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riallSIMISSIMMINIONSW
Murray Gaunt, I.P.P. Gives
Maiden Speech to House
Murray Gaunt, M.P,P. for
Huron -Bruce, delivered his
maiden speech to the Legisla-
ture on Tuesday, December 18.
Mr. Gaunt charged the govern-
ment with definite lack of in-
terest in planning for the rural
areas of Ontario,
Mr, Gaunt has also been
named to serve on ten commit-
tees: Agriculture; Conservation -
lands and forests; Education;
Game and Fish; Health and
Welfare; Labour; Labour Bills;
Mining; Private Bills and Stand-
ing Orders,
The following is his speech
made to the Legislature:
Mr. Speaker,
When this house has before
it consideration of matters af-
fecting agriculture, it is in-
clined to dwell on prices and
markets and distributive prac-
tices and taxation, Like -wise,
when this house has before it
matters affecting industry it is
inclined to follow much the
same procedure. It is alto-
gether proper that such proce-
dure should be observed be-
cause these are the questions of
immediate concern and conten-
tion.
But I submit, Mr, Speaker,
that, in so far as our less popu-
lous areas are concerned, there
is a matter which, while not
as newsworthy as the more vis-
ible problems is none the less
of vital concern to all who live
in this province and one which
has long merited more atten-
tion than it has received.
While this subject touches
on both agriculture and on in-
dustry in the area I have the
honour to represent it touches -
it presses rather - on the lives
of those who dwell there and,
to the extent that the strength
of all Ontario depends on the
strength of all the parts, this
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subject is the concern of all
Ontario and should be the im-
mediate concern of this house.
This subject is the erosion
of opportunity for youth in our
rural areas.
When the area that is Huron -
Bruce was settled between a
hundred and a hundred and
fifty years ago - settlement in
pretty much the present pattern
took about fifty years to es-
tablish - it was already be-
hind that area to the south
known as the Huron Tract and
behind the Lake area to the
north.
Wingham, now the centre of
the riding, the largest town in
the riding with a population of
less than 3, 000 was not settled
until a man on a raft, corning
down river from Brussels, stuck
on a sand bar and settled there.
That was in 1859,
Wingham's first industry was
a grist mill to serve the settler
farmers in the immediate vi-
cinity, And as the land settled
and the area grew in population,
other industries grew up to serve
it. They grew, not only in
Wingham, but in Lucknow, in
Brussels, in Blyth, in Mildmay,
in Teeswater, in Ripley and in
the smaller communities that
grew to serve the farm com-
munity during the last century.
And then, beginning with
the last generation and acceler-
ating into today, began what I
refer to as the population ero-
sion. First young men and then
young women began to leave
the farms and to seek employ-
ment -- in the Ford factory in
Detroit, employment in Lon-
don, in Kitchener, in Toronto
and further afield.
Coincidental with this exo-
dus from the farm came the
great developments in farm
mechanization. The area of
Huron -Bruce was at one time
noted for its horses. Tomorrow,
if the trend continues, horses
will be explained to children by
means of pictures.
Today the farms are larger,
the people fewer, the oppor-
tunities less, We, on the farms,
desperately seeking some hold- •
ing back of the clock, are in-
clined to point fingers at verti-
cal integration in agriculture,
at the inadequacy of agricul-
tural products price floors, at
the inequalities of taxation,
particularly in the field of ad-
vanced education.
I am not pressing on these
points today, not because I am
in any sense withdrawing from
these issues, but because today
I am reaching further and dig -
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WINGHAM, ONT.
ging deeper in an attempt to
alleviate a worsening situation.
This starvation of opportun-
ity which expels our young
people from the farms is more
than a social phenomenon to
note in passing. It is much
more than that. It is a shrink-
ing of the small farm family
circle and all that circle means
in religious good, in social
good and in economic good. It
is a negation of the aspirations
which brought our forebears to
clear and to plough and to set-
tle with the thought that there
would be plenty for those who
followed after,
But this shrinkage of popu-
lation does not affect only the
farm home and the family cir-
cle.
In one way or another it af-
fects everyone who works or
lives in Ontario.
Every young man or young
woman who leaves the farm to
go to the city takes with him a
customer of the merchants in
the nearby town, The customer
shrinkage, when projected to
hundreds or thousands, means
fewer and less prosperous mer-
chants, fewer shop workers,
eventually smaller town popu-
lation. And, as the towns
shrink, so does their attraction
for new industry.
It is a vicious circle of aban-
donment with the economic
barometer steadily plummeting.
The farms get larger and emp-
tier; the towns get quieter and
less prosperous. The area
withers.
This, Mr. Speaker, benefits
nobody. fit,
And yet, practically no[h-
ing is being done to remedy the
situation. Nor have any steps
been taken that warrant hope
for the future.
