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Ellie Earn Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager WallsiEditor Emeritus DM Henshaw Managing Editor The Barrie Examiner Tuesday December 1976 Government credibility no wonder it is low One of the recurring themes today from politicians of almost every Stripe is that of trust The prime minister deplores the Canadians about towards representatives as well as ap cynicism of government lpointed civil servants There must be more trust of Zgovernment You must trust us say the ex perts We know whats best for you And we believe the question of trust and respect for the institutions of democracy are essential to the survival of free society However that trust grounded in morality and it must be mutual in its very essence Morality must have no double Istandard and respect can have no equivocation Let us examine couple of ex amples The scandals surrounding the Lockheed corporations attempts to sell aircraft have reached into the Zdeepest reaches of free society One of the last royal families in Europe has been tainted with corruption and former prime minister of Japan is in jail as result of the ex niques posure of Lockheeds sales tech All this was well known to Cana elected dian officials who purchased billion dollars worth of aircraft from these admitted corrupters No one suggests that any Cana dian was bribed but can we expect to respect institutions which have no apparent business with those who so easily corrupted others difficulty in doing Henry Kissinger in explaining Brazil American foreign policy that so readily accepts the governments of Chile and Iran deriding the leftist regimes of other while nations said that while he personal must be ly abhorred the admitted torture tactics employed in these countries that the US could not base policy on the morals of others There is some kind of distinction in these examples that misses the point There is placid acceptance that anything goes that manipulation and double standards are accep table that the end always justifies the means But try to explain those subtle distinctions to child No wonder the credibility of government is low Federal government steps Will keep clothing costly By JOIIN FEBGLSON OTTAWA CP The federal government took steps last week that seem certain to en sure Canadians will continue to pay the highest prices in the world for clothing Jean Chretien minister of in dustry trade and commerce said clothing imports from all countries will be rolled back to 1975 levels in the name of pro tecting jobs in the domestic clothing and textile industry It means there will be only six imported garments on the store racks next year where there would have been 10 There will be fewer imports of virtually every type of cloth ingpants mens and womens shirts suits dresses sweaters raincoats underwear swim wear all types of spring and winter coats pyjamas and sleepwear No one denies prices will rise Mr Chretien said he expects marginal increases but said his department will monitor them to see they are not exorbitant The Retail Council of Canada which represents most of the large chain stores says the increases will be sub stantial The Canadian Im porters Association predicted increases of up to 30 per cent DRASTIC ACTION That an inflationconscious government would take such drastic action is tribute to the effectiveness of the wellorgan runway War declared that same day By BOB BOWMAN This is the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Har bor and other allied bases in the Pacific in 1941 United States President Theodore Roosevelt Eh Barrie Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return postage guaranteed Daily Sundays and Statutory Holidays excepted SUDSCription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $4420 yearly Single copies 15 cents By Mail Barrie $4420 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yearly Motor Throw Ofl $3900 yearly Balance of Canada $3600 year ly National Advertising Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto 8641710 640 Cathcart St Montreal 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 JUIIIOVI to it or The Associated Press or Router and also the local new published therein The Barrie Examiner claims Copyright in all original adver tising and editma material created by its erriployees and oduced in this rimspa per yright Registration Num r2m815 registerm WWWWax ized wellfinanced industry lobby that has dangled the car rot of jobs before the nose of governments over the years to obtain more and more protec tion Most of those jobs are in high unemployment areas of Quebec and Eastern Ontario and gover nments have been easily per suaded The issue is as old as Con federation itself How much protection from foreign com petition should Canada provide its domestic industries given its small market and high labor costs The Economic Council of Canada argues there should be little protection and Canadians should compete vigorously in the world market Economic theories are one thing The political reality of chronic unemployment is an other The industry enjoys one of the highest protective tariffs accorded any manufacturing sector in the country Goods coming from abroad have duties ranging from 22 to 27 per cent tacked on before they get on to Canadian store shelves OVER TIIE WALL However increasingly in the last few years