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Elia Ifiarrir Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayflald Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Wednesday May l2 1976 Keep energy prices fair for ordinary consumers After all the discussion and con troversy over what would con stitute reasonable ener Canada The cost of production plus portation with the heavy taxes added should form the basis of the Canadian price Peo ent what seems to be logica argument in trans ple with this view pointing out the world other commodities for eggs or grain for exam le shouldnt determine the Cana an retail price which should be fair to the producers and also the home consumers In the current price of gasoline goes for tax The oil companies have to meet their some 32 cents costs on what is left Speculation of shar in retail prices well will increase living tion It is not much wonder that there should be considerable apprehen sion over the ultimate decisions to be made on energy policies As pointed out by Ross Milne By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Brazil is going through phase of high inflation tight money and concern over drop in foreign investment all familiar to Canada Three devaluations of the stillstrong Brazilian cruzeiro called mini devaluatio in that country nevertheless are beginning to add up to major reduction in that currencys value MORE AGGRESSIVE Brazil has been much more aggressive and much more successful as hemispheric power in diversifying her ex ports than has Canada Import substitution is so imvortant in Brazil that an array of concessions and benefits accrue to foreign companies who guarantee ex port potential from their new Brazilian operations In major speech at the end of April Senhor Mario Simonsen Brazils minister economics announced that export sales from coffee the Brazilian export staple had dropped from 44 per cent of the total in 1965 to 11 per cent last year This figure represents the result of massive rogram to augment and diversify The Iiarrir Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Dai Sundays and Statutory Ho idays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $4420 yearly Single copies 15 cents By Mail Barrie $4420 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yew1y Balance of Canada $3600 year yNational Advertising Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto 8641710 640 Cathcart St Mon treal Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of Cir culations The Canadian Press is ex clusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches in this paper credited to it or The Associated Press or Router and also the local news published therein The Barrie Examiner claims Copyright in all original adver tising and editorial material created by its employees and roduced in this newspaper yright Registration Numger 203815 register 61 policy marw people are won ering what the world price of oil has to do with the price in increases ve the in flationary level has been causing understandable concern Moto rists may reduce pleasure driving to save some energy and expense but essential transportation is bound to affect business and in dustry The higher fuel oil prices costs for householders and also added to business expense which means other higher costs and more infla national MP for Peel Dufferin Simcoe establishing the price of oil is difficult business The producing gxwinces he suggeste messages from Ottawa want world prices in the order of $12 to in one of SISrxr barrel while the consum price of instance mm the costs and ing provinces want the smallest increase possible over the current price of $8 per barrel If this principle were applied to other necessities it could create more economic havoc that many might realize from hasty view of the situation The additional revenue is not imarily needed it would appear discussions so far to enable oil companies to meet their make fair profits It is stated the extra money is needed for exploration and research to find new sources of roduction But one has to oubt whether the additional revenue will ever reach the exploration kitty of oil companies The price of barrel of oi has risen from $360 in 1973 to $8 last year with dollars moving into the government treasury and only pennies went to exploration While further whopping in creases in fuel prices no doubt would have some effect in cutting down useage of gas and oil such action also would bring hardship too Heating home shouldnt be made luxury for which pepple nt with ordinary incomes coul cope Brazilian exports to the ex tent that she is today for example the worlds largest erporter of shoes Last month Britain placed 16percent tariff on the im gzts of Brazilian shoe lines ause they were beginning to compete successfully with domestic British production The recent opening of the new St Lawrence Seaway season sees the re appearance of Brazilianbuilt deepsea cargo ships many of them strengthened for perations in ice Canada the home of the Seaway has no such deepsea ships under the Canadian flag carrying Canadian exports over the world In two nations with similar vast coastlines and both at the mercy of world shipping rates for their high import requirements the Brazilians mt the Canadians to shame with their development of national merchant shipping marine Almost alone in Latin America Brazil since the