agency said there

Fs Tete

da’s economy will

‘economic consulting firm
nformetrica Ltd. The

mance. in 1982, however,
has made it hard to deter-
mine whether the

OTTAWA — The head of
the proposed new Cana-
- dian Security Intelligence
‘Service appeared before
a special Senate commit-
tee under a mysterious
cfoak of heavy security.
At leest six plainclothes
Senate security agents
guarded the committce
‘.g0om doors and watched
. from the back of the
room as career civil ser-
vant Ed Finn outlined

WINNIPEG — Canada’s
construction industry is in
catastrophic condition,
says the chairman of the
Canadian Construction
Association.

Donald Giffin said
Thursday some firms had
fallen into a state of col-
lapse. . Others had

“pathetic stories’ to
relate, he told delegates
to the opening session of
the Canadian Con-
struction Association

summer convention.
“The — construction
market has suffered a ma-

' the jobless figures at a

. work force usually (in-

million:

“‘month;. : -he-.was |. “appalled” ‘the

ference:.on ‘restraint this;

“to a cat thrown. off a 50-

‘Cracken said it was too

«dismal: economic perfor- ‘

Security head
kept secure

Construction
in rough shape

. tion,

‘Opposition critics said
the marginal change in

time of year when the

creases proves the failure
of government policies.
Conservative. MP
James McGrath. said the
government. “should be
talking’. “more about
unéemployment..and less
about inflation: He said

government convened a
federal-provincial con-

week while 1:45 nfillion.~
Canadians- were: out of ©
work.

‘a turning point, he said
‘Thursday. -.

Likening the economy
storey bujlding, Mc-
early to tell if it was dead
or alive.

“It is certainly possible
that our recent perfor-
mance in the last quarter’
has been that bounced
after a 50-storey fall,”
McCracken said in a
keynote address to the
Canadian Construction
Association’s summer
convention.

plans for the controver-
sial civilian spy force.

Neither Finn nor com-
mittee chairman Michael
Pitfield were able to ex-
plain the presence of the
agents and said no threats
had been made against
Finn or committee
members.

“I wasn't even aware
there were security peo-
ple in the room,” Finn
told reporters.

jor collapse our
marketplace has withered
to almost a standstill,”
Giffin said.

“Large and small con-
Struction firms with the
most up-to-date con-
struction science and cx-
Pertise have fallen into a
state of gross inactivity
with mass unemployment
of their staff and
tradesmen.”

Giffin blamed = infla-
world cconomic
conditions, and the cost
of moncy and services for
the industry's decline,

right mind could easily

hati

4
+

Well, that's all right. Of
course, ‘as a few. people will:

remember, there was an ‘Al.
. Jolson tune that went: |

Happiness lies...

Right under your eyes
_ Back in your own back
yard. ~~

I have a friend, an artist,
who used to insist that it was

pointléss to travel around
the globe in search of the ..

meaning of life, it would
either be discovered or not
discovered in.... you guessed
it, your own back yard!

_ It és true that the “meaning
of life” itself is something
you can figure out simply by

staying home and attending |

to the rhododendrons.

All you really have to do is
quit working 9 to 5 for a cou-
ple of weeks and spend a bit
of time in the garden.

The first thing you notice
is that the flowers go through

some spectacular
transformations. I mean,
spectacular!

I'm sure anyone, in their

IT TURNS OUT, on the North Shore at any rate,
the ideal place to have a holiday is “nowhere,”
is,.in one’sown back yard. a |

on Monthly

spend 1,000 years just wat-
ching flowers go through

their changes, from bud to
full bloom.

| ; ‘Naturally, in the course of .
such a. program of

observation, one could not
help but notice that the pro-

» cess of change in animals,

and, indeed, in human be-
ings themselves.

After ‘a while, the big dif-
ference between yourself
and your garden‘isn’t such a

‘big difference at all.”

If one was to step back
from the planet and look at
things from that kind of van-
tage point, would one
perceive such an enormous
difference between turnips
and Tories, between Liberals
and lilacs, between socialists
and zucchini? -

Of course not.

Just the fact that the words
“plant” and “planet” are so
closely. intertwined tells us
something, doesn’t it?

The “big. picture” is not
only larger than the little pic-

Vancouver

‘ture, it is actuall
ferent.

You and I might have our

world. (Excuse me; I’m feel-
ing lyrical -- there’s no cure )

As my mother knew, and
as my grandmother’ knew,
and, as I presume, my great-
grandmother knew, the

_ whole world is a single place -

that can be grasped .in.its
essence simply by grasping it
in the particular.

If you understand how
things all hang together in
the frog-pond in your back

garden, then. you actually do...

of. the: great flower. of the:

have a handle on -the: way”: ‘Vic
things hang together in the wh

frog-pond of the world, from . “Owing
Tuktyuktuk.to Timbuktu. ° « ¢olars
It isn’t just.an illusion (I'm =

syre) the way the life system
in your garden parallels the
life system. of your

municipality. I mean, they.

really aren't that wildly op-
posite. The mayor.-is a
butterfly or bee and the
electorate Gan ‘say what it
wants about its stamens and
its pistil, but it all depends
on how you move the pollen
around.

Enough dirty taik... I say,

stay home. The world is at.

your doorstep. At least, that
is, until you get tired of sniff-

_ would like. t
. Name appear: n
“equipment such as this.”

John

that. the group could pur-
chase: ’seven': spectator’ and

player:benches. . Lok
Acco: ‘District - of-

ficials: the cost: of. benches

would be about $2,400.

District's advisory ,.com-
mission, however, did sug-
gest the bowling group to ap-

proach and ask local “well-

known service clubs who
“have : their
nations of

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