The Gazette from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 6

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All rlghti of rtpubllcatlon raurvtd Thursday, April 20, 1972 Sensible budget transactions. AH it did was drive such business outside the province. The 25 per cent Increase in succession duties announced last December will be removed at the year-end. The exemption on direct line successions to spouses and children was increased to $150,000 from $100,000. Mr.

Garneau's purpose is eventually to abolish all succession duties. One other change of note: Exemptions the new gift tax have been raised from $2,000 to $5,000 for gifts between spouses. It could be wished that Mr. Garneau had gone further in tax abatement. The weight of the tax load in this province is sufficiently heavy to have become a deterrent to location here of new enterprises, personal and corporate.

Conversely, significant tax abatement could be expected to become a positive attraction. Mr. Garneau, however, obviously feels that the time is not yet ripe to gamble upon it. He could be correct, given the province's new money requirements of close to $1 billion and labor's self-defeating militancy. He is, nonetheless, moving in the right direction.

Another year or two of this careful fiscal management could make a significant contribution towards making Quebec once more actively attractive to new investment. That there were no tax increases In the provincial budget is not surprising. The1' adjustments In personal and corporate, income taxation following from federal tax reform have been quite enough, for one-' year. Nor is it particularly surprising Minister Garneau should introduce minor tax relief in the sensitive, areas of investment and succession." Mr. Garneau has demonstrated before 'his grasp of the economic realities confronting the province, not the least of which is the heed to encourage the private sector.

The removal of the 8 per cent tax on Industrial machinery is a promising move. The taxation of the means of production is a demonstrably regressive measure. Quebec has more reason than most to be done with it. The $3 million in lost revenue ought To be more than made up in increased business activity. The removal of the securities transfer tax is similarly encouraging.

Mr. Garnenu characterized it as a nuisance tax. It has been just that. The changes in succession duties are the most promising of Mr. Garheau's efforts at reform.

For a start, he has abolished duties on movable property bequeathed by someone living outside the country to an heir also living outside the country. This was an unjustifiable tax on what are pass-through TORONTO Transport Minister Don Jamieson is on a diet, and some of the good burghers of Toronto and environs are out to help him lose weight by driving him nuts. Their game is to block his plan to build Toronto a new international airport, to match the one now being built for Montreal. Together, the two projects represent the most costly undertakings in Canadian history, with the possible exception of our part in the Second World War. Compared to Jamieson, Cheops was a piker with his measly pyramids.

Forget the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, or the Translanada Highway, or the St. Lawrence Seaway, or the ill-fated causeway to Prince Edward Island. Forget Toronto's own Spadina Expressway, abandoned in mid-construction after $100 million had been spent on it, leaving the city with a man-made gulch rivalling the Grand Canyon, and which is now being used as an emergency garbage dump, the garbage men being on strike hereabouts. Jamieson, even 40 pounds lighter, is a colossus. But what thanks does he get? Gear for debate Opponents of the new airport are marshalling their arguments and plan to put them before Jamieson in Ottawa next week, as the opening round of what promises to be a long and tedious It is one in which Canadians everywhere have an interest, because Jamieson will be using everybody's money to build this new airport, to be located in Pickering Township, 30 miles northeast of downtown Toronto.

Another reason for general interest is that sooner or later, everyone in Canada comes to Toronto, whether they like it or not, and many people, having come, want to leave. Occasionally, the residents of Toronto want to go somewhere else, and almost always, they come back. Increasingly, this great flow of people moves by air. In fact, the number of people travelling to and from Toronto on any given day represents the population of a fair-sized city in itself. It has not yet reached the proportions achieved at John F.

Kennedy Airport in New York, where jumbo jets will be arriving this summer at the rate of 55 a day, disgorging a daily total of 200,000 people. But for Toronto, such days may come. First, a word here On behalf of the growing horde of air travellers, I would like to get a word in Jamieson's thinning ear before the Toronto protesters start working him over, and tell him to get going with his new airport with all possible speed, even if he has to excavate the site by hand, himself. The existing Toronto Airport, at Malton, is grossly adequate for the traffic it is handling now, and will be a disaster area long before the new airport can take some of the load five or six years hence, if the crews work night and day. I could write a book about what Malton has meant to me, but I won't.

