HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-03-21, Page 3The housing cost increase speculation by Canadians. Just moment's^ notice' if an Kevin Bundy and Larry Gaynor. (middle row, left to right)
The report urges the was about four times as much recently the newly elected agreement was reached and °
abolition of all legislative as the rise in the cost of living - President of the Ontario Real - ratified by both *parties and
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While Young Canada Week
was at the centre of everyone's
attention, on the weekend a
`team of youngsters *from - •
Goderich were champions of a
weekend ' tournament in
Walkerton. The All-Star 'B
team coached by Brian Rumig
took all for of their games to
.captjIre_ top..spot.•_ ._.
fn their first game o the
weekend. they'. easily de ted
the Durham team by a s e of
10-2. Theirsecond match Was
• against Paisley whom they
trounced by a 16-0 ma4•gin.•
The thil'd game of the series
pitted . the youngsters against
the Listowel entry and they
proved to he more formidable
` • opponents. The ' boys fought
back from a 2..0-0 deficit to
Walkerton
defeat the Listowel team 4-2.'
In the championship game
agairist St. Marys • the team '
played excellent' hockey in a
real crowd thriller. St. Mays
0p opened the scoring'early in the
•game b`ut Goderich tied it up
before the end of the fust
period. =Twice • more Goderich
had to fight -back from one goal
deficits andf thG''-game-ended;in
a
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Pee Wee rules call for a
series of penalty shots, to , be
taken by each team to break a
tie atthe end of -regulation
` time. Three players are selected
by each team to take, one shot
each- and the team, with the
most goals are, winner's.
Eric Skirton and Rich teddy •
found the mark for the
Goderich team while at the
-other end thehometeam goalie
' held the. St. M,arys sharp-
shooters at' bay resuing in a
5-2 victory for Goderich.
. Wayne Jackso.gx. and Eric
Skirton were the most produc-
tive players for the All:Stars
scoring 9 and 10 goals respee-
tively..Ifie:.goa'itenders -were' �...
key men in thea tournament
allowing only 7 goals for the
opposition while their. forward's
scored 35.
Congratulations go out to the
.whole team., on an excellent ef-
fort. Every one played great
- hockey •and gave 100 per cent at
all •times throughout the
weekend.-
Ontario
eekend.-
New plane makes the difference
The Dominion Road,,,Machinery Company has based •the
largest and best equipped airplane ever to be operated out of ,
Goderich a4t- the Sky Harbour.°a°•irport. The plane, a Kingair
C90, is a twin engine .turboprop that comfortably flies six
people within a range of 1200 miles.
The aircraft arrived in Goderich on January 28 and made
its first business flight in' January 31-.
The company completed a thorough survey of their
operations in Canada; the United States. and Europe and
Africa.
q.'We found that we were making 100 trips a year td
Toronto alone and this=was eating upra lot of working hours, -..-
for executive and salesmen " alike„” said Bruce Sully,
president, of the company; r .,
"We have a• phenomenal number of"delegations td.uring
the factory to see`°our entire• operation and we use this as a
selling tool," he went on to say. "We took all this into con-
sideration when we purrchased this particular airplane."
The plane has served the company well to date. In just
'over a month and a half it has 'flown 100 hours and for the
past three days has been given its 100 hour servicing.
The company uses their factory tdur as a method of sales
procedures They have even gone to the trouble of installing a'
third' flag pole. on the parkingpl9f of their office to fly theflag
of the country• whose delegation is touring the plant:
"This is a courtesywe hope wh make the people who visit
the factory feel More at ease and' welcome," Mr. Sully com-
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mented.
"We also have a„ plaque down in the foyer that officially
welcomes the people to the town. This will give you an idea
,of how extensive our sales program is and how much
travelling is done for the company." he said. "We were
losing too much valuable'time using the airline, to transport.
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our staff to otlier cities and it was, 'a lot of effdrt bringing
people in from -out. of the_province and the country to see the
plant."„
.The airlines are still used t6 transport travellers to
Toronto but from there they are flown on the Kingair to Sky
Harbour and driven to the plant. On any given day the plane
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may 'be operating for ,eight hours or" more.
