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Parliament Hill Tuesday Sept 25 1979 CIRCULATION 7266539 NEWSROOM 7266537 the examiner serving barrie and simcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher ADVERTISING 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 7282414 Of hunting and picric acid Simcoe County Council has added its voice to those oppos ing the resumption of deer hunting here in November Many county farmers want the hunt halted until new Trespass Act is drawn up for their protection Others are concerned about the possible danger of 2000 licensed hunters in county that is far from rural In addition there is the obvious difficulty of police and wildlife officials to monitor the hunt adequately The ministry of natural resources argues that the hunt has been in preparation for six years and that all concerns have been met It adds that if the hunt does not proceed that much of the deer herd will fall prey to wild dogs hunger or disease What the ministry does not answer is why professional hunters could not be used to thin the herd if necessary That would seem to us safer and far more humane than the proposed November hunt Ioaaoooooo lts reassuring to see the Simcoe County Board of Educa tion recognize the potential danger of picric acid In liquid form the chemical is safe Dried out however it can become dangerous explosive Thats what happened in Thunder Bay The dried acid was dangerous enough to be taken to dump and exploded The Simcoe board wasted no time in carrying out precau tionary check of its own The inventory search turned up one suspect bottle The substance may or may not have been picric acid of the dangerous variety But the board of course had it destroyed The move was good one just in case Perhaps regular in ventory checks should continue to make certain School storerooms are not harboring other potentially dangeiotis substances Dear Editor It is about time that the news media heard from the other 995 per cent of the population of Simcoe County and for that matter about the same ratio in most other coun ties who speak Canadian and also pay the taxes which in turn have been going into the various French educational fields We have had continuous repor tings and pictures on the plight of several perhaps two dozen people trying to set up French school which would cost the taxpayers over two million dollars to build the in itial building and many more thousands of dollars to administer every year and for what So 80 to 150 children may be taught in French only to go out in the working force and speak on the most part By STEWART MacLEOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service Joe Clarks Conservative government may have ruffled few feathers when it unceremoniously dumped Bryce Mackasey as president of Air Canada actually am thinking particularly of Mr Mackaseys own feathers but this reaction clearly didnt ex tend to the prime ministers caucus There the dumping was greeted with an enormous sigh of satisfaction If there was one specific thing that caucus craves it is an emptying of the Liberal pork barrel that had been stuffed systematically with political ap pointees by successive Grit governments And when you consider that we have had Liberal regimes for 38 of the last 44 years its only reasonable that decided imbalance ex ists Actually the Tories dont seemed par ticularly concerned with lowerlevel appoint ments Its the highprofile personalities particularly those with political backgrounds that they are after and in this respect Bryce Mackasey was the ultimate target There was no doubt that the former Liberal minister who was drawing $90000ayear plus perks for the largely ceremonial job at Air Canada had to get the axe if the Tory troops were to be kept in line He was after all the most blatent political appointee in Pierre Trudeaus 11year reign as prime minister PROUD DEPARTURE As one Conservative backbencher boarded an aircraft in Ottawa few days later he said the Mackasey firing actually filled him with pride know its strange reaction to someone losingI his job but his appointment was so wrong at lam proud to be associated with his departure And what was the associdtion Well we all screamed in caucus about it There was no way that Mackasey could stay Now that this item has been cleared off the agenda there are many caucus members who want to see other Liberal heads rol down the lawns of Parliament Hill In fact says one westerner there are many of my consti tuents who feel that Mackasey was not eyen part of that Liberal establishment It was JUSI assumed he would and now we should get down to the real pro lem cases The problem cases as some Tories View them are the de ty ministers and other senior advisors have in many cases letters to the editor Canadian Really has not this whole matter been blown out of propor tion Ever since Trudeau started his bilingual programs there has been no end to the demands of various French groups which before were never heard from and lived in harmony with fellow Canadians Try to get the Quebec Govern ment to pay for Canadian speak ing school They would chase you out of the province would suggest the matter be dropped once and for all as the School Board suggested and as the Provicial Government undoubtedly are having second thoughts about There are more important social needs in our society affecting the majority of people Yours truly Don Allan PC caucus backs Mackasey firing spent entire careers working at the feet of Liberal ministers Some are in fact former Liberal politicians and cabinet ministers such as CM Drury chairman of the National Capital Commission Mitchell Sharp nor thern pipeline commissioner and Pierre Juneau undersecretary of state All are understandably figidity ACTION WANTED For time there were indications that despite earlier Tory suggestions of high level housecleaning that Clark and company would settle for gentle attrition process Ahandful of deputy ministers were moving on to other jobs anyway former Privy Counc11 Clark Michael Pitfield had been sacked short ly after the May election and the odd senior mandarin quit in protest and one or two others were told to leave But this has not relieved the pressure in caucus And Supply Minister