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PAGE #, THE HERALO, Monday, February 6,,1978

Canada seeks new
export fish sales

OTTAWA (CP) — Fish
exporting companies and
trade department of-
ficlals are stepping up
their ‘efforts to find new
overseas markets for fish

oducts. ;

The companies are in
the final stages. of

creating the Canadian

Association of Fish
Exporters (CAFE), Ken
Campbell, manager. of
the Fisheries Council,
said this week.

The trade department
is in the process of
designating fish attaches
for Japan and European
countries, Bob Merner,

the department's
fish division, said in an
interview. -

Merner said _ that
fisheries exports is one of
the few growth ndustries
in Canada and “the
demand for fish products
is strong.’ "

But fish markets go in
sixyear cycles and “we
need to put things into
place now to avoid the
sort of problems which
have hit the industry in
the past,” Merner said.
The way to do it is to
create anent
markets for Canadian

products,
EXPORT FIRMS JOIN

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porting companies now
are joining CAFE, which
wil be a __ sister
organization to the
Fisheries Council, The
association should be
formally launched in a
month or two.

fisheries department
officials say the ex-
porters are taking on a

ig job in trying to con-
sofidate their. marketing
efforts ‘and it's ‘likel
small companies, whic
export -highly-processed
products, won't join.

It will take at least a
year to tell whether the
association will be able ta
survive internationally
but it won't be for a lac
of help from the trade de-

rtment, one fisheries
official said.

CAFE is expected to
supply the Canadian
companies with constant
reliable information on

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markets and prices.

Because the association:

will be able to get
preducts from the
member companies, ‘the
volume will hopefully

create a continuily of
supply” needed for major
contracts, nespecially

with the state trading
companies. of Fastern
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Canada Week committee
chairman, said Friday
during a meeting of the
national Canada Week
committee. -
..Exactly what the
committee is doing, such
as how the park will be
divided the cost and the
actual date of the
eventnare still In the
planning stages.
aEheexpects 100,000 to

based on the popularit:

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people really wanted
something like that," she
said. .

the amount of apathy in
B.C. towards Canadian
unity, but "I think we can

vote ourselves to th

Sharp, British Columbeca -

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of
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. Sharp is worrled about:

concept of one Canada.’
Canada Wee

English and: 30 French
Canadians in 1964. Barr
Jones, national publicit
chairman, said about $2.
million will be spent o
Canada Week activitie
across the country, -wit!

volunteer.
Chad Bark,
Canada Week chairman

activities. since _
November, 1976, - Parti
Quebecois victory in Que
bee and the subsequen
debate about nationa
unity and separatism.
‘It's really moved
from an apple pie and ice
cream isgue to a men
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Every green surprise

Chronically ill must, pay bills?
Health Minister hasn’t seen letter

Health Minister Bob
McClelland said Friday
he has not seen a letter
written by a member of
his department ordering
chronicallyill patients in
acute care hospitals to
pay their own bills.

McClelland also said
the estimated price of up
to $165 day it would cost
patients who stay in

pital once acute care
is no longer required was
not correct, but did not
elaborate.

“TI do not wish to
comment on this until I
have seen the letter,”
McClelland said in a tele-

hone interview from

rince George, B.C.,

‘where he was meeting

with local doctors to
discuss a possible new
hospital facility there.

e letter to the
hospitals was dated Jan.
25 aver the signature of
Dr. David Longridge,
medical consultant to

‘British Columbia

Hospital Programs.

“To avoid misun-
derstandings we suggest
that patients’ relatives or
friends shouldbe im-
mediately notified by you
in writing that coverage
is being terminated,”’ the

package issued right uy
if the package cont

letter said. “They should
be notified ‘that the
patient will be personally
responsible for payment
of the full per diem rate
once our coverage has
been withdrawn.”
LETTERS SENT

A Vancouver General
Hospital spokesman said
letters have already gone
to relatives, friends and
family doctors. of 15
patients under B.C.
Hospital Programs.

Patients originally
admitted for acute care—
such as a .fracture—
whose doctor£ have ruled
that they no longer
require acute care are
affected by the ruling.

The Vancouver
General spokesman said
the hospital normally has
100 to 200 persons in
acute-care beds awaiting

‘assignment to a long

term care facility. There
are three cr four cases
added to the list each day,
and it is these who are
being told they have to
leave, she said.

Isobel Kimmet,
executive director of the
provincial longterm care
program which is re-

sponsible for placing . -
patients requiring long

term care, said she ded
not know about the letter.

“I would have thought
he (Longridge) might
have made some of us
aware of what he was

. going to do,” she said in a

telephone interview fram
Prince George.

She said in many
communities with limited
resources it is not
possible io place people
within a week.

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Kimmet said = she
doubts it will be possible

‘to move people as quickly

as is being demanded
because “it would have
been my assumption that

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ue care if there was &
bed for them."

A lengthy procedure is
required to put a person
in an extended care bed,
he explained. First, the
hospital assesses the
patient to determine what
care he needs, then an
application goes to the
extended care registry in
Victoria, then it comes
back to the Vancouver
office, which does
another assessment, and
finally the person goes on
a waiting Jist for a bed.

Waiting lists are
commonly three to four
months long, MeLean
said,

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