Castlégar News October 19 October 19, 1986 Castlegar News A’ MOORE continued from front pege pipeline) is a federal government project. It has been promised to the Vancouver Island people by both the Liberal and Conservative gov ernments. Neither have committed any funding to the project. We are pressing the federal government for a satisfactory financial committ ment. Question: This is supposed to be a fresh start with Bill Vander Zalm. How will it be different from the past? Moore: I think you will have a great many new faces and a lot of with new ideas, new energy as MLAs. I like what the premier is saying. He is saying we must cooperate. I found that fighting is a bit of a luxury and you can only afford it when times are good. In hard times you coalesce, you get together, you cooperate. We've got a new leader, someone very good with people. Old solutions won't work with our emerging problems. Education is a concern of mine and I think you will see changes with Mr. Vander Zalm. You cannot educate our children with yesterday's skills for tomorrow's world. There will be a royal com mission of education. There hasn't been one since the 1960s. Question: Will education funding be restored? Moore: There will be a royal on ion. Once the aa AIGNING . . . Rossland-Trail Social Credit candidate Audrey Moore with husband Bill during campaigning last Saturday in Castlegar much? Moore: We have the lowest one in Canada | understand. I've had people call me about the minimum wage saying to increase it and I've had businessmen call me to say they can’t afford it. I've also heard the premier say that he doesn't think it's right and proper that we have the lowest in Canada. If I'm an MLA and the premier wants to examine the impacts of raising the minimum wage, I'd like to be part of that committee. The majority of those who receive that facts are known there will probably have to be a reordering of priorities with the educational dollar. Just to restore money without knowing what it is that needs strengthening, what new directions need to be established, would be counter pro- ductive. The money can then be spent effectively, for the good of the educational system, for the good of the students, for the good of the teachers, for the good of the economy. Question: Should student grants be restored? Moore: Russ Fraser (Minister of Post-Secondary Education) is chair. man of a committee working with the federal government. He met with his provincial counter parts across Canada and recommended that there be a national loans re- mission program related to the Canada Student Loans program based on the B.C. example. Did you hear on Sunday that Mr. Vander Zalm is looking into a proposal to have those loans com pletely forgiven? I think that’s a good investment in young people because you're basically giving them a minimum wage to prepare themselves to contribute to the economy. Unless our young people can afford an education they are not going to be able to contribute to the economy. When my son was going to university he could make enough in his summer job to pay his whole year's expenses. But if you're only going to make $6.50 an hour, you can’t do it. An educated person is a federal resource and a provincial resource. jon: Should the wage be increased, and if so by how wage young people Women basically make about 60 per cent of that of a man. I would strongly support equal pay for work of equal value. We corrected that in the City of Castlegar a few years ago. Question: How do you propose to get the Rossland/Trail economy moving again? Moore: | think first of all we have to recognize that the second largest employer in the ai is the health care field. It's sofhething in the vicinity of over 2,000 people. That's getting very, very close to the numbers presently being employed by Cominco I think retirement is a fair chunk of the industry here. I was surprised to find out that retirees put about $25 million dollars into the economy of Trail a year. You have Kiro Manor being expanded. We have an aging population and that expansion creates construction jobs. Calls on™ the Columbia View Lodge, again addressing our retirees, our aging population and the health care field. You have Castlegar Hospital looking for an extended care wing and you have a move taken and a commitment being made by the provincial government that yes, Trail will become the regional hospital. It will be properly staffed and properly equipped The CAT Scanner is the first, I would think, of many announce ments for that hospital. There are a multiplicity of projects that could take place here. I think we have enormous potential to develop or tourist industry. We have beautiful ski hills, fishing is presently being addressed and I would personally like to see a highway connecting are women, or Fauquier to Castlegar. Question: What would make you a better MLA? Moore: What would make me a good MLA. I certainly have a lot of experience in local government, I know the Rossland/Trail area well. I've served at the regional level for over 10 years. I certainly have an appreciation of my own munici- pality. I've established good work ing relationships with various pro- vineial ministries and I certainly learned how provincial govern ments operate. The people taught me to be accessible and accountable. I have energy, I have new