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TODAY PitaanriaiMo 5 Oilprice maim priority rate in May But food price increases have slowed to 113 per cent from more than 17 per cent at the time of the last election SHRINKS DOLLAR However the purchasing power of the consumer's dollar based on the consumer price index has shrunk to50 cents in January from $1 in 1971 In the all-important US economy wholesale prices rose by 16 per cent in January a sign of higher prices for Canada later this year Although the New Democratic Party campaigned for a cost-ofliving tax credit and a fair prices commission to cope with inflation neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives offered such mechanisms The finance department expects unemployment and inflation to worsen this year Measures to tackle both these issues likely will be included in the next budget one of the first tasks for the government after reaching an energy pricing deal OTTAWA (CP) A new energy pricing agreement tope the liat of major economic decisions facing Pierre Trudeau'a new government Until Ottawa and the producing provincea reach a new agreement on oil and natural gaa prlcea the domeatic economic outlook remaina doiufy far tMa year andnexL Cloae behind though are the aarne economic uncertainties that faced the Progressive Conservative government elected May 22 threats of rising interest rates inflation and unemployment Thera also are widespread forecasts of a mild US4ed recession later this year Recent developments suggest the Liberal government elected Monday will have even less manoeuvring room than earlier projected for guiding the economy through rough waters this year For one thing the cost of subsidising imparted oil has increased by more than $1 billion since December to $26 billion annually and will add to the deficit of fll4 billion this year unless budget cuts are made elsewhere INCREASES PRESSURE In addition last week's increase to 13 per cent in the US discount rate is a strong signal that interest rales here despite campaign promises by the political parties likely win rise again shortly The Bank of Canada may Increase its rate above the current record of 14 per cent to maintain Canadian interest rates at a competitive notch above those in the US The move would aim to keep PIERRE TRUDEAU foreign funds flowing' into Canada and maintain the value of the Canadian dollar The dollar closed Monday at 8608 cents US down slightly from recent levels but on a par with the level of last May The unemployment rate of 74 per cent in January is below its level of 77 per cent last May The jobless total worsened in January to 799000 its highest since last summer The pace of inflation as measured by the consumer price index is 95 per cent slightly above the 92-per-cent Tallying the score Bov Me Kan zie and Dan Backs were part of the trying umuccessfully to elect Chuck Knight as Athabaspa riding Here the pair chart election riding's various polls on a largo wall grid Liberal machine the MP for the results from the Ontario did much for win Grits looking at bigworkload (CP) Pierre especially heavy with fcf JductionTn Hie federal sales troubled automak spring and the federal especially heavy troubled automaker OTTAWA Trudeau and his soon-to-benamed cabinet ministers face a gruelling backlog of work as they prepare to resume the business of governing Canada Two federal elections and two changes of government in nine months have delayed or aborted decisions on matters covering the whole range of public policy A new oil-pricing agreement with the producing provinces and a new budget setting forth a plan for stewardship of the economy are among matters awaiting Trudeau's fourth administration Some new ministers are likely to be preoccupied with the Quebec referendum on tax to nine from 12 per cent a measure from the Liberal budget of November 1978 also requires passage Other leftover derisions' include: must decide who 'gets the $2 3-billion contract for new fighter planes for the armed forces The Tories were on the verge of a decision when Parliament was dissolved Dec 14 but the Liberals appear to favor further deliberations Canada Ltd is awaiting wind on assistance from the Canadian government to complement aid already promised by the US to save the financially- Broadbent happy with showing Socreds wiped off die map ST GEORGES-DE-BEAUCE Que (CP) Social Credit Leader FaMen Roy was bitter in defeat Monday as he and the other four sitting members of his party were routed at the hands of the Liberals But Roy raid he isn't finished with politics After seeing the 9 500-vote majority he piled up in the last election evaporate giving Liberal Normand Lapointe a win in rural Beauce riding Roy told a news conference he would consider running in the neighboring riding of Frontenac on March 24 Voters in Frontenac (Bd not go to the polls Monday because Social Credit candidate Nelson Lessard died last week and the election was postponed Roy Mamed orchestrated Liberal poor media coverage and a lack of campaign hinds for the defeat Twenty -six of the 20 Social Credit members elected in 1962 the high-water mark were from Quebec Under the leadership of Real Caouette the Quebec Creditistes remained a factor in Canadian politics after Western Social Crediters disappeared from the federal political scene in 1968 A Gauthier member for Roberval was one of the originals elected in 1962 and one of the five remaining Creditistes defeated Monday INVITED ROY It was Gauthier who invited Roy to leave the Quebec national assembly where he was