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“Figure mish-mash
in high circles —

Premier Bennett has called attention
to the latest figures just released by

Statistics Canada. The concern as
presented by Bennett is for the public
knowledge of all B.C. residents. (Yes,
Virginia this includes Terrace and
' Kitimat too).

The figures?...simply the ones that
state in September 1970 there were
817,000 people gainfully employed in
B.C

In September of 1971 there were
863,000 persons gainfully employed,
making an addition of 46,000 more
employed in B.C,, compared to last
year.

The release further states that due to
the large increase of people moving to
B.C., our labor force jumped from
875,000 to 913,000 an increase of 38,000
for the year.

Further, in September 1970 there

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were 58,000 persons unemployed
compared to 50,000 in Septemher 1971,
a reduction of 8 ,000.

Figures as presented by Bennett |

read nicely till other figures join the
political mish-mash. Little numbers
like population,

If we could boast several million
residents in the province an
unemployment figure of 50,000 would
seem normal, but seeing as the figure
more truly represents almost a couple
of Prince _George’s unemployed... well
the word is not all too satisfactory. —

That we suffer this working problem
is not the key to complaint, but instead
that provincia] politicians twist the
numbers to make political
goodies...that is the problem and
shocking deceit to our people. Honesty
used to be virtue attributed to the
powers.

Wherever did it 80?

Gaglardi image on
go-go (losing) drive

It’s understandable that Phil
Gaglardi wants to improve his
persona] image, although why he does
is less comprehensible and the expense
of it is unbearable..’: :

bone

appeared to be indulging in some sort °
of political campaign. Some observers
think it is his play for the leadership of
the Social Credit party. If it is, his
chances of success would seem to be no
better and no worse than they were in
1952. He has changed little since, and
the same can be said for Premier
W.A.C. Bennett.

He has been feuding with cabinet
colleagues - and rivals? - Leslie
Peterson and Dan Campbell about law
and order and about unemployment.
And in two speeches to visiting firemen
he has done his best to undermine

national unity.

In ‘presuming to speak, to
Commonwealth servicemen, for a
“ruling class’ - even in presuming that

& ee there 1 is-one:in-B.C. - Mr, Gaglardi. is «
‘In recent weeks Mie Gaglardi- ‘hadi “ad

‘doing’ a™: gréat’* disservice ‘to * the
democratic institution he purports to
represent.

Mr. Gaglardi, in fact, was playing
upon people’s prejudices i in suggesting
there is resentment in B.C. about
recognition of the French language and
in his slighting remarks about
witnesses at the Gastown inquiry as
well as exposing some of his own in
fatuous remarks about other provinces -
to a pensions conference.

It is only careless talk. But it can
needlessly antagonize persons
unfamiliar with the source.

Report from Parliament Hill

Let me give you an example --

The. article in the Gazette

_ BY
FRANK HOWARD, M.P.
Parliament’ is currently

considering the highly complex
and difficult to understand Tax
Bill.

Most pieces of legislation that -

eome' before - Parliament

comprise a relatively few:

pages, but the Tax Bill is about

three inches thick and contains”

more than 700 pages.

When it becomes the law it
will provide many hours and
weeks of work for lawyers and

* tax consultants most of whom .

will be working for the large
corporations -- that is those who
will get the most benefits from
the Bill, .

-It is a well known fact that
enly the working man pays his
full share of taxes for the taxes
are taken from .his pay cheque
and he has no great loopholes
for. rebates at the end of the
year;

Companies, though, are in an
entirely different class. They
can, and do; deduct all manner
of expenditures from their
intome in order ta lower the

notso much about deductions as
about tax dodge manoeuvres
that are available to the
corporations and not available
to individual wage earners.
Recently Atlantic Sugar
Refineries Co. Ltd. announced

_ that a special meeting will be

held on October 35th so that

company can sell its sugar
- refining business and assets to

Acadia Pulp & Paper Ltd.
Seems reasonable ‘on the
surface,but © lets look
underneath. . oe
Atlantic Sugar now owns
Acadia Pulp & Paper so why
should Atlantic want: to sell
itself to a company. ‘that it
already owns.: .

The President af ‘Atlantic

Sugar puts the matter very |
In ‘the.’
- Montreal Gazette mention is.
‘made that the accumulated ©

bluntly and clearly.

losses that Acadia Pulp has had
are not allowed as a- deduction
from the earnings of Atlantic
Sugar. .

The purpose of the sale of the
the assels of ‘Atlantic Sugar ‘to
Acadia Pulp i is, to me, + simply a
tax dodge, -

amount of tax they pay. .

Away

“VANCOUVER. ~ Okanagan

Helicopters: Ltd. is adding two —

more. Sikorsky. S58-T .twin-

- turbine helicopters to its fleet:

next spring, -
The , new ‘machines are the
‘same as the three Okanagan put
-into operation earlier this year.
"The ?p rformance of ‘Gis

‘we go-

7]

I ‘more.

