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By LARRY WELSH CP News Analysis

OTTAWA (CP) — Michael Wilson desperately wants to clobber the économy with the goods and ser- vices tax instead of high interest rates.

That's why the finance minister is risking the next election by imposing the unpopular tax next Jan. 1.

Wilson has so far failed to arrest inflation, even though John Crow, governor of the Bank of Canada, has jacked up interest rates to the highest level since the last recession.

But slapping a brand new seven-per-cent tax on services, including everything from shoe shines to hair- cuts, should jam the brakes on the economy and put si ing inflation into a deep freeze.

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The service sector, accounting for two-thirds of the my’s production, has kept b: g despite Crow’s interest-rate pinch.

“You definitely want to get at the services sector, and the goods and services ta: just what the doctor ordered,’’ says Jeff Rubin, senior economist at Wood Gundy

“It may ironically turn out to be one of the strongest cases for the goods and services tax, because it would mean that you don’t have to use such draconian measures to have an impact on prices.”

The service sector is largely immune to high in- terest rates, since consumers generally don’t borrow money to see movies, hire an accountant or lawyer, or have the washing machine repaired.

Inflation fell only slightly in February to an an- nual rate of 5.4 per cent, after jumping to a six-year high of 5.5 per cent the month before.

GST may actually - cool inflation

blatant contradiction,

Imposing the tax would boost prices at first for consumers, and the Finance Department estimates in- flation would rise by 1.25 Percentage points after the tax takes effect next year.

But taking more money out of consumers’ Pockets would slow spending in the economy, and in- flation would fall quickly after the initial rise in prices.

The Conference Board of Canada predicts the economy would actually shrink in the first quarter of next year under the goods and services tax.

If inflation heats up again, Wilson could increase the goods and services tax and sock the economy right where it’s overheating, in the service sector.

The finance minister would also get the added bonus of billions of dollars in extra revenues.

Now, when interest rates go up to fight inflation, the federal government ends up paying billions in extra interest charges on the public debt.

Each increase of one Percentage point in rates ad- ds about $1.75 billion to the federal deficit, if the rise in rates is sustained over an entire year.

Prime rate, charged by major banks on loans to their top customers, climbed to 14.25 Per cent from 13.5 per cent just before last month's budget as Crow forced rates higher to help soothe jittery financial markets.

Although inflation and the service sector of the

have i atively costly loans have exacted a stiff toll on the industrial sector.

Companies that make cars, appliances and steel are smarting from high rates.

“I don’t think anyone would argue that the auto

booming along, they're in a recession,” says Randall

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VANCOUVER (CP) — Students whio once held bake sales and car washes for sports teams are banding together in a new; fast-growing movement to save the environment.

The Environmental Youth Allian- ce, founded last fall to link environ- ment clubs across Canada, already has 15,000 members.

By comparison, the 10-year-old Western Canada Wilderness Com- mittee has 18,000 members.

“It's not at all unlikely that we'll be the biggest environmental group in Canada in a year,’ said Jeff Gibbs, a University of British Columbia student and-founder of the alliance.

In the last year, students and en- vironment clubs have started recycling programs, held protests and lobbied politicians.

In Vernon, clubs at three secondary schools went to lunch at a Mc- Donald's last fall, taking their own china plates to protest against the fast-food restaurant's packaging.

In Mississauga, Ont., students at Holy Name of Mary high school protested the planned release of helium balloons to celebrate the school’s 2Sth anniversary last Sep- tember.

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“‘It seems like there’s another wave of youth getting involved again,”’ said Paul George of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee.

“*There was a whole drought in the '70s. I don’t know what they were doing — drugs, sex and all — but it wasn’t the environment.””

But the co-ordinator of the B.C. Public Interest Research Group at Simon Fraser University cautions that the growth of the youth alliance may be deceiving.

“You can have very large organizations turn up very quickly if you’re not asking people to do too much,"’ said Phil Lyons.

The impact remains to be seen, said Lyons.

“Whether it’s going to generate a lot more action on these issues is an open question,’’ he said. ‘‘If it keeps up a high level of activism, the more power to them,””

Gibbs, 22, is a product of a high school environment club.

Five years ago, his teacher at Prince of Wales in Vancouver organized a boat trip to the Queen Charlotte Islands where Gibbs saw old-growth

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The public is hereby advised that burning permits are required for grass burning. Burning Permits will not be issued during the months of July and August.

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