amen ep met athena he, pm a ApS ad OAL 8 a Ty aphinweie mayer toys Tah ake ware tere ot rag ee cern a mnified. “Meanwhile, Prime ~-Minister- Joe: Clark .and his Tory. cabinet,“ have. already _ accumulated traces of grime - ” on ‘their, knuckles ‘and dirt _ “ under the fingernails: since they set.to work last June to. _ Start ‘sorting out the | mess ‘they inherited -- an: $11 billion deficit for the current year, a $7 billion balance. of Bi Sao problem. a net - ~ bequeathed “to the~ ‘Clark’ the — ’ electorate finally sent Pierre packing last-May. Now -. — 2 ‘anid, as the ads say, niuch, “much-" more.. Inflation still Mss ‘edging ® “upward ‘towards. - J ai ig h. aemployment still expected double ‘digits. | : “to: get worse’ before it gets 7 - better A. shakey, 86 cent | : “dollar,: ite. soaring in- . terest rates which slow’down the economy stilt farther. “INTHE GLUE “ ‘Phe. current “ recession”. obviously U.S. isn't -helping matters; But the fact’ __ remains “that a Jot -of our . Sei “troubles care. ob- very: ee | Feven ‘hough the-cleanliness may. -deep. Today, with ‘Canada’s 31st - st 324 hours. old, the.’ Liberals we fp reparing, to ‘make. life hot. and sticky for — try’s first Conservative government.in. 16. | re" “Elliott. Trudeau,’ having” decided’ returned to power, is once again’ Mr. Clean ‘Like any individual or creditors, Canada has simply “it..could afford over recent spending in Ottawa ever since. 1963 have been the Liberals. This is the legacy they family who get well and truly — ‘into the -glue® cwith~ their been spending far more than © ‘years. The people doing the *"y ten . Canadians ‘feelings on the matter either: ' way. , 7 ‘generated by the _ market and the supermarket-- ‘loom... infinitely: oe lay b his hands 0 on, believes the private . -PetroCan’s job just as well, sector. can do and said so loud. and Clear in his election platform. - The tWo, opposition parties ’ are: threatening ‘that they'll -try to topple the government if it persists in selling off PetroCan. - Since “Pe was created by the Liberals, it’s natural they should fight. to save their child — but it’s - also doubtful whether one in average’ thousand has -strong The problems checkout larger on the average ’ Canadian’s horizon. - government when . cleansed of their ‘respon- -- Mr.. Trudeau and his cohorts are. happily Sitting in judgement on the way Mr. Clark and his colleagues set about correcting their own disastrous Liberal record of the > previous ll years. {| Whether the Tories can succeed in getting us out of the hole is still anyone's : ‘guess. But at least it's perfectly clear who couldn’t — and didn’t -- even after Mr. ‘Trudeau had been given ' three chances in a row. That, in a nutshell, is.where — the 31st Parliament dnd the sibilities at last by the voters’ . Some - POLITICAL DIRT Aside from the crucial ' matter of the economy, Mr. Clark’s government has also got its hands soiled with jurely political dirt. during its first four months: energy policy and the proposed sale of PetroCan, the Jerusalem embassy uproar and the collapsed -Candu reactor sale to. . Argentina. The Liberals and the NDP, . who enjoy dabbling in business enterprises, claim that PetroCan — the state- owned oil company — is - coming along nicely and isa business -the © government. must retain in order to keep :On" a- rally’ decision that hi has to do. with | something . called national sovereignty. To flee - in panic from such a decision ‘om as the opposition: ‘and large segments _ of the. business community. are demanding of the - ‘prime minister’) — because: “a “bunch of oil- happy :sheiks shake a big stick makes..one wonder whether Canada any longer - Yates the title of “nation.” Similarly with the recent sale of a nuclear reactor to Argentina, which. Canada lost. to: West Germany - largely, it has-been reported, because . ‘of “this country’s . 2 oy (more: being : labor “stringent security requirements when dealing . in - nuclear hardware with dictatorships which have so far refused to signa nuclear ‘non-proliferation ‘agreeme- nt. ~“seale of 10 the sale or. ' Otherwise of probably ranks between one and zero on the public’s list: of immediate headaches. BIG STICK . Mr. Clark has reluctantly admitted that the timing of his announcement about the. of the | eventual move Canadian embassy in Israel to Jersualem (another‘clearly . stated pre-election promise) was maybe a little off. In return,, Canada promptly became the target Of gun- boat diplomacy, 1979 style, by the - Arabs, economic boycott. . » Some half a dozen nations PetroCan who . threatened us with an all-out Again, “the “new Tory ; government was Trapped ‘by ‘the opposition and business circles . who conveniently forgot that India, to which we once sold one of the - things, promptly used the technology to develop its’ own nuclear bomb. If fast bucks are the sole criterion in the nuclear marketplace, - don’t let’s pretend we can compete there successfully every time and still remain a responsible member-nation of the western world. There'll be plenty more politicking of. this kind on Parliament Hill between now and Christmas and, with a maximum majority of only two (even after counting on all five Quebec Socreds for undoubtedly. have : - narrow. “squeaks. , The ‘Op- .. position parties. have: to earn _ their pay, too. Fortunately for the Tories neither of them is anxious to force an early election: The. Liberals because. quite a _ number ‘of them are. having second thoughts about -Mr. Trudeau: as a leader when ‘ next they go:to the polls -- and the NDP because they fear the landslide vote probable in an early election would cut them down to size again, as in 1968 and 1974. None of this politicking ‘has anything to do with the single vital task confronting. the neéw— government: reducing Canada’s horrendous burden of debt . and getting the economy . mpving firmly upward once~ more. After 11 years Mr. Trudeau and his- Grits proved incapable of doing it and, in the end, it became ‘apparent to a large number of Canadians that they were actually part of the problem. Prime Minister Clark may . not be able to do it either, given the financial garbage ‘pile to which he has fallen heir. But at the moment he represents .our_one practical hope of: getting out of the mess. We'd be wise to give him and his colleagues a very fair . trial and refuse to be overly ‘impressed by the new-found of the Opposition ‘‘cleanliness’”’ deodorized ' facing‘him across the floor of i a, stake. in energy have already located their Support), Mr. Clark -will the Cominons: : - rest “of us 23 million development. Mr. Clark, embassies in Jerusalem. It’s “, = , Canadians stand today. who needs every cent he can the kind of minor foreign : . t 20 %o off Ss \LE Genuine Savings, taken oft the Catalogue Price An ther ew: busingis is planning Kpand into the - lower part.;of the City. of ’ North ‘Vancouver, ' this time restaurant who wanted council to relax a by-law so the company could make closest existing commercial ; site to the SeaBus and will serve food ranging from light rie ees, Olathe 2s 3 some minor structural snacks to full course meals. 7 a Spanish snack bar planned . changes in the existing » for 131 West Esplanade. building. Council deferred the matter for more study. . City. council last week heard a delegation from the If the restaurant is allowed a folicitors for es Tapas to go ahead it will be th nen ° BERNADETTE’S GALLERIES Invites You to an Exhibition of Recent Oil Paintings by ZITO B. KARE —~ Through Nov. 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