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. Page 4, The Herald, Monday, June 4, 1979

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: While things look a little shakey for
Joe Clark’s minority. Conservative
government, and we are sure he would
like a better majority, the Liberals
would like another go around and the
New Democratic Party would like to see
if they could translate their increased
popular vote into a few more seats,
another election is almost out of the
question.

: Elections cost money and they take an
amaiing amount of energy. To hold the
fastiielection, some 275,000 election

workers and 50 million documents and |

forms were needed just to make it
possible for you to cast your vote.

: The ,administrative effort that Is
required’ is a bureaucratic nightmare
and some of the possible foul ups were
sean in places like areas of Vancouver
an

In remote areas as well where ©

numbers of people were left off voter’s
lists. |
The $10 million doliars the political
parties will be reimbursed is nothing
compared to what they spent. The
government paid out $50 million on
lection © administration.
_ With new rules governing election
‘Spending by the parties and a newly

' -¢arved up country, those in charge will

‘need some time just to evaluate how
things worked.

It would be political suicide for Clark
to,go back to the voters too soon. It }
we aie be a mistake for Ed Broad- -

s New Democrats to force an

-@lection. Voters, seeing a Tory win,

‘would elther go for a stronger Tory
government or vote Liberal If they felt
Joe Clark was a mistake. . The NDP
would get wiped out as they did once
:before In a similar situation.

i And the Liberals, they are licking their
swounds sure, but they are also looking
the sitting back waiting for the weak
spots to show. They will be watching to
ise@ how Clark stumbles along and backs
‘out of or tries to fulfill his promises with
ian unsympathetic civil service.

: The Liberals can afford to walt,
érebulld, then go for the throat.

AeaTeas &:

ri

“Now I know what they mean by feeling indebted to your country!”

‘OTTAWA |
OFFBEAT

BY RICHARD JACKSON

. that = the

‘for a comeback down the road. They will.

By JOHN FERGUSON
OTTAWA (CP) — The
cabinet Joe Clark forms
today soon muat confront
the tricky problem of
rising rices if it h to
that belped defeat Plerre
eat Plerre
Trudeau’s ‘Liberal
government.
Clark went out of his
way during the election
campaign to say he would

notre-intraduce wage and .
price controls despite an.

annual inflation rate that
reached 9.6 per cent last
month. -

But Clark clearly will’

have to take some action
to sooth workers whose
incomes fell behind the
rise in Uving costs last

year, .
Otherwise, catch-up
settlements could re-

unpopular contrals
program in 1975.

Ed Broadbent, whose
New: Democratic Party
could: help Clark's
minority government
stay -in er, sald last
week he

the

been assured
by Progressive
Conservative leader that
some action would be
taken before the new

WHAT WILL HE DO?
Rising prices a problem

Parliament meets in

kc wasn’t specific —

but those actions will
likely fall short of the fair
prices commission with
rollback powers which
was a major plank in the
NDP election platform.

Meanwhile, the '
National Commission on

Inflation, created by the:

Liberals in March to keep
on price and wage in-
creases, has been
working on studies of

prices and profits in key
‘sectors of ithe ‘economy -°

that could point some
accusing fingers.

The commission is
studying the banks,
whose healthy profits in

the last year have raised:
- some eyebrows, as well

as the booming steel
industry, which has been
ralsing prices and en-

‘ foying strong profits.

_ The textile and clothing

‘industry {s also being

examined to look at
reasons for recent
wholesale price increases
expected to show upat the
retall level this summer
and fall, , .
Another is planned on
the food industry at a
time when food prices are
up about 17 per cent-over

- the studies pending

-will = await

ayear ago and have been
amajor contributor to the
overall inflation rate.

A spokegman at the
inflation commission said
that ‘no decision has been
taken on publication of
con-
sulations with Clark's
new finance minister.

