‘raqr2- October 12,1 1977 - North Shore News

~ One of the most serious 5 diseases to face our age

call ‘government.”: ‘Now consuming 43%. of the

gross’ national ‘product, ‘the various levels of

government—federal; provincial and municipal—
are getting larger and more. cumbersome every:
day. The government’s: share of the gross national

slowing down.

On the: contrary; the.
government is one of the

Jargest recruiters in =the

employment . field, judging’
from the advertising for:
government jobs. that. often:
dominates the career ‘pages -
of the Vancouver Sun as well:
as other media. It is. well
known that: budgets for civil |
service departments — are-
most often based on. last

year’s allocation plus. ‘per: —

centages for natural. growth
and an adjustment for
inflation. The result of: such.

_ practices is a system where |
-section. heads. pad - their

estimates regularly. Status in
the civil service depends on
how many people report to
you, not on how good a job.
you do or how efficient. you.
are at saving - taxpayer’ s-
money, and the result is that
we Canadians. have one. of

_ the largest and most ineffic-

ient bureaucracies — in. the

world.

‘This cumbersome load has.
resulted in a state ‘of affairs. -
where the average Canadian

taxpayer works from nine in

the morning to two in the
afternoon -to pay various
federal, provincial and
municipal taxes, and, having:
relieved that cumbersome.
burden, then gets to work for
himself from two till five.

Shocking
governmental ineptitude are

so familiar in the news media

that they hardly get a raised.
eyebrow any more. . The
Department of Public Works,.
for instance, has recently
been spending millions in the
Ottawa area, mainly on
glamorous office. buildings
with commanding views of
the Parliament buildings and
other such quaint structures.

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Mitabel | ‘Airport;
‘Lawrence Seaway dredging»
the ridiculously:
expensive boondogele of
attempting to teach. the -

‘checked.
_general’s - position has been .
emasculated, and Parliament —
‘is iow. routinely approving

The. lavishness of 1 ‘most. of.

these offices has to be seen

to: be fully comprehended.

retice with fully. indexed .
-Pensions—inflation-proof :
: fetirement. °

product has climbed from 30 per cent to 43 per |

cent in the last 11 years, and it shows : no > sign of
government. The civil ser- .

Previous Social Credit. ad-
And these - ‘buildings are |

being. opened at a time when = the NDP when they achieved. ~

the government of the day:

has decided to ‘decentralize’ =

by’ moving. government to
‘other regions. . ”

NO CONTROL
‘the - St.

‘scandals,

entire civil service to speak
French—these things repre-
sent a small portion of the
‘waste’ that. goes on. un-
The-’. -auditor-

” dollar - being _ ‘created in
-. Canada is going to--support |

: incompetence. :

' must be dealt with. A way
must be found to weed out all.

those. who” ‘are left. : The --

estimates from governmental -

. departments long. after. the
-.money ‘has. already - been

 etent. drones ‘that .we~ are.
_ supporting should be: ‘job--

spent. We have no. control =

Over our | ‘servants.’ 7

fired, for -

‘She. turns. out to. be: after

‘Joining the service. Jobs are
routinely: created that . are
‘little more than pastures for |

those. whom: the . service

doesn’t. choose to Jet out in -

public. These jobs include

regular healthy paycheques, |
‘lavish offices and almost no

work. The cleaning ladies at
the CBC offices in Toronto
can bear witness to the fact.

that some of the executive

worth Dickson/Productloa Marna Leiren/Adveriie-
ing Kristi-Vidler/Clasaified Berni Hilllard/Circala-

ton Yvonne

Chapman/Administration | Barbara

“ Haywood/Accounts Sylvia Sorensen.

Nevth ‘Shore ‘Nowe, kdunded in i969 as an

independent
qual

community | newspaper .
fied under Schedule 11,

and
art 111,

Paragraph 111 of the Excise Tax Act,: is’
published each Wednesday by the North.
Shore Free Press Ltd. and distributed to every:

dene on the North Shore. 2".

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_. not riding on the backs of the ©
no - taxpayer. That, to:me; is one
| The bureaucrat’ lives. in a: of the: fundamental laws. of:
fairytale world, one which
boggles the mind of the rest ©
-of us. He or. she can’t get.
instance. It is _
“almost. unknown. for a_.civil
servant to get the axe, no
_matter. how incompetent or

. unpleasant ' (or both!), he. or
examples - of :

~

- of his section that he is going
i: to have to do without during.
‘his new budget period, and

# viding. What. an interesting
idea.”

“offices
is the continued growth: of the apparatus that we.

their cheques by mail. And
when |

“was given a raise to $35,000 -

. probably still there.

to

there. ‘are never |
entered—the people with -
their names on the. door get —

. ‘retirement ‘ ‘looms,
they, like all civil servants,

The: same state of affairs -_
exists in: the provincial ©

vant who was resnonsible for.
the obscene. timber rip-off of |
Cypress -Bowl during «the -

‘ministration was not fired’ by
office. On ‘the: contrary, ° he |

per year.and shuffled off:to a. |
make-work.. position.” He's s.

Remember-—-43%: of every

this kind of waste sand a

WHO Is MASTER?

The size and “unchecked .
growth of the civil service.

the unproductive bodies and .
to instill a sense: ‘of. value. in...

unproductive - ‘and: incomp-

‘hunting in the market place, »

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resistant colors

economics. fee
We have. a. “civil: ‘service |

| .@ ° Stays clean and
which apparently | doesn’t

’ believe that. If they continue ; a — . fresh looking .

‘to. deny that . fundamental | >. : ae 7 for years :

fact, and' coniinue to grow’ _ Co
Jess and less. responsible to — wT
the taxpayers, I can see that e ° Easily applied — " 7

our tax load is: going to get
even heavier, and I dan ‘diso dries i in 20-30.

see more and more inter- “minutes -

ference from the state in our

private. lives and in our
businesses. I I don’t like that
idea, at all.

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| uy think that every dep- net Contents.

artment head in the | civil
service should have to come
‘up with a list of ten per cent

so on up'and down the ranks.
That would get rid of ten per —
cent of the bodies and eighty

per cent ofthe fat,’’ says Ron
Huntington, MP -for . this.

. .
‘

It has little chance of being |
put into effect. If Huntington
represented the feelings of

ithe entire Progressive Con-.
‘servative. ‘party . (which he

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- new Parliament to chop the — |
* civil service by. ten percent.
Orcould we? :

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Some people say that the fm
\ civil’ service has become so
\ large and powerful that even
Parliament cannot come to -
» Belps with: it. If that-is true, —
"then: we. shave.” a, runaway
" power: force in.our. midst and
Le hod. ‘better. deal: ay it
efore it gets: any bigger. But |
it" Parllanent ealinot control
their servants, then: who is’
‘master in the House? © ‘

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