The Goderich Signal-Star, 1981-02-18, Page 27Paul Revere, where are you now that the Yankees need
you?
It was Revere, wasn't it, who rode through the streets yell-
ing: The British are coming!
It seems that the Brits, along with the Canadians, the: Dut-
ch, the West Germans quid even the French, are buying up
America and it has the big boys on Wall Street worried.
Foreigners now own great big chunks of enterprises in the
New Hess. Hay that are as Amurrican as apple pie: Howard
Johnson, American Motors, Saks Fifth Avenue, Baskin-
Robbins Ice Cream, Alka Seltzer, Chesterfield Cigarettes,
Bantam Books and even Shell Oil.
It has become quite an invasion and Americans are con-
cerned-. Laws have been enacted at the federal_ and state
levels to monitor, control and screen foreign investment.
A recent Congressional report has isued a warning about
the OPEC nations , which have surpluses .. of almost
unimaginable magnitude. In 1977 OPEC had $53 billion in
surplus monies.
With such amounts of money, those nations could buy all
the listed stocks on the New York exchange within three'
years.
Legislation to provide closer monitoring of foreign in-
vestments in the U.S. will surely come if Raygun Reagun
runs true to form: Amurrica for Amurricans!
The whole picture is fun for Canadians to watch. We have
been. treated as an economic subsidiary for a hundred years
by the Americans. They could bring this country to its knees
by withdrawing their capital.
The shoe could easily be slipping onto the other foot; the
Yanks may soon be subservient to capital from a dozen other
nations around the world including= believe it or not; Canada.
But wait a minute. U.S. residents worried about foreigners
buying up America may more readily understand Canadian
fears if the trend continues.
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Unfortunately, it isn't just the, Yanks that Canada has to
worry about these days, especially when it comes to buying
farmland. A study by University of Manitoba agricultural
economist Daryl Kraft shows that 1.8 million acres of arable
Manitoba farmland are now owned by people or corporations
who neither live on it nor farm it themselves.
Farmers in many parts of British Columbia, Ontario,
Saskatchewan and Prince Edward Island have voiced the
same fears, In Huron County in Ontario, rumor has it that
"dozens" of farms have been purchased by foreign dollars.
The federation of agriculture has been doggedly working to
get some action from the province to prevent more
.a takeovers.
Government controls have been haphazard and, to some
degree, ineffective across the nation. Foreign ownership is
supposed to be limited, in some provinces, to no more than 20
acres. But foreigners simply set up Canadian companies with
Canadian directors.
Much of the •money, it is believed, comes from European
buyers who have "black dollars", – undeclared income that
they wish to invest outside their own countries, similar to the
laundered Money from the underworld.
I share the concern expressed by farmers. No student of
history can forget the abuses chronicled down the ages that
have come about through absentee ownership. No profession
is more prone to such abuses than agriculture. It takes
dedication by born farmers to keep track of land and stock.
But with the value of farmland increasing by as much as 15
percent a year, who can blame the boys with black bucks to
be laundered from investing in Canadian land?
As Larry '11rotz, writing in the Globe. and Mail said:
" .. g that of • only black
Investors are drscoverin that oil is not the onl
gold;"
Isn't it poetic.,justice to have the Americans looking over
their shoulders, for a .change, just as we have been doing in
Canada for 100 years?
West Wawanosh council
Passes parkin'gby-law
Accounts . totalling
$4,741.65 were Irdered paid
when West Wawanosh'
Township Council 'met in
regular session February 3.
Over $3,000 of this money
went to Lucknow for the
township's • 1980 fire
protection share.
Township clerk Joan
Armstrong was asked to
phone Doug MacEachern at
the Ministry of Natural
Resources in Wingham,
again regarding the traffic
hazard resulting from
skiers' vehicles parked on
Concessions2 and 3 of the
township.
By-law 3, 1981, a by-law to
regulate parking ' on town-
ship roads, was given a third
reading and passed by
council.
The clerk was asked to
contact the Maitland Valley
clerk to- submit the annual
petition for subsidy to the
Ministry of Transportation
and Communications in the
amount of $182,260.70.
Council also • passed a
motion in support of the
Wingham and District
Hospital' renovation'
program and agreed to pay
$2,000. in 1981 toward these
renovations and a .further,
$2,000 m 1982.
The clerk was directed to
contact several engineers
and surveyors, inviting them
to submit price quotations
for the preparation of site
plans for the township -owned
gravel pits.
The clerk, was ...-..also
directed to advertise in local
papers for a person to count
dogs in the township for the
year 1981.
