4» Wednesday, June 12, 1985 - North Shore News

Expo ups and downs

beginning to remind me of a scene out of the

TT: activity around the Expo guillotine is

: Reign of Terror during the French Revolu-
tion, with Marjorie Nichols grimly knitting by the
basket as the heads come tumbling down.

As one of the horde of
journalists who has been try-
ing to keep an eye ‘firmly
fixed on the Expo drama —
it IS by nature ‘‘historic’? —
I have been aware from the
Start that the power struggles
in the board room of this
particular Crown corpora-
tion were bloody, by any
standards.

It- was hard to get a fix on
a lot of Expo stories for the
precise reason that the guy
who was assisting you was
liable-to disappear any day,
usually to be replaced by
nobody in particular.

1 happen to think World's
Fairs actually do contribute
something to their era. This
one in particular offers a
glimpse of a possible terrific

future. I frankly could care.

less whether antique cars are
on display, and while the
Mag-Lev train from Japan
will be awesome to: behold,
the key to this fair lics in its
second title, not its first.
Communications. If there
is one area where humanity
needs to share its common
pool of knowledge it is in the
all-critical realm of com-
munications. Thus,
86’s chance to offer some-

thing’of value to the world.” |
As for as the architecture; J

1 think Bruno’ Freschi has
done a ‘brilliant job,
especially considering the
bottom-line attitudes he fac-
ed at the board level. The
leaking dome isn’t his fault,
by. the way. 1 happen to
know that it was Michael
Bartlett who shaved the
budget by insisting the
waterproofing be done the
cheap way. ;
Given a belief in the
potential usefulness of the
project. _
Jimmy Pattison and he has

impressed me deeply with his ff

charismatic belief in his abil-
ity to deliver.

It ‘has therefore been
disappointing as the clock
ticks inexorably toward
opening day, to see all that

blood on the corporate
decks. | would expect it’s
going to be a non-stop

bloodbath from here on in,

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incidentally, because a lot of
very troublesome questions
have been raised that won’t
go away.

Expo just might yet turn
out to be the Titanic bearing
the Social Credit Party down
into an icy electoral sea,
unless it can somehow get its
bow up out of the waves.
Yhe leaking dome stands a
50-50 chance, I would say,
of becoming the unfortunate
symbol of calamity.

In a nutshell, here’s the
major problem that has
broken tike a grey Atlantic
roHer over the wheelhouse:
Jimmy Pattison should have
kept his own companies out
of the bidding on Expo con-
tracts.

In his defence, Pattison
says he’s saving the tax-
payers money by having his
companies tender low bids
for Expo work. I don’t see
that. If a contract goes to
him for $5,000, say, beating
out a company that bid
$7,000, the taxpayer may,
indeed, save $2,000, but
$5,000 will still go into. Pat-

.tison’s cash flow, nobody

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else's.
No matter how Pattison
sees it, the fact

remains that Jimmy is the
sole shareholder of his con-
glomerate.

It is himself, personally,
who is profiting from any
deals one of his companies
makes with Expo, whether
they underbid or not. Also,
since the companies within
his Group do business with
each other at every opportu-
nity, minimizing each other's
costs, Pattison can afford to
underbid smaller, indepen-
dent outfits in any event. |
can’: see that he's taking a
loss.

This, not Michael
Bartlett’s osteniatiousness, is
the root problem at Expo at
the moment.

There is a huge amount of
bitterness out there among
local businessmen which the
sacrificial beheading of
Michael Bartlett won't do
much to alfeviate. The pro-
blem with the $3 billion
Jimmy Pattison says will be
pumped through B.C.’s
economy thanks to Expo is
that rather more of it than
should be the case is filtering
enroute through companies
belonging to the Pattison
Group.

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