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* LONDON, Ont. (CP) — The federal Revenue Department picks on and harasses Canadians, a Progressive Con- servative task force on taxation was told Monday by angry members of the public.

: On the opening day of hearings, teak force members listened to the first of what promises to be a litany of complaints about Revenue Department practices. The five- member Tory panel will criss-cross the country during the next month.

: “It seems that Canadians are loathe to stand up for their rights against tax collectors because the government uses heavy-handed tactics to make the public feel intimidated,” said Wayne Beach, a professor at University of Western, Ontario law school,

= “Phe (Income Tax) Act is being enforced with the ap- parent philosophy that ail Canadian taxpayers are’ somehow guilty of tax evasion,” said Brian Stanley, an. accountant in nearby St. Thomas.

“The task force, headed by Perrin Beatty, the Tories’ |

revenue critic, will visit 23 cities across Canada. It was

formed after the government refused to set-up an all-party Committee to study the Revenue Department in the wake of a a series of charges about its practices and policies.

Fs “One of the more bizarre tales Monday

Woman, to. appear; Refore: the paring: The’ woman, salliabe Ww was:

She sald she was separated from her husHand and living - alone when her bank manager told her that her assets had Been taken.

2 The former city hall worker sald the seizure eventually, forced her onto welfare, which proved to be a humiliating - experience because she had to ask for welfare from people With whom she used to work. = “Then, when [ went to cash my welfare cheque, my bank ' warmed me away because the government still had a right tH any money in. my account,” she sald.

“Monday's hearing also heard from Richard Ruth, a

London television dealer, who said revenue officials were -

“vindictive and heavy-handed.”

ra =“They cursed and swore at me,” he said. “I think their plrpose is to drive us (small businessmen) out of. business,’ .

EASY TARGET . Beach told the committee the Revenue Department picks OB ethnic Canadians because they are an easy target.

“Pax collectors often go after ethnic Canadians because they know new Canadians can be frightened more easily,” he said.

SEdward Kerr, Ruth’s tax consultant from nearby Ingersoll, said he believes the Revenue Department Is after him because he has won a nimber of tax appeal cases.

He said his wife’s bank account was seized and the department is checking every appeal case he has won over the last two years.

“Now they want a list of my clients, but I don’t want to give them the names,’’ said Kerr, “They will harrase my olients.

“They say I owe them $13,000. Maybe that’s because last year alone I knocked off $500,000 from the London office dione (in tax appeals.) If you win for your clients, you

; Kécome a target for them, especially lawyers and ac-. countants. ”

“Kerr also told of a trucker trom nearby Wallaceburg who ° was originally assessed as owing $98,000 in taxes, Kerr appealed and it was reduced to $45,000 but, in the mean- time, the trucker’s bank aceounts were frozen.

: 3A further appeal cut the amount owing to $18,000, but the’ . Hevenue Department had already taken $24,000, said Kerr, adding the case has yet to be settled.

ACA

“OTTAWA (CP) — There is a “dramatle correlation” between women who continue smoking during pregnancy and the birth of underweight babies, says the head of a survey by the Oltawa-Carleton regional health unit.

“The study found that among first-time mothers, 4.7 per cent of thenon-smokers had underweight bables, compared vith 7.6 per cent of the smokers. Of women who weren’t, fifat-time mothers, 2.2 per cent of non-smokers had low- bitth- -weight babies compared with seven per cent of exhoking mothers,

“1 was surprised at how dramatic the correlation is,” said Dr. Geoff Dunkley.

The regional study, financed by the Oxitarlo Health Ministry, surveyed all 3,637 women who gave birth In the region between May and October 1963.

Of the nearly 40 per cent who had smoked before becoming pregnant, two-thirds of these women continued to smoke throtighout the pregnancy. ./

This finding was unusual because ‘most studies in the past have shown about two-thirds of smokers quit during ptegnancy,” said Dunkley,

pe | was surprised by the numbers, ! really thought with all the new awareness of the hazards of smoking, it would be ies." oe Sie eh aes

- To the waiter, cine

: strike’ which cannot be known until a ruling is made by the

by the company whetHer to apply to the LRB for relief, and

y. ber

Dramatic correlation shown.

1 ta gua Aa era Occurs in the last half of « pregnancy.

_ paid government bureaucrats ‘flipping coins In a ‘back

‘ appealed to higher courts.

