PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Tuesday, October 25, 1977

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QUEBEC (CP) — The next omnibus Criminal Code amending bill will provide for community work orders, restitutions and other op- tions to fines and jail terms, Justice Minister Ron Basford announced Mon:

y. With Canadian jails, prisons and penitentiaries

OTTAWA (CP) — The government will not risk offending the private sector by ordering Inco Ltd. : to cease its foreign expansion and fill all its nickel orders from Sudbury, Ont., sup- plies, Labor Minister John Munro said Monday.

Opposition MPs kept up a fierce attack on the government over Inco’s announcement last Thur- sday that it intends to eliminate 3,450 jobs, 2,800 of them in Sudbury and 650 in Thompson, Man., because of poor world nickel markets.

Ed Broadbent, New Democratic Party leader, pointed out that the government. had been warned two years ago by energy department reports that future expansion of Inco would occur in Guatemala and Indonesia at Canada’s expense. Yet no federal action was taken to avert the layofis now being announced.

John Crosbie (PC—St, John’s East) said that even Ontario Liberal Leader Stuart Smith has asked the federal government to order Inco to end its foreign ex- pansion, stop using government-loaped smopey to expand in Guatamala and Indonesia and help the

Sudbury area.

Independants

holding about 20,000 of- fenders, and correctional budgets buckling across the country, Basford said in a speech that such alter- natives are a ‘a positive, inexpensive approach” to deal with offenders.

His speech was delivered by Deputy Justice Minister Roger Tasse to an audience

‘Save money with progressive step’

ll will put offenders to work

of more than 400 social workers, judges, police probation officers parole officials and legal drafts- men.

Basford was unable to attend the. conference. He was at work in Ottawa.

The delegates are at- tending a lay con-

ference on ‘‘diversion,' which Basford described as

‘a way of “channelling of

fenders out of the form system at the pre-court

stage.”

BEING TRIED Experiments in diversion are under way across the country and the conference was called to evaluate them,

Even though it means layoffs

Gov't won’t halt Inco expansion

Munro, the acting prime minister, said the Export Development Corp. (EDC) has loaned Inco only $17.25 million in 1973 and $40

use that might “alienate the private sector, whichis the very sector we are trying to stimulate: to create jobs badly needed b Canadians,’ Munrg said. At a weekend rally by members of the United Steelworkers of America in ‘Sudbury, there were repeated calls for a gov- ernment takeover of Inco to prevent the loss of jobs. Broadbent, addressing the rally, said he would press either Prime Minister Trudeau or Finance Minister Jean Chretien to order the head of Inco not lay off workers. Neither Trudeau nor Chretien was in the Commons Monday. TALKS TODAY uovernment represen- tatives are to meet union and company officals in Toronto today. Union members said on the weekend they are not pre red to take a shorter, 2-hour work week the

threatened by price wars

VICTORIA (CP)—The resident of the British olumbia Automotive Retailers’ Associatior (ARA) said Monday that major oil companies are using flash price wars as their latest weapon to drive communily service stations out of business.

Airport moose — shot

GANDER, Nfld. (CP) — RCMP at Gander In- ternational Airport killed a moose during the weekend after it ran out on a runway behind a landing Air Canada plane.

Ps an said another moose had to be de stroyed earlier because it was a hazard to incoming aircraft.

The two animals eluded efforts by police and wildlife orkers during a summer

roundup within the airport’s perimeter.

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“More stations will close unless something is done by the provincial government to remove oil companies fromm the gas retail business, he said.”

He noted that the corner service stations cannot meet the competiton of oil companies dumping gas on the market at less than wholesale rates in price wars.

Bruce sapd that the provincial government was on the right track in setting up voluntary guidelines limiting company-owned gas stations to 33 per cent.

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government is expected to propose because that would represent another subsidy for Inco.

