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_ Why More Protécticn?

The pressure is on again for stop-_

ping import of Japanese goods to pro- tect the- Canadian textile ‘industry.’ Spokesmen for the textile interests . have challenged Trade Minister

Sharp to say what his policy is.’and || ‘Mr. Sharp, in the Commons on Fri- |

day, said the matter was under con- ’ sideration: Finance Minister Gordon, he added, would announce any chan-

ges in government policy which ‘-

_- might take place.

Chief complaint from the tariff —

protectionists is that the amount of __ textiles and clothing coming to Can-

ada from Japan-showed-a marked in-

crease in 1964 over the previous year.

But the trade balance is still very | ‘much in Canada’s favor, as shown in |

a booklet just released by the Can- ada-Japan Trade Council. The coun- ‘cil notes that in 1963 Canada sold Japan $269,000,000 worth of goods "and, in return, bought $130,500,000 worth from Japan. In 1964, estimat- ed sales to Japan were 350,000,000. while’ imports into Canada from ‘Japan were estimated at $170,000.- 000. _.. : ‘ :

Because much of what Japan buys +

from Canada is in the form of prim- ary products, it is claimed that this

trade creates few jobs in this coun- | try. But, says the council, this is true |

only as far as the direct, or last stage. labor is concerned. For. example wheat production requires machinery for preparing the ground, sowing, cutting and threshing the crop; it also requires ‘fertilizer, transporta-

tion and storage, the use of banking

facilities and so on. - : The council's research repartment

has attempted to measure both the .

direct and indirect labor content of Canada’s exports to Japan. It arrives at the conclusion thatin 1963 total wages and salaries to produce Cana- dian exports to Japan were $200,752.- 600; and that the number of people émployed to produce these exports Was 63,640—the equivalent of about one per cent of the labor force.

Recently the Japanese ambassa- dor to Canada forecast that exports . of raw materials from this country to Japan could increase 60 per cent over the next five years. This is a sizeable-

. increase; but if it is to be achieved, Canada in turn must try to buy more —not less—+rrom Japan. The Japan- ése do not expect trade to be on a one-for-one basis, but they believe -“f that their balance of payments situa-

‘fion could, become serious in five |

years if the present trends continue.

To set more tariff barriers in the | way of this trade would be a ruinous | policy for Canada to adopt. It is to be —

hoped, indeed. that the Government ‘i$ planning no such course.

Far From A Record

A parliamentary ‘scribe to whom we...look.. for__occasional._interesting background material is Peter Jack- son of the Ottawa Journal. In his comments..on the new. session of the 26th Parliament, Mr. Jackson notes that while there is normally a recess: of some length between sessions, the 60 hours.or so between the adjourn- ° ment on Saturday morning, April 3 and the new session Monday. .April 5 was far from a record. =

On Nov. 26, 1952, for example. Governor General Vincent Massey

,came down to the Senate in the morning to prorogue ‘the sixth ses-

sion of the 21st Parliament. He went |

back to Rideau Hall for lunch and returned in the afternoon to read the Speech from the Throne begin- ning the seventh session. The only difference between the morning and afternoon sittings of the Commons was.that two new members, Lucien Cardin, now Works Minister and Romuald Bourque, now -a senator. took their seats at the beginning of the new session. —— pos

Frank Walker |

MONDAY. APRIL 12, 1965.—

| of sittings. With its end went all the

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~-They were to-stay in Parliament |, for a while iti contrast to the six new members _who-~took their_seats | after winning byelections in the in+ terval between the fifth and sixth sessions of the 18th Parliament on. | Jan. 25, 1940. At three o’clock they | heard the Speech from the Throne. | - Before ‘supper Parliament was dis- — | solved and they were back in an | election campaign. For two of the six. | that three-hour sitting was the total | | of their parliamentary experience. |} They were-defeated in the general | election which followed. i Next to, the 1952 performance, the shortest space between sessions | | was 10 vears earlier at the height of | the war when the. session prorogued — | on a Wednesday. and a new session | began the following day. On this occasion. with some of the | | business in the new Speech repeat~ | ing legislation promised for the last session, it may be: asked why Par- liament.didn’t just continue on wit . | the old sessién until the cae ] cleaned. The answer to that i# con- — tained in the British North America Aet;-whieh—prescribes:—““‘Fhere—shalt- | be a session of the Parliament of |- Canada once at least every vear so | | that 12 months shall not intervene | | between. the last sitting of the Par- liament in one session .and its first sitting in the new session.” | The old session ran for 249 days

- pending bills, unanswered questions _-and reports which had accumulated on the order paper and in the Com- --mons. machinery since the session be- |

‘THE OTTAWA METS

| gan on Feb. 18, 1964. Last Monday |~the- House started with a clean new order paper—technically, at least.

