‘ e _ Wednesday, April 19, 19€ ‘THE PHOTO ABOVE shows Bombardier’s machine can be adapted to a wide variety of payload, the new machine can also be em- Terrain Master 4 x 4. This mew 4-track uses. Capable of freighting a 15,000 pound ployed as a tree-length skidder: Ottawa Offbeat . . .-=* Ottawa, —- So the Estimates are ‘‘in,” as they say in these political parts. , And up a staggering $1 bil lion to a record $12 billion — almost guaranteeing who-knows how-much of a tax increase. The next stage in what that greatest of Canadian political wheeler dealers, C. D. “Trader" Howe once called the "grand Ottawa game of tax and spend,” will be the putting through Parliament of these Estimates. And ‘Estimates,” in case you haven't heard, is just a fancy name tor government spending, a labet the Ottawa Bureaucracy figures is less alarming to the taxpayers who are going to have to dig up that $12 billion. But the Estimates will get through Parliament with each Cabinet Minister, according te his taste and style, ‘pleading, joliying, bullying, kidding, soft- soaping, threatening, grovel: ling, clowning, crying and us: ing all the other emotional tricks of the trade to convince the skeptical Oppsition that it’s nothing less than their na- tional duty in the public inter. ast to approve them. It’s never really easy. And this ‘time, with that whacking increase and its pro- mise of higher taxes, it'll be harder than ever, Harder, that is, for some than others. For this, in the Parliament- ary year, is the time of min- jsterial testing, THE SHAPE-UP: ‘ Each Member of the Cabinet in theory must justify the spending of every dime for every project or program in his Estimates. And every MP in the House is free — those in the Opposi- tion are expected — to take questioning crack at them. 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But those who have been arrogantly unco-operative and given the rough edge of their tongues to the Opposition, can now prepare for their lumps. So haw does it shape up for who? . Well, Paul Martin for one, although his striped pants De- partment of External Affairs will never win any Parliament- ary popularity contests, should have a soft touch of it. The Opposition likes Paul Martin, perhaps prefers him personally to any other mem- ber of the Cabinet including Prime Minister Pearson whose eharm generates the highest “" Baul’ Martin, the smoothest professional in the business, not only is courteously co-«p- erative, but entertaining in the process. The House enjoys even his marshmallowy “non-ans- ‘wers” to Opposition questions. Revenue Minister Benson, even if he is the tax-collector, too, takes the time and trouble to be helpful. He keeps his cool in the snarliest of situa- tions — something he learned in handling, and what’s more, Settling those post office and AN HOUR OR WEEKS: Energy and Mines Minister Pepin ought to breeze, for he's treated everybody in the Com: mons with exquisite old-world courtesy. Transport Minister Pickers Perhaps even feared, while stilt a fieree partisan, is réapected and even admired, and so should slide his Estimates through with practised profes- sionalism. The going should be good, ‘| industrial will Haye an easy time, For'he|} (gill, once intensely disliked and| ' ‘Service _Centre | ‘Planned. Here -. Cec. Blakeburn, long time 4ontractor in Terrace, plans to bulld an. 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