U

Lita cP Veteran’
ral politician Bryce
Mackasey will be the ww
chairman of the board for
the government-owned Air
Canada, Prime Minister
‘Trudeau announced Thur-

iy.

Mackasey, an ardent cam-
Pifina telephone interview
continue making speeches on
his favorite topie but will
maintain a low political
profile.

“I'm Bryce Mackasey,

chairman of the board, and
not Bryce Mackasey, cabinet

minister,” said the former

postmaster general and
bor minister. -

The Irish-Quebecer left
federal politics in 1976 to win
a seat In the Quebec national
assembly, He then:
his seat to contest an Oct. 16
federal byelection in Ottawa
Centre but lost to the
Progressive Conservative
candidate,

100 r06 ,

Mackasey, 57, replaces
Pierre Taschereau, who
came to Alr Canada in 1974
from its sister company,
Canadian National
Railways, ©

Trudeau not quitting

> OFFAWA (CP) — Pierre
Trudeau reaffirmed

‘Thursday that he plans to offering

etey on as prime minister
‘and, Liberal party ieader

* through next year's general

election.

“I'm not only deciding to
remain, I'm deciding to
remain with confidence,”
Trudeau tokd a news con-
ference, en yet another
round of 8 tion that he
plans tostep down in the face
of public discontent with his
government,

Trudeau said he continucs

to feel that the solutions be
and his government are
to economic and
constitutional problems
facing the country are better -
than those of his opponents.
the Greek

politics for the same reason
he got into them in the firat
place more than a decade

ago.

“You get in because you
don't want to be governed by
someone less good than

yourself.

| Time for next round

TORONTO (CP) — A re-
newed national effort to
contain inflation in 1970 will
be unavoidable, Ontario
Premier William Davis said

Thursday:

“I hope all of us will use.
the time we have now to
consider the best way to

- proceed in order to avoid
‘emergency ‘actions cr
measures which would com-
promise our free
recovery,” Davis sald in a
speech to the Harvard
Business School Club.

In what he described as his
last formal speech af the
year, Davis said his political

penned ncroes the
country were repared -
to bite the bullet” when
Ontario ted a new
thrust to fight inflation at the
economic conference of first
ministers in Ottawa last
month,

“However, in time, harsh
realities usually get their
way,” Davis said

He sald the demanding
task facing governments is «:
to conform the private in-
terest to the public interest .
without relmposing com-
pulsory wage and price
controls.

Business is reticent

MONTREAL (CP) —
Canadian ; organizations
victimized’ in computer
law to report to the police,
just as they are in the United
States, RCMP officer Marcel
‘Coutu said Thursday.

Coutu, superintendent of
the RCMP’s commercial
crime division, said in an
interview that organizations
are loath to report computer
crime because they want
thelr money back.

“They'd rather solve their
problems themselves,”

W segs . j
' ck, !! fe ene oot oo “ae

Fequired by.

Coutu said. “If you report
the crime, you're not sure
a will get your

In some iustatices, bonding
companies apply preesure on
the victim not to report the
crime because a person in
jail cannot work off what he
owes, he said.

nizations also do not
like to report computer
crimes because of the ent-
barassment and loss of
reputation such disclosures
involve. .

CLC gets Senate ear

OTTAWA (CP) — Senators
gave Canadian Labor
Congress (CLC) leaders a
sympathetic hearing

.Thureday when they ap

pealed to the Upper House to
defeat a Commons bill tight-
ening the unemployment
insurance program.

However, Sen. Eugene
Forsey (L—Ontario) warned
the CLC that “this House has

not thrown out a Dill for the

t 40 years." ;
ue said that MPs in the
fely to get final. approval

Re approva
next week, will feel that

“those old busters in the
Senate had better not go
interfering’ with the

legislation.

The CLC said the Senate
welfare committee studying
the bill “represents our last
chance, it seems, to bring an
end to the chipping away of
the basic tenels of the
unemployment insurance
legislation."

The bill should be
scrapped “to prevent the
eventual wrecking of a piece
of social law that ranks
among the best in the
world,” a CLC brief said,

Ontario dumps shares

TORONTO (CP) — The

’ Ontario: government has

reached an agreement to sell
its interest in the Syncrude
project for $160 million—
about #5 million more than

- its orlginal investment,

Energy Minister James Auld
said Thuraday.

Auld told the legislature
that an agreement has been
reached with PanCanadian
Petroleum Lid, of Calgary.

The plant is about 400 kilo-
metres northeast of Ed-
and Auld said

ensure that the plant would
be built.

Ontario agreed to par-
icipate financially in the

ject in 1976.

Auld said the government
is satisfied that the Ontario

Ene , has negotiated
a gout for Ontario.
“Our actual expenditure to

date is approximately $106
million to which could be
added about $19 million, if
one allows for the interest
cost on that money,” he said.

“This meang that Ontario
taxpayers will receive an
excellent return on their
investment.”

~ Israel to keep building

TEL AVIV (AP) — Israel
will begin construction of
‘new settlements along the
Jordan River, in-the Gaza
Strip and on the occupied:

_ Golan Heights of Syria next

Monday, culture Min-

ister 1 iAP Sharon said
. Thureda

y.
Israel agreed at Camp
David to freeze construction
of new settlements in the
three month: allotted for
negotiations on a peace
treat wm Egypt. That

¥.
Israell ‘Radio quoted

Sharon, who heads a
ministerial committee on
settlements, as saylng
existing settlements on the.
West Bank of the Jordan
River would be strengthened
and new settlements would
be built iri the Jordan Vailey.

