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HERALD OUTLOOK J Ua theHERALD Outlook OUTLOOK Is each Saturday by the HILIS HERALD Home Newspaper of Halloa Hllh A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company limited at a Guelph Street Georgetown Ontario I7G Second Class Mall Registered Number 8772201 PUBLISHER DavldABeattte EDITOR Mike Turner MANAGER Dan Taylor STAFF WRITERS Brian MacLeod 8PORTS WRITER PaulSvoboda ACCOUNTING June Glendennlng Donna Kell Tammy CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Joan Mannall MARKETING REPRESENTATIVES Caroline MacLeon Craig Teeter JeannlneVatola PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT Dave Hastings MylesGUson Annie OUen Mary Lou Foreman CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Marie Shadbolt PRESSROOM FOREMAN Brian AOtman PRESS ASSISTANT On the spy scene here in Canada Twos a Crowd from Ottawa By MACKENZIE OTTAWA The federal govern ment has been told it should create another agency to slake its cons tant thirst for knowledge culled from the shadowy world of spies and secret agents In its annual report to Parlia ment the watchdog group that monitors the countrys civilian spy agency says it has uncovered a gap in the services rendered by the governments numerous in telligence bureaus The government is not getting all the basic intelligenceindepth in formation on other countries and subjectsthat it requires the Security and Intelligence Review Committee says in its report The committees review of the activities of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service found that the services analysts are concen trating on intelligence that alerti to potential emergen cies and specific issues A steady stream of current in telligence reports can result in security intelligence being dealt with as a series of flaps rather than as an ongoing longterm pro cess the committee says The problem appears to be a general lack of experience- in the analysis branch of CSIS About half the analysts are newcomers cutting their teeth on shortterm current intelligence projects The service however is not to blame for any to deliver adequate levels of information to the decisionmakers Its a common criticism in the security intelligence field throughout the western world that governments do not give their in telligence agencies dear enough direction and this appears to be true In Canada the report con cludes To fill the intelligence gap the committee has proposed an agency be established along the lines of Australias Office of National Assessments The committee discovered the on a recent trip to Australia to study the in telligence community there and compare its operations to those in Canada Hie it found operates out side the Australian Security In telligence Organization assessing information acquired from ASIO and a variety of- other sources In its report the committee describes the ONA as the institutional critic of the quality and quantity of all The committee notes that the CSIS analysis branch has been im proving its operations but suggests at several points in the report that it is hobbled by personnel policies and operating practices It bluntly recommends that if an adequate assessment group does not AC within the service the could consider SIRC chairman Ron says his committee is not convinced the service is the body to conduct this type of extensive analysis but CSIS Director Morden disagrees He claims the in telligence analysis function is a legitimate part of CSIS operations Morden adds that his service is im proving in the area of strategic long range and trend analysis NOT EVERYTHING But Morden wont tell Atkey all that goes on and Atkey cant tell everyone all that SIRC has discovered going on And its possi ble that within the extensive in tricate intelligence network knit ted by successive governments that someone is already doing the job proposed by the Atkey group Before becoming director Morden held a senior post in the Privy Council Office the govern ments central policymaking secretariat and the highest authority for the dozen or more in telligence services operating within goernment departments Sooner or later all intelligence data and matter finds its way through the system to one of several security and intelligence committees at the PCO through an intelligence coordinator and eventually to the cabinet commit ted on security intelligence chaired by the prune minister But in the murky world of intelligencegatherers there is no handy directory and the RCMP are the only services that operate under public scrutiny Others identified in the SIRCe and other reports operate in par tial or total secrecy their budgets often camouflaged or fragmented in the governments annual spen ding documents and their presence not always admitted Canadians have been allowed brief glimpses of that world through reports of blunders or oversights inquiries and special studies And the images of the in telligence community have never been flattering The network has been undergo ing a major restructuring over the last several years with the PCX drawing together a number of ex services and setting up new lines of communication If a new service of the type pro posed by Atkeys group is not already place it is very likely to be on the PCO agenda And in spite of any intentions the CSIS director may have of expanding the role of bis own analysis branch its unlikely the PCO would want a new Intelligence operation subject to the scrutiny of a public watchdog like SIRC Through the interdepartmental committee structure that it now commands the has access to volumes of data collected by Cana dians and foreign intelligence ser vices and channelled into it through its own people Elaborate charts of the intelligence and- network suggest that the PCO exercises great control without the burden of an oversight or review committee By BILL BUTTLE Ugly SpeCtfe Staff Comment Brian MacLeod The boss has finally realized you need some help youre getting a second In tray Head off the tragedy Your Business Diane Matey Thomson Newt Strvlct Victims of free trade The words have a tragic sound calling for im mediate action to relieve the suf fering People who lose their jobs to free trade need special help it seems But how will