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‘PAGE 4aTHURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1965.
Robarts’ Sound Advice
Premier Robarts is being criti-
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in London over the weekend, in which
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thelr responsibility to the country, t Parliament and to themselves. ‘Te every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven'.”
This is sound advice. Let’s hope
| that all concerned will have the good
sense to profit by it
West Indian Market
Prime Minister Pearson's visit to Jamaica, and later to Trinidad-Tobago before returning to Ottawa on Dec. 18, is noted as being the first by a Canadian head of government since the islands became independent. It is hoped, as a result, that the friendly ties between Canada and the West Indies will be further strengthened,
| and that any grievences which exist, | on the official level, will be satis-
he stressed the need for putting aside |
“partisan political disputes” at Ottawa and making. minority government work for at least two years. On the whole, however, the reaction as re- flected in newspaper comment has been more than favorable, and it is to be hoped the strategists in the Conservative hierarchy will give it their prayerful consideration.
The Toronto Globe and Mail notes, in this connection, that while Mr. Dief€nbaker pledged fiery opposition to the government immediately after the electon, his attitude on emerging from. the party’s first -election caucus was more temperate. He said the Official opposition would con- tinue to fight, for the program it had stressed during the campaign, but he left room for compromise and seem- ed less anxious than formerly to rush the House into non-confidence votes.
~,This does not mean,. of course, ' that he can be expected to pledge peace in public. An opposition has a dgty to oppose, to examine, and do its best.to improve legislation which it bélicves needs improvement; but it can do this more effectively with a minority than with a majority gov- ernment. What Mr. Robarts was urging, and quite properly in the cir- cumstances, was an end to obstruc- tion for obstruction’s sake. 2 OTHER PARTIES—On this ‘point the Montreal Gazette, a paper with sfrong Conservative traditions, .ob- serves that the NDP leader, Mr. Doug-
las, has stated that “all opposition |
groups should be prepared to give the government sufficient time to show. what it intends to do,” and that his party will not support non-confi- dénce motions proposed/on the , Speech from the Throne. And Mr. Thompson, the Social Credit leader, has pledged himself and his followers to act in such a way in the House
“that. the federal administration can —
carry:on in’a.sound, responsible way.”
Since these parties have clearly indicated. their intention. to. give the government its chance to show what it-can-do,°-Mr- Diefenbaker~ and his
~ followers, if they decide otherwise,
oo”
would be left to go on the war path |
alone. This, as the Montreal paper points out, would mean that any want of confidence'ymotions they propose
would be in a vacuum, as even the |
Conservatives, in proposing such mo- tions, would be well aware that they had not the slightest chance of being supported. The Ontario premier, it suggests, must have spoken not for himself alone but for many other Conservatives in the country when he said, in effect, that such displays of partisanship would become, at this time, discreditable antics.
NOT INERTIA—“The_ necessity to lay aside the actively partisan role for atime,” adds The Gazette, “is not to say that Parliament should sink into inertia. It is the nature of Par- liament that it should be a place of clash. and combat. But time has to be allowéd for the issues to appear that would. give such disputes in the House a more convincing purpose and meaning. Obviously, to say the least, Canadians, as “Voters, were not greatly swayed by the issues raised in the last election.
“As the months pass, the basis and need for another decision by the Canadian people will gradually emerge. Instead of warming the left-
overs from the last election, the par- | | wall to the West.
ties will have to kindle other issues. The government, will have to have more reason for going to the people than it- had in the last election, and the parties opposing it will have to have better claims to public favor. Only time can offer the grounds of ‘change. By waiting, the parties in Parliament will only be demonstrating " »
factorily straightened out.
Mr. Pearson's visit coincides with a period of changing conditions in the West Indian market, which are re- viewed in the current issue of “Foreign Trade,” a publication of the Department of Trade ahd Commerce, and in which emphasis is placed on the continuation of economic de- velopment in the area, the establish- ment of secondary industries and the need for imports of capital equipment.
