A4 - Wednesday, February 16, 1983 - North Shore News

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Little growth
for province

VICTORIA -_ British
Columbia’s economy ‘is
expected to show little
growth or even decline
slightly this year despite
the recovery believed
underway, B.C. Finance

Minister Hugh Curtis
says.
Curtis, releasing his

third quarterly financial
report Monday, blamed

the severity of the
recession, which had cut
deeply into all sectors and
caused a sharp drop in
provincial revenues.

The report said British
Columbia's gross

the gloomy outlook on _

Ori

provincial product in
1982 declined by between
7 and 9 per cent
significantly higher than
the 4 to 6 per cent
forecast in November.
The provincial deficit
for the current fiscal year
now is projected to be
higher, at $1.125 billion,
than Curtis’ $1.027 billion
estimate last November.
A 60 per cent leap in

the number of welfare
cases in December
compared to a year ago
prompted Curtis to
allocate an extra $100
million for welfare

payments.

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settlement for teachers and
could fall as much as
$500,000 short of what is
needed, even if the planned
closure of five schools is
approved.

The board also decided at
the Monday meeting to
postpone its decision on the
school consolidation
proposal until March 7 so
that further discussion can
take place. -

However, trustees warned
the minister of education
that the school closure,
“would not produce any cost
relief in 1983.”

That warning, along with
an outline of the effects of the
reduced budget, such as the
possibility of layoffs, was

board.

Both trustees Margot Furk
and Michael Smith bitterly
fought the other trustees
over the issue of sending a
letter of concern to
Education Minister Bill
Vander Zalm along with the

falling enrolment.

That had West Van
Teachers’ Association
president Heather Walker
extremely upset with the
board. The teachers had
wanted the board to ask for
the additional funding.

“If they wanted more
money, then they should
have asked for it because
they need it to maintain the
system,” Walker said.

“Their action places a
Strain on the entire school
system and that is what the
people should be concerned
about. I'm very, very upset.”

“The board has prided
itself in acting in a spirit of
cooperation, but it has done
nothing to further that
cooperative spirit,” Walker
warned.

Former WVTA president

~narrowly—approved by the “Paddy Boyle told the board ~

it had reached “a low point”
in the many years she had
been attending board
meetings.

She told the boisterous
crowd that the quality of
education has been
detnmentally affected by the

Carlin, would facilitate the
layoff of

became necessary.

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get very tight and _ the
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TOKYO - The Japanese
government proposed
Tuesday to hold its auto
exports to Canada to
under 79,000 units in the
first six months of this
year.

Separately, Japan gave
the formal go-ahead for a
plan to limit car exports
to the United States to
1.68 million units for the
third straight year starting
April 1, officials said.

A Minister of
ternational Trade

In-
and

TORONTO - Canada
should be represented in
Washington by a senior
cabinet} minister who
would have the clout to
promote the country's
best interests, former
finance minister Walter
Gordon says.

“We must stand up to
pressures by American
authorities,” he told the
Toronto Association of
Business Economists
Monday.

“AIL ] can say 1s Chat af
we wish to remain a
separate, independent

PARIS Gone are “le
marketing” and = “Yoff
shore” , to be replaced
amongst those with “le
know how” — by proper
French terminology. the
French finance mamstry
said in a newsletter
dehvered T vesday

Phe ministry released a

hist of 244 business and
financial terms with
approved translations
that avoid) adopton of
English words

The war against
“Pranglais” began in 197)
when commonly uscd

Japan proposes
to hold exports

Industry spokesman said
Japan hopes to reach
final agreement with
Canada on the proposed
talks with that nation. A
schedule for the talks has
not yet been announced.

Canadian International
Trade Minister Gerald
Regan asked his Japanese
counterpart, Sadanori
Yamanaka, to hold auto
exports to his country to
under 146,000 for the
entire year.

A cabinet minister
for Washington?

nation, sooner or later we
shall have to be prepared
to protect our own best
interests,” said the former
member of prime
minister Lester Pearson's
cabinet.

A cabinet) minister
serving as ambassador to
carry more weight than a
career diplomat or civil
servant, Gordon said.

He told the economists
Ottawa should ignore
US threats of trade
retahation and = develop
economic pohaes which
serve Canada

Fighting against
‘Franglais’

general loreign terms
were banned from official
publications aod
correspondence In 1976
the defence ministry
made taboo 214 Englhsh
military terms

The finance ministry's
Commission — of Ter
minology has worked for
a decade with the
Academic Francaise's

High Committee of the
French Language to
establish oa list of
obbigatory business

terminology that would

cmrich the fPreneh

vex abubacy

budget.

“May I remind the board
that if we send this letter, it
will lump us in with the rest
of the communities full of
dingdongs and malcontents

. this is West Vancouver,
where we roll up our sleeves
and get the job done,” said
Smith.

Smith also called the letter
a “cop out", as -well —as
“legal” and “completely
ineffective”.

Sall, the board approved
of the letter with chairman
Norm Alban breaking the
tie.

Trustee Dawn Sikula told
the board it would be
“kidding” itself if the district
“believed it could run ef-
fectively with 40 fewer
teachers in September.”

The board was told that if
there was a $500,000 short-
fall, that figure would
translate into 40 fewer

teachers, in addition to nine
positions already planned to
be

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Teaching aides had been
laid off and it is very hard to
get the needed supplies,”
Boyle said.

Stull, some parents in the
audience approved of the
board’s action, saying they
were “sick of hearing that
the excellence of students in
the district was due to the
teachers.”-

“What about the parents
parent. Another said the
excellence was due to the
fact that upper income areas
produce better students.

Alban told the News after
the meeting he “very much
doubted” the district would
lose 40 teachers.

“It depends on what
happens, but it will be a
pretty lean year.”

“I haven't any idea what
we will do, it depends on the
restructuring of the district,”
Alban said.

That restructuring,
School Superintendent

says
Ed

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