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72824 7266537 5° er °° Ye The Publisher reserves the right to edit revise classity or reiect an adver llt im Pattenden tisement Grits popularity soars while PC fortunes down Sentence upholds principle of law There are no complete and tidy answers to all the legal problems of policing our society and protecting its citizens In any free society however the principle that the law is the law for police as well as ordinary citizens must be applied That principle was affirmed this week in county court in Barrie when two Metro police officers were con victed of using false affidavit dur ing an investigation The Crown was able to prove that Staff Sgt Gerald Stephenson and Sgt Robert McLean were guilty of using false affidavit in the in vestigation of Toronto lawyer Bruce Lorenzs slaying The police admitted they had used false written affidavit in an at tempt to induce incriminating ad missions from suspect The trial caught the classic dilem ma as to how far police may go in pursuing suspect while still pro tecting the rights of free society further dilemma was created by the fact that the two policemen had long standing in the force and had led exemplary lives The Crown in proving its case against the two policemen re affirmed thc principle that police like anyone else are not above the 3W If McLean and Stephenson had acted as the defence contended from honest motives they still went beyond any of the recognized methods available to police for deal ing with criminal cases While we can sympathize with police generally in the problems of dealing with the criminal element in society the court had to recognize the greater principle of equal laws for police and all its citizens The police have many legal methods at their disposal and should have to deal effectively with criminal suspects But when the police overstep their bounds they are threatening the very law and order which they are bound to protect In that sense the guilty verdict was the only possible one for the court to reach barrie landarks This muliilcmily dwelling at l36l38 Sanford Street is typical of the row housing for workers families built about l870 by William Ardagh lawyer Elements of the Victorian style have been retained in the triangular dormer Note the interesting period door with recessed tran som and mullion Examiner Photo information courtesy Barrie Local Ar chitectural Conservation Advisory Committee PCs mortgage tax bill contains giant loophole By VINCENT EGAN Business and onsumcr Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The Clark government six months in of flce has ignored most of its election promises but has perverser chosen to implement the silliest and most extravagant of those pledges The mortgage and property tax scheme given second reading Dec will put about $375 into the typical Canadian homeowncrs pocket next year But it will increase the federal deficit by about $29 billion year for all time once it has become fully operational in 1982 Why does Prime Minister Joe Clark think its necessary to carry out such costly scheme while blandly ignoring such other promises as the pledge to bring down in ation lower interest rates and stimulate the economy Perhaps the most hottest if cynical explanation comes not from Clark and the Tories but from Liberal George Baker GanderTwillingatei who voted for the scheme wouldnt vote against tax cut MISMANAGEMENT If there was one overriding reason for the Tory election victory last May it was that the public wanted change from the economic mismanagement of the Trudeau years when the countrys finances sank into deficits of scandalous proportions and the rest of the world lost confidence in our dollar But instead of recognizing its mandate to clean up the Trudeau mess the Clark gow ernment is making it still worsc Those disillusioned people who feel that all political parties are basically the same have found their views confirmed The plan will allow mortgagccs to treat we want your opinion Something on your mind Send Letter to the Editor Please make it an original copy and sign it The Examiner doesnt publish unsigned let tars but it you wish pen name will be used Include your telephone number and address as we have to verify letters Because of space limits public interest and good taste The Examiner sometimes has to edit condense or reject letters Letters to the Editor are run every day on the editorial page Send yours to letters to the Editor Illa Examiner Post Office Box 370 MIRIE Ont MM YOUR BUSNESS their interest payments as deductions from taxable income And it will give homeowners credit to offset income tax for the municipal taxes they pay on their property The scheme is clearly discriminatory It extends big tax benefit to one class of people those who have borrowed money to buy house but not to other taxpayers such as those who rent their accommodation or those homeowners who have scrimped and saved to pay off their mortgage NEW LOOPHOLE Finance Minister John Crosbic professes to see the scheme as keeping money in the pockets of those fortunate taxpayers who will receive the