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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1974
The Minister of Transport-
ation and Comminications,
Mr. John Rhodes, informed the
House this week of cahnges in
the Krauss -Maffei Go -Urban
demonstration programme at
the CNE.
Mr. Rhodes said that Krauss -
Maffei which has been funded
in part for this project by the
west German government had
concluded that they could not
financially continue with the
program, because of a recent
decision by the West German
government to withdraw from
certain long-range technolog-
ical programmes. Mr. Rhodes
had been approached to see if
arrangements would be made
to modify the contract.
Under a new agreement
Ontario is allowed to use over
$30 million worth of research
and development data of the
West German government and
Krauss -Maffei, and the Minist-
er told the Legislature that the
Ontario Transportation Develop-
ment Corporation will receive
and assimilate the data as
quickly as possible and begin
using the Munich test track and
vehicles as quickly as possible.
The contract with Krauss -
Maffei has been terminated and
Ontario will be refunded all
the money it has spent so far
on the demonstration project
at the CNE, and an interim
payment of $8.5 million was
made to cover most of the costs
Ontario will have the use of
the Krauss -Maffei test tract
and test equipment in Munich
free of charge. Since Krauss -
Maffei will no longer be const-
ructing the CNE test track and
since the Ontario Government
is able to use the Krauss -Maffei
facilities in Munich, Mr.
Rhodes said that further invest -
Jottings
by
Jack
from
Queens Park
ment in a demonstration track
can now be postponed.
Mr. Robert Nixon, Leader
of the Opposition, who has
vigorously criticized this system
called on the Government to
abandon the whole project and
savethe taxpayers an astronom-
ical amount of money.
The Premier, Mr. William
Davis, said that the Govern-
ment was not apologizing for
proceeding with research and
development in the field of
intermediate capacity transpor-
tation. He said it may be that
there are not many other juris-
dictions doing it but the Prov-
ince of Ontario initiated it to
a great extent and will continue
He said the Government was
very anxious to resolve urban
transportation problems, facing
society, on a long term basis,
and it was only fair to state
that these problems will nor
be solved by just bus transport-
ation, or totally by streetcar
or rail transportation but that
it will take a combination of
many things.
The Ontario Housing Corp-
oration came under fire this
week when Mrs. Margaret
Campbell, Liberal Member of
St. George, called upon the
Provincial Government to init-
iate a full public inquiry into
the activities of OI.1C. She
said Ontario 'lousing Corporat-
ion should be investigated fully,
and the activities of officials
at every level, including the
Board of Directors should be
scrutinized very carefully.
A full official inquiry is imper-
ative, and all records, includ-
ing the Corporation's books and
the minutes of the Board of
Directors' meetings slhould be
available for scrutiny. She said
that in the past, when it was
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requested that these documents
be made available to Members
of the Legislature, it had been
refused.
During the debates of the
estimated of the Ministry of
Housing, Mr. Robert Nixon,
said he was concerned over the
business acumen displayed
by Ontario Housing Corporation..
Mr. Nixon was particularly
referring to seven Government
purchases which provided spec-
ulative profits to three comp-
anies in excess of one million
dollars. Mr. Nixon said that
Ontario Housing has assembled
2, 300 acres of land in the south-
east portion of the present town
of Milton formerly known as
north Oakville. The assembled
land will be used indefinitely
for agricultural purposes but will
eventually be available for
housing development. The three
companies purchased each of
the seven properties less than
seven months before selling to
the Government and one prop-
erty was owned by one of the
companies, for only 32 days.
The Government paid $579, 095
for that parcel on March 12,
1974, about $200, 000 or 54l
more than this company had
bought it for on February 8.
Mr. Nixon said that six of the
seven purchases were completed
in March, 1974, when real
estate prices around Toronto,
were at their peak, and less
than one month before the
Treasurer's land specualtion
tax was introduced, in an
attempt to deflate these prices.
According to Mr. Nixon, the
government purchases at grossly
inflated prices, simply rein-
forced and accelerated the
dangerous increase in land
costs in southern Ontario at a
time when all government init-
iative should have been in
exactly the opposite direction.
Housing Minister, Donald
Irvine said that Ontario Housing
Corporation is conducting exp-
eriments into the feasibility of
using solar energy to heat home;
If the economics are reasonable,
consideration would be given
to the installation of a system
in one or two existing housing
projects owned by OHC on an
experimental basis. The solar
energy would only be used to
supplement conventional syst-
ems rather than replace them.
In view of recent newspaper
reports, Mr. W.D. McKeough,
Minister of Energy, made a
brief statement in the Legisl-
ature, on Ontario Hydro's abil-
ity to meet the winter electr-
ical power demands in the Prov-
ince. He said this ability dep-
ended on several factors. Be-
cause of the loss of an addition-
al one or more of Ontario
Hydro's largest generators,
and a prolonged cold snap, the
system could be taxed very
severely. However, Hydro is
hopeful that at least one, and
possibly two of the five 500, 000
kilowatt generators now shut
down may be returned to service
by the middle of December.
Hydro's overall capacity, inclu-
ding the five generators not
presently in service, is 18.5
VEGETABLE FUTURE
Canadian Consumption of
fresh vegetables has increased
far faster than our production,
reports Consumers' Association
of Canada. At present 40 to 50
per cent of our fresh vegetables
are imported from the United
States and consumption there is
expected to overtake production
by 1985. With an increased pop-
ulation and consumption of
vegetables expected to reach
200 pounds per capita per year
by 1975, Canada may require
an additional 100, 000 acres in
vegetable production by 1975
and 150, 000 acres by 1980.
million kilowatts, anticipated
peak demand, is forecast as
14.5 million kilowatts. The
combined capacityof the five
units not in service is 2.5
million kilowatts.
As regards the coal situation,
Mr. McKeough said that Ont-
ario Hydro normally stockpiles
its winter needs before the
shipping season closes in late
November and did so this year.
3.5 to 5 million tons of U.S.
coal is required to operate its
generating facilities this winter.
By the end of the shipping seas-
on, December 1st, Ontario
Hydro will have on hand 7.5
million tons of coal. This will
carryit through any contingen-
cies such as a strike in the coal
supply system.
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