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OTTAWA - The things you find in Hansard!

Oil prices, who to blame? |

The Arabs? .

Not according to former Toronto Mayor Davie
Cromble, now Conservative MP for Tosedale.

\t was, he recently told the Commons, a man
in New York, unknown to most Canadian, a
Munro Rathbone. - - . ;

How the House happened on this particular
plece of intelligence was the Mr. Crombie,
discussing the proposed new Department of
Social! Development,.warned that before almost

- anything else, it must be prepared fo cope with

the unknowns of the future.

Well, not entirely unknown are the things In
store for us between now and 2,000, he said,
because some men were gifted with some sense
of foresight. an

Like Bismarck, founder of the modern Ger-°
man state. When asked how he read the future
and prepared for It as chancellor, he reptied:

“| try to catch the wind of God and the trees
and hang on, praying.” =”

The new Minister of Social Development,
advised Mr. Cromble, should strive to do the
same.

Apparently nobody in Canada
Western World -- was trying to “catch the wind
of God and the trees”, hanging on and prayingg.
badion August 8, 1960." ae Se

That was the fateful’ day, recalled Davia

Crombie, when Munro Rathbone, who had an

office In Rockefeller Plaza, made a decision. _
He was the chief executive officer of Exxon.
The decision was to cut back on taxes being

pald to the oil-producing countries. ‘

Within a. few days of Mr. Rathbone making —
that decision, the other oll companies followed -
sult and within three moths, the hard-hit oll-
preducing countries got together In the ancient .

and fabled city of Baghdad and formed an outfit
known a§ the Organization of Petroleum Ex-
porting Countries -- OPEC. ©

Itwas not until 1973 or ‘74, as oll prices soared
and the market crashed, that people reallzed
what really had happened In Baghdad back In
1960. : a
But they sure have realized it since as all
prices generally, basically because of rocketing.
energy costs, have risen, according to Stats-
Can, by 70 percent. mo,

Remember only three or four years ago when .

Prine Minister Plerre Trudeau worked the
House into anuproar of Indignation when he told
the Honorable Mernbers they were ‘“nobodies’’,
doing nothing, and unknown beyond the bounds
of Parliament Hil? mo

Well, It was nothing new.

Back in that same year, 1960, Blair Fraser,
then Ottawa columnist for Maclean’s magazine,
wrote: no. .

"The backbench MPs, an unemployment
problem themselves -- ignored, anxious, bored
5 Jv

Nobody In the Commons got uptight about’
that, although the circulation of Maclean's far
exceeds that of Hansard. =

But the “HONORABLE Nobodies”, as Pierre
Trudeau called them, DID work up a terrific
sweat when Blair Fraser went on to reveal that
parliamentary boredom was so Intense many
MPs put away ffar more booze than was goad.
for ther, and among other diversions, chased
thelr secretaries around thelr desks and down
the empty weekend corridors of power.

True or false -- you may guess which -- the
disclosure did mark the fist movement Ot-
tawaward of parilamentary families who had
been staying contentedly at home In the out-
posts, outports and outer spaces that Ite In the
unknown country below the horizon of the
Nationa! Capltal.

There was a general migration of wives fo
Ottawa to see what might be going on, despite
the anguished protests of AiPs that tdhe sup-
posedly ‘‘inside stuff” In Maclean’s was nething

but unfounded, fiase, malicious gossip.

And get this: Ars. Celine Hervieux-Payette,
Liberal MP for Montreal-Mercler, has stated in
a 74-page official party policy document,
prepared for the Winnipeg convention “that
Canadians were undertaxed compared to people.
in many countries.” ,

Big help, that,
MacEachen In preparin

warned we are ‘going to get it’.

- or the.

a ee

in structuring young life

MEDFORD, Mass. (AP)
— Children need structure Ln
their lives, says Lonnie
Carton, a child psychologist
who believes saying no to
them at the right time in the
right way can help them
achieve a sense of security
and love. ;

“Saying no can mean that:
the parent really cares,”

says Ms. Carton, a member

of Tufts University faculty,

writer and lecturer who also.

conducts a radioshow..
Positive noes can: help

youth ‘to grow, learn self.
discipline
responsibility, says the
mother of three author

of a new book Raise Your .