ideas and I think I would be a good con tribution. Question: What is the single most important issue in this election? Moore: I would really like the opportunity to put the riding of Rossland/Trail front row center. I would like the province to not only know we're here, but start to address our concerns. We rely on resource industries, we're sparsely populated and the government must be aware of our special needs. Question: What is your position on native land claims? Moore: We don't have any native people in the area. I know the issue is certainly something that has to be addressed. I think it’s a good idea that the premier lived in an Indian settlement for a couple of days. I think that’s very good familiari zation. We can't ignore the issue We really can’t ignore it dues : Should given the right to strike? Moore: That's a very interesting question. J.don't think there's any simple answers to it. Basically, they don't like binding arbitration. I'm net sure that I think that’s the best process either The teachers were under the Labor Act and I believe they came out at their own request. If they went back under the labor code, there would have to be three or four people exempt from the bargaining unit Maybe we could have managers in the system. It's a very simple question but I think I would be very naive to give a simple answer. | would like more discussion. I would like to sit down with them and examine it teachers” be™ D'ARCY continued trom tront pege system, especially at the college level. I don't think you resolve the uation by throwing a lot of money at it immediately. I think what government has to do is act immfediatety — not have a whole bunch of studies or issic onto everybody, but it has been especially intensive to the mining and smelting industry. That tax has to either be removed or at least greatly reduced and it has to be tied to the selling product of the product, much as stumpage is. Then, I think we can not only secure our future in terms of the products that are produced now in Trail, but I think the would be there which can be used as an excuse for doing nothing. To in fact get together with the educational com that we could see an adaptation of this enormous resource of low cost electricity into other functions and munity and the pa; and parents with the needs of the region and say, ‘Okay, where is the need greatest in your community now and what can be done with the mini- mum amount of money to provide better educational services to all, particularly to those of children with special needs?’ What can be done immediately to provide educational post-secondary opportunity to those people who have the brains, and the ability and the desire, but are prevented financially from going at it because the fee structure. I think those are the areas the government has to start working immediately with the educational community and the community at large. Question: Would student grants be restored? D'Arcy: Absolutely. I think that we want to make it possible for anyone with the ability and the desire to get post-secondary train ing whether it be in the professions or trades or arts and sciences or technology. If there's jobs waiting out there people should have the opportunity to get the training for it and fill those jobs within British Columbia. I think assistance for stu dents who have a need is tre- mendously important. i Would the ing other prod that the new owners of Cominco may see fit to do in Trail, and thereby not only stabilize the present working force but also increase it. I think we see the same thing with the pulp and lumber industry here. While the taxation regime does vary according to the selling price of the produce . . . the govern ment is threatening to divert some of the cut from the Arrow Lakes over to the Okanagan and Shuswap. That has led to much like the water tax to an uncertainty in terms of the future viability of these operations. I understand that there is a report that recommends that the wood supply not be reduced from the Arrow basin, especially the saw log supply. It's only a report or recommendation that has yet to be ratified officially by the govern ment. I hope they accept the report ... A reduction in the amont of saw logs, especially available to us here would result in an impact on jobs and on the future viability of the saw and pulp operations here in Castlegar. I would love to see our economy very diversified and a lot of manu facturing plants going on and maybe at some point that’s going to happen. I'd like to see these industrial parks filled up with clean, wage be increased? D’Arey: I understand there has been discussion about a progressive or phased in increase. I don't know whether it's 50 cents or even a dollar an hour. The British Columbia minimum wage is the lowest in Canada, and I think it's significant that our economy in British Colum bia is the only one which still has fewer jobs of all types than we had at the pre-recession peak. Everyone else has, however slowly they're recovering from the MT plants providing jobs to men and women on an equal basis. The fact is though that small or medium sized industry hasn't come to this area. Perhaps at some point it will. But the jobs that we rely on here and the spin-off jobs and the multiplier jobs are still coming from those two basic industries and ] think it’s going to stay that way for some time. : Why would you make a better MLA? D’Arey: I've always made a the activity in the number of jobs that ‘they had at the pre-recession peak. This is even in spite of all the employment we've had from Expo. No one ean say that an increase in minimum wage is going to hurt the economy in British Columbia. : How would you propose to get the Rossland-Trail economy moving again? D'Arcy: The first thing we have to do is make sure our resource industries have a stable economic footing. We have to get away from any uncertainty we've had about our sawmill, our pulp mill, our smelting industry With regards to the smelting industry, the only reason we have it here is low cost industrial electric power. We have been extremely heavily impacted by the royalties on electricity that the government has put onto the mining industry, put t dous effort to be responsive and responsible to all of the tax payers and all of the people here first and on all issues, because I think that's my job. I don’t think an MLA is wanted by the public or paid for to be partisan Naturally, we have a political philosophy. But I don't think the . public wants to see their MLAs or MPs engaged in sort of slanging matches with the other side, getting into fights or arguments in the legislature or on a partisan basis. I think they want to see their MLAs or MPs working on behalf of all the people, regardless of their political persuasion or nomic status and that's what I've always tried to do. I intend to continue to be that way. I try never to let my politics interfere with doing the job. I think I have succeeded in that Question: What is the single most socio-eco- impoftant issue in this election? D'Arcy: Job opportunities and stabilizing the jobs we have and providing more and diversified job opportunities, which will have a multiplier effect Education, espec- ially post-secondary. Health care services, with particular reference to long-term and in home care. There is a long waiting list here for long-term and intermediate care facilities. Question: Should teachers be given the right to strike? D'Arey: Teachers now, in effect, have the right to strike. The only time in recent history, that I can remember that teachers wanted to go on strike was the fall of 1983 and they stayed out on strike until they were satisfied that they would go back. In effect, regardless of what the Education Act says, it's quite clear that teachers have the right to stike now if they wish. I think the real question is should the collective bargaining between teachers and school boards be taken out of the Education Act and put under the labor code like all other occupational and professional groups who bar. gain collectively. I personally don't fear a strike or lockout situation. But I wouldn't want to impose anything on the bargaining unless it was popularly required or asked for by both teachers and the school trustees. Question: Some say you have a reputation as not being a hard worker for the riding. Is it not true depiction and if not why not? D’Arey: In what area? Who is making this charge and what specifics? I'd like to know who is saying that and why. I think that's a serious allegation. What area of en deavor is it? Is it talking in the forest estimates, is it talking about lottery grants or Expo Legacy grants? In the area of Expo Legacy grants, not only has this riding done better than the provincial average, but I was the only MLA of either party to stand up on behalf of my local riding in those areas; Haley Park afd the Castlegar Library and the Red Mountain Ski Club appli cation. As far as I'm concerned, our high ways are better served. I think our schools and hospitals have done very very well in the area of cut backs. This business of trying to blame the leeal MLA for. Soered decisions which is what I interpret it as. We even heard that on the radio station in Trail where some one phoned in complaining about a regulation or rule that human resources had and somehow the Socred candidate tried to turn that around as though the fact that the Socreds had had that policy there that it was somehow the Opposi tion's fault. This is bizarre Question: Can we afford NDP promises such as increased min imum wage and job guarantees for young B.C. residents? D'Arcy: I think we can't afford not to do them. When people are unemployed or underemployed it costs the people who are working or the people in business a tremendous amount of tax dollars to keep them Students 10° DISCOUNT WITH 1.D. MONDAY NIGHT SPECIAL 5p.m.-9 p.m SPAGHETTI OR LASAGNA WITH MEAT SAUCE includes Garlic Bread $495 ANTHONY’S Pizza & Steak House | ON ALL OUR MENU ITEMS. (AT NO EXTRA CHARGE) FREE DELIVERY THROUGHOUT CASTLEGAR OUR is No. SALADS Chet Combination Salad . Shrimp Salad ..... CROISSANTS Chicken Salad Croissant . .. 