Federal Party Profiles on Post— Secondary Education Issues

Part Four:

The UPEI Student Union wishes to present to you part four

of a four part series regarding

post-secondary education issues as provided by the Canadian Fed- eration of Students. The Student Union hopes the information con- tained in this series will be useful to you as voters on election day.

Copyright

Question 14 ~ Copyright law has recently received the first sub- stantial amendment since 1924 in what was to be the first of a two stage amendment. If an election is called before the passage of the second stage, would you support the introduction. of further copy- right legislation to establish copy- right exemptions as a top priority after the election?

Progressive Conservative Party — (No reply was available)

Liberal Party - We would en- ter into discussions with both cre- ators and users regarding exemp- tions with respect to the use of copyright materials.

New Democratic Party — Yes we would. We have pushed for early introduction of exemptions so that copyright legislation will be workable: We also believe it is important that creators be ad- equately rewarded for their work and that educators continue to have necessary access to material. We are hopeful that negotiations presently taking place between educators and creators will reach a positive conclusion shortly.

Taxation ~

Question 15 - Do you support the implementation of a national

sales tax?

Progressive Conservative Party — (No reply was available)

Liberal Party - The Liberal Party believes that the federal sales tax must be reformed, but only if certain conditions are met. Among these:

a) Essential consumer goods such as food must be exempted as well as health services, public services, charities.

b) A generous refundable sales tax credit must be put in place in order to correct the in- herently regressive nature of the sales tax. This tax credit must be indexed and paid in its entirety to families beneath the poverty line.

c) Why is the government waiting until after an election to implement this tax? Does this delay or conceal hidden tax in- creases?

New Democratic Party - We oppose the implementation of a broad general national sales tax

as has been proposed by the Con-"

servatives under their so~called “Tax reforms”. We believe such a tax to be regressive and ex- tremely damaging tv low income earners, students included.

Question If such a tax is implemented after the next fed- eral election, would'you support a comprehensive exemption for post-secondary students?

Progressive Conservative Party — (No reply was available)

Liberal Party — See response to above Question.

New Democratic Party - We believe this tax is wrong and

should not be implemented. Tin-

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Indigenous Students

- Question - Would you support the position that post-secondary ‘education is a treaty right and should thus be supported by the federal government for all status Native people? Conserva- tive Party —- Education and train- ing are important tools in today’s technological society. They are even more important for Indian people in the process of devel- oping self-government and eco- nomic self-reliance. Therefore, they remain a priority for this government.

Liberal Party - Yes. The Of- ficial Opposition Critic for In- dian Affairs opposed and criticized the Conservative gov- ernment’s policy (introduced in May 1987) of capping the post- secondary education budget for

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Conference

The University of Prince Ed- ward Island The Prince Edward Island Convention Bureau and The Prince Edward Island De- partment of Tourism & Parks in- vite you to attend a Press Con- ference, Friday, November 18th, at 10 a.m. in the sociology and Anthropology Lounge, 4th Floor, (Room 435) Main Building.

The Main Building partici- pants will be:

Hon. Gordon MacInnis, Min-

ister, Department of Tourism & Parks

Dr. C.W.J. Eliot, President, UPEI

Prof. Verner Smitheram, Dean of Arts, UPEI

Mr. David Rodd, Past--

President, PEI Convention Bu- reau.

Attention

1986/87 yearbooks are in and may be picked up at the office of the Student Union.

Out of province students are asked to contact the Student Union with mailing address.

1987/88 yearbook production is on schedule. Books are ex- pected to arrive mid—December.

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Indian students. This new policy has had the effect of denying sev- eral hundred students access to post-secondary institutions due to the unavailability of financial assistance. He has called for an end to the capping of the budget.

Liberal leader John Turner, in his march 17th, 1988 address to the Aboriginal and First Nations’

policy forum, sponsored by the

Liberal Party, called the capping of the Indian post-secondary ed- ucation program “outrageous” and said “a new Liberal govern- ment would restore our commit- ment to Indian post-secondary education.”

Mr. If we want to be competi-

Turner went on to say: “ tive in the world, we need to be competitive with our brains and skill. And we want to ensure that the opportunity for those skills is available to everyone in this coun- try.”

New Democratic Party — Yes.

Question - What steps would you take to ensure accessibility of Native and Metis students to post-secondary institutions? Conservative Party — (No reply was available)

Progressive

Liberal Party — See response to above Question. Party Indians

New Democratic Metis and Non-Status face problems of access to post. secondary education not faced by other Canadians or even by sta- tus Indians. We recognized that

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to promote access for them. We have not developed a specific pol- icy in this area, however, steps must be taken both with respect to financial barriers and in pro- gram development. Special pro- grams within universities and col- leges for Native people have been effective in increasing numbers of Native graduates.

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