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| COMMENT

BY FRANK OBERLE
MP:Prince George -Peace River

Every year, members of the Canadian House of

Commons and Senate , and the United States Senate

and Congress, meet to discuss issues of common in-
‘terest and jurisdiction. I was asked to participate as a

’ member of the Canadian delegation in order to
: present northeastern British Columbia’s views on
: energy development since the main focus of attention

on this year's agenda was Energy and prospects for a
North American Common Market for Energy.
The discussions are traditionally very open and

’ direct but many of us on the Canadian side were
’ surprised how serious and aggressive the Americans
were in thelr pursuit of a Continental Common Exergy
- Polley-or the establishément of a Continental Com-

mon Energy Market, where all energy resources in
North America would be pooled together.

Oil consumption in Western Nations has increased
rapidly since 1930, Prior to 1973, the growth in oil
consumption averaged 7 percent per year, a rate of

which exceeded most countries’ average
annual growth in G.N.P.( the total output of goods and
services in a country). Although this growth rate has
declined in recent years, there are several reasons to
be concerned about future oil supplies and the im-
plications for continued economic growth.

The demand for oil in lesser developed countries
continues to increase by 5-7 per cent per year as their
economies become more industrialized, Although the
total demand for oil from these countries is quite
small relative to the demand of the developed Western

‘Nations, thelr percentage of world demand for oil can
be expected to increase. Furthermore, China and

- Russia are presently exporting oil to their ‘‘satellite "

countries at the rate of 1 million barrels per day, but
by 1985, they twill nq longer have surplus oil to export
and will, in fact, require an additional 600 thousand
Barrels Per Day (B.P.D.) from the international
market. .

Present world production of crude oil is roughly 62
million B.P.D. and world output will peak by 1990 at 70
million B.P.D. This represents an annual increase in
supply of less than 1 per cent and it is expected that
world output will decline by the same rate after 1990.

Given these factors, if we project world oil supply
and demand into the future, total demand will exceed

_ total supply by the mid 1990's. Recognizing the close

relationship between economic growth and energy
consumption, the implications are that countries
‘dependent on oil supplies from outslde their
‘ ction could be facing a declining rate of grwth
“in their G.N.P. and perhaps even a general reduction -
in their standard of living.

With the world facing real shortages in oll by 1985
and the United States being highly dependent on

foreign sources of cil, it is not surprising the United —

.States is promoting the concept of a North American
Common Market for Energy.

We in Canada have good cause to be optimistic
about our energy future since the possibility of
achieving energy self-sufficiency in Canada is very
real. But achieving self-sufficiency will require
‘massive investments in exploration, in research and
development of alternative forms of energy and a
concerted effort in the area of energy conservation.
At present, Canada is a net importer of crude oil in the
amount of 300 thousand B.>.D. and our present oil
(production is declining; ail from new discoveries must
come on Btream in the near future if we are toreverse

nd.

On the energy supply side, Canada’s efforts toward
self-sufficiency will, therefore, be directed at rapid
development of synthetic fuels such as the Tarsands
and heavy oils, and substitution of natural gas and:
coal for of]. Here again we will require massive in-
vestments in delivery and distribution systema. The
Highway Natural Gas Pipeline, a project
estimated to cost $14 billion, ia an example of how
‘expensive it will become to deliver our own frontier oil
and natural gas to markets which ate concentrated
within 100 miles of the Canada-U.S.A. border.

There is strong evidence which indicates new

discoveries of oil and natural gas in Canada can be -

ted if current exploration efforts continue. To
what extent Canada should share these new supplies
with the United States js a question which our new
government will have to come to terms with in very
short order.

The fact is that despite many commitments by
President Carter and his predecessors In the United
States toward the development of synthetic fuel and
energy conservation, Canada has done much more to
promote those ends than the United States has. —

We told our American friends that it is in Canada's
best interest to assist the United States in achteving
their own goals of energy self-sufficiency but that they
should not expect Canadians to share energy
resources with the United States if those resources are
‘necessary to meet the future energy requirements of
Canada
For more information phone:
(613) 986 2316

A look att

By STAN PERSKY
Spectal to the Herald

The big-city media seems to think that provincial
New Democrats moved “sharply"’ to the political left
when 800 delegates to the party's recent Labour, Day
weekend convention approved a new broad-ranging

_ economic d development policy.

