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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1978-04-06, Page 27i. £ t= Times-Advocate, April 6, 1973 Where Can You Get More?? By JACK RIDDELL MPP Huron-Middlesex At the time of writing this article the Huron County board-teacher dispute has not been resolved and each day brings more expression of concern from students and parents about the void in the students education. I share this concern but other than draw to the at tention of the Education Relations Commission, which I practically do on a daily basis, the jeopardy which I feel the students face, there is really nothing more that I can do. Legislation outlines the procedures which the Board and teachers can take to resolve their differences and it definitely stipulates that the Education Relations Commission cannot hold jeopardy hearings until 21 instructional days have passed since the strike or lock-out. At the time of’writing 19 instructional days have passed and to this point in time the ERC’s only in volvement can be to send a mediator into the area to assist the Board and teachers in arriving at a settlement. At the end of the 21 days the ERC can hold jeopardy hearings and if they feel that the students’ education is in jeopardy then they can recommend to the Lieutenant Governor that in their opinion the students’ education is in jeopardy. At this point the Government can become involved and I will certainly do all that I can to get the students’ education back on stream again. I asked a question of the Minister of Labour in the Legislature this morning what actions she was con templating to bring about a settlement in the Fleck Industry-worker dispute. She advised me that a meeting was being held today and that a dispute advisory committee would be meeting with the Com pany and Union to assist in resolving their differences. Considerations were also being given to limit the number of employees who could picket and to only those employees of the plant and to limit the number of police at the picket line and to only the police from the local detachment. Hopefully, the matter will be resolved quickly so that this part of the county can return to its usual pleasant and serene atmosphere. The Minister of Consumer and Commercial Relations has announced revised Advertising Directives for Producers of Alcohol Beverages, which are more comprehensive and more restrictive than existing guidelines. New restrictions have been added on lifestyle advertising. For example, beer, wine and cider ad vertisers must take into account... the likelihood of minors and adult non-users being exposed to their ad vertising. The probable audience ... for an ad vertisement must consist — primarily of drinking age adults. Advertisers are required to prepare ... an annual report.. .containingdata on the ages of those exposed to their advertising in the previous one year period, based upon independent qualified sources such as the Bureau of Broadcast Measurement and the Print Measurement Bureau. The advertisements are to emphasize the nature and quality of the product, and not to imply that social' acceptance, personal suc cess, business or athletic achievement may result from the use of the ad vertised product. Adver tisements should be directed to promoting the merits of the particular brand, to promote brand preference, and should not suggest that the consumption of alcoholic beverages is a significant factor in the realization of the enjoyment of any ac tivity. Advertisements must not suggest that participants in work, sports, hobby, recreation and other similar activities should consume alcoholic beverages whilst engaging in their work or other activity. Nor may advertising suggest that consumption of alcohol in any way enhances per formance or enjoyment of these activities. Most important, ad vertisements must not ap pear to suggest or recom mend the consumption of beer, wine or cider prior to the driving of a motorized vehicle, or participation in any sort of activity in which the participants’ safety is dependent upon normal levels of alertness, physical co-ordination or speed of response, except in authorized messages of moderation. Nor should any adverisement depict or suggest any activity which is a breach of the Liquor Licence Act or any other Provincial Statute. Frequency of broadcast advertising has been reduced, and the new Directives specify that no company may advertise more than 75 minutes a week in any calendar year, and that the weekly average is not to exceed 55 minutes. For TV, the weekly maximum per station is 35 minutes, the weekly average not to ex ceed 30 minutes. Messages suggesting under-age drinking will not be permitted, nor will ad vertising in publications having a readership predominantly under the drinking age, or during broadcoast time with a predominantly under age audience. Liberal Smith has Provincial his own words from the 1976 Provincial Budget in con nection with the Province’s OHIP premiums. At that time the Treasurer said that the 1976 proposed premium increases would mean that about 28 percent costs would be premiums. He maintained percentage would be a more appropriate level than the 23 percent raised in 1975-76 and was a suitable “long-run norm to maintain as health care costs increase in future years.” Stuart Smith has pointed out that the 37.5 percent increase premiums proposed in the 1978 Provincial Budget will, in fact, raise $199 million more than the Treasurer claimed in 1976 was an appropriate percentage of health costs. It would seem that the Treasurer’s “long-run norm” was only applicable until this March 7 — hardly a long-run. The currently proposed increases mean that premiums would cover 34 percent of health care costs. Had the Treasurer main- tained his own percentage figure of 28 percent he would have needed $199 million less. The Treasurer said he had changed his mind since 1976. The Liberal Leader charged that the Treasurer was simply looking for a place to raise about $200 million more in revenue “and picked on the OHIP premiums to do it, because he knows that people are worried about health, and because it is a high-profile ministry behind which he fiscal irresponsibility which put him in this box in the first place.” Questioned in the Legislature, the Minister of Labour has stated that the Ontario Government is trying to find ways to per suade the Province of Quebec not to bar con struction workers from Ontario from jobs across the provincial boundary. Asked what she would do to fight a new regulation in Quebec that would restrict construction jobs to those with experience in that Province, she admitted that she has given up hope of changing the Quebec Government’s mind about making the new rules ef fective July 1. Some 15,000 workers from Quebec now hold jobs in Ontario, the Minister said, mainly in Ottawa, the Cornwall area and North- Eastern Ontario. Of those, a large number are in con struction jobs, because Ontario does not restrict jobs to residents. For some 15 years, Quebec has required a permit for construction workers from outside the province, and the permit will be much more difficult to get when Quebec work experience is required as well. The Minister said she has no idea how many Ontario residents hold jobs in Quebec, produced by the Parti Quebecois for last year suggested there were only a few hundred. but figures Domestic & Commercial Refrigeration Heat Pump sales & service, central air conditioning, room air conditioners. Tower Installation & repair. Stoves, Washers, Dryers, Dishwashers, Refrigerators sold & serviced. Television Repair to all makes. (Used colour T.V. Rotars, Antennas, Towers) 3 MAX’S TV & APPLIANCES REFILLABLE that this While They Last 'A 3 m/10 ft l_j’ CHOOSE Our Usual Cash & Carry 8.99 Each of 0HIP met by Save 1.20 On These 16” x 24” At All Sixteen Branches Including SELL-OUT discm HOME CENTRES MATTHEWS ♦ STORE HOURS 736-2151 235-1422 524-8321 238-2374 738-2221 396-3403 733-2341 744-6371 Here’s a fire extinguisher every home should have! 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