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ELSEWHERE CANADA Curred whether such error is due to the negligence ol its servants or other 7266537 728244 Harris Bjanchard Loo wise and there shall be no liability for non insertion ol any advertisement beyond the amount paid tor such advertisement Brian Marr system for future growth walking distance Bay area neighborhood park space parks as possible ding job Dear Sir The concept of Prime Minister Trudeau which presents Canada as the product of two founding ethnic groups English and French is utter nonsense Such concept certainly leaves many out If it had not been for the Ukrai nians what would have happened to been for the Italians what about the building industry and railroad con struction If it hadnt been for the Scots what would have happened to the Hudson Bay Company If Your business By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service One reason for the current weakneSS in the Canadian dollar could be that we are selling the furniture to buy gin Thats the description un Tcharacteristically colorful for banker used by TorontoDominion Bank vice president in drawing attention to the state of our international borrowings We are very close to the point in borrowing more capital outside Canada simply to enable us to meet the interest and dividend payments on the foreign capital already in our hands points out Alan Hockin If were in the shoes of US investors would be very lcery about lending money to clients who wanted to use it totally to pay the interest on their existing debts and had no plans for making regular ongoing provision to pay off the debts themselves Hockin told the Canadian Club of L05 Angclcs He added however that he sees Canada as ymaking real progress in its trade relations with the United States The decline in the value of the Canadian dollar has been one of the most important de velopmcnts in this direction according to Hockin Its the key element in the mechanism that causes us to produce more at home to import less and to export more we want your opinion Something on your mind Send Letter to the Editor Please make it on origino copy and sign it The Examiner doesnt publish unsigned let tors 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 Post Office In 370 Illli Ont l4 prairie development If it hadnt The pride of Barrie There are many reasons to think of Barrie as fine city One of the most important is the citys outstanding park At this time of year especially it is worth remembering that Barrie is city well served in parkland With 44 existing parks and more coming on stream some might argue that Barrie has too much parkland We think not The parks we enjoy today are also the base Wherever you live in Barrie theres park likely within Everyone is familiar with our largest parks from the open spaces of Sunnidale Park to Centennial Park on Kempenfelt Our waterfront parkland especially is credit to the city Centennial Park Johnsons Beach and public parks along Shanty Bay Road makes Barrie unique in public waterfront Smaller parks play part in the system Shear Park in Allendale Kearsy Park in Sunnidale are examples of Interestingly the city has also provided small parkettes that abutt nearly every school in the city Theres more to Barries parks than greenery Parks are ac tivity centres for sports recreation and entertainment This summer new city program Parks are for People will promote local entertainment and activities in as many city Parks require care to keep up appearance The city parks and recreation department and its fine staff do an outstan Credit also goes to the Barrie Horticultural Society for their beautification projects Barrie citizens can be proud of their parks Fine parks and fine homes speak of the pride we take in our city If there is any problems at all with our parks it is perhaps that they arent used enough With the arrival of the fine weather this is an ideal time to enjoy our parks the pride of Barrie letters tothe editor Quite frankly we are tired of hearing about cultures in the plural World culture genuine human civilization is surely our goal However it is longrange goal and Canadian culture and unity must be our first concern If we are Canadians then let us settle for that It is time that Canadians stood up nnd stood together as united cultural entity WilliamParfitt Sheila Parfitt North Bay Ontario Dollars decline no help to trade Canadas foreign trade showed $653 million surplus in the first quarter of this year and $150 million in March Both of those surplus figures were lower than for the corresponding 1978 periods and below the levels that had been widely an ticipated this year The resulting disappointment caused the dollar to drop on foreigncxchange markets from 874 cents US just before the an nouncement of the trade figures to 861 cents few days later It doesnt necessarily follow however that our exports will therefore rise and our im ports decline correspondingly Other factors also play decisive role One factor is the US business cycle Currently that cycle seems to be at peak and starting into downturn which could curtail US purchases from Canada Another is the notorious reluctance of the strongest trading nations especially Japan to import any more than bare minimum The Japanese awash in surplus of foreign exchange remain almost neurotically protective of their domestic industries against the competition of products from abroad WIIY WORRY Still another factor as noted by Hockin is the attitude of most Canadian consumers We try to maintain familiar pattern of consumption making no concessions to rising costs such as the multiplication of oil prices by the international cartel but in stead demanding ever larger incomes to offset present and anticipated