~ Sunday, April 11, 1999 — North Shore News Capil ano College cola deal faces more heat Bob Mackin News Reporter CALL it the Capilano six pack. Six people, including two Capilano College students, asked the federal competition bureau April ! for a review of the college’s controversial con- tract with Coca-Cola. They want the bureau to decide whether the exclusive beverage supply and sponsor- ship agreement with the cola giant has created a monopoly on campus. Ifche answer is ves, the Coke and Capilano College officials who made the deal could) face criminal charges. The Capilano six pack is: Colleen Gillis, Shawn Ryan, Jason Fischer, Lindsay Poaps, Kevin Millsip and John Ingram. Gillis and Fischer are Capilano College students; the rest are self-described con- cerned citizens. Under section nine of the tederal Competition Act, a minimum sx people are need- ed to apply for a review. Ryan said sponsorship and supply deals are being signed by elementary and) secondary schools and colleges around the continent. Coke and rival Pepsi are furthering their dom- inance of the market, at the expense of independent com- Panis. “At the same schools which house business degree pro- grams that teach the value of competition and free enter- prise, the students learn a rather contradictory lesson when they go to their catete- as,” Ryan said. “Our schools are everyone’s concern, The conduct of corporations is everyone’s concern.” One person who is con- cerned is Peter van Stolk, pres- ident of Vancouver-based Urban Juice and Soda. Urban’s flagship product is Jones Soda. He would love the oppor- tunity to get Jones’ products — like blue bubble gum soda and diet fui: berry — on cam- pus. He said Urban had no chance to bid on the deal because it wasn’t publicly ten- dered. He said he's talking with company Jawvers to con- sider a complaint to the com- petition bureau, because he feels public institutions like Capilano College owe focal companies like his a chance. “They're locking every- body out, it doesn’t make sense,” van Stolk said. “The guy wich die most amount of dollars wins.” Capilano College president Greg Lee said he estimated the Coke deal ta) be worth $50,000 a year to the coilege. He said ir was brokered by Spectrum — Marketing, — 2 Vancouver-based sponsorship consultancy, Capilano, Kwantlen and Douglas colleges, as well as Trinity Western University. He said the college will cooperate with the competi- tion bureau should it proceed with an investigation. on behalf of NEWS photo Mike Wakefield STUDENT Shawn Ryan voices support for an application to the competition bureau. Six people want Capilano College's secret pop contract investigated. The competition bureau application came a week after the Capilana Conrier student newspaper filed a formal free- dom of information request with the college. Campus free- dom of intormation commis- sioner and human resources manager Valerie Cochran is reviewing the application. A reporter with the Ubysser student newspaper at the University of B.C. failed to obtain details about a Coke contract at the Point Grey uni- versity. Provincial freedom of information — commissioner David Flaherty agreed with Coke and UBC that the deal needed to remain secret in order to protect the business and financial interests of the parties. The Ubyssey appealed Flaherty’s decision, which will be reviewed by a Supreme Court judge. It’s a sheer delight BUDGET 1999 A ROAD TO RUIN DANIEL JARVIS. MLA What is in it © An increase in spending of $509 million over last year's budget, from $20.5 billion to $21.0 billion. © An additional 116 bureaucrats. © A 41% cut in funding for municipal governments, including $98 million in grant cuts. * A 48.6% increase in funding for “contingencies” to $1.10 million. © An extra 6.6% in spending for the health ministry to $7.7 billion, and 2% for the education minisiry to $4.3 billion. The federal government's health and social transfer is up $228 million for 1998/99 over the budget forecast, and up $500 million this year over last year's forecast - because the NDP is drawing down three- " - quarters of its one-time windfall this year alone. © Spending increases for 10 out of the 20 government ministries. ° A 33% increase in capital spending to $2 billion. © Another $57 million in gambling revenues, and $242 million from BC Buildings Corp. What is missing ® There's no economic growth - a 0.5% drop in GDP in 1998, compared to the budget forecast of 0.9% growth; zero per cent economic growth in 1999, compared to last years budget forecast of 1.7%. © A true deficit of $1.5 billion for 1999/00, and cimost $1.2 billion for 1998/99 (Summary Financial Statement} - instead of the $949 million projected. An eighth-consecutive deficit of $890 million for 1999/00, and a deficit of $544 million for 1998/99 - over five times larger than the original forecast of $95 million. © No debt reduction plan. This yearis total provincial debt of $34.7 billion will be $3.5 billion higher than was _ forecast in last yearis budget. An increase in total debt to 31.7% of GDP from 21.9% in 1991; and an increase in taxpayer-supported debt to 23.9% of GDP from 12.5% in 1991, ® No new tox cuts apart from a very modest cut to small business income tax from 8.5% to 5.5%. * No additional personal income tax relief at off until the year 2000, when the previously scheduled one percentage point rate cut kicks in. Tota: ,-roviricial debt ($ millions) Total provincial debt includes taxpayer-supported debt as well as all other provincially guaranteed debt. 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