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judge in one court would be able
to deal with such related issues as
property, support or custody of
Win. Newman, Agriculture and
Food Minister, has announced
that more than 15;200 Ontario calf
producers should receive cheques
by Christmas-averaging $1358.00,
to • help' offset this year's loyv
market prices. • - ••-•
The cheques are being
processed on the basis of $58.42
oer cow, minus the $5 premium-
enrolment fee.
-Net Government payment will
be$20.75 million for 1976.
The payment formula hinges on
a support prfk' of 50 cents: per
pound set earlier this year and
weighted,average market price of
33,42 cents established at fall'.
sales throughout ProsInce. •
The Legislature prorogued this
week. and so this will,be my last
report for this year.
I wish everyone a Merit'
Christmas and a Happy and
Prosperous 1977.
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This week saw the tabling`
the annual , auditor's report. The
report catalogued many instances
• where the Government had
mismanaged a program or where
'Sloppy administration had
resulted in considerahle waste.
For instance, the 'Ontario
Government paid out more than
$19 milliontn welfare to people
who didn't need it.
In many cases the.
overpayments ..were . made
because the Ministry of
Community and'. Social •Services
took months to stop payments to
people no longer in need or to
,reduce payments to people whose
••entitlement had been reduced.
The cheques kept going out up to
186 days after they fOuld have
been stopped.
The auditor also pointed out
how OHIP has paid out• millionS)f,
dollars in claims without proper.
checks. .•
One doctor, however, who
overbilled 01-1IP for $489,000
has been 'ordered to repay the
money._
The auditor, Norman Scott,
also pointed out that there were
many abuses in the student award
program.
. Management Board Ordets
also came in for sharp criticism.
These are Cabinet spending
orders that have not been passed
by the In 1975-76 this
amdunted to $289,905,005.
Another ta'Oe in the report
details the month by month
spending of each ministry.
March is the last month in the
fiscal year, and it is obvious that
public servants scramble to spend
anything left in the till before the
year ends. A full 13 per cent of all
government spending took place
in March of the last fiscal year.
Industry and Tourism spent 30.7
per cent of its annual budget in
that one month; Environment, .
25.8 per cent; and .Agriculture,
24.1 percent.
'Meanwhile the Public Accounts
Committee won its battle with the
Ontario -Medical Association and
was given the names of 812
doctors who billed OHIP for more
than, $100,000 each in 1974-75.
- The doctors had• fought the
release .of the information by
011IP, because they said, the
' figures represented gross
fatnings, not net income, and
.-fcould therefore give a distorted
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claimed he was misreported:
saying "'there will be no cloSing Of
any campgrounds in , parks in
Ontario nor will •there be /ally
reduction in the amount of
campsites available to .,the
public." He Confirmed that toady
,campgrounds would be teased for
operation by the private sector,
but' rejected st e-
ments that,thosetot leased wo d
eventually be closed do n,
commenting "the interpretation
of the Media has changed my ,
mind."
Ontario's Public Accounts
Committee has recommended to
the ,Legislature a complete audit
of those who received first time.
home buyers grants:and that the
Minister of Revenue should
"recover , all payments made -,
either-in -error or .illegally, by the
end of 1977." Last week Liberal -
MPP David Peterson (London
Centre), said all 88,000 people
who received the grants should be ,
audited, commenting that the
administration of ' the program
had been "jUst awful" and has
"dealt a serious blo* to the
Government's credibility:" A
partial audit showed that more
than -$1.2 million was paid to
people ineligible for grants.
' 'A bill to create a unified family
RETIRING COUNCILLORS HONORED Lambert
Branderhorst of Kippen and Cleave. Coombs of
Egmondville were presented with .gifts Saturday
nigroti their retirement from Tuckersmith Council.•
Deputy-reeve elect. Robert Bell made, the
presentation on"behalf of the township.
children, rather than• these
matters going to various .coura:
The court would have authority to
try divorce and nullity cases,-
matters 'of adoption, custody and
guardianship of children, as well '•
as charges against miners under
the Juvenile DelinquentS Act. It
would also' be able to try such
charges as assault of a spouse• or
failing to provide family with the
necessities of life• under the
Criminal Code:
"After a week of 'persistent
questioning- by Liberal Leader
Stuart ' Smith, the Minister of
Natural Resources admitted that
a work order allowing a Sudbury
man to 'drill for uranium ore in a
lake used by the City as a source
of drinking water was cancelled
two days after it was issued: The
cancellation came after ministry
officials tried unsuccessfully to
reach the man to persuade him to
•-• agree to defer drilling for at least
a year until environmental quest-
ions are settled. Any future work
orders will have to conform to ten
conditions aimed at protecting the
'water quality of Lake Wanapitei.
