Cate cmeditan gy

ved his polltical skin by doing so.
earmarked $4.8 billion for job creation in his
get, admitting tothe Commons that he upped
the ‘exper ture after a cameraman videotaped. a page
'  Bropoeed ‘$4.8-billion program ‘during ‘a
eas “photo opportunity”: a day earlier.’
repurterstoday ithe would have had to resign it
changed : the. figure, . Lalonde. replied: “No,”

] Included in the leaked sectlon.

Lalonde 6 resignation in the Commons Tuesday, but NDP -

Laader Ed Broadbent suggested today the.Torles may. have .

. ulterior triotives for continuing to press the issue..:

te the economy, “the Conservatives -are-on the

“TORONTO (CP) — (CP) = Entertainment for kids Js a.

booming business in Canada, as evidenced - ‘by: the big

(.”’ He ead the important thing ia ‘that. no tax. ;

fe the New Democrats think Lalonde didn’t do enough.

servallves arid New Democrats called ” for. .

" children's’ feativals that have spread east from Vancouver

in recent years and are attracting performera even ‘from
overseas,
The’ Toronto Harbotfront leisure : area. along . ‘Lake

Ontatlo, which surprised itself by attracting more than -
40,000. children, parents: and teachers to its premiere ’
festival last year, has lined up 15 companies for thia year’s |
presentation May 17-23, taking in the Victoria Day holiday

weekend,
‘The 1989 version, produced with the help of the rendwned
Vancouver Children’s Festival which started six years ago,

again’ will offer some of the world’s best in children’ 8

theatre; music, mime; puppets and dance. .

The Idea has flourished fo the point where a core of
international companies find it worthwhile to visit Canada
to perform. first at tha Vancouver festival May a6 and then
move.on to Edmonton May &14. |

oa)

Johnston’ of the National :

~ from; dome proposals to

revainp, ‘personal income
fax" .daductlons, . but
Tuesday's “budget will do

tore tochelp the rich, aay

the legdera of two national

| groups representing low- .

income people.
- Terry: Huntley of the
Canadian Council on Social

Developiment and Patrick

All
About

annual income” for those

= . whole happy vith a
y to, paper over an inadvertent budget. told reporters... ".
ubts remaln in all political quarters.

_| ‘procédural matter rather than deal with the blubstance (e

“Therefore, they’ re, “going to
\ the budget). 7 oy

: Broadbent: believes Lalonde violated his. oath of offtds and
~ ought to resign. But he thinks the minister will Fefude to do,

: 80. andthe government is prepared:to “tough It out."

_ ‘The Tories Insigted Tuesday that the privilege. of “MPs to.
_ be the firgt to hear budget information had been violated by.:

“the leak, and they asked Speaker Jeanne Bauye to relee t the
_ matter to a special. committee for study. .

and thal. something-would be done about it...

Trudéau defended his minister, saying ‘ao one could
- decide if there had been a budget leak until:the budget was |
~ Presented. He © challenged the Torles to drop. the matter if .

‘now Montreal ishoping to get into the act with a featlyal In
late May or early June.
Each city supplements the internatlonal- performances °

with national and Jocal shows and the combined production

cost for-all the fentivals. is estimated to. run well over ae
million.)

Typleal of the Ganadién, content is Al Simmons who, all:
got up in clown outfit, has been working: festivals for; years

.. but thinks of himself as more then: ‘Just a chown; -

_ AnthPoverty “Organization -
said portions of the budget -
read: liké “a guaranteed.

wealthy enough ‘to play .

money markets, ©.

. There was little aid for the
country's poor. and too: few
jobs created for the 1,7
million unemployed, they
said. ;

Public’ works projects :

. PEOPLE

“One team ona forthcoming spectal of Family Feud will be-

" ‘The Brady Bunch, including Robert Reed and Florence

Henderson.

And— Sock! Bam! Kersplatt! — — thelr opponents may be

Batman and Robin.

