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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1977-04-14, Page 25Bill Campbell dawned apron, flipper and tongs last Wednesday to cook sausages .for 1700 people who ate pancakes at Vincent Farni Equipment . annual Pancake Days. The event has become a great area attraCtiqn each year.' mositor 4 furrow' bYe0OC:V24 irt e foot in Mel Letters are appreciated by Bob Trcitter, Fidel. Rd . Elmira. Ont N38 2C7 Tarrifs ,import quotas needed tammoommaltrormatoombroonwonaottotmere4 Lower Interest Rotes NOW AVAILABLE ON 1st and 2nd Mortgages anywhere in Ontario on RESIDENTIAL — INDUSTRIA COMMERCIAL and FARM PROPERTIES Interim financing on new construction (gland development REPRESENTATIVES IN YOUR AREA PHONE SAFEWAY. INVESTMENTS & CONSULTANTS LTD. Head Office: 56 Weber Street, Kitchener, 15191 744-6535 Branch Office. 504 Tenth Street , Hanover. 1519] 364-3121 WE BUY EXISTING MORTGAGES FOR INSTANT CASH Our Massey-Ferguson is going on right NOW. We've got special sale prices on most' new Massey-Ferguson • Agricultural Tractors • Agricultural Implements • Hay , & Forage .Equipment Limited to available inventory: t f See your dealer about special finahce arrangements Persorialized,ME finanOng parts . and service avai1 01e.. Ooyet:, Fatm Sup 3 Simforth • Stauffer CHEMICALS THE HURON EXPOSITOR,, APRIL 14, 1977 —TA Suppose you are producing shoes in Ontario. You make good shoes, long-lasting, stylish. But your labor costs are about $10'an hour. Maybe you're producing television sets. YOur labor costs are eventigher-. ", Or maybe it's clothing. You also have high labor costs. Your shoes hit the Canadian market and they are com- peting with shoes from India where labor costs are 30 cents an hour. Or your television sets are competing With units from Taiwan where labor costs are less than a dol- lar an [Our. Or your shirts are competing with goOds from Indonesia where labor costs are 25 cents a day, not $5 an hour. ' ' You are not going to compete. It is an utter impossihil- ity. What happens? You quit making shoes or shirts or tel- evision sets. Dominion Electrohorhe plus a dozen shoe ,manufacturers plus hundreds -Or textile industries 'in this country have cbeen forced. W. the breaking point by these simple mathe- matics of big business and labor. Electrohome. one of Canada's quality electronics man- ufacturers, has been forced, to massive. layoffs because of foreign competition. What can be done? The best defence is to set up border tariffs and controls to keep Canadian goods competitive. But wheneverthis is done, the consumer starts to scream. I suppose, if .Canadians want their own industries to be forced out of business, nothing will. be done. But what strikes me as asinine is letting food imports put sections of our agricultural economy out of production.. Right i'now. Canada is becoming dangerOUSly dependent on some food imports: It" we become totally dependent on imports of peaches, just as a for instance, we may pay as much for peaches in the future as we pay for ; coffee today. I'm just the same as you when it comes to buying food. . I scream as loud as the next guy but. I'm beginning to think I had better swallow my indignation. The consumer may suffer 'a little in the short run if the federal government sets up tariffS and import quotas but, in the long run, We'll all'be better off for it. OoVernrpent- should- create jobs,Opposition , says A clasSic example of what can happen when an indus- , try is allowed to die is that of sugar beets. Imports of sugar were open. at the border. The sugar beet 'industry in Ontario just could not survive under the pressure of cheaper sugar made from sugar cane. Farmers got out of sugar beet production. And when the price of sugar went sky high not long. ago-, Canadians hadto pay for it ordo without. I think food is in a distinctly different category than' shoes, shirts or television sets. And I think it is about time the federal government revised its tariffs to protect Canadian food producers. If, for instance, a staggering drought hit the United States and food stocks in that country became dangeroUsly low, do you think, the Excited States would see to it that Canadians got fed if the beef industry' in Canada had been forced into bankruptcy? Not bloody likely. A hungry man is a desperate man and any 'government will look after its own desperate men first. I'm not suggesting that Canada should produce all foOd that is consumed in this country. For one thing, we can't because of climate and the short growing season, What I am saying ,is that Canadians should be ready, willing and able to preserve the ability to produce the foods we are, now producing. It is. my understanding that every other nation in the world . has' set up trade barriers against food imports while increasing -subsidies to keep farmers in business in their own borders. '1 do not think Canadian farmers are, as' a group. in favor of increased subsidies but I think they are ripe now for import barriers to protect them. It is. unfortunate that ether countries are using those same barriers and those same subsidies to ship their products to Canada to under- cut the Canadian farmers. If something isn't done to revise Canada's archaic' food import policies, the 'agricultural industries involved will go the way of the 'textile industry and the coming demise of the electronics industry. • In another 25 years, world population will outstrip foOd production. By that time, if something isn't ,done to pro- tect farmers, it will• be too late because. we Will no longer be able to depend on.imports. • FinanCial assistance • Management counselling Management training ' Information on government programs for business DENNIS