will open up opportunities to compete at Western Challenge and the 2014 Canadian Championships.

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