’ English’s right (I think, not being a jegal expert) to stand on ©

. OUTPUT INCREASES

marries ie an 3 than’ who wound up ’owiig’ sihiee ‘$7'million in'taxes. ~*' growth rate-contrasted-with reports, from Canada’s cari

‘SALES SOAR’

67,870, compared swith 40,572."

regained the No. 2 spot last month, spurred by surging-sales

find the homeless huddled among the city's famous flower

because the fetus has been starved of oxygen.

‘those born prematurely, never catch up to normal babies

I was not aware the Mr English had ¢ither-the extensi legal education or the ability.to foresee the fubire-which’ he: : expressed in his support of the non:pleketing pulpworkers, : (Letters, Feb. 28)... : P

His unfortunate: assaniptlon:: ‘which: cost him: ‘a d wages, was that “the picketers.are in‘: “legal positic

Labour Relations Board’ (which from thé. rationale evidenced by their recent decisions consists of three highly.

_on their principles. -- .-

"A favorite expresston of Future Shock victima is “I can rt understand how,..they...can do that”, when whether you ~understand or nat is Irrelevant - “they” are doing “it”, Our society. is in upheaval, laws are in flux. What is legal today

roomn). ‘For.a ruling to. be made, either for or against the pulpworkers, there must first be picketing, then a decision

then a coin flip or dice roll by the LRB, which could be.

(Provided, ‘of course that the

unions and companies. have nat reached an agreement, in ; the meantime.)

I am fascinated that Mr. English ‘could ‘delve. into. ‘the minds of: the’ pulpworkers to know ‘that, despite ‘any *: evidence of picketing, they “wanted a withdrawal of ser- vices’ Perhaps he could lend his powers of ESP.to the opposing leaders In the pulp dispute, tet them’ knew what -. they really want, and thereby setile the dispute. Then, with Trudeau retiring...?

Despite the illogical assumption, it s of. course Mr.

may be changed tomorrow by new information, knowledge ,. oc events, .And principles. on occasion must ‘be bent to . confortti -to these now realities,

The reality: of our situation'in Terrace today. is that many

is still a shortage of work, and outalde influences such as the . pulp dispute are ‘threatening mnany. ‘OF the remaining’ jobs. _ and businesses, at least in the. short: termi... It is important to recognize this reality and to recognize. _ its impact on our perception of the’ problém, I can only hope

principle on whether or not to cross an invisible picket line, after careful ‘gonsideration of the ‘matty’ possible: on- o sequences of his action, : as it is ‘the right‘ of, Jocal: in-,,

dispute can temper their-principles somewhat toward a

- Expansion rate ! slowed

Statistics Canada offered more proof Monday ‘that the. _ derbird, ‘Cougar, LTD, and Marquis, “ . country's economy, which surged ahead in the first three. Ford Motor Co. ‘of Canada also announced a solid im- quarters of 1983, experienced a, slower rate of expansion in., 4 provement, selling 10,399 cars and 6, 368 trucks during the the final three months. os + month, The total 16,767 vehicles sold showed a G5-per-cent The agency reported that gross domestic product: which : improvement over a year earlier... ve measures the value of goods and services produced in the ’ Chrysler Canada said it-sold 15,057 vehicles - _ , 156 cars _ country, rose 0.0 per cent to $121.9 billion in the last lines and 3,901 tracks — compared with 0,587 in February of Jast months of 1963.from the previous quarter...‘ <: ° .. . However, the growth rate was down from an average. L 5 per cent recorded in the first three quarters of 1883, ~° .

trucks, up from 17,819 in,the first two months’ of 1983."

struction industry, which went into its deepest slump in more than a decade in the last quarter of 1983,

“The second-quarter burst in housing did not last and residential construction activity declined in the, third and fell sharply in the fourth quarter,” the-agency ‘sald. —_

“Coupled with continued weakness in’ non-residential ~ construction, output of the construction industry tumbled to the lowest level in more than a decade.” :

units,.Pagsenger car sales — aided by the success of

earlier to 2,695 units ‘Alespite a alight destine in sales of : imported Renatilts... :

an other: ‘hisinese developrients Monday: «The. Canadian dollar reached its loweat point, against the U.S. currericy on‘ North American foreign. exchange

While growth slowed in December, it was sill the roth consecutive month that economic output. inereaged,

.“By the end of 1983, GDP stood 7 -2-per-cent above the level of a year earlier, when the recession boltomed, and was one-per-cent below the pre-recession peak set in June 1981," Statistics Canada said.

The GDP figures are in line with gross national product figures released last week, which showed the. economy grew last year but expansion was slowing by year's end. GNPis similar to GDP but measures the value of goods.and services produced by Canadians whether inside the counity or riot.’ . For the year aga whole, economic gutput averaged 2. 7 ceent: mote’ ‘tharein: 1982; Wi eaaed EEL ed wf _Blsewhers Monday, alg of a slowdown in the economy's.

