Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 9, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday july 9, 1973 food Price Rise opposition fuel by Victor Mackie vice press staff correspond Civ Ottawa Canada has the worst record of seven key in d i r i a 1 nations in holding Down consumer food prices luring the 12 months ending ii april the official opposition charged in the commons this week. Quoting statistics from tile monthly review of the Bank o Canada progressive conserva live . Sinclair Stevens York Simcoe said the Canad an government s struggle will inflation was a disheartening he urged finance minister Tohn Turner to now consider instituting Price and wage controls to help combat inflation or. Stevens pointed out thai the minister has previously rejected the use of controls on the grounds that Canada s record of fighting inflation has been Good compared to other Industrial countries. The minister s premise is now proved said or. Stevens As he called for action through the implementation of at least a temporary freeze on prices and wages. Or. Turner said he was not considering the use of controls. James Gillies Val Ley suggested that Canada was in fact moving into a Type of program involving selective controls to combat inflation. Not so retorted or. Turner. Canada embarked on Export controls on Petroleum products said or. Gillies. It has now gone into a program of con air route division delayed by Victor Mackie i rce press staff correspondent Ottawa dividing the world Between air Canada and up air is a task being tackled in transport minister Jean Marchand s department and there is now Little likelihood of a policy decision being finally hammered out until the Laic fall. La s quite a problem involving a lot of headaches and is going to Lake much longer than we or. Marchand told this correspondent. As a result the minister is expected to make an announce ment shortly on which up air or air gel Landing rights in Milan. Earlier he had hoped to make thai announcement As part of the Overall policy package splitting the world s air routes Between the two air carriers. With the big policy decision now not exp cled until the autumn the government is expected to announce the Milan decision this month. This is the height of the tourist season and the quicker the Milan announcement is made the better As far is the airlines arc concerned. Jim Davey special adviser in the office of the prime min ister is on loan from the Polo inc transport minister to work on the Job of dividing the world. Or. Marchand said that or. Davy is hard at work on the assignment. After the policy has been devised Ihn minister will have the Job of gelling it through Cabinet. Long discus Sions in Cabinet Are expect cd Over the new division. Mean time the two major air Carri ers Are anxiously awaiting the outcome with some trepidation. The Back rooms of the office of the transport ministry have had a rough plan for a Rcd Ivi tools on exports of soybeans and proteins. Both moves were made by the Canadian to counter moves made in Washington. We seem to be moving to Ward a Lype of program involving selective Sale or. Gillies. Said or. Turner. Or. Gillies suggested that the finance minister make so Alcmene to the commons Laler this week outlining How the Export curbs relate to any Lype of policy the government might have to fight inflation. The finance minister said his colleague in the cab incl Industry Trade and Commerce minister Alastair Gillespie had made it Clear that the Tempo Rary Export restrictions relat ing to the Petroleum and soy Beans were imposed to Slabi Lize the North american Silva lion in response to moves by the . Or. Gillies enquired if the House could Lake in now that it would not see any further selective controls As a Means of controlling the inflation in inc Economy in the near future. Or. Turner said or. Gille Spie was on the wrong track and accordingly he could not give an answer to the question. Or. Slevens Laler referred to the june review published by the Bank of Canada. It reports the consumer Price Index for food climbed 12.9 per cent in Canada in the 12 months ended april 1973. This compared with 12.7 per cent in the United kingdom 11.5 per cent in the United states 10.0 or cent in Italy 9.2 per cent in France 8.2 per cent in Japan and 8.1 per cent in Germany. The study also shows food prices Rose in the Calendar year 1972 by 6.6 per cent. This was a 50 per cent worse performance than in the . Where the increase in 1972 Over year earlier Levels was 4.4 per cent said or. Stevens. Canada s record for the 12 months was the worst performance for the seven Indus Riall Zed countries reviewed by he Bank even worse than the United said or. Slevens. The conservative my. Said he finance minister in pre Vious months had held up can Ida s record As outstanding in coping Wilh inflation. Now inc Bank of Canada statistics showed the performance was he worst out of seven Indus in nations. Would the minister now consider handing Back the Oscar he thought he had re Sci cd for Good asked or. Stevens. The seven Industrial Conn pics reviewed by the Bank of Canada report Are Canada j.s., United kingdom Franco Germany Luly and Japan. Sion of the world Between the two major Canadian carriers since Jack Pickersgill Relin widow awarded Victoria up the Bril so Columbia supreme court r i d a y awarded a Calgary widow. Colleen Olive a caking and her two children damages of in connection with or husband s death in a trafic acid Cal. Or. Justice Harry Mckay made the award to mrs. Deak Iii whose husband Barrie Burl was killed in an acid Cal in december of near Rod pass in Central . Mrs. Docking had sued Doris Jane Krums wife of. Otto Krums Driver of the pick up Ruck in which the two men wore r i d i n r the truck smashed head on into a car. Finished