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The poll, which surveyed voters who are willing to say who they'll vote for in Wednesday's provincial election, is a sharp contrast to earlier polls, which had the provincial government on its way to a landslide vietory. In a province-wide sample, 33.4 per cent said they are “presently inclined to support” Social Credit, while 28.2 per cent favor the NDP. In The Sun's poll, 20 per cent of the respondents said they weren't sure which party they were inclined te support and an additional 13.6 per cent refused to say. The poll showed the Liberals with 3.7 per cent of the vote and the Progressive Conservatives with one per cent. A total of 404 voters were interviewed Thursday night and Friday by Marktrend Marketing Research Inc. The firm said the margin of error was about plus or minus four per cent, which means the Socreds could be leading by as little as one point or by as many as nine. FIRE CHIEF . . . April Plomondon was made fire chiet for the day at Robson Fire Hall Friday. April was the winner in Robson of the Fire Chief For a Day contest held in conjunction with the Plan to Get Out Alive Although there is a substantial body of voters who either don't know who they would vote for or who won't say, 90 per cent of those responding ssid their support for the party of their choice was “firm.” Only nine per éent said they might change their mind before election day. Earlier polls had given Social Credit leads of 21 and 18 per cent. ‘Tempering any correlation between the poll results and the outeome of an election is the variation last election between popular vote and number of seats won. In the 1983 general election, Social Credit led the NDP by plus 4.83 per cent spread between the two parties in popular vote, but the Social Credit ended up winning 36 seats versus the NDP’s Vander Zalm said the poll's surpri results only prove what he suspected all along — it's going to be a hard-fought race to the wire. “I never pr d anything as overwhel the polls were showing only a few weeks ago..- going to be a fight,” Vander Zalm said Friday night. “We've got to work to the very last minute, we've got to program. Diana Wong was the winner in Castlegar and Theo Laktin was named fire chiet of Tarrys Fire Department CosNews Photo by Notole Koorbotott ocreds five po get our vote out .. . It's not going to be a landslide.” Vander Zalm said he is not disappointed by the poll results and will not change the Social Credit campaign, which has focussed on his charisma rather than on issues. “T'm not disappointed as long as we're five points ahead . . It's certainly narrowed but then you'd expect that towards the end of a sf Skelly said the poll confirms that “the momentum in the election campaign has begun to swing and swing our way.” He said the poll reflects the results NDP canvassers have been getting by going door-to-door or in telephoning around the province. “People are very frustrated that Mr. Vander Zalm is refusing to talk about the issues and they now see the New Democratic party as the only hope to form a government that is going to get B.C. back on the economic tracks again,” said Skelly. c Skelly said one of the poll results he finds encouraging is the strong public support for a leaders’ debate “Tl tell you there's the on the part of at least one party leader to get involved in that debate. The ints ahead labor relations. ‘The poll indicated that people judged Skelly the most trustworthy leader and would be best at creating jobs for British Columbia's unemployed. Richard Basford, president of Marktrend, said a signifi- cant finding fo the poll was “There's been a slippage. “There is no doubt about that.” VANDER ZALM BANKING ON GOOD TIMES By DAPHNE BRAMHAM Canadian Press VANCOUVER — The Expo party is over and British Columbians don't want to go back to the dark days of restraint They're in search of a good-time guy to lead them to what they hope will be better times. At least that's the theory Bill Vander Zalm is banking on when the province votes in a general election Wednesday. After a three-year sabbatical from provincial polities, he was the people's choice — not the establishment's — at the Social Credit leadership convention in July. ith relaxed, confident demeanor and his campaign of hope, he has tried to effect province-wide amnesia and block out the last three years of high unemployment and government program squeezes. Meanwhile, a somewhat awkward NDP Leader Bob Skelly is talking about the bad times. His party's programs are not all that different from the Socreds, but they are promised without the same kind of flair. Vander Zalm took a sizeable public opinion lead into the election. Whether it will be there Wednesday is another question because of the traditional closeness of the popular vote between the Socreds and the NDP. ‘At dissolution, the Socreds, in power since 1975, held 32 seats, the NDP 21, the Conservatives one and three seats were vacant. The Socreds won about 50 per cent of the popular vote in the 1983 election, compared with 45 per cent for the NDP. Vander Zalm and his wife, Lillian, have spent the election campaign on a sort of movie stars’ tour of B.C. making use of the province's spectacular scenery as & backdrop for his optimism. _ Vander Zalm, a Dutch immigrant, extols the virtues of hard work and free enterprise — the two key ingredients to his own success creating a million-dollar nursery business. His campaign was an expression of that common bond with the working people. The Vander Zalms stoppped at nearly every shopping mall they passed. Bill kissed babies and tried to sooth the fears of the unemployed. Lillians hugged old ladies and signed autographs for teenagers. He told shake-and-shingle workers in Mission, who have suffered a cut in wages because of an American tariff