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A concept view of what could be built at the former hospital site along Lahakas and Haisla Boulevards.Concept drawing from Kerkhoff Construction

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Action plan out for housingCameron Orr

After much anticipation, a government Housing Action Plan for Kitimat was publicly released late last month.

The report puts down a number of recom-mendations for Kitimat to deal with housing challenges on a number of fronts, from worker housing to affordable housing.

“As a small community heavily dependent on industry, Kitimat is affected by changes in housing demand that are closely associated with decisions of major industries,” says a portion of the report’s key � ndings.

“Although it is dif� cult to quantify, a num-ber of people with low incomes...are unable to afford higher rents for suitable housing.”

The report goes on to provide a number of recommendations. One is for continued fund-ing for the Extreme Weather Response shelter, which operated in Kitimat last winter. The re-ports points out eight people used it last year, but Kitimat’s housing resource workers “observe that the number of people sleeping rough has visibly increased in 2014.”

The report also highlights a need for a “sec-ond-stage” transitional house which would give women and children a place to live for up to two years while looking for permanent housing.

On the matter of rent supplements, the re-port says there is a need to make existing rental subsidy programs more widely known and pro-moted, by the District of Kitimat and outreach workers.

“BC Housing should consider adding 10 or more rent supplements and increasing the threshold limits for both programs,” says the report, which includes a suggestion for the in-creasing of the annual gross housing maximum, which is currently $35,000 for the Rental Assis-tance Program.

The report also touches on the issue of tem-porary workers housing. In it the report says that living out allowances should not be acceptable, “as they quickly and arti� cially in� ate rental rates in a small community.”

This opposition to living out allowances, the report continues, should be conveyed to propo-nents of future projects, and to their contractors.

Rio Tinto Alcan had offered living out al-lowances earlier in the modernization project but have since discontinued that offer.

We spoke with Chevron about their perspec-tive on Kitimat’s housing — given they have an up-to 600 bed permitted camp near the former Eurocan plant now — and they say that camp is designed to reduce stress to Kitimat’s housing market.

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Glimpse given for old hospital siteCameron Orr

In 2005 the former Kitimat General Hospi-tal was imploded, marking the end of a commu-nity landmark.

Nine years later we � nally have a glimpse of the next phase of the vacant plot of land.

The Haisla Nation now own the land and are working with Kerkhoff Construction to see it redeveloped as a complex of apartment units, of� ce space, a restaurant and a hotel.

Leonard Kerkhoff presented a preliminary look at the project to the Committee of the Whole meeting on October 27.

The project would require rezoning and sub-division, a process that has not begun as of press time.

Kerkhoff said some of the forested area be-hind the site would need to be cleared to make way for the three proposed apartment buildings but that a swath of forest would be protected under a proposed cov-enant. Parking for the apartments would also be built under-ground.

As proposed the plans are for an 80-room hotel, a 5,000 square foot restaurant (Kerkhoff compared the size to that of a typical Moxies or White Spot location) and a 15-20,000

square foot, two storey of� ce building.That’s in addition to the three 49-unit apart-

ment buildings.The land is currently zoned Institutional,

which allows for buildings such as, obviously, hospitals. Rezoning two portions of the property would make the northern part, where the apart-ments would go, a residential zone, while the southern end would be a comprehensive devel-opment zone to allow the three facilities.

He said there are no plans for retail space, so occupants at this location would be for people not already served in the City Centre.

It is the early stages of the project which would, in addition to rezoning, need traf� c and geotechnical studies.

Kerkhoff said they’ll develop traf� c stud-ies for the property, but likely the entrance will

come off from Lahakas, near the helipad, and the exit on Haisla Boulevard will only allow for right-hand turns, given medians are already in place on the road.

A town-owned park space on the lower portion of the property will remain parkland, and the Gyro Christmas Tree on the property will likely be relocated to that space, said Kerkhoff.

Proposal would see 80-room

hotel, restaurant, offi ce space and three apartment buildings.

October 20A 15-year-old

youth was arrested for breaking curfew and subsequently was dis-covered to allegedly have property which was recently sto-len from vehicles on Quatsino Boulevard. The youth faces a court date and a 9 p.m. cur-few.

Police responded to a collision at Hos-pital Beach where a vehicle was rammed in to another. A sus-pect was arrested a short time later and has since been charged for assault with a weapon (the vehicle) and dan-gerous operation of a motor vehicle. The 27-year-old Kitimat male was released on a number of conditions.

October 22Police were called

to a loud engine rev-ving and smoking at the Upper City Centre Mall. Police found the vehicle, with Alberta plates and a driver slumped over the steer-ing wheel with his foot on the pedal. The driver was woken up and says he had just � nished a

late shift. There were no signs of impairment beyond fatigue. The vehicle was taken to a repair facility at the driver’s request.

October 23Police are inves-

tigating a theft of a trailer on Sixth Street and Industrial Avenue. Trailer parked on inse-cure lot. Is a 2009 Pre-cision � at deck, grey, with 53085D licence plate.

October 25A 18-year-old Kit-

imat driver was given a ticket for causing a three-vehicle collision when she rear-ended a car on Lahakas, forcing that car in to another making a turn on to Cormorant Street.

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Kitimat and Kitamaat Village to the Middle East provided a first-hand look at an oper-ating liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant.

The trip was spon-sored and arranged by LNG Canada, who are proposing to build a plant on the former Methanex site.

