At the . forthcoming election, ‘expected to be < | announced. this week, most voters will g9.to the || . polls: in the. pious. belief that. they are. electing. a. Conservative or. minority. Alas, they’ will. be mistaken, because the true government of Canada today v will not € even n be contesting. the election. me : new government - "What - actually — “the. : ‘voters do” is. -elect 288 members ‘of a. frequently : noisy debating club known as | the House of:Commons. But ° our effective rulers will not ‘be the cabinet or: patliamen- _ _ tary majority. which emerges — from that hallowed demo- . - cratic process. - Our effective rulers will remain exactly the same as they are today and have been - for a good ‘many. years. past: the federal civil service. More and more detailed aspects of our lives will be continue to be dictated by . Ottawa’s ever-growing army ‘ of permanent and faceless : bureaucrats, answerable to nobody but themselves and EE the ‘‘system’’. And, short of some political near-miracle, - our elected representatives — will remain virtually helpless to do anything about it. — Over the last decade the size and power of the federal. * givil service have . grown, to- such aiarming proportions that even senior members of -the present Trudeau cabinet © admit itis now out of control. n literally thousands of. different ways affecting the everyday lives of ordinary citizens government by arbi- | trary regulation and ‘*departmental. policy’’ has already replaced government by Parliament. FIVE MONTES’ PAYCHECKS Over and above this, of course, is also the enormous, ever-increasing cost of our hundreds of thousands of civil servants -- still growing _ in numbers every year. North Van Liberai, . wil Stanfield, with a bureaucracy running’ -more public becoming steadily less in Lonsdale Rentals 1113 Lonsdale Ave. se Vee nee ere A ssiie: they ‘say, gets oe the government it deserves. . Although he didn’ t repeat it _in so many words, former Conservative leader Robert Stanfield. ‘may. have had this. -thought in. mind when he. : addressed a recent ‘Univers- ity” of Victoria conference. aia we. want the federal government to run just about everything, ”’ ~. Said Mr. ‘“‘we will end up just about everything, with ministers floundering more and more, losing more and respect | and charge. if we want to restore parliamentary have t ic accept a more limited role for government in- Ottawa.’’ . HANDING OVER _ In short, Mr. Stanfield was pointing out that, if we want government to provide an ever-increasing number of services of every kind -- some - of which we might be better ‘employed providing for our- selves, we must become resigned to being ruled by an ever-growing bureaucracy rather than by our elected ; representatives. 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Camping Equipment Village Rentals ‘In former years, he’ said, “politicians dealt with matters | with which they themselves were familiar in daily life. Now, ministers deal with all-pervasive matters of enormous complexity. They are forced to hand those matters over to the bureau-. cracy and then find they cannot control that bureau- eracy. 7 It’s pretty evident ‘that Mr. : Trudeau and his. Liberal colleagues, on this point’ at least,:are in silent agreement - with the former Conservative _ leader. So-long as they. are returned: to office as the political front-men for the **system’’, they are appar- ently only too happy to let the Frankenstein: - bureaucracy “they have spawried. look after ‘the - tiresome — of ww nin running the country. " The results, in this dismal _ 1978, . don’t inspire much faith in . ‘government by a fantastical- ly bloated civil service which, | “in effect, does all the detailed ~ “how our re run and merely £3 has. ‘that. thinking - ‘rubber- ~ its — so-called” economic’ spring of thinkin ng about > affairs 2 stamped by political ‘‘masters”’ _ To date, loss of een mentary control over the bureaucracy has _ coincided with an $11.5 billion deficit that puts Canada already well on the road to bankruptcy. It has coincided with over a million unemployed, an 86 cent dollar and °- inflation heading towards double digits after three years of controls. Party Needs Guest Needs 1483 Clyde Avo, West Van details - OL: 10 PER CENT curs? So far it is the Conservatives who have shown theniselves most clearly aware of the need to deal drastically with - Ottawa’s bureaucratic mons- ter, whose track record as the real government of Canada -- tc put the matter at its kindest -- is disastrous. Joe. 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