PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Tuesday, October 25, 1977

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QUEBEC (CP) — The
next omnibus Criminal Code
amending bill will provide
for community work orders,
restitutions and other op-
tions to fines and jail terms,
Justice Minister Ron
Basford announced Mon:

y.
With Canadian jails,
prisons and penitentiaries

OTTAWA (CP) — The
government will not risk
offending the private sector
by ordering Inco Ltd. : to
cease its foreign expansion
and fill all its nickel orders
from Sudbury, Ont., sup-
plies, Labor Minister John
Munro said Monday.

Opposition MPs kept up a
fierce attack on the
government over Inco’s
announcement last Thur-
sday that it intends to
eliminate 3,450 jobs, 2,800 of
them in Sudbury and 650 in
Thompson, Man., because of
poor world nickel markets.

Ed Broadbent, New
Democratic Party leader,
pointed out that the
government. had been
warned two years ago by
energy department reports
that future expansion of
Inco would occur in
Guatemala and Indonesia at
Canada’s expense. Yet no
federal action was taken to
avert the layofis now being
announced.

John Crosbie (PC—St,
John’s East) said that even
Ontario Liberal Leader
Stuart Smith has asked the
federal government to order
Inco to end its foreign ex-
pansion, stop using
government-loaped smopey
to expand in Guatamala and
Indonesia and help the

Sudbury area.

Independants

holding about 20,000 of-
fenders, and correctional
budgets buckling across the
country, Basford said in a
speech that such alter-
natives are a ‘a positive,
inexpensive approach” to
deal with offenders.

His speech was delivered
by Deputy Justice Minister
Roger Tasse to an audience

‘Save money with progressive step’

ll will put offenders to work

of more than 400 social
workers, judges, police
probation officers parole
officials and legal drafts-
men.

Basford was unable to
attend the. conference. He
was at work in Ottawa.

The delegates are at-
tending a lay con-

ference on ‘‘diversion,'
which Basford described as

‘a way of “channelling of

fenders out of the form
system at the pre-court

stage.”

BEING TRIED
Experiments in diversion
are under way across the
country and the conference
was called to evaluate them,

Even though it means layoffs

Gov't won’t halt Inco expansion

Munro, the acting prime
minister, said the Export
Development Corp. (EDC)
has loaned Inco only $17.25
million in 1973 and $40

use that might
“alienate the private sector,
whichis the very sector we
are trying to stimulate: to
create jobs badly needed b
Canadians,’ Munrg said.
At a weekend rally by
members of the United
Steelworkers of America in
‘Sudbury, there were
repeated calls for a gov-
ernment takeover of Inco to
prevent the loss of jobs.
Broadbent, addressing the
rally, said he would press
either Prime Minister
Trudeau or Finance
Minister Jean Chretien to
order the head of Inco not
lay off workers. Neither
Trudeau nor Chretien was in
the Commons Monday.
TALKS TODAY
uovernment represen-
tatives are to meet union
and company officals in
Toronto today. Union
members said on the
weekend they are not
pre red to take a shorter,
2-hour work week the

threatened
by price wars

VICTORIA (CP)—The
resident of the British
olumbia Automotive
Retailers’ Associatior
(ARA) said Monday that
major oil companies are
using flash price wars as
their latest weapon to drive
communily service stations
out of business.

Airport
moose
— shot

GANDER, Nfld. (CP) —
RCMP at Gander In-
ternational Airport killed a
moose during the weekend
after it ran out on a runway
behind a landing Air Canada
plane.

Ps an said
another moose had to be de
stroyed earlier because it
was a hazard to incoming
aircraft.

The two animals eluded
efforts by police and wildlife
orkers during a summer

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interview | prior to. the
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RA Sonvention Pinal 500
dealers have already been
forced out of business in the
past three years because of
‘unfair competition” from
oil companies.

“More stations will close
unless something is done by
the provincial government
to remove oil companies
fromm the gas retail business,
he said.”

He noted that the corner
service stations cannot meet
the competiton of oil
companies dumping gas on
the market at less than
wholesale rates in price
wars.

Bruce sapd that the
provincial government was
on the right track in setting
up voluntary guidelines
limiting company-owned
gas stations to 33 per cent.

“We would like to see this

hased down to zero, added
ruce.”

He awso suggested that
the percentage
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basis rather than province-
wide for fear the companies
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government is expected to
propose because that would
represent another subsidy
for Inco.

