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By Jack Riddell, MPP
The Minister off
Colleges and Univer-
sities, Dr. Bette
Stephenson, has told the
legislature -that if there
are too many applicants
to Ontario's. 22 com-
munity colleges this fall,
many of those who. are
unsuccessful could find
places in privately run
industrial training
programs and at private
vocational schools.
She was responding to a
charge by Liberal leader
Stuart Smith that the
government "is still
surprised" by a boom in
applications at the
colleges and "is unable to
act in accordance with
it". Smith cited a report
by the chairman of the
council of regents for
community colleges who
said there are 90,000
applicants for 40,000 first-
year spaces at the
colleges. In the Minister's
view, however, a more
accurate figure for the
number of applicants
would„ be 55,000, when
students who have -lap -
plied to more than one
college have been
deducted.
Opposition parties have
urged the government to
restore to municipalities-
the
unicipalitiesthe power to control the
architectural design off
major; developments. Bill
96, an act to amend the
Planning Act, which has
now received second
reading, would appear to
remove this authority.
However, the legislation
must now go to com-
mittee for further debate.
Opposition members
maintain that the bill
deletes the section which
gives municipalities the
power to review "per-
spective " drawings and
plans showing building
elevations and cross-
sections of industrial and
commercial buildings,
and residential buildings
which contain 25 or more
dwelling units.
The Minister of Con-
sumer and Commercial
Relations, Frank Drea,
has given an assurance
that new legislation will
ensure protection against
unfair evictions. A sec-
tion of the proposed
Residential Tenancies
Act, listing unfair grounds
for eviction was deleted
by the legislature's
general government
),rt1[ir they can handle
committee, but the
Minister has stated that it
would soon be
strengthened and rein-
troduced.
The acting chai
man of, the te.na.n-ts
federation toLd . the
committee he did not
believe its argu'ment that
outlining specific areas of
unfairness could tie the
hands of the proposed
Residential Tenancies
Commission when lt
considers complaints.
Liberal Margaret
Campbell stated quite
firmly that the com-
mittee has no intention of
backing down on its
initial proposals to
strengthen protection of
tenants.
"Don't you understand
that we are concerned
that there are many
instances that might be
unfair? Once you give a
limited number of cir-
cumstances, a judge is
inclined to look only for
those circumstances,"
she said.
Continuing reports of
controversy at the Royal
Ontario Museum and
allegations of
mismanagement of its
$44.5 million renovation
Farm trucking
under review
BY JACK RIDDELL,
M.P.P.
The firm of Everett
Biggs Associates has
been retained by the
Ontario Government to
carry out a review of
farm related trucking.
The objectives of the
review are: to give the
agricultural community
and the trucking industry
a common and clear
understanding of the real
impact of the P.C.V. Act:
in this area; to provide
government with a more
detailed picture of the
concerns of both truckers
and the agricultural
community; to attempt to
reach common ground
with .respect to possible
legislative changes to the
P.C.V. Act respecting the
commodities; and to
produce a factual report
and recommendations on
the 'above subjects for
submission to the
Minister of Tran-
sportation and Com-
munications and to the
Minister of Agriculture
and Food by December
15, 1979.
The review will con-
sider the impact of the
Public Commercial
Vehicles Act, its
regulations, and
associated - ad-
ministrative practices
and legal interpretations
`upon the movement by
truck for compensation of
farm products and
supplies including:'
livestock fee, hay and
straw; grain, soybeans,
corn, whitebeans;
manure, fertilizer,
agricultural limestone;
pesticides, herbicides;
milk, fencing material,
peatmoss; livestock;
drainage tile and piping;
farm machinery; and
other farm products or
supplies as may be
identified.
The review will also
consider the potential
effects of regulatory
changes including
exemption of specific
commodities,
movements, vehicles, or
other aspects of farm
related transportation
from the P.C.V. Act.
Written briefs will be
invited from interested
parties and public
hearings conducted
where considered
necessary.
