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cents per gallon proposed in the budget would be largely used to set up a Canadian energy bank, aimed at finâ€" ancing and encouraging enâ€" ergy development projects. Farmers, urban transit and commercial fishing users would have been entitled to a 10¢ per gallon rebate on this tax. The budget also proposed a refundable enâ€" ergy tax credit of $80 per adult and $30 per child for lower and middleâ€"income I believe that pension plans must be selfâ€"funding. The best actuarial evidence available to me suggests that the current funding arâ€" rangement for Federal civil servant pensions is inaâ€" dequate. I do not feel that the burden should be shifted to my sons â€" the future genâ€" eration of taxpayers. There may be some justification for future generation of taxâ€" payers paying part of the cost of capital projects built today â€" such as hospitals and schools â€" but not for future _ It seems to me that many people in our riding with 1984 will be marked by major adjustments, as the world comes to grips with energy and inflation probâ€" The Liberal Party of Canâ€" ada has addressed itself from time to time to the neâ€" cessary ingredients of a comprehensive energy poâ€" licy, includingâ€"exploration, production, distribution, pricing, diversification, conâ€" servation, and promotion of alternative sources of enâ€" At the heart of that policy stands Petrocan, which (Continued from page 3) The new excise tax of 18 The Law Firm of MC DOWELL, HAFEMANN and HEATH Announce the Withdrawal from the Firm of PAUL ROBERT HEATH MC DOWELL and HAFEMANN R and that DOUGLAS J.S. MC DOWELL Will Continue in Partnership Under the Firm Name of 156 King Street South Waterloo, Ontario N2J 1P6 Telephone (519) 578â€"3320. Frank Epp Liberal ERIC S. HAFEMANN ELECTION ‘80â€" Canadians to help cushion higher energy prices. It should be pointed out, hoâ€" wever, that in real terms, Canadians still have the cheapest gasoline in the world. As well, Canadians were paying about 30% less per gallon in 1978 than they did in 1950 â€" 32¢ per gallon as compared to 41¢ per gallon expressed in 1950 buying power terms. The Clark Goâ€" vernment has moved a long way towards the goal of enâ€" ergy selfâ€"sufficiency by the 1990‘s. Some of the meaâ€" sures will cost the Canadian user and taxpayer today, but we will be ensuring responâ€" sible and practical future for our children and grandâ€" children. serves a variety of funcâ€" tions, especially with reâ€" spect to the Petroleum inâ€" dustry. These include: fronâ€" tier _ exploration, the formation of consortia to tackle projects too big or risky for any single partner, protection of the public inâ€" terest, information on a rather secretive and maniâ€" pulative industry, challenge to the multiâ€"nationals, stateâ€" whom I have been talking in recent months, are con;, cerned with senior civil serâ€" vants at the management level taking early reâ€" tirement and receiving high pensions to which they have eontributed only a modest amount. However; all Canaâ€" dians, including the rankâ€" andâ€"file civil servant, must be able to look forward to a secure pension that affords them â€"some protection against inflation. I take the position, in summary, that pension contributions must be such that the level of benâ€" efits are actuarily sound. toâ€"state negotiations, Canaâ€" dian ownership, and selfâ€" sufficiency. The Clarkâ€"policy has been harmiful with respect to Peâ€" trocan and also in regard to pricing. The Liberals would strengthen Petrocan and inâ€" sist on domestic prices for domestic needs, meaning less rapid increases in prices and fairer distribuâ€" tion of the income to avoid My first observation is that tax dollars should not be used to support pension programs for MPs and the civil service that are not afâ€" fordable for society generalâ€" ly. Secondly, I do believe that the civil servants contribute more to their privileged pensior programs than most of us realize. < Our Party holds that the way out of the energy crisis is to make the handful of oil barons, the millionaires and billionaires who own and control the giant monopolies and multinationals which dominate the energy sector, pay. Specifically our Party holds that : 4. Genuine selfâ€"sufficiency in energy will only be achieved by making the rich pay â€" by overthrowing the rule of the rich minority and expropriating the rich withâ€" out any compensation, throwing the U.S. im perialists out of Canada and ending all foreign dominaâ€" Thirdly, pension proâ€" grams generally should be 1. The political parties of the rich â€" Liberals, Conserâ€" vatives, NDP, etc. â€" have absolutely no interest in achieving genuine selfâ€"sufâ€" ficiency in energy for Canaâ€" da or the ability to do so. 2. Genuine selfâ€"sufficiency is attainable without any inâ€" crease in energy prices, and on the contrary, with stable and falling energy prices. 3. The steeply higher enâ€" ergy prices the people have been forced to pay these last few years have been imâ€" posed for no other purpose than to secure the highest possible profits for the oil barons; and Nothing is more frauduâ€" lent than the soâ€"called conâ€" cern of the rich and their poâ€" litigal representatives to achieve energy selfâ€"sufâ€" ficiency in Canada. The only reason that Canada is deâ€" pendent upon imported oil in the first place is that it was most profitable for the U.S. imperialist oil barons to maintain such a situation. It is these oil barons who have always dictated the energy policy in Canada, and it was they who, since the Second Finally, Canadaâ€"wide penâ€" ndly, I do believe that sion reform is overdue. Penâ€" vil servants contribute sions should be more porâ€" to their privileged table. Widows and women t programs than most generally should be better realize. served by them. And there rdly, pension proâ€" must be greater protection ; generally should be against inflation. a Brian Erdman; : J Marxist the harmful effects to Onâ€" tario identified in the Clark budget by the Provincial Treasurer, Frank Miller, namely: transfer of $15 bilâ€" lion out of the province in three years; 20,000 fewer jobs in each of five years; 11 percent inflation next year; §$585 additional gas/oil costs per household in the first year, much more in sucâ€" ceeding years. adjusted from timeâ€"to time, given the disastrous effects of inflation. Some unions have already achieved penâ€" sions indexed at least parâ€" tially to the cost of living. Clearly, the energy crisis in Canada has nothing to do with any genuine shortage of oil, natural gas or any other energy source. Nor is the problem of Canada‘s deâ€" pendence on foreign energy supplies going to be resolved through jacking up the prices to unprecedented levels. The problem for the working class and peorlc is that a tiny handful of milâ€" lionaires and billionaires, mainly U.S. imperialists, but also including native monopoly capitalists as well as those from Britain, Franâ€" If higher energy prices were the key to attaining enâ€" ergy selfâ€"sufficiency as the political parties of the rich suggest, how can they exâ€" plain the fact that even though oil and gas prices have been soaring ever since 1973, all the reacâ€" tionary propaganda today is that Canada faces an energy shortage more severe than ever experienced before. The fact of the matter is that the oil barons and their governments are able now and have been for a long time, to provide the energy supplies needed to meet Canada‘s requirements , and the entire scenario of the impending energy shortage has been and is being used as a device for securing maximum profits through higher prices. ce and other countries, World War have dictated that west of the Ontarioâ€" Quebec border, Alberta oil is to be used to meet domesâ€" tic needs, while east of that border, oil imported by these same monopolies from abroad is to be used to meet the domestic needs. ‘‘Surplus‘‘ oil from Alberta in the meantime has been exported to the U.S. Waterloo Chronicle, Wednesday, February 13, 1980 â€" Page 5 Advertisment L TR LE L. 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