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By NORMA GREENAWAY
OTTAWA (CP) -- The-
fiveman Socia! Credit group
in the Commons played coy
Wednesday, leaving the
minority Conservative
government guessing
whether it faces defeat at the
hands of a combined op-
posillon over its firat budget.

Riled Liberais and New .

Democrats loudly made
plans to bring down. the
government tonight when
the Commons votes al 9:45
p.m. EST on an NDP motion
of non-confidence con-
demning the budget unvelled
Tuesday night by Finance
Minister John Crosbie.

ed that vir-

tually all MPs would be in
the Commons to support the
NDP motlon. Social Credit
Leader Fablen Roy,
however, waifled on whether
the Quebec group would vote
against the government or
continue to prop up the Tory
regime.

At a news conference late
Wednesday, Roy backed
away from a stand taken
earlier by one of his MPs
who said the party would
probably vote against the
government.

Roy said his caucus would
make a final decision today
and noted that his party
could vote for or against the
motion or abstain.

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Support from the Quebec-
based group is crucial for the
survival of the 6%-month-old
Progressive Conservative
government, which en-
countered a barrage of
criticlam in the Commons
the day after the tough, tax-
imposing budget address.

Liberal House leader Allan
MacEachen said low-and
middle-income Canadians
have replaced inflation as
public enemy No. 1 in the
eyes of the Tory govern-
ment.

NDP Leader Ed Broad-
bent said Prime Minister
Clark is guilty of reversing
his May 22 election promises

“MacEachen aaid the

Parliament and seek a new
mandate from yoters.

The 136 Tories face a
potential combined Liberal-
NDP opposition of 140.
Should the Social Crediters
vote with the opposition or
abstain, Canadians could be
facing a snap election call
and be trudging through the
slush and snow to the polls in
mid-February.

The Liberals decided at
their caucus meeting
Wednesday morning to try ta
defeat the government.
arty
would go “all out" to defeat
the budget.

“We're not backing away

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The tough Liberal talk -' budget,

represents a dramatie shift
from policy that emerged
after Plerre Trudeau an-
nounced last month he would

step down as leader in-

March.

Rather than face an.

election with a lameduck:
leader, Liberals have kept}
enough MPs out of the!
Commons during votes to’
ensure the government's’
survival,

Liberals have not seriously

chalienged the government’

in a Commons vote since
Nov. 18 ‘when Social
Crediters provided the
crucial votes ta allow the
government to survive a
confidence test by a two-vote
margin — 140 to 138. That
vote, however, was held
several days before
Trudeau's plans to resign
were known. .

The latest non-confidence
motion; introduced Wed-
nesday by the NDP during
the first day of debate on the

Fuel price
hikes to |
be passed
along

The consumer will
ultimately have to pay more
for just about everything
because of higher fuel costs
imposed on the Canadian
transportation industry by
Tuesday's federal budget,
spokesmen for airiines, rail-
ways and trucking firms said
Wednesday. ;

The budget increased the
excise tax on gasoline, diesel
and aviation fuel to25 cents a
gallon from seven cents. It
also eliminated an exemp-
tion that some groups

‘previously enjoyed and

called for further steep in-
creases in the price of
gasoline during the next
three years.

Industry sources said the
extra costs will have to be
passed on through higher
fares and freight rates,

Canadian: Natignal

‘Railways said in a’ news

release the.tax incréage will
add $80 million to $100
million to its fuel costs in

1980. The extra costs will be |

passed on to customers,
except for grain tran-
sportation, which is subject
to statutory limits.

~ Canadian Pacific Railway

expects it diesel fuel costs to
increase by $50 million to $55
million next year and said
shippers will have to cover
the increase. 7

Bob Drinnan, executive
secretary of the , Alberta
Tracking Association, said
member firms conferred
Wednesday morning and
decided to impose an im-
mediate surcharge on
freight rates. :

condemns the
goverament for betrayal of
- election promises to lawer
’ interest rates, cut taxes and

-, Stimulate growth of the
economy. ;

The Liberals: also in-
troduced a non-confidence
motion Wednesday — to be
voted in January — that
-condemns the government
for placing an unfair and
unnecessary burden of
higher energy coats and
taxes on low-and middle-
income Canadians.

Party whips for the
Liberal and New Democratic
parties have ordered . all
members possible to be in
the House for the vote.

Conservative whip Bill
Kempling was confident all
Tories would be present
tonight with the exception of
External Affairs Minister
Flora MacDonald, who Is
attending a NATO meeting
in Europe. ;

Liberals said they could
count on all but two MPs,
who were Ln hospital. A third
MP was palred with Miss
MacDonald.

. Roy told reporters his
party would support the
NDP motion if it ' offered.

. concrete alternatives to the
government's plan to raise
the excise tax on gasoline by
18 cents,

But Social Crediters would
either abstain or vote
against the motion if the
‘ motion was merely a motion
of non-confidence in the
government. The mation

_ offers no alternatives as Roy
suggested, .