Our trade with the West Indies still includes items we have been supplying for more than two hundred years—flour, salted and pickled fish and meats—but the range of products is steadily broadening. Canada’s sales to Jamaica last year reached $29 mil- lion, up by $7 million over 1963, and further trade expansion is predicted for raw materials and equipment re-
ired by th lants which are | et en ee, | OTTAWA RERORT By Patrick Nicholson
being established locally. Important to our farmers is the fact that food- stuffs—which made up 50 per cent of last year’s Canadian imports—are likely to remain in strong demand for some time. “Canadians,” notes the report, “are known as suppliers and have proved thejr competitiveness in this field.”
In Trinidad, in spite of increased competition from local and imported goods, excellent opportunities for sales of Canadian products still exist in many fields. Canadian exporters are urged to accelerate their promo- tion efforts in this growirig market, where tariff preferences continue to
apply and where the favorable ex- .
change rates provide advantages to Canadians.
Another growing market for Canadian products is British Guiana, which. now purchases roughly $100 million worth of goods a year from all sources. Our exports consist of over 440 commodity classifications, with salted fish, pickled meats, flour, onions, potatoes, tobacco, newsprint, fabrics and machinery among the major commodities. Canada’s trade showed a 40 per cent increase last year over 1963, but there is still a large trade balance. in British Guiana’s favor.
_ On Communist Terms. For the third straight year and just in time, West Berliners have won permission to visit their relatives across the city’s dividing wall at Christmas. But the agreement, ham- mered_out-in-months. of negotiations between the West Berlin Senate (city government) and the East German regime, is much more limited than
the agreement which prevailed last
year. Last year's accord had permitted
| the stormy petrel MP from Port Arthur. Having | rate of 6 per cent of their an- over $60,000 — is contributed
| on -the radio, | and boozers. it | whole, particularly the fellows |
| make a headline in a newspap-
visits on four occasions—during the | fall of 1964, at Christmas and New |
Year’s Day, at Easter and at Pente- | Visits in hardship cases were |
cost.
permitted throughout the year. The |
latest’ agreement, by contrast, is sim- ply for the year-end holiday period,
_ expires Jan. 2, and must be renegotiat- -ed from scratch. Emergency visits,
however, are authorized until March 31, 1966.
While welcoming the humanitar- ian aspect of the new accord West German newspapers charge Chancel- lor Erhard’s administration with having yielded to East German black- mail. The 1964 Berlin pass agree- ment had contained a clause provid- ing for automatic extension; but last summer the East German negotiator injected new conditions, which Bonn at that time had refused. Now, to lessen the anguish of separated fam- ilies at Christmas, it virtually has ac- cepted East German terms.
In all cases the visits will be—as in other years—along a one-way street. East Berliners, unless they are pensioners, cannot crogs the Berlin
EDITORIAL NOTE
The city resident who groans under higher costs of food, comments
the Ottawa Journal, can spare a sigh |
for the farmer whose index of costs in August stood at 293.1 compared te 100 for the period 1935-39, ‘
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LOOKING AHEAD
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Joins The Boys In The Press Gallery
Well, well! knocking at the door!
“T am writing to ask for ac- creditation to the Parliamen- tary Press Gallery,” said the letter of application from the eecutive editor, “for Mr. Dou- glas Fisher, as a member of the Telegram’s Ottawa Bureau.
Yes, that is the same Fisher and fofrmer
declined to seek re-election as New Democratic candidate for the Lakehead City, he now seeks admission to the Press Galley |
This raises the interesting speculation: does admit that he has been a lush and a boozer from way back? Or has he suddenly fallen? Has realization only just dawned on | him that he is-.incompetent? | Else why like a bird does he | seek to flock together with those types? | THE PRESS BY FISHER }
Remember that it was only | last year when .Fisher gave bis | candid views on members of this same Press Gallery which | he now seeks to join.
