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Rates subject to change *I STANDARD Winghann, 237 Josephine Street, phone 357.2022 (Aides in: Brampton o Chatham • liatnitton • Marknini • Ottawa • Paris • Picton • Toronto • Walkerton • Willowciale • Wingharn • WOottlitook MEMBER CANADA DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION TRUST THE :BRUSSELS FEBRUARY. Si 1980 — Energy tax disastrous cQuail says BACK IN PLAYSCHOOL AGAIN—Mrs. Jane McDonald is keeping the children busy painting and doing crafts now that the Brussels Playschool has re-opened in the Brussels United Church. (Photo by Langlois) To the editor: First the phone company, then Petrocan? Just a little „history on the Brussels, Morris and Grey Telephone: This system was organized in the early 1900's. A canvass was-made and a number of Brussels residents and surrounding farmers signed a promissary note for $100. (I suppose secured by their property). These notes were taken to the bank and were security for the money to build the telephone system which became opera- tional in 1909. The system grew until it served the two townships 'and the village of Brussels. It apparently prospered as none of the notes were ever called. In 1967 a -merger with Blyth and Auburn was agreed upon and a new company, Maitland Teleservices Ltd. was formed and twenty-four shares valued at $10. each were issued to the subscribers of the original Municipal Systems. In Nov. 1968 Bell Canada offered to buy the shares that had been issued to the subscribers at $15. each and soon owned the controlling interest in Maitland Teleservices and by January 28, 1969 owned almost 98 per cent of the shares. In 1976 the Company was absorbed by Bell Canada and there is no longer any local control or ownership ,in our present telephone system. If the shares in Petro-Canada are distributed to each Canadian citizen, eighteen years or over I feel sure that the Multinational Oil COmpanies will take over Petro-Canada just as easily and just as quickly. The facts of this letter were taken from "A history of the independent telephone industry in Ontario." Ontario Telephone Service Commission 1975. The, statement. "In 1976" on appeared in the Brussels Post, 'September 26, 1976 issue. The final paragraph is my own comment. J. Carl Hemingway Bluevale C of C elects exec. Bluevale formed a Cham- ber of Commerce and elected its first executive at a meeting, attended by about 45 or 50 people at the Bluevale Hall last Monday. The executive members are: President Bob Searson; Vice-president Marg Mof- fatt; Secretary-treasurer Etoile Johnston; Directors Jannette Ruff, Wayne Day, .Jerry Timm and Bev Brown.. The meeting saw 13 people standing for seven positions. Tony 11{cQuail, the NDP -candidate for Huron-Bruce thinks energy, the Canadian control of our economy and resources are all major issues in this election campaign. He said he thinks part of the question of Canadian control of our economy and resources is how we (the people of Canada) manage: our interest rates and our deficit. Locally, he thinks there is concern about agricultural policies, federal commitment to medicare and health services in the country and building a mixed economy which is supportive of agriculture which means getting enough, medium and small sized industry without threatening the agricultural base. Asked about people's reaction to Finance Minister John Crosbie's budget and especially the 18 cents a gallon excise tax, Mr. McQuail said, "I think the feeling is that the Crosbie budget could really be disastrous for Canada, that it did nothing to guarantee future energy security, because there weren't any real commit- ments to developing renewable alternatives." He said the tax was basically a money transfer from farmers, small businesses, industry and the consumers in the form of higher pirces to oil companies, the province of Alberta and the " federal government. "It would have involved a' major slow down in our economy because all energy input costs would have gone up. People would have had less personal money to buy goods and services with, because it would be used to buy energy and it would have been extremely inflationary,, since energy is used in everything we do." "When you raise the price, it has a snowballing effect in terms of inflationary price increases. I believe that what we need to do is rapidly move toward developing the many alternatives which Canada has, so we can reduce our consumption of oil, but we should do it by developing serious ' conservation measures and alternative energy supplies, the NDP candidate said. "Five years ago, I felt that our oil was undervalued, but now I feel it's at the right value of replacing it with renewable energy resources," he said, mentioning such replacements as methanol, and gasohol. "I guess the important thing is, I don't believe we have to go to woyld prices if we have a government committed to developing Canadian resources for Canadian people. I think 'then we can develop alternatives," Mr. McQuail said. As for high interest rates, Mr. McQuail said he thinks people are beginning to realize they can't treat the economy as if it were a household budget, that it's got to be treated like a business or farm budget. Government spending needs to be productive, he said. When government is going well, the government has to bring in tax 'revenues to pay off government spending and the deficit, he said. He commented that the Tories tried to get rid of the government deficit by treating it like a household budget.'He said the economy isn't in a boom stage right now and that the Tories understanding of the economy was "weak to say the least." Neither the Tories nor the Liberals have been able to tax the large multinationals over the years, he said. Mr. McQuail said high interest rates push up input costs for the farmer and they discourage both small businessman and . farmers from risking the expansion of their operations. He commented the high rates commit the government to paying high interst rates later on and that it was a false way to make the dollar look strong. He said he thinks voters recognize that Western society is in a difficult time and that we do have to make some changes but that it wasn't fair for the low and middle income earners to bear the brunt of difficult times. "We, have to try and make a tax system that's fair," he said. Regarding •energy costs he said, "Let's see some leadership that says to us, yes we can' do it ourselves, rather than selling ourselves out to the multinationals and asking you and me to pay for it." Mr. McQuail said the problems the Conservatives inherited are fairly large but they continued with old Liberal policies and their policies resulted in the deficit getting bigger and he said they were taking taxes in without trying to balance things off. He says people are seriously looking at the NDP now and as for opinion polls which ' show the Liberals winning the election, he says he thinks those polls were taken a month ago when people were very disillusioned with Joe Clark and that people are not that enamoured with Trudeau, either. He said the NDP is the one party that is talking policy and as opposed to the Conservatives, they have done their home- i work a little more, not just on policies, but on how they will try to implement them. Asked whether, he thinks the voters are. apathetic and what he thinks voter turnout will be like, he said a number of voters are certainly upset with the Conservati*sand Liberals and that they seem to be taking the NDP seriously and think that it's a very important election. He said he's finding people who are willing to listen and that's not apathetic.