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page 6, April 26, 1978 - North Shore News.

“Tfy you sometimes wonder what i is happening to. - this once prosperous. country, the case of Gordon ~

Robson may help to enlighten you.. A blameless

citizen by all accepted standards of | ‘public morality, he presently faces the possibility ‘of |

spending up to 13 weeks behind bars...

Mr. Robson -- a Whitecaps

Soccer Club director and part-owner of a downtown

hotel --. has not “stolen anything, embezzled. anyone else’s money or laid a.finger

on anyother human being.

hs He has done nothing that any

sane person would remotely .

associate with az ‘possible prison term.

Mr. “Robson’s | “crime”

his time filling out endless

questionnaires sent to him by | Statistics Canada in connec-. tion with his business inter- . ests. He boasts of having.

se cuca tien eine to. “his battle | against bureau-— to-him over the. past couple of - cracy. .

acs

1,006 such forms addressed .

years.

‘Under the Statistics Act

‘this is an offence punishable by a fine of up to $100 or up

to three months in the

slammer, or both.

Mr. Robson insists she'll go 7 to prison rather than give in.- “If. someone can be put

behind bars for refusing to fill out a form,’’ he declares,

**then it’s time we ail went to jail 1 in Canada.”

simply his dislike of wasting

-priority.’’ he says. . Whether or not they. are

and city hali.

“My. companies,” Si is quoted as. Saying in a recent press interview, ‘‘haven’t

time: filling. out forms be-. too” ~ busy” making. ‘a profit. ‘So: they. can. _ pay ‘taxes: to finance Statistics

cause . they’re |

—-AS Canada.”

‘DEDICATED FIGHTER ; A dedicated fighter, again-

“st government | ‘paperwork. ine he.claims among other things

that red tape by the federal parks department has robhed

awe ee ee

Rocky Mountain resort areas

of $300 million worth of jobs _-- Mr. Robson has’ urged. all “commercial. concerns. to join: .

‘Every | business leader

should give filling in Statis-.

tics Canada forms the lowest

immediately. prepared to

_. follow Mr. Robson to Oakal-— _la,' his sentiments are un-. doubiedly echoed by every - business. man and woman_

in

struggling to survive today’s interminable paper war with Ottawa, Victoria

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and municipal levels are not

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“For paper -- at first sight” one of the most useful ‘and — harmless. products ever - invented by man -- has today. © become. the . principal tool. employed by the true rulers of .Canada, the federal civil

“ service, to ensure. their own .

continuing, Browth = and “power. Often’ | their opposite

numbers at the provincial”

-behind.

- “The average Joe and Mary | | Doe already. get:a good taste

of the process.. The complexi- ties of their: annual: income ~ tax return alone have given : _birth during the past decade

or. so. to..a. whole new industry: the ‘storefront tax-.

return firm: for “Tittle peo-

ple”. ' Bee

Dive aden During. the course of the

year Joe and Mary may: be. involved in numerous ‘other. personal « ‘skirmishes © with | Ottawa’s ‘paper-eating army, — especially if they ‘need

unemployment benefits, a

pension, a passport. Or if ‘it ” happens to bea census year. -

a . iadividual

Closer to home for many

- individuais, there are. _prop- forms, —

erty | assessment property” tax forms, rent- ‘review forms, ICBC forms, fishing licences and building © .. permits for. basement biddies _

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suming p paper. chores ‘devised less by our. masters.

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‘CONTINUED ON PAGE 7

- deductions. _ Employes ‘Pension

other: ‘imaging ible © item. of

- Overall, the process is now ‘costing.the private sector of: the economy many. millions s of dollars a year. “Large companies, of course, simply hire’ their...own ‘‘counter-— bureaucracies’’ to handle the _ torrent and pass the cost on

their customers. B ‘there’ s no such: solution for

“Open -. Heir. “ Monday -Saturday =a ao | Thurs.& Fri. til 9 “1850. LONSDAIE |

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TM WSF

“FIGHTING ALONE

“Hardest hit of: all is the’ Ambleside oi

- Lonsdale “merchant, — the.

Marine - and the owner of : tiny six-man widget factory:

have to fight the paper wa alone, Jaboring far. inte t

New, sunny-bright

WINTERGARDEN if | . FOOD FAIR

= en 1 South Mall —

a Featuring “Five Restaurants 2 _ In One’'--For_An internation- & al Menu While Shopping At & Park Royal Shopping Centre. Bi

* Barnacle Bill’s Fish & Chips &

4 -* Big Scoop Snack. ‘Bar,

A * Burger Time

. * Honnessy’s Chinese Food

* Hunky Bill’s House of | gE Perogies. "

ae

- Step- by-step _

"mew look” |

unfolds at’ Park loyal

4 . : wy He . . "

The opening of the Winter- garden Food Fair marks Phase Two of the $21 million - expansion of Park Royal's South Mall area,

Phase One, =a: larger. Super x ; Malu, which . opened Sep- ". tember 24th, 1977, also included new ‘parking areas. New parking with easy access: & to the South Mall: shops & & -gervices are located south of

‘ Eaton's, oh-the-roof of Super Valu and directly in front of Eaton's and Ricky's Pancake

. & Chicken House.

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PARK ROYAL

Shopping Centre