his Post As Iran spor Mckay Lalion Czar last year. When v As resigned from the office of " driving the truck. P r e s i d e n i of the Canadian transport commission a rough plan had been sketched out. However a spokesman in the i r a n s p o r i department said probably that plan hns gone by the Board. He said that or. Pickersgill had sought Lodi vandals hit coif course Dauphin Man. Special years of work at Ilic Dauphin Actis would i Golf and country club has not be the two Canadian Carri by vandals cars in direct Competition in the i sometime saturday n i r lit same area. 01 More cars drove across the world has shrunk rap-1lho sixth am seventh or cons of idly under the pressures of in inc Golf course causing an in Coli match amount of damage. The car or cars were driven across the greens skidding and turf turning ripping up the and causing huge Nils. The Golf course has had Simi Lar damage done by unknown vandals wrecking inc greens. The grass greens were first de signed and infill in the course 12 years Ayo. Lern Lional air traffic. Today you Don t Fly to a single country in Kurop you Fly to Europe and hop on Anolar car Rier surface on air that Iran ports you within an hour or t w o to another capital or major said the depart mental spokesman. He said the department is trying to devise a policy and Divide the world so thai the two major Canadian carriers can cafe clively co nipple against other International air lines and not be handicapped or cobbled. The government wants a rational International policy providing proper growth possibilities for the two carriers and riving them a definite idea what lies ahead for Linni in United Stales in May 1972. The next decade so that they i can plan said inc de unique i a Intini Soli Parl Mcneal official. Japanese total leaps Tokyo renter Japan s population has risen to increase of in inc year ended March 31, says the Home affairs ministry. A big part of the increase is due to the inclusion of Okinawa population ii was handed Over to Japan by inc meantime m i Marc hand smiles and Shniras when asked How the work is progressing. We will wait and see what comes of he says and Hur Ries off to an appoint Cal Aller answering questions in inc commons. A Cisbani in Culcer a porn rail of a United slates sol Dier believed to he Gen. Doug i a s Mac Artler australian not isl in Inlet by sir William Darf Jip. On the Back of a lavatory door Dir Iii the second world War Lias been sold Here for by Stewart my Cleon Ottawa up the Forth coming Calgary conference on Western economic oppor unifies is being regarded within government As inc most important Federal provincial meeting Ever scheduled. There is no doubt that it will effect the course of con says a source close to prime minister tru Deau. We regard it As absolutely imperative that we succeed in eliminating Ion land ing Western Justice minister Olio Lang has said on several occasions that the conference featuring or. Trudeau and the four Western premiers is from it he Hopes for a new National this Lime geared to Western interests. Sources say the Federal gov can men has done More pc economic meeting most important Paratory work for to three Day conference than Lor any other meeting with the prov inces. Former Cabinet minister Pat Mahoney who represented Calgary South in the last parliament has been coordinating the Federal preparations for the last six months. While or. Trudeau maintains the conference is far above partisan politics party officials arc Well aware that any breakthrough i n eliminating Western grievances could Only assist Liberal fortunes in the West. And with Only seven lib eral maps from the four Western provinces the party can use All the help it can get. But or. Trudeau will be fac ing three new democrats and one conservative when he meets the premiers july and they have political audiences too. This is one reason we pressed for opening says a Federal source. Everyone can Sec what goes on instead of depending on briefings from the different briefings at some earlier Federal provincial meetings have often raised doubts about whether the premiers were a t u a 11 y attending the same meeting. This does t matter when we re dealing with some obscure constitutional said the source but it is important that All our proposals in Calgary be clearly under unlike some earlier meet Ings when Ottawa waited to hear a consensus emerge from the provinces or. Trudeau and his delegation will go to Calgary heavily armed with specific proposals backed up Wilh intricate research. Every Western complaint about freight rates and Oiler transportation problems has been studied along with the Cost of correcting hem. Tremendous research has gone into a possible new Indus trial policy to encourage Industry in the said the source. There will also be specific proposals regarding the decentralization of financial institutions. For the first time since the Days of sir John a. Mac says or. Lang westerners Are going to have the Opportunity to examine closely our position in confederation. And under the original National policy which has not been basically changed the West was designed to be in fact a store House of primary resources to be utilized As required by the flourishing Industrial the Federal government Likely will release its major Posi Tion papers prior to the Confer ence and then or. Trudeau will summarize Ottawa s Posi Tion in an opening statement. About 10 Federal Cabinet ministers will attend various ses Sions of the meeting. Should the conference be successful in eliminating historic Western problems officials say they can Brace themselves for demands for a similar meeting with Atlantic premiers who also have Many Long standing problems particularly in transportation and regional development. 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