Times-Advocate, 1987-04-22, Page 14•
Page 14
Times -Advocate, April 22, 1987
Brief sparks Glob ate with politicians
Huron cattlemen oppose Hlghway 8 widanin
The.,Huron Cattlemen's Association
brief, as is often the case, was the
. most controversial brief presented to
the Huron Federation of Agricplture's
annual Members of Parliament din,
nery in Clinton.
Among the items in this% the longest
brief of the day presented by Keith
Strang, were the•proposed.widening
of Highway 8, i which the Cattlemen's
Associ tion opposed), to call fort n-
clusion
or in-
clusion f .siteage corn under the
Special Canadian Grains. Program to
the approval of the Ontario Hydro line
through Httron county.
Of these, the most controversial
was the Highway 8 widening. "We
' feel Highway 8 is very adequate
now," (he brief stated. "Hundreds of
• millions of dollars of agricultural pro-
ducts travel in and out of Huron coun-
ty each year without problem. To
build a highway to serve industry
• which does not exist would be a foolish -
waste of the taxpayers' money."
Dealing with a recent call from the
mayors of the five county towns for
more diversification of industry to
make up for the declining farm
. population. the brief said "(hit' (acrid-
the
acrofthe matter is Huron county is the
leading agricultural producing coun-
ty in the province of Ontario... In-
- dustrialization and urban develop-
ment would not complement our
• agriculture base. Since we do not
have -high -unemployment -or -a -large
market for consumer goods, major in-
dustry would not locate in Huron
County unless it was subsidized."
MPP Jack Riddell was the first to
comment on the Highway 8 portion of
the brief saying that he avoided
Highway 8 "like the plague" when he
was travelling back and forth to
Toronto. Aside from agriculture, he
said, Huron county is industry defi-
cient and he thought it was wise for
the County of Ituron to establish a
development officer to tty to get more
industry into the county.. Young peo-
ple now have to leave the•county to
get jobs. he pointed out.
Warden Brian McBurney pointed
out that of the 58.000 people in Huron
county. 1:3.000 were farmers or farm
families, 25,000 lived_ niin towns and
villages and the remaining :30.000
were living in rural areas but not in-
volved in agriculture. "Where are the
young people who grew up here," he
asked.
He said there are industries that
want to establish in•iluron because of
the stable workforce and the lower
wage level •than elsewhere. The coun=
ty is looking at putting more emphasis
on the development part of the Plan-
ning and Development office, he said.
because too often an industry has ap-
proached one municipality, not been
able to find a suitable location and
was lost to the county because there
was no co-ordination between
municipalities.
As -for -Highway -8; he said, -'the on-
ly thing that makes Highway 8 look
good is Highway a in the winter."
•
FARMING TALK — Former Huron county warden Bill Elston and
former Stephen township reeve Allan Wolper chat before a luncheon
in Seaforth Thursday. The guest speaker was Ontario Premier David
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Paul Klopp worried that if Highway
8 was improved it might make Huron
county a more attractive site for a
chemical waste disposal site, noting
that one of the favourable areas for
such a site was in Huron.
Riddell said it would be "assinine"
to truck waste all the way from the in-
dustrial heartland, to Huron giving
greater chance to an environmental
catastrophe if there was a truck
accident. '
' On Tripartide Stabilization the Cat-
'tlernen's brief called for producer
premiums to go into individual ac-
counts instead of a pool with the
farmer being able to recover his
premiums less administration costs if
there hadn't been a payout.
"It's just not as simple as it would
appear from this presentation," Rid-
dell replied. There is no easy answer
and the fund must be actually sound,
he said.
To the Cattlemen's disappointment
over the approval of the Hydro line
..through Huron, Riddell said he was
surprised there had not been an ap-
peal of the decision. Ile said he never
fully understood Hydro's reason to
drop the original Bruce-Essa route
which had been stopped. on a
technicality but that there was�o
doubt there were some rich people
along that route who didn't want a
power line going over their cottage.
Ontario Hydro claimed it was just
a matter of time before a line to Lon-
• don was built anyway, but he said, if
there was no appeal the matter
wouldn't likely come. before cabinet
and he would not be able to argue on
behalf of the Huron farmers.
4,•.
ON THE FARM Ontario's Agriculture Minister Jock. Riddell and Premier David Peterson look over
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