He said Prime Minister
Menachem Begin backed the
new construction plans.

The United States has
criticized Israel for its
settlements in the occupied
Arab territories, which the
U.S. regards as illegal,

' OTTAWA (CP) — Welfare

Minister Monique Begin has
a od substantial
Sprctting the private sector
vate

i combat ‘“‘the fact that
alzuont Rot of those bbe) age
65 are id

Miss Begin sald 3 Thursday

that she favors dramatic im- |

provements in pension
bility and vesting rules,
tion of private pen-
and mandatory

In a brief to the Senate
committee on retirement
age policies she also
recommended “‘that greater
flexibility be provided to
Canadians in choosing their
rellrement ages, whether
before or after 65.”

Her proposals would
alleviate the plight of per-
sons who lose pension credits
and benefits because they
change jobs. They also would
reduce income erosion due to
inflation and provide greater
Icom Or Oe On eer nt
groups Cana er
widows

Although about 3.9 million
workers—41 per cent of the
labor force—are covered by
private pension plans, Miss

said many of them
lose their aaa benefits
by changing .
Government statistics for
1975, the latest com-
prehensive figures
available, say 81 per cent of
elderly unmarried women,
74 per cent of elderly un-
‘married males and 60 per
cent of elderly couples
received no pension income
in 1978. In total, 67 per cent of
the aged had no pension
income. eeu
«. Migs ‘Begitt!'pinned the
blame on the private sector,
adding however that
government pensions are not

(government provides more
than three times the pension
‘income that the private
sector provides. —

“No private pension pian
is avallable for the nna jority
and the benefits are low and
receiving: some~. pension
income,”” The average
private pension income in
1975 was about $3,000 an-

mually.
While she recommended physical ab

giving workers the right to
work past age 65, ‘this
should not change in any way
the age at which full private
pensions are available.” .
“Individual, personal
choice is what should be
enhanced,” she said, citing
public pension programs in
which late retirement does
not affect pension rights. A
government survey showed
about 50 per cent of Ca-
nadians would like to work at
least part-time past age 65.
Miss Begin also warned

that post-65 retirement .

should not be regarded as a
substitute fdr better pen-
sions.
She also warned that early
retirement should not be
made so appealing that the
labor force drops so Jow that
jobs cannot be filled or that
demands on government for
supplementary income get
out of hand.
rate submission,
the Canadian Human Rights
commission said
mandatory retirement based
man arbitrarily chosen age,

In a se

CONTRACT|
RATIFIED:

PENTICTON, B.C.
(CP) — About 160
firefighters in four in-
‘terlor British Columbia
communities have
ratified a new twoyear
contract with the Okana-
gan Mainline Municipal
Labor Relations
Association (OMMLRA),
the association’s chief
negotiator said Thursday,

Siedo Tzogoeff said the

members of the In-
ternational Association of
Firefighters here and in
Kelowna, Kamloops and
Revelatoke.

The contract includes a
seven-per-cent increase
in each of the two years, &
weekly ‘sickness  in-

wage to $1,-690 in 1979 and
#1 616 in 1980 from $1,570

year.
The current contract
expires Dec, 41.

unindexed for. many of those -- Los
"§,000:cases annually. Verbal | -

that -

| NEWs IN BRIEF | Begin favoring §
pension change &

usually 65, 8 to be
contrary to Pine. tederal
human rights code.
However, the commission
said that until it gets results
of a study on the issue un-
dertaken with the Con-.
ference Board in Canada, no
request for legislation

banning mandatory retire-
ment will be made to Parlia-

ment.

The conference board is a
private research
organizaton supported by its

Doctor defends

right to

fer steanety _ a doctor
who 3 supports a

of righte for children said
Thursday the bill shouldn't
include the right not to be

spanked.

Dr. John Gossage, a
pediatrician from New
Weatminster, B.C., told the
Commons justice committee
‘he spanked his own children
several times and he feels
there is a place for “selec-
tive corporal punishment.”
- The committee is con-

dering a bill of rights for
children proposed by James
McGrath (PC— St. John’s
East), who also wants
a Criminal Code

pling children.
Dr. Gogsage said he
doesn’t think it would be a
good idea’ to repeal the
section. Other witnesses
have sald the section Is a
defence for teachers againat
charges to assault.
ling the Jaw might
leave a teacher unable to
intervene where one child

‘was bullying another.
perfect. But she sald the .

There are more than 80,000
children in Canada who are
subject to abuse, Dr.
Gossage estimated. The
abuse isn’t necessarily

ical, in the sense of

more
recognized, with: perhaps

degradation, to the point
where the child is damaged,
is more common and Ped

an

sical abuse. —_
The potentially abusive
family profile is well-
established. A common
thread is that the parents
themselves had been abused.

more damaging’

tering. Sexua] abuse is
than -

members, many from

groups as the worst victims
of the inadequate retirement
income system: Survivors of
deceased pensioners
especially women under age
65; unemployed older
workers whose age un-
dermines their

prospects; workera who
changed jos; workers forced
to retire because of illness or
physical weakness,

spank

Other factors include heavy
drinking or drug use,
criminal behavior, and the
absence of one parent.
Where a child is premature
or handicapped, abuse
sometimes resulted, Another
factor is adolescent mothers
and fathers.

A bill of rights for children
might change attitudes, Dr,
Gossage said. Abusive
parents love their children
but can’t translate their
feelings into proper
behavior. They usually
cbviounlyeqtipped i give,

te] pped to give it,
but few social workers or
physicians are trained to
Geal with such situations.

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