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Festive farewellChristmasland in Saanich celebrates final season

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NEWS: Third smash-and-grab irks police /A3OPINION: Staff work should be transparent /A8BRAVES BEAT: Braves suffer string of bad luck /A19

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Mayor: staff profiling of candidates before election inappropriate

Daniel PalmerNews staff

Saanich Mayor Richard Atwell is promising to investigate why staff resources were used to pro-file political candidates during last months election campaign.

The unprecedented move resulted in a 22-page presenta-tion in which each candidates platform, political promises and stance on major issues like sew-age treatment and amalgama-tion was presented to a group of senior staff on Nov. 12, three days before the municipal elec-tion, Atwell said.

Staff are supposed to be apolitical. This is really unprec-edented and totally inappro-priate, Atwell said. He had extreme difficulty obtaining a copy of the presentation, he added.

Atwell was tipped off to a meeting, held Nov. 12 at the Cedar Hill golf course, where 34 senior staff members were pre-

sented with candidate positions. A copy obtained by the News

shows there were no recommen-dations made by staff on which councillors or mayoral candi-dates to elect.

Ive shown this presentation to senior administrators at other municipalities and theyve never seen anything like this, Atwell said.

Coun. Susan Brice said the practise of staff attending all-candidates meetings to identify emerging issues during elec-tion campaigns is nothing new.

I know that certainly over the years, before (Chief Admin-istrative Officer) Paul Murray was even there, when the previ-ous CAO was there, there were sometimes staff at all-candidates meetings to see what some of the emerging issues were and the direction the community might be going in, Brice said.

PlEASE SEE: Candidate profiling, Page A4

Christine van Reeuwyk/News staff

Saanich resident Eli Rose, 3, plays with a dreidel, just one small Hanukkah tradition.

Hanukkah celebrates the lightChristine van ReeuwykNews Staff

Three-year-old Ira Rose already knows the candle in the middle of the menorah is the helper can-dle.

The Saanich youngster is slightly put off by the ceremonial candelabrum that instead features his familiar candle to the far left, raised from the other eight, in

Janna Bleviss collection.If you have a Christmas tree,

you collect different ornaments as the years go by. This is the same, says Janna in her Oak Bay home.

The seven-candled menorah is used all year for Jewish worship and ceremony. At Hanukkah, there are nine candles: eight mark the miracle and a ninth is used to light the others.

The history of Hanukkah har-

kens back to 165 BC, when the Maccabees, a Jewish rebel army, conquered the Syrians resulting in the rededication of the holy tem-ple in Jerusalem.

The Maccabees had found enough consecrated oil in the temple to light its eternal flame for one day, but the lamp purportedly burned for eight.

PlEASE SEE: Holiday traditions, Page A5

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Third early morning break-in irks police

Thieves entered through the front door to Tillicum Malls Home Outfitters early Friday morning (Dec. 12), taking a pair of high-end coffee makers and thousands of dollars worth of Henkel knives.

The commercial break and enter is similar to thefts from earlier in the week, said Saanich Polices Sgt. Steve Eassie.

While we are still in the early stages of this investigation, it would certainly appear to have a number of similarities to two previous incidents from this week.

On Dec. 6, some vacuums and TVs were taken from Sears Home Centre on Tolmie Avenue followed by a Dec. 8 theft of $10,000 worth of video game consoles Shoppers Drug Mart in Gorge Plaza.

Home Outfitters is still determining a list of all of the items missing. The store has a monitored alarm system that registered the alarm to the store at 5:05 a.m. in the morning and Saanich Police were notified at about 5:25 a.m.

Investigators are comparing information and video surveillance from all three incidents to determine whether they are in fact related.

Anyone with information relating to this incident is asked to contact the Saanich Police Department at 250-475-4321, or report to Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-888-222-TIPS (8477).

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Don Moore stands amongst Christmasland on the lowest floor of his house at the corner of Mackenzie Avenue and Century Road. The haven of holiday ornaments, trinkets and oddities include throwbacks to films like A Christmas Story and Star Wars.

Christmasland wraps up for goodTravis PatersonNews staff

While extravagant Christmas-light displays dominate the road-ways and draw for motorists from across the region (Tuxedo Drive, anyone?), the Islands largest scale exhibition isnt on the front lawn its behind the front door.

Don Moore has dedicated the ground level of his Century Road house to Christmas since 1984, encompassing about 450 square feet of holiday detail. The only equal to the electric range of orna-ments might be Miniatureland.