on exports: “I sure don't want to see you guys suffer when the price of everything is going up at the same time. Hopefully, everything will work out.” Issues are irrelevant to this man of style. He believes that if British Columbians just have the right kind of attitude, they can return to simpler more positive times. “There's nothing wrong with that,” Vander Zalm told rej rs. “I think people do have to make a decision as to who's best able to deliver and who's best able to address not the specifies as much as the overall needs of the province.” EDUCATION continued from front poge bring them home lost the Trail campus.” D'Arcy added he does not feel the answer to the problem is merely to throw money into it. He maintained the major needs of the area must be addressed saying “Selkirk’s needs may machine. next?” Waste sites opposed vada, or Deaf Smith Count in the Texas Panhandle. OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) Officials from all three states nominated as potential sites for the United States’ first high-level nuclear waste dump have voted to join forces to fight the U.S. government's plans. Visiting nuclear waste of ficials from Texas and Ne vada were greeted by the Washington Nuclear Waste Board as comrades in a common struggle against the U.S. Department of Energy, rather than as rivals. The three states agreed to squelch the competitive urge flawed, pository in the East Officials from all energy department declared all three sites ui suitable to overhaul its whole pr All three states have filed FATAL FLAWS lawsuits claiming the site selection was unscientific and and ripping Presi dent Ronald Reagan and the energy department for drop ping plans for a second re three states joined in bashing the They and pledged joint efforts to study the sites and to try to get the government y the Nevada Nuclear Waste verse sweepstakes.” Project Office. He added, work tagether, stronger.” Frishman We don't think any of the three have any future of even being licensed” due to fatal flaws overlooked by the nominating Frishman low-quality replied, want an unsafe site any goverment in where in this country.” them, said They're pretty sites.” Curt Eschels, energy ad visor to Washington Gover n- nor Booth Gardner, said the states must keep away from scrambling to “win the re. endorsed the statewide ref erendum on the Washington on Nov measure sharply courts and elsewhere be very different from Nanaimo’s.” Premier Bill Vander Zalm's sug gestion of the creation of county boards to operate schools was also raised work available Adams. “My kid takes a typing course out and there are two students to every “We had to close a school to get back our French,” she said. “What do we do The parents also said they fear their children will be unable to afford a post secondary education with the little “It's not because there are not jobs there waiting for them. They simply cannot afford to go.” he said Moore suggested that a royal commission would create the most viable answers to the educational needs. “I would certainly support a royal commission on education,” she said. Things are changing very rapidly. We can't educate for tomorrow's world with yesterday's skills.” for homework,” said “Where we we'll be “Our governor has said he doesn't Texas and Nevada officials ballot in 4. That criticizes the siting process, calls on state officials to fight it in the Johnson said she feels county boards would cause further centralization rather than the decentralization it is intended to create. Moore maintained that a commission on education address the idea. Once studied, she said, the commission could give the province a better idea of the effective ness of county boards D'Arcy pointed to the difficulties in the U.S. and Alberta, as examples of the ineffectiveness of county boards for royal would education. Parents Joyce Adams and Hughes told of their concerns with over crowding and the lack of essentials, such as textbooks. “The kids share texts they can't Howard pointed out that Selkirk College experiences a mid-year decline in enrolment simply because students cannot afford to return. ‘I've made a commitment that it really needs looking at,” said Moore. “The people in the industry don't recognize that those $11 and $12 an hour jobs just aren't there anymore They're floated right down the river.” D'Arcy said the dilemma of the student is obvious locally. He pointed to the province's need for qualified nursing staff. “Previously, Setkirk’s nursing pro- gram had a waiting list just to get in,” he said. “This year they have six vacancies. Moore pointed out that the last royal commission of education was the Chant Commission in 1960. D'Arcy did not share enthusiasm for the study “Most things in this province have been studied to death,” he said. And most studies have been used as a delay tactic “The people of this province should demand that the government act on its rec dations. Royal have all been very expensive and nothing has been done with them.” he said Mike Rodgers, president of the CDTA, said he was pleased with the way the breakfast went the same to prove why the other nomi nated sites should be chosen rather than their homestate site The government wants to put 70,000 tonnes of highly radioactive wastes at one of three proposed sites: the Hanford nuclear reservation