Save Clayoquot Petition presented to Federal Government
Ms. Carr (rt.)gives Ms. Copps (lt.) Calyoquot petition.
One year less a day after the disastrous Provincial government decision to "compromise" Clayoquot Sound, Adriane Carr presented to Deputy Prime Minister Sheila Copps the Wilderness Committee's official Save Clayoquot Sound petition with over 120,000 signatures. It asked the Federal government to initiate negotiations with the First Nations and the Provincial Government with the view to ending the big forest company logging rights and protecting Clayoquot's irreplaceable wild forest.
Surprisingly, Ms. Copps intimated that this was not yet a strong enough show of support to get her government to act.
Since then the Wilderness Committee has gathered another 20,000 signatures and is distributing 100,000 opinion poll postcards to educate the Prime Minister as to how people feel about Clayoquot. Use the tear-out on this paper to request postcards and petitions. Your message to the Prime Minister is a crucial part of our Clayoquot campaign.
Special Warning
The new Forest Practices Code now before the B.C. legislature proposes to make it illegal to build new trails and maintain existing trials on public provinicl forest lands without prior government approval. Offenders are liable to a maximum fine of $100,000 and one year in jail. WCWC won the right to build trails in a 1988 court decision. Its Carmanah trail was instrumental in raising public support to save Canada's finest Siska Spruce.