0.15 of a cent, Analysts said rising interest rates in the dollar in comparison ‘with its. Canadian- counterpart. rofit jumped 35 per cent from the previous year, reflecting

business ‘conditions.in Canada andthe United States, The company, which publishes through its subsidiaries more than 140 newspapers in Canada. and the United States, said _ net: income for the year ended Dec. a1 was $126.1 million or $2.55 aghare, reompared with $93. 4 million or $2.01 a share in 1982.

Vs

aker: and. supplier. -ofrelectronic data communications

* showrooms, which are: experiencing a dramatic’ surge {in three, months ending Jan. 28, the: ‘company reported. sales; . ‘Gandalf: ‘president Ded Cunningham: said the effects of a

Canada's automakers reported they’ ‘gold. er-per-cent more vehicles Jast month than in February 1983 and expect an even better performance this spring as result of an: improved economy and increased consumer confidence.

research and ‘development efforts should improve the outlook for the company; , —Canada Development Corp. of Toronto reported a $28. 9.

Overall, Canada’s -domestic automakers “reported - enough’ ‘to -boost- the _Crown-wned holding. company: into Monday that vehicle sales for. the month totalled, 70,856 * profitability for the year. The quarterly, profit — which

and 8,055 trucks’ — up almost 75 per cent from a year’ earlier. Saies for the first two months of the year totalled Gulf: Corp: -of Pittsburgh for . $13.2 billion has. raised ’ questions about the future of Gulf Canada Ltd., 60-per-cent owned by Gulf Corp. Lionel Dodd, vice-president of finance for the Canadian company, said Standard Oil may be in- : terested in selling Gulf Canada, adding that the value of the company ‘is about $2.6 billion, . .

Victoria: also has. flophouses

VICTORIA (CP) — -- Behind. her .a young couple ~walt, sharing. a. rolled

Ford Motor Co: of Canada, which in Jamey lost its” second-place position to a booming Chrysler Canada’ Ltd.,.:

of the company’s new mid-size Tempo, “Topaz, Thun-

The postcard-perfect pleture. ‘of

tourists and well-heeled retirees sipping afternoon tea at ; cigarette. When they take their places in the tiny church .

basement, they clutch the steaming mugs absorbing. the warmth.

: The woman, coughing and sniffling, heads for. the j washroom and.comes back bunching up yards of toilet ' paper that disappear into pockets. The man has a wad of toilet paper taped over what appears to be an infected ear.

"The room fills with people, some who have slept outside, waiting for a bowl of soup to calm a growling stomach. For

the ornate Empress Hotel here ts giving-way. to another a which includes scenes of soup kitchens and flophouses. . The reason is an unemployment rate of 16.2 per cent, | nearly four per cent higher than Vancouver's jobless rate. ‘Tourists strolling through Beacon Hill Park; just steps from the legislature and the yachts of the inner harbor, will

beds.

Down the street, St. Andrew's Cathedral soiip kitchen: opens at 7 a.m. to serve some pf Victoria’s'16,000 uxem- ployed. In an average day it serves between 150 and, 200

meals and 500 cups of coffee. ' the government buildings. 1t is a food bank with a demand A pregnant woman is first In line. The minute the doors :

* 80 high it had to.shut down at neon recently because there are unlocked, she walks in, settles down on an old. sofa and a

goes to sleep.

: a-car, or if they're lucky, somebody’s: garage.

“inumber in November. “| "Nearby there is a store, run by the Unemployment Action’ - . Centre,: catering to. those who can hardly afford to eat, "Hove 2.2 kilograms of rice goes for $2.17, five kilograms of flour {s:$4.75 and‘white sugar is $3.49 for four kilograma, . Victoria’s Cool-Aid hostel ia in an old church where even - people ‘with no money aren't turned away. Unless you can afford the $9 a night for a bed, breakfast and supper, it’s free.’ But. after three nights you have to get your stay authorized by a welfare worker. -. --

_ Smoking has been linked: to increased risk of havidg a baby with a low birth weight — under about 2.8 kilograms — _

NEVER CATCH UP . Recent studies have suggested that such bables, unlike

physically or mentally, Dimkley said.

Smoking during pregnancy has also” been lintked with obstetrical complications before delivery and delayed physical and mental development. .

The health unit says pregnant women need special help to quit smoking, especially those whose husbands smoke. It has has asked the federal government for a $157,000 grant to help pregnant women break the habit.