near Richland, Wash., Yucca Mountain in southern Ne gram “The department has done a lot to convice people the program is totally out of control and not safe,” said Steve Frishman, director of the Texas Nuclear Waste Programs Office “Public confidence is at an alltime low,” said Robert Loux, executive director of Powers trial date set By CasNews Staff Dixie Dee Powers appear ed in Castlegar provincial court again Friday and her trial date has been set for Jan. 12 Powers, who appeared be fore Judge Ron Fabbro in a capacity filled courtroom faces charges of fraud and al legedly running a pyramid scheme which RCMP say col lected $3.4 million Powers's temporary law yer, John Carpenter, and Crown counsel Bill Heflin spent the greater part of the appearance attempting to agree on trial date. Carpenter argued that Powers has already been de tained three weeks and said a continued and lengthy stay in custody before the trial is unacceptable Heflin maintained that the notification of witnesses from such places as Jackson. Miss.; Las Vegas. Nev.; and Boulder, Colo., necessitated a lengthy waiting period be fore the trial Danyliu of Vernon Powers in Paul will represent January Powers, 36, also known as Laura Grace Gibbons. has not decided whether she will be tried by judge or by judge and jury. She will continue to remain in custody Story clarified An article in the Oct. 15 Castlegar News on the clo sure of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce's down. town branch suggested the customer accounts from that branch will be moved to the Castleaird Plaza branch on Nov. 14 However, bank manager Ivan Dechkoff says the ac counts have already been moved. Dechkoff also says the Castleaird Plaza branch was not built with the intention of making it the main branch, but strictly to serve as a sub sidiary branch Police file A Christina Lake man was lucky to escape without in jury following a single-veh icle accident Wednesday morning on Highway 3 in which his truck was totalled Castlegar RCMP report that a 1974 Ford pick up driven by Alan Becker was eastbound on Highway 3 about 6 am. 11 kilometres west of Castlegar when it hit a patch of black ice. Becker lost control of the truck and the truck rolled, bursting into flame Becker was helped out of the burning truck by Fred Perchie. of CP Express and Tom Garrett of CP Bulk Sys tems of Vancouver Then, Thomas Hayes, also of Christina Lake, who was following. lost control and rolled his pick up truck on the same stretch of highway Damage to the 1977 Ford truck was estimated at $2,000. Hayes was not in jured RCMP are investigating a report of a dog shot in the Crestview Crescent area Oct 9. Police say they have no suspects in the case Police have issued an alert to dog owners to keep their pets on their own property Lumber ruling uncertain as case continues By JULIE O'NEILL Canadian Press WASHINGTON The Reagan administration's trade ruling against Canadian lumber imports may be either stronger or weaker by the time the case is over It also could disappear if the parties decide to take another stab at negotiating a friendly settlement to what has become a prolonged political and economic dispute that is straining Canada US. relations The ruling imposed a 15 per cent tariff on Canadian yut $4 billion Cdn last year softwood lumber, valued at abc provincial on grounds that it is subsidized by governments. Under U.S. and Canadian law, export sub sidies can be offset by countervailing duties The ruling, though preliminary, requires importers to pay cash deposits or post bonds equal to the duty in order to collect their imported pine. fir and spruce. The exporters will absorb some, if not all, of that cost and some may not be able to afford the loss Prospects for negotiation are clouded, despite some pressure on both sides to bargain The onus appears to be on Canada to propose negotiations, as the U.S. industry made clear it won't make the first move. Canadian officials say the prospects won't be known until Trade Minister Pat Carcey talks it over next week with provincial ministers. PRESSURE IS ON Pressure for negotiation stems from both financial considerations and political considerations, given that delicate Canada-U.S. trade negotiations are under way The financial aspect was obvious a couple of weeks ago when Carney made an unsuccessful “once-only” offer to raise lumber export prices about 10 per cent if the US industry would withdraw its duty claim and Congress would withdraw legislation to curb the imports.q If her offer had been accepted, the money would have stayed in Canada Under a duty system, the recipient of the money is the U.S. Treasury. Alan Wolff, trade lawyer for the U.S. lumber companies, says he thinks Canada may make a move to keep the money at home It’s not that simple The U.S. lumber supportive politicians have dug in their heels for a 32.per-cent duty when the Commerce Department makes its final ruling, due by Dee. 3 US. politicians are divided on the lumber issue and on the freer-trade negotiations, adding political pressure as the Nov. 4 congressional elections draw near That pressure may abate when the elections are companies and over, and there was a whiff of political compromise in the Commerce ruling since 15 per cent was about halfway between Canada's denial of subsidy and the U.S industry's claim