Roch LaSalle may have attracted some selfrighteous pro tests when he said it was time for Tory turn at the patronage trough but he was not lone voice in the wilderness Many agree with his sentiment that when Liberal appointees are gone we will replace them with friends of our party And Clark has been hearing some inted suggestions from his own back nchers that these changes should be made sooner rather than later Even if the prime minister would prefer to adopt more patient approach and his Ottawaarea MPs would certainly approve of this its doubtful whether he can resist par ty pressures for continuing changes What you have to realize said an Ontario MP is that there are hundreds of party supporters in every riding who want government jobs of one kind or another And the only way they will realize we mean business is if we clean out Liberals at the top At least that gets into the newspapers bible thoughts My son attend to my words incline thine car unto my sayings For they are life un to those that find them and health to all their flesh Proverbs 42022 We need to put ourselves on round of the reading of Gods Word He has made us and what He has to say is healthy for us He sent His word and healed them cosmos 7266537 ADVEiY TISING BUSINESS Published daily EXCQPI Gmflatiom ARC Only the Canadian Press may republish naws stones in this EDITORS Levi Sevrck manager Mama GOU aCCoumam Jan Kemey oreman Sunday and map credited to CF Tho Associated Frau Routers or Aron Franco Pran CMEW managm Mtl °° Ida andlo arias uhl hodinlho IarrioExaminar Stan Didzbalis city editor Sélxec pans Don Sauna statutory en new is 232Ta2326 TM 90 335Ha Connie Hart bfiypzmgsan WE Ktzcgnvéarner Tholorria Examiner claims copyright on all original now and advertising 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Cathy Heather Janice Morton Lisa Warry Mary Delanev Elaine Burton EgngFfzgcaess Oeman ELSEWLEE galyengADA The Publisher raurvu tho right to ad row classify or ranct on advertst Cheryl Aiken man The world today By JOHN IIARBHON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The death by cancer of the late President Agostinho Neto of Angola in Moscow in midSeptember suggests an uncertain future for Africas geographically largest Marxist state Neto one of black Africas leading poets mainly in the Portuguese language of the former colonial power who educated him revolutionary and doctor secured power in Angolas struggle for independence with the help of Cuba in 1975 That stillcontroversial intrusion of Castro into African affairs which he has since ex tended to more than dozen African nations secured victory for Neto over his two Angolan rivals These were Jonas Savimbi and Holden Roberto who both had received technical and military aid from Western sources the CIA in the United States South African military units and Western European arms suppliers In fact the late president Neto never did secure control over all of this once vast Por tuguese West African colonly since Savimbi and his ragtag guerrillas still fight against the Angolan Marxist government and hold control of remote southern and western regions of the troubled state From the legislature By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson New Service TORONTO The most insiduous myth of the 20th century is that the almighty dollar bill economic circumstance rules the world How much money have whether in cash job housing or whatever is the only real motive many people accept for most human actions MPP Dave Cooke NDP Windsor Riverside played that old tune last week in press release complaining about unemployg ment in his home city Layoffs in the auto industry were he said producing tragic cases of workers having nervous breakdowns or resorting to crime In truth that is kind of slander on the auto workers as group since most dont resort to illegal acts because of their economic cir cumstances Nor do most have nervous breakdowns UNDER EVERY BED Yet politicians like Cooke not to mention goodly number of journalists and academics Klm Pattenden Neto was an outstanding leader Marxist with long prison record in Portugal and Angola as deeplycommitted revolutionary LONG STRIGGHI FOR POWER Trained as physician in Portugal his struggle to secure independence for Angola see an economic motive hidden behind every social or political act They endlessly repeat the simplistic theme that street crimes such as mugging and pursesnatching are the result to quote one devotee of bigcity statistics of unemploy ment and broken homes and poverty Such an explanation totally puzzles those who grew up in the 1930s Depression when the word poverty actually meant something but where the streets were far safer than they are lll It lllllTt TM The same holda true when debate turns to the possibility if Qtltlwi leaving anada The economic Lctermiiiists argue that more jobs higher incomes lower prices and better social services would save the province from separatism Yet everyone knows the Atlantic provinces are in much worse economic straits than Quebec without the spectre of separatism raising its ugly head Moreover it is evident that the highlypaid Quebccois like civil servants and teachers are the backbone of the independence movement COMPOSING ROOM ir following death of president stretches back almost 30 years to time when it seemed Portugals African colonial empire would never fall However the sudden actions of General Spinola Portugals leading colonial soldier who assumed power in April 1974 resulted in the breakup of the last European empire in Africa Netos Popular Liberation Movement for Angola the MPLA was always the strongest and bestorganized political force in Angola needing only beefing up on the military side from Russian and Cuban allies to win the liberation war But Neto faced immense economic pro blems after he secured political power The long guerrilla and liberation struggles both before and after Portuguese evacuation shattered the economy progressive and entrepreneurial class of mainly Africanborn white Portuguese farmers and plant managers fled en masse with the arrival of Marxist regime They have resettled mainly in Brazil another large Portuguesespeaking part of the world where probusiness military regime