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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1983-05-25, Page 52a:. PACE` • -^ ODERICHSK NA .ST'AR„ WAPPIEMAY, w4,` 5r,1 BY JACK RIDDELL, MPP The Official Opposition ' tabled a motion of non- confidence in the. provincial government, citing the failure of the 1983 budget to recognize the most serious and fundamental problems facing the province. In a sttatement, reacting to the budget, Finance Critic Patrick Reid, said: "At a time when the Ontario government should be mak- ing strides to improve con- sumer confidence and create jobs for the future, Treasurer Frank Miller has given us a budget which has us walking on the spot. He in- sists that we must have a consumer -led economic recovery, yet imposes new tax burdens on consumers. "He acknowledges the need of more jobs for youth and other idled workers, yet is unwilling to commit more than a token amount to retraining for the future. Premier Davis this week promised us a job creation budget. That promise has not been kept ... Ontario in the coming months will be on a treadmill, at a time when it should be leading the coun-' try out of the current reces- sion. "The budget's greatest 1 deficiency - its most pro-; found weakness - is its failure to invest heavily in - the mobilization of Ontario's human resources. A $14) million allocation to retrain- ing is shameful at a time when 551,000 citizens ,of On- tario, or .12.2 percent of the work force, are out of work. It .signals .blu!dne�s, *o .the. . fact that 45',000 skilled' jobs "' are needed over the next two years, while 228,000young people stand idle. The 22 peri cent of all youth no unemployed in Ontario ca draw neither confidence nolo hope from this document. II "Last year, the budget contained $171 million in short-term job creation pro- grams. Additional funding Of . $150 million was announ in November 1982, of whic approximately $55 millio was to be spent in the 1982 fiscal year. The tot I number of positions to be created by these programs was about 41,000 from the $226 million in"funding. This year's budget outlines short- term job creation measures costing $242.3 million ... an increase of only 7.2 percent, even though the Treasurer's own forecasts show unemployment will increase by 19.4 percent. Moreover, this small increase in job creation funding is somehow supposed to • create 76,000 jobs, or almost twice gas many as last year. Obvious- ly, either the jobs must bq of even shorter duration t»an last year, or the numbers be- ing used are questionable. It appears that both cases may aPPl"The current' reces ion has thrown thousands ou of work, ' damaging the sirit • and creating social c m - plications which in some . cases will take years to wirer - come. Ultimately, the answer must be to proiride jobs for all of those who want to work. Productivity, which has stagnated in recent years, must be increased through a concerted effort by government, business and labour. This reality, , however, has somehow escaped the budgetmakers in this spring of 1983. We have a horrendous mismatch between the skills available and the skills necessary for recovery and future prosperity. The token investment in correcting this mismatch ignores the essen- tial point that productivity is the key to Ontario's recovery. "Mr. Miller could have generated both jobs and con- sumer spending by paying more attention to the hous- ing sector. The Govern- ment's planned investment of $40 million to assist in the rehabilitation and con- struction of about 5,000 ren- tal units, falls short by more than two-thirds the needed spending irm that area. 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