One typical itinerary may be to flay to Toronto -and drop off
someone with business there;• fly on to Montreal toget'
someone to see a dealer or to make a sale then back to
Toronto to 'pick ,up the first man and back 'to Goderich.,
.�__.....,..O.n.-Wednesday the plane took one of the senior executives
to. Cleveland for a -meeting, dropping;ff another man in In-
diana'•en route. It returned that evening with both men on
board which 'could newer have been,, done using regular
airlines. They took off at 7:30 in the morning and were back
in Goderich at x,:00that evening.
"Without the ,use of the company plane this trip would
have meant two senior ,executives out of the''office- fcrr at
least two days,” Mr. :Salley said.: ,
'Our only problem now is storing the -plane," s id Mr.
Sully. "We are hoping the ownership problem at the airport
is cleared' up in the near future. We are hoping -td' build' a
hangar for storage and some service a,nd to resurface the
runway' and get it certified again for night operations."
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"A letter has been sent to town council on the matter and
I am hoping that whatever the• problem is thatit can be
solved without too much delay,'-' Mr. Sully added.' •
"The aircraft .isplaying a monutnefital role in the growth
of the company and ,so far as we can tell, is, fulfilling all the
hoes we had placed in it at the time of its purchase," Mr.
Surly commented.
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oads, is playing a huge part In'' thilrysales program, and produCtion exparflilott;
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Jack Riddtlll, Huro►1 IUIPP
Marriage should be .viewed sibility. To ;cut housing- costs- Canadian owned corporations reinaicks by saying that strong
in law as an economic partner Mr. Lewis proposed a massive' or an even greater influx 'of action including restrictions onk
ship in which both husband public acquisition, of land, for foreign money will furthef!in- foreign ownership of land, steep
• and wife have equal shares.1' housing 'adjacent td the 20 Hate Ontario's' land prices.
This is a radical departure. major urban centres in Ontario. Newly enriched Middle
from existing principles as The Tax Credit system should . Eastern. Countries are already
• recommended by . the Law be used to hold * mortgage, in= rumoured to be buying land in
Reform Commission in the terest:Rrate to 6 per cen.t'and a Ontario. Relaxed Japanese
massive report that was tabled Capital Gains Tax of. 75 per regulations ".for„ investors` in
in the Legislature this week. cent leviedon geculative foreign l nd have been in effect
The proposal if acted upon, profits from land and housing. for'only4. few years. Thei cent_
by the Legislature would allow The Leadel1 .of the Liberal • devaluation of the Canadian
Ontario wives to ' share in Party, Robert .Nixon, also at- dollar in relation to European
family assets acquired during a tacked the. Government for and Lpanese,currencies is also
marriage, upon termination of having no policy to control attracting foreign investment to
the marriage. .The marital spiralling land and housing 9ntario's real estate market
home as well as joint bank ac- costs. He indicated that the. which, because its value. is
counts would be considered average price of all houses sold
joint property of both spouses. ih Ontario rose by 26 per cent .
299 Legislative recommen- between 1970 and 1973. The
dations are designed to move 'profS1em is mostcute in
Ontario Law regarding' ,Metropol•itan Toronto where , ownerehip,will ease the upward management 'right. 'ibis Goderich.S All-Star Peewee teem' Played in a tour
illegiiiiate children, family" the cost of shelter, rose ap- pressure on land . prices Education Minister Wells nament in Walkerton on the weekend and suyeessfuhy p-
r er and courts out -proximately $1,000 per month somewhat but tough measures .told the Legislature that he was turgid the championship. they .are (front row, left to richt)
cisip tY family
ctf the 18th and 19th centuries on the average house. are also required to stop -land ready to•withdraw the Bill ata Teed Doherty, Danny Boyce,' Mike Remolds, Bruce Melyk,
and into the 20th century,
taxes- et speculative land
profits, a government run land
servicing, program and steps to
reduce residential construction
costs are urgently required in
order to hyoid further, house
price increases, ,
Education Minister Thomas
Wells intorduced-'a Bill to 'force
the teachers of York County
back to work and send pupil -
teacher ratios and all other
items in dispute to compulsory
art itration. Prior do the, intor-
rising so fast is a better invest ;ductiop of the Bill a majority of
ment than gold. York-' County school trustees
Mr. • 'Nixon went on to say adamantly .refulsed to negotiate
that restrictions on foreign land the ratio, claiming ,.it as a
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that they, "approach him while
the Bill was being debated in
the Legislature. The , Bill
received third and final reading
in the Legislature about two
hours after the teachers had
made their decision to return to
the classrooms objecting,to ar-
bitrati,on- or any ' kind of
legislative settlement as a
satisfactory solution "of the
problems: in the Education
system but voting in favour" of
returning to the 'class as
- lative ._in ° ne ._._._ryes xisihle_. e._ople-who respect
that" the s .a�rat _.Rami ou-rt•-� • � -•� h-- a .0 a p9 p .!...s.Req.
