no Page 12, March 21, 1979 - North Shore News

t ceping. |

Ganada of doctors: wariting” to ~

- opt out of provincial medical.”
schemes. so they” can. charge’
more for services ‘has- hit.
B.C. ‘Doctors in the province:

are’ complaining that - their:
incomes . have’ .not

hour. ©

Canada faces Israeli decision

been contr
keeping ‘pace with inflation “--. .
for atleast four years and the .
GPs now earn. about $10 an.

with’ the orovincial govern-

Such alternatives include.

dropping out of the MSA

Saudi Arabia forces. choice

’ ‘Canada is being dragged:
——_—intothe Arab-w
against. Israel and is being

forced to consider declaring a—

policy commitment following
threats by: Saudi Arabia.

The Saudis, ‘considered

- among the most moderate of

the. -Arab. nations, | have

threatened to end trade with

Canada’ because. of an

* Ontario law prohibiting

companies in that province

from entering into. deals to
boycott Israel.

Spokesmen at the Saudi
embassy in Ottawa say
restrictions are already being

. year

placed on issuing visas to

orld’s dispute —€anadian business men visit- -

ent ° for: increased: ‘xenow

plano ‘or - bala ea billing of ©

patients for higher fees.

ero

3,400
- operate

present, all
in. B. C..

At.
doctors.

under the terms of the plan -

but - the - association has

warned this may not be the.
case. after April if they don’t.

get what they consider to be
satisfactory pay neageses-

* a

economic boycott of Egypt by

The ‘board will meet next
: “month before: any action is.
taken but has already ex-
pressed dissatisfaction that

while in recent. years their
overheads. have. increased
along with ir;lation, “their
incomes have not risen
accordingly.

Federal Health Minister
Monique’ Begin recently

Sinai—an area to be handed

ing. Saudi Arabia because of
the provincial law.

And now, the Saudis are
threatening to kill trade with
Canada, worth $344 million a
to this country in
exports. That figure is about
triple what Canada obtains in

"exports to Israel.

‘U.S. envoys were unsuc-
cessful last week when they
went to Saudi Arabia and
Jordon to try to get them to
back the treaty between
Isreal and Egypt—in the
hope of avoiding a general

“the rest of the Arab world. ~

With the Israeli cabinet
giving massive approval to
thé peace treaty worked out

by U.S. President Jimmy |

Carter and -endorsementex:.
pected by the — Israeli.
parliament, the treaty
between Israel and Egypt
could be signed as early as
Monday.

Latest cost to the U.S. is a
$3 billion commitment for
relocating Israeli forces,
including two
which have been set up in the

i

airfields, |

back to the Egyptians.

And whereas the vast
majority of Israelis appear to
favor the signing, there are
growing fears that peace will

worsen that country’ s inf-.

lation which is currently
running at an annual 80 per

,cent.

The bill for moving out of

‘the Sinai alone is expected to

hit at least $4 million and
about’ one million workers
walked off the job for four
hours Monday to protest the
Israeli government’s hand-

_ ling of the economy. <

to” “provinces
which: do ‘not, maintain the

-basic: principle of health care

being accessible to everyone,

. regardless of their financial

circumstances.

Her concern has arisen
because of the trend of
doctors to break away from
provincial schemes, particu-
larly in Ontario, where some

warned. ‘that subsidies ° may.
well be.; cut.

2, 000 doctors now operate
outside the Ontario Health .
Insurance Plan.

_

The: Nova Scotia: Medical . -
Society has also warned they _.
may ‘start charging patients.
above the set fee scale and
the move is also evident in -
Manitoba, where about 130
doctors are setting their ¢ own"
charges.

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Oil tanker problem bafflesFeds

Government officials were
Tuesday still trying to make
up their minds about what to
do over the British oil tanker
Kurdistan, which split in two
off the Cape Breton coast
last Thursday.

Fhe stern. section still
contains some 17,000 gallons
of oil and the original plan
had been to sink it out at sea.

But Fisheries Minister
Romeo LeBlanc has said it
would sit on the bottom “like
a time bomb” which could
rupture at any time, causing

a disaster to fish and wild
life.

The ship’s owners want to
salvage the oil, worth about
$8 million and LeBlanc
agrees this
preferable.

The problem with this
course is the risk of an
accident during salvaging
and an oil spill wiping out
the area's $20 million-a-year
fishing industry.

The difficulties were being
compounded as storms were
lessening the chances of a

would be,

successful salvage operation,
and increasing the risks of

the stern

section being
ruptured.

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