national ""Citizen Friday, July 15, 1983 — 5 TIME FOR LOWER GOAL 'Four per cent should be next restraint target' by PETER COWAN Southam News OTTAWA — Ian Sinclair, head of the private sector committee promoting Ottawa’s six-and-five restraint program, said Thursday the next target for wage and price increases should be four per cent. Following a luncheon meeting called by Finance Minister Marc La-londe and attended by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and other ministers, Sinclair, chairman of Canadian Pacific Enterprises, said a new “target” would be needed when the program ends. “And I would hope that a four-percent target, as we went out of the six-and-five, is all right,” said Sin- clair. “I would hope that by then that we would have inflation down to that area.” Sinclair, who heads a 30-member private-sector committee boosting the restraint program, wouldn't say how Lalonde reacted to the suggestion. The finance minister has said some kind of program may be needed to follow six-and-five but has avoided specifics. A Lalonde aide said the four-per-cent proposal does not reflect present government policy. Meanwhile, Lalonde received a letter from the Canadian Construction Association, withdrawing support for six-and-five on the grounds that it is too generous. The letter said the industry is so hard hit that it would be wrong for employers and employees to consider any wage increase. Lalonde wished the industry “good luck” and said that since it had some of the highest wage settlements in the country a pause would be in order. Last year the government set general limits of six per cent for 1982-1983 and five per cent for 1983-1984 on wage and price increases in the federal public sector. It asked the provinces, municipalities, labor and business to embrace the limits voluntarily. Sinclair’s committee was formed to help stir private sector participation. Recently, Trudeau went on television to say six-and-five had helped pull Canada’s inflation rate down to 5.4 per cent from 11.2 per cent, and he urged Canadians to stick with it. John K. Grant, president of Quaker Oats and one of three business leaders who accompanied Sinclair to the news conference, said that in the next three or four years, Canada should be looking at a “four-and-three” program or some other combination to give the country “some point of view and direction.” But Sinclair was reluctant about the four-and-three idea, saying he couldn’t see two or three years into the future. Sinclair said continued restraint was needed to improve Canada’s competitive edge in world trade. He said that only through such an ap- Eroach would a solid new economic ase be created which would provide jobs for 1.5 million unemployed Canadians. Sinclair said the economy was in an “up-tick” — at the beginning of recovery from the recession. But he warned it was fragile and could be reversed easily and called for a gradual recovery because too quick an upturn could not be sustained. That cautious optimism was reflected in the Conference Board's quarterly survey released Thursday of 1.000 senior executives' attitudes and investment spending intentions. It showed 69.1 per cent of respondents believed overall economic conditions would be better six months from now. The latest survey showed more optimism about the near-term sales outlook Those expecting unemployment to worsen in next six months dropped from 20.2 per cent in the, first-quarter survey to 10.2 per cent in the most recent one. Sinclair said his committee would be expanded in the coming months and that it would encourage business to invest and would meet with provincial and municipal governments to promote the six-and-five program. TWO YEARS LESS A DAY Gregoire sentenced to jail QUEBEC (CP) — Handcuffed to a plainclothes policeman, national assembly member Gilles Gregoire was driven to Orsainville jail Thursday to serve two years less a day for committing immoral acts with juvenile girls. Gregoire, 57, who sat as an independent after being kicked out of the Parti Quebecois caucus following his conviction last month, was also given fines totalling $2,900 One of the charges of which Gregoire was found guilty involved a 12-year-old girl. Juvenile court judge Andre Sirois gave him a two-year-less-a-day sentence on that count, plus a $500 fine. Gregoire also received 12-month sentences — as well as $400 fines — for each of the six other counts, to be served concurrently with the first count. Gregoire. who has represented the Eastern Townships riding of Frontenac in the national assembly since 1976, has the option of spending three extra months in prison instead of paying each of the fines. Gregoire and Premier Rene Levesque cofounded the PQ in 1968, and Gregoire is credited with giving the party its name. Pierre Gaudreau. Gregoire’s lawyer, said he thought the sentence was “severe" and added he would be trying to get Gregoire out of jail pending an appeal of the verdict. In his sentence ruling, Sirois said Gregoire deserved a harsh sentence. "The court must not forget the seriousness of the fact for an adult to incite adolescent girls to delinquency, even if they are already in a dubious state of morality,” he said. "Indeed, it must be remembered that following these incidents, three of the young girls gave themselves over to blackmail, one to fraud and two to nude dancing. “There is no doubt in the mind of the bench that the accused initiated seven young juvenile girls to prostitution. He clearly showed them