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By JACK RIDDELL
MPP Huron -Middlesex
There has been considerable
debate in the Ontario Legislature
on the subject of the planned lay-
off of 2,800 Sudbury workers by
Inco - whichit is predicted will
actually mean a loss of some
6,000 jobs in the Sudbury area.
One reason put forward for this
loss of employment is the fact
_ that Canada and Ontario's share
of the world nickel market has
dropped rapidly in recent years,
as other areas have developed
their deposits.
In -1966 this country's share of
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the market was 51 percent; it had
declined to 34 percent by, 1975.
Opposition Parties have . urged
that the Legislature's Committee
on Resource Development should
go to Sudbury to hear local
submissions and to discuss 'the
matter with municipal and
labour officials.
Replying to a question from
Liberal John Sweeney (Kit-
chener -Wilmot) the Minister . of
Housing admitted that the
Government will make a profit of
$3 million on a $5 million in-
vestment in land in Kitchener,
The land was bought for $750,000,
servicing costs were $4,350,000,
and the selling price is $8,070,000.
Opposition Parties condemned _
the Government as the largest
speculator in the Province. The
Minister said it was government
policy to sell off at market prices
the 23,000 acres which it bought
over the years for land banks to
provide low cost housing.
House Leaders of all parties
have been meeting to organize a
Select Committee on Ontario
Hydro, and establish its terms of
reference. The Liberal view is
that the entire operation of Hydro
should fall within the scope of the
committee, including the extent
of direct Government control
over the Crown Corporation and
such currently controversial
matters as the over -runs on the
Bruce • County heavy water
project cost.
Liberal Leader Stuart Smith
believes that the committee
should be able to call expert
witnesses and employees from
such projects.
It is thought that there may be
some overlap with this Com-
mittee's work and that of the
Porter Commission on Hydro's
long range planning, which is
intended to deal with Hydro
projects from 1985 onward.
Further development of nuclear
plants in the province will ob-
viously be of interest to , both
groups.
Questions on the subject of the
Bruce heavy water cost over-
runs were asked in the House this
week. When the Minister turned
aside requests for cost and
progress reports, Stuart Smith
charged that he was out of touch
with the problems, and should
consider resigning. He said "You
are talking about a $400 million
(cost) over -run and you stand in
this House and say, day after
day, that you don't know what we
are talking about".
On a more positive note,
Ontario Hydro spokesmen have
indicated that there should be no
repetition this December of
power shortages that led to
province -wide voltage cuts and
interruption of service to some
industries in the pre -Christmas
period last year.
Hydro expects to have about
3400 megawatts of generating
capacity in reserve when the
period of peak demand is reached
in mid-December.
Liberal MPP Remo Mancini
(Essex South) has introduced a
Private Member's Bill calling for
the legal drinking age to be
raised to 19 years, in the hope
that such a change in the law
would "remove the practice of
drinking from the province's high
schools."
Such a move was recom-
mended by the Select Committee
on Highway Safety and recom-
mended by a task force in-
vestigating teenage drinking in
the spring of 1976. A 1976
Addiction Research Foundation
Survey showed that- among a
sample of 1,439 high school
students in Ontario, 86 percent
drank, although less than 25
percent were of legal age.
It has been disclosed that a
Mississauga cement kiln has
been regularly burning highly
toxic wastes for about two years,
without public knowledge, but
with the approval of the Ministry
of the Environment. This burning
practice was started, as an ex-
periment, and in 1975 a
ministerial certificate was issued
to permit its continuance. The
Ministry hopes to have an op-
portunity to explain exactly what
is involved . before burning is
resumed some time before the
end of this year.
There have been rumours that
some 100 provincial police of-
ficers were going to be laid off.
However, the Solicitor General
stated, during debate on the
Estimates, that Ontario has- no
intention of reducing policing in
the province.
The Ontario Government in-'
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