interim leader and only sitting member of the Popular National Party and take over the federal Socredi Roy succeeded Andre Fortin who died in a highway accident In 1978 shortly after he had inherited the leadership from Caouette He took the party reins on the eve of the 1979 election Despite words of support from Premier Rene Levesque and help from Parti Quebecois organizers in a few ridings the May 1979 election nw the 11 seats held by Social Credit dwindle to six Richard Janelle elected as a Social Credit member in Lot-Mniere riding defected to the Conservatives shortly after the election reducing the caucus to five Janelle was defeated by Liberal Jean-Guy Dubois this time Prairie seats government must redefine its rale in that campaign and refine its proposals for constitutional change Voters will expect action on the handful of promises the liberals made in this campaign notably a plan to raise the guaranteed income supplement for poorer pensioners by $35 a month It will take about two weeks to issue formal writs of election to MPs and to have them sworn into office Meanwhile the speech from the throne outlining the new programs must be prepared far opening of the 32nd Parliament The Commons agenda is have won more seats and have the highest popular vote than ever before in the history of the New Democratic the 43-year-old leader said For the NDP there was relief that the party was not squeezed out in the vote for a majority government as happened in 1974 when NDP strength dropped to 16 seats from 31 The NDP got approximately 20 per cent of the total vote Of the new seats there are two each in Ontario Manitoba and Saskatchewan and four in British Columbia The party had 27 MPs when the election was called That leaves the NDP with 1963 The Conservatives retained 13 seats in Monday's election The Liberal tide wiped out the two New Democrat Party seats in the region defeated Conservative cabinet minister David MacDonald in Prince Edward Island and gave solid majorities to Liberals in ridings which went marginally Conservative in May The Liberals also added a seat in New Brunswick OSHAWA Ont (CP) -Despite the defeat of five New Democratic Party members of the last Parliament Ed Broadbent was happy election night with 10 gains from the Conservatives in Ontario and the West which gave his party more seats than it ever won before The NDP elected 32 MPs one more than it did in 1972 Broadbent told supporters at the United Auto Workers uniort hall in his Oshawa constituency that he naturally regrets the defeat of the only two Atlantic members and three members in Ontario However he brushed the disappointment aside much of the territory given to the Tories last May and presented it with bonuses to the reborn monarch Across Ontario Pierre Trudeau's Liberals held on to their 32 seats grabbed 17 from the Tories and three from the NDP The Tories had to settle for 38 and the New Democrats Five But it was populous kou them Ontario including 23 ridings in Metropolitan Toronto and 36 others in the Golden Horseshoe area from Oshawa to the Niagara Peninsula that clinched the Liberal victory With the Liberals safe in Quebec and the Tories strong on the Prairies the southern Great Lakes region is the traditional pivot in federal elections In Toronto the Liberals held the 10 seats they won in May and added seven The Tories who had 12 dropped to four while the NDP added another to the one it held The swing to the Grits was spectacular in several key ridings Typical was Sarnia where former Liberal cabinet minister Bud Cullen washed out by the Conservative tide in May made a resounding comeback A TIGHT FIGHT In Lincoln Bryce Mackasey scorned by his opponents as a parachute candidate from Quebec won -in a tight fight But the NDP also cashed in on TOry losses Hamilton Mountain which usually swings between Liberal and Tory was won by Ian Deans newcomer on the federal scene but experienced in the Ontario legislature as former New Democrat house leader Eastern Ontario also leaned toward the Liberals The Tories won only one of seven Ottawaarea seats and even Jean Pigott one of Joe close advisers was defeated The New Democrats who had hoped to gain in Northern Ontario lost their three seats there Timiskaming Nickel Belt and Sault Ste Marie But NDP Leader Ed Broadbent who easily retained his Oshawa seat said the party more than made up for Eastern Canada losses with gains in the West Sinclair Stevens treasury board president easily retained his York-Peel riding and Health Minister David Crombie who spent much of his campaign recuperating from a heart attack kept his Toronto Rosedale riding And Ron Atkey who had promised his mainly Jewish constituents before the May election the Tories would move the Canadian embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv was unseated by Liberal John Roberts in Toronto St External Affairs Minister Flora MacDonald had a tight race to retain her Kingston and The Islands seat and in Haldimand-Norfolk Tory Bud Bradley won on a recount after the polls first showed he lost to Liberal Art Renn by 47 votes TORONTO (CP) -Southern Ontario voters the king-makers in federal elections rolled out their best carpet for the Liberals on Monday Ending their brief allegiance to the Progressive Conservatives they took back IPCIITN VI Car rate Mapl Creak aFraak HaaiUtealPOUW lb BtelMarte-MaaSaw Lak Daag Aagaiab(NDP)IISgatafraiTC Yarktaa-Mahillc a Lara Nyalraat (NDPIUI7 AUIKKTA JackSklMalPC)lia Hirer iGrrSa 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from Afghanistan The Liberals