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Mayors want road, sewer jobs CALGARY (CP) — The mayors of Canada’s major cities hope the federal government's job-creation strategy fails and Ottawa will realize municipalities have a better idea — creating jobs by injecting $12 billion into road, sewer and water system repairs. “I don’t think it’s going to be hard for the federal government to come around to our point of view,” Mayor Hazel McCallion of Mississauga, Ont. told reporters Tuesday after a meeting of 12 big-city mayors during the annual convention of the F of Canadian Mi “I think their trickle-down thing is not going to work as successfully as they think it will,” McCallion said, referring to a federal strategy of granting tax concessions to business in hopes the private sector will expand and create jobs. Mayor Laurence Decore of Edmonton also said he is convinced the federal strategy will fail and the municipal idea will be adopted. Meanwhile, Decore said, municipalities must work on federal and provincial officials to “sensitize” them to the municipal strategy. The federation, which wraps up its four-day meeting Thursday, says the $12-billion price-tag for bringing municipal roads, sewers and other infrastructure up to par is beyond the municipalities’ ability to pay. If the municipal, provincial and federal governments shared the cost and spread the work out over five years, the federation says, 50,000 to 60,000 jobs would be created annually. McCallion said that rather than make-work projects the municipal scheme would put people to work on projects that Family law reformed VICTORIA (CP) — Leg- islation to crack down on child abduction and defaults on i Counselling Assistance to Small Enterprises oo; Announcement Ed Delamont will be at the Terra Nova Motor Inn in Trail on Wednesday, June 12 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and at the Heritage Inn in Nelson on Thursday, June 13, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. ll be available to discuss your business $, proposals, or expansion ideas to e if a counsellor could assist you. For more E.H. DELAMONT Cranbrook 426-7241 (collect) Federal Business Banque fédérale Canada pay was introduced Tuesday by Attorney General Brian Smith. The family law reform amendment act would also abolish “obsolete remedies” currently available in the law for such acts as seduction, breach of promise to marry, enticing and harboring a spouse. The main thrust of the bill is to stop child abduction and locate children who have been hidden to avoide en- forcement of child custody orders. Child abduction from some- one with lawful custody tsu- ally involves a parent, Smith told reporters. “Sometimes it occurs across international boundar- ies; sometimes the threat of it is ever present on the part of a spouse,” he said. Plan to dump raw sewage VICTORIA (CP) — A plan to dump 40 million litres of raw sewage into the Fraser River threatens the health of people using beaches near Vancouver, New Democrat Gary Lauk said Tuesday. Lauk told the British Col- umbia legislature that the Highways Ministry intends to cut a sewage main during construction of the Annacis Island bridge, causing the dumping of raw sewage into the river. 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SS OPEN saTuRDAYs ES 365-2195 Under the bill, courts could issue preventive orders against such actions, he said. “There are always these cases that the spouse that has custody is hamstrung be- cause he or she doesn't have financial assets to pursue someone and the child is taken across another jurisdic- tional boundary, and it's al- most impossible to get them back. “So we're going to use rec- iprocal provisions with other jurisdictions, and we're going to try and give more teeth to law enforcement people to put a stop to this.” RECORDS ACCESS The bill would also give powers to the courts to deal with people who refuse to pay maintenance. Tough pro- vions for garnisheeing wag- es, seizing property and im- prisonment are to be pro- vided. “By court order, and with proper protection for confi- dentiality, it will be possible to get access to public rec- ords of all kinds on infor- mation on the whereabouts and the assets of the de- faulting spouse,” Smith said. Similar legislation is being enacted in other provinces and the federal government has said it, intends to co- operate by allowing pro- vincial enforcement officers access to certain federal rec- ords, he said. “These co-ordinated efforts across Canada should greatly reduce the opportunities de- faulters have to evade their maintenance obligations,” he said. The dated ies to ne to ensure the heal mt oer pe m is more immediate,” than the federal f it did work, is too slow,” she said. “Our program is ' strategy which, “even Ith of municipalities. Calgary Mayor Ralph Klein said the mayors had agreed to give more attention to economic development and to work together to pressure federal and provincial governments to help stimulate and diversify municipal economies. ” Convention delegates rejected arguments Tuesday that the federal government should create jobs regardless of the effect on the deficit. Delegates agreed with Mi Fraser Institute in Victoria, ichael Walker, director of the who argued during a debate that borrowing money for job-creation programs simply means taking money from Canadians tha t could otherwise have gone into the private sector to create jobs. PIT BULLS THAT BITE SHOULD DIE summer. possible fifth incident. be abolished are “part of an age where spouses were treated as an adjunct of the property law,” the attorney general said. These usually involve “vin. dictive” lawsuits where the main purpose is to cause em- barrassment, he said. Expo meeting re: Bartlett VANCOUVER (CP) — An extraordinary meeting of the Expo 86 board of directors concluded | early Tuesday evening with no comment on rumors that the job of Expo president Michael Bartlett is in jeopardy. “We didn’t talk about any. thing that I can talk about,” Expo chairman Jim Pattison told reporters after the meet- ing, which lasted just over an hour. Tourism Minister Claude Richmond, the provincial minister responsible for the world’s fair, testily refused comment and referred all questions to Pattison. Pattison had said earlier