Medicine Hat Officials Press Parliament on Energy Taxes
Medicine Hat Mayor Ted Grimm and Alderman Ken Sauer told a parliamentary finance committee they scored points in challenging a 30-cent per MCF natural gas excise tax and an eight percent revenue tax. They warned of higher bills, job losses, and risk to the city’s publicly owned gas utility, urging amendments to exempt the utility.
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Hargrave accuses Liberals of delaying finance committee hearing
MP Bert Hargrave denounces Liberal lack of quorum as the finance committee opens hearings on a bill to legitimize excise taxes on natural gas. He cites lost time for Medicine Hat officials and calls the tax a fund raising device aimed at Alberta. Evans downplays the lapse as common.
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House of Commons
Medicine Hat officials meet Ottawa ministers over gas tax protest
Mayor Ted Grimm and Alderman Ken Sauer met Finance Minister Allan MacEachen in Ottawa to press Medicine Hat objections to the natural gas excise tax. They spoke of a restrained briefing and received assurances the standing committee would not forget their brief. They also met Senator Bud Olson who offered further aid before returning home.
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Hat
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City Utilities Committee
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Tories sweep Ontario election
Ontario voters gave Premier William Davis a majority as the Progressive Conservatives won a 12th straight election. The Liberals and NDP saw vote gains but failed to translate them into seats. Davis and his cabinet were re elected. Liberal leader Stuart Smith pledged to continue and praised his campaign.
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Joe Clark
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Alberta Court of Appeal strikes down federal gas tax
The Alberta Court of Appeal ruled unanimously that the federal excise tax on exported natural gas is unconstitutional. The five judges held the federal government lacked authority under the British North America Act to impose the tax on gas produced at a government-owned southern Alberta well and shipped to the United States.
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Space worker dies in shuttle Colum bia drill
Five Rockwell International workers were overcome in the Columbia shuttle engine area during a rehearsal at Kennedy Space Center. One man, John Bjornstad, 50, of Titusville, died. another worker remained in critical condition. A Kennedy guard and four others were treated and released after the 9 a.m. incident.
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Ottawa uses unique closure to cap constitutional debate
Liberal House leader Yvon Pinard filed a procedural motion to limit debate to four days, cut speaker time to 20 minutes, keep Commons in session up to 13 hours, and allow written copies of speeches for Hansard appendix. Opposition leaders called it closure by another name as talks proceed.
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