They can carry. a maxirium
‘load ‘of .5,000-- pounds -or «17
passengers, have a range of 320
miles and a cruising speed af
110 mph. They are the second

largest helicopter ‘operated, by .

Okanagan,

These: new helicopters wan |
boost the total fleet of Okanagan’

and its operating subsidiaries; to;
than’. 60. ‘as -bases : frém

Okanaga

-pay in taxes will have to be

" cheque, -
workers. will - be working for |
Atlantic Sugar. :

goes on to say that the sale will
resultin an increase in the after
tax earnings of the company of -
some $2,300,000,00 In other
words if Atlantic Sugar does not
sell its assets to Acadia Pulp
that $2,3000,000.00 would be paid

as tax into the , 8overnment

funds,

Now, there is nothing illegal :
about all of this. It is permitted
under the Tax laws as they exist
at the moment,

Certainly not illegal, but

‘.” highly questionable morally.

Should corporations be able to
buy and sell businesses and
assets for the sole purpose of

. Cheating the government out of
“its potential tax revenue, J]

think not,

Can you as a wage earner or
farmer or fisherman engage in
this. sort of tax: dodging? —
Certainly not. -

J ‘consider ‘this proposed |
action by Atlantic Sugar to be as
un-Canadian as anything can be
for not only does-it seek to rob
‘the government :treasurey °-
legally of course, but it seeks to
rob the average ‘citizen in. this
land for he will have to make up
the difference..."

. What, Atlantic Sugar does sald
by those who eannot use any vax
dodges --- and. that happens to

’ be those ‘who -pay their taxes

through’ the’ payroll: office '
before they even see their.
And some of those

“Is..it) any” wonder that’ Eric.”
-Kierans, who | left the: Liberal

Cabinet, says that the amount‘of |
Sl faxes paid by Corporations has’

been going down over the years
while the: amount beitig: ing pald by

During the tenth decade of Confederation, 1957-
' 67, federal politics were dominated by Lester
Bowles Pearson and John George Diefenbaker.
These former prime ministers - and the era
during which they charted Canada’s course - are

THE HERALD, TERRACE - KITIMAT, B.C.

Decade,

vividly eveked and analyzed in The Tenth
a series of eight one-hour film
documentaries to be telecast weekly on the CBC
network starting Wednesday, Oct. 27 at $ p.m.
The history making series combines archival

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1973

footage, headline graphics and newly-filmed
' interviews. with leading personalities of the

period including the two™ principals,

Diefenbaker and Mr. Pearson.

Mr,

Some prattle was overheard
this morning between our. dog,
Giner, and Arlie the Rat, who
happens to lodge underneath
the‘studio”’, a shed at the rear
of the house.

do this Halloween nite, Arlie?”’
Arlie, knawing desultorily at
polato: “I'm not doing a thing
that night, Ginger, If those
idiots are going to blow off a
bomb at Amchitka, I’m moving
my family underground. The
firecrackers are bad enough
around this joint without. an
earthquake on top of them,”
Giner: “Gee, Arlie, ] never
thought of that. Do you think
they'll really do it? 1 hate to
think of what might happen to
all my bones in the garden.’’ -
Arlie, the Rat: “Never mind
your dumb bones. Just. think
what might happen to this shack

* Teall a home, We'd better hope |

the Johnson’s* have some .-
insurance on it, or I may not
have a roof over my head."

Ginger, our dog: “‘Gee that
would be a cat-as-traphe. A
friend was saying there might -
even be a tidal wave.”

“Arlie: ‘‘Hmmph...that should
REALLY give Cousin Isabella

‘in Kitimat a bad night, This is

where the squirrels have it over
both of us...at Jeast they can
climb a tree.”

“Well, if it

does happen we'll just have to
pitch in our lot with The

Mistress. She'll protect us.”
Arlie: “The heck you say. I’m
sticking to Mr.

cool. 4

the car.”

Arlie:
YOU to say. And besides I doubt
whether they’d make it over the
Skeena Bridge in. their old

rattletrap. Haven't you heard .

_ the loud knocks in it lately? It
sounds like a bad case of
Asthma...and even if they got
that far, the bridge would either

be jammed, or on it's way to —

Hupert.”

Ginger, with fast nip at flea:

“I daresay, you know, Arlie,
- sometimes I don’t think. you
have any faith in people.”
Arlie, the Rat: ‘Hmmph!!”
Ginger: ‘You have to admit,
The Mistress does leave food
out for you.”
Arlie: ‘‘Yeah...potatoes,,,and

mostly rejects at thal. I have to.

commute to Brauns Island
every day just te scrounge up a
balanced diet. Have you noticed
my waistline recently? I’m

bulging all over. ‘Potatoes, -

‘BALDERDASH! The Mistress,
- as youcall her, is a Nitty Gritty.
And as far_as people go, if you

were ‘a rat and. had heen t to as -

-; working}”’ . ‘said. Mr. Chabot,

Oe alsa: orld ad ii
-, Helicopters to.tts Meet 3n:1972 to

medium

Ginger, sadly:
JAMES CHABOT

“Labor Minister James Chabot
today appealed to the unions to
cooperate: with the Provincial
Government in its program to.
-find.“ work: for : ‘unemployed
British Columbians. -

He ‘urged the unions ‘to be
flexible and to leok at the
overall objective of finding jobs
‘for British Columbians. -

Speaking» ‘to the : provincial
meeting | of. the Certified |
General Accountants: at the
Harrison Hotel, the Minister -
specifically. ‘asked the ‘inion to
‘issue ‘temporary:.inion cards.
where. ‘applicable:.te ‘persons -
hired under. the. government's
Job: Opporlunities Program.

