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. KENN-mu ludiumitur
Remember the Glaco
CommiAori on federal
,eovernnient organizatione
Between 1960 and 19Q it'
produced several hundred
recomniendations - insis
volumes - on how to im-
prove govenunent effi-
ciency at tee cam_ After
announcing it would adopt
certain rctommenibtions.
the governme. not handed
the job over to the same.
bureaucracy that was to
be minimized.
• 0 0
The bureaucrats' mover
was to hire consitliauts to
re-examine the recommits- .
datioas and report back to
them. Naturally the con-
submits weren't about to
play down the importance
of the people who had
hired them or to recom-
mend cutting out potential
Entire employers - quite
the reverse. Both parties
bad the same inceative -
not to cut back but to-build
*P-
• • •
Ten years later the con-
ailtants are still busy. at
- -an- annual cost of about '
51 billion in fees alone. The
result:. 441102 federal
civil servants in 1974 com-
pared to 294.750 in 1962.
That's about 12.000 more
every year. We have new
departments. newdivisions
of old departments. new
agencies and more and
more layers of highly paid
officials 'regulating ever!'
/thing from egg prices to
bilingual labels, What
Canada needs is au up-
dated Passim report for
action by Parliament. not
by the bureaucracy.
• • •
Under the Consumer
Labelling and Packaging
Act. all non-food items
sold in Caada since Sept.
1, 1074, require biliagual
labels. The same will apply
to food items from March
1. DX last month a
small Winnipeg oil coin-
paw - Ratio -was
threatened with serum of
more has SUN worth of
autibtece because the
tables were ia English oaly.
A food importer - B.L.
Marts. of Thernhill. Ont. -
told the Cassabas Federa-
tion of Independent
Business that' "a brge part
of our products will dis-
appear from the market.
Many of oar suppliers will
not make a separate MEM-
guatpackage for Canada.-
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Quebec's Bill 22. Ouch
enforces French as the
working language of .
Quebec. has created "-s--
storm among inunwrants
and English -spe aking
Quebeckers. but it makes
sense ,to French-speaking
Quebeckers trying to pre-
serve their majoratv
position_ language and
culture. What doesn't
make any sense at all rs
Ottawa's • policy, of en-
Wilt* the use of Rench
in the nine other pro-
vinces where the workiiv
language is Enghs-h.
French labels in Quebec.
English labels, eve.rywhere
else would save small
business millions of dollars
in lost trade, lost time and
lost tempers.
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