MONCTON, N.B, (UPC) -
Canadian Manufacturers
will find it. difficult to
compete with European and
Japanese competitors. unless
they begin producing better
quality goods, Labor
Minister Gerry Regan said
Monday.

~ “Tam told that in 1977
North American auto
makers recalled more cars
than they produced,” he told
the Moncton Rotary Club. “I
cannot say who is to blame
for this kind of situation, but
I can say that this is an
‘appalling comment on North
American manufacturing.”
Auto manufacturers have
experienced a drastic drop in
sales this year, almost

THE LATEST HEADGEAR being seen around Ambleside beach fs worn by this unidentified fisherman who was
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Chrysler into bankruptcy.
However, sales of foreign
cars have continued to climb
despite the North American
recession.

“Unless we return the
elenient of craftsmanship to
the workplace,” he:said, “we
are sure to have .a difficult
time competing with our
European and — Japanese
trading partners.”

Regan said changes in. the
workplace, increasing the
sharing of decisions, would
provide better labor
relations and improved
economic performance.

Quality would improve, he
said, if the changes allowed
workers “to concentrate
primarily on the quality of
the product and the skill of

‘A need to pray’

LONDON (UPI) - The Times
commenting editorially
Tuesday on Prime Minister
Trudeau’s appeal to
Canada’s 10 provincial
premiers to bring home the
Bnation’s constitution from
e Britain, said in part:

a “Canada is a totally in-
dependent country by virtue
of several British acts of
parliament and declarations
of the Commonwealth.

“Yet, because the
Canadians cannot agree
otherwise, the keys to the
Canadian constitution are
held in Westminster in the
form of the British North
a America Act 1867...

“For a long time it has
been a British as well as
Canadian desire that this act
be ‘patriated’ in Canada and
become more or less a
Canadian instrument as
much as the constitution of
the United States is
American...

“Unfortunately, it will not
be so casy for the British
government to comply, with
a request from Mr. Trudcau
to make the necessary
arrangements...

“For what is to be tran-
sferred is not so much the
details of the 1867 Act, as
variously amended ... but
the right to amend it in
Ottawa’ without the = in-
tervening process of going
through Westminster...

“Technically in Canada
the autonomy of the
provinces is derived from the
center — subject, again
technically. to British over-
riding power But’ no
Canadian jurist or politician
would agree to vest in the
federal parliament the same
sovercign power to change
the constitution by statute

QUEBEC (UPC) Criminal
lawyers, unhappy with salary
sCales for legal aid cases,
have begun a month-long
boycott of Sessions Courts tn
all parts of the province
except Montreal

“We wont touch all

Lawyers boycott court

which is possessed by British
parliaments.

“It has always deen
assumed that, when the
constitution was ‘patriated,’
a formula would be in-
corporated in the arrange-
ments under which, for
amendments on basic and
long-standing divisions of
powers... it would be
necessary to obtain the
agreements of the majority

of the provincial legislatures |’

as well as a majority in the
two federal houses, possibly
involving the consultation of
the provincial electorates by
referendum.

“But none of the formulas
put up so far have been
agreed.” Unless agreement is
reached, the editorial said
“the British government will

be faced with a choice.

between pleasing the ‘senior’
government in Canada and
alienating others, or of
refusing a key request on a
matter — cven if a
technicality — touching
Canada’s independence.

“It is to be haped that no
Canadian statesman would
wish to put Britain in such an
embarrassing position, much
less raise the cry of
‘colonialism.’ Nevertheless,
the dilemma could arise...

“Much the happiest
outcome would be

agreement by the eleven on ©:

the constitution this week...”

“A consummate act of
creative statesmanship is
necded to align the Quebec
demand for special
recognition and that of the
other provinces for
equality...

‘Britons have now almost
as much need to pray for it

as have their Canadian °

friends and kinsfolk .”

Sessions Court cases except
those in which the client is in
jail until we got a better offer
from the Justice Ministry.”
lawyer Richard Cliche,
spokesman for the = 3,000
boycotung lawyers. told a
news, onference Monday

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