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By JACK RIDDELL
MPP Huron-Middlesex
FLOWERS OF HOPE — Workers at ARC Industries, Dashwood, have been busy packaging envelopes of
Marigold seeds for the Flowers of Hope Campaign, a canvass for the South Huron and District Association
for the Mentally Retarded, which will begin May 10 and continue through to May 16. Rick McCann, (far left)
and Jerry Collins are shown preparing the packages which symbolize the intent of the campaign, while Don
Campbell, the new director of ARC and Donna Greb, chairwoman of the campaign, holding Jamie Ramer
of Zurich, look on. T-A photo
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THE WORK of several local craftsmen is expected to be offered for sale at the Exeter and District Heritage
Foundation's Show and Sale at the Town Hall on May 21 and 22. Mrs. Marion Dearing of Exeter is one of
the participants in the event. She is shown here with a small part of her collection of handcrafted jewellery.
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The facts that are known and
undisputed about the events
surrounding the receivership of
Essex Packers Limited of
Hamilton, convinced me that
there should be a full judicial
inquiry, which I asked the
Attorney General in the
Legislature, this week, to con-
sider.
The Attorney General did not
think that a Judicial Inquiry was
necessary but that he would be
willing to answer any question to
the best of his ability that I may
wish to ask about the manner in
which the Government assigned
the lease of the Guelph Centre
Plan to the De Jonge Group.
There have been many
allegations made which I cannot
repeat here because they lack
solid documented evidence but I
thought the only way to clear up
any doubts about the way the
Government conducted the
business was, with an inquiry.
It is a fact that the $900,000
meat packing plant which the
Province owns at the Guelph
Correction Institute has been
leased to the De Jonge Group, a
term applied to brothers, Mike,
Bennie and John De Jonge who
control several meat packing
companies in the Province. The
lease was assigned to the De
Jonge Group without calling
public tenders. Bennie De Jonge
was convicted in 1972 of fraud
involving short weighing cattle
bought by farmers. The Minister
of Correctional Services said he
was fully aware of the fraud
conviction, yet recommended
that De Jonge's take over the
operation of the Guelph Plant.
Mr. Smith, the Minister of
Correctional Services, said other
proposals to take over the Guelph
Centre were rejected because
those offers did not include any
assistance for the Essex Packers
Plants in Hamilton.
It is my feeling that a Judicial
Inquiry should establish why the
fate of Essex was linked to the
Guelph Centre lease. The
Province had a clause in its lease
with Essex enabling it to cancel a
lease, yet it chose not to exercise
that option.
A Judicial Inquiry should
examine the events leading up to
the original lease with Essex
Packers to determine the reason
that Essex was chosen in the first
place. The Inquiry should
examine the reasons why the
Government failed to cancel the
lease to Essex when Essex was
forced into receivership by the
Bank of Nova Scotia, on October
31. The lease remained with
Essex until March 18, when
Cabinet assigned it to the De
Jonge Group. The Inquiry should
examine the financial records of
Essex Packers including bank
records asnd activities and the
manner in which creditors were
paid and not paid in the week
leading up to October 31.
The Inquiry should examine
the claims of Frederick and
Harrud Inc. of Detroit, that the
receivers managed Essex
poorly and creditors were losing
assets, The Inquiry should
examine the terms and con-
ditions of the De Jonge Group's
offer to help the Essex Plant. It is
my opinion that the De Jonge's
could quite conceivably cease the
operations of the essex Plants in
Hamilton, after a six month
period of time, as it is the modern
plant at the Guelph Correctional
Centre which has the greatest
potential.
Finally the Inquiry should
make recommendations to
protect farmers from financially-
crippling blows of a similar
nature in the future. There is a
clear need for some form of
protection for those who sell their
cattle to meat packing com-
panies.
Many farmers feel that the best
interests of beef farmers were
dealt away by the Provincial
Cabinet for political motives and
if this is the case then it is un-
derstandable why the Attorney
General is not prepared to con-
duct a Judicial Inquiry. I intend
to pursue this matter further for
there are some farmers who lost
thousands of dollars in the entire
transaction.
The largest labour demon-
stration in the history of Queen's
Park took place this week in
said there is nothing the
Government can do to force the
firm to pay employees laid off
because of the clean-up.
However, .Mr. Bullbrook said,
"We are a legislative body. Let's
pass a statute forcing them to"
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For the information in this week's column our thanks go to our
good friend J. E. of the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial
Relations.