Kids Right.
- There are four noes. that

‘parents can and should rely

om, she says:

1 The Hiesaving. wo. Ex:

‘plain . consequences of

dangerous & ;

i caimly.
Scare tactics can inhibit a

also child's outgoing nature while .
* caution and. self-dise ‘
can be Anculeated by °

and acquire social -

effort to atrive and achieve.
ter-building

=—The charac

po. It ‘seta parameters for
conduct, Children ‘need

in their lives.to be-...

more selfless. and sharing.’

.

4:

_The convenience 10:

“Cana

by
| Thomas Atrill

an
yt
ry,

da: Day. Canada’s 113th brithday, a day, to
celebrate, they say. - ea

lagree, with reservations. Perhaps It would

be more fitting and. appropriate - for. us to

Me

celebrate. Canada’s successes: and longevity

~". which occurred In spite of the ministrations of
“many of Its‘ prominent. leaders. We.should be. -

happy that our country has the strength to

“withstand mismanagement on such 8 grand

sealé. - - oo Lo
_ Our national:debt costs us & million doltars a

- day. for: Interest. .. Business failures are in-
creasing.’ Unemployment is rising. The. dollar .

“Is sick, We are operating our economic system

-socialists who, typically,: cannot: understand or —

-gondone a free-enterprise economy.

_ = We are short of-energy In a country that has: ©
some of the world’s largest sources. - We preach.
2. gqual.-opportunity while. allowing various .

pressure oroate to obtain special advantages

$

It

reminds the child that

Me “parents and teachers cannot:

and put the

's own interests ahead ..

of adult priorities. There's a

‘ pight time for everything, _

three ‘noes fhat.“¢an Jeave
ibit personal develop-

ment ~

They are: No, I don’t love
you; no, you're not capable, -

and no, I wan't listen to you.

according to. the myths. of. John: Maynard

_. Keynes, witha liberal shot of Karl Marx thrown

Our. government. Is ‘composed largely ‘of.

ad onracial origin and geographic location.

”-We do not yet have our own constitution, and
“when It (hopefully) does ‘materialize, it will
_** almost certainly be less just and less acceptable
‘ ‘than our present BNA

act.
On the plus side, we have potential. Al our
politicians say so. Wehave human and resource

potential coming out our ears. Many of our

potential workers are enjoying Unemployment
Insurance and most of our resources are still in
or on the ground, waiting for every Tom, Dick
and Harry to pass judgement on the ‘viability’
and ‘social destrabllity’ of thelr exploltation: At
this-rate, our resources-are safe forever.

_ Ifyou have ever wondered why things don't .
getdone, why we'have interminable delays and
; stacdering costs; fake ‘a look at ihe. contrast

between the thinking &nd actions of our pioneers

-and the vociferous herd that runs.things today.

Wecan’t win. It’s as simple as that.
Did you celebrate Canada Day? Please ex-

plain in twenty-five words or less. .

‘

as once known as Dominion Day. it isnow

OTTAWA (CP) — They .
were debating fish when
there occurred such an
interruption . of ©
Parliament. ‘that | the.
Hansard reporter broké.
tradition and devoted’ 16
lines to. describing: . the .
event — the burnizig of
- Parliament, wd

Usually Hansard
reporters log only the.
‘spoken word — inter--
ruptions are covered iri a
curt line or two. -

stance, when a deranged
person tried to blow up
the place — but instead
killed himself while pre--
paring the . explosive
deviceina washroom, the
inscrutable Hansard |
reporter noted simply

‘at this point a loud
explosion waa heard in
the chamber.)”’

