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Feds make spending plans
Hate messages, recorded and
transmitted over federally-regu-
lated phone systems, such as Bell
Canada, would be outlawed.
Most of the provisions of the
legislation had already been
made public, since a similar bill
was introduced last year, but it
died on the order paper last
session before enactment.
The human rights commission
would have the power to enforce a
code banning discrimination on
grounds of race, colour, national
or ethnic origin, and religion,
age, sex, marital status or
physical handicap.
The anti-discrimination
measures would cover the
activities of all federal
departments and agencies and
any business or industry .under
federal jurisdiction such as
chartered banks, airlines and
railways.
New Department
The second bill-C-27, is the bill
to establish a new department of
employment and immigration and
a new Canada employment and
(By R.E.McKinley M,P.)
Spring in Ottawa comes not
with the melting of the snow but
with the tabling of the estimates,
the blue book - a massive, nearly
incomprehensible volume which
details the government's
spending plans for the coming
financial year.' Thus it was, that
last week Robert Andras
introduced this year's main
estimates by claiming that
government restraint, so long
promised, has finally arrived.
For many years now federal
spending has consistently
exceeded the growth of the
economy with increases in
spending ranging from 10 to 16%
a year. This year however the
government has finally realized
the key role they play in
controlling inflation by
attempting to keep the increase to
only 7.1%.
. The initial favourable
impression, does not last long
when the realities contained in
the fine print of the "Blue Book"
begin to sink in.The reality of
"restraint" appears to be not a
moderation which the cabinet has
imposed 'upon the bureaucracy,
but cuts which the bureaucracy
has imposed upon the millions of
Canadians who receive assistance
of one form or another from the
government. For, while the
"transfer payment" element
(transfer payments are a redis-
tribution of income from one
person to another; i.e., family
allowances, medicare, etc.) will
be reduced in real terms, the size
Solar ponds could have a
practical application in Ontario as
an alternative energy source says
Aaron . Lemon, energy
management specialist for the
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture
and Food.
Solar pondg' are used to collect
and store solar energy for low-
temperature applications such as
space heating, water heating and
crop drying. It is significantly lesS
expensive than most other solar
collectors.
The ponds are constructed by
laying a sheet of black plastic
liner at the bottom of the pond.
Beginning with a highly concen-
trated solution of salt and water,
water containing decreasing
amount of salt is layered in the
pond.
The densest salt-water solution
remains at the bottom and,
because of the natural insulation
of the salt-gradient pond, is
heated by the sun.
The salt solution prevents the
natural convection currents which
normally would circulate the heat
throughout the water.
Using a heat exchanger, the hot
water at the bottom of the pond
can be putnped through heating
pipes and returned to the pond.
Water temperature at the base of
the pond can reach boiling point.
Crash kills
Brussels man
of the bureaucracy and the size of
its wage bill will increase in real
terms,
Shift to province
The reduction in real terms of
the size of the transfer payments
was also accomplished by the
shift of much of the burden of
"shared-cost" programs, such as
health care and post secondary
education, to the provinces.
These reductions, in themselves
which merely represent a shift in
which level of goveinment
actually spends the money,
reduced the anticipated size of
the estimates by nearly $1
billion. In fact, if one looks at the
growth of the Federal Govern-
ment since mid-1975 when the
"restraint" campaign began the
total increase (including
programmes shifted to the
provinces) is nearly $10 billion -
an overall groWth of one-third.
This year the operating and
capital expenditures of the
bureaucracy will exceed the
growth of the economy - rising by
14.5%
If the government is, as the
former minister of finance once
proclaimed, "giving a lead to
others in the exercise of
restraint" then the manner with
which crown corporations are
handled is nothing short of
remarkable. This year's main
estimates increase the share of
taxpayer's money allocated to
crown corporations by 35% over
last year. Atomic energy of
Canada Limited, which recent
Ponds would have to be
covered to prevent snow, ice,
leaves and other debris from
covering the water surface.
For more information about
solar ponds and their application
write Aaron Lemon, c/o The
Energy Management Resource
Centre, Ridgetown College of
Agricultural Technology,
Ridgetown
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last year's. estimates.
Real restraint
The need for real restraint in
government is not something
dreamed up by opposition
politicians for political advantage.
It has come as economic reality to
very nearly every one of the
western industrial nations, those
countries such as West Germany
and Japan which have cut back
the bureaucratic overgrowth so
that the productive elements of
their economies can remain
strong have ridden above the
world economic crisis and are now
entering upon a period of full
employment and prosperity.
Those which have not, such as
Great Britain and Canada, must
face continued uncertainty and
high unemployment, cosmetic
campaigns which are based more
on the politics of illusion than the
reality of economics only create
complacency, not jobs.
I would also like to draw to your
attention a number of other bills
that are before the house and
might be of some interest to you.
The first of these is Bill C-25,
the human rights legislation, this
bill would establish a federal
anti-discrimination code and give
individuals an opportunity to
examine government files on
themselves.
Under the bill, the government
would establish a human rights
commission of five to nine
members, empowered to
investigate complaints of
discrimination.
Privacy
One member of the body would
become the government's privacy
commissioner, responsible for
investigation complaints from •
citizens who feel the government
is unjustly withholding personal
information from them.
immigration commission, and la
amend the unemploymem
insurance act,
The major amendments
contained in the bill are:
(a) The integration of the
Unemployment Insurance
Commission and the Departinen
of Manpower and Immigration
form the new Canada
employment and immigration
commission, with a sinai
supporting department.
(2) An increase in the numbm
of weeks required to qualify for vi
Benefits, from 8 weeks to 12.
(3) An overhaul and simplifi
cation of the method used to
determine a claimant's
entitlement to benefit, the
number of phases in the calcu,
lation of benefits will be cut from
. five to three.
(4) Regional extended
benefits will relate more closely to
regional unemployment rates;
(5) Amendments to authorize
more productive uses of UI funds
such as training courses and work
sharing programs.
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Solar ponds may be
energy source
Tim Snyder, 23, of Brussels,
was killed early Saturday when
the pickup truck he was driving
flipped over and went into a ditch
on Highway 86 about two miles
west of Elmira.
He is a son of Mrs. Mabel
Souder of R.R.2, BrUssels and a
stepson of Lewis Solider.
FUneral Service was held from
the Lobsinger Funeral Home,
Elmira with burial in St. Jacobs
Mennonite Cemetery on Monday.
6—THE BRUSSELS POST, MARCH 16; '1977
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