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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1976-10-13, Page 13COMMERCE SERVICES Together with our Agricul- tural Department, our managers have put together a package of services we call "Commerce Farm Services", to cover all your special farming needs. The services we offer include: Farm Credit —complete short and interme- diate financing to cover all your farm business needs. Farm Credit Life Insurance —up to $200,000 per individ- ual is available for operating and term loans. Deposit Services —ranging from. Commerce Sayings Accounts to a retire- ment savings plan. Financial Planning and Management Aids —to help you plan your busi- ness and in turn your credit needs. Specialized Seryices —when you have a very specific problem, the services of our agricultural specialists are as near as your local Commerce manager, Ask your local Commerce manager how Commerce Farm Services can be tailor-made for you. After all, that's why the Commerce has Con3merce Farm Services—to help you with the business of farming. AislADIAN. IMPERIAL BANK OF 'COMMERCE `CITE :BRUSSELS POST OCTOBER 13, 1976 REEVE MEETS LIBERAL LEADER r- Brussels reeve, and Huron warden, Jack McCutcheon, right, welcomed the leader of the Ontario Liberal Party, Dr. Stuart Smith, to. Brussels last week. Dr. Smith spoke at Brussels Public School Tuesday night, at a regional meeting of the Ontario Federation of- Ariculture. (Staff Photo) beral leader here One .pool, one price is the • answer foe -dairy, ..Smith says Ontario has a provincial overnment that thinks verything can be run from oronto "and it's just not true", rovincial Liberal leader Stuart mith told farmers at a regional eating of the,Ontario Federation f Agriculture •in Brussels esday night. Referring to the "assessment ngle" that's grown up since the evince took over property sessment he said "Things that digger aren't always better-or caper," He said the property tax reform roposal which would have the mince pay 100 percent of the x on farm land is a total' tsunderstanding of the thinking f rural people. "it is such a mplete misunderstanding of mentality of farmers that it Id only have come from ifario Treasurer) Darcy Keough.' "People don't want hand outs, ax people at a fair rate, let them ke a decent living and they'll delighted to pay their taxes," eliberal leader said. The tax reform idea betrays at the province , 'doesn't nderstand responsible govern.- eat, Local people Would lose ntrol of local government if xes were paid by the province r. Smith said. Keeping all farm land in eduction sounds good to those the centre of the city but it can accomplished, not by locking titers onto the land, but by fair ices for. farm products and by reading development to areas the province where there is no eductive farm land. "The provincial treasurer says epic want to live in the cities," , tor, Smith disputed this. Rural ds won't want to go to cities hen farm prices are stable and eir parents can say to them "go to farming; it's a good way of ,fl he said, "We can open up this province e we opened up Canada in the days," he said, calling for entives to people and industry Move out of the southern tario golden horseshoe. A farm income stabilization bill at involves all agricultural nnodities, has producer atlicipation and is voluntary, It farms paying some of the Is would have the support of Liberals in the legislature, Dr. mith said, lie called for an enabling bill at conk' be applied commodity i tothmodity, tibt as an incentive over produce but to "prevent astercuis losses." The leader id the Liberals support the idea it cane not the halfway measure introduced earlier this year which covered only a few commodities, the government will get Liberal support, Dr. Smith said. The Liberal Party would tell city dwellers that they might have • to pay .a little more for food and see that the increased returns got (Continued on Page 20) Milk production • quotas came up at the regional meeting of the Federation of Agriculture where provincial Liberal leader Stuart Smith was guest speaker in. Brussels Tuesday night. Ontario's agriculture minister William Newman will have to act now that Quebec has announced a $22 million subsidy for hard hit dairy farmers in that province, the Liberal leader predicted. Dr.' Smith told farmers in his audience that the province should suspend the milk quota program "until this difficult period is, -over." Production quotas averaged over a year, not applied to each month, would help dairy producers somewhat, he suggested. Penalties against,: farmers who are over producing industrial milk should be relaxd in provinces that have met the federal cutbacks, including Ontario, he said. Dr.Smith says he doesn't blame local producers for planning to sue the province and the Ontario Milk Marketing Board. "They might not win but why shouldn't they sue?" Even if the OMMB isn't, at fault, and he said they probably couldn't have predicted the milk surpluses, they can still be sued, he. said. Dr.. Smith said a time limit should be set on the OMMB's aim of pooling industrial and fluid milk and basing payment to producers on quality . "It's been an aim for a long time and not much has happened." Milk producer Alice Burt of Ethel said she feels the marketing board and agricultural minister Newman have "no intention" of instituting the one pool, one price system. A group one (fluid) shipper in the audience, objected that quota would have to betaken away from him to give it to industrial producers. "I paid $25 a pound for some of that quota and worked li ke hell for years to pay for it." Dr. Smith 'agreed but told the shipper that he'd probably done better than some other milk producers and said some compensation would have to be paid to gronp one shippers. Both men agreed that pay should be on the basis of milk quality. Mrs. Burt wantd to know why industrial milk shippers were penalized for being over quota by 22 million pounds last year on the provinces total production, while fluid producers weren't penalized for "27 million pounds of butter fat they dumped on the market." Hay Pap Test 't CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY stabilization eluctantly" because farmers e, the only Members of sotiety ho, don't have smile font of o *clog. "Yon can be sure GM, ouldn't sell their cars below` st not Matter what kind of over' Ply was on the Market," he With a proper tarn' ineortie