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Wednesday, February 27, 1991 The Gazette Page 11 / km/h MAXIMUM J mmmrn S NEXT 13 km Which one is it? Trying to follow all these speed limits along an approximate 5 km stretch of Highway 2A north of Olds is enough to make both your blood pressure and your gas consumption rate rise. J secret Gainers deal revealed in court documents Decore demands an explanation by the premier In a recently filed court document, Peter Pocklington claims Premier Don Getty secretly agreed to give him a four year, 50 million interest-free loan in return for settlement of the bitter 1986 Gainers strike. Liberal Leader Laurence Decore has revealed. Decore also renewed his calls for a complete disclosure of the entire Gainers affair. We now have strong evidence that a connection exists between the settlement of the 1986 Gainers strike and government loans to Gainers, said Decore. Our suspicions that the government was in bed with Peter Pocklington while he was solving his union problems are becoming more tangible. He was referring to a recently filed reply by Pocklington Foods Inc. to the government's statement of defense in the Pocklington Foods' 61.5 million lawsuit against the government. The legal document states that the government induced Gainers Inc. (GI) to rehire its unionized employees and to enter into a collective agreement with such employees in order to receive a 50 million loan. This loan was to be interest-free for the first four years and subject to at-cost interest rates after that time. Such an agreement has never been acknowledged by the government. Further, Pocklington Foods states in the reply that a contract exists in which the provincial treasurer in or about 1987 agreed to provide a grant of 12 million to GI as well as to guarantee a 55 million loan to GI. It is not unreasonable to infer that the first 50 million Premier's Agreement, which was never enacted, later evolved into the 67 million loan and grant package, Decore observed. . This government worked in secret, apparently committing itself to millions of taxpayers' dollars to settle one politically difficult strike, Decore lamented. And the end result has been nothing more than a disaster in the hog processing industry in Alberta. Premier Getty's well publicized efforts to end the strike at Gainers in 1986 were only achieved with a heavy price being paid by the people of Alberta. Who gained in this deal? asked Decore. Only the short lived political reputations of a few Tory politicians. Who lost? Every taxpayer in the province. Decore demanded that Premier Don Getty come clean on the entire Gainers affair. He must make public all the secret deals and backroom agreements that got Alberta's taxpayers into this multi- million dollar mess in the first place. The Liberal leader said he expects the government will hide behind the sub judice rule claiming that matters before the courts cannot be discussed in public. Decore also worried that instead of coming clean, the government would probably agree to settle out of court. This would mean that the documents Pocklington Foods mentions in its legal reply would never be presented as evidence in a courtroom, thus preventing them from becoming public information, he said. major grain sale made to U.S.S.R. The Canadian Wheat Board said February 4 it has concluded a major sale of wheat amd barley to the Soviet Union. The announcement confirms a widespread belief in the grain industry that the Winnipeg-based national grain marketing agency had made, or was about to make, a large sale to the Soviets. The announcement of the sale, which the board said was negotiated last week in Moscow between its representatives and those of the Soviet buying agency Expor- tkhleb, is significant for the traditionally secretive organization. While the wheat board made public few details of the sale - it mentioned neither its precise size nor its value - the announcement itself, and two similar statements that proceeded it, are a real departure for an agency from which getting information was not long ago like pulling teeth. In mid-January, the board made a nearly identical, three- paragraph announcement of a big sale to China. A few days later, it announced a big three- year deal with Taiwan. Now, with its word of the Soviet sale, the wheat board is making public information that grain industry observers once had to infer from rail-car orders and pert activity. In the past, confirmation of such big sales usually had to wait for months, until