imports from cheaplabor countries such as Taiwan Hong Kong and South Korea have been finding it easy to get over the tariff wall At first it was in cheaplymade lowpriced goods But in the described it as day of in famy The incredible news gradually seeped into the Sun day afternoon broadcast of the New York Philharmonic Or chestra that was carried across Canada by the CBC When the program was first interrupted it seemed that even the announcer could not believe what he was reading It was only brief statement that Pearl Harbor had been bombed and then the music continued Then the news began to flow and everything on radio was abandoned to follow the story although the depth of the dis aster was not known for hours The government of Canada was heavily criticized for dragging its feet at the be ginning of the war in 1939 This time there was no delay Can ada declared war on Japan that same day Dec 1941 The US and Britain did not declare war until the following day People in Vancouver Vic toria and other communities along the west coast were or dered immediately to put up blackout curtains Japanese residents were rounded up as quickly as possible and sent to camps inland even though many of them had been Canadian citizens for long time Strangely the first Canadian soldiers to see action in the ond World War were those in the Pacific sector The Winni peg Grenadiers and the Royal Rifles of Canada had been sent to Hong Kong months earlier to reinforce four British bat talions already there last few years even designer clothing is carrying mzidein somewhereelse labels The industry reacted by lob bying successfully for quotas on imports of number of items The quotas apply not only to clothes but to fabrics and yarn to protect the textile industry that produces most of the mate rial in Canadianmade clothing This year the industry lobby led by the highprofilc Canadian Textiles Institute launched well organized pressure campaign to convince the government that even this protection was not enough They want import levels frozen to allow them to take up the growth in the market The Senate banking com mittee held special hearings on Canadian Textile Problems at which industry icprcscntar tiveslined uptotcstily Last spring following in dustry meetings with officials in the department the then minister Don lamicson set up an adhoc committee of industry and government but no mo sumer representatives The committees gloomy re port recommended special in quiry into the matter by the Textile and Clothing Board an advisory body set up in 1970 to listen to industry complaints about damage from imports and make recommendations to the minister and the depart ment Hi Itr got nothing against UIIHN priests but really daughter to he married by one QUEENS PARK Industry as community doesnt realize it is the Os By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO If there is any thing more irritating than dedicated and blinkerhcadcd New Democrat or labor leadcr it is dedicated and blinkcr headed industrialist This outburst is bred by the government pollution suns against Abitibi Pulp and Paper Ltd and Reed Paper Ltd It has nothing to do with the suits themselves The govern ment may be right or wrong about these in any case they are before the courts and are therefore beyond comment But it is what these suits re flect on the position of industry today SlTBJECT The mere fact is that industry as community generally doesnt realize it is living in the 1970s lThcre are those who would YOUR BUSINESS Dollars decline was overdue By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The sudden collapse of the Canadian dollar during the last few days of November cant be attributed solely to the in creased threat of Quebec scpa ratism It reflects growing inter national concern about the fu ture of the Canadian economy LNTERPRETIN THE NEWS Is it time to reconvene Geneva peace conference By GEORGE KITCHEN UNITED NATIONS TI The General Assembly has opened its annual Middle East debate amid encouraging hints from both the Arabs and the Is raelis that they maybe ready to settle their differences and end their lingering belligerenty Whether the peace signals have any real substance re mains to be seen But the settle ment of the civil war in Leba non arid the ending of the long US presidential election cam paign both have served to turn attention to ArabIsraeli prof lems after year of diplomatic inactivity in that critical area The customary charges and countercharges often made lor publicity and for the record are being heard in the debate but beneath the rhetoric there is agreement on both sides that the next step should be the re convcning of the Geneva peace conference That conference was con vened alter the I973 war but only one session was held and it never really got going It was soon replaced by US State Secretary Henry Kissingers somewhat razzledazzle step bystep diplomacy which enabled him to persuade the Israelis and their opponents in that war Egypt and Syria to withdraw their troops from the battle lines and set up buffer zones now manned by UN peace forces PLO AN ISSUE The question of return to Geneva has been blocked by the sensitive issue ol participation of the Palestine Liberation Or ganization PLO which has been demanded by the Arabs and the Soviet Union and re jccted equally firmly by Israel and the US But Egypt which has been emerging the