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10 the examiner Saturday Sept 29 1979 Sinclair Stevens insists Might sell companies at loss By CAROL GOAR OTTAWA CP The Con servatives moved one step closer to fulfilling their election promise to return several gov emmentowned businesses to the private sector Friday by naming eight Crown corpo rations for which buyers are beingsought The companies with com bined assets of $8043 million are Canadair de Havilland EI dorado Nuclear and Northern 15 at Transportation Co Ltd and their subsidiaries Canadair Inc Eldorado Aviation Eldor Resources and Grimshaw Trucking and Distributing Treasury Board President Sinclair Stevens told reporters he has notdecided whether to distribute shares to the public look for bids from single buyer or sell blocks of shares Neither is the govemment prepared to commit itself firmly at this point to follow ing through on all eight sales Weve got to find out how serious buyers are once they understand the economic situ ation of these companies he said Many people who say they want to buy Crown cor poration like Canadair are talk ing without any true knowledge of their worth or status Stevens expects the proceeds of the sales to be in the $200 million range VIIGIIT SELL AT LOSS Although this is only slight agree to take over any impor tant social or regional services performed by former Crown company The government would have the option of declaring on second thought that it was no longer interested in selling Crown corporation already named The assets expected eam ings and market strength are balanced against the debts in ternal problems and other obli gations of Crown agency in deciding an appropriate selling price The proposed sale of the eight Crown agencies il lustrates the difference bet ween the Conservative ad ministration and its Liberal gain from the $187 million the predecessor Stevens told federal government originally reporters paid for the companies Stevens They had tendency said it will be such relief to get rid of certain debtridden companies that the government would consider selling them at aloss He has asked the study group to work out selling plan under which Foreigners would be pre vented from acquiring control of the former Crown agencies once they became private The new owners would always to study and never to decide while the new govem ment is determined to act he said FIRST COLOR AERIAL The first natural color photography was made from the air in 1930 The view of Washington was taken by Melville Bell Grosvenor of National Geographic from the dirigibleMauflower Reiects Indian equal demands OTTAWA CP The federal government has re jected Indian demands for equal participation in constitu tional talks but hs agreed to give them limited role at federalprovincial conferences Noel Starblanket president of the National Indian Brother hood said Friday Starblanket spoke after twohour meeting attended by Indian leaders Prime Minister Joe Clark Indian Affairs Minister Jake Epp and several other cabinet ministers Although we did get ongo ing participation we did not get equal partnership as an In dian government with the first ministers Starblanket said He said native groups will participate at constitutional talks on matters that affect claims constitutional talks and Indian Act amendments The brotherhood represents 300000 status Indians who receive federal benefits and protection under the Indian Act REJECT CONCEPT Native groups representing 15 million people say they want their rights entrenched in the constitution They have rejected the concept of two founding nations French and English and want equal par ticipation at constitutional talks They have never been granted more than observer status Their demands were fuelled by the Task Force on Cana dian Unity report made public in February urging federal and provincial governments to begin direct negotiations with CONDENSED CAMPBELLS TOMATO SOUP 599 SPECIAL EMPIRE BRAND RINDLESS I0 FLOZTIN UMIT 10 TINS BREAKFAST BACON 88 LB PKG them 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