‘‘Newsmen are a pretty des- picable crew,” he announced | “They are lushes Newsmen as a |
in the Press Gallery here in Ot-
king Jot.” Those were his words. In the ensuing furore, when libel ac- tions were being considered, he
didn't deny them, he didn’t re--~
tract them. But he wrote a let- ter to the Gallery apologising for what he confessed was “a vicious insult.” , ‘
So “sas . join that contemptible brood. I wonder how soon he will de- clare the same judgment in re- verse, upon his former collea- gues.
Fisher had one talent whilst he was an MP. He had an un- erring sense for what would
er, and consequently he more adroit than most of New Democratic colleagues attracting publicity. With that
Our Yesterdays
(From The Guardian Files) :
to night to have fou their way into strategic w: leading to
Look who's here, ; | House of Commons in 1957, at
He first won, election to the | age 37, after working as a lib-
| rarian and a teacher. He was re-elected in 1958, 1962 and 1963 | thus meeting the pension quali- fication of sitting in more than two parliaments.
Contributions or premiums payable under the ‘special pen- sion plan for MPs are at the
| nual pay, and their resultant an- nual pension, payable as soon as they cease to be a member of Parliament, is at the Santa Claus- like rate of five-twelfths of their total contributions.
Thus Fisher could have con- | Fisher now | tributed in just over eight years | dians under the LaMarsh-Pear-
a total of about $4,660 in pre-
miums; this would entitle him to an annual pension of nearly $2,000, starting now, at age 46, _ In view of his actuarial life’ ex- pectancy, in return for his pre- miums totalling $4,660 he may well draw over $60,000 in pen- sion himself, and after death his widow would continue to draw about $1,200 per year. The difference —possibly well
of course by the taxpayers. Now I wonder why MPs, ha- | ving arranged for themselves | that dandy little victory im the | war on poverty, didn’t extend | that same bonanza to aM Cana-
‘gon .portable pension plan?
Something To Whoop About |
Science Monitor
Let's give a whoop for the cranes! P
It now appears they won't be- come extinct after all, although for years they have been on the very verge of disappearance.
The good news, given out by the United States Department of the Interior, is that this year’s beak count ef these rare birds has risen to 44 Not many, is true, but something to
left in the whole world, out-
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1 We hope to hear more whoops, trumpetings, and hoots in the futire. But much effort is re- quired to bring back wild life | that faces annihilation.
Two nations are taking a | hand in the drive to save the | whooping cranes. Canada | guards their nesting place at Wood Buffalo Park on the Sass | River, 400 miles south of the Arctic Circle. The United Sta- tes protects their winter home
| life Refuge near _ Corpus Chris- ti, Texas.
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ior works on this. In press an-
Also cheering is news that | nouncements it asks hunters
not to shoot any big white red- capped birds or their dun-color- ed young. The increase in their mumber the sports- men are cooperating.
All this is fine. But it would
, |be much simpler to save wild-
life before it reaches this peri- lous point.
Animal Laboratories
New York Times
are kept for each animal, and the Government inapects each laboratory.
Associate Justice Abe Fortas,
before he was appointed to the Supreme Court, drafted a bill modeled on the British law. Sen- utor Joseph S. Clark, Pennsyl- vania Democrat, and Represen- tative James Cleveland, New Hampshire Republican, have in- troduced it. But the Johnson Ad- ministration has taken no posi- | tion, most of the medical pro- | fession is vehemently opposed, } and Congress has not acted. The Clark-Cleveland bill is a | challenge to the American ¢ 0 n- science. Antivivisection is not.at. | issue, but decent, respons i bie | care of dumb animais is.
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| ASK DEATH PENALTY
| CAIRO (AP) — The govern- |ment of the United Arab Re- | public announced Tuesday it | will seek the death penalty for newspaper editor Mustafa Amin | who is charged with passing in- formation to a foreign power. | The country was not identified it. the indictment but’ Amin, a former editor of the Cairo neww
| paper Akhbar -Elyom,—as— ar- -
| Tested July 21 with Bruce Tay- | lor Odell, U.S. embassy official paccused of being a U.S. Central
Intelligence Agent. Odell was
released almost immediately | and since has left the United | Arab Republic.
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