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growth, Beaubien said. It was cutting
the red tape so that business can
produce jobs not spend time filling
out forms. The government is
creating a stable environment that
eliminates surprises, he said.
But Morris said it was fine for
Ontario to be open for business but
rural Ontario, including farmers, was
being severely disadvantaged
because of a lack of necessary
services. He pointed to complaints
about reduced repair services by
Ontario Hydro. In New Brunswick,
he said, 100 per cent of every
telephone line is now made of high-
tech fibre optics, allowing high
speed electronic transmissions. New
services are being offered to urban
dwellers in Ontario but in rural
Ontario "we still have party lines that
can't even use a fax machine." The
government is declaring the province
open for business but in rural Ontario
"we haven't even unlocked the
door," he said.
He pointed to issues raised earlier
in the meeting about cuts in rural
health care and a reduction in county
highway winter road clearing
operations because of government
cuts. "We have to have a government
that understands the importance of
rural infrastructure. True common
sense would be to recognize the
value of the hand that feeds you,"
Morris said.
Two resolutions passed at the
meeting dealt with rural
infrastructure problems. In the first,
Jim McIntosh called for improved
emergency service from Ontario
Hydro. "It's been a problem that's
been creeping up for the last few
years," he said. While urban areas
have seen very little reduction of
service by their PUC's, Ontario
Hydro customers in rural areas find it
practically impossible to reach
anyone at a local office to report a
problem. "I don't think we need the
high level of service we used to get,
but we need more than now," he said.
The resolution was carried.
A second resolution called for the
Ministry of Health to take action to
develop a plan for the recruiting and
payment of doctors to provide
emergency room coverage for rural
hospitals.