Page 2, The Herald, Friday, November 23, 1979

Clark concerned about the deficit

By JOHN FERGUSON
VANCOUVER (CP) —
Prime Minister Clark said
Thuraday his government
plans to check the flow of
money out of the country by
altracting more foreign
visitors and enouraging
Canadians to travel at home.
Clark told about 1,300

aupporters al a §$t50-a-plate
Conservative party fund-
raising dinner his govern-
ment also ls ready to give
rapld approval for increased

natural gas exports to the
United States if a National

Energy Board report ex-
pected at the end of the

month says there is a sur-

us.

Both the extra gas exports
and the new tourism
strategy would be aimed at
reducing the country’s
chronie deficit in gooda and
services trade with the rest
of the world. .

That deficit is expected to

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top $7 billion this year, up
from $5.2 billlon a year
earlier, and is regarded as a
major reason for the decline
in the value of the dollar and
the government's poln)ifon
high interest ratea.

Clark said Trade Minister
Michael Wilson is meeting
with provincial and tourist
industry officiais ‘to work
out a national tourism
strategy that will deal with
the tremendous Louris po-
tential we have as a nation.”

Part of that strategy will
be a atring of trade and
conventions centres across
the country and Clark
promised Ottawa would
contribute land and cash for
up to one-third of a planned
#0-million centre here,

Tne emphasis on touriam
is aimed at correcting an
annus! tourist spending
deficit expected to be about
$1.5 billion this year, down

H slightly from about $1.7

billion a year earlier,
Without giving details,
Clark also said the govern-

ment is planning a risk in-
slirance plan for exporters to
help sales abroad.
Cabinet members have
said repeatedly that they
consider an attack on the
internallonal payments
deficit to be of prime im-

portance. Clark told his au-.

nghes the deficit is the
est per capita of an
major induswrlal naulon, 4
The payments deficit
causes problems for the
Canadian economy in many
ways,

Tourists who travel
abroad, businesses ‘that

the government raises in-
terest rate to encourage

_ Toney to flow into the

‘make foreign purchases and -

companies that pay interest

on foreign loans all must:

convert Canadian dollars
into forelgn currency.

If there is an over-all pay-
menta deficit, this means
there is & surplus of dollars
abroad, which drives down
their value. The lower value
dollar means imported gooda
cost more and this adds to
domestic inflation.

To counteract this trend,

Quebec hospitals
get back to work

country. But high Interest
rates algo cause slower
economic growth and
unemployment.

Earlier in the day, Clark
narrowly missed 500 noisy
unlon membera demon-
strating against high interest
rates, rising unemployment
and unemployment in-
surance cuts, .

The demonstrators,
members of unions affiliated
wilh the B.C. Federation of
Labor which ia holding ita
annua? convention, included
fishermen and loggers who
said they were being denled
unemployment ‘insurance
because regulatlons were
lightened on claims hy
seasonal workers,

They also said small oper-
ators in the logging and
fishing industries are
severely harmed when

buying equipment by high

borrowing costa.
Ciark missed the
demonstration at the

downtown Hotel Vancouver
because his flight arrived
about 15 minutes early and
he entered the hotel before
the unionists gathered,

“Tt was just a fluke,” said

QUEBEC (CP) — right to strike until the end of mianned that way,” wasn't
Hospitals and nursing homes the month. ‘ The demonstrato ra
across the province are —_Theillegal sirlke isnot ex. atohed around the hotel
gearing up to readmit pected to end officially untih 464 through the lobby

patients this weekend as
45,000 non-medical workere
vote on the latest govern-
-ment offers.

Delegates representing the
workers, who belong to the
Confederation of National
Trade Unions, voted
Thursday to accept the of-
‘fers labled by [Finance
Minister Jacques Parizeau

4 late Wednesday night. and

are recommending their
members follow suit.
The non-medical support
workers were the only
members of Quebec's
common front of public-
sector employees to defy a

special Jaw suspending their

the union locals ratify the
agreement but with the bulk
of the voting alated for taday
government spokesmen said
they expect the workers to be
ck on the job by the
weekend, ending a walkout
that has disrupted about 75
Quebec hospitals,
Meanwhile, a justice
department spokesman said
25 more charges of violating
the antistrike law were laid
Thursday against locals of
the hospital workers’ union,
bringing to 73 the number of
charges since the walkout
began Monday.
About 275,000 workers
were affected,

“was in opposition,

chanting ‘‘we want Joe’’
under the watchful eyes of a
handful of policemen. Their
signs included ones saying
“stop UIC cuts” and “Cana-
dians wanta work, oll com-
panies want welfere.”

When they left, they stuck
the signs in windows and
assorted nooks and crannies
around the hotel.

