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.

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