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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1987-10-28, Page 19Community News Public hearin BY JACK RIDDELL HURON NIPP As Minister of Agriculture and Food, I and my Colleague, Labour Minister Greg Sorbara, have appointed a committee to develop an implementation plan for the Ontario Task Force on Health and Safety in Agriculture's recommendations. The nine -member Agricultural Health and Safety Implementation Committee will review the 52 recommendations made by the task force. Then,' by April 30, 1988, I've asked them to recommend an action plan for my ministry and the ministry of labour. "The Ministry of Agriculture and Food has already acted on several of the recom- mendations since the release of the task force report," said Sorbara. "However, both ministries need an organized ap- proach to implementing many more of the task force recommendations." To date, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food has established three new safety pro- grams, including a training course in pesticide dandling for vendors which. will be extended to farmers in the future; the Ontario Soil Conservation and En- vironmental Protection Assistance Pro- gram which incorporates grants for im- proving pesticide storage facilities and for fencing manure lagoons; and the Ontario Farm Safety, Mangement and Repairs Program, which started this summer, and pays farmers 80 percent of the cost of farm safety projects such as roll bars and cabs for tractors and child -resistant fencing of manure storage areas. Co-chairing the committee are Dr. Clare Rennie, assistant deputy minister, technology and field services, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food and Peter Sadlier-Brown, assistant deputy minister, policy and programs, Ontario Ministry°of Labour. Other members of the committee are: farmers Debbie Whale of Alma, George Underwood of Wingham and Howard Burkholder of Gormley; farm workers Tina .Norry, Milton, and Bob Hofstetter, New Dundee; Ross McKinnell of Guelph, s on free trade pl ned QUEEN'S PARK past -president of Ontario Retail Farm Equipment Dealers Association; and Tom Sawyer of Mississauga, Ciba-Geigy Canada Ltd. Before making their recommendations, the Task Force on Health and Safety in Agriculture, chaired by Dr. Richard Richards, considered 96 presentations and briefs submitted by major farm organiza- tions, government agencies, chemical manufacturing associations, safety associations and individual farmers and farm workers. PUBLIC HEARINGS ON FREE TRADE During the recent election campaign, Premier David Peterson promised to hold public hearings to explain the Ontario Government's opposition to• the proposed Canada -14. free trade deal and to give members of the public the. opportunity to express their opinions. Keeping this cofh- mitment, public hearings by the Cabinet Sub -committee on the free trade deal began last week at Queen's Park. The hearings are designed as an educa- tional forum to allow people to put forward their points of view, whether in favour or against the deal. Chairman of the committee, Industry, Trade and Technology Minister Monte Kwinter said the hearings will not change the Govern- ment's opposition to the proposed deal. Mr. Kwinter said the Sub -committee will release Government documents on sec- tions of the proposed agreement as they come up for discussion. For example, On- tario Government studies on the auto sec- tor will be updated and released. At the hearings, Kwinter said the acid test . of any free trade agreement is whether or not it achieves secure access to markets in the United States. He said the proposed deal fails this test. NOTICE TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN JIM BISSET IS NO LONGER ASSOCIATED WITH WILFRED McINTEE & CO. LIMITED "Our concern and the reason why we are not prepared to support this deal. is that we don't have secure access," said Kwinter. "Not only do we not have secure access, but we have very little more than before we went into this". "What we have done is literally given away the store to get something that we didn't get. That is the basic problem," Mr. Kwinter said at the hearings. The first presentation to the sub- committee was an overview of the elements of the proposed deal given by trade experts of theWntario government. Explaining what the document will mean for Ontario were Special Trade Policy Ad- visor to the Premier, Robert Latimer and Deputy Minister of Industry, Trade and Technology, Patrick Lavelle. On the second day of hearings, Latimer told the Sub -committee,, "You don't have the kind of security of access that people were talking about as the objective in the negotiation of this arrangement." Latimer said the deal failed to exempt Canada from U.S. trade remedy laws. 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