HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-04-26, Page 15The 21 students. whp graduated; :from
Centralia College of. Agricultural
Technology's: first; swine farm worker
training program may have felt like
guinea lugs” at times, but they were also
"pioneers", , accordingto Doug; Jamieson,
1�
the program;'ss adze nistrator.
The program, created to provide ex-
perienced swine worker for farms in
southwestern Ontario. was jointly funded, -
by the Canada Employment Centres, the
Canada Farm Labour Pool and the Qntarie
Report- rom Queen1 ': Park
Call for foreign
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BY MURRAY GAUNT,
Opposition parties have
called for a provincial foreign
investment review agency,
after Liberal MPF Jack
Riddell (Huron -Middlesex)
revealed that a West German
family had enough money
deposited in Huron County
banks to buy the equivalent.
of two townships of
farmland:, The Minister of
Agriculture said he would
need facts and figures before
anything could be done, and
that a study of !and owner-
ship in Huron County was in.
progress, '
Mr. Riddell noted that four
other provinces have laws
restricting foreign ownership
of land:
tment
ahead,:" Mr. Peterson, said.
"There is no way around the
inevitability.
"'Ontario's deficits have,
in some part, in the past
been financed by loans taken
out in GE1rman Deutsche-
mark. These loans were.
taken out ata much' tower
exchange rate, and when, one
of the loans became due and
payable in 1975, it produced
an actual .loss for the
province of $9.55 million.
The Province still has, out-
standing two loans in ,DM
and we face; even more
severe losses due to the;
continuing rise in the value
Of the DM.
'The fastest growing
budgetary item is the.
interest on the provincial
debt: the Davis • years have
added 511.1 billion to this
•
Ontario Hydro, 'will.
complete the .first half <of the
third heavy water plant at •the
Bruce , nuclear generating
station, but it won't go into.,
operation until the extra
power is, needed, according.
to an annourycement..'by
Hydrochairman Robert
Taylor.. He said the decision
tomothball the plant is based.
on lower forecasts of
electrical demand growth, as
well as continued,
.uncertainties about the
future of heavy water sales in
Canada *and abroad.
:During the Liberal Party's.
formal' response' to the.: new
Provincial Budget, Financial
Critic David Peterson,. MPP
(London.; Centre) referred to
the Government's latest
commitment to balancing the
budget by •1984 as a"sham
He pointed out that ' if the
Government's own pro-
jections are correct and if the
current rate of decline of the
deficit ,(2.2%v) continues. it
wouldtake some forty-three
years before revenue
matched: expendi:"fres:. In
addition, this year's forecast
doesn't even- include an'
estimate of revenue loss, trom
uptake. of the proposed Small
Business: Development
-program.
"Moreover, if we don't
soon start creating .new
wealth in Ontario, we shall
necessarily be committing
ourselves to ever higher
levels of taxation inthe years
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Published by Phe Whoa,
Agent for Graeme Craig
we to, Onla'io
review
debt, w hich is now casting us
S34 million a day in interest
-..and this is probably :a low
estimate. This amounts to
$1.388 billion aycar„ 9.2% of
the current budget,; and an.
increase of 12.6% over last
year, . A .decade ago, the.
funded debt stood at $4,2.
billion. It is now projected to
be S15,3 billion by the end of
the fiscal year, an increase. of
263%. This represents -an;:
increase from, $551 per
capita in ' 1970 -7 • t P a pro-
jection
p 1
jection of $1,791 per capita
for this fiscal year."'
• Mr. Peterson Criticized the
pis posed Employment
Development Fund., des-
cribing it as "little more than
a S200 million slush fund,
with no provision ' for
legislative scrutiny or ac-
countability.
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hln
,Ministry of Colleges and :Universities tea
to work a
provide a pool of trained eon* n
p lam' '� l? p
. , ,program el . because' it is
farms, The ro ratty us,Mttt, ue~.bec
training students for io s.:alteadynowe;al tG .
be in existence. ,
Doug • Jamieson told the ;graduates that..
"I have never; seen red :tape fall by the
wayside so: fast" as in the creation of the
Pro/Fain, .Only seven months ago, Mr.
