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PAGE 6 â€" Here‘s a nifty idea. There are a lot of people out there who are looking for work and it looks like the post office could use some help these days in sorting the mail for delivery. job. > So, the authorities should simply fire the whole lot of them and immediately start recruiting from the ranks of the unâ€" employed. _ _ _ _ _ y o0 _ Some readers may have noticed there‘s no mail because postal employees have decided to loiter around the premises of the work place instead of going inside:â€"and doing their _ There are probably more than a handful who wouldn‘t balk at the annual wage offered by the government of about $25,000 annually. _ _ _ â€" _ . The move would get the mail moving and provide a great opportunity for a lot of outâ€"ofâ€"work people, who shouldn‘t be difficult to find for this work because no special qualificaâ€" tions are required. , c Do k d hiA ioh dilbratodinafiintiatsr boagtaiodbadd » Of course, the current employees could be given a fair chance to return to the job to maintain their employment status. And, if they didn‘t, they‘d be choosing their own lot. But things don‘t work that way you say. Oh, right. That‘s too simplistic, too disdainful of the rights and struggle of unionists across the country. § Next Monday and Tuesday, Prime Minister Trudeau will host an Economic Summit. Judging from the feelings exâ€" pressed to me during meetings and conversations around Waterloo Riding, many in our area would find the idea of Mr. Trudeau discussing world economics something like a marriage between a wrecker and an architect! After all, it may be a free society, but that doesn‘t give an employer the right to fire a worker just because he refuses to do the job. At least, if he refuses in concert with all his other colleagues. _ _ _ __ _ ___ _ _ . w(-)-i(â€",obâ€"a'c_l'( to the drawing board. Justified or not, a strike is a strike, and unionism, it seems, is a sacred cow. & Consider some comparative figures showing Canada‘s woeful economic showâ€" ing under Trudeau governments: " 1. Economic Growth: In 1980, Canada‘s economic performance was one of the worst in the Western world. Our resourceâ€" rich country experienced zero (0.0 perâ€" cent) economic growth according to the government‘s own figures. The countries of the European Economic Community averaged 1.5 percent. 2. Standard of Living: In 1970, Canada‘s standard of living was the third highest in the world, second only to Sweden and the United States. By 1978, we had fallen to twelith place â€" behind Switzerland, Denâ€" mark, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Norâ€" way, Luxembourg, Iceland, U.S.A., Nethâ€" erlands and France. 3. Energy Efficiency: Canada is the WA TERLOC ICLE, WEDNESDAY, JLY 15, 1981 Dare we say? WALTER McLEAN published every Wednesday by Fairway Press a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo Record Ltd.. owner 225 Fairway Rd. S.. Kitchener. Ont address correspondence to Uaurhn_fz 92 King St South. Waterioo. Ont . Waterico Chrorucie office is lochted an2Znd rtoo: of the O W Sport Waterico Square Pmmlmgw’mwmw Enday $ 00 s mgio 5.00 p m $16 a vear Western world. We use double the amount of energy expended by Japan or Western Europe, and 15 percent more than even the United States. _ 4. Unemployment: For most of the past decade, Canada has enjoyed the dubious distinction of having the worst unemployâ€" ment rate of any of the ‘summit‘ nations. In 1980, our 7.5 percent unemployment rate was equalled only by Britain, and was higher than that of the U.S. (7.1 percent), France (6.6 percent), Italy (5.9 percent), Germany (3.3 percent), and Japan (2.0 percent). 5. Inflation: Only Italy has had a more rapid increase in prices during the last six months. To make things worse, we are fast falling behind our major trading partner, the United States. Last July, the annual inflation rate in the U.S. was 13.1 percent â€" 3 points higher than Canada. In May, 1981, the U.S. inflation rate fell to 9.8 percent â€" 2.5 points below the 12.3 percent level in this country. Not surprisingly, this year‘s meeting is to be known only as the Ottawa Summit. Mr. Trudeau has seen fit not to call it an Economic Summit. ._.A.; Canadians are aware, the Prime Minister has made a much publicized 3, ‘00 pmicle 'O JJ \iip)}y established 1854 + O 0 day by Fairway Press. loo Record Ltd.. owner Rd. S.. Kitchener. Ont.: orrespondence to Waterioo effice o D Waterioo. Ont . telephone 886â€"2830 » of the O W Sports busiding opposte ‘ ' n Waterico Square Open Monday to Publisher: Paul Winkler D * q Managers Bill Karges ’ s RAitar Phil Jaisevac M _ m â€" â€" L LameÂ¥P h 0 pscriptions §$14 a year in Canada ted States and Foreign Countries Editor Phil Jaisevac Global responsibilities attempt to focus some of the discussion next week on the Northâ€"South Dialogue. It is my hope, and that of my colleagues in Official Opposition that this initiative will bear fruit. The gap between Canada and the other summit nations is small comâ€" pared to the gaping disparities between the standards of living of our industrialâ€" ized countries in the northern hemisphere, and the misery and suffering in the developing countries of the southern hemiâ€" sphere. The lack of basics, like food, water and shelter are all too common in the South. Rising world oil prices have bankrupted many African, Asian and Latin American countries. While we in Canada criticize our governâ€" ment for economic mismanagement, homeless, unwanted refugees escape politâ€" ical terror in the South only to find starvation and despair in neighboring countries. . The Report of the Brandt Commission called the Northâ€"South tragedy the single most important dilemma for humankind. The potential violence, if this issue continâ€" ues to be neglected by the North, cannot be overestimated. _ Some of the summit leaders have stated that they will _ help the developing peoples X_ 88 only after they have resolved their own economic difficulties. The human cost of such isolationist policies is morally and spiritually unacceptable. Surely both must ‘be addressed. + Canada has had a rich tradition of international leadership in the fields of peace making and development assisâ€" tance. We have shown the world the dignity in the simple human act of teaching others the skills to feed and shelter not only themselves, but their whole village. That is the international example we have to show the industrialâ€" ized nations in Ottawa next week. We in the industrialized economies of the North, have to face the fact that our financial difficulties fall far short of military terror or starvation. * Since they commenced in 1975, summit conferences have not produced dramatic solutions. Rather, they offer the chance for a key group of world leaders to take powerful new initiatives on international issues. This time around, the whole world will be watching the deliberations in Ottawa for a sign that the North is not only tackling its serious problems, but has finally realized its global human responâ€" sibilities. M