gip .�••ly..0 o
be, manned by two :groups of p
-judges, one appointed by the
Federal Government and the
other by the Provinci I Govern-
. ment. Attached to - e Court
should - be . the assurance of
adequate family court 'S pport
services, such as family oun�P
selling, conciliationand
assessment • branches and
specialized probation services
Themain theme of ND
Leader, Stephen ,„Lewis' reply,
in the Legislature to the Speech
from the Throne was inflation.
,. Mr..Lewis produced some star-
tlingfigures to back up his
claim that there has been an
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. Doug Cruickshanke Stewart Cretv, Bih Shewfelt and Rick
Carmen. In the back row (left to right) are the coach Brlan-
Rumig, Rick Leddy, Eric Skirton, Wayne Jackson and the
° manager BIM Desjardins_ (Y.C.W. staff photo) "
discrimination between and almost twice as much as Estate Association estimated
children born in and . putside food price increases in 1973. As that 30• per cent of all land
marriage. It suggests,a new a result of the influence that transactionsinOntario involve
Court Official called a Law ,housing prices in Toronto is speculators.
Guardian, be appointed to each " having throughout Ontario Mr. Nixon implied that there
Farr�i1 •Court "to act only in the prospective land buyers and isn't a community' in southern
, interest' of the child in, any land speculators are searching Ontario • that does not have
proceeding affecting his up- farther'and farther afield. Land ' land .speculation going on
„bringing. \ prices all over Ontario started around it. Until the Province
The. �ommission also to rise about •18 month% ago makes�an announcement about
suggests that a unified Family because "of pressures in ' ,the where the.develdbment will go,
Court should\ be -established to Toronto •Real Estate market. , the speculation. will con4inue.
deal ^ with. all'`,family Jaw mat- ^ The primary cause as the On- In the past weeks it's'gotten
- ters The Commission suggests tario -Economic Council .repor- worse. There has never been as
ted last 3�ear is a ssaro�t _ _mu --sp c .. y
developed land.' The demand around as there is and never as the laws of the land. •
' for land far exceeds the supply much uninformed speculation. Opposition Members debated
and the shortages have been Every little town is being . the Bill at some length
heightened by competition for bought up. The Government .. stressing' the fact that Mr.
available' sites between foreign must act immediately says Mr; Wells could have ended the
and domestic capital, , The Nixon to bring this intolerable strike weeks ago by insisting
result is artificially high land situation under control, " that both parties *get •back to-
cost which is reventually passed' Be `suggested that a steep the table and bargain in good
on to land buyers.. - rate of tax : to windfall gains faith. Failing, this the Liberal
German, Swiss, ''American,
Japanese and British investors
have all been attracted .to On-
tario's bland, 'property market
\and their demand for real,
state has resulted in inflated
housing prices for Canadians.
Mr. Nixon inSicated ' that
fore't__firms 'have made sub-
unbelievable increase in the ` stantial ' purchases of land in
cost of housing in Ontario. variou, parts of the Province.
Housing costs in Toronto alone The Swiss ' owned ' firm of
have risen , 56 per cent since Fidinam Limited, for example
1971 and similar increases controls a large tract of land in
`were also seen in other centres • .. Ngr'folk Cou° ty near ;the Nan -
such as Hamilton, London and ticoke generating project.
