Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 19, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Printed published daily except sunday by Winnipeg free press company 300 Carlton John Sifton president Malone publisher and editor chief Peter Mclintock Maurice Western executive editor Ottawa editor Winnipeg free press february 1968 Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights anti americanism having failed in his frontal Walter Gordon i now at the worst possible to introduce his anti americanism into the Canadian government through the report of eight their plans for discrimination against foreign investment Are calculated to inflict terrible damage on the National to increase the Down wan pressure on Canadas currency and to drive a wedge through the Liberal party at its april but these prospects do not worry in the last act of his political career he is determine to go for when prime minister Pearson and finance minister Mitchell Sharp without consulting their colleagues to bring Gordon Back into the they thought he would be less dangerous inside than they should have from his that Gordon would never cease to work for a National policy in Complete contradiction o Liberal principles against the views of the Cabinet majority once he had been reappointed and allowed to head a Cabinet committee on foreign economic the present explosion became Only its timing was in doubt and Gordon has lighted the fuse at the moment when government and party could least afford on the one hand foreign investors will read the economists report As a Clear signal of hostility and a warning of retroactive penalties against such a judgment of Canadas future policy is quite of but for Eigners cannot be expected to understand the inward work Ings of Canadian politics or Gordons minor influence Over All they Are Likely to see is a crude attempt to punish those who risk their Money in develop its resources and cover the nations Trade on the other Gordon has chosen As he says with unusual to split the Liberal Conven Tion and Divide the nationalists from the at a former convention he was overwhelmingly Defeated on the same Issue but that Rebuff did not discourage he has secured from the economists the kind of report he wanted and will use it next if he to provoke a party suddenly grasping his the government has very to counteract while he fully endorses the report the government disclaims any responsibility for its even the earlier plan to Issue a White paper on foreign investment has been postponed or abandoned and the whole problem dumped into the Lap of the next prime minister and a new but this Clumsy attempt to repudiate Gordon without ejecting him from the Cabinet is not Good it will not reassure the investors on whose Money Canadas Prosperity am the value of its Dollar vitally it certainly will not satisfy the bulk of the Liberal party which regards Gordons isolationist doctrine As sheer an answer to protectionism to Washington an in w fluent Al Canadian american research group to Day acted to help head off an resurrection of a protections drive in it propose a threefold program of wha it called constructive alter natives to the extensive import quota measures which were before Congress toward the end of last the numerous measure Between them had attracted the sponsorship of 90 of the 101 senators and a majority o members of the House of re they gave Rise to pages of testimony before the Senate finance headed by pro quota senator Russell Long Democrat ant were attacked by a Battery of the administrations Highes the powerful protections drive was Cut off by the clock when Congress adjourned for Christmas last but its leaders assured that it would resume we e n Congress re convened and would be better geared for Congress Las been Back at work for More than a month Anc he protectionists have not yet this May be due in Large Jart to the mechanics of the Senate is bog de Down a filibuster Over a civil rights and the House s preoccupied with president Johnsons requests for an come tax surcharge and a a on overseas there s some belief that the projectionists May have inadvertently lost their but they might just As Likely across the Liberal a ufos Ottawa there was one a party in old Russi and it should not satisfy the majority of Cabinet including who share that they must now stand up and be Gordons economists Are not in the least concerned with the wrenching strains of the nor is they have concluded that Canadas political sovereignty is endangered by foreign Money but have produced no evidence to support their the figures showing the extent of american ownership in Canadian Industry have Long been known but where and How have foreigners abused Canadas Welcome Robert the minister of Trade and who understands facts better than any of his says there has been no in his considered View foreign firms operating Here Are behaving like Good corporate he is on record As saying that there has been a High order of Canadian citizenship on the part of foreign so there must since they operate under Canadian Law As written by a Canadian parliament and enforced by a Canadian the whole Field of foreign and is strictly controlled by no one but and without a continual inflow of capital from other at this state in its economic Canada would face an devastating Canada not Only needs foreign investment but welcomes it and this is particularly True of the four Western any measures to restrict the flow of foreign capital to the Western provinces and be interpreted As an attempt to control expansion and development in the