Jobless

builders
could hit
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WINNIPEG (UPC) -
Unemployment in Canada’s
construction industry could
hit 20 per cent this year, the
president of the Canadian
Construction Association
said Monday.

Bob Nuth, speaking at a
news conference, said about
150,000 construction
workers will be idle this
year.

The association, which
represents about 25,000
companies in non-residential
construction, had previously
figured about 16 per cent of
construction workers would
be without jobs.

“If things stay the same or
worsen, both these things
will come into play - layoffs
and bankruptcies,” Nuth
said.

Atlantic Canada will have
the worst unemployment in
the construction industry - as
high as 45 per cent in
Newfoundland, Nuth said.

Large cities such = as
Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa,
Edmonton. Calgary and
Vancouver have so. far

escaped the worst effects of
the recession, he said

About 10 per cent of
construction workers in
Alberta are idle and “for

them, that’s high.” In most
parts of Canada, unem-
ployment will reach about 30
percent.

He said declining con-
fidence in the federal
government's management
of the economy ts largely to
blame for the number of
people out of work. The
November budget “had
nothing positive in it to
encourage investment,”
raising the question whether
“the management of the
economy is in good hands.”
Nuth said.

The non-residential
construction industry “1s
very much at the mercy of
those who spend the money
and make investments,” he
said, and those people are
not opumisuc the economic
climate will improve

Nuth said the collapse of

the $14 bilhhon Alsands
project and postponement of
the $40 billion Alaska

Highway natural gas pipeline

had more of a “symbolic”
cttect

‘There hay been a ten
denoy to overestimate the
LET prac. of the mega
projyects ~ he said of the
large energy proyects had
gone ahead as planned. at

would have Urenewed some

faith an the Nath

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Short on hardware,
our boys are best

OTTAWA (UPC) - While
lacking in vital anti-mussile
defences and other top grade
equipment, Canada’s navy
boasts some of the finest
fightung men in the world,
Defence Minister Galles
Lamontagne said Monday

Speaking with newsmen
outside the House of
Commons. Lamontagne
admitted the Canadian navy
was not equipped to shoot
down mussiles such as that
used by Argentina to
demolish the British
destroyer HIMS Sheffield Last
week

But) he said, “having the
best equipment is not all that
counts youve also pot to
have the best personnel and
Canadian saitlom arc among
the finestin the world ©

As an RCAF pilot dunng
the Second World War,
Lamontagne flew Wellington
bombers. “We did not have
the best equipment thea,” he
said, “but we sure did a hell
of a good yob ~

Lamontagne said he
agreed with Prime Momsticr
Prerre Trudeau's comment
that Canada has a
navy ~

“super
the
dunmnpg a weekend
visit to naval installations in
the Halifax arca

Inside the
lamontagne
consensus of

Trudeau) made

remark

House
said the
mimisters al
NATO meetings in
Brussels was that the mayor
lesson to be learned from the
Falklands conflact) was) the
vital importance of cffective
ant missile mussiles

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