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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1978-11-16, Page 37 (2)By JACK RIDDELL MPP Huron -Middlesex A report on the George Kerr controversy prepared by Herbert Langdon, Deputy Director of Crown Attorneys says the former Solicitor - General's main motive' in calling an Assistant Crown A,ttorney was to influence sentencing of a constituent. The report says Mr. Kerr called Halton Assistant Crown Attorney David Price to persuade him not to press for a jail term. The call was made minutes before the constituent in question was to appear in court. • Mr. Langdon's report, released to the . Justice Committee, contradicts the version of the telephone call which• Mr. Kerr has given since thematterfirst came to light, and which he repeated in an interview this past week — This report was seen by Premier William Davis, before he made his initial decision on September 6 to - allow Mr. Kerr to remain in the Cabinet, according to the Premier's press -;secretary. Kerr wanted to influerpce Three days later Mr. Davis accepted Mr. Kerr.'s resignation — after it was revealed that the report included memos saying that Mr. Kerr questioned whether a jail term was the proper disposition of the case, and after John Munro resigned as federal Labour' Minister after admitti,n4 he called a judge about a constituent. While the report questions the wisdom of a solicitor - general advising someone on charges laid by the police, it states: "It does not seem that Mr, Kerr's telephone call constituted an attempt •to•obstruct, pervert or defeat the course of justice within the meaning of Section 127 of the Criminal Code," Last week, in, a major confrontation in the Legislature, the Liberal and New,,.,pemocratic Parties threatened to vote together to reduce the .Ministry of Housing's spending • by $18,000— an amount equal to the extra salary paid to the Minister. The Government House Leader warned that such a move could tie conside fed a vote of- non -confidence. Subsequently .the a govern- ment backed off just far enough on the controversial Cantrakon development on the Niagara Escarpment to avoid possible defeat on this matter. The Housing Minister, Claude Bennett, said he - will • arrange meetings between Can- trakon and local ratepayers opposed to the development. Meanwhile, the project's architect has indicated that - the company would •be willing to settle on another location if it is within an hour's drive of the. airport and offers an equally spectacular view. Subsequently, landowners on the Niagara Escarpment and in controversial Can- trakon Ltd. project. The Housing Minister has 'indicated that he has received more than a dozen offers from land -owners wishing to sell their property for the $16 -million hotel and conference centre. He stated that he told the people concerned to put their offers in writing. The counsellor at the Huronia Regional Centre in Orillia who was reinstated after being fired forand later convicted of kicking a mentally retarded woman in the face has been tran- sferred from the Ministry of Community and Social Services to a position in another ministry. - The new job ensures that he will no longer have direct contact with residents in any provincially -run institution. In a toughly negotiated settlement between the .•. New Homes • Alterations • .Services Changed & Up -graded • Farm Buildings • Re -wiring $L Repairs REFRIGERATION • Sales & Installation of Commercial Equipment • Commercial Repair Service • Cold Room Installations • Bulk Milk Cooler Service • Central Air Conditioning Systems Installed , ..• Repair of Household Refrigeration - WE SERVE YOUR AREA NEILSON REFRIGERATION LTD. Parkhill 242 Roskeen St. 294-6321 • 9 Ontario Public Service 'Employees Union and the Provincial Government, the counsellor was transferred to the Ministry of Govern- ment Services where he will work as a supply clerk at the same pay he was receiving as a residential counsellor at Huronia. - Eight to 10 municipal bridges collapse every year in Ontario, but motorists need have no fear of using deficient bridges if they respect posted load limits, a provincial official said this week. Bridge accidents generally occur in rural areas •and involve truckers who ignore signs sting the capacity of the bridge. The ' Transportation Minister stated earlier in the week that 2,559 of 8,300 municipal bridges surveyed during the past twa years were found to be structurally deficient. Those that are most in need of repair are 456 Hardware judge says report bridges with a load limit of - six tons`or leas. It was em- phasized that. hone of the bridges along the 13,000 miles of provincial highways built and maintained by the ministry is deficient. A five-year program of repair is to be undertaken by the municipalities, with the province paying 80 percent. of the cost. A ministry aide said that the Minister would probably have made less of the matter than he did In interviews if he weren't interested in persuading the Management Board of Cabinet that an additional $6 - million is needed for repairs. The bridge survey. con- cluded that the province is providing enough money to allow regional governments and tither large municipalities to eliminate all -their- deficient bridges within- two or three years. However, it was indicated that eliminating unsound bridges . under. the jurisdiction of largely rural townships. would require a— doubling of the present annual provincial con- tribution of $5 -million or $6 - million. • St. Boniface pastor resigns Bishop John• Michael Sherlock announced that he has accepted the resignation of Re%erend A. J. Durand as pastor of St. Boniface's Parish, Zurich, and has appointed Reverend P. F. Mooney, presently pastor of St. John Vianney Parish,. Windsor, as pastor of St. Boniface, Zurich. Sign in a beauty -shop window: "We'll curl up and dye for you." MIDNIGHT MADNESS FRIDAY NIGHT • 6 P.M. - 11 P.M. Spice of . le Cern Ing ware � 6 -CUP TEAPOTS Reg 512 95 5998 BLACK & DECKER var.able Speed 3/: DRI ' LL Req 529 95 i26" TOASTESS SELF BUTTERING TEFLON CORN POPPER Req 536 95 514" SET OF SIX . 5 ounce WINE GLASSES • Reg 53 50 2U Oeldoq, Fah and Celous . WINDOW • THERMOMETERS Reg 52 99 1" GAMES YOUR CHOICE . . 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