a aa _CastléiarNews 1202197 Vander Zal NEW YORK (CP) — British Columbia Premier Bill Vander Zalm. says it's hogwash for critics to complain that the new Canada-U.8. softwood agreement infringes on Canadian sovereignty. Noting the big play the.Canadian news media gave to opposition claims about the,Joss of sovereignty, Vander Zalm told a questioner Tuesday night at a Canadian Society of New York dinner: “Frankly I think it was a whole lot of hype and hogwash and I said so then and I say so again. “Obviously, if there's an agreement between two nations there are certain req and " the premier ‘said. And it's totally just and absolutely proper that there be a In those circumstances, he added, the current me: { assuring that the contract is lived up to by both freer-trade talks terould have been placed in real jeopardy. Pe ali “The fact we got ‘our act together is no guarantee we'll end up ag between our two countries, but it sure improves our chances. Earlier Tuesday, on his first trip to Washington since © Greater Selection © Top Quality Generic Apple Juice ey Lb Vander Zalm found a friendly audience at the New York dinner and received a good round of applause after his speech. The permier reiterated his praise of the softwood lumber pact, saying failure to resolve that dispute would have put freer-trade talks in “real jeopardy.” While the lumber deal has its drawbacks, he said it eliminated a serious threat to long-term trading relations between Canada and the United States, . . Had we failed to clear up this issue, there was a clear "possibility of @ major ‘escalation in our trade becoming premier last August, Vander Zalm met with U.S, senators and government He came away from a meeting with U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter optimistic ‘about the freer-trade talks. It's “looking good” from both sides, the premier said. He said he believes the protectionist mood in the United - States has been exaggerated, although he still fears it. And in his New York speech, Vander Zalm warned that proséetionian on pith sides oO Ey te i of afewa 0 ax 3 ice Open Sunda) a uIC pen: 365 mi Tin.....-.c0. 8 until 6 p.m. Saturday OTTAWA (CP) — People who know Senator Jean Bazin aren't surprised he was the one who alerted Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to the controversial land deal which resulted in the firing of a cabinet minister Sunday.’ Bazin, a life-long Conservative named to the Senate by Mulroney last month, always gave his friend honest advice whether it was pleasant or not, says Mulroney speechwriter and biographer L. Ian MacDonald. “He could always be counted on to tell Mulroney that something was just plain wrong,” MacDonald wrote in his 1964 Revita of Mulroney. Bazin, 46, has been ‘a close friend of Mulroney's since their student days at Laval University in Quebec City. Born into an old Quebec family of Conservatives, he has BILL VANDER ZALM worked for the party since his youth. . complaints ‘hogwosh’ As part of the “mulroney Mafia,” — the prime The foodie levying a 15-per-cent Canadian tax on softwood lumber exports to the United States is a classic example, Vander Zalm said. In the end, it's the U.S. consumers who'll pay a higher price for Canadian lumber when building a home. “And market forces being what they are, there’s no doubt that American softwood producers will inevitably inerease their prices along the way,” the premier said. 1 Litre Carton .... low if that to some is a loss of sovereignty, I'm sorry I'm in another ball game.” Vander Zalm was guest speaker at the dinner at the Pierre Hotel, attended by 250 people representing a cross-section of the New York business community, mainly in Wall Street. Today, the B,C. leader completes his whirlwind trip to Washington and New York, scheduling a series of private meetings with Wall Street bond-rating, investment bankers and other businessmen. Then he flies to Toronto for another speech tonight. : DELAYED BY STORM A snowstorm held up his flight from foronto to Washington for six hours Monday night. SS QS 10 Roa oOo “ gets ily Treil hoc Assoc. Lic. No. "59807 Friday and Saturday 8 p.m. -2a.m. Sunday 6 p.m. - 12 midnight As required by regulations, yearly pass for Casino — $2.00. PLEASE PHONE 2 p.m. - 8 p.m. daily. Groups wishing to raise funds can also call this number. Located at RIVERSIDE BINGO 1060 Eldorado St., Trail 364-2933 @ BLACKJACK @ ROULETTE @ NEW MATERIALS Victoria to VICTORIA (CP) — The B.C. government has decided to provide $600,000 to help 18 B.C. school districts buy tex- tbooks they could not other- wise afford because of in- sufficient funding from the province. 