Page 24, April 4, 1979 - North Shore News careers urn the ship o business & “The European Economic Community has begun ‘planning to borrow the equivalent of $675 million to aid crisis-stricken industries such as steel and ship- - building in Europe. The EEC Statement. My name is Harry Boynton and fll be leading next week's seminar. i'm an of- ficer with the Management Services Division of the Federal Business Development Bank. My training as a mining engineer . and my. experience in sales . and financial management, and term fending with FBDB has given me a_é solid background for helping people who are already in starting their own business. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Register by phone or come out Tuesday morning Counselling and everyone. # p i SEAVICFS Session 2 §:30 - 8:30 p.m. Session 2 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. sample? Coming Up! A crash course “In Bookkeeping ...An introduction to Bookkeeping techniques, how to set up journals, record transactions, post the General Ledger and prepare a Financial business or are considering: Small Business Seminar Tuesday April 10th ~ CANYON GARDENS Capilano Road, North Vancouver Registration 8:30 a.m. (Inctudes Course Material and Lunch) The FSDB office is open 8:30-4:30 Monday to Friday. Our information services are available to 145 West 15th St., North Vancouver Tuesday April 17, 1979 - es Monday April 23, 1979- HO plans to borrow the money in -Europe. Then loan will total 500 million EEC units-- of: account, which are measured against a basket of currencies. of nine EEC members.”—News Item | Chevron Canada Limited | -% For lease x CAR WASH & FULL SERVICE - GASOLINE FACILITY Main & Min. Hwy. N.Van Bill Fletcher 437-6016: 8 to 4 Weekdays *30 COST: 980-6571 FEDERAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT BANK VANCOUVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE CONTINUING PROGRAM 7 DOWNTOWN PROGRAM Seminars for the Small Business Owner Monday April 9, 1979 - HOW TO SELECT A SUPPLIER ow What are the differences between the various suppliers of computers? What factors are important In selecting one supplier over another? How do you determine which supplier ia the best for you? Tuesday April 10, 1979 - HOW TO GET YOUR MARKETING INFORMATION What factors should you consider in determining the research method you're going to use? How do you design a simple questionnaire? How do you get a representative Fee: $5.00 per session STALL YOUR COMPUTER W TO NEGOTIATE THE CONTRACT AND W TO ANALYSE AND IMPLEMENT YOUR MARKETING INFORMATION Contact us at: Vancouver Community College Continuing Education 324-5323 ar 324-5324 That little number, though not quite of the stop-the- , presses variety, underlines a. point made earlier in this space, to wit: Europe is economically insular now and is getting more so. It is hardly new, then or . now. But this has not seeped into the collective head of. - Ad vertisement Canadian Pacific — Investments Limited Notice of Annualand Special General Meeting _of Shareholders The Annual and a Special General Meeting of the Shareholders of - Canadian Pacific investments _Limited wili be held on Monday, April 30, 1979, at Le Chateau Champiain, Piace du Canada, Montreal, Quebeg, at 11:00 a.m. (daylight saving time, if operative), for the following purposes: a. to receive the Report of the Directors, accompanying Consoli- dated Financial Statements and Report of the Auditors therdon, for '. the year ended December 3ist, 1978. ‘ b. to consider and, if deemed fit, to sanction By-law No. 18, enacted by the Board of Directors on March 5, 1979, increasing the number of directors of the Company from fourteen to sixteen. c. to elect directors. d’to appoint the auditors and to authorize the Board of Directors to fix their remuneration. e. to consider and vote upon a - Special Resolution to authorize the directors to apply fora Certificate of Continuance under the Canada Business Corporations Act which will enable the Company to be continued under that Act under the name “Canadian Pacific Investments Limited -investis- sements Canadien Pacifique Limitée”, and to approve the proposed Articles of Continuance; f. to consider and, if deemed fit, to sanction By-law No. 1 enacted by the Board of Directors on March §, 1979, to become effective upon issuance of the Certificate of Continuance: and g. to transact such other-business as may properly come before the meeting. ‘The Board of Directors has by resolution fixed the time, before which proxies to be used at the Annual and Special General Meeting or any adjoumments thereof must be deposited at Montreal, Quebec, with the Company or the Montreal Trust Company as Agent for the