Alas, this is the final showing of Christmasland, as he calls it, at least for a few years.

I started introducing extra Christmas lights following the birth our second son 30 years ago, Moore said. He was visually impaired and responded to the tree and lights, so I kept adding more

and more. But its a lot of work, and I think its time to put it away, maybe just until I get grandkids.

Moore, a retired Canada Post employee, starts the Christmas-land process each September by carefully layering the rooms with wrapping paper, cotton snow and lights. Then come the hundreds of figurines, both animated and inani-mate.

The setup is a daily job, he said.

For kids, its a virtual dreamland of glowing red, green and yellow, with a thousand figurines mov-ing about. And for adults, the dis-play scenes reveal one theme after another.

Claymation Rudolph, for instance, celebrates his 50th anni-versary with a series of figurines from the movie. And yes, Ralphy is at home here, too, his Red Ryder BB gun slung proudly over the fire-place. Theres even a snowbound

stage where Han Solo and Darth Vader recreate their eternal strug-gle for Galactic control on planet Hoth, while one shelf over the Bea-tles and John Denver lead a dozen more rock and roll legends.

Most of it I buy, and I shop around a lot, not online. I try to keep it local, Moore says, as he switches on a three-foot-tall sing-ing lamp post bellowing Deck the Halls.

Across the room, a hip-swiveling Santa dances in response.

A sign out front posts the wel-come times to visitors, but the Moores (Don and Sharon) make special arrangements for seniors groups or visitors who cant attend during the allotted times.

We do have a few steps to get into the room. I always help with that, but seniors get a big kick out of the different characters, he said.

Among the talking deer and

snowy homage to some of base-balls greats (Moore has coached at National Little League for 37 years), an attention to minute, passionate detail shines through.

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Did you know?n Christmasland has raised more than $5,000 for local charities. This year, the money will go to the Mustard Seed Food Bank and TC Christmas Fund.

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Its not something that has been raised in-camera or out of camera with me, Brice said.

University of Victoria public administration Prof. Kimberly Speers said the bureaucratic development of a catalogue of emerging issues during an election campaign isnt necessarily abnormal.

In one way, I can see how staff should be doing their homework to know the issues that politicians are focusing on, Speers said. They may be doing that so that staff are prepared and can develop briefs for the incoming councillors. It may be innocent enough that this is part of the prep work thats done.

But Speers said the Saanich presentation has some curious components, such as the clear distinction between new candidates and incum-bents.

Why do staff have to know about that, she said. My gut reaction is that a lot of this is done by the media as well. There are lots of websites that already have this information as well. ... It usually takes a while to build that trust between staff and new leadership and that may be some of what were seeing.

Atwell said he considers the issue important enough to pursue, and he intends to find out who authorized the in-house candidate presentation, as well as the associated costs to the municipal-ity.

This is going to end. This is never going to happen again, Atwell said.

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Eli Rose, 3, uses the helper candle

to help family friend Morris

Bleviss, right, light the hanukkiah candles while Janna Bleviss

looks on. They light two for the

second day of Hanukkah today

(Dec. 17).

Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff

Holiday traditions happyHanukkah, which started Tuesday and ends

Dec. 24, celebrates that rededication of the temple.We celebrate that. We dont celebrate the

war, we celebrate the light, Janna says. Theres always a light on in the temple, even today in the synagogue theres always a light on.

The first night includes an extra prayer, a bless-ing used for something new, its also said at the start of other celebrations.

Its just a happy celebration, says Morris Ble-viss. Others are related to the seasons or con-templative.

Each night after that first includes two prayers. The candles are left to burn down each night, with the hanukkiah placed in a window to share the celebration, Morris says.

A lot of families do get a present every night, adds Katy.

Its something they may broach in their family, as Ira is at an age where he notices the difference between other celebrations taking place in the city and among his peers. Those eight evenings also tend to include a great spread featuring traditional foods such as the fried potato cakes called latke, which can also vary from household to household.

Every family has their own favourite recipe, Katy says, pumping Janna for more information about her recipe.

I hand grate [the potatoes] so its really a labour of love, Janna replies with a smile. Plus theres the high egg-to-potato ratio.

The two women look on as Ira and Morris light the candles in demonstration, using the helper candle.

Theres nothing at the synagogue around this, its a happy home holiday, says Janna. This is probably the newest Jewish holiday. Its not in the Bible Its a family holiday. The kids are the focus.

There, points out Katy, is a bit of irony.

