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- Tories”
Skuttle ©
borrowing

OTTAWA (CP) —The Conservatives
effectively scuttled intreduction of a
bill Thuraday they said would allow the
government to borrow up to $33.5
billion in the fiscal year beginning
April 1.

But the procedural manoeuvre
outraged Liberals who denied they dre
seeking any more than the $29.5 billion
in another bill already moving slowly
through the Commons,

Commons bells calling MPs to a vote
started after Thursday’s question
period when Tory House Leader Erik
Nielsen moved a motion that cut off the
possibility of tabling a supplementary
borrowing authority bill. ;

A spokesman for Liberal House
Leader Yvon Pinard said no further
attempt would be made to Introduce
the bill, because it could not be
approved before the new fiscal year
begins Sunday. The Conservative

*

motion lapsed at 6 p.m. when the .
sitting day was adjourned and the bells
shut off. .

Earlier, Minister of State for
Finance Roy MacLaren said the Tories
had been asaured the government
would introduce a motion when the
main borrowing authority bill gets to
committee thal would spell out that the
supplement would be deducted from

~ dhe-§29.6- billion being sought for 1984: °

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approval in principle and will then —

have to go to committee.

Meanwhile, MacLaren sald, the
government wanted the $4 billion from.
a contingency fund tacked on to the
1983-84 borrowing bill. . -

“We're not seeking an additional $4
billion,” MacLaren sald outside the
Commons. “We're seeking either $29.5
billion to continue the operations of the
government, or, if we're golng to take
a litle longer over the $29.5 billlon,
then we seek the $4 billion contingency
amount that was agreed upon last
year.

“The Tories are in effect doing
neither. They’re denying the House of
Commons and the people of Canada
the amount of money necessary: to
continue the operations of the
government.”’ -

“We shall move an amendment,
when the bill is in committee, to deduct
from the $29.5 billion any part of the $4
billion contingency fund that we have
spent by that ilme," MacLaren said.
DISRUPT GOVERNMENT

However, MacLaren said, the
Conservatives “have decided they're
going to disprupt the even flow of
government for whatever purposes
they have in mind.”

Soon after thé procedural ploy in the
Commons, Tory critic Don Blenkarn
distributed a statment which said the
Conservatives are prepared to pasa the
main borrowing bill “expeditiously” If
the total amount is cut to $2) billion.

Blenkarn repeated arguments he
has made in debate that the
government already has $8.1 billion in
cash on hand and that government
deposits since Feb. 15 have risen by
another $3 billion, but neither Finance
Minister Marc Lalonde nor Bank of
Canada governor Gerald Bouey have
explained why. oe

“A full accounting of the current
state of federal government finance is
required," Blenkarn said.

During debate on the main .

. borrowing authority bill, opposition
spokesman argued that the new
Liberal leader to be clected at the
party's mid-June convention should be
farced to return to Parliament, present
a new budget and seck borrowing
authority for his new economic
policies.

Government mpokeamen have snid
the authority is needed immediately to
be able to cope with heavy expenses in
April and any emergency, such as a
massive run on the dollar.

Money market traders say the
government has been intervening
heavily in recent weeks to prop up the
sagging dollar by buying Canadian
collars to keep their value as high ag
possible. ‘

With the fiscal-year-end crunch
drawing near, two other money bills
that will allow the government to
spend $11.7 billlon over the next two
years received royal assent Thuraday.

. WINNIPEG (CP) — Progreaslve
Conservative Leader Brian Mulroney.
asked Manitobans ‘‘to reflect carefully
on the consequences of their
decisiona” on thé throny French-rights
issue in an impassioned apeech
Thureday that was short on answers.

‘T'm not going to tell Manitobans

what todo or how to do it,” a sweating -

Mulroney told-a standing-room ‘only

crowd of 1,000 in a. stuffy hotel -

_ ballroom.

“But [ am. going to ask Manitobans -

to: reflect carefully upon the
consequences of their decisions, not
just as they affect the present here in
Manitoba but as they touch upon the
future of our national life. .
“T believe there is no obligation
more compelling, no duty more
irreaiatible In Canada, than to ensure
that our minorities, Unguistic and

otherwise, live at all timea in |

conditions of fairness and justice.”

He said his first trip here since the
Frenchrights dispute came to a head
last month in the provincial legistature
was meant to “encourage and
persuade” Manitobans along the road
to supporting the rights of-French-
speaking Canadians outside Quebec.

