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Drew McLachlanLAKE COWICHAN GAZETTE

The boil water advisory issued over a week ago (Feb. 8) continues to hold on tight, and town of� cials are concerned that the planned UV water treatment system will not provide an adequate solution.

The recent boil water advisories have been caused by high levels of turbidity, and the UV system is designed to neutralize bacteria,

which so far hasn’t been an issue. This leaves sand � ltration, which could cost the town a hefty $7 million, compared to the estimated $1.2 million the UV system would cost.

Rather than a drop in water quality, the Town of Lake Cowichan’s superintendent of Public Works attributed the recent boil water advisories to a change in Island Health’s drinking water standards, which prior to the

change were graded on a sliding scale. Now any water source with a turbidity higher than 1 NTU is automatically grounds for a boil water advisory. Lake Cowichan’s drinking water has ranged from 1.4 to 2.3 NTU in the past week.

At a recent town council meeting, councillor Bob Day stressed that “the public will not tolerate [these boil water advisories] for much longer.” Councillor Tim McGonigle

expressed concern that residents may begin to ignore boil water advisories, which could lead to catastrophe should bacteria, not turbidity, be the cause of a future advisory.

Town of� cials are planning to meet with Island Health staff in the near future.

Meanwhile, many residents have taken to the town’s social media page to voice their complaints regarding what they see as a lack

of noti� cation during the beginning of the boil water advisory. The town’s current plan of action has been to post daily updates on Facebook, as well as post notices at local services and businesses. Some residents were unsure of the severity of the situation, and asked if the water was safe to bathe in. That question, among others, shows the town’s lack of clarity in explaining the severity, or lack thereof, to residents.

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Boil water advisory still in effect

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Jean Crowder:Retiring MP re� ects on ten years in of� ce

Photo Malcolm ChalmersBrooklyn Brown and Jewel Irving, pictured with their moms Sally Brown and Karen Irving, are raising money for Cops for Cancer and Wigs for Kids. The girls will be having numerous fundraising events in the community until March 6, when they will be shaving their hair at Lake Cowichan School as a donation to Wigs for Kids.

Community pro� le:Val Sangster lends a hand to Lake Cowichan

Housing starts take a sharp rise: Is downtown revitalization responsible?

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Photos Malcolm ChalmersBC Provincial Champion Curlers Tricia Mayea, Diane Myrden, Kari McKinlay and Maria Elzinga spent their Saturday afternoon (Feb. 7) playing with eleven other women at a fundraiser for Women Against Violence Against Women in the Cowichan Valley. The fundraiser was held at the Cowichan Lake Recreation Curling Rink.

Photo Malcolm ChalmersJasper Pukesh is pushing his daughter Lilly around the rink at the BC Family Day Free Skate at the Cowichan Arena.

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Val Sangster lends a hand to Lake CowichanCystic Fibrosis: Sangster is asking for bottles to help fund two boys with the disease to stay in Toronto during their lung transplants

Drew McLachlanLake CowiChan Gazette

Val Sangster, 65, may not have gotten involved in charity and volunteer work until 2009, she’s already lent a hand to and had a big impact on the lives of many people around Lake Cowichan.

Like many people, Sangster’s first act of fundraising was on behalf of someone very close to her — her grandson John, who was

diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at the age of three.

In 2010, Sangster learned of a vest specially-designed for sufferers of cystic fibrosis, which helps clear the lungs of phlegm, a constant problem for those with the condition. The vests, which are manufactured in the United States, cost $14,000, a high hurdle for the family.

Sangster said she got to work immediately, running bottle drives and even organizing

a charity hockey game with local firefighters. Sangster soon found out that Jaimon Raibey, a boy from Youbou, also suffered from cystic fibrosis, and wanted to incorporate him into the fundraisers as well. Initially unsure if she would be able to raise enough to cover two vests, she was delighted to see donations come in from not just Lake Cowichan, but from all over Vancouver Island as well. By the end of 2010, she had raised nearly $30,000.

Grateful for the help of the community, Sangster began getting involved with other organizations, and ended up lending a hand to Lake Days, the town light-up decorating committee, the Christmas Hampers, the Lake Cowichan Secondary Grad Committee and other organizations. During the Christmas Hamper program in particular, Sangster says she has been able to fill 15 tables with free houseware, decorations and other goods for the “free table” section of the program.

