2... Castlegar News October 7, 1987 Aluminum Sheets FALL SPECIAL 50° EACH Minimum 4 Sheets Castléoav News 197 Columbia Avenue OTTAWA (CP) — Cali- ada, such as ideas on how to shed light on an estimated $28 billion a year in. hidden spending by the federal gov- ernment. That's the thinking of Tory MP Alan Redway, member of the Commons public accounts committee and long-standing mation about tax expendi- tui 's essential to look at any innovative approach to deal with .. . what some people call a tax-ripoff prob- lem,” says Redway, referring to a report on how California is dealing with the same issue. Tax expenditures are tax breaks which reduce govern- ment tax revenues and they will be the focus of a report Put on your Chef's het amen DN OY eT We need your Recipes for our 8th Annual Cook Book Send in the old family favorite recipe or your newest creation. 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" There are hundres of them in the tax system — invest- ment tax credits, tax breaks for depreciation of business critic of the lack of infor- ge! ample of a tax expenditure gone wild was the now- scrapped scientific research tax credit, That program was to cost Ottawa a mere $200 million but which will in fact cost about $3.5 billion, While some tax expendi- tures are justifiable, Red- way, along with Auditor General Ken Dye, thinks Canadians should be just as aware of their cost as they are of direct SPIRIT OF CASTLEGAR . « » SkyTrain cor 049 was dedicated to the City of Castlegor at a ceremony in Vancouver last-month. It was also christen he Spirit ot Castlegar. Pictured trom left are Meter Creston MLA Howard Dirks, Creston Mayor Lela Irvine, Nelson Ald. Ean Gower, Nakusp Mayor Stanley Fellows, Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore, Municipal Affairs Minister Rita Johnston and Salmo Ald. Lorne Hanson. Two years ago California launched a process to an- nually monitor tax expendi- tures in the state. The state found the costs were much greater than ex- pected and were growing much’ faster than direct spending, says an article published inf the U.S. Na: tional Tax Journal this sum- mer. Shold that be the case here, the annual cost of those expenditures to the federal treasury may be more than the $28 billion Dye estimates. The article describes the California program for re- viewing tax expenditures as a major step forward in sub- jecting them to the same continuing scrutiny as direct spending. Redway thinks it may also benefit Canada, though he concedes it may not be pos- sible to apply an identical process in this country. The California system re- quires annual identification of any tax expendiftres which provide windfall bene- fits to individuals or groups, any that have outlived their usefulness or benefit only small, special interest groups. Dye has been prodding the Finance Department for years to identify and make public just how much rev- enue it loses each year through tax expenditures. Dye and Redway say tax expenditures should not only be monitored once in place but should be analysed be- fore they are launched. The Finance Department is setting up a team to identify and monitor tax ex- penditures that will still be in place after next year's plan. ned tax reforms. However, Redway says that “if all they're doing is monitoring things they've already put in place that’s only a miniscule part of the job. SOUTH AFRICA Video made on ANC TORONTO (CP) — Journ- alist Peter Worthington has produced a video about the African National Congress activities in South Africa that is being sent to about 3,000 people, including MPs and reporters. The video, called the ANC Method: Violence, is similar to South African government propaganda, says the ANC's representative in Canada. Yusuf Saloojee of Toronto said the allegations that the ANC is a Communist or- ganization that has urged children to commit violent acts are “almost identical” to those made by the South African government. The video is narrated by Worthington and shows blacks committing violent acts including “necklacing,” where a tie is put around a victim's neck, doused in gas- oline and set alight. Saloojee said he hasn't seen the video but suspects the South African embassy in Ottawa may have helped pay for it. “I think they (the embassy representatives) would do these things on a clandestine basis rather than an open basis,” Saloojee said in a telephone interview from his Toronto office. An embassy spokesman denied embassy involvement and said he learned of the video's existence from a newspaper article. FORMER EDITOR Worthington, former edi. tor of the Toronto Sun and now a columnist for the Fi- nancial Post; is out of the country and ‘couldn't be reached for comment. In a written foreword to the video, Worthington says he’s convinced there's a war going on — not against apartheid, but against South Africa. Western reporters, politi- cians, academics and many church figures “want blood- shed and an overthrow of the system at any price . . . even if it ends up being a Marxist regime,” he says. The South African govern- ment didn't provide money for the video, said a spokes- man for the group which sent it to news outlets, MPs and about 3,000 people who buy its publications. The Toronto-based Citi- zens for Foreign Aid Reform Inc. distributed the videos because it agrees with Wor- thington’s stand on South Africa and wants to “get things stirred up & little bit,” said office manager Daryl Reside. She said the group spent about $1,500 mailing the vid- eo but didn’t know how much it cost to produce. The video, which has a format like a television documentary, does not show police or other whites committing violence against blacks. BACKS PROJECT Worthington spent some money on the project, and the rest came from donations and the group's fees, she said. The eight-year-old group believes the Canadian gov- ernment should spend less