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Civil Serviced Mentality Charged To Government |
Leader. Diefenbaker. said Mon- day the Liberal government has & “civil service mentality” that is. more interested in adminis- trative. efficiency than in nd- vidual freedom. He called a provision in the Oe ca ee bill w possi snooper legislation” ever brought be-
¥ ‘The procedure would be for the health department to ask the revenue department to ver- ify information given to it. Tom Barnett (NDP-—Comox- Alberni) complained that the bill said one thing and the min-
he2ith department officers to check a person's inicome tax to determine whether the taxpayer Qualifies for supplementary old age pension payments. . Mr. Diefenbaker said that the revenue department wouldn't it such examination of American General Insur- ance Co. tax returns when ques- tions were raised about {-. “Twenty thousand policyhold- ; @s got skinned because the gov- | ernment wouldn't act.” he said | referring to the. financial. col- lapse of the company. EOLLOWED BOOK “In the case of North Amert- in, the: government “stood by the letter’ of the law prohibit- img. examination of income tax
it written into the legislaion. Lloyd Crouse (PC — Queens- Lunenburg) said that if infor-. mation contained in income tax returns was to be made known fer purposes of the guaranteed income, what would prevent the government in future making it available for other purposes? It was a departure from the
Alberton, Tignish Get Senior Housing Loans
CAPITAL BUREAU OF THE GUARDIAN OTTAWA — Federal loans for
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that a pensioner’s. application was invalid if income tax re zurns were not introduced. There was nothing in the pro-
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_ By BENNETT M. BOLTON VATICAN CITY ‘AP)—Pope Paul has begun a busy round of holiday activity that will cli- tiax in northern Italy with a/ stained
are in- Rome for a Christmas audience. Friday. “Church and civic ‘authorities
six feet Nov. 4.
Prudential Difficulties Tip Claimed Of No Value By Sharp.
“OTTAWA.‘CP)—Finance Min- ister Said Monday Tor- ento accountan: William Gruber gave no advance information of value .to the federal insurance
t about the financial froubles of Prudential Finance Gorp
“Mr. Sharp, under fire for not ac ing to avert the Prudential group’s collapse, told the Com- mons . Gruber refused even to-divul name of the com-
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persons, Under discussion is the question of whether to keep the crowd to a minimum the .midnight mass or let it filled to capacity.
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A federal-provincial confer- ence agreed on the need- for compulsory disclésure of the true cost-of loans by all money-lenders.
Finance Minister Sharp said no information of value was given the gévernment about Prudential Fi thoebila
-before its recent collapse.
While the minister was “play- were going to have their insur-
sult of the collapse. He said Mr. Sharp's state-
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ment produces a mystery within a mystety. The fact remained that nothing was done by fed- eral authorities and- Mr. Sharp now tried to duck the responsi- bility,
He asked whether it is true that Mr. Gruber provided infor- mation on five other bankrupt- cies to the ‘federal superin- tendent of bankruptcies, and whether the government re ceived’ any letter from Mr.
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