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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-07-14, Page 5rgar Ire )rvil lose 13 •` L I. Thereappears to be some eoncern' in this country about the number of people who are unemployed. In fact just this week our well paid MP's bolted rightvut of their easy chairs on the Hill and unleashed a barrage 'of criticism against the Governmedt for', our chronic illness. Some even went so far as to dernand a fall federal budget to w.. -deal with,,suCiwnu,isances as job creation programs and tax- cuts for lower and raid dlean cotne -Candians. Why the MP's even got a Jttle steam under their perma-press suits when figures released from Statistics Canada Tuesday indicated that although the actual number of unemployed decreased by 10,000 in June over May to -a total of 814,000 seasonally adjusted unem- ployment rose .1 per cent to eight per cent in June. .f Why the public outcry? Why are our distinguished members of the House of Commons getting so uptight about unemployment, Truth is, Canadians have never had it so geed. Especially our young people. Canada's youth has never been in such a position. They never lived through depressions. In fact about all they have to cope with in life is inflation and unemployment. Things were just not as good for older generations. Now young Canadians can aspire to be unemployed from almost any profession they wish to choose.` The - unemployment attitude is now becoming „ sophisticated and it just isn't :chic to be ,,an unemployed laborer, machinst or teacher. Somehow there is just much more class_ in being unemployed from den- tistry, law, psychiatry or engineering. GODERtCH $1014-444,- If I had to do it all over again ,1 wouldn't hesitate to become an unem- ployed foreign correspondents -Th re its an aura of prestige, surrounding foreign correspondents..and the fact that -many have been supressed during the past few weeks and in some cases beaten -has- given unemployed newsmen across the country cause to hold their beads high. Why just about anyone would be proud to be unemployed from a profession, in which Gerald Utting of the .Toronto Star was held captive by Idiot Amin and even starred in his own, one. hour television show in Uganda. Or how about the U. -S. television .correspondent and his German cameraman who were beaten up while filming a Moscow beer garden this week -.and were then later questioned by police. And another American correspondent recently left Moscow after a long grilling F INFORMATION, BACKGROUND AND OPINION T ,,;; "0:; by the "secr"etpolied and v✓a`s°ac+eused of spying for the United States, . • Wouldn't. any Canadian parent "be proud to have a son like South -African' heart transplant surgeon Dr. Christian Barnard who announced that he will retire within thenext two years, "Being an unemployed heart, t ,artspIRAx:..w, surgeon is about as prestigtous,a, position as any young aspiring unemployable person could attain in life. It has become-the,Canadian way as sure as mom, apple pie and the girl next -door. Our Canadian constitution has guaranteed each and every. Canadian the opportunity to be unemployed from any profession that he or she may choose. AND IT IS EQUALLY important to recognize our elected officials who4are still protecting those rights. rs ig to hool rlashi tatis d m it ilatio ' Onl se b �e m cove I the le. - hat s scan t exis gest )n i y dri ;Sand DW, s s rn e illy r nt ng )1s." MTC 3isa H . S Toro ately ?.reste this cation n Cou d be send o whe per ffice vhere sincer Two isehA st Lon »6C >ers 0.Iw 0 page ►lants. ,s Coll Mah Ancil that eating st 1 .lnjoye rtainm i in C order ,odge July y for ears. Ontario Municipal Board panel objections 'to a zoning bylaw for orthern section of Tuckersmith hip have been,accused of ading buck-passinand Com- t tactics by townshipresidents. two man panel consisting' of H.W. and " A.L. McCrae considetted ions to a township zoning bylaw the council in 19712. The ity of the objections raisedby a of area farmers were aimed at ments to the county official at were passed after the Clinton rce Base was closed and•.turned__„ private developers. stra is included in the area under blic inquiry has ruled4that the Government acted properly in g a land speculation tax exem- to Ronto Development Co. of dale last year. HoWever sfied Liberals ,and New rats in the Legislature s they ikely push'. for furthe in - tions. report tabled in the legislature Justice J.D. Cromarty of the e Court said he was satisfied that s no undue or improper in - brought to baron anyone from urce nor was there any -im- HERE IN HURON the jurisdiction of the official plan but would have to be rezoned for residents to claim official title to the homes they own in the complex, A rezoning bylaw is, now required to uphold the recommendations of the official plan and its ° a- mendments. Several homeowners along the stretch' of Highway 4 between Clinton and ,Vanastra raised objections to the zoning,. bylaw that liststheir homes as non- conforming uses in an agricultural area. An amendment to the official plan would be required for the owner to rebuild on his.property in the event of fire. " 4 Gary Davidson, County Planning director, said be would recommend an ammendment to both township and county council to redesignate the area. The problem arose from an unsheduled change