The Lucknow Sentinel, 1983-04-20, Page 6editorlal page
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editorial
Budget is a start
When the Sentinel reaches our readers this week,
Canadians will know the contents of the federal budget and
what the liberal government plans to do about the economic
and unemployment crisis in our country.
Budget leaks Tuesday indicated federal finance minister
Marc Lalonde was planning job creation programs and
incentives to spur economic recovery. To what extent these
measures will ease the plight of the unemployed and create
a turn around in- the economy is yet to be seen.
A well known Ottawa columnist with the Toronto Star,
Richard Gwyn has just completed a series of articles about
the future of work in our lifetime, Gwyn says unemployment
is going to be a fact of lite during our lifetime and advocates
some radical solutions that could revolutionize our way of
working,
Gwyn's first suggestion is work sharing, An interview
with employment minister Lloyd Axworthy indicates the
government has already done some thinking about the ways
in which work will change in the future,
According to Airworthy to get our future to work, we're
going to have to "change the nature of work front an inner
directed activity done by an individual to a collective
activity",
Airworthy's department has already introduced a program
of work sharing, It provides a subsidy in the form of
unemployment insurance payments to employees of a
company in trouble, provided they reduce their work hours
and thus their salaries, avoiding layoffs,
Gwyn's research has shown that economic recovery will
only reduce the unemployment rate slightly. More spending
on make work schemes will, help but not by much.
The alternative, to radical new solutions to unemploy-
ment, is a permanent unemployment of about one in 10
Canadians, We have a choice, says Gwyn, we can keep one
in 10 among us forever unemployed, allowing them to get by
on unemployment insurance and welfare, living lives of
quiet desperation. Or by redistributing work, we can give
the unemployed a chance to participate.
Another solution Gwyn advocates is entrepreneurship,
innovation and a sense of common purpose created among
employers and employees.
By working together and increasing productivity, a
company or business can increase its share of the market
and increase its work force. gy rekindling that pioneer spirit
which built this country, Canadians can create wealth for
themselves and their country by creating jobs for them-
selves,
More and more Canadians, says Gwyn, are prepared to
sign away their savings and try it on their own. This year, in
a recession, 200,000 new small business will start up in
Canada. That's a record, and is almost double the number of
five years ago.
We may be entering the age of small, observes Gwyn. Not
because small is more beautiful. Hut because it is more
efficient.
This country was created by entrepreneurs who tore tree
stumps and rocks from forest clearings, or who built sod
huts on the Prairies, or who trapped and prospected in the
wilderness, or who set up fish stages along the shoreline,
Later, some of them figured out a product or a service that
the others needed, and provided it.
Many of our future jobs will come the same way. We will
have to create them ourselves.
Lalonde's budget is only the starting point. A launching
pad for new ideas, new methods and radical new alterna-
tives. The future of work in Canada and how Canadians deal
with it will determine whether Canada will continue to grow
or fall apart at the seams. It will demand that every
Canadian reorder his priorities, learn to think differently
about his own personal goals and the work ethic in
particular.
Many people are defined by the work they do, it creates
identity and purpose. Will we provide solutions that are
creative and imaginative and allow all Canadians to share in
work and contribute to the wealth of the nation, or will we
doom them forever to lives of desperation and uselessness?
lids week's Jamboree picture features six Lucknow
rhlldren.Can you identify these adorable fares? 11 so, phone
the Lucknow Sentinel office, 528-2822.
letters to the editor
March 29, 1983.
To the Editor:
We wish to advise you of the
rationale behind the recent assign-
ment of house and buildings numbers
in the Village of Lucknow to hopefully
answer any questions that have arisen
as a result of the Lucknow Lions Club
project.
At the request of the Lucknow Lions
and the approval of the Village
Council, we have prepared a Master
Numbering Map for the Village of
Lucknow. The numbering system was
designed to allow for expansion of the
Village in any direction. Numbers
were allocated to allow for infilling of
existing vacant Tots, should that be
feasible in the future. in short, the
system is designed to allow for reason-
able numbering today and expansion
for the future.
Dungann
April 18
Actual number was achieved as fol-
lows: Campbell Street and Havelock
Street were chosen as convenient re-
ference Streets. Numbering of North-
South Streets was carried out with
buildings North of Campbell being
numbered upward from 500; buildings
South of Campbell being numbered
downward from 500. Numbering of
East-West Streets was carried out in a
similar fashion with buildings west of
Havelock being numbered upward
from 500; buildings East of Havelock
being numbered downward from 500.
South and West side of the street are
numbered with even numbers while
North and East sides of the street are
numbered with odd numbers.
Utilizing the system described
above has resulted in numbers rang-
ing from 278 to 825. Expansion at
either end is thus possible without
.r -Ontario,
983.
To the Editor:
There seems to be considerable apprehension among your
readers regarding the action certain groups are taking that •
may upset the lending institutions, causing them to with-
draw their financial services from agriculture.
If the banks did withdraw from financing farm loans, what
would keep their small town and village banks in a profitable
business?
Where would the banks invest the vast sums of money
that are going into various types of savings? (Would they
invest in) another Poland, Mexico or Dorn -Tar?
Had the lending institutes used the high interest rate to
curb inflation only on new loans, they could have been just
as effective in slowing down inflation.
But to penalize debts incurred when interest rates were
acceptable at 12 to 14 per cent, with the new high rates of 20
to 24 per cent, could in„ no way put a brake on inflation.
Was it greed or desperation that drove the lending
institutions to the point'of bringing the industries of town
and country to the brink of depression..??
As viewed on CBC's The Journal, the evening former
finance minister Allan MacEachen brought down his last
budget in the House of Commons, Gerald gouev the
Governor of the Bank of Canada was asked by a Journal
interviewer. Mr. Bouev what do you think Mr. MacEachen
has in his budget? Mr, Bouey's reply: I don't know what he
has in his budget but one thing I do know he does not have
changing the method of assigning
numbers.
We trust that the above explains the
method of assigning house numbers in
Lucknow. We are confident that with
experience, the use of the house
numbers will become second nature to
the residents of the Village.
The use of the street address for
such things as direct home deliveries
by trucking and shipping firms
provides a service for both the
resident and the trucking firm.
The Lucknow Lions Club should be
congratulated for undertaking a pro-
ject which will be of service to the
Community for decades to come.
Yours truly,
Maitland Engineering Services Ltd.,
per A. W. Clark, P. Eng.
in his budget and that is a reduction in the interest rate.
Does that mean anything to you?
Then try this one.
After the Government was obliged to bring Mr, Houey
before a financial enquiry committee, Mr. Houey admitted
that perhaps they had used the wrong yardstick to curb
inflation.
1 would dare to say, they did not use the wrong yardstick,
so much as they used it in the wrong place.
For those of you who have had no reason to borrow a large
sum of money to start up in business or agriculture in the
mid to late seventies, you will have no idea how fast a debt
chat was considered by Farm Credit, your local bank
manager and his head office, as reasonable, can mount up,
if the 12 per cent interest rate you contracted the debt at,
turns into 24 per cent interest.
Now the arm chair economists are telling us we have
created our own problem. Our bookkeeping leaves much to
he desired, They point the way out for us by saying get a
good set of records, produce a cash flow and stick to it.
An unforeseen reduction in crop yields, coupled with a
drop in price. add perhaps a loss in a turn over in feed lot of
beef and you break even on cost of operation, maybe even
can show a small margin of profiit. But in no way can you
service that hack log of old debt.
What happens to all that bookkeeping now?
i've sounded off. Now you tell me where i've gone wrong
and by how much
E. Hoak Sr.
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