The Montreal Star from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 31

C-3 Bourassa cool to request for 7 pc tax cut By DAN POTHER The Star's Quebec Bureau QUEBEC Premier Robert Bourassa yesterday gave a chilly reception to a Quebec Chamber of Commerce request for A seven-per-cent cut in personal and corporate taxes Hie request was made In the chamber's annual brief to the premier as a way of stimulating the development of the provincial economy The chamber contended the government should have cut taxes in its last budget but a i 1 i that an across-the-board seven-per-cent reduction should be applied over the next two years Without actually brushing off this suggestion Premier Bourassa said: "Of course everyone wants tax cuts But you have to take into account what the government has done towards improving its financial administration" He noted that the last provincial budget had lowered taxes for about 129000 of the lowest-paid Quebecers His government had not raised taxes in Quebec in three years Mr Bourassa said Quebec's actions compared well with those of the Ontario government which had raised taxes by "hundreds of millions of "I have no objection to anyone asking for tax reductions" he said "and it is done regularly But you have to take into account what this government has done" The proposal for tax cuts was only one element of the suggestion for the economic development of Quebec based on the thesis of creating more wealth instead of concentrating on the redistribution of existing resources The chamber recommended putting financial muscle in the development of manufacturing sector by pushing for investments which would create 25000 Jobs a year in this field It expressed doubts over the role financial and otherwise In Quebec Industry It questioned the wisdom of the government's plan to set up Its own oil refinery Premier Bourassa said his government insists that Quebecers have a greater say in the energy sector of the province and not only in hydro electricity A Quebec oil refinery even if partially owned by the government would not create "huge" competition with existing companies but it would give Quebecers some say In the functioning of this vital industry The chamber urged the govern' ment to watch out for legislation'' regulations or statements "which -could have a negative effect on decisions to Invest in In the field of labor relations it urged the government to set up a special board to have exclusive and final Jurisdiction over contract dis-i putes in the public service THE MONTREAL STAR WEDNESDAY JUNE 20 lift $700000 ecology exhibit unveiled" is By BRIAN MOORE Quebec Environment Mil-- lster Victor Goldblootn yes-' ter day unveiled a $700009 fi anti-pollution exhibit housed in the Biosphere the former-'-1 UB pavilion at Expo Man and His World opens officially at 2 pm tomorrow and will run until Labor- Day Sept 1 The opening-a ceremonies will include a performance by aircraft of: a the Canadian Armed Forces- aerobatics team Snowbird Yesterday Dr Goldhtoom told a press conference that- the new exhibit in the Biosphere wiD stress the benefits i of sound ecological planning as well as the consequences of pollution want to show only flie bad things happen- tag to flw bp -said as a score of workers? readied displays throughout the huge transparent dome The exhibit sponsored by- the province andHydro-Quebec represents a mas- sive change for file Btafr own environment -'V Last summer file pavilion housed a flock of parrots cranes budgies and other birds plus two ddaen ba-v boons and a coupfe of ponies 'and deer They lush setting of trees shrubeH and other greenery AD fids had to go to make way for the newexhlblt? called Man and IBs Environ- ment This spring the birds ahd-t were shifted to the Garden of Wonderoi xoo in LaFontaine Park Most of the Biosphere's trees and shrubs were re- i planted in Montreal parked? although some undoubtedly survive fin move said a parks department em-V loyee who helped ft exhibit heartbroken abobCr fin decision to do away with the garden added "It fitted'4 tin Biosphere concept per-? foefly "A small mountain of old -totfy murrain no mcuom of cars -hasbeenbr ought1 into fin dome to demonstrate pollution Everybody already knows what it Workmen at the Biosphere said some trees were cut up after it was decided thehl removal was impractical" Al $15J)00 artificial Sequoia tree more than 120 ft high also The attraction will Include eight daily film screenings walk-in models of the human ear and lungs audiovisual displays a gar den and model of the? James Bay hydroelectric project The dome will be open-? seven days a week from IS am to 0 pm until Sept 2 School doses wfll be ac commodatad until Oct I 1 A Spy9 son asks Help- for father JERUSALEM The sdof-l of former Soviet master spy Leopold Trepper Sent United States Senator Henry Jackal son Wash) a telegram yesterday asking him to discus bis case with Soviet leader Leonid i Breihnev Whobvbitingl Washington -j Dr Edward Trepper is ty hie third day of a bungee strike In front of the WentatV Well holiest ihrinetv support of his fothOTt demand to be allowed to emlgrato to braeL Hs sski his father Wf been trying to leave Poland-? for fiiree years Leopold Trepper beaded the Soviet Red Orchestra spy network Nad-occupied Europe during the Second World War ttg Hvep alone ta Warsaw aqf aid If bant Wfcfyrjwi.