Representatives from Hartley Bay were also on the trip.

The trip took peo-ple to Oman, where Oman LNG has been operating since 1994.

LNG Canada rep-resentatives said that the facility there is a fairly close approxi-mation to how LNG Canada could look.

The facility shares other similarities be-yond the technical aspects, including its operation on salt wa-ter, and its proximity to the nearby commu-nity, Sur.

The trip has been well received from those we have reached since their return.

Taylor Cross is the Deputy Chief Council-lor for the Haisla Na-tion and spoke highly of what he learned on the visit.

“I was pretty im-pressed with the size. It’s a three-train LNG,

and it takes up quite a bit of space.”

He said you could compare the size to roughly the size of the Rio Tinto Alcan smelter.

The proposed LNG Canada plant in Kitimat would, at a full-build out, be four trains.

(A ‘train’ is LNG speak for a unit that processes natural gas to a liquid.)

Cross said he had half-jokingly asked to see a running LNG plant to LNG Canada and he’s not sure if the plan was already in the works but the compa-ny responded quickly.

“I said if you’re going to get 100 per cent support from us we’ve got to see a run-ning facility,” he said.

“What I really wanted to go there for was to look at what was coming out of those stacks. The noise.

“From what I saw, there was nothing coming out of their stacks other than their flare stack. It’s not like what we’re used to here in Kitimat, smoke and steam coming out of there.”

There was a steady hum of noise as well, he said.

“The whole place

was really clean.”Cross also said

that, being a safety ad-visor for RTA, he was impressed with Oman LNG’s safety record, with millions of work-ing hours without a loss-time accident.

From the District of Kitimat, Fire Chief Trent Bossence and the District’s Econom-ic Development Offi-cer Rose Klukas made the trip as well.

Klukas said she learned a lot about the company’s history and its relationship with its community.

“It definitely caused a big boom in their community. I think their population grew quite substan-tially.”

Oman LNG shares the industrial landscape only with a fertilizer plant.

“I was able to ask what were the eco-nomic spin offs of this project, and how did local business manage with this large project

coming down in to this small town,” she said. “There were grow-ing pains, like here as well.”

She said the com-pany supports a num-ber of social programs in the community, in-cluding a local youth centre and even swim-ming training.

As for lessons to apply to Kitimat, she said Kitimat has a good foundation but she definitely could see room for improve-ment locally to deal with LNG develop-ment.

“I think we are for-tunate here in Kitimat because we’ve always

had a strong industri-al tax base, so in that respect we have a lot of amenities and our infrastructure is prob-ably in a better starting point than maybe that small town’s was,” she said.

“It definitely gave us an idea of areas where we could ask for support, for sure.”

Ultimately though the company seems to have found a good fit in Oman, she said.

Despite early chal-lenges during their start up the overall experience of adding LNG to their commu-nity has been positive, she said.

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British Gas has signalled a delay in its plans for comple-tion of a major liq-uefied natural gas project at Prince Rupert until beyond 2020, but Natural Gas Development Minister Rich Cole-man says others are staying on schedule.

BG Canada president Madeline Whitaker described a “pause on Prince Rupert,” citing in-creasing supply of natural gas from the U.S. and elsewhere for the project that was to start con-struction by 2016. She emphasized in an interview with the Prince Rupert Northern View that work is continuing.

Coleman said last Wednesday he hasn’t heard of any other delays in talks with LNG propo-nents, and he has been invited to visit Malaysia in Novem-ber to meet with the CEO and board of Petronas about their large-scale plans.

Coleman said the government hasn’t seen any slow down in project agreements and he is still “pretty confi-dent.”

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There appears to be an awful lot of common sense missing from many nu-ances of life in Canada today.

A lot of what I’d like to say, follow-ing that introduction, I won’t, because I realize I would only be stating some personal points of view which I know are not necessarily widely shared.

But I would like to draw attention to one event of recent days that demon-strates a � nal common sense approach that may be in opposition to some regu-latory thinking.

The Supreme Court just told a Montreal couple who were on a Toron-to-bound Air Canada � ight from Char-lotte, N.C., and who ordered a 7-Up in French from a � ight attendant and in-stead received a Sprite, that they cannot sue the airline for violating Canada’s language laws.

So, instead of the $6,000 they were each awarded earlier by the Federal Court, Michel Thibodeau and Lynda Thibodeau will have to settle for an apology from the airline, the top court ruled last Tuesday.

In a 5-2 decision, the judges ruled Canada’s Of� cial Languages Act does not allow citizens the right to sue for damages if airlines don’t provide ser-vices in Canada’s both of� cial languag-

es during international � ights.The fact that the vote was 5-2 raises

concerns with me that not everybody in that court saw this case as frivolous and a waste of court time and money. Obvi-ously the federal court saw it differently, levying the $12,000 � ne. No doubt Air Canada spent a lot time dragging the case to the Supreme Court. But, thank goodness there was a majority � nal de-cision. That makes some sense in an area where so little seems left to logic.

Many Canadians feel language laws in this country are both oppressive and discriminatory. Ironically, many elements of language laws were intro-duced to prevent discrimination, which only serves to demonstrate to me why there’s so much negative reaction that so many foolish cases - such as this one - reach the courts at all. Worse so when it takes from 2009 to 2014 to resolve it.

