General Office: 6254357 Cireulation. 635-6357 PUBLISHER- Calvin McCarthy EDITOR - Greg Middleton co. CIRCULATION - TERRACE - 635-6357 2 Published evary weckday af 2212 Katum Streot, © Terrace, 8.C, Authorized as second class mall. ~~ Reglstration number 1201. Postage paid In cash, return postage guaranteed. _ rr NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT a The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright in © any advertisement produced: and-or any editorial or photographic content published In the Herald. Repredyetion Is not permitted’ without the written - permission of the Pubilsher, . at Sterling Pubtishers \. la OTTAWA VIEWPOINT ¥ by JIM FULTON @ SKEENA M.P. —— "costly projects will Recent. debate In the House of Commons — concerning rising: unemployment and the unemployment Insurance system highlighted one ever-present symptom of modern unem- ployment: the tendency of governments to hlame the unemployed for their situation. As we. see the spectre of a major recession. appear throughout North America, this question of “blame” will become more and more im-— ' portant. - ; The attitude of. the Liberals was clearly revealed in the House of Commons by Liberal | M. P. Bryce Mackasey. Mr. Mackasey used to be the Cabinet Minister responsible for the Unemployment Insurance Commission and | therefore accept his word on how the Trudeau administration treated this Important question, of rising unemployment In the 1970's. 7 Mr. Mackasey stated that. the federal | government deliberately orchestrated a public campaign to emphasize abusé oft U:1.C, and discredit claimants so that overall restrictions . could be imposed with a minimum of public reaction. This was done In order to make- scapegoats of Canadian workers thrown out of work through no fault of thelr own. During that period, Liberal ‘government bungling of the economy had led to “unem- ployment much higher than earlier predicted. sk. The reaction was to restilet--methodsof 2h. = calculating: unemployment (even today, for : example, people who have quit tocking for work or Indians living on a reserve aren't counted as unemployed) and to restrict those eligible. While everyone knows there Is some abuse of U.I.C., the “overkill” approach Is clearly quite “ynealted for and unproductive. In-a parallel situation, a merchant attempting to stop shoplifting cannot confront every ligitimate customer as a thief. . _ Mr. Mackasey sald, ‘It was difficult for me to accept the fact that In preparing the ground- work for thelr (the Liberals’) amendments they - had to stigmatize hundreds of thousands of people by suggesting they would prefer to draw unemployment insurance. benefits rather than work.’ Although this plaln-speaking Liberal N.P. went on to say It was “wrong’’, that Is a very straightforward description of how the Trudeau government actually responded to unemployment. We donot needany more of that kind of smear campaign directed at Cafiadian men and women. who are unemployed and who need and want jobs. The priority of the government In difficult flmes must be to develop economic plans fo produce jobs, not a_ public relations or propaganda campalgn to discredit working Canadians. Other MP’s, from the NDP, the Conservatives, and the Liberals, made It clear to the Cabinet that unemployment .cannot be Ignored any longer and that unemployment insurance must not be manipulated in a political way agaln. . The employment policies announced to date are of an extremely IImited and temporary nature. Essentially, we have seen the Liberals continue the L.I.P.-Canada Works system with all the associated shortcomings that have been identified ever since: these types of grants started. | think every Cabinet Minister knows these band-alds will not do the job, but we have seen tittle concrete evidence of that to date. Hopefully, we will see some sensible long- term planning that will mean steady jobs for Canadians and all Northwest residents. That will mean no more export of whole logs and no more give-aways of other resources and op- portunities. Until that Ime, unemployment insurance will be needed and must be fairly and competently administered with a minimum of abuse by claimants and a total end to political manipulation by government. An Ontarlo Conservative M.P. may have said it all when he referred to the government's previous attempts to smear the unemployed: ‘There's no place in thiscountry for dehumanizing people like that.’ (LETTERS WELCOME | The Herald welcomes its readers comments. All Jetters to the editor of general public interest will be printed. We do, however, retain the right. to refuse to print letters on grounds of possible libel or bad taste. We may also edit letters for style and length. All letters to be considered for OTTAWA. OFFBEAT a RICHARD JACKSON “OTTAWA - This majority government of Prime Minister Trudeau, his strongest since his first and biggest triumph when he surfboarded. to power in 1968 on that towering.euphoric wave. 7 Trudeaumanla, is but a poor, weak paper. er, ; woe So lacking In strength I$ It, protests former Conservative Treasury Board President Sin- ‘clair Stevens, that It can ‘be “intimidated by 93,000 admittedly tough, but not-so-impossible- 4o-handle postal workers. -- ‘Intimidated to the point, goes on Mr. Stevens, that it can pull the rug out from under Its own program of wage restraint and give the always- tough-talking postal workers everything they iS he, cost, of the deal have been ed. alk eround:from 10'to 26 percent. up. . The whole sweetheart deal Is good for only a scores of new p competition with the post office. Doing nicely, they are, too. ae Oh, no, the pay raise has nothing to do with the ‘Increase coming In postal rates, smiles, Mr. Ouellet, blaming It on “rising costs’. ' Well, it was first time a postal contract dispute, ‘government. property, threats and Intimidation, without any of those things. an But still, even for postal peace, says Sinclair Stevens, a high and dangerous price to pay when it will set atarget for every other public service mutilation cof mail, 1A - beonly fair for the rest ofthe usually distinguished by destruction of . p had been settled union can’t. play pay and. privilege favorites, what's. good enough for postal workers.will work out'to. j blic service. Now are ail the postal workers at peace with themselves.and thelr long abused, disillusioned. taxpaylng customers? Are you crazy? ‘ -Postal Workers. President . Jean Claude ‘Parrott, who did a short, fail term for defying: Parliament's. back-to-work order in the fast _). Strike, threatens that more trouble’s to come -- as soon as next year -- unless the government brings its promised. crown corporation for the: post office In on time. = And what a-time.of contrast In Ottawa bet- ween the haves. and the have-nots. .