West by Eastern there is Only one Point in the economists report that deserves serious they allege that some Amer ican subsidiaries have sometimes obeyed the Laws of the United states in refusing to sell their goods to certain foreign nations and thus have flouted the though not necessarily the of but surely if and when such a situation comes to As Long As Canada remains a Sovereign it already possesses the Power to Deal with such a As the situation whenever it might be lest foreign investors misunderstand Canadas Para mount Winters Drew up a set of guidelines spelling out the facts and he says that these rules have been if there is any question about that it cannot be answered by Gordons economists and should be studied by a committee of parliament where witnesses on both sides of the argument can be meanwhile to presume the guilt of foreign without not Only denies the first principle of Justice but invites retaliation from foreign nations whose capital Canada urgently in any Case what Gordon and his cooperative experts Are actually proposing should be clearly they Are proposing that capital imported under a known code of Canadian Law shall be treated under a different the rules Are to be changed after the game has its Best known personality was a Brilliant Alex Ander who firs came to Public attention by i defence of the Lena any analogy would b Pierre Elliott tru Deau in no Way resemble More like he looks a Young much Juliu Caesar and is probably distinguished from both illustrious predecessors by i sense of but he has managed in almost casual fashion and in an incredible Short space to build a party o Canadian Trudo Viks so mesmerized by that every his personality shrug of Thi shoulders is p promptly translated by typewriter into a Herald of the new Trudeau himself appears faintly puzzled by Candi Date approaching Thi subject with a certain Scenti Fie detachment As one migh an unidentified flying object it is fairly Safe to say that he is the first Man Ever to attribute a serious candidacy for the highest office to the unexpected outcome of a huge practical joke perpetrated by the press on the governing this theory Das the advantage in a it makes newsmen accomplices even though Trudeau concedes in fairness that the joke originated in our subconscious what brought it actual was the ill temper that comes with the approach of income tax reckoning a sense of outrage aggravated this year by the frequency with which the government has been incarcerating us in locked however candidate Trudeau he has assets enough to make his rivals started and the penalties enforced no Friendly nation has Ever attempted such a breach of moral contract against the United which will never accept and no nation is less prepared than Canada to take the risks so lightly welcomed by the government should reject them now before he can do More can Spring the chill winds and freezing temperatures that descended on Southern Manitoba last Friday Are a reminder of the fact that you cant Trust a Prairie Winter except to know that sooner or later it will get with the above average temperatures that we have enjoyed for most of the current season except for a Brief period in late december and Early we May have been lulled into a feeling that Winters bite this year was virtually but Winter on the Prairies is a Long season in which false expectations can be quickly but there Are grounds for and also for Hope for that nothing can Rob us of the Good weather we have already had for with february More than half any cold snaps that we May yet have will be but in where even the Weatherman finds it hard to predict the anything can of it is Only a Little Over four months until july 1 and hopefully the beginning of Green with can Paul Martin offer anything com parable in the Way of Youthful academic indiscretions can in his task of humanizing Point to any instances in which the minister of transport was blacklisted by authorities of it should be Trudeau now Speaks with a compassion that brings tears to the far from backing away from old Embarrass Trudeau makes assets of anyone should be Able to grasp the Point that the term idiots is an Aca Demic expression the minister of Justice is now in politics adapting absolute truths to the facts of Cabinet what matters is not the Choice of words but the argument to which Trudeau it is intolerable for a Leader to reverse overnight policies worked out Over years by democratic this leads on to the which ought surely to Appeal to Liberal that there must be wider participation in the Trudo Viks face one serious their Candi Date entered Public life Only by Maurice Western Pierre Elliott Trudeau is impressive on matters like criminal the How is he on two Price wheat and other Downto Earth topics two years ago and o an even More recen arrival in the they cannot like the Martin to a wide ranging exper ence of government am politics going Back to 1935 but Trudeau has this argument with his Usua it is his theory that in the modern age experience of not much help in meeting Many problems what count More and More is adaptability a Quality of resilience of mind this argument has twin advantages it is plausible Given the nature of the it is the answer to tru Dovik the dazzling fact is that it can neither be proved nor Dis one can imagine cautious Delegate protesting that pearsons Long exper with diplomacy paid of in his Suez Triumph or that his inexperience in Domestic politics had results of another but As or Trudeau experience was of not much assistance to Harold Wilson in grappling with economic difficulties 01 