“I just like doing it [volunteering],” says Sangster, “it’s just a good feeling. We don’t live in a big mansion or anything, but there’s a lot of people in this community who are worse off and could use a hand once in a while.”

Sangster was eventually recognized for her tireless work in March 2012, when she received the Nichole Stock Community Service Award for her involvement with several groups throughout 2011.

Currently, it seems like Sangster’s career as a volunteer has come full circle. Right now, she’s raising money for her grandson and Raibey to stay in Toronto while they each undergo a lung transplant. She’s asking residents to drop empty bottles off at her house on 111 Larch Street which will go towards the living and transportation expenses the boys will need while living in the city.

CommunityBriefs

Lake Days Society receives exec. chairperson

After weeks of being vacant, the Lake Days Society has filled their head seat.

Stepping up last Monday (Feb. 16), Jackie Cummings will now be in charge of overseeing the annual week-long event.

The position became available after now-former executive chairperson Bob Day stepped down for personal reasons. Day had served as executive chairperson for the past six years.

Public town meeting this week

The town of Lake Cowichan is hosting as public meeting tonight (Feb. 18) at Centennial Hall, from 7 to 9 p.m.

Residents are invited to speak with Mayor Ross Forrest and town council, and ask questions or voice their concerns regarding the town.

Forrest said he is anticipating a lot of the discussion to be centred around the recent and ongoing boil water advisories, the lack of a seniors care facility in town and the planned columbarium.Photo Drew McLachlan

Val Sangster has made a name for herself for her tireless volunteer work for many different organization around Lake Cowichan. She also received the Nichole Stock Community Service award for 2011.

Chamber of Commerce AGM and buffet dinner

The Cowichan Lake District Chamber of Commerce will be holding their annual general meeting at the Cowichan Lake Sports Arena’s Curling Lounge on Feb. 26 from 6 to 9 p.m.

Members have the opportunity to come out and network, hear the reports and year-in-review from the 2014 Board of Directors and enjoy a buffet dinner. All members in good standing are advised and encouraged to seek office or, to nominate a worthy fellow member in good standing who have distinguished themselves by fostering growth, innovation, community service and excellence in their sectors.

Admission is $20 and seats are limited, so RSVP on the Chamber website (www.cowichanlake.ca)

Family Movie NightThe Honeymoon Bay Community Society will

be hosting a family movie night this Saturday (Feb. 21) at the Honeymoon Bay Hall

The main feature will be the Good Lie, which follows four young Sudanese refugees along their journey to relocate to the United States.

The night will open with a showing of a short documentary on the Avro Anson L7056 plane crash near Port Renfrew.

Admission is free and the film starts at 7 p.m. A $1 concession will also be open.

—Drew McLachlan

Housing starts take sharp riseDowntown revitalization: Lake Cowichan’s CAO says recre-ation draws tourists, infrastructure makes them residentsDrew McLachlanLake CowiChan Gazette

The Lake Cowichan housing market seems to be going through a small boom, and town officials are hoping the trend is here to stay.

Housing starts, which include the number of residential building projects started in a given amount of time, were up 100 per cent last month, compared to January of last year. Joe Fernandez, Chief Administrative Officer for the Town of Lake Cowichan, attributed the rise in part to the affordability of building in the

town.“Things are picking up, and

I can’t say for sure what the reasons for that are,” he said. “Interest rates continue to be low, and people are looking to Lake Cowichan as a good alternative.”

While development rates in neighbouring communities have risen in the past few years, Lake Cowichan’s have been able to stay steady, according to Fernandez. Most of the housing starts in Lake Cowichan are single-family homes, as opposed to apartment complexes and townhouses.

Fernandez said the town’s strategy for attracting newcomers has been based on improving the infrastructure and aesthetics, particularly in the downtown core, as opposed to advertising, and hoping that prospective residents will “discover” Lake Cowichan on their own. Fernandez said that the strategy is already beginning to pay off.

“It’s something we’ve recognized in past years,” he said. “People don’t necessarily see advertisements, there’s no way for us to know if they had any effect on people’s decisions. The lake, recreation,

has always been a big draw for the town. People may come here to go camping, and when they come into town, then they can see it’s a nice town and they may want to stay here.”