‘ : eff} eae é Significant Vote _ |

“It could. be called a farce—the - the taxpayers of Canada have way the Opposition parties. while j; just received the first dividend uniting on a motion censuring the | 2 J8,3¢355 0p the Stok ae Pearson Government for failure to which is wholly-owned by CNR | eradicate “wrong-doing” in high and 2 the name of the people of | Jaw places. arranged it so that’41 of “The. their members missed the vote or | te wnt were .paired when the showdown j _ 3) saupitie aad ad aos

_ OTTAWA REPORT By

ada’s neck like a millstone, ‘is the part of the Opposition, for the good and sufficient reason that.'de- feat of the Government, would have | led to dissolution of Parliament and | 2 new election. Being politicians, | they must be well aware that this is | not what the public wants; also that | if an election is forced upon the Liberals at this time. the list of “goodies” in the legislative program, combined with an anticipated “sun- shine” budget; could provide the * Liberals with formidable campaign | material.

maintenance base. a fracas now . entering its 16th year. CROSS-CANADA AIR LINE When our national air service was established in 1937 under

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Nevertheless. it is-significant that | St87_ceéese Se epmen of corres, | for the ‘first time since the April, s » ctting and condensation where | 1963 election the four Opposition | Ser mu coy convespontence comare parties did join together in a non- | ™S “= senate confidence amendment in the Throne pS EE a Speech debate. They united in con-_| a rr os y-goveral—cetiol- | demning the Government for being | es im the pre:s there is quite an | effort for a ferry trom George-

| so complacent about the scandal allegations affecting its administra- a service’ that would help the tion, and it would be well for Mr. | ecomomy of Kinzs Cougty im a Pearson and his colleagues to take | {iss ben. orcsoted. br Jom note of this fact. Liberal papers like Mullaly, MP for Kings, and has the Winnipeg Free Press have been . tm SHR’ 0 Mee. oe. andi var. |

equally: outspoken on this subject, ious groups in Nova Scotia. {It is- | and there is no doubt that it reflects fortunate we did not have a opinion across the

town to Port Hood, N.S. This is

Member from Prince with the . consideration for his riding as_ they have in Kings.

Prince County and especially West Prince have nobody to blame but themselves. When the Liberal/Party said we had to have Mackenzie as Prime Minister we gave him a_ riding in which to throw his hat and we as good little boys elected hin; nobody else would have ‘him. Several years later. when the King Government could not function ...unless.....Col.... Ralston+ was Minister of Def before the good li ed him.

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' EDITORIAL NOTES Life expectancy in Greece, Rome, Egypt, and the Eastern Mediterran- ean region in the year A.D. 1 prob- ably did not exceed 30 years, says a | | National Geographic Society bulletin. | | It is now about 70 in many of those |_countries..... : ° - ‘we as) fhoys elect-

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Back in 1284 the German hamlet

of Hamelin called in the Pied Piper

to get rid of its rats. Seven centur-

ies later, it wants to get rid of them ectors would not —

again.and has hired a British exterm-, 2!€ss they were guaranteed -a

ination firm, Rentokil, to do it. Ren- Camus aun oe cae Gans

tokil has no pipers, and no intention ‘hardly dry when they had the

of trying to charm the rats into the jee ee ioe erie ade | Weser River. And it figures to take

sure we had the safme assur- considerably longer at the job— | 2c from Kinz and his .govern- about 10 years. :

ment for electing Col. Ralston. *

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er for Prince does not do some-

There seems, says the“ Financial amar at aaa air VEE?

Post, to be a great téal of confusion — weil satished. He has not press-

| across the nation over the pronuncia- Pelee bo bs Tdeuht they wack

tion of the word Centenary. Some if thereis afy record in Han-

speakers on radio, TV and public _ alge lly eng and ' de-

platform variously say “cen-TEN-ary” —_— if. Mr. Mullally can cet the

or “cen-TEEN-ary”, instead of the spport of Mr. Pickerszill ‘or

correct “CENticnary” (Webster and ft pron cnr “cabmet Mimetan® | Oxford are the authorities). The word comes from the Latin “centenarius” | (centi—a hundred each).. There is no | confusion in French. It is centenaire;

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