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The Social Credit govern- ment was criticized earlier for cutting back so deeply on education funding that B.C. schools had to make do with from “ savings within the Education Min- istry and the reallocation of ministry funds.” Of the province's 75 school districts, the following will share the $600,000 — Kam- loops, Langley, Surrey, Del- ta, Richmond, Vancouver, Burnaby, Prince George, Vic- toria, Central Okanagan. B.C. beer war between four VANCOUVER (CP) — president of a British Col- umbia brewery is accusing three national breweries of “a massive retaliatory price reduction” after a few skirm ishes over beer prices. Tom Sterling, president of Pacific Western Brewing Co., made the statment Tuesday after Labatt’s, Molson and Carling O'Keefe announced they will drop their draught beer prices by $12 to $80.95 a keg by Feb. 4. such reduction has taken place in their largest-selling national brands,” Sterling said. Pacific Western also joined the battle of the bottled beer price reductions Tuesday Py dropping the. price - of ‘its lower-priced Beer beer 40 cents to $9.75 a dozen, includ- ing the $1.20 litter deposit on the bottles. That. foHowed $1-a-dozen price reductions to $10, in- cluding the litter deposit, on The came after Pacific Western drop- ped its draught price by $6 to $80.95 a keg. Sterling also accused the three breweries of competing against only Pacific Western rather than each other when they reduced some brands by $1 a dozen after raising the price of their most popular beers by 50 cents a case of 12 bottles. “It is of interest that no 'y brands by the major brewers. The new prices take effect Feb. 4. “It’s predatory pricing by the national breweries,” sai John Gray, vice-president of Pacific Western. “They keep tracking our prices — and the minute we drop our price they come down.” Spokesmen for Carling O'Keefe and Molson said they are just trying to stay com: petitive with the cuts. OTTAWA (CP) — For a second year in a row, West Vancouver has the honor of the highest average annual total personal income in the country. As for occupations, Rev- enue Canada says self employed doctors and sur geons scored highest av. erage income at $95,597 a year. Women got higher aver age raises in terms of per- centages — 6.11 per cent versus 1.06 per cent for men. But in terms of real money, men won with ac- tual average increases of $1,164 versus $699. But the real winners, Revenue Canada said on Tuesday in releasing stat , istics for the 1984 taxation year, are the 287 lucky people with total incomes of $260,000 or more who didn’t have to pay any tax at all. That's up from 1978 wealthy non-payers the previous year. Of the lucky 287, there West Van has highest income were 107 ,who claimed a scientific research tax credit in 1984, the much- maligned tax dodge that cost the federal treasury up to $3 billion before it was closed by the Mul roney government last year. Fewer than 10 people claimed that credit in 1983. EARN MORE West Vancouver res- idents earned an average $30,742, up from $29,554 in the 1983 taxation year. The municipalitiy with the next highest average annual in- come was Markham, Ont., with $26,273. Other municipalities with high average income are: Oakville, Ont., $24,984; Nepean, Ont., $22,982; Burlington, Ont., $22,531; Gloucester, Ont., $22,331; Ottawa, $22,316; North Vancouver, $22,218; Dol- lard des Ormeaux, Que., $22,126. Doctors and surgeons have been the country's top earners. Merrithew goes to bat for B.C. firms OTTAWA (CP( — For estry Minster Gerald Merri thew delivered some mod estly encouraging news Tuesday to a group from British Columbia, but he had mostly bad news for the de. legation from the Maritimes after both areas beseeched Presents VALDY Mon., Jan. 26 At Red Mountain Ski Lodge Night Skiing 3 - 8 p.m. Concert at 8:30 p.m. Tickets Only $10 Each Available at CKQR and Red Mountain PROCEEDS TOWARDS THE RICK HANSON MAN IN MOTION TOUR the