Those ara just two of the TV families rounded up from

| eight old series for speclais to be shown in early May, with

' the-winnings ‘going to charity,

Bob May, who played Robbie the Robot on Lost In Space,

said during taping in Los Angeles last week: “It’s not only a

year; . ;
* Gtithri “also told, Reagan his letter “atimulited me to

Fe

«SSBC If -you think of the difference between nuclear wair -
“and a pdlice chief being slightly embarrassed, that’s not,
"mich of a comparison is it?” Mra. Bouza said ‘Tuesday.

Joy,to seq:the people you used to work with after a lot of

years, but to ook around ‘this room and see Vincent Price,
Glsele MacKenzie and so many others I'm a fan of:”

Price, who played Eggheadon Batman, said, “You know,
with all of tha. movies and plays I’ve done over.the years,
the character most people remember ip Baghead.” no

‘ A circus couple staged an inadvertent sideshow in San-
Antonio; Tex., by making love atop an 16-metre slide while “
"employees ‘at,a nearby courthouse watched from their :

fourth-floor windows.
‘Word of the couple’s carnival knowledge spread quickly

throughout the courthouse’s fourth. floor, where I was

dubbed. The Greatest Show On Earth. -*

“County officials said Tuesday they were considering
pressing charges, but the unidentified couple. was equally
outraged. .

“Hf they want to make a case aboitt It, it’s also against the

law to be a peeping Tom,” said the woman, who lives in a » “operators,

mesh cage atop the slide when. the show: is on the- road:

cemepri |

Stata: legislators in Albany, N. ¥., have’ ‘given. official :

Chi _
protection to a Loch Ness monster lookslike named amp; - to file taxes will lose .the

"standard $100.deduction for
medical .expefises and
charitable dotiations next —
- year. However, claims can
be made if receipts are, =

said to inhabit the depths of Lake Champlain.

The measure encourages scientific investigation intd. the ;
“existence of unusual animals in’ Lake Champlain” and
saya the creature — ifit exists — should be protected from

_ harm or injury,

- Anthony Castle, one of the assemblymen who sponsored:

- the bill, says he hasn'l seen Champ himself, “but haven't
beert, there as often 88 many people.”. ; _

A letter from Presideni Reagan seeking money to help’ :
oust Democrats from the Ohio legislature turned up this’

week ‘in: ‘the ‘mailbox of ‘Democratic state, ‘Rep. Mare
Guthrie, ‘who dashed off this reply.

the Ohid deneral assembly will cduse iméto work: that mach

ving your parton request to defeat Democrats In organizations offering tax’ "

we bill drop by
$8 onext ©
_ represents

. bralget

herder berve my constituents and % be reelected’ tiext :

senda: $25. cheque” to the: ‘commiltee working fo eet
- Demoeratie Sen, John Glenn elected ‘president:

—eee

for protesting nuclear weapons-was embarrass.
and, the police chief of Minneapolis.

The 61-year-old wife of Police Chief Anthony Boura was.

oné of 199 people arrested for trespassing Monday at -

Honeywell Inc.'s headquarters ina peaceful demonstration

: against the company's military contracts.

Bouza was at the scene but did not tell his officers they
would be arresting hig wifes: i tte arte a.

Erica fiocia says the last thing she wanted to do wtien she. :

~ “Lcaltmyself an entertainer,” he says engagingly, and it”
‘all started back in the. are and: dismal “days: when he.
worked grubby bars... ~..
- “It seemed sudlences’ were always. into ‘drinking, ‘and’
talking and not’ watching and Thad to devise ‘strange ways

- to get thelr attention — crazy. hats, roaming. around: ‘the
- audience and bringing people Up pn stage... oso

_ From tha’ he graduated to kids — “E Ike kids better than .
drinkers" — and now has'a weekly TV show iv Winnipeg

.-. and has been performing at the Vancouver festival ince It:
After the Toronto show they goto Winnipeg May 24-20 and

started. ; wy : os “ en

Poor | offered marginal. benefits

OTTAWA (CP) — The:
poor, will benetit marginally

announced in the. budget
will . create. jobs |. for

The. annual “child-care
expense deduction. of up to.