deductions and credits and not as direct and massive loss of revenue that the government will have to make up in some other way He knows better He knows too that the US tax authorities would dearly love to be rid of the comparable tax loophole that has been in effect in their country for decades Homeownership is socially desirable and its fine for public policy to encourage it as it already does in countless ways such as the incometax exemption on any capital gain realized on the sale of ones principal residence But Canadians are already housed as adequately as any other people in the world and its the height of foolishness to divert billions of dollars to the comfortable middle class when those billions could be used far more effectively in energy development transportation projects environmental protection or simply reducing our mammoth deficits in government finance Until now the taxation principle has been the business interest is deductible being used to produce income that will be taxed and that nonbusiness interest is not From now on the government if it were consistent would allow the deduction of in terest expenses of all kinds bible thought The night is far spent the day is at hand let us therefore cast off the works of drakncss and let us put on the armour of light Romans 18 12 The person who has the light ought to be shining Let your light so shine that men may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in Heaven Portugal swings to right after years of socialism By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Like many of its European neighbors including Spain in the same Iberian Penin sula Portugal has voted in rightwing government after five years of socialist and nearCommunist rule The victor is Francisco sa Carneiro 45 chief of the Social Democrats who along with the Center Democrats monarchists and dissident socialists heads up new coalition government Defeated in the election was Socialist leader and former Prime Minister Mario Scares His slowmoving policies towards returning landholdings to original owners and unwinding the nations vast bureaucracy angered enough of the electorate to defeat him Senhor Carneiro holds half of the seats in the 250member Portuguese Parliament and expects the voting support of overseas Portuguese who as refugees from the countrys earlier Ieftwing regimes and in former Portuguese colonies in Africa arc resolutely rightwing Not until these results are in will Por tuguese President Antonio Eanes formally announce the new victor as Prime Minister Senhor Carneiro hinted that he would try to replace President and army general Eancs as president when that post comes vacant in 1981 Why did the Portuguese electorate who made 90 per cent turnout for this election end the fiveyear experiment with socialist parties SOCIALIST FAILURES This was because all parties in office since the coup in ril 1974 which overthrew the very long an also rightwing dictatorship have failed to resolve growing problems of unemployment housing health services land ownership and industrial diversification But Prime Ministerelect Carneiro will not have events his own way He must face another election in October This one was an interim event called by President Eanes after two Socialistled administrations and three governments appointed by Eanes had failed to win the support of Parliament In the meantime the new leader must get to work on the countrys many problems in cluding major rtestructuring of the economy to prepare Portugal for entry into the European Common Market in 1981 At present it is very long way indeed from the levels of acceptance and modernization needed for EEC entry Productivity increases an uptodate work force industrial development and balancoof payments crises must all be dealt with by the new conscrvat ivc leader The Portuguese economy drags behind thosc of Greece and Turkey and far behind ncighboring Spain inspitc of its similar problems with inflation and high uncrit ploymcnt Morcovcr Senhor arnciro must copc with the continuous hipolarization of Portugucsc politics The coalition on the loft remains strong including Communists as wcll as socialists who are dctcrmincd thcir statist policies for change arc the only oncs which will work major sorc point in Portugucsc public lifc has boom the attempt by thc previous socialist lenders to turn private farmland into Yugoslavstylc collectives RURAL REACTION Rural Portugal which is most of thc tiny country remains intenscly conscrvutivc Inspitc of bad land management by previous owners the farming community wants the state out of agriculture as much as posslblc Newspaper gaining readers while television declines MONTREAL CP Newspapers are gaining readers while the number of television viewers is declining says Robert McConnell publisher of The Gazette and vicepresident of Southam Inc McConnell told meeting of advertising and sales executives Wednesday that the number of TV viewers in Canada has dropped during the past five years while newspaper readers have increased by about the same amount Between 1976 and 1978 the number of hours individual Canadians spent in front