ia Page 4, The Herald, Tuesday, March 3, 1991 )> fl Oo) TERIACHRTTEWGL daily herald Generat Office - 635-6357 Published by Circulation - 635-4357 Sterling Publishers Publisher — Garry Husak Edifor — Pete Nadeau CLASS. ADS. - TERRACE - 635.4000 CIRCULATION. TERRACE : 635-6357 Published every weekday af 3010 Kalum Street. Terrace. 6.C.: Authorized as second class mail. Registration number 1201. Postage paid in cash. return postage guaranteed . NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full. complete and sole copyright in any advertisement produced and-or any editorial or photographic conten? published in ihe Herald Reproduction is not permitted without the written permission of the Publisher. yy LETTERS TO (THE EDITOR for Skeena, but he is. Social Credit may wish that the 1978 election didn't take place, but it did. Social Credit may want to rewrite history, but it can't. Come on Social Credit play the: game honestly and respectfully. And while you're at it why don't you go around Terrace and Thor- nhill and take down all those unsightly and weather- bealen 1979 election signs. That election is aver; you guys lost this riding and you should be men or women enough to admit it. . Yours truly, R. Dekergommeaux ‘Separation not answer’ — VANCOUVER (CP) — Separation isn’t the an- swer to Western Canada's problems, the president of the Canadian Bankers’ Association said Monday. “Populations of twoor three million, with rich but unbalanced economies, would not represent viable states in today’s world,” Robert MacIntosh told a service club luncheon. He said many tariffs would be abolished in an dent Western Canada and the price of im- po consumer items would drop, but new problems would appear. “You could import Japanese cars and Korean textiles free of duties and quotas,” he. said. “Of course, you would still have a balance of © payments problem by importing manufactured This could be selved by exporting coal, timber products, copper and aluminum, he said. But MacIntosh noted that separation wouldn't reduce distances or eliminate the Rocky Mountains. “The problems of locating a diversified manufacturing industry in the West would remain juxt what they are today. The disadvantage of transportation costs te the large consumer markets and population centres of North America would stilt remain." . The West always has the option of joining the United States, MacIntosh said, but after one or two decades people would have second thoughts about such a move. . “The seven million people west of the Great Lakes would be about three per cent of the U.S. population and about onethird of the population of California.” —— MacIntosh sald another factor in Western separatiam is whether to havea separate currency. “This issue has been a very troublesome one to the Quebec separatists and a close examination of their Iterature will show that they are firmly on both sides of the question,” he Said. “On the one hand they intend to have a separate monelary policy and presumably some sort of central bani of their own. On the other hand they are also on record as favoring the use of the Canadian dollar.” , . Far from being hostile to Western aspirations, the Eastern business community “Is sympathetic with Weatern concerns, but does sot find its vaice any better represented in Oltawa than some of the prov- inces feel theirs is.” On another topic, MacIntosh sald he expects as many as 50 foreign banks could be licensed in Canada by the end of 1982. About 50 or 60 foreign banks now are filing ap- _ Blications for licences to operate bere. ” 1 just got my 1991 telephone directory for Kitimat and Terrace and was looking up a phone number when I came across the following listing “SHELFORD, CYRIL, MLA". I was dumb-founded. Frank Howard is our MLA and he defeated Cyril Shelford about two years agp. Then I looked under Social Credit and Pil be darned if 1 didn't find Shelford’s name again as the MLA. The Social Credit Party may wish that FRANK HOWARD was NOT the MLA omer You KNOW, JAKE, I've * are many good things in the Trudeau package ‘and id a OTTAWA (CP) — Opposition Leader Joe Clark's _ ponstitutional position would allow the country to disintegrate by overly. weakening the federal — government, Labor Minister Gerald Regan sald Monday. , The Vancouver amending formula favored by Clark and the premiers would allow provinces to opt out of future constitutional changes they don't like, the former Nova Scotia premier told the Commons. Higher energy prices, interprovinclal trade | barriers and passports for workers wishing to move between provinces to find