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' Choosing policy
|. (25 words or less)

What does the government do when it is faced
with a serious environmental problem like that of
Eurasian milfoil in Okanagan Lake?

Does it call in a bevy of botanists to prepare a
report?

Does it consult other jurisdictions about how they
have handled similar problems? - Does it send
scientists to seek out a solution?

Of course not. Such methods are simplistic and
archaic compared to the one being used by En-
vironment Minister Jim Nielsen. He knows that
Eurasian milfoil is a weed that is spreading to such
an extent that it seriously threatens the iuture of
the Okanagan basin.

So what does he do? He holds a contest. That’s
right, a contest — like you might have for “Why I
like Rover Dog Food” (25 words or less) — with
grand prizes, runners-up and the whole bit.

A recent news release from the Environment
Ministry states that the government ‘‘will offer
prizes of $10,000, $5,000, and $2,500 in a competition
for conceptual drawings and engineering specifics
of a device designed to cure the problem,

The second stage of the competition will permit
the Ministry of the Environment to award an ad-
ditional amount up to $50,000 for the contestant
who, upon request, fabricates equipment and
demonstrates its performance.

‘Here we have a government minister who for
one-and-a-half years has headed a department soly

~ Global busin

quiries into its practices, al-
leged by The Mail to include
both bribes and extravagant
commissions to foreign
agents. in the Middle East
and elsewhere.

And this week Prime
Minister James Callaghan
ordered Trade Secretary
Edmund Dell to report on
the commercial practices—
or malpractices—éf ‘British
industry generally.

Prime Minister Trudeau,
with Callaghan, U.S.
President Jimmy Carter
and other industrial leaders,
condemned corruption. in
international business
during their summit
meeting here earlier this
month.

Their joint communique
said: ‘We consider that
irregular practices and

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Improper conduct should be
eliminated from  inter-
national trade, banking and
commerce, and we welcome
the work being done toward
international agreements
prohibiting illicit
payments.”

In Canada, a Commons
committee has been in-
vestigating agents fees on
sales of Candu nuclear
reactors in South Korea and
Argentina, and charges that
Crown-owned Polymar
Corp. provided kickbacks to
foreign customers enabling
them to avoid local taxes.

In the United States,
authorities are investigating
similar charges involving
the Lockheed and Boeing
aircraft companies.

And at the United Nations,
a committee is looking for

Interpreting the news

ess moves on bribes

ways to enforce an’ in-
ternational ban .on
matpractice. |

Imposing a single inter-
national ethic of business
behavior is no simple
matter. ;

As Callaghan told the
Commons, part of the onus
lies with the. customer
countries to stop un-
derhanded deals.

Itis nosecret thatin many
countries, including some in
the Middie East, payments
that appear to be bribes are
accepled as normal prac-

ice.

Under British law, in fact,
bribes paid abroad to secure
contracts can be deducted
as a& business expense
against taxes. .

The Guardian reports that
Callaghan “‘is not in favor of

concerned with the environment, who has access to
the top scientific minds and environmental experts
in the world, whose job it is to provide direction and
leadership, and the best he can come up with to
solve a menace which threatens the very life of
Okanagan Lake is to hold a contest.

What can we look for next? A contest on the
provincial budget (25 pages or less) ? A contest on

® when to hold the next election (25 months or less) ?

Is this government?

When Mr. Nielsen was appointed Environment
Minister he frankly admitted that he knew nothing
about the environment. Apparently, nothing has
changed.

If not, watch out - changes to Jand commission
act are upcoming and Nielsen is the Minister in
charge.

Given his present record, perhaps the provincial
government would be well advised to hold a contest
on who should be the next minister of the en-
vironment,

| Thought for food

Although the purpose of schools is to educate, not
only in straight academic subjects but in other
matters as well, they have been remiss in the field
of nutrition.

Sure, all schools have health classes in which
students are taught the dry facts about proteins,
vitamins, enzimes and so on, but at the same time,
school cafeterias are full of sweet junk foods,
overcooked vegetables and white “simulated”
bread.

