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Unemployed benefit from Liberal ridings

OTTAWA (CP) — Eighty-five per cent of $207
million of funds allocated for the unemployed
through ‘the - Special Employment Initiatives
Program .was spent. in Liberal ridings; says. -
|. Congeryative MP. Jim McGrath, .
~The Tory employment critic said today ‘that a
- Conservative researchers, ud warkéd th ough.
“thie night sifting thro rough documents tabled By

Minister John - Roberts, :on
Tuesday, and discovered that on average, 85°” ”
per cent’ of the dollars spent went to Liberal oe

vative’ rebeare

Employment

constituencies.

“In some areas, the: ‘Liberal, ridings gol 2 a8:
much’ as 100 per cent,” McGrath said in an
interview as he was going to the weekly.caucus |
- theeting of'Conservative MPs and senators.

, “Post: offices, fot example, “Liberal” con:
: atituencies got.91 per cent of the money that~
-was spent to build post offices ‘under ° this

program.”

McGrath said’ the Tory researchers broke ,
down the figures by government departmerit..
interviewed as he headed for .
Liberal caucus, said: “Clearly a lot of funding
goes to areas. where there. is high” unem-
ployment. and those. tend, lo: be. Aiberally-held

‘ Roberts,

ridings.”

But he insisted, “you have to look not ata
particular program “but a.whole ange of -
programs, And if you do look .at that overall
Tange the figures show a fair. distribution.”

The Special Initiatives program, Roberts _
added, was one “which responded to proposals
made to it. It may be that Conservative: MPs
did not- take advantage of that opportunity,”

, And he repeated that there was “no political
L direction in authorizing the funds.
 .'*¥oncan'trip a patch out of the c: canvas and ~
say, ‘Look it's only in one color,’ ” Roberts
said, adding that ‘opposition | claims‘‘that =
Liberals had exclusive access ‘to the fund “are ~

simply not true,”

. “Several members of the opposition ‘have
taken aivantage of the program, there was
knowlege there. If there wasn't, I don't see how _
opposition ‘members. could have’ taken ad-

vantage of the programi.”.

“The lone Conservative MP in Quebec, Roch |
‘LaSalle, has admitted that he sprung $400,000
from the fund for projects. in his. Aiding last. .

summer.

The Conservatives had requested a ‘ break-
‘down of the: program grants on a riding-by-. ©
riding basis after alleging that government. ;
MPs and senators had exclusive access to the.
fund. They complained they were not. given
detailg of the §300-million program until much
of the money had been spent.

‘to.:

pork ‘barrel.

_ About $93 million remains to-be allocated:
TABLES DOCUMENTS |
On Tuesday, Roberis tabled a massive .~
bundle of documents that included not “Just the
Special. Initiatives financing, -but “details. of.

public.funds.” ... ' ;
. The Tory: ‘einployment critic said the matter
would be raised again in the Commons.”
“Poor old John’ Roberts hasn't got a. 'liteh of
clothes on, and he's. “going to be getting all the |
"slings and arrows today because he deserves :

_ “He brought this. program in. “yesterday
wrapped in a red ribbon, very appropriately .
wrapped up in a.red ribbon.” °°
Conservative Leader Brian hiutroney also .
expressed his disgust with the Liberals.
'- _“E think the whole exercise yesterday was
pretty demeaning,” he said on. his way lo
hoo, Caucus.
“Ht wasan attempt by Mr. Roberts tohide the.
truth, But we've had researchers working at it.
. and E think you'll find that the object of the
. exercise was to obscure the ‘reality. of:
- favoritism and partisanship in dealing with the
- expenditure of public. junds in regard: to’ ‘the ©
unemployed.”
- When the . employment - raihister ‘tabled :
details of all job-creation progcams for 1983-84
Tuesday, he said they would show there was no
"Cleaning. one way or’ another for “partisan
~- reasons,”
Roberts sald the Tories should consider total
financing forall job prograths instead “of
. , Zeroing in on the Special Initiatives program.
“I think you have to look at what-we do ‘as
: part of an integrated whole and not yank things —
out of context, If you do that, the figures which -
"we presented indicate an extraordinary ‘effort
‘== 50,000. projects, ‘fairly allocated § across ‘the
~ country. "
The details provided Tuesday were broken
~down by province. Roberts said this-is how
. information is accumulated in his department.
A-resume that accompanied the documents .
showed ’a1.8 per cent of the $1.2 billion Spent, on ,
all job-creation programs for 1983-34 went to
Quebec, where unemployment stood at.30.3 per
- cent. of, the total number of unemployed
: nationally.” Os
. Ontarta received 24, 8 per ¢ ‘cent of all finan-

“It all went: to. Liberal. con-
stituencies, which I think is Bross. misuse of

cing, while ‘its percentage of ‘national unem-

‘ ployment was 30.7 per cent.

