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Prices rise again

By VIC PARSONS

OTTAWA (CP) —
Large increases in food
and home ownership
charges pushed the cost
of living up by one per
cent in October, Statistics
Canada -reported today.

The increase was the
month

: in a 12-month inflation

= pate of 8.8 per cent as
: measured by the federal

agency's consumer price

* index. The index is a

ape

: widely-used indicator of
* inflation,

Higher prices for fresh
vegetables and beef were
chiefly responsible for a
1.4 per cent jump in the
fe component of the
index. Food accounts for
27 A id cent of the total.

e increase in home
ownership charges was

- largely due to an average

10.4-per-cent rise in

: residential property

: taxes. Statistics Canada
2 usually counts tax in-
= creases in October to

‘ make the index com-

:, parable
- country,

across _ the

October marked the

‘ gompletion of the secind

*. year of wage-and-price
- controls.
". government imposed the
“restraints in October,

When the

~ 3975, the 12-month in-

flation rate was 10.6 per
cent.

The government's
target was to hold in-
flation to six per cent in

RCM

the second year of the
program. So the 8.8-per-
cent rate of the last 12
months is 2.8 per cent
above its goal.

The index stood at 165.0
in October, up from 163.4
in September and 151.7 in
October, 1976.

GOODS COST MORE

That means a standard
package of goods and
services that could be

urchased in October for

165.00 would have cost
$163.40 in the previous
month and only $151.70 in
October, 1976. -

Th
board, in a statement
released after the index
was published, predicted
more price increases for
food and automobiles in
November.

Beef and imported
fresh fruits will show
increases and prices of
1978 model cars will have
an impact on the index,
the board said.

The board said in-
creases for non-food
items had shown a “‘slow
but steady decline” since
the controls were in-
troduced.

Food prices have been
the major contributor to
inflation in the last year.
Since December, when
the U.S. was hit by severe
winter storms and cold,
food prices have jumped
by 14.6 per cent.

Bread, soft drinks
consumed at home and
restaurant meals were

P still

under fire

OTTAWA (CP) —
Prime Minister Trudeau
came under sharp per-
sonal fire in the Com-
mons on Monday for

reeing with members
of the public who feel
iHegal actions of an
RCMP “dirty tricks”
squad were justified.

The RCMP has lately
been accused of illegal
break-ins to garner in-
formation on various
organizations and of
burning a.Quebec barn in
1972 to prevent a meeting
between Quebec _ ter-
rorists and U.S. Black
Panthers.

New Democrat Leader
Ed Broadbent main-
tained that approving
statements by Trudeau,
Justice Minister Ron
Basford and Solicitor-
General Francis Fox
have been irresponsible
and have undermined the
principle of the rule of
aw in Canada.

_ “Each in his own
irresponsible and

rhetorical way have
managed to convey to
Canadians the idea that
breaking the law is quite
all right as long as you
believe your purposes are
worthy,’’ Broadbent said.

Trudeau replied that he
did not condone illegal
acts, but he did not deny
remarking to ~—_ two
reporters in Halifax last
week that the public
supports the RCMP in
such acts.

WORK WITHIN LAW

Basford said that he,
Trudeau and Fox have
said repeatedly ‘‘that the
mandate provided to the
security service and the
ROMP is that they
operate within the law.”

Basford then reiterated
a weekend statement that
the law may have to be
broadened to enable the

ce to operate legally.
P Multiculturalism
Minister Norman Cafik’s
contention that ‘‘there is
also a rule of reason as
well as a rule of law”
drew fusillades from
former NDP leader T.C.
Douglas and = Ray
Hnatyshyn (PC—
Saskatoon-Biggar.)

Douglas said the idea
that the rule of reason
should over-ride the rule
of law is a new one in
Canada.

“This is exactly what
Richard Nixon said, and,
long before him, Adolph
Hitler.”

Hnatyshyn said Cafik’s
comment was similar to
ones by ‘Trudeau and
Basford and indicated
“an implicit tolerance
toward law-breaking” by
police in Canada.

The observations
followed a question
period in which:

OBTAINED FILES
—Fox said preliminary
investigations indicate
that the RCMP obtained
personal medical files,
possibly through gov-
ernment health officials,
“as a result of threats
made against prominent
Canadians from time to
time.” Health Minister
Monique Begin told Paul
Yewchuk (PC—
Athabasca), a doctor,
that she will check to see
whether provincial health
ministers provide pollew
tih such information.
Douglas asked whether
the information was used
for blackmail.
—Defence § Minister
Barney Danson said the
military keeps files nn "a
number of people and
organizations across the
country” to ensure it is
prepared if troops are
called to aid police in any
province. There had been
ho covert military spying
since the early 1970s.
Meanwhile Grace
Hartman, president of
the Canadian Union of
Public Employees, said
she wants a meeting with
Trudeau to get answers to
news reports that she and
her union have been
under police and military

scrutiny.