Continued from Page A1 Its the holiday everybody knows about, she says. It is good for the Jewish kids to have some-thing of their own, because Christmas is so all-encompassing.

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Did you know?n Hanukkah does not fall on the same dates each year because Jewish holidays are based on a lunisolar calendar. Hanukkah always starts on the 25th of Kislev the month on the Hebrew calendar that generally coincides with November or December.


Eli Rose, 3, uses the helper candle

to help family friend Morris

Bleviss, right, light the hanukkiah candles while Janna Bleviss

looks on. They light two for the

second day of Hanukkah today

(Dec. 17).

Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff

Holiday traditions happyHanukkah, which started Tuesday and ends

Dec. 24, celebrates that rededication of the temple.We celebrate that. We dont celebrate the

war, we celebrate the light, Janna says. Theres always a light on in the temple, even today in the synagogue theres always a light on.

The first night includes an extra prayer, a bless-ing used for something new, its also said at the start of other celebrations.

Its just a happy celebration, says Morris Ble-viss. Others are related to the seasons or con-templative.

Each night after that first includes two prayers. The candles are left to burn down each night, with the hanukkiah placed in a window to share the celebration, Morris says.

A lot of families do get a present every night, adds Katy.

Its something they may broach in their family, as Ira is at an age where he notices the difference between other celebrations taking place in the city and among his peers. Those eight evenings also tend to include a great spread featuring traditional foods such as the fried potato cakes called latke, which can also vary from household to household.

Every family has their own favourite recipe, Katy says, pumping Janna for more information about her recipe.

I hand grate [the potatoes] so its really a labour of love, Janna replies with a smile. Plus theres the high egg-to-potato ratio.

The two women look on as Ira and Morris light the candles in demonstration, using the helper candle.

Theres nothing at the synagogue around this, its a happy home holiday, says Janna. This is probably the newest Jewish holiday. Its not in the Bible Its a family holiday. The kids are the focus.

There, points out Katy, is a bit of irony.

Continued from Page A1 Its the holiday everybody knows about, she says. It is good for the Jewish kids to have some-thing of their own, because Christmas is so all-encompassing.

[email protected]

Did you know?n Hanukkah does not fall on the same dates each year because Jewish holidays are based on a lunisolar calendar. Hanukkah always starts on the 25th of Kislev the month on the Hebrew calendar that generally coincides with November or December.

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B.C. oil refinery backers move ahead with plansTom FletcherBlack Press

Backers of a third large oil refinery proposal for B.C.s North Coast made some high-profile appointments Wednes-day, naming former Assembly of First Nations national chiefs Shawn Atleo and Ovide Mer-credi as advisors to their team.

Pacific Future Energy, pro-posing what it calls the worlds greenest refinery near Prince Rupert, announced the appoint-ments Wednesday at a Van-couver Board of Trade event hosted by Stockwell Day, the former Conservative trade min-ister who has been the groups public face since August.

Pacific Futures proposal is similar to Kitimat Clean, a refinery bid launched in 2012 by David Black, chair-man of Black Press. Both would be con-structed from mod-ules manufactured offshore to produce diesel, gasoline and other fuels for sale, avoiding the trans-port of heavy oil by tankers to reach export markets.

The third proposal is called Eagle Spirit Energy, headed by aboriginal author and lawyer Calvin Helin with financial backing from the

Aquilini Group, the Vancouver family business that owns the Vancouver Canucks and exten-sive real estate and farm holdings.

Eagle Spirit is proposing a pipe-line from the Alberta oil sands to an upgrader that would produce synthetic crude oil for export by tank-ers, likely from the Prince Rupert area.

Black announced last week that engi-neering firm Hatch Ltd. has completed a design and feasibility study for a refinery at an estimated cost of $22 billion, making it one of

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Black said the entry of Pacific Future, headed by an execu-tive of Mexican conglomerate Grupo Salinas, shows the busi-ness case for a B.C. refinery is sound and there is capacity for more than one plant.

All proposals for B.C. North Coast refining

require oil trans-port to the coast, either by rail or in some version of the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project, which received a federal environmental cer-tificate this year and awaits approval by the federal cabinet.

All proposals also face oppo-sition to transport of heavy oil. Pacific Future has appointed Atleo as a senior advisor for partnerships, months after Pre-mier Christy Clark appointed him as an advisor for dialogue between First Nations, govern-ment and industry.

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B.C. police forces have under-gone a sea change in the two years since a civilian-led unit was put in charge of investigat-ing police-involved deaths and serious injuries, says the man in charge of the Independent Investigations Office.

