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Resignation unnecessary
Last Wednesday’s budget leak was a a criminal act the
government could hardly prevent or anticipate. Only in the
most abstract way was Finance Minister Michael Wilson

responsible.

The opposition parties joined ina deafening chorus of |
screams for Wilson’s resignation. Perhaps strict adherence to
Parliamentary tradition requires a resignation. We hope,.
however, that Wilson and his boss decide against the step.
Sometimes tradition needs to be pushed aside. And this is
one of those times.
~ It’s a most serious budget leak; that’s undeniable. An
entire brief on the country’s spending 2 and taxation legislation
somehow made it from the printers to a media outlet. Before
the markets had closed for the day, information was
haphazardly, unofficially and prematurely placed in the
public domain.

Investors can make money on such information. A quick
shift of Air Canada stock, perhaps, could have resulted, in
light of the government’s plan to fully privatize the airline.
The scrapping of the nuclear sub program could have caused

“the unloading of stock in technological companies which
stood to gain from the program.

_ These are real possibilities. If any action took lacs after
the budget information hit the news, it isn’t illegal. It’s
simply good business. But if the action took place
beforehand — in other words, if the budget information went
to a pocketful of investors before it went to Global Television
— then it’s against insider information legislation.

These are the things for a full criminal investigation to
look at. Police must discover how the budget made it through
security ana whether insider information was used to
illegally make stock market. gains.

But Michael Wilson should resign? No. Just what would

the opposition expect? That Wilson go to the’ printers every
‘night to make sure nothing leaked? Perhaps he could ride
shotgun on the truck that moved the sealed boxes. to the
Parliament buildings...

We remember a finance minister who should have resigned

when budget information. was leaked. Marc Lalonde, after

all, waved the budget i in the faces of reporters— and in the
Jong lenses of.cameras. That was blatant. foolishness: and

: aoe “i ‘inesponsibility. Lalonde was ‘caught showing off like a. litle.

boy.

-with the nation’s. pocketbooks. ; Atleas Wilson chose not to.

“This i is deficit war?

: oT hen there i is the budget itself. We agree with some of i its.
pieces. sees

-Charging Canadians more for making. themselves sick with .

booze and cigarettes is fine. Even another penny a litre at the »
gas. pumps is: bearable.
.- Hitting high-income earners who also collect seniors” and
; baby bonus benefits doesn’t hurt our feelings. Neither do
~rises in corporate taxes: and the surtax, to the high- income.
earners, We even gr udgingly accept an. increase in the
personal i income tax surtax to. five per cent t for middle and
lower income earners, ~
. Higher federal taxes aind reduced transfer payments to.
provinces
massive debt. And making employers and employees pay the
full shot of unemployment i insurance premiums -— although
it will mean less money in the Snnk for working. people —
makes sense. ;

But the net result of the budget is disappointing, All
Wilson succeeded in doing is holding, the deficit at $30.5
billion, Forecasts were that it would rise to $34 billion, this
year, Last year’s deficit was. 28.9 billion.

So the deficit has: actually § grown, folks. We would like to.
~ have seen: more PrOBress - - the other wily,

"Brave words”

. - Unsigned letters he: ud into our trash can, We usually dont

even look at them: twice, |

One. however, deserves. a second look -

dronic wwist at its conclusion,

>. Awriter, indefence of the woman. whose home will s sOun
nal be j in the shadow of Sidney’ s new firehall, says. “Oh forthe”
~-sood old days: when a shotgun solved the problem.” This isa
controversial way of looking at things, We certainly dow t
support acreturn to the Wild) West, however everyone ts -

_ entitled to his opinion. Had this letter been signed, we would
have printed: it.

“But you won’t print this,” the letter concludes, “Be brave |

for once, Weare getting gutless,”

oo) Bravery is not the forte of anonymous letter writers and
we don'trun letters that. pe ople. are e unwilling to sand behind

with their identities, —

~The editorials: in this space, the lott: hand
side of Page Ad, are those of the news-
paper. They are written by the editor or
under the editor's direction, and the opin- |
_ jons expressed are Independently devel-
oped by the editor and The Review' s
“ editorial department.”

VIC SWAN, Publisher»
GEORGE LEE, Editor
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