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Is anybody out there happy You should be Why Because summers coming thats why Officially its still month away But we date summer from the upcoming May 24 weekend Its good time in Simcoe County time to get the boat back into the water time for gardens to go in for lawns and hedges to be trimmed and cottages to be rcopcned Were lucky in Simcoe County of course The great outdoors is right at our doorsteps On Kempenfelt Bay the sailing boats are already billowing across the water The beaches that are from Wasaga Beach are among the most beautiful in the province It all starts this weekendwith colorful display We recommend anyone to enjoy the fireworks display at Centennial Park Monday Put on by the Barrie Civitan Club its traditional and pleasmg way to commemorate the May 24 weekend Afterwards and for months ahead theres nothing but clear sailing through the beautiful Simcoe summer season Happy weekend And happy summer Dear Sir We in Canada should awake and bestir ourselves to the necessity of an amending formula for our con stitutional birth certificate Are we too selfish to care We have Prime Minister who is true Statesman at the helm at this time who has been endeavouring to do this Should we not be ashamed of the way the 100000 Native Indians were manipulated and used since 1535 It began with the greed of the Euro pean fur traders and their jealousy free and noble race of people were gradually pushed back into pockets called reserves It is my belief that they deserve at Your business By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Scrvice The 1979 election campaign has been fougnt against background of economic woes in Canada worsening inflation chronically high unemployment sluggish growth run away government spending Yet the economy and its management somehow didnt turn out to be the overriding issue Somehow the incumbent Liberals managed to convey an impression that the May 22 gen eral election would turn on the question of national unity and that their party symbolized that concept while the other parties advocated national disunity The Conservatives strategy was to have their relatively inexperienced leader avoid making any serious campaign blunders rather than to offer platform that would vigorously attack the all too obvious eco nomic problems besetting Canada And the New Democratic Party instead of filling the economic policy vacuum has clung to its old and sterile promises to cut taxes to increase spending and to regulate and direct ever more business activity POPULARITY POLL In the absence of any debate on the true economic issue of the day the election campai has concentrated largely on the persona ities ofthe party leaders Apart from the lack of an inspiring per sonality at the head of any of the parties the issue of leadership seems trivial when set against todays grim economic indicators And yet for the incumbent Liberals it has been necessary to concentrate on the fuzzy and hardly controversial issues of leadership and national unity because the 11 years of Trudeau government have brought an economic reversal from prosperity in 1968 to decline in recent years for which no plausible defence is possible Pederal government spending has doubled since 1973 and tripled since 1970 In the latest 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 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 reiect letters Letters to the Editor are run every day on the editorial page Send yours to letters to the utter lie hatter Post Office In 370 Mull Out l4 letters to the editor least to have northern province in the Territories to develop them selves if there is no way to live off the land as was their historic custom hear that our Indian Chiefs intend going to London in June this year to talk to the Queen It is conceivable that if we as citizens carry on as now irrespon sibily we could become number of republics vulnerable from four directions disunited States Im migrants loyal people who have chOSen Canada as their home do understand this threat Canada who stands on guard for Thee Luci Henderson Duntroon Economic issues get short shrift complete fiscal year alone thefederal governments budget deficit the excess of spending over revenues increased by 52 per cent to about $12 billion which is more than the entire budget in 196970 Those deficits have been prime factor in inflation which has averaged 92 per cent an nually since 1973 Inflationary pressures have been re inforced by the insistence on the part of strong unions that their members wages must keep ahead of price increases The resultant higher costs have weakened the competitive position of Canadian in dustry and not enough jobs are being created to accommodate those who are entering or returning to the work force The demoralizing experience of being out of work is the lot of twice as big proportion of the labor force todayas in 1968 Inflation and unemployment arent mere economic statistics they lead to mass insecurity to erosion of the work ethic to despair among the retired to more drinking and to more divorces Pierre Trudeau during his 11 years as prime minister has twice resolved publicly to check inflation only to abandon the effort in apparent boredom In 1969 with inflation at four per cent the campaign lasted only three months before Trudeau had enough declared inflation to have been beaten and called off the camlt paign The 1975 campaign went on for more than year before the prime minister tired of it and began to back away once the inflation rate had been cut in half roughly from 12 per cent to just under six per cent POLICY VOII Tory leader Joe Clark has tried with no conspicuous success to cover both sides of the street when he is forced to talk about economic problems He would put the governments budget even deeper into debt for time as means of ultimately stimulating the economy Both Clark and NDP leader Ed Broadbent have proposed costly new programs while saying little about the means of financing those programs except in vague generalities suggesting that greater economic actiVity would generate