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who make’ the policy.are no

long accountable: for what

Payne: said ‘many people

are .confused...by. the “tax.
. increase ‘and. blame it on

rising City government costs

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‘fact. that.the’ Fisheries Act
gives” the department un-
paralled power, which, of
. course, ‘has been abused.
“It is as though a farmer
-were told: how. much Jand he.
can farm,” said the
economist, ° ‘now an in-
structor at BCIT. In ten
- years working as an Official.
‘with: the - fisheries depart-

ment, he’ didn’t see either

“himself or Tis colleagues “do

“He thinks that fishermen
and processors should have a-

residential property.
_ The City has actually done

well i in. cutting its costs, said
Payne. ; fot

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doesn't'dare set foot in B.C.”

One poignant moment
came during Pepper's
testimony before the Pearse .
commission when . the .-ex-
bureaucrat was asked if the
fisheries department had
always been the disaster area
it is now.

Apparently not. There
was some “magic” hap-
pening in the years after the
.Sécond World War. when
RCAF men were brought in
as fisheries officers.

Excellence was rewarded.
Stupidity was punished. .

“What ‘went. wrong, I

Feally don't know,” Pepper

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said.
But then he scinowledg

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Coust, with due con-’
sideration for the advice. of
the people most involved:= _

the fishermen. :
Gradually, power was
concentrated at the centre,:
in the office of ‘the Minister

that-is? Romeo’ The ‘Blank,
an Eastern Canadian lawyer.
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Pepper observed that’
you proceed up the
hierarchy, (you. found)
nobody knew which end of
the boat is.a bow ... there.are
bureaucrats who couldn't.

“tell a salmon from a halibut:”
' At present, most fisheries

officers have a diploma from.
some prairie technology
institute, he said.

In ‘his testimony, Pepper:
touched. on several of the
basic flaws in the fisheries ©
department, but he didn’t
deal ‘with the one: ‘that lies at °
tfé bottom of the slag-heap. '

And that’s the fact that. -
there-is absolutely - no

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