In addition most school functions are provided
with potato chips (some brands don’t have any
potato in them), pop and doughnuts.

Regardless of what is being taught in formal
health classes, students are bieng encouraged to
eat food that not only lacks nutrition, but, in some
cases, is downright harmful.

‘The problem lies in the fact that teachers,
principals, school board trustees and parnets alike
are, themselves, ignorant of what goes into the food
that goes into their mouths.

Indeed, even doctors are regrettably uninformed
about the effects of certain foods and chemicals on
the human body. To compound the felony, doctors

_ Often make a point of discrediting legitimate
nutritionists simply because they don’t have

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Even so, improvements can be made simply by
using common sense. Without knowing anything
about nutrition, most people are aware that pop
and potato chips, except in very moderate quan-
tities, are dangerous to health.

We know, without being told, that processed,
packaged desserts are sugar and little more. If
parents would stop indulging and schools stop
providing, the diets of today’s children could not
help but improve.

JOHANNESBURG
(Reuter) — Prime Minister
John Vorster’s assertion to
reporters after his recent
meeting in Vienna with U.S.
Vice-President Walter
Mondale that “my con-
science is clear” is taken by
political analysts here as a
clear indication of the
enormous ideological gulf
between the white South
African administration and
other Western governments,

For the fact remains that
South Africa’s black
majority population con-
tinues to face a life of
humiliation, degradation
and blatant discrimination.

There. have been some
minor changes, especially in
the big cities. Blacks now
share public parks with
whites, there have been
moves to integrate the races
in sports and many of the
petty apartheid signs on
public buildings have been
removed.

But observers here are
unaware of any change that
has fundamentally altered
the status of even the most
brilliant and highly
qualified black person.

From the moment a black
child becomes aware of his
surroundings he is told by
his parents that the white
man is his boss or master.

If he gets to school—and
there is no compulsory
education for blacks—his
own culture is swamped in a
sea of propaganda aimed at
convincing him that the
white man made South
Africa a dynamic and
wealthy country.

Blacks make up 70 per
cent of South Africa’s 22
million population. Yet the
state spends about $650 a
year educating a white child
and $40 on a black child.

If he has completed a
secondary education, the
black youth is then con-
fronted with the inability to
move freely around the

job, the inability to express

country in search of the best . Q

“Frankly, J don’t know what he sees in her.”

Behind the news

his. talents because of
preferential job treatment
for whites, and the inability
toearn the same money asa
white for doing the same
job.
In the gold mines, a white
foreman may make $800 a
month; a black with similar
responsibilities would be
lucky to earn $320 a month.

Government officials
maintain that the reasonn-
for the wage gap is that the
country does not have the
money.

In addition to the
problems of job inequality,
the black worker is also
confronted by a apartheid

laws connected with. his ,

work.

For a start, there are the
influx control regulations,
especially significant for the

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mine worker in the Tran-
svaal gold reef who is
allowed to leave his
homeland on a specific con-
tract, normally not jess than
six months.

pote

In effect, influx control
makes it illegal for a man to
live with his wife'and family
during the tefm of his
contract. The mitiers live in
company compdéynds.

Most political. analysts,
especially those to the left of
the South African, centzé,
rest their hopes on the
demise of the republic’s
British-style government
and its replacement with a
tiered system unique in Af-
rica.

- A cabinet committee has
been meeting for several
months to discuss ways of

JUBILEE YEAR

Puzzle of S.African whites

‘moving away from the

British system.

Sources said the changes
will involve a switch to an
executive. presidency and
greatly expanded powers
for the present multi-racial
cabinet council.

The plan is also said to in-
clude a system of local
government in which the
urban black would, for the
first time, have a real
measure of control over
problems such as housing
and education.

The. build-up of in-
ternational pressure against
the Vorster regime is seen
by observers here as a
erucial factor in bringing
about an early change in
discriminatory domestic
policies.

Elizabeth as queen

LONDON (CP) — As
British author Elizabeth
Longford puts it, the Queen
and television have come a
long way together.