The commission also
further
direction before moving
ahead on planned studies
such as drug prices, elec-

_ trical appliances and

professional fees for

* doctors. This study would

attempt to examine why
doctors are dropping out
of provincial medicare

plans, .
The Tories had few

good things to say about
the inflation commission
when itwas created out of

. the blue last March by

Finance Minister Jean
Chretien. _ .

The commission -
replaced the Centre for
the Study of Inflation and
Productivity (CSIP), .set
up as an arm of the
Economic Council of
Canada last year to watch
‘wage and price increases
in the | post-controls
period. -

The - Conservatives:

labelled it as a move. by

the Liberals to shut up. -|-

CSIP which “had been

pumping out reports oo
profit and . price: in?

creases, The “reporta
provided ammunition for
the opposition In the daily
Commons question perlod
and embarrassed the

‘ government.

But Clark’s govern-
ment could find itself in
precisely the. same
position if the commission

begins churning -out .
unless

reports .this . fall -
there is some strategy for
dealing with the problem.

- Chretien had argued

that by throwing Hight on
what It considered
irresponsible price and’
pay increases, the
commission cculd en-
courage more restraint.

Both the Torlea and the
NDP iabelled this as
nonsense. The Con-
servatives said the
government had failed to
set down any guides on
what increases would be -
considered permissabie.

The NDP said any
watchdog agency had to
be given power to roll
back prices increases
found, to be unjustified.

"deputy, but hir

’ Ottawa, - It was only the day after the election that:
the Liberals, of course, and some bleeding heart
elements of the media began to go to work on Prime,
Minister Clark’s altogether sane and sensible plan to

-*ganitize” the public service. .

Pleas for compassion for the Liberal partisans on
Clark's “‘hit list” are.being heard and protests being

. made against his reduction by attrition of 60,000 public

servants from the obscenely gross federal payroll of
Only 60,000 over three years -- through deaths and
retirements — out of 600,000, and it’s being made to

_ Sound like the slaughter of the innocents. ©

And the “hit list” of out-and-out Liberal militants:
holding down some top and key. positions in the ad-.
ministration -- well,-to think of dismissing them ~ is
being decried as vengeful patronage gone mad.

So the job is Well under way of “softening up” Joe .

Clark,.of attempting to “shame” him into leaving

Liberal-well-enough-alone, of striving to arouse public

opinion against supposed “heartless purges.”

But even as the ballots were being counted it was.
made clear to the Conservatives that the public ser-
vice had declared war on them. , ;

It was the public service vote that beat Jean Piggott
and Robert de Cotret, both slated for cabinet postings.

The public service said in advance it was mar-_

shalling its forces against the Conservatives.
Self defence, even preservation, makes it essential
new government
The day after the election it should have served
formal warning on all deputy ministers and. crown

acts. swiftly. ©

corporation. presidents that they would be held ©

responsible personally for any “fiddling” with the
machinery of government, of covering up in-
criminating evidence, especially documents, the.
shredding of tell-tale files, and destruction of any

records of Liberal misdemeqnor or worse, -

‘That the public service should have been so partisan a

is due to no political plot or conspiracy to put all the
levers of power in Liberal hands. o

It’s the result of @ natural process of tinie, of 22
years of unbroken Liberal power under Mackenzie
King and Louis St. Laurent before John Diefenbaker's

_ five-year interruption of Grit rule, and the 16 Liberal

years that since have followed.

In his time, Dief “‘accepted” the resignation of only
ore deputy minister, Mitchell Sharp, who became a
member of the cabinets of Lester Pearson and Pierre

« Trudeau...

Deputies non tisan, tical neutrals?
Sharp showed them. pelltie
A document, prepared long before the election of

1957, warning the Liberal St. Laurent government of a
recession and heavy unemployment to come was

. eonveniently suppressed lest it frighten the voters. _

The Conservatives on taking power found it secreted

away in the files of the Trade and Commerce |

And Dief in hi

Department of which Sharp then had been the deputy .

time not only’ fired: just one Li

Pearson, when taking over, made short work of him.
Out on his ear went Deputy Transport Minister

. Roberts, the one Tory appointment.

