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TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C,

OTTAWA OFFBEAT

No political cockpit: for PM

By Richard Jackeon
OTTAWA — Wali, what do.you
know — they’ va been turning Pare
liament into what former Soclal
Credit leader Robert Thompson,
not 40 long ago, with a fine sense
of querage, sald was a “political
coc os

Ign’t that just awful?

Prime Minister Pearson thinks
80, for under his own byline he
has written a. magazine piece
complaining about {t and suggest.
ing how it might be “reform

He prefers.a quiet, orderly
place, with the government not
only safe from the election peril
of defeat on a confidence motion,
but its cabinet secure even from
all but tatlored-to-fts-taste Op.
Position questions.

is “reforms” could transe
form Parliament as the taxpaying
public’s test tube of the gov.
ernment’s policies Into some
thing ‘resembling a federal
department, a sort of snug civil
service harbor for the storms
tossed politicians of the adminte
stration, | -
* & oh

It seams to assume that the
prime minister — like father,
knowing best — not only must not
be challenged bya vigorous Oppo-
sition, but not even questioned,

The prime minister, who went
directly from the federal civil
service into the Liberal cabinet,
never has liked the rock androar

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and as hia closing days in
the Commons fal! from the calen=
dar, he shows more and more
that he likes it less and less,

The thunderous assaults of
former Conservative leader Diof.
enbaker always appalled him,

He could never understand how
{ft was that his own politically
innocuous ‘statements could be
80. wickedly —as ha obviously
regarded it — twisted by Diefinto
something so wildly. partisan,

Dief.used to have him slouch.
ing back, sort of protectively,
in his frontbench seat.

” * *

And now Conservative leader
Robert Stanfield has him slouch=
ing in the. same behind-the.
barricade way,

For while Diefenbaker’s flam.
boyantly dramatic attacks used
to appal him, Robert Stanfield’s
casually ¢ quiet criticism dismays

‘Most people, including thicke
skinned politicians, are sensi-
tive to eriticism, but the thin
skinned execivil service diplo~
mat Is over-gensitive,

So now he sees a way out of
his difficulties,

It is this, and in his own
words: “ , , , & government

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visions without being accused of
weakness or retreat , ., or
reject them without having to
face a no-confidence vote and a
possible election if Parliament
ovérrulas the rejection.”

Here’s what he says about
making the Commons moye come
fortable for cabinet ministers
during the Dally Question Period:

. a minister is now,
expected to answer every day,
without notice, whatever questions
may be put io him about hie,
department,

“Many of these questions ard
not asked to secure Information
about the government, but to put
the minister on the spot; to 58«
cure some partisan advantage,”

(magine that? The old
meanies!) ;

“This provides an almost ire
resistible temptation to irre
sponsibility ...

“I think we should adopt some.
thing like the British system
under which ministers are ro-
quired to answer questions only
two or three days a week; and
where written notice of all quese
tions is given, something that
helps to ensure full and accure
ate answers,”

* * *

My, Stanfield seems tohavean-
ticipated the prime minister's
proposals, for in his recent ate

bility gap,’’ as he called it,
he took time out to warn against
any tinkering with the rules of
. its “freedom
and flexibility” be restricted,

To give the cabinet protection
fram no-confidence votes on its
policies and security from quese

to wring the Life out of it, make
ing it about as execitingly alive
and usefully interesting as the
Senate,

. It would be a great insurance
policy on the political life of

But it wouldn’t do much for
ParHament or the taxpayer who
pays Parliaments shots,

Medical students

becoming scarce

There may not be enough stud-
ents to fill Canada’s new med-
ical schools, according to Dr,
Chester B, Stewart, reported in
The Medical Post.

«Dr, Stewart, dean of medicine

‘told the recent 25th annual meet-

jan Medical Colleges that this
country’s student pool right now
is not big enough.

Last year, he said, there were
“only 36 qualified students” who
failed to gain admission to Can-
ada’s medical schools, an aver-
age of three per medical school
operating in 1966, This means
that there is no large pool of
applicants waiting to seek admis-
sion to the new medical schools
at McMaster in Hamilton, and in
Calgary. and St. John’s, Nfld
“We've got to think of ways
to ensure that these new medical
Schools. will have’ enough stud-
ents,’’ sald Dr, Stewart,
“Building more schools
doesn’t mean we are going to
get them’? There must be a
number of incentives to attract
more students, he said, One of
them, in his opinion, would be
better scholarship and bursary
endowments, .

Solo deaths
a mystery fo
traffic experts

The “mystery crash” accounts
for one-third’ of traffic deaths
every year, says the Canadian
Highway Safety Council,

- It’s a one-car accident in which

his vehicle for no apparent reas-
on,

As part cof its campaign to
reduce road accidents during
Safe-Driving Week, December tf
to 7, the Council suggests the
following ways to avoid heing in-
valved in a mystery cragh:

Always drive with both hands
on the wheel. Unless you grip
it firmly, the wheel can be yank-
ed from your: grasp “by a blow.

“Slow down on curves,

If ‘you. have to check a map,
or kill a beo, don’t do it. while
moving, Pull- over,

-.Watch for road hazards like
sudden dips, ‘narrow bridges,
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ting- any’ one -of: these at higti
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