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Citizens News, June 29, 1978
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By JACK RIDDELL
MPP Huron.Middlesex
recently tabled.)
Food e didebate wTshLrnFeenhiswek8y
Food Chain store discount
practices have been the sub-
ject of heated debate again
this week, and the
Legislature's Standing Com-
mittee on Resources
Development has
recommended a public in-
quiry into rebates, dis-
counts and allowances in the
Ontario food industry. All
three political parties have
approved the idea of an in-
quiry, although they dis-
agree on the scope and form
of the proposed investiga-
tion.
Counsel William Poole
submittted a strongly -
worded report to Cie Com-
mittee, based upon public
testimony by a number of
witnesses and confidential
interviews with six food
suppliers. In his opinion,
"the arranging of discounts
is an unequal battle between
strong (supermarket)
chains and weaker (food)
processors which may have
the effect of gouging,"
Discounts "do not seem to
be related to volume selling,
but perhaps are related to
concentration in the hands
of a few".
In the course of his sub-
mission to the Committee,
Mr. Poole mentioned
Liberal MPP Jim McGuigan
(Kent -Elgin), "an apple
grower before this Com-
mittee", who had objected
to the discounting, which
caused the chain stores to
make a change, "If all apple
growers did that, they'd do
away with this discount. In
other words, you scared
them off" he told McGuigan.
He warned that too much
power among the retail
chains will reduce competi-
tion at the processor level
and lead to a system of ver-
tical integration, in which
the chains control food
processing as well as retail-
ing.
Committee has
recommended that the in-
vestigation should be
carried out by an indepen-
dent body, and proposed a
Food Industry Trade Prac-
tices Commission, which
would consist of a nominee
of the Ontario Federation of
Agriculture, the Ontario
Section of the Consumers
Association of Canada and
each of the three political
parties in Ontario.
The Lieutenant Governor
would appoint the Chairman
from the five nominees, and
the Commission would have
a broad mandate to look into
"the marketing of food in
Ontario with respect to
prices, price spreads, price
discounts, rebates and
allowances, trade practices,
methods of financing and
management policies
relating to the marketing of,
farm products."
About a month ago, in-
jured workers and Metro
Toronto Police clashed dur-
ing a demonstration calling
for increased benefits from
Workmen's Compensation
Board. Now the Minister of
Labour, the Honourable
Bette Stephenson, has
proposed an average 25% in-
crease in benefits. If the
legislation is approved, the
increase will take effect
July 1st. This would be the
first such increase in three
years.
The Bill will be retinae-
' tive in three stages to July
1st, 1976, and would include
an immediate lump sum
payment. It would raise the
ceiling on earnings for a
temporary disability
allowance to $16,200 from
$15,000 and the maximu Ikn
rate of compensation..
payable to injured workers\
would increase by 8% to
$233.66 a week.
The minimum permanent
pension for total disability
would increase to $509 from
$400 a month; for 50% dis-
ability from $200 to $254.40;
and for 25% disability to
$127.25 from $100.
For a dependent spouse
the pension would increase
to $365 a month from $286,
for dependent children to $99
from $77 and for orphans to
$113 from $88. The initial
lump sum payment for
dependent spouses and the
burial allowances would in-
crease to $800 from $600.
Opposition Members have
been calling for such an in-
CO.OP
crease. Liberal Leader
Stuart Smith said he was
"bitter" that injured
workers were forced to
"suffer through a hard
winter and spring" when the
money for increases was
available all the time. (The
Minister had been refusing
to legislate any increased
compensation until a report
on the financial structure of
the Board was completed,
and the re_ ort,comiriissiloned
over a year ago, was only
the Honourable Darcy
McKeough. The new hill
came about as a result of
lengthy discussions par-
ticularly with represen-
tatives of the Ontario
Federation of Agriculture
and the Rural Ontario
Municipal Association,
In the new Bill as opposed
to the present Line Fences
Act:
The distinction between
occupied and unoccupied
lands is being removed.
A line fence will no longer
be mandatory in every case,
but only where one adjoining
owner wants a fence.
Where adjoining owners
cannot reach agreement,
one owner may simply
notify the clerk of the local
municipality that he wants
the fence -viewers to ar-
bitrate the dispute. If,
however, the municipal
council has passed a bylaw
providing that the clerk is
not to be involved, the owner
will have to arrange the ar-
bitration himself as with the
present Act.
The options of the Fence-
viewers in making their
award are being clarified
Please turn to Page 16
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