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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-02-13, Page 5•• ... • . • •• -• L UC KNOW PHONE 528.2526 •••• .,•,.r ••••..ar ,... it ••.. ...,•••••...4••••••• •••••.. g•s, • • • • 1.. • • ••••..el•-••••••••••...• .•••••••••••• • • ••••• ••......••••••••••••••••••••••••%, '11 • *Selected Items Coveralls Jeans-Jackets Sweaters - Denim Smocks ) Sale Continues to Saturday, February 23 Cords $5.00 Toques $1.00 Char-Man's Work Clothing Welcomes You Everyday defend a country stresses McQuail. "I do not believe we can build an army that will defend Canada from either the United States or Russia or nuclear missiles. Military spending is a red herring because as soon as weaponry is built, it is obsolete, feehtiokigiCally." How do we defend a country as vast as • NOW! you think fitness is a ctstant goal, -consider this: you can walk all the way. pagravatrion The.Calladian rhovembnlIOY:plorgon61 I "The economy is not a housewife's budget like -Joe Clark thinks," he adds. "You don't stop spending until you .haVe paid off your deficit." MeQuail likens Canada's economy to a business, "like a small business or aiarm." If • we have profits to re-invest in - - productive activities we can bring down the , deficit proposes McQuail. "Some times as on a farm, you have to bortow to produce, but then you use the profits to pay off your deficit," Our country .can pay off its debts, says McQuail, -but it takes commitment on the part of the government.. , To--regain control of , the economy, a government must insist on royalties, for its resources: It must also 'insist that companies doing.brisiness here put some of their profits ., into research and development here. If they refuse to Co-operate, we'have" so we will tt\ do it ourselves, McQuail sugges s. . This may upset the oil compa les says McQuail, but the NDP do not depend on the multi-national oil companies for money and, they cannot pressure the , NDP, as they cld • the Uberals and Conservatives who owe them oasts amounts of money. , Canada can also improve her balance of payments by increasing manufacturing in. Canada, instead of selling off more of her :-aw Materials and buying more manufactur- ed goods. "Canada is resource rich - and energy rich and to be as weak as we are is appalling," states McQuai . . He also sees a place for, the Huron-Bruce • area in 'developing energy alternatives so Canadians danot have to be'held ranstrin to high energy costs for oil. help younger farmers •keep their families' The remaining money will be put into a i property removing capital gains tax on any land peoMote development of energy conserva- ., sold which stays in agricultural use ' tion and develop. new energy resources. -establishing government credit to foreign McQuail believes it is the sensible way to countries to help them buy our food develop Canadian energy, security. surplusei and an international grains agree- The government energy fund would work merit with other countries to stabilize prices. with local individuals and groups to develop For farmers in Huron-Bruce, McQuail demonstration energy} projects appropriate would work to preserve agriculture and. .support the family farm as the basic unit of, agriculture.. He sees a need for job opportun ities in the towns and Villages, but he would, 'Huron-Bruce.. Small scale water power work, lor a balanced clevelopnient which ,systems and 'a methane or liquid fuel plant would not threaten the agriculture tase of •would be two others. the area;'yet provide more job 'opportunities; If there 'is interest" shown by people in an McQuail would like :-to see a balanced Area, there would be:cost sharing with the mixed indUstry base in HuroniBruce but - government to prothote these:Projects out . until we. improve the economy at the•national the areas Where --they will be used:' If the 't level and:get control of our own industry, interest 'is shOwn in trying prOjett, the cannot bring small! Clean industry to Huron, government shares the risk, McQuail points he stresses. , • , out: ,Because there is interest before: the c "We have to straighten.things oat at the gOvernment gets:involved, it will riot:end up.- national level first." . being another government "beon-ilOggie". February 18, they would immediately ioWpr rates two per cent which they believe' can be done without affecting the Canadian dollar. _High interest rates discourage investment - government to' promote these prOletts oat in.' in productive activities and' attract foreign'• the areas where they :will be rised. If 'the investment, which.-will haveto he repaid in'----interest is shown irrtrying a project, the •-•-• time:at thoSe high rates. The high interest government shares, the risk, McQuall points rate, policiesof both ' the Liberals and out. Because the interest is indicated before. Conservatives have been4LinisguittectLin- („-the -becomes-involvedritwill-not terms of strying to hold the Canadinan_clallar____end-up-beirigariother government- ``boon. up and curb inflation, McQuail says: doggie". - Inflation is a combination of high energy On the issues of national defence and costs and: high interest rates. step-up in Military 'spending; McQuail says "Stability in Canada will never come, until nn he supports.defending Canada, but we need we have control of our industty and re-invest to-relthink. defense in a general sense"' the '.profits, in Canada," observes MeQuail.