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Canadians NOT ‘time thieves’

Dear Editor:

Some of the figures in
“The. high cost of Goofing
Off” in Sunday's paper are
open to question. , -

In my 37 years of work
(probably as long a period of
time as Robert Half is old) I
have not observed anything
like the rate of “time theft”
he cites, either in number of
people or amount of time.
Two hundred and fifteen
businessmen plus Robert
Half condemn Canadians as

thieves! If he had said 10%
of the work force uses 10%
of their nominal working
time for their own purposes,
his statement would be less
incredible. And, just as a
Starter for dicussion, I'd like
a worker's eye-view of how
much time management
spends on taking clients out
for lunch and dinner on tax-
exempt expense accounts.

Half’s use of $9.55 an hout
as an average wage for 10

million workers in Canada is
surely a bad joke. The
number of working people
who earn $18,000 and up-
wards a year can't be more
than 5 million. The “average
hourly industrial” worker is
not the average worker.
There are many hundreds of
thousands who don't get
even the minimum wage,
and many moré who work
less than 1700 hours a year.
So there is no justifying
$1767 a year a worker as

Shake roofs rated sate

Dear Editor:

In a recent letter to your ,

newspaper, July 4, 1982,
Mrs. Jean LePage of West
Vancovuer suggested that
cedar shake roofs were “a
thing of the past” and that
“they should be banned like
they are in California”. In
addition, she advocated the
use of a new aluminum-vinyl
composite patented § in
California.

Fire safety is always an
emotional issue and in the
wake of every major fire the
competitors of the product
or products involved have a

Thanks for
history trip

Dear Editor:

I would like to express a
few words of thanks and
appreciation to the members
of the North Shore
Hisotrical Society for the
lovely trip my friends and |
went on July 1. They went to
considerable trouble and
hours of planning and phone
calls tomap out the route and
time limit, so that everything
went so smoothly, and on
schedule. The entire tour of
museums, abbey and Fort
Langley was most enjoyable.
I'm sure all the other
passengers would agree with
me.

Joyce Camerson
North Vancouver

tendency to beat their
promotional drums. In
reality, the effect of any
roofing material with respect
to contributing to residential
fire hazard is negligible. The
report of the Dominion Fire
Commission of Canada for
1979 shows that less than
one-third of one per cent of
ali fires originated from
“sparks on roofs”.

Insurance companies have
concluded there is no undue
fire hazard from wood roofs
and most underwriters in
Canada and the United
States, including California,

do not impose a penalty on
premiums for houses with
such roofs.

Finally, I would like to
point out that while Mrs.
LePage endorses a product
that is patented in California
and, I assume, imported to
Canada, she is denouncing a
product made by an industry
which employs thousands of
British Columbians and
generates about $160 million
in export trade.

Thoams M. Gaunt

Product Manager

Council of Forest Industries
of B.C.

‘User pay’ abortions?

Dear Editor:

During the past 12 months
Lions Gate Hospital staff
have aborted 800 fetuses.
The cost’ per abortion is
about $875. This represents
a sum of $700,000.
Pregnancy is not a sickness.
It is a result of a deliberate
act. The means of
preventing pregnancy by
various means of birth
control are well known and
cheap and available ....50¢.

$700,000 will pay for care
for those who need it and
employ those who are
qualified to administer to
their needs. Our senior
citizens managed without
this expensive means of birth
control and yet they are the
ones who are probably

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North Vancouver

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average “time theft” in
Canada. .

If Half had offered
thoughts on how to increase
the productivity of the
Canadian economy by $15
billion he would have been
called an impractical
dreamer. Why give credence
to his claim of that much
‘loss’ by publishing the item?
Loss is only when one had,
but na tonger has,
something. Loss in not the
same as failure to achieve a
theoretical goal. To my way
of thinking, his hearers were
goofing off on taxpayers’
time, because they un-
doubtedly will claim seminar
fees for attending, and they
might have been more
profitably engaged = in
determining by door to door
canvass the effect of ad-
vertising on product and
service sales.

Name withheld by request
North Vancouver

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