work would be the result, he added. “LE cannot imagine anything better designed to puil our country apart,” Regan said as the Com- mons began its third week of debate,on Prime Minister Trudeau’s plans to amend and patriate the British North America Act, Canada's written constitution. ; New Democrat Cyril Keeper accused the Liberals of creating deep divisions in the country by their ham-handed handling of ‘the = issue. But the Winnipeg-St. James MP added that there | he will join the vast majority of the 32-member NDP caucus in supporting and trying to strengthen it. By contrast, Progressive Conservative Dave Nickerson said be is not disappoined that Canada has not found the perfect constitution “after a mere 114 years.” . ‘The western Arctic MP likened the search to the quest for the Holy Grail and urged the government to stick with the “flexible” BNA Act until consensus can be achieved. Regan also attacked Clark's record by con- _ deroning the Opposition leader's repeated assertion Opt-out plan hit — . that any prime minister who wanted an agreement _— A Tei = with the provinces on constitutional change could pet one. “He might have (achieved) an agreement because his theory of government by capitulaion was the way it could have been achieved.” Regan said Clark caved in as prime minister to the provinces on oil pricing, contro! of offshore resources and lotteries. : Clark is also guilty of “naive simplification” of constitutional ixsues when be argues provincial consent is needed for major changes, Regan added. . All great accomplishments in Canadian hisory have been born in clashes between the federal and provincial governments and if Clark had been prime minister longer than nine months, he would know that. “He has the wrong view of Canada,” Regan said. “The federal system is nota system of unanimity.” George Hees, trade minisler during the Con- servative government of the late prime minister John Diefenbaker, called for a free vote on the Trudeau package. ; * Alléwing MPs to take a stand based'-on| thet consciences rather than the party line ‘will make it possible for every member of Parliament to clearly express the views of those parts of the country he or she represents,'” be said. ; Hees, who represents the Ontario riding of Northumberland, set something of a record for this often-bitter debate by concluding his speech in a couple of minutes. Most Tory MPs have been taking their full allotment of 40 minutes and the party has stalled the discussion for many hours in the last two weeks by provoking procedural wrangles. Trio forming a new party. _ Members of the legistature Monday a5 three former New on, dependents banded togetherto 7" WINNIPEG (CP) watched in silent . Demoetrats-tumedindepe? form a political organization called the itoba. Pe ey oeeen rase to tell lhehouse that he an io other opposition members. Bix Boyce an Hanuschak, woul uri. 0 ‘ nd Hanuschak, 4. eee in protest over the party's support of anti- scab legislation and rights should be entrenc stitution. Green, 51, left the NDP 14 months 40, claiming that labor had too much influence in the party. All three members were ministers in the previous gov- ernment of former premier Ed Schreyer, Dow governor-general. “We are talking ve i debater who held several NDP cabinet portfolios, including minister of mines. ; He said Progressives are people who “want to “ better society’. The group is eager to grow andis holding talks with people of “various political per- suasions.” The defections from party ranks have left the NDP with 20 seats in the 57-seat legislature. The Progressive Conservatives, who ousted the NDP in 1977, hold 32 seats. There are four independents — the three newlyacclaimed Progressives and Bob Wilson, who has been barred from the house because of a drug conviction and expelled from the Progressive Conservative party — and one Liberal member. . The new political group is one short of the minimum number of the four seals required for at- ficial recognition by the house’ as a political party. Premier Sterling Lyon took advanlage of the announcement to badger the NDP and the Pro gressives. “Having adopted half of the name of the govern: ment, why doesn't he (Greed) take the otber word and join us,” Lyon said amid laughter and thump- ing by government members. “Bis talents might be more apprecialed on this side of the house than they ever were under what we will now call the Newly Diminished Party.” Green said he had no desire to be identified with the premier or his party. f VIEWPOINT t= eae OTTAWA a * “by JIM FULTON SKEENA M.P. The petroleum