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Although “there are an awful lot of: péople who want to be in Canada,” Lang said he hasn't considered which countries would provide most of the immigrants. He acknowledged it would be a key question for many Cana- dians. BUILD CITIES As to where they would settle, Lang proposed building several cities pf about 500,000 in under-populated areas. Two or three of the cities could be established in Saskatchewan, while another could be centred about 40 kilometres north of Winnipeg. He alse proposed northern parts of British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec as possible sites. Lang, now vice-president of Winnipeg-based Pioneer Grain Co., said existing ies such as Ed: N.B., could absorb many immigrants. Most members of the discussion panel treated Lang's proposal lightly, as if it was a joke, while a few criticized it. “The social problems of adding to our population may far exceed the benefits,” said Lloyd Barber, president of the University of Regina. Lang told reporters he first thought of the idea during the late-1960s. He presented the proposal at several cabinet meetings during the next decade, but his Liberal colleagues found it “too shocking.” Our Keenleyside-Murphy Teaching Hh, naa, et aha ae Asso FR big the heavy tax burden Sedanal and provingial eaoee have imposed on oil and gas companies is killing off the incentive to explore and produce. y eee eee an said, Canada can expect an oil shortage and 300,000 barrels a day by the ph o> oe 1990s. t . “Nielsen predicted a revised and more encouraging tax and royalty. structure would produce ain additional $100 billion in Canadian investment, miueh of it spinning off into non-petroleum related industries. robust A nt should. eit its own taxes rather than rae energy prices if it ii. aa aaa regions a price break for fuels. nee’ Copithorne, a University of Calgary econom- ist, said nite federal and ‘provincial governments must stop competing for tax dollars if Canada's energy industry is to prosper: The commission, which ends hearings today in Calgary and moves to Toronto next week, is to present its final report in 1985. Scheme saves money By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN Staff Writer The Castlegar school board voted Monday to enter into a streamlined borrowing agreement for capital funds with the Ministry of Finance that will speed up’ the process, and reduce lending rates by up to half-a-percent. The new certificate of approval system — to be phased in over the next two years — will mean school boards, hospitals, municipalities and crown corporations can borrow direetly from the Ministry of Finance, instead of going through banks, said secretary- treasurer John Dascher. This means paperwork and other “red tape between the school board office and the Ministry” will be Dascher. proposal process reduced, and since lending will be done “in the billions instead of the millions,” interest rates will be The certificate of approval system will take over from the more time-con suming and complex capital expense school boards — which requires several board resolutions and other procedural waiting periods before a capital project loan can be acquir The new system: e cuts down on borrowing authorization; e reduces the required number of board resolutions and bylaws; ¢ includes a capital budget timetable that will allow school boards to take lower, said better advantage of the summer con. struction period; e reduces the number of forms needed for capital budgeting and fund ing; now used by B.C. ¢ eliminates the need for temporary borrowing authority. Capital projects will be divided into major and minor categories. Major projects — which cost $1 million or more — will require two budget years ime required for BILL PROPOSED Divorced Information Office is closing, but we're only a phone call away. Because of the deferral of the Keenleyside-Murphy project, coupled with continuing restraint on spend- ing, our information office will be closing June 30th. But information on the project will still be only a phone call away. You can leave a message for Alex Lutz at 365-8471, or call B.C. Hydro in Vancouver- collect -at 663-2403. In addition, we will continue to send out project reports to everyone on our mailing list as new ones are issued. You can also pick up reports at the Kootenay Canal Generating Station during office hours. And whenever there is news on the project, we will be sure to keep you up to date. positions to be cut VANCOUVER (CP) — Staff cuts to enable school boards to stay within Edu- cation Ministry funding guidelines will chop about 1,600 teaching positions from the system this fall, says a British Columbia Teachers’ Federation survey. George North, the feder- ation’s bargaining division director, said the cuts will push the pupil-teacher ratio to nearly 19 to 1. He said the metropolitan Vancouver area accounts for about 575 of the positions lost; the next hardest hit area is Vancouver Island OTTAWA (CP) — Justice Minister Mark MacGuigan promised federal legislation Tuesday to help the prov- inces trace divorced spouses who default on child support payments or violate custody orders, but it is unclear whe- ther the government can push the bill through before the next election. A joint federal-provincial committee of civil servants has agreed in prineiple to a uniform enforcement proce- dure for support and custody orders, MacGuigan told re- porters. As part of the deal, Ottawa would allow the use of federal data banks to trace default- ers, and would, if necessary, withhold federal cheques — such as income tax refunds, with 314 iti cut. benefits and HomeGoods Price Brea Bedroom Suite — Distinctive styling in warm Western Pine finish 897’ INCLUDES: triple dresser, grandmother mirror, headboard, 5-drawer chest. Nites extra $119.00 Price for suite Phone collect 693-2227 — No charge delivery omeReeds FURNITURE pension payments — husbands who don't pay up. The money would