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and Fullarton on
Sat., March 23
Dancing 10.1
HENSALL ARENA
Sat, Mar. 23 Music by
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Your co-operation will be
appreciated $4.00 per couple
Everyone Welcome
35th Wedding
Anniversary
Dance
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to begin the week of March 25.
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2. SEWING. I Mens Pants)
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the school 235-0880
or
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for
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Failing this the Liberal Party
believed that by establishing a
Trusteeship in York county the
Minister of Education could bring
the contract negotiation to a
prompt conclusion in a much
more equitable manner.
A report tabled in the
Legislature this week contained
170 recommendations that would
work extensive changes in the
course of policing for the future.
A drastic reduction in the number
of police forces in Ontario has
been recommended by a Task
Force as a means of averting cost
crisis,
The Task Force on policing
found two potential threats to
the quality of police work and one
of its suggested solutions is
eliminating more than 100 forces
to make more efficient use of blue
uniformed manpower.
The report recommends that
the number of operating forces be
cut from the present level of 179
to between 30 and 40, It would
leave 21 city and 10 regional
police forces. In addition there
would be 29 agreement areas in
the south and 10 in the north
areas, where through agreement
policing would be handled by the
OPP or large neighbouring force.
The policing bill in Ontario in
1972 was $229.3 million and had
average an annual rate of in-
crease better than 16 percent.
The cost is outstripping the
Municipality's ability to pay to
the point where in six years
spending demands would be $55
million more than the cash
available, the report said.
Ontario is willing to see the
price of Western Canadian crude
oil rise to $6.00 a barrel but only if
it is going to stay there for at
least two years. Energy Minister
Darcy McKeough said he does
not want a price rise on April 1,
the date the current Federal
freeze is scheduled to expire to be
just the first step up the ladder to
$7.00 then $8,00 and on up to
whatever the world's monopoly
price might be,
The Federal Government has
frozen the price of Western crude
at $4,00 a barrel until March 31st.
Mr. McKeough strongly attacked
the desire of the producing
Provinces, Alberta and
Saskatchewan to raise the price
to the world level of about $10.50 a
barrel.
The Energy Minister said an
increase to $6.00 would add ap-
ppoxiMately76-- cents- a gallon to •
the 'cost of heating oil and
gasoline in Ontario. A jump to
$10.50 a barrel would add almost
20 cents a gallon.
This "flies in the face of
national interest," McKeough
said. The net impact on Ontario
of a move to $6.00 crude would be
to add cost of $350 million a year
to people of the Province.
Alberta's net benefit would be
$750 million.
Bang art, TCelly, °Doig and Co.
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268 Main St., Exeter
ARTHUR W. READ
Resident Partner
235.0120
Marriage should be viewed in
law as an economic partnership in
which both husband and wife
have equal shares, This is a
radical departure from existing
principles as recommended by
the Law Reform Commission in
the massive report that was
tabled in the Legislature this
week.
The proposal, if acted upon by
the Legislature, would allow
Ontario wives to share in family
assets acquired during a
marriage, upon termination of
the marriage. The marital home
as well as joint bank accounts
would be considered joint
property of both spouses.
Some 299 Legislative recom-
mendations are designed to move
Ontario Law regarding
illegitimate children, family
property and family courts out of
the 18th and 19th centuries and
into the 20th century. The report
urges the abolition of all
legislative discrimination bet-
ween children born in and outside
marriage.
It suggests a new Court Official
called a Law Guardian, be ap-
pointed to each Family Court to
act only in the interest of the child
in any proceeding affecting his
upbringing. The Commission also
suggests that an unified Family
Court should be established to
deal with all family law matters.
The Commission suggests that
the separate Family Court be
manned by two groups of judges,
one appointed by the Federal
Government and the other by the
Provincial Government.
Attached to the Court should be
the assurance of adequate family
court support services, such as
family counselling, conciliation
and assessment branches and
specialized probation services.
The main theme of ND?
Leader Stephen Lewis' reply in
the Legislature to the Speech
from the Throne was inflation,
Mr. Lewis produced some
startling figures to back up his
claim that there has been an
unbelievable increase in the cost
of housing in Ontario.
Housing costs in Toronto alone
have risen 56 percent since 1971
and .similar., increases were also
seen in other. centres such as
Hamilton, London and Kitchener.
Mr. Lewis also charged that an
average price rise of 55 percent
has been experienced since 1971
on such items as milk, butter,
eggs, bacon, steak, bread,
vegetable soup, canned corn and
potatoes. Food Company profits
are well up and Mr. Lewis con-
demned the Government for
letting the Corporations of
Ontario get away with murder.
Although the Ontario Govern-'.
ment contends that Ottawa bears
prime responsibility for
restraining inflation, Mr. Lewis
maintains that it is first and
foremost a Provincial respon-
sibility. To cut housing costs Mr.
Lewis proposed a massive public
acquisition of land for housing
adjacent to the. 20 major urban
centres in Ontario,
The Tax Credit system should
be used to hold mortgage interest
rate to 6 percent and a Capital
Gains Tax of 75 percent levied on
speculative profits from land and
housing.
The Leader of the Liberal
Party, Robert Nixon, also at-
tacked the Government for
having no policy to control
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spiralling land and housing costs.
He indiciated that the average
price of all houses sold in Ontario
rose by 26 percent between 1970
and 1973, The problem is most
acute in Metropolitan Toronto
where the cost of shelter rose by
approximately $1,000 per month
on the average house.
The Housing cost increase was
about four times as much as the
rise in the cost of living and
almost twice as much as food
price increases in 1973. As a
result of the influence that
housing prices in Toronto is
having throughout Ontario
prospective land buyers and land
speculators are searching farther
and farther afield.