higher level of tax revenues thus offsetting the proposed outlays The socialists secure in the luxury of the knowledge that they wont have to implement their policies have promised Utopia in which prices are controlled but incomes are unlimited where planners would put everything right and only business would have to pay more At the end of long and tiring election campaign then Canadians who look for clear answers for some consistency in economic direction for some way out of the mire seem to be looking in vain The political primrose path is strewn as always with seductive promises tax reductions exemptions credits BUT none of the tough hard measures needed to reverse the economic decline Charlie dear CBC says Its NOT going to be best of seven series Parliament Hill By STEWART MacLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service After few days of reflection most people seem to think that our three party leaders came through that Great Television Debate without committing the dreaded Big Mistake but bet you would have trouble con vincing Ontario Premier William Davis As Prime Minister Trudeau and Tory Leader Joe Clark argued before some seven million Canadians about Davis position on constitutional reform the Ontario premier must have been sitting there horrorstricken Here for the entire country to witness was the national leader of the Tory party The world today By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The fifth meeting of UNCTAD the United Nations Conference on Trade and Develop ment is taking place in Manila at one of the worst periods in world economic history This has not deterred the hundreds of delegates from the poor countries of the world from again seeing most of their dif ficulties caused by the rich nations They see themselves beggared by the high cost of fabricated goods they must buy from industrial states to modernize their economies and social systems They also see themselves in vicious circle in this regard by the way in which commodity markets in the rich nations often decide on low prices for their cocoa sugar coffee tin copper whose exports must pay for needed imports These are old complaints as old as the first UNCTAD Conference of the early 19605 and can now be challenged in some instances The chief rebuttal is that the oilproducing nations since 1973 have radically changed the tune on commodity pricing by grabbing control of world oil prices which they now determine But where manufactured goods and technical expertise are concerned this UNCTAD Conference held in the Philippine Republic one of the selfsame poor nations has called for some transfer of industrial activity from the rich nations to the poor ones NEW RELATIONSHIPS As The Economist of London put it the developing nations see such move as part of the necessary interdependence bétween misrepresenting the position of the Ontario Tory premier just nine days before an election And Clark was not just talking about how Davis might feel on an issue he was referring to position that the premier had outlined in prepared speech that was readily available for rereading Its one of those situations politicians dont particularly relish While there is no indication this particular blunder has ignited any massive reaction throughout the country it has provided an amusing sideshow as the Trudeau forces try to squeeze it for every last vote and an un comfortable William Davis does balancing Old complaints plague UN meet nations in the world The UNCTAD secretariat estimates that the developing nations already purchase about 25 per cent of the manufactured output of the industrial nations of the socalled East and West blocs while their manufactured goods represent only nine per cent of the industrial countries finished goods imports Nevertheless one of the most impressive developments in the developing world since UNCTAD has been the advance of the manufacturing sector especially in such larger Third World states as India Brazil China Nigeria Indonesia Cuba and Algeria Often this sector has grown at the expense of the more basic agrarian sectors and with much misallocation within fragile economies But in the cases of Brazil Nigeria and India they have resulted in what most of the Third World nations seek producing fabricated goods which the industrial states will buy However it is the general decline in economic conditions which is seriously af fecting the industrial world about which the UNCTAD participants are complaining Bad times inevitably result in growth in protectionism which is now worldwide trend Developing nations have reacted to this by refusing to sign the new GATT Geneva Agreement on Tariffs and Trade They will refuse to do so unless and until the big Western industrial states include what the UNCTAD documents call selective safeguard clauses Debt writeoff has been another major area discussion at this UNCTAD conference in Manila with many rich nations prepared to write off low interest and long term loans to the poorest nations Bill Davis horror stricken at TV constitution remarks act on the diplomatic high wire Actually his act has been rather effective ARGUMENT ERUPTS Everything was going rather smoothly in that TV debate until Trudeau and Clark started dealing with the prime ministers obsessi of patriating the constitution The Tory leader said that no one agrees with Trudeaus proposal for Ottawas unilateral patriation without provincial agreement Premier Davis interjected Trudeau as he offered an example of one supporter No argued Clark proposed something quite different as you well know What did he propose Mr Clark What Premier Davis proposed was that there should be agreement among the prov inces He did not said Trudeau The argument raged on and finally the prime minister said that The public will check it tomorrow Clark agreed and added that perhaps he Davis will have an opportunity to set the record straight himself Now that was an invitation that the Ontario premier would not be apt to solicit Its bad enough being dragged into someone elscs arguments when you are being quoted properly but when your ally misrepresents