Since then, as before, the top tanks of the public
service have been 100 percent certified pure Grit.

The record speaks for itself: ,

The facts are clear,

Joe Clark is aware of it all.

Some of the survivors of the Diefenbaker years are

| only one Conservative as'second 19
command of the Transport Department. a

still in Parliament around Clark and he is listening to |

them as the “hit list” is compiled.
& few of those whose regisnations are ‘‘accepted”

' will go gracefully, well aware that political necessity

and even, as in Britain, practice, demands it.
Others will leave kicking and screaming and their.

shrieks of outrage will be echoed in the Commons by -
the Liberals and the “bleeding hearts” among the —

pundits, the younger, more‘ innocent and naive
elements, as “‘heartless."’ ;
Pay them no mind.

| Canada’s

The sun emerges from
. behind a cloudy curtain

petition to the North
Pole. Researchers em-
barked on the mission

if

and stares down on a

Inl6 degree Celsius
_femperatures cn a
‘floating ice platform
dotted with

early in April to identify

weatelandoficeand theorigins ofa submarine
mow. It is long past mountain range which
midnight. some believe to have been
One seea only a vast torn away from the Soviet
white blanket, scattered land mags, and tq reserve
with dark blue veins of a page in selentifle
Arcilc sea water, ex- history for Canada,
bundreds of miles Their work has . al-
t the horizon, tracted journelista, film
: There are no trees, no = crews and photographers
animalsandexceptforan fram the United States
ieolated island of activity, and Canada. Other guests
no other signs of life. making debuts visits to |
About 30 men, working the North Pole include

Governor-General Ed-
ward Shreyer who, along
with Dr, Joe Macinnes, a

tents and = physiclan-cura-marine
buts, are combing a researcher, did a little
rebistoric Russian scuba diving beneath the
now at the bottom Lorex camp.

of the ocean for fossils

The scientists are in-

"tie be gon at Hrousllt stall
Canadian eclentists and a bere e y studie

carefully

staff is going about the
‘business of deciphering
part of a 200-million-year-

Steve Blasco, a marine
geophysicist from the
Dartmouth, N.S. Bedford
Institute of

old pursle kept neatly Oceanography, shows off
wider guard inthe frozen =a nage reeekine that is
' frontier. Itiaastudy ofan producing a pencil et-
areas known as

Lomonosov.
This is Lorex, the

largeat Canadian ex-

ching of 300-foot thick

sedimentary blankets

beneath — the
seafloor,

Arctic

“It's the first time
we've had continously
recorded iiformation
from below the seabed.
And we've adapted the
equipment to work on a
slowly moving ice plat-
form so the recorders
work at the speed we are
mi . 1
* About $500,000 worth of
technological equipment
is nesting in Blasco’s
quarters,

Among the gear is an
air gun which blasts a
buge bubble of com-

air toward the
seafloor every 60 seconds,

As the sound is bounced '
off the bottom, an image
o the underwater
basement, as well as rock

' and sedimentary layers

below, are graphically
recorded on two
machines,

Biasco's work, along
with another dozen ex:
periments operating
aboard the Ice station, al-
ready have unlocked part
of Lomonesov’s history.

But this scientific queat
fite into a larger and more
complex research
package In the fleld of
earth sclence.

Using a phenomenon
called plate tectonics,
earth scientists have been

"spreading, earthqua

_ able to explain such

seafloor
kes,”
volcanos, the evolution of
mountain chains and the
theory of how the large
continents drifted apart
from a super continent
millions of years ago.
Jack Sweeney, an
Ottawa geophysicist
conducting gravity ex-

forces . ad

* periments on the ridge,

says the earth's crust is
composed of a seriea of
interlocking rigid plates.
Certain zones of contact
between = the tes
amount for a great of
activity, including ear-
thquakes and volcanos.

