PRR i 88 Castlegar News June 13, 1990 J LOCAL NEWS Ch d Junior d POM-POM PERFORMERS second in Spokane’ nnual Lilac Parade entertained resi Raspberry Lodge earlier this month. y school who placed ints of Naturalists count 10,000 birds The family life of the birds is now at its peak. They have come back to the place of their beginning to com- plete an age old cycle of life. The West Kootenay Naturalists were out on June 2 to see just who had returned. Only a very small por- tion of the birds in the area were seen / The area is extensive and the fergatés are brooding their precious eggs and are very difficult to:-e. ° The young of some species, such as geese, are half grown and easily spot- ted. Some species are just returning and have not started the important task of procreation. Some 48 people assisted with the count and 129 species were identified. The total count was just over 10,000 birds, the highest count recor- ded in spring counts. Some of the unusual species seen were a swan, a barred owl, a Virginia / tail, two black-and-white warblers and two purple martins. The last two will need to be confirmed. There were 153 humming birds seen. The most numerous were 1,387 violet- green swallows. What a lot of mosquitos eliminated each day! The evening tally and social hour was held at the Horswills home in Castlegar. Hospice Society names executive At-the Hospice annual general meeting the new executive was ap- pointed as follows: President — Gwilym Hughes; vice-president — Colin Pryce; secretary — Margaret Pryce; treasurer — Patti Richards; directors — Kathy Kalmakoff, Marilyn Mathieson, Lovette Nichvalodoff and Pat Blessin. The Hospice Society training program for volunteers will start in the fall at. Selkirk College. Help is needed for a membership drive, publicity and other areas. 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There has been too many expediency and too little conviction, the party’s former national director told the gathering at a lodge in Quebec’s Gatineau Hills. There were too many tactics, too few principles. There was too much scheming, not enough political courage. Williams said the Liberal party's fall from power in 1984 had been not only inevitable, but probably desirable to force a period of self-analysis and renewal. He was not alone. Other speakers at the meeting had equally sobering thoughts on the state of the party that had held power for more than 60 years in this century After almost five years in opposition, they said, reform of party structure had been slow. They said the party that boasts such luminaries as Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Mackenzie King and Pierre Trudeau had attempted for too long ‘‘to replace leaders with messiahs and substitute reactions for policies."” Historian Jack Granatstein, for one, says that if Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, the Liberals’ nemesis in elections in 1984 and ’88, fouls up his Meech Lake accord, ‘‘there’s no way the man who lost Canada will get elected."” So Jean Chretien, certain he will succeed John Turner in Calgary and optimistic of becoming prime minister, says only something like: ‘I have a plan, I won’t tell what it is, but I can fix things,’? muses Granatstein, professor at Toronto’s York University. ‘This is a man who thinks he’s going to win, which he will. “and he thinks he’s going to be the next prime minister, which I think he probably will, too. That’s another reason why new policy positions are a little I principle, G says, that parties in power seldom reform themselves ~ and the Liberals held power in Canada most of this century. In Grits, her landmark 1982 study of the Liberal party, Christina McCall said the Liberal bedrock had historically been a coalition of minorities — including Quebec — who tended to view themselves as ‘‘out.’’ Much changed in the 1980s, however. There was the shift — felt around the world — to more conservative outlooks embodied in the governments of Ronald Reagan in the United States and Margaret Thatcher in England. John Kenneth Galbraith, the Canadian-born economist, once suggested that many of the former “outs’’ had grown secure, comfortable and happy under Liberal policies in many industrial countries. Not surprisingly, he concluded, they became adherents of a more conservative viewpoint - Changing outlooks wasn't all that sapped the Liberal party’s strength. By the time the most recent golden age petered out for the party in)1984, the Liberals were tired, cynical and in disarray, say many party insiders. «The steam went out of the pipes for the Grits during the latter years of the Trudeau era,”’ John Pennant, a full- time Liberal fundraiser, told a leadership forum in Vancouver in March ’ Even now, the party has no national computer software program for fundraising, no national party ip list, no p ive donor histories, and can hardly hope to compete with a sophisticated Conservative operation, Pennant told colleagues frustrated at the lack of leadership from the