—Fox told Eimer
MacKay (PC—Central
Nova) he has been unable
so far to come across any
indications that the
revenue department
gives confidential per-
sonal income tax in-
formation to the RCMP
security service beyond
the terms of a 1972
agreement, secret until
recently, allowing such
information to be given to
police in cases involving
undefined organized
crime.

WASN’T ISOLATED

Opposition members
continued to focus on
Fox’s statement to the
House on June 17 that an
illegal police raid on a
left-wing news agency in
Montreal in 1972 was an
isolated and- exceptional
act. Since then, numorous
incidents involving
criminal wrong-doing by
police have come to lighs.

Erik Nielsen (FP
Yukon) said Consumer
Affairs Minister Warren
Allmand should resign
for massive failure as
solicitorgeneral from late
1972 to 1976 in not telling
the House that the RCMP
were intercepting and
opening first-class mail
during that period.

Fox, following news
reports, told the Com-
mons last week that the
RCMP, through Oper-
ation Cathedral, had
opened first-class mail,
which is against the law,
since 1954 at least.

also contributors to the
upward movement of
food prices in October,
There was a downward
trend for prices of eggs,
turkey and fresh fruit.
The higher home
ownership charges were
largely responsible for an
eight-tenths-of-oneper-
cent increase in non-food
items. Prices for

ec :
outerwear, also had -an

impact.

Statistics Canada sald
other factors were higher
dental care fees and, in
several provinces, In:
creased university tuition
fees. There ‘were
reductions in prices for

* some train fares and for

gasoline in many areas.

There has been an
increasing trend toward
higher inflatimn in the
last year. In November,
1976, the 12-month in-
flation rate hit a post-1973
low of 5.6 per cent but the
rate has gradually in-
creased to its present
level.

Food prices,
partially controlled
the anti-inflation board,
were the main cause for

only

the decline in the late -

part of 1976,
~—The government an-
nounced last Oct. 20 that
it will begin phasing out
wage-and-price controls
April Pa For the final
of the program, pay
Ircreases are to be held to
about six per cent.

K ttumat
oul route.
revived

VANCOUVER (CP) —
A spokesman for a
consortium with plans to
build an oil port at
Kitimat, B.C, 640
kilometres northwest of
here, said Monday the
group must know the fed-
eral government's
ground rules before
reactivating its appli-
cation with the National
Energy Board.

Jack Cressey, project
manager for Kitimat
Pipe Line Ltd., said in a
telephone interview from
Houston, Tex., that he
hopes to meet later this
week with NEB staff to
discuss the $500-million
proposal for a port and
pipeline to Edmonton.

He said the consortium
decided at a meeting
Monday in Houston to
defer reactivation. He
said its members are
unsure of the im-
plications of Dr. Andrew
Thompson’s suspension
of his West Coast oil ports
inquiry, ,

Thompson, a
University of British
Columbia law professor,
suspended his inquiry in-
definitely last week,

saying the United states -

decision to ban super-
tankers on Puget Sound
and Kitimat group's
failure to reactivate its
NEB application left his
hearing with no proposal
on which to focus.

Kitimat Pipe Line has
asked the NEB to hold its

roposal in abeyance in
avor of a port project for
Cherry Point, Wash., a
plan since killed by U.S.
legislation.

Cressey spoke at the
conclusion of a day-long
meeting of ali six
members of the con-
sortium—Ashland i)
Canada Ltd., Continental
Oil, Interprovincial Pipe
Line Co., Murphy Oil
Corp., Farmers Union
Central Exchange Inc.,
and Koch Industries, Inc.

He said the consortium
is talking with three other
major refiners “with a
view to having them join
our project.”

Cressey also denied a
charge by federal Justice
Minister Ron Basford
that the consortium is
attempting ‘‘an end run
around our Canadian
regulatory processes” by
considering reactivating
its application within a
week of the Inquiry’s
suspension.

“H you're applying to
the NEB, how can you
stage an end run?”
Cressey asked,

Meetings in Ottawa will
help determine what
economic and en
vironmental conditions
the NEB will place on the
consortium’s application,
said Cressey.

Lions Clubs in the area
were hosts to a very
[special est at their
meetings last week - this
years district governor,
Dick Pierce.

A second generation
Lion, and well grounded
on the ideals and prin-
cipals of what is the
world’s largest service
organization, Mr. Pierce
paid visits to five clubs
(namely Terrace
Downtown Lakelse
Lake, Kitlmat, Terrace
Centennial and Nass
Valley} during a hectic
four day tour.