“During this~period of high -
unemployment : ‘we ‘are “asking
the unioris to help us: get. peo copie “

: “Where people are hired In jobs-

“that, involve union membership, .

we;ask, that they ~be?.Issued

temporary union dards. We: dre’

not" asking’ |. permanent
vt us

: ‘nok working.,

involved: could’

Program, he said...

Under: ‘the - ‘program, the:

government ‘will pay “half-the a

salries ‘of person hired in new:
jobs between ‘November 1. this,

year. and. April 30, 1972. To-be ":
eligible: a. oerson. havé been’ - -
residentin-B. C. for one year arid: =
on’- provincial: social | asslstace , .

for, three months;,’

“Mr, Chabot ‘gave. an “example. wd

of a curre
amnion:

‘situation'in which:
objections:

were.

‘preventing. a person ftom being <>.
Job, oe

“hired: under: : “nthe

‘quali tradesman ‘because aa
_ four or, five’ ‘untor:

“claeslfted.: ‘fora ‘number of
‘reasons ag: unhirable” - - were -

He said h¢e:hoj

at (he unions will

is at the

Johnson's
- heels... -he’ always Keeps his
“Gifiger. with nose at rathole:.7: :
“What do you think we should ”

: Gingel, tlidlightfiny: “well,
if the earth starts shaking, we
can always rake a beeline for

“That's very easy for -

ry

distastefully:

a “Adie:
>? ‘glass houses ‘shouldn't throw
.’ stones, The Mistress had to put
. you: ona diet, remember?”

is : “permatient, then : ‘the union" ARLIE..

‘consider
permanent , ‘membership. ‘The. ”
government. ‘will. pay: halfthe’- "|,
union’ dues‘of. people employed".
under’ the’, Job ‘Opportunities, we

dee

embers ae

ry. fy ‘bere ‘such.
1 jE ‘tuations Could be-avoided:and!:

"BUT ARLIE & THERE

MUST BE SOMETHING

WE CAN DO

ABOUT: "AMC EMIT IA

Pe

many dumps as I have, you'd

know that .a. dog’s life is”

paradise compared with mine.’
 Ginger:-

must be something. WE ‘can do.
about Amchitka. My home is at

stake too...not-just your's.”
Arlie, wiggling, nosé

some old cheese to that man in

Washington. “ but.come to think
af it! 2
". throat; When: I. think about all -
“+. that. delicious - garbage I'm:
: Boing. to. cash in on...

Union cooperation
needed for work

T’d'be cutting my. own

Ginger, ° wide-eyed:

“Ginger, « Suddenly;

“But, Arlie;- there. -

“T suppose . we -
’ could: scratch a message ‘on

trembled...do. you suppose
they’ve: tripped: the bomb: off '-
early without telling us?’ :~
Arlie, half-way out of hole:
“Nah, they wouldn't dare. No
Giner, I've made up my mind."
I'm going. on strike this

Halloween, No costume this
year .and no’ goodies. 1’m

: tealine for the high hills.””

Sylvia's Scrap Corner .....

Ginger: "They" " call you a

cowardly rat.’”
-Arlie: “I’drather bea live rat "i
than a dead one.” a

Ginger: “It’s a’ dog’s life J
when you are at the mercy of &
the . unknown, “Let's. face it,

Arlie, we may be fat - biit we’ re §
still not big enough... wee

“Don't °°
ou think about anything except :
‘your stomach?” : ~~;

“Those who live in - *: _to meeta -friend. But the 7

the ‘ground’ just

TMOFE) -
PET

me love’ you" Wendy!

TORONTO. (CP)! = Tom:
: Hamilton look Wendy Fol-:
"Hott to'the observation deck:

- alop the 54-storey Toronto- .

Dominion’ Ceitre Saturday’

“friend wasn’t there, ao
Instead; as-Wehdy looked: -
out ‘the window; a- small

; plane. flew past trailing a,
Z Sent, “Wendy F Folliott,. will |

‘| Tom, ”

o

you marry me? “Love:

Wendy, 24, ‘was apeech- :
“leas, Instead, she thrust:aut ”
“her” left. ‘hand: aid before’. %
/She could: speak - ‘she was~..:

S sw earin gan engagement
ning.
It cost. Tom $1 a ‘foot to
have. the .155-foot . “ign ‘
_ Palled Aeros the pakys ‘

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