• Military expansion is ineffective way to n To effectively deal with Canada's econom- demonstration energy projects appropriate is problems.the New Democrats would do for our area.;,: MCQuail 'Suggests a pilot : two things according.to McQuail; loWer.rates alcohOl plant working with farm produce is and regain control of the country's rewrite- ' one such project which eoald be developed in - es* ' ' ' • • ' '' ' HurOn-Bruce, Small scale. water power If the NDP forms the government after .tSystems and a inethaneor liquid fuel plant •from page 1 .NDP policy on the price of oil is to freeze gasoline, lower interest rates at least two per prices where they are and appoint a coia- cent and create'programs to suPport rnissiOrromoil prices and Profits which would farmers. Such programs would include: -report by June 1,'1980. - tuarantee that farm product prices don't The commission would establish, costs to earn less.for the farmers than they need to the oil companies.of eittacting,_processing. meet.the cost of living and delivering oil: It would try to establish - orderly marketing and planned production the future replacemeht value of oil in terms, to reduce the sudden surpluses „and of frontier sources and renewable energy shortages, that force prices up one season, alternatives'. The commission ,would }then set and drive 'down farmers', incomes the next a price based on the replacement cost. From • - make the Canadian Wheat Board' the sole • that price the oil companies will receive a marketing' agency for western grains fair-return on their investment and costs, but t - low-interest loans to improve farms and no windfall profits. McQuail believes the NDP policies would' McQuail belimies it is the. sensible way to. h help get the Canadian economy ha& on its develop Canadian energy security: feet and the would- reach" all The govetnmenf energy fund 'woad work Canadians. joint federal - provincial energy fund to• t with local Individuals, and grouPs to develop for . our area. McQuail suggests a '.pilot • alcohol plant working, with farm produce is one Such project which could be developed in would be .two others. ' If there is interest shown:by people in an area, there would be cost sharing with the t rive; McQuail' points out We can also build up our national defense by working now to develop a more just global • economy, so Third World nations.' will ioin , free worjd democracies,~ rather than aligning with the super, powers, Russia and the United States. A third world war is a "horrific prospect for humanity" says,McQuail, and we need to work-no*, to continue negotiation through . treaties and the United Nations and to bring diplomatiC, trade and political pressures to bear on countries which abuse civil liberties - and commit arts of aggression.. • • • loans for small businessnien arid farmers, • and a major increase in funds for the Farm Credit. Corporation, John VanBeers; second vice4iresident of the Huron Federation says high interest rates, are , going to slow down the whole economy. All farmers are interested in is paying off debts, tither than expanding or improving buildings says VanBeers • VanBeers suggests fatmers should be, encouraged lay the governinent to invest' their money, in the Farm Credit Corporation when•they retire. They would not, have to pay- capital gains tax and this, system would use " Canadian money -to help Canadian people. • High interest rates are the nimber one, ntmediate concern 'of the farming.cominun tY" according to Merle Gunby, president of he Huron County 0 Fedetatien of Agrical- `,`Current farm Practices require large apital to operate,'" explains .Gunby. "If something is not done, in the short erni now, many people are going to go bankrupt, I've been told bank managers ave never seen as many farmers in trouble as there , are riow. , ' ; Ralph Barrie, presiden of the Ontario Federation of AgricultUre: sent a ',telegram Friday, to each of the three federal politiCal parties, demanding low interest. short term Canada which has $9 few people? -Since we cannot make an army to deal With an aggressor, effectively, we must develop a civilian population to nonviolently refuse to to .co-operate with an invader. This can be done through work stoppagest_sabotage of vitareominanication, while'opetating a small scale-communications network independent • of the central media for the people of the country and an underground media. When an invader moves into a country, as Russia, has done in Afghanistan, they expect • he country's civilian population to co-oper- ate. For the most part, it is business as usual n fghanistan because most of the popula- ' If there is a nuclearwar, Canada will be ion, is co-operating. the "dumping ground" observes McQuail. If the citizen population knows how toatop—The-Soviet Union and:-the United States are. hings from woiking,inVasion is unProdue- our closest neighbours.