While the large increase in housing starts may be impressive, Lake Cowichan’s small population means that each project has a large impact.

Fernandez said that the addition of a seniors care facility, as well as attracting more businesses, is key to promoting Lake Cowichan as a good place to live.

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Annual health care crisis grips British Columbia

Tom FletcherBLACK PRESS

The annual ritual of declaring a crisis in health care is upon us, with the B.C. Liberal government boasting that we have the best system in Canada, while the NDP and the B.C. Nurses’ Union try to portray it as the worst.

The BCNU is the last big public sector union still to settle in the latest round of contract talks. Feeding horror stories to the media is part of its strategy, and this time it was a patient at Abbotsford Hospital assigned a bed in a small shower room for a month due to chronic overcrowding. Hospital of� cials said his care wasn’t compromised.

We’ve seen it in Abbotsford, Surrey and elsewhere: a new hospital or expansion is built and is immediately overcrowded. We are reminded every winter that in� uenza season brings a wave of people into emergency, expecting treatment for a viral infection that in most cases can only run its course.

Many people still don’t understand what “the � u” is, beyond the notion that it sounds

serious enough to tell the boss you won’t be in to work. And as fewer doctors choose the endless demands of family practice, the expectation that all problems must be dealt with quickly and for free seems to grow as inexorably as the health care budget.

An emergency physician of my acquaintance provided a typical scenario for night shift at the ER. Where once nights were quiet, now there are patients waiting for hours, around the clock.

Several are drunk, and one has urinated on the � oor. Surveys show as many as half of ER visits are alcohol-related, from overdoses to � ghts, falls, car crashes and chronic conditions.

Into this chaos comes a mother with her young child, who has nasal and chest congestion. The child’s cough led her to throw up, so off to ER they went, blithely assuming that this is where you bring a kid with a cold.

This week’s B.C. budget brings us a step closer to the moment when half of all provincial revenues go to keep the health care system running.

In the legislature, NDP health

critic Judy Darcy blasted Health Minister Terry Lake for the government’s failure to keep its 2010 promise to � nd everyone in B.C. a family doctor.

Lake allowed they’re still working on that, and then plugged the latest Conference Board of Canada study showing B.C. ranks third in the world in health care outcomes, second only to Switzerland and Sweden.

Darcy, a former president of the Hospital Employees’ Union, was quick to respond: “This is surely a � rst in question period, the Minister of Health going back to the record of the NDP government in the 1990s, because we’ve had the

best health outcomes in Canada since 1993. The fact is that we exercise more, we smoke less and we drink less, and that’s to the credit of British Columbians.”

We also have more elderly people, as Premier Christy Clark argued in 2011 when the federal government changed its � nancing formula.

After years of increasing transfers by six per cent per year, the late federal � nance minister Jim Flaherty announced that starting in 2014, increases would be tied to economic growth, but wouldn’t fall below three per cent.

This of course was treated

as a cut, rather than continued increases above in� ation. But there it is, and all provinces have to deal with it.

Darcy is quite right that personal responsibility is the key, something to remember as the usual squabbling of special interests continues.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tomfl etcherbc Email: tfl [email protected]

B.C. Views: Residents’ healthy habits have led to a high health care rating for the province, but hospitals are still � lling up with � us and alcohol overdoses

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Erin Butler“I think that upkeep is the most important part, make sure the ones we have don’t fall apart, and for anything involving baseball they could use the Mesachie Sky Dome. It could be used to expand and have tournaments that encompass as many people as possible.”

Arvena Blazewicz“I think they need to get more businesses in this town and stop spending money on sports � elds. I think what we’ve got now is quite adequate. It’s like a ghost town here.”

Oldh Bodnar“They should improve, I don’t know if we are going get more sports teams, we’ll probably get less, so we should just improve the ones we have already.”

Bruce Egilson“Sport is a good thing, it keeps us healthy. Having a variety of things to do to get physical might make more people will them. We should spend more on them and less on medical.”

Street BeatCowichan Lake SAYSWe asked: Should the town improve the � elds we have or expand them and look towards more sports tourism in the area?

