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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1975-12-24, Page 28ItaT,EIGHT TH WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 24, 197 LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW. ONTARIO A GIFT SUBSCRIPTION . TO THE LUCKNOW SENTINE Butler All-Season Ventilation System controls condensation, drafts, odors automatically. Stop in today for Free Catalog. WILL BE APPRECIATED ALL YEAR LONG The consultant bonanza $8.00 in Canada $10.00 for Foreign WE WILL SEND A GIFT CARD OR YOU MAY TAKE THE CARD TO GIVE PERSONALLY LOWRY FARM EQUIPMENT R.R. 1 KINCARDINE, ONTARIO k PHONE: snms-ne‘ 16:11.10.1041.01.10.WillVelkNEWIEWINWIMAI . KENN-mu ludiumitur Remember the Glaco CommiAori on federal ,eovernnient organizatione Between 1960 and 19Q it' produced several hundred recomniendations - insis volumes - on how to im- prove govenunent effi- ciency at tee cam_ After announcing it would adopt certain rctommenibtions. the governme. not handed the job over to the same. bureaucracy that was to be minimized. • 0 0 The bureaucrats' mover was to hire consitliauts to re-examine the recommits- . datioas and report back to them. Naturally the con- submits weren't about to play down the importance of the people who had hired them or to recom- mend cutting out potential Entire employers - quite the reverse. Both parties bad the same inceative - not to cut back but to-build *P- • • • Ten years later the con- ailtants are still busy. at - -an- annual cost of about ' 51 billion in fees alone. The result:. 441102 federal civil servants in 1974 com- pared to 294.750 in 1962. That's about 12.000 more every year. We have new departments. newdivisions of old departments. new agencies and more and more layers of highly paid officials 'regulating ever!' /thing from egg prices to bilingual labels, What Canada needs is au up- dated Passim report for action by Parliament. not by the bureaucracy. • • • Under the Consumer Labelling and Packaging Act. all non-food items sold in Caada since Sept. 1, 1074, require biliagual labels. The same will apply to food items from March 1. DX last month a small Winnipeg oil coin- paw - Ratio -was threatened with serum of more has SUN worth of autibtece because the tables were ia English oaly. A food importer - B.L. Marts. of Thernhill. Ont. - told the Cassabas Federa- tion of Independent Business that' "a brge part of our products will dis- appear from the market. Many of oar suppliers will not make a separate MEM- guatpackage for Canada.- 0 *• Quebec's Bill 22. Ouch enforces French as the working language of . Quebec. has created "-s-- storm among inunwrants and English -spe aking Quebeckers. but it makes sense ,to French-speaking Quebeckers trying to pre- serve their majoratv position_ language and culture. What doesn't make any sense at all rs Ottawa's • policy, of en- Wilt* the use of Rench in the nine other pro- vinces where the workiiv language is Enghs-h. French labels in Quebec. English labels, eve.rywhere else would save small business millions of dollars in lost trade, lost time and lost tempers. [ OTTAWA and Small Business . CLINTON .... WINGHAM ....., LUCKN9W ,........,.....,..,..„.............................................,,, I. itv ., sAT. DEC. 27 • „ „.. , „ . „,,,,,,,, 104, e, *',i. i. ' .1 )40f" ..r.• , ,c - , , 7 : '' 1111161WWWW and MON. DEC. 29 ,,,e, O.Y.