Clinton News-Record, 1979-04-26, Page 25•
Gordon Bemister from Newfoundland was supposed to be on vacation, but he
couldn't resist the warm weather and a chance to muck around outside. Of
course he helped out with some coaxing from his father Charles Bemister on
Osborne Street in Clinton. "Everytime I visit he has something for me to do,"
Gordon teased.(News-Record photo)
CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1979—PAGE 3A
Hall packed for PC fund raiser
BY DEBBIE RANNEY after the nomination across the country - with
The evening was one of meeting he had been every constituency that
mostly lighthearted fun around to different areas, we have, Ontario can
but behind all the humor "and the message I almost do it itself (put the
at the Progressive received all over is that conservatives int o
Conservative fund- we're here tonight in a power) if they put their
raising dinner, Robert common purpose. And minds to it.
McKinley M.P. for that's to get new "We've got to hold that
Huron -Bruce and Geoff management in Ottawa." momentum and keep it
Scott, M.P. for Hamilton- He said that when he up to May 22," McKinley
Wentworth, managed to first ran in 1965 it was a said.
get across to the people tough election. Then Guest speaker Geoff
that they had one main things got a little easier Scott who used to be a
objective in mind — to get and a little easier. parliamentary
T-0 Clark as Prime "The trend is with us correspondent for CFPL-
Minister of Canada. this time. The amount of TV in London said that
The dinner was held people here tonight has to right now he was fed up
Wednesday night in the tell you something." with metrification.
Brussels, Morris and He said that in 1972 at He said that difficulties
Grey Community Centre. the fund raising dinner in conversion to metric
Also at the meeting there were about 250 are impounded by the
were Marg Bennett, people and that in 1974 fact that in the U.S., the
president of the Huron- there were about 200 Americans only use
Bruce Progressive people but that at Wed- metric on a voluntary
C o n s,e r v a t i v e nesday night's dinner basis.
Association, first vice- there were 400 or more "I am convinced that
pres. Harry Hayter and people. Canadians are being
second vice-president "There's a support and unfairly treated con -
Murray Cardiff and Dr. desire that's even cerning the scope of
Tom Jasper finance spreading throughout metric direction.
chairman for the town of Quebec. There's even a "There"has never been
Goderich. higher element of voters an accounting to the
McKinley said that in Quebec undecided than people of Canada par -
ever before. When they ticularly of the
see Ontario and the West tremendous cost of trying
going to vote Con- to go metric," he said.
servative they're going to He also said that our
vote some members into metric form, European
the House of Commons. metric and U.S. metric
"When you take a look were all different.
at what's going on in He said he would
Ottawa, spending has suggest that his party
gone completely out of take the following steps
control," he said. — that metric conversion
He added that spending should be voluntary and
estimates used to be paced to the tempo of the
brought before U.S. and that for the
parliament and each protection of the con -
member had the right to sumer that all packaged
question those estimates and canned goods should
in the House of Commons. have the size in both
Now they are sent to. metric and imperial
different committees and units.
the estimates had to be "I firmly believe that
passed by May 31 of that the consumer is getting
year no matter what. ripped off."
"All he, (the Minister "I think it's high time
of Finance) had to do was as with so many other
get to May 31 and it was things that the wishes of
passed whether members the majority of the
of parliament agreed Canadian people
with it or not." prevail," he said.
He said that Joe Clark He said that one of the
would bring estimates reasons he got out of
back into the House of reporting and into
Commons and would give parliament was that,
Members of Parliament a "when you see the loyalty
chance to say what and dedication of a man
money would be spent on. like Bob McKinley I feel
He said that (taking the that there can be no
estimates out of higher calling than doing
Parliament) was one of something for people in
the reasons why spending Canada.
had gone from $12 billion "I became heartsick
when Trudeau came into watching what Pierre
power to $52 billion now. Elliott Trudeau was
"The by-elections last doing to my country and
fall showed the way. With what was more painful
the help of all Canadians was having to report it,"
Jack's Jottings from Queen's .Park
BY JACK RIDDELL
M.P.P.
During the Liberal
Party's formal response
to the new Provincial
Budget, our Financial
Critic, David Peterson,
MPP (London Centre)
referred to the govern-
ment's latest com-
mitment to balancing the
budget by 1984 as a
"sham".
He pointed out that if
the government's own
projections are correct
and if the current rate of
decline of the deficit (2.2
percent) continues, it
would take some 43 years
before revenues matched
expenditures. In addition,
this year's forecast
doesn't even include an
estimate of revenue loss
from uptake of the
proposed Small Business
Development Program.
In addition, "given our
justifiable lack of faith in
this government's
forecasts, the question
now becomes not when
will the budget be
balanced, but when will
the trend to ever -larger
deficits be reversed.
"Moreover, if we don't
soon start creating new
wealth in Ontario we
shall necessarily be
committing ourselves to
ever higher levels of
taxation in the years
ahead. There is no way
around that inevitability.
"Ontario's deficits
have, in some part, in the
past been financed by
loans taken out in Ger-
man Deutschemark.