With Malcolm Chalmers

Your Say: Letters to the editor

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Dear Editor,

When is enough enough? The CVRD is becoming an octopus with ever-growing tentacles, each wasting more tax-payers’ money, said to be no longer relevant to the needs of the people. Perhaps it is when their programs are more tuned to paying the wages of paper-pushers, consultants and tax-wasters as a whole.

The more information becomes available the more it must be considered that the time has come to cut this body by some 50 per cent.

That is why I would suggest that Lake Cowichan Mayor and council start looking at removing us from as many CVRD programs as possible that do not bene� t us directly.

Personally, I would be more than willing to pay our town more in taxes (every penny that I would not have to pay to the CVRD) than continuing to pay for tax-wasting programs such as emergency planning, economic development, environmental initiatives, regional tourism, etc. Most of these services are paper-pushing services at best.

Let’s take one of these: emergency

planning. In the event of a catastrophic earthquake in which all grocery stores and hospitals are destroyed, does the CVRD have an earthquake proof establishment stocked with all provisions so we can weather the storm? I think not. So why were taxes collected? So that the paper-pusher can inform you to be prepared? So much wasted money for informing the tax-payer to be prepared for what may come.

Lets look at it in the dollar content. There are 25 employees making more than $100,000 a year. Wages to run the CVRD exceed 15 million dollars per year. Suppliers of services cost 64 million a year.

It costs most taxpayers between $300-500 a year for the CVRD.

Now ask yourselves, what do we get for our money?

In Lake Cowichan, the one service we do make use of is the garbage dump. Other than that, not much that I can think of.

So maybe it is time to rein in the octopus.

— Bert Lievre Lake Cowichan

The CVRD octopus keeps growing useless legs

Elva Forrest“There are a lot of kids that play ball here, they can use it for other things to. I think expanding would be a great idea. People could help pay for it, they could have hot dog sales and other things like that to help pay for it.”

Dear Editor,

I am sending this letter to you all today to bring you up to date on the status of the Lake Days Celebration Society as we approach the planing stage for the 2015 event.

You may have heard that Laurie and I are not letting our names stand for positions on the society. We both joined the society 6 years ago to breathe some new life into this event and raise the level of economic bene� t in the Town and surrounding area. When we took on our roles within the society, we had no intentions of being the chief organizers for more than 5 years. We both feel that if we do not vacate these positions voluntarily that no one will ever step up and this would not be the best practice for recruiting new leaders in our community. That being said we will be there to support our successors during their � rst year, for sure.

As of this date we have held two meetings in 2015 and nobody has felt willing to let

their name stand for the position of Chair, Secretary or Treasurer. There is no doubt in my mind that someone will step up to the task of keeping Lake Days going for years to come and maybe even make some exciting changes.

— Bob Day Lake Days Society

Note: It has just been announced that Jackie Cummings is the new Chairperson of Lake Days. Jackie is excited to take on the position, but knows it is a big undertaking and she will need lots of help from the community to ensure another successful Lake Days. She looks forward to working with all the groups that help make Lake Days such an important event to the community and is thankful for the full support of the past executive. Watch for more news on Lake Days in upcoming editions of the Gazette.

The future of Lake Days

Photo Malcolm ChalmersReid Nahirnick and Leim Fawcette, on the Got Wood Novice Lakers team, listen to their coaches between periods at the Novice Hockey Tournament in Lake Cowichan. The tournament was held last weekend (Feb. 7 - 9).

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History at the Riverside InnCOWICHAN LAKE

Smile FILEWith Malcolm Chalmers

Nicole Abbott

Occupation: Hair stylistI’ve always wanted to: Travel the worldMost people don’t know that: I love to Salsa danceFavourite food: Thai foodFavorite activity: DancingI wish I was better at: Speaking SpanishFavourite moment of day is: Morning sunriseI’m currently reading: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerMy guiltiest pleasure is: ChipsMy go-to wardrobe staple: Anything blackIn my car I listen to: BluesIf I had a $1,000,000 I would give a lot of it away

The first 50 years of Lake Cowichan’s historic hotel

The first Riverside Hotel (Inn) was a small four-room rustic log cabin situated amid tall dark trees on the banks of the Cowichan River. Built by brothers Charles and Alfred Green, whose brother Frank was the first permanent local pioneer, arriving here in 1887. The two brothers had made their way to the undeveloped forests of Cowichan Lake via the narrow trail that led from Duncan. The men were well suited to pioneer life. The two Green brothers lived in the small hotel they had built but soon made space for mostly-rich guests who, for the most part, came from afar via Victoria. The word was out regarding the spectacular fishing on the then-world-famous Cowichan River.

