A6 - Wednesday, October 19, 1983 - North Shore News

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Common effort

At a time when government, labor and the private sector so often appear at loggerheads it’s good to find a successful example of prac- tical cooperation between the three in attack- ing today’s No. 1 economic problem: unemployment.

Manpower Consultative Services, a recently launched program of the federal Employment and Immigration Department and the B.C. Labor Ministry is getting results by harnessing the knowledge and experience of all three areas to help victims of mass layoffs.

The program sets up Manpower Adjust- ment Committees with equal company and employee representation under a _ neutral chairman. Costs of operating the committee are shared between the company carrying out the layoffs and government, with the Employ- ment Department providing all relevant job information available from its own sources.

This information, however, is richly supple- mented by the intimate and_ specialized knowledge that the committee members have of their own industry — knowledge not always possessed by the government agencies. In one recent North Shore case, where over 70 employees were laid off by the same firm, the program helped all but six find new jobs within 10 weeks. In another, the committee has come up with a list of 50 potential new employers for the workers being let go.

It’s a heartening demonstration of what can be achieved when confrontation is replaced by a common effort between differing interest groups for a goal that benefits all of them.

Foiled again!

The answer to feeding over-populated Third World countries, says a Brazilian nutri- tionist, is rats. Grain-fed rodents, he claims, are cleaner than pigs and rich in food values, as well as having one other dietary plus. Un- fortunately, however, this latter could defeat the desired objective.

The more dinners of Rat Stroganoff are served, the greater the chances of there being even more mouths to feed. Because ral meat, it seems, also pives a healthy boost to the sex urpe.

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MAINSTREAM CANADA

No need fo settle for gloom

THE

INFLUENTIAL Conference

Board of

Canada is forecasting doom and gloom for the na- tion’s economy during the next few years, but not everyone agrees with that dreary outlook. = -

By W. ROGER WORTH

One of those is John

CANADIANS ARE-

Bulloch, 64,000-member Federation of

GROWING

president of the Canadian Independent

OLDER and

they're going to keep night on growing older for the next SO years. This doesn’t necessarily mean they'll

be growing nicer.

That's the message | got from oa perceptive article in last week's banancial Post by our old trend Gordon Gab son, former B ¢ Liberal leader and North Van MLA

Heo owas analysing the nationwide trend to conser vatism spelled with cither a It's the

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1981 our median age was 29 5 years By 2001 it will be almost 37 years [t's expected to continue rising for a fur ther 30 years betore the tide turns and the nation starts to grow young agaim

A society growing Colles tively longer in the tooth for the next hall Century doesn't make the new, restraint based conservatism quite such an appealing prospect as it may seem at Che moment

For the immedsate future of course, frestrammt ois the equivalent: of motherhood We've spent ourselves into virtual bankruptcy through cneouraging polloans to bribe us with our own moncy

by providing unlimited

social services dispensed via an overblown burcaucracy on a oseale we can neo afford

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Business. Bulloch says the gloomy forecast will only come true if governments in Canada continue to operate as they have in the past.

“This will not happen if there are major shifts by Ot- tawa and the provinces to curb the public sector and in- troduce supportive policies for smal! and medium-sized businesses,’’ he said.

There’s more. Bulloch says the Conference Board’s forecast does not measure the impact of new small businesses not yet born, which hold the key to the country’s future in terms of jobs and the overall economic well-being of the country.

MORE RESTRAINT

He points out that the

restraint portion of the Federation’s two-pronged economic game plan has

already been partially ac- cepted by Ottawa and some provinces.

‘*They’re starting to exer- cise some control over a runaway public sector, and it is certainly about time,’’ he Said.

The Federation has the backing of its members as it presses for further restraint. In a recent vote among the organization’s members, for example, 87 per cent of

by Noel Wright

Mounting years bring most folk more to bose and less to pain Mote urge to save. less urge to spend More excuses to avoid cisks. less time to recover from tailed ones

Age means mote past ox penience to mourn less tree foe dreams Of achievernens Less faathe or thee future Las: vddealise bess ccniprasstorn Less courage

VISIONARIES Parth oon the ftutore dealism Compassion and courage have been the motive

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respondents supported con- tinuation of Ottawa's 6 and 5 program as well as similar in- itiatives by many provinces.

‘“‘Our members have been living with self-imposed restraint policies that are much harsher and last much longer than anything govern- ment has handed out,’’ he said. ‘‘But people operating smaller companies also see government restraint as a way of tackling public sector spending and curtailing government deficits.”’

TAX BURDENS

While cuts in government spending are important, Bulloch is also seeking a much broader measure of government support for small and medium-sized enterprises.

*‘Smalier firms are already paying much more than their fair share of payroll taxes such as Unemployment In- surance, Workers’ Compen- sation and Canada Pension Plan, and they’re least able to afford the almost continuing round of such tax increases,”’ he said. By reducing this tax burden, Bulloch believes an unleashed small business sec- tor would be better able to grow, expand and refute the Conference Board’s gloomy long-term forecast.

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