Castlégar News August 13, 1989

OPINION

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Sales tax
in for a fight

When the executive director of a conservative economic think-
tank publicly says a Tory finance minister has gooted with a new tax
Policy, you've got to suspect that finance minister is in a heap of
trouble.

So it was last week when Michael Walker of the Fraser Institute
Said tederal FindncéMinister Michael Wilson blundered with the new
federal sales tax by allowing businesses to include the nine-per-cent
levy in prices instead of tacking it on at the checkout counter.

But that criticism is only scratcling the surface of what amounts
to a $24 billion tax grab — known officially as the goods and services
tax — which is already mired in a quagmire of vagueness and faces o
firestorm of opposition likely to surpass the criticism of the fre
trade agreement.

If this new tax were a racehorse,
the starting gate and broken its ankle

Most agree the existing, outdated, invisible and untair 13.5-per-
cent sales tax on manutactured goods should be replaced with a
fairer system, But the new tax, scheduled to go in effect Jan. 1, 1991,
does not meet three. major conditions hoped for by such
organizations as the Canadian Chamber of Commerce — that the tax

it would have tripped out of

Forget

be visible to consumers, simple for business to and equal
for all products

Worse still, Mr. Wilson admits the new tax will boost the rate of
inflation in Canada by 2% per cent, although British Columbia's
tinance minister, Mel Couvelier, says the increase will more likely be
three per cent.

That's bad news for areas like the West Kootenay which are just
now showing signs of recovering trom the devastating recession of the
early 1980s.

With a sudden nine-per-cent increase in cost of many goods and
services that were previously untaxed, consumers are going to start
watching their loonies a little more closely, it they have any left after
Mr. Wilson removes his hand from their pockets

According to Mr. Wilson's lies or individuals ear
ning more than $30,000 a year will too one per cent of their
disposable income under the tax.

That's got to be bad news for local businesses which at the best
of times have a struggle — one has only to look at ‘b= recent spate of
businesses in Castlegar which have closed their doors

And implementing the new tax will be a nightmare for small
businesses. .

Ideally, Mr. Wilson’s technical paper on the tax says, consumers
should be able to see the exact amount of the tax on cash register
receipts and on store shelves. But, the paper says, not all retailers
have cash register systems sophisticated enough to show both
provincial and federal sales tax

The government has promised to help pay for such systems and
in all stores where the tax is included in the price, the government
will provide the appropriate signs to indicate this fact to consumers.

But what's to be taxed and what's not is not yet clear.

For example, basic groceries are exempt from the new tax but
soft drinks, candy and snacks — that is, so-called “junk food’ — will
be taxed.

What exactly is junk food? The government doesn't say.

We can already hear the screams of indignation from some
companies when the government declares their products junk food.

But who will decide?

National Revenue Minister Otto Jelinek says the government
will make a decision on a number of items — particularly food — af-
ter talks with industry and public hearings.

We can't wait for those. They'll give a whole new meaning to the
term “food fight

As well, the tax will likely put a damper on the housing market
because new homes will be subject to the tax, although the gover-
nment says it will offer rebates of 50 per cent up to a maximum of
$13,950 per home on homes priced at $310,000 or less, which would
cover virtually all new homes built in the West Kootenay.

Still, the tax is going to make home buyers think twice about
building or buying a new home and that's got to make local contrac-
tors nervous.

The list of potential problems with the new tax goes on and on.

The federal government plans to introduce sales tax legislation
in the fall after cross-country hearings which are likely to be some of
the liveliest this country has ever seen.

Despite Mr. Wilson's assertion that the government will not back
down on the tax, we'll be very surprised if the final product weathers
the upcoming storm of criticism without some major changes.