willingly accepted them and their skills Angolas very rich reserves of minerals oil and fish had to be developed to give the Marx ist state revenue base Popular economics myth wont explain social events not the poor farmers of the Gaspe or the sawmill workers of Timiskaming Separatism in Canada as in Corsica or Ulster or Iran is essentially political phenomenum wrapped around language religion or color And as such the solutions must be political too not economic TOLGH STRIKE Or take the recent bitter eightmonth strike in Sudbury by Inco nickel workers Logic and economic selfvinterest said the men would never go out while the company had months of unsold nickel stored in warehouses Pride and anger among the men said the opposite They hit the bricks even though they knew they would never make back the wages they would lose while pounding the pavement Then there was the demonstration here by welfare recipients who wanted $800 million more to guarantee them the good life It too is part of the economic circumstance myth the idea that enough cash will heal the wounds of separated families The Barrie Examiner is member at The Canadian Frau CPI and Audit Bureau of business Profits still an increase By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The growth of Canadian corporate profits is continuing almost to the point of embarrass ment One survey of several hundred major Cana dian companies shows yeartoyear gain of 44 per cent in profits after taxes in the second quarter of this year The annual rate in the previous quarter had been 45 per cent In the fourth quarter of 1978 it was 46 per cent By now we are all familiar with the reasons given by business to explain why pro fits arent what they seem to be but the ra tionalizations may be starting to wear bit thin Here are some of the tried and true ex planations for the high rate of profit increase recently They are catching up from the 197578 period of antidnflation restraints which re quired businesses to reduce their profit margins by 15 per cent Inflation creates false illusion of pro fitability by pushing up the paper value of stock on hand while boosting the potential cost of replacing the inventory and more im portant wornout machinery and equipment In the base period against which current profits are being compared that is 197778 nonrecurring factors such as bad weather may have depressed earnings DIRTY WORI The corporate defence of profit growth is made all the more palatable by the excesses of the neverending socialist attack upon pro fits The critics of business regard any level of profits as obscene But most Canadians it appears recognize that businesses have to make enough money to keep on growing and to modernize otherwise they die Having granted all that one still must wonder whether 1979 profit levels are con tributing to inflation and what is more rele vant perhaps whether business is handling properly its new high level of profitability It would for example be more reassuring to know that business was investing more capital in expansion and growth to create more jobs improve productivity and generate future profits But survey of capital spending intentions shows that new investment in plant and equipment will probably rise this year at about the same rate as inflation In other words true growth is negligible Profit increases could also be used to in crease the return to shareholders the owners of the enterprise and thereby encourage more Canadians to invest their savings But common stock yields remain niggardly about 39 per cent on the 300 stocks in the Toronto Stock Exchange composite index and 49 per cent on representative group of 64 industrials POSITIVE THINKING Its time for business leaders to stop being so defensive in an argument they cant win Their critics will always scream windfall when companies earn high return commen surate with high risk Let them take more positive approach and reinvest more heavily not so much in those terribly clever takeovers of com petitors but rather in genuine expansion And let them give shareholders fair slice of corporate profits Yields of only four or five per cent are much too small to encourage new equity investment at time when bonds and debentures are yielding upwards of 11 and 12 per cent Finally pardon the heresy business could reexamine its pricing policies that are feeding inflation as well as creating the big profit increases Interpreting the news Labor party battle in UK LONDON CP battle for control of the Labor party is shaping up in Britain with in dications that the showdown may come on Oct at the partys annual conference in Brighton Jim Callaghan the former prime minister has called for temporary truce between his moderate forces and the left wing headed by Tony Benn However Benn has rejected the peace offer and the infighting has begun to open up Both sides agree that the Conservative policies of Prime Minister Margaret That cher should be the sole focus of the Labor par ty at this stage Callaghan wants display of party har mony at the conference with full detailed inquiry later on party organization He says the issue is too serious to be dealt with in brief bloody skirmish at Brighton and says he will advise delegates to reject any attempt to force vote Benn who has said hes available as party leader whenever Callaghan wants to step down is one of the principal advocates of change in the partys balance of power He contends that full debate followed by decisive vote on proposed constitutional changes would not split the party If the Labor party is to work together to fight and beat the Conservative government the quickest route is to tackle our problems of internal democracy Benn said POWER CONFLICT Essentially the left wing wants to strengthen the power of the party conference at the expense of the power of the party leadership in Parliament One of the issues to be debated at Brighton is control of the party manifesto As Benn sees it the question is whether Callaghan and Labor members of Parliament have the right to set aside policies adopted by the council as whole The de th of feeling aroused by the split is indicat in statement by rightwing group of Labor MPs in conjunction with grassroots body called Campaign for Labor Victory