inflation This shortsighted approach is tantamount to postponing the inevitable Living stan dards are maintained little longer in ex change for the certainty that the dollar will eventually go lower and inflation higher than would have been tl ese if we had been willing to accept an earlier adjustment to economic realities Granted Canadian consumers do worry about inflation The latest survey of con sumer confidence carried out by the Con ference Board in Canada during the JanuaryMarch quarter showed that the number of people who consider inflation to be the principal concern is growing At the same time however consumers were more optimistic than they had been for many months about family finances about taking on major purchase about job pros pects about the economic outlook in general Lets hope that the optimism isnt coming simply from the gin weve bought with the proceeds of the furniture weve been selling By STEWART MacLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service Admittedly havent had the best vantage point throughout the current election cam paign but somehow get the feeling that the original strategy of our political leaders has become unstuck Perhaps New Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadbent is an exception he seems to be following set gameplan but when Prime Minister Trudeau announced the electi and By IAN MULGREW Examiner City Editor Now that the weather is warmer watch out Another hazard has appeared on Barries streets runners From sun up to sun down these scantily clad beings tear around in their Adidas shorts Nike runners sweating profusely Dodging children dogs dirt and discarded toys is hard enough without having to watch out for body beautiful as it pants its way past Its disgusting Everywhere at am coming to work you can see them running down Sunnidale Road groups of them panting and puffing and sweating GIGGLING ALONG At noon theyre downtown weaving in and out of traffic giggling and choking their way along In the evening theyre out on Highway 90 teasing homeward bound motorists with languid strides and swinging hips It has to stop For the last two years the government has told us to get in shape Sports equipment manufacturers have inundated the market with everything from multicolored head band to multilayered shoes But thats not the worst of it The worst is the converts the once flabby flaccid fellows that are now Joe Jock scps had great respect to force feel very much betrayed Dodging weaving runriei3 galore ru Tory Leader Clark gushed gleefully at the announcement they both left the distinct im pression we would be facing two months of heavy hearttoheart dialogue demanding answers to every vital question affecting our future But now when turn on my television set am battered by advertising of questionable taste see the prime minister perform an amateurish imitation of Joe Clarks hand movements and watch Clark perfect the art of skating smoothly around all specifics How in Ody ur cocktail parties have beenspoil by ese fitness nuts telling guests ut their training routine how vodka rot your intestines and how intervals and hills are the only way to increase stamina DISCUSSING DIET You see them buying vaseline at the drug store discussing diet in the health food emporiums and comparing blisters in restaurants What is the world coming to Why is no one content to look the way nature made them can tell you truthfully the people know that run are no better off One freak know while jogging in the wild of Alberta got case of frostbite that nearly resulted in the loss of hi manhood Man thats good health Another ended up under the wheels of car Fortunately it was only minor collision and he survived with few scratches Yet another is social outcast People just got fed up hearing about the benefits of organic wheat germ and brewers yeast Running is ruining our society And you dont have to take my word for it listen to the scientists and researchers Theres study that shows proof positive that running doesnt help the heart or circula tion system of pigs one little bit What more proof to people need tried to cooperafe with the force and Broodbent sticks to plan while PM ondClork waver and wonder what has happened since we began this exercise back on March 26 As recall it we were all told to face realities demand answers remember that the entire future of the country was at stake There would be no time for generalities Why must of us have even forgotten the original theme of the prime ministers election campaign The issue he declared would be Decade of Development And he told us he would provide all the details of how Liberal government would bring about this marvellous decade Decade of Development can bring all Canadians closer together in great shared adventure worthy of our strength enterprise and imagination he said Decade of Development can liberate us from our sense of frustrated goals Decade of Development can help unite us anew from east to west across this land with new bonds no less strong and secure than the steel railroad tracks which bound Canadians together century ago It was obviously going to be an inspiring campaign And as for Clark he said his goal was to present Canadians with solid and responsible economic program to prove there was an acceptable alternative to no longertrusted Trudeau administration All doubts and uncertainties must be cleared up he declared Excuse me if sound cynical but at the moment have less understanding of the overall Tory economic program than did two months ago and as for that Decade of Development can only assume that the prime minister became distracted somewhere along the way No one seems to know much about it anymore Instead we are back to bilingual labels on corn flakes we are rehashing