industry, dominated by the multi-nationals, does not like the National Energy Program. So if is toying with Canada’s energy future to show that if government does © not play Its way, they will take their ball home, The Industry argues that self-sufficiency for Canada cannot be reached by 1Mbecause it Is NEVER LIKED UNIONS,\ WAS UNIONIZED. THERE I's ODD Ss ; LIBERAL, Kan. (AP) — Batters will be up and mumners out today as women of this southwest ” Kansas town challenge their Olney, England, counterparts in ihe 32nd annual International Pancake race. . The Americans will be trying to improve on their 18-12 edge as they cover the 379%-metre Sshaped. course through the main streets of town, skillets in hand and pancakes in air. : The 1990 race was called’‘‘na contest” when a television truck blocked the route.of the Engtish runners. Competition between the two towns began in 1950 ‘when Liberal Jaycees saw a magazine photo of . women running the race in England. The English . tradition dates back more than 500 years when a housewife, supposedly in a hurry to reach Shrove ‘Tuesday services, ran to the church, skillet in hand, — flipping a pancake. , Today's contestants must flip the pancake at least twice as they sprint through the Sshaped course. WATSEKA, III. (AP) = A man who escaped [rom the Watseka police station while handcuffed toa . isn’t it? 150-pound bench has turned himself in, still hand- cuffed, but minus the bench, police say. “Tt was very embarrassing for us, but kind of hilarious, too,"” said Watseka Police dispatcher Kelley Norton. “He hauled that seven-foot-long bench down twa flights of stairs and out the back door. He took the bench apart, but I guess he couldn't get rid of the bandcuffs.” Police said they arrested Jerry Baker, 25, of East Lynn on charges’ of drunken driving after he allegedly drove into a pinball arcade Saturday night. No one was injured. He was handcuffed to a wooden bench while wailing for his breath test, said Iroquois County sheriff's Deputy Ear] Brotherton. When no one was _ looking, the five-foot, seyeninch, 180-pound Baker picked up the bench and ran, Brotherton said, Besides drimken driving, Baker was charged Monday with escaping police custody and theft of more than $150, Brotherton said. The handcuffs were valued at $35 and the antique wood and iron bench at $115. , _ The machine operator posted $200 cash bond and _. was ordered to appear March 26 in Iroquois County ’ Chreult. Court. an Né UNION TURNED AGAINST ME ose | we THEY WOULDN'T LET Mé PICKET FROM DADDY’S Rolls Rovcé not profitable for them to do the work. The companies say the new taxes in the energy program will reduce their cash flow so much thaf _ they will cut back on their exploration and In- vestment this year. Shell has cut its budget for the Aisands project. Texaco abandoned its plans to inves? $140million in Athabaska oll sands as well as heavy new investments on the east coast and in the Beaufort Sea. Chevron threatens to - halt its frontier exploration program. Northstar Resources Ltd. goes ahead and diverts two thirds of Its exploration budget ta the U.S. Cut- backs are also announced by Imperial Oll, Gulf oe eae. ‘ Sls the same kind of blackmail the Industry carried off in 1974 when they cut back ex- ploration and development because they wanted higher prices and more lenient taxation. What the companies do not mention Is that their cash flow Increased by 44 per cent In 1979 ‘and 42 per cent in the first six months of 1980 What they do not mention Is the evidence that even with the new tax system, cash flow for the Industry will be 28 per cent higher than in 1979. Add the grants and tax Incentives still available an more han Alec y cash flow is 40per cent n fact, statistics show the National Program is even more generous to the indus with consumers’ and taxpayers’ money than ever before. The government may have changed the tax write-offs and depletion allowances for a8 axpioration, but the Canadian tax- subs ‘ tes izes as much as 9per cent of Nonetheless, the Liberal gov backed down in its halt-hearied plans te Canadianize our energy business. Last week they reduced the Canadian ownership level - rants © qualify for petroleum incentive Meanwhile, PetroCanada is optimistic about Canadian self-sufficten, Crown cy by 1990 corporation predicts we could be one safe because of reduced demands, a supplies fro Promising oll sands plants. the east coast and expansion of oll Con nseeernment on energy legislation) 1s being Hick abide sohy | mittee and will kee ; iv legislation’s progress.” you informed of thé their plans while 8i1|