Take my own area. Take
Huron -Bruce as an example.
No one of my generation has
seen the slightest effort to plan.
Hydro has been made available
as it has in most of our settled
communities. Roads have been
surfaced, providing a little
niggling local employment.
But hydro lighting what? Roads
leading whither? There has
been no planning for the future.
There has been no enquiry as
to where the future might lead.
There has been no governmen-
tal interest in whether this area
dwindled or prospered.
The hard fact of the matter
is that the rural areas of On-
tario have not evolved with
evolution because it has been
to the interest of the govern-
ment of Ontario to keep the
people of t hese areas as hewers
of wood and drawers of water.
Great sums are being spent and
much publicity has been given
to job retraining. This is to
the interest of industry and to
the other monied classes the
government serves.
But what has been done in
like measure for the Ontario
farmer and for the resident -
worker or small business man of
the small towns? Nothing -
positively, unequivocally noth-
ing! What should be done?
What steps should be taken by
local residents, by local mer-
chants? What steps should be
taken by the government of
Ontario? The answers to these
questions are controversial but
somewhere, somehow, action
must be undertaken because
the passing of the buck has left
us woefully little time in which
to reverse our downward trend.
It must be obvious to all who
study this important problem
that the first requirement in
amending a condition that is
rapidly becoming intolerant is
adequate information =- region-
al information.
A survey is needed to mea-
sure the fall off in opportunity
and the same survey could read-
ily he employed to reveal aven-
ue. of new opportunity. The
making of such a survey is
surely a government obligation
and one that should be under-
taken immediately. This has
been done before and done
One Moment
Please
by Rev, G, L. Fish
Wingham, Ontario
Intended for last week.
Christmas '62 is past. To
many all that is left is a head-
ache, extra bills and utter ex-
haustion. Stripped of all the
non -essentials Christmas was
meant to be a time of giving
and receiving. No, not that
of paltry gifts, whatever their
monetary value - but the giv-
ing and the receiving of Jesus
Christ,
Did you give a gift to some-
one this year and saw it re-
fused or rejected? 1 doubt
very much that you have, for
we are all a greedy lot. But
you can imagine the humilia-
tion if such a thing had occur-
red. Or, think of this: We
are busy now for a week or twq
taking out the bare Christmas
trees that have brought such
cheer into our homes. Were
you to see a gift still hanging
on the branches of that tree,
would you not be concerned
that it was not picked up and
enjoyed? Seems too trivial to
speak of giving and receiving
in just this way, but did this
happen again as we spurned
God's Gift, this Christmas
1962? How humiliating it
must be to the Giver of this
Gift, to see His offer so abused
in rejection. It is again the
repetition of an incomplete
Christmas. There has been the
giving - but unfortunately
there has not been the receiv-
ing.
If Christmas 1962 has been
a personal experience of Giv-
ing and Receiving then this
Christmas has been complete
for you. It has meant more
than the perfunctory celebra-
tion of an event of some 1900
years ago. You are now appre-
ciative of this wonderful truth:
"To as many as received Him,
to them gave He power to be-
come the sons of God." John
1:12. A merry Christmas and
a truly satisfying New Year as
you follow on in the discovery
of 'His unspeakable Gift.
Birthday Party
Held Saturday
Intended for last week,
k'.ORDWICH,--A birthday
party was held Saturday night
at the home of Mr, and Mrs.
Anson Demerling in honour of
Mr. Anson Demerling and his
brother, Edward, of Neustadt,
Present for the gathering
were,Mr, and Mrs. Harvey
Demerling of Clifford, Mr. and
Mrs, Ezra Demerling, Clifford,
Mr, and Mrs, Bill Demerling of
Kurtzville, Mr, Albert Demer-
ling of Hyde Park, Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Demerling of Neu-
stadt, Mrs, Elsie Demerling,
Fordwich, Mr. and Mrs. Clar-
ence Deitz and Clarence of
Mayne Corners,
Hi -C Meets
BELGRAVE-The Hi -C. Group
met on Sunday night in the Uni-
ted Church basement. Mari-
lyn Campbell was in charge of
the meeting. The theme was
" The United Church of Canada, "
Max Pletch and Lorne Camp-
bell read the main parts and
everyone participated by read-
ing a chapter each on The Con-
gregational Church.
Marilyn Campbell and Max
Pletch were in charge of the
worship service. The next
meeting will be held January
13, with Murray Scott's group
in charge.
successfully. Right now the
government of Mexico is pay-
ing out many millions of dol-
lars to have a professional as-
sessment made of the potential
of its various areas. And yet
Mexico is considered, com-
pared to us, a backward coun-
try.
So let us have a survey
which will tell us in what direc-
tion we should look.
