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(EDITORIAL _

Sometimes you wonder. about the.

politicians who run our country.
_We have just come through a crisis
which threatened to break this nation up.

The crux of that problem was that part iy

of the country refused to listen to the
other part. The special needs of one
group, a need to maintain an identity
and preserve a culture, was being
ignored. oo,

Now we are in the middle of a series of
talks aimed at taking Into account the
needs and desires of the different

- regions of this country and finding a way
to maintain a federal system of
- .government with a number of different
_gecgraphical, cultural and economic
- entities balancing power with a central
~ government.
’ While the politicians get together to
see what their priorities are and where
they can compromise, they agree first of
all to exclude one region.

The Northwest Territories is being
excluded from the constitutional talks.

The northern region of this country
may have special interests and
problems which need to be aired. The

North is well on its way to being not only
a province but a province with resources
‘to contribute, it is ignored. —
»+Qoes this.move make any sense in
_ talks aimed at forging a new unity for
the next century?

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CONSUMER
COMMENT.

‘By CONSUMER AND CORPORATE AFFAIRS CANADA

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Just as you wouldn’t buy a car or an appliance without
knowing something aboutit, you shouldn't retain the services
of a professional without first asking a few questions. For like
consumer products, the cost, quality and suitability of
doctors, lawyers, accountants and other professionals can
vary widely and therefore careful consideration should be
given to their selection.

Asking friends about their experiences with particular
professionals ean often be helpful, although it should be kept
in mind that the qualities that they find attractive or im-
portant may differ from those that you would seek,

When you approach the professional that you are coh- «

sidering hiring, don’t hesitate or feel enibarrassed to ask

questions about his or her fees, qualifications, or -

specializations. In cases where a fee cannot be accurately
estimated because the amount of time and effort varies, ask
about an hourly rate, so that you'll have some idea of how big
your bill is getting as time goes by. If answers to your
questions aren't forthcoming, consider taking your business
elsewhere. Once you have an idea of the person’s fees and
qualifications, check with others in that field to see how they
compare before making your final selection.

Complaints about professional services should be directed
to the appropriate professional association, as fallows.
Should the association not reasonably resolve the problem,
you may wish to consider taking legal action, or filing a
complaint with the office of the Ombudsman (B.C.).

Accountants: Chattered Accountants Institute of B.C., 562
Burrard St., Vancouver, B.C. VéC 2K8 - Phone: 681-3264

Dentists: College of Dental Surgeons of B.C., 1125 W. 8th
Ave., Vancouver, B.C. V6H 3N4 - Phone: 736-3621. Provides
names of dentists who specialize in certain types of work and
has recommended fee schedule. a

Doctors: College of Physicians and Surgeons (membership
includes psychiatrists and ophthalmologists), 1807 W. 10th
Ave., Vancouver, Z.C. V6J 2A0 - Phone: 736-5951. The B.C.
Medical Association, at the same address, has a recom-
mended fee schedule for various services.

Lawyers: Law Society of B.C., Suite 300, 1148 Hornby St.,
Vancouver, B.C, V6Z 2C4 - Phone: 688-9461. For the names of
lawyers specializing in a particular legal field, contact your

_ local Lawyer Referral Service, operated by the Canadian
Bar Association.

Oplometrists: B.C. Optometric Association, 1033 Davie St.,

. Vateouver, B.C. V6E 1M7 Phone: 485-1810.

Pharameists: B.C. Pharmacists Society, Suile 604, 1200
West 73rd Ave., Vancouver, B.C, V6P 6G5 - Phone: 263-2766.

Veterinarians: B.C. Veterinary Medical Association, Suite
960, 1070 West Broadway, Vancouver, B.C. V6N 2M2 - Phone:
733-0912. ;

_ VANCOUVER (CR) — A
24+-year-old Burnaby, B.C.

man who has been In and out.

of institutions since he was
eight has become the focal
point of a move to amend the
B.C, Mental Health. Act,

The lawyer for Terry Lun-—

dihne says his‘client doesn't
belong in existing B.C,
correctional facilities — but
under the act, his condition
doesn’t qualify him- for
admission to a mental health

facility. . ce

. Lundihne, described as
marginally retarded and
occasionally emotionally
disturbed, was remanded.
into custody last month at
the medium-security Lower
Mainland Regional ‘ Cor-
rectlonal Centre (Oakalla) in

‘nearby Burnaby after

pleading gullty to creating a
disturbance, . uy

His lawyer, Howard
Smith, said Lundihne is

unable to cope with life on:

the outside, has attempted
suicide several times and,
because of his aberrant be-

4 .

Changes

Hobe

CoquitlamMoody) to ‘take
the matter to the legislature.
There may be enough Lun-
dihnes in the penal system to
justify creation of an entirely
new and suitable facility,
sald Leggatt, who intends to
introduce appropriate
legislation when he finishes
researching the problem.
There are about 40 bor-
Werline cases in B.C. fails,
aaid Dr, Harry Stevens, the
corrections ministry’s chief
peychiatric officer.
-“'There’s no doubt about
them being seriously
behaviorally and

. emotionally disturbed," said

Stevens.

