PAGE 10, THE HERALD, Thursday, June 4, 1978 Ottawa Notebook Sneezing powder banned By DOUG SMALL OTTAWA (CP) — Con- sumer Affairs Minister Warren Allmand announced in a news release last week that he was banning the import and sale of sneezing powder. Phe decision set off an outery among joke-shop owners who regard the powder as a staple and Tuesday Alimand was asked what he thought of their reactlon. He said in an interview he didn’t know he had banned the powder. Further, he said he didn't even know what it was. The mix-up appears to result from @ government departmental practice al writing news releases using the name of a minister, then distributing them without the minister's formal ap- proval, Cabinet ministers occasionally delegate responsibility for such things to aides, QUOTED LIBERALLY The sneezing powder release began this way: “Consumer and Corporate Affairs Canada Minister Warren Allmand today announced an immediate ban on the importing, ad- vertising and selling of certain sneezing powders in Canada.” A number of sentences in the news release were in quotation marks and followed by the phrase ‘Mr. Allmand said” or ‘Mr. Allmand warned.” Government information officers routinely make up quotations for ministers. Despite the confusion over the sneezing powder release, a spokesman said the department has ne intention of. removing the ban. The powder,nthe department says, contains ingredients suspected of causing cancer. Rot, says Bill Abrams, Peoprietor of Bill’s Joke Shop in Ottawa. The government is on a witchhunt, he says, citing similar bans announced recently on two of his othernbest sellers— sparkling cigarettes and those birthday candles you can’t blow out, i Don Mazankowski, Progressive Conservative MP for Vegreville, has described as “‘sheer lunacy” an announcement by Liberal MP Ralph Goodale that the government plans to set up another commettee to in- vestigate the grain handling system. Mazankowsi says the government first set up a royal commission under former chief justice Emmett Hall to study the subject. Then it established a orie- man study under Prof. Carl Suavely to examene the Hall report and other sources to determine the cost of moving grain by rail. Then itset up the so-called - Prairie Rail Action Com- mittee to study the former studies and pass judgement on railway line aban- comments. Now it plans to com- mission a transportation analyst to see why the grain handling system isn’: working. Mazankowaski says the government is the reason the system is bogged down—it has spent all its time studying the subject without doing anything about it. Gerald Robinson, 48, national director of the Liberal party, is abandoning his post to return to his law practice. He has held the job since November, 1975, and says he is leaving now be- cause he could lose another yearnfrom his career if he waits to help run the next general election, Prime Minister Trudeau has until next summer before he must, by law, call an election. Sig of summer: The supply department an- nounced in its weekly: list of contracts that Star Pants Laurierville Lid. af Megantic, Que., has been awarded a $125,850 contract to make shorts for mail carriers. BUSINESS DIRECTORY Interior and Exterior Painting Contractor Airless SKEENA COLORS Spray Equipment (We spray the Job and not fhe | Néighborfiood) ~ Expert refinishing oldstyle furniture, cabinets and maker of “‘buri clacks”. All work guaranteed. 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