Zurich Citizens News, 1975-05-01, Page 13THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1975
In his report to the Legislat-
ure this week, on the flood
crisis in Southwestern Ontario
over the past weekend, the
Minister of Natural Resources,
Mr. Leo Bernier said the intense
storm that moved across south-
ern Ontario, poured down from
1 to 1.5 inches of rain in most
areas with a few locations gett-
ing as much as 2 inches. This
rainfall combined with the
melting of heavy snow packs in
the snowbelt area in Grey,
Dufferin and Wellington count-
ies made for some very high
levels on the rivers. On some
rivers the flows were the high-
est recorded in more than 20
years.
The Minister said that the co-
ordinated effect of preplanning
for flood control, awareness of
flood prone areas, the alerting
of conservation authority staff
and municipal officials involved
as well as the co-operation of
the general public and ensuring
the availability of equipment,
all played a major part in keep-
ing flood damage to the min-
imum.
Mr. Bernier stated that the
flood damage was relatively
light but that he fully appreciat-
ed the difficulties some resid-
ents had suffered especially
those living close to the flood
plain areas. The major damage
problem seemed to be the
flooding of house basements
and the first floor level of
factories built on the flood plain
The Minister reported that more
severe damage was prevented
because of steps taken in adv -
Jottings
by
Jack
from
Queens Park
ance. His Ministry warned all
conservation authorities earlier
this year about the impending
seasonal crisis situation. When
the storm struck Friday after-
noon the Ministry alerted cons-
ervation authorities and munic-
ipal officials, therefore, the
flood danger was well anticip-
ated by all responsible parties.
As for the outlook for the
immediate future, Mr. Bernier
said, according to the conserv-
ation authorities branch experts,
in Southwestern Ontario the
flood water has reached the
Great .Lakes or is approaching
them, or has subsided through-
out the area and because no
precipitation was expected,
flows on all rivers were expect-
ed to return to normal quite
soon, and no problems were
anticipated in the near future.
Mr. Robert Nixon, Leader of
the Opposition, asked the Min-
ister of Natural Resources wheth-
er he could assure the residents
of those communities that suff-
ered flood damage that the
assistance program approved a
year ago will be in force this
year, at least that level of
assistance, so they can be assur-
ed they were going to have the
same kind assistance for home
damage and business damage.
Mr. Bernier replied that when
a full report from all those area;
where flooding did occur was
received, then he will take it
to the government for that dec-
ision.
In a statement made in the
Legislature by the Provincial
Secretary of Resources Develop -
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merit, Mr. Allan Grossman
said that a new approach to
protect Ontario workers and
residents from occupational and
envirolunental health hazards
caused by industrial activities
is being initiated by the Govern•
ment. Recognizing that employ.
ers, workers, unions, commun-
ity groups and government are
all respopsible in achieving
successful protective and prev-
entative measures, an advisory
council on occupational and
environmental health matters
will be established. This body
will provide the formal mech-
anism for industry, labour and
other interested parties to adv-
ise government on health
hazards as well as to recomm-
end new policies and programs.
It will assist the government
in defining how health safeguard
can be engineered into plants
at the design state and it will
be a central reference source
for public information about all
aspects of occupational and env-
ironmental health.
The Minister of Health, Mr.
Miller, to whom the advisory
council will report, will be
announcing further details on
the structure, membership
and responsibilities of the adv-
isory council on occupational
and environmental health, to
ensure that it is a strong voice
in future programmes.
Mr. Grossman stated that the
Government is moving to streng-
then its own activities in occ-
upational and environmental
health. Greater emphasis will be
;placed on the prevention of
'known health hazards through
the setting of guidelines and
the search for unknown health
hazards in industrial processes.
The Ministry of Health will
have clearly delineated respon-
sibilities to assure that standards
are properly applied. The dec-
ision to assign standard setting
and applied research to the
Ministry of Health clarified
;which ministry is primarily resp-
onsible for determining the
effects of industrial emissinns
,on human physiology although
the Ministry of Health will
consult with other agencies.
The Ministry of Health will
'publish every year its guidelines
'on in -plant emissions and out-
of-door ambient conditions.
This annual disclosure of infor-
mation will mean that industry ,
and labour are fully aware of
applicable standards. Minist-
ries and government agencies
will incorporate these official
standards in appropriate legisl-
ation and regulations.
The responsibility of inspect-
ing, monitoring and enforcing
health standards outside the
plant Mr. Gossrnan said, rem-
ained with the Ministry of Env-
ironment.
nv-
ironment.
Because health hazards from
industrial processes in some
cases take as long as 20 to 30
years to show up in humans,
ways are being examined of
requiring the employers in spec.
flied industries, including
mining, chemicals, and other
companies currently using
known hazardous substances, to
keep records on employees.
Such records will include, the
type of work performed, the
employment location in the
plant and the equipment used.
The Legislature has been
debating and bills concerning
the changes in the provincial
tax structure announced in the
recent budget, such as the red-
uction of the Retail Sales Tax
from 710 to 5°7o which is only
applicable until the 3lst Dec-
ember, 1975. Removal of the
sales tax on production mach-
inery and equipment was dis-
cussed at some length and
Liberal , ,P.P. Ray Haggerty
proposed an amendment to the
jeffect that machinery and equip
,ment imported into Canada
should be subject to taxation,
if similar machinery and equip-
ment, to be used for the same
purposes, can be manufactured
in this country. This amend-
ment was not accepted, al-
though the Minister indicated
that it had considerable merit.
There were considerable
discussions on the subject of
the part-time Justices of the
Peace. Ontario Attorney Gen-
eral, John Clement told the
;Legislature that there are some
:648 qualified part-time JPs in
the Province, paid on a fee
basis for their services. He
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said that 394 fled claims for
payment in 1973.74 and five
were paid more than $20,000.
One JP in the Brampton area
was paid $30, 000, and Mr.
Clement said that he will cons-
ider appointing a full-time of-
ficial, which would probably
be cheaper than paying a part-
time justice who works long
hours.
Albert Roy, Liberal Member
for Ottawa East, pointed out
that in the view of the former
Ontario Chief Justice, James
McRuer, expressed in his 1968
report on civil rights, Justices
of the Peace paid by fees must
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