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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1975
Sooner the better!
The Province of Ontario is, at long last, considering legislat-
ion under which mobile homes may be recognized as human
habitations and their occupants as human b•Ings, The legislation
would set up standards for such homes, so tat they would,
hopefully, not become collections of gypsy caravans, as so many
municipal councillors have always considered them.
There may have been justification 20 or 30 years ago for
discouraging or even forbiding the establishment of trailer parks
in a community, but those reasons have long since disappeared.
The only thing wrong with trailer parks has been the fact that
they were not controlled by either municipal or provincial reg-
ulations and so were subject to the varying and often stupid rules
set cut by owners of trailer parks themselves.
Any legislator who is still unaware of the fact that most young
couples simply cannot earn enough money to purchase a perm-
anent home should resign his office. For many young people a
mobile home which contains heating system, appliances and
furniture is the only alternative to a tiny apartment with no
outdoor play space for their children. Even federally and prov-
incially assisted home ownership plans are frequently beyond
the reach of young couples, particularly if there is a reason why
the wife cannot brir in wages.
What, we have wondered in this column for the past ten years,
is so filthy bad about a well -made trailer or the people who
choose to live in one? Is there any sound reason to believe that
trailer occupants are fly-by-night crooks who will rook all the
local merchants and disappear into the wild blue yonder?
The continuing opposition to trailer parks is, perhaps, an
indication that all too many of the people who make the rules
are personally comfortably well off and have no real understand-
ing of the problems of a new generation of Canadians facing
life's responsl'bilities under very trying circumstances.
(Wingham Advance Times)
On booze!
"Mix some thinking with your drinking--- that's one of the
themes of a new alcohol information campaign that's been
launched by Ontario's Health Minister Frank Miller.
Posters, pamphlets, films and ads have been made up to tell
us about the pressures to drink, the damage alcohol can do and
the costs that drinking add on to all of us.
It's not an axe swinging temperance campaign, it's a mild,
low key information program and we are all for it.
It is absolutely amazing how much alcohol has become a
major part of our lives in the past twenty years or so. Booze is
now served at bridge clubs, bridal showers, service club dinners,
and in many, many homes as matter of course. We often drink
liquor at functions where coffee, tea or a non-alcoholic punch
would have been the noon a few years ago.
The profit from the bar, not from the admission tickets, is
what most clubs who sponsor dances look for in their fund raising
budgets. Social drinking in moderation is just fine, the Ontario
government campaign points out, but the fact that we are drink-
ing more liquor than ever before also has its costs.
Many of the health problems that make our health budget go
up so alarmingly, are related to alcohol. Alcohol is also involv-
ed in many of the car accidents that cause financil loss and
personal suffering.
Broken families, job loss and wasted lives can all be attributed
to alcohol in many instances.
Liquor is here to stay. As the government pamphlets point out,
how often do we say "Come over for a drink" instead of "come
over for a visit?" Too often, probably.
We're not knocking booze. But we're saying that the increasing
consumption of liquor in our province is exacting a heavy price.
In Ontario today 300, 000 people of all ages drink enough
alcohol every day to endanger their health.
Think about the hidden costs of alcohol at your next party.
Are they really worth that expensive and temporary high?
(The Huron Expositor)
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(by Raymond
FLOATING, FLOATING ----
DOWNWARDS
Did you ever wonder why the
value of our dollar seems to
fluctuate from time to time in
terms of the American dollar..
You may have noticed in the
Liquor Store or other business
establishments that little signs
are posted indicating whether
the American dollar is being
discounted one or more cents
or whether a premium of a sim-
ilar amount is being paid on it.
While it has been at par lately,
you may notice that these days
it is being quoted at a 1¢ prem-
ium, that is to say, that the
value of our dollar has finally
slipped to below that of the
American.
The fact that this value fluct-
uates is due to the decision of
western governments not to peg
the value of their currencies to
any fixed amount. It was
actually the Canadian govern-
ment that started it all back in
1970 when our dollar was pegged
at 92 1/2¢ American. There
were quite a few complaints at
first but it finally .became the
fashionable thing to do and now
everybody is in the act.
This is called a floating ex-
change rate and it means that
the value of our dollar in rel-
ationship to the American doll-
ar and other major currencies is
subject to the law of supply and
demand. If the demand for our
money drops on foreign money
markets while the supply of it
stays about the same, this mean:
that the value of it will also
drop. Actually this is happening
Oil a day to day basis but the
change is generally so small
that it doesn't show up unless
you happen to be an avid read-
er of the financial page of the
Toronto Globe and Mail.
Right now the value of the
Canadian dollar has been dropp-
ing for some time and still is
a matter of fact. At the present
time it is worth about 98 1/2¢
American and, for this reason,
if you see any store in your
neighbourhood that is discount-
ing American money, they are
either trying to rip off the tour-
ists or they haven't kept up to
date at their local bank. For
the sake of good relations they
should try to keep the American
dollar at least at par or even
pay the premium.
The decline in the value of
our money is due mainly to the
fact that we have a sizable def-
icit in our Balance of Trade.
The Americans, who have a bad
recession on their hands, and
who account for 70P% of our
trade, have cut down consider-
ably on what they buy from
Canada. At the same time all
those strikes you have been
reading about have not helped
our exports in the least . On the
other hand Canadians have gone
on importing at about the same
rate as before with the result
that a two billion dollar surplus
has been turned into a deficit
of about the same amount.
Hence the relative decline in
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demand for Canadian dollars
and the drop in our exchange
rate.
You will notice that this decl;
ine in value especially if you
decide to be a tourist and go to
Europe this summer. In places
such as Germany and Switzer- ,
land to cost for Canadians ex-
changing their money there will
have gone up about 207/0 in the
last year or so and this does not
include any increases due to
inflation. If you want to go
there, don't let me stop you
but don't say I didn't warn you.
I expect to be over there next
month but I'm prepared for the
worst. One consolation is that
I can deduct my expenses for
income tax purposes, which is
a decided help.
If tourists suffer, exporters
find that their goods start to
become cheaper on foreign
markets and this helps as a
stimulus to foreign trade. Now •
if we can only stop striking long
enough to get the exports out.
Oh yes! That horrible word
inflation also creeps in. When
the value of our dollar declines
it means that all our imports
cost us more in terms of Can-
adian currency. Frankly we
have enough inflation as it is
and I don't like to see the price
of imports go any higher.
Maybe this is the year we
stay home and enjoy a vacat-
ion somewhere in Canada. One
thing about our country, it is so
big that you never run out of
places to go.
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have been seriously injured or
even electrocuted as a result of
tampering with such outlets.
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