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A General Ag: on
Tariffs and Trade panel has
found Canada guilty of vio-

until voted on early next year
by the next full meeting of
the GATT council of member
countries, could lead to a “far
more competitive industry,”
said Vander Zalm.

But the premier conceded
in an interview that it could
lead to job losses.

Ontario Trade Minister

BILL VANDER ZALM
. abide by ryling

Monte Kwinter said Wed-
nesday his province might
defy the ruling, but will wait
to see how Ottawa reacts
first.

Vander Zalm said it would
be a “terrible precedent” for
Ontario to defy a ruling of an
organization that seeks to
provide fairness in trading.

UtiliCorp boasts
investments gains

VANCOUVER (CP) —
UtiliCorp Canada Corp. has
announced a net income of
$22.8 million for the first nine
months of 1987, compared to
$9.7 million for the same
period last year.

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Net income for Class A
non-voting and Class B vot-
ing shareholders was $8.9
million, or 50 cents per share,
compared to a loss last year
of $4.1 million, or 30 cents per
share.

The company, which owns
West Kootenay Power and
Light Company Ltd., says
the increase in its earnings is
primarily due to its merchant
banking activities, which

nerated investment gains
of $29.8 million lied the
nine-month period.

Teck Corp.
increases
earnings

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Teck Corp showed a 40-per-
cent increase in its net earn-
ings in the fiscal year ended
Sept. 30 — $33,643,000 or 70
cents per share over the
$23,965,000 or 42 cents per
share earned in fiscal 1986.

Revenues rose to $203
million from $185 million.

Fourth-quarter earnings
were $10,982,000, or 25 cents
per share, on revenues of $57
million this year, and $7,131,-
000 (14 cents) on revenues of
$44 million in 1986.

David Thompson, chief
financial officer, said the in-
crease over 1986 was mainly
due to including the David
Bell mine at Hemlo, Ont., in
this year’s earnin;

Gold production from the
David Bell mine — owned
50-50 with International Cor-
ona Resources — was 130,122
ounces. Output in the fourth
quarter was 43,670 ounces,
for an annualized rate of
175,000 ounces.

CLEANING UP . . . Fireman douses charred remains of
fire that destroyed 10th Avenue home Tuesday night.

Women
escape.

OFFICIALS HELP

Steelworkers need jobs

TORONTO (CP) — Frustrated with government red
tape, officials from the United Steelworkers of America and
the Canadian steel industry will soon take over responsi-
bility for helping laid-off steel workers find new jobs.

Steel industry officials say the program — which
received $20 million in federal funding — is the first union-
management attempt in Canada to deal with job losses that
might arise from technological and market changes or plant
closings.

The worker assistance could take the form of retraining
or relocating employees in other jobs in the same area, the
same industry or elsewhere.

It will work in conjunction with current government
assistance plans and will be run by the Canadian Steel Trade
and Employment Congress, made up of 20 Steelworkers
locals and 20 steel companies in Canada.

It is being undertaken “because we feel we can do it
better than government, but cutting through government
red tape,” said Leo Gerard, director of District 6 of the
Steelworkers, and chairman of the congress’s committee on
employment and adjustment, which will develop the
program.

Gerard said when workers are or are about to be laid
off, they need help quickly.

The programs will be developed by union and man-
agement at the plant level over the next two years because
each situation will be different.

“Management is committed all the way in this congress
endeavor,” said John Allan, chairman and chief executive at
Stelco Inc. of Toronto and co-chairman of the congress.

The congress held its annual meeting in Hamilton on
Tuesday.

One of the first tasks will be developing an assistance
program for workers who will be affected by the sale or
closing of the Frankel Steel works of Harris Stee! Group Inc.
at Milton, Ont., said.

The ase seek industry snplors: about 69,000
workers. «+ y

Since 1978, the congress said, about five milan tons of
steel-making capacity has been idled at plants in Hamilton,
Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., and Sydney, N.S.

Over the same period, some 10,000 jobs have been lost.
Continuing technological and market changes are expected
to mean further work force reductions over the next decade,

A congress spokesman said the government assistance
represents the transfer of money to the congress the
Employment and Immigration Department would have
spent on its own labor adjustment programs.

