Times-Advocate, 1985-07-10, Page 16Riddell gets nod of approval
Agriculture Minister Jack Riddell
has_wiln-the initial seal of approval
from farm groups who welcome the
minister's candid speech and hope his
past outspokenness will translate in-
to strong leadership.
Also. with 10 years as Liberal
agriculture critic under his belt, Rid -
dell's farm views have been well
documented in the provincial
Legislature, making the job of farm
lobbyists relatively straightforward
'+ should the need arise to pressure the
new minister into living up to past
promises.
"He's on record on every single
issue imaginable affecting
agriculture," said Brigid Pyke, first
vice-president of the Ontario and
Canadian federations of agriculture.
Pyke feels that Riddell's blunt and
forthright manner should stand him
in good stead as minister.
Agriculture "is a vocal industry.
Farmers are vocal. I feel a lot more
confident with a person who lets you
know what's on his mind, even if you
don't agree with it," she said. "I like
the noisy ones better than the quiet
ones."
Pyke, for -one, is optimistic that
Riddell's long association with
agriculture, both in the Legislature
and on his Exeter -area farm, will en-
sure a first-hand understanding of the
troubles in the food industry and a
knowledge -of what must be done.
Also, 'Pyke welcomes the man's
"guts."
"It takes somebody strong enough,
and with enough guts, to do a little bit
of leading," Pyke said. "I think he'll
do a good job. He's strong."
Graeme Hedley, general manager
of the Ontario Cattlemen's Associa-
tion, has known Riddell personally for
the past 20 years and in his capacity
as former assistant manager of the
Ontario Public Stockyards.
"He knows agriculture," Hedley
said of Riddell. "He's engaged in
agriculture. He's been around farm
people all his life...Jack definitely has
the interests of agriculture at heart."
Elbert van Donkersgoed, policy
director for the Christian Farmers
Federation, gave Riddell a mixed
review, mainly due to the lack of any
firm direction on debt set aside, an
important CCF initiative. The CCF
feels that Riddell's proposed eight per
cent interest rate subsidies on ex-
isting farm loans may not be closely
enough aimed at farmers in real and certainly -has his roots firmly -bas- - -but one who speaks his mind...lf I had
financial distress.
"On the one hand. I'm encouraged
that he's committed to providing
assistance," van Donkersgoed said,
adding,- however, that "I'm not 100
per cent comfortable with the -stature
of that assistance."
The CCF director said he believes
Riddell should prove popular amongst
farmers.
"He's well informed on agriculture
ed in agriculture. Over the years he
has made a number of observations
that, if he continues to think that way.
should prove in the best interests of
farmers."
any concerns about him, t they are)
in terms of his ability to maintain the
support of fellow Cabinet members
(and) effectively present those con-
cerns to urban consumers."
However, van Donkersgoed ques- Meanwhile, Riddell can expect to
tioned the agriculture minister's el- hear from farmers en masse by next
fectiveness within his Cabinet and in week. The OFA is staging a Queen's
urban quarters. - Park rally for July 10 in which hun-
"I have known him as a straighfor• dreds of farmers are expected to
ward, honest man: not charismatic. participate.
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in the
It was not the polite way to say it
but it made a lot of sense anyway..
A rural resident in my area told a
city dweller to go jump in the lake in-
stead of taking water from the coun-
tryside. Rural residents are beginn-
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rogant methods -used by big cities.
The cities have major problems.
They need some place to dump or
bury their mountains of garbage.
They are wandering around with their
tongues out looking for water sources.
Industrial expansion will -dry up
without water and the cities' mentali-
ty is based on industrial expansion.
But farmers are getting coy and it
is about•doggone time.
Rural residents are fed up to here
with the way city dwellers have ig-
nored them. 1 recall a few years ago
the city of Toronto had great plans
and even talked of buying the hopper
cars to send millions of tons of city
garbage to a small town 90 miles
away.
The town fathers and mothers put
a stop to that idea.
Also about is years ago, a farmer
in Iluron County wanted to expand his
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judge and got an injunction to preventsuc�
the expansion plans. When the- fs
tinally got to court. the judge told the
farmer he could not cause odors and.
therefore, could not expand.
More than 20 years ago, I can
remember looking down a 30 -foot dug
well -which had been in working order
that farm for more than I00 years
Then. a neighboring city drilled a
huge well and the farm Well went dry
along with a dozen others. Two farm
ponds went dry as well. It took the ci
ty five years to admit that maybe --
just maybe -- its new well caused the
problems with the rural water table.
In the meantime, the farmers had
to drill new wells and instal new
pumps so that city dwellers could
have an adequate water supply by
simply turning on a tap.
It is this convenience that city peo-
ple take for granted which bothers
farmers. (if course. you pay for your
sewers and water supply in the city
but you pay for it collectively. And
you get a lot of help from senior levels
of government to put in new water
lines and sewer trunks and sewage
disposal plants.
Farmers do not gel that help. They
put in their own wafer systems and
their own septic tanks and septic beds
and it costs a pot full of money to do
it. Our water system went belly -up
last January. I1 look three days of in-
convenience and almost $1.000 to gel
water again. The submergible pump
alone was more than $700.
Hut in the city, you don't wait. Von
have wafer all the time.
And because your sewage disposal
plant in the city is usually subsidized.
the farmer.:- who has already put in
his own sewage system al his own ex-
pense •- helps pay for your city
sewage plant.
1 suppose 1 should be more genteel
These sewage dis. al plants are now
called water purification plants. a
fancy name for a huge septic tank and
weeping tile.
"The citizens in the country have
paid for their water supply:. said a
country -dweller at a recent urban
rural meeting. "If Citizens in the city
want it rwatert. they have got to pa\
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