The volatile St, Andreas
fault on the California
coast, for example, la a
resuit of the North
American and Pacific

Ocean plates moving past
each other, says
Sweeney,

“The last area in the
world where we don’t
know much about plate
tectonits is inthe Arctic."

Based on what scien-
tista learn about the

e, they hope even-
tually to figure out how
ocean came to be,

“While we're up here,
we'll be testing one of

these ideas -— whether the
Lomonosov is a fragment
of a continent,” Sweeney
says, “And eo far it looks
pretty good that It is
continental.” ;

Tony Overton, - a
veteran selsmologlst
from Ottawa, trots out to
his testing site. esveral
times daily to let off his #0
pound dynamite charges.

The . sound waves
generated from his ex-
plosives echo beneath the
camp and are delicately
recorded after boun:
through several thousan
feet of rock and sediment
below. His results later
will be coupled with
Blasco’s records,

“From the times and.
distances (of the sound
waves), we know how
deep they are and what
directlon they come
from,"" says Overton.
"We are alao trying to get
areading on the thickness
of the aarth’s crust,”

The sound waves will
take longer to bounce
back from material . of
continental or sedi-

mentary origin.

“So fay, It would appear
continental charac-
teristics are associated
with it (the ridge).”

Alec Mair,

.

another =

CANADA PIONEERS RESEARCH THERE
ar North is still for exploring ©

Ottawa seismologist, is
using up to 600 pounds of
dynamite to penetrate
deeper into the ridge and
the earth's crust — to an
area about 30 kilometres
deep called the Moho.

Blasco
collected samples of
ordinary beach sand and
certain shells known only
to exist on beaches from
the bed of the ridge and
these, he says, add other
bits of evidence.
. “This (the ridge) may
once have been part ofa
Russian beach.’

A especial camera
dangled 3,-000 feet into

the ocean from the .

floating ice station has
uncovered sea bed trails

* and tracks, proof af a

_fairly active underwater
community at the North
Pole,

The acientists hover
about thelr tachnical
displays nursing ¢x-
periments late into the

ight.

Alan Judge, for
example, an Ottawa
Beophysicist apecializing

geothermics — studies
the heat engine deep
within the earth's in-
terior.

His thermal

.

location of the ridge in
eir own way.
“And in this part

gradiometers rope to
the bottom of the ridge to
measure heat flow of the

also has

composite material.
Measurements will vary
according to its com-

position — showing .
whether the ridge is

oceanic or continental in
make-up. ‘

Mike Lewis is a marine
geologist from Bedford
whose work involves core
samples . taken from
several feet into the Ar-

elle basement. Stripe of
is 0

sediment thousan
years old are brought to

the surface layered
neatly in‘ a plastic
cylinder.

. While the .
coincide with ic
stafloor profiles, =."

and Lewls may digagree
on how the sediment
accumulated at a certain
spot over the years until
more scientific evidence
is gathered.

At the same time, says
Sweeney, “each one's
work also helps constrain

or limit the interpretation |

mado by another.”

So the researchers are
gathered here at the same
tlme to scientifically
diagnose the make-up and

- Ottawa geoph

really
of the world, it la im-

portant to do all the
research at once because
navigation is difficult and
you're never sure you'll
be able to get back to the

sanie place again,’’

Sweeney notes, .

Lorex is, after all,
moving up to
kilometres dally. =

Joe Popelar, another

cist, uses
a HewlettPackasd
computer system to
decode passing satellite
signals so the ice statlon’s
tirecton inely

clon can be prec

plotted.

By charting Lorex’s
position in relation to the

Lomonosov, it wi
learned thal the ridge had

been Incorrectly mapped. -

By underatanding
the ridge was formed,

aclentiata say they will be.

able to shed more light on
how the entire Arctle
region was put together
millions of years ago.

This in turn, will tater
add more knowledge
about the physical make-

‘up of Canada’s far north,

they say.

apeed and:

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