Canada’s Of� cial Languages Act came into force on September 9, 1969,

giving English and French equal status in the government of Canada. This gave the two “of� cial” languages preferred status in law over all other languages. While it’s not the only federal language law, the OFL became the legislative keystone for of� cial bilingualism in Canada. It was substantially amended in 1988. Both languages are equal in Canada’s government and in all the ser-vices it control, such as the courts.

Since that time, Quebec has used provincial laws to elevate the manda-tory use of French through the Charter of the French Language, at the expense of English. Other provinces now offer more and more services in French and in other languages besides English, in-cluding some Aboriginal languages and immigrant languages.

Quebec, however, remains unique in requiring private businesses to use French and requiring immigrants to send their children to French-language schools.

In other provinces there is no re-quirement that businesses use a particu-lar language, but English predominates, and immigrants may send their children to English, French or third-language schools.

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Language cases to make you stutter

RememberIt’s my standard operating procedure to, at this

time of year, spend a little extra time thinking of my grandparents.

I’ve written before around Remembrance Day the story of how my mother’s parents met, which was at the tail-end of World War II, while my grandfather was on a leave back home to Ontario. (His discharge was actually waiting for him on his return to his ship, the HMCS Petrolia.)

My father’s parents as well were involved in war efforts too but unfortunately I don’t know that his-tory as well.

Unfortunately since last Remembrance Day my grandfather is no longer with us, another victim to time, and another bastion of knowledge lost.

Given the recent events in Ottawa it should be worth our while to continue to re� ect on the values our families fought for, and remind ourselves that war was a means to an end, not a task taken lightly.

As Canada considers its security from threats we should not seek to be overzealous in our reach. Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada will not be in-timidated, in the hours after the attack.

Yet we should also approach with caution his words that the country will “redouble” its efforts to combat threats.

Both the Ottawa attacker and the attacker from an earlier event in Quebec were Canadian. Efforts to combat threats such as those can potentially impact the quality of life Canadians already enjoy.

It’s important to be kept safe but it’s equally im-portant to know what the threats are. In at least one of these incidents, mental health potentially was a contributing cause.

If the federal government wants to redouble ef-forts to combat threats to the country, they could start with health care over military or intelligence gather-ing. Support people who need help, and put them on a positive track, rather than a destructive one.

Remembrance Day shouldn’t be to just to re-member the wars, but rather remember what the � ghts were for, and what we should hold on to as the prize for so much sacri� ce.

And we should remember those Canadian values in the face of new threats, whether threats are from religious extremism overseas or mental health disor-ders at home.

The newer generations are once more a step away from the global con� icts of the 20th century. My son will never meet his great-grandfather. All I can do is teach my son the values I � nd important, and continually remind myself that all soldiers who have died in war or in terror did so believing in our country. Let us remember who we are.

Cameron Orr

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ry of the infamous Gunpowder Plot in which Catholic dissidents attempted to blow up the English House of Lords and all within it, including King James I.

The plot was foiled when someone in the know tipped off the authorities who descended on the basement of the Lords to find one Guy Fawkes guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder.

To this day in England they celebrate Guy Fawkes Night on November 5th.

Part of that is kids making a “Guy”, essentially a scarecrow type of effigy, taking it from house to house, knocking on the door and singing out, “Penny for the Guy”.

We have just witnessed a modern day version of that with the kids being played by LNG proponents and a model of an LNG plant replacing the Guy.

The big difference is that when the LNG proponents came aknocking at the door of the provincial and federal gov-ernments, they were looking not for a few pennies but hundreds of millions of dollars.

And if they didn’t get it they were going to blow up their plans for LNG plants on the Northwest Coast.

And on October 21 the province bowed to the pressure and unveiled its scaled down version of the LNG tax.

The original 1.5 per cent until the capital investment is paid off stayed.

Any tax paid at the 1.5 per cent level could be credited against the tier two tax-es (again the same).

The big difference is that tier two number of 3.5, half the number the prov-ince was throwing around to begin with.

Now the Liberals can argue that they never said it would be 7 per cent, only “up to” 7 per cent. But the crazed rev-enue figures it originally predicted clear-ly were tied to the higher level - and for more plants than are going to be built in the foreseeable future.

As was to be expected the propo-nents made positive noises about the climb down but the reaction was well short of any kind of commitment.

As AltaGas executive president of business development noted, while at first glance it looked good, “this is tax legislation and so it’s compli-cated.”

(Having read the proposed

legislation I can tell you it is not just complicated, it is mind-numbing!)

The numbers that caught my eye were those provided by the government as to the total amount of LNG tax rev-enue that it would receive from a 12 mil-lion tonne per year plant over a period of 10 years under the proposed regime, namely $800 million.

But in the provincial sales tax, natu-ral gas royalties, corporate income tax, carbon tax and property taxes and that same plant is going to have to cough up $8.1 billion over those same 10 years.

In other words, even if there was no LNG tax that plant would pay $7.3 bil-lion.

So, if the province is going to receive more than $7 billion over the next decade from a single plant, is it really so impor-tant to claw another approximately 10 per cent?

From a pure revenue point of view, probably not.

But in terms of saving face after the extravagant promises of the last election campaign, it is vital.

Next week a look at LNG taxation in terms of the other two levels of govern-ment.