But the road to a new system that is moving away from police investigating other police has not been smooth, former U.S. prosecutor Richard Rosenthal acknowledged in his report to a committee of B.C. MLAs last week.

The office started up in the fall of 2012 with 36 investigators, about half and half civilians and former police officers. Its man-date was to move to all-civilian investigations, and Rosenthal said progress has been made, with two thirds of staff in the two investigative teams being people who have never worked as police officers.

This year four former officers were fired from the IIO, and five more resigned, Rosenthal

told the committee. Two civil-ian staff also quit this year after three civilians resigned in 2013. Another former officer was separated from the organiza-tion in 2012, Rosenthal said.

He cited three reasons for the high turnover: cultural con-flicts, the struggles of a new organization and evolution of jobs that causes people to look for something new.

A one-time Los Angeles deputy district attorney who worked on the 1999 Rampart case involving violence and drug dealing in the citys police force, Rosenthal set up indepen-dent police oversight in Port-land and Denver before coming to B.C.

He was asked about a survey of his operation that referred to a lower-than expected case load. Rosenthal said that was done before the office dealt with four fatal officer-involved shoot-ings in less than three months.

I dont believe there is a single person in the office who would say that today, he said.

Rosenthal said video cameras for police dog handlers, general-

duty officers and police Tasers would help in some cases, but that is a decision for police ser-vices due to cost and privacy concerns.

The B.C. government commit-ted to a civilian-led agency after a string of incidents involving RCMP and city police forces. The office was recommended by inquiries into the 2007 deaths of Polish immigrant Rob-ert Dziekanski at Vancouver air-port, and Frank Paul, who was removed from the Vancouver Police drunk tank in 1998 and left unconscious in an alley.

The 2005 gunshot death of Ian Bush at the RCMP detachment in Houston, B.C. was another case that pushed the B.C. gov-ernment to end the practice of police incidents being investi-gated by other police forces. The independent office also brought B.C. RCMP officers under civilian oversight.

The B.C. Police Complaints Commissioner is continuing to handle public complaints against police forces in the province.

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Richard Rosenthal is three years into a five-year term as chief civilian director of the Independent Investigations Office. He is eligible to be reappointed to one more term.

Tom FletcherBlack Press

B.C. police forces have under-gone a sea change in the two years since a civilian-led unit was put in charge of investigat-ing police-involved deaths and serious injuries, says the man in charge of the Independent Investigations Office.

But the road to a new system that is moving away from police investigating other police has not been smooth, former U.S. prosecutor Richard Rosenthal acknowledged in his report to a committee of B.C. MLAs last week.

The office started up in the fall of 2012 with 36 investigators, about half and half civilians and former police officers. Its man-date was to move to all-civilian investigations, and Rosenthal said progress has been made, with two thirds of staff in the two investigative teams being people who have never worked as police officers.

This year four former officers were fired from the IIO, and five more resigned, Rosenthal

told the committee. Two civil-ian staff also quit this year after three civilians resigned in 2013. Another former officer was separated from the organiza-tion in 2012, Rosenthal said.

He cited three reasons for the high turnover: cultural con-flicts, the struggles of a new organization and evolution of jobs that causes people to look for something new.

A one-time Los Angeles deputy district attorney who worked on the 1999 Rampart case involving violence and drug dealing in the citys police force, Rosenthal set up indepen-dent police oversight in Port-land and Denver before coming to B.C.

He was asked about a survey of his operation that referred to a lower-than expected case load. Rosenthal said that was done before the office dealt with four fatal officer-involved shoot-ings in less than three months.

I dont believe there is a single person in the office who would say that today, he said.

Rosenthal said video cameras for police dog handlers, general-

duty officers and police Tasers would help in some cases, but that is a decision for police ser-vices due to cost and privacy concerns.

The B.C. government commit-ted to a civilian-led agency after a string of incidents involving RCMP and city police forces. The office was recommended by inquiries into the 2007 deaths of Polish immigrant Rob-ert Dziekanski at Vancouver air-port, and Frank Paul, who was removed from the Vancouver Police drunk tank in 1998 and left unconscious in an alley.

The 2005 gunshot death of Ian Bush at the RCMP detachment in Houston, B.C. was another case that pushed the B.C. gov-ernment to end the practice of police incidents being investi-gated by other police forces. The independent office also brought B.C. RCMP officers under civilian oversight.

The B.C. Police Complaints Commissioner is continuing to handle public complaints against police forces in the province.