Soon after, Annie Green who was a sister of Charles and Alfred, made her way from Victoria to Duncan then via horseback along the rugged trail to remote Cowichan Lake. She was soon installed as “hostess” as well as chief cook and bottle washer and housekeeper. Two years after the Green brothers came to Cowichan Lake, brother Frank arrived at the tiny settlement, acquired land and began to develop Greendale, a farm that would be home for the remainder of his life.

In 1888 Charles and Alf Green sold the hotel and property to Dr. F. Dickson, who had recently retired from the British Army Medical Corps. In 1890 Dickson leased the hotel to logging magnate Angus Fraser. For a few years Fraser, his pregnant wife and their daughters lived at the hotel as did many of Fraser’s logging employees. The next owner of the hotel was a French-Canadian named Abraham Mayea who took over in 1902. Prior to his acquiring the hotel, Mayea had built and put into use “a sturdy bateau used for traveling down the Cowichan River.

According to Saywell’s Kaatza: the Chronicles of Cowichan Lake, Cowichan River legend Ken Gillespie and Victoria lawyer and politician William Oliver purchased 160 acres of land along the river in 1905. On the property was the well-used Riverside Inn. Before long, the partnership broke up leaving Gillespie (of which Gillespie Park near present-day Fields store is named after) with the hotel. Oliver was left with raw land which included the area known today as Central Park, the Smith Block, Gordon and Stanley Roads area, the Village Market area and beyond. Not inclined to run the Inn on his own, Gillespie leased it to a Charles McDowell who renovated the building and added rooms for additional guest (30 in total).

Two Victoria men, Stelly and Geiger, were the next owners of the hotel. Stelly and his wife lived directly across the river from the hotel where Mrs. Stelly planted lovely gardens including a Monkey tree which is still living. They also built a fine

home on what is now Riverside Drive (beside the present day McCormick home). Due to death and injury, the hotel was again sold, this time to T. Harry Hodgson, who attracted such guests as wealthy American industrialist John D. Rockefeller Jr. He aggressively advertised internationally promoting the wonders of the scenery, camping, boating and fishing, dubbed “The sportsman’s paradise.”

Misfortune struck in 1921 when the Riverside Inn was destroyed by fire leading the then-present owner to hire one of Victoria’s finest architects to design a new structure with many new and updated features. The “new” Riverside officially opened in June 1921 and remained under the ownership of Hodgson for the next seven years. With a constant turnover of owners and landlords, the old hotel somehow managed to remain open for many more years under ever-changing management including Norman Thomas who added a few cabins on the grounds and a wooden tennis court for guests. In 1932 the hotel once again “succumbed to flames.” It was rebuilt by new owner Ed Hemmingsen who hired a Victoria architect to design a lovely new Riverside Inn which opened in April 1933. The structure remains and constitutes the core of the present Riverside Inn you see today. The handsome building was once described as “presenting an excellent appearance from all points of vantage.” (Source: Cowichan Lake Region Heritage Inventory by Richard Rajala, 1992 and the Victoria British Colonist newspaper website.)

Photo Kaatza Station MuseumThe Riverside Inn (Hotel) as it looked circa 1900. The photo was taken from the vantage point of what is today North Shore Road. The large driveway entrance bordered lovely gardens planted and tended to by the hotel owner’s wife Mrs. Stelly, seen standing in the driveway. Throughout its history, the Riverside was alternately called Hotel by some of its owners and Inn by others.

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LCS offering two unique coursesOutdoor education: new course uses local environment as classroom, showing students healthy recreation

With a new semester comes new classes — and one class in particular is receiving praise from students and parents alike. Outdoor Education is a new class that was � rst offered at LCS earlier this year. This class teaches students the value of the environment, and to appreciate the activities the great outdoors has to offer. In each class, students are taken on � eld trips of varying

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“I’m looking forward to going on mountain top hikes,” Kendal Hart, a grade 12 student enrolled in Outdoor Education said. “I’m also looking forward to exploring different environments.”