money on foreign aid and should decrease the number of immigrants allowed into Canada, she said. Representatives of two Toronto anti-apartheid groups said they haven't seen the video. But even its title is “very offensive,” said Lynda Lem- berg-Pelly, chairman of Can- adians Concerned About Southern Africa. Satellite information out CAPE CANAVERAL, Fila. (AP) — There are 337 func- tioning satellites orbiting the Earth and almost half of them are on military mis- sions, a scientist group re- ports. The Soviet Union has 146 operating satellites and the United States 129, while the remaining 62 are owned by 13 other countries and inter- national organizations. The Federation of Ameri- can Scientists released the report this week in connec- tion with the 30th anniver- sary of the world’s first man- made satellite, the Soviets’ Sputnik 1, launched Oct. 4, 1957. Of the 337 orbiting satel- lites, 165 (49 per cent) are military, it said. The report said two-thirds of the Soviet satellites and more than half of the U.S. payloads have military as- signments such as reconnais- sance, navigation, electronic intelligence gathering, bal- listic * missile warning and communications. “This clearly demonstrates the military space priorities of the United States and Soviet Union,” said John Pike, the federation’s assoc- iate director for space policy who prepared the report. ESTIMATES COST Pike estimates the U.S. Defence Department is spending as much as $20 billion this year on space projects, compared with NASA's fiscal 1987 budget of $8.9 billion. He said it is difficult to timate Soviet spending on military space, but “if we tried to do what they do, with their great number of launches, it would be about $30 billion in our money.” The Soviets have been launching about 100 space missions a year, compared with fewer than 20 for the United States. Other countries and or- ganizations with operating satellites are the Interna- tional Telecommunications Satellite Organization 15, Japan 14, European Space Agency eight, Canada five, Australia and France three each and Britain, India, China, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico and the Arab Sat- ellite Organization two each. PLAZA $5 SuperValu cooked ham... side bacon........... = FS Sabet THANKSGIVING SAVINGS AT OUR DELI BAR BUSINESS ud Old-line auto industry lacks worker control Editor's note: The auto industry produces « highly norles, looks at the impact of changes in the industry on ite workers. BY SUZANNE STEEL Brian Feil promised himself he would only work on the assembly line at Ford for six months — just long enough to save some money — before he looked for another job. That was 25 years ago. “It didn't oats me long to realize that it was probably the best job I could get,” says Feil, now 45 and president of the Canadian Auto Workers loca! at Ford's car plant in Oak- ville. “I didn't have any education. I had a wife to support.” If he was to apply for an auto job today, Feil would education would no longer meet industry standards, would his lack of enthusiasm go unnoticed by modern hiring experts. Feil is employed in an industry that generates one in every six jobs in Canada's most prosperous province — an industry that led the economic recovery in the country’s manufacturing heartland. Yet, in recent years, domestic manufacturers have watched stunned as Japanese and other imports gradually picked up 30 per cent of the Canadian car market. The loss has forced a new attitude in the industry toward its workers — one that gives them a brighter, more challenging and secure future, the companies maintain. Hiring, for instance, is no longer done by going down a list of people ready to start tomorrow. Today's process is Personnel officers are looking for people who are uni- versity-educated and more dedicated, highly trained, outgoing and flexible than was required in Brian Feil’s day, says Allan McPhee, spokesman for American Motors Canada Ine. AMC interviewed each applicant up to five times for the 8,000 positions when it decided to build a new plant in Brampton, northwest of Toronto. General Motors of Canada Ltd. has a training centre where potential workers spend three days on a simulated assembly line, being judged on their ability to adapt to factory life. Life inside the plant has also changed. “I remember when we couldn't get a drink of water,” Kelowna video company booms KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) — A local company which began by producing video. year- books for high schools has expanded into state-of-the- art production of specialty videos for corporations, travel agencies and promo tional companies. Stock in Video Network Corp. is scheduled to begin trading Monday on the Van- couver Stock Exchange. Established in August 1986 to produce video annuals. for high schools in British Colum- bia and Alberta, the corp- oration has expanded its portfolio to ‘include specialty videos as well as complete post-production services at its $1.5-million Kelowna facil- ity. "Action Annuals are high- quality video productions fea- turing events and activities during a school year,” said Douglas Gray, president and chief executive officer. “They replace the conventional book-type annual. “They have been a tremen- dous success and have formed the basis for our sub- sequent expansion.” The corporation currently employs 14 and hopes to double that during the next year. In a issued Aug. 81, Video Network said it expected to net $594.000 from an offering of 900,000 common shares at 75 cents an additional $190,000 from the Federal Business Development Bank, the corporation intends to in- vest in $650,000 worth of editing equipment for its Ac- tion Annuals. About $116,000 will remain for working cap- ital. Luxury ‘Weekend at a Family Budget Price Quality motor inn room with two queen-size beds plus West Edmonton Mail Fun Pak We Love Families! said