TOFFLEMIRE one of our representatives will be at The Parker House Motel, CLINTON on the 3rd Thursday of each month. April 21st Opening new doors to small business The Minister of Labour haS told the Legislature that ',Ontario's plans to streamline bargaining in the province's construction industry have been delayed a year. Apparently some 70 per cent of the affected collective agreements, expire at the end of this month, leaVing ,insufficient time to organize new .bargaining bargaining .,agencies before contract talks begin. LegiSlation has been introduced' Which. would give Ontario's Provincial Auditor additional powers to review pending by all Crown agencies nd corporations, as welt as goyernment ministries.. It. also permits the Auditor to check how, municiPalities,.schopl boards and hospitals spend provincial grants. Mr. F.N.Scott who has been Provincial Auditor since 1973 says the bill would • also "make him independent, of the Cabinet and • responsible only to, the elected members of the Legislature.," "It ensures" that there will be full accountability of provincial' spending", he said. -Direct provincial spending totalled almost $12 billion in the fiscal JACKS JOTTINGS ,(By Jack Ridded, M.P,P.) Both . Opposition Leaders participated in the Debate on the '• Throne Speech this past 'week, and their main concern was the government's failure to create fob opportu tildes, in view of spiralli, ng unemployment figures, and mismanagement of the movinciaP economy. Liberal. Leader Stuart saiith called for personal income tax cuts, for peOple'• earning under $15,000 a year to stiniulate _consumer spending, and said the •Government Should speed up the Ontario Muncipal Board's hearing of Toronto's new city pidil so that construction would begin, thus creating jobs. He ago called upon the Government to buy a certain percentage of its goods . and services from small' owner-. managed businesses. Stressing that the economy and -unemploy- ' ••ment . are the major probleins facing Ontarians today, he said "Ontario's economy is sick ....and 'things are not getting any hetter"., The government should., said,,,,effer":hope and „jobs to counteracethe-despairl the fear and the disillusionment of our unemployed", particularly, the young, and offered a number of suggestions which would be of assistance in this connection. With respect (07 "the Throne Speech, he expressed the view 'that 'it was "constructive ... and acceptable to the Liberal Party, and indicated that he would not. support.. the hon-confidence motion proposed by the N;D.P. Retreating froM statements he •, made last fall, the Ontario Solicitor-General has stated that 'he wants to create a 'tribunal, that ' would allow police to handle the initial inxestigatiOn of complaints against pike-men., - Liberal M.P.P.. Vernon. Singer (Wilson Heights) warned that to backtrack on this issue would provoke a confrontation with the Opposition Parties. He was concerned that. this would . mean' that the police were investigating `coin -plaints about themsehres. "Caesar can't sit in judgement oh Caesar", he said. "If Mr. MacBeth has flip-flopped 'because of pressure -brought to bear by 'the police, then I think .have had a frustrating and useless exercise in all, this investigation." -The . Government has announced that some 1,6 50 civil. service jabs in Metro Toronto are to be relocated in KingSton and Oshawa-,-as-part of armove by the Province •to.-' G•o EA'Sti""; The costs of moving staff and of extensive travelli ng back ,and forth to Toronto• during the early months is' expected to be $9-Million to $10-million. NO estimates have been giVen of the costs of having new office buildings constructed or of long-term leases with private deve..lepersZ At least "three- years ' will elapse before staff transfers...begin. 'The head office of .the 011.113 division of. the. Ministry of Health will move to Kingston, Which will involve the. transfer of more than 900 jobs. • Some 750 jobs will be involved in the move of the head Office of the Ministry of Reyenue to Oshawa. (A $40-million bulk storage and distribution warehouse for -the "'Liquor-Control Board of Ontario is to built in Whitby, in the Durham region.This will. be the- province's largeSt - liquor storage warehouse and will eventually employ about 100 peoPle.) Year ending March 31st. While t he Proyincial 'Auditor has no powers to force changes 'in government Spending practices, his annual report, which cites cases of mismanagement, can be a source of political embarrassinent. A Children's Services Division,. absorbing programs currently- under four provincial ministries will be operating by July lst..The new division, under the Ministry of ,, Community and Social Services, will-1 have. 3,200 employees and , 'a $275 million' budget,, Also announced ' was a plan . to "Create local children's . services across 'the' province to co-ordinate assessment and placement of youths living in the area. The new division will be led by George Thomson, a 'Kingston FaMily court Judge, and Peter 'Barnes, an administrataive consultant with a background in government and private industry. Margaret . Campbell, Liberal M.P.P. (St. George) who has been prodding the Government to improve the existing network of child Fare services, said that she' Was worried and shocked by the appointment of 'Mr. Barnes. A management consultant 'is not what we need here. We •are just going to have some more formulae. People are going to be slotted', she said. Among the services which - would be brought under the new - division are mental health • •services, training schools, observation and detention homes, mental, retardation, child abuse, and day-care.centres. 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