that it can be gainful for a person to sell her body for the sexual pleasure of another party.” The judge noted it is not the first time Gregoire has been found guilty of such an offence. In 1980, he was fined $300 on each of two similar counts. Technically. Gregoire does not have to resign his seat even though he has received a prison sentence. He would lose it automatically only if convicted under the Criminal Code and given more than two years in prison. Instead he was charged under the Juvenile Delinquents Act. Nevertheless, when the verdict was handed down last month, Levesque asked Gregoire to resign. He refused and announced he would leave the PQ and sit as an independent. Airlines hand out refunds MONTREAL (CP) -Canadian airlines began dishing out refunds Thursday to passengers who paid a five-per-cent domestic fare increase that the federal government has vetoed. The increase on full-fare tickets was supposed to take effect Thursday among most major carriers. Quebe-cair had started charging the five-per-cent almost two weeks ago. Air Canada was issuing refunds at airports and passengers could also get them at ticket offices or through their travel agtfnt, said spokesman Denis Chag-non. “If they paid cash, they’ll receive cash," he said. “If they paid by credit card, the refund will be credited to their account, and if they paid by cheque, they’ll get a voucher." CP Air is distributing refund applications. Passengers can fill them in at the airport or bring them to a CP Air office. A cheque will be issued within two weeks, said a spokesman. The airlines began charging the higher rate a month ago on advance bookings and will lose millions of dollars as a result of cabinet’s decision to overturn Canadian Transport Commission approval for the increase. Cabinet decided Wednesday the increase violates its six-and-five anti-inflation program because the airlines got a six-per-cent increase last Oct. 2, and shouldn't get another until a year later. “Apparently, this government prefers to rescue lame duck industries and deny more viable industries justifiable returns essential to their future financial health,” said Angus Morrison, president of the Air Transport Association of Canada. The rollback means that the country’s airlines will finish another year swimming in red ink, he said, adding: future financial health," er year swimming in red Cr Air says it will lo< said Angus Morrison, ink, he said, adding: $3 million. World scout jamboree 'could change world' KANANASKIS COUNTRY, Alta. said Scott Higginbotham, 16, of CP) — Sineine and cheering tee- las. KANANASKIS COUNTRY, Alta. (CP) — Singing and cheering tee nagcrs from 102 countries gathered beneath a Rocky Mountain sky and bade farewell to friends made during the 15th World Scout Jamboree. “The ties between people here, these bonds of friendship, will stay with us," Ken Hayashida, 16, of Seal Beach, Calif., said as the nine-day campout ended Thursday night “No matter what happens in the world, we will know we had peace for two weeks in Canada.” The 13,564 scouts sat cross-legged on the ground and pledged to meet again in 1987 — at the next world jamboree near Sydney, Australia. “You now know that people all over the world really are the same, with the same feelings," Lord Ba-den-Powell, the grandson of scout-ing’s founder, told the campers. “The way we speak and behave is the only difference.” The jamboree was the first to include girls and had more countries represented than any other in the 63-year history of the event. About 3,600 attended from the United States. The influx of scouts for the jamboree that opened July 6 had made this community in the wilderness Alberta’s eighth-largest city. Although they traded everything from uniforms to badges, many scouts said the most rewarding part of their stay was the exchange of cultures. The jamboree “could literally change the course of the world,” said Scott Higginbotham, 16, of Dallas. “One of these boys could become leader of Libya and one of our guys could become president. Then, they could walk up to each other and say: ‘Remember the World Jamboree in ‘83?’ “It could be a key to world peace.” A call to peace was one of 25 resolutions adopted by the Youth Forum, an organization within the world scouting movement which met during the jamboree. Higginbotham taught some Austrian boys to play American football and. in return, they taught him how to dance a polka. “You know, 35 years ago we were fighting with these guys, but here I can say, 'Hey, Wolfgang, let’s play football.’ It makes you feel great to know your grandparents fought with them and you can live with them in peace.” Having girl campers, about 1,000, was a successful experiment that organizers said will be repeated at the next world jamboree. A few international romances developed. And many U.S. scouts, whose troops are not co-ed, said they thought having girls was a good idea. “America has this thing about the sexes, and it cannot understand that guys and girls can go camping together,’’ said Jim Stuart, 17, of Atlantic Beach, Fla. See also Page 35 ONTARIO CHEMICAL SPILL Company faces eight charges ESPANOLA. Ont. (CP) — The Ontario government has laid a total of eight charges against E. B. Eddy Forest Products Ltd. and two of its officials in connection with two separate chemical spills last week that killed thousands of fish in the Spanish River. An Environment Ministry official said Thursday the charges, laid under the federal Fisheries Act. could result in