another Winnipeg-based federal agency, the Canadian Grain Commission, published its annual statistical review of the nation's grain sales. In Monday's announcement, the board said shipments of the grains to the Soviet Union will be made from both East and West Coast ports. The sale will result in good volumes of grain movement over the next few months, it said. The board described the sale as a firm in dicator of the strong and lasting grain trading relationship between the two agencies. A wheat board spokesman said after the announcement of the Chinese sale that the agency made the statement so that farmers are aware that things are moving along. And while Brain Stacey would not comment on the possibility, the board may have decided to be a little more open to counter the effects of news reports last year - denied by the board and discounted by most industry observers - that it had completely stopped trying to sell grain overseas in the face of record low world prices. -Calgary Herald- Aerobic Workout High Low Combo New session begins March 5th. Deys: Monday, Tuesday Et Thursday Time: 5:16-6:30 Place: Evergreen Center Instructor: Sheila McDermid IA.F.LC.A. Cert. Instructor). 556-202S 9-ltc war amputees file claim against Japan The War Amputations of Canada filed a claim recently for 4 billion US in war reparations against Japan on behalf of more than 200,000 Second World War prisoners of war and civilian internees from six Allied countries. Our claim is based upon the atrocities by the Japanese in the Second World War against our PoWs and other civilian internees. These amounted to crimes against humanity or war crimes, said Brian Forbes, a lawyer for the War Amps. The claim was made on behalf of 1,200 Canadian veterans and widows and 200,000 PoWs, civilian internees and their families from the United States, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom. Some 2,000 Canadian soldiers were sent to Hong Kong to reinforce the British-Indian' garrison during the Second World War. Of these, about 300 were killed in action when Japan overran the British colony in December 1941 and 264 died later in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps. Of the 1,421 Hong Kong veterans who returned home, fewer than 600 are still alive. GST speeds inflation The good and services tax pushed up prices in January by 2.6 per cent over those in December a sharper jump than was predicted by Finance Minister Michael Wilson. The increase brought the annual inflation rate for January to 6.8 per cent, the highest rate March 1983 when it was 7.2 per cent. Wilson had said the introduction of the GST would result in a onetime increase in the Consumer Price Index of about 1.25 per cent. 1 + Farm Credit Corporation Canada FARM LAND FOR SALE LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 6 MILES WEST OF OLDS. ALBERTA Reference No. 15936-2A4-3 SE 31 32-2-W5, NW 18-33-2 W5 N 1/2 NE 13-33-3-W5 APPROXIMATELY 398 ACRES NO BUILDINGS THE FARM CREDIT CORPORATION WILL TAKE OFFERS TO PURCHASE UNTIL MARCH 1, 1991. ALL OFFERS SHOULD BE IN WRITING AND INCLUDE A PERSONAL CHEQUE FOR 10 OF THE OFFER OFFERS WILL BE ACCEPTED ON ALL OR SEPARATE PARCELS. PURCHASER MUST RELY ON THEIR OWN INSPECTION OF THE PROPERTY. THE HIGHEST. OR ANY OFFER NOT NECESSARILY ACCEPTED. LONG TERM FINANCING AVAILABLE TO ALL QUALIFIED APPLICANTS. PLEASE SUBMIT ALL OFFERS TO: FARM CREDIT CORPORATION PLAZA 27 BOX 3310. S221 46 STREET OLDS. ALBERTA TOM IPO FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT MR. ZEN LITTKc. P AG AT M-8177 t?t-. Caroline Gas Project Delta/Dilcon Contracting Activity DESCRIPTION OF WORK ESTIMATED BID PERIOD SCOPE OF WORK ESTIMATED START DATE ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE 1. Scaffold March/April Supply 153,600 pieces of manufactured Scaffold Material April 1/91 Jan. 1/93 2. U/G Storage Facilities April/May Fabricate and Install U/G Storage Facilities for C2 C3 Storage Unknown Unknown 3. Non-Destructive Testing March/April (X-Ray) Includes all Aspects of N.D.T. May 1/91 Jan. 1/93 4. Road Construction February Approximately 2 KM Road from Burnco Batch Plant to 1/4 Mile North of Plant Entrance February 91 March/91 S. Camp Maintenance April/May Supply Labour Material for Maintenance of a 1200 Man Union Camp June 1/91 Jan.1/93 For more information on the contracts planned to be let by Delta/Dilcon please contact in Caroline, (403) 722-2012 or Lisa Clark at the Dilcon site office, (403) 341-9072 Jerry Cox
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