Author Longford, who
wrote The Royal House of
Windsor, in a profile of the
Queen recalls the monarch
telling of her first television
appearance, at Christmas
1957.

The Queen recalled her
surprise at the makeup of
those early days—her face

inted with . yellow blobs
ike a clown— and the
discomfort at Christmas
luncheon with holes bored
through walls, television
cables running into the
rooms and icy draughts
running in with the cables.

And her family thought
she was shivering with

‘nerves!

During a more recent
Christmas broadcast. the
ween ‘made a calm and
authoritative appeal for

tolerance and hope to the
people of the Com-
monwealth in their present
anxieties.

Queen Elizabeth II was
born on April 26, 1926.

She was an ideally
“wanted” baby of whom her
father, the future King
George V1, said: ‘We
always wanted a child to
make our happiness com-
plete.”

Miss Langford describes
her marriage to Prince
Philip in Westminster
Abbey on Nov, 20, 1947 as a
love match. But only those
in the Abbey saw the
Princess’s face in all its se-
riousness and radiance, for
there was as yet no
television.

Nevertheless her
characteristic impact of
“grave and ‘gay’’ had
already been made on the
radio during the Second
World War as eaily as 1940.

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This was in the period
known as the ‘‘Phoney
War.’ But the Princess’s
message to other children
was not phoney. Her
promise of self-dedication
was so obviously sincere
that a woman writer who
frard her predicted: ‘If

ere are still queens innthe
world a generation hence,
this child will be a good
queen,”

Not only the British but
people in most parts of the
world were able to hear
Princess Elizabeth give a
second pledge of service—
on her 2ist birthday, when
the war was over.

This time she knew much
more’ about the strenuous
job to which she had been
born. “I shall not have the
strength to carry out this
resolution alone,” she said,
“unless you join in it with
me, as I now invite you to

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something resembling
‘unilateral disarmament’ by
British exporters while
other countries continue to
em ploy disreputable
metheds,’’ .
-The Financial Times
confirms that British offc-
cials.‘‘see no reason why
Britain should handicap her
own companies against the
widely accepted practices in
many overseas markets.
There is also dispute
about the application by one
government of its own laws
or ethics in other countries.

.In Canada, for example,
authorities are resisting
attempts by the US,
government to secure
company records dealing
with the uranium industry's
price and supply policies.

The Canadian govern-
ment has tried in this and
other cases to prevent the
extraterritorial application
of U.S. laws when they differ
from Canadian laws,
especially when they con-
flict with accepted Canadian
practice—in anti-trust suits,
for example.

Voice of the readers

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tankers

unlike today’s

Dear Sir: I have read
Cyril Shelford’s letter, in
your paper of April 6th, in
reply to a letter fram T.D.
Peatse re: the oil pipe line
and tanker route to Kitimat.

Mr, Shelford now has a
questionnaire in the paper
which he is asking readers
to fill in and return to him
stating whether we are for
or against the projects. One
statement in his letter which
he has repeated several
times is that during the war,
more oil tankers were

‘ torpedoed or bombed than

would be lost by accident in
fifty years, with no apparent
harm to world fisheries, —

I heard this statement
refuted by an apparently
knowledgable person on a
news broadcast. He ex-

lained that there wasn’t the -

arge number of tankers at
that time carrying heavy
erude oil, that most of the
tankers sunk were carrying

‘refined products, airplane

gas, jet fuel and the like
which caught fire and
burned, or evaporated, thus
causing no damage.

Also, a tanker carrying
heaving crude, which was
torpedoed and sank before

much of the crude 95a eds th
valeiy git ay

would likely: carry ‘it
depth where the pressure is
great enough that nothing,
no matter how light, will
come to the surface, and at
these depths, there is very
little or no sea life. Not so
the tanker which ends up a
rocky shoal. .