Dunkley said many women decreased the amount smoked for at least part of their Pregnancy, indleating they

Jack. Groves, eecretary-treasurer of Victoria's labor council, believes the unemployment rate is probably closer to 25 per cent in Victoria than the official Statistics Canada figure of 16.2 per cent. He said in the building trades unemployment, ts as high as 60 to 76 percent, a

Robin Blencoa, Victoria's member of the legislature, has asked Liberal Senator Jack Austin for federal assistance calling the situation a crisis. . .

wanted to quit but needed help. single people to come only once a month for food a policy .. “There are almost no quit-amoking programs almed at shafted by many food banks because they say it's easier for | the pregnant woman.” single people to'stand in soup lines,

The health unit plans a public-swareness: cainpalgn. Doreen Russell, administrator at the. Salvation Army’ 3 Doctors will be asked to refer pregnant smokers to special classes to help them quit quickly, because research shows

. there for assistance has tripled in the past year and most of that in smoking-related cases, most damage to a fetus

Ae Same

vouchers.

depenieni tegen businessmen and other to make a stand \. is Megal tomorrow. What you stand for in principle today -

people] have worked very little in the past three years, there.

that ‘the leaders ‘of the different groups. involved ‘in this -

i To the Reiter, _ moderate courde tor the conthiuing Rood of this community, *-

‘RL. Jackman

. year, The first two months saw sales of 28,912 cars and -

. Sales figures from American. Motors. (Canada) Inc... A major contributor to the slowing growth was ‘the con- | ‘buoyed: bya 339-per-cent surge in Jeep sales, totalled. 5,836 -

‘ Alliance and Encore models — rose 16 per cent from a year -

markets since mid-June 1992, closing at 79.75 cents, down - United States had increased ‘the attractiveness of the U. &.- _ Thomson Newspapers Ltd.of Toronto reported its 1983

higher. earnings from newspaper operations and improved -

iequipnient;m tide $967,000 on reveniuey df: ‘gis: ‘SARE Ot itd thee" ~ plata} vast tPaiiéor¥ition® networks; hydro dams _ Many more of these environmental horrors that are con- stantly being targeted by environmentalista, ‘Surely, if we ”

cost‘management . program and expanded sales and.

- million profit for the fourth quarter of 1983 — but it-wasn’t

_ ‘Standard Oil Ca. of California’ 's agréement to acquire

; Some it has been along night in the park, under. a bridge, in. ‘The Mustard Seed Church ts within walking ‘distance of

were nothing left. It gives out 160 hampers i a day, double the”

. Director Jane Dewing . worries-.that provincial govern-; ’ ment cutbacks will push the facility te the burating. polnt:

cause aching -in, your jaws, some.

Heavy demand has forced St. Vincent de Payl to ask |

family services division, says the aumber of people going | the 750 to 600 people who show up every month: ‘want food

‘To the Editor, .

- As manager of Skeena :Saiarls I cal _ disappointment and disdain at the irres -the senior unida executives - _ *pieketing our plant on | Friday; March “Our company’s philogoptiy is to run

tinuous. basis. except Baer and it was with much regret that we made the

“unpleasant decision to close our sawmill operations onFeb. . id, laying off 65 employees. Fortunately we were ‘able to

ible‘actions of

” Keep 67 kiln, planer, stipping and maintenance employees | ‘enthe fob since that time, although a further reduction of 33 8

workers was required because of the slowdown.

When it was rumeured earlier in the week: that major -

keting might.be set for Friday, I told the. lecal IWA fo ay the pes of the Impending layoff, and that it’ was reprehensible to jeopardize the unemployment benefits’ of the 98 workers' with an ill-advised picket.’ - ote

As well, our employees were notified that, ‘given: ‘our : present Inventory levels and the unsettled: pulp" industry -dlspute, we could not anticipate operating past. March: 16,

2 of course, do not know whether the IWA notified'the ~ CPU, or what influence this knowledge had on the detision ., fo picket Skeena, but I'am appalled that our employees:are | ~made tosufier by.a so-called show of brotherly solidarity.

Per Henrichsen °

"Manager, Sheena Sawmills

Lattended a very interesting meeting last Friday night at at, the arena. ‘The meeting was called hy. Terrace council to provide a forum for public input to their newly formulated

ike strategy to indicate to Alcan that the much touted second

smelter should perhaps be located in the. Terrace area: :

_ This is a radical departure from the recent past \ when quite = : a number of Terrace area politicians were ‘obviously, not in . favour of industrialization and gave the Impression that this.