o Lyndon Johnson in solving the Riddle of the debate May Well go on and if adaptability is Why does Trudeau stick with a Cabinet which will not adapt on medicare even though Only to provinces Are prepared to accept the scheme in its Una Apted form but such questions must not be pressed because eager Asle May be to provide the is his by the Stern requirements of Cabinet Solidar in any the Best Templar of the Trudeau theory is Trudeau s a new minister he has tackled the most dangerous of cutting through much sterile debate and cons Titu ional Brush to expose a federalism on which Cana ians of both societies can a government which seemed to be Frozen in mobility Lias suddenly found self with the Voith it this so join scent of Mendes Rance in pre gaullist a Rudeau candidacy would be there is one difficulty t has yet to be proved that Trudeau the institution and criminal Law Are the most attractive fare for practical Douglas used Tell a possibly significant tory of one of his Early he soared exploring National and inter National issues appeared t hold his audience spellbound but was nevertheless apprehensive enough about Thi performance to Check after wards with one of the locals who had listened attentively a the Back of the the comment offered was brie but depressing you forgot to mention where Trudeau stands on or on two Price when or on taxes or on the vanishing Dollar or on the dozens of Downto Earth mat ters Likely to trouble libera no one except Trudeau his answers at his Friday press although often were not exactly on analysis do not appear to contain any thing which would alienate right or like other Trudeau is in no hurry about self like others he May not be unmindful of the Success achieved by an earlier unidentified flying object Robert even in one of his Trudeau left a number of correspondents speechless with in sketching out his theory about wider participation in govern m e n t he spoke of a need for increasing he flow of information from Ottawa Down to the grass while the press May Lave been up to the Job at one More is needed now that government is Active on so Many by interesting coincidence his was a favorite argument of the conservatives after the 1962 the fault was they in the but in the failure of he message to get through to he if the government is so deficient in information ser ices As Trudeau appears o what is the origin f the blizzard of releases which sweeps daily through he press gallery has the minister of Justice through to a Ord due credit to his Cabinet colleagues let us pick at random a few according to a government Telephone direct by sadly out of candidate Maceachen has an information division in health and welfare of 21 miscellany Ous candidate mar n has six in his press and Aison division and at least 26 n the information n even larger Section exists n the department of it of True that not 11 these people Deal with the not All contribute to Many of Martins employees Are concerned with he flow of information to and from overseas which do not on the other Many of the most highly paid purveyors of information and related material Are not listed in information some Are executive or special assist there is not a More familiar figure in the press gallery than special assistant Lee whose name Springs automatically to mind when one thinks of candidate while at is virtually impossible in these circumstances to achieve an accurate account the number of those who serve by contributing to the flow of government processed information is if Trudeau probes More deeply into he May come up with data valuable in itself and of a character to make his candidacy even More Mesmer izing to correspondents and to the taxpaying by Richard Purser a joint Canad Anam Erica research group has suggested alternatives to the proposal to use import quota measures to bring that country bal Ance of payments into resume their Campaign at any the a joint body of Thi National planning association of the and the private planning association of Ca in its program published provides ammunition for opponents of Protection the whose Ca Nadian co chairman is Rober president of Thi Canadian pulp and papa notes that the scope of the import quota measures placed before con Gress by members is immense the Bills so far presented would cover imports Worth billion annually a present a figure and so nearly the Kennedy round Tariff cuts affecting imports Worth billion annually it predicts that the proposed quotas will reduce Access of industries to some of its owes Cost raw m a t e r i a increasing costs to Consumers of both the products of these industries and of finished imported Canada would be directly affected by the quota pro which cover exports to he Worth or 13 per cent of Canadian sales at 1966 since import quotas As a Means of Protection Are generally prohibited by the Gen eral agreement on tariffs and Trade direct Retalia Ion might be expected from exporting countries if the Moses this would be n the form of new restrict ions of substantially equiv Alent effect against products f their Choice originating in he the committee it is probably naive to think hat the extent of retaliation against exports would top at some carefully measured level of Ven though such might be the initial intention of govern it fears that adoption f even a few of the proposals would trigger a protectionist response abroad t would carry far beyond Point of equivalent it Lead to retaliation Gulmina ing in a total Trade which would mean incredible disruption among the committees approach which is something new in the opposition