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Rep• rt from Queen's Park
ants stabilization plan to assist farmers
(By Murray Gaunt)
The Government will decide in
the next few weeks how to handle
a legislative directive to
reintroduce a broad new farm
income stabilization bill by the
end of October. This directive
came from a combined vote by
New Democrats, and Liberals
which defeated a Government bill
to provide a measure of income
protection to a limited number of
farmers. To ignore the directive
would be considered contempt of
the Legislature and, almost
certainly prompt ariother
confidence test and election
crisis.
Jack Riddell, Libertal MPP
(Huron-Middlesex), the Party's
Agriculture Critic, referring to .
defeat of Bill 96, said "It is our
firm intention to force 'the
Government to bring in a Bill
which will really assist the
farming community. Had the
Government made an honest
attempt to bring in a form of Farm
Income Stabilization which would
have been effective in giving our
farmers a degree of income
protection, we would not have.
hesitated to give it our approval.
Hopefully, amended legislation
,will, be introduced in the' fall
Which Will meet the needs of the
farmers, and win the support of
all three parties in the
Legislature."
The Labour and Health
Ministers undertook to meet
representatives of the boards of
health to seek an end to the
boards' dispute with public health
nurses. Several hundred nurses
demonstrated outside the
Legislature this week and the
Labour Minister was booed and
jeered when she said she couldn't
make any promises, although she
would try to persuade boards to
submit to voluntary arbitration,
About 1,100 nurses, members of
the Ontario Nurses Association,
have been on strike or locked out
at some 26 health units in a
week-long protest. Nurses'
association representatives met
the Labour and Health Ministers
pfivately, but came away bitter
and disappointed. Annual
salaries for public health nurses
range from about $9,000 to
$12,000 compared with hospital
nurses who make between
$13,380 and $15,780. Liberal
Leader Stuart Smith told the
Legislature the government
should introduce legislation
which would force the health
boards to bargain on a province-
wide basis and accept, compulsory
arbitration.
Ontario Hydro has reported a
loss of $866,000 on its 1975
operations, compared with a
profit of $126 million in 1974.
Cancellation of the Bruce heavy
water Plant C resulted in an
additional loss of $60 million, the
annual report said.
Revenue for the year was
insufficient to cover any part of
the statutory debt retirement of
$78 million incurred by the public
utility.
Between '1978 and the year
2000, it is forecast that Ontario
Hydro will require a cumulative
total of about 50,000 megagrams
of heavy water. (The Bruce plants
ideally produce 800 megagrams
over a 22-year period. Thus it
would take about 2.8 Bruce:type
plants to produce the Ontario
Hydro Requirements between
1978 and 2000.)
The Government's bill to
provide a warranty to buyers of
new homes in Ontario was given
approval in principle in the
Legislature. This bill would
provide for , protection against
poor workmanship or poor
materials for one year, and major
structural defects for five years.
The Minister of Consumer and
Commercial Relations told the
Legislature that a non-profit
corporation of builders,
consumers, mortgage lenders and
government will administer' a
fund which would be used to pay
for any repairs . Builders will
contribute to the fund at a fixed
rate for each house placed on the.
market. Although all three parties
supported the Bill, some
amendments will be sought when
it is debated in Committee.
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