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by Marcus BR. Davies

Things aren’t very quiet in the political backrooms

of B.C, at this time, even though the parties them-
selves are trying to present an air of calm confidence,
Insiders from both parties claim that their group is a
hive of activity, largely resulting from the turnover in
personnel May 10th.
The NDP would appear
the tasks-fitting in cight new MLAs-though that party
is alll nagged by the question of leadership. .
While the majority of NDP members (traditionally
a sentimental lot) seem to feel Dave Barrett deserves
another chance as party leader, there is an un-
dercirrent.of discontent which could surface at some
point in the near future. The opposition leader's
supporters.point to the toned down atyle of Barrett's
election campaign, and the party's all-time high--46
pent in.the popular vote as fwo reasons to let him
Rave ong more shat at it, a tee
The discontented was the party to shed its skeletons
from the 1972-1975 era, and to move in new directions.

The objective of their push would be to;have,Stu .

Leggatt installed as leader. Leggatt ls considered
ideal because he has been impressive during his term
in Ottawa, and because he had nothing to do with the
old Barrett government. This would make it difficult
for the Socreds to use the “fiscal irresponsibility”
attack in future campaigns, something the NDP would
love dearly. Leggatt himself seems to want nothing to
do with a push for leadership-for the moment.

Inside the Social Credit party, while there is no
leadership problem, there are a number of egos
currently on a collision course. Take for exaniple new
MLA Brian Smith of Oak Bay, who wants very badly
to be attorney-general. There is but one obstacle in
Mr, Smith's way-Garde Gardom, who has already
earned widespread respect for his handling of that
portfolio. Brian Smith's only hope is if Gardom finally
accepts an a

t to the B
which is where, ct id rath 5 Ae ai
hen, of course, thére ‘is Pe an, whode "

ability is surpassed only by his ambition. The ex-Tory
president will likely seek a high level cabinet position,
possibly displacing someone his senior. Another ego
‘will bite the dust. .

Any cabinet shuffle in the near future will likely be
significant, if not startling. .

The most important split in the government's ranks

at the moment, is over nuclear development and
uranium mining. Environmentalists have found solid
support coming from a surprise source, Bill Van-
derZalm, who leads the anti-nuclear forces within the
Social Credit caucus along with Rafe Mair. Those
supporting further nuclear development in B.C, have
apparently been led by Pat McGeer. Premier Bennett
expressed his opposition to such development through
the Throne Speech on June 6th. oo

The NDP, as expected, has begun its attack on the
BCRIC share scheme. Quoting from a letter signéd by
H.G. Osterbauer of Pemberton Securities, Charles

Barber (NDP-Victoria) said it has: become apparent.

that ownership of the shares would Invevitably end up
in the hands ofa few. sh

The Pemberton letter states:
shares) cannot be purchased by a corporation, the
corporation may lend funds to the individual to make
the purchase andthe shares may be transferred to the
corporation at a later date to retire the debt,”

Barber told the House that the letter shows “how
corporations can manouvre to obtain shares through
subterfuge’'. The Victoria MLA also attacked Premier
Bennett’s defense of BCRIC as “banal and non-
sensicle and questioned how the premier could
continue to “toss such stuff across the floor”. .

Further on the same subject, NDP leader Dave
Barrett hae stated that he will not apply for his free
BCRIC shares because ownership would put him in a
position of conflict of interest. ‘I do not intend to hold
shares in a company that can be politically
manipulated by the power holders of this legialature,”
Barrett told a news conference.

