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These three junior students at Victoria Public School gear for the finish In the toboggan
- races held during Winterama at the school last Wednesday. (staff photo)
In his budget statement last
April, the Provincial
Treasurer -expressed, the
opinion that the economy was
strong and expanding and we
must rely on "private sector
expansion to generate growth
and employment". He also
said he was providing,.
stronger incentives to
Ontario's small business
companies. However, the
Treasurer did little more than
eliminate some of the bur-
densome paperwork involved
in the Government's tax
credit scheme. The number of
companies to benefit under
the new provisions increased
to 50,000 from 20,000, but in
reducing the tax rate from 12
percent to 9 percent the
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Treasurer did not provide one
extra penny . to small
businessmen in Ontario. He
himself Vadmitted that the $30
million cost of the reduced
tax rate was identical to the
cost of the tax credit scheme
which the tax reduction
replaced. The net result was
that a larger number • of
businesses had to divide the
same size pie into smaller
pieces.
The United States is the
home base for many
multinational conglomerate
industrial and financial
giants. However, in 1965 the
U.S. Congress amended the
Small Business Act, saying
that "the essence of the
American economic system
of private enterprise is free
competition. Only through
full and free competition can
free markets, free entry into
business, and opportunities
for the expression and growth
of personal initiative and
individual judgement be
assured. The preservation
and expansion of such
competition is basic not only.,
to the economic well-being
but to the security of this
nation. Such security and
wen -being cannot be realised
unless the actual and
potential capacity of small
business is encouraged and
developed.
Small business is flexible
and able to adapt quickly to
changes in the market. It
possesses great potential for
technological innovation, is
labour-intensive and can
create new jobs much more
cheaply than capital -
intensive industries. A study
of small and medium-sized
businesses recently released
by the European Economic
Community, points to a small
irms sector as the means of
reducing alienation and
ocial tensions. The study
tates that: "Since small and
medium-sized undertakings
are so important for job
tability and the maintenance
f industrial peace, all social
egislation should be geared
owards maintaining in-
dependent businesses."
Liberal Leader Stuart
Smith has said often that we
must support the small
businessman, because the
mall business sector
epresents the important
alues of our society, the real
lace where free enterprise
orks to the benefit of all.
mall businesses today need
ccess to management ex-
ertise, to cheap and efficient
ays of handling data and
ookkeeping, and to in-
rmation about the capital
arkets. They require in-
reased access to guaranteed
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intensive businesses.
Dr. Smith .:believes` that
"our concepts of job training
and retraining need ex-
panding. We put people into
expensive, 'capital intensive
vocational schools;, ; and
community colleges ::when
small businesses are crying
out for people whom :they
would gladly train. We should
be considering adapting the
apprenticeship system, with
the government contributing
to the wage that the trainee is
earning while he or she learns
the job. This would be a way
of helping small businesses
which currently find labour
costs their greatest
problem."
Members frequently
receive enquiries about small
business opportunities, and
financing of small businesses.
These enquiries come from
people who wish to establish
their own business, or from
people who plan to expand
their present enterprise. We
usually put them in touch
with the Provincial or
Federal Agency which can be
of most assistance. Some of
these sources of financing
and assistance are as follows:
The Ontario, The Eastern
Ontario and the Northern
Ontario Development Cor-
porations, located on the
fourth floor of the Mowat
Block at Queen's Park. These
Corporations have regional
offices in London, Orillia,
Ottawa, Kingston, Thunder
Bay, Timmins and Sudbury.
The Development Cor-
porations and the Federal
Business Development Bank
offer term loans to new and
existing businesses in Canada
which are •unable to obtain the
required financing from other
lenders on reaslinable terms
and conditions. Counselling
Assistance to Small Enter-
prises (CASE) is also
available.
The Department of
Industry, Trade and Com-
merce of 112 Kent Street,
Ottawa, also offers various
financial and advisory
programs in the areas of
research and development,
industrial productivity,
marketing and management.
Also the Department of
Finance, Place Bell Canada,
Ottawa, offers loans under
the Small Business Loans
Act; Farm and Fisheries
Improvement Loans. The
Department of Manpower
and Immigration offers
assistance under the Adult
Occupational Training
Program.
Elevators for ALPHA
ALPHA learned this month
that a 100 percent grant for
elevators, installed in arenas
for the use of the han-
dicapped, has been confirmed
by Queen's Park.
Money is available from the
province for innovations that
exceed the Ontario Building
Code. However, builders,
architects and even those in
charge of the ministry of
culture and recreation office
at Hanover were unaware of
its existence.
When the Brussels arena
board inquired at Queen's
Park, they were told theirs
was only the second ap-
plication in the province.
To qualify for such a grant,
the building must be ac-
cessible td wheelchairs at the
ground level. Washroom
facilities for the handicapped
and doors wide enough for the
passage of a wheelchair must
be provided on both levels. In
addition, a heated viewing
area must be available.
The ALPHA members
would also like `to bring to the
public's attention the con-
venience of a chair placed in
strategic areas in stores for
handicapped or elderly
shoppers. Even a handy
folding chair would be
welcomed.
The next meeting will be
held in the Holmesville school
on March 22 at 8 p.m. Come
out and help us celebrate the
first anniversary of ALPHA
in Huron - a most gratifying
year.
For information, call Mary
Howell in Goderich, 524-8642;
Pat and Ralph Watson in
Brussels, 887-6236; or Elaine
Townshend in Clinton, 482-
3073.
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