I suspect the Torontonians who are protesting the new airport, and arguing that Malton is adequate, have never visited the existing facility. Jamieson might be well advised to insist that all his meetings with the protesters be held in the mad Malton concourse; or out on the battle-scarred main runway, at peak traffic times. They say some of nature's finest handiwork will be Moby Dick Letters Looking for impartial answers Why not Montreal? by stating that the real issue is the common front leaders', wish to demonstrate their power. That the common front leaders are not, at least to some degree, using the present situation to their own advantage, is, I admit, certainly debatable. But then isn't it just as debatable that your newspaper could be using its own position of influence to bring its readers to accept what could be a biased point of view? PAUL E.

MOREAU It seems to me that in asking such a question any responsible newspaper should automatically have given a complete assessment of the principal issues at stake in each sector. For example, an honest attempt at doing so would have made clear to you that the main issues, as far as teachers are concerned are of a pedagogical nature. You need only read the Libre Opinion in the Devoir, April 12, to see this. You conclude your editorial The International Chess Federation is having a hard time staging its world championship this year. It is too bad, because the match promises to be one of the most exciting ever (for chess players), pitting Bobby Fischer, the onetime Brooklyn whizz kid now grown to possibly the greatest player of all time, against Boris Spassky, the current title holder representing the Soviet Union which has dominated the game ever since the Second World War.

First came the difficulty of choosing a site, with each contestant selecting four' preferences among the hopeful host cities. Since no city appeared on both lists, Dr. Max Euwe, president of the federation, decided to hold the first half of the match in Belgrade (Fischer's first choice) and the second half in Rekjavik (Spassky'g choice). The opening game was scheduled for June 22. But Belgrade wanted a $35,000 appearance bond for both players.

The Russians provided one for Spassky but the American Chess Federation failed to put up one for Fischer and Belgrade backed down. What now? For $75,000 in prize money and a bit more for arrangements for the match, Mayor Drapeau can add once again to the glory of Montreal. By charging admission and selling television rights to Europe and South America, he might even get a lot of it back assuming that Fischer shows up. And one thing about a chess match. It doesn't need a new stadium.

aeinea Dy. me location oi me new airpon ai ricKermg. They dread the superhighways that may have to be built to move people to and from the new terminal. The birds and beasts will be disturbed, they say. SIR, The editorial in The Gazette, April 12, raises a number of questions for which any serious editorialist could have found an answer if he had really wanted to.

It is obvious that "sober and rational rather than a disruptive and costly strike for both the public and the strikers, is what all of us desire. Your editorial should have asked why this kind negotiation is not being held, looked for a full, impartial answer and presented its findings. You suggest that too much is being made of the $100. minimum weekly wage. In doing so, however, you fail to point out that more than half tihe 100,000 CNTU members earn less than $100.

a week: 1,700 earn less than $67., 7,681 less than $77., 26,378 less than $87 and 24,501 between $87 and $99. a week. And, I might add, these figures do not include members of the other two unions that make up the' common front. Your editorial asks if conditions in the Quebec public service are so bad as to warrant a general strike. Defending her rights 'SIR, It is my duty though scorning the professional attitude of Miss Gale (letter April 10) to reestablish the facts as they are.

She was never intimidated by anything. She needs a good conscience so she brandishes the common front as a scarecrow. What an easy weapon to enter the school to justify a salary earned without doing anything. I am constrained and obliged to answer Miss Gale to defend my rights so that my pupils will not be herded into classes like cattle when we have to face the grave problems of drugs, apathy of the pupils and their great loneliness but all this does not trouble the conscience of Miss Gale and "she is not ashamed." JUDITH MAN I mere are aiso suggestions uiai me new airpon. dz.

located, half-way between Montreal and Toronto, which-seems about as practical as a suggestion I made earlier that it be at Summerside, P.E.I., or Rivers, Manitoba. Some suggest that it be put on a man-made island, out in Lake Ontario, and I say amen to that, since it would then be within sight of town all veteran air travellers love airports that are within sight of town, which is one reason I'm so fond of Winnipeg and Calgary. But the proposal to locate the Toronto Airport out in the lake was one of the first to be shot down, on the ground that it would deface the city's beautiful shoreline, and annoy the dwellers thereon, not to mention frightening the Besides, it's now estimated that the airport will generate a city of some 100,000 people around its environs, and it is hard to picture 100,000 people, even Torontonians, living in Lake Ontario, even if they clean it up. Get those bulldozers moving, Jamieson. I've got about 20 years of air travel left in me, and I'm damned if I want to spend half of them at Malton.