Vancouver Province reporter David Todd called it
“a major change in the party's political direction.”
There was no doubt in the Province newsman's mind
about which way the NDP was heading. “Sharp left,”
sald Todd, describing the new atrategy which calls for
more effective public contro} of natural resources,
new Crown corporations, and increased scrutiny of big
busin ,

ess. .

In an ominously-titled editorial (“The heavy hand
again'’), the Vancouver Sun charged that NDP leftists
had once more cudgelled party ‘moderates into sup-
porting a program of “heavy handed state socialism.”
But never fear, soothed the Sum, the NDP, with an
election three years away, was merely “indulging its
radical elements a little.”

These rumoura of a resurgence of hard-line
soclaliam amid NDP ranks will no dou cause
what was

something much tougher.

Rather than anything startingly new, the NDP’s
newly-adopted economic policy is little more than a
consolidation of traditional social democratic ideas
about how to develop a mixed economy. After all,
what's so new about calling for control of natural
resources, proposing Crown corporations, or
demanding that big business be accountable to the
public? The NDP has been making such proposals
since its CCE days in the early 1930s,

he NDP convention

Despite the absence of fireworks, the plan
nonetheless raises several interesting issues. Its
major virtue is to point out the dilemna of the B.C.
economy. The main thing we do in B.C., the plan
reminds us, is to export resources such as timber,
minerals and energy to outside markets. “Ideally, the
‘earnings from the sale of these resources should be
reinvested back into the B.C. economy, “the policy
paper notes. But, in fact, this doesn’t happen, Thus,
the province “continues to have one of weakeat
manufacturing sectors of any modern economy in the
world.

Only 15 per cent of the B.C, labour force works in
manufacturing, compared to Sweden which has 00 per
cent in manufacturing and West Germany with 38 per
cent. Worse, what manufacturing we do have is
located in slow growth, low level primary processing
rather than in high growth, higher technology in-

es.

The result of all tiis is that the B.C. economy “‘is
almost as specialized today as it was 20 years ago.”
The situation is not made any easter by the fact that 51
per cent of mining, petroleum and natural gas ex-
traction in the province is under foreign control, as is
60 per cent of the already weak manufacturing sector.
If you hold the not unreasonable view that these
natural resources (even the so-called “renewable”
ones like forestry) will not last forever, it’s possible to
perceive a real problem on the not-so-distant horizon.

Of course, the kind of long-term economic thinking
contained in the NDP document is somewhat less
exciting than the latest episode of ‘Charlie's Angels”
or the price of hamburger at the supermarket. Ad-
mittedly, there is currently a vague sense of public
uneasiness about where are going, and fears
are expressed about ever g from exploding pop
bottles to the exploding price of-gold, In the main,

however, people still ihope that the governments,

they've elected will somehow muddle through.
If these problems are real, as the NDP policy paper
claims, they are not made any clearer for the public

by Bill Bennett's less-government style government .

(that’s. something like meatless meatloaf), or
Joe Clark's for that matter, both of whom tél] us that
all we have to dois leave it to the private sector. What
they forget to mention |s that the Canadian economy:

has besn left to the private sector for over a century.

now, and if we have the problem of being a one-sided
resource economy, then some goodly

e-exporting
portion of the blame must rest with our resident and

Visiting capitalist profit-makers.