Some of the demonstratora
met with Environment
Minister John Fraser, MP
for Vancouver South and
Conservative labor
Spokesman when the party
who
promised to take their
grievances to Clark.

NEWS BRIEFS

OTTAWA (CP) — Pierre
Trudeau wants the Liberals
to ralse a $1 million war
chest to rebuild the party in
Western Canada and win
ridings held by Progressive
Conservatives and New
Democrats.

Trudeau plans to discuss
the ‘suggestion and other
ways of Improving party
support thia weekend when
he attends what could be his
last meeting with the Liberal
national executive. -

The plan could be in-
terpreted as the last will and

testament of a retiring

statesman tothe party he led
for 11 yeare.

The vary and Trudeau’s
own popularity are weakest
in the four western
provinces, where the
Liberals elected oniy three
MPs May 22 and received
only about 21 per cent of the
ballots cast.

Along with Trudeau's
devotion to bilingualism, he
became infamous Ln Western
Canada for such statementa
during the May 22 federal
election campaign as “why
should I sell your wheat?”
and “farmers are born
grumblers.”

Hijacker’s weapon: toy

TOKYO (AP) — A man
armed with a bottle opener
and a small plastile knife
hijacked a Japan Air Lines
DC-10 jetliner today and
diverted it to Narita In-
ternational Airport near
Tokyo. .

He was overpowered by
the crew after ordering that
the plane be fuelled for a
flight to the Soviet Union.

The crew handed Kazumi
Nomura over to Narita

rt police after a scuffle
inne cockpit in which the
pilot, Toshiyuki Nishihiro,
39, suffered minor injuries

on his wrist, a JAL official
said,

None of the plane's 945
passengers, the other 10
crew members or the
hijacker were injured. JAL
chairman Shozo Hotta was
reported to be among the
passengers on the flight, but
Nomura is believed to have
been unware of his presence.

Nomura, a 25-year-old tile-
selier from Sakal City, near
Osaka, took command of the
domestic flight a few
minutes after take-off from
Osaka Airport.

First of 90 for Parrot

TORONTO (CP) — The
president of the Canadian
Union of Postal Workera
spent the first of what could
be 90 days in jail Thursday
for defying federal
legislation which ordered
striking postal warkera to
return to work in October,
1978.

Jean-Claude Parrot
reported to an Ottawa jail
after the Ontario Court of
Appeal unanimously upheld
the convictlon. s,s,

Paul Cavalluzzo, .one of
Parrot’s lawyers, said he
will try to appeal the

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judgment before the
Supreme Court of Canada
and will bring a bail ap-
plication before an Ontario
Supreme Court judge today
to have Parrot released
pending a hearing.

Parrot was convicted in
April and sentenced to three
months in prison a8 a result
of the Incldent.

The postal workers union,
withoul a contract since
June 30, 1977, began a legal
strike. Oct,. 16, 1978.
Parliament’s back-to-work
order was effective Oct. 19,
and Parrot called an end to’
the strike six days later,

Bikers
desrupt
football ~—

The. Thanksgiving rivalry
e g rivalry
between two high school!
football teams was over-s
shadowed by the rivalry of
two motoreyle gangs when
gunfire erupted on the
football fleld Thursday,
sending 5,000 fans screaming
for cover.

Eight pergona were hit, in-
cluding a two-year-old boy,
when shots rang out at the
Woodrow Wilson high echool
field during the third quarter
of a game against. Camden.
Police said at least 20 shots
were fired,

Eleven persons suffered
other Injuries, including —
some hurt when they were
trampled by fleeing apec-
tators.

Dozens of policemen con-
verged on the fleld to restore
order, and at least 37 persons
were arrested,

The fighting erupted
between the Wheels of Soul
gang of Atco and the Ghetto
Riders of Camden just
behind the south end zone,
Police said. =

Petrocan
less

agressive

VANCOUVER (CP) —
PetroCanada would lose its
aggressiveness if ite shares
distributed ta
Canadians like shares of the
British Columbia Resources
Investment Corporation,
says the president of the
Committee for an In-
dependent Canada.

@X Saliaman said in an
interview Thursday thet if
PetroCan waa reaponaible to
smal] shareholders who |
wanted an immediate
roca, it would stop taking

6

Saltsman said PetroCan
and the Saskatchewan
government's potash cor-

tation are Canada’s two

Ig success stories in beating |
back American ownership,

The committee, which has
1,-500 members, believes
there should be more public
ownership because it is
frustrated with the private
sector's attempts tc take
over from American en:
treprencurs, he said.

“With most Canadian
businesses, it's business first
and nationalism second.”

He said 65 per cent of the
combined manufacturing,
petroleum and pe Industry,
88 per cent of the rubber
industry, 74 per cent of the
electrical apparatua in-
dustry, 59 per cent of the
transportation equipment in-
dustry