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THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1975
What's with Collingwood, Grand Bend?
A new town to be located atop the Niagara Escarpment; a new
sewage lagoon for the heart of Ontario's summer vacation land
at Grand Bend...what in the world are the people of the prov-
ince thinking of?
It was barely two years ago that Queen's Park made much
ado about its Niagara Escarpment Planning and Development
Act. Now it looks as though it could be 'much ado about
nothing'.
The proposed new town, called Castle Glen, would accom-
modate 7,500 people just west of Colllingwood and has already
been approved by that town's council; so perhaps the Ontario
government in this case will end up playing the role of giant
killer.
What the people of Collingwood can be thinking of, we don't
know. If there is any community in the province which ought
to be conscious of the value of the environment, it is this one.
With its famed Blue Mountains and deep caves, its historic sites,
rich in Indian lore and located on the shores of Georgian Bay,
Collingwood, since the decline of the ship -building boom, has
depended for the most part on what nature has bless it with.
Talk about biting thehand that feeds you...
If the province through its Ministry of Housing does stop
Castle Glen... as it surely must it its escarpment policy is to
maintain credibility --the public can thank the Federation of
Ontario Naturalists.
It was this organization under its president, Barry Griffiths, who
drew attention to the Castle Glen story. As Mr. Griffiths put it,
"a town of 7,500 is as compatible with that superb natural
environment as a stockyard is with the centre of a residential
area." Let's hope somebody out there in Ministry -land is list-
ening.
The people in Grand Ben are just as hard to understand as
those in Collingwood.
• Attending a meeting regarding the proposed lagoon in Grand
Ben last week, a Palmerston area farmer who opposed the
proposed lagoon in his area, just couldn't believe his ears.
A lagoon to service a population of 710 people that swells to
15, 000 in the summer and the Ministry is calling for a facility
that is smaller than the Arthur Lagoon. On top of this, corn-
mercial fishermen say the sewage outlet pipe drains into a
current that runs right where a pipeline draws water for the
City of London.
With this kind of ammunition, he wondered why the people
of Grand Bend would allow such a thing to happen. We wonder
too, but they're not only allowing it, the village has stated
flatly that it will not entertain any discussion regarding a
treatment plant. One of the reasons given for not doing so was
that there is too much risk of the sewage getting into the lake
without being treated.
Somebody should really have a talk to these people about
lagoons.
So there you have it. While we lambaste the government
for not doing its utmost to preserve our environment, many of
us aren't sufficiently interested to take the first step to help
ourselves. (Listowel Banner)
Sweeping pronouncement!
Boards of education in both Huron and Bruce Counties exper-
ienced a distinct shock last week when they learned that the
Ministry of Education had answered with a flat "no" their
requests for all capital spending on the improvement or expan-
sion of school facilities.
Huron had planned to spend $900, 000 for renovations at the
Exeter public school, needed additions to the Turnberry and
Brussels schools and the installation of a mini -computer in the
Exeter secondary school. The $4.5 million requested by the
Bruce board would have been used chiefly to provide for the
steady influx of students created by the Douglas Point power
project --a situation created certainly not by the county board
of education, but rather by another sector of the provincial
government.
Even a dull taxpayer can understand that when money is scarce
some curtailment of public spending is advisable. What is
truly shocking in this instance is the flat turn -down of all prop-
osals in the two counties, regardless of the needs which exist.
You can be sure that members of these boards of education
had spent many hours determining what was needed within their
counties before the plans were submitted to Queen's Park.
How the taxpayers of this province (and this country, as well)
would love .o expose our administrations in Toronto and Ottawa
to the scrutiny of a truly independent audit! How many millions
might be chopped out of departmental budgets! Millions are
spent on unnecessary and oft -duplicated public relations prog-
rams. The little empires which exist within each sector might
be triz-nrned to a silver in many cases.
No, it can't be proved (without an independent auditor) but the
tax -paying public has become very sceptical of the way in
which funds are so readily available in some quarters and non-
existend in others. It appears that the priorites are in need of re-
examination. (Wingham Advance Times)
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(by Raymond Cannon)
ABORTION IN OTHER LANDS
Abortion is a very contentious
issue in Canada, and feelings
on this matter have pretty well
polarized, with most people
who have any thoughts on the
matter at all either being
strongly pro or strongly against
permitting abortions.
Other countries are grappling
with the same problem, and it
might be well, at this moment,
to see how far some of them
have come and what they are
doing about it.
Eight months ago, the Ger-
man government put in the
statute books a law which per-
mitted abortion on demand in
the first twelve weeks of preg-
nancy. The law, however, was
never actually implemented;
the opposition parties simply
referred it to the constitutional
court in Karlsruhe. The court
has just handed down its dec-
ision, which is to the effect
that the inviolability of the
right to life in the German
constitution must also apply to
the unborn child. This means
that having or performing an
abortion will continue to be a
punishable crime in Germany.
Needless to say, this decision
hasn't gone down well with
women's libbers in that country;
they took to the streets in prot-
est.
If the decision surprised a lot
of people, they must also be
surprised at what has happened
in Italy. One would assume
that this country might be far
more conservative than the
German's No so! Unlike the
German court, the Italian con-
stitutional court has specifically
recognized the possibility of
conflict between the constitut-
ional rights of the fetus and
those of the mother. Where
such a conflict occurs, the
court stated, the mother's
right to health and sanity must
pre-v_ail over that of the embryo,
which is "not yet a person."
Procuring an abortion in Italy
is, therefore, no longer illegal
when there is a serious, though
not necessarily imminent threat
to the phychis health of the
mother. The court, in handing
down the decision, invited the
Italian parliament to devise a
new law on abortion to prevent
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abuse of this loophole. Recent
opinion polls indicated that 72%
of Italian women were in favor
of legal abortion. In Germany,
interestingly enough, the same
poll revealed that only 59%
were in favor.
Other interesting statistics
have come out at the same time
It is estimated that, at the pres-
ent time, between one and three
million Italian women go for
illegal abortions per year, many
of them done in prirnative con-
ditinns, and some two thousand
of them die from this. This is
certainly the highest abortion
and casualty rate in Western
Europe. Germany and France
both have between three and
four hundred thousand illegal
abortions a year, and Britain
has 175 thousand legal ones,
including those done on Ger-
mans, French and Italians who
come to Great Britain at the
present time because the laws
are more liberal there.
What the law courts are try-
ing to do in many European
countries is to ensure that
abortion laws are implemented
fully and fairly, once the trad-
itional legal prohibitions have
been cleared away.
Forcing doctors to perform
abortions under specific condit-
ions is obviously not the best
way to make an abortion law
work. Protecting doctors from
the sanctions when they do so
in good faith might be a better
way and this is ,the approach
that the Europeans are taking„
The chances are that in
Canada we will probably prog-
ress along somewhat the same
path. Liberalization of existing
laws seems to be inevitable in
the long run.
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