_ the PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Wednesday, August 2, 1978 Is there an emergency or not? It is Summer, as usual, in Canada. With our Prime Minister abroad - as are a number of our cabinet ministers. In British Columbia, because of the beer workers’ strike, hundreds of thousands of cases of beer are pouring in from the U.S. state of Washington - and millions of Canadian dollars thereby pouring out to the S.A, Canadians, almost as though following the lead of their government officials, are likewise pouring into the U.S. and overseas, to the point where they are spending well over a billion dollars more than tourists are spending in Canada. On our highways and in our garages are Japanese-made automobiles. On our rivers and lakes and ocean shores - thousands of Japanese outboard motors. On our snow-clad by-ways in Winter - the roar of Japanese snowmobiles almost deafens theskiers, more likely than not to be wearing Japanese-made skiis. The microwave oven in the kitchen, the transistor radio, the stereo system - as well as the television set likewise represents billions of Canadian dollars more poured into Japan than that country spends in Canada - thus we pile up trade deficits but, worse still, we export jobs that ought to be filled by Canadian men and women. Those of our automobiles that are not Japanese most often are U.S, made Fords, GM, or American Motors. Despite the Autopact agreement with the U.S., we have learned the HIS WEEK % from Ottawa i we it, om FI lona Campagnolo In recent weeks there has been considerable comment over disagreements between the federal and provincial governments about the sharing of revenue from Loto Canada - par- ticularly its new $1 lottery game. Unfortunately some of the statements which have been made have been misleading and quite inaccurate. LEGAL IN 1963 By way of background I should explain that , lotteries in Canada were not legal until 1969. At that time legislation passed by the federal government allowed the operation of ‘both a national lottery (which has become Loto Canada) and smaller lotteries operating under the jurisdiction of provincial governments. There is no question that, from the start, both levels of government have been involved in the lottery field. As you may recall, Loto Canada was initially introduced (as the Olympic Lottery) to allow Canadians - on a voluntary financing of the 1976 Olympic Games and the 1978 Commonwealth Games, which start August 3 in Edmonton. Revenues from Loto Canada sales have been distributed according to a for- mula which was agreed to by all ten provinces. Under this formula, 82.5 percent of net revenues go towards the costs of 1976 Olympics and 1978 Commonwealth Games; 12.5 percent of net revenues are returned to the provincial governments; and 5 percent is given to the federal government's Fitness and Amateur Sport Branch. B.C, BENEFITS To date, the Province of B.C. has received over $1,119,000 from Loto Canada, for use as the ‘provincial government secs fit, This funding formula expires at the end of 1979, when the federal government's commitments to the Olympic and Commonwealth Games will have been fulfilled. There have been some reports that Loto Canada itself was to have ceased operation at the end of 1979. This is not the case, and the federal government has never stated that Loto Canada would cease to exist at the end of 1979. REVENUE-SHARING The question of a new Loto Canada revenue- sharing formula was raised at a recent federal- provincial Lotteries Conference, and is one which I, in my capacity as Minister responsible for Loto Canada, hope to resolve in my discussions with my provincial counter-parts. At the present time there is not agreement on the subject, and I think it is safe to say that this disagreement is at the root of much of the current contraversy. (The proposal I have given to my provincial counterparts, though, offers them up to half of Loto Canada’s net revenue). I am fully aware of the widespread concern - based on some regretably inaccurate statements - that Loto Canada’s new game, because it is operated on a computer terminal basis and does not require “‘salesmen’”’, will reduce the amount of commission revenue available to volunteer organizations in our province. Market surveys, however, indicate this is not the case, and that the new game will not have a major impact on sales of these other lotteries. In addition, Loto Canada fully recognizes the invaluable community role played by volunteer organizations and service clubs, and is currently firializing plans which will provide them wi extra revenue, as a result of the new Loto Canada game. t.4 basis - to assist inthe & : Canada In Crisis balance of dollars ends up with billions more Canadian dollars pouring into. the States than vice versa. These figures and these times are indicative, along with related statistics, that the Canadian economy is in-a sorry state. , That vast one million unemployed - there is one statistic that can’t be covered up, or buried under government “bread and circuses’’! Another is the soaring rise in prices by at least ten per cent - but often much more that