Bartlett, an American ei n with a background in amusement-park manage. ment, exercised bad judg. ment in using Expo money to buy a $48,850 Mercedes. Benz for his own use. Pattison forced him to get rid of the car, and one of Pat tison’s companies took a loss of about $7,000 to prevent Expo from losing money on the sale. The Expo chairman has also been critical of Bartlett's decision to hold an Expo meeting at an expensive California resort. through steel fences. VANCOUVER (CP) — A pit bull terrier that is known to have bitten someone should be destroyed, the secretary of the Pit Bull Terrier Association of British Columbia testified Tuesday - Lee Anne Wagar was a witness for the prosecution in the county court trial of Michael John Hough, facing two charges of criminal negligence causing bodily harm. Evidence has been heard of two separate attacks by his American pit bull terrier, Muggsy, on two women last These attacks followed another attack; a fourth victim has also testified and court has been told of a Wagar, who owns three pit bulls, said the dogs were originally bred “strictly for fighting,” and their biting strength has been measured at up to 2,000 pounds per square inch, which she estimated at double the force exerted by a German shepherd's jaws. Wagar testified that the breed is not known to be ee toward people, but vicious pit bulls could be the result of training or of breeding from vicious strains. A pit bull, she said, needs “very responsible owner- ship,” and “a pit bull that is known to have bitten someone should be put to sleep.” Shown photographs of the dog run Hough used to contain Muggsy, she said it was inadequate, pit bulls have been known to climb trees and chew adding that “He was not a vicious dog, believe it or not,” Hough testified in his defence. “I was making a genuine effort to keep the dog under control.” Muggsy was destroyed after the most serious attack, on Helen Habermann of Towson, Md., severe wounds to her right leg and right wrist. required plastic surgery and spent 11 days in hospital. The trial before Judge D.B. MacKinnon continues. who suffered She WCB appeals to be reduced VICTORIA (CP) — Labor Minister Terry Segarty said Tuesday he hopes to reduce to two months the time it takes to get a decision on a Workers’ Compensation Board claim appeal It now can take as long as several years. Segarty said in an inter view he hopes to change the Workers’ Compensation Act quickly after holding meet ings this week with employer and union groups, and after Easy to-reach ‘ont controls ‘Sure Lite @ 3 YEAR GUARANTEE on gill body and burner m@ 1 YEAR GUARANTEE on all other parts @ Dual stainless stee! burners deliver 40,000 BTU @ Unique “Searin” temperature setting provides charred outside, rare inside “gourmet grilling” @ Heat indicator for greater cooking contro! @ Large 510 square inch cooking area includes removable baking rack ICG LIQUID GAS (Of propane FREE satety piug tor you purchase your state PLUS when processing 1,200 copies of a questioning sent to health and safety committees at work sites. “I'd like to introduce chan: ges to the process, and have them approved by the legis- lature before the House adjourns for the summer,” he said Segarty said he hopes to “provide the individual with an appeal in a turn-around time of approximately two months we owe that to those people.” The minister rejected the idea of appointing a royal commission on workers’ com. pensation, saying it would take too long to provide the answers needed by 5,000 claimants caught up in the appeals backlog. These people fear that working in the meantime would jeopardize their ap peals, but desperately need income, he said. Segarty said he wants “to change the structure of the operation of the Workers’ Compensation Board so we would be able to have unions and management people on the board of the Workers’ Compensation Board, basi cally responsible for estab lishing policy “Then you would expect from that that the policies they would develop would be in the interests of their con Stituents across British Col umbia.” The questionnaires have been criticized for allowing too limited a range of an Swers to provide accurate information. Segarty said the question naires will complement his meetings with representa tives of the building trades, the Business Council of B.C., the B.C. Federation of Labor, the Vancouver Conimunity Legal Assistance Society, the Council of Forest Industries and the International Wood- workers of America. WOODLAND PARK ESSO Gas & Groceries 5:30 @.m. - 10 p.m., Mon. - Set. 7e.m. te 18 |. Sundeys a, Population to peak in 2006 OTTAWA (CP) — It may be small consolation to the unemployed now, but the number of people competing for jobs may decrease in the next century as the country’s population peaks at 28 million begins to shrink. in the first decade and then However, workers could be forced to surrender larger portions of their paycheques to support a growing group of senior citizens. But with the number of children in decline, abandoned schools could always be turned into senior citizens’ homes for that populous golden age sector. This outlook is based on the assumption that current trends in fertility rates and immigration levels hold true. Wars, new diseases, industrial revolutions and other unpredictable events could interfere. If the trends continue, Statistics Canada, in a report released Tuesday, says the country will hit a near zero growth rate by 2006 with the population then beginning to decline. “Broadly speaking, the decline of the child Population and the rise of the elderly may necessitate a massive shift of resources away from the needs of the young to the needs of the elderly,” the report said. BABIES DECREASE . Under Statistics Canada’s low-growth scenario, the number of babies born to the average woman decreases to 1.4 from the current 1.7 and immigration remains at about 50,000 annually. If that happens, the number of potential workers, or people aged 18 to 64, will increase to a peak of 18.8 million by 2011 from about 16 million now. It would then begin decreasing. By 2031, there would be only 15.7 million people of working age. That means there could actually be a decrease in the cludin BEAVER CAMP .. . 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