The basic idea of the NDP economic strategy {s that
“the investment of resource revenues to build up a
strong industrial base is the key to the development
of the B,C. economy.”’ Unless we start creating dif-

. issue dire editorial warnings, |

‘ferent kinds of jobs, we'll eventually find ourselves -
without any jobs. The question for NDP strategists is:
How can British Columbians “regain control of their
resource reveuuns. An ensure that they are rein-
yeated back into B.C."! a

_ After rejecting the current methods employed by.
‘governments as inadequate, the NDP opts for a policy
of “using Crown corporations to engage in the ex:
ploration, development and marketing of resources,
However, far from proposing a sweeping (or hard-line,
socialist) policy, the NDP strategy takes a moderate
course, calling only for a B.C, Coal Corporation, a
Land Development Corporation (to service and
market urban land) and a new publicly controlled
BCRIC (what happens to the old now-private sector
BCRIC is left unstated), as well as more realistic
royalty and stumpage charges. Far from being a
sharp turn to the left, as claimed by the urban media,
the real question is whether the NDP’s mixed!
economy proposals are sufficient to produce actual:
expansion of manufacturing in areas such as forest.
product processing, resource machinery manufac-
ture, mineral processing, ship building, oi] refining
and rail car production (all of which are suggested by

_the NDP report}.

In the course of this sedate discussion about economic
strategy (more characteristic of a sober major party
expecting to assume governing responsibilities rather
than an unleashed pack of radicals), there was one _
mini-debate between left, right and centre social
democrats in which, indeed, the left carried the day.
Again, it was unspectacular.

The NDP repart initially called for the establish-
ment of a business-labour-government tripartite
Economic Development Council to advise the
provincial government on economic policy. But the
tripartite advisory council was rejected by party
leftists and a large segment of trade union delegates
(who still have unpleasant memories of tripartiam
proposals during the days of wage controls).

Instead, the economic policy paper was amended,
‘proposing, rather than tripartite advice, that an NDP
government “would ri ‘e Crown tions and:
private firms to provide detailed estimates of their ©
output and investment plans toa provincial Economic.
Planning Board” which would then “ensure” that
economic development proceeded in the interests of.
the people of B.C, All of which sounds tame and vague
enough, but could, if push ever came to shove, provide
a basis for strong government action. However, the _
prospect is still distant enough that’ the proposal ;-
should generate litde alarm among the boys down at
the stock exchange and is hardly a cause for the Sun to

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‘In Canada, they pay $375 to see a horror show....we get ours free’

Tots foriny,.
16 Jane ee °
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"that some 100
’ National Capital more than a month ago are coating

By FRANK GOLDSPINK

WINNIPEG (CP) — A killing and
a beating took place at Stony
Mountain penitentiary this summer
but tension there is no greater now
than it was a year ago, says Prison
Director Raymond Desrochers.

Not £0, counters Curtis Fontaine,
executive director of Native Clan
Organization, which counsels native

prison, “but
killings."

mates.’

Desrochers says claims ofabattle object.
for control of drugs, first made in
news stories following the slaying in

e, are questionable,

“We know some inmates fight
each ater ve don't know if
there is w een groups,

He added that there is no reason to

. expect a blow-up similar to the last
major disturbance at Stany, a five-
day prisoner striké in 1975.

A former Stony convict, now at an
adjacent prigcon farm, said the
killing and the beating — as well as a’
killing 19 months ago — were drug

related.
He did not know whether there
was a gang war under way at the

around the pro

camp.

PRISON FEATURE
Tension comes from few

The former convict, who asked centre
that he be referred to only as Ed,
said the prison staff is ignoring or
perhaps contributing to w .hph r-
"Jap rnjw)at Stony. ;you can't say
it's only because of the inmates,” Ed
said, “It takes more than just in-

ners, Although the prison is classed as'

“The tension at Stoney is pretty medium security, he said itisrunat clothing and sewing mail bags for:
thick," he sald. ‘But the inmates maximum security. the post office. Others do clerical
are creating thelr own situation out “If you happen to get too vocaler and malntenance work or take job:
there, too violent, you're shipped to 9 ,h _ training. _ _

“From what I understand, a  relsappear overnight. It's what the _ et
handful are trying to gain control of guys call kidnapping. You don’t | There are also more than 200
drugs and sex.”” have any say and there's no chance ‘volunteers who assist in social and

: An increase in correctional ser-
vice bureaucracy in recent years
end arbitrary changes by staff In.
prison routine have worsened the
prison atmosphere, said Ed, who’
spent six years in Stony before being
transferred to the farm two years .
po. Leo -
Both Dearochers and Manitoba
Corrections Commissio,9e, for.
example ~ have helped keep
frustration down among prisoners