principal spokesman for the Arab world in the recent peace overtures has shied away from insistence on PLO participation thus far in the Middle East debate Its res olution calling for return to Geneva made no mention of the PLO Israel in the past has specif ically ruled out PLO participa tion under any conditions But the Israeli ambassador in his last two speeches at the UN on the subject has refrained from any such absolute statement saying only that Israel is ready for an immediate renewal of the conference as originally constituted When the conference first opened in 1973 those invited were UN SecretaryGeneral Kurt Waldheim the United States the Soviet Union Egypt Syria Jordan and Israel MANY PROPOSALS Several proposals have been circulating privately at the UN in an effort to get around the impasse including par ticipation at Geneva by single Arab delegation in which the PLO would be represented or preparatory conference without the PLO to decide the question of inviting additional participants Waldheim has been toying with the idea of starting the business of the conference on the level of working groups stratagem which would not in volve the immediate participa tion by the PLO say that sections of it probably dont realize they are living in thc20th century And most pertinent that in our society of today our chem ical society our automated society our cnvironmcntallyr conscious society our cconom icalythrcatened society it is very much subject ot govern ment Whether or not this is ideal IS aside from the point It is fact And fact that industry is ignoring at its pcril SIlIII HANDLING At its peril because the more it ignores it or tries to dismiss it the more it will be under cori trol and the stronger those con trols will be Without implicating Abitibi or Reed one can say with verity and knowledge that the prevailing attitude of industry today is to resist ardcntly any movement of government rclat ingto it and hardnosed assessment of the return on capital invested here Its all very well and per haps even true to say that that the drop in the value of our lol lar from about $102 US to less than 97 ccnls will boost our exports by making them cheaper That would help to re duce our massive foreigntrade deficit But the hard fact is that the dollars decline shows that for eign investors have lost the con fidence they used to have when they considered our economy to be well managed and stable Its ironic that foreign con fidence in the Canadian econ omy should diminiin just when by dint of years selfrc straiiit we have brought our in flation ratc down to 44 per cent on Gross National Product basis or 65 per cent as meas ured by consumer prices The drop in the dollar will of course add to the inflationary pressures by increasing the cost of our importsfrom Florida grapefruit to German cars IN THE SPOTLIGHT The election of the Parti Que becois Nov 15 seems to have turned the limelight of inter national finance upon Canada Noticing us for the first time after months or years of benign neglect foreign in oncymen saw not only the possibility of breakup of confederation but also the arrival of socialist government in the largest prov ince yet to swing to the left While they were digesting the news from Quebec they Icar ned that the Canadian bank rate had been reduced to nine per cent from 95 per cent signalling general lowering of Canadian interest rates Although the equivalent US rate was reduced at about the same time to 525 per cent from 55 per cent the spread in Can adas favor was narrowed by quarter of percentage point That may not sound like much but it was more than enough to turn great deal of foreign capital away from Can ada in search of higher re turn elsewhere SPENDING SIIIEE Foreign investors also seem to have become more acutely aware in the last couple of weeks of the rapidity with which om govemments are en larging their share of the Cana dian economy Even this perhaps cant be censured though it shows blindness towards its true posi tion But the appalling aspect is that it resists so stupidly Industry largely takes an at titude of You cant do this to us We are bigger than you are But the fact is that govern ment can do it to them And that they arent bigger than government not any longer With need and public opinion behind it government today is allpowerful Good evidence of how little this is appreciated is given by the calibre of people industry selects to handle its relations with government Government relations is so vital to industry today that they should be prime concern of the very top But almost in variably the peoplc charged with them come from the sec ond or third level And they most often have little or no knowledge of what their real would you turn your function is One large multinational know of and in an industry that is wide open to be smacked all over the place by government has socalled public affairs department The vicepresident in charge is an engineer and his next in line is an accountant Public affairs to them might as well mean wideopen sex for all they know about them Last Dec 28 when Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau tried to give warning to industry of the pitfalls into which it was falling it reacted like sulky kid throwing spitballs But it isnt spitballs it is play ing with It is dynamite And it should realize it and we should realize it For we need itgood