Jamieson and Canada Manpower; re-
presentattves. met to:diseuss the feasiblility
of offering such a coUtrae .ln;rand-November
Doug McRae of R'.R.1, Denfield; was hired,
to co-ordinate the program. ane, the
students started classes in January..
Twenty-one of the 25 students!, who
started the 15 week program received their
graduation diplomas, at Friday's banquet.
Mr. Jamieson said because students
were "guinea pigs" they developed
special "esprit de corps" during their time
together, made valuable contacts within
the industry and rubbed shoulders With
some of the leading pork production
experts in the counfry,'
The. guest speaker at the banquet,
Howard, ,Malco.ni.ofJanetville, chairman of
the Ontario Pork Producers" Marketing
Board, said. he felt involved ac itb the
program since he and- his -sons were
training farmers for three of the studentsin.
the program.
.
Not much
Mr. Malcolm told the ,graduates when he
started farming the pork idustr4 ri't
much" - just a barn with horses" cows and.
some pigs next to: where you kept the
stiraui ,, lIn; speaker said in those days.
1
psg t.Te titCknamvd "mortgage lifters."
mar the sears., Mr. Malcolm said :the
.... r
1,.ta industry has certainly becomesnore.
,t"•;rt wars ,agcy. when the index system
st,crre.d paring producers for the lean
1Y014104 . 41. this tn4,T0Q,0 ft""'
1>ircrtlM rtMketta'now .are a.nticxtTean:er Matt
in the past, Feeds improved and marketing
has by+,orate more sophisticated, Mr.
kid! ,lett said there are ,now 45 assembly
ross the pro: ince Where; producers
&i t:r their pigs and every county has,
Aa ' pork producers,° assoeiatton.
�lr M'.►Ie:,Alm said the rtiiarketang board IS
nr'c4 pc-ndtn ; $'OO,QOut a year or 23 cents:
pit hog .00 promoting. pork in Ontario
tlri'-'e::la wls:%ision and newspaper
,tip a to «ing ;as Well as the two pone
rt t°,.taratits opened in the Toronto area.
Everyone iiin •pork
• tide' speaker said now "it seems every-
s:,'re: is dung into the pork business lately."
lac =saidl there are now 17.()00 producers in
rl.a prtAttlee turning out 72,O00, hogs per
• week. He said: as pork producers a pard
it ,gar opt,rat ins there is a '"defin:it4need
for more help". since farmers don't want
c:, work a seven day .week. He said,
producers are now going into two or three
matt 1ria^erath n4' and herdsmen's salaries
Fi;tec iii reaseFup to as much as 5350 per
v rk.
"lle.s«lid producers want workers who are
",. . , .
al. i.aitl,ible, prompt and observant enough
lr 1 p$
to. see. what's happening in the barn. .He
told: the students that one of the !most
xE
OBQM iPoS,I.'foft
ortant att brwas their attitude ho ttz
the pigs --do vou likepigs?" he added.'
•-TheR#
p
t a xsl' are very intelligent :animals
.
;and x v clean ifgtv:r1f t2�nee
«
e
added. ,
Mr. Malcolm concluded ills remarks "by
saying the pork business is big business
and ""1 think it's bete to stay." Irlet said as
people eat less beef. then it shoatld niean,
more pork will be eaten in the future,
pro1grutR
,McRae,. Istoudo.�rtoe Y owfereh, ae
wand,^erfu.•llrou .;.ofpeople to work with and
t?
e ainees 'h u n:. C h
that some of the tr ro ght . attNl�.._
practical information to the courao •he
1144e
„
He said; the•studet}ts were fortunate in
being the !first class in the program since
they willl.ave the jump OnAVOrrne else in
;finding jobs.
THE GRADUATES Doug Jamieson, administrator of Centralia.
College's swine farm worker program presents graduation certificates to,
i 9
John Johnston of Auburn"`and Robert Vanderpryt. of Dublin as Howard.
Malcolm chairman of ' the Ontari Pork Producers' Marketing Board
Malcolm, p
class of the new program ere-
his congratulations. The firstt P 9 :
extends
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onored at 'graduation ceremonies and a., banquet. at the;collie.
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