Page 2, The Herald, Friday, May 4, 1979

Liquor priced

discourage
drinking and empty your

'f 158 wane chance’ are you're
everytime you go to the t.

A Cross-Canada Survey by
The Canadian Press looking
at wine and liquor prices
found most governments set

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prices to increase revenue
and discourage drinking.

But while government
revenue figures indicate
success in reaching the first
goal, the growing number of
alcoholics suggests that the
provinces have a long way to
go toward the second.

However, the provinces
are not alone in controlling
the price and therefore the
amount of alcoho) consumed
by Canadians.

The federal government
has two levies which take a
chonk of the drinker's dollar.
The first is excise duty on
liquor, wine and beer, There
also is a federal sales tax of
12 per cent on the value of the
product.

An official with the federal
finance department said the
levies serve a “dual role to
deter consumption and
provide revenues.”

“This is an economic
policy going back to the days

of the Romans,”

In Onlarla, following two ©
recent increases —-one due

to tax increases In an April

budget and the second to

pass on higher production
costs — a legislative com-

mittee asked the head of the .

Liquor Control Board of
Ontario who: decides when
prices should go up.
William Bosworth, board
chairman, blamed _ his
political masters. He “said
the treasurer sets prices as
high as necessary to gain the
amount of revenue he wants.
And the business is
profitable, In 1978, the On-

tario board had a gross in- .
come of $428 million and |

turned a profit of $333 mil
on. .

Board officials said that on
an imported bottle of spirits
the board adds up the
distillers’ price, freight and
insurance, the federal levies
and sales tax to get Its basic

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price. ;

It then marks up the price
by about 100 per cent and
adds a provincial sales tax of
10 per cent to get the selling
price.

The factors affecting
production costs are even
more confusing. The
devalued Canadian dollar
has raised the price of all
foreign products and in-
flation and variable weather
add to the problems.

In Quebec, a spokesman

’ for the Societe des Aleools du

Quebec said wine prices had
to rise an average of 14 per
cent in April because, while
1978-was a good quality year
in the vineyards, the

. quantity produced was lower

than usual,
As in many other areas,
Quebec is a province unlike

the others. The spokesman:

sald the province tries to
keep liquor prices as low as

* possible and said increases
are never almed at at--

tempting tc discourage
drinking.

Nevertheless, the province
managed to gain.$280 million
from liquor sales in 1977.

In Alberta, A.D. Ellitt,:

‘chairman of the liquor

board, said prices are set to

. “have some reasonable

financial curbs on excessive

dinking and to keep..the

prices reasonably | in- line

with the adjoining jurisdic- .

tlons."* -

- in neighboring Saskat

chewah, DE. McRae,
chairman of the liquor
board, said: “Revenue is not

our only objective in pric: -
ing.” ’ ‘

ng.

It is part of the board's
philosphy that liquor should
not become a bargain, He
said the board tries to in-
crease prices to keep up with
inflation as a means of
discouraging alcoholism.

_The survey found wide
price variances for certain
types of liquor and wine. A

25-ounce bottle of Smirnoff -

vodka sells for a low of $7.20

_in British Cotumbia and a

high of $8.85 in- Newfoun-

diand. B.C, also is the best .

place to buy a battle of
Seagrams Y.0., fora price of
$8.15. The same bottle will
cost §9.75 in P.E.I.

There are also wide differ-
ences in wine prices.
Mommessin Export red wine
which sells for §2.75 in
Alberta will.set you back
$7.35 in Newfoundland,

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-PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.
(CP) — A a-metre freight
and passenger ferry was
taken on a joy ride around
the harbor early Wednesday
before being grounded in a
-eove on Digby Island about
three kilometres away.
The Canadian Ii,.which fs
leased by British Columbia
Ferries Corp. and provides
“service to the’ northcoast
communities of Port Simp-
son and Kincloth, was not
damaged in the incident,
said. Fred Bullen, Coast
Guard district. supervisor.
-- He said it was a miracle
that there was no damage lo
the bottom of the vessel
because the cove where it
was: grounded has a
reputation for being difficult
‘ta enter,, even for much
smaller. boats.

“THE FERRY?.

Bullen suggested that, it.

the joy-rider ‘Is caught, he ~-
should be giyen a skipper's i

licence. . ce
RCMP doubted, however,
if the thief would be capable
of maintaining the licence,”
“There was! evidence on %.
board that suggested the -
operator was nat very €X-
perienced,” paid a pelica:
spokesman, byt he declined
to claborate. | \ so

He said the vessel, whieh ~~ ‘:

had been tlediup here since | ~

Monday, was taken from its
“berth at about 3: a.m. -and.
driven around: the harbor
before being beached in the
cove. An investigation is
continuing. | .

The Canadian HI will.

resume its regular run~

today. '

Burger poll sees |

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Leader Dave Barrett of the
New Democrats can be
excused for relishing the
results of the lastest ham-
burger poll because Barrett
burgers are outselling

_ Bennett burgers by 51 per -

cent,

John Dys, a_ city
restaurant owner, has been
conducting hamburger

election polls in British -

Columbia for 15 years and
says he’s never been out by
“more than 10 per cent.