to an amendment to the official,,' plan by the Provincial Hqusi<r,lg Minister in 1972. The area was ;designated as developmental in the official plan a- mendment and was subsequently changed'to agricultural by .the housing minister. The OMB officials reminded the ob jectbrs - that the official plan and its ammenfiments were law and could not be altered. The hearing dealt only with - the zoning bylaw. Davidson . reiterated the board's statements claiming there was little that could be done to the official plan and its amendments. Under , the guidelines of the Ontario Planning Act the zoning bylaw must conform to approved official plan. One objector, Bill de "'Jong, RR 1, Brucefield, when told that only Housing Minister John Rhodes - could make changes to the plan accused- the two OMB officials of passing the buck and claimed there - wasn't a snowball's chance in hell of getting changes from the government. Other objectors at the hearing accused - the Tuckersmith township council of railroading the official plan after i lad 05 been shelved for almost five years. Other residents claimed they had not been properly informed of the plan from its initial stages. They also bitterly protested the -panel's refusal to air more • objections about the 'plan and am- endment. One objector ,stor'tned from the hearing and said, "there are tactics which go beyond communism." Gord de Jong of RR 1 Brucefield claimed that 99 percent of area residents were opposed to the bylaw five years ago but now it was being forced on. them\ Some of the - people in attendance at the hearing raised objections to being forced to PROVINCIAL POINTS propriety of any kind in respect of the decision. Liberal leader Stuart Smith and New Democratic Party leader Stephen Lewis said that given the inquiry's narrow terms of reference the decision ' was entirely predictable. They claim that the key question_ of whether or not the Government decision makers knew all the relevant facts was not examined. The public -accounts committeewill probably have to raise the issue to get the right answers. ' After months of controversy Judge ' Cromarty was appointed shortly before the June 9 election was called. Ronto's exemption application arose from its sale early last year of more than 300 acres of unserviced land in Brantford to George Wimpey Ltd. Under provincial legislation the land would have been subject to an automatic exemption had it been serviced. But Ronto convinced the government that the death of a senior partner Ronald Togham, forced the sale of land before development and servicing plans could be completed. Depending on the date the land was sold the exemption was worth between $400,000 and $2 million to the company. - Judge Cromarty said each witness was asked whether he or she was offered any inducement or was subjected to any pressure or influence regarding the exemption. None of the witnesses gave any evidence to support that. In April both opposition parties were forced to back down from the original demand of the public accounts' com- mittee for a select committee of the Legislature to investigate the Ronto matter. The Government had hinted that obstruction could lead' to an , early election call. The Liberals then pressed for,, w'de terms of reference for the public iqui but the Government refused. Th Liberals argued that the fundamental issue was whether then Revenue, Minister Arthur Meen was properly informed and had enough information about the deal to decide properly to grant the •tax exemption.: Attorney - General Roy McMurtry said it was not the job of judicial inquiries to sit in judgment of bureaucratic decisions as the opposition parties seem to be suggesting. McMurtry explained that there was conform to any kind of zoning or plan- ning. Robert Fotheringham of RR 3 Seaforth suggested that only the Vanastra should be subjected to zoning while the remainder of the unaffected area be left alone. Lawyer Beecher ,Menzies, acting on behalf of some ob- jectors asked for a delay in the im- plementation of the bylaw for a few' months until the problems could be worked out. He claimed the am- endment was not well put together and it would be a mistake to pass another piece of legislation supporting it. nothing preventing the opposition parties from pursuing the matter in the fall session and he was convinced they likely would. Cromarty said it was the position of commission counsel to go beyond impropriety and act as if it were a criminal offence 'and examine the possibility that the Government acted upon incomplete, inaccurate o'r misleading information. New Democratic Party leader Stephen Lewis said that the gifestions that most troubled the opposition members had not been dealt with yet and he was sure they would loom again in the fall. sn't much of a barbecue but it ugh to attract 1,500 who mun- ordinary hotdogs and listened to nister Pierre Trudeau deliver essage. - rnout in Camrose Alberta was t of a surprise in the ally Conservative riding but the inister was applauded for his on national Unity and the ent's anti-inflation policy. He n cheered for uttering a few sentences in a community opposed to his liolicy on lism. CANADA IN SEVEN Accompanying Trudeau was Jack Horner, the Minister without Portfolio who gave the Liberals their. only Alberta representation when he crossed the floor this spring from the