Canada’s’ national. debt, measured in one-thousand- dollar bills, is now one.and.a _ half times higher than Mount. Everest --. if you use Ron Huntington's calculation. - Speaking last Wednesday -;_ at-an all candidates phone-in “ meeting on North Shore TV, the incumbent MP and Conservative candidate for Capilano riding at Tuesday’s federal election, noted that, while most people have 2 mental picture of a million dollars, they are unable to’ really grasp the meaning of the world “billion”. ~ One. million dollars, said - Huntington, is a wad of one- thousand-dollar bills approx- imately eight inches high. By the.same measure, he continued, one billion dolfars in . thousand-dollar - bills would rise to a height of about 670 feet. Canada’s- current net national debt (the burden for which the taxpayer is responsible after all recorded national’ assets have been reckoned in) stands at $67.1 billion. Finlays’ ‘night out’ Dave Finlay, Liberal candidate in Capilano, had been planning a very im- portant celebration last Tuesday for a long time. It was his 25th wedding an- niversary and he was counting on a_ special evening out, alone with wife Beverley. “method of 1 WHEN YOU LOOK GOOD... WE LOOK GOOD! HAIR DESIGN OPEN MON-SAT LATE WED. THURS. FRI. 102 WEST 3596 AT LONSDALE 986-1146 Multiply that by 670 and you get a pile of thousand- dollar bills 44,957 feet high. Mount Everest the world’s largest mountain, is some 29,000 feet high. The Trudeau government, . Huntington told his audience, is presently spending $1 billion a week and going further into debt at the rate of $1 billion a month. Moreover, he said, debt-servicing charges alone - amount to $6.5 billion in the following year. | ns ; | The Conservative can- didate predicted that, if the current rate of increase in the net national debt con-_ tinued unchecked, it would _ more than double —- to $137 billion -- by 1983. “It’s frightening,”-. said Huntington, chairman of the Committee on Public Accounts in the last Parliament. “At that point we're looking at the very real danger of economic collapse -- the collapse of the monetary system.” » ay The Finlays wound up with a celebration of .sorts but not quite what they'd been looking for. Instead of candlelight and wine it was spotlights and _ placards, along with some 3,000 of the other party faithful, at Prime Minister Trudeau’s QE Theatre rally. 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