Build us something nice, so we can love big T.O., whether she wants us to or not. Lean hope in Ulster Parti Quebecois sees only one side Sick leave, job security It is a lean hope that sustains Northern Ireland today, hope that the new waves of violence and counter-violence loosed by the killing of Joseph McCann have been laid to rest with the body of the young IRA officer. "One moment of frightening futility" a Belfast paper called it, after a British patrol had shot McCann, who was fleeing to escape arrest. Mr. McCann at 25 was a popular battalion commander in the IRA's leftist Official wing.

Ten thousand mourners turned out for his funeral. His death has temporarily darkened prospects that Catholics will disavow IRA violence, for it gives the outlaw army a chance to portray the British as aggressors rather than peace keepers McCann happened to be unarmed when shot and the IRA as the defender of Catholic rights. Unfortunately, further polarization of feelings can only lash Ulster to new furies. Spirits were lifted when the British government suspended Stormont rule and began releasing political prisoners held without charge. Catholic enthusiasm for the IRA slacked off, as did the violence.

Last weekend changed all that. Now the mood must painstakingly be recreated before the empty desire for vengeance can be converted again to a more mourlshing hope for peace. Lord Widgery'i new report of The Bloody Sunday killings in Londonderry last January shows there is blame enough for all. It is possible that sharing the blame can lead to a shared understanding. Threat to Ostpolitik If the financial interests remove their finances and business interests who will pay the property and school taxes which will be lost? Mr.

Levesque sold the province a Trojan Horse when he told the population the nationalization of privately owned electrical companies would result in low priced electricity. This due to $15 million per year in taxes not being paid by these companies to the federal government So far this has "saved $135 million" and yet we have had at least three increases in the price of electricity up to now, with another to be expected after the signing of the new union contract. Also Hydro-Quebec is no longer paying the property taxes that the private companies did. I sure hope that the Bank of Quebec would be more financially successful than So-quem, Sogefores, Sidbec, So-quip and all the other agencies set up by the province or everyone in the province will starve within ten years of the PQ takeover. D.

WILLIAMS. move all of their activities and finances on the shortest possible notice (those which have not been already relocated). Having worked in the province for 40 years and lived here over 60 years and not being born with a silver spoon in my mouth I know what it means to work hard and scrape and save. And to make decisions between necessities and luxuries for myself and family. Too many people acquire champagne tastes and desires while having a beer income.

Everyone wants to have cheese and wine parties, barbecues, two cars or more in the family, two or three skidoos, at least one summer cottage with a fast motorboat and of course color T.V. etc. This is all supposed to be acquired instantly. No one gives a thought to building a solid financial base and by doing so giving up some of these luxuries. There is quite a difference between "on ne peut pas arriver" and "on ne veut pas arriver," and that is the big difference in mentality between the people of the province and those of other provinces and countries.

SIR, As a "middle-aged West-end school teacher" who is voluntarily participating in this unfortunate strike and thereby losing about $70 per day of gross pay, I feel entitled to a share of the time the media are giving us. First, do your readers understand that what I am losing each day is 1200, not l356th, of salary, and that this is exactly what I stand to lose every time I miss a day of school with a cold if we accept the proposed contract? Since I average about four single-day absences per year, that would cost me about $840 during the length of a three-year contract. So even in purely monetary terms it would be worth staying out as long as two weeks just to try to bargain our way back to the old familiar 15-days-per-year of possible sick leave without deductions. But finances are not all The Department of Education seems to want to use the decrease in school population as an opportunity to save money by hiring fewer SIR Messrs. Levesque and Parizeau have as usual looked at only one side of the picture.

They talk of controlling the $7.5 billion in tax money paid to the two governments and the $600 million that will be available due to reduction in sums for national defence and the duplication of government services they also talk of using the Deposit and Investment Fund to buy out and build up present and new businesses by using the 350 million a year that is paid into it If they use the pension money that means that they do not intend to pay pensions. They point out that the major economic decisions have been made by financial interests and entrepreneurs outside their milieu first by the English-Canadian group and more and more by American interests. (1) If these financial interests and entrepreneurs so detested by the PQ withdraw their finances where will the $7.5 billion in taxes and the $600 million come from and also the $350 million paid into the Deposit and Investment Fund. Most of this money comes from the profits of these interests and the services which they purchase, plus the salaries that they pay to employees and the materials bought by them. If the PQ figures to seize all these assets and not make proper financial restitution then these interests which are national and international will force the closing cf the market to all goods produced in Quebec If Messrs.