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Dear Sir,I found last nights

all candidates forum for Kitimat’s upcom-ing Municipal election entertaining and en-lightening. There was one thing, however, that I found disturb-ing, and that would be Councilor Feldhoff’s enthusiastic support of David Black’s dream to build an oil refinery in the Kitimat Valley.

Wasn’t it Coun-cilor Feldhoff who pushed for the District of Kitimat to remain neutral on Enbridge’s Northern Gateway proposal until all the evidence was in, and after the Joint Review Panel had made its de-liberations? Why does he now rush forward enthusiastically sup-porting an oil refinery when there has been no proposal submit-ted detailing pipeline routes, refinery con-struction, air pollution levels, or the number and size of supertank-ers that will share the Douglas Channel with LNG tankers.

As for Mr. Black, he is free to make

whatever pollution limiting promises he wants, because he has no financial backers controlling the purse strings. All Black has so far, despite his years of effort to find partners, is a Chinese bank willing to handle the money...if he ever finds it. If, as has been suggested, diesel and gasoline is so much safer to ship than di-luted bitumen, why is the former ESSO gas station still vacant and fenced off approxi-mately 15 years after it closed down? What would a spill do to in-tertidal land between the low and high tide lines on BC’s north coast? Will the Black refinery torch the Kiti-mat River estuary after a spill, like Enbridge admitted they would do during cross ex-amination at the JRP’s final hearings? Since diesel spreads faster than diluted bitumen, would they also torch the Dala, Kildala, Kitlope, and Giltoy-

ees River estuaries as well? What about salmon rearing eel grass beds?

Mr. Feldhoff’s greatest strength as a Councilor may be that he is an accoun-tant, someone who’s job it is to see the big financial picture. His most dangerous fault though, appears to be his willingness to blindly belly up to the trough and sup-port projects before he knows what mul-tigenerational harm a project will, or could have on the people and environment of the Kitimat Valley, the Douglas Channel, and the north coast of BC.

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It was a full house of community con-scious Kitimatians on October 29, seeking to understand the views of their municipal council candidates.

Questions were asked by Rotary Club organizers in a rotat-ing fashion, and each candidate was allowed the use of up to three response cards dur-ing the Q&A session. Questions were ran-domly chosen, but directed at individual candidates, so not all candidates answered the same question. Here are highlights from the responses: (All responses given to a chosen question will be printed here.)MAYOR FORUM

Q: What is your number one concern for the future of Kiti-mat and what do you propose to do to solve the issue?

Trish: “My num-ber one concern for Kitimat is that we stop the cycle of boom and bust. Right now our immediate concern is to address housing challenges that have been facing us and coming forward for several years now. We need to stop lobbying government to solve the issues for us.

Q: How do you propose to protect Kitimat’s air qual-ity in light of RTA’s increased sulphur di-oxide emissions and other potential LNG emissions?

Phil: “We need to be a part of the process and that is something where I feel as mayor and council for the last three years we have

failed. We did not stick up for our watershed, our water supply...we do have to be con-cerned about the emis-sions in the airshed and personally I would like to see scrubbers on there [RTA smelter].”

Q: After the clean air study was re-leased...what would you do to protect the residents of Kitimat?

Joanne: “I think we have to, as council and mayor, make sure that study followed and there are always tests that come after. When we met with RTA, the things that I suggested was not only do you take air studies but also take studies of the wa-ter, where the plumes, etc., and every so many weeks...would have to be necessary to con-tinue to have clean air and clean water come from emissions.”

Q: The previous council chose to go to the community to make a decision on Enbridge...under what circumstances would you recommend coun-cil go to a community vote?

Phil: “I believe the time to go to a vote is when you have some-thing that has such a massive impact on the community or could have, that you need community input...there does come a time when making a partic-ular decision is so big you need some com-munity input.” ... “The Enbridge [plebiscite] was certainly one where we deserved to go to the community.”

Q: What can the city do to help people here deal with

future renovictions?Trish: “I don’t

believe we need to continue to see re-novictions in our com-munity. I think as may-or and council we have the resources available to us, we have commu-nity partners available to us, we have industry available to us, that we can all sit down at the table and come up with a strategy and plan. We’ve had a housing needs assessment done over two years ago, we’ve still not made any progress on that. We need to have a long-term vision for Kitimat so we’re not looking at future renovictions when the next project is announced and mov-ing forward.”COUNCIL FORUM

Q: Rio Tinto Alcan is planning to expand it’s dock and the pub-lic will be denied ac-cess to Alcan Beach. If the District maintains a good working rela-tionship with industry, would you work on negotiating and devel-oping an alternative location for a public beach?

Jack Riddle: “I’ve been really involved in the MK Bay and other facilities, looking for access to the wa-ter...there just doesn’t seem to be a solution out there yet.” ... “Rio Tinto Alcan has not indicated at any time that they want to share their property. I just re-ally, at this time, don’t know the answer to that.”

John Powell: “We need to find out if the entire beach is being used. If not, if it would be possible for the Dis-

trict to request access for the remainder of the beach.”

Larry Walker: (Using response card) “You may not like it, but there is an answer. There’s an old saying you get more bears with honey than you ever got with a big stick. Well when honey doesn’t work you get out the big stick. That might mean expro-priation of property. RTA don’t want that, but it may be the way we go.” Also, “Ems-ley Cove is just over the next horizon [on the logging road to Chevron’s proposed plant.]...I see that as being a boat launch and day camping.”