Veterans of four wars

By The Canadian Press (1950-63).
Victims and veterans of Others who died at Cy-
four wars were remembered prus, Vietnam and in many

erans who had asked to be tobans who died or dis-
included in the diti PP in the Ameri
Nov. 11 service on the Asian war because the Can-

with sorrow and gratitude
Wednesday as people across
Canada marked the 69th
year since the guns of the
First World War were si-
lenced.

A total of 103,916 were
killed in Canada’s involve-
ment in the Boer War in
South Africa (1899-1902), the
First World War (1914-1918),
the Second World War (1939-
1945) and the Korean War

peace-keeping missions
around the world were also

grounds of the Manitoba leg-
islature.
The medal- d Viet-

mourned during
that ranged from pomp and
circumstance in Ottawa to
quiet, sombre gatherings in

nam veterans had to hold
their own service and, mom-
ents before it began, the

of other
ities.

In Winnipeg, two separate
Remembrance Day _ cere-
monies were held after a
committee of world war vet-
erans snubbed Vietnam vet-

was splashed with
red paint. It was quickly
scrubbed off and the incident
went almost unnoticed by the
veterans.

The joint committee re-
fused to recognized Mani-

adian government was not
involved.
VETERAN DIES

Meanwhile, as ceremonies
got underway in Guelph,
Ont., a 61-year-old veteran
collapsed and died of a heart
attack while carrying the
Canadian flag. Douglas Free
had been a member of the
Grey and Simcoe Foresters
during the Second World
War.

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But Bennett retired last summer, lea’
to deal with the fallout from the highway’s costs, double the
initial $500 million budgeted.

Vander Zalm, whose slogan was “a fresh start,” made it
clear that his was going to be a new era for the Social Credit
party, with open government and no megaprojects.

But Vander Zalm could not shake persistent questions
from the media and the opposition New Democrats about the
Coquihalla overruns.

How did it happen? Why didn't ‘anybody question the
excessive overruns? And, why as late as March 1986 was the

‘Why didn't anyone
question the
excessive overruns?’

government still saying that it was on budget when docu-
ments have since shown teat costs were well out of control
by then?

Pinciy i Wks ncramnee: Viadic Ect oodixed a dude

After two months of public hearings, it was clear that
many of the financial problems were the result of politicians’

rather than bungling.

Finance ministry officials testified that they opposed
speeding up construction so that the road would be open in
time for Expo 86, another Social Credit megaproject. The
civil servants said it would cost too much, but the politicians
forged ahead anyway.

As the trail led closer to the politicians, Bennett
loyalists urged Vander Zalm in private that for the Socreds’
sake, the inquiry should be ended before it went too far.

But Vander Zalm granted commissioner Douglas
MacKay an extension. And last Thursday MacKay called as
witnesses three key people from Bennett's government —
former finance minister Hugh Curtis, former highways
minister Alex Fraser and former principal secretary Bud
Smith, now a member of Vander Zalm's caucus.

Curtis, now a vice-president of First City Trust, had to
be subpoenaed to appear. When he did, with his lawyer in
tow, he refused to answer the key questions, claiming it
would violate the cabinet’s oath of secrecy.

But Vander Zalm's government had already accepted a
legal opinion that cabinet secrecy did not take precedence
over the powers of a judicial inquiry. Without a fight, it
handed over confidential cabinet documents from Bennett's
regime.

Cabinet secrecy is a tradition that the federal govern-
ment has defended all the way to the Supreme Court of
Canada.

Bennett's former principal secretary was also a
reluctant, if not feisty, witness. Smith, Bennett's personal
choice as political heir, charged the commission was over-
stepping its terms of reference by poking its nose into the
political process,

And he attacked his own government's legal opinion to
release the documents as “unsound” and

New Democrats’ justice critic Moe Sihota was pleased
by the decision to release the documents. But he added that
Vander Zalm had set “an incredible precedent and a trap for
himself.”

But the more immediate danger facing Vander Zalm
may be the commission he created if MacKay is determined
to answer the whodunit question.

There are only two people left to answer the questions
of where the money went and why the overruns were hidden
— Bennett, who like Curtis may cite cabinet secrecy, and
Vander Zalm.

ander Zalm, of course, would have been briefed on the
Coquihall’s finances when he succeeded Bennett as premier
and Curtis as finance minister.

And having released the cabinet documents, it is
unlikely hgicould use cabinet secrecy as his shield.

Time for Change!

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