could find Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed opposed to changes in that deal and unwilling to settle for increases in Canadian crude oil prices of less than $4 or $450 a barrel a year the level in the pact he reached with Clark a positive energy policy for the people of Canada pursuing ultimately control of our own economic destiny by This nationalistic theme was the key message in election campaign Support for Broadbent increased in the Oshawa riding he has represented since 1966 Final results gave him 26665 votes compared with 14336 for Conservative Jim Souch and 9 £33 for Liberal Liz Gomes Broadbent's wife Lucille who rarely makes public statements before a crowd thanked party workers millions in new coal-mining development assistance for the Halifax shipyard and for a project to convert Bay of Fundy tides into electricity Among the three new Liberal members elected in Nova Scotia was former premier Gerald Regan who said the federal government would have to reassess the last-minute agreements concluded with the province in Quebec also failed in his bid to unseat veteran Antonio Yanakis in Berthier-Maskinonge De Cot ret named to the Senate last summer so he could join the Clark cabinet after his defeat in Ottawa-00116 in the last election hid resigned last month to seek election to the Commons The economist and former president of the Conference Board in Canada attributed the Liberal victory to the Tory failure communicate our solutions well tovers because little was accomplished last year Parliament sat 7or only 6 days before the May 22 election was called And Prime Minister Clark waited almost five months after the election before opening Parliament and the fall session lasted only 45 days Waiting formal approval are spending estimates of about $53 Mllion for the fiscal year ending March 31 Estimates for the next fiscal year have to be approved by cabinet tabled in Parliament and subjected to detailed review Legislation to give retroactive approval to the ED BROADBENT more than a third of its members from British Columbia and no representatives from the Atlantic provinces Quebec or Alberta Issues such as offshore mineral rights energy development regional economic growth and shared jurisdiction in the fishery which the region's four Conservative premiers indicated could be jeopardized by a Liberal government in Ottawa appeared to have been ignored by the electorate in favor of the government's budget provisions In Newfoundland where While Tory seats dropped to one from three their percentage of the papular vote remained about the same 125 per cent The Liberal win left many Tories stunned and some angry: election results constitute a fraud that undermines Canadian said Senator Jacques Flynn minister of justice in the Clark government The Liberal victory proves that and frankness cannot win over pure In his brief speech to sup- porters Broadbent said the country was in difficult times and he wished Liberal Leader Pierre Trudeau luck with his new majority government Supporters booed that statement In addition to congratulating Trudeau Broadbent also praised Joe Clark for the way he handled his defeat as prime miinister and the end of his brief minority government Clark dealt with it with integrity and accepted his defeat the NDP leader said He pledged the NDP would work in Parliament Premier Brian Peckford had said his government would have to adopt tactics" to maintain ownership of offshore minerals if the Liberals were elected four Liberals retained their seats and the party added a fifth seat But the party made its biggest regional gains in Nova Scotia where the Conservative government had recently signed agreements worth Atlantic Canada helped liberals Torries suffered in Quebec HALIFAX (CP) -Progressive Conservative premiers in the Atlantic province had their worst fears confirmed Monday as voters rejected regional issues and gave the Liberals their biggest victory in 17 years The Liberals picked up seven seats in the four provinces to bring their total to 19 one less than the 20 seats they held after the Diefen-baker government's defeat in MONTREAL (CP) The Progressive Conservatives' suffered their worst election setback in Quebec in almost 60 years Monday when only one of their 74 candidates in the province managed to win a seat in the House of Commons But Roch LaSalle minister of supply and services in the Clark government who squeaked by his Liberal opponent in Joliette riding by less than 400 votes vowed he would make himself heard in the new Parliament going to remind Prime Minister Trudeau that Quebec rwtwtini Uk Ckaadiaa Prat Hit of Mban aiaetad ia the Prairtw aJwSiM bates appratemat ia away caaaa wtthpartyaatoa from late tec lionor liytartlM ualaa Ml uachaasfd (a -Matebaroflaaihaasa): MANITOBA SriaiHiarli Walter DtaaSak ikium inaMtefkjXNDPMtet Maplla Lavera Ltaycky INDP) MMigaiafraaK UWMjackMartalPCIMjn Pariafe-MarvKUa aCkarite Mayar (Kant 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contested in the province more than any other federal election since 1921 defeated some of the Tories' best and brightest candidates demagogy hypocrisy and he said Rodrigue Pageau Quebec Tory campaign manager said he was amazed Quebecers refused to give Prime Minister Clark a chance after eight months in power Among prominent losers Monday was Heward Graff-tey minister of science and technology defeated by Liberal Andre Bachand in Missisquoi riding Robert de Cot ret industry trade and commerce minister in the last cabinet and considered the shiniest Tory star.