The Citizen, 1989-04-12, Page 21THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1989. PAGE 21.
Province unfair to municipalities, Brandt tells PC's
It is fundamentally unfair for the
provincinal government to be in
creasing its revenues eight or nine
'per cent yet telling municipalities
Letter to the editor
they must get along with no
increase in transfer payment Andy
Brandt, Ontario Progressive Con
servative Leader told hundreds of
Chemicals, not cows
harm streams
THE EDITOR,
In a recent edition of your excel
lent paper, there appeared a beau
tiful picture of some cattle wading
in a stream. On the same page an
article condemned the practice of
allowing livestock access to our
creeks and rivers, considering it a
major source of pollution.
I would like to make the com
ment that I grew up near a stream
which for its entire length of
perhaps 10 miles, flowed through
pasture land. It was almost the only
source of drinking water for the
cattle and horses along its banks,
yet the water flowed crystal clear.
Only after the present extensive
use of chemicals on farm land
(sprays, fertilizers, etc.) did the
stream water reach its present sad
condition.
Personally, I will always enjoy
the sight of cattle standing
stream on a warm day.
harvey McDowell
BLYTH.
in a
followers Friday night in Seaforth.
Speaking to the annual meeting
of the Huron Progressive Conser
vative Association he said the
Liberal government of Premier
David Peterson brought in the
biggest tax increase in history,
then turned around and told the
municipalities they couldn’t have
more money.
It was just one of the injustices to
municipalities, he said. He recalled
that in the election campaign in
1987, Mr. Peterson pledged he
would protect Sundays through
keeping stores closed, then passed
the buck after the elections to make
the municipalties try to enforce the
closing.
While government revenues
have soared, the waiting list for
heart surgery has grown from three
months to six months, he claimed.
“That’s not acceptable in my kind
of Ontario.” Conservatives might
not be able to eliminate the waiting
list tomorrow but “we’d sit down
with the medical profession and
work out a co-operative solution,”
he pledged, not deal in confronta
tions as the Peterson government
has.
Three days before the last elec
tion Premier Peterson said he had
a plan to lower insurance costs.
“Boy he has wrestled this one to
the ceiling,” he said. The new
insurance system hurts young
women and seniors, he said. The
insurance board is one more form
of bureaucracy that’s getting big
ger, he said. He claimed that while
the federal Tories have been cutt
ing thousands from the federal
payroll, the provincial Liberals
have added 7000 employees at a
cost of an additional $300 million in
salaries.
“We can administer better,” he
told the faithful. After difficult
times, he said, the Conservative
party is on the way back. It is
opening up and looking at the grass
roots as never before. The party is
rising in the polls and looking
forward to a possible election in
1991 under a new leader, he said.
Nurses, doctors, school boards
and municipalities are fed up
because the government has a
huge majority with 94 seats and
feels it never has to listen to
people, he said. “If you forget the
people, they’ll forget you. In 1991
people are going to forget the
Peterson government.”
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DAVID JAMES
Murray McKinley David James
of RR 5, Brussels was found dead
April 2, 1989 in Morris Township.
He was 30 years old.
Mr. James was born in Wing
ham, Ontario and was the son of
Annie James and the late Glen
James. He married the former Joan
Higgins and has one son, David.
Mr. James is also survived by two
brothers, Calvin and Brian both of
Morris Township, and one sister
Gwen Hinz of Mitchell. He was
predeceased by his father in Au
gust of 1987. Mr. James was a
member of the Anglican Church.
The funeral was on Wednesday,
April 5, 1989 at Watts Funeral
Home with Reverend Pat Nunn
officiating. Spring interment will
be at the Brussels Cemetery.
MR. JALMAR PIETIKAINEN
Mr. Jalmar Pietikainen died
Wednesday, April 5, 1989 at his
residence, the Callander Nursing
Home in Brussels. He was in his
88th year.
Mr. Pietikainen was born in
Finland and came to this country in
1928. He was predeceased by his
parents.
Reverend Charles Carpentier
officiated at the service which was
held at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, April 7
at the Watts Funeral Home in
Brussels. Interment at Brussels
Cemetery will be this spring.
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