The five clubs, with a
present combined :
membership of $6, were
challenged to increase
their numbers at the ame

time receiving com-
mendation for thier
separate achievements in
their individual com-
munities. “Lions clubs
must continue to grow”

Mr, Pierce said, “A club Mr.

is only kept healthy and
strong through the in-
troduction and fostering
of new ideas and by the
introduction of new
members”, “Although a
club may be very small,
its achievements can be
enormous”, Mr. Pierce
suggested. “For in-
stance, the 18 Lions of the
Port Edward club raised
ore nih $12,500 in five
ingo ast year an
donated $30,000 towards
the installation of a cable

Lions club
host governor

television service in the
area’. Mr. Pierce said
he was proud of the
achievements of British
Columbia Lions (present
membership 4,500) over
the past few years.

“Just five years ago,
the B.C. Lions Society for
Crippled Children was
operating 30 vehicles on a
budget of $320,000.
Today, the annual
commitment has reached
$2.6 million, and the bus
fleet has risen to 105
vehicles!'’

“Similarly, our con-
tributions towards
C.N.LB., CARE. and
L.I.F. have increased
dramatically in line with
our growing respon-
sibilities to the un-
derprivileged and un-
fortunate’.

The role of district
governor is an important
one which involves a
great deal of travelling as
Pierces area of 55
clubs covers Burnaby,
Vancouver, North Shore,
Sunshine Coast, Bella
Coola, Ocean Falls,
Queen Charlotte Islands,
Stewart and the area
from Prince Rupert to
Fraser Lake.

Mr. Pierce returned to
Vancouver Friday
morning with 25 visits yet
to be completed during
his term of office. His
recent visitation will
certainly be remembered

by all Lions in this area.

~ Coal dev’t

in N.E. BC

VICTORIA (CP) — The.
British Petroleum Co

- Ltd. has confirmed ‘'s

decision to proceed with
the first phase of develop-
ment of its metallurgical
coal holdings in northeast
British Columbia,
Economic Development
Minister Don Phillips
said Monday.

Phillips al said R the
company plans to go
ahead this. spring with
Plans to process about
500,000 metric ‘tons of
coal a year, a scheme
which will include con-
struction of a washing
plant.

The minister said the
company will increase its
production gradually
until.its output rises to
three million metric tons
in about two years.

Original company
projections had been for
750,000 metric tons a year
in phase one—with start-
up scheduled for 1979—
and for up to two million
tons a year for phase two.

Phillips has said the
project will employ about
500 persons during
construction, with about
350 to 400 persons being
employed during the
operation of phase one.

The minister said the
washing plant could be
located at Chetwynd or at
the mine itself, and that
the company is looking at
markets in Japan and
England.

CONDUCTED TESTS

British Petroleum
spent $4 million this
summer conducting tests
at the coal deposits.

Phillips
company’s decision ta

said __ the -

proceed with its plans
does not mean that large-
seale development of the
northeast coal deposits is
ahout to take place.

He said negotiations
were going on with other
interested parties and
that an announcement
would be forthcoming in
the near future.

Meanwhile, the cabinet
has authorized the ex-
penditure of $6.8 million
as.its share of the cost of
a joint federal-provincial
study of the coal deposits.

Japanese business
leaders recently stated
they could not be ex-
pected to provide any
itm markets for extra
coal until about 1930.

Oil Inquiry a con game

VICTORIA (CP) — A
British Columbia Wildlife
Federation spokesman
said Monday that the $1.4
million West Coast oil
ports inquiry was just a
glorious con game.

David Anderson, a
former member of
Parliament and former
leader cf the Liberal
party in British
Columbia, said the
Canadian taxpayer was
the victim.

He predicted the
Thompson commission
would be the last of the
public environmental in-
quiries such as the
Berger and Lysik com-
missions because of the
way it was handled.

Anderson represented
the federation at the
hearings of the inquiry,
headed by law professor
Dr. Andrew Thompson of
the University af B.C.
The inquiry was formed
in March to study the
impact of an oil port at
Kitimat, on B.C.’s north
coast, and later expanded
to include oil ports in
general.

Last week, Thompson
adjourned the hearings
indefinitely because of
what he said was the
uncertainty surrounding
oil port proposals.

SAID KNEW EARLIER

Anderson said
Thompson and his staff
knew 11 days ago that
Kitimat Pipe Line Ltd.

‘likely wotld revive its

application before the
National Energy Board to

election now

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_aware of the

build an oil port at

Kitimat.

He said thal Jack
Cresse roject
manager ror Kitimat

Pipe Line, told him last
week that Thompson was
con-
sortium’s plans. ;
In a telephone in-
terview Monday,
Thompson said he knew
the company would come
up with a decision soon,
but that he had had no
private conversations
with Cressey in the past

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