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Washington orders investigation

The American government
Id B,C." 's Forests Ministry to
ees Noah rates, an

‘stumpage on lumber exports to"
the U.S). re

From 1987 until this October,
B.C.’s stumpages, or timber royal
s from crown forests, were tied

to the U.S; market price on tim- \'
” ber, The government did not like
‘having its’ i piicing policy ticd ©

had agreed to do so

down. But
in the

dum of Under-
standing to prevent.the American
government from slapping a
countervailing duty on Canadian

o' farn
ded of B.C. exports,

ican lumber industry, has
fully argued Wels unfairly

importers Post a.15 percent bond,

bsidized by th
then—snimpages, citaed yy
18,

‘the B.C, government together; fi

lobbied Ottawa to rescind‘the”
MOU, freeing B.C. to set its own
stumpage rates.’ °;

But Washington immediately,”
ordered an investigation on the”

© room for part-time Canadians -

| Prime Minister Brian Mul-
moy has raised the stakes of
bec secession by warning
paratists not to expect any
ad of beneficial association
ith the Test of Canada if the

3 P votes

O leave the

tinct society" because of its

March before presenting formal

French
culture and tradition of civil
law.

The hardening of Mul-
roney’s position on Quebec
comes in a wake of a flurry of
economic studies purporting to
show that Quebec's political

Mulroney has told sepa-
atists they are “dream mer-
its” if they believe citizens
if an independent Quebec could

from English Canada
would have a minimal impact
on the province’s economy if it
separates but retains some kind
of economic union with Ottawa,

etain C; and

ise Canadian currency after
saving the union.

Ina statement | to reporters.in
is home district of Baie-
fomeau, Quebec, on Nov. 14,
he prime minister said his atti-
ude toward separatists was,
‘Well, to hell with you. If Cana-
da is unacceptable, it's unac-
‘¢eptable completely. You can’t
be a part-time Canadian.”

i Ina speech ‘in bach

y P
embarrassed by a report issued

+ on Oct. 30 by one of his own
advisory panels, the Economic _

Council of Canada, which
played down the cost of Quebec
i Lucien Bouch

“leader of the- separatist Bloc

Quebecois faction in Parlia-
ment, called the report a “repu-
distion of the terror campaign”
waged by Mulroney. .

Also, in recent weeks Parti

Quebec; b
‘They ‘say Canada i is unaccept-
able, but Canadian currency is
Candida is

able, but the benefits of the
ic union are

‘Canada is

b is Leader Jacques
Parizeau has been touring Cana-
da and the United States pro-
moting the idea that an
independent Quebec would not
be economically disruptive
it would reiain ties to

eee Chnadian citizenship
fs acceptable. These dream mer-
chants have to learn once and
for all that Canada is not a buf-
fet where you can pick the
choicest morsels, then walk out

Canada, includi cur-

to Quebec and the

‘ other nine provinces for ratifi-

cation,
“Now he's upping the ante.

There’s no fudging there, no»

caveats or qualifications, He’s

saying that they're cither in all ©

the way or out all the way,” an
aide said. {

Canadian | :

Labor
Congress
to hold
unique
meeting

STERLING NEWS SERVICE

The Canadian Labor
Congress will hold a unique
conference on Canada’s social
and economic future at the
Skyline Hotel in Ottawa,

rency and citizenship, and
would negotiate its own free-
trade agreement with the United
States.

Parizeau also said the Eco-
nomic Council's study had

the door.”
’ Elsewhere, sound-
My the same theme, d

vt credibility
on

.

His remarks reflected a shift

ib strategy that aides to the
i said is

D 1-3. Towards a Peo-
ple’s Agenda is part of a long-
term strategy mapped out at
the 1990 CLC convention “to
close the gap between Cana-
da’s enormous potential and its
grim reality,” said CLC Presi-
dent Shirely Carr.

As part of the CLC's coali-

2 tion-building efforts, the. con-,;.

ference, will. «

ed “all or nothing” warnings to
Quebec’s 6.7 million residents
an escalation of a

prime
to make clear to Quebecers
what the costs would be if they

‘were to vote with the Parti: Que- y

becois in a “sovereignty’ associ-
ation” plebiscite next year.

theme that he began to sound
earlier his year when he began
saying Canadians could cither
be “nation-builders or nation-
destroyers. a

of gre
ing Canadians from nearly all
walks of life. Environmental-
ists, feminists, native Canadi-
ans, teachers, human rights
activists, church officials, aca-
demics and many others will
join labor activists in a full
debate of the issues. Economic

¥! The Quebec gi has

d to sus-

the ch needs of

fhireatened to hold such a refer-
endum next October if the rest
Canada fails to come up with
itceptable proposals for consti-
fational reform aimed at giving
Quebec special status as a “‘dis-

pend his confrontational
while his g

prepared a 28-] point ‘package of

earlier this month, which Parlia-

ment is scheduled to consider in

“the labor market and society,

social equality and sustainable
Prosperity are among the top-
ics on the agenda.

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finds there is a
Vabaldy now that the MOU has
‘been abrogated, the countervail-

ig duty is likely to. be 15 percent.

because B.C. has not touched its
stumpage rates. Yesterday, said
Mr. Miller, B.C.’s Washington
lawyer delivered written reassur-
ances to U;S, trade officials that

Inadequate welfare rates the
result of Ottawa's limitations

Last year’s welfare rates were

‘ well below the poverty line
~ according to a report by the

National Council of Welfare
released Tuesday.

Support already deemed inad-
equate to welfare recipients was
decreased further when real
i of welfare

quate welfare rates comes from
Ottawa's limitations on welfare
funding, which in part prevent
the provincial governments from
raising rates,

According to the report, only
Quebec, Ontario and British
Columbia managed to make
in welfare rates, all

‘; dropped in seven provinces last

year.

“Although welfare recipients
are among the poorest of the poor
in our society, they rarely get any
ci enaranteed protection from

creases in the cost of living,”
pai the report.

The report is also calling for
protection from inflation for wel-
fare recipients.

“The bottom line is for us to

- say that all benefits should be

taised and indexed,” said Ann
Gagnon, council chairwoman.
Part of the reason for inade-

Principals of the
Baha‘i Faith

World peace is impossible until the
nations of the world have agreed to
surrender a degree of sovereignty
to a World Government established
by them all,

An auxiliary universal language is
essential, in order that all

the peoples of the world may

communicate as one global society.

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other provinces dropped their
rates and the highest decrease
was in Alberta, where rates fell
4.6 per cent.

B.C. ‘did not intend'to make
material changes to ‘to: this
province's stumpage programs.”

In the meantime B.C, will par-
ticipate in the American investi-
gation to urge that the waiaing
value of: the. Canadian ‘dollar (25
percent since the 'MOU was
signed) has wiped out any advan-
tage Canadian lumbermen
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