Kitchener. • ' Mr. Nixon charged that ,the
Mr. Lewis also charged that amount of foreign owned land
an average price rise of 55 per in central Toronto 'alone. is
cent has been experienced since • staggering ,and he 'sent on to
1971 "on such items as milk; •give several- examples, Such ex -
butter, eggs, ^ bacon, " steak, tensive foreign participation in
bread, vegetable soup, canned the 'Ontario land market not
corn and potatoes. Food Com- only infringes on our natural
pany profits are well up and heritage ..but .also contributes to„
"1V r.-sLewiski condemned' -the higher ' shelter , costs for,.‘the
Government for letting the Cor-•, . resident& of. this Province. This,
porations of Ontario, get away type of foreign investment does
rwith murder. not' create .jobs or. /advance
Although the Ontario Dover! ' technology.- It benefits only the
nmefit contends that Ottawa investors. According to Mr.
bears prifne . responsibility for '` Nixon, the Provincial •Goy„ern-
restraining inflation, Mr. Lewis. merit must act properly. to
i 'maintains that it is' first and restrict future land purchases
foresRt -.a provincial. respon- to residents of Canada and
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should be applied to remove
the incentive to , speculate in
land. This tax should apply to
profits from most sales of raw
land and houses whichare not
Party believed that by
establishing 'a Trusteeship in
York County .the Minister of
Education could bring the con-
tract negotiation to •a prompt
occupied by the owner but +,conclusioliNin ' a much more
should not apply to profits from equitable manner'.
the sale ' of a- "principal' ro A report tabled. `in the
residence, or to profits from the Legislature this weel,contained
sale of .an owner -occupied 170 -recommendations that
family farm. would work extensive changes
In other words,- the tax in' the course of policing for the
shouldbestructured in such 'a- future. A drastic reduction in
way .as to apply to speculators the niiinberof police forces
only without .„penalizing other
land owners. Although steps.to
control Ontario's land costs are
the most 'Urgent priority accor-
ding 'to Mr.' Nixon; action' is
also required to reduce residen-
tial construction costs in , On-
tario.
The 7 per. cent sales tax on
Ontario has been, recommended
by •a Task Force ,as, a means of
av,,eating cgst crisis. The Task
Force on policing found two
potential threats to the quality
of Police ; work and one of its
suggested solutions ins
,eliminating more than 100 for7..,
ces to make more efficient use
building materials „should be of blue uniformed manpower.
removed •or offset by'equivalent
grants to purchases.. of _new ,The' report recommends that
homes. The 'Federal Govern;. the number of operating forces
ment should be urged to' »be cut from the present level of
remove or provide similar off- 179 to between 30 and 40. It
setting grants for its 12 per cent ` would 'leave 21 city 'and, 10
sales. tax., Inexpensive housing regional polio 'forces. In ad -
forms including mobile and fac-- - dition there would be 29
tory produced homes must be a agreement areas in the south,
encouraged, said Mr. Nixori. and ',10 in the„, north areas,
Mr: • Nixon summarized his where through , agreement
policing would be handled by
the OPP or large, neighbouring
force. The ,.policing 'bill in On-
tario in 1972 was $229.3
million and -had average an an-
nual rate of increase better
than -16 per cent. The cost is
outstripping the Municipality's
ability to pay to the point
where in six years spending
demands -would be $55 million
more 'than 'the cash available;
the report said.
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Ontario is willing to see the
•price. of Western Canadian
crude oil rise.to $6- a barrel but
only if it is going to stay there
for at,aeast two years: Energy
Minister Darcy McKeough said
he does not want a pr -,ice -rise on
April 1st, tha date the current
' Federal freeze is scheduled to
expire to be just the first step
up' the ladder''to $7 then $8 and
on up to whatever the world's
monopoly price might be.
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The Federal Governmekt has
frozen the price of , Western
crude at $4 a barrel until
March 31st. Mr. McKeoug"1=r
strongly attacked the desire of
the producing ,pro$.inces,
Alberta and Saskatchewan to
raise -the price to theworld
level of about $10.50 a barrel.
The Energy Minister said an
increase to $6 would, add ap-
proximately 6 cents a gallon to
the cost of, heating oil ani
gasoline in Ontario. A jump to
$10.50 a • barrel wouldadd
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almost 20 cents a gallon. This
"flies in the face of natioi' ail in-
terest," McKeough said.
"The net impact on Ontario of
a move to $6 crude would be to
addrost of $350 million a year
to' people of the province.
Alberta's net benefit would be
$750 million.
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