we know who these people are And why should they get more help than any other person who has been laid off These are sensitive questions Politicians are responding by say ing all those who lose their jobs are being helped by existing pro grams Business leaders not known for their sensitivity are responding by taking the offensive calling for big cuts in unemploy ment insurance spending Some business people want the burden of unemployment to be shifted to the unemployed others are calling for unemployment in surance money to be spent on job retraining instead If a person loses a job today why not start retraining tomorrow asks Thomas Aquino director of the Business Council on National Issues Thats a good question In the past job retraining has been a forgotten field ineffective Ineffi cient and underfunded Govern ments spent billions of dollars training people In areas where their skills were not needed or were not what employers wanted Meanwhile we have to import specialists such as air traffic con- troUers from the United States CAN WE TALK The immediate problem is to find some reasonable way to discuss something as emotionally charged as entitlements The ex perience of the recent federal elec tion leaves little reason to be hopeful in that respect Attempts to channel money away from universal entitlement programs to areas where it is most needed tend to be greeted with howls of protest Mind you a recent Gallup poll turned up some interesting results although they were not widely reported by the media Seventy- eight per cent of Canadians favor raising family allowance payments and giving them only to families in need the poll shows Sixtyseven per cent would raise old age pensions and give them on ly to those who need them In short a majority of Canadians would put an end to universal en titlements Yet when Finance Minister Michael Wilson tried to do something similar a few years back he was met with fierce op position As it stands Canada spends about billion a year on labor adjustment programs billion of it on jobless benefits This money could be put to better use business groups say Proportional ly most countries spend about half of their laborrelated budget on job retraining Canada spends only per cent a recent report by the Economic Council of Canada shows True the council could be dismissed as just another business group promoting the needs of business over those of workers But do people really prefer to col lect pogey rather than to develop new skills The clamor over the free trade agreement is helping to focus the governments attention on the whole problem of job retraining No one will know for sure whether people are being laid off because of the free trade deal or whether they would have been laid off anyway But with luck the Increased pressure on government will result in more help and better training for everyone who needs it As the drama unfolds business and government must bear in mind that older workers will need the most help Too often when the sun sets on a dying industry the people it once employed are forced to fall back on social welfare for the rest of their lives This is the real tragedy of economic adjustment the tragedy of people whose skills are ho longer needed of people who are no longer needed Business and government should take care not to throw away older workers like so much obsolete machinery One has to wonder what the world will be like in years now that the Americans and the Rus sians arent fighting with each other anymore One has to wonder if the Americans and Soviets will find new enemies or just dig up old ones The plain fact is the US and the Soviet Union havent been enemies since the death of former Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev in 1982 Were all revelling in this new period of Glasnost yet its really just a formal name for something thats been happening for a long time Lets face it the Russians had no desire to tangle with the Americans and vice versa Neither country would have wanted to lay their future or political leadership on the line by engaging in warfare conventional or otherwise with the other Neither wanted to be forced into a losing situation with the other A nuclear response I believe to a lost conventional war fare tangle in some exotic land would never have been considered The losing country would have just taken their lumps Both countries have this huge military industrial complex To have it lay idle hurts their pride and their pocketbooks So in the past decade we find the Russians have managed to occupy themselves in Afghanistan and the US has had much more time to practise on such formidable op ponents as Grenada and Libya Yes Libya The country led by the worlds madman Moammar Khadafy is now the real enemy in the eyes of the American people Its true Khadafy is someone who needs to be put in his place An ad vocate of terrorism Khadafy is ob viously someone leading a country badly in need of a military coup But hes only managed to steal the spotlight since the Americans and the Soviets decided they really werent going to shoot- each other for whatever reason Khadafy Isnt someone to lament too long over the potential loss of two fighter pilots apparently they parachuted out safely by the ac tions of the two US fighters on Wednesday He probably sees it as a chance to get into the action again After all hes really been out of commission since the US bombed Tripoli and Benghazi in 1986 But its confrontations with smaller nations I think that should worry us more than a manufactured cold war with the Soviets Two nations the US and the Soviets can stare each other down until theyre blue in the face but never engage in war But those smaller countries countries who dont have a bureaucracy able to pull in the reins on their egotistical leaders are willing to tangle with the big guys What happens if those smaller countries Libya Iraq Iran Syria and the like get a hold of a nuclear bomb Lateral proliferation of nuclear power has always been a problem but never has It had the potential of doing so much damage The spec tre of the joke that the US turn Iran into a big parking lot com mon during the hostage taking in cident in i960 suddenly becomes quite ugly when it may actually have a plaice in reality