A2 - Sunday, May 22, 1983 - North Shore News the outside... TORONTO - The Bank of Nova Scotia announced Friday it would introduce a user fee on VISA credit accounts, joining three other banks that contend Canadians pay their mon- thly bills too quickly. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Royal Bank of Canada and Toronto Dominion Bank previously an- nounced plans to in- troduce a variety of user By UNITED PRESS CANADA for Visa pa ne TO ees fees later this year to compensate for a short- fall of interest REVENUE. | Approximately 10 million Canadians hold VISA cards, CIBC spokesman Christopher Donald said. Bank of Montreal, the only major Canadian bank which of- fers Master Card, im- poses no charge for its card but says fees are under consideration. Low gas price holds inflation OTTAWA - Lower gasoline prices held the inflation rate to zero in April and drove the year- over-year rate to its lowest level in six years, Statistics Canada an- nounced Friday. The New Democratic Party immediately demanded the goverment shift its attention to unemployment while the Conservative urged cau- tion and said it was too eraly to claim victory over rising prices. Statscan said the an- nual inflation rate drop- ped from 7.2 percent in March to 6.6 percent in April. That is the lowest rate of inflation § since January 1977 when it stood at 6.2 percent. The Consumer Price Index, which shows prices as a percentage of what they were on an ar- ritary date in 1981, re- mained unchanged dur- ing the month at 115.8. Trudeau rejects auto proposal OTTAWA -. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau rejected in principle Pri- day a joint labor-industry task force recommenda- tion that Japanese and other foreign auto- makers selling in the Canadian market be forc ed to produce cars in Canada. “As a principle of inter: National trade it is im possible for a_ trading country like Canada to assert Uthat anything sold in Canada must be counterbalanced by in vestment or jobs” in Canada.” Trudeau told the House of Commons. “It would be impossible for Canada itself to meet those standards in our sales with every other country. “We would not want them to demand of us that we would have to create a certain number of jobs in their country or to br- ing a certain amount of investment in their coun try ‘in order to have the privilege to sell to their consumers ” Quebec tourism suffering QUEBEC Quebccais The Part tourism and hurting the industry. Libcralt legislators charged Fn day Ala committce session studying sec Qons of the budget) introduced last week, Liberaisand PO members cited cconflc hag figures iho oa de bate over whether tournsam dec hined of increased last year Pourtse Ministce Rodngue Biron said his figures took into account government's drive for independance 1s colonng 1ts approach to the number of mghts tourists spent in Quebce hotels and demonstrated that fewer tourtsts, were spending more ume toa the province Labcral Rejycan Doyon said tourtsm was falling off because the govern ment “is trying the tourtal through industry to scl its natonalistre ble © The emphasia on French fact’ rather than the possibility of ” geting your moacy s worth was hurting all indrusties and (inc Ouraging Doyon satd peaeya the tnvestmeaent HAVING READ Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's open letter to the Canadian public, putting forth his rationalizations for permitting the testing of the Cruise missile in Alberta, I was left in a state of shock. I have never read such tor- tured logic in my life. It's not entirely the con- tent of what he said, by the way. It’s partially who it is that speaks. For the 1980s, Trudeau must stand as our unfrocked prince of suffoca- tion. Here is the man who per- mitted Canada’s military strength to ebb to the level where we virtually have to throw snowballs to defend ourselves. He put the least effort of any nation which is a member of NATO into the alliance. And now he turns around and has the audacity to ac- cuse the peace movement of not being willing to hold up the “American umbrella.” The strongest argument I hear against serious moves to de-escalate the nuclear arms race is the presence in Eastern Europe of an over- whelming Soviet military machine. We “need” the Cruise, we are told, to counter 60,000 Russian tanks. It is because the West has failed to keep up its con- ventional forces that nuclear choice is between stead- fastness or weakness in the face of totalitarianism,” I can’t help thinking of the cracked boilers in the rem- nants of our rustbucket strictly personal by Bob Hunter weapons become essential to the balance of power. In that case, Canada - and particularly Canada under Trudeau - is as much to blame as any other NATO country. If it is true that our failure to stay strong now forces the West to turn to nuclear ar- maments to defend itself, then surely Canada would do better to promise to increase our conventional military clout, rather than helping anybody raise the stakes in the pame of planetary holocaust. When Trudeau says “the navy. Why now, so late in the game, has the pacifist who didn't want anything to do with the Second World War find it necessary to embrace a policy of building first- strike nuclear weapons that will put us all at far greater risk than ever before? When he suggests it is hypocritical for peace mar- chers to criticize the testing of a missile which does nothing but increase the liklihood of war through ac- cident, pre-emptive first strike or counterattack laun- ched by a computer against Blessing for liquor licence WEST VANCOUVER'’S well-known Greek Connec- tion restaurant will have the backing of the District Coun- cil in its application for a li- quor lhcence for its new premises. The restaurant, which has been operating in the municipality for the past six years, ts due to open at new premises at 1560 Marine Drive. Council heard that there had beea positive reports by police showing no com- plaints regarding its opera- tion during those six years then it should be recom- mended that the licence ap- plication be granted. SCM Trudeau's tortured logic an imagined first strike, it seems to me that Trudeau is working out some kind of weird need to assert an old unfulfilled macho impulse. I have a terrible feeling that the prime minister ac- tually doesn’t understand the risks involved in any nuclear arms escalation at this stage. I think this can partially be blamed on his demonstrated lack of awareness about ecology. But maybe he is just one of those characters who spend their lives fighting their old selves. If he was Left once, now he must be Right. If-he was an early peacenik, now he must be a Space Age cold warrior. If he thinks for a minute that the door to hell can best be kept closed by fashioning a new, better key with which to unlock it, he’s nuts. Contain the Soviet bear, by all means, but for God's sake, don’t goad him. It seems to me this is the essence of the disarmament debate right now. In nuclear terms, it is im- possible any longer for the West to threaten the Soviet empire without threatening our own people equally. The ozone layer shields us all. No matter which side “won” the military engagement, we'd lose our biosphere. 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