Then let us revise the Muni-
cipal Act to enable communi-
ties to effect the remedial mea-
sures indicated by the survey.
Today, section 422 of the
Municipal Act provides that
the council of a municipality
having a population of not less
than 5, 000 may pass by-laws
for the establishment and main-
tenance of a department of in-
dustries and for appointing a
commissioner of industries to
bring to the notice of manu-
facturers and others the advan-
tages of the municipality as an
industrial business, educational,
residential or vacation centre.
It also states that the council
of a local municipality may
expend in any one year a sum
not exceeding the amount of
one mill on the dollar on the
total of its taxable assessment
and as an additional one-tenth
of one mill on the dollar on
that part of its total taxable
assessment in excess of ten
million dollars for the purpose
of paying any expenses of its
department and commissioner
of industries, if any, and for
the purpose of distributing in-
formation respecting the advan-
tages of the municipality as an
industrial, business, educa-
tional, residential or vacation
centre. but no local municipal-
ity
unicipality shall expend in one year an
amount exceeding $60,000 for
such purpose.
All this high soundingphras-
eology is totally meaningless
in the areas to which I refer,
In Huron -Bruce, for instance,
the largest town is Wingham
with a population of 2,800.
The Act does not permit Wing -
ham, as a town, to act to save
itself. If Ontario is to grow in
opportunity, if the deep rural
areas are to benefit from such
growth, if these areas are to
continue to be an asset to rather
than a burden on the body pol-
itic, then this act must be re-
vised to help smaller towns to
help themselves.
I know that there will be re-
sistence to these two sugges-
tions. I know that there are
those who will say that places
like Huron -Bruce want to be
supported by government, that
these places want protection
and crutches to lean on and
someone else - government
perhaps - to support them.
Mr. Speaker, the person
who makes such a statement
slanders all the good people
who live in these areas. To
borrow from history and to adapt
a great quotation to the present
discussion I state here and now
that, far from wishing to lean
on the efforts of anyone else,
the people of Huron -Bruce will
fire the last shot in the defence
of freedom of enterprise. All
they ask, all they seek, is
equality of opportunity.
First, then, a survey. This
survey should tell us in specific
terms what we have in this area,
in these towns and villages,
that will attract what kinds of
employer. This survey should
measure our water supply, our
labour pool, our hydro load,
our soil capacity for various
types of crops, our transporta-
tion facilities, our domestic
market potential, our housing
availabilities and all the other
factors including freight, refri-
geration, storage and insurance
that industry needs to know be-
fore it establishes.
When this survey is com-
pleted, its findings should be
analysed and there should be
established from those findings
realistic targets in terms of in-
dustrial attraction.
When the survey and the
survey analysis have been com-' t"
pleted, there should be set up
a meeting of the wardens, the
clerks and the reeves and
mayors of the region and these
facts should be made known to "\
them in an exhaustive presenta
tion of perhals one or two days
duration.
Out of this presentation there
should eome the formation of
regional committee which will
meet from time to time and
which will make requests to
specific government depart-
ments for specific further in-
formation as the need arises.
The end function of these
regional committees would be
to act to attract industry through
the dissemination of informa-
tion essential to industry and
through such local attraction to
industry as seemed advisable to
the regional body as a whole.
You may say that this is no
different from the establish-
ment of an industrial commis-
sion. I agree that, in many
ways, it is similar indeed to
such a body, And you are
aware that such bodies have
done much to attract industry
and to create prosperity in
their areas.
But, Mr. Speaker, I submit
that if the municipal act of
Ontario (I am referring to sec-
tion 422) disbars from all but
the large town the privilege of
maintaining an industrial com-
mission, there would seem to
be no other choice than the es-
tablishment of some such body,
Let us suppose for a moment
that such a body exists. Let us
suppose it has been in opera-
tion regionally for a year or so.
Could we not visualize a stop
in the emigration of young peo-
ple, an increase in the gross
product of the region, a reduc-
tion in the individual tax bur-
den because of industry sharing
that burden?
I think we could, I know
we could, for this has been the
effect of new industry establish-
ment elswhere. And we could
have it too in these poor little
rich regions that have been
abandoned to an expediency
which gears its effort to serve
the concentrated areas.
Mr. Speaker, for us to let
our rural areas run down in rr
their productive capacity is
exactly the same as neglecting
the maintenance of a house.
The property deteriorates.
This situation can - this
situation must -- be rectified.
A simple survey and implemen-
tation of its findings can turn
Ontario's wasting rural areas
into pockets of progress that
will attract investment and
provide jobs to keep our youth
at home and assure them a
career.
We owe this, Mr. Speaker,
to the diligence of our ances-
tors. We owe it to those who
follow after us.
Anything Less than develop-
ment for progress is selling On-
tario short. Let us get on with
the job.
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