. “cyii¢al, ”

““ynemployed construction

workers,” but others will be
left to continue. ‘collecting:
unemployment insurance or
welfare, Johnston said. .
Under. proposals ~ io
change several , existing
deductlona. of the income.
tax form, @ married person

with two. children -earging -

$15,000 annually will see his
or her..ann

year,
annual: -

reductions of 17.1 per cent
and. 56 | per

. respectively.
“It's not a hell of a lot, rr

’- Johnston said.

Should that game person
earn $30,000, the tax bite
will increase by $116. this

year and $169 next year, for.

Increases of 2.5 per cent and
3.8 percent. oo |. ;
’. However,’ . middle-and

high-income families can:

benefit from a new program

to . encourage - individual

investment in. the stock
-market and more generous
provisions for Registered

Home Ownership Savings .

Plan © contributions. _ Beth
schemes |

accumulation of” capital

which thé poor obviously do -

‘HOt possess. -

- All consumers, -whether

rich or poor, Will be hit by a

oné-percentage-point. |
‘increase. on tobacco and °°
‘faxes .

alcohol sales —

: beginning Oct. 1, 1984...
“Ag well, constimers could
suffer. from a _Six-per-cent *
- gales tax-to be jevied July t
on cable and pay television _
who will. be .
. allowed to pass on the taxto ;

subscribers.
Everyone earning enough

supplied.

Finance’ Minister Mare’
Lalonde “claimed in his
speech to-* the *
Commons that charities had
| requested” this’...  changé, mo
- ‘paying it would encourage

donations’ to. charitable

receipts, fy.

‘The poor, will bepett, from -
an ‘increase 0. 24: per-cant -
from thrée ‘per’ cent of ‘the’

employment *’. ‘expense
deduction; The maximum

deduction ‘will remath at’...
$500, thereby helping oly
_ those | earning ‘ees than -

$16,067 annually. . .
A ‘Standard’ 6200" income

tax reduction available’ to .

_ everyone will be decreased

to $100 in 1985 and $80. in.

1006. Aisa, starting in 1984,
“eduction “will ’ ba
vgrnduilly “eliminated: for.

taxpayers: ‘earning: $30,000. .

‘

income: tax.
this year. and...
This 7

cent,

$1,000 a eld * will be. 5
increased toa maximum of

$2,000 this year. The total

‘amount one. family oan

claim will increase to $6,000

_ from: $4,000,

This proposal is “a sop to-
the middle class," Johnaton
aalds °.:

Many poor people, such as.
single mothers, cannot

atford to,send their children .
to. day. oare centres and, vate

therefore, will not benefit”
from ‘: the Increased
deduction.

your family to heart, health. -

#: lon ire w ‘widely repdirted nt surtac in
ENDUM INSERTED cn
it tumed out,it did-— but the Finahee’ Department
an addendum in the budget presentation, with

change in contclence. \_- aa
ak led him todecide to.stretch the public purse strings .
; Opposition Leader Erik Nielsen, barely ablé-to contain-

._ fis anger after the Lalonde speech, called the Jast-minute
i changes “shameful and deceltful.” . °°

“Sauve ruled the matter wasn’t within-her “uriadletton: -

__ The.two- parties pestered Prime Minister Trudeau with —

. questions, trying to get proof there had been 4 budget leak, .

New Democrat House leader Ian Deans labelled the move

“And. 4 Liberal | MP, who asked. ‘Hot. to be: sdentifled,
eee Lalonde “wil have a lot. of explaining to do over
, 5."

- What must now be sorted out is whether there Was 8 leak.

“Vancouver. children’ S$ entertainment booming

He’ and Debbie Westphal: . Harboriront’s.
_ communications department agree there is a iremendous:

‘demand for entertainment for children, saying neither
radio, TV or the movies provide: tke right quanilty or

_ quality.
“WANTS ENTERTAINMENT

_‘» Simmons. says ‘what’ people really want is family
éntertalnment; things for’ everyone ‘from grandma to

toddlers, and that’s right down his alley. .
-° “| prefer audiences of kids, adults and teen-agers and
then I work to somehow melt them all. down into one age

- Broup, one peraon almost, all laughing at the same jokes,”
° ‘Children's : ‘entertaiment is: a: big: largely untapped.