Progressive Con- servatives, Horner is expected to have a tough time against Tory Arnold Malone in winning the Crowfoot seat which will include Camrose when redistribution. takes effect. From the applause at the barbecue it was apparent that Prime Minister Trudeau was running well ahead of Horner in popularity in the area where a switch in party allegiance is viewed with States President Jimmy Carter his vote to the, people killer omb. • had given his provisional ap- the production of the neutron e deadly nuclear weapon that is of wiping out people without buildings. "i?l hd the word of his decision enate Armed Services Com- esterday and the move has ly killed any hope opponents eleting neutron -weapons funds '1978nubile works bill not% 8 much suspicion. Residents said there had not been a great deal of publicity for Trudeau's first visit here but people from all over central Alberta packed a small sunny park in Camrose that has rarely seen anything in the way of big time ex- citement. One city official of the town of 10,000 `said that Prime_Minister Trudeau drew at least twice as many people as would ever turn out for a real good softball game. Both Trudeau and his new cabinet. Minister played off their new relationship in trying to boost the Liberal idea of national unity and the need to convince Quebeckers to stay in Canada. Horner told his constituents that, Trudeau has been very fair, straight and aboveboard and is convincedthat the Prime Minister is intent on helping the West. Trudeau said that their part- nership symbolizes Canada's need to - bring people, together with justice for French and English speaking Canadians alike. Trudeau said that if he and Horner could do it then the rest of Canada could do it with Quebec. T-fis remarks drew three rousing cheers from the crowd. WDR LDWEEK before the Senate. The Senate is expected to resume its debate on the controversial neutron weapons by today. Carter in making his decision reserved the right to change his mind after, a comprehensive study is completed on the subject in mid August. However one White House official was quoted as saying that is not likely to happen in this case.." The neutron bomb, referred to a people kilJr can effectively be use warhead on a battlefield missile o take the form of an artillery shell. There are currently 'funds in the budget for ..three versions of the people killing bomb, an eight inch artillery projectile, a warhea'd°for-Lance missile and a 155 mm shell. The United States Military views the bombs as tidy, clean bombs whose impact fades quickly into the at- mosphere after an initial pulse of neutron radiation designed to kill enemy . troops while leaving equipment, uildings and roads intact. ,Although the bomb has a negligible effect on buildings and equipment it has the' capabilities to render a slow painful death to humans in the vicinity. All victims die painfully in a- period ranging up to as long as six days after„the bbmbs release depending on their closeness to the blast site. Although Carter's administration has approved and already sent the 1978. budget to Congress last February, the President was not aware that money for neutron weapons was contained in the budget until ''news stories from Washington disclosed that fact. Jean Luc Pepin the newly named co- chairman of the federal government's task force on Canadian unity believes there is morethan a 50 percent chance of holding the country together. The for- mer Cabinet Minister and chairman of the Anti-inflation board was appointed last week with former Ontario premier John Robarts, Pepin claimed.. that increased ac- ceptance of the rights of French Speaking Canadians would help keep Quebec within Canada and Con- federation. Although Prime Minister Trudeau gave the group a one year Carter's decision earlier this week was based on an analysis of the weapons program by the defence. department and also through an assessment by the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. According to other White House sources the agency found that produc- tion of neutron bombs and weapons would have negative effects on current arms negotiations not only with the Soviet Union but also with other nations of the world. - But the sources described the effects as trivial and not sign' sible cant t. mandate Pepin believes that it will he an 18 month job. Pepin said that psychologically it has to be seen that English speaking Canada has moved substantially over the past number of years. But it was only 15 oro years ago that the Francos were fighting and were trying to convince English speaking Canada that there should he a distinctive flag. It was also 20 years ago that they were trying to convince parliamentarians that there should he bilin"gual'men'iis'"""'' "It took time," Pepin said, "It was slow process but it has accelerated so thereis hope. any of the discussions. During the past week- the Soviet Press has carried numerous stories critical of the apparent U.S. desire to produce neutron weapons. in the Pentagon's view the neutron bomb is an ideal weapon to deploy against Soviet tank forces in Europe. Opponents of the weapon argue that since it is so useable with current equipment, it lowers the threshold that exists between conventional and all out nuclear warfare. They also claim that not enough 'is known about neutron o--radiat'ttan. ,