wee + _CastleQat News _Febrvor 13,1907 FREE TRADE ATTACKED BY LABOR By SURJ RATTAN Staff Writer A comprehensive free trade deal with the United States will cause the elimination of transportation services to several small Canadian centres and action must be taken now to prevent that from happening, according to the Canadian Labor Congress. Bob Buchanan, the Southern Interior representative for the CLC, is urging municipal governments in the West Kootenay to lobby Ottawa for public hearings on the issue of transportation deregulation. “There are powerful forces that want to see the break-up of the transportation network in this country. ‘Their agenda is to bring us into a comprehensive free trade deal with the U.S. Our smaller communities will be the big losers if they succeed,” said Buchanan. He added that the federal government's transporta- tion committee should hold public hearings in small communities like those in the West Kootenay, so that there can be a forum to discuss the impact of deregulation. “The Americans are saying’ to us, ‘We have a protectionist feeling growing in our country’ and that means there is a need to put tariffs on foreign imports,” said Buchanan. He added that the Americans are telling Canada, “There must be a level playing field,” in a free trade agreement. Buchanan, who noted that 75 per cent of Canada’s trade is done with the United States, said social programs such as medicare will have to be dismantled if Canada enters into a free trade deal with the U.S. because Ottawa pays for the program while Americans do not subsidize medical coverage. He added that Crown corporations such as Petro Canada and Air Canada also have to be eliminated in a free trade deal because the Americans do not have Crown corporations. “We're talking about jobs and our future. It (free trade deal) means turning this country inside out and upside down. Everything that we've built in this country — like social programs — are under attack,” Buchanan said. He added that two pieces of proposed legislation before the House of Commons deal with the deregulation of the Canadian transportation industry. Buchanan said that if the transportation industry is deregulated jobs will be lost-and service will be cut to several small Canadian centres. “We'll have to pay too much for free trade. If we buy tree trade, we'll get a few other things thrown in, like ion and privatization,” sai “Free trade will cause thousands of Canadian AUDREY MOORE . admits people are concerned workers to lose their jobs. Privatization and deregula- tion, the two policies that come with free trade, will change our country in ways I don't believe we want as Canadians.” added that h have predicted massive shifts in the labor force under free trade. He sai people who think free trade will create more. jobs in Canada “are not thinking clearly.” “The only reason we have much of our industry is that American companies have set up branch plants in Canada. If those companies could slip duty free goods to Canada direct from their American plants how long do you think the Canadian plans would stay in operation?” asked Buchanan. He said Canada should develop trade policies that will make it less dependent on the United States, saying the more economically independent Canada can be, the more politically independent it will be. “We want this country to be a place where we can build our homes and raise our families secure in the promise of a peaceful, prosperous future. We believe in fairness at work, decency in government and dignity in our futures,” said Buchanan. “We want a Canada that works for us, not a country driven by the whims of the U.S. market.” Buchanan said that the Reagan administration is in the process of cutting grants to schools and eities and doing away with social programs. He predicted the same will happen in Canada if the country enters into a free trade deal with the U.S. He added that supporters of free trade want to deregulate the transportation industry and “weaken our social security system, placing a bigger burden on the shoulders of pensioners, the unemployed and the average family.” but by the end of the week it © ‘was almost back up to its pre- correction level. ‘The TSE composite 800 in- dex closed at 3,523.87, up 20.69 points Friday and 1.79 points below last day's close. In New York, the Dow Jones 1 average Last ‘vesday, February 17 Only We Reserve the Right to Limit Quantities continued its’ rebound as well, jumping 17.57 points to close at 2,183.35, just 3.52 points below its opening level. “The impressive thing about this market is its ability to fly against dis- turbing news, and that is ex- actly what it did today,” said analyst Philip Erlanger of Advest Inc. of New York. The market seemingly ig- nored news late this week that four more Wall Street professionals were charged with insider trading. Leon Tuey, a technical an- alyst with Dominion Secur- ities Ltd. in Toronto, said the market is showing tremen- dous resiliency even though short-term interest rates be- gan to edge upward. “Any short-term weakness in this market will not last for long simply because of the money coming into the market right now,” he said. “I don’t think you'll see any meaningful correction at least until the end of the first quarter. 