The Brussels Post, 1975-12-31, Page 16MVCA lists 1975
activities
Report from Queen `s Park
Civil servants to get only 8%
The Authority display trailer
will receive interior renovations
during this winter in preparation
for attendance at local fall fairs in
1976. Presently staff members
are working on arrangements to
attend the 1976 International
Ploughing Match to be held at.
Walkerton, Ontario.
Other activities carried out
under the Conservation Informa-
tion and Education program
include: listing of centennial
celebrations for 1976, It has been
suggested that the Authority's
float could attend these special
events again in 1976;
presentations have been made to
the Goderich Rotary, Bluevale
Women's Institute, Wingham
cubs and other groups; grade 7
Geography classes from the
Huron Centennial School in
Brucefield visited the Wawanosh
Valley Conservation Area to
observe local land forms and
learn about conservation
management techniques; a
meeting with staff members of
the Ausable-Bayfield Conservat-
ion Authority was held to discuss
Conservation school programs for
the future; the commissioner for
the White Oaks District Girl
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Guides has been contacted
concerning a poSsible joint
conservation school program;
students from the Howick and
Turnberry Township • Central
schools have 'constructed and
donated bird houses to the
Authority. These bird houses will
be installed at Conservation
Areas; the authority christmas
social was held at the Howick
Community Centre on
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 1975.
Registration of , the Maitland
Conservation Foundation is
pending further, action by the
Non-Profit and Charitable
Organizations Taxation
Department. The Authority itself
has applied for registration so
that the Foundation. may proceed
to acquire its tax exemption
status.
Through Canada Manpower,
Maitland.Valley Conservation
Authority has received $13,800.
in Local Initiatives Program
Grants to conduct ' an
Environmental Enhancement
Program during the winter of
1975-76. Four area residents have
began work as a result of the
funds which will provide 92 man
weeks of labour on Authority
projects. Jobs to be completed
include picnic table repairs' and
painting, vandal proofing of two
historic mills, construction and
installation of playground
equipment, road clearing, fire
break construction and dead tree
removal.
(by Murray Gaunt MPP)
Provincial, Treasurer, Darcy
McKeough has given the Legis-
lature an advance glimpse of next
year's budget, announcing that
civil service salary increases will
be kept to 8% and municipal
transfer grants will be increased
by a similar amount. He himself
referred, to his remarks as "ad-
- vance notice" to municipalities of
the spending restraints, and
presented spending tables which
indicate a projected increase of
10% over-all. The increase, how-
ever, breaks down as a 21.1%
increase in interest payments on
the provincial debt, as compared
to an increase of- only 2.2% for
housing, with provincial debt
interest totalling $860 million,
housing expenditures $475 mil-
lion. He said he aims for an
over-all spending budget of$12.5
billion next year, which means a
4% cutbck in provincial road
works, now budgeted at $340
million, and welfare spending
held to the rate of inflation, plus
projected growth in caseloads.
Payments for post-secondary ed-
ucation will increase significantly,
by 15% to $952 million to cope
with the rapid increase in enrol-
ments.
The Attorney General has
called for a crackdown on drink-
ing drivers, to include raising the
drinking and driving ages, with
stiff penalties, including jail, for
offenders. He has said that the
public "may be running out of
sympathy for the drunk who slips
behind, the wheel". Crown Attor-
neys have, apparently, been
instructed to ask judges to
toughen sentences for drinking
drivers, to make the penalties
much heavier, and has suggested,
giving the police power to set up
roadblocks to check drivers, plus
the arbitrary suspension of licen-
ces for 24 hours, whenever the
police consider a driver has had
too much to drink. The proposed
measurers, which are expected to
be introduced in the Legislature
early in 1976, would give the
police considerable discretionary
power, and 'will be similar to
existing laws in British Columbia
and Alberta,
Opposition Leader Stephen
Lewis has indicated tentative
endorsement of the AttorneST-
General's proposals, saying the
"idea doesn't seem to me to be a
terrible violation of civil liberties'
while Liberal Leader Robert
Nixon is "concerned about giving
police too much discretionary
power", even': though obviously
something must be done about
drinking drivers.
Ontario's Bill 5, requiring most
stores to close on Sundays and
holidays, has been passed in the
Legislature. The legislation will
be a little easier on drug stores,
allowing them to open on. Sunday
if they employ no more then four
persons on that day, However,
the stores must sell only drugs,
hygiene products and sundries on
Sunday. Stores will be allowed to
open Sunday in they close on
Saturday for religious reasons
-although the Legislature agreed
to strike the reference to religion
from the Bill because if might be
considered unconstitutional. New
Democrats and Liberals forced a
change in the legislation which
will' require pet shops to close.
Stores which will be exempt from
the provisions of the Bill are small
grocery stores, milk stores, news
and tobacco stands and antique
and handiciaft shops. The selling
area in all these must be less than
2400 square feet and they must
employ no more than three
persons in the store on' Sundays
and holidays, Service stations and
plant and flower nurseries will be
exempt, regardless of size, and
fresh fruit and vegetable stands
will be exempt from April 1' to
'November 30, during the growing
season.
The Legislature prorogued this
week with the NDP supporting
the Government again the Liberal
Motion which would have had the
province set up its own anti-
inflation review procedure to deal
with certain groups that clearly
come under provincial jurisdiction
in dealing with the anti-inflation
guidelines. •
This will be my Iasi report until
the new session commences.
May I wish everyone a Merry
Christmas and a Happy and
Prosperous New Year.
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