Clinton News-Record, 1979-05-03, Page 13mt
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Jeff Walters, Faye Carnochan, Ron Thompson and
Teresa Marshall took a full house the route of an
International Plowing Match last week when Huron
Centennial School in Brucefield put on their con-
cert. The unusual show was a success. (News -
Record photo)
Fishway starts season
BY J.V, DOBELL
The Ministry of Natural
Res urces, Wingham
Office announces the
spring operations of the
rainbow trout fishway on
the Lucknow River in the
village of Port Albert are
underway.
The fish run started
early in April and should
continue through most of
May. The run is currently
ahead of last year's rate,
when a spring total of 550
rainbow trout yvere
handled.
The rainbow trout are
being tagged with clear
streamer tags ahead of
the dorsal fin this year. In
1978 yellow streamer tags
were used. The fish are
checked for lamprey
scars or wounds, sexed,
weighed, measured, and
relieved of a few scales
that enable qualified
personnel to age the fish.
The fish isthen
released to continue its
upstream migration to
the spawning grounds. To
date about 25 percent of
the fish returning are
bearing a 1978 tag.
The public is invited to
view the operations with
daily lifts at ap-
proximately 9 a.m. and 4
p.m. Additional.lifts may
CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, MAY 3. 1979. -PAGE 13
occur if conditions
warrant them.
Group tours may be
arranged by contacting
the Ministry of Natural
Resources, R.R. 5,
Wingham, Ontario NOG
2W0, telephone: 357-3131
or toll free Zenith 92000.
Middleton news
by Blanche Peeves
Church news
Morning prayer was
held in St. James
Anglican Church on
Sunday at 11:15 am. Ray
Wise and Edward Deeves
received the offering and
Canon Paull was in
charge of the service,
assisted by Mr. Deboulayl
Bayfield.This Sunday
Holy Communion will be
celebrated.
The congregation was
pleased to hear that the
minister, Rev. Wm.
Bennett is well enough to
resume his duties this
Sunday.
ACW meeting
The ACW of St. James
will meet on Wednesday,
May 9 at the home of Mrs.
Marion Smith of
Dungannon.
A silent auction will be
held and Lois Wise is the
leader in charge of the
meeting. The ladies are
asked to bring articles for
the bale.
Personals
Congratulations to
Mr.and Mrs. Gordon Glen
on the arrival of their son
on Friday, April 27 in
Clinton.
Jack's jottings from Queen's Park
BY being priced out of the
market and larger scale that the rent being on the OPEC countries
JACK RIDDELL
My article this week is farmers say they simply charged in most cases for for oil that we really have
not about farmers going cannot compete with the the land which is foreign very little say in the price
broke and selling out, not special tax advantage controlled is unjustifiably of even the assurance
about drought or hard that foreign investors high from the standpoint that we will continue to
times; but it is about have. of ever hoping to make a get this source of energy
Ontario farmland being Yet no one knows how profit on that land. which we cannot do
sold for record prices — much land foreigners The foreign investors without at this particular
in many cases at prices have bought and are would like to think that time.
far above the going rates buying. they could make five Few people would feel
and being bought by Let me make it per- percent on their in- comfortable in arguing
foreign investors. fectly clear that by vestment, which means a that non -nationals should
Next to rain, this has "foreign-owned",I am rental charge of $100 an be prohibited absolutely
become the leading topic referring to peoplenon- acre and that is $40 an from owning Canadian
of conversation andacre more than the tenant real estate or .farmjaad
resident in Canada. I farmers could pay in a but I think much of ..the
general farming area and concern stems from a
hope to make a profit. lack of knowledge about
Foreign investors will the extent of foreign
say that their aim is not ownerships in an area,
necessarily to make a the source and nature of
profit but rather to such large amounts of
preserve capital from the ready cash, the long term
ravages of inflation and intent of foreign pur-
the spectre of creeping chases regarding the use
socialism in their own of the land and tiie lack of
countries. All see such any effective controls
countries as Canada and over such purchases.
the United States as a It was with this in mind
bulwark of political that I asked the Minister
stability in a changing of Agriculture and Food
world. - 441- to conduct a survey of
The main objection foreign investment of
from farmers is that Ontario farmland.
foreign buyers are paying Other jurisdictions
excessively high prices have become concerned
for the land. That in turn to the point that Prince
pushes up the value of Edward Island and the
land owned and prevents three Prairie Provinces
young people from en- have taken legislative
tering farming or ex- measures to restrict
panding in the business. ownership of farmland by
What that really means non -Canadian residents
I don't think there then is that the younger and last fall the United
..generation of potential States Congress passed a
any question that enough farmers would be law that will' force all
reduced to nothing more foreigners to register
than tenant farmers. their land ownership. At
Surely, we do not want least 25 states have
history to repeat itself in enacted constraints of
this regard. some kind -on foreign land
Some farmers feel that
their land is their pension
and they would like to be
able to sell it for the top
dollar, regardless of who
will eventually own the
land. Their point is well -
taken if we choose to
disregard ,the future of
this country and if our
agricultural industry
becomes foreign con-
trolled, we can find
ourselves at the mercy of
other countries for the
food which we need for
our own domestic con-
sumption.