Land prices all over Ontario
started to rise about 18 months
ago because of pressures in the
Toronto Real Estate market, The
primary cause as the Ontario
Economic Council reported last
year is the scarcity of developed
land. The demand for land far
exceeds the supply and the
shortages have been heightened
by competition for available sites
between foreign and domestic
capital.
The result is artificially high
land cost which is eventually
passed on to land buyers, Ger-
man, Swiss, American, Japanese
and British investors have all
been attracted to Ontario's bland
property market and their
demand for real estate has
resulted in inflated housing
prices for Canadians,
Mr. Nixon indicated that
foreign firms have made sub-
stantial purchases of land in
various parts of the Province.
The Swiss owned firm of Fidinam
Limited, for example controls a
large tract of land in Norfolk
County near the Nanticoke
generating project. Mr. Nixon
charged that the amount of
foreign owned land in central
Toronto alone is staggering and
he went on to give several
examples.
Such extensive foreign par-
ticipation in the Ontario land
market not only infringes on our
natural heritage but also con-
tributes to higher shelter costs
for the residents of this Province.
This type of foreign investment
does not create jobs or advance
technology. It benefits only the
investors.
According to Mr. Nixon, the
Provincial Government must act
properly to restrict luturevland
purchases to residents of Canada
and Canadian owned cor-
porations or an even greater
influx of foreign money, will
further inflate Ontario's land
prices. Newly enriched Middle
Eastern Countries are already
rumoured to be buying land in
Ontario. Relaxed Japanese
regulations for investors in
foreign land have been in effect
for only ,a few years.
The recent devaluation of the
Canadian dollar in relation to
European and Japanese
currencies is also attracting
foreign investment to Ontario's
real estate market which because
its value is rising so fast is a
better investment than gold.
Mr. Nixon went on to say that
restrictions on foreign land
ownership will ease the upward
pressure on land prices
somewhat but tough measures
are also required to stop land
speculation by Canadians. Just
recently the newly elected
President of the Ontario Real
Estate Association estimated
that 30 percent of all land tran-
sactions in Ontario involve
speculators.
Mr. Nixon implied that there
By JACK RIDDELL., HURON MPP
isn't a community in southern
Ontario that does not have land
speculation going on around it.
Until the Province makes an
announcement about where the
development will go, the
speculation will continue. In the
past weeks it's gotten worse,
There has never been as much
speculation. Every little town is
be
ent must act
nhge bought r un pm.
immediately says Mr. Nixon to
bring this intolerable situation
under control, He suggested that
a steep rate of tax to windfall
gains should be applied to
remove the incentive to speculate
in land, This tax should apply to
profits from most sales of raw
land and houses which are not
occupied by the owner but should
not apply to profits from the sale
of a principal residence, or to
profits from the sale of an owner-
occupied family farm.
In other words, the tax should
be structured in such a way as to
apply to speculators only without
penalizing other land owners.
Although steps to control
Ontario's land costs are the most
urgent priority according to Mr.
Nixon, action is also required to
reduce residential construction
costs in Ontario.
The 7 percent sales tax on
building materials should be
removed or offset by equivalent
grants to purchases of new
homes. The Federal Government
should be urged to remove or
provide similar offsetting grants
for its 12 percent sales tax.
Inexpensive housing forms in-
cluding mobile and factory
produced homes must be en-
couraged, said Mr. Nixon.
Mr. Nixon summarized his
remarks by saying that strong
action including restrictions on
foreign ownership of land, steep
taxes on speculative land profits,
a government run land servicing
program and steps to reduce
residential construction costs are
urgently required in order to
avoid further house price in-
creases.
Education Minister Thomas
Wells introduced a Bill to force
the teachers of York County back
to work and send pupil-teacher
ratios and all other items in
dispute to compulsory ar-
bitration. Prior to the ,in-
troduction of the Bill a majority
of York County school trustees
ail amantly refused to negotiate
the ratio ,,,o4aitningg asitiKt
management right.
Education Minister Wells told
the Legislature that he was ready
to withdrap, the Bill at a
moment's notice if an agreement
was reached and ratified by both
parties and that they approach
him while the Bill was being
debated in the Legislature.
The Bill received third and
final reading in the Legislature
about two hours after the
teachers had made their decision
to return to the classrooms ob-
jecting to arbitration or any kind
of legislative settlement as a
satisfactory solution of the
problems in the Education
system but voting in favour of
returning to the class as
responsible people who respect
the laws of the land. Opposition
Members debated the Bill at
some length stressing the fact
that Mr. Wells could have ended
the strike weeks ago by insisting
that both parties get back to the
table and bargain in good faith.
Centralia
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Building Supplies
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KIME & COMPANY
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Robert J, Ditchfield,C.A.
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LONDON, ONTARIO Exeter Arena
Activities
GERALD L. MERNER
Chartered Accountant
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RES: 10 Green Acres - GRAND BEND - 2 3 8-8070
JOHN A. NORRIS
Chartered Accountant
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235.0101
THURS. MAR. 21
4.6 Figure Skating
6-8 Hockey
8-1 1 Red League (play-offs)
FRI. MAR, 22
10.1 1 & 2.3
Parents & Tots
3-5 Public Skating
8-10 Public Skating
SAT. MAR. 23
9.10 Conklin Lumber vs
Lankamps Esso
10-11 Cowans BP's vs Taylor
Motors
11-1 Novice
1.5 Pee Wee & Bantam
SUN. MAR. 24
2.4 Public Skating
MON. MAR, 25
3:30.9:30 Figure Skating
9:30 11 Hughes Boats
TUES. MAR, 26
3:30.8130 Figure Skating
8130.10 Rec League (play-off)
10.11 Broom Ball
HOUSEHOLD
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WED. MAR. 27
10-11 & 2.3
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3:30.5 Skating
5..10 Hockey
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