ut man charged

A 20-YEAR-OLD West Vancouver
man faces charges of break and
enter and possession af stolen prop-
erty under SE000 following: his
arrest by West Vancouver Police on
Jan, 13.

Police officers responded to an
alarm call in the 200 block of 16th
Street and found a plate glass win-
dow broken at a business.

Shortly after finding the brokea

window a police investigator
stopped a car seen leaving the area
ina nearby alley.

The officer noted that a passen-
ger in the rear of the car had fresh
cuts on his hand.

The officer recovered property
from the car allegedly taken from
the store,

Two others in the car were
released by police without charges.

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‘MORE FROM MR. LANGE

‘.- Last week 1 wrote about my meet:

“ing with the Rt. Hon, David Lange, who
was Prime Minister at the time of the
‘New Zealand debt crisis in 1984. Mr.
Lange talked about the blurring of “left”
and “right” wing policies in modern pol-
-Itics, and the tough fiscal decisions
that had to be made following the debt
‘crisis, He also tofd me that our mas-
sive debt and deficit problems could
.easily lead to a similar debt crisis in
Canada: - :

His 1984 “ieft wing’. government
-had no option but to dramatically cut
government spending, sell off crown
“corporations, overhaul social ' pro-
grams and cancel union collective bar-

“gaining rights. A decade later, New
Zealand has a diversified free’ market
economy competing in the global mar-

‘ket place. Exports now include plastic -

‘bottles to Japan, wooden boxes to the
USA, mozzarella cheese and ham-
burger beef to the USA and Canada,
‘furniture to Singapore, metal castings
‘to Taiwan and aircraft parts to Boeing
in Seattle. !

FREE MARKETS
Mr. Lange represents the LABOUR
Party, yet firmiy believes that it takes a
_ FREE MARKET ECONOMY to gener-
ate enough private sector wealth to
support social programs. He also
believes that social programs should
be. reserved only for those who truly
need them, at levels which discourage
‘dependence on the state.
A supporter of free trade, Mr.
Lange says that the countries with the
‘smallest economies benefit the most
from such. agreements. The NDP
shottd be embracing NAFTA accord-
ing to Mr. Lange. He even gave a
‘speech to that effect at an NDP meet-
tng in Canada a few years ago. -
| io 4t'should ba obvious that a country

of 25 million people is going to experi--
ence a tremendous benefit from open.
“access to a market of 250 million peo- |

ple” he: said.” He. pointed: to’ United
’ States initiated trade disputes as proof

that NAFTA -is working la, Canada's ..

favour, saying that the USA is actively
trying to slow down our penetration of -
their market.

BETTER THAN EXPECTED
Mr. Lange told me that two aspects
of the movement to a free market
economy in New Zealand worked bet-
ter than predicted. Farmers adapted”
much more quickly than expected to
the elimination of farm subsidies by

switching to products they’could sell

on the world market, and there was
widespread support for re-organiza-
tion of the’ education system to be
more efficient and accountable.

WORSE THAN EXPECTED

Two things did not work well. In
Lange's words, the claw back of retire-
ment benefits “was a shambles which
was enormously detrimental to the
support we needed to get the job
done”

Secondly, the program for selling
crown assets became a problem
because the only way to realize the
true worth of state enterprises was to
sell them on the open market to the
highest bidder. Unfortunately, the pool
of available capital within New Zealand
was too small, so most assets ended
up being purchased by foreigners.

This was good for cash flow, but
there was a big political price to pay for
“selling off New Zealand to foreigners”

_ even though major benefits came with *

the foreign investment. In retrospect it
may have been better to sell off the
assets for the highest possible price
within the country. The assets would
have sold for less than their true value
but there would have been more pub-
lic support for the program.:

SOME ADVICE
lasked Mr. Lange for the one piece
of advice he would give the Canadian
Government if he truly believed that

“our Prime Minister would listen: His” §

answer: “Precipitate a crisis ... a’ man
taking antacids for stomach pains will

“only demand a cure when the doctor

tells him he has a tumour”

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