of their sets drop by more than 10 per cent he said The ecline seems most pronounced among the younger generation the generation which was supposedly reared in front of the tube McConnell cited survey last year by Statistics Canada on Ieisuretime activities which combined with television industry figures indicates that television viewing declines proportionally to the amount of education while reading particularly newspaper reading increases with education Both reading and TV viewing in crease with age The Canadian population he said is growing older and is becoming better educated which benefits newspapers more than television More newspapers are sold in Montreal today than in 1975 McConnell said even though two newspapers The Star and MontrealMatin have folded Although there has been loss of cir culation in the Englishlanguage press McConnell said our estimates indicate that we are probably reaching more readers every day than The Star and The Gazette together reached in 1975 Knitters seeking embargo on all foreign imports urtAWA CP The sweaterknitting industry asked the government Wednesday to impose an immediate embargo on imports of sweaters from all countries with low wage costs and from Communist nations In brief to Robert de Cotret minister of industry trade and commerce the Canadian Apparel Manufacturers Institute said the embargo should cover all sweaters and sweatertype garments velour tops Peter Clark executive director of the in stitute said six sweaterknitting firms have been forced to close since 1978 while several more are in very delicate position Employment in the industry has dropped to 4500 from 6000 in 1975 and 8000 in 1970 Clark said such as knitted By STEWART MacLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service Following the May 22 general election the airwaves were peppered with predictions about the nding demise of the Liberal party which ha not only been turfed from office but only managed to elect three MP5 from the four western provinces Will the party continue to be national force That was the question everyone was asking amid an assortment of predictions that there would be new polarization around rightwing Conservatives and Ieftwing New Democrats and the ailing Liberals would be squeezed out of contention Indeed the view was frequently offered that the onceproud Liberal party had already been reduced to regional rump based in Quebec and it would soon follow the British Liberal party into relative oblivion That of course was before the latest Gallup poll came out Even allowing for an aberration of sorts the poll brought some astounding news to political analysts What it showed was that the allegedly dying Liberal party under the leadership of Pierre Trudeau had soared in popularity while the governing Con servatives who should still be enjoying honeymoon with the people was plummeting in public esteem LIBERALS SOAR In the May general election the Liberals picked up 40 per cent of the popular vote re flecting an overwhelming strength in Quebec while the Tories assumed office with 36 per cent of the vote and the New Democrats gathered 18 per cent Now according to the Gallup poll undertaken in early November the Liberals are supported by an astonishing 47percent of the voters while the Tories have plunged to 28 per cent The New Democrats who have been performing well in the new Parliament are up to 23 per cent These results would depress the Tories in the worst of times but these should not be the worst of mimes for them With the momentum of new prime minister new Parliament not to mention an allegedly hated Liberal leader who displayed little interest in his new role and at that time gave no indication of stepping aside one would think that the Tories would be riding crest Its true that the Conservative election promises were badly tattered by the time they reached Parliament and that the new government performed some fabulous flip flops on major economic issues but previous postelection surveys had suggested the Canadian public was usually in forgiving mood with new governments Apparently thats not so any more LOW REGARD Just five months after the new government assumed office surprising 47 per cent of the respondents said they disapproved of its performance while only 29 per cent ex pressed proval And what must be par ticularly isconcerting to the Clark govern ment is the fact that this does not merely reflect Quebec aberration Fiftythree per cent of Ontario respondents expressed disapproval with the new government while only 29 per cent voiced approval In another question 52 per cent of the respondents said they were dissatisfied with thcperformance of Joe Clark as prime minister while 32 per cent said they were satisfied By comparison an incredible 65 per cent of the respondents rated Mr Trudeau good leader while 64 per cent approved of NDP Leader Ed Broadbent Polls tend to fluctuate rapidly and Heaven knows what the readings will be six months from now But one can scarcely blame the pnme minister for refusing to comment on these latest results since there isnt one inspirational figure in the entire survey And