New tax
has its share
of quirks

OTTAWA (CP) — Cows aren’t
taxed. Horses are. Driver's licences
aren’t taxed. Fishing licences are

The federal government's proposed
nine-per-cent goods and services tax is
designated to replace a federal
manufacturers’ sales tax which had

An airline ticket from Toronto to
New York would be taxed, a ticket
from Toronto to London would hot
This is because of ‘*the homogeneous
nature of the Canada-U.S. air
market.;”

The sale of cows and sheep would

become a morass of loopholes, exem-
ptions and quirks,

However, the proposed levy has
some oddities of its own

Under the old tax, a firm whith im-
ports hard, green bananas and stores
them until they ripen is considered a
manufacturer of bananas and gets a
tax’ break which is unavailable to
someone who imports ripe bananas.

The new tax is supposed to do away
with all this, but there are still a lot of
questions which remain as officials
work out details of the new tax.

For instance, the government
doesn’t generally want to be seen as
taxing other taxes. Soa provincial sales
tax would not be included in
calculating the value of the nine-per-
cent federal tax

However, the new tax would be ap-
plied on top of the transportation tax
on plane fares. The transportation tax
would be lowered, but the sales tax
would go on top of it

HAS QUIRKS

There are other quirks

not be taxed, horses would be. The
rationale is apparently that cows and
sheep are eaten and horses generally
arenot

The tax would apply to fuels and
alcoholic beverages, but because
provincial taxes and markups are
buried in the price of these goods, there
will have to be negotiations with the
provinces.

The cost of getting a driver's licence
would not be taxed. Hunting and
fishing licences would be taxed because
of the benefit
Professional sports events would be
taxed, amateur events would not

Most government services would
not be taxed, postage stamps would be.

Municipal water supplies would be
exempt, but electricity and gas would
be taxed

Traveller's cheques would not be
taxed, but blank cheques supplied by
the bank would be

Basic groceries would not be taxed.
However, the government has to work
out just what basic groceries are.

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Tell the citizens how the
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inflation to rise only
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Remember
When?

40 YEARS AGO
From the August 18, 1949
Castle News
The Castlegar Community Club's
transfer to the Municipality is almost a
reality, ‘the by-law authorizing this
transfer is being deposited at Victoria.
Preliminary plans for the new Com-
munity Hall are being prepared.
encoiy sare

The plans for the new Junior-Senior
High School are well under way and it
is hoped that the board will be able to
call for tenders before the end of Sep-
tember. The classroom block will be
two-storey of concrete gonstruction.

.

The Castlegar and District Projects
Society reports favorable progress

Letters to the editor

Public invited

United Nations Convention on the
Rights of the Child will be the focus of
a public meeting on Wednesday, Aug.
16 at 7:30 p.m. in St. Paul’s-Trinity
United Church in Nelson. Sue and
Rev. Vernon Nichols, co-executive
directors of the Unitarian-Universalist
United Nations Office, will address the
meeting.

This convention will be discussed
and voted on at the United Nations
General Assembly this October or
November. It will seek to establish im-
proved criteria for care and treatment
of children in all parts of the world, in-
cluding the millions of displaced
children who are without parents or
homes.

Since January 1986, the two Nichols
have been eyes and ears and voices for
the Unitarian-Universalist
Association, locally represented by

Counci

Unitarian West Kootenay Fellowship,
on matters of disarmament and human
rights. Their work has required
frequent international travel.

Rev. Nichols has just returned from
a United Nations regional disar-
mament conference in the U.S.S.R.
and next month the couple will visit
Bangladesh, India and other southeast
Asian countries on a human rights
inquiry.

Sue Nichols was the first executive
director of the English-language sec-
tion of Canadian Amnesty Inter-
national when it was established in Ot-
tawa in the early 1970s. In 1982, she
worked at the Amnesty International
Secretariat in London, England, and
in 1984-85 she was assistant to the
director of the Center for Peace and
Conflict at Wayne State University in
Detroit

I's help

was timely

I am happy to see coverage of our
growth and expansion (Castlegar
News, Aug. 2) and would like to add an
important piece of information that
didn’t end up in the story.

