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VICTORIA
REPORT '

by FRANK HOWARD
SKEENA MLA .

How would you like to be able to lobby
your government effectively to get what you
want. | think you and | as Individuats would
have a very difficult time In getting our
point of view across to government.

But corporations don’t have difficulty.
They know how to lobby for their special
interests. They have the money to finance
their lobby and the persistence necessary to
get thelr own way. .

The unsuspecting legislator can easily be
seduced into thinking jhat the corporate
view expressed by the corporation iobbyist
Is the way to go., :

| care across a brochure recently which
deaft with the subject: How to lobby ef-
fectively with governments. The brochure
promised participation by corporations In
seminars to be held in Toronto, Calgary and
Vancouver in January and February of this
year. In addition to the general theme of
lobbying your government to get what you
want there was a list of the people who were
to speak at the seminars. The brochure
states “the speakers are experts with
proven track records’. Let’s see who some

ofthese “experts” are,

One Is the Honorable Robert Andras. Ar.
Andras was president of the federal
government's Treasury Board under Prime
Minister Trudeau. His is now a vice-
president of Teck Corporation. Teck Corp.
as you know is heavily Involved In the
Northeast Coal deal. Yes, | suppose you
could say, In the words of ihe brochure, that
Mr. Andras has a “proven track record’’.

Another speaker is the Honorable Hugh
Planche, Alberta’s minister of economic
development. I don’t knaw about his ‘‘track

by RICHARD GWYN

record” but it. seems to. me there Is a
symbiotic relationship involved when a
government leader goes to a seminar on
lobbying to give advice as to how fo lobby
government effectively. The third speaker
at the serninar Is from B.C. Now this guy Is
not a cabinet minister nor has he been one.
in terms of slotting him Into our political
structure | would say he has had more In-
fluence on our current B.C. government
than most cabinet ministers, this speaker is
none other than one David Brown. The
brochure on lobbying describes Mr. Brown
as being “a former executive assistant to
the Premier of B.C.”. In case there Is doubt
they are referring to the current Premier
Bennett.

How well do you think you as a lone In-
dividual would de lobbying on your awn
behalf. At the very best it Is a long, uphill
struggle and especially so when operating
In an unsympathetic political climate. In
today’s political climate the corporation’s
lobbyists are lobbying In the mest friendly
and warm atmosphere. While the In-
dividual is belng left outside In the cold.

OTTAWA -- Plerre Trudeau’s most
considerable gift Is to be at his best when
things are at thelr worst.

Conversely, whenever the universe Is

“unfolding just the way he wants It fo, he’s at

his worst.

As the circumstances change. so does his
performance, always acting as a kind of
“eguntervailing pressure’ against the flow
of events.

For the past couple of months, Trudeau
has been at his absolute best. Resolute.
Cool. Quick. In the Commons, even when

the Conservatives had. got hold, of leaked , On .then.constitutlon, the
memorandums which showéd' that Trudeau | Gommonschasiundergone a fu

had told less than the full truth about his
negotiations with British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher, they were able to score
only a few debating points off him and never
came close to putting him down. .

During this perlod, those who know
Trudeau well say they've never seen him
more up-beat. In private, he’s béen jokey.
relaxed and high-spirited.

The reason was that Trudeau then was in
afight. He loves fights, because he’s good
at them, and he’s good at fights because he
loves them. He was fighting Alberta over
oll. He was fighting most of the provincial
premiers, and the Conservative Opposition,
over the constitution. He was bashing the
Brits. Things jooked bad, so he looked good.

Then, last week, Trudeau began fo look
bad. On a trip to British Columbia he
bragged that he was ‘‘exhilirated’’ because
he had managed to split the Conservatives
and the New Democrats by his con-
stitutional package. He indulged In the
hyperbole of saying that if Canada did spilt
apart because of his unilateral action on the
constitution, “then i say It isn’t worthy of
living another day.”

Trudeau had geared down mentally to
neutral because things were going well.

On oll, a truce with Alberta Is as distant as
it has ever been since the war began with

Ottawa's new olf policy announcement of
But the “Canadianization”

last October.
program has begun to gather momentum
and the oll industry for the first time Is
beginning to apply pressure upon Premier
Peter Lougheed to seek a setHement.

So Trudeau has won, or will eventually.
The premiers, with Saskatchewan's Allan

other, haven't been able to get thelr act
together. The courts at most can delay the
process, but no-one’ expects the Supreme
Court to rule other than in Trudeau's favor.
~ Incharacter, Trudeau has begun to exert
countervailing pressure against himself.
To spoil his triumph, that Is, just at the
moment when he’s fashioned it.

All along, the sticking point in the con-
stitution (and in oll policy) never has been
whether Trudeau would get what he wants,
but how he gets It, On the constitution, for
Instance, public opinion favoured Trudeau’s
package last fall. 1# furned against him only
after he used closure to cut off the
Parllamentary debate last October, ~

Trudeau’s bragging that he’s divided his
opponents is a cheap shot. It rubs wounds,
some of which are honorable ones. His
unconcealed contempt at Blakeney’s at-
tempt to straddle both sides of the fence --
“So what else Is new?" -- Is more un-
derstandable; but Trudeau still needs fo try
ta cosset and cajole Blakeney Into coming
over to his side. =

ifn, the ..,

although hard to define, change.

Just as the atmosphere at some cocktail
party, say, will suddenly turn from awk-
ward and self-conscious fo convivial, or at
some meeting will change abruptly from co-
operative to combative, or whatever, so in
the Commons the mood of the present
debate about the constitution Is quite dif-
ferent from the same debate last fall.