industry This doesnt apply to all in dustry of course There is some enlightened leadership in its ranks But with public opinion industry at large tends to be as sessed on its poorest members THE WORLD TODAY International studies here By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service news story in the New York Times that Columbia and Har vard universities have merged their fundraising activities to save their worldfamous Rus sian studies centres makes me wonder about the state of inter national studies in Canada The Harvard and Columbia Russian centres are looking for $8 million to survive They are most prestigious operations producing host of scholars and specialists among them Zbigniew Brzezinski the foreign policy adviser to President elect Jimmy Carter with the tonguetwisting Polish name Goodness knows in Canada we now have large number of scholars in socalled area stud ies African Middle Eastern Latin American Chinese and Russian Chinese studies for one seem to have flourished with Can adas diplomatic trade and cul tural ties with the Peoples Re public of China handful of Canadian schol ars have attempted the very difficult task of doing graduate studies at the University of Pe king Few if any go to Taiwan still major intellectual centre for Chinese studies because of the fascination for the Commu nist experiment on the main land Indeed ideological per suasions predominantly leftist as well as shortage of funds hamper international studies to some degree in Canada For ex ample an analysis of Latin American military elite even one wellendowed with tech nocratic and managerial skills cannot easily be made without biased political context Are Russian or Chinese gen erals less benign than Chilean ones doubt it In the former two cases we have decades of recorded history to search In the latter case we have three years of supreme and often bru RI BLETHOUIHI For whosoever shall give you cup of water to drink in my name because ye belong to Christ verily say unto you he shall not lose his reward Mark924l How many people have perished in the desert of life for the want of cup of water It can come in the form of kind word bit of courtesy or concern Our spiritual height is often measured by whether or not we are willing to bend down to do the little things Be good to someone today God is wat ching Ye shall not lose your your reward tal power But again more bru tal than Russian generals Cu ban comandantes or Chinese Peoples Liberation Army colo nels Thats one complaint Another is also cultural The emphasis now is given by Canadian nationalist college professors to Canadian studies for their graduate students rather than international studies Again there is local fear of imperialism this one surely cloaked in genuine paranoia that the many American aca demics who came here in the 19605 to escape what they con sidered to be Americas impe rialist Asian war now are ac cused of being cultural impe rialists in Canada The reason is belief that an American scholar here who is teaching history social sci ence economics or English is so indoctrinated in his own American tradition that he cannot distinguish or teach about the Canadian ones And yet Canadian cultural nationalism of the 1970s has arisen for the same reasons which brought these scholars here resistance to the cultural empire of America Lack of funds for inter national studies has always been bleat of Canadian uni versity presidents though now there seems to be enough money around for Canadian studies How come Only Dr Tom Symons the distinguished Canadian histo rian and former Trent Univer sity president can tell us what his commission cost to analyse the position of Canadian stud ies It was an honorable essential and undoubtedly also expensive look at an area which our cam puses prefer to emphasize these days TOO MUCH CHALVINISM What find chauvinistic about it all other than uncouth attacks on our confreres from the American academe some of whom consider themselves to be truly exiles is the silly ex tent to which our cultural iden tity can be carried on occa sions 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 see think PW PART IV PICTURE QUIZ POINTS She is lcdcial omniiiniintions ministci Can you name hcr HOW DO YOU RATE 91 to 100 points TOP SCORE BI to 90 points Excellent 71 to 80 paints Good 61 to 70 paints Fair 60 or Under Hmm FAMILY DISCUSSION QUESTION What govtrnmtnt polit its or reforms if any can you suggest to prcvcnt Illllllt prison riotst STUDENTS Kcn Dryden lirry Sittlcr liohlly Hull Christian Iioidclcaii 2076 Save This Practice Examination Valuable Reference Material for Exams YOUR NEWS QUIZ PART NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL Give yourself It points for each correct answer Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau said he might sthcdule national referendum onterning athc BNA Act bwagc ontrols Qucbci separatism TV In in exciting finish to the Grey Cup Game the CHOOSI ONE Saskatchewan Roughriders Ottawa Rough Riders tame from behind to win 23 to 20 The British government announced plans to grant llllllll system of selfgovernment to and aWalcs bS otland Australia devastating killed thousands of pcoplc and left more thousands homeless in the nation of Turkey lone licarlhqudkc tlood 1n lllllf Lipancsc sneak itti 1976 is the on ISth dnnltdef of 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