Very significant assistance in lob-
bying for services was given by Mayor
Audrey Moore and the city council. At
the beginning of this year, we went to
council for assistance without assuran-
ce of what our funding picture would
look like. Although it was awkward to
go to council without a definite plan,

they did not back away and say come
back when you find out what the
provincial government will do. Instead

Part of the reason why Community
Services is in a relatively comfortable
position now is because of that timely
assistance. 1 hope council can feel
proud that its investment paid off

Patricia Lakes
Co-ordinator
Castlegar and District
Services

Community

Rev. Nichols was minister of First
Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa
from 1971-1983. During his early years
there, he was one of the founders of the
Canadian section of Amnesty Inter-
national and served for several years
on its national board. He was also in-
volved with Operation’ Di:

with ,

Ina meeting with the directors of the
Projects Society on Tuesday, August
16th, Mrs. Wadey was able to report
that contributions in all forms, that is
cash, payroll deductions and bank
deductions, have been coming in ac-
cording to expectations.

ch

In a two-out-of-three, hotly con-
tested series, the Castlegar Clippers
edged out the Robson Royals by win-
ning the first game by a score of 8-6,
tied the second game with a score of 8-8
and won the final game with a 9-8
score. The Clippers will now meet
either the Thrums Indians or the Kin-
naird Golden Eagles, depending on the
winner of their next game.
25 YEARS AGO
From the August 12, 1964

ar News
The Castlegar and District Chamber
of Commerce’s Columbia River
development committee, accom-

seeking a world referendum on disar-
mament.

The Wednesday evening meeting,
sponsored by the Unitarian West
Kootenay Fellowship, open with
brief talks by Sue and Vernon and will
continue with an open question period
from the floor. The public is warmly
invited.

John E. MacNab

Program and Publicity Convenor

Unitarian West Kootenay Fellowship

Clean-up
wanted

Hello. I'm Brad Andreashuk. I’m
here to talk to you about pollution.
More and more fish are dying every
day. Harmful bacteria is the reason.

Algae helps but as pollution builds,
bacteria multiplies, feeding on algae
which needs oxygen to live.

As bacteria multiplies, there is less
oxygen in the water and oxygen drops
to a low level. Without oxygen fish die
and other animals die. | know Celgar is
cleaning up but it can do better! Face
it, pollution kills. Let’sclean it up.

Brad Andreashuk, age 9
Castlegar

Wilson right man
to sell sales tax

OTTAWA (CP) — Michael
Holcombe Wilson has a lot riding on
the success of his new sales tax.

The thorny goods and services tax,
details of which were finally released
last week, is the other half of Wilson’s
prolonged effort to reform the entire
tax system. The first part reduced the
number of income-tax brackets and
was meant to simplify the reporting
system.

But the new nine-per-cent sales tax
— and Wilson's efforts to sell it to an
apparently dubious country — will be
a watershed in his career.

He has spent his political life, both in
the minister's office and in opposition,
calling for tough tactics to deal with the
deficit, cut spending and reduce taxes.
The sales tax is a big part of his plan.

The new tax replaces the old federal
sales tax, which Wilson said penalizes
manufacturers and has become a
quagmire of loopholes and exem-
Ptions.

If the new tax can be sold, Wilson
seems to have the right credentials for
the job. The tall, dapper finance
minister was a successful Bay Street
broker when he left Toronto’s finan-
cial canyons to run for Parliament in
1979 in the well-to-do Toronto riding
of Etobicoke Centre.

KEPT PORTFOLIO

In the short-lived government of Joe
Clark, Wilson was minister for inter-
national trade. He was a fourth-place
also-ran in the 1983 Conservative
leadership race. When the Conser.
vatives and Brian Mulroney came to
power, Wilson got the key finance por-

MICHAEL WILSON
. - @ lot riding on tax

tfolio. He's kept it through five
budgets, cabinet shuffles and an elec
tion, remaining Mulroney's fiscal
wizard

His roughest ride as Tinance minister
came in April, when opposition mem
bers accused him of neglecting to
reveal details of the leak of his budget

Wilson, a sturdy 51-year-old with a
banker's smile, neat gray hair and a

dry, precise way of speaking, grew up

with money and the power that comes
with it

He came out of the Rosedale section
of Toronto, home of Ontario’s old
money. He went to school at Upper
Canada College — training ground for
the Anglo-Saxon elite — and Trinity
College at the University of Toronto, a
school with an image that shouts of
tweed, pipe-smoke and ivy on the
walls.