Rob Goffinet: (Response card) “Rest assured, all the coun-cillors here on the pres-ent council are aware and we are negotiat-ing with Alcan and our Haisla neighbours access directly to the ocean to compensate for the temporary loss of the beach, but this will be permanent beach front access.”

Q: What will you do differently than the last sitting mayor and council?

Edwin Empi-nado: “I respect the dialogue. I want the dialogue, not the de-bate, because when you debate someone wins, someone loses.” “It’s about how you move forward, which

is the best decision we have to move Kitimat forward.”

Rob Goffinet: “It does not matter as a councillor which may-or you select. We do not select that person. We accept your judge-ment and work to the best of our ability at all times showing respect to our mayor, whom-ever that person is.”

Q: Kitimat has an aging population...however there few public washrooms and none located up the hill or at any of the play parks. Would you con-sider providing tempo-rary or six-month sum-mer toilets?

Mario Feldhoff: “It’s certainly some-thing that we care to listen to, and reflect upon the advice of our [District of Kiti-mat] staff. Council has responded to public

washrooms, tempo-rary port-a-potties in areas of fishing. Sadly some of those facilities were vandalized...but I’m open to looking at what in the community needs changed.”

Mary Murphy: “I am very open to que-rying our seniors and finding out if this is an issue. And we can put up signage so that if there’s public wash-rooms available we can put up signage to let visitors and seniors know. We have much work to do with the se-niors when we address their problems, we’re addressing everybody’s problems, and making a more friendly com-munity for everyone.”

Q: How would you promote a Kitimat that welcomes new resi-dents to town?

Larry Walker: “We have got to learn

some marketing skills in this town...I got as far as Hazelton [on a trip] before I saw the first, and only, road sign that said ‘Visit Kitimat’. Yet right across the highway on the other side was another sign that says “Visit Port Edward.”...I think we have got to start with a good mar-keting strategy.”

Amanda Kozak: “I think first and fore-most we need to be focusing back on the family. We need to start looking at things like child care and recre-ational activities that will bring people out in the winter months. We need to start focusing on putting funds back in to our schools so that we can bring the fami-lies in that will stay long term.”


Above, council candidates Jack Riddle, John Powell, Mario Feldhoff, Mary Murphy, Larry Walker, Amanda Kozak, Paul Lagace, Claire Rattee, Edwin Empinado and Rob Goffinet. Below, mayoral candidates Trish Parsons, Phil Germuth and Joanne Monaghan.

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Candidate questions continue on page 8

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statement by Mr. Feld-hoff is warranted, be-fore the election, where he promises to refrain from supporting major industrial projects un-til a quali� ed panel of experts has had the op-portunity to weigh all the evidence submitted by the proponent, inter-venors, and First Na-tions, just as he did for Enbridge’s Northern Gateway proposal.

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example, in extremely mul-ticultural areas around “The Big Owe” Olympic Stadium in Montreal and I’ve seen dozens of little mom and pop stores with their names in Greek, Ital-ian and a dozen other languages, without “mandatory” transla-tion to English or French.

In Richmond, B.C. there are areas where Chinese names pre-dominate, with little pressure to meet the of� cial languages Act. There’s minimal objec-tion from most Van-couverites, who see the area’s multiplicity of ethnicity comfortably, without being offended about not being able to read a business name in English and French.

In the Thibodeau case, which, as I stated, started in 2009, after the couple took three international � ights

with Air Canada and did not re-ceive services in French. They sued Air Canada and won, but thankfully the couple lost on the airline’s appeal. However, the Thibodeau’s determinedly took their case to the Supreme Court, which also concurred (by majority) against the � ne by the Federal Court. There was no indication who was required to pay costs but I’d hope it was the Thibodeaus.

Not unexpectedly, to me, numerous Quebecers disagree

over the judgement and insist they would expect to be served in their native language by the national carrier, because it’s a former Crown corporation, and should be covered by the Of� -cial Languages Act.

It is no wonder we have a national de� cit. That our courts can take � ve years to resolve such picayune nonsense is fool-ishness in itself and that two Supreme Court justices would disagree with their colleagues beggars belief.

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Paul Lagace: “I suppose there’s differ-ent ways to lobby...What we’re talking about is we need to think about jobs that are not just about in-dustry. Although indus-try is a key component to this town, we have to think outside that.”

Claire Rattee: “I definitely think it is important, I think that jobs in general right now are important. Certainly there’s a lot of businesses in town that don’t have enough employees, but there’s also still a lot of people that are looking for work and I definitely think some government jobs would create some stability.”

Larry Walker: (Response card) “We need to get the federal government to declare Kitimat a federal port facility, and with that comes the responsibil-ity for DFO, Search and Rescue...Once it’s declared a federal port facility, everything will fall in to place.”

Jack Riddle: (Re-sponse card) “I was in Coast Guard for 15 years and I know what’s been happening on the coast...the feder-al government has just about done away with both fisheries and coast guard patrol.”

Q: What will you do to enhance recre-ational opportunities for young people who may not wish to be part of group regulated sports?

Walker: “You’re looking at a totally dif-ferent generation now...Kids don’t want group-ie-type things, I don’t think...Yes we have

facilities for them. Do we need more, that’s a good question.”

Amanda Kozak: “I would love to see a movie theatre back in the community. I think

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there are options out there. I think we need to explore to see what those areas are, to pro-vide for the areas for people who want to ac-cess that.”