- . : The haves are the pay, pension‘ard privilege. pampered public servants and politicians with’ thelr built-in. salary Increases and indexation. | And the have-nots are the poor saps who get zapped for It all, the taxpayers, shelling out for goodies they only dream of, goodies that are the . life-style of those federally-favored bellying up to the public trough. =~ se To complete the pubilc discomfort, the Prime _ Minister. has confirmed that, yes, the govern- ment is thinking serlously of de- Indexing Income tax. eee inflation. . ’ ‘That was the precise way former, Finance Minister. John Turner defined It, when he In- dexed taxes to prevent politicians, Parllament end. the government from prospering on In- ion. ‘ ‘ ; ‘ . u , . it’s an underhanded, dishonest, politically cowardly way of Increasing taneS. And the Trudeau government, with nobady to stop It, is looking at It favorably. At the same time, to run the taxpayer discomfort Index even. higher, the government has floated -- or allowed others to float without denials -- rumors of ‘‘massive”’ ‘tax the making In.the.next budget. What hurts Is the talk, common in Ottawa, and based, at least In part, on statistics, that too much of the federal budget goes not to public _ services as the pollticians would have you’ believe, but to pay and pension thousands of former Liberal bagmen, defeated candidates, arty workers and ministerial favorttes who ‘hold down those juicy and easy chairs on scores of federal agencies. . . ‘ - Agencies, some of. them so obscure, you've never heard of. Agencles you discover every time you flip through the ever-fatter federal phone book. - oe schemes and billion dollar schemes. | think this | since: Intl e public's vice, governments. Bute wh nce, In the public service, governments stmpare:for this vrevince. - increases In - e numbed wher wa, to maillion dollar’ what.a million ‘Hs like looking tthe stars; they are there, we can See atthe stars. We know they and touch them; we also know they are so far away that.our . But, : abd usual concept of distances Is of'no use to-us.in trying fo. understand ‘the meaning ofthe: ‘distances. = = °° : eee, So:it is with money. Most of us know whist 2 few thousand dollars is. .We-can . automobile or in a home. ‘But, millions. and: YY ‘ dollars escape is so easy for the | Perhaps. that. Is why t ls se references.10 “such sums of money without batting an eye. 4 Buty it Is your money and my money. they: are + dealing: with. - oa _-The premler ts probably the worst offender In this regard. “He Somehow seams to think that win him votes and support. .- {t's almost as if he awakes In the middle of the night and. fancies that his dreams are realities. . hat he dreams of can be a financial nigh ; Several news people have noted that Premier Bennett Is prone to approve major projects which catch his fancy without. really knowing - where the money Is coming from. Jo. - This “big ticket’. approach is the famillar visibility -syndrome, wherein. pollticans cut ribbons and turn sod as a substitute for good government. Big projects -- or Is it big circuses - - are designed to Impress taxpayers SO they will not notice that hospital services... are : deteriorating, that Inflation 1s badly eroding the income of working people, that small businesses are facing difficult times, and ‘that the chronic housing shortage Is taking a erisis'turn. Here are some of the Sacréd’s ‘big tleket " prolects and thelr, bly price, tags: Pret ace me PP FR bition . Pier B.C. _ $52 million Victoria Convention.Centre $8-million ‘Annacls Island Crossing $130 miillon Transpo ’ $130 million Island $3 billion ~~ An increasingly bleak revenue picture caused n- .while the. price tags become more costly ‘And all these. blg cost projects are, In the _ metropolitan areas. So, Northerners, pay up, says Premier, 7 | os Frank Howard, MLA - (Skeena) 387-6740 (CONSUMER COMMENT (ey CONSUMER AND CORPORATE AFFAIRS CANADA | Most of us. have studied geography at some point during our school days, but how many of us’ ve ever studied “supermarket geography’’? The layout of most gracery stores Is 8 ‘carefully planned scene designed with the In- News liem: HEALTH SURVEY DISCONTINUED AFTER $6 MILLION SPENT. | Publication must be signed. J “We found one thing that really makes people sick— surveys that cost them $6 million” tention of making the shopper more prone to spending more through Impulse purchases. By understanding the psychology of the store’s “geography”, a consumer ts better equipped to . avold the temptations that usually result in "digging deeper Into pocket or‘purse on arriving ‘i - 7 ; i x) ‘ . “i OP . at it wy ure at the cash register. ; Consider the following points, and. be con scious of them the next time you enter a © supermarket: ot : - The greater the number of items consumers - chance they will purchase more of them. Thus, stores are generally set up so that shoppers have to walk around the entire store to find. basic ltems such as milk, eggs, meat, or vegetables. - Even those shop rs running In to pick up only a few Items will likely need to go from one end of the store to the other. / : : {In-store bakeries are often located near the entrance wherethe aroma and eye appeal eritice the shopper, especially the hungry one, to buy. Impulse type Items are ganerally situated at eye level where they are easily spotted and require {litle reaching or bending. __ «Mass displays in the middle of aistes suggest -bargains, 45 do end-of-alsie displays, which are exposed to a high percentage of customer traffic. They may actually .be bargains, _ however, regular priced items are also often . ‘displayed in this way. .Consumers may resist ‘taking anew or regular product. from its or- dinary place on the shelf, but as part of an at- tractive display, It will often find Its way Into the shopping basket. . ve - No-name products may be grouped together quantity products difficult. ‘ see during a shopping trip, the greater the — - New products, more popular brands, and in a separate part of the store, making priceand comparisons with similar brand-name ate