instead be diverted to their wives. MacGuigan said the legis- lation will not be ready be- fore Parliament recesses at the end of next week for its summer break, but said he hopes a bill can be pushed through this fall. Most observers, however, expect a general election be- fore the end of the year and possibly as early as this summer. Information from federal data banks would be avail- able only under court order, and would ‘be used only to obtain the addresses of de- from’ faulting spouses. For ex- ample, income tax or federal unemployment insurance rec- ords might be used to trace somebody's whereabouts, but the rest of the infor- mation in the records would not be released. Nobody knows for sure how many spouses default on payments, but there have been estimates that up to 75 per cent of court-ordered payments in the country are in default. The male spouse defaults in the majority of cases. Many orders fall into de- fault simply because the hus- band can’t keep up the pay- ments. But some men who NO NOSTALGIA for full funding. Minor projects will be fully funded in one year. The first year of major project funding will cover site acquisition, and planning costs. The rest of the funds needed will be supplied during the second year. spouses to be traced have the ability to pay escape their responsibility by mov- ing to other provinces. The provinces have agreed to share information from their own data banks to track down such people, and Ot- tawa will contribute by mak- ing federal information avail- able, MacGuigan said. But the exact enforcement method in each province has not yet been worked out. Ottawa has offered to set up a central nationwide reg- istry of support and custody orders, but the provinces seem to be “moving away” from that concept, preferring to pool their own infor. mation, said MacGuigan. PM has no regrets OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Trudeau said Wed nesday he had “no regrets” as he emerged from a Liberal caucus meeting where his replacement as party leader, John Turner, was formally introduced to MPs and sen. ators. In a rare discussion with reporters, Trudeau, who is expected to hand over the reins of power to Turner at the end of the month, said he felt no nostalgia on leaving the political fray after 16 years. Trudeau, who was heading for a lunch with caucus mem. bers and Turner, said “No, I feel hungry.” Asked how he felt the Lib- erals had emerged from the leadership race he triggered when he announced his in- tention to resign Feb. 29, Trudeau said, “United, strong, and determined to win. I have no regrets.” And asked to compare this caucus meeting with his first as leader back in 1968, Tru- deau said playfully, “I don't remember.” Trudeau wouldn't reveal whether he has counselled Turner to call a quick election to take advantage of the mo- mentum generated by the leadership race. But Trudeau said in French, “I'm ready to go any- time, but because I'm not running again the question is unimportant.” Trudeau is expected to re- tire to his Montreal home when Turner takes over and to head off for a summer vacation somewhere in Can- ada with his three boys, Sacha, Michel and Justin. Media aide Ralph Coleman said he doesn't expect Tru. deau, 64, to take a “nine-to- five job,” when he eventually gets around to mapping out his career prospects. Coleman mentioned such organizations as the Trilateral Commission, the Brandt Commission and the Club of Rome, all international think tanks, that could interest Trudeau. He is expected to move from the prime minister's of. ficial residence at 24 Susex Drive to his art deco Mon- treal home by mid-July, Coleman said. Trudeau gave no reply when asked if he was going to attempt to carry on with his peace initiative as a private citizen. Cominco Retirees GET TOGETHER ’84 2:00 p.m. - June 21 4:00 p.m. Cominco Arena — Trail Victoria St. parking lot reserved for Retirees for the day. “Mk ally WY + tata tahealn den laetilainh tlh dines ba W974. cas VEY time for sex offences view sadistic pornography. Judge Douglas Reed made the comment after he' fined Jagjit Singh Toor, 27, a video store owner in Chilliwack BACK AGAIN . . . Re-elected as trustees on the Castl Thursday were Inga Lamont’ and Nick Seow (pictured above). In an in camera meeting later that evening Carl Henne, Terry Rogers and Oglow were re-elected as lent and treasurer of the board respectively. president, vice-pr and District pital board $150 on obscenity charges. Trial evidence showed that a movie called Weekend Fantasy, depicting the rape Nelles had partner in crime according to police lawyer TORONTO (CP) — Nurse Susan Nelles may have been working with another nurse to harm babies on the cardiac ward of Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, a lawyer for Metropolitan Torento Police has charged. Barry Percival made the allegation Tuesday before a royal commission while theorizing why mysterious deaths might have stopped in March 1981 after Nelles's arrest on four murder charges. The allegation caused an objection from Nelles’s lawyer, David Brown, whose client was discharged after a prelimin- ary hearing. Brown said Percival’s allegation were “highly unethi- cal,” especially since the police lawyer did not have “the guts to put it to (Nelles) when she was in the witness box.” Percival told the commission investigating the deaths that at least eight babies at the hospital were murdered by overdoses of the heart drug digoxin and the person who had killed the infants was a hospital employee working on the cardiac ward. His submission marked the first time the commission has heard allegations accusing anyone of harming the babies. But Mr. Justice Samuel Grange, head of the commission, warned Percival not to identify who the police thought might have murdered the babies. An Ontario Court of Appeal decision prevents the judge from implicating anyone in giving overdoses to the infants. But Percival, giving his final argument on how the babies died, said he