These loans were taken
out at a much lower
exchange rate and when
one of the loans became
due and payable in 1975, it
produced an actual loss
for the province of $9.55
million. The province still,
has outstanding two loans
in DM and we face even
more severe losses due to
the continuing rise in the
value of the DM. For4'
instance, this year a
portion of one of the loans
became due on February
1. This was equat to $4
million Canadian when
we took out the loan and it
required over $9 million
Canadian to make that
payment this year,
showing an exchange loss
of about $5 million with
'more losses to come in
the future.
"The fastest growing
budgetary item is the
interest on the provincial
debt: the Davis years
have added $11.1 billion to
this debt, which is now
costing us $3.8 million a
day in interest - and 'this
is probably a low
estimate. This amounts
to $1.388 billion a year, 9.?
percent of the current
budget and an increase of
12.6 percent over last
year. A decade ago, the
funded debt stood at $4.2
billion. It is now
projected to be $15.3
billion by the end of the
fiscal year, an increase of
263 percent. This
represents an increase
from $551 per capita in
1970-71 to a projection of
$1,791 per capita for this
fiscal year."
Mr. Peterson criticized
the proposed
Employment Develop-
ment Fund, describing it
as!"little more than a $200
million slush fund, with
no provision for
legislative scrutiny or
accountability. If the
Treasurer considered it
anything other than a
political pork -barrel, he
would be willing to in-
troduce legislation set-
ting out the criteria by
which loans and grants
will be considered. The
fact that he is unwilling to
do so speaks for itself."
He challenged the
Treasurer's comment
that taxpayers' money
would not be directed to
the Fund and away from
the normal programs of
government, "because
the money will come in
part from proceeds of the
sale of our Syncrude
shares and Ontario
Mortgage Corporation
mortgages. These in-
vestments were
originally made' out of
general revenues, money
from taxpayers who are
now expected to help
bribe large corporations
to remain in or come to
Ontario".
The Liberal Financial
Critic condemned the
Small Business
Development program as
"at best a tax dodge for
the rich. Money will not
go where it is needed - to
assist new Canadian
ventures. Like the
Employment Develop-
ment Fund, it is a
misdirected subsidy
scheme. The Government
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has missed the mark on
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the Government's
proposal is too restrictive
and • will result in a
complicated,
bureaucratic n;gntmare,
with no more chance of
success than its previous
attempt two years ago
(the ill-fated Venture
Investment Corporations
program) which at-
tracted not a single
registrant.
"Overall this Budget
can only be described as
a boring, muddled,
piecemeal attempt to get
through another year.
The total lack of priority
and clarity are
frighteningly obvious.
Within the context of „a
$15.5 billion budget, we
see only tinkering. The
ohly consistent element
of this budget is the fact
that overtvhelmingly the,
tax increases are levied
against the little guy.
They are consumer taxes
which are regressive,
hitting low and middle
income taxpayers the
hardest, and they are
uniformly inflationary.
Gasoline will cost more,
so will cigarettes,
alcohol, cable TV, any
number of fees and
licences and, of course,
most importantly, health
care.
"Of the $269 million
being raised in tax in-
creases, almost 70 per-
cent (or $184 billion) are
taxes on the individual
consumer. Contrast that
with the $5 million in-
crease" in the capital tax
rate on banks. It's clear
whtg this Government is
ca Bring to, and it's not
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the average taxpayer in
Ontario."
FOREIGN
OWNERSHIP •
OF LAND
The Liberal Party has
called for a provincial
foreign investment
review agency, after I
revealed that a West
German family had
enough money deposited
in Huron County banks to
buy the equivalent of
40,000 acres of farmland.
The Minister of
Agriculture said he would
need facts and figures
before anything could be
done, and that a study of
land ownership in Huron
County was in progress.
Having made a study of
foreign ownership on a
Canada -wide basis, I
know that four other
provinces have laws
restricting foreign
ownership of land and I
an't understand the lack
of interest on the part of
the Ontario Government
to at least conduct a
survey on the amount of
land that has been sold to
foreign investors.
Remo Mancine, Liberal
MPP (Essex South),
asked the Minister if he
had a plan of action if the
study showed there was
more foreign ownership
than expected. The
Minister reminded
Members of the 20 per-
cent land transfer tax on
the sale of land to
foreigners. However, in a
debate.on this subject last
December 5, I indicated
that some foreign in-
terests were avoiding the
land transfer tax by
forming an Ontario
corporation.
"Assembles easily
in a few
hours"
That's what they
told us, anyways.
he said.
"My views about the
Liberal government in
Ottawa have hardened. I
was convinced that if the
law hadn't required
Trudeau to call an
election, Mr. Trudeau
would cling to power with
or without parliamentary
traditions.
"His excuse is he
doesn't think anyone else
can save Canada. The
irony is that's what
people elected him to do
back in 1968. He turned
east against west, French
against English... just as
he's determined to get his
hands on the constitution
clinging to such in-
credible power which
could give him the
tightest control of anv
prime minister in our
country," he said.
Mr. Scott said that one
thing to do was to make
sure that every one of the
conservative candidates
got in, riding by riding.
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