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| Validity Chall Of Import Surcharges position during the last Parlia- ment, Paul Martin, naw exter- nal affairs minister, said in the program "has no legal foundation what- By ALAN DONNELLY OTTAWA (CP)--A legal chal- lenge of the validity of last year's emergency import sur- charges has been launched in Exchequer Court which, if suc- cessful, could involve the re- funding of close to $100,000,000 collected under the levies. A test case in which a chain of ladies' wear shops, Reitman's Limited, claims repayments to- talling $112,151 has been started by an Ottawa law firm. A spokesman for the law firm of Gowling, MacTavish, Osborne and, Henderson said Wednesday that similar peti- tions for 20 to 30 other clients, involving a total approaching $500,000, will be filed in the next few days. Besides seeking repayment of import surcharges, the petition of right by Reitman's Limited seeks a court declaration that ies is being held illegally. IMPOSED. FOR AUSTERITY ative government's five, 10 and 15 per cent, wer the months tirely. The asuterity program, the cabinet orders-in-council of last June 24 imposing the sur- charges were invalid and that money collected under the lev- The surcharges were imposed as part of the former Conserv- austerity measures to halt an interna- tional run on the Canadian dol- lar that was threatening the country's foreign exchange re- serves, The levies, varying at imposed on about half of Can- ada's import trade. In following surcharges were eased in successive stages and last March 31 were removed en- im- posed by order-in-council to meet an emergency when Par- liament was not sitting, came under fire from the Liberal op- enged Commons that the soever." The then public was unsuccessful. e of Canada, LADIES' : . . TIME TO SAVE ON BEAUTIFUL TAPPAN UNITS We are clearing out the balance of our 1962 stock of beautiful Tappan units. Now's the time to investigate the savings you can make! 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For the first 11 months of last fiscal year to the end of Febru- ary--one month before the sur- charges were listed--total cus-' toms duty collections were $111,- 000,000 higher than a year ear- lier. The surcharges are re- sponsible for most of the in- crease, although a gain of some $250,000,000 during the period in the flow of imports also pro-' duced higher customs revenues. The legal angument over the validity of the surcharges likely will be a complex one, based on a'claim that the cabinet orders were not authorized by law. Last June the government took a round-about way of im- posing the surcharges. Under the Customs Tariff Act it raised duties on the imports involved up to the level of the 'general tariff'--a rate higher than the duty applicable to most of Can- ada's imports. Then it passed a companion order-in-council un- der the Financial Administra- tion Act, granting remittances on the duty down to the level it wanted. CONSUMER DIVISION RUDDY ELECTRIC Wholesale Ltd. 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These are part of the govern- THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, Mey 9, 1963 15 ment's "fundamental ' require- ments" in the formation of a royal commission into the ques- tion of Canada's status as a dual culture nation, he told the legislative assembly, It was the first time a gov- ernment member had specified what standards Quebec would demand in the formation of such a commission, promised by the federal Liberal party during the recent election campaign. Mr. Gerin-Lajoie said Quebec makes four specific demands: biculturalism and _bilingualism|meeting ground for the two prin- must be studied "to the fullest/cipal ethnic groups with equal extent and in all aspects" andirepresentation of both French the commission's conception of|and English Canada. the problems 'must be large." The commission must be re- alistic and come to some con- crete suggestions. - The commission "must re- spect the principle of provincial autonomy in its mandate as much as in its recommenda- tions." 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