A6 - Wednesday, April 4, 1984 - North Shore News GE editorial page A jungle law he hundreds of horror stories about Revenue Canada’s ruthless collection methods that have emerged during hearings by the Progressive Conservative task force probing that department have not always placed the emphasis where it belongs. Tales of seized bank accounts, bankrupted farmers and small businesses, and _ in- dividuals driven to the brink of suicide on being stripped of everything undoubtedly reflect, in part, a mindless bureaucracy run amok -- whipped to its excesses by arrogant, insensitive senior mandarins left to run the operation under a succession of weak and incompetent ministers. For this situation alone the Liberals richly deserve the wrath of the taxpayers at the upcoming election. But the real culprit is the 13-year-old In- come Tax Act itself, which reduces the Liberals’ vaunted Charter of Rights to a mockery. It automatically makes every taxpayer guilty until found innocent. It authorizes the immediate seizure of property without due process. And even when the taxpayer is proved right, it denies him compensation for the cost of defending himself -- let alone for any still graver fi- nancial and personal losses caused by Rev- enue Canada’s savaging. in its collection clauses this is a law of the jungle which has no place in a_ civilized society. Amending it to conform with the Charter of Rights should be a top priority with a new Tory government. That, together with the appointment of a strong, capable minister! a lopping of some heads at top levels in the department; and rehabilitation courses for its rank-and-file. Start ‘em right! he U.S. Army has awarded 8,612 medals (50 to deskbound Pentagon types) for individual performances in the brief Grenada campaign, even though there were never more than 7,000 troops on the island. The army says the medals are a valuable morale-building tool. 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