Locals give feds advice
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TERRACE — The country
needs a better education system,
less government and more sup-
port for small business, a group
of local residents decided Jast
week,

Thé group was one of two
who" met March 24 under the
‘community talks’? portion of
a federal propserity initiative
program.

It’s billed as a way of Finding
out how the country can
become more prosperous and
better compete leading into the
next century.

The comments from the near-
ly 20 people in the two groups
were sent by electronic mail the
next day to two federal cabinet
ministers in charge of the pro-
gram.

Trade, industry, science and
technology minister Michael
Wilson and employment and
immigration minister Bernard
Valcourt are expected to take
the ‘comments and those from
nearly 160 other communities
and‘turn them into government
policy.

' The group felt the existing
education system doesn’t
prepare young people for the
demands future jobs will bring.

Those in the group also want

more:-collaboration between

educators, business and labour
to produce the kind of specializ-
ed skills that’ll be necessary.

They think the education
system should be more accoun-
table and that there be a better
utilization of money and of
resources. ;

Chief among the points was a
need for national standards ap-
plying to teachers and to the
kinds of courses taught in each
province,

Turning to government the
group wants a reduction in
duplication of services, saying it
adds to the overall cost of doing
business,

And it wants a review of the
tax system to provide incentives
for business investment and to
have a fairer distribution of the
personal income tax burden.

As for smali business, the
group again wants red tape and
paperwork reduced and
simplified.

It thinks better information
about business trends and
markets made available to small
and medium enterprises will

help them indentify areas of op-—

portunity.
And a restructuring of the
federal Bank Act so that banks

have to assist small businesses .

would be a benefit. —

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