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4 NORSHORE SENTINEL Thursday, April 13, 1961. FOR PARTY OR FOR RIGHT? There is an interesting parallel between two recent articles in the Sentinel- In one, Douglas Fisher, MP for Port Arthur, talked of the ‘sound and the fury' of party politics and the great harm in partisanship rather than free thought by members of parliament. It was suggested that members of parliament would be truer to Canada if free of the sham and hatchety criticisms which are necessary products of this firm party-line stand. In the second article, William Benedickson, MP, Rainy River, gives an example of this party-line stand. He uses a hatchety criticism and seeks the sympathy of the people rather than continuing to press for a solution to a key problem as he attacks Mr. Fisher on his stand that the two railroads should be amalgamated. Mr. Benedickson, financial critic for the opposition, uses the obvious opening and asks “does Mr. Fisher know how many people would be out of work in his own constituency if this came about?M Of course Mr. Fisher knows as you know and we know. But the CNR has cost the taxpayer close to half a billion dollars in the last 10-15 years and there the taxpayer at least is beginning to wonder whether it is worth it... especially with the trend moving away from rail travel as it has been in recent years. The thought of maintaining something for the reason that if provides work... despite the fact that it cost the Canadian taxpayers $67,000,000 last year, is hardly the type of reasoning one would expect from the chief financial critic for the opposition, The great and growing deficit of the nationally owned CNR is of major concern to every Canadian. There is little hope that it will subside in future years and certainly Mr. Fisher's not-so-new suggestion that the time has come for amalgamation of the two railroads is one that has come to the mind of many Canadians. Possibly it is too early for such talk and certainly there are many problems to consider including the great number that would be out of work. But what are Canadians and what is the government to do..,s.it back and watch the deficit grow without so much as questioning the operation of a service owned by the people? Are we\\to subsidize a service to the staggering extent of $67,000,000 per year or more without any hope of it finally paying for itself? Mr. Benedickson would endear himself to the Canadian public much more by seeking out a solution to this great waste of money each year rather than to criticize those who appear at least to be honestly concerned with the problem. THE SMEAR CAMPAIGN British labor newspapers, using a smear campaign against Canada as a way of hitting their bitter foe, Macmillan's Conservative Party, continue their stories of warning to Britons against emigrating to Canada. The London Sunday newspaper, The People, especially, makes a point of finding people who have tried living here and returned home dissatisfied. These cases are then sensationalized with stories of no work high living costs and mass starvation. Unfortunately, most of their readers do not realize the paper is grinding a political axe that smacks of the type of propaganda one might expect to hear behind the Iron Curtain. It would be akin to a miracle of course, if some of our nearly 600,000 post-war British immigrants had not had a bad time here and gone home to bitterly denounce the country. But these may be one in a thousand and it is a terrible injustice to our country and our way of living that the other side of the case so rarely gets into print. The Canadian Press recently, picked up such a story on the same weekend as the latest outburst by The People. It concerns Douglas Henderson, a Scottish bricklayer who emigrated with his family to Kingston in 1959. His most startling comparison concerns rents â€" formerly $40 a year, for a house, and now $85 a month for a furnished, five-room flat. “But," he adds, “it wasn't much of a house. It had outside plumbing and was a pokey wee place." “At home," he says, “I was off work only a week or so during the winter months, but all I ever made was the equivalent of $25 a week. When I'm on a construction job now I make $108 a week and with what I can save, odd jobs in the winter and my unemployment insurance, we’re still ahead: At home it took all my wages to pay for the food we ate and the roof over our heads." “Since we've been in Canada we've been able to buy all kinds of things â€" a car, living room furniture, bunk beds for the boys' room, a TV set, and still save money. What's more, when we go to the supermarket, we can buy a week's supply of food instead of the bits and pieces we used to get in the Old Country, a half pound of marg, four apples, one pound of sugar." Mr. Henderson did not expect to find Canada's streets paved with gold. A Canadian immigration officer in Glasgow warned, him that construction work in Canada would be seasonal. “He told us," said Mr. Henderson, “(that it would be strictly up to us whether we made out or not." For newcomer or native Canadian that is the whole of the case. COURSE FOR COUNCILORS It was heartening to hear recently this week that municipal councilors from Northwestern Ontario municipalities will spend three days studying municipal administration at a seminar for Municipal Councilors and officials at the Quetico Conference and Trailing Centre April: 17-18-19. Such a, course, recently suggested in these columns should be of great value to all communities. It is hoped that as many councilors and interested persons as possible will make all effort to attend. Further: information can be obtained from the Municipal Clerk's office, the Community Programs Branch, 400 Catherine street, Fort William, phone MA 2-4859, or the Quetico Conference and and Training Centre, Box 1,000, Atikokan, phone 6898.. NORSHORE SENTINEL The Norshore Sentinel printed and published every Wednesday in Nipigon. The Sentinel Office is located on 3rd St., in Nipigon, box 279. Phone 360. Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Dept. Ottawa. Charles D McOuat editor and publisher. Donald F. McOuat, advertising manager. The Week At OTTAWA BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Specially Written for the Norshore Sentinel By ALEX MORIN Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA, April (CP) - Buriy labor leader Claude Jodoin was busy in Ottawa last week oiling up the machinery with which he hopes to reap a bumper crop of western farm votes for the New Party. The 47-year-old president of the Canadian Labor Congress announced a five-city swing through the prairies in a bid to sharpen labor farm thinking of common problems. Mr. Jodoin moves into Winnipeg April 14, Regina April 17, Saskatoon April 18, Edmonton April 19-22, with a one-day dash to Calgary April 21. Each s,top will include two major speeches and a press conference along with talks to farm and labor leaders. Although his trip isn't listed officially as an effort to woo westerners more firmly into the New Party roost in time for the founding convention in July, it is a necessary/ step if the organization is to achieve its aim of bringing together labor, farmers and “liberally-minded" people. Farmers Cool So far, the eastern and western unions have rallied to the call but western farm groups largely have maintained a political aloofness. Bills now on the order paper or promised by the government include one providing a sweeping program of rural rehabilitation and another to tighten up the Unemployment Insurance Act to eliminate abuses. Also in view are action to ratify the Canada-U.S, Columbia River power treaty ; the bill to revise the customs tariff, and another to require foreign-controlled businesses and labor unions to disclose details of their operations; and measures to revise the Civil Service Act and the capital punishment provisions of the Criminal Code. Then there are the 1961-62 departmental appropriations. Only those of the immigration department have been cleaned up. The others are expected to take up 40 sitting days. Budget Still To Come Finance Minister Fleming has yet to bring down his regular budget; it will be the occasion ,for a six-day budget debate and a lour to six day debate on resolutions stemming from the budget. The packed schedule for the House of Commons in the coming months is made even more impressive when one considers the guest list on tap for Prime Minister Diefenbaker. "Prime Minister Macmillan and his wife, Lady Dorothy, were the first arrivals. They got here on the eve of the sitting's resumption. Next there is a state visit from Prime Minister Karamalis of Greece starting April 13. That is followed two weeks later by a visit from President Bourguiba of Tunisia. Mr. Jodoin will aim primarily at bridging this traditional gap with current issues that equally concern the farmer and laborer. Some of his best examples are the railway strike dispute and last fall's grain-handlers' tie-up of Vancouver export elevators. Meanwhile, as parliamentarians took an Easter breather at home before starting on the third lap of a session that will probably linger into summer, word circulated here they would be asked’ to solve the railway problem with subsidies that could mount to $100,000,000. The rumor became a reality Tuesday. The proposals are, understood to be contained in the initial report of the MacPherson royal commission on transportation. The first volume of the reportâ€"two more are expected to followâ€"is said to be in government hands and time is at a premium if the document is to offer an acceptable solution for government use in averting the strike of 111,000 non-operating railway workers scheduled to cripple the country May 16. But in the long term, what the government is seeking is a way to make railways a paying proposition. For this reason it is expected that the subsidies will be aimed at giving them time and freedom in which to organize for competitive existence in a world where trains no longer have a monopoly in providing transportation. Likely commission suggestions will be to cut government control in order to give the carriers flexibility to establish competitive rates, abandon uneconomic services and streamline their physical plant. Behind Schedule The whole question now is ready to be set before the government whose time to clear all the legislation proposed in the throne speech now is half gone. The sitting has gone 78 days and less than half of the expected territory has been covered. In spite of a 25-day head start last fall sources give the third week of July as a conservative estimate of the time needed to finish. After a fast start that saw five major pieces of legislation passed in as many weeks things bogged down to the stage where two major items lingered for about five weeks each. The early legislation passed before Christmas was aimed mainly at alleviating unemployment. It also produced Mr. Fleming's "baby budget." Between Jan, 16, when the House reassembled, and Easter, only two major pieces of government legislation were passed. These were bills boosting veterans' pensions and giving effect to the baby budget's income tax changes. The visit that will cause more of a flutter in officialdom and in the country a whole than all of these put together will be when President Kennedy comes for three days starting May 16. One of the chief problems in receiving an American president is the sheer problem of protecting him. If tradition holds, the president will be accompanied by droves of secret-service men who will check and double-check every inch of ground he covers. Should Mr. Kennedy be accompanied by his wife, Jacqueline, the problem will be further compounded.