military seized power in April 1964 has maintained an open door policy for the foreign subsidiary and the transfer of technology Brazilian government agencies concerned with the arrival of external technology function notunlike the Foreign Investment Review Agency where CANADAS STORY Little damage from attacks By BOB BOWMAN As nation Canada has es caped relatively lightly from enemy attacks Quebec City suffered the most having been bombarded by the British in 1759 Wolfe Canadians in 1760 Levis and the Americans in 17751776 Arnold St Johns Newfoundland was attacked several times by the Dutch in 1665 Canadians in 1696 Iberville and France several times in 1705 1708 and 1762 The Ger mans also fired torpedoes at the harbor in the Second World War Montreal was captured by the British in 1760 and by the Americans in 1775 but escaped damage Toronto was captured and looted by the Americans in 1813 and the Niagara Penin is spokesmen in asking for prices to be held at fair levels on realistic basis are not unreasonable THE WORLD TODAY Brazil takes run at fighting inflation government economic need rather than ideology usually means decisions work in favor of the foreign entrant The Brazilians if anything are even more realistic about their need for external ex pertise than Canadians even though trends to nationalism in Brazil are stronger than in Canada Indeed that countrys military masters considered by their critics to be specialists in selling out the Brazilian economy have deep commitments to eco nomic nationalism In Brazil as in Mexico pri mary oil and gas production is in the hands of large and often unwieldy state en terprise Petrobras Petroleos Brasileiros Brazilian Petroleums is the state agen cy which negotiates with Arab countries for Brazils now desperate need for im ported oil Brazilian President Erlt nesto Geisel longknown in the Brazilian arm for his ad ministrative ski ls ained much public appeal or his successful management of Petrobras as its former chief Growing inflation un certain foreign export markets and high import demands give Brazil the same balanceofpayments problems we know in Canada Brazil seems more worried about it than Canada sula suffered during the War of 1812 The Fenians also caused some damage there in 1866 Vancouver Island was shelled by Japanese sub marine in the Second World War but only lighthouse was damaged The Japanese also sent incendiary baloons across the Pacific in 194445 and some of them drifted as far east as Manitoba but caused little damage There was one dangerous attack on Canada during Second World War that was kept secret as much as possible as were the Japanese balloons In 1942 when the German submarine menace was at its height Uboats got into the Gulf of St Lawrence and sank 22 ships BUT MY GOOD FELLOW YOU DONT LIKE WHAT WERE DOING THEN DODOMEIHING ABOUT if TC ammo SIN Trudeau diverts attention from how Sun got the letter By STEWART MacIEOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service There seems to be paranoia virus running through politics which is taking all the fun out of ob taining confidential infor mation It used to be great sport try ing to get your hands on inter nal letters and documen tsparticularly if they were highly classified cabinet memosand watching the politicians squirm when they were published There would always be an internal in vestigation to track down the leak and sometimes an odd head would roll But it was generally regar ded as good healthy sport Noonecried foul Unfortunately thats changing When the Toronto Sun recently pulled off the scoop of the year by obtaining copy of letter exchanged between the tw0 highest ranked security officers in Canada the government hit the roof That in itself would be okay but Prime Minister IYudeau went on to suggest that the leak of the document was obviously destined to destroy my reputation and credibility Since the letter said only that the government didnt want to maintain an RCMP surveillance of the Parti Quebecois its difficult to un derstand how the prime ministers reputation and credibility could be destroyed Whether we like it INTERPRETING THE NEWS or not the Party Quebecois is legitimate political party and we dont live in police state NO FUN And by imputing motives Mr Trudeau is taking the fun out of the whole exercise It diverts attention from that fascinating question of how newspaper could get its han ds on confidential letter written by Michael Dare directorgeneral of the RCMP securit service and ad dresse to Robin Bourne chairman of the security ad visory committee in the SolicitorGenerals Depart ment Thats what you call high level leak Mr Trudeaus suggestion Canadian proposal muddies Alaskan pipeline debate By BRUCE LEVETT WASHINGTON CP new proposal injected into the corporate struggle to tap the riches of the Alaskan natural gas fields is mud dying the waters as marathon federal hearings into the issue drag on Northwest Pi line Corp announced Mon ay 21 plan to build $496billion linefrom Prudhoe Bay south along the Alcan highway to link up with existing facilities in Canada The project would entail 930 miles of new line to be built by three Canadian partner com anics Alberta gas trun line Go West Coast Transmission Co and Foothills Pipeline Co to link with the proposed 730 miles of new line within Alaska Foothills already has on file in Canada proposal to trans mit Canadian