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The Examiner is member of The Canadian Press CP and Audit Bureau at NEWSROOM 7266537 CllCUlATlON 7266539 i6 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Bruce Rowland ADVIITISING 7266537 publisher CLASSIFIEDS 7282414 It could be worse Everyone complains about high taxes But are they as high as they seem recent survey of 22 countries showed the bite of taxes and social security payments here is lower than other countries The survey conducted by the Organization for Economics CoOperation and Development shows that taxes and social security premiums in Canada took 16 per cent of income where family had average industrial earnings in the 19721976 period This com pares with 17 per cent in the US 254 per cent in Bri tain and 27 per cent in West Germany Some countries were lower in Japan the bite was only per cent but in most cases countries with low tax rates were also poorer countries Higher income families in Canada were also reasonably well off by comparison For example family with four times the average industrial income in Canada paid out 28 per cent of its income in taxes compared to 29 per cent in the US 341 per cent in Britain and 285 per cent in Germany What the statistics dont show is that Canadians have high level of medical and family allowances So while everyone would like to pay lower taxes Canadians arent taxed out of line with other coun tries The following letter was recently sent to Dr Rynard MP Sim coe North from the Barrie Public Library Dear Dr Rynard Warm thanks for your letter noti fying us of the decision of the Minister of Supply and services to continue provision free of charge of most government publications to public and academic libraries with depository status Mr Pierre De Bane withdrew his proposal to charge these libraries remarking that The library com munity in cooperation with my Your business By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Dollar devaluation is like an LP theres something to be said on both sides 0n the one side the sharp decline in the foreignexchange value of the Canadian dollar since late 1976 has made our exports cheaper and so in theory more attractive to foreign customers On the other side it has increased the cost of the things we import Again in theory that should be encouraging us to substitute domestic products for imported goods when we shop In the real world economic theory seldom if ever works out quite that perfectly Export success requires not just cheaper dollar but such other elements as aggressive and imaginative salesmanship And domestic producers are all too prone to push up the prices of their products in the write your mp 39 If you would like to write your Member of Parliament or Member of Provincial Parlia mont printed below are their molling ad dresses If you send us copy of your letter it might be suitable for our Letters to the Editor columns After all if there is matter of concern that makes you want to write to your MP or MPP if it is not personal matter it should be at interest to your friends and neighbors too FIDEIM Iyliard MPNorth Simcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont loss Mite MPPoolDuflorinSimcae Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont Mb Storm MPYorkSlmcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont 0s mtg MPfiGroySlmcoo Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont PIOVINCMl Coons Taylor MPPSimcao Contra Ontario Legislature Queens Park Toronto Gordan Hi MPPSlmcooEast Ontario Legislature Queens Park Toronto ICCnu MPPDuftorln Slmcoo Queens Park Toronto letters to the editor Department helps to increase the knowledge of Canada and Cana dians by Canadians and at the same time provides valuable ser vice to citizens in all walks of life am grateful to the Minister and appreciate your representations in the cause of informing the public Since copy of my original protest went to the Barrie Examiner this acknowledgement is also going to the newspaper Sincerely Mrs Sara Maley Chief Librarian Barrie Public Library Dwindling dollar spur to exports Canadian market to match price increases that become necessary on imports when our dollar declines These matching price increases are major cause of last years sharp rise in corpo rate profits subject of current public controversy DOLLARS PLUNGE Last year the Japanese yen went up 33 per cent in terms of the Canadian dollar and the German mark 24 per cent The pound sterling rose 15 per cent and the US dollar eight per cent against our currency One economist who believes that the dollars weakness has on balance helped the Canadian manufacturing sector is Kurt von dem Hagen of the Royal Bank of Canada Montreal The economists at the Royal have devised an index of manufacturing com petitiveness relating it to the corresponding sectors in the US Britain West Germany and Japan The two major components of the index are unit labor costs figure arrived at by calculating wage increases and improvement in output per worker employed and industry selling prices base figure of 100 has been assigned to the year 1975 since that was the last of several successive years in which our international competitiveness remained fairly stable The banks economists find that the competitiveness index has been improving steadily for the past two years and now has reached peak of 1197 The weak dollar has hel ed lot in keeping Canadian costs an prices low relative to our major competitors says Dr von dem Hagen an economist born and educated in Germany BENCHMARK The practical value of the new corn petitiveness index should be in its use as benchmark for Canadian manufacturers Those who havent increased their penetration of export markets in thc past year or two should ask thcmselves the economist suggests whether the index is somehow