“It is our hope to expose students to a variety of outdoor pursuits, and show them all of the great places and recreational opportunities that are available in their own backyards,” Boucher said. “The course teaches students the importance of environmental stewardship and wilderness ethics as well. It is also very fun to get outside and partake in different adventures.”

Another class with lots of activity buzzing around it is Leadership Resilience, which is a group consisting of like-minded students from grades 8 to 10. Leadership Resilience is a program that teaches students about respect, kindness, and responsibility. Many experiences are to be had in this program: planning philanthropic activities and taking students on educational � eld trips, among others.

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Crowder reflects on 10 years in parliamentMaeve MaguireSpecial to the gazette

—continued from last week

MM: Why are you not running again?JC: I’m not running again for a variety of reasons. By October 2015, I’ll have been

at it for 11.5 years and I will have travelled hundreds of thousands of kilometres. I’m in my 60s, I’ve got three grandchildren; it’s time for me to step back. My grandkids are seven, five and three, and I get to see them five times a year and they live a long way away. I’m in good health right now, and I’ve got the energy to deal with my grandkids. It would be great to do it while I still can. And I’m tired. I’m tired after doing the travelling and the seven years of minority government knocked the stuffing out of me. I’ve had four elections. I’m a bit warn out.

MM: When are you not working?JC: I’m taking a week off to visit my grandchildren, although I have my

handy little Blackberry so I usually end up working.MM: What if you lose it for one week? Would the world come to an end?JC: Last year, for the first time in nine years, I went to someplace where there

was no Blackberry access for a week on holiday, and the world didn’t come to an end. There was a phone number for a real emergency they could get hold of me. Mind you, when I came back from the holiday the Blackberry was just like....

MM: ...heavy.JC: I don’t know what the answer is. There’s an odd

perception that we shouldn’t have time off.MM: Why is that?JC: I think it’s that when someone has a problem, their

problem is paramount and, “Why aren’t you here to deal with it?” I’ve had flack from people saying, “What do you mean you’re missing this event?” It’s very odd. Expectations from people are odd.

MM: I think I even have that expectation, deep down. That you should be at all things. Not that you shouldn’t have holiday time, just not during my event.

JC: That’s very much how people feel about it. We try to be careful when I schedule my time off, but sometimes there’s just no choice. If this is the week that I get to spend with my grandkids, I’m taking it. And when my dad was dying. I didn’t tell anybody my dad was dying because I didn’t want people to know I would be a week in the hospital with him, ducking my duties.

MM: That’s ridiculous.JC: It is ridiculous.MM: Is that because it’s still a mostly male workplace?JC: It’s totally why.MM: I mean, your dad was dying. And you couldn’t tell

people?JC: Minority government, we’re going into an election,

why aren’t you in your riding working?MM: Wow.JC: Lately, I’ve started pushing back on it. I would never

tell people I was going on holiday for a week. Ever. Ever!MM: Now because you’re not running again, you don’t

have to worry about your seat?JC: No, I’m trying to say to people it’s OK if you

occasionally need time off. I’ve been lecturing some of my colleagues — some of them don’t take time off, like they’ll take a day here and a day there.

MM: They must be exhausted.JC: They’re exhausted and it’s not human. It’s not realistic. I work a ridiculous number of

hours every week.MM: Like?JC: When the house is sitting, and flying back and forth including travel time, I work up to

80 hours per week. I rarely work under that.MM: Do you exercise?JC: I do. I get up early in the morning and I schedule it. What I observed is that many of the

men around me always scheduled their exercise and I always felt guilty about doing it.MM: Do you feel guilty?JC: No. Because I feel better and I’ve got more energy.MM: Women in politics. There is a report saying a small percentage of women are in

federal politics. What’s been your experience as a woman?JC: That number hasn’t shifted. It went up slightly in 2011, it was about 20% before then.

It’s been at that number for two decades or something — a long time. Hasn’t budged. The institution is not well set up to accommodate women. And it is absolutely family unfriendly.

MM: There’s no place to hang a purse — or breastfeed a baby.JC: We’ve got a number of women who are changing that. They breastfeed their babies in

the lobby. There is a daycare on site. I don’t know how accessible it is, in terms of a wait list. The culture itself assumes you’re not a member of parliament if you’re a woman. I still have to tell security I’m an MP.