These prisoners are not,
however, “clinically crazy"
as defined by the Mental
Health Act.

Some Oakalla inmates
may be committable to the

_warehouwilng
can doitas wellas forensic,”

under the act, but they're at
Oakalla because there -is
ttle hope of improving the
condition. .

“If it comes — to

somebody, ‘we

said Stevens, adding that the

corrections: ministry's

mandate is ‘not to cure, but

to prevent further deteriora-
‘on. w . ' :

The ministry of health has:

been reducing the population
of the mental heapital at Riv-
erwiew, near Vancouver,
and only seriously disturbed

. Individuals are kept there

mw, sald David Buchan, an
adviser to the ministry of
health for the attorney-
general, _
“Thus Lundihne shouldn't
be sent there, ha said, ~
And the forensic and pey-
chiatric ‘unit wouldn't be

needed in the law ~

| oten dangeroua, 2
_ ."¥ou wouldn't want to put

a mildly ‘disturbed . person
there (in. the unit). He
(Lundihna) fite semewhere
. in between.” =.
Lundibne was released

/, from Oakalla in-April after
. serving. five’ months for
breaking ancl’ entering "his ;

aunts home." * . *
Less than two weeks later,
he was arreated for creating
‘a disturbance’ in a -store
where he ordered coffee he

couldn't pay for, =.
Provincial court Judge W.

S. Selbie has ordered Lun- «

dihne to undergo tests at
-Oakalla to determine what is
to be done with him, |

‘At a special conference on
Lundihne last year, attended
by representatives of moat
institutions he had stayed at,
it was decided that no one In-
stitution could handle him.

“Nobody -cares- - about
Terry,” said Smith. “I'm the

‘only friend he's got in the .

world.”

Lundihne never knew his
father, and his mother died
when he was two, sald Smith.
An aunt cared for him until

Stu Leggatt (NDP —

forensic and paychlatric unit
of the ministry of health because the unit inmates are

suitable elther, sald Buchan,

be entered Riverview at age
eight. :

Liipar Sy mane TonL SouRNaL

“There goes Joe Clark — rose from obscurity and heading for oblivion”

By CARL MOLLINS

WASHINGTON (CP) —. One --

month after a can) eae ocala’
erlcan foreign pelicy p
Edmund Muskie into the cabinet as
secretary of state, the former
senator from Maine is groping for
ways to muffle a chorus of criticism
at home and abroad about U.S. be-
havior,

Since he took office May 9, the 66-
year-old politiclan seems to have
settled at least one source of the
trouble that has provoked the
erlticism, including a comment

Extrnal Affalrs Minister Mark.

MacGuigan 10 days ago that
“American foreign policy ... often
leaves a lot to be desired.”

Muskie, apparently by prior
agreement with President Jimmy
Carter, has not been challenged by
conflicting policy pronouncements
from the White House, a source of
confusion in the past. ‘

But Muskie's proapecta of dis-
pelling irritations among allies and
rivals hinge on the continued
restraint of Carter and his advisers,
including Zbigniew Brzezinski,
national: security adviser, and
Hamilton Jordan, White House chief
of staff. The prospects are tot
positive, given the past per-
formances and the preoccupation of
the White House with getting Carter
re-elected In November.

The late-April resignation of
Cyrus Vance ad state secretary was
widely attributed to frustrations
generated by Brzezinski's public
interventions in foreign policy and to
Carter's penchant for tming his
proniuncements in response to a dip
in opinion polls or an impending

a “eoM UND MUSKIE a
Policy problems plague

state pi election.

-Brzezinski has spoken out against
the previous policy of international _
detente and disarmament. Jordan is:
juriged to be the main counsellor of
Carter's tactic of selzing upon any-
thing, including matters of war and
peace, to promote hia electoral
chances, . .

The complaints are summed up in
a series of articles in the current
issue of the quarterly journal

Foreign Policy.. Congressional ,

representative Millicent Fenwick
(Rep. J.J.), member of the House
foreign affairs committee, echoes |
others in writing that ‘‘It is con-
fusing for us here in Congress, for
the country and for foreign govern-
ments to have a variety of official
foreign pollcy spokesmen.
Com ding the confusion are
the vacillations and sudden turns of
our foreign policy course... We have
seen too many televison interviews .

. thmed to primary election.”

The criticisms focus on ‘such
matters aa shifting polices towards
the Soviet Union, Iran, the Middle
East and the flood of refugees from

For Canada, the frustrations
centre on delays over such bilateral
matters as ratification of an East
Coast fisheries agreement, con-
struction of the Alaska natural gas
pipeline and a proposed review of
the pact governing trade -in

' automobiles. and parts.