capital punish ment there are still arguments over gun control legislation and our leaders are still trying to help us decide whether the Mounties should break the law and who should know about it We are left wondering whether any federal party should talk with separatist government negotiate with it whisper with it silence it or send in the Shriners Rember that the prime minister in an nouncing his Decade of Development said that he wanted the election now because all major issues now had become clarified In any event it isnt surprising that about one third of Canadian voters still claim to be undecided in iian AT The warld today Maggies men in the cabinet By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The 22 men in Prime Minister Margaret Thatchers new cabinet there are no other women are an impressive team of Tories many of whom were active in the cabinet of former Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath One of them Lord Hailsham the new Lord Chancellor at 71 was active in the Macmillan Tory government of the early 19605 and negotiated the 1963 partial test ban treaty with the USSR Lord Carrington was Secretary of State for Defence in the Heath cabinet and like Angus Maude the new paymaster general has strong Australian connections Peter Alexander Rupert Carington one for the family name and two for the title was High Commissioner to Australia in 1956 before entering politics from the country where his father was born Mr Maude had been editor of the Sydney Morning Herald in the late 19505 Peter Walker now 47 and seen as Ted Heaths successor back in the early 1970s as his Environment then Trade and Industry Minister is the new Agriculture Minister in charge of tricky negotiations with the European Common Market on British farm and fish products Humphery Atkins at 56 and relatively unknown abroad compared to Lord Carrington and Peter Walker takes over the very tricky job of Northern Ireland Secretary from Opposition Whip PLENTY OF EXPERTISE Mrs Thatcher is counting on his wide knowledge of the many elected Tory MPs to coalesce Tory policy on the Ireland crisis Lord Soames is another wellknown Tory from his role as British Ambassador to France between 1968 and 1972 and for his large role in bringing Britain into the European Common Market He becomes the new Tory Leader in the House of Commons The busiest of the Thatcher team at the start undoubtedly will be Sir Geoffrey Howe as Chancellor of the Exchequeur in charge of the budget with its many promises of tax reduction Its due in June They are prestigious lot heavy on knighted and lordly cabinet members very heavy on intellectual background and with hardnosed Tory activities in office and 0p position during the 605 and 705 The British system of actual cabinet members with junior subcabinet members reporting to them may be instituted hereif Joe Clark wins on May 23rd and forms this countrys first Conservative federal govern ment since 1963 The Clark team is also working on the British Tory use of the central policy review agency formed by the Tories on coming to power in 1970 and which was incorporated into the regular public service when Heath was defeated in 1974 and Labor returned to power It is still there and will probably be used and expanded by the new Tory government some of whose members helped form it in 1970 But unlike our Conservative Party whose members both in Parliament and the party structures have never articulated the meaning of conservatism in the forms of major essays or books the British Tories have been very active in this regard The Rt Hon Sir Ian Gilmour the new Lord Privy Seal also with European respon sibilities wrote his latest book Inside Right Study of Conservatism only in 1977 OUR TORIES DONT WRITE The last major book on the nature of Canadian conservatism appeared in 1963 by the late George Hogan when he was major mover in the years of Diefenbaker Con servatism Interpreting the news Price forecasts were too low By GLENN SOMERVILLE WASHINGTON CP Public officials in both Canada and the United States now have acknowledged their forecasts about price rises in 1979 are wrong as costs for necessities continue spiralling upward The latest admission came this week when Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal said the Carter administration screwed up and now anticipates prices will rise 85 per cent or more this year rather than 74 per cent Finance Minister Jean Chretien already had conceded his Canadian inflation forecast is in error and now predicts prices will in crease between seven and 75 per cent That may be revised upward again The forecasting mistakes point up several issues Increases are sharpest for most needed goods There are no government plans to control increases for food energy or housing and confidence in government predictions is being eroded The current US inflation rate is 13 per cent and in Canada it is 92 per cent Economists in the private sectors of both countries dismiss official forecasts of possible sharp drop in the rates and talk of 1979 inflation rate around nine per cent Blumenthal acknowledged there is gap between government and private forecasts and admitted there is risk that buy at any price psychology may result Part of the difficulty is the concentration of price increases among essential items US food prices are rising at 216rpercent an nual rate energy by 249 per cent and housing by 133 per cent Canada is little betterwith food prices in March going up at 174per cent annual clip housing by 66 per cent and energy by 69 per cent There is little room left for consumers to tighten their belts cut back on nonessentials or take nononsense approach to buying all the things consumer and government advisers say they should be doing