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The annual all-star game between the Wales and Campbell conferences, a boring affair, seems that much more insignifi in the ‘h of the tr hockey displayed at the Rendez-Vous 87 series between the NHL All Stars and the Soviet national team. time has passed-since the first: NHL-Soviet~ showdown in 1972 that rabid nationalism isn't the “raison d'etre” of these series. Neither side has anything left to prove, except one thing. “Just that the best hockey is played when we play each other,” Alan Eagleson, head of the NHL Players’ Association and Canada’s chief international hockey negotiator, said Friday night after the Soviets won the second Rendez-Vous game 5-3 to earn a split in the series. Yet moments after saying that, Eagleson—echoing statements by NHL president John Ziegler — dismissed an annual NHL-Soviet all-star game. TIME CONSUMING “There's just too much organizing and too much of a drain on the players to look at doing it every year,” said Eagleson, who suggested the teams meet every three or four years. That's what is likely to happen, and it’s a shame. The last NHL all-star game anyone can remember was 1979, when the Soviets’ came to’ New York for the Challenge Cup series. Like that series, Rendez-Vous will be etched in every hockey fan’s memory — the brilliant precision passing by the Soviet forwards, the remarkable saves by goaltender Grant Fuhr and the indomitable play by Gretzky, Kevin Dineen and Mark Messier. Next year, it's back to the same Campbell-Wales format. Eagleson has said the NHL must do something to liven up its all-star game. He has suggested an all-star team could play the defending Stanley Cup champions, a format used years ago. Perhaps the NHL, never accused of radical ideas, should take some marketing advice from their MVP — most valuable product. “I think we have to promote hockey in the NHL throughout the United States,” Gretzky told reporters after Friday's game. “If we can pull something like this (Rendez-Vous) off in places like New Jersey or St. Louis or lee Angeles, I think it would be good . TOO MUCH iegier has said that another Rendez-Vous, which ~ involved extravagant off-ice activities such as a Pierre Cardin fashion show and a $350-a-plate gourmet dinner, on an annual basis would be too difficult to organize. Eagleson is right that an annual Soviet series would be a drain on the players — Gretzky said the usual all-star game “is more like a couple days off while this is pretty serious stuff” — but at last half the 22 NHL players that split the Rendez-Vous series were ready to go out for a deciding game. Victor Tikhonov, the veteran coach of the Soviet nationals, had better insight into the significance of the series than Ziegler, Eagleson and other NHL nay-sayers. “It is not important if Team NHL did not win this series or if the Soviet Union did not win this series,” he said at his final news conference before heading back to Moscow. “What is important is that hockey was the winner... Just the opportunity to play against each other is what's significant. And because of how important meetings between our countries such as this are, it is something that should be continued.” ake the children with you. Pacific Western makes it all possible with this super economical special fare for travel on scheduled flights between Feb. 16 and April 15. 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Pacific Western family member. © Adults and children’s tickets must be purchased as a package @ Travel must be completed by April 15, 1987 © Transportation taxes are not included. $35 ALLIANCE OF CANADIAN TRAVEL ASSOCIATIONS, 80% whole wheat or white unsliced bread sc:4:.0.. 198 4... pack I didn't want to be in NHL As was expected the Rendez: Vous series between the National Hockey League all-stars and the Surj Rattan 3 litre bottle Coke OF SPFite piu. seposi Old Dutch potato chips 200... Armstrang*grated parmesan cheese 298 227 g shoker . First Edifion ground coffee 369 g tin Peprodent tooth- paste 100 m...0 98 bulk food specials sultana raisins popping corn bulk bulk 3 bs. » eg: 2iLG ie Sie ves kg. 22 Soviet Union sparked a lot of interest Just how much interest did it spark? It ‘sparked so much interest that ABC’s Good Morning America sent a reporter ang camera crew to Quebec City to do a feature report on hockey in Canada. Now that's a lot of interest! I'm sure that most of the Ameri cans who saw that feature report now know a lot about hockey in Canada, even though they probably don’t know where Canada is. I'm sure they know that it’s the dream of @very Canadian boy to play hockey in the NHL, as was reported by the American reporter to his fellow Americans. Well, if it's the dream of every Canadian kid to play in the NHL then I must not have had any dreams when I was a kid because I sure didn’t want to be an NHL star I dreamed about being what most normal kids who grew up in North Vancouver dreamed of being: Ditch diggers I'm also