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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Citizens News, 1974-04-18, Page 6PAGE 6 t The Honourable John White, Provincial Treasurer brought down the Budget in the Legis- lature this week. Some 641, 000 people who receive federal guaranteed in- come supplements, family ben- efits and welfare payments will be given assistance with drug costs commencing September 1. A so pensioners and those who are disabled will be paid the highest guaranteed annual income in Canada, as from July 1, $2, 600 for singles and $5, 200 for couples. The new income supplements are $25.61 a month for single pensioners and $68.84 for couples. When these amounts are added to the federal old age security and guaranteed income supplement a single pensioner would receive a minimum monthly income of $216.67 and a married couple a min- imum of $433.33 The retail sales tax has been removed from a wide range of household cleaning materials and personal items such as toothpaste, soap and shaving creams, as well as shoes, skates and athletic footwear costing less than $30. People in the middle-income group earning more than $13,000 are again penalized under the Ontario Tax Credit program, and those earning less than this amount will receive an increase in tax credits. A small business tax credit is to be introduced and there are plans to establish a Venture Investment Corporation to help finance small businesses. This is designed to encourage the growth of active Canadian controlled private corporations which will be entitled to an income tax credit equal to 50/o of the increase in their capital in Ontario to a maximum of $3, 000 annually. The treasurer has imposed stiff new taxes on land and property speculators, amounting Jottings by Jack from Queens Park to a 50"% tax on land or house sale profits which the Province considers to be in excess of real value. However, there does not appear to be any prov- ision made by the Government to prevent this tax from being passed on to the home -buyer. An Ontario Land Corporation is to be established to stimulate acquisition and development of land for industrial and res- idential- purposes, and the exist- ing land transfer tax has been increased to 19/v for non-resid- ents. There will also be increased grants to municipalities to en- courage water and sewage proj- ects to make available more services lots for residential development, but these grants are only to be given to restruct- ured governments. Some time ago John Spence, Liberal member for Kent, asked the Minister if the power to grant consent is to be returned to those municipalities whose official plans have been approv- ed, and he has now stated in the House that there is a program to return this power to regions and restructed counties, but not to other municipalities. Representative of the Ontario Bean Producers Marketing Board met with Resource Development Ministers and other officials on Monday of this week to express their concern over the much talked about expansion of nucl- ear development plants along the shores of Lake Huron. I questioned the Minister of Agriculture the following day as to what steps he intended to take to meet the concerns of the Board, The Minister's reply was as follows: "First of all Mr. Speaker, there is no proposed nuclear power plants south of Goderich. There are exploratory consider- ations going on by Ontario Hydro. I know that location has been suggested, Several featuring. 12 PLANTS PER BOX in most varieties! also in stock: PEAT MOSS * FERTILIZER * ETC. PATIO and SIDEWALK SLABS available now at HURON RIDGE ACRES DAVID STECKLE and family R. R.2, ZURICH (1 1/4 miles west - 3 1/2 miles north of Zurich) OPEN EVENINGS 'TILL 9 p.m. CLOSED SUNDAYS 565-2122 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS sites have been under consider- ation but to my knowledge there is no site chosen and to my knowledge there has been no decision made whether it would be a nuclear plant or a fossil fuel plant. No one has any idea about that as yet." A supplementary question to the Minister of Agriculture, by Mr. Lewis, Leader of the NDP was as follows: "Why are you playing that game with the Legislature. You know that Ontario Hydro indiscreetly made the mistake of letting it be known that they are looking for a site in that immediate area and, there fore, is it not now legitimate to indicate what you are going to do with the groups of resid- ents who are extremely concern ed about radio active waste, about Inverhuron Park happeninE else -where, about all of the things that are generated when you set up a nuclear plant." Mr. Stewart's reply to the supplementary question was as follows: "Mr Speaker, I am not pret- ending they don't exist. Obv- iously a statement had been made that there was consider- ation being given. After meeting with the people of Huron yesterday and with the officials of Ontario Hydro, it was made abundantly clear to us that there has been no such decision. It is purely in an exp- loratory state. Consideration has been given as to where suff- icient power would be develop- ed that would meet the require- ments 10 to 15 years hence and there is no positive statement at all so I am not in any way misleading or playing any THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1974 An interesting evening is planned for those who attend the Annual Educational Dinner Meeting of the Huron Perth TB And RD Association to be held in the Brodhagen Community Centre on Wednesday, May 1, 1974, 6:30 P.M. The speaker will be Mr. Jac Hughes, Past President of the Ontario TB and Respiratory Disease Association. A Youth Group will be featured with several musical numbers under the direction of Mrs. Don Gaffney, of Mitchell, Please try to attend. Tickets are $3.00 and may be obtained at 121 Wellington Street, Stratford, 271-7500, or your area representative. STOCKER FEEDER SALE SATURDAY, APRIL 27 100 P.M. 1200 HEAD Consisting of Steers,. 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