he must be wondering what might happen the polls when the Liberals equip themselves with fresh new leader next March Whatever may happen there is every reason to believe that those reports of the Liberal partys demise have been somewhat exaggerated in Argentinian homeiand BUENOS AIRES AP Peronism lives in Argentina That the military government tolerates it to degree is sign of respect for Peronisms survival as Argentinas strong est political movement despite the disastrous result of its last turn in power Most followers of the late Gen Juan Peron have never heard Evita the Broadway rock opera about Eva Peron his second wife and woman who helped him establish his movement after the Second World War Military officers who ousted the Peronist regime in 1976 have banned the recording of the show But crowds at soccer stadiums and illegal political gatherings sing the Peronist March defiant anthem as unknown outside Argentina as the scattered politicians and trade unionists who claim to speak for the populist dictator five years after his death Isabel Peron his third wife who was deposed from the presidency she inherited from her husband in 1974 remains pris oner as do 15 associated blamed for the inflation corruption and terrorism that undermined her support But military men no longer speak of exterminating the whole movement WOlLl LIMIT POWER Peronism will have place like any other political group if it or anizes itself like party with civic responsi ility and ad justs its men and ideas to fully democratic rcgimc President Jorge Videla told rcccnt news conference Vidcla is expected to announce plans soon for allowing political parties to organize for clcctions although voting for national offices is unlikely before 1984 But his ad visers have drafted decrees aimed at curb ing thcapolitical might of the Peronist controll labor movement The proposals would lift the ban on strikes But unions would be prohibited from making political contributions Hun INTERPRET EVITA PERON former dictator dreds of activists jailed for past strikes would be ineligible for union elections national federation linking unions of differ ent industries would be banned This challenge doesnt seem to worry the oldtimers who helped elect Peron in 1946 survived antiPeronist measures during his 18year exile and put him back in power in 1973 Even independent politicians say the Peronists can count on at least 35 per cent of the vote large plurality in an election Perons revolution gave the workerhis place in Argentine politics says veteran Peronist labor leader Juan Jose Taccone Kennedy hits at Shah WASHINGTON CP When Edward Kennedy criticized the deposed shah of Iran this week US political leaders of all po litical stripes responded by heaping abuse on the head of the US senator from Mas sachusetts It seems clear however that the rush to criticize Kennedy had to do partly with questions of domestic politics as well as with what he actually said The flap began after Kennedy the most visible and formidable contender for the presidency in the campaign to the 1980 US election told an interviewer that the shah ran one of the most violent regimes in the history of mankind He questioned how the US could justify admitting the shah with his umpteen billions of dollars that hes stolen from Iran Kennedy also said he thought it was in the US interest to cement an association with the people of Iran rather than to tie the US to the shah alone He added that foreign policy which identifies US interests with fortunes of dictators such as the shah or Anastasia Somoza the deposed leader of Nicaragua did not seem to be wise foreign policy TIMING CD The timing of the comments in the midst of the hostage crisis in Iran was imme diately criticized by Kennedys political opp0nents who said it raised questions about his judgment They also charged that he was trying to split the US But the substance of the senators remarks while perhaps overstated represents neither new nor particularly startling analysis of the events that forced the shah from his throne earlier in the year The repeated human rights violations under the shah and the stories of terror torture and murder by his secret police were public knowledge well before the revolution that put the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in power NEEDED IRANS OIL In fact the shahs heavyhanded techniques for keeping his people in line presented dif ficulties to the Carter administration which needed Irans oil but which was also trying to promote its international human rights campaign Many analysts have pointed out recently that supporting an unpopular foreign dictator simpl because he is proUS can backfire as it lid in Iran Nicaragua and other places such as Cuba Officials from President Carters ad ministration and from his rteelection cam paign the chairmen of both political parties and leading Republican candidates for president reacted to the Kennedy comments swiftly It scents apparent that one motive behind their attack was the possibility of cutting into Kennedys popularity with US voters The senator is viewed as the maior challenger facing Carter