inapplicable to them or whether they are failing to take advantage of their improved competitive status The Royals economist doesnt expect much further improvcmmnt in our international competitiveness because the worst of the dollars decline has already taken place and because postrestraint wage increases in Canada are in some cases exceeding those in the US Even though it has made Canadian manufacturing more competitive on foreign markets than ever before the dollars decline is no reason for selfcongratulation Theres no escaping the fact that it represents an international vote of no con fidence in our economic management that has been characterized in recent years by ra id inflation excessive public spending and pu lic debt and chronically high unem ployment BUSINESS 7266537 SCOOPS Lori Cohen Richard Thomas Stephen Gauer entertainment Gary Forbes Betty Armer camera operator Dave Burcslk photographer Freda Shinncr Peggy Chapel Janice Morton wmwAp 5mmla Parliament Hill By STEWART MaclJIOl Ottawa liurcau Thomson News Service At first glance that lurti Quebccois resolution lictwecn Equals would seem to cut through all those clouds of confusion and circuinvolulion surrounding the partys objective of sovereignty association for Quebec Finally it would appear lrcmicr ltcnc Levesque and his strategists havc made their position clear There for all Qucbcccrs to is the partys program for overhauling the constitution of the province Immediately after obtaining an at firmativc rcspoiiSc til the referendum says the resolution the larti Qucbccois govern mcnt will carry out its mandate of trying to negotiate with the rest of anada for an acceptable economic association lhcsc talks would be between two sovereign statcs and would deal with customs union the free flow of goods and people the operation of transportation systems and other com mcrcial institutions that now span the bor dcrs In the cvcnt that it should appear llll possible to reach satisfactory agreement with Canada the government will proposc t0 the citizens of Quebec to assume fully without sharing them all the powers of sovereign state This seems clear enough The lurti Qucbccois will simply ask for approval to Ruth Dials supervisor Dana Homewood so wz centurion in PACKAGE or GUARANTEES FOR RIGHTS AND LIEERTIES ALL Alva LaPlantc Lisa Warry Elaine Porter Cheryl Aiken RonGildcr Barbara Strigt PRESSROOM Don Near foreman red Prince asst foreman Harris Blanchard Brian Men mmu ww fluorlhwwrun v¢ vm emsrubyavsyWxuw WHY TELL ME TALKTOTHE MlDDLE MAN ncgotmti soureign association and should the talks break down then Quebec will become an indcpcndcnt country with no stringsuttucbcd lllT ll l7ntortunitcl thc rctcrcntluni buttlc wont have this clarity The resolution which must still bc ratified by the party at large has this little reference to second consultation with thc Qucbcc pcoplc Should the sovereignty association negotiations full llic govcruiiicnt would propose to thc citicns of Qucbcc to assume fully lllt powers of sovereign state What this probably nicnns is that tlic lurti cbccois will be assuring the clcctoratc that nccd not fear tlic Consequences of yes votc on lllt forthcoming referendum that iudcpcndcncc can not be dcclurcd without second rclcrcnduin All the first referendum bible thoughts And be sciidclli forth two of his disciples and saiitli unto lliciii in yc iiilo the city and llicrc shall uicct you it man bearing pitcher of water follow him Mark Ill Its it comforting and sobering thought to know that lie is aware of where we arc what we llt doing and cvcn what or are thinking Thou Lord tiwl inc AND WE CALL lT THE MAGNA CARTER NEWSROOM ADVERnsNG BUSINESS COMPOSING ROOM Pubushed any can Circulations ABC Only the Canadian Press may re publish news stories in Craig Else managmg cam Len Sevlck manager Marian Gouqhaccmmpam lmzk Kernoy foreman Sunday and newspaper credited to CF The Associated Press Reuters or Agence Ian Muigrew cny ediior SALES 09 MmS ipnn Kwan asst rarernan gawk hoidays France Presse and local news stories published in The Examiner BillMcFartanewirecditor Bermwycns GailMcpariana Don Saunders EKLY carrier DaveFuuersporsedior JuIiannks Vikkicmm Lorne wass WE The Examiner claims copyngnton all original news and advertsung material Claudia Krausc thestyle editor Ian MacLeod Kathie Mitcheii Wt Cadogan 70 created by its employees and published in this newspaper rvin REPORTERS StanWray YEARLVbycarrier 8turdly Mar 1979 borne and Slmcoe couny Carl De curse gigsszlimer gfiaghgggnagw am Raynor $46 80 Copyright reglslration number zoaals register 6i Ste hen Nicholls EdAtlenby MNLBamE Publsh Derinls Lanthier Barb Bounon Slavewme swam manager Janie Hamel BY 80 National advertising ottices 65 Queen St Toronto 861 i710 640 Catncan and tan Newspapers Company Limited Nancy Figueroa CUme Andy Hauohton WW KW St Montreal SIMCOE COUNTY $36 50 MOTOR THROW OFF $39ayear ELSEWHERE IN CANADA $38 505 year HawksMW Parti Quebecois referendum likely to be cleverly worded will seek is mere mandate to discuss constitutional changes with the rest of tanada it could be much like the 1976 election campaign which Levesque fought on the issue of good government saying that separatism could be settled later in referendum This made things much easier for the antiLiberal voters who up to that point were afraid of the separatist alternative Many of those who voted for the were strongly opposed to separatism NU RISK Now it would appear the larti Qucbccois will be able to get yes replies in that initial rcfcrcndum front voters who are still opposed to separatism They will be free to support constitutional changes without having any fears of more drastic arbitrary actions And its not difficult to imagine the type of campaign the Parti Quebecois could wage lntcrgovernmcnlail Affairs Minister laude Morin perhaps