Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 21, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free press Friday april 21, 1978 yews furniture clothing shoes textiles Quebec tax cuts aids outside jobs Ottawa up Quebec s re Moval of its eight per cent sales tax on textiles clothing shoes and furniture appears Likely to positively affect nearly As Many jobs in the rest of Canada As in Quebec. The sales tax removal is designed to encourage Consumers to buy More goods now on the shelves thus creating jobs to make More. But prime minister Trudeau and some of his Cabinet have said the removal of the sales tax on Only these products is aimed Only at helping create jobs in Quebec. Recently completed studies by the Industry Trade and Commerce department however show about of the workers in the four industries work in plants out Side the province. The studies show for example Only about of More than workers in the Canadian footwear Industry work in Quebec Only about of the in the furniture Industry and of the workers in textiles. Only in he clothing Industry does Quebec have the largest share of total employees about two thirds of the workers. The other provinces except Al Berta which has no sales tax Cut taxes on nearly All consumer goods last week by two Points for nine months or three Points for six months after the Federal govern ment offered to pay two thirds of the Cost. Quebec which initially remained uncommitted decided to remove sales taxes completely on textiles clothing footwear furniture and hotel accommodation for 50 weeks while leaving the full eight per cent on other items. Trudeau told a press conference last week the province wants the taxpayers of Canada in general to subsidize measures in Quebec which Wili Only stimulate jobs in Quebec and we say that is not far from said Donald Mac Leod president of Savage shoes Ltd. In Cambridge it s going to create jobs in Ontario about 700 of Savage s employees Are in Ontario Macleod who is also chairman of the shoe manufacturers association of Canada said manufacturers outside Quebec Supply shoes for the Quebec Market and they would Benefit from the increased demand expected. An Industry department study says about 95 per cent of the shoe Industry is in Ontario and Quebec. The major manufacturing centres in order of importance Are Montre Al Toronto Kitchener ont., and Quebec City. The other five per cent of production is in British co Lumbia Alberta Manitoba and new Brunswick. The Industry employs about in Quebec about in Ontario and about elsewhere. There Are furniture firms in every province but nine tenths of total production is in Ontario and Quebec. Ontario has the most employees with Quebec has 000 and there Are workers in other provinces1 the clothing Industry which pro Vides about jobs is the sin Gle largest manufacturing employer in the country the Industry department studies say. While Quebec has about two thirds of total employment with nearly jobs particularly in Montreal Toronto Winnipeg and Vancouver Are also major manufacturing centres. In Manitoba the Industry pro Vides about jobs and is the second largest manufacturing employer. The Industry provides about jobs in Ontario and about in the rest of the country. Industry department officials say manufacturers tend to Supply National markets and so plants out Side Quebec will Benefit from the province s Complete removal of sales tax on clothes. In the textile Industry which provides about jobs about half the production is in Quebec. There Are about jobs in que about in Ontario and about in other provinces. Industry department officials say Canadian manufacturers in each category except furniture will Benefit from higher consumer demand. Furniture is the Only Industry of the four that is not protected from for eign Competition by import quotas or voluntary restraints. Up photos two new lieutenant governors named by the prime minister Henry Bell Irving left for British Columbia and senator Jean Pierre Cote right for Quebec. Bell Irving Cote appointed Ottawa up prime minister Trudeau announced thursday that senator Jean Pierre Cote will become lieutenant governor of Quebec and Brig. Henry Bell Irving will assume the same role in British Columbia. Both will be sworn in soon senator Cote probably As Early As next week. Hugues Lapointe 66, a Liber Al my from 1940 to 1957 and a minister in the government of Louis St. Laurent. La Pointe has been Quebec lieu tenant governor since february 1960. Brig. Bell Irving replaces Walter Stewart . S lieu tenant governor since March 1973. Senator Cole replaces senator Cote 52, is a for Mer postmaster general and Revenue minister. He was elected my in 1963 and served until 1972 when he was appointed senator. Brig. Bell Irving 65, was born in Vancouver and commanded the Seaforth High Landers during the italian Campaign of the second world War and the 10th Ca Nadian infantry brigade in Northwest Europe. Doctors vote on proposal after proving its Economy durability and perform Ance to Over million europeans be car is Well on the Road to Success in Canada standards other cars Don t offer As options. There Are lots of reasons Why canadians Are making be car their car. Be car comes with front wheel drive rack and Pinion steering torsion bar suspension and Michelin steel belted radials All Standard to tackle those Snow covered Mountain roads. Rabbit and civic Don t offer you this combi nation of Standard features. 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Be car by Fairhaven motors Ltd. 900 Nairn ave. 667-2473 by Manfred Jager an official of the Manitoba medical association said thursday the Mem Bers of his organization have completed voting on the fee schedule the Lyon administration proposed for the Fis Cal year earlier this Spring. The government s final offer was for 6.88 per cent retroactive to april 1. It was advanced to the medical association negotiators March 31 during a meeting they had with health minister l. R. Bud Sherman of Manitoba that Day. Negotiations Between the doctors and the government started last december but dragged on partly because of higher demands the doctors had made and partly Over a disagreement on the duration of the fee agreement. After the government advanced its final offer of 6.88 per cent verbally the physicians asked that it be Chian cd to 6.82 per cent and made Retro Active to Jan. 1. The doctors had originally asked for More than seven per cent in additional Money for this year. A spokesman for the association claimed earlier that instituting the new fee arrangement with retroactivity Only to april 1 will effectively reduce their 1978 raise to about 5.16 per cent. Because of this the medical association executive decided not to act on the government offer for the profession As it could have under its mandate from the membership but to submit the offer to a vote. Deadline for mailed in ballots was thursday but an Mma official said late in the Day no Public announcement on the outcome of the fee vote will be made until after the next regular meeting of the association executive which is scheduled for wednesday. New demonstrators rental Trade ins. Mostly one of a kind. Pianos Heintzman console Cherrywood floor Sample. 5 5 3oc regular s2650.00 1 Only aos3 Steinway console Hepplewhite Walnut Cabinet the world s finest piano. Regular 1 Only Steinway italian provincial soft Lustre Cherrywood regular 1 Only. 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Ill 5leah tie wort i manic Edmonton a Graham 942-4231 Stuart will speak on the Unity of Canada at 8 . April 22 in St. George s Parish Hall Grosvenor Street and Wilton Avenue. Gil mor is president of the United Empire loyalists association. Parties to hold rallies Thompson Man. Staff the Liberal and new democratic parties will be holding nomination meetings in the Churchill continue nay within the next two weeks. The nip nomination convention will wind up with a meeting thursday in Thompson. So far the five contestants have addressed meetings in the Pas and flin flon and will be visiting Leaf rapids and Churchill this weekend. Votes Are cast at each meeting but ballot boxes Are sealed until the final meet ing. The nip candidates Are Walt Choman of Thompson a former provincial ment employee who was Laid off in March Keith Elever a member of the Pas town Council and area vice presi Dent of the Manitoba federa Tion of labor Zack Harper band manager of Garden Hill Indian band Island Lake mayor Hugh rack of Leaf rapids and Ron Murphy a Thompson High school teacher. The Liberal convention will be held May a. So far by Hennessey of Thompson employment supervisor with Inco metals co., has announced his candidacy ;