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Times -Advocate, May 28, 1986
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ST DENTS VISIT CCAT — Prospective Centralia College students visited the Campus, Saturday. Above,
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I have been laughed at, scorned,
ridiculed and pooh-poohed.
I have been told by feed mill
operators, entrepeneurs and com-
pany presidents that Canada will
never run out of land.
' For 25 years, I have been urging
senior governments in this country,
particularly the provincial govern-
ments, to formulate a land -use policy
that would preserve the best land for
future generations.
The record of preservation of
agricultural land is not pretty. Prime
agricultural land disappears at an
amazing rate in Canada. -From 1976
to 1981, Environment Canada says
almost 100,000 hectares, an area the
size of Toronto, were converted to ur-
ban use. Half that land was the best
farm land in the nation.
Th&re are those, including me, who
would not mind seeing Toronto disap-
pear under the plow but that's another
story.
Much as I dislike Tranna, it is
smaller centres which have taken
most of the land in the last five yews'.
Of the 70 urban centres studied by En-
vironment Canada, the smaller ones
were the greediest. For every in-
crease of 1,000 residents, cities with
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more than 500,000 people absorbed 61
hectares of rural land. In contrast,
towns with fewer than 50,000 people
absorbed 341 hectares of rural land.
This may have happened because
there is more farmland available
around these small towns. In any
event, it is not an encouraging trend.
Canada has 46 million hectares of
arable land but only 4 million of that
is prime or class 1 land. Half of that
4 million hectares is in Ontario-ari-
ari-o and 88 percent of the remaining
Applications
on the way -
Beef, lamb and pork producers
should have received or will be
receiving shortly, application forms
and information on the National
Tripartite Stabilization Program.
This program is being implemented
to provide producers with 'a mean-
ingful level of support during times of
unstable commodity prices.
Enrolment forms are being sent to
beef and sheep participants in the On-
taiio Red Meat Plan to pork pro-
ducers who applied for the 1985 Hog
Stabilization payments. Any producer
who does not receive an enrolment
form in the mail, may do so by con-
tacting the Clinton OMAF Office.
The deadlines for the various parts
of the program are as follows:
1. Hog and Lamb Stabilization -
June 15. 2. Beef'Cow-Calf and Beef
Slaughter Stabilizaiton - June 30.
All producers who enrol must com-
plete the two page enrolment form
and return it to the Crop Insurance
and Stabilization Branch, Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture and F' od,
Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario M7A
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If a premium is due, the cheques
must be made out to "Ontario Tripar-
tite Stabilization" and sent to the
above address.
Complete details and applications
will be available at the ClintonOMAF
Office. As well, an information
meeting for Pork Producers on the
Hog Stabilization Program has been
arranged for Monday, June 2nd, at
8:00 p.m. in the Clinton Legion Hall.
A similar meeting for Beef Producers
will •probably be held early in June.
land is in Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Those who pooh-pooh my concern
maintain that there is plenty of land
not now classed as prime land that
could be brought into production.
They say that when one acre of prime
land goes out of production, two acres
of less -arable land is still available
and will be for generations to come.
Not so, Environment Canada says
not so. The types of production would
be limited and the growing period
shortenal. Increased costs to make
the less -arable land productive would
be uneconomical. Anyway, the land
available would add so much to
transportation costs that it would just
not be viable.
Farm writers across this nation
have been pounding on this land -use
platform fer years. The prime
farmland we have in this country
should be treated reverently. Too
often, it has been recklessly sold and
lost forever under acres of asphalt,
plazas, subdivisions, power corridors
and ticky-tack houses.
I have no objection to development,
mind you. But development does not
have to be on prime farm land.
Ontario Hydro has been forced to
build power corridors over less pro-
ductive land. No longer do these lines
travel straight, marching relentless-
ly across anything and everything.
These lines are bypassing prime land,
going around it instead of through it.
If one major utility can do it, so can
everybody else.
In British Columbia, a strict land -
use law has been passed which
prevents urban development on land
reserves around Kelowna in the
Okanagan VaUey.
If Canadians want to have enough
farmers and +enough• farm land
around to feed themselves, then pro-
vinces will have to take the respon-
sibility for steering development
away from the best farm land.
Somebody has to start speaking out,
long and loud, for green, growing
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A highlight of every Pork Congress
is the Pig Art Competition which
draws on the artistic talents of the
young and old alike. The 1986 Con-
gress won't be any different.
Chairman of the Pig Art Commit-
tee explains that there are a total of
nine classes this year with the addi-
tion of glass art. Other classes include
fine art, humour, original model,
preformed model, stitchery, poetry,
quilts, photography and cake
decorating.