Then, there was acrimony and passion.
Today’s debate Is almost equable. Liberal
MPs, sensibly, are making non-partisan
speeches. Conservative MPs criticize the
constitutional package as “unilateral and
diverisive”, but are finding It hard to think
of new things to say.

More important, a sense of inevitability
now pervades the Commons. The measure
is bound to go through In the end because
Trudeau commands a majority. A
realization has begun to take hold that
although approval by the Gritish
Parliament will be neither as quick nor as
easy as Trudeau once pretended, all the
trans-Atlantic talk will add up only te a
dolay, nat to a de-rallment.

Rather than slapping at his opponents,
Trudeau ought, from strength now, to be
reaching out to them. The country will pay
foo high a price for Trudeau's personal
victory if it’s cost is an embittered and
humiliated West and sheer protracted
bloody-mindedness by most of the
provincial premiers. Just in the way that at
next July’s western economic “summit” in
Ottawa, Trudeav will find that the price he —
will pay for having embarrassed Thatcher
Is that she will give hima hard, hostile glare
each time he brings up his favorite topic of
North-South relations.

«gcc Ue goverpment to use closure in such an important

miventat, *~-[°°<" dahate “°°

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| Visit creates

bit of relief

_ ‘geal ital gets a bit of
OTTAWA (CP) —Thenation’scaP! TBs the

president.

Reagan, who will bold talks with Prime Minister
Trudeau during his two-day visit which starts
Tuesday, will get a look at the new paint job on the
fence around a Peace Tower renovation project
when he arrives on the Hl Wen morning to
deliver a speech to MPs senators.

But the new president and his foreign policy were
to come under the scrutiny of MPs earlier in the
week as the New Democrats used their chance to
choose the topic of debate today to discuss the civil
war in El Salvador.

The NDP has pressed the government to speak
gut more strongly against the U.S. decision to send
arms and military advisers to help the ruling
Tightist junta in the Central American country.

The rest of the week will be devoted to the con-

stitution.
' The Libera Is appeared to be edging closer to
cuiting off the debate — now in its fourth week — a8
Government House Leader Yvon Pinard said Fri-
day the government doesn’t have to let every MP
speak in the Commons during the final round of the
constitution debate.

After the Liberals used controversial ekesure
rules to cut off the opening round of debate last fall,
Trudeau refused to rule out the possibility closure
might be used again. But he alsa promised all MPs
who wanted to would have an apportunity to speak.

“But they dou't have to use It (the opportunity>,”
said Pinard, “If the debate ended without all MPs
having spoken, it would not contradict his
(Trudeau's) stalement and it would not be wrong."

He said the Tories have delayed a vote on the
amendment they proposed on the first day of debate
and bave refused to agree with Liberal proposals to
speed the process by shortening speeches and ex-
tending Commons hows.

If the Tories don't start cooperating by volun-
tarily limiting speeches and allowing other
amendments, ‘what I call a debate that is not
evolving properly will soon become what everyoue
calls a filibuster.”

And closure would be the only response lo a
filibuster because the government has the respon-
sibility to deal with a backlog of other important
government business, said Pinard.

Tory House Leader Walter Baker said it would be
“morally wrong and absolutely indefensible” for

But Justice Minister Jean Chretien said the
debate is becoming “pretty pitiful’ because the
Tories are repeating old arguments against the
government's plans to amend and patriate the
constitution against the wishes of eight of 10 prov-
inces.

Real cool cat
could emerge

Does Fideaux whimper

Blakeney skipping from one camp to the

omer

T THINK THE Go’/ VOTE
AT THE CONVENTION

vee THE. CONSERVATIWWES
ARe DAMMING JOE
WITH FAINT PRAISE.

I JUST DON'T “TAIN
JOE. CAN WIN AN
ELECTION.

and lick your hand when you
alitber home from ahard day
at the office?

Does Fluffy greet you with
extended claw and bared
fang afler being locked in the
apartment throughout your
absence on the hustings?

ts your pet goat, neglected

- and foriorn, beset with an in-

cpient case of nerves?

Yoga may be the answer -—
not for you, for your pet.

Kt basa't caught on in
Canada yel, butin Japan it is
reported that more and more
concerned pet owners are
taking their cats, dogs,
goats, raccoons, chimps and
even the odd bird along with
them to yoga clastes.

Shigenori Masuda, the
Tokyo mastermind who
started it all, says “yoga
exercises help animals
preserve their mental and
corporal weil-being.”’

Neil Bixby of the -Yoga
Health Institute of Canada,
says — somewhat hesitanily
— “I can believe it,'’
although he hasn't heard of it
in this country.

“Tt would ,be difficult to
conceive how to get the
taind-tobody functions which
fa the emsence of yoga. But

that aspect isn’t as im.
portant for animals.”

Confine an animal unduly,
Bixby admits, and you get an
animal that can be “tense
and neurotic.”

“Some good is possible
just from the muscular
relaxation.”

Masuda says the light went
on several years ago when he

“1 was doing my yoga ex
ercises at home when |
noticed him," Masuda says.

“IT suddenly realized be
was trying to copy me."

OK, but bow da you get
ial a dog, goat, racenon,

, fo assume the
position? Fohis

You don't, of course,

A program of three weekly
lessons begins with the death
position, in which pets lie
motionless, belly down, with
Jegs outthrust, From there,
the pet progresses through
poapaca pose, the pyramid

on,
poeture. e Penguin

Poodles and Yorkshire tap.
tiers appear to be moat
adaptable, the Japanese

a suggests.

Pomeranians and chi.
huabuas, on the other hand.
are pretty stupid."

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