/ market,” says Westphal, “The festivals have been
- puecessful, I think, because parents are more willing to go
«= fo them knowing the shows are‘geared-to all the family.
_ Parents these days really are looking for things to do with
theirkids.”
“She says the #4 or $3 kids pay to see the professional
‘teavelling groups hardly scratches the surface of the
overall casts, noting: that aponsorship comes from the
Canada Council touring office and corporate donations.

.. Some of the acts Include Bobby Berky and Friends from
‘New York, England's Moving Picture Mime Company.
doing The Seven Samaral, the Teatro 0 Bando of Portugal,

a West German group in a show called Don't Be Afraid of *

‘Big Animals-and the National.Tap Dance Company of
Canada in The Tin Soldier, to name a few,

Show, are-from 0: S0a.m. to 2p.m, except for. a apecial
- evening run of Snoopy!!!, a musical sequel to You're a
-.Good Man, Charlie Brown, with Heketa at $8 for kids and ~
; ‘weniors,, $itfor adults.
“In addition, there are a score of tree activities, including a

_ a big show featuring Goodwin's Balloowins, a storyteller

who builds balloon props; ventriloquist John Patterson and .

his puppets, Cranky Consort, a storyeallng with a classical

"guitar, and other acts...
. Other free. activities organized by the experienced o

Harbortront staff Include co-operative games, 4. dressup.

iad explaining the extra money and saying he'd had a 7
Amid hoots from across the Commons floor Latonde taid -
what my instincts have been urging me to do all along.”

Government House Leader Yvon Pinard sald “a budget
. Officials must be discreet. Outsiders must not be ‘In a:

budget until a speech ia’ read on. 1 the floor." " be Se
The opposition took that to mean Jenks can occur aiid,

ne

“ ministers can change them at will.
They sald that any leak is damagino, an were backed: wp oT

by investment analysts who said reports another |

of the leak revealing the federal doficit afd ted detlvity on
: the “market; especially in bond dealings. . ma
And Ontario Treasurer Frank Miller said any minister oon!
weet budget Is leaked in advance hos a “responaliity 10 a

a mos

‘Traditionally, ‘ninieters whose tudgets até leaked resign ae
_ and while the problems associated with budget secrecy. .
have been addressed often in recent years, they've rarely :
. been exposed as they were Tuesday, -~

-Just before he was‘transferred fron Hila post as finance

“ minister last year, Allan MacEachen pleaded for more

‘consultation on making the budget Ina discussion paper on"
‘the subject, ==
But he made It clear: “The minister of finance arid his

position to benefit by béing privy to knowledge, of budget. ;
measures before information is made public.” ©
When Prime Minister Trudeau referred recently to the
case of Hugh Dalton, the British minlster who stepped down
In ‘1947 after suggesting there would be a lax increase on:
cigarettes, he; too, made It’ clear;
“That secret hit the newspaper headlines beore the

minister had read his budget. This, ‘according to tradition; .
is tomething you should not do, and therefore the minister .

chose to resign.” .

And the oath cabinet : inisters take when: entering the --

Privy Council states; “You will keep close and secret all
such matters‘as shall be treated, debated and resolved on in

Privy Council ... until the Queen's Majesty's Pleasure be.

known in that behalf. "
Dalton resigned after telling a reporter he would pay for

hia “filthy habit.” The newspaper edition warning: of.a .

cigarette tax hit the atreets before ‘Dalton’s budget

containing the measure was released,

NO SIMILAR SCANDAL "
There hasn't been a similar. scandal in Canadian politics.
The most recent controversy, in 1981, Involved. then

housing minister Paul Cosgrove for giving a Montreal

advertising firm budget contents several days before public

. disclosure — an apparent violation of the secrecy rule,

Cosgrove, now minister-pf state for finance, admitted the
company was given the ipformation, but said. employees -
were sworn {o secrecy and: supervised carefully by the ;
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. ;

‘The Information wasn't distributed until’ the measures
were introduced and Cosgrove insisted no one gained from
the advance disclosure,

He rejected opposition calls for his resignation and the

government would not set up an inquiry...
_ In 1975, the Montreal Gazette satd Liberal MP John Reid
leaked information on a proposed tax change, and lobbied to :

have it exeluded from the budget; - — Be
Reid was cleared of those charges by a parltamentary :

committee.

