i r i } ¢ } po 2 pa seers et ATA eA pt GAR NN BE MRE TN WE LON TRE NA RE TENA PRE N OEEE GS SPECE EY mgd} ge ap LET SPEAKER TO DEFINE HOUSE RULES eynolds in the hot seat THE SPEAKER of the B.C. legislature has been handed the current session’s hottest potato — to define once and for all the rules, procedures and internal budgets of the house. And it comes at a time when protests on the legislature lawns are creating confusion and havoc with provincial, city and gov- ernmental laws. West Vancouver/Howe Sound MLA John Reynolds was ap- pointed Thursday by Premier Bill Vander Zalm to chair a joint-party board of internal economy, ‘‘to enshrine the independence of the legislature to manage and to ad- minister its own affairs.” The announcement by the premier came as sergeant-at-arms By JOHN PIFER From Victoria security officers were tearing down a group of tents erected on the laws of the parliament buildings by protesters and a hunger striker op- posed to the government lifting of the moratorium on uranium min- ing. _ The security force had been crit- icized for ‘‘manhandling’’ the young, peaceful objectors the previous day (Wednesday), and it NEWS photo Mike Wakefield AN AUCTIONEER gathers bids for some of the assets/auctioned off at Capilano Village Market this week. Although the public market has been closed, the Marine Drive comptex now houses a varizty of retail businesses. Capilano Market assets auctioned ae Mi EQUIPMENT from the recently closed Capilano Village Market was auctioned off Tuesday morning. Included in the items auction- ed off by Abco Auctioneers were pizza ovens, coolers, crushed ice makers and stainless steel refrigerated display units. The public 34,000-square-foot market closed in February, the victim of the North Shore's highly competitive food retail market. A spokesman for the market’s developer Pacific West Realty said that though the public mar- ket was initially successful, inter- est in it tailed off quickly. “The market was not fully ac- cepted (by customers),’’ Rick Hancock said Wednesday. ‘‘We realized there was not the neces- sary support for the market in the location.’’ The Capilano Village Market opened in October 1985 with 38 merchants. ‘ Hancock said the market will gradually reopen with more traditional retail outlets. Stores, he said, will all open on to the street. “The ones (tenants) who are there now are really doing well,” he said. fell to Reynolds to rule on the issue. He addressed the MLAs Thurs- day afternoon, and said he had in- structed the sergeant-at-arms not to be involved any longer in the forcible removal of people or pro- perties from the grounds. That ruling will remain in place until the new board of internal economy deals with all laws and regulations relating to the house. The attorney-general has since announced that private security guards would be brought in to keep the laws and precincts secure. In an interview with the News, Reynolds said he was very pleased to be part “‘of defining all of the grey areas’’ relating to the opera- ve tee Te " on 3 - Sunday, April 12, 1987 - North Shore News | tion of the government. He said he was pleased that any further trouble on the lawns would be handled by other officials than sergeant-at-arms members. “It was not nice for our people. They did not like having to do it at all,’? he said. Reynolds said he would move quickly to get the new board Operating, and it would meet as often as possible to prepare the Jegislation, which he expected would be introduced this year. The bureau will include the two caucus chairmen — Doug Mowat (Socred, Vancouver/Little Moun- tain) and Bob Williams (NDP Vancouver East), and Provincial Secretary Elwood Veitch. MLA STATES LABOR VIEWS Teachers will choose not to strike — Ree THREE REPRESENTATIVES of the North Vancouver teaching profession met with MLAs Angus Ree-and Jack Davis Saturday morning to discuss the new government leg- islation. The meeting came two days after hundreds of teachers marched in protest to the legislature, and threatened to strike to prevent Bill 20 from becoming law. That bill orders all teachers to join a College of Teachers, and gives each individual group the op- tion of forming as a trade union or an association within that college, - with equal bargaining rights, barr- ing one — association -members wouid not have the right to strike. (Details of Saturday's meeting will be published in Wednesday’s edition of the News.) Speaking on B.C. teachers hav- ing the right to strike, North Van- couver-Capilano MLA Ree told the News he ‘‘can live with it,’’ because of the structuring of the new governing law. Ree said the new Teachers Pro- fession Act now before the legislature ‘‘will give responsible teachers the opportunity not to be involved in a trade union, if they so choose. They now have a most important option: do they want to be viewed as professionals, or as just employees, or workers?” The act sets up a College of Weather: Sunday through Wednesday, mostly cloudy with showers. Highs near 13°C. By JOHN PIFER Teachers to which all teachers must belong, which will be a pro- fessional body akin to those operated by the doctors, nurses and lawyers in the province. The teachers also will have the option in each district to choose to form as an association or as a trade union, with all rights under law available to either. Ree, who recently said the right of students to an education ‘‘is far more paramount than any other right, including the right for teachers to strike,’’ said he believ- ed many school districts would choose. to form as an association rather than a union. : “*After all, they’ll have the same rights (other than to strike), and all of them now will have an oppor- tunity to be heard.”’ Ree said that it was time the teachers decided whether they wanted to be consid- ered as just another group of la- borers, or as professionals, members of the teaching profes- sion. INDEX Business......-.... 13 Classified Ads.......55 Doug Collins........ 9 Comics ............54 Editorial Page....... & Fashion............17 Boh Hunter......... 4 Lifestyles .......... 35 Mailbox..........-. 7 Sports............. 48 TV Listings.........52 What's Going On....54 The current understanding of the law has the Speaker responsible for the buildings themselves and al! within, and Veitch’s department responsible for the grounds and Frecincts. Vander Zalm said the bureau of internal economy would ‘‘at last allow us to assume our own re- sponsibility for our own affairs. By swiftly setting up rules and Procedures, it can independently Operate at arm's length from the executive.” NDP leader Bob Skelly wel- comed the establishment of the bureau, but warned that ‘‘it must not be an attempt to sidetrack the issue of the embarrassing and disgraceful incident’’ on the lawns. NORTH VANCOUVER-CAPI- LANO MLA Angus Ree... believes many school districts will choose to form as an association rather than a union. He said that with the new legis- lation, coupled with the Industrial Relations Reform Act, meant it was ‘“‘highly improbable’ that there ever could be a province-wide walkout of teachers. The province has been divided into 15 zones for the college to operate under, with the 75 school districts distributed throughout. If one zone, or even one school district should choose to strike, the new laws against secondary picketing prohibit that strike ex- panding beyond the one district. As to overall fabor legistation, Ree said that the machinery ‘‘is now in place for an improvement in labor relations in the province, subject to labor and management agreeing”’ to pursue that line. ‘‘Management is no_ longer muzzled from speaking to its workers during certification or decertification attempts, and that’s tight and just. (The laws) also remove the employee from intimi- dation, in that they cannot lose their jobs at the whim of the union which decides to pull their union card,’’ Ree added. The MLA, who is government whip in the House, said he wanted to stress the fact that he was not anti-union, ‘‘but I do believe that in recent years some of them have been doing a disservice to their members by seeking political power which is not always in their members’ best interests.”’