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By JACK RIDDELL
MPP Huron -Middlesex
Recently, the Executive
Director of the Ontario Hospital
Association said that hospitals
might have to impose a $5 a day
fee on patients and lay off 4,000
medical workers to stay within
budget.
The Minister of Health has
announced that while hospitals
may have to close active treat-
ment beds and reduce staff by
attrition, he has no intention of
introducing deterrent fees. Lay-
offs were a possibility.
The reason for the hospitals'
financial problems is that grants
from the province will not keep
pace with the rate of inflation,
forecast by Ottawa to run at
about 6 percent.
In a speech to the OHA, the
Minister outlined exactly what
they can expect in terms of
money until at least 1980: no
increase in capital expenditure
for two years; further reduction
in active treatment beds by in-
creasing outpatient, home and
chronic care; and further staff
reduction, mainly by attrition.
According to the Minister of
Consumer and Commercial
Relations, many firms offering
instant cash for income tax
refunds will be driven out of
business in Ontario by legislation
limiting their profits.
The legislation will make it
illegal for tax discounters to take
more than 5 percent of the refund
owing to a taxpayer, including
overpayments of unemployment
insurance premiums and Canada
Pension Plan contributions.
He told the Legislature that 45
income tax discounters in the
province this year charged up to
50 percent of refunds. Con-
travention of the legislation calls
for fines of up to $5,000.
Unreasonable fees for any ser-
vice, including completion of the
income tax form, are also to be
made illegal.
The Provincial Treasurer has
announced that some 140,000 of
the Province's low-wage earners
won't have to pay provincial tax
on their incomes next year. Tax
exemptions will apply to single
people earning up to $5,146,
married couples earning up to
$7,419, and married couples with
two children having a maximum
family income of $8,360.
Opposition Members maintain
that the public should no longer
be asked to have blind faith in the
ability of the police to control
organized crime, because too
little information is available on
the extent of such organized
crime and police measures to
combat it.
battle crime.
Pat Reid (Liberal MPP, Rainy
River) said the time has come to
let the public know how deep the
"tentacles of organized crime"
go within the Province.
The Solicitor -General once
again rejected the Opposition's
demands for a public inquiry into
this matter, although he admitted
that organized crime in Ontario is
a major problem in the areas of
loansharking, gambling, fraud,
investment in legitirhate
businesses that subsequently
operate illegally, drugs and
pornography.
Liberal MPP Robert Nixon has
introduced a Private Member's
Bill that would make insurance of
all motor vehicles in Ontario
compulsory. Drivers would no
longer be able to pay $100 into the
Motor Vehicle Accident Claims
Fund to avoid buying insurance.
Introducing the Bill, Mr. Nixon
alluded to increased use of roads
at higher speeds "and oc-
casionally ruinous losses arising
out of motor accidents" when the
offending driver is not insured.
A caseload crisis in Ontario
courts has the potential to un-
dermine the quality of justice,
according to the Attorney -
General. Significant reforms of
the administration of the courts
would be required to improve the
situation. He also reported that
the Government has expanded
the use of French in the criminal
division of its provincial courts,
to provide service to 66 percent of
Ontario's French-speaking
residents.
The Attorney -General and
Solicitor -General met with high-
ranking officers of the criminal
investigation and national
security divisions of the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police, and
were assured that the force is
operating within the law in this
province. It was acknowledged
that the RCMP had investigated
the Ontario New Democratic
Party, but no details were given.
Stuart Smith questioned the
Premier about foreign parent
firms who refuse to allow their
Canadian subsidiaries to com-
pete in export markets, citing
Anaconda Canada Ltd. of Toronto
as a firm which may have to close
for this reason.
The Premier indicated he has
no intention of setting strict
conditions under which com-
panies may establish new plants
in Ontario, stating that imposing
conditions on investment is not
the ideal method of attracting
new industry to the Province.
However, allowing foreign parent
companies to set the rules is
surely disastrous.
A Cabinet source said in the
early part of the week that the
Government would probably not
"dare to go through with"
legislation to raise the drinking
age to 19. Telegrams and letters
have simply poured into Queen's
Park following reports that
Government Members would
reject the Private Member's Bill
of Remo Mancini, MPP (Liberal,
Essex -South) to raise the
drinking age.
There have been rumours also
that even if the Government did
not oppose the Bill on second
NOTICE
Village of Zurich Taxpayers are reminded
that the second instalment of 1977 taxes
are due on or before November 30, 1977.
Avoid the penalty for late payment by
remitting before.November 30.
Sharon Baker
Clerk Treasurer
reading, it would be allowed to
die on the order paper at the end
of the session, leaving the
Government to introduce its own
legislation next year. The
Premier freed Conservative
Members to vote according to
their conscience, and as a result,
the Bill passed approval in
principle, and will now go for
clause by clause consideration.
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Luncheon Meats 6 oz. 55'
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Cooked Salami 6 oz. 89'