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District Vice Presidents for 1 e new Federal Riding of Huron which ,includes: Huron
county and municipalities of Bruce County were elected at the founding meeting of the
riding at Vanastra recently. Three of the new vice presiden discuss plans with
director Jean Adams of Goderlch. They are (left) George Townsend, RR3 Seaforth; Mrs.
Adams; Emile Hendrick, Exeter, and Mac Inglis of Belmore. (Expositor photo)
Jottings from Queen's Par
By Jack Riddell,
Huron MPP
In mid-December,
Provincial Auditor Norman
Scott tabled his report for the
year ended March 31st, 1976.
As a result of information
contained in this Report, the
Government plans to in-
troduce legislation this spring
to deal with the question of
ownership of private medical .
laboratories by doctors,
giving rise to conflicts . of
interest. The Government has
been promising the
regulations since last spring.
The Provincial Auditor said •
his report that the
ntario Health Insurance
Plan (OHIP) has paid out
A millions of dollars in claims
without properly checking
their validity. He states that
Or existing legislation makes
prosecution on fraud charges
almost impossible.
Government and medical.
profession rules have been
too lax in permitting doctors
to operate private labs which
have made claims on OHIP,
1 which according to July 31st
records cover 12,748,793
O participants in the plan,
although the province's
population a year before wa s
only 8,226,000.
Apparently the Medical
Review Committee of the
College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Ontario -.set up in
• 1971 to rule on cases of im-
proper payment - has yet to
issue decisions on 175 cases,
sorrierdating back to 1974. The
v Review Committee ' recom
• mended recovery of money in
115 cases, but no action in 254
others, failing to explain its
decisions when OHIP
evidence of improper
payments was rejected. One
possible explanation for delay
in settling cases which come
before the Review Committee
is the fact that many cases
# are extremely complicated.
One physician was ordered
to repay the Ontario Health
Insurance Plan a total of
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800 PSI 3 GPM
$489,000 according to the
Auditor's report, , which
devoted 14 pages to the
Health Ministry and abuses of
the $800 million OHIP 'fund.
No reason is given for the
Review Committee's order
for the repayment of $489,000 .
During its five years of
operation the committee has
recovered $1.1 million.
The Auditor also reported ,
that overpayment of family
benefits by the Ministry of
Community and Social
Services has passed the $19
million mark. The largest
amount $8.6 million -
'represents unrecovered
portions of overpayments
that were outstanding when
recipients were cut off.
. Administrative errors were
blamed for $857,000 of the
losses during the past three
years and legal action" is
being considered in another
86 cases for which over-
payments total $563,000. At
least $70,000 has apparently
disappeared in the form of
replacement cheques for
others that have been lost or -
undelivered.
The Provincial Auditor also
discloses that although the
Government has a building
full of meeting rooms at
Que'en's Park, the Ministry of
Culture and Recreation
prefers • the comfort""and
service of Toronto hotels.
During the past year, this
Ministry ran up a tab . of
$18,466 holding 40 meetings at
16 city hotels.
"Some of the billings did
not indicate the purpose of the
meeting nor the names of
those attending," siad the
Auditor. "We recommended
that the facilities of the
MacDonald Block (the
Queen's Park meeting cen-
tre) be used for meetings
whenever possible and that
the Ministry- .develop stan-
dards and guidelines to
regulate the cost of food and
beverages provided at
meetings, luncheons and
otherhospitality-related
functions."
Old Fort William, being
• built for the Ontario
Goverment as a tourist. at-
traction inThunder Bay, has
cost more than twice the
originallybudgeted price.
The cost to the end of last
March stood at $12.7 million.
The construction contract
signed five years ago was for
$5.;5 million, subject to an,
increase of not more than ten
percent and increases due to
inflation. Costs have also run
Through -the other weeklies
Canada . did not go
unrepresented ' in. the fourth
annual Lake Cadillac Bathtub
race in Michigan last
Saturday,. according to a
story in last week's Listowel
Banner. Sixteen members of
the young people's group at
Listowel's Christian
Reformed Church entered in
the cast iron class Qf the one -
mile rape run over the frozen
surface of -Lake Cadillac.
The tub, weighing; 345
pounds including skis and
push bars, features carpeting
throughout, padded seat,
foulr-speech shifter, racing
wheel and several accessory
gauges mounted in a
mahogany dashboard.