“We have counted ourselves lucky
“that we've had no disturbances of
any kind,” said Schnels res
for nearly 600 prisoned slbwSbush

For women prisoners, life at the
Portage la Prairie correctional

has been quiet.
Erle Cox of the provincial,
cwrections branch said there have
been no problems Implementing a
federal policy to leave women
prisoners in their home province.
rather than shipping thitony:
Mount2? prisoners at numerous in-
house jobs such as tailoring prison

they were drug:

recreation programs,

. “Because of the large amount of
activity, we tend to keep tensio?phe..
“living unit" officers — non-
uniformed staff assigned per-
manently to cell areas — has been
effective, But Ed is skeptical.

“Tt is a farce, Before, these guys
were normal everyday guards. So
they take them out of uniform and:
make them bg antic without
proper tra! ." Op dp.ted ideas
which improve the public image of
penitent;9"'The chaplain program is:
. the most effective you've got as far:
as interaction with.the community,
At Stony, they were going to cut.
back from two to one, but there was
a slink created and the second
position was reinstated.” —

ible

OTTAWA
OFFBEAT

BY RICHARD JACKSON
DO ee
~ Ottawa- Before you get carried away with the great,
good generosity and humanity of it all, let it be known
etnamese refugees who flew into the

you, as a taxpayer, $5,500 a week to house in two
midtown hotels. ;
Now that’s just the shelter bill for only 100 of the
50,000 homeless East Asians the federal government
says it will be welcoming.
And these 100 were among the first of the 4,000, who
Ottawa Mayor Marion Dewar, in the burst of en-
thusiasm and rush of blood to the heart, says the

~ Capital will accommodate.

While $5,500 over a period of, well, up to now it’s
some five weeks, runs only to $27,500, even in
municipal financing a mere pittance, think of it in
terms of 60,000 for the whole country,

Tt calculates at $2.750,000.

not a figure to worry about.
cept that:

‘There might be better uses the government could
find for the funds.

There |s no indication of when the initial 100
refugees will move out of the two Ottawa hotels.

-While the refugees are being “‘sold” by the sponsors
of the sanctuary-in-Canada scheme as exceedingly -
industrious people, the initial 100 arrivingbere seem
unable to find regular employment. —

-Assuming that Ottawa is a microcosm of Canadian
cities and towns generally, what happens here with
the refugees could be happening other places as the
$0,000 rootless East Asians swarm in.

With the disclosure of the weekly $5,500 hotel bill for
the 100 who arrived more than a month ago and can
still find no work or permanent shelter, comes the
confession from the Immigration Department that,
refugees have been trickling in since last December. |

This is not the official statement of the department
itself, but information provided by individual im-
migration officials.

» They might not have mentioned it except that many
of those who have been quietly arriving over the last
months have heen having difficulty locating places to

ve, “
The elty has pi turning over some of the
subsidized housing 'to them, but this has raised a howl
of protest from long-time residents who complain that
they have been waiting patiently in Hne for such ac-
_eommodation for months.
And-that’s not the end of it. ve
Those 100 hotel-dwellers, who have been public
Charges for more than five weeks at that weekly $5,500;
in city-pald hotel accommodation, have to live ‘don’t

ey
So they’re drawing what the Immigration Depart-

’ tment chooges to call spending allowances which, city

officials have discovered is public welfare by another

byrequcratle name,
‘With or without groups of “sponsors” that the Im-
migration Department wants to share ibility,
for ine setfling in to the Canadian way of life by these
ees, theae East Asians have “streaming in’
since last December. - ‘
“Streaming ” is the Immigration Department's
word for it.
“Streaming is a sort of siam that has been
proved extremely difficult to control.
When the former Liberal government of Pierre
Trudeau discovered that it was overwhelmed by:
uncounted hordes of Caribbean blacks entering under:

the transparent guise of ‘visitors’ who then went
underground , it threw in the towel.

a a Beare of burrender, the government declared

rant . “amnesty” forelving_and

Torgetting those phony. ‘' a” wht came out from

mud, : ,