pretty sure that most Americans who watched the Good Morning report now know, that Il Canada freezes into one giant pond or lake in the winter and it is on this giant pond or lake that all the boys in the country who dream of playing in the NHL learn to play hockey. I don’t know about where you grew up, but where I grew up we never went skating on any frozen ponds or lakes. In fact, come to think of it, there were no ponds or lakes to freeze. We just spent our winter days either mowing the lawns or watching TV. And we weren't watching hockey either. I'm sure most of the American viewers of that report were pretty confused when they saw Mario Lemieux being interviewed. I can just see a couple in Nebraska trying to figure out what Lemieux was saying. “Hey Martha, what sort of an accent is he talking with?” “I think it’s Spanish, George. All them people up north who live on the tundra talk like that. By the way, where is Kay-beck?” Professional sports is not played for the fun of it. It's played for one thing and one thing only: money. Team owners like Harold Ballard and George Steinbrenner couldn't care less if their players have fun while playing the game. They just want them to win so more fans will come through the gates leaving a few bucks behind. But high school sports is not played for profit; it’s played to have fun. Someone should point that out to Tom May, the coach of the Lady Bulldogs of Crown Point high school in Crown Point, Indiana. This guy, who obviously takes coaching far too seriously, actually made one of his players wear a ball and chain because of a poor per. formance in a game. But he’s quick to defend his actions. “It's a very, very long chain. The girl can hold the ball,” said May. The ball weighs 16 pounds and one player who was forced to wear it said: “I didn't like wearing it be. cause I thought it was dangerous’ It's really heavy when you have to carry your books, too.” I wonder how coach May punishes his children when they've been bad? Public floggings perhaps? Aaa nal KIJHL AWARDS Rebels’ Sjodin most sportsmanlike player By CasNews Staff 4 The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League's top team picked up only one award Thursday when the KIJHL announced individual honors for the 1986-87 season. Castlegar Rebels’ Dean Sjodin was named the league's most sportsmanlike player. Sjodin was the only Rebel to win an award. The Rebels, who played their last regular season game Saturday night in Cranbrook, had 64 points entering the contest. That was 25 better than second-place Rossland in the West Division and one better than the Cranbrook Colts, who hold down top spot in the KIJHL's East Division. Trail Junior Smoke Eaters, the Colts and Columbia Valley Rockies dominated the individual awards. In the west, Trail’s Vineé Burroughs was named best defenceman, Mike Tavaroli and Dallas Drake of the Rossland Warriors shared the MVP honor and Smoke Eater head coach Glen Sanders was named coach-of-the-year. Other awards went to Drake as top scorer and Ed Bertuzzi and Eric Vollpatti of the Beaver Valley Nite Hawks, who claimed top rookie and best netminder honors, respectively. 7 In the east, Cranbrook's Darcy Allison won the scoring title, Rod Shypitka took top rookie while Columbia Valley's Thor Ludvigsen was named MVP. Four ties:in the voting had Cranbrook's John Klemm sharing the best defenceman with Columbia Valley's Duane Stevens and Colt's head coach Rob Neale and Tom Renney of Columbia Valley deadlocked for coach-of-the-year honors. Cranbrook’s Mike Daloise and Rockies’ Chad Kambietz were tied for best goalie and Ernie Parent of Columbia Valley shared the most sportsmanlike award with Chris Clarke of Kimberley Knights. The awards were voted on by coaches and managers in their respective divisions. In other news, KIJHL president Brian Kuffner has fined Trail $170 and Rossland $160 for a Feb. 7 altercation in Rossland. He also handed Rossland a fine of $140 and Castlegar $190 for Tuesday's brawl following a 9-7 Rebel victory in Castlegar. Each player involved in each incident must pay $10. PEDERSON SCORES . only Rebel to win As well, Warriors’ head coach Rich Chobanuk and Rebels’ assistant coach Terry Jacobson were handed two- and four-game suspensions respectively for grdss miscon- ducts. Chobanuk, who also received a match penalty for swinging a stick, must wait for a decision from the B.C. Amateur Hockey A i g further Canucks tie Penguins PITTSBURGH (AP) — Barry Pederson scored with 4:39 left in the third period to give the Vancouver Canucks a 3-3 NHL tie with the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night. Pederson fired a rebound into a wide-open net with Penguins goalie Pat Riggin trapped out of position. The score came 1:21 after rookie Lee Giffin gave the Penguins a 3-2 lead with his first NHL goal when he deflected a shot by Mario Lemieux past Vancouver goalie Richard Brodeur. Lemieux scored his 39th goal of the season at 6:18 of the second period to put Pittsburgh ahead 1-0. He powered past Michel Petit and jabbed his own rebound past Brodeur at the corner of the net. Vancouver's Doug Lidster tied