A8-Sunday News, February 3, 1980 FROM PAGE At “Work harder and don’t spend more than you take in,” he insists. Cut the rate of personal debt and of government debt. On every dollar you spend in taxes, 17 cents is used to pay interest on money the government of Canada has borrowed. PRICED OUT Not only have we priced ourselves out of competing with other nations, accor- ding to Huntington, but here in B.C. we cannot even com- pete with other areas of Canada. “The cost of Canadian labor is just horrendous,” says Huntington. “And there is $4 an hour difference between west coast labor in the steel trade and east coast labor in the steel trades.” Horst Ashenbroich, vice- president and _— general manager of Dywidag Canada Ltd., who also bid on the floating drydock contract, says the price given by the Japanese firm Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of $26.8 million is less than a Cana- dian company would even pay for the steel required. election scene anadian do k Huntington ‘agrees: Japanese have Seped steel and labor into their price.” He concurs with comments that there is not even a Cana- dian company capable of building a drydock of that size which is an all steel Structure - specifically preferred by Burrard- Y arrows - and asks: “What is the point of developing a Canadian technology that cannot com- pete with Japanese and Ger- man drydocks shipped all over the world?” - The Dywidag bid was for an ail-concrete drydock, even though Burrard had said they specifically wanted an all-steel one unless there were significant proven ad- vantages or costs differences of $5 million or more in favor of the concrete struc- ture. As it turned out, the Dywidag bid was for $40.6 million, and Ashenbroich complains bitterly that his bid did not receive a full air- ing and was turned down on a straight bidding figure basis without a proper economic study being made. He maintains that tington did not Hun- consider * various spinoff benefits from accepting the Dywidag bid which he said would have equalled the $12 million difference between the two prices. RON HUNTINGTON Ashenbroich points out that added to the Japanese bid will be $2 million shipp- ing charges as well as 25 per cent import duty, nine per cent federal taxes and four per cent provincial taxes to be paid. He insists Huntington would have been better ac- cepting a Canadian bid even if it had been higher than that of Dywidag. As well as keeping the money paid for the contract within Canada, he says having an all- uilders can’t compete Canadian workforce would generate some $10 million in ‘taxes paid to Canada. But Huntington replies that Ashenbroich’s argument loses credibility through him overstating his case and that he is simply trying to justify to his firm’s German parent company his action of spen- ding $180,000 on his bid and with pressing ahead with it : even after Burrard had made ™“4t clear they did not want a concrete drydeck. DISAPPOINTING Huntington says that in his enthusiasm to have competi- tive Canadian bids he ex- tended the bidding period by six weeks, at a cost of $125,000 a week in the in- flation component. Even so, he says the Dywidag bid remained “disappointingly expensive.” And he adds that offset trade benefits imposed on the Japanese bidders far outweigh anything that Ashenbroich could come up with. These offsets, he says amount to $17,890,000 in- cluding the return to Canada of manufacturing contracts lost to Japan. A card may not mean you can vote You may have the card — but may not have a vote. 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