: -dlosing Legislative Library | ~~ -ems Barliment Buildings Victoria, B,C, Bill Gibson and Nell Godin 4 . 25 cents —_ * . Established "Volume? 78 No, 37. 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 1 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 ” x 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. “Sports a Comics | Classifieds os INS DE _— 8 : 5 pages 485 page 6 "Pag es 8&9 ‘surance’ the REM Lee Theatre. economic times. you."", 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. 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