was only introducing a possibility other than those expressed by commission lawyer Paul Lamek and Nelles’s counsel as to why the baby deaths stopped after Nelles’s arrest Mareh 25, 1981. DEATHS STOPPED Lamek said last week the baby deaths which began in June 1980 stopped after March 22, 1981, because the hospital brought in stricter controls on use of digoxin and police were conducting an investigation. He said other possibilities for the end of the baby deaths included the idea that Nelles was actually the culprit; someone else murdered the babies and found the situation too ng’ to ii or else had been murdering babies and implicated Nelles. But Percival said “it is interesting to note the possib- ililty” that Nelles was working in conjunction with another member of the same nursing team. Grange said he could not rule on an objection by Brown because Percival had already made his statement but he cautioned the police lawyer to “wrap it so names don't come out.” He said the killers were “employed on the cardiology wards of the hospital for Sick Children. There were clearly nc Local man passes away strangers loose on the ward putting those babies to their deaths.” Percival defended the actions of police in deciding the babies were murdered, saying the commission would come to the same conclusion after hearing 146 days of evidence. Percival added that all the deaths occurred during the early morning hours and all the murder victims died when the nursing team led by Phyllis Trayner was on duty The police lawyers said the other 28 babies whose deaths are being reviewed by the commission could also have been overdose victims. Earlier on Tuesday, Doug Hunt, lawyer for the Ministry of the Attorney General, said circumstantial evidence points overwhemingly to murder in the deaths of the babies. Electoral map controversial Leon Karzaniewski of Castlegar died June 18, aged 74. Mr. Karzaniewski was born May 25, 1910 in Poland, and came to Canada in 1949. He is survived by one son, two daughters, five grand children, grandchildren. Mr. Karzan- iewski was predeceased by his wife in 1966. At his request, there will be no service. Cremation has taken place. Funeral arrangements un- der the direction of Castlegar Funeral Chapel. and two great- OTTAWA (CP) — Costly and confusing plans for in- creasing the number of MPs in the Commons by changing federal electoral boundaries should be scrapped, Conser- vative MP Jack Ejlis urged Tuesday. Proposed revision to the electoral map that would carve out 28 new ridings and increase the number of MPs to 310 are unjustified, he said House of Commons, Reid, MP for the Ontario riding of Kenora-Rainy River, said at- tempts to reduce its size in the early 1970s were vehem- ently opposed. Revised boundaries, prop- osed by independent boun- dary commissions in 1982, were scheduled to come into effect in October this year, but became bogged down in the C last year. after tabling a private mem- ber’s bill to stop the ex- pansion. The cost of operating the Commons will reach $146 million this year, said Ellis, MP for the Ontario riding of Prince Edward-Hastings. “Surely, surely there is no desire on anyone's part to in- crease that.” But Liberal and New Dem- ocrat MPs, while sympathiz- ing with Ellis’s concerns, ef- fectively killed the bill by talking out the one hour al- lotted for debate. Liberal MP John Reid re- called the Constitution re- quires redistribution of Com- mons seats after every fed- eral census. The last census was taken in 1981. If the total number of MPs remains static while seats are redistributed to reflect pop- ulation shifts, rural areas and smaller provinces would suf. fer as they lose residents to the cities and the larger provinces, he said. While expressing a per- sonal preference for a smaller Regular Absorbant 72s pastite Absorbant 60s $ Super Absorbant 54s YOUR CHOICE ..... e 10s Reg. $3. Allergy Formula 79 FOR THE ALLERGY SUFFERER: TIME RELEASE CAPS 20s Reg. $6.29 24s Reg. $6.29. Ettor AF °4.99 Eltor 120 s, 99 Castleaird Plaza CARL'S DRUGS. SALE STARTS QUANTITIES LAST!! ofa : female jogger and sex with whips and chains; was rented by the medium-secur- ity Mountain prison near Ag- assiz in 1982. “It starts by a man leaping out of a bush, threwing a woman to the ground and ripping off her clothes,” the judge said in an interview. He said many of the pris. oners at the institution were in prison “for the very sort of sexual acts” and attacks on women repeated in the mov “It hardly seems that's much of a eure for a man who's spending 10 to 15 years in a pen, to show them that kind of a movi Reed said it was very allow criminals to watch movies judged obscene by the provincial Attorney Gen- eral's department. He also said that # pol- iticians really are serious about curbing sex erimes, the $500 maximum fine for ob- scenity convictions would be raised Tom D'Aquino, a spokes. man for the federal corree- tions service, said Tuesday night that prisoners now are permitted to wateh only those movies given a clean bill by the provincial film censor. Construction still in OTTAWA (CP) — The slump in the construction industry is expected to con tinue but there are signs of increasing activity among manufacturers and retailers, Statistics Canada figures re- leased Tuesday suggest. There is no sign of an end to the decline in house build ing, the federal agency said, as the index measuring fu ture residential construction activity fell 3.4 per cent in February. “Since the termination of the Canadian Home Owner. ship Stimulation Plan, activ- ity in the single-detached housing sector has been de- clining and there is no in- dication of any levelling-off,” Statistics Canada said. The federal program pro- vided grants to buyers of new homes and was credited with boosting residential con- struction in early 1983. slump Meanwhile, the decline in the construction of apart ments and townhouses ap pears to have bottomed out, it said. 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