The NDP government had proposed
legislation to make Manitoba officially
bilingual and to extend language
services for francophones. But the
Opposition Conservatives thwarted the
move, despite two all-party resolutions
passed in Oltawa supporting the
proposal.

Canadian

‘ EDMONTON (CP) Peter
Pocklington and Nelson Skalbania, two
of Canada's best-known

entrepreneurs, have had a rough ride .

since the recession hit but they haven't

lost thelr sense of humor and remain °

opimistic about the future.
In speeches Thursday night that

Pattison says unions hold

VANCOUVER (CP) — Construction
unions hold the key to the future of
Expo 8 because they must allow their
members to work with non-union labor
on the site,. says the provincial

. government's chief adviser’ on the
muiti-million-dollar project.

“Without the unions’ co-operation,
Expo will not be built,” Expo 96
chairman Jim Pattison said Thursday

ay ght. “The union contractors.are the...

people who have got the capability to

Pattison. made the comment
following a regionally-televised
address by Premier Bill Bennett who

‘ warned that the $750 million

transportation and communications
fair would be cancelled, despite
massive embarrassment to British

- Columbia, if the unlofs won't agree to

ecoperate within 10 days, . .

Bennett said it would be preferable
to suffer the embarrassment and
curtail financial losses now than face
enormous bills later if the fair fails to
open on time.

Roy Gautier, president of the B.C.
and Yukon Building Trades Council,
sald his member unions would be
prepared to work. with non-uriion

employees provided the non-union .

MtStHelens.

rumbles ©

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP): —
Spitting. sparks and dust, Mount St.
Helens rumbled again Thursday,
blowing ash on Portland, Ore., suburbs
but. not endangering residents,
cfficials sald.

Superheated, glowlng rock slid down
the 80storey-high lava dome in the
southwestern Washington volcano,
said scientista whose observations
were hindered by steam clouds.

An ash plume rose about 2,000
metres over the 2,500-metre peak at
about 3:20 a.m., said Steve Brantley, a
Beologist with the U.S. Geological

’ Geologists took measurements
inside the crater Thursday, but steam
prevented them from determining
whether a new lobe had formed on the
lava dome, said Thom Corcoran of the
U.S. Forest Service.

The ach plume might have been dust
kicked up by’ landslides, Corcoran
added.

During a 5 a.m. flight, sclentists
wing infrared film thought they
Slimpsed lava oozing from the dome,
but at midday,. steam prevented
verification of the sighting, Corecran
aald. .

CONFINED TO CRATER

Mudfiows and rockslides were
confined to the crater, he added.

The dome has been building since
Tuesday, with several earthquakes an
hour, Corcoran suid. The quakes were
shallow and registered about 1 to 2 on
the open-ended Richter scale of ground
movement, too weak to be felt away
from the volcano, he sald,

A ‘reatricted area around the
matntain remained open to permit-
holders Thureday,

"It's not a major eruption,” sald Jim
Zollweg, & selamologiat at the
University of re any dangers don't
expectthere are any ere away
from the Immediate vicinity” of the
crater.

- But nowhere in the speech, which got
him a standing ovation from: about’

ers’ of. his . audience, or

later, after‘a meeting with Manitoba.

Conservatives, did’he offer any -clear

Indication of how he hoped to reconcile“
’ Hs stand with the divergent. views of’ .
_ fim provinelal party members on the .

“After -the private meeting, he |

’ brushed aside attempts by reporters to
_ question him-on. what he felt he had
‘achieved, oz

__“It was excellént,.cordial," was all -..
Mulroney would ‘say about the-two- °
 y hour meeting with members of the ”
_ Provincial caucus; who have ignored |

‘pleas from their federal leader to cool

opposition to plans to enhance the. —

status of French in Manitoba, ©
HUSTLE HIM AWAY

"* Mutroney’s aides ‘then hustled him’

into an elevator and away from
reporters’ questions.
. ‘Phe federal leader was just as vague
when dealing with the language igsue

inhis speech, He called for new ground

anda tearing down of walla separating

Canadians, but did.not indicate how

any of that could be accomplished.
' Instead, he talked in generalities

about reconciliation between the -

concepts of . bilingualism and

multiculturalism that have been

discussed in Canada for decades.
Dave. Blake, spokesman for the
Manitoba Conservative caucus, was

left to carry the ball after the meeting -

often had about’ 9800 businessmen
roaring with ‘laughter, the pair poked
fun at their recent: misfortunes and
predicted bettar times ahead,
“Even though economic conditions
look bleak. in the near future in
Western Canada, it’s all relative,”
Skalbania said during a session

workers are pald union rates.
The council will bend, he said,
because of the onetime nature and

R. =

. with Mulroney and he:was not much ~

_ More’ specific about what. was’

"We had a very good.meeting.”: he

d..“E-.think wa’ resolved many -

os problems."