He worked his way through the cor-
porate ranks in London, New York
and Toronto, moving in the orbits of
money and power. Before he entered
politics he was executive vice-president
of Dominion Securities, a Toronto
brokerage.

Wilson’s familiarity with the in-
tricacies of the corporate world has
served him well as finance minister.

Please address all Letters to
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News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar,
B.C. VIN 3H4, or deliver them to
our office at 197 Columbia
Avenue, Castlegar.

Letters should be typewritten.
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Letters must be signed and include
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‘ceptional cases will letters be
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Nevertheless, the name and address of
the writer must be disclosed to the
editor
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to edit letters tor brevity, clarity. legality
ond grommar

panied by rep from Nelson
and Trail Chambers of Commerce,
toured the Upper Arrow Lakes com-
munities on Aug. 1 and 2.
eee

The Village of Castlegar owns the
land on which the Castlegar arena
stands.

Evidence to this effect has been
discovered in the Village of Kinnaird’s
vault.

Earlier this year Castlegar com-
missioner Lorne Zinio reported to his
council that after a thorough search he
had been unable to find records in-
dicating that the cemetery site on
which the arena sits had been conver-
ted to recreational use and turned over
legally to the Village of Castlegar.

Official opening of the Salmo-
Creston section of the Southern Trans-
Canada Highway will be held at 2:30
p.m. on Saturday with Premier Ben-
nett and most.of his cabinet in atten-
dance.

The short ceremony will be held at
the $,819-ft. summit of the Kootenay
Skyway.

* 6 8
15 YEARS AGO
From the August 15, 1974
Castlegar News

The Regional District of Central
Kootenay has passed a motion calling
for the board to approach the Minister
of Recreation and Conservation
asking him to consider acquiring B.C.
Hydro holdings in the Deer Park area
for future development — for
recreational use.

The move follows a decision of the
board not to rezone the area for
residential development

Cleaner air for the citizens of
Castlegar is promised by Canadian
Cellulose, which is spending $2 million
on pollution abatement.

The company has placed an order
with SF Products Canada Lid. of
Montreal for a multi-purpose scrubber
to remove dust and purge sulphur
dioxide from the gas stream of the
mill’s recovery boiler.

6 6

The Castlegar ferry made 203 more
trips last month than it did in July of
last year and carried 2,392 more cars
and drivers than it did in the same mon-
tha year ago.

5 YEARS AGO
From the August 5, 1984
Castlegar News

Westar Timber’s Celgar sawmill will

Stagt up operations on Tuesday on a
one-shift basis.

But sawmill industrial relations
manager Al Blessin, said he doesn’t
have any idea when the second shift
will start up.

“We're saying for an indefinite
period," he said, adding that to return
to two full shifts will depend on
Productivity levels, as well as lumber
prices.

Kootenay West Tory candidate Bob
Brisco and the Castlegar Chamber of
Commerce will put pressure on B.C
Hydro to clean the Lower Arrow
Lake of floating driftwood.

Brisco said he recently spoke with
Hydro officials locally and in Vernon,
but he says they were unresponsive

“L think it’s a budgeting problem,”
Brisco-said Thursday. “They're not
prepared to spend the dollar

BUSINESS

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August I

3, 1989 Castlégar News

Woodward family
agrees to buyout

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
Woodward family and a group of
major shareholders led by Cambridge
Shopping Centres have reached a final
agreement on an option to buy out the
family stake in the Woodward's depar-
tment store chain.

But key changes allow the group an
option to buy the family’s 23-per-cent
controlling interest at a lower price and
six months earlier than originally an.
nounced,

The option price has been dropped.
to $4 a share from $4.25 and now must
be exercised by March 31, 1993, in-
stead of Sept. 30, 1993, John Hagan,
chief financial officer for the Toronto-
based Cambridge, said.