everyone seems to take as inevitable. - but makes our standard of living drop just so much more each e, Ata Terrace barber shop, one month this year, a haircut was $4. The next month it was $5. Just like that! By my reckoning, a 25 per cent jump, It took Canada almost 100 years to raise the price of a haircut to $t, but less than 30 years to raise it po four and only one month to jump it from $4 to _ When will our government realize this country is facing a genuine emergency? When will our politicians consider it their duty to level with the public - and tell them the days of lush living have to end - and end quickly! When will ‘they reflect the severity of the situtation by curtailing their overseas holidays, taking salary cuts, putting clamps on the out- ward flow of Canadian dallars - except for in- vestment purposes? is ¢ When will they insist that Canadians get to work and come up with a low fuel consumption, alternate energy car it can make in Canada - out of Canadian steel, aluminum and plastics? When will it turn to its own invéntors for Canadian made planes, motorcycles, skidoos, radios, television, and other manufacturers - some of which used to be among the world's Can you imagine what would be the result if the Government was to say to its people: We shall give you five years to come up with an all- Canadian automobile with a consumption of 50 miles to the gallon, meeting pollution standards. _ After that, half of all cars sold in Canada will have to be Canadian, And within the next five years, 75 per cent! If Japan wants to sell cars, radios, microwave ovens, etc., in Canada it should have to set up factories in Canada, hiring Canadian men and women to produce them. The same with U.S. wets, such as shoes and clothing, and wat- ches. Ditto the aviation industry, and the com- puter industry. About fifteen years ago a Canadian scientist did a pope on the production and orbiting of a Cana communications satellite. In it he proved such a satellite could be manufactured inCanada for far less cost than one in the United States. With modifications to the Rocket Research launching pads in Fort Churchill costing less than two and one half million dollars, heinsisted, Canada could launch its own weather uabew eens The Eleventh British Commonwealth Games are being held, as everyone knows, in Edmonton, Alberta this August - and probably one of the most exciting events will be cycling. Coinciding with the Gamea_ will be a get of four stamps featuring cycling and being issued by the British Poat fice, Cy is a pleasure, a aport and a way of transport ~as the British Post Office's special series of stamp show. The four stamps show the penny-farthing (9p), a 1920 tourer (10%p), a modern small-wheel bicycle (i1p) and the latest style road- racer (13p).A years ago, cycle fans had to be tough, adventurous, athletic and probably male, In those early cycling days, life was precarious. Perched high on their penny-farthings, five feet above the ground, Prussian war in 1670, when Britain gained supremacy and Coventry became the - Saas reget SB ccResaps cts ena a “I just came in to get an estimate.” CYCLING 100 LATER pe eae ee tis a popularity of the small- multiple-images concept to and communications satellites (such as ANIK) for a less than 2 million for the first, and sub- sequently lower costs for those. after the first. . Yet, ANIK was launched in the U.S., at several times that amount - 80 Canadian satellites tha have been all the other t followed ANIK. This. scientist (whom I knew, personally) stressed tant than even the industries that would follow. ; His paper was read, in Ottawa, received only. scant acknowledgement from the National... Research Council ... and potentially great Canadians today he is gency known tional Aeronautics and - working for the U.S. a over as N.AS.A. (Na Space Administration.) There is a “bottom line’ to this story. A sad, sad, sad one, .. like 80 many’ robably This year, after 20 years of pioneering space techniques and upper atmosphere § phisticated, computer-equi elaborate, 50 and space-age installation at Fort Churchill, that cost tens of millions of dollars to construct, which even has its own boreal observatory - is being closed down. And I baven’t heard a single word of protest raised by a single major Canadian politician, or . a single Canadian newspaper. Except this one! Ottawa Offbeat Ottawa, - Diplomatically, they did their best to make the new Canadian-American cha b Frisoner ex nge a big Solicitor, General Jean lacques r| protocol papers for Canada and American Ambassador Thomas Ostrom Endera for my the United States. The signatures were af- fixed at a special signing ceremony in the Con- feferation Room of the House of Commons. Nothing was missing, including the toasts in , champagne, by all . attending the mid-morning j exchange of international # entigh' ‘ the deal as the patsy. Every last Canadian in- carcerated in an American federal penitentiary is coming home, all 80 of them. But only 35 of 230 Americans held in Canadian federal prisons want to go back to the U.S. ; Since it costs more than $20,000 a year to room, board and entertain an