: DID NOT AGREE -

.

. Conservatives. would like to-hear.

Milroney did not agreed with their...“ “omfie Parti. Quebecois would love’ to

- stand that French rights in Manitoba © ;

‘ Were effectively restcred in 1979, when:

“But Blake admitted Mulroney ‘did =.”
"+. Bot sy’ some ofthe things provincial = +"

. Gown as unconstitutional an 1890 law: 2

acknowledged that,” Blake ‘said:

‘wiping out French rights in the courts ~
~ -and legislature, we ae

- “T would have beén:fiappy if he

‘

gap

~ “Blake expressed faltih Manito

port in Quebec, could be'hanging in

the balance. °° 7

7+ want, a'Conservative goverment -t

That was‘one of-the key points.

’. Manitoba Conservatives‘ streased -in |

- opposing the language legislation. _
introduced’ by the government. of .:

'. Premier Howard Pavley, “
-. That legislation dled last month

_ after
proceedings for weeks with walkouts, . —

the ‘Opposition defayed
. Not at the meeting with Mulroney |

was Manitoba Conservative Leader .
Gary Filmon, who is vacationing in .

Montana. oo
Earlier Thureday, Mulroney .

- described the language-rights issue as

“a provincial affair

1 with national
ences," Se

o

. That was ‘something

‘the next federal election, suggesting
..,the language issieis nota problem. He
_-did not speculate on the effect the Isaue

“cmay have on Conservative support in

,

-not ignore in his speech:

g-Mulroney- did

‘diminish the righta of the English-

the Supreme Court of Canada struck |, Speaking minority in Quebee and

“anything that “happens outside _ of
“Quebec to French-speaking minorities
encourages that view." o-oo),
Mulroney recelved a fair‘amount of

‘ applause but also. had to deal: with
‘ hecklers and boos, particularly. when
he made'a brief remark -in.French
while . attacking the Levesque

' government, Ct hae

. He spent most of ‘his half-hour

speech: denouncing Liberals past aid
‘present for dividing Canada . with

“. gminguided language policies...

The fate of the federal Conservative.

party in the next election, which had -

’ hoped under Mulroney to increase -

" organized by the Edmonton chapter of

the Real Estate Institute of Canada,
“It may’ just iook bleak © in
comparison to what we were used to.
We were spoiled.” tee
Pocklington, who still: owris
Edmonton’ Oilers of the. National
Hockey League, estimated he bought,

Expo’s key

council probably could cotne to. a quick -

agreement with Pattison but he is
concerned the government still-holds
an ultimate veto. a

entrepreneurs have rough ‘ride.

"The sad irony of bilinguallam, as ‘it
has been implemented by the Liberal
government, is that language has been
used to keep English. and French-

'. speaking Canadians apart.”

unite Canada, he said. 0 ef

Mulroney directed no attention
towards the provinclal caucus which
scuttled the Pawley government's -
Frenchrights package.’

A proper bilingualisin policy should

pet

sold and deyeloped more than $1 billion
‘in real eatate over 10 years until the .
economy hit bottom in 1862.0,
His Fidellty Trust company went
bankrupt last year and he has spent -
much of the last two years rebuilding
ils financial empire. oo
Skalbania, a Vancouver resident
who became known nationally’ for
quickly selling, or flipping, landhehad ~
purchased had more serious troubles.
Skalbania filed a’ proposal) in
December 1982 to avoid bankruptcy by
deferring payments on $30.3 million of
unsecured debt during a five-year
period. i

recently that it haah't lidd sities the golden days of the Weat Pembing::
portion of ‘the atte:t or ise Overy Bey py are O ;

ney

e Teeson Giscoveries in the Peace River Are

above Lesser Slave Lake, about 300 kilometres north of Edmonton.’

One by one the companies and consortia involved have tabled
initial’ results from two winters of exploration. Although the
information is atill sketchy because of a 12-month confidentiality

allowance, the carefully worded announcements have created a stir. . -

If the discoveries prove as promising as the speculation, it will be
good news for the province's economy, .