At presstime, it was not
known how the Canadian
delegation made out in the
race.
From the Seaforth Huron
Expositor comes a story of a
Christmas card that has been
travelling between
Egmondville and Bluevale
for the last 27 years.
. In 1948, Hugh Campbell of
Bluevalesent his Egmpndz,
ville cousin, Lois Moore a
Christmas card, which she
cut up, pasted on another
piece of paper o and sent it
back to him. The next year,
he sent the card to her again
and again she returned it.
Last Christmas Mrs. Moore
became a little worried when
the card did not arrive until a
few days before Christmas.
Considering that the card has
been going for almost 30
years and is too valuable to,
lose, "maybe we should start
registering it," she said.
While Clinton Public
Hospital awaits a final ver-
dict as to whether it will be
closed or remain. open, the
board of governors of the
Wingham and District
Hospital voted a capital
expenditure between $25,000
and $30,000 at its first meeting
in 1977, says a story in the
Wingham Advance -Times.
Executive director Norman
far over approved limits in a
related project. The
Government agreed to have a
university prepare
manuscripts and technical
reports on the fort, setting a
limit of $200,000: By the end of
March, the cost had hit
$242,000.
In another controversial
project in Northwestern
Ontario, costs of buying and
renovating Minaki Lodge
have hit $9.4 million. The
Province bought the lodge in
1974 to protect Northern
Ontario Development Cor-
poration loans on the
property when the owner was
unable to meet mortgage
payments.
The Report also reveals
that the Government gave an
ex-Deputy,Minister, seconded.
to serve—as Chairman of the
Regional Municipality of,
Sudbury, $23,375 in severance
pay when he resigned over a
disputewith a - council
member. He was sub-
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..This Government has a
tendency, confirmed by the
Auditor, to operate' bymeans
of Management Board Orders
- Cabinet spending orders
which have not been passed
by the Legislature.
Apparently, in the fiscal year
1975-76, the public interest
necessitated the . spending of
$289,905,005 by this means.
There were 93 separate or-
ders for amounts, ranging
from $15,000 to $57 million.
I have had several
enquiries from farmers
regarding the alleged import
control of farm chemicals by
this week, but on checking
with the office of the. Federal
Minister of Agriculture, the
Honourable Eugene Whelan,
I find that the Minister has
met with the various farm
organizations but nothing has
been made public.
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The higher an executive gets,
the more he forgets simple
things - like how to get bjs
coffee, and how to dial a
phone.
VI f is`in
Mrs. Wotkin's Country Kitchen
FULL -COURSE
SMORGASBORD EVERY SUNDAY
ADULTS
$3.49
since they took* over the
'management of .the school's
cafeteria. The cafeteria
. operates under the direction
of ,a committee chaired by a
student, and consists of two
staff members, three
.,v members of the student
council andthe principal.''he
committee, which rneets,each
month is proving an ex-
p.eri,mental success • says
principal Bruce Shaw and
may be adopted by the Huron
County Board of Education in
future. ' -
°Residents of the, Village of
Blyth face an increase in
their 'Water bills, effective
Feb. 1, which will amount to
$1 per month,. says a story in
last week's Blyth Standard.
The rate will now be $4.50 for
residential, $6.25 for com-
mercial and 45 cents per 1,000
gallons of metered water.
A $15,000 donation by a
generous, benefactor has
pushed the Mitchell and
District Health Centre Fund
to within 20 percent of its
-Hayes said each hospital
department would purchase
the needed equipmeiff
resulting in the actual
amount of expenditures to
depend on the total costs
spent by each department.
A derailed CN train about
one mile west of Mitchell had
patrons of a local . hotel
...worki g—o.ff__ i.1 .ix'...beers
shovelling off the tracks.
According to the Seaforth
Expositor, the two engines, -
snow plow and caboose
weighing a total of 250 tons
left the tracks after hitting a
replacement rail that had
moved close to the track by
repeated snow plowings. The
westbound train, that had
been travelling 20 i p.h. at
the time of the derailment
was put back on the track
with the use of a CN crane.
The 150 feet of torn track
`remained to be. - repaired
following the accident.
Another Expositor story
tells of Seaforth District High
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Elsewhere in the Advocate,
a story reads of an `eight
percent increase in the
salaries of the town council.
The increase means coun-
cillors will now receive
$),,550; the reeve, $1,950; the
deputy reeve, $1,750; and the
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