you to the enemy its quite another matter LIBERALS POUNCE Without knowing anything about Davis sleeping habits suspect he tossed and turned bit that night And while he did members of Trudeaus staff were rifling through the files in search of the premiers speech to last Februarys constitutional conference When they found it they joyfully issued press release saying Mr Clark was dead wrong last night And they quoted generously from the Davis speech in which he said the patriation of con stitution should no longer be held up If the provinces cant agree on an amending for mula he said we believe it Parliament can and should now patriate without the hinderance of the provinces That seems straightforward enough Davis performing rather well under the circumstances opened his highwire act by saying that both national leaders were half wrong And by diverting attention slightly toward referendums and amending formulas he suggested that the men were perhaps talking in different con exts After getting us to concentrate on those other confusing sidelights not to mention the difficulty of try ing to figure out the difference between being half right and half wrong Davis delicately tiptocd past the central issue and kicked out at Trudeau for being obsessed by con frontation and for being unable to build any common trust towards cooperation All things being considered he performed very well Premier Davis Media election coverage awful By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Coverage of this federal election campaign by the media has been atrocious to say the least And nothing better illustrates press failure than their lemminglike superficial ap proach to the issue of patriating the con stitution Raised during the leaders TV debate it is being used as one more example of Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clarks confusion over policy Prime Minister Pierne Trudeau said On tario Premier Bill Davis agreed with the Lib era stance on patriation Clark said it wasnt true Without the least effort to check the press swallowed the Trudeau line Even after Davis had pointed out that in fact he and Trudeau did differ the press preferred their own interpretation MEDIA FAILURE CBC news for example taking break from promoting the NDP repeated the Liberal line straight on national report 24 hours after the debate And The Canadian Press whose report on the debate most papers used said Trudeau and Davis advocate the same approach to patriation thereby implying disagreement with Clark The facts are different What Davis did say at the constitutional conference in Ottawa last February was that the constitution be brought home from Britain unilaterally But he carefully added that Ottawa would not have the right to make changes in that constitution impose an amending for mula without provincial approval TRUDEAU VIEW Trudeaus much different view given at massive Toronto rally where he promised to end Canadas shame was that patriation would include an amending formula Lack of such formula is what has prevented patriation for the past 50 years Trudeaus solution failing provincial agreement was to seek public approval in referendum to bring the constitution home unilaterally amending formula included Which is not what Davis urged in February at all During the debate Clark said Trudeau has outlined proposal to bring it back unilate rally that no premier agreed with WERE MISLEI Trudeau interjected that Davis did Since Trudeau knew his proposal included an amending formula and Davis didnt that was to be charitable mischievous answer Like sheep the media swallowed the Trudeau version obviously without checking It may be that Trudeau meant only patriation without the formula in which case hes changed his opinion since his Toronto rally If so the press should have badgered him as they would have Clark over flipflopping and confusion in his remarks But in this election campaign thats too much to ask Interpreting the news Nuclear treaty battle looming By GLENN SOMERVILLE WASHINGTON CP Stung by recent failures to win congressional approval for his policy initiatives President Carter is digging in for doordie battle over new nuclear arms limitation treaty Aides say Carter considers the coming debate over the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty SALT so critical he is delaying announcement of reelection bid until it is over The reasoning is that Carter may have better chance of convincing the public and Congress to support the treaty concluded with the Soviet Union if he is not seen as officially pursuing reelection in 1980 Carter has suffered sharp rebuffs recently from Congress most recently in Tuesdays vote by the Senate asking him to lift trade and economic sanctions against Rhodesia within 14 days of installation of black majority government there The Senate ignored Carters argument that he needs month to review the results of the Rhodesian elections held last month before deciding on any action It was sharp un expected slap at Carters judgment by the Senate On another front the gasoline shortages plaguing Americans Carter has also suffered setbacks Last week the House of Representatives defeated his proposed plan for rationing gasoline in emergencies That drew sharp protests from Carter He also scolded the public for what he described as stubborn refusal to accept that there really is an energy crisis DONT SELL PROGRAMS Carters public chiding of Americans for looking for scapegoats to explain energy problems and his remarks about Congresss failure to give him adequate support on energy legislation only underline his ad ministrations failure tosell its programs Two years ago Carter said he asked Americans to treat coming energy crisis as the moral equivalent of war More than half the American population didnt believe then there was an energy crisis and more than half still do not he conceded Carter will be trying for more authoritative image in the SALT debate Rejection of the arms pact he warns will be devastating blow that will make the US appear to be warmonger The treaty is aimed at slowing the nuclear arms race not ending it