‘Provincial Treasurer Lou Hyndman said in his budget speech last
week that olf and gas ‘will remain the key source of Alberta's
economic strength Into the next century.” . ;

About 38 per cent of the province's budgetary revenue for fiscal
1904-85 will come from non-renewable resources. _

Roxy Petroleum Ltd, running an exploration program for a
consortium of companies, reported it has five -producing wells at
Sawn Lake, 450 kilometres northwest of Edmonton. oO
WELLS PRODUCING _ .

Amoco Canada Petroleum Ltd. has a discovery at Senex, 50
kilometres away, with three wells in production and a group led by
Dame Petroleum Etd. has six producing wells at a discovery called
The finds were made during the 1982-89 winter drilling season, but

the ‘companies did not have to report tHeir results to the Alberta
‘ Energy Resources Conservation Board until now., oo

Production rates range from 160 barrels a day at Gift to 750 barrels

‘a day from Amoco’s discovery ‘well.

. .’ Early estimates place reserves under the new wells at between 20

million and 40 million barrels of Highly desirable light erudeoll. |

Mauna Loa

‘threatens

VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) — With a.wall of lava creeping forward
eight kilometres from Hawail’s second largest city, officials are

pondering ways to divert Mauna Loa’s flery flow while some 9
residents are leaving their homes and others are holding “house #im

warming” parties, :

No dwellings were immediately threatened by the molten rock
today, and no evacuations have been ordered, clvil defence officials
said. But scientists said the speed and direction of the flow can
change at any moment.

“The city is in a stand-by situation,” said Mayor Herbert
Matayoshi of Hawaii County, who signeda declaration of emergency
Thursday for the east and southeast portions of the county, .

County officials are reconsidering a plan to build earth dikes to
divert the sizzling river away from the city of 40,000. Changing
terrain near the front of the flow may make such an effort feasible,
Matayoehi said.

“There ls a randomness to the flow which Is hard to predict at this
time,’’ said Robert Decko, scientist in charge of the U.S. Geological
Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. ‘The earlier you try to
predict that, the greater the room for error.”

Matayosht advised jhilo-area residents to ‘say a prayer” and keep
abreast of the situation by following radio and newspaper reports.
_ Some residents have left their homes rather than second-guess the
volcanos intentions, sald Harry Kim, Hawail County civil defence
administrator.

Among the residents of the Kaumana area of Hilo, the developed
Property closest to the lava flow, the reaction was mixed. oe,

“We've been having parties up here every night," sald Daryl
Smith, 30, who lives with his wife Linda in a two-storey home they
built we've been calling them house warmings, Bealdes, 1 have a

a ;

radio,

The largest Java flow from the volcano had advanced to within
about eight kilometres of Kaumana by late Thureday and had slowed
considerably as {t broadened and got further from the vent.

Tt was being fed by a vent at the 2,743-metre level of the 4,000-metre

voleano, whose broad flanks make up much of the land mass of °

Hawaii Island.
The latest eruption, which began Sunday, is Mauna Loa's first
since a one-day outbreak in 197%, So

Others aald they felt anxious about the flow and stayed close tothe

promote this play," said a spokesman
for Amoco. oe ws
There are still plenty of questions to be answered, Although the

Arch has seen a number of significant discoveries in the-last’ 30
years, including Red Earth — 45 million barrels ~ Utikuma, Golden
‘and the original Senex fleld, much of the area remains undrilled. :

_ Improved seismic techniques have allowed explorers to get a
betler picture of the area’s geology, but it remains tricky. Although
some of the new wells have hit more than one oil-producing zone, it’s
notclear whether the companies are deallig with connected pools or
isolated pockets of oil.

. What the Arch probably does not contain is a big West Pembina-
like deposit which Jack Bray, oil department manager for the

” conservation board, said “would stick uplikea sore thumb.” .

The other big problem is the region itself, mostly muskeg and
impassible in the summer. Most companies are limited to winter
drilling, slashing the area's fleet of more than 40 rigs after March.
Theexception is Roxy, which wil] have a $2-million read built into the
Sawn Lake field this summer. e ;

A comprehensive road development proposal is being put before
the Alberta government by about half the 45 oi! companies with
‘interests In the region... ;

If development warrants, the existing pipeline network will. be
.extended from Red Earth. Meanwhile, oil production is being hauled
to Red Earth by tanker truck. ;

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