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BY JACK RIDDELL
M.P.P.
The Treasurer of
Ontario, Frank Miller,
has conceded that the
effect of Alberta's action
in providing tax breaks to
oil companies may not be
in the best interests of all
the Provinces, but said
the federal government
was mostly to blame.
He maintained that
Alberta's move is the CONTRO
result of its fight with PHONE CALL
Ottawa over the
allowance of royalties
charged against
operating costs. The
Federal Government has
refused to permit com-
panies to deduct from
federal taxes royalties
paid to Alberta, and that
province has responded
by allowing companies •
based in Alberta to
deduct royalty payments
on oil and gas productions
from the income on which
they pay , provincial
taxes.
The Treasurer has
stated that Ontario is not
in a position to grant such
an incentive.
Shell Canada Ltd. and
Imperial Oil Ltd. of
Toronto have established
Calgary -based sub-
sidiaries which will
handle their natural
resources activities.
General administration,
refining and marketing
will continue to be the
responsibility of.
theToronto head office.
Gulf Oil Canada Ltd. is
also considering whether
it will consolidate some of
its operations in Calgary
to take advantage of the
incentives.
When Liberal Leader
Stuart Smith asked the
, surer to protect
Ontario against what he
called Alberta's
"somewhat un -Canadian •
attitude' in enticing
away Toronto based oil
companies, the
Treasurer said he should
look to Ottawa.
"I would suggest that
the Federal Government
is trying, perhaps un-
successfully, to interfere
with the resource
ownership the provinces
currently have."
He told the Legislature
paper) their operation
from Ontario.
The Treasurer in-
dicated that he is sym-
pathetic to the oil com-
panies, and "if I was a
president I'd do the same
thing."
However, estimates of
revenue lost in cor-
s because off
poration tax
the move rage from $25
million to $50 million.VERSIAL
said she is concerned
primarily with whether
justice is applied equally
to all people and with
whether the ad-
ministration of justice
was properly protected in
the Kerr case.
Alf Stong (L.York
Centre) said Mr. Maloney
should have the right to
advise and assist his
client, but should not be
permitted to cross-
examine witnesses before
the committee.
the by-product of
Alberta's action is that it
become profitable for oil
companies to move
(sometimes mostly on
Shop Canadian
Government and op-
position members of the
Ontario Legislature's
justice committee
disagreed sharply on
whether former
Ombudsman Arthur
Maloney should be
allowed to cross-examine
witnesses during an in-
vestigation into the
controversial phone call
made by former Solicitor -
General George Kerr to a
Crown prosecutor.
The committee has
adjourned until next
week without making a
decision.
Mr. Maloney is
representing Mr. Kerr,
the, former Solicitor -
General, in. the com-
mittee's inquiry in the
propriety of the call to an
assistant Crown attorney
about a court -case in-
volving a constituent.
The Attorney General,
Roy McMurtry, told the
Committee that to grant
Mr. Kerr the right to
counsel without allowing
the counsel to cross-
examine witnesses is
unfair.
"This is a very serious
matter and to suggest
that this is not in the
nature of a trial is ab-
solutely ludicrous", he
said.
However, Liberal
Margaret Campbell and
NDP's Patrick Lawlor
argued that giving a
lawyer the right to cross-
examination in com-
mittee would in effect
turn the proceedings into
a trial.
•-!'When•it doilies to•the
operation of a committee
of the Legislature, we
should not be trying to
bring this into a• trial
atmosphere. . .To
suggest, in any way,
we're trying a member of
the Legislature is com-
pletely fallaciOus."
Mrs. Campbell, th
Liberal Justice Critic
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school boards of our
spending plans for 1979-
80."
He indicated that, "In
the year prior to
Ontario's initiation of
fiscal restraints in 1974-
75, year over year
spending increases were
running at almost 25
percent. In this current
year they will be only
about 6.9 percent".
Mr. Miller asserted
that recent federal
budgetary moves will
mean a reduction of some
$400 million in our
revenue next year.
He stressed that the
Government is still
committed to a balanced
budget and determined to
reach that goal as soon as
it is fiscally possible. .
."assuming an annual
growth rate in the range
of nine percent in
revenues Ontario will be
able to balance its budget
by 1984".
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The Treasurer stated
that members of the
municipal liaison com-
mittee have reom-
mended that immediate
abandonment of the
"revenue-sharing for-
mula known as the
•Edmonton Commitment
and that transfers of
provincial funds to
municipalities in 1979-80
be 'commensufate with
the rate of growth of
provincial expenditures.'
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He advised the
Legislature that the
government is prepared
to accept both these
recommendations.
Spending by ministries
for existing prograzw.
will be limited to an
in-
crease of about 5 riercent
in the year 1979-80.
Increases in transfers to
local governments and
school boards will
average 5 percent also.
Earlier in the week,
Treasury officials in-
dicated that the gover-
nment intended to place
tight limits on grant
increases. These grants
are for uses mooing from
'roads and -public tgansit
to social assistanCe . and
health. Officials said the
limits will be imposed in
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transportation, culture
and recreation and en-
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Trablitionally, the
municipalities have been
notified in September
about the size of their
grants, which until last
year were equal tothe
province's growth in
revenue.
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