Amid the fury over EDC
financing for Inco's fore

ign
‘expansion, the EDC

chairman John MacDonald
issued a statement defen-
ding the Crownowned

company’s activities be-
cause they won some par-
ticipation for Canadian
equipment suppliers in
export business.

He said the EDC had also
given Inco $20.75 million to.
expand its nickel-mining
operations in Guatemala,

besides the $57.25 million for
Indonesia.
James Gillies (PC—

Toronto Don Valley) said
Canada has gone from a
position of supplying r
cent of the would 1 Nickel to
40 per ‘cent now. He asked
whether the government
had investigated to find
whether the market loss is
occurring because of
dumping—selling at prices
below norma
value—by competitors.
External Affairs Minister
Don Jamieson said a U.S.
company, Amax Inc., is
being investigated to see
whether there is a legal
basis for protest through the
General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade (GATT),

which lays down rules to
overn the conduct of in-

rnational trade.

. Gillies. criticized the
governnient over the EDC's
1

nancial ‘support to Taco, for
at . . er
sales? e Gquigment ai the
cost of a dominant position
in world nickel markets for
Canada. - ;
But Alastair Gillespie,
currently energy minister
but formerly industry
minister and a hooster of the
EDC, accused opposition
MPs of wanting to build a
fence around Canada. They
seem to suggest Canada
shouldn't seli equipment to
any country that competes
with Canadian-produced
goods, he said. LOOKS TO
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Gillespie said he hoped
many of the threatened Inco
employees will move to
nearby Elliot Lake to work
in uranium mines because
the uranium industry is
ready for expansion.
Although the Inco layoffs
have become the focus for
opposition MPs’ concern
over mounting unem-
ployment, other examples
were raised Monday:
—dAbout 870 people are to
be laid off at a Toronto plant
of Anaconda Canada Lid,
John Gilbert (NDP—
Toronto Broadview) said.
—"A substantial number
of employees” of Canadian
National Railways face
layoffs because express

Beiniee im Sageafchewap
Hnatyshyn (PC—Saskatoon-
Biggar) pointed out,

About 1,000 Quebec and
Ontario employees of
Northern Telecom, owned

by Bell Canada, face the loss

market °

of their jobs despite ex-
tensive government ex-
pansion jioans given the
compan » Cyrik Symes
(ND ault Ste. Marie)
said,

Official unemployment
statistics showed 8.3 per
cent of the national work
force jobless in September,
nearly 800,000 people.

James McGrath (PC—St,
John's West) said the
country is facing ‘a
disastrous winter with more
than one million unem-
ployed’* and actions such as

define diversion, and set
some basic standards,

Basford said legislative
guidelines would be
presented to deal with
community work orders,
now being used as part of
probation orders in some
parts of Canada. Such
programs were effective
Basford said, but there had

Inco’s show the particular
vulnerability of  one-
industry towns like Sud-
bury.

Gillespie said the federal
and Ontario governments
are working together on the
problem of the Inco layoffs,
ut the fact is that the
mining industry is de-
pendent on foreign countries
and the government can do
little about it.

There are some “very
painful adjustments to be
made in this country,”’
Gillespie added.

he inflation rate in Canada has improved over the
- past couple of years, thanks to the efforts of
Canadians who recognized the dangers ofspiralling
prices and wages. The moderation has helped

and it's a good thing it happened, as we all know from the
fears we were experiencing back in 1974-75. We're

doing better, but we can't be satisfied. Inflation still exists
and it hurts. Ask the poor, the pensioners, the Can-

adians who have worked hard for years
tobuild upsome retirementsavings
-they know better than anyone
howtruly critical this problemcan be.

A serious part of the overall

problem is the popularbeliefthat the

rate of inflation can't be influenced

by individuals. That's just not true,
Inflation exists as a result of all

our actions; it will be beaten by all our

actions, including government, labour,

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But, Renner added, don’t
allow. the ‘‘existing
albatross’'— the system—to

criminal justice system
should play in diversion.
“Reform it if you can,”

to be protection for the of-
fender.
The community work

order sentence “must notbe Kenneth Renner, a interfere with new ap-
seen as a cheap source of psychology professor at proaches that should be
workers which would upset Dalhousie University mainly in the hands of the
the labor community, nor as Halifax, said referring to community.
some form of slavery.” the criminal justice system. —_

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order an offender to
pay restitution to a victim.

_ Basford described the
criminal justice system as
“too rigid, overworked and
rapidly . becoming
prohibitively ‘‘congested.”

“What we must look for
are flexible, more humane
and less costly ways of
dealing with offenders,
especially minor  af-
fenders.”

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