leader - ', director | '- region, ‘director | a grain of salt: 7 SYour. x heque | is. in the nbership. conducted recently. by ‘the | Canadian’ ‘Federation. of. In-* Prefer no. help. at all to} gov- _ ernment: “assistance”. eS. hes ‘survey — - conducted i in every. ‘part. of the country - a . asked CFIB. members to iden- tify their principal sources of ‘business advice. The vast ma-. jority tum to their account- . : ants and lawyers first. A sec- _ ond substantial’ group relies on: its. -suppliers.. And trade ~ associations. and. other: small | businesses. are alsoi important. - t. they. sure. don’ t ‘fall. for | “the: government aid’ routine. ut to. results, of a another 1. per. cent. - men don’t like bureaucracy and they don’t trust civil ser- vants. But. that should come as no surprise. Why. should ” tions that smaller businesses © _the ‘government's: track: ‘rec-. already. find worthwhile. | ord in | managing i its own n af- Trade. associations: know | _— ~ But virtually no smail busi- a - _nessmen use the government- _ - funded institutions. . Not. that. there’ s: ‘a short = “age of government programs. |. |. a _ purportedly designed to help | . small ‘business. There are so. ‘many. programs ‘that: govern- “ments - have. departments. to. do nothing | but keep track of the: other programs... . And none of these pro- grams. is. cheap - — or. particu-_ . ~Tarly effective. Only 3. per cent. of: the. Federation’ S* members. have- placed pri-.. | mary. reliance. on the federal agencies. (including. the Fed: eral Business Development _ _ Bank). The provincial | agen- cies attract only about.1 per. - cent of the CFIB’s members. ‘University and. community — college business schools — : : to stand trial (S. O. P. ) Jean-Claude Parrot, president of: the 23, 000-member Canadian Union of. Postal Workers, has .been ordered to. ‘stand trial next April 2 in Ontario Supreme Court on a charge ‘of defying Parliament. Mr. -: Parrot, and union executives . Leroy | Hiltz,, Sid “Baxter, ‘David |° Lewis ‘Jones and Andre’ Beauchamps, all of. ‘Ottawa, were charged wlien they ignored the Oct. 19 ' legislation : ‘ordering . postal employees ‘back to. their posts; Other leaders of the CUPW,: :Darrell Tingley, ‘of, the. Atlantic region, | Clement Morel, director region, and Bill Dagleish, director of | the i region, . were’ charged in November. with disobeying Parliament and will be tried | in their own cities. Frank | Walden, . | of, the Western of the Quebec Ontario: a ued ‘sources of assistance do chet cost the. taxpayers a nic- : 3 ter: mall usiness en- | 4 vironment. ‘Small business-. heer. re well advised to © _kel.. Governments would, © a an with the trade associa- f— _ Two lines best. taken with: also: heavily funded by gov- o ee “. emment — ‘work: with: only ; Interestingly, the most tval- o. cs sented. administrators. business’ neck. a ouder than words. ie “Think small” is an n editorial message from the Canadian : -Rederation of independent. _ Business€ “small business: currently, the ch ‘business 'schools specialize in tuning out big. businese-ori- : | The savings could bép ‘pass- 7 ed along in tax cuts for small _ business; tax cuts. ‘always BE work wonders in the business. ommunity. Cutout paper- work, bureaucracy and waste. — three millstones around . es: a Government’s heart is in 7 right place. But actions speak 2 ‘tive: miums. Boye In announcing the: ‘direc- the. Hon. ‘The ambitious plan involv- -