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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1981-11-25, Page 19AIL By JACK RIDDELL MPP A report on BILD was tabled in the Legislature this week. by the Treasurer, Frank Miller. BILD was es- tablished as a Cabinet Com- mittee headed by Mr. Miller last November, and was charged with the respon- sibility to design and imple- ment an economic develop- ment strategy for Ontario. The economic action plan formulated outlined a series of 76 projects involving an investment over five years of $1.5 billion. As Treasurer, Mr. Miller said he pledged 50 percent of that amount in the form of new money. with the balance to come from redirection of internal priorities within the government, from the private sector and from other levels of government. In the nine months since January 27, BILD has ap- proved program funding commitments which now total $614 million over five years. For this fiscal year, the Treasurer said, BILD has approved 45 projects which will cost about $145 million. However. Mr. Miller could not say what the projects ft' ; 1d *P 4AAW > Times -Advocate, November 25, 1981 Funds for BILD outlined, debate museum, three-year terms were, but BILD released a general list of how the $814 million will be spent. Listings cdsting $20 million or more are: $20 million to subsidize rural electrical rates; $125 million for road im- provements; $20 million for capital assistance for food process- ing; $20 million for expanded storage facilities for fruits and vegetables; $35 million for forest im- provement; $30 million for mining ex- ploration incentives; $30 million for a new biotechnology company; $25 million to export sup- port financing $27 million for the Toronto convention centre. Mr. Miller said that in the past year BILD has defined Ontario's economic goals for the 1980's and devised an ac- tion plan which co-ordinates and consolidates the government's economic development plan. Opposition Members, however, saw BILD as a reworking of programs that had already been warmed over several times, given a new acronym and launched as a platform for the March election. Opposition Members said no real new money was being spent because the province's share - $750 million, with the other half to come from other governments and private in- dustry - amounted to only $150 million a year, the same amount that would .have been spent anyway under BILD's predecessor, the Economic Development Fund. Three year term A new law to hold municipal elections every three years instead of the every two has been in- troduced in the Ontario Legislature. The first reading of the legislation took place this week and the new regulations would affect members of municipal coun- cils and elected local boards from 1982 onward. McMichael Gallery Sixteen years ago the government made an agree- ment with Robert and Signe McMichael. In 1965, the McMichaels gave more than 200 paintings, their home and 16 acres of land in Klein - burg to the province, and the government.agreed to main- tain the collection in perpetuity. The McMichael Canadian Collection, which many of you have probably visited. included Group of Seven art. Now the government has drafted legislation which would eliminate the 16 year old agreement, and allow the government to sell paintings from the collection. "This is a violation of everything the gallery was intended to be", said Robert McMichael, • "I wouldn't have made the gift if I thought this is what they were going to do." Liberal Leader Stuart Smith raised the matter in the Legislature on two con- secutive days, and one bone of contention was Inc Minister of Culture and Recreation. Mr. Reuben Baetz. denial that he had asked Robert McMichael to resign as director of the collection. McMichael main- tains the Minister's exact words were: "Will you step aside from your direc- torship?" Catholic schools A provincially appointed review of the secondary school system has recommended that Roman Catholic separate schools in Ontario should receive full financing for Grades 9 and 10. But the question of providing taxpayers' money to private or independent schools needs further study. The Chairman of the Secon- dary Education Review Project said that the Com- mittee was divided . into those who supported a com- mon school system for all children and those who sup- ported a double school system. The study group made the recommendation anyway. estimating the cost at $15 million in the first year. Under the British North America Act. the Govern- ment is required to provide equal financing for both a Catholic and Protestant school system. But in 1867, neither school system ex- tended to Grades 9 or 10. The provincial Government decided in the 1960's to finance separate school students up to the end of Page 3A Grade 10 at the same level as the financing for students in elementary public schools. Since 1978. the provincial government has been gradually increasing that support. so that this year provincial support for separate school Grades 9 and 10 is 15 percent higher than support for Kindergarten to Grade 8. But the Government still gives less to the Catholic Schools for Grades 9 and 10 than is provided for those grades in public schools. Why does the Mona Lisa have such a long wispy - looking smile? 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