The Personal Property Security Registration (PPSR) system
went into effect in the province on April 1. The new computer
system tells an individual who intends to purchase personal
property or lend money on the security of personal property
whether the owner has previously pledged that property as
security for a debt.
"A person buying a car in a private sale, for example, is able
to determine if the seller really owns the vehicle or is still paying
for it," Sidney Handleman, Minister of Consumer and Commer-
cial Relations, said. The original seller is able to register a lien against the car so
that any subsequent purchasers or lenders can find out about the
lien through PPSR.
Upon payment of a $2 fee, the required financial information
is obtainable by mail or by telephone at any of 48 branch offices
across the province. The branches telephone the request to the
central Toronto office which is connected to the computer. The
required data is then supplied within minutes.
Regular users of the system are able to open deposit accounts
with the central office where the $2 for each request is deducted
automatically. This permits requests to be made from any
telephone in the province.
The system was developed entirely out of registration fees and
fees will cover operating costs so that no tax dollars were or will
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The Rent Review Act was passed in the Ontario Legislature in
mid-December, 1975, Less than 12 weeks later, the conceiSt had
become reality and review hearings were under way. .
In the interim, more than 400 people had been mustered,
trained and deployed to 34 strategic locations (which had to be
found and furnished) across the province.
The Act, which is administered by the Ministry of Consumer
and Commercial Relations, allows for a review of the rent charg-
ed by a landlord and is retroactive to rents starting Aug. 1,
1975.
Originally, tenancy agreements were subject to a guideline in-
crease of eight per cent per year over the rent charged during
the last full month prior to Aug. 1, 1975, to prevail until Aug. 1,
1976.
In March, Sidney Handleman, Minister of Consumer and
Commercial Relations, announced that the eight per cent
guideline would continue to apply for increases in the Aug. 1,
1976 to July 31, 1977 year.
The Act applies only to premises rented for residential pur-
poses, covering detached dwellings, townhouses, apartments,
rooms and mobile home sites.
Rent review became necessary, the Minister said, because rent,
increases began to outpace general inflation at an accelerating
rate. In many cases, increases came too high and too fast to bei
accommodated in the typical tenant's monthly budget.
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restraint program. Thousands of
workers filled the lawn and
pavement from the steps leading
into the Legislative Building to
the curb at College Street. The
size of the crowd brought to
Queen's Park by the Ontario
Federation of Labour, and its
affiliated unions, was seen by
union leaders as vindicating their
position that they speak for their
members in condemning the
Government's spending ceilings
as they affect social and com-
munity services. Each year
representatives of the Ontario
Federation's views on a wide
range of current issues, and this
year the meeting reflected
labour's opposition to the
federal wage control program
and the province's acceptance of
it, with the focus on the Govern-
ment's restraint program and
ceilings on grants to
municipalities, cutbacks in
hospitals, including hospital
closings and the impact of the
restraint program on social
services.
This past week the Minister of
Housing announced that
Ontario's rent-geared-to-income
housing units will no longer come
under the Provincial rent review
program, an amendment which
the Liberal Party will support.
The Opposition voted originally
to include public housing under
the rent review legislation
because it was concerned that the
rent-geared-to-income scale was
not working fairly. Now that a
review of this scale is underway,
it is unnecessary to maintain
another level of costly
bureaucracy.
In connection with housing in
the Province, Liberal _Leader
Stuart Smith challenged the
Minister of Housing about his
plans, if any, to encourage
building of more rental units to
avert "skyrocketing" rents when
controls are removed next year.
The Minister indicated that he
really had no answer to the
question of what could be done to
encourage the private sector to
cope with the situation. Dr. Smith
said "there should be more in-
centives to builders and
municipalities and, if necessary,
a partnership arrangement
between government and private
industry".
United Asbestos Inc. was or-
dered to close this month by the
Government because 'of the
unsafe asbestos-fibre readings at
its Matachewan plant. The plant
was ordered to clean up or close
permanently. According to
James Bullbrook, M.P.P.
(Liberal-Sarnia) legislation is
needed to force corporations such
as United Asbestos to pay em-
ployees who suffer fiancially, in
this type of situation. The
Minister of Natural Resources
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The proposed closure of the
Clinton Public Hospital as an
active care facility will affect not
only the people of Clinton but the
population of Huron County.
The decision to close the
Clinton Public Hospital is
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The most disturbing aspect of
the whole situation is that the
people of Goderich and Wingham
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that nothing could be done to
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