northern gas to Canadiancustomcrs The US Federal Power Commission FIC for more than year has been holding hearings into two other proposals for moving the American gas El Paso Natural ins Co seeks permission to build pipeline south across Alaska to the icefree port of Valdez where the gas would be liquc fied and shipped south by su pertnnkcr ANADIAN ROUTE Alaskan Arctic ins con sortium of US and Canadian firms wants to run pi from thc Alaska ficlrl to Mackenzic Delta otannnda and south from there carrying both US and Canadian gas Northwest says it will file its proposals immediately with the FPC with the final documents submitted by July Indications are the firm will also file with Canadas National Energy Board Northwest has stipulated hhat it wants its proposal con sidered by the PFC at current hearings but observers close to the situation say this would cause extensive delay to thv hearings which had been ex pected to finish late this year The FPC has been under pressure both from the Ford administration and Congress to wind up its hearings and make recommendations favoring one of the two com petitors currently involved Northwest originally said it Would file its proposal if it could ct rights to the royalty gas ocatcd to the state of Alaska This gas has been al lotted to the state as part pay ment for the resource However there has been no indication so far that Alaska wants to export its royalty gas preferring to use it at home to establish industry AIAN ROUTE MOOTED An Alcan route has been proposed by FPC en vironmentalists as possible alternative to the northern route es oused by Alaskan Arctic owever the main FPC staff report says such route is not realistic alter native because of added distance and cost lwo points are left in doubt with the new proposal what would happen to Mackenzie Delta gas and whether the PFC would consent to work the new project into current proceedings It certainly is muddying the waters one observer says Foothills already has pro posal on file in Canada to move Canadian gas from the Delta to the same ebisting facilities which Northwest trop05es to tap Should the Northwest project win ap poval the Foothills project wouwd be the only feasible way to tap the delta fields However one source sug gests the Northwest proposal would give Canada some breathingspacc Under the El Paso plan Canada would have to find in dependent mcans to move the Canadian delta gaswa project that might be more expensive than the country could undertake im mediately Under the Alaskan Arctic pro sal Canada would have to ecide swiftly on joint USCanada line And they said Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and thy house Acts 1631 Faith is so powerful Believe for yourself and let ygur faith stand in for mem rs of your family who are yet holding out The Holy Ghost will bring them in Believeonly that someone is out to get him follows other recent hin ts of political paranoia En vironment Minister Jean Marchand under some pressure over the Sky Shops affair has already suggested this is part of campaign by the English press against FrenchCanadians When look at what is going on in Ottawa know damn well that the English ess has been repeatedly king for wrongdoing by French Canadians Suggestions like this dont add much fun to the sport of politics And you will recall that when Public Works Minister Bud Drury was alleged to have talked to judge regar ding case involving former Consumer Affairs Minister Andre Ouellet he was repor ted to have mentioned that such cases might be in terpreted by some as similar plot by the English speaking establishment More recently Mr Mar chand has talked about being followed by people who want to destroy me politically have nothing to hide but find it simply odious that am followed simply to see if they can find something ab normal that can be exploited politically NOTICED THINGS He later took some of the starch out of his statement by saying he didnt know for sure whether he was being followed He had noticed things but not enough to make astatement It makes you wonder whether government mem bers were taking advantage an earlier statement from Conservative Leader Joe Clark that the Tories had hired investigation firm to check some corporate recor ds in connection with Sky Shops Mr Clark said these investigator an interest in individual MP5 SolicitorGeneral Warren Allmand later told the Com mons he had received several complaints from MPs about private detectives snooping into their affairs Perhaps its smart political move to make the Tories look like muckrakers or perhaps the paranoia virus is becomin an epidemic but its pretty ifficult to imagine anyone hiring private detec tives to follow MPs around Ottawa think we can ignore the suggestion But what we cant ignore is the increasing tendency to see some evil personal motive behind every criticism or the leaking of confidential documents Playing under the old rules was much more fun READER FORUM Labor refutes Knowles Views Dear Sir Mr Knowles letter of May shows lack of knowledge on his part that is very sur rrising in someone who is seeking the Conservative nomination in this riding must correct the statements and conclusions he has presented Paul Wessenger is not the local NDP candidate although it is probable that he will be after the nomination meeting on May 19 His statement that Mr Wessenger took over