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Kitimat veterans share stories of World War 2They talk with a

certain nonchalance about those days in the 1940s.

Chuck Doyle, a young man of 17-years, with a stomach full of gusto just aching for the chance to serve his country.

Ken Minifie too an eager 20-year-old in 1942, his eyes on the sky as he enlists in the Royal Canadian Air Force.

The pair, perhaps Kitimat’s last remain-ing World War 2 vet-erans and both in their 90th decade, are quick to admit that a lot of their inspiration in those days was the na-ïvety of youth, a sense of being indestructible.

Surely there may have been some ben-efit in those days to having the bravado of a teen or 20-some-thing. In 1942, when Minifie signed up for the air force, the world was in its third year of the second world war. There would still be two more years by the time Doyle signs up for the army.

There’s certainly no shortage of knowl-edge about what took place from 1939 to 1945, another dark note for the history books, which followed practically on the heels of the first World War, the ‘War to end all Wars.”

The memory of that first global conflict was not lost on Doyle and Minifie who were more than aware of the immense loss of life.

But as Doyle re-calls, being so young, he never held the belief he’d ever be shot.

To spoil the end, Doyle says he ended his time in the war be-ing in a hospital for eight months, but he doesn’t elaborate on what put him there.

Doyle, who would retire from military life with the rank of sergeant, actually had aspirations to being in the air force like Mini-fie but, in one of the great ways his genera-tion and today’s is the same, his mother end-ed up calling the shots

on that matter.“My dad had just

got killed a couple of years before in a plane crash, and so my mom wouldn’t sign the pa-pers,” he said. “I threat-ened to leave home, a whole bunch of things. I says ‘I’m going to do it when I’m 18 any-ways.’ She says ‘Well at least you’re going to live for another year.’ That’s how dumb teen-agers are. My dad gets killed a couple of years prior to that and I turn around and want to do that.”

Minifie worked his way through air train-ing before concluding with air gunner train-ing and placement with the 51 Squadron. He said he was in the air doing bombing raids just ahead of the D-Day invasion.

He participated in seven bombing runs until his plan was shot down over Holland.

He said about half of the crew of seven made it out alive.

“The pilot and the engineer and the tail gunner didn’t make it, they didn’t have time to get out,” he said.

The survivors hid until evening until they felt safe traveling to a nearby city hoping to connect with the Hol-land underground re-sistance, but somehow they all got turned over to the Germans and were held as prisoners of war.

“We were liber-ated by the Russians,” he said, this at the tail end of the war.

He was held in Breslau, Poland, but he said the Germans marched him and oth-ers to Berlin, 250 ki-lometres away, before the Russians could free them. That march took place in the middle of winter.

“It was what they called the death march,” he said. “But we got through it.”

For Doyle, he re-calls his process of get-ting in to the war as a “comedy of errors.”

Notwithstanding his desire to enter the air force which never materialized, he said he was made a lance corporal only two weeks in to his training in Alberta.

He said he went to Calgary and became an instructor in advanced infantry.

“A lot of the guys I trained, I got to know them quite well,” he said. “The last group I instructed, I wanted to go overseas with them. That’s where the funny stuff began.”

Sending an in-structor overseas isn’t typical, he said, given

the training received to be able to train others.

“I went to see the Major,” he said. “I asked for permission to go overseas with these guys and he said ‘no way, we don’t train instructors and have them working for us and then just let them go.’”

Proving his rebel-liousness didn’t end with his mother, he

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said to the Major that he simply would stop working. “In the army

you don’t tell Majors that, it’s not done.”


Northern Sentinel, Wednesday, November 5, 2014 11da’s newest emerging generation but also its newest threats.

That threat, they say, comes from the terrorist group ISIS.

“If the Canadian government would give me the wherewith-all, I’d go and shoot a bunch of those ISIS. I wouldn’t hesitate two seconds. And I’d make damn sure I’d got a few of them before they got me,” said Doyle.

Minifi e isn’t shy to remind Doyle he is in his 90s.

“Yeah, but you couldn’t walk there,” he replies.

Both agree ISIS is a huge threat, at least in terms of their gen-eral brutality.

“These guys are worse than Hitler,” said Minifi e, no soft word from a World War II veteran. “These [ISIS]

kill anybody.”Doyle adds, “Hit-

ler was an angel com-pared to these ding-a-lings.”

Doyle used to visit Kitimat’s schools and talk to them about World War 2.

He saw it as a way to remind the kids about Canadian val-ues, and what had to be paid to maintain them.

“I used to go down to the different schools and talk to the kids and explain to them as best I could. You didn’t tell them anything gory...but you wanted to let them know why they have the things they have today, and about all of the people that didn’t make it back. This is why we have Remembrance Day. And that applies to me just as strong as it ever did.”

Minifi e said the details are all available, but “As time goes by they leave the serious-ness of it out because it was too long ago. But if you get back in to the same situation we’d be in big trouble. That’s for sure.”

Doyle thinks of what was at risk back in World War II for

the world.“The young peo-

ple, they’ve lost their lives for the freedoms that we have. The free-dom of choice, the freedom of speech, freedom to gather. If Hitler won the war, you wouldn’t have that. There’d be a lot of people not around today.”

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He said the Major threatened him with ‘pearl diving’ duty for the rest of the war, which is essentially low level grunt work.

