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PAGE 14 - WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY. Statistics Canada will be hiring 126 people in the federal riding in Kitchener and 126 people in the federal riding of Waterloo to collect information for the June 3rd national Census. Census representatives will be hired through the Canada Em- ployment Centre on Queen Street North in Kitchener or King Street North in Waterloo. Priori- ty will be given to hiring young people aged 18 to 24 through a Youth/Student Employment Program. These representatives will be paid on a piece rate basis which works out to an estimated $7.30 an hour. For the work they perform over the five week period they can expect to make an average of $600 to $800. Census representatives will start training mid May. They must be available to work from this time through to the end of June. Representatives can ex- pect to work some nights and Saturdays to complete the work involved. During the last week of May the footwork begins with the drop off of Census question- naires. Householders are re- quested to complete the forms as of June 3rd and mail them back. In rural areas the represents tives will return to pick up the questionnaires. There are two Census ques- tionnaires, a short form and a long form. Four out of five households will receive a short form with nine questions which should take only nine minutes to complete. The fifth household will receive the long form with an additional 23 questions for a total of 32, which should take approximately 23 minutes to fill out. Statistics Canada begins search for census reps Questions on the forms deal Casual Outdoor Furniture “THE BEST SEATS...UNDEB THE SUN” Exclusively available at: High Impact Tubular Furniture Won't Crack, Chip or‘Corrode (ii-s-Rr", SUHT€CH COLL€TIOH LEISURE FURNITURE 118 King St. N. Waterloo (2 blocks north of Bridgeport Rd.) with topics such as marital status, age, sex, and education. An individual's answers are kept strictly confidential. All Statis- tics Canada employees take an oath of secrecy and are liable to fines and/or imprisonment should they breach that oath. People interested in working as a Census Representative should make application to the Canada Employment Centre on Queen Street North in Kitchener or King Street North in Waterloo by the end of March. By the middle of April interviews and testing will be conducted by Statistics Canada to determine the best candidates for the job. Although Census Representa- tives may hold other jobs while employed for the Census they must be able to commit the time to getting the job done. Repre- sentatives must not be connected in any way with the levying or collection of taxes. Federal gov- ernment employees including members of the Canadian Armed Forces are also not eligible for these jobs. When these 90 people begin work they will be part of a 38,000 member team of Census takers fanning out across the country to make sure that everyone is counted in on June 3rd. In total there will be an estimated 45,000 Census employees in Canada, 25,000 will be staffed through the $30 million Youth/Student Em- ployment Program. 885-2085 The Census provides vital in- formation for government, busi- ness, community associations. Only through an accurate and complete Census is Statistics Canada able to provide these organizations the data they need to plan policy and programs that affect all Canadians. MARCH 19, 19845 Wendy McCreary Chronicle Staff Unless the public wants to see drug costs skyrocket, it is imperative that they create enough of a disturbance to prevent Consumer Affairs Minister Michel Cote from tabling his amendments of the Patent Act later this month, says a spokesman for the Canadian Drug Manufacturers Association. Drug manufacturer calls for protest of changes to drug patent rules Under the present Patent Act generic drug companies may enter the drug market with their own product some five to seven years into the patent of the drug they are copying. Cote wishes to extend that time period to 10 years. Because generics have been put on the market, Canadians have saved over $2 million a year in drug costs, says the Eastman Commission report that studied the drug industry in 1984. Should these competing drugs be withheld for an extended period of time, Canadians will undoubtedly pay increases in drug prices. Drug companies will be setting their own prices, fair or not, because they will have no one to compete with. As a result of intensive lobbying by the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association of Canada (PMAC), Cote has been swayed into pushing for something that is not at the consumers' best interest, nor that of both the federal and provincial governments, says Leslie Dan, president of Novopharm, a member of the Canadian Drug Manufacturers Association (CDMA). Presently, the governments pay senior citizens drug costs and, like the public, would have to pay the increased prices, should the amendments of the Patent Act be allowed. The PMAC said that if they were given the guarantee of 10 years exclusively on a patent, that through their increased profits, Canada would see more research and job creation. Presently, of the PMAC profits, a mere 10-12 per cent goes for research in Canada. I The cr5MA is determined to see that this increase to 10 years be amended to four or five years. Dan does not believe that the PMAC will invest in more Canadian research because of the small amount they spend now. He also doesn't believe more jobs will be created because the industry is not labor intensive. "The extra money the governments and the public will pay if extended to 10 years will be very high in comparison to what they (the companies) put back into research and jobs," Dan says. "The extra will be siphoned off by multinationals." [ These multinational brand-name drug man- ufacturers merely operate branch plants in Canada and therefore hold this lucrative market captive, he says. The Ea'stman Conimission has found that the drug industry is already very profitable under the current Patent Act. A statement from the CDMA says that multinationals report their Canadian opera- tions have not earned enough profit to maintain research establishments in this country. Through documents filed by Revenue Canada it can be shown that Canadian drug buyers have produced hundreds of millions of dollars in profits which have fled this country, unreported as income and untaxed. Multinationals have systematically perpe- trated an accounting fiction in Canada which must rank as one of the largest corporate rip-offs in Canadian history, the statement says. Concerns of Revenue Canada has caused them to audit 20 multinationals in Canada and launch legal actions against two. Merck Frosst Canada Inc. is to recover taxes on $12.4 million in unreported income between 1973 and 1978 while Squibb Canada Inc. is to recover taxes on $6.4 million unreported income between 1975 and 1978. What the multinationals have done is set up transfer payments. This is done so that the least possible tax is paid in Canada which results in the least possible profit being re- ported. " The statement says this is done by the company buying its raw materials from an (Continued trom page 14)