Times-Advocate, 1978-11-16, Page 37r
Kerr wanted to influence judge says report
Times-Advocate, November 16, 1978 Page 37
By JACK RIDDELL
MPP Huron-Middlesex
A report on the George
Kerr controversy prepared
by Herbert Langdon, Deputy
Director of Crown Attorneys
says the former Solicitor-
General’s main motive in
calling an Assistant Crown
Attorney was to influence
sentencing of a constituent.
The report says Mr. Kerr
called Halton Assistant
Crown Attorney David Price
to persuade him not to press
for a jail term, The call was
made minutes before the
constituent in question was
to appear in court.
Mr. Langdon’s report,
released to the Justice
Committee, contradicts the
version of the telephone call
which Mr. Kerr has given
since thematterfirstcame to
light, and which he repeated
in an interview this past
week.
This report was seen by
Premier William Davis
before he made his initial
decision on September 6 to
allow Mr, Kerr to remain in
the Cabinet, according to the
Premier’s press secretary.
Three days later Mr. Davis
accepted Mr. Kerr’s
resignation —- after it was
revealed that the report
included memos saying that
Mr. Kerr questioned whether
a jail term was the proper
disposition of the case, and
after John Munro resigned
as federal Labour Minister
after admitting he called a
judge about a constituent.
While the report questions
the wisdom of a solicitor
general advising someone on
charges laid by the police, it
states: “It does not seem
that Mr. Kerr’s telephone
call constituted an attempt
to obstruct, pervert or defeat
the course of justice within
the meaning of Section 127 of
the Criminal Code.”
Last week, in a major
confrontation in the
Legislature, the Liberal and
New Democratic Parties
threatened to vote together
to reduce the Ministry of
Housing’s spending by
$18,000 — an amount equal to
tne extra salary paid to the
Minister.
The Government House
Leader warned that such a
move could be considered a
vote of non-confidence.
Subsequently the govern
ment backed off just far
enough on the controversial
Cantrakon development on
the Niagara Escarpment to
avoid possible defeat on this
matter. The Housing
Minister, Claude Bennett,
said he will arrange
meetings between Can
trakon and local ratepayers
opposed to the development.
Meanwhile, the project's
architect has indicated that
the company would be
willing to settle on another
location if it is within an
hour’s drive of the airport
and offers an equally
spectacular view.
Subsequently, landowners
on the Niagara Escarpment
and in controversial Can
trakon Ltd. project.
The Housing Minister has
indicated that he has
received more than a dozen
offers from land-owners
wishing to sell their property
for the $16-million hotel and
conference centre. He stated
that he told the people
concerned to put their offers
in writing.
The counsellor at the
Huronia Regional Centre in
Orillia who was reinstated
after being fired for and la ter
convicted of kicking a
mentally retarded woman in
the face has been tran
sferred from the Ministry
of Community and Social
Services to a position in
another ministry.
The new job ensures that
he will no longer have direct
contact with residents in any
provincially-run institution.
In a toughly negotiated
settlement between the
Ontario Public Service
Employees Union and the
Provincial Government, the
counsellor was transferred
to the Ministry of Govern
ment Services where he will
work as a supply clerk at the
same pay he was receiving
as a residential counsellor at
Huronia.
Eight to 10 municipal
bridges collapse every year
in Ontario, but motorists
need have no fear of using
deficient bridges if they
respect posted load limits, a
provincial official said this
week. Bridge accidents
generally occur in rural
areas and involve truckers
who ignore signs stating the
capacity of the bridge.
The Transportation
Minister stated earlier in the
week that 2,554 of 8,300
municipal bridges surveyed
during the past two years
were found to be structurally
deficient. Those that are
most in need of repair are 456
bridges with a load limit of
six tons or less. It was em
phasized that none of the
bridges along the 13,000
miles of provincial highways
built and maintained by the
ministry is deficient.
A five-year program of
repair is to be undertaken by
the municipalities, with the
province paying 80 percent
of the cost. A ministry aide
said that the Minister would
probably have made less of
the matter than he did in
interviews if he weren’t
interested in persuading the
Management Board of
Cabinet that an additional Re
million is needed for repairs.
The bridge survey con
cluded that the province is
providing enough money to
allow regional governments
and other large
municipalities to eliminate
all their deficient bridges
within two or three years.
However, it was indicated
that eliminating unsound
bridges under the
jurisdiction of largely rural
townships would require a
doubling of the present
annual provincial con
tribution of $5-million or $6-
million.
St. Boniface
pastor resigns
Bishop John Michael
Sherlock announced that he
has accepted the resignation
of Reverend A, J. Durand as
pastor of St. Boniface’s
Parish, Zurich, and has
appointed Reverend P. F.
Mooney, presently pastor of
St. John Vianney Parish,
Windsor, as pastor of St.
Boniface, Zurich.
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