He managed to get an audience with his Colonel after and was offered to get training to be a commissioned offi cer.

“I wasn’t inter-ested in that, I wanted to go overseas,” said Doyle. So I got an idea. He says, ‘Don’t

you want a commis-sion?’ I says ‘Yeah, I’d like to have a commis-sion. But I’d like to get mine like you did. On the fi eld.’

“I didn’t know whether he did or he didn’t but you should have seen his eyes light up. ‘You can go, my boy! You can go.’”

So began Doyle’s engagement in the war.

His tour took him to Holland and Bel-gium, before he was sent to that hospital,

Number 11 General Hospital, for eight months in England.

“Then, that was it. I came home.”

The stories from Chuck Doyle and Ken Minifi e come like fan-tastical tales, not sur-prising that the living history of the World Wars is fading, leaving behind the books and, perhaps with the most publicity, the Holly-wood movies.

The two, though, do see not only Cana-

Chuck Doyle, left, and Ken Minifi e, holding their portraits from their armed forces days. The two spoke to the Sentinel about life in World War 2, and how that confl ict resonates still today.

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In Flanders � eldsTake up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands hands we throwThe torch; be yours to hold it high.If ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders � elds.


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My Grand-father Cpl. Jacob William Grant of the Haisla Nation, served World War II. Very seldom spoke of his duty, very humble when it came to his role in the War. Re-membrance Day reminds me of all he gave and sacri-ficed for Canada, he gives Hero an altogether new meaning for me. Lest we forget.- Brenda Duncan

My dad was shot near Arnhem, in the Netherlands. He was POW but was sent home at the end of 1944. He met my mom who was a nurse at a hospital in Manchester, Eng-land where they operated on him and saved his arm. They married after the war ended.

- Maria Towse

[ R e m e m -brance Day’s] more important than ever.

- Carin Hart

My mom’s fa-ther would some-times tell me sto-ries about being in the navy during World War II. He was actually on leave near the end of the war when he met my grand-mother.

- Cameron Orr (Sentinel Editor)

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Environmental Assessment of the ProposedLNG Canada Export Terminal Project, Kitimat, B.C.

Open House and Invitation to CommentLNG Canada Development Inc. (Proponent) is proposing to construct and operate a natural gas liquefaction facility and marine terminal for the export of liquefied natural gas (LNG). The proposed project is called the LNG Canada Export Terminal Project and will be located in the District of Kitimat, B.C. (proposed Project). The proposed Project would initially consist of two LNG processing units (“trains”), each with capacity to produce 6.5 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of LNG, with an option to expand to four trains (26 mtpa) at full build out.

The proposed Project is subject to review under British Columbia’s Environmental Assessment Act and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act.

The Proponent has now submitted its application (Application) to obtain an environmental assessment certificate which is required before any work can be undertaken on the proposed Project.

In order to provide information to the public about the Application, and to receive comments from the public, Environmental Assessment Office of British Columbia (EAO) invites the public to attend an Open House. Open Houses are scheduled as follows:

KITIMATat: Rod & Gun Club, 386 Haisla Blvd. on: November 25, 2014 from: 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

TERRACEat: Best Western Hotel, Skeena Room, 4553 Greig Avenue on: November 26, 2014 from: 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

There are 45 days for the submission of comments by the public in relation to the Application. The comment period will begin on November 7, 2014 and end on December 22, 2014. All comments received during this comment period will be considered.

The intention of seeking public comments is to ensure that all potential effects – environmental, economic, social, heritage and health – that might result from the proposed Project are identified for consideration as part of the assessment process.

EAO accepts public comments through the following ways:• By Online Form at

http://www.eao.gov.bc.ca

• By Mail: Mr. Scott Bailey Executive Project Director Environmental Assessment Office PO Box 9426 Stn Prov Govt Victoria BC V8W 9V1

• By Fax: Fax: 250-387-0230

An electronic copy of the Application and information regarding the environmental assessment process will be available at www.eao.gov.bc.ca by November 7. Copies of the Application will be also available for viewing at these locations:

Kitimat• LNG Canada Community Information Centre

176 Ocelot Road (off Harbour Road at Haisla Blvd.)• Kitimat Public Library, 940 Wakashan Avenue• Kitimat Municipal Hall, 270 City Centre

Terrace• Terrace Public Library, 4610 Park Avenue • Terrace City Hall, 3215 Eby Street

NOTE: All submissions received by EAO during the comment period in relation to the proposed Project are considered public and will be posted to EAO website.

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The Kitimat Mu-seum & Archives is currently hosting an art exhibit by Summer Breeze, a collection of paintings of birds, inspired by the streets of the Nechako Neigh-bourhood. Shown here is the albatross, who

joins all the birds from brant to swallow. “Of all the areas in Kitimat, Nechako holds a spe-cial place in my heart,” said Breeze in her art-ist’s statement. “It’s vast sidewalk system, rich local history, pic-turesque views and so

much more have made it a spectacular place for me to build my nest.” Exhibit runs to Nov. 29.

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dates style meeting for Board of Edu-cation Trustee candidates, the Sentinel sent three questions to each of the Kit-imat area’s three candidates seeking

one of the two available spots.The questions were: 1) On the sub-

ject of Kitimat City High, there was talk of moving it inside of MEMSS. What is your position on that idea?;

2) What do you foresee as the big-gest issue or challenge for the school board over the next four years? 3) What will you hope to have accom-plished in a term on the school board?