Company, at twenty-four hours, excluding Saturdays and holidays. preceding the Annuat and Special General Meeting or any adjournments thereof By order of the Board, GS. MacLean, General Manager, Administration and : Corporate Secretary Montreal, March 5th, 1979 state! the goyernment of Canada, the clutch of ninnies somewhere west of the Ottawa River. Our govern- ‘ment appears convinced that so-called third option is still open. It is. But not to the degree imagined. it’s your money projects. Fraser Allen, president of Amoco Canada Petroleum Co. Ltd. made this point in an Edmonton speech last ‘week. He estimates Canada’s energy capital requirements in the next decade at $300 billion. by John Belanger This latest move—to borrow internally—is - part .one of a two-part package. In the works is a one billion EEC unit deal. When the ’ second half is floated the . nine member nations will again turn into themselves. Canada, by contrast, sometimes borrows outside bse mostly in the , In many cases that is of necessity because we are not exactly swift when it comes to financing domestic . Advertisement GILBEY CANADA ” APPOINTMENT A.P. (Al) Candy Mr. P J. Copeland. Vice- President of Marketing. is pleased to announce the ap- pointment of Mr. A. P Candy to the position of Director, International Sales & Marketing for Gilbey Canada Limited. Mr. Candy. who has had extensive experience in both the domestic and export markets. will continue to operate from the Head Office of Gilbey Canada Limited in Toronto. That is not exactly hay, or even alfalfa. But only $200 billion of it will be raised here. That means $100 billion will come from somewhere else. And Allen ‘told the Alberta Society of . Financial Analysts if three quarters of it came in_ the form of debt the annual interest would be $6 billion. You don’t need me to tell you what that in turn would do to Canada’s balance of payments problem. Instead of being a temporary and manageable problem, it would promptly. become chronic and insoluble. The point is deucedly simple: If the Europeans continue to be insular, then Canada’s course is obvious: We must reach out. And, as noted here recently, the ‘direction in which to reach out is south. The Americans are our friends. And while there is little danger here of throwing the baby with the bathwater, we at least run the risk—to stretch the analogy to breaking—of stupidly letting the bath- OFFICE PERSONNEL Maureen Stirling, Sylvia Gowans PERMANENT—TEMPORARY OS issist ASSISTANCE for Key Personnel 107-140 W. 15 Street, North Vancouver 984-0251 - water get cold, if ‘you know what I mean. oS This is not to put too fine a point on it, but at this time in our economic development Europe is perhaps a luxury we simply cannot afford. Becausé if we have to borrow $100 billion in the next decade—for energy. alone!— most of it will come from the U.S. One and one still make two, after all. The U.S. has its problems, too. Its balance of payments Situation is now chronic because of that country’s dependance on foreign oil. It must shovel out ~ vast numbers of dollars, only a7 - few of which it earns back in the form of new business. (The oil-producing nations have to shop somewhere for all that technology they want to buy.) Canada, for its part, is now stuck between a rock and a hard place. We have to develop our energy resources. Not to do so would be economic suicide. - But if the (ahem, and pardon me) bottom line is a chronic balance of payments problem then we have bought a pig in a poke. Is there a way out? Fiscal doctors suggest we start by financing as much as we can domestically, just like the Europeans do. But that would require attitudinal CONTINUED ON PAGE 25 AROUND THE HOUSE NY 72.86 ALL TRADES ALL SUBURBS 7 DAYS A WEEK 24 HOURS A DAY 872-8611 Each selt-employed tradeaman will extimate competitively —~ guarantees hia own work and charges you direct. VANCOUVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE Vancouver Vocational Institute Certificate Programs for Part-Time Students Clerk Typist Secretarial Legal Steno Bookkeeping Accounting Medical Office Assistant Medical Steno Data Entry Students successfully completing courses on a part-time basis will receive credit toward one of the above program certificates from the V.V.1. 1. No Educational Prerequisites necessary 2. Go to College while attending High School 3. College Credit is available for equivatent High School as Night Schoo! courses 9 4. Exemption tests are available tor advanced standing All courses begin the week of April 17, 1979 andrun tor 13 sessions. For further Information please call: 681-8111 : Student Services Department To pre-enroll, contact the Admissions Department in person.