government to exempt them from the controversial 15-per-cent export tax. Merrithrew said he would see if the United States would agree to allow exemp- tions in the case of the B.C. group. It represented re- manufacturing--companies that use lumber to build products like pallets and bed- frames. In a brief to the minister, the B.C. group said a mix-up in the lumber negotiations left some remanufacturers paying tax on the full price of their products, including the value added by manufac- turing. Others, however, paid tax only on the value of the lumber used as raw mat. erial. The B.C. brief said the re- sulting ineqpities would sev erely damage some com- panies, forcing plant shut: downs and layoffs. “We'll try to reopen that with the American: people to ~ try to see if we can resolve those inequities and unfair. nesses that may have crop- ped in,” Merrithrew told re- porters. MARITIMES FAILS However, the Maritime companies, who called their group the Atlantic Coalition Against Unfair Lumber Tax. es, failed in their attempt to win an exemption. The coal- ition said the Maritime prov. inces should get a blanket exemption because their timber-cutting feés are ‘the highest in the country. Five major lumber firms in the Maritinies, accounting for about 90 per cent of the area's exports, were exempt. ed from the tax, but dozens of smaller companies were not. Coalition chairman Beverly O'Keefe said this was unfair. Merrithew said the coali tion had a legitimate argu: ment. The U.S. alleged that tim ber-cutting fees in the major lumber producing provinces of British Columbia, Quebec, Ontario and Alberta were so low that they constituted an unfair subsidy minister's inner circle of school-day chums — he played a key role as co-chairman of the election campaign which resulted in the Tory election sweep of 1964. Bazin, known to his intimates by the affectionate “Ti-Baz,” helped Mulroney during his unsuccessful bid for the Conservative leadership in pao ‘He then acted as a "8 Joe Clark, and served on the poner team hes advised Clark as incoming prime minister following the Tories’ minority victory in May, 1979. HELPS MULRONEY When the Liberals regained power in 1980, Bazin practiced law while staying in touch with the inner circle, many of them Laval graduates. He again helped his old friend during Mulroney's successful bid for the Conservative leadership in 1983. “He knew the mesh of Mulroney's mind and personality, knew how to soften the impact of a Mulroney burst of anger as he passed a message down the line,” MacDonald noted. “If Mulroney said to tell so-and-so that he was a double-crossing son of a bitch, Bazin might suggest that Brian was a little upset .. . But the best reason for having him around was for the moral quality of his advice.” Also a shrewd organizer, Bazin was the only adviser to suggest in 1984 that Mulroney run in the Quebec riding of Manicouagan where he grew up. “When in doubt, go home,” Bazin told his boss. y soundly def d his Liberal Andre Maltais, by 21,000 votes. The Conservative government named Bazin to the board of directors of Petro-Canada following the 1984 election. He was also named a Queen's Counsel, and continued to practice law as a senior partner with the prominent Montreal firm, Byers Casgrain. He is incoming president of the Canadian Bar Association. TELLS OF SCHEME Bazin met with Mulroney's principal secretary, Bernard Roy, earlier this month and told him about a controversial land-flip scheme. The value of land recently purchased by a Swiss firm which won a $600-million federal defence contract tripled in price in early 1985. Reports indicate that the president of the local Conservative riding association, Normand Quellette, made close to $1 million in the deal. The deal took place in the riding of St-Jean, represented by junior transport minister Andre Bissonnette. Bissonnette, a close friend of Quellette’s, was suspended from the cabinet by Mulroney, who has ordered an RCMP inquiry into the affair. The opposition has called on Mulroney to delay Bazin's swearing-in ceremony to the upper chamber until the inquiry is completed because.Bazin was a director of a subsidiary of the company which purchased the land and is now suing Ouellette for the money plus interest. 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