national party. erals slow to change Jean Chretien: Critics say the Grit frontrunner’s new policy positions are scarce. CosNews file photo Paul Martin: Chretien's closest challenger for the reins of a rebuilding Liberal party. CosNews hile photo After the party’s crushing defeat in September 1984, Turner vowed to rebuild and renew the Liberals. Yet, during his turbulent tenure, Turner did little to reform the party, said Granatstein. There’s little sign anyone else will. The imperatives of not blowing what seems a reasonable crack at regaining power in the next federal election have worked against policy innovation during the protracted leadership campaign that will end in Calgary, he says. “Chretien seems satisfied to fiddle with what worked 20 years ago.”’ Joseph Wearing, a politics professor at Trent University in Peterborough, Ont., is another Liberal watcher unimpressed with the leadership campaign to date. “*Candidates, on the whole, are reluctant to map out clear positions because they're afraid that might antagonize potential supporters,"’ says Wearing, author of a book on the Liberals titled The L-Shaped Party. At the same time, delegate selection has been planned with complaints of cheating, and some worthy candidates were scared off by an extravagant $1.7-million spending limit. “The spending limit has made a lot of Liberals very uncomfortable,”’ says Wearing. ‘‘The campaign has become solely about organizing and, as a consquence, or at least linked to that, it has become solely money.”” Historian Granatstein agrees, saying the campaign “has been a positive throwback in terms of manipulation of party delegate selection meetings “This is the ultimate triumph of the Liberal policy of multiculturalism. You wheel 100 Sikhs who don’t know where they are into.a meeting room and you elect a slate. | mean this is just bizarre. Circumstances being what they are, says Granatstein, the apparent lack of Liberal rejuvenation might be unimportant. After all, observers note, even under the temporary leadership of the somnolent veteran Herb Gray, the Liberals enjoy a wide lead in published opinion polls New leader will join select group By JOHN WARD The Canadian Press One was a spellbinding speaker, another a reclusive mystic, still another a renowned diplomat and Nobel Prize winner. There was one so popular he was known as Uncle Louis. Yet another was perceived as a disdainful intellectual as likely to flip voters the finger as solicit their support The person chosen Liberal party leader on June 23 will join a select group: the orator Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the spiritualist Mackenzie King, the fatherly Louis St. Laurent, the peacemaker Lester Pearson, the aloof Pierre Trudeau. There was also the less fortunate John Turner, leader of a party in disarray; a summer and autumn prime minister who succeeded Trudeau in 1984. The Calgary victory will also be heir to an impressive pedigree: no head of the party this century has failed to become prime minister The Liberal party has so dominated government in Canada in the 20th century it has been dubbed ‘‘the natural governing party."” Since Laurier, a white-haired Quebec lawyer, took office in 1896, Liberal prime ministers have held power for 66 years. King alone served 22 years; Trudeau for 16. Laurier was the real father of the party. He forged a politicial alliance in Quebec with provincial reformers, then extended it into a national coalition which won him three successive elections. He developed a philosophy which served the party for decades, based on minority rights and a strong national government. Whenever those principles have seemed weak, the Liberals have faltered The bitter reciprocity election of 1911 — fought ona sort of primitive free-trade deal — toppled Laurier. The First World War, with its Union government under Sir Robert Borden, consigned the | Liberals to opposition for a decade If Laurier was the architect of the party, King — first elected prime minister in 1921 — was the greatest practitioner of Liberal politics. He was an introverted occultist with a penchant for seances and an uncanny gift for blurring political issues. “Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription,” is the ultimate enigmatic line attributed to-King as he walked a tightrope between French- Canada and English-Canada during the Second World War struggle over conscription King was a master of straddling the political spectrum. In one persona, he placated the business community. At the same time, he instituted a series of social programs, including family allowances and universal pensions. The round-faced politician with the dry monotone voice was also an expert at what has become almost a Liberal trademark — co-opting good ideas from any source. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, the forerunner of today’s NDP, promulgated the ideas of baby bonuses, pensions and unemployment insurance, but it was King’s Liberals who put them into force. Trudeau did much the same when he derided a Conservative call for wage and price controls during the 1974 election, then reversed field and imposed controls the following year Louis St. Laurent, the avuncular Quebecer who succeeded King in 1948, was a former federal bureaucrat. While he was popular, he tended to overlook the party machinery and depend on the federal civil service During his nine years in power, the King-built Liberal alliance slowly eroded nationally, leading toa shattering defeat in 1958 at the hands of John Diefenbaker and the Conservatives. Since St. Laurent, the Liberals have never had more than a feeble grasp on the West, a circumstance which has led some to dismiss it as a central Canadian party unable to address concerns of provinces west of Ontario Pearson, who followed St. Laurent, won two minority governments in 1963 and 1965 By MARK BASTIEN The Canadian Press Once it could buy you a gumball, your weight Now it'll only get you half a jujube, a tenth of a asa tip. The lowly penny — it’s not worth much these days. But it won't go away. This year the Royal Canadian Mint will produce an estimated 750 million of the copper coins — ata cost of about 1.25 cents a penny — adding to the unknown billions already in circulation Why do we still have pennies — especially since can't buy anything? make a billion of these one year and then we have to make nearly a billion more the next year. “Yet nobody really likes them."’ Church says the mint produces pennies in direct tally from a machine and even someone else’s thought. licorice stick and the wrath of a waiter if you leave one they cost more to produce than they're worth and they “That's certainly a $64,000 question," says mint spokesman Murray Church. “It's funny, isn’t it? We Penny survives des response to demand — and despite constant complain. ts about the ubiquitous coins, demand shows no signs of decreasing. Two things help create a need for pennies in the marketplace: the retail industry's insistence on pricing things at numbers such as $5.99 instead of $6 even, and sales taxes that make articles priced at a dollar cost, say, $1.08. But why not get rid of pesky pennies by rounding off prices to the nearest nickel or dime? “Pennies are more trouble than they're worth, it's true,” says Alasdair McKichan, president of the Retail Council of Canada. ‘‘But to the average supermarket, a couple of pennies on the price of something could be the profits.”” While that is an argument for not reducing something priced at 87 cents to 85, it doesn’t explain why storeowners are reluctant to take 90 cents and give nothing back. After all, many people throw pennies away when they receive them as change And even if they stash them in jars at home, they won't get rich from them — unless they have a fistful of raré 1858 Province of Canada pennies that can fetch pite comp up to $500 each. But that’s not likely. ““There’s absolutely no reason to hoard pennies,”’ says Bill Cross, publisher of the influential Charlton coin catalogues. ‘They're obsolete already: “*Cash them in fast — you'll only lose money if you hang on to them.”” Given an annual inflation rate of five per cent, in 10 years $100 of pennies stored in a piggy bank would have the equivalent purchasing power of only $61. But if those pennies are put in a savings account that pays eight per cent interest, by the year 2000 they'll ac cumulate to $222 — and have an after-inflation value of about $136. Melting down pennies for their copper is another option — pennies are 98 per cent copper, 1.5 per cent zinc and 0.5 per cent tin — but with fluctuating metal prices there’s no guarantee that’s profitable, either The easiest way to get rid of pennies is to spend them — like using a handful for bus fare ‘*But please don’t say we're looking for more pennies,"’ says Mitchell Merowitz, spokesman for the Toronto Transit Commission, which receives about 40 million coppers a year on its buses, streetcars and sub- way trains laints Once the coins had to be manually counted and rolled, but now machines do the job The same is true at banks across the country, although some folks still spend a good chunk of their days feeding pennies into machines that spit the coins into plastic containers. At the main coin-sorting branch of the Royal Bank of Canada in Toronto, Louis Nunno guides about 25,000 pennies a day into their containers ‘They don’t create a big problem,’’ he says. “Still, it's a lot of work for something that’s not worth anything.” ~ Although inflation kéeps decreasing the value of the penny, the federal government doesn’t plan to phase it out, as Britain did with the half-penny in the late “60s. In fact, the mint has beautified the 1990 penny and other coins with a sparkling new portrait of Queen Elizabeth — she now has a subtle smile, a necklace and she’s traded her tiara for a full-fledged crown No, she can’t buy anything. And no, she’s not getting more valuable as she grows older But she can still give a gleam to a penny loafer