it at 12:05, picking off Jim Johnson's clearing attempt and blasting a shot from the left point past Riggin. Pittsbrugh’s Dan Quinn scored with 35 seconds left in the. second period, lifting Randy Cunneyworth's rebound into the net after Lemieux held the puck in the zone with a back-hand stop at the point. CANADIENS 5 JETS 2 MONTREAL (CP) — Ryan Walter scored two goals and Mats Naslund picked up three assists as the Montreal Canadiens defeated the Winnipeg Jets 5-2 in NHL action Saturday night. Chris Chelios, Sergio Momesso and Claude Lemieux aslso scored for the Canadi who ded their hy i winning streak to four games. Doug Smail and Andrew McBain were the marksmen for the Jets, who saw their three-game winning streak come to an end. Walter scored both of his goals in the first period, which ended with the Canadiens holding a 3-2 lead Momesso gave the Canadiens some breathing room early in ther third period, when he took Lemieux’s pass out from the corner and beat Winnipeg netminder Daniel Berthiaume on the short side. Lemieux rounded out scoring with his 18th goal at 18:27. Montreal goaltender Brian Hayward, in his first start against his ex-teammates, faced only 18 shots, but came up with some big saves in the third period to keep the Canadiens ahead. MAPLE LEAFS 5 BRUINS 4 TORONTO (CP) — Russ Courtnall scored two goals in the final four minutes, including the winner with 2:59 left, to give the Toronto Maple Leafs a 5-4 victory Saturday night over the Boston Bruins. Tom Fergus, returning from a 23-game absence caused by a viral infection, and Al Iafrate scored for the Leafs, while Geoff Courtnall and Cam Neely scored for the Bruins as the teams battled to a 2-2 tie through two periods of sloppy hockey. Boston goaltender Bill Ranford stopped a shot on a breakaway by Russ Courtnall, Geoff's younger brother, one minute into the third period. The Bruins went up 3-2 at 2:03 on Rick Middleton's 16th goal of the season. Toronto's Wendal Clark was penalized for cross-checking at 2:00, McCarthy won the ensuing faceoff and got the puck to Middleton, and the veteran Walked in alone to squeeze a wrist shot between the leg pads of goaltender Allan Bester. SABRES 5 ISLANDERS 1 UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Lindy Ruff and Adam Creighton scored in the first three minutes Saturday night and the Buffalo Sabres went on to their fifth victory in their last six games, a 5-1 NHL triumph over the slumping New York Islanders. Despite the setback, which extended their winless skein to 0-3-1, the Islanders remain three points ahead of the idle third-place New York Rangers in the Patrick Division. Ruff opened the scoring 30 seconds into the game when he deflected John Tucker's 10-foot shot past Islanders goalie Kelly Hrudey on the stick side. Creighton followed at 2:59 with a 40-foot blast from the top of the left faceoff circle that beat Hrudey high on the glove side. Denis Potvin scored New York's goal during a power play at 14:18 with a 55-foot shot through a screen off Sabres goalie Tom Barrasso’s pads. DETROIT 5 NEW JERSEY 1 DETROIT (AP) — Tim Higgins, Dave Barr and Gerard Gallant scored within a span of one minute and 48 seconds of the second period to help carry the Detroit Red Wings to a 5-1 victory over the New Jersey Devils. The Red Wings, 24-24-8, posted their third straight victory and remained atop the National Hockey League's Norris Division standings. New Jersey, 2-5 in its last seven games, is last in the Patrick Division. Brent Ashton and Petr Klima added third period goals for the Wings while Craig Wolanin scored in the first to give the Devils a 1-0 lead. Gallant capitalized on defensive lapses by the Devils to score his sixth goal in four games — and 29th of the season — to complete the second-period spurt. FLYERS 4 BLUES 2 ST. LOUIS (AP) — Dave Poulin converted Rick Tocchet’s blocked shot into his 17th goal with 9:54 left and Peter Zezel scored 2:02 later Saturday night to give Philadelphia a 4-2 NHL victory over the St. Louis Blues, snapping the Flyers losing streak at four games. Had the Flyers lost, they would have matched their longest losing streak since the 1970-71 season. Poulin, with awrist shot from the left faceoff circle, and Brad McCrimmon, with a screened slap shot, brought Philadelphia back from a 1-0 deficit late in the second period. Greg Paslawksi's blistering shot from the right wing boards beat Flyers goalie Ron Hextall at 2:10 of the second period. But Philadelphia, after weathering a slashing penalty to Tocchet, tied it on the first of Poulin’s two goals. Quinn loses VANCOUVER (CP) — Pat would be exploring “other Quinn may be headed to civil avenues.” court after losing his first Chucas said Quinn has attempt to overturn his ex- several options for litigation, pulsion from National Hoc- among them a suit for de key league pr John ion of Ziegler. After the NHL's board of “The (Ziegler's) order and governors, meeting in Que- the language that was used bec City, upheld Ziegler’s attacks all my integrity, my Jan. 30 ruling, Quinn's law- honesty and I certainly want yer, Morris Chucas, said they that cleared up,” said Quinn.