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B.C. oil refinery backers move ahead with plansTom FletcherBlack Press

Backers of a third large oil refinery proposal for B.C.s North Coast made some high-profile appointments Wednes-day, naming former Assembly of First Nations national chiefs Shawn Atleo and Ovide Mer-credi as advisors to their team.

Pacific Future Energy, pro-posing what it calls the worlds greenest refinery near Prince Rupert, announced the appoint-ments Wednesday at a Van-couver Board of Trade event hosted by Stockwell Day, the former Conservative trade min-ister who has been the groups public face since August.

Pacific Futures proposal is similar to Kitimat Clean, a refinery bid launched in 2012 by David Black, chair-man of Black Press. Both would be con-structed from mod-ules manufactured offshore to produce diesel, gasoline and other fuels for sale, avoiding the trans-port of heavy oil by tankers to reach export markets.

The third proposal is called Eagle Spirit Energy, headed by aboriginal author and lawyer Calvin Helin with financial backing from the

Aquilini Group, the Vancouver family business that owns the Vancouver Canucks and exten-sive real estate and farm holdings.

Eagle Spirit is proposing a pipe-line from the Alberta oil sands to an upgrader that would produce synthetic crude oil for export by tank-ers, likely from the Prince Rupert area.

Black announced last week that engi-neering firm Hatch Ltd. has completed a design and feasibility study for a refinery at an estimated cost of $22 billion, making it one of

the 10 biggest in the world.

Black said in an interview he sees obvi-ous similarities with the Pacific Future proposal, which describes new technology and carbon cap-ture to reduce its environmental

impact.Kitimat Clean

proposes a new refining

process that avoids produc-tion of petroleum coke, a coal-like byproduct of conventional

heavy oil refining that is used in steel making.

Black said the entry of Pacific Future, headed by an execu-tive of Mexican conglomerate Grupo Salinas, shows the busi-ness case for a B.C. refinery is sound and there is capacity for more than one plant.

All proposals for B.C. North Coast refining

require oil trans-port to the coast, either by rail or in some version of the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project, which received a federal environmental cer-tificate this year and awaits approval by the federal cabinet.

All proposals also face oppo-sition to transport of heavy oil. Pacific Future has appointed Atleo as a senior advisor for partnerships, months after Pre-mier Christy Clark appointed him as an advisor for dialogue between First Nations, govern-ment and industry.

Black said his next steps include negotiating acceptable compensation for his project with the Kitselas and Haisla First Nations for use of their tra-ditional territory.

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Following are highlights from Tom Fletchers year-end interview with NDP leader John Horgan. For an extended version, see the Opinion section at saanichnews.com

TF: The B.C. Liberal government has given every indication theyre going to proceed with the Site C dam on the Peace River. What do you think?

JH: Ive always maintained that its a good project, but its a question of when to add another $8-9-10-12 billion onto the backs of ratepayers.

First of all, go to the B.C. Utilities Commission and find out if this is the power you need and if this is the time to build it. The government refuses to do that, and I think thats just an Achilles heel in this process.

TF: You voted for the liquefied natural gas income tax to provide certainty, and then you immediately said you would work to increase the LNG tax in 2017, before any major project could be started. How is that certainty?

JH: I thought it was important that the investment community in this sector knew there was bipartisan support for LNG in

British Columbia. But we went from a seven per cent [tax] to a 3.5 per cent because of a softening market.

If there is a decline in return to the province because of a softening market, then surely over a 25-year period not just between now and 2017, but if the market conditions change and prices go up I think British Columbians would want their government to make sure they were getting a fair share of that benefit.

TF: Why did you vote against the LNG environmental legislation?

JH: They said prior to the election that LNG would be the greenest in the world. And then when they tabled legislation they left out 70 per cent of the emissions from upstream activity.

TF: Gordon Campbells great goal for greenhouse gases, 33 per cent reduction by 2020, can that be reached assuming a substantial LNG development?

JH: I find it difficult to believe that theyre going to achieve those

results. [Environment Minister] Mary Polak has a different point of view, and our job as opposition is to hold them accountable to the numbers that they passed into law, and were going to do that.

One of the three sectors, housing, energy and transportation, where emission profiles can be managed downward is transportation. And the government has wasted 18 months talking about a referendum on [Metro Vancouver transit.]

TF: Whats your top priority for 2015?

JH: I think the public is going to increasingly find affordability issues to be the challenge. We didnt spend as much time as I had hoped to on hydro rate increases, ICBC. When the government balanced the budget, they did it by selling assets, and by increasing costs at their Crown corporations and then pulling that revenue in for budget purposes.