MM: No.JC: Grey-haired men don’t get asked at the same level as I do. I’ve asked them and they say

I never get asked if they’re an MP. And they haven’t been around as long as I have either.MM: You said you didn’t think you were a capital-P politician. Is that because we have an

image of what that looks like? The great politician is old, wise, portly....JC: ...and male.MM: Winston Churchill.JC: I’ve told this story so many times because it just typified for me how women are the

staff. One of my very first caucus meetings, the media cameras were all set up outside and the men would walk down into the room and the cameras would come on. I came down and it

was me and to women, two staff, and we walk up and the cameras didn’t come on.MM: Hey, I’m over here!JC: I clearly was a staffer. The number of times I’ve been in the elevator and there’s been a

group of men who didn’t know each other, and they made the assumption I’m that guy’s wife. The little woman coming to Parliament.

MM: What do they do?JC: It’s pretty funny. And when I broke my leg, in 2008. Outside the house is a foyer where the media all hang out and do the scrums. There’s a bathroom off to the side.

When I broke my leg, there’s an outside entrance door, and you hit the handicap thing and it opens the door. Except it opens the men’s door. But there was no

handicap access to the women’s bathroom door.MM: Did you make a change?JC: I did because I couldn’t get in the bathroom! How come the men’s door

has handicap access and the women’s doesn’t?MM: How to encourage more women to run for politics? Must we?JC: Yes. There’s been lots of research on that. Until a third of the people in

any organization is women, you can’t shift the culture. 20-some-odd percent isn’t enough to shift the culture.MM: From what to what?

JC: I would like to see a culture that looked at collaboration as being a good thing. That working together was a good thing. I’d like to see a culture that

recognizes that people have family responsibilities. Not just children, but caring for senior parents

MM: A dad passing away.JC: A dad passing away. A culture that respects and there is

some accommodating for people with families It’s terrible if you have a young family and you have to travel to Ottawa.

MM: What was it like as a first-time MP?JC: I spent the first six months hating the job.MM: Hating it?JC: I detested it. I’d wondered what I’d done. Get me out of

here!MM: Because why?JC: A bunch of things. Part of it was that I’d run because I

care about my community and then you immediately leave your community with all your supports. And the system was so foreign. It’s stupid in some ways.

MM: Did the party have a mentorship program?JC: We didn’t at the time. We were pretty small. When I

got elected there were only 19 of us at the time. They were helpful but there’s no way they had time to take anything on. There were seven of us that were new, out of 19. Since that, I’ve mentored a whole bunch of MPs. There was no orientation. There was a two-hour orientation for the House of Commons.

MM: That’s it. Have fun!JC: Exactly. The thing about this job is we’re all like single

owner/operators. So even if you belong to a party, there’s only one Nanaimo-Cowichan riding. So we’re isolated to some extent, right? So it’s a weird, weird job in some ways.

MM: What was it like working with Jack?JC: Oh it was great. It was great. I really liked him. It’s

kind of neat. He and I both got elected at the same time in 2004 so we were both thrown into the parliamentary process at the same time. He was learning to be leader and learning

to be a parliamentarian all at once. I can’t imagine what his job was like.MM: Advice for the next generation of MPs?

JC: Remember who you are representing. If it can’t afford to be on the front page of your newspaper, don’t do it. I tell people that all the time. I can’t believe the stupid things people do. Find something you’re passionate about that you think you can drive in the political process. Because there are lots of things you do in this job you’re not passionate about. And then find ways to stay connected to your community. Make sure you stay connected to home.

MM: Lowest moment?JC: Agreeing to run in 2011 and then having Jack die two months after the election. In part,

I ran in 2011 because of Jack.MM: Did you know he was ill?JC: I thought he was

recovering. We all knew he was ill but we thought he was getting better. I felt like I’d been deserted when he died. That was really hard. And it took me a while to bounce back from that. If Jack hadn’t have been there I don’t know that I would have run again in 2011.

MM: Greatest accomplishment?

JC: I’d have to say Jordan’s principle. It’s making slow incremental change for how kids are dealt with in care. It’s being cited in court decisions and human rights tribunals as a way to go. It’s slow progress but it is making a difference.