5 said. ©

13.8 per-cent, of the:

eis more, {
~ Country ‘than - in’ the west, BG
remarkable extent, ** the employment minister

British Columbia‘and the Yukon, which had
nemployed, received 13 a
_ per cent.of the finan icing, while Newfoundland,

Wi swith three per cent

the unemployed; received

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McGrath sald Roberts told the. ‘Tories ‘there
‘was no Way to get a constituency breakdown of
‘the program. . —_

* “That wasn’ t true,” ‘said ‘McGrath. “Shortly
after that statement was made, we received an
_ anonymous telephone’ call-and a brown en-
velope' showing us that every constituency is

coded and when a’ program is approved,

Tegardless' of what program, it is reoded by
constituency.
“So. they had the constituency breakdown, .
” but they refused to give it to us. But we've got it:
now because we spent most of the night
working on it.”
McGrath said he didn’t know who made the

anonymous phone call."““You-never look 2 gl&t

horse in the mouth.’

New Democrat House Leader fan Deans said
the Tories’ estimation that 95 per cent of the
Special Initiatives dollars were poured into
_ Liberal ridings may be slightly lew, - .

, Obviously’ the. government paid iittle at-.

tention to: unemployment | statistics when it

divied up- the funds, he said.

“It’s just not possible to believe that all of the

unemployment took place in ‘Liberal ridings
--~ and that everything was fine everywhere else.”

» * British Columbia, which has no Liberal MPs

Liberal,

mons.

but has a jobless rate of 15.2 per cent, three
" percentage points above the national average,
received far fewer dollars than it should have,
said Deans, MP for the Ontario riding of
Hamilton Mountain.

And in Ontario, where there i is a mixture of

Conservative and NDP MPs, .an

“overwhelming” proportion of the funds were
_ spent in the Liberal ridings, he said.
: “What we thought was happening has in fact
' been happening: the government has been
using taxpayers’ money. through a number of
programs
" program in particular — to Lry to augment the.
re-election chances of their members."
“He. condemned the program as anolher
_.examiple of Liberal political patronage and
~“ yowed to expand his criticisms in the Com-

— the employment iniliatives

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Workers. escalate. secondary picketing

A pulp union official gaid ‘ agreement but instead has

"VANCOUVER (CP)
Locked out pulp and paper

. workers escalated ' secon-

dary - ‘today,

picketing
some = lumber
rations throughout
British Columbia. .
‘Jack .Munro ‘of the
International Woodworkers
af America said the pickets

could put as many as 20,000

- , of hig members out of work,
“The. IWA mills affected

are those run by the same
companies that own the 20
pulp arid paper operations
closed since the industry

- woodworkers’ ©
‘plready had-a new contract
with the itidustry.

' Muito” shid his union
members - will” refuse to’

Jocked out its 12,700 pulp

‘and paper workers,

-36,000-member
union |

The .

cross the picket lines, but
that‘ he is not happy about
the altuation. , .

He said he sees ho serise.in .

the other unlons keeping his
members off the job oily to
get. a. better contract
already af to by the

“They ©

_ sure as hell are upset;”.

ave the wun-.

"mitigated gali to spread.

thelr misery to our people. ihe industry has hadlots of only
- gh
“disaster,” Munro sald.

“7 am upset.and so are - (|:

1 think. that’s

our people. We will respect -
the picket lines... but we

No‘ progress hag been -
reported... in’ contract

negotiations. this. week

“between the Pulp, ‘Paper |

and Woodworkers of:
Canada, the Canadian -
Paperworkers Union and .
the industry. .

, Btonewalled the

time:- to work “out ‘ant. negotiations.

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solve,” .

just as important as yours.