was setting the stage when he said the rest of anada would split its sides laughing of Quebecch voted no in the referendum Obviously the question or ques tions will appeal to the emotions And it would be very difficult for Frenchspeaking Quebecers to reject the general proposition that they should be free to find their own destiny or that the government should have mandate to negotiate as equal partners in Confederation The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable tor damages ars ing out at errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid for the space ac tually occupied by that portion of the advertisement in which the error oc curred whether such error is due to the negligence at its servants or other wise and there shall be no liability for non insertion at any advertisement beyond the amount paid tor such advertisement The world today as Gunboat days over forever By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The Americans being activists are now wondering if President Carter has been vacillating on foreign policy to the detriment of US interests and its image in the world The feeling that President Carter is an amateur in office and doesnt really know what he is doing has been accentuated by the Iranian crisis and the failure of Carter to br ing the leaders of Israel and Egypt to peace ta le Other lesser items like the clumsy death of the American ambassador to Afghanistan the open assault by local guerrillas on the US Embassy in Tehran worry many Americans as much as the very big issues These suggest to the American maninthe street that contempt is growing in the world for American power in way this has not taken place before President Carters open and frank response to all this is that he has done everything he can as president in all these instances without direct intervention Americans who have rejected any further major military interventions anywhere again in the world after Vietnam are no longer responding this way COOL KISSINGER Where Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State in President Fords administration could successfully advise against any direct US involvement in Angola in 1975 to stop the Cubans Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and the president give the impression of im potence when they try and cool events Yet where any kind of intervention could have been disastrous in the lranian situation there are those who maintain the United States could have intervened in Angola and prevented the buildup of Cuban military aid and the formation of Marxist state But looking back we see that the Cuban in volvement in Africa which began with Angola was mounted only weeks after the remaining American military and diplomats ig nominously fled Saigon at the end of March 1975 The latest perceived blows to President Carters prestige and that of the United States were the hard words in public from Mexican President Lopez Portillo during the recent arter visit to him But the Mexicans with the first real muscle they have had against the United States in century and half of stormy relations through their new oil wealth are not likely to forget past grievances American political leaders especially those from the southwest which was once an in herant part of the Mexican Republic cannot take Texas Rangers view of tVSMexican relations And yet they do talking as though new Alamos have to be defended against the Mex ican hordes when in effect the new crisis with Mexicans in their midst is massive im migration one which hasnt been resolved ilNBOATS PLEASE Yet in spite of growing criticism to do something over lran Ethiopia Mexico lsrael South Yemen Cambodia the current ChinaVietnam War the artcr administra tion is not likely to revert to gunboat diplomacy The dilemma of America is that it can never do so again Interpreting the news ldi Amins days appear numbered NEW YORK li ldi Amins days in power may be coming to an end as Tanzania prosecutes an invasion that could topple the dictator after eight years of oftenbizarre rule Tanzanian President Julius Nyererc the butt of Amin insults and jibes for years laun ched the invasion several weeks ago after Uganda unsuccessfully tried to seize piece of Tanzanian territory last October Reports from the Ugandan capital say Tan 7anian troops and Ugandan exiles are about 80 miles south of Kampala and the remaining exhausted Ugandan military units are not ex pected to be able to withstand twopronged thrust by the invaders Amin has appealed to the Organization of African Unity OAU and has asked neighbor ing countries to intervene with Nyerere The Tanzanian leader has set series of condi tions for peace including AU condemnation of Uganda for the attack in October pledge by Amin not to attack again and promise of reparations SEEKS EVENGE However observers in neighboring Kenya said it appears Nycrcre wants to settle ac counts with Amin and may intend to restore Milton Obotc the Ugandan leader deposed by Amin in 1971 to power Tanzanian troops are icconipanitxt by Ugandan exilcs bent on the overthrow of the mercurial dictator Since Amin overthrew Obote while the prime minister was attending toin monwealth conference in Singapore his rule has been erratic He named himself field marshal and also awarded himself string of dixorations in cludiiig the Victoria Cross Hriliiins liighes award for valor lie expelled some 45000 Ugandan Asians frotii the country many of whom ended up in Canada The Asians however formed the merchant class of Uganda and without them the national economy has done badly prop ped up only by the high price of coffee the urgest export Amin instituted ii reign of terror in Uganda Amnesty international has accused him of murderin at least 100000 persons They in cluded poiticat opponents military figures and even prominent cleric