GOR DON HAMILTON:
‘PRODUCTION .

The federal government says there
are thousands of jobs available across
the country if the unemployed were
prepared to accept them. B.C.’s
Rehabilitation Minister Gaglardi will
applaud because that’s exactly what
he’s béen saying for a long time. —

What kinds of jobs are available,
where they’re available and how
permanent they are will be disclosed in
a later report, But if this initial survey,

Economic Council of Canada, -is
correct, Prime Minister Trudeau will
have support for his theory that
changing lifestyles may be altering the
Significance of the unemployment
statistics.

In its 1971 review, the Council
paints out that as a proportion of the
total labor force the number of prime

age e males, aged 25 to 64, is declining,
ile that of other groups, particularly
women, is increasing.

Prime age male workers have
generally the highest wages and the
highest productivity. The Council

It will be a neat trick if the B.C.
Automobile Insurance Board can hold
a public hearing next month on no-fault
rates without public participation. .

The insurance industry apparently
disputes the board's claim that it has
been charging up to $8 more than it
should for no-fault coverage required
by law and doesn’t want to reduce its
rate for 1972.

_ The board can order the industry
to reduce the rate although it has
agreed to an industry request for a
public hearing. But, according to board
chairman Dr. LF.K. English, who is
also chairman of the Public Utilities

submission — only those from the
insurance companies.

available to attend because “there
may not be enough space.”

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OTTAWA (CP) — Despite

- continuing high unemploy-

ment and threats to Canada's
international trading, vigorous
expansion of the Canadian
economy has been under way
for more than 12. months and

- many economists say it ap-

“pears likely to continue:

The gross national product
—the annual rate at which the
country produces goods and
services—is expected soon to

. pass the $95-billion mark, It

passed the $90-billion level
last spring: and in the third
quarter of 1971 ran to $93.7

" billion.

At the latest, it is expected
to pass $95 billion in the first

. quarter of 1972 and $100 bil-

New unemployment .

says: “As the relative number of
prime-age males has fallen during
periods of economic expansion,
employers have tended to push the
already low unemployment rate for
this group even lower, rather than shift -
readily to very rapidly ‘expanding
employment among other workers.”

In its employment-expansion
measures the federal government has
been stressing the need for training
and some of its programs are
specifically geared to job training.

In other words, it wants to develop .

. in other age groups the skills that make

prime-age workers so valuable to
industry.

It is sobering to learn that at least
part of our unemployment problem
may be due to lack of ‘skills and
training. If a significant number of
those thousands of jobs going begging

‘are in skilled occupations, we may

have to take an.entirely new view of
unemployment.
- Vancouver Province

Non-public hearing

The board isn’t making sense on
either count.

If there’s to be an argument about
the figures the public has a right to put
in its twocents’ — er, $8 worth. The law
requires the public to buy no-fault ;
insurance and the industry to provide
it.

The board has a duty to hire a
room or hall with enough space for the
public. It may be inconvenient to do so.
But it’s also inconvenient for many
motorists to pay $8 more than the
board thinks they should for’ no-fault
coverage.

If the board relies on spurious
excuses to keep the public out of a
hearing in which it is vitally
the public. will lose
confidence in a body that was set up to
ensure that its rights are protected.

lion about six months later.

. But this is barely enough to
Start closing the gap between
what Canada is producing and
what it could be producing if

its manpower and machinery |

resources were relatively
fully employed.

Unemployment has been
running between 6.5 and seven
per cent of the labor force.
The immediate objective is to
halve that rate.

The Economic Council of
Canada said in an important
year-end ‘report that Canada
needs real growth of more
than six per cent. That means
fenuine output of goods and
services, not inflated by

higher prices, in order to get .

unemployment down to tolera-
bl levels by mid-1974.
DIFFICULT TARGET

This will not be easy consi-
dering the current outlook for
Canada in world trade. Na-
tional production for Canadian
consumption sow runs te
about $95 billion a year. But
exports and imports of foreign
goods and services total $45
billion—one of the biggest
commitments to foreign trade
of ‘any industrial country of
comparable size.

President Nixon's new
United States economic poli-

cies announced Aug. 15 posed .

a big, immediate . threat. by
imposing a 10-per-cent extra
duty on American worldwide
imports of mainly manufac-
tured goods. They also cre-
ated a longer-range danger
for Canada by encouraging
American business to invest
in expansion at home and ship
American-made geods to for-

: eign markets rather than ex- _

} port through : subsidiaries in

: Canada and other countries.

Lurking on the horizon is
Britain's entry into the Euro-

pean Common Market, a |

move that wil] start ‘to take
effect at the end of 1872, Den-
mark, Norway and the Repub-
lie of Ireland are likewise ex-
pected to join the so-called
Inner Six—France, West Ger-

many, Italy, Belgium, Luxem- -

bourg and The Netherlands.
EXPORTS CLIMB
With this happening, and

' ‘The best way for a wife to

have a few minutes alone at the
end of a day is to start doing the

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_ the US. apparently bent on
becoming more self-centred in
international trade, the Eco-
nomic Council of Canada says
Canada is in danger of becom-
ing “‘an outer one.” Canadian

tariffs and other restrictive
_measures {ying to be’ com:

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and enlarged European 1 ‘mar: doubts.

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prominent cigar: smmoker-of- the-year, Making: the
presentation is Miss Nicole Morin; representing the
Cigar. Institute: of .Canada . which: conducted the
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national: award’ have-beeh Bobby “Hull,” Frank
Shuster and Sam m Elcheverry,