Times-Advocate, 1981-02-11, Page 18Page 18
Times -Advocate, February 11, 1981
The election in Ontario
was called only a few days
after Bill Davis made his
announcement about
building Ontario in the 1980s.
The Board of Industrial
Leadership and Develop-
ment was purely, simply, an
election ploy.
As an old-time journalist, I
see nothing wrong with the
government making these
announcements and then
using the material as bait for
electors.
The whole plan sounds
great.
Consider: Electrification
of the GO rail transit
system; increased
municipal transit systems
subsidies; $30 million for the
Urban Transportation
Development Corporation;
continued support of the $90
million Intermediate
Capacity Transit System in
Hamilton and more help for
Toronto's waterfront:
ane foot in the
furrow' by
continued support of a STOL
port for Toronto; mining
incentives; an auto parts
technology centre; a micro-
electronics development
centre; a $100 million
technological company in
Toronto.
The list goes on for eight or
10 pages.
And this time, even the
farmers are not forgotten.
Ontario is prepared to co -
invest in new enterprises to
stimulate growth in the
processing of canned
peaches, tomato paste and
specialty meat products.
The Toronto stockyards
will have a long-range plan
and the direction will be
mapped out by farmers,
packing companies and
other interested groups.
Food products that are
perishable are not forgotten
and storage facilities are
needed. Special incentives
will be given to growers –
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individual farmers -- co-
operatives and small
processors to aid in this
program.
Selective drainage and
farmstead improvements
will get government aid.
Forestry, another form of
agriculture, will get con-
siderable government help.
Other areas are likely to be
included too, so that the
agricultural sector will not
be forgotten.
But the point of this epistle
is this: Farmers in this
country need never be
ashamed of subsidies in any
area of production. If you go
down the list, you will find
that urban areas will get the
greatest amount of money,
hundreds of millions of
dollars during the next five
years, if the big blue
machine gets the oil from the
electors for another term in
office.
I maintain there is a
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blatantly urban bias in the
whole program. This, too, is
understandable because
governments are of
necessity people -oriented
and most of the people in this
province live in or near the
cities and the big towns.
Government programs
favor the cities and
discriminate against rural
citizens.
Farmers pay 100 per cent
of their sewer and water
systems but subsidies to
urban systems are generous.
Farmers are still paying 30
per cent more for hydro than
their city counterparts.
Farmers get little or no use
from subsidized housing, day
care grants and many
mortgage assistance
programs. Farmers have
for many years been ex-
clu.:�d «oin unemployment
insurance, the big -city
wealth redistribution
program.
As previously mentioned,
huge subsidies will be
granted urban transit
systems.
And because all this
money for BILD has to come
right from the taxpayer, the
farmer is paying those taxes
right along with his city
brothers yet the farmer gets
nothing from most of these
programs.
I am not suggesting the
ideas in BILD are not sound.
They are. But because the
people actively engaged in
agriculture make up only
about five per cent of the
population, they are getting
the dirty end of the stick.
Again, farmers are left out
there in the back forty
sucking the hind teat.
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