Should foreign in-
vestment continue to
escalate, we could con-
ceivably end up growirtg
crops totally unsuited to
our domestic needs but
entirely suitable to
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foreign interest for their
own export purposes, a
well-known problem
which has existed and
aggravated conditions in
Third World countries.
Surely, we have
n, not only in rural certainly have no ob-
areas but in the urban jections to foreign people
areas as well, which was coming to this province
obvious from the calls and competing with our
which I received during a own farmers in the
CBC Radio talk show that purchase and operation
I was asked to participate _ of the farmland. For
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many of these people and
I may use the Dutch for
an example, have made a
very great contribution to
the agricultural industry
in this country.
What I do object to is
the foreign capital being
transferred - to this
country to purchase the
prime farmland, which
causes me a great deal of
worry in that large
amounts of foreign in-
vestment, . frequently
concentrated in sizable
blocks of holdings, raise
questions about future
control of Canadian
resources and com-
munities.
This came about after I
raised the matter in the
Legislature and urged an
investigation of foreign
investment. I have been
contacted by many
people, of whom a good
number were farmers,
concerned that we are
selling out Ontario. Small
scale farmers are
complaining that they are
a
Introducing the
new `little -big',
tractors from
John Deere
22- and 27 -PTO -hp
diesels with
big -tractor
features...
small -tractor prices._
Why
ricesm.-
Why settle for just a used
farm tractor when you can
own a new John Deere
850 or 950 for about the
same price?
The 850 has a 22 -PTO -
hp 3 -cylinder diesel; the
950, a 27 -PTO -hp diesel
Both have 8 -speed trans-
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and adjustable drawbar
And there are more than
20 implements available
to help you keep your
farm running profitably.
See us today for an 850
or 950 Tractor. Ask about
.our finance plan.
non-resident foreign
ownership in any one
area, can affect the whole
social structure of a
community and in this
connection I may offer
such examples as lack of
maintenance of
buildings, decreased
population for usage of
schools and hospitals,
limited buying support
for local businesses and
lack of support for
projects such as com-
munity arenas.
Apart from this, local
residents simply cannot
compete with foreign
capital under the present
economic circumstances.
The devalued dollar in
this country and lower
interest rates offered in
other countries, put
Ontario buyers at a
distinct disadvantage.
We could argue, I
suppose, that the foreign
investors are considered
people who often lease
the land back to
Canadians and pour in
development money to
introduce modern small
farm techniques.
I am more inclined to
think that foreign in- learned a lesson from the
vestment will accelerate energy situation which
the demise of the farm we find ourselves in
family unit and I do know today. We are so reliant
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holdings.
Farmland in Ontario is
a prime and limited
resource and surely, it is
government's respon-
sibility to see that the
farming industry does not
go the way of other in-
dustries throughout
Canada.
Speaking of foreign
ownership in general on a
national basis, the level
of foreign ownership in
Canadaby1971- -ha-d
surpassed that of all of
Western Europe com-
bined, including all of
Scandinavia, with all of
the foreign ownership in
JaAan thrown in for good
measure. In every single
year since 1971, the an-
nual growth of foreign
ownership in Canada has
set new records year
after year as it did in
1977, as it did again last
year, as it will again this
year and again in 1980,
not perhaps but for
certain.
Today, non -Canadians
control ' over 110 billion
dollars in Canadian
assets at book value. The
real market value is of
very con -
beyond that
course,
siderably
figure.
Today foreigners
control 65 percent of all of
our combined
manufacturing, mining,
petroleum and natural
gas, 98 percent of our
rubber industry, 82
percent of our chemicals,
46 percent of pulp and
paper, 61 percent of
agricultural machinery,
74 percent of electrical
apparatus industry, 59
percent of transportation
equipment, 96 percent of
the automobile and parts
industry and annually
increasing percentages of
wholesale and retail
business, food processing
and agricultural
distribution, grain
handling, forests
products and fishing.
Grim as they are, these
percentage figures are
actually under-
estimated. In reality
hundreds of important so-
called Canadian Cor-
porations are effectively
foreign controlled
through minority
ownership in widely held
companies.
There is so much talk
today about National
Unity but how can you
possibly have a country if
each and every day, you
sell off more of your
industry, more of your
land, more of your
resources to the
ownership and control of
people who live in other
countries.
I am convinced that we
must do things better.
I know that we can do
things better and I know
for certain that if we
don't soon make the
necessary changes, then
soon we can say goodbye
for ever to the dreams
and aspirations of so
many who have worked
for so long and so hard for
Canada. We can say
goodbye to the dreams of
Sir John A. MacDonald
and goodbye to the
dreams of Laurier,
goodbye to the dreams of
millions of immigrants
and goodbye to the op-
portunities for children
and their children.
If we continue "giving
away the shop" and
giving away the country,
we can say goodbye to the
whole idea of Canada.
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"I suppose I should
have suspected he was a
sky-jacker," remarked
the stewardess, "when he
asked me for a sandwich
and a coffee -- to go".
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reminded us the other
day, the - apple- of the
average boy's eye is
usually the prettiest
peach. , with the biggest
near.
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