Mrs. Gillespie is looking for entries
from all pork producing areas of the
province, plus from urban areas. In
addition to the prize money, the top
entries in each category will be auc-
tioned off at the Pork Congress with
the proceeds going to the entrants.
The auction will take place on Tues-
day, June 17 following the evening
•PigNic.
A new feature of the Congress this
year will be the extended hours on the
Opening Day until 9:00 p.m. This will
give Congress attendants time to view
all Pig Art entries.
All entries must be in the hands of
the Pork Congress by 1:00 p.m. on
Monday, June 16.
More information on the Pig Art
Competition can be obtained from:
Mrs. Jean Smelski Secretary, On-
tario Pork Congress, Box 61, Strat-
ford, Ontario N5A 6S8.
TO HEAR SPEAKER
The next meeting for the Federa-
tion of Agriculture will be on June 5
at 8:30 p.nl. in the Clinton Public
School. The speaker will be Brian
Doidge from Ridgetown OMAF The
topic will be U.S. Farm Bill.
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HON. JACK RIDDED
Minister of Agriculture
F u rther,tn information in my last
column, the committee appointed to
study long-term solutions for
shoreline management along the
Great Lakes will be holding public
bearings in Godertch on July 10 at the
Livery Theatre, beginning at 7:00
P.m.
The committee will be looking Itt•
the roles and responsibilities of
private and public sector in shoreline
management, and will examine and
make recommendations to' the
Ministry of Natural Resources and
the Ministry of Municipal Affairs on
options for long-term management.
Members of the public who are
directly affected by high water levels
are invited to make their .concerns
and suggestions known to the Com-
mittee, who will then prepare a report
for submission to the Ministers in
November, 1986.
Ontario's assistive devices pro-
gram, which now covers 75 percent of
the cost of medical devices for young
people up to the age 21; will be ex-
panded to cover prostheses for people
9f all ages beginning July 1, 1986, my
colleague Health Minister Murray
Elston announced recently.
Prostheses include artificial arms
and legs, breast prostheses, facial
prostheses and prosthetic eyes.
Thp assistive devices urogram will
be further extended to cover 75 per-
cent of the costs of respiratory equip-
ment for people of all ages on
September 1, 1986. This will include
ventilators, suction machines, com-
pressors and equipment for people
with cystic fibrosis.
Mr. Elston also announced that
coverage of all other assistive devices
equipment including wheelchairs,
ostomy supplies, hearing aids, visual
and communications aids, incon-
tinence supplies and orthoses, which
includes braces and splints, will be
extended to include those who are 22
year's of age of July 1, 1986.
Costs for the additions to the pro-
gram will be $4 million for 1986-87.
This will bring total annual costs for
the expanded assistive devices pro-
gram to approximately $18 million.
The program helps to, provide
medical devices for people with
chronic illness or physical
disabilities.
Agencies such as the Cancer Socie-
ty and the March of Dimes tradi-
tionally assist people in need with the
remaining 25 percent portion of costs
for assistive devices. 40
For more information on the pro-
gram, call toll free 1-8007?.68.6021.
Acting to deal with the problem of
costly insurance settlements and con-
sequently higher insurance rates, the
Ontario Liberal Government set up a
task force this past January to ex-
amine problems in the insurance in-
dustry. This ween at. Queen's Park;
Consumer and Coaufencial Relations
Minister 11$onte Kwlnter released the
report of the Slater task force on the
insurance industry. In its report, the
task force, chaired by Dr. David
Slater, former Chairman of the
Economic Council of Canada, has
recommended the in troduction of
private no-fault auto insurance as a
first step toward improving the in-
surance system.
In addition, the Slater report states
the Ontario government "should not
establish at this time a government
insurance corporation to deliver auto
insurance services." The report said
private companies should have a
chance to provide no-fault coverage.
Mr. Kwinter had said he plans to act
on the recommendation to eliminate
discrimination in auto insurance
premiums based on age, sex and
marital status. The Slater report also
recommends basing auto insurance
premiums on a new classification
system i i . takes in o accoun an in-
dividual', driving record and ex-
perience. It suggests that people with
poor driving records be penalized
with higher premiums.
Mr. Kwinter said members of the
public and the insurance industry
have until July 31, 1986 to comment in
writing on the recommendation of the
Slater report. Written submissions
may be sent to:
Office of the Superintendent of In-
surance, 6th Floor, 555 Younge Street,
Toronto, Ontario, M7A 2116 Attention:
Ontario Task Force on Insurance.
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