- And what about that employee that just
-isn't doing the job quite like re you'd want him
to. ~

“Don' t- preach to- your employees,”

” answers Bill, ‘instead, present yourself as a
role model, let the other people see how you
want things done, by doing it that your-

self?"

Bath concur that consullation with. the
-lient or F potential customer is, extremely

Unemployed

OTTAWA (CP) — The

federal government expects _

to kick in less for its share of
the unemployment . in-
surance. scheme
coming fiscal year,’ but the

drop .will be. more thar |

offset bya. sharp jump in

“costs , linked - ‘to swelling

welfate roils: ;
7 Ottawa's: ‘contribution a

decrease . ‘to about
billion in the year beginning
April: 1, down $277. million

‘from estimated spending’
for the current fiscal year. :

Board
Herb

Treasury
President +-

details of haw the govern-
meit plans to spend a total
of $93.2 billion between
April land March 31, 1985 +
& 105-per-cent increase
over main estimates of $88.9
billion this fiscal year,

If the government didn't
have other ideas and needs
‘for the money in what is
expected to be an election
year, that $98.2 billion could
buy almost 10 ‘million
Chrysler K-cars, al about
$10,000, each or six ‘billion
cartons of cigarettes at

_ about $15.50 a crack.
But the increased spen:

ding, largely the resull of
higher -charges on. the
burgeoning public debt of
$151 billion and increased
spending on defence and
energy, is only 3.3 per cent
when compared to the

teyjsed ‘estimate of $90.6:

billion in spending this year,
The annual tabling of the

estimates for the coming”

fiscal year. attracted less

attention than in previous’

years because Finance
Minister Marc Lalonde had
covered much of the same
territory in the. federal

budgel unveiled last week. ©

ADVOCATE CUTS

Spokesmen for both op-
position parties, however,
immediately | advocated
chopping the estimated
spending by several billion
dollars.

While Progressive
Conservative Don Blenkarn
suggested culling funds lo
Petro-Canada and the CBC,
New Democrat Nelson Riis
called‘ “for an end to
lucrative oil and gas ex-

‘ ploration grants and cor-
. porate tax concessions.

Gray told the Commons
the lower federal con-
tributions to the $11-billion
unemploymenl insurance
acheme reflect an improved
economy and less unem-
ployment, which is
projected to average 10.4
percent in the coming fiscal
year, down from 114 per

wy RALPH RESCHKE
: “Herald Stati Writer _
TERRACE— “Bo it” and “Get it up and

- keep it up” are just two phrases that could
describe tte message Bill Gibson and Neil
. Godin - were trying to put across. to ap-
proximately § 900 people, Tueaday evening at -

The two were:in town to present their
business action seminar entitled “The Do It
Yourself Way to Win in Business”.

And that’s exactly what they explained :

‘ during the three hour. program, giving
examples: of how easy it. really is to. in’
crease business even during these hard’.

“The key to success is that you have to.
_ have motivation,” says Bill Gibson, “Don't | ~
-ait back and expect the world to come to
you. You've got.to get out and do it.for |.
yourself because no one’s going to da it for

Personal values are also very important
in business life, the dio agrees. ‘
“They effect how we relate to ourselves,

. to our staff, and to our customers,” ex-—
plains Gibson, “and it is essential that we,
as business people, recognize that our
-values may create differences between our
employees and customers and that these
differences are ‘something we . have to

‘His solution, to’ the problem ‘is -quite
_ straightforward: listen to what the other. |
person hag te say, because their opinion is _.

in the —

, e. Program;

“program: will
$2.7

Gray
highlighted the decrease as
he tabled in the Commons:

wanted.

important,’ and that aga business person
you should be able to a). recognize the
customers needs, and b) ensure that every
concelvable effort ‘is made to present a.
working solution that meets the needs of the :
customer-and makes him feel that he wad |

And ‘don’t forget your telephone, gays
Neil Godin, pointing aut that it’s one of the .
_ best ways to win business and one of the
. fastest ways to lose it. ©.

“Put ‘a- mirror by your phone and’
pretend it’s a movie camera,” he began,
“and then when the phone rings, make sure
that you're ready to present your beat side,

because you'll make or break that sale by

‘ot the way. you treat that customer.” ;
‘He added that'the fastest way to lose &. .
customer on the ‘phone Is by being poor-—
-mannered, and abrupt.
° your re willing to give them as much help as

Let them know

is necessary to solve their. problems or .

them.

answer their gueries.
Their philosophy of “‘do it” is not only
limited to business enterprises either. ‘
It. can be applied to “ordinary: everyday
- gituations where two or more people come
together to salve a problem common to

Bill Gibson, 88, is the president of
Newport Marketing and Communications
Inc:; a Victoria based consulting firm,.