inmate of a. Canadian prison -- more than 10 times what it takes to naintaln an old age ° foner - the one-sided wisoner exchange makes it rather apparent that the North American criminal community knows when and where it's beat off. In Canada's prisons, of course. ; Harold Ballard, boss of the Toronto Maple Leafa and the | Tiger-Cats, called. Hamilton ’ Millhaven Penitentiary a holiday resort when he put in alittle time behind its walls. And Boss Ballard wasn't entirely joking, even if Millhaven is supposed to Canada's biggest ‘Big House," home of the tofthe tough, | So of course, taking into consideration the quallty and comfort of the ac: commodation, the table @hote dining, the splendid recreational facilities, easy parole and all the privileges, only 86 of 230 Arar ae ood ing to forsake the good life for time in tougher prisons back home. Mr, Blais is working on @ similar deal with the staying put here where he knows he's got it good like be'd never have south of the similar number of other ‘ The way foreign criminals... fight. deportation. from, Canada and extradition by: - thele own countries, It dians a: abroad wili be flocking, home, and foreigners jailed. here will be refusing the: exchange and digging in for the duration. ‘ Because no prisoner has to come or go unleas he wishes to or, as Mr. Blais puts it, “expresses an interest in the It's all being done in the name of Doing The Right For, says Mr. Blais, “‘it has long been recognized that penal sanctions can and often do have an impact that is particularly brutal when they are carried out in another country. But sot in Canada, it seems, to which imprisoned Canadians want to return and where most jailed foreigners wish to remain. The deal is exclusively on the federal level and ex- cludes Canadian who are held in atate prisons in the U.S. where some jurisdic- tions seem to regard crime and punishment as just another form of business. Like in Georgia where prisoners go out on work gang: and turn a profit for the state's taxpayers. three days to get to ths moon; at that rete, it would take 878,000 years to reach the closest star, Proxima Cantauri. world | es, the. ¢yclists frequently fell from their top-heavy machines. In 1878, top riders covered 200 miles ini 24 hours; today’s record is 500 miles in 24 hours. Where yeaterday’s cyclists lumbered and truriled, today’s riders can reach speeds of 60 mph on thelr super light-weight -farthing grew by-horse of the whose ‘‘jockey’’ straddled a beam coupled with two wooden wheels and walked along with great, exaggerated strides. In 1839, a Scottish blacksmith, Kirkpatric Macmillan, produced a machine which moved by treadies and connecting rods attached toa rear wheel, but his idea was never developed. France led the world in bleycle production until the outbreak of the Franco- “elty of cycles.” By 1834, the low-bullt safety machine, with chain drive to the rear wheel, attracted women to cycling. Scorned at firet by the experts, the safely cycle was taken seriously by the Coventry manufacturers. In 1688, J.B. Dunlop palented a pneumatic tyre: for cycles - and the battle between high and low bicycles was won. The neumatic-tyred safety cycle was fast and com: fortable; though puncture- prone, and King of @ Road, It alsé,Became the Queen, Cycling, “no longer a male preserve, played a big part in the emancipation of women. The basic design of the bicycle changed little from 1685 - 1962 when Alex Moulton produced a machine with an open frame and 16- inch diameter wheels. The wheel bicycle.’ . give an impression of This is not the first time cyclists moving a speed. that cyclists have appeared These new cycling stamps. on British stamps - eight years ago a stamp wissued to mark the Ninth British Commonwealth Games - this time held in Scotland. The 1s fd stamp issued used the are more sedate, more delicate and they span the history of cycling - a way of transport to avoid traffic jams in town, a major sport and a simple pleasure. Drilling Deeper NEW YORK (AP) — Exxon Corp. sald Monday it has received approval to deepen ite wildcat well in the Baltimore Canyon, located in the Atlantic Ocean about 100 miles east of Atlantic City, N.J. A spokesman for Exxon USA in Houston said the U.S. Geological Survey will allow the oil company to drill as deep as 6,000 metres, He added Exxon has not yet decided whether to drill to the maximum depth. “We haven't made a Moulton began the current _ decision to go to 6,000 metres but weare going to go deeper than 5,000 metres,’’ he said. The well is now 4,500 metres deep, the gpokesman said. To reach a depth of 6,000 metres, ‘We expect it would take about 20 more days,” he sald. The decision to deepen the well should not be regarded as sign of positive or negative results from the well, he said. ‘‘It isn't unusual—drilling in a fron- tier area where there is little knowledge of the geclogy—to decide to drill deeper than you originally planned” TERRACE/KITIMAT daily herald General Otlice - 435-4357 Circulation - 635-6357 © Published by Sterling Publishers PUBLISHER - Laurite Mallett EDITOR . Ernie Senior . 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