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Crossroads -Dec. 5, 1984 -Page 9
Mainstream Cauda
Wilson puts finger
on UI knot
By Tony Carlson
Unemployment has all the
earmarks off a modern
Gordian knot, that ancient
tangle of twine tied by a
Persian king as a test: only
the future ruler of Asia
would be able to unravel it.
Alexander the Great tried
but failed and so he did the
next best thing: cut it in half
with one swipe of his sword
and the rest is history.
No one is suggesting that
such a rash act is needed to
slice through the Unemploy-
ment Insurance 'labyrinth.
But Michael Wilson, our
country's finance minister,
working with a pen, not a
sword, has taken a
courageous stab at a central
strand of the puzzle.
In his "Economic State-
ment" he proposed initial
cuts of almost $296 -million
from the UI system by
making some recipients wait
longer for benefits, or by
giving them less and by
getting tougher with
eligibility.
UI was rightly conceived
as a program to ease the dis-
tress caused by temporary
unemployment. It is the
essential tie that binds those
in need of support to a
society that cares.
What it should not do, but
what it is more and more
being asked to do, is act as a
welfare program, or to prop
up consumer buying power
in an effort to create more
jobs through increased
demand.
Studies have shown, how-
ever, that generous UI
benefits actually stimulate
unem.ployment in many
cases. Small business sur-
veys turn up employers who
have problems hiring people
because many prospective
employees prefer to continue
collecting UI.
That's one reason
Canada's jobless rate is 11.3
per cent compared to about 7
per cent in the United States.
Flexibility is the key, says
John Bulloch, president of
the Canadian Federalien of
Independent Business, point-
ing to the fact that UI
benefits run out after six
months in the U.S. as op-
posed to a year in this
country.
Many elements, he says,
combine to make the
Canadian labor force less
adaptable, a serious short-
coming in a time of funda-
mental economic change. UI
benefits are just one
example.
"Real wages in the U.S.
have declined by 10 per cent
over the last decade.
American workers are more
willing to relocate to find a
job and more willing to
retrain.
"We have the second
highest unemployment.
benefit system in the
developed world and as a
result, people just aren't as
flexible."
Properly focussed, he'
adds, the UIsystem could
provide not only the essential.
support for those who need
it, but also act as a positive
investment in people who
need help to . adapt to the
changing labor market.
On that score, then,
Wilson's initiative and
promise of a review of the
entire UI system is en-
couraging.
We may never call him
Michael the Great, but he
has at least put his finger on
a central strand of the unem-
ployment knot.
A weekly news commentary from
one of Canada's -
outstanding news personalities
sir �jrd/
ANCHORMAN FOR GLOBAL NEWS e�1
On the diplomatic
Ottawa has the reputation of .
being the second coldest
posting in the book. Shiver-
ing, thin -blooded diplomats
may not see it, but winter
here constantly provides
that test of character which
separates the Canadians
from the lotus-eaters.
An Ottawa winter is what
my dear friend Frank
McGee calls "fight back"
weather. Frank's theory is
sound, I think. It is simply
that cowering indoors in the
face of bad weather actually
makes it worse. That if you
get out in it, and do things in
it, bad weather pales into in-
significance. And that is the
attitude that has prevailed in
what Goldwyn Smith called
this sub -arctic lumber town
since Lord Dufferin was
Governor General in the
1870's.
Sandra Gwynn, in her
wonderful new book on old
Ottawa, called "The Private
Capital" says that Dufferin
imposed an English vice-
regal style on this wilderness
seat of government that has
lasted, in some respects,
ever since. You know the old
line about mad dogs and
Englishmen out in the noon-
day sun. Well, the English
are just as mad in this north-
ern colony as they were in
the tropics. Here, they went
out in the winter, and re -
circuit,
veiled in it.
Dufferin, according to Ms.
Gwynn, wallowed in winter:
"He became the first in a
long line of proconsuls," she
writes, who, accustomed to
an empire that nearly every-
where else was • steaming
hot, with punkahs waving,
found winter and all its
panoply of blanket coats and
bright red touques romantic •
and exotic." In 'short, with
Dufferin, winter in Ottawa
became the fashionable sea-
son.
Ottawa society began to
disport itself on the huge new
toboggan slide at Rideau
Hall and on the Dufferin's
private rink. There was
snow -shoeing on the
grounds, and later, after the
strange wooden slats had
been introduced to Ottawa
by an Englishman, skiing.
Reading between the lines,
I suspect that the milk -white
complexion went out of
fashion, and that red cheeks
were in. The toboggan slide
and the outdoor rink (now
flanked by a curling sheet
courtesy of Edward
Schreyer) are still popular at
Rideau Hall and so is winter
generally.
So with Lord Dufferin in
mind, and Frank McGee
cheering on the sidelines, to
heck with galoshes. I'm
watching the northwestern
sky and waxing my skiis.
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