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470 Mountain View NEW DEV $114,000489 Mountain View NEW DEV $114,900The SLOPES BIG LOTS $99,000

RE/MAX of LAKE COWICHAN

127 Darnell Rd.Cute cottage, easy walk to town

$153,400

72 Park RoadRiverfront home on the Cowichan River walking distance to all Lake Cowichan has to offer. $795,000

66 Sahtlam

$118,800

$178,900

RE/MAX RE/MAX

93 & 95 South Shore Rd.Commercial/Residential downtown

riverfront property

$379,000

Huge lot, water glimpses,3 bedrooms

$179,0005 acres of amazing waterfront, huge log cabin, tennis court,

swimming pool, caretakers cabin, shop.

$2,500,000

Big House, 5 bdrms, 2 baths, big workshop wired and

includes 1/2 bath

2 bedroom & den, newer roof, heat pump, close to Arbutus Park

$219,000

$199,999

$268,800 $169,000 $179,000

The Wellington

$124,900

267 Hillsidegreat family home on quiet street, big yard.

OFF THE GRID WATERFRONTS13 acres.........$399,000 SOLD49 acres.........$625,00049 acres.........$725,00049 acres.........$765,000

Trees, full sun, great beaches

Unique waterfront development situated on the Cowichan River 2 bdrm cottage perfect for a weekend retreat or live year round

Awesome house & land. Private. Big lot, huge shop

146 Wavell RoadOne acre in town, walk to everything,

new open concept livingRIVERFRONT

$419,000

www.remaxlakecowichan.com

Sa-Seenos WATERFRONT

1.66 acres, HUGELY MOTIVATED!

$589,000

10484 Youbou Rd.Lake view from kitchen, landscaped, .52 acre

$265,000

23 Stevens Crescent3 Bdrm. cedar sided, wood � oors, 2 shops, awesome fenced yard.

$239,000

9722 Miracle Way, Youbou

$1,300.000

130 Neva Rd. Lake Cowichan Home Centre, business and mini mall

$1,495,000

169 South ShoreLand & building orstart your own business$499,000 $367,000

10196 Youbou

Nearly 1.5 acres of gently-sloping waterfrontBeautiful beach, very sheltered Includes a

sweet bungalow

$795,000

Magni� cent lakefront home on .70 of an acre. Complete with guest cottage

$949,000 $178,900SOLD

WOW!

521 Point Ideal

10215 Youbou Rd. Awesome View, Awesome House

9260 South Shore

9227 Kestrel Drive

Renovated charmer in Youbou, lots of updates,

$249,000

$246,000

$639,000$264,900

9712 Miracle WayA waterfront gem, well built open concept that getsfull sun, huge deck.

10287 Youbou Road3 bdr. and large workshop. Amazing lake views. $179,000

8547 Maple Ridge Street

3 Kitchens, Garage, shop. 1 Min. from boat launch and access to great Cowichan LakeAccessory Building newly renovated.

Stunning lake and mountain viewsfrom this new 3bd 2 bath home

Newly renovated 3 bdrm Town House. All outsideremediation done.Perfect starter or retirement.

215-19 Madill

$370,000$339,900

$350,000

SPACIOUS 3 BDRM HOME 1 BLOCK FROM

COWICHAN LAKE IN HONEYMOON BAY

• Original � r � oors• Bonus full basement• In-house workshop• New septic

SOLD

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ACCOUNTING/TAX/BOOKKEEPING

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RENTALS

APARTMENT/CONDO

CONDO FOR RENTLarge, immaculate, quiet

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dryer, F/S, dishwasher, lots of storage!

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APARTMENT/CONDO

LARGE 2 bedroom apt for rent immediately, located aboveTree’s Restaurant on the Al-berni Hwy, Parksville. $800per month. 250-954-9547

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HALLS

LIONS’ CLUB HALL for rent $75. Deposit required. CallEileen 250-749-3345.

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Photos Dennis SkalickyLeft: Ty McKinley, Courtney Martel and Jordyn Kelly hold up a special valentine to Mrs. Palsson, who the elementary school is named for. The students presented the card on Friday afternoon (Feb. 13).Right: Palsson School held a cupcake sale last Friday (Feb. 13). Students Lily Viviers and Hanna Nott decide which one look tastiest, while parent Kaya McLean shows off a platter of cupcakes.


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