I would invite any
personal views or
questions on the subject
as outlined in the terms of
reference.so that I might
refer.such concerns to the
firrn which is carrying
out the review.
POLLUTION
The Resources
Development Committee
has stated that acid rain
pollution is killing
Canada's lakes and
should be declared a
"national emergency".
"Ontario should order
all existing coal-fired
plants to meet air
pollution control stan-
dards and all new plants
have the best available
control devices installed
before they operate".
The Committee's
recommendations follow
weeks of hearings at
which it was told that
acid rain has already
"'killed" 140 Ontario lakes
and threatens another
48,000 and the problem is
threatening Ontario's
multi -billion dollar
tourist and recreation
industry. -
More than half the acid
rain damaging Ontario is
carried from United
States' . plants by air
currents, although Inco
Ltd's giant smelter in
Sudbury is the world's
largestsingle source of
pollution, according to
government testimony.
The committee was set
up to investigate the
provincial environment
ministry's replacement
last year of an order
forcing Inco to cut its
pollution to •750 tons per
day with a new order
allowing a continued 3,600
tons per day.
To persuade the U.S.
that acid rain requires
immediate action on both
sides of the border, the
committee urged the
government to start
controlling some of
Ontario's worse ,sources
as soon as possible.
A senior provincial
official suggested to the
Resources Development
Committee, of which I am
a member, that the
Ontario Government
should sue Reed Limited
to establish the com-
pany's responsibilities
for mercury pollution
from its Dryden pulp and
paper mill.
Duncan Allan,
Assistant Deputy
Minister of Industry and
Tourism, said the action
may be a way to establish
the legal liability, a
prospective buyer of the
plant could expect to
assume in taking it over.
He told the Legislature
Standing Committee on
Resources Development
that government officials
have spoken to five
potential buyers who are
worried about being held
'accountable for mercury
pollution, discharged
until 1975 into the English
Wabagoon River system.
The Committee has
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and expansion project
have prompted the
legislature's public ac-
counts committee to lock
into its operation. There
has been a great deal of
discussion -recent -1y about
the museum's finances
andon how long it will be
closed to the public for,
renovation: The com-
mittee has asked the'
museum to supply
financial information for
analysis by the provincial
auditor. However, the'
consent of the legislature
is necessary before the
auditor can be directed to
examine the museum's
books.
Radioactive tritium
was recently reported in
the municipal water
supply of Pickering
township, and was traced
to leakage from the
Pickering nuclear plant.
However, the Minister of
Energy, James Au•id, has
told the Legislature that
he has "positive
assurancesrom Ontario
Hydro that the traces
routinely found in the
water present absolutely
no danger to people,
wildlife, plant life, scotch
drinkers or anybody
else".
According to the
Ministry of Education,
the government has
rejected the idea of
making Grade 13 English
mandatory for all
students who wish to
enroll in Ontario's
universities, on the basis
that the need to impose a
mandatory Grade 13
English credit, par-
titularly for those
students continuing on to
post -secondary study,
has not been demon-
strated.
During the debate on
the estimates ----of the
Ministry of
Intergovernmental.
Affairs, the minister Tom
Wells, accused"' Quebec
Premier Rene Levesque
of misleading Canadians
and the people of Quebec
by talking about a bright
and prosperous future for
that province of. Canada
under sovereignty
association and asserting
that the impact of such an
association will be
minimal. In pushing for a
resumption of con-
stitutional talks, he,
rejecd Levesque's
suggegition of a
moratorium on such talks
until after the referen-
dum on Quebec's futur-e.
He stated that Ontario
simply won't go along
with the 'naive
assumption that Quebec
can bargain with the rest
of Canada in order to
have all the advantages
of a wider economic
association and, at the
same time, have almost
complete political
autonomy".
However, he said that
Ontario's position on
sovereignty association
should not be taken to
mean that the province is
not prepared to engage in
negotiation to correct
injustices, broaden
national institutions and
respond to specific
cultural issues.
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