Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 8, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday january 8, 1976 11 Trudeau supporters unperturbed by protests Ottawa up although prime minister Trudeau s turn of Lac year economic statements have touched Oft business labor and political alarms his supporters Sug Gest the reaction May be just what the country needs. Rather than signal the end of the free Enterprise system hey argue the prime min ister has launched a process that will one Day restore it to health. Or. Trudeau s opponents take a different View. Businessmen have likened him to Napoleon labor leaders to an omnipresent b i g brother former prime minister John Diefenbaker to a Little cae Sar. Pm denounced yet or. Trudeau s office and Many Liberal maps a p r a r largely unconcerned about the controversy and Point out that the prime min ister has said Little recently that he has t said before. Federal liberals deny re ports that the party caucus is seriously split on the Issue and say the whole business will be straightened out when the prime minister returns from his current skiing holi Day in British Columbia. Or. Trudeau s aides say the prime minister has been kept up to Date and is assessing the controversy he started in a series of year end inter views concerning what he de scribed As the failure of the free Market system and the current need for massive state intervention in the econ omy. He would Likely comment further on the Issue when he returns to work next week. The Issue arose when or. Trudeau elaborated in various interviews on concepts put Forth by Canadian born economist John Kenneth Galbraith on the need for per manent government controls to balance the economic interests of the country. Although he carefully pointed out that he had no master plan for the Economy and that he disagreed that eco nomic controls had to be per manent to work or. Tru Deau s remarks were widely interpreted As a sign of in creased authoritarianism in government. Are we to be lectured by big government telling us what we shall do and what we shall not asked the pres ident of the Canadian labor Congress Joe Morris in a new year s message who is he to an Ontario based firm the suggest reaction to economic statements May set country on Road Back to health Haughton group of Compa Nies went further with a series of half Page newspaper advertisements declaring your government has to be stopped or. Trudeau be fore it causes irreversible damage. You Are not emperor. We ate not political critics particularly conservative leadership aspirants have been especially vociferous in their attacks. One candidate Jack Homer from the Alberta rid ing of Crowfoot told a press conference tuesday that the prime minister had unleashed a new class War with his statements. Itis Central government has declared War on All Seg ments of private life in Cana or. Horner said. Or. Diefenbaker suggested that conservatives should take an even stronger stand if the free Enterprise system is to be saved adding that if it had not been for private Enterprise he or. Trudeau would not be a revolt denied despite several reports that the prime minister had driven a wedge through Liis party s caucus with his re Marks Many liberals appeared Little upset by. The controversy. Montreal Liberal fan wat son my for Laprairie said the prime minister was tack Ling current economic prob lems in his usual pragmatic manner saying neither free Enterprise advocates nor those in favor of state control had All the answers. Or. Trudeau has said nothing particularly or. Watson said. He added that the Liberal caucus had always held a Range of Ideo logical views and that there May be some maps who Dis agree with the prime min ister. I suppose some of those treat free Enterprise is an untouchable sacred cow were alarmed at this but i would expect after a caucus meeting these Guys will Cool caucus chairman Albert Bechard Bonaventure Lles do la Madeleine said he had noticed no signs of revolt in the party and Norman Chafik Liberal my for Ontario said 10% May be illegal in insurance boost Ottawa up a portion of the hefty automobile insurance Premium increases pro posed by the insurance corp. Of British Columbia i Csc clearly violates anti inflation program regulations a senior anti inflation Board official said wednesday. However jurisdiction Over the provincial government owned corporation still is subject to Federal provincial negotiations and there Are a number of ways the full in crease could be implemented. In any Case de Clark Dep Uty director of the Board s prices and profits division said in an interview that most of the proposed increases Are permissible under the pro Gram regulations. There is going to be a 100 per cent rate increase any or. Clark said. The newly elected social credit government in . Announced last week that the 1976-77 Auto insurance premiums effective March 1, Wil be increased in order to make the Crown corporation self supporting and to Start paying off losses accumulated controls scare Ontario Barrie out up wage and Price controls Are needed but the possibility of additional controls on the free Enterprise system worries the hell out of the Cabinet of says Ontario trea surer Dacy Mckeough. He said wednesday these elected wage and Price controls Are the kick in the pants the Canadian Economy needs to get Back on the right but the Cabinet believes in the philosophy of free Market Enterprise while realizing there Are some imperfections in the system. He was addressing about representatives of my n i c i p a 1 governments and school boards in the second of 13 meetings scheduled across Ontario to explain provincial government spending reductions. He said the provincial government because of its progressive conservative Back ground was reluctant to embrace the wage and Price controls imposed by the Federal Liberal government. In its first two years of opera Tion. Or. Clark said Icecap pears to fall under anti Infra t i o n regulations governing private corporations and is t h e r e f o r e not required to operate at a loss. Most of the proposed Premium increases result from the legitimate need to boost 1976-77 income by million which i Csc says it needs to break even he said. However the . Govern ment also wants to increase the 1976-77 Premium income by an additional million As part of a 10-year program to pay off losses incurred in the previous two years or. Clark said. This would not be permitted under a strict interpretation of the anti inflation regulations he said because the regulations prohibit Price in creases intended to recover Money lost in former years. Air. Clark said he did not mean that the anti inflation Board would automatically reject the proposed increases if the Board were Given Juris diction Over the i Csc. It is simply a factual statement of what the guidelines i Csc is not subject to the anti inflation guides until the . Government signs a for Mal agreement with Ottawa to abide by the Federal pro Gram. A Federal government spokesman involved in negotiating the agreements with the provinces said it will Likely he at least three weeks be fore . Is ready to sign such an agreement. But both the government spokesman and or. Clark said it is possible . May be Able to negotiate a special arrangement for i Csc and allow the corporation to proceed with the full increases. The Federal spokesman and or. Clark agreed it is conceivable the . Government might delay signing such an agreement until after the new i Csc rates have taken effect however such a tactic would almost surely exempt recent Public servant salary increases from the program guides which generally re strict first year increases to a maximum 12 per cent. Or. Clark said there have been a number of complaints about the proposed rate in creases but added that there seems to be a High degree of understanding among . Residents of the problems fac ing the new government in its attempt to have the Corpora Tion pay its own Way. There was no evidence at All that a Block of liberals had banded together in opposition to the prime minister. Most Liberal maps however agreed with former con Sumer affairs minister Herb Gray lint the prime min ister should soon clarify his remarks to satisfy his various critics. Meanwhile or. Trudeau s office said it had received Only a minimum amount of mail on the subject. Records of. Various past statements b y the prime minister indicate that he has taken no major policy turns with his talk of a new society based on what he Calls net human benefits. More than a year ago in a speech at Durham n.c., he condemned the politics of Prosperity in which economic criteria to the exclusion of almost All others arc employed As the measurement o f individual achievement of governmental pc for while or. Trudeau agreed in his year end statements that his economic thinking had been permeated by prof. Galbraith s philosophy his spokesman added that the prime minister s approach allows More flexibility. Or. Trudeau is far More prepared to work out an accommodation that fits the Genus of the the spokesman said. Galbraith s approach Breaks society into what he described As the Market sys tem and the planning sys tem. The planning system is made up of big companies and unions which manipulate customers forcing them to buy goods at prices set by the system. 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