~ Inthe days ahead, the heat will be applied to Lalonde, But
Miller has some advice for the minister, if he ever gets to:

present another budget.

“7 used an old budget with a new cover lant year (at the :

photo session),” he said,

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Sterling News Service
Feature

RED AND GREEN - .

DO THEY MAKE BROWN? |
The phenomenon of the political party of’
““Greens'’ in West Germany started to attract

the “attention of. political obsevers shortly '
"before the recent elections.

llya Gerol’s| -|

- Despite’. the victory: of
“Democrats which. strengthened:
alliance, the very fact’ of ‘the. ability of the -
Greens to get elected to Parliament at all (they’
“ now have 27 seats out of 460) brought them to,
the ‘forefront of Political life. in the Federal.
Republic...”

It.was. widely aisumed i in ‘North America that
.the German: Greens party consistéd of en-~
- viranmentalists, as we understand them here,’

West atid the neutrality of Germany. :

: The recent reports showed, however, that the
"unseen part of the iceberg of the Greens i ismuch |.
_ More complicated and somewhat dangerous.

“When. 1 published for the first time an article
_ about the Greens I mentioned the connections
_| between the Greens “and the neo-Nazi |.

-~movement in ‘West Germany and international
terrorism, This was met. with animosity from’
Canadian environmentalists and liberals.

_ However, it was officially announced in
Bonn last week that several Gréens members of
Partiament; are connected with the neo-Nazi
movement and one of them was a Stormtrooper | -
‘in the SS’ during “World War Two. Ht also

- became public that a high-ranking delegation of
the Greens party was received last year by the
Libyan: dictator Muomar. Khadafy, who
“promised. them financial support, asking in ex-

" change for the Greens organization to become a
legal umbrella-for some of his agents in Ger-
many. Although the Greens is still a relatively
insignificant factor of West Germany political

» Life, one should bear in mind that this party is a
‘most unusual combination of communist
radicals’and neo-Nazi functionaries united by

| vigorous anti-American and anti-semitism and, ~
the desire to destabilize-society.

Those who remember the rise-of the: Nazi
‘party in the twenties know that the most. in-
‘significant movement may suddenly become a”
decisive force which at a time of crisis can at-
tract thé support of the mob and then may in-.
fluente the whole development of events, :At a.
| time when the extreme right and extreme left .
4 Movements appeal to have alot on common, .
‘the Greens mighty play a tragic role in the .
future development of West Germany.

As one ‘of ithe West - German Social

vt

and green combined might. make brown, .

the Western |.

‘and some ieftists preaching disarment of the -f —

see Pres contact Aican at: -

oS “Aumiaum Company of Canada, li
2 201-370 City Centre
7 Kitimat, BC. V8C. 176

Aleanin
_Britis Golumbia_

about the Kemano Completion Project..

_ This is one of a series of answers from Alcan _
people to questions about-plans for the . - ae
; Proj ject asked by residents of the Northwest..

Q. oe Will power generated from the proposed

“Kemano Completion Project be sold to B.C.

_ Hydro? Howi is Alcan associated with Hydro?

(Aw. . «BC. Hydro is'a provincial crown corporation |

and Alcan is an’ independent company

~ owned by many thousands of individual
_ shareholders. Their only relationship is that

Alcan sells surplus power ta B.C. Hydro.

"», Under the present contract, Alcan is supply-_
~ ing Hydto with an average of 130 megawatts’
~ each year until the end of 1983 when

-additional purchases may be arranged. Alcan

is how hoping to expand its generating

- capacity to power new aluminum production od.

. plants we propose to build. Upon com-

-pletion of new generating capacity excess _

- power would be made available to B.C. Hydro

. at cost, until new aluminum production.

‘capacity required it.The amount of energy -

» for sale would depend on the size of the ;
=... Kemano Completion Project; and on the start
‘.. “up of the new smelters. But in the long’

“Fun, Alcan expects to use all the power gener-

d at Kemano for aluminum production. ;

- View President for
British Columbia

if you have a ‘question; or ‘would tke
‘0 know more about Pri Completion, ,

nee

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