The change means the Woodward
family, which holds.about 4.2 million
shares, would realize about $1 million
less from selling their stake if-Cam-
bridge and the group exercised the op-
tion to buy out the family.

A Woodward's family spokesman
was not immediately available for
comment.

Woodward's was founded in 1892
by Charles Woodward in Vancouver
and now has 51 stores in British
Columbia and Alberta. Once con-
sidered a top retail performer, the
company has recently suffered losses
— $6.7 million in 1986, $1.8 million in
1987 and $13.3 million last year.

In January, it announced it was
seeking a major partner to expand into
the more lucrative central Canadian
markets and surprised market analysts
last month by choosing instead to
borrow money from. its own
shareholders.

The drop in the option price could
indicate that Woodward’s financial
problems are more serious than
Originally thought, said one market
analyst.

BETTER DEAL

“This is more of a deal for Cam;
bridge than for Woodward family,’
said Martin Kaufmann of the Mon-
treal office of Nesbitt Thomson
Deacon Inc. ‘Perhaps this indicates
that things are worse than thought.”

The change also suggests that the
Woodward's family is even less ‘*in the
driver's seat’ and that Cambridge is
the one “revving the motor now."*

The financially troubled western
Canadian chain announced last month
it was planning to issue a $25-million
debenture through a rights offering to
all shareholders in a bid to raise capital
for day-to-day operations.

As part of the deal, Cambridge, the
pension fund management firm of
Hamblin Wasa and ‘‘certain other
shareholders’’ agreed to back the
debenture by buying up any rights not
taken up by other shareholders.

In-return, the family agreed to give

the Cambridge-fed group an option to
buy out the family’s stake, The deben:
ture can be converted to’ common
shares at $2.60 a share. Woodward's
common shares were trading in the
$3.55 range Friday on the Toronto
Stock Exchange.
TWOOPTIONS

“We provided two alternatives to
the family,” Hagan said. ‘In our
Position we were prepared to accept
either one — we were indifferent to
which one they chose."’

Hagan said he could not comment
on why the Woodward family chose
the shorter option or lower price.
However, he said, the 25-cent-a-share
difference between the two options
partially reflects the time value of the
option.

Options that provide a longer exer-
cise period tend to have a higher price
per share, reflecting the possibility of
growth, he said.

Hamblin Wasa holds about 16.5 per
cent of Woodward's shares and Cam-
bridge about 9.5 per cent, but Hagan
reiterated that the company has no in-
terest in taking over Woodward's
stores.

It is involved in the deal simply to
protect its existing stake.

“The most important thing is the
voting arrangement,” he said.

“It gives us the ability to guide
Woodward's in the direction we want

Corona wins legal
battle for mine

TORONTO (CP) — The Supreme

__Court of Canada ended a bitter eight-

year legal battle over Canada’s richest
gold mine Friday by affirming the
billion-dollar property -belongs to
Corona Corp.

“We're very delighted

Ina decision released in Ottawa, the
Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by
LAC Minerals Ltd., which hoped to
get half the mine it built in Hemlo,
Ont.

Toronto-based LAC said ina release

thrilled and pleased,’’ Peter Steen,
president and chief executive officer of
Corona, said in Vancouver.

“We've been celebrating very
quietly. It’s kind of anti-climactic in a
way, you've waited so long. You've
been expecting this but at the same
time you have some qualms and some
concerns and now it’s all over."’

Corona will operate the Page-
Williams mine in a 50-50 partnership
with Teck Corp. of Vancouver.
Projected output for the mine this year
is just under half a million ouhces.

Based on the Friday’s closing price
of $425 Cdn per ounce for gold,
Corona’s take this year will be more
than $100 million, said company
spokesman Peter McBride in Toronto.

it was with the ruling but
will ensure an orderly transition of the
mine.

In 1986, the Ontario Supreme Court
ruled in a judgment later upheld by the
Ontario Court of Appeal that Corona
should take possession of the mine af-
ter paying LAC $154 million plus in-
terest. By the end of June of this year,
the cash requirement had grown to
$210 million.