Were going to have to use new technologies and means of communication to better explain to people what the governments doing to them.

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com

Horgan talks LNG, climate

Staff work should be transparent

Saanich Mayor Richard Atwell chose to release documents this week that show staff members were attending all-candidates meetings to profile candidates and identify emerging issues during last months election campaign.

Someone then took the time to assess each candidates stance on major issues like sewage treatment, amalgamation, deer culling and youth engagement and presented those assessments to their colleagues at a Nov. 12 meeting, just three days before the election.

According to public administration expert and University of Victoria assistant Prof. Kimberly Speers, that practise in and of itself isnt abnormal within bureaucratic silos. The most notable curiosity here is that Atwell chose to make the document public, she says.

If that is the case, then perhaps its time more municipalities disclose how they allot staff time (and subsequently residents property tax dollars) to these ventures, which to the unseasoned eye appear to present inherent problems for staff who are meant to be functioning in non-partisan roles.

Atwell, to his credit, is walking his talk in terms of opening up information to public scrutiny as much as he can. But he needs to tread carefully as staff adjust to his tenure.

A change at the top inevitably means change below, but it needs to be done collaboratively and with respect of past experience within the organization.

The vast majority of employees at the District of Saanich no doubt do excellent work, and theyd be happy to allow residents a chance to see how they operate.

But these same staff know that a new mayor allows them an opportunity to speak up about whats not working within the walls of municipal hall. The process of identifying any dysfunction and fixing those potential problems takes time, patience and a lot of clear and open communication in any organization, let alone one with a few thousand employees.

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Re: Nisgaa parallel state poses tough questions, Dec. 12 (Letters)

We are writing to clarify a number of errors in the most recent letter to the editor from Ron Johnson. As a result of our Treaty, we are very much a part of Canada, a fact about which many Nisgaa citizens are extremely proud.

In the manner set out in the Nisgaa Treaty, federal and provincial laws apply to Nisgaa Nation, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms applies to Nisgaa Government, Nisgaa citizens pay taxes and Nisgaa citizens continue to be entitled to all the rights and benefits of other

Canadian citizens.If anything, our Treaty removed

the barriers of the Indian Act which obstructed our full participation in Canadian society.

We take exception to being separated in any way from Canada, as the article suggests.

Second, the comment that Nisgaa citizens have become a landed gentry is a completely inaccurate portrayal of the state of Nisgaa society.

It suggests that through the recognition of our aboriginal title under the Nisgaa Treaty, Nisgaa Nation has somehow magically transformed its economic

conditions to that of a 19th century aristocrat living off rents.

In fact we were not allowed to participate in the industrial revolution, and we need to catch up to the rest of Canada.

As tax-paying Canadians, we at Nisgaa Nation still have to earn our daily bread, attract investment to our area and carefully plan and build for the future just like everyone else in Canada.

This is why we support the development of the LNG industry in BC, are seeking to attract investment, and possibly operate an LNG facility on Nisgaa Lands.

As we have indicated to the

Government of BC at recent joint press conferences, our efforts at Nisgaa Nation provide LNG proponents project certainty to support the establishment of the LNG industry in BC generally.

Nisgaa Nation strives for sustainable prosperity and self-reliance. We appreciate how Tom Fletcher has kept an open mind to allow his views on the Nisgaa Treaty to evolve.

We are optimistic that eventually more people will understand that we want what all citizens of BC want an improved quality of life.

H. Mitchell Stevens, President Nisgaa Lisims government

Nisgaa Nation part of Canadian society

Politics not the purview of staff

Re: Saanich staff profiled candidates during election campaign: Atwell, saanichnews.com (Dec. 15)

When Saanich voters voted for change, I dont think any of us realized quite how badly change was needed.

It is shocking to me as both a resident and a taxpayer that senior staff were pulled into

a meeting to review platforms of those running three days before the election.

That cost us money to prepare the presentation and for staff time. There is no possible acceptable explanation for this.

The fact that Coun. Susan Brice doesnt seem to think this is an unusual practice reinforces the need for some major changes in Saanich.

Things have gotten entirely too cozy if this

is the norm.Staff attending all

candidates meetings on their own time is not the issue here. They are free as citizens to do as they wish.

It is the development of a PowerPoint presentation and taking of staff time to attend an inappropriate management meeting that is so shocking.

Changes to governance in Saanich cannot come too soon.

Karen HarperSaanich

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