livesque and Purtau thftx that tbcre will be any panic then they had better stop kidding themselves. Ail of thjse interests live, contingency plaus to Smaller' classes would do far more than the present alter native, "professional days," to individualize and humanize the education process. In fact, as both parent and teacher I would gladly see most professional days bargained away for a 20 reduction in class size. If that does not guarantee continuing employment for all present teachers, consideration should be given to honorable early retirement at nearly their present salary for any teachers in their fifties and sixties whose education and training make it so difficult for them to adjust to the changing style of teaching Thirdly, about unionism versus professionalism. The latter is an ism I have spent years trying to avoid.

I have no respect for commentators who talk incessantly of "goon squads" and ho resort to the old guilt-by-association argument to scare or shame us away from participation in the same strike with the janitors in our schools or the orderlies in our hospitals. We need not fear losing the respect of modern students because we are making common cause with workers whose need to win is even greater than ours. Indeed, if this strike goes on till pay day, we teachers in the upper two-thirds of the affluent society wiH deserve a college credit for having taken a practical "in-service course" on bow the bottom third the inner city families live through the experience of having less in the pay envelope than has aiready been issufd in cbejues. MARGARET ASS ELS The ratification drama in West' Germany, in which there is so much at stake for Europe and the western world, is approaching its uncertain climax. The Bundestag, lower house of the Bonn parliament, will vote next month to approve or reject the Brandt government's treaties with Poland and the Soviet Union.

The chances of rejection, which would almost certainly guarantee a continuation of the Cold War for the foreseeable future, looks altogether too good. Within the last several days any hope of a bipartisan foreign policy in Bonn towards the Soviet bloc has virtually disappeared. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) will maintain the position that, although it is not opposed in principle to moves to ease East-West relations, it would put the treaties on the shelf until Moscow offers a better deal Chancellor Brandt's coalition government has a majority of only one as it heads into the showdown. It may lose even mat if the Free Democrats (FDP) take a battering in the state election in Baden-Wuerttamberg this Sunday and panic then breaks out among the FDP members of Brandt's coalition. The beBef persists, however, that a nenber of CDU members really favor the government's Ostpolitk, If this is true.

Mr. Brandt will get the treaties the suspense will last litil toe votes are ccmphted. It would be unwise to discount the possibility that the Bonn republic, which hitherto has enjoyed the greatest political stability of any major Western country, may soon go through a change of government in hectic and unpropitious circumstances. Whether or not Mr. Brandt raises the question of confidence, his coalition is a sunk ship if its foreign policy goes down to defeat in the Bundestag.

The goai of detente in Europe is the glue that has held Mr. Brandt's SPD and the FDP together. Defeat could lead to a general election, which would not be especially welcome in a summer when the Germans are looking forward to a splendid celebration of the Olympic Games, or to a non-confidence vote in the Bundestag that would immediately install the CDU leader, Rainer Barzel, as chancellor. Mr. Barzel does not appear to have taken a sufficiently serious view of the disappointment and anger that wiH be felt by many people around the world in the event thai Mr.

Brandt's treaties are rejected. The treaties are not sokly a subject of German domestic politics. Ke will have to deal with a backlash from both East tind West if he is propelled into the chancellery by the defeat of the treaties; and he will ave to make good no his vow L'ist it can a better treaty with Moscow. Charges anti-union bias might find itself more sym-p a i to legitimate demands for economic security, equal pay and essential income levels. Perhaps, sir, the next time negotiations emxe, the politicians will read the real public's concern comply.

Until this happens, "strike brothers and sisters, and God Bless N. 3. PORTER SIR Your paper's antiunion bias certainly came clear on April 14, the editorial, Bruce Taylor's glib cemments; Dr. Dionne's prominently pbceJ letter; and the picture Lie volunteer doing what she normally does (Comfort patents) placed in distorted context So what's r.e? The equilibrium is some what restored by the interviews you provide on individual striker's problems. I suspect these resist mote from the efforts of concerned and socially conscious reporters than as editorial policy.

Perhaps if your paper was to do a lot more in-iepth digging into the state and quality of life of the working poor in Quebec, the public.