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PAGE 6A..-0ODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1977
Jack's Jottings
,from Queen's Park
By lack Riddell Huron Middlesex MPP
Of course, the big news in
the Ontario Legislature was
the new Provincial Budget,
which indicated total spen-
ding of $13.698 billion in the
fiscal year 1977.78 and over-
all revenue of $12,621 billion
for a deficit of 81.077 billion,
compared with last year's
$1.388 billion.
The Treasurer's tax in-
creases will total $209 million.
tax tax cuts $201 million.
Tax on a •20 pack of
cigarettes will rise by five
cents; tax on cigars and cut
tobacco witl double (the
Government expects to make
$58 million from this in-
crease).
ncrease).
South of the French River.
car registration fees as of
December lst will be as
follows; four -cylinder - $30.
six -cylinder - 845; eight -
cylinder - $60. Up from $23,
$32 and $40 respectively.
Motor cycle registration will
increase to $20 and any car
with a displacement of more
than 397 cubic inches
registered for the first time in
1978, will cost $80 to register.
The Government expects to
raise $78 million on these tax
hikes.
Because people living
North of the French River
have greater distances to
travel and sometimes pay
more for gasoline, vehicle
and motorcycle registration
will be reduced to a flat $]0.
Savings to Northern Ontario
residents - about $12 million.
Sales tax exemptions on
restaurant •• meals will be
increased to $6 from $5 and to
$3 from 75 cents on en-
tertainment admissions.
Hotel and motel operators
will not have to pay sales tax
on disposable items - such as
bar soap, toilet paper,
matches, shower caps - used
in guest rooms. Thermal
insulation materials used in
all buildings and on other
energy -conserving devices,
such as heat -recovery units
and solar cells, will be
exempt from 7 per cent sales
tax.
Provincial compensation to
small businesses collecting
retail sales tax will increase
to four Der cent to a
maximum of $700 a year. This
will cost the government
about $5 million.
Effective June 1st, a tax of
five cents will be imposed at
the retail selling level on each
can of carbonated soft drink.
The government hopes to
raise $25 million in revenue
from this move.
The Government an-
ticipates loss of $3 million in
revenue by. raising the
exemption from Ontario
income tax to cover people
with less than $1,680 taxable
income - up from $1,540.
Small corporations with
taxable paid up capital up to
$50,000 will pay a flat tax of
$50 instead of filing capital
tax' returns. Those with more
than $50,000 less than $100,000
will pay $100.
The limit on the value of
estates exempt from suc-
cession duty has been raised
to $300,000 from $250,000 -,and
non-residents (including
corporations) will pay a 20
per Gent land -transfer tax
only on agricultural land and
recreational land, rather than
on all land as hitherto. The
time a non-resident must wait
to avoid payment of the land
speculation tax has been
reduced to five years,
Under an amendment to the
gift tax legislation, present
allowances will be doubled.
Gifts of up to $10,000 per
recipient and $50,000 per
donor will be exempt from the
tax.
Ontario Hydro's borrowing
freedom goes to $200 million
for next year.
We consider the 3udget to
be, in large measure, an
admission of past fiscal sins.
For the first time in history,
the province is paying in-
terest of over one billion
dollars on our debt - an in-
crease of 1 per cent.
Our main concern is lack of
effective measures to im-
prove the critical unem-
ployment situation in
ont trio. The Tr'easur'er
himself predicts that 12,000
more people will be unem-
ployed here this year,
compared w ith last ( an in-
crease of per cent).
Although the Budget. in-
corporates a number of
measures which are sup-
posedly intended to reduce
unemployment for Ontario's
youth, all the proposals are
short term in effect • the
duration of the jobs so
created is no longer than 16
weeks, although a few - very
few - will last 32 weeks. The
Ontario Youth Employment
Programme, with its $1 an
hour bonus to employers, will
not necessarily create new
jobs - and in any event will
certainly not create the 20,000
jobs as indicated. In fact, the
programme will fund fewer
than 16,000 summer jobs,
each lasting only 16 weeks.
Some 143,000 young
Ontarians are unemployed 7
15 per cent of those in the
labour force under 25 years of
age. Mr. McKeough proposes
to create 6,131 man years of
work for Ontario's youth -
only -one job for every 23 of
• our unemployed young
people.
Ontario's total unemployed
figure at this time is 316,000.
Yet- Mr, McKeough is
proposing only 9,487 man
years of new job creation -
one job for every 33 unem-
ployed Ontarians. Even at
this, the Treasurer's
projection of 6.3 per cent
unemployment remains
substantially „ below the
Conference Board's estimate
of 7 per cent for Ontario.
With respect to the, ac-
celerated capital works, 3,356
construction jobs will barely
make a dent in the 19.2 per
cent of Ontario's construction
workers who were unem-
ployed as of January - up
from 16.2 per cent a year
earlier, Treasury officials
confirm that all these `con-
struction projects are to be
completed this fiscal year.
Farmers have expressed
concern that the
requirements of the
Classified driver licensing
system might impose
restrictions on the farmer's
freedom of action . in
assigning helpers or tem-
porary employees to drive
farm vehicles, for example,
during seeding or harvesting
time. -
I.have raised this matter
with the Minister of Tran-
sportation and Com-
munications, the Honourable
James Snow, on more than
one occasion. The Minister
has also been approache&by
the farming community and
because of these concerns
expressed the regulation
under The Highway Traffic
Act pertaining to the
classified driver licence
requirements is to be
amended.
The regulation to be
amended concerns Class "D"
and Class "G" motor
vehicles. Class "D" includes
motor vehicles which exceed
18,000 pounds gross vehicle
weight provided any towed
vehicles are not over. 10,000
pounds. Class "G" refers to
the licence required to drive
cars, light trucks etc. dp to a
registereed gross vehicle
weight of 18,000 pound's.
The amendment in effect
deems a Class "D" motor
vehicle to be a Class "G"
(continued on page 7A)
TOWN OF GODERICH
DOG CONTROL
By -Law 10 of 1974
Dog tags are now due. After April 30th, 1977, a penalty
of Ten Dollars ($1O.00) plus costs will be' assessed as
per Item 3 of Part II of By -Law No. 10 of 1974.
Tags available at Municipal Office, 57 West Street.
Chairman
Animal Control
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Robins arrive at Holmesville
The Holmesville Public School kindergarten class Steven Webb, Gregory Mayhew and Marty Russello share a
welcomed in the spring of the year with these paper robins table as they put the finishing touches on their birds. (staff -
the youngsters worked on in class. Here Tammy Gibbons, photo)
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