Meanwhile, within the NDP, members are being
asked to present their shares as a gift to the NDP or ita
front group, the Commonwealth Society, in order to
guarantee a large block of shares to use as collateral
come the next campaign. Enough shares could also
give the socialists a large, loud block to sénd. to
shareholders meeting of the resource corporation.

vary, Wb

Parting notes

~Tt didn’t take long for the House to resemble ita
former self. After two days of almost quiet,
distinguished debate, Economic Development
Minister Don Phillips launched into yet another of bis
leather -lunged tirades against the opposition, The only
difference was that this time he didn’t manage to get
any response-largely due to the fact that he was
grinning broadly, and appeared convinced that the era
of that type of behavior Is over, ;

-The new government's first serious dilemna is
likely to come during the summer when negotiations
with the BCGEU are expected to break down.
Bargaining to this point has not gone well, and the
union (representing B.C.'s 37,000 civil servants) has
prepared a plan for selective work stoppages. The
premier will now have to live up to his election night
promise of ‘peace with labour”. Good luck, Bull,

to have the more pleasant of”

2, ~ geining
"While this (the » Winnipeg cou

Dia

_ “The violence with the truckers’ strike must be escalating —

I just found a bullet in my salad.”

i

OTTAWA (CP) — The au:
tomotive trade deficit with
the U.S, ballooned to $998
million in the first three
‘months this yéar, up from

$62 million in the same

deficit In autornotive trade .

with other countries leaped
to $109 million In the
January-March pericd, up
$31 on from the same
period in 1978,

Supreme Court, Statlatica Canada reported

that a worsening .of the

le deficlt » in-vehicle
pa was to blame for the
‘intest = =-_—s decrease In
automotive trade with the

Tho federal agency sald
imports of all automotive
ets from the 0.5. +
luding cars and trucks as
well as parts — lncreased to
$3.62 billion in the January-
March period, up 38 per cent
from the corresponding
period a year ago, Exports
rose 28 per cent- to $3.47
billion.

WINNIPEG = {CP}
Partnership houses are

popularity among
les who wart
anew home at an affordable
price.

The concept is most often
used by couples, with or
without children, who buy a
large, older duplex or divide
a former single-family
home.

Lang and Deborah Wateon
are Ls a $137 mortgage
on thelr half of a $42,000
home {in the west end of
Winnipeg's core area. Each

family has 650 aquare feet of

living space.
“We wanted an old house

with character in a central

-nelghborhood,” said Watson.

“With four le to share
the costs and the work, we
have more personal freedom
than our friends in single-
family homes.

“It's like an extended
family with a sense of

OTTAWA (CP) — The gov-
ernment moved Thursday to
eliminate the hazard of ex-
pleding 1.h-Hitre soft drink

tiles os retallera hurried to
Clear their shelves of the
product and consumers
threatened lawsuits for
injuries from flying glass.

Consumer Affairs Minister
Allan Lawrence said
regulations forcing
manufacturers to comply

with new dealgn standards '

for the bottles will be
‘enacted by the end of the
summer,

PROBLEM

Imports of parte from the
U.S. rose 40 per cent to $2.54
billion while exports in-
-creased 97 per cent to $1.36
billion,

Sales of passenger cara to

the U.S. showed significant -

improvement during the
period, Statlstics Canadd

nt to

Exports of cars increased
_ 28 per cent to $1.38 us, .

Impdrts rose 18 per
$768 million.

But imports of trucks and
other vehicles rose nearly 70
per cent to $482 million while
sales to the U.S. rose less
than 15 per cent to $715
milli

on,
Canada traditionally
records a surplus in trade

with the U.S. in vehicles .

assembled here, mostly in
U.S.-owned planta. But there
ig regularly a large deficit in
auto parts trade.

Critics of the 14-year-old

By JOHN FERGUSON

auto pact with the US., |
which allows vehicles an
thelr original parla to cross
the border free of duty at the
wholesale level, argue it
should be renegotiated to
correct the imbalance in
parts trade,

They argue that it Is the
manufacture of parts used in
new vehicles that provides
the most jobs.

The idea was nelectsg
earlier this year by, ther
former Liberal government
which agreed with the
conclusion of a study Jaat
year by Simon Reisman, a
former deputy finance
minister and the man who
led negotiations for the pact.

The  $936-million .
automotive trade deficit with
the U.S, in the first three
months of thia year com-
parea witha deficit of $564
million in all of 1978.