- was the majority view of the people they represented. The | Priday reading voves tte poe doubt that such is not. the case. The fact that theSkeena coalition people were givena ‘ full half hour slot to do a job on Alcan before the Alcan people had said a word, indicated that the official welcome mat isnot completely out, but there does Beem to be a move to a more open minded position,

The Skeena protection people's presentation was’ “the ;

same tired old tirade of all the environmental horrors that

would decend on us with the Kemano completion project .

and with the smelter, The culmination of their presentation was a series of slides, which included a view of a sunset,

“some shots of ducks, fish,fishermen, wildlife and scenery.” .

- The implication wae clearly. that, if Alcan arrives on the “geene, all the fish, fowl, wildlife, flahermen and buinels wil

mo : disappear, Where the sun will go was notatated, cai

- It is difficult'to envision these people's Utopia. It seoms . to be some mythical place that is all virgin wildemess, where people must somehow blend in the shrubbery without altering anything. -E like-virgin wilderness as much as anyone. ‘There Is an awful lot of it, around here, and con-

sidering how. rugged it.is, most of it will remain virgin

wilderness. But most of us, environmentalist or otherwise, -

would agree that we humans have arrived to stay in the northwest, and that our needs and activities are going te bring about changes in the environment. Virgin wilderness like any ‘other kind of virginity Is Bood' up toa point, but it does not produce anything.

Even the most concerned environmentalist, certalnly: the folks who spoke to us the other night drive around ina car,

have their house connected to the Hydro grid and owns or | wes most of the modern convenierices and services that ate .

_ available these days. Let us just consider for a minute the - - environmental impacts. ‘and pollution that are connected | ; “gandlt Technologtes Inc’ 48 Ottawa;a: designer; with that‘car ‘we'all'dtive!’ Some:70’différent metals and’ ” séobes“OE. miags;-.smelters, actamica 7 hand’

alloys, requiring’-s

‘use these modern conveniences we acknowledge, and

tacitly approve the process or their origin. That does not — mean that around here we have to blindly accept every

. proposal that comes our way, but it does mean that we niust

search out ways to develop our tatural resources, if they. 7

. have the potential to benefit our lifestyle and to employ our people. That we search for ways to lessen impacts and

. Solve problems associated with resource’ development,

rather than to we them as slop signs,

After-all the rethoric.I heard Friday evening from the

friends of the fish, not once did I hear someone point out the obvious advantages to any kind of fisheries management created by a steady predictable flow of water with a con- trolled temperature, Surely-there must be tremendous

fisheries enhancement possibilities there, if you consider |

the great losses of fish fry and eggs associated. with floods and periods of-low water in a natural river. Consider

something as simple as my vegetable garden, the’ dif- -

ference in results between depending on nature to provide

the necessary water at the right time, or my own carefully. : . timed sprinkling. Sure, occasionally just the right amount

of rain will fall at the right time naturally, but niné mes ..

out of 10 I can grow a much better garderi with: my .

sprinkler, If we took the same “‘nature’s way is the-only

way" approach to agriculture that we seem to take to

growing fish, we would all starve to death in short order. .: I liked Alcan’s statement that there would be no net loss’

come out of the review process.

It was. good to see that large crowd there, seuerally ;

openminded and supportive.’ The silent majority we 30 often hear about andso seldom see, was there and suddenly the extremist- viewpoints were somehow balanced ‘and the whole thing started to sound somewhat reasonable: and possible, And when thesilent majority starts to stir, when it starts to be seen and heard and starte to act, then we will see things happen In the northwest.

7p, Weber,

New W Hazelton

Readea View

‘There may be many reasons why’'your dentures do not tt properly or you are having discomfort with them. Your bite’

may. not be right, or, the dentures may close up too much,

- Maintaining the verticle dimension is very im rtant (closed too far). The oss of your vertical dimension ¢ can

loss of, hearin or discomfort in mantleulating your food a, « It your bite is not correct, sore apots | cai be. caused from

the rubbing action of your lower denture, Hf this should |

happen see your dentiat or your dental mechanic right away

-do not walt. The less time you wait, the less damage there .

will be to your lower ridge and the bette it will he to your r it will be in using

You hear of people who have had their dentures for’ 15

years, 30 years or nore. If these people had their vertical -

dimenaion checked most would find their dentures closed _ Much too far; They would be havi: hive dicate ng discomfort, or about bo ‘It is recommended that you have new dentures every five to seven years to prevent loss of your vertical dimensign. They Is’ why dental insurance plans allow new dentures

~ every five years.

who led ‘their’ n members -} to. :

"in. tha. moat extreme. -cir-