total fines of $400,000 if the company and its officials are convicted on all eight counts and maximum fines are levied. Each charge carries a maximum fine of $50,000 The company is charged with four counts of introducing a deleterious substance into the river. Douglas McMullan, vice-president of manufacturing, and Darwin Howard, superintendent of pulping, are each charged with two counts of permit- ting a discharge causing a high biochemical oxygen demand Only one of the four charges against the company deals with the spill of soapy detergent into the river July 5. The other three deal with a previously unreported spill of waste water that began July 4 and continued until July 6. the spokesman said. The charges against McMullan and Howard deal with the spill of waste water on July 4 and 5. The two men allegedly were aware of the spills but didn't do anything to stop them, the ministry spokesman said. He said the soapy detergent spill on July 5 poisoned the fish while the waste water quickly removed the oxygen from the water, causing the fish to asphyxiate. Maislin APARTMENT FLIPPING workers “Hitting the airlines with this at this moment when they were losing money hand over fist will have a major effect on their profitability.” CP Air says it will lose $3 million. picket MONTREAL (CP) -Several dozen laid-off employees picketed outside Maislin Transport Ltd. headquarters Thursday, while bailiffs seized more trucks belonging to the financially troubled company. A spokesman for Paquette Rocheleau Dion Grenier and Associates said that bailiffs, who had seized 80 rigs in Quebec by late Wednesday, had instructions to take more than 100. The seizure was requested by Societe Ge-nerale (Canada), a subsidiary of a Parisian bank which has loans secured by trucks, while other vehicles are part of conditional sales contracts. “There’s not much we can do,” said one picket, referring to four policemen on hand to keep traffic moving at the company’s offices and terminal in suburban LaSalle. Others agreed that they are not likely to gain much even if Maislin doesn’t go bankrupt. Their final paycheques have bounced and they are out of work. Maislin Transport, a unit of Maislin Industries Ltd., has asked creditors for a four-month reprieve on outstanding debts so it can reorganize its finances. A meeting of creditors is set for Aug. 17. Jean-Guy Levesque, business agent for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents Maislin drivers, said the union plans to sue company directors individually if the firm goes bankrupt and the employees are not paid what is owed them. For Clifford Glover, 62, the situation is serious. The $300 paycheque he deposited at the bank last week bounced Thursday, leaving him with a wife, three kids and $51. Trust controls criticized TORONTO (CPi - A trio of financiers devised a plan to extract $152 million from three Ontario trust companies in November using a routine perfected during two years of trial runs across Ontario and Quebec, a special inquiry reported Thursday. Leonard Rosenberg, William Player, Andrew Markle and associates knew they were breaking Ontario loan and trust laws when they orchestrated the largest real estate transaction in Canadian history, the report says. But the three-part flip of 70 Toronto apartment buildings went ahead anyway because it “may have been regarded as the last opportunity for substantial access to the treasuries of the trust companies’’ they controlled. Their firms — Crown Trust Co., Greymac Trust Co. and Seaway Trust Co. — were seized in January by the Ontario government. The report criticizes government officials for ineffective regulation of the firms’ activities and questions the Progressive Conservative cabinet’s decision to approve rapid and massive increases in the companies' authorized capital. It says company directors — which at one time included two former Conservative cabinet ministers and a party fundraiser — might have stopped some of the activities had they exercised the care and prudence expected by law. But evidence showed that Rosenberg, Markle and Player did not want "an effective, operating board of directors,” says James Morrison, an accountant from Touche Ross Ltd who led thc eight-month investigation Liberal Leader David Peterson and New Democrat Michael Cassidy called for an immediate, separate inquiry into the apparent political ties of former trust company directors John Clement, Stanley Randall and David Cowper. “I can’t prove anything,” Peterson said at a news conference. "But why were these people involved?” Clement, a former Ontario consumer minister who represented Niaga- Better mail service offered by cyclist CALGARY (CP) -Roy Eckert has made Canada Post Corp. an offer designed to improve mail delivery: a one-man, bicycle express service. Eckert, who will be 70. this fall, made the offer after he received a letter at the 15th World Scout Jamboree, in Kananas-kis Country, 90 kilometres southwest of Calgary, 13 days after it was mailed in San Francisco. He noted that he had covered the same distance in only 11 days on his bicycle. "I had a glorious trip," said Eckert, a volunteer who works in the jamboree's trading post. Eckert telephoned Canada Post president Michael Warren in Ottawa on Tuesday. He didn’t get through to Warren but asked other postal officials to convey his offer to speed mail delivery to the Boy Scouts, who break camp today. “Remember the Pony Express?” he asked. 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