INTERNAL ECONOMY BOARD

Reynolds to chair

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THE SPEAKER of the B.C. legislature is about to chair a
new bureau of internal economy which will expand his
powers, and which finally will clearly define them.

John Reynolds, MLA for West
Vancouver/Howe Sound, told the
News in an interview that legisla-
tion designed both by the gov-
ernment and the Opposition would
be introduced next week,
establishing the special board.

With the board of internal
economy, B.C. will join most of
the other Canadian provinces in
establishing an all-party committee
to administer the operation of
government. It will deal with
everything from the allocation of
space in the buildings, to clearing
up the grey areas of jurisdiction
and security, in the wake of the
“tents on the lawn’’ protest last
month.

It also will remove the financial
services to the legislative assembly
from the provincial secretary’s

aegis, and bring them under
Reynolds’ and the new commit-
tee’s control.

The board will introduce new
procedures for expense allowance
accountability in the wake of the
Jack Kempf affair this spring,
which led to the former forests
minister leaving cabinet, and ow-
ing more than $10,000.

The legislation will be introduc-
ed as a government biil, and it is
expected to pass swiftly, perhaps in
just one day, because of the coop-
erative approach being taken by
the Socreds and New Democrats in
setting it up.

The board will include speaker
Reynolds as chairman, Provincial

Secretary Elwood Vietch (whose
senior staff spent Sunday and
Monday of the Victoria Day
weekend working away at the leg-
islation and Vietch’s estimates),
government House Leader
Strachan, Socred caucus chairman
Doug Mowat, Opposition House
Leader Mark Rose, and the chair-
man of the NDP caucus — cur-
rently Bob Williams.

Much of the day-to-day work
after such a board is established
likely wili fall to a management
committee of Reynolds and the
clerk and clerk-administrator of
the House, Ian Horne, QC, and
George MacMinn, QC, respective-
ly.

The autonomy of the speaker’s
office and legislative services will
be clearly defined, and. will make
the internal economy board one of
the most powerful groups within
the very place where power is the
most important goal.

Reynolds said passage of the bill

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ctoria bureau

“will be an historic day in B.C.,”’
as the joint-party project
establishes proper control over the
running of the legislature. He said
British Columbia was the last of
the major Canadian provinces to
introduce such a special board,
and it would establish safeguards
for MLAs and for all those involv-
ed in the operation of the
legislature.

On the subject of his role as
speaker to date in the current sit-
ting, Reynolds said there should be
no surprise that he was being
well-received by both sides of the
House, despite his reputation in
Ottawa as an MP and in Victoria
as an MLA for lively debate.

“I was not always popular, true;
but I attacked the policies and the

actions, never the person involved. -

And in Ottawa, I got two private
bills passed, which just does not
happen without an ability to nego-
tiate, and to be conciliatory,’’ said

Weather:

Sunday, mostly sunny.
Monday and Tuesday,
mostly cloudy with chance
of showers, Highs near

WEST YVaneouver/Howe Sound
MLA John Reynolds...passage of
the bill ‘‘will be an historic day in
B.C.”

Reynolds.

He said that Opposition
members were as welcome in his
offices as were the Socreds. *‘The
use of common sense and fairness
is being used to dispense sensible
and fair decisions from the
Speaker’s chair.”

Reynolds said the overall at-
mosphere within the house had
changed dramatically, and for the
better, during this sitting. He at-
tributed it to the number of new
MLAs — 37 of the 69 — and to a
conscious effort both from the
government and the Opposition to

avoid the acrimonious conflict
evidenced during the Bennett
years.

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