The • Solicitor-General was
'questioned by Liberals Pat, Reid
(Rainy River) and David Peterson
(London Centre) about reports
waste
Mat the Public AccOunts Cominit.
tee had voted to keep
confidential. Mr. Davis also
called on Bud Germa (NIT,
Sudbury) to resign as Chairman
of the Public Accounts Committee
because he called a special
meeting of the Committee , at
short notice to receive the reports
of doctors' incomes from OHIP
before the Ontario Medical
Association could try to block it by
obtaining a court, injunction,
Members of the Legislature felt
disappointment, disgust and
anger at the conduct of those
members of'thPublic Accolints
Committee who exposed doctors
to cheap, underhanded and mali-
cious politicking that made it look
as though the doctors had done
something wrong. Certainly the
Committee has a right to the
information but it acted irrespon-
sibly in making it public.
The Minister Natural
Resources has now stated that he
has had second theughts about
Wanting to close dowp or lease out
all public campsites in the
Province. He has now told the
Legislature that this is not his
wish, although he had previodsly'
said that "the longterm idea is to
.phase out overnight cartiping in
provincial parks." The Minister
that a senior OPP officer had been
intouch with his counterpart
Quebec to find out how to go
about obtaining,,a• public inquiry
into organized crime in Ontario,
and a Quebec prosecutor's state-
ment that there is more organized
crime in Ontario than there is in
Quebec. The. Attorney • General
interjected that this report was
nonsense, and the Solicitor-
General repeated his earlier
Assertions that senior police
officials had warned'him holding
an inquiry would do more• harm
than good. He said the provincial
police believe they know the
names of people they should be
watching for in organized crime,
Rill 111. the contioversial farm
income, 04hIlizatIOO .p4n
received final 4PPOkval jo the
Legislature. A N;9441tali'l
Sualftrite9
support price 'of, '95% of
avetaage, price for if,* previous
f3ve•- on COlung0itiO.S •
covered by a similar federia Plan
to the 90% level The Minister of
Agrictilt4r.e has .estimated that;
the plan will cost the 'Government
$70 million annOVIY, A liberal
arnendment gePe.tal
terms for the Cominiasion to be
established to otgetiOte, • with
Marketing boards. and firm
groups without 'lessening , its
authority if groups refus,e to
negotiate, also ,passed.
(By Jack Riddell, M.P.P.)
Ontario will get an extended
form of rent control next year
which could carry on the contro-
versial program for another 18
months.. Premier William Davis;
said rent controls cannot be
ended independently of the
Federal Government's Anti-Infla-
tion program, -Ontario's present •
two-year program of limiting rent
increases to /3 per cent annually is
due to expire next July 31. The
Anti-Inflation program is set to
run until the end of 1978.
"As long as we have Anti-
Inflation Board regulations it is
Clear that we must also have some
form of rent contrefa„" Mr. Davis
told the Legislature in winding up
the budget debate as the last item
before the House prorogued for
the winter.
With the' support of the
Urals the minority Progressive
Conservative Government easily
survived a final Neui Democratic
Party non-confidence motion
critical of itsfiscal policies.: •
During the wrap-up speech the
Premier called for the resignation
of the. New Democrat Edward
Ziemba's seat in the Legislature.
Mr. Ziemba. admitted that he had
made available to the press
information on doctor's' incomes
picture. the committee intended
to use the information to give to
the Auditor so that he-could check
for overbilling or the possibility of
fraud. Before this was done, the
list appeared on the front ,page'of
two Toronto newspapers in
violation of the Committee's
intention,..lt was laterlearned that
Pa N.D.P. member of the
Committee had intentionaiV
leaked the information to the
press.
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