That was an improvement

- COST SOLUTION © Oo
Partnership homes popular.

community and sharing. Of,
course, it-requires a certain
amount of compromise,’

Larry and Gall Cruse, |

living in the same neigh-
borhood, are in thelr second
partnership house, Théy sold
their interest in the first
when space became a
problem.

Mrs, Cruse says “this situ:
ation gives us a sense of
sharing. That doesn't mean
we take each other or each
other's space for granted,”

The MeGeachle and the
Cruse families were good

neighbors before they
decided to aplit the coat of a
duplex in Fort Rouge

area, south of downtown.
Since the house required
renovations, the work and
child care and meal
preparations were shared
for the first few months.
“We lead quite separate
lives but enjoy coming
together whenever there ia a

house project,” says Diane
McGeachis, .

The arrangement was also
a financial windfall,

“The saving is ins
credible,” says Paul
MeGeachie, "We were able
to buy a 4,000-squarefoot
house for $59,000, 50 each
family had 3,000 square feet
for $29,500."

Ted Bancroft of Winnipeg
Realty and Appraisal gave
this comparison of a part-
nership house with a single- .
family dwelling:

A couple buying a $30,000
home on a $5,000 down
payment will make monthly
payments of about $266 and
aecumulate a $7,950 equity in
15 years,

Two couples can each buy
equivalent space In a $55,000
partnership house for a total
of $10,000 down and have the
mortgage. paid off in 16
years,

_ The house partners can
also count on savings from

POP BOTTLES —
An exploding dilema this

By DAVE ROONEY

Lawrence told a news
conference that the stan-
dards will eliminate the
explosions that have plagued
the torpedoshaped soft drink
bottles and injured dozena of
persons since thelr in-
troduction in 1974.

One soft drink Industry
Epokearnan reacted to the
news by saying that about
$20 million worth of pop and
$30 million worth of botties
will have to be junked, The
bottles have a “>per-cent

hare of the soft drink

market. :

He said the regulatlons
will also prompt beer and
wine bottlers to re-examine
thelr designs, although the
department had not received
any complaints about those
products. —- a

The exploding bottle
problem had been brought to
the department's attention
by David Barham, a
University of Taranto
chemical engineering

aver the deficit of.61.1 billion
inle77, ov SE
Canada experienced an
auto trade surplus with the
U.S. trom 196072 butherhad -
deficits in-every-year since.

Statistics Canada said thet
Imports of automotive
products from countries
other than the U.S. increased
1a per cent in the first
quarter to $364 mililon.
Exports rose only 10 per cent
to $255 milllon.

; Exports of ste other
tries actual roved,
ing to $107 mi from

$4 million a year ago.
Imports of parta from these
countries increased to $82
million from $61 million.
Exports of cars to other.
countries dipped 10 per cent
to $94 million while imports
rose 2.5 per cent to $208

million.

sa
vehicles drop] per cen
to $47 millice while imports
increase 62 per cent to $21
million.

shared heating, utility and
malntenance bills.

“As house prices rise, per-
haps 80 per cent, in the-text
six years, partnership
houses will become more.
common,” Bancroit says.

The idea of using shared
homes as investments la at-
tracting some young profes-
stonal people in Winnipeg.

anotdingcompanytotake |
upa holding company to take
the title of a westend home.
Expenses and depreciation
ara held as losses and motiey
ts set aside each month for
future needs like a new root, |

The $45 monthly mory
tgage payment is aplit four
ways and expenses are
covered by rent from a suite
in the building,

“This ownership arrange-
ment...saves me rent, gives

me an equity and“E don't |

have the problems of a

landlord,"’ says partner”

Richard Stacenko.

profeasor, who found that the
narrownecked bottles had a

10-percent explosion rate. .