Many of the global and bilateral
issues require the co-operation of &
Congress grown suspicious of the
Carter administration, despite thé
fact that Carter Democrats control
both Houses.

him
Muskie, who has conferred with
Soviet and West European coun-
terparts during his first month in
’ office, ls sharply aware of the
_ ‘problems, And, having served 22
years as a senator, he knows the
hoatile mood of Congress. ;
Ina weekend radio interview, the
secretary of state acknowledged
that U.S. foreign policy has tended
for a long time to “blow hot and

cold.” He also recognized that .

progress on such issues as
ratification of the second Strategic

' Arms Limitation Treaty with the

Soviet Union cannot proceed now
because “there are not the votes in
the senate to ratify salt 11"

He issued what appeared to be an .

appeal for understanding just two
weeks before he and Carter meet
leaders.of six major allies, including
Canada, at an economic summit in
Venice June 22-23 followed by a
NATO ministerial meeting In

Ankara.
Muskie sald, “Steadiness of -

is very difficult to sustain
when events — unanticipated events
and actions by other countries —
upset what appears to be our

progress towards goals we tave
eet,”

At the same Hime, Muskie In- -

dicated that progress in such
mattera may, depend ‘‘on the elec
tion results on Nov, 4.”_

’ That comment suggests that
Muskie is engaged rily in «
holding action while seeking to curb
erlticlam -— a sign that America's
allies wilt have to be patient while
they await the November

presidential and congressional

elections.

pn

OTTAWA.

BY oe
RICHARD .
JACKSON

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“Ottawa, - If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, @rins
Marcel Lambert, 23-year veteran Conservative MP
for Edmonton West. " ae

He’s kidding about his weight, or perhaps girth, it |
being difficult to tell which may bethegreater. 7:

Fellow parliamentarians and less respectful
members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery have'an |
assortment of names for him, none of them exactly
complimentary, andall having to do with his size.

So on he comes the other day, on the cable TV
coverage of Parliament, to remark how _when a
Liberal rises in the Commons.to speak his piece,
fellow members of his party fill up the background by
occupying any seats which may be vacant behind him.

’ Most seats are vacant when the House gets down to
the usually dreary routine of the day, press and.TV .
vacating the Galleries following the conclusion of the
Daily Question Period when most of the news 38 made. _

“You will notice,” smiled Marcel Lambert into the
camera, pretty well filling the whole screen, that
when I speak, none of my colleagues move in behind
me tokidthetaxpayersthatit’safullhouse. ...

“They don’t have to,” he smiled penignly spreading
his wide arms to further emphasize his impressive
bulk, indicating that when he fills the camera's
screen, man, it’s really filled.

If the Liberals are swinging to the left as they |
persist in saying they are, they’re making some odd
right-ward noises... — en

Like examining the damage that former Finance
Minister Ben Benson’s controversial capital gains tax
did or’ did not do to the Canadian economy and in-
flation. oo oo,

Whatever happened to the economy as a result of
Berison’s “tax reform,” as he then called it, he per-.
sonally has done okay. :

- Long since gone from Cabinet, and now.as a senior
public servant, a politically neutered non-Liberal, he
early latched onto one of the higher rungs of the
bureaucratic ladder as the plus $70,000 head of the
Canadian Transport Commission..

His Capital gains tax worked like this: suppose you"
made $1,000 on the sale of an investment, you'd pay —
your going income tax rates on $500 of it. To balance it

_ out, if you incurred a $1,000 loss, you’d be able to
deduct from your taxable income $500 of that loss,

Much has been said about the tax ‘over the years,
little of it favorable, but not muchhas beendone. .

. Now it turns out that perhaps Finance Minister
Allan MacEachen, that reputed left-winger ofall
people, may have a task force going on it.

It sort of sneaked out this way:
Don Blenkarn, the right-wing Conservative from

Mississauga’ South, rémitndéed ‘Treasury Board

| «President Don Johnston of:a statement he had,made,

before the Liberals made it back to power, that: the
-capital gains tax “had stifled investment and frozen
assets.” oe
.And in the light of this statement would he be having
any input into the study that the Finance Minister was _
having made of the tax? ., a
Mr. Johnston, asa good Treasury Board President
should, did a neat side-step: ‘If there is such a study I
look forward very much to it.” . -
Mr. Blenkarn then took out.after Mr. MacEachen:
“What about that ‘if?’ and if there is such a study
under way, will the Finance Minister refer it. to a
Commons Committee and allow the President of the
Treasury Board who wrote a book ‘Fiscalamity’ on the
financial disastei of the capital gains tax, tell how it .
has been crippling investment, hurting business and -
increasing inflation?” — Tk
Mr. MacEachen, coming out from behind the mask
of Cabinet secrecy : ‘I can remove that ‘if,’ and advise
that there is a study under way on the subject of
capital gains. vee
“When it is ccompleted I will consider whether to

. send it to a Commons Committee. 7

s

“Tt sounds like a good idea.’
So far, so good, .

SHES OUT
VACUUMING THE.
LAWN RIGHT
NOW .

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