The road accounts were
ordered paid and council
adjourned until March 3 at 1
p.m.
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retained placenta and im-
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Other deficiencies may
include white muscle disease
in calves or heifers, metritis,
abortion, reduced fertility
and decreased growth.
No feed testing is currently
Conservation Authority in
reply to a letter from them,
suggesting that Authority
representatives attend
council's March,meeting.
Council decided to grant
'$50 • to the Dungannon
Twirlettes to assist with
expenses and with the
stipulation that a portion ,of
the grant be used to pur-
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the organization. Council
also gave a grant of $100 to
the Wingham and Dists���"ct
Association for the Mentally
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Eight to
Eight of Ontario's out-
standing agriculturalists will
be inducted into the Ontario
Agricultural Hall of Fame on
Sunday, June 7. The eight
candidates, all deceased,
have each in their own ways,
made exceptional con-
tributions to the develop-
ment of agriculture in
Ontario.
In announcing the names
of those to be recognized, the
President of the Ontario
Agricultural Hall of Fame
Association, Dr. R.J.
McDonald, D.V.M., of
Woodstock paid tribute to
their roles in creating a
better industry.
"Last year we opened our
Gallery at the Ontario
Agricultural Museum by
inductuig nine candidates.
This year we will unveil the
likenesses off eight additional
people who deserve to have
their memories perpetuated.
Each of these candidates set
high goa.ls for himself, and in
his or. her own way, in-
fluenced the direction and
strength of Ontario
Agriculture," he said.
The eight inductees for
1981 are: Delmer Bennett
(1925-1976) of Forrestees
Falls. A well-known Ottawa
Valley ,dairy farmer, Ben-
nett served° his. fellow' far
mers well in the organization
and policy areas of , the
Ontario Farmers Union and
later the Ontario Federation
of Agriculture. His goal was
a strong democratic farm
organization.
James • Bowman ( 188.3-.
1944) of Guelph, Bowman
was one of Ontario's pioneer
breeders,' echibitors, im-
porter and . exporter of
:purebred livestock;
specializing in Aberdeen
• Angus cattle, Suffolk sheep
and Clydesdale horses.
• Fred W. Bray (1905-1978)
of St. Catharines,. Founder
of the Bray Chick Hatchery.
Bray was a well-known.
- poultry breeder and one • of
the founders of the Canadian
Poultry Council.
' Johnston (Jack) Fraser
(1904-1979) of Brampton.
Fraser was one of Ontario's
best known ' Holstein
Breeders, 'exhibitors and
judges. He served as
President of the Holstein -
Friesian Association of
Canada, and' the .Canadian
National Exhibition..
Mrs. Adelaide Hoodless
(1857-1910) of St. George.
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death of her small child,
Mrs. Roodless embarked on
a lifelong crusade for un-
proved ' food handling, the
creation of Home Economics
and Household Science
courses in Normal Schools,
the establishment .of Mac-
donald Institute at Guelph.
She was co-founder of the
Women's. Institute
movement in Ontario.
David Jones (1836-1910) of
Ringwood was founder and
first president of the Ontario
Beekeepers' Association.
Under his •inspired leader-
' ship, the bee and honey in-
dustry assumed a new and
respected position in
agriculture.
Oatiiefas yseysC ' t1798 -11M i
of Newcastle. Massey
founded the first major. farm
machinery company in
Canada in a blacksmith shop
in Newcastle in the mid -
1800s. From that humble
beginning developed the
Massey -Harris Ferguson)(
,Company Ltd., with plants
and - markets around the
world.
The Reverend William
( Padre) Young, (1904-1980)
of Fergus. "Padre" Young's
greatest influence -was on•.the-
young people he inspired
during his 20 yeaas as
Chaplain of the Ontario
Agricultural College. Active
in the Junior Farmer's
Movement, he also had
many other interests, being
a skilled 'hortic ultura list and
a widely sought after poultry
judge.
The Ontario Agricultural
Hall of Fame Gallery at the
Ontario Agricultural
Museum, Milton features
likenesses of the candidates
rendered by the well-known
Toronto artist, Bruce Lep-
per. The Gallery is open to
the public seven days a week
from , mid-May until
Thanksgiving.
Nominations to the Gallery
are made by members of the
Hall of Fame Association
which is a non-profit
organization established
solely for the purpose of
recognizing the contribution
of those who have, built the
industry ' lifetime mem=
berships are available from
the Association office at Box
38, Milton, Ontario L9T 2Y3
( 416) 878-8151. The deadline
for nominations for the 1982
induction is September 1,
1981.
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