Tests _conducted this
spring at the department's
product safety laboratory
confirmed the report that

g!
used by the Canada Dry, 7
Up, Pepai Cola, Pure Spring,
Royal Crown Cols, Orange .
Crush and. Wilson's soft
drink companies, -con-.
sislently exploded when
Upped on to vinyl-covered,
poured concrete surfaces
simulating.

| _ the party's basic weakness--the apli

»ohdeotowichl differencesy: an

OTTAWA OFFBEAT |

BY RICHARD JACKSON

Ottawa,-For Joe Clark it already begins shaping up
as the shortest honeymoon ever enjoyed by a new
Canadian Prime Minister. ee
. Shorter even than former Liberal Prime Minister
Lester Pearson's famed ‘Sixty Days of Decision,”:

Dissension, which eVer Has been a chronic weakness |
of the Conservatives, already is showing signs~like.
méasle spots-of breaking out. ee

‘It's the old frictlon-working like fine’ sandpaper
between the Right and the Left of the Conservatives,
the “new wave” of “Red Tories” and the old party.
“dependables” of small “‘c" conservatives."

If mounting pressures~euch crises as the bad blood.
between the Clark cabinet and the Arab world over the
plarined moving of the Canadian‘embassy in Iarael
from Tel Avly to Jerusalem with all it might involve
for trade and the dollar~continulng concerns over
Quebec separation and protests against broken
Conservative canipaign promises-continue to in-

crease, the government may be forced to call an early

session of Parliament. —
. Then stand well back. -
sata seeme no end.to the troubles Joe Clark 1s

But even if he can stand the-heat and hold off
Parliament until the acheduled October opening, he
only increases thé risk of not belng able to keep the lid
on party unrest. .- ao oe,

The dissatisfaction in the ranks goes to the heart of

tin Conservative

Philosophy created by the sharp cutting edge of the
Red Tories, © |

Joe Clark is one of them. ee

And as thelr leader he has made them dominant in
his inner cabinet, fae

‘His Red Heutenants are External Affairs Minister
Flora MacDonald, Communications Minister David

MacDonald and energy Minister Ray Hnatyshyn. : -

With them they have some Pink Tories in that inner
circle-d'cablnet organizational freak iteelf-Economic
Development ‘Minister Robert do Cotrét and Privy

- Council Président Walter Baker,

There ‘ayé a couple of neutrals, Postmaster General
John Fraser and Federal-Provincial Minister William
Jaivis,'‘along'with a couple of Senators as “make-do-

entatives of Quebec.
“That'lea¥es 'sld war horses Finance Minister John
Crosbie’ and Treasury Board President Sinclair
Stevens as-the ‘only: True Blue Conservatives,
The majority of the Conservative caucus |s Blue, but

“the inner cabinet and Prime Minister, Red, which -

tends to wall off Clark from the rank and file, and
indeed from the electorate who voted for a change
they aren't so far getting. — oO

What puts the finest point of all on it-this friction
between Left and Right which has plagued the party
for so long-has been Clark's treatment of Party
President Robert Coates, 22-year Nova Scotia veteran

of the. Gmmions. , 5 . Weis
uGoales'took the a ent:to smgoth over those
in“mosths of trével-25
trips to Toronto alone~largely succeeded.
Coates is a winner~10 successive elections—well-
liked and respected by all factlons of the party, and -

bhe

’ was the ideal peace-maker..

Oh sure, he is a True Blue Tory, a small ‘ce’ con-
servative, not a charter member of the Clark for
Leader Club, but a good soldier, able to do the job, and

Clark used him, then left him out of the cabinet in
favor even of greenhorn first-termers just elected, and
even of such losers as Robert daCotret who was made
asenator to wedge him in, not just to the cabinet, but
jta powerful Inner elrcle.
: Theright wing conviction is that ls was Coates-with
avi assist from Pierre Trudeay and Liberal arrogance-

and not really Jos Clark who won the election.

e ualng and discarding of Coates is not the o
algn of Conservative crackup.
There are others to be gone into later, but all having
todo with the deep philosophical crack in the minority.
caucus that could . bring early disaster.

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