Roy sald,. however, there
were "strong chances" the
party would vole against the
government when the budget
itself comes to vote. That
vote will not be until next
year,

Earlier Wednesday,
Eudore Allard (Rimouski)
said the party likely would
vote with the Liberals and
New Democrats uniess Clark
reduced the excise tax on
gasoline and increased the
energy tax credit.

During Commons debate
,on' the budget, Liberal
finance critic Herb Gray
accused the government of
returning to Depression-era
“economics by appealing to
Canadians: to put up with
“short-term: hardships in fa-
vor. of long-term benefits.

NDF finance critic Robert
Ree said New Democrats
are prepared to fight an
election on the issue of the
budget because it demands
the greatest sacrifice from
Canadians wha are least able
to afford it. a

Referring the the Social
Credit, he sald: “It {s no
longer possible for them to
continue to support a
government which takes
money from those who have
none and gives it to those
who have.'’

The budget’s message to -

Canadians lacking wealth is
«‘“mean” and that message
will be rejected by the
Canadian people, Rae said.

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NEWS BRIEFS

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MONTREAL (CP) —
Unions are co-operating with
management in @ bid to
bolster the French-language
afternoon daily La Prease in
the face of stiff compelition.

Although management
denies the paper is losing
money, it has launched 4
campaign to restore
“Financial balance’ by
eliminating between 150 and
176 of the current total of
1,600 jobs.

Union sources estimate
that about 100 employees in
different departments have
taken advantage of financial

inducements to retire early
or resign in recent months,
More are expected to fallow
next year.

“As long 28 all employees
are treated fairly, we're
willing to do all we can to
help the newspaper rega
its Trevious position,” said
Andre Heaulleu, head of the
w7s-member typographers’
union local,

The broadsheet daily was
Montreal's circulation
champion as late as 1977,
when it lost the lead to Le
Journal de Montreal, a
morning tabloid. —

Homes burn, eight dead

CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Il.
(AP) — Fire destroyed two
woodirame homes in this
suburb south of Chicago
early today, killing eight
persons, police sald.

Aspokesman at St. James
Hospital sald the dead in-
cluded six children and two

adults. One person was
lreated for injuries and
released.

A witness said there had
been a fire Wednesday in the
attic of one of the two-storey
houses, but it was not known
whether that fire and the one
today were related.

New missiles for peace

BRUSSELS (AP) — The.
North Atiantic Treaty
Organization's declsion to
station new U.S, nuclear
missiles in Western Europe
is a step toward arms con-
trol, officials of the Carter
administration contend.

They. say the best way to
get the Soviet Union in-
terested In decreasing
military tensions in Europe
is for the West to show
resolve. .

The Soviets have more
than 100 SS-20s — mobile

missles capable of carrying
three nuclear warheads —
aimed at targets in Western
Europe. U.S, officlals say
they have plans to deploy up
to 600 more.

Because of the action
taken Wednesday at NATO’s
winter meeting, the U.S. will
deploy 572 Pershing II and
Tomahawk cruise missiles in
West Germany, Britain and
Italy, and possibly in the
Netherlands and Belgium,
beginning in83.

Bank sees tough times

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
The Bank of America says
the United States will sink
into.a recession early in 1890
and warns that the Federal
Reserve Board must
maintain a tight money
policy for any hope of
eventual economic recovery.

The forecest is bad news
for Canada, which does
about 79 per cent of its export
trade with the U.S.

Despite a 3.4-per-cent in.
crease in the U.S. gross na-
tonal product in the third
quarter of this year, the

_ world’s largest commercial
hank said in ite” 1980

economic outlook Wed:
nesday that the improve-
ment, will not’ hold up.

“The fundamental
weakness In the economy
that contributed to slowed
growth in 1979 are still
present and continue to in-
dicate a U.S. recesslon close
at hand,”

A recession will begin ‘na
later than the early part of
next year” and will last
about three quarters of the
year, the bank said. It will
mean high interest rales,
higher unemployment and a
sharp drop-in ‘housing’ ‘de-

'

mand. . -

Coins celebrate North

OTTAWA (CP) — The
Royal Canadian Mint will
strike a silver dolar and a
$100 gold coin to com-
memoarate the 100th anni-
veraary of England granting
Canada sovereignty over a
large part of the Arctic, the
mint announced Wednesday.
_ The silver dollar, designed
by Donald Paterson of
Toronto, will show a polar
‘ear on an ice floe with the

LESS MEAT, MORE GRAIN

A 1¢-per-cent reduction in
meat consumption by North
Americans would pravide
enough grain to feed 60
million people,

northern lights in the
ground.

The gold coin will show an
Inuit in a kayak with an
iceberg in the background.
The coin was designed by
Montreal artist Arnaldo
Marchetti.

An Imperlal order-in-
council decreed on July 31,
1880, that ail British
territories and islands,
except Newfoundland and its
dependencies, would be
annexed to Canada.

This amalgamation of
mainly Arctic islands and
mainland territory was
made formal in September
of that year, ‘

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