In ‘May, 1966, for in: -

+ -Buton the night of Feb, +:
"3, 1916, when the: clilef °

doorkeeper of the Howe

‘burst in warning’ of ‘fire
“the sitting. was- imme-
‘diately suspended without |
formailty,"*

formally og details
a details
itg source and that the -
buildings were déstro

cgave for the pariia- ©
‘mentary library. |.) ~
> The incidents illustrate. .

the long, hard’. and

sometimes -. romantic
_ battle ‘for ‘the right to

record the words -of
Parliament, and leave the

‘interpretation and .
coverage of” related
"events 10.

others.
In. this year marking”
the 100th anniversary of

Hansard in’ Canada,
Irishman John Ward has |

written’ The ‘Hansard
Chronicles, published by

' man
thand

- started serious
: that the Irish were so pre: -

House of Commons, is one.

of ‘3 group. of reporters. —

recruited ‘in Ereland and
-* Britain in the 1860s when —

there was a dearth of:

’ Canadians willing or a

shoulder the ‘onerous

A. former newspaper

id later. a shor-
hand reporter in the Irish
Dail, or‘parliament, he is
a bit embarrassed that
the Irish play such an
important role in his

“ST had no-idea, until 1
research,

eminent,” he says. A.
leading character is

woe
eo

Ward, ‘associate: editor -
gt debates.in Canada's .b

' Many — of:
‘associated with the

Canada
- grievously, as did their

- Toronto of cholera in 1834,

his grave now obscured

yy progress. —
Another important

figure was Englishman ,

Willlami Cobbett, plough-
boy. and patriot, self-
taught, who became the

: conscience of a nation and
_who laid the groundword
for Hansard. . .
- In fact, says Ward,

Hansard was simply the
family name of the
printer; the daily report
of parliamentary
proceedings should be

called Cobbett rather

than Hansard. ‘
those

struggle for Hansard in
suffered

hat q : . _ ar . a . ; a “
ak: 1S. i n@ 1@ bain tees 'e ars: ald ar
: race ” \ 5 ‘ j 4) he ate ive Hy renee ery OE YP

ceperbeh Beneth) dea ierial

- wives and families. [twas

really a battle for free
speech. They’ were
prosecuted, fined and
imprisoned — some even
banished from: Canada.

ewspaper offices were

destroyed. |.
The book is a ponderous:

history. lightened by |
Ward's toutives of humor ‘--

but some readers will find
his thorough. research 4

bit heavy, weighing down —

the text with lerigthy foot-
notes and éxcerpts from
source material. —

- A‘little-known fact is

that’ while much in

Canada: was copled from. .

the Mother of. Parlia-
ments, the Canadian
Hansard from the start
was superior to- the
British version. In Britain
at the time the Hansard

other

“House is “the purest form

cltement.”
_ fast— at least 220 words a

' of up to five speakers
‘involved. in

‘identify voices.

repart was copled from.
newspaper accounts,

while in Canada reporters

sat at desks right in the

House. .

- Ward, who also has

reported the United

Nations in New York and

international

events, says question |
time in the , Canadian

of parliamentary drama
— it has no rival for
spontaneity and ex-

But it's hard work, Not
only must the reporter be

minute — but he must at .
times handle the hubbub

unruly
crossfire. He also must
acquire an “ear” for the
House; learning to

to Finance Minsiter -
his Fall budget in.
which both he and the Prime Minister have —

TODAY IN
HISTORY

1739 — A mob stormed the
‘Bastille prison in Paris,
spagng the
Revolution, |

1858 Emmeline Pankhurtt, ‘

women’s rights leader, was

born. an
1933 — The Nazi party was

decreed the only ‘egal
political party in Germany.

1M9— The N
legislature's first session

opened. .
197 — The Eshgabad ran

aground in the Caspian Sea, —

ng 270.
_ July 13, 1988

‘A conference between the .
and Canada per-. ms
petuated the Rush-Bagot’ |...
concetning ‘ar-. |.
mament‘on the Great Lakes

US.
Treaty

58 years ago today — in 1922.
The original agreement was
signed in 1817, limiting the
number and size of warships
on the Jakes. It has since

been modified to permit the .

construction of larger
vessels on the lakes. . -.

1762 — Czar Peter TIT was ©

dethroned in a coup in
Russia. fo
1918 — The airship R-34

completed the first round: ;

trip flight over the Atlantic,
1934- —uadolf Hitler

asserted his right to kill

without benefit of law. .

1083 — ‘The first Shake-
spearean Festival opened at .

INT — Lightning knocked

- out power in New York City

French.

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