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u 12-Oronù Weekly Times, Wednesday, August 30tb, 1978 Banker Retires Mr. and Mrs Clarence Mr. Gunter leaves the Banik of Gunter enjoy a much deserv- Commerce after 42 years with ed retirement party at the 91/ of those at the Orono Coach and Four Restaurant. Branch. HeIp for asthmnatic children Does your child have as- thma? If the answer la "yes", then Durham Region Lung Association may be able to help. Beginning on Sunday, October l5th, the local Christ- mas Seat Association wîll run a- Family Asthma Program for children between the ages of 4 and 14 years, at the Dunbarton Pool, Shepherd Avenue, Pickering. This pro- gram, offred free of charge as a Christmas Seal Service, will run for seven consecutive Sundays, fromn 4: 00 to 6: 00 p.m. Participating children will be taught breathîng exercises and relaxation tech- niques which assist in the control of asthmaic attacks, the symptoma of wbich are often aggravated by fear as breathing becomes, increas- ingly difficult. Ail procedurea are under the direction of a licensed physîotherapist, and the program also includes a swim and aquatic exercise session. Lectures on the physical, medical and psy- chological problems of a sth- matic children are given by medical professions to par- ents attending the course, and interested parents should con- tact Durham Region Luang Association at 723-3151, as soon as possible. IThinLiiiknsalIt IbyJimS t Beggar your Neighbour 1A long time ago, the well- known Fathers of Confedera- tion agreed tbat, in future, al of Canada would stand to- gether, sharing equally in the good and the bad. But some- thing wentwrong along the way and now the impover- ished Maritimes are part of the same Confederation as wealthy Alberta and Ontario. Increasingly --and quite aside from the weli-known sovereignty Issue in Quebec - Confederation bas become a matter of everý province for itself. The noble concept of one for ail and ail for one bas gone by the boards. One example of the course we're taking can be found in Quebec where, by provincial decree, it has been specified that construction workers from outside Quebec will not be permitted to work in that province unless it can be de- termined that workers with similar skilis are not available locally. Quebec's action invited immediate response frora Ontario which bas introduc- ed legislation barring Quebec tradesmen. Other regions can be expected to follow suit. But let's not dump ail the blame on one province. Lat year, for example, Ontario went shopping for new pub- lic transit vehicles. The lowest bid came from MLW Worthington, a Quebec-based outfit - but the contract went to Ontario's Hawker- Siddley at a higher price. Alberta, meanwhile, gives preferred status to its own contractors for pipeline con- struction. Outsidc contrac- tors get work only whcn there aren't any local firms available. Manitoba stipulates that only Manitoba-bascd consult- ing engineers be employed on nuclear generating plants there. Competent engineers from anywherc cisc ini Cana- da-are out of luck. Then there are the inter- provincial trucking wars where vehicles with out-of- province license plates are pulled off the road by police. The examples of beggar- your-neighbour policies with- in Confederation are almost endless. It's impossible now to ignore the fact that Con- federation just isn't working ont the way the Fathers plan- ned it. The provincial leaders are to blame - but so is Ot- tawa, which bas failed to de- velop a comprehensive na- tional development policy. The provincial ploya are born out of frustration with an economy that bas stagnated. There is an important les- son here for Canadians. AI- though we operate one of the world's most open economies (more than haif the goods coming into Canada pay no duty whereas the U.S., for example, taxes more tfian 90% of its imports), our trade representatives in the Geneva trade negotiations are talking about cutting ta- riffs even further in exehange for non-tariff concessions fromn other countries. But agreement on tariffs isa. arelative1y easily attained state, being nothing more than a matter of arguing over casily defined numbers. Non- tariff barriers, on the other hand, are far more subtle and 1cms readily defined. So, if wi can't cope with trade barrier within our own bôrders, hov van our naive "boy scout' approach to internationa trade in Geneva accomplisl anything of value? There's tesson on international trad to be found ini our own intet provincial affairs. 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