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hi page 2 the tribune tiusdjy august 24 1972 a lfcna i 1hit untune t established 1sss charles i solas publisher james thomas avsociate publkher and editor robert mccalsland advertising manager published every thursday bv inlar1 publishing co limited at 54 main st stouffvilie ort to 102101 single copies 15e subscriptions s600 per year in canada siooo elsewhere mmbr of audit bureau of circulation canadian comm niy newspapers association and ontario weekly news papers association second class mi registration number 0896 i canadian comm ri newspapers ass papers association second class mall n editorial giving away the region we dont always agree with dick ming worth anyone with opinions as definite as those of the mayor of aurora and anyone so uninhibited about expressing those i views is bound to put his foot in his mouth weve seen it happen to mr illingworth sometimes though auroras chief magistrate is to coin a phrase right on one such occasion was the last meeting of regional council j one of the items that roused mr illingworths ire was a planning com mittee report concerning the frequency of meetings since this committee is meeting only once a month during the summer some developers have ex perienced delays to avoid the resulting complaints it was recommended that a procedural change be made for straightforward subdivision proposals these were defined as projects which conform to an official plan or require a rezoning to do so in these cases the report recom mended that the planning commissioner submit his report directly to the ministry this action would be subsequently reported to the committee and to council mayor illingworth was unalterably opposed to this suggestion we have been criticized in the past for relying too much on our staff he reminded other councillors the solution said mr illingworth is quite simple the planning committee should meet more often the mood of council though was i against the mayor in an apparent burst of reverence for expediency the councillors approved the recommendation now the cry of expediency is an easy one to raise it is even easier in this case because heaven knows there are already enough delays in subdivision approval there is no doubt that the most ex pedient method of government is a dic tatorship all other considerations aside matters generally proceed much more quickly where there is only one man call him fuehrer or caudillo or whatever who has to decide history has shown us though that expediency ultimately results in enslavement imperfect though it is we have a sneaking affection for the system known as democracy even though the ship of state wallows heavily at times shipping water at every seam a consensus of elected representatives is preferable to a decree from one man we do not mean to attack the qualifications of the planning com missioner murray pound is a qualified dedicated man who is not about to ram something through for his own motives we object rather to the process of giving more authority to appointed of ficials removing it from elected bodies planning is a particularly sensitive area so many elected representatives ab dicated or totally ignored their planning duties that now the provincial govern ment has taken over the field when we look around and see the results of earlier inaction in this area we really cant kick about the erosion of local autonomy regional council has in this instance failed to measure up to its respon sibilities the province doesnt need to steal that which is handed to it on a silver platter tlealt50ri ouefllon enriched the earth editor 31a i canada could help canadian officials are giving serious consideration to allowing a certain number of displaced british citizens from uganda to find a home in this country and rightly so the uganda president has arbitrarily ordered these people out of the country we pride ourselves in our humanitarian outlook and here is a chance to put it into practice we realize that those with a narrow outlook on our unemployment situation will not agree but surely as a country we are bigger and more tolerant than this after all canada is one of the largest countries in the world and to put a fence on our bor ders and operate with only a handful of population is ridiculous it would appear that many of these refugees who are slated to be ousted from uganda are young welleducated and many have some business training they would make useful immigrants dear mr thomas further to my letter of august 8th in which i point out the conflict of interest and whimsical handouts which are a common occurrence in the ad ministration of the department of regional economic expansion i would like to take this opportunity to inform you and the electorate through your newspaper of a corporate ripoff that is a little closer to home there are those companies that can do without dree handouts because they have mastered all the tax dodges i am thinking of companies like denison mines the company of stephen roman tory candidate for york north i believe in the incentive society mr roman declared recently no wonder he certainly received incentives denison it j c cm the v ears may come and the years may go but traffic jams are uith us always this photograph taken in 1888 shows main street at the height of market day at the extreme right of the picture is the old markethall tower destroyed bv fire in the i920s mines paid not a cent of income taxes from 1961 to 1970 despite stated profits of 63538288 from 1965 to 1970 and lord knows how many millions in the four years before that under the latest federal budget 15 percent of government revenues on a budgetary basis will come from cor porations federal spending on the so- called economic development and support that is to say giants and handouts for the corporations will coincidently also equal 15 percent elementary mathematics should lead you to