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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Citizens News, 1980-07-03, Page 15Fall fiection strongly rumoured By JACK RIDDELL MPP Huron -Middlesex The legislative session has nded and we are now into he summer recess. eanwhile a fall provincial lection is strongly umoured. During the ummer, many Members ill continue to spend a great eal of time at the gislature, on committee nd constituency work. Dr. Robert Elgie, the inister of Labour, had promised amendments next all to protect handicapped ople from discrimination under the provincial Human Rights Code. Last year the Minister brought in a bill aimed at protecting the rights. of \physically and mentally handicapped people but later withdrew it after spokesmen for these people had demanded that the Minister not "ghettoize" them -under special provisions. The Minister has told the House that the amendments to the code will prohibit discrimination on all grounds, including em- ployment, accommodation, contracts, services and membership in vocational associations. In this con- nection, the definition of handicapped will, it seems, "be expanded to include not only past, present and perceived physical disability...but also mental illness, mental retardation and learning disability." - The only exceptions will be in cases where a particular handicap "renders the person incapable of carrying out essential functions associated with the par- ticular activity in question." Amendments will also- provide for boards of inquiry in cases of discrimination against the handicapped. Liberal Leader Stewart Smith criticized the Minister's Statement as "an election -platform gimmick" designed to make the government's position public in the event there is an election soon. Le Mans race car The controversy about the grant to Maurice Carter the politician cum race car driver continues. His Camaro failed to qualify at Le Mans, and he says he will not repay the $15,000 in Ontario tax money used to sponsor him. In a written statement, he said "at no time did I ever solicit public funding from the Ontario Government". A spokesman for Carter said an "independent person "was hired to raise the sponsorship money...Mr. Carter didn't raise the money, so he'll not be refunding (it to) anyone." Stuart Smith has called upon the Minister of Tourism and Industry, Larry Grossman, to table any written agreements between Carter and the government, and the Minister has said he would try to do so. Acid monitoring Acid rain monitoring stations are to be installed by the Ministry of Environment at 45 locations across the Province. The airn of the program is, apparently, to "identify more clearly the relative contributions to this pollution from numerous continental sources." The system . is to include two "networks" 04. stations, one to ,monitor daily precipitation which may contain contaminants and the other to study monthly accumulation. Fifteen sites will be used for the daily monitoring, including Kingston, Dorset and London. Monthly measuring will be done at 30locations, from the Windsor area to Kenora, James Bay, the Ottawa River and South -Central Ontario. The new system will be in operation by late summer, and will cost taxpayers an estimated $180,000 to install and about $35,000 a year to operate. Food Industry The Opposition has charged that Ontario is losing jobs in the food processing industry while importing food that could be grown here. According to the Provincial. Treasurer, Frank Miller, the, government is studying the problems of the food processing industry. More than 1,000 - food. workers ood- workers have lost jobs in Ontario in the past year, but all those jobs could have been saved if Ontario stopped importing so much food, according to the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. OH I P overpayment Liberal Health Critic Sean Conway has charged that • hundreds of thousands of elderly people and low- income families could be overpaying the Ontario Health Insurance Plan by as much as $480.a year because they don't know about . reduced rates available to them. Families with an annual income of $5,000 or less and individuals whose yearly income is 4,000 or less are eligible for premium assistance benefits. However, only those who apply for the benefits efits get them. As • Mr. Conway pointed out, "the problem is that many of the people, premium assistance was intended for, don't . know about it." Rebates to elderly Since the introduction of the Provincial Budget for this year, pensioners who pay property taxes directly or through rent now can get up to $500 a year from the province as a rebate, plus a flat $50 in sales tax rebates. Stuart Smith continues to A QUICK EATER — One of the few individuals to actually eat some chicken at the St. Boniface chicken barbecue before the rains came was Robbie Regierof R.R. 3 Zurich. Rob- bie was almost through his pie by the time the Citizens News photographer caught up to him. Staff photo raise the question of pen- sioners. who lose out under the new scheme, by com- parison with the previous system of tax credits. He cited the case of one man in Toronto who used to get $110 under the old scheme, and is now forced to get along on a pension of $388 a month. Meanwhile sports world millionaire •Harold Ballard, who stands to make something like $1 million just from dividends on his shareholdings in Maple Leaf Gardens, will receive $550 under the new plan. Blyth play . sales are up The Blyth Summer Festival today announced that advance ticket sales are up 70 per cent from this time last year. Anne Mann, Box Office Manager • of _the Festival, assures patrons that "There are stilll lots of tickets available for all dates. However, I would advise patrons to make their reservations soon to avoid disappointment." Cancer can be beaten . Citizens News, July 3, 1980 Passe 15 BLUEWATER TV Zurich, Ontario Antenna Sales, Installations, Service .& Repairs Channel Masser Antennas, Rotators & Boosters (T.V. Repairs to all Makes) Call 236-4224 BROWNIE'S DRIVE-IN THEATRE LTD BEECH SY. CLINTON BOX OFFICE OPENS AT 8:30 P.M. 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