I would like to thank the teacher’s as, at great expense to themselves, they have made everyone aware of the most impor-tant issue facing our schools; that is, class size and composition.

Class size and composition needs lim-its, but there must be some flexibility, with very strict controls. Adequate funding must be in place for this. This should be in the Teacher’s contract.

Adequate funding for schools is difficult, but I will work with the B. C. School Trustees Association to lobby for this. My work his-tory at Alcan doing budgets and setting pri-orities will help in my fight to get adequate funding for Kitimat schools.

There have been discussions about mov-ing City High from Cormorant school to MEMSS. In my opin-ion, this move should not happen. City High was set up as an alter-native and has been extremely successful. City High has been used as a model for other districts. This move would be detri-mental to both sets of students.

During my term, I would like to see that Kildala School is up-graded and earthquake-proofed. Also, I would like to see a trades program implemented. This would also require upgrading our current shop equipment.

Being retired, I am able to devote substan-tial time to Board mat-ters, and also I do not have any conflicts of interest with the board.

1) No! I do not sup-port moving of Kitimat City High back into the Mt. Elizabeth Middle Secondary School building. Kitimat City High was formed as an alternate school, away from high school, to create a comfortable and better environment for our special students.

2) The biggest chal-lenge for our school district, over next four years, is declining en-rolment which brings fewer dollars. Between September 2013 to Oc-tober 2014 our district enrolment dropped by over 200 students and for Kitimat it was over 60 fewer students. Shortage of teachers will be an issue during this time frame.

3) I would like to accomplish making Coast Mts School Dis-trict a high performance rural school district.

I would also like to maintain our school district’s high standard amongst the 60 school districts.

Tim Carter Raymond Raj

1) I do not agree with the potential move. My response when I heard of the potential move was “WHAT”. I proceeded to inquire with parents, students, educators and other stakehold-ers including calling the Ministry of Edu-cation to determine what the policies on alternate schools are. I researched best prac-tices and what other districts are doing. I can agree with the shift in the philosophy that all students should be integrated, included and have access to all services. However, I see that this can be done while still hav-ing a separate, safe, student chosen school dedicated to alternate education.

2) Advocating for adequate and account-able use of public edu-cation resources for an effective system. One that enables all students to reach their fullest in-dividual potential.

Margaret Warcup

3) I am commit-ted to setting and ac-complishing District achievement goals. I will welcome input from educators, par-ents, students and other stakeholders while ad-dressing needs for all students including ser-vices for students with special needs.

As a strategic leader I make decisions

by weighing all input, looking at effective-ness, efficiencies, ac-countabilities and ac-cess factors.

From the board level I will support partnerships between education, health, so-cial services and busi-ness’ so services are maximized for our students’ successful futures.

[email protected]

November 18Bladder Cancer Canada will be hav-ing a meeting on this day and De-cember 16. The meetings will be at the UNIFOR Union hall on Enter-prise Avenue at 2:00 p.m. This is a great way to meet and connect and to learn about bladder cancer from people who have experienced blad-der cancer. For more information call Glen at 250-632-3486.OngoingEVERY THURSDAY, the Kitimat Pottery Guild meets in the River-

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LNG Canada, a joint venture between Shell Canada Ltd., PetroChina Company, Korea Gas Corporation and Mitsubishi Corporation, is proposing to build an LNG export terminal in Kitimat, B.C. LNG Canada’s vision is to work collaboratively with the local community, First Nations and stakeholders, to deliver a project that is safe, reliable and reflective of community interests.

For more information about the project, please visit lngcanada.ca, call us toll free at 1-855-248-3631, or email us at [email protected]

LNG Canada recently submitted its Application for an Environmental Assessment Certificate to the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office (EAO). The Application Review phase includes a 45-day public comment period hosted by the EAO to seek comments on the Application.

There are a number of ways you can learn more and get involved. We welcome the opportunity to discuss the contents of our Application with you, and encourage you to participate and provide your comments in the following ways:

LNG Canada’s Environmental Assessment: Learn More and Get Involved

COMMENT PERIOD: NOVEMBER 7, 2014 TO DECEMBER 22, 2014

View consultation materials

On November 10, you can visit a new section of LNG Canada’s website which will help guide you through the environmental assessment results.

lngcanada.ca

Attend an Open House or Request a Meeting

Open Houses:Nov 25, 2014, 5pm – 8pm Kitimat Rod & Gun ClubNov 26, 2014, 5pm – 8pm Terrace Best Western Hotel, Skeena Room.

Please contact us at [email protected] to request a meeting with the LNG Canada team.

View the Application and provide input

View the complete Application and submit your comments online at: eao.gov.bc.caCopies can also be found at the District of Kitimat, Kitimat Public Library, City of Terrace City Hall and the Terrace Public Library.

Comments must be submitted to the EAO by December 22.

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Six skaters from the Snow Valley Skating Club travelled to Prince George on October 3-5 for the Cariboo North Central High Performance Seminar. The Snow Valley Skating Club has a number of up and coming skaters and many were in the competitive group during the seminar. The girls learned a lot at the seminar that they brought home to coaches and fellow teammates. Shown, left to right, are: Hadassah Hoffmann, Emi Groves, Aliyah Goncalves, Christine Ferreira, Tayah Pacheco and Diana Mae Empinado. Submitted

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