John Kovacs, who has worked at General Motors in Oshawa for 28 years. “We ate lunch sitting on a stack of tires or boxes or anything we could get.” ‘The bulky, six-foot-five Kovacs used to constantly bump his head on the ceiling in a car plant that’s no longer in use. “It felt like I was in jail.” — such as the height of the assembly line #0 workers could stand up straight iristead of hunched over — have made an enormous difference, says Kovacs. Workers now have hot meals in modern company cafeterias and the plant is dotted with dozens of drinking fountains. AMC's new plant has light in from windows and skylights — an airy feeling compared with the dungeon-like working conditions of 20 years ago. Robots now do 80 per cent of the painting and welding jobs at the plant, jobs too repetitive for workers to find stimulating and too delicate for them to do as finely as a machine. Instead of workers constantly tripping over weeks’ worth of stored inventory, a “just-in-time” system adopted at most plants means parts arrive on the job only as they're needed. “SEES REALITY Despite the changes, factory life cannot be ‘made into- “some sort of paradise,” says Bob White, president of the Canadian Auto Workers. “You,can make a plant-clean and bright but to suggest that you can make it a happy place to spend 30 years of your life is unrealistic,” says White. “To workers, it’s a decent standard of living. They'll come to work — they're not mad about coming to work — but you can’t make that exciting.” Installing mufflers on a vehicle hanging overhead for eight hours a day, often six days a week, is hard to make stimulating. “People work here because they have to, not because they want bogs Brian Feil says about the Ford plant, despite pan new psychedelic paint colors that cover igre old prison gre: Except for what White fara the “mundane and repeti- tive” nature of the work, autoworkers have been rewarded with a standard of living superior to any other production employee in Canada. What the companies haven't been able to change is the fact that — like many factory workers — auto workers have little control over their work life. LACKS CONTROL “When it comes to investment, product line or technology, workers have no say,” White says. “It's the nature of the job.” And while workers may not have the most exciting jobs, White says they deserve a pension they can live comfortably on. In his fight to have pensions tied to the rate of inflation, White is leading a strike at Chrysler Canada Ltd. where 10,000 workers walked off the job Sept. 15. Giving workers a stake in the company is the philosophy Honda of Canada ring Inc. is new, non-unionized — so far — plant in the southern Sake town of Alliston. Putting management _ workers on the same “team” gives foreign ge, says Honda vice-president Eric Troger. Dressed in white coveralls and a green-and-white baseball cap, Broger looks identical to 400 other “associates” at the sparkling new plant. He may be vice-president, but Broger doesn't have a reserved parking spot or even his own omer he was vice-president at GM headquarters in Oshawa, he would work in a sprawling executive office building across town from the main assembly plants. Like all GM salaried workers, he would park in a separate area, eat in a management. dining room, and run the plant using a style carefully ped in the 70 years GM has been making vehicles in the city. BANKS COAX _ KIDS’ BUCKS By TONY VAN ALPHEN Stephen Leacock once wrote about a youth who became so flustered and intimidated in his first exper jence with a bank, he withdrew his money just after depositing it. Financia! institutions now want to ayoid that kind of experience and they're courting kids with # variety of special programs and services, ranging from contests to free chequing privileges. In! the process, the institutions are trying to introduce children to the basis of banking without scaring or confusing them. Financial consultant Chris Snyder, author of How to Teach Your Children About Money, welcomes programs that inform children, but he advises that youngsters shouldn't get a bank account before they're eight or nine. He suggests parents gradually show children the different things in a bank and what people do there. That initial exposure could be helpful in allaying any fears when they make their first deposit. PROGRAMS VARY The programs and extras specifically for children and teens vary from institution to institution. The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Royal Trust and Bank of Montreal have daily interest, non-chequing accounts where interest is paid monthly. National Trust, on the other hand, has a similar type of account, but includes free chequing privileges. And the Bank of. Nova Scotia has a non-chequing account but pays a higher interest semi-annually. In fact, Scotiabank began the first savings programs for youngsters in 1971 with its Hockey College program. It featured savings accounts for kids and provided hockey oe Ses ery moe eee Renton Uren EN Howie Meeker. Th 1968, that evolved Into Getting There, Bectia: banka serra savings suse tem) thoes wader | 18 A it ‘a passbook, membership poorer + 24 Ross and Anne Sowden, a spokesman for National Trust, acknowledge that programs for children are also a good way to attract long-term business. “Our research shows that if people start in a financial tastitensen tag toad crelay thine lr Ws” saya Gennien’ Her firm’s program has about 15,000 clients. Sowden says National, the country's third largest trust company, introduced its OWL account in late 1985 for those under 16. tf pave.» sahil Migher sip of interest than similar accounts for adi She sare members sve gt pk, tee cago l-k Canadian In August, National introduced special guaranteed investment certificates for OWL account holders. The normal minimum is $500. 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