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TradingstqrnpCoritroVersy Runs Up To Millions Yearly By JOHN BIRD Canadian Press Stall Writer battle of giants over the use or trading stamps in Can ad involves stakes running into millions of dollars annually and rising steadily The controversy pits trading stamp companies and powerful retail outlets using stamps to boost salesnotably food store chainsagainst nearly damn national organizations which contend trading stamps are sales gimmick that adds to the consumers cost Caught in the middle are the federal and provincial govem meals for whom the multi million dollor trading stamp issue has become headache BANNED IN PLACES crossCanada survey by The Canadlan Press shows the issue is most lively in Ontario and Quebec and to lesser extent in Manitoba In the At lantic provinces stamps are used only on small scale not at all in Princc Edward Island but they threaten to become an issue in Nova Scotia British Columbia Alberta and Saskatchewan are the only provinces with legislation ban ning the types of trading stamps most used But oppo nents of stamps regard such legislation as ineffective because it may contravene the field of criminal law reserved In the federal Parliament They say the only way to ban trading stamps is by fedcral legislation The British Columbia legis lation has been effective in keeping out Irading stamps but hasenot yet been tested in the courts charge laid under Albertas legislation was dismissed at on constitutional grounds and the provincial gov emment is taking second look at its stump ban Saskatchewans out legislation has not yet been proclaimed but stamps are not being used in that province MAIN ARGUMENTS Stamp cbrnpouics and rctail ers using stamps say they boost sales without increasing con sumer prices They contend that it the public objected it would patronize ttte nonstamp stores Opponentsmainly the Retail Merchants Association of Can ada and the Canadian Associ ation ot Consumersclaim that stamps do incratne consumer prices and describe them as parasitic injection into the mer cantile bloodstream They argue that they should be outlawed by federal legislation The type of stamp most commonly in use has been ruled legal under the Criminal Code by the Supreme Court Can ada In Dec 19 decision the court upheld the legality of stampsjssued by Loblaw Gro ceteriav Company lManitobal Limited and an Independent Grocers Alliance store in Winni peg The court said that slamps prohibited in Canada are specif ically describedlin the code and that theL ab and IGA stamps do not fall within this prohibition Stamps of this type are used by Loblaw and GA stores in other provinces and also by the Steinberg and Power super market chains in Eastern Can ada anda variety of small merchants including vi stations and even hairdressers Trading stamps are not used by Dominion Stores the and chain or Canada Safeway Limited These companies con tend they offer lower prices instead of stamps BIG OPERATION Mrs Mary Sim of Toronto executive director of the Cana dian Association orstamp Com panics says 12000 merchaan now use tr din stamps About 4000000 prem iums valued at $10000000 were changed for stamps in 1960 and these figures are expected to rise by about 30 per cent in 1961 Mrsfsimsaid stamps help small retailers tight the big chain stores They were natural solution or thg retailer who could not allord whole page of newspaper advertising But the Retail Merchants Association the Canadian As sociation of Consumers the Canadian Labor Conng and other opponents say stamps cost money to distribute and boost the price of consumer goods by two to three per cent They argue that third party thc stump companyoperates highly profitable business at the expense or twinsumcrs LONGIIME ISSUE The current controversy is nothing new Stamps have been live issue since 1905 when Parliament wrote stiff section into the Criminal Code banning virtually all types at trading stamps This section however was amended in 1054 to define types which are unlawful The new legislation outlawed stamp schemes that were crim inal in character in that they endnngcmi the countrys cur rency system or constituted fraud Others were left to pro vincial Jurisdiction The Retail Merchants Associ ation and other opponents of stamps say the 195 change in the coda resulted in stamp plans spreading like wildfire They say Parliaments intention in l906 was to prohibit all stamp plans except those which allow manufacturers to gifts for coupons Opponents argue that stumps today are in such wide circu lation that they do in fact cone stltule secondary form of currency and that they are fraudulentjn character because they do notoffer something or nothing Justice Minister Fulton on several occasions has said the federal government will act it it can be shown that stomp plans now in operation are of type Parliament intended to ban as being criminal Mr Fulton gave the Com mons avoguc hint last no cembei that the government might be considering amend meals to the Criminal Code dealing with trading stamps Asked whether stamps now in use would be outlawed he said The only answer can give to that question is that the throne speech forecast that there would be amendments to the Criminal Code during this session When the bill is intro duced government polley in that regard will be indicated Frank Howard CCF member or Skcena has reintroduced private bill to ban all type of trading stamps It will be de baled later in the scssloit similar bill of his was debated last session but did not come to vote ALBERTA CASE Albe rt 11 outlawed tradin stamps in November 1959 first province to do so The stcp was taken through regulations under the Licensing of Trade and BusinesSes Act in the summer of 160 Edmonton grocer Joseph Keller started to issue stamps He was prosecuted but the case failed in magistrates court on grounds that the provincial ban contravened the Criminal Code bill to amend the provincial act ran into opposition in the lcgislalurc and the 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