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By JACK RIDDELL
MPP Huron -Middlesex
Last month I met with
representatives of the
regional Police Association
to hear their concerns about
a new Police Act that will
soon be introduced into the
Legislature.
• The policemen at this
meeting stated that they
believe that the Police Com-
mission should continue to
have at least one member
with a background in law
such as a judge or a lawyer.
They also feel that the ma-
jority of the board should
consist of non -elected per-
sons so that the board can be
somewhat free of political
influence.
One of their _particular
concerns were the new
proposals for disciplining
police officers. If the new
legislation goes through an
officer could be tried con-
victed and dismissed from
the Force without hearing
the evidence against him,
His car and his garage could
also be searched without a
warrant.
The Police officers feel
strongly, and I agree with
them, that they should be
treated the same and have
the same protections as any
private citizen.
The Cabinet has approved
a $7.3 billion Ontario Hydro
uranium deal, despite strong
opposition from the Liberal
and New Democratic Par-
ties. Approval of the deal
means Hydro has contracted
for almost 200 million
pounds of uranium to fuel
five nuclear power stations,
beginning in 1980 and ending
in 2020. The Liberals wanted
the contracts with the two
mining companies - Deni-
sion and Preston - to be
renegotiated, and the NDP
were •in favour of the
Government buying out
Denison Mines, one of the
Elliot Lake companies.
Liberal Energy Critic
Julian Reed has urged the
Concerns are valid
Energy Minister, the
Honourable Reuben Baetz,
to stop construction of sec-
tions of a major Hydro
transmission line, and to
create a procedure for ac-
quiring such corridors
"which is fair and un-
derstandable and which will
prevent this tragedy from
ever happening again". (A
recent `` `Toronto Star" arti-
cle indicated that the
province had moved the cor-
ridor 15 miles at an extra
cost of $100 million to On-
tario taxpayers, because the
original line would have slic-
ed through lands held by
many prominent people,
some of them Conservative
supporters. Another group,
the Interested Citizens
Group, has spent $400,000 in
an unsuccessful attempt to
get an independent hearing
on another Hydro line now
under construction between
the Bruce Generating Sta-
tion on Lake Huron and a
switching station at Milton.)
James Taylor, who resign-
ed as Energy Minister,
January 20th, has compared
Hydro to the Bermuda
Triangle, saying "If you pre-
sent a reasonable thought or
directive, it gets sucked into
the system and never comes
out". He maintains that
although Hydro is supposed
to be answerable to the
Legislature, the energy
Minister "has all the respon-
sibility, but no authority".
Hydro has become the coun-
try's largest non-financial
public or private corpora-
tion in terms of total assets,
which now stand at $11.3
billion.
During the coming fiscal
year, Ontario's hospitals will
receive only $87 million in
new financing from the
Province, according to the
Minister of Health. This in-
crease, from $1.852 billion to
$1,939 billion - will be the
smallest in dollars since
1973. The rise of 4.5% com-
pares with 7.09% last year
and an annual average of
14.3% from 1970 to 1977. A
spokesman for one hospital
compared the increase with
the current inflation rate of
9.1% and warned that cuts in
services will be inevitable.
Replying to the Speech
from the Throne, Liberal
Leader Stuart Smith dealt
mainly with economic issues
and Ontario's "excessive ab-
dication" of responsibility
for creating jobs. He called
the Government's additional
$6..7 million for youth
employment programs "an
embarrassingly and
pathetically low amount",
and criticized the Conser-
vatives for failing to develop
an industrial strategy,
which would stimulate
research and development,
at the same time ignoring
small business.
The attempt in the Throne
Speech to strike_a balance
between a clean environ-
ment and a healthy
economy, he described as
simplistic.
The Leader of the NDP in-
troduced a motion of non-
confidence, despite a war-
ning from the Liverals that
"people who introduce non-
confidence motions are
playing with fire". Stuart
Smith said his party has
refrained from introducing
such a motion, because they
do not wish to force an early
election on Ontario voters.
Replying to Questions, the
Government has confirmed
that more than six million
gallons of waste oil con-
taining varying concen-
trations of toxic chemical
are being spread on dirt
roads throughout Ontario
each year to control dust.
The road oil has been found
to contain polychlorinated
biphenyls - blamed for birth
defects, nerve and liver dis-
orders or cancer when eaten
or absorbed.
There is concern that the
PCBs in the. oil will even-
tually be leached out by the
weather, find their way into
the drainage system and
eventually into rivers, lakes
and streams. In Ontario, the
PCBs have been found in
various Great Lake fish
above the Province's accep-
table level for consumption
of two parts per million.
Last year, the Ministry of
the Environment issued a
number of health bulletins
warning "women who are
pregnant, nursing mothers
and young children ... not to
consume any of the fish"
caught in certain lakes and
rivers because of high levels
of PCBs.
The Ontario Government
plans to lift a seven year-old
ban on the sale of Crown
BLUE BONNET OPENS — The Blue Bonnet shop operated by Mrs. Bernice Eckel officially
opened its doors last week in the store that formerly housed Gascho's Dry Good's. Mrs.
Jean Michon and Mrs. Joan Wilson of Garden City Michigan were among the many
shoppers who visited the store last week. Staff photo
Hay Mutual meeting
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Dashwood and Jack
Scotchmer, Bayfield.
Other directors are
Elmore McBride, Exeter;
Robert Glen, Clinton;
Donald Campbell, Bayfield;
Arnold McCann, Dashwood;
Cecil Desjardine, Grand
Bend and lan McAllister,
Zurich. McAllister was nam-
ed to replace retiring direc-
tor Leonard Erb, Hensall.
The net insurance in effect
at December 31, 1977
amounted to $154,442,259.
This is an increase of more
than 22 million dollars from
the previous year.
Premiums written also in-
creased from $495,750 to
$563,790.
Hay Mutual's secretary -
manager John Consitt is '
currently president of the
Ontario Mutual Insurance
Association and will preside
at the annual convention be-
ing held at the Sheraton Cen-
tre in Toronto later this
month.
Profit for the year 1977
amounted to $125,844 as
compared to, $140,841 in 1976,
This increased the current
surplus for the protection of
policy holders to $973,287,
T. Johnston of Touche
Ross and Company
presented the auditors
report and commented on
the financial statement.
land for cottages, but
there's disagreement in the
Cabinet about whether
foreigners should be allowed
to buy. The Minister of
Northern Affairs has said
that he agrees with what the
Cabinet has so far decided in
principle - that sales should
be restricted to Canadians.
However, the Minister of
Natural Resources, whose
Ministry will make the
changes in regulations later
this year, has said that non -
Canadians should be allowed
to buy cottage land in the
North.He points out that
re,tricting the sale of Crown
land in Northern Ontario to
Canadians would not stop
them from selling in turn to
foreigners.
Indications are that the
long disputed Family Law
Reform Act will lead to con-
siderable further debate
before final approval. Both
Opposition Parties have ap-
proved a number of
amendments, which they in -
have debated in the
tend to
Legislature.
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