It was reported over
C.B.C, news just over a
week ago that the rocky
shores around Chedabucto
Bay, in Nova Scotia, are still
covered with oil, and the
Shellfish in the area stil]
affected, seven years after
the oil spill which occurred,
and which was supposedly
satisfactorily cleaned up.
The Captain of the Torre
Canyon, a relatively small
tanker wrecked off the south
coast of England some
years ago, saw the rocks
when still a mile and a half
ahead of his ship and im-
mediately signaled the
engine room to change
course. But in that distance
the ship did not respond
enough to miss the rocks.
How jong then, would it take
some of the monsters afloat
today to respond to a change
in course?

_ No, Mr. Shelford, SPEC
and other such
organizations did not stop
the proposed steel mill. ‘The
promoters were prepared to
uild @ mill that would have
polluted the air in our valle
to the point that it would,
under
conditions, have
almost impossible to

require a clean operation,
with added costs,

certain weather
been
live ferent levels of government

there, and when pollution will have sold out to the oil
standards were raised to

for price increases. If
natural gas is now in short
supply, why are the owners
of the new gas fields in
‘Alberta and the area west of
Dawson Creek so anxious to
sign up 20-year contracts
with buyers? Why is the
Alberta government con-
sidering the building of huge

trohemical plants costing

undreds of millions of
dollars? What about the
Mexican oil reserves rated
at some fifty billion barrels?
These reserves equal any in

the Arab fields.
A committee in the U.S.A.

just recently stated we will
be in trouble from fuel
shortages in four years.

But an _ in-
dependent United Nations
committee on fossil fuels
stated a few months ago that
we have oil reserves to last
the world for another
hundred years. Who are we
to believe?

Much of the business
community says, ‘Build the
pipeline, it will provide
much needed work and
stimulate business”. True,
for about one year while the
line is being constructed in
the a kee Ge area
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clivity wi th. ha eer,
parlors and liquor stores
oing a rushing business.
But if camps are
established, the catering for
these camps will be con-
tracted out of Vancouver,
with not too much benefit to
local stores.

Qnce completed, Kitimat .
and Terrace will share
possibly 30 permanent jobs,
not much when a tanker oil
spill might jeopardize the

livelih of hundreds of
fishermen, fish plant
workers, and Native

villages. Mr. Shelford asks,
“If we don’t allow the steel
mill or pipeline, what
alternatives to boost cur
economy do you suggest?”’

Personally, I don’t think
we should be in any great
rush to bring in industries
which may run a few years
then fold.

Look what happened in
Newfoundland. The distress
after the industries closed
down was worse than before
they were established.

Let's make the best of
what we have and fill in the

gaps as they show up. It.

isn't absolutely essential
that the town keeps
mushrooming. Before the
war we were a community
of about a thousand people,
and we were just as busy
and just as happy as we are
now, maybe more so.

It will be interesting to see
how many of our elected
representatives from dif-

lobby, or feel obligated to
support Mr. Cressy after

the being wined and dined, and

promoterslostinterest. You subjected to a steady.

should be aware of that. We
don't need an oil refinery on the

barrage of propaganda by

ozen or more dil

the north coast, and none representatives on that
are in the present plans. We week of Pleasure cruising.

are being well supplied from
the south and east,

third its capacity.

_ This can be hooked into a just
system at Port Angeles and to o

The
pipeline from Edmonton to
Vancouver is running at one

After drinking oil com-
pany liquor and _par-
cipating in oil company
hospitality for a week there
be those who feel they
couldn't be so mean as

ose the Kitimat oil

the flow reversed to carry pipe line and tanker route.

Alaskan ail to Edmonton
and then south to the U:S.A.
with a new investment about
one quarter the cost of the heaven
rom Kitimat, and no

danger to either our North representatives to

line

Whether. it was all
arranged beforehand or not,
that pleasure cruise was a
“sent opportunity for
the oil company
present

Coast or the inner Strait of their point of view, with all

Juan De Fuca.

I very much doubt the oj]
and gas shortages are as

the trimmings.
Well, this--is how hig
business operates, and the

critical as we are made to ordinary concerned citizen

believe,

The scare tactics
being used are justification

has no. way of competing a

F. FRANK