Amid the fury over EDC financing for Inco's fore

ign ‘expansion, the EDC

chairman John MacDonald issued a statement defen- ding the Crownowned

company’s activities be- cause they won some par- ticipation for Canadian equipment suppliers in export business.

He said the EDC had also given Inco $20.75 million to. expand its nickel-mining operations in Guatemala,

besides the $57.25 million for Indonesia. James Gillies (PC—

Toronto Don Valley) said Canada has gone from a position of supplying r cent of the would 1 Nickel to 40 per ‘cent now. He asked whether the government had investigated to find whether the market loss is occurring because of dumping—selling at prices below norma value—by competitors. External Affairs Minister Don Jamieson said a U.S. company, Amax Inc., is being investigated to see whether there is a legal basis for protest through the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT),

which lays down rules to overn the conduct of in-

rnational trade.

. Gillies. criticized the governnient over the EDC's 1

nancial ‘support to Taco, for at . . er sales? e Gquigment ai the cost of a dominant position in world nickel markets for Canada. - ; But Alastair Gillespie, currently energy minister but formerly industry minister and a hooster of the EDC, accused opposition MPs of wanting to build a fence around Canada. They seem to suggest Canada shouldn't seli equipment to any country that competes with Canadian-produced goods, he said. LOOKS TO URANIUM Gillespie said he hoped many of the threatened Inco employees will move to nearby Elliot Lake to work in uranium mines because the uranium industry is ready for expansion. Although the Inco layoffs have become the focus for opposition MPs’ concern over mounting unem- ployment, other examples were raised Monday: —dAbout 870 people are to be laid off at a Toronto plant of Anaconda Canada Lid, John Gilbert (NDP— Toronto Broadview) said. —"A substantial number of employees” of Canadian National Railways face layoffs because express

Beiniee im Sageafchewap Hnatyshyn (PC—Saskatoon- Biggar) pointed out,

About 1,000 Quebec and Ontario employees of Northern Telecom, owned

by Bell Canada, face the loss

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of their jobs despite ex- tensive government ex- pansion jioans given the compan » Cyrik Symes (ND ault Ste. Marie) said,

Official unemployment statistics showed 8.3 per cent of the national work force jobless in September, nearly 800,000 people.

James McGrath (PC—St, John's West) said the country is facing ‘a disastrous winter with more than one million unem- ployed’* and actions such as

define diversion, and set some basic standards,

Basford said legislative guidelines would be presented to deal with community work orders, now being used as part of probation orders in some parts of Canada. Such programs were effective Basford said, but there had

Inco’s show the particular vulnerability of one- industry towns like Sud- bury.

Gillespie said the federal and Ontario governments are working together on the problem of the Inco layoffs, ut the fact is that the mining industry is de- pendent on foreign countries and the government can do little about it.

There are some “very painful adjustments to be made in this country,”’ Gillespie added.

he inflation rate in Canada has improved over the - past couple of years, thanks to the efforts of Canadians who recognized the dangers ofspiralling prices and wages. The moderation has helped

and it's a good thing it happened, as we all know from the fears we were experiencing back in 1974-75. We're

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But, Renner added, don’t allow. the ‘‘existing albatross’'— the system—to

criminal justice system should play in diversion. “Reform it if you can,”

to be protection for the of- fender. The community work

order sentence “must notbe Kenneth Renner, a interfere with new ap- seen as a cheap source of psychology professor at proaches that should be workers which would upset Dalhousie University mainly in the hands of the the labor community, nor as Halifax, said referring to community. some form of slavery.” the criminal justice system. —_

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Basford said the courts would be given “clearer and ‘ Selectad blocks of Agricuiture Training stronger legislative sup, |) ENROLLMENT DATES: port” to enable them to fF ay, yee proaram (al bck) ~ inmate (mid October to mid April each

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_ Basford described the criminal justice system as “too rigid, overworked and rapidly . becoming prohibitively ‘‘congested.”

“What we must look for are flexible, more humane and less costly ways of dealing with offenders, especially minor af- fenders.”

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