He is known to be a results-otiented —

tourism,

media.

cent this year.
However, the thick blue
books outlining the spending

also show a whopping 17.7-_
in the - ;
. budget promised a return to

per-cent increase
money Oltawa expécts to
transfer to the provinces. to
cover ‘its 50-per-cent-share
of welfare costs under’ ‘the.
Canada ~ - Assistance: :
the FG) eg ~

The - ‘governnieiit” ‘expecta
its ‘share’ of. that.’ “eostly.,
program could rise ‘by $556.”
million’ to almost $3.97

billion in the coming, fiseal .

year from -an estimated
$3.14 billion this year, ~

This could: suggest that-

more people are switching
‘to welfare after exhausting
their unemployment _ in-
. surance benefits.
-.Gray sleered clear of
making that connection at a
sparsely attended news
conference and simply said
the increased transfers
under the Canada

Assistance Program is “‘a

lingering effect of ihe
recession,” *

Provincial and municipal
leaders have complained
repeatedly aboul the. in-
creased’ burden that high
long-term unemployment is
putting on their welfare
rolls.

Meantime, the’ estimates
indicate the government's
growing discomfort over the
Conservatives’. three-month

assault on what they
describe as the overly
‘apgressive, tax-colection

tactics of Revenue Canada.
In addition to measures

_ announced in last week's

budget aimed at easing the
financial demands’ on
taxpayers appealing their
assessments, the govern-
ment plans toe boost the
department's work force by
5.7 per cent to 1,044. person
‘years "to provide enhanced
‘services to the public.” A

‘tperson year is work for qne

Iperson for one year.

It has set aside $31 million
of the $53.7-million increase
in the department's 1964-85
budget to beef up
everything from over-the-
counter service to telephone’
assistance.

‘The spending estimates
also provide a strong hint of
what wage Increases — it

n

area tie

marketing and: management consultant’:
* with “experience in retail, wholesale, —
finance,
management and salea.

Gibson is presently touring with his -
partner, Neil Godin, throughout B.C, and is .
sponsored by. the ministry of industry and
small business development of B.C., by.
local chambers of commerce, and by local.

and broadcast

Neil Godin has 16 years of experience in
the marketing and communications fields
‘and specializes-in developing turn: around
strategies. for business ‘and industry.

share drops

expects to give public.
servants once the current |

mandatory controls begin to:
expire at the end of June.
Although Lalonde’s

oe

free collective bargaining, .

° the figures show Ottawa will
“keep. overall’ wage: :: “and
salary, setllements (6. five

; Ie, percentage

CTUSES which ‘Laloade said
will ‘be \allowed on most -
fedérally regulated prices...
At the same time, growth
inthe public service.will be
kept at slightly less than one
per cent.
Other key elements of the
spending estimates show:
.— About 20 cents of each
dollar in the §$98.2-billion
spending plan will go

toward covering the interest

and other charges on the-
$151-billion national debt.
This debt will climb to an
estimated $181 billion by the

end of the coming fiscal -

year, thanks to a $29.6-
billion deficit projected for
the coming fiscal year.

— Money set aside for
costly incentive grants to oil

‘and gas companies will

increase by 40 per cent to
$1.6 billion.

— Defence spending will
rise 11.2 per cent to $8.8
billion in 1984-35 from: $7.5
. billion this fiscal year as the
government moves to equip

the armed forces with more |

soldiers, new fighter air-
craft, ships and guns.

* But the hefty increases in
energy, defence and foreign
aid spending sre by no

means, matched by in:

creases in = economic.

» development and social.
“programs.

Spending specifically

earmarked for the

economic development

section will increase only 5.2
per cent to $11.2 billion in
1084-85, down from sub-.
stamtiat increases of 25 per
t this year and 24 per

: {taal year,
. LESS THAN INFLATION
Social affairs, which
accounts for more than 40
per centof total spending, i is
to increase at arate of about
4.2 per cent, less than the
projected 5.3-per-cent rate

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