union meeting and constantly har rassed the membership at their meetings has no basis in fact and is simply an opinion and an erroneous one at that Guest speakers at any meeting are only there by in vitation and any nonunion member can only attend if majority approves You do not harrass people if you are there by invitaion The time for the guest speaker is on the agenda and regular business is sus nded while the guest is spea ing It follows then that no one is forced to listen they can simply leave and return when the speaker is finished DOES HAVE RIGHT The NDP does have the right to claim to be the work ing mans party and anyone who is familiar with the history of either organized labor or the NDP would recognize this claim The party was formed in the ear 603 and labor made large contribution of members and man ower and also contri uted financially to establish the party The partys constitution recognizes the involvement of Labor and guarantees that we are represented at all levels of the party The NDP is the only party that has labor involvement in the formation of policy The NDPs tactics so pro minently mentioned are the tactics of any political party and that is simp to endeavor to supply speakers to any group that requests them The Liberals or Conser vatives would supply speaker to any union that re quested one It seems shame that Mr Knowles would resort to such tactics in order to garner mblicity Mr Evans never used these tactics and even though we disagreed politically respect him for fair play when we opposed each other in 1967 If Mr Knowles wants some of the history mentioned he may contact me at my ad dress Your truly ROBERT DENNIS President Barrie and District Labor Council 247 Edgehill Dr Too much already has happened Dear Sir At the risk of seeming to be mauling the subject there are few further points would like to make in connec tion with the uestions raised about emocratic despotism in my recent letter toyou It is scary to realize how in gratiating despotism can be even to people of free democracy In the name of altruism and with the very vest of intentions we are sternly adjured to fasten our seat belts stop smoking moderate our drinking dont be beastly to our murderers and rapists become bil ingual love thy fellow Cana dian dont watch those trashy but interesting American television shows love thy sister as thy brother why not and in short be good Canadian or shame on you All this comes bellowing at us from state monopoly pro paganda system the CBC and from massive advertis ing campai ns in the press paid for wit our own money of course From the ankledeep philosophical waters of how nice it would be if only things were such and such to the black depths of despotism in which this is the law whether you like it or not is but few floundering strokes of aternalistic politics oou ed with the lack of true un erstanding of how precious yet fragile and vulnerable human liberty is good example of how idealism drifts into despotism is the Unfair Business Prac tices act recently put into force by the Ontario govern ment In effect it sa its hard to prosecute un er ex WE WANT YOUR OPINION Letters submitted for publication must be original copies signed by the writer Please include your street ad dress and phone number although they will not be published Letters which can not be authenticated by phone cannot be published For the sake of space public interest and good taste The Examiner reserves the right to edit con dense or reject letter isting fraud laws therefore weve made it easy for bureaucrat to send businessman to jail on suspi cion alone That is tzue summary of the acts import no matter how it is other wise phrased or how thick the judicious velvet is on the iron hand behind the law That is close enough to genuine discretionary despotism for any tyrant And closer to home when our friendly neighborhood alderman and civic employee for example can make potential criminals of all of us by passing and en forcing bylaws that carry the ultimate of tyranical punish ment prison instead of mere fines then we are all in greater danger than many persons realize It is true of course that moral persuasion is no more than what Mill called social tyranny the trouble is that blind and uncritical accep tance of such potential despotism affects even its own authors our buraucrats and our political representatives with their in dividual vote Thus for ex ample from bigbrother stance on compulsory seat belts and other moral ques tions that have to do with our personal and private lives our social tyranny can easily cross the shallow Rubicon beyond which the steel trap of lice state becomes establis ed by ex dient and wellmeaning gislation in what should be democracy And police state doesnt mean jackboots and am knocks on your door When laws are passed someone has to en force them And if such laws trespass on our lives by robb ing us of our rightful volun tary options then they are tyranmcal and we are in police state Meek acceptance of imper tjnent infringements upon our personal freedoms even to debauch ourselves by political powers hellbent on doing good and protecting us from ourselves even yes in massage parlors can in deed make it cant happen here become famous ast words As matter of fact too much has already happened Yours truly DOUG GREENWOOD THE PICK OF PUNCH map as Iurcly in an advisory capacity only fire