to import quotas is to refrain from denying the valid fears and just grievances of the pro cases May exist in which increased imports threaten the livelihood of groups of its first recommendation is for evaluation of the True competitive Challenge to an Industry which feels do the industries now seeking quota Protection face real problems the committee if do these Stem basically from foreign com petition if is this Challenge of such nature and magnitude that it cannot be met by the Enterprise and resources available in the Industry concerned if the answers to All these questions Are then recommendation 2 comes into play there should be an improved adjustment assistance program to help producers and workers unable to adjust adequately to the problems created by higher but we believe it preferable to Deal with such developments by facilitating movement t o w a re higher competitiveness than by protecting uncompetitive this involves shifting or upgrading people to they May be used More this differs from the handout and subsidy approach associated with adjustment As its third the committee urges efforts to develop rules for International this will be a on term project and a difficult but sooner or later there is Little doubt that it will have to be As Long As one country suspects another of tricks to reduce internal Lonal Competition these Ricks Are euphemistically Cal de no Tariff barriers to Trade it will think up Ricks of its the Ommittee the present quota proposals Mot rated in part the convict Ion that foreign governments Are gradually increasing such the committee suggests hat Gatt might look at the european free Trade Assoc a which in its rules of Competition has made a Start n this Complex but the immediate threat is Lake protectionism in the and this could be a world resources and situations where a sigh of a change i recent years the question of provincial salary sche Dules for school teachers has come up on several occasions each time it has met with vigorous opposition from teachers societies across can the teachers fear tha their Power base for bargain ing would be jeopardized under such a set lip and have opposed it As relentlessly a they have opposed any move toward implementing Merit the teachers organizations Lave sought to give the impression of unanimity within their membership on Giese but there is increasing evidence that this s not in the january Issue of the Ata Magazine the official publication of the Alberta teachers Assoc a for there is an article by a teacher in favor of a provincial salary schedule and he comes out in favor of Merit rating As this is second time within a month that a member of a teachers society has plumped publicly for Merit rating the other occurred in Ontario and it is possible hat these two statements a change of opinion among my wife started a mothers Union and there out on strike now by Tom Saunders although teachers organizations have opposed provincial salary sche Dules for their Here and there a teacher is speaking in favor of this on salary the article in the Ata Magazine Points out that something very close to such a schedule already operates in most the differences Between the average salary Ai the maximum or minimum of the degree level is so slightly less than the highest salary paid at the equivalent Levels that i for one cannot see Oyhat we Are getting so excited in reality we already have what we Are so afraid As the author Points once the first few settlements Are made everyone Falls into but the argument against local salary settlements goes under pressures at the Community this Eacher i question whether or we As teach function we Are in direct Contact with students and parents and As the Cost of education and teachers Sala Ries increase people Are going o look More and More to the ocal school and its staff As he direct cause of their economic problem Sall this would be unnecessary and Many of these local pressures Ifould be reduced if salaries vere set throughout the province by negotiations be Viveen the department of education and the salary negotiations at the ocal the article Are a personal you have a school Board and a Ommittee of teachers sitting across the tabla from one nother in a situation which All too often Leafs to feelings and resentments which carry ver into the classroom and to school Board the absolute necessity of Good boar teacher is placed in a provincial salary schedule which could be negotiated yearly would eliminate much of this friction and teacher Contact with the school Board at the local level could be devoted to things of a More professional nature such improvement of working profession Al developments and for Plany Ning the a provincial salary1 schedule would also leave negotiable at the local level the controversial subject of Merit l How we As a can go merrily dont see profession along on the erroneous As sumption that the Grid sys tem alone is that All teachers Are people outside the teaching profession have been saying these things for it is encouraging to find them coming publicly at last from one who is himself a a single voice does of warrant the Assumption that these views yet have Heend oration of a or even a significant within the teachers but it could be a sign of Hope for the today scripture the grass the Flower Vadeth because the spirit of the lord blow eth upon it surely the people is the grass with the Flower Vadeth but the word of our god shall stand for Isaiah 40 7 birthdays Duncan Winni Peg born fort february Jessie Winnipeg born san february Mary ser Manitoba born Hazel eng february ;