The dispute began in 1981 when
Corona approached LAC for help in
developing the mine, showing it its
drilling sites and core samples.
Negotiations began for a joint venture,
but at the same time LAC was buying
the claims for the site from Lola
Williams, the Maryland widow who
owned them.

Wheat production
expected to rise

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S.
Agriculture Department said it expects
a sharp increase in world wheat
production this year, but for the third
consecutive season, it won't meet
demand.

World wheat production in 1989-90

“Even with the prospects for smaller
supplies, world wheat utilization is ex-
pected to reach a record high,
necessitating another drawdown in
world wheat stocks,” said the depar-
tment

Asa result, there will be more impor-
ts by many countries and trade is ex-

is projected to be 527 million tonnes,
while utilization is estimated to be
about 537 million tonnes, department
data indicated.

“Over the past month, deteriorating
spring wheat prospects in the Northern
Hemisphere have resulted in a
significant tightening in world wheat
supplies,” the department said.

pected to exceed 99 million tonnes,
agriculture officials said.

The Ontario court ruled LAC was a
development partner at that time and
had breached the trust placed in it by
Corona. Therefore, the lower court
ruled, LAC should get none of the
profits.

LAC had argued it deserves at least
half the mine — which is what it would
have had under a joint partnership.

**LAC has no one to blame but itself
for that joint venture not coming
about,"’ Mr. Justice Gerard La Forest
said in his opinion.

“Only because of LAC’s breach of
duty did (Corona’s) arrangement with
Teck Corp. result.”

The high court’s ruling upheld the
$210-million payment to LAC by
Corona, and said LAC must pay
Corona’s legal costs.

Murray Pezim, a West Coast mining
magnate who was promoting Corona
stock in 1981 and now is honorary

~chairman, estimated Corona’s total
legal costs over the eight years at $14
million.

Pezim said his company, Prime
Resources of Vancouver, owns 4.5
million Corona shares and stands to
make millions from Friday’s victory.

“But it’s not just that,’’ he said.
“It’s the shot of adrenalin into our
system of having fought for eight years
and coming up on top.””

Pezim said his directors were plan-
ning a party to celebrate the victory.
“We're going to havea ball.”

Ceremony
to. mark
opening

A briéf ceremony has been
scheduled for 9 a.m. Aug., 16 to
mark the grand opening of the
province's newest. Woodwynn
store at Waneta Plaze in Trail.

“We invite the, public. to join us
on thé 16th,”’ store supervisor
Sharon Miller says. ‘‘Our new
outlets in Trail and Nelson are
opening at the same time, demon:
strating Woodwynn’s commitment
to growing with the Kootenays."*

Rossland-Trail MLA Chris
D'Arcy and Trail Mayor Marc
Marcolin will be piped in by Jay
Mykietyn “to officially open the
store. The Kate E, Shaw School of
Dance will be on hand to perform
during the opening, and there will
be a live radio broadcas} from the
plaza on Saturday, Aug. 19.

The store will employ nine part
time workers and provides a mer
chandising mix of family wear,
shoes, lingerie, accessories and
home fashions.

Woodwynn stores operate 19
outlets in British Columbia and
eight in Alberta, featuring depar
tment-store quality
promotional-store prices,
company says.

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Of the Following Utilities

— Crescent Valley New Settlement
"— Krestova Improvement District

— Bourke Creek

Improvement District

Testing of the above sysiems, at the users taps, has shown the presence of
fecal coliform bacteria. These bacteria indicate a high risk for contracting
disease if raw water is consume:

As Medical Health Officer, 1

above noted systems to boil thei
boiled and stored in sterilized containers in ref

advise consumers drinking water from the
ing water belore use. Water can be
igerators

The source of contamination is probably due to human and or animal ac
tivity in the watershed. Being open water sheds, they are subject to con

tamination at any time.

Theretore, to provide sate water over the long

term, | advise treatment of the drinking water at its source

For further explanation and/or information, users of the above systems

should contact Mr. Mike Harnadek, (Chief Public Health Inspector

Kootenay Health Unit at 813.
number 365-8525

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