Tn 1978, a Dys’ poll in then-

‘ premier Barrett's sup-

- posedly . safe - Coquitlam
riding showed Bennelt
burgers. outselling Barrett

_ burgers 51 per cent to 36 per

coe. |Lc) cent, And, when the dust had
ry. 2 asf] @teared, Social Credit new-

comer Geroge. Kerster won

tothe, seat.

2° Dye conducts the poll in

| his-two Frying Dutchmen

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restaurants by listing
hamburgers by party
leaders, Buyers can pur-
chase burgers for Barrett,
Premier Bill Bennett, leader
Vic. Stephens of — the
* Progressive Conservatives
rand Liberal leader Jev
Toth,

Lae Tr | ne

2 iu The “latest - results show
+ 'Betinett is favdted by bnly 20 ' -

per cent of burger buyers at

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By THE CANADIAN PRESS

‘Donna Clarkson, returning
officer for the Western
Arctic, says it took a while
for news of the May 22
federal election to travel
through the region.

_ tiwe'd lined up all the enu-
‘merators, in January and
* February, but on April 7,
when I began phoning some
of the remote areas to tell
them to start enumerations,
a lot of them told me they
‘hadn't even heard about the

_ election.”

it had been called a week

before.
‘Bui despite 91 polling
stations and 15,000 voters

. .seattered over 1.6-million
-square kilometres, Mrs.

Clarkson says the enume-
ration is complete.

Ballot boxes and ballots
have been sent out by
registered mail to com-
munities.

If they don't arrive in tine,
‘we'll have to take them in
by helicapler or have them
‘parachuted in,’'

The Fort Smith resident:

said there was a problem

- getting some of the
entmeration lists back, and
some of the numbers had to
be phoned in to the returning
office.

On the whole, however,
things have been going
reasonably well and
everylhing should turn out
. OK, she says.

_ That is, as long as the cold

weather. lasts. The spring

thaw can be a problem.

_“E got a call from Arctic

Red River {about 100
* kilometres south of Inuvik)
that the airport was
breaking up. Hopefully, it’s
not true.” ;

Problems surface even
after the vote.

Getting the sealed ballot
boxes back for the official
count can take 4 while, For
urban and most rural areas
in Canada, the official count
can be taken the next day.
But for remote areas they
can drag on up lo a month,

Barrett is favored by 72 per
cent at one site and 70 per’
cent at the other. Stephens
and Tothill are well back. .

The 1975 poll was con-
ducted jointly with a
province-wide* steak
restaurant chain, One week
before the election, the ac-
cumulative results gave
Bennett 54 per cent and
Barrett 36 per cent, Former
Liberal leader Gordon ©
Gibson and former Con-
servative leader Scott

“Wallace both had’ five per

cent.

Social Credit ‘won the
election with 49 pér cent of
the popular vote: The NDP

“collected 39 per cent, the

Liberals seven and Tories
four.

Dys said the election cam-
paigns bolster sales, with
business tripling since the
May 10 provincial election
was called last month.

He skirls the provincial
ban on straw polls during an
election campaign by
identifying the party leaders
with a little plastic flag on
‘the hamburgers.

“Pm just putting a name

_ on my hamburgers ‘like lots

ete

Et

Barrett as winner «

of other joirits do,” he sald. «~”

there’s no harm in that, is
there?"

election

“We might be lucky ‘to
have all the boxes back by
the middle or the end of
June," Mrs. Clarkson says,
although she set a June 5
deadline.

In northern Alberta, there
is little difficulty gelting all
the election paraphernalia’
out and back because most of
the centres have road con-
nections, says Gary Ouellet,
returning cfficer for the
Athabasca constituency.

The riding, which recently
underwent boundary
changes, used to have 36,000
voters, but preliminary lists
show theré now are 45,000, he
said. i

Everything needed.for the .

election has been
registered ‘mail,
said.

The biggest unknown was
the early election call, . -

“Normally, there are 60
days before the election but
five working days were
knocked off this, leaving us
with only 55 days," he said,

Athabasca also has a
problem getting ballot boxes
back, he said.

“There's no doubt in my
mind that we won't have all
of them back by ~ then
(Athabasca's May 41 -
deadline}.” :

Some remote areas only
have mail delivery evary two
weeks and the boxes are
returned to his office by
registered mail.

If anything should happen,
such as a break up, then
there could be another delay
in getting them back,

Gerar Maisonneuve,
peace River returning of-
Ieer, edid the only trouble he
expects in the northern
Alberta riding has alruady
happened.

During enumeration, two
persons were bitten by dogs,
one person twisted an ankde,
and another broke a wrist.

The Peace River riding,
which Is about the same size
og Athabasca, has excellent
highway and secondary read
service,

int by
Bells

rn

“If someone prefers one. .
name ‘instédd of ahother #1)

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