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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2016-03-02, Page 44 Huron Expositor • Wednesday, March 2, 2016 www.seaforthhuronexpositor.com Seaforth Expositor PUBLISHED WEEKLY — EST. 1860 P.O. Box 69, 8 Main Street Seaforth Ontario NOK 1 WO phone: 519-527-0240 fax: 519-527-2858 www.seaforthhuronexpositor �p] POSTMEDIA NEIL CLIFFORD Advertising Director neil.clifford@sunmedia.ca SHAUN GREGORY Multimedia Journalist shaun.gregory@sunmedia.ca DIANNE MCGRATH Front Office seaforth.classifieds@sunmedia.ca NANCY DEGANS Media Sales Consultant ndegans@postmedia.com SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 YEAR $50.00 (47.62+2.38 GST) 2 YEAR $95.00 (90.48+4.52 GST) SENIORS 60 WEEKS $50.00 (47.62+2.38 GST) 120 WEEKS $95.00 (90.48+4.52 GST) Publications Mail Agreement No. 40064683 RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT P.O. 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We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canadian Periodical Fund (CPF) for our publishing activities. Calm Confident Liberals sure they can do no wrong ou might guess, judging from the chorus of recent critiques of Justin Trudeau's still -acclimating new govemment, that the fresh crop of Liberals running the show now might be a bit rat- tled. But you'd be incorrect in that assumption. Sources familiar with the government's thinking say, sen- ior Liberals are relieved the first leg of this session has gone as well as it has. Their intemal tracking as well as public opinion surveys con- tinue to show the Trudeau Lib- erals enjoy a commanding lead in the mid -forties in percentage support, with the Tories back in the high twenties and the New Democrats in the teens. And on the biggest policy issues, including those that have caused the government grief, senior Liberals believe they're doing what's best for the country, longer-term. Here's how that looks. The rationale for the new military mission in Iraq — though its unveiling was long delayed and though its substitution for a flight of CF -18 fighter jets was very poorly communicated Column Michael Den Tandt — is finally beginning to gel. Last Thursday in the Senate, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan fielded questions from sena- tors. The senators' questions were lengthy and detailed. So were Sajjan's answers. In essence, his point was this: Because of the ways in which the war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has evolved, the emerging gap in the U.S.-led coalition is on the ground. There is no shortage of fighter-bombers. There is a shortage of intelligence and ground -training resources. His goal, Sajjan argued, was to go where the conflict is headed, not where it was six months ago. Sajjan insists this new mis- sion is a direct result of his con- sultations with allied com- manders in the field, and reflects their wishes. Having heard his lengthy submission, I'm inclined to believe him. On pipelines, the Prime Min- ister and Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr have been hammered for adopting a neu- tral posture, that of a so-called referee, as opposed to that of an advocate. Behind the scenes, sources say, the govemment is seized with the problem of get- ting a pipeline built in a political climate that was poisoned by years of clumsy communica- tion from the previous Conserv- ative government. The only way to avoid public -relations disas- ters such as those that sidelined the Northern Gateway and Key- stone XL projects, this thinking goes, is for govemment to estab- lish animpartial review process. Finance Minister Bill Momeau was slammed by Conservatives last week for his concession his first budget defi- cit will be closer to $30 -billion than the promised $10 -billion. Momeau raised eyebrows with his insistence the Liberals' $125 -billion, 10 -year infrastruc- ture build is untouchable, bal- looning deficit or not. Liberals believe they're on solid ground. With Canada's debt -to -GDP ratio just above 30 per cent now, less than half where it stood in the mid- 1990s, and interest rates at a cyclical low, there is some room to borrow. They intend to sell their program, sources say, by stressing the "unsexiness" of the infrastructure projects; crumbling sewage treatment plants and underpasses, not fit- ness centres. One doesn't have to agree to appreciate the arguments. But why aren't they being heard in the Commons? The Conservatives are still sorting who they'll be in the post -Stephen Harper era. The NDP are no threat, at least for now. But, could any senior Tory have imagined four years ago that the Liberals in 2015 would take 184 seats, led by the shaggy -haired MP from Pap- ineau? These Grits are sub- limely confident they're on the right track — so much so that the cut and thrust in the Com- mons appears almost an afterthought. That seems a dangerous place to be, so early in what promises to be a very long four years. IN THE YEARS AGONE Elm saw logs delivered to Coleman's mill, one measuring 4,000 feet long, becoming rare in 1887 March 11,1887 • Mr. Robert Elgie, of Tucker - smith, has purchased the resi- dence of Mr. Josiah Watson, in Egmondville, for $940 and intends coming there to live about the middle of April. Mr. Elgie has had an active, prosper- ous life and he now intends spending the remainder of his days in the enjoyment of the fruits of his labour. • On Tuesday, Mr. Simon McKenzie of Tuckersmith, while calling at the residence of Rev. Mr. Ross, of Brucefi eld, tied his horse to a fence. Th e animal got frightened and broke loose. It ran off and in its course smashed through a barbed wire fence. Strange to say, it only received a few scratches and the only dam- age done was the breaking of the whippletree of the cutter. ■ Mr. Charles Routledge, of the third concession of Tuckersmith, delivered at Coleman's mill in Seaforth this week, four elm saw logs, all taken from the one tree which measured nearly 4,000 feet. One of the logs measured 1,046 feet. Trees of this descrip- tion are getting few and far between now. March 8, 1912 • Th e Presbyterian Church has purchased a new piano from Mr. Achibald Scott for use in the Sab- bath School and other church meetings held in the school room. • Mr. Holland of Walton was surprised on opening his door the other morning to find a cutter outside. On inquiry, it was found to belong to Mr. Harvey Hudie and had been stolen from the Methodist Church shed. • Mr. A.H. Kind, who has been railway agent in Hensall for the past eight years, and who has proved himself a very capable, obliging and worthy offi cial, has received word of hs appointment and advancement to the Ingersoll station. March 12, 1937 • Th e race for the McMillan Cup is drawing to a close. Dub- lin and Winthrop were elimi- nated from competition when they went down in the semi-fi nals on Th ursday and Saturday last. Kippen and Egmondville played their first game on Tues- day, with Egmondville scoring a 3-2 victory. The third goal was disputed, but as yet nothing has come out of it. • W.L. Whyte, RR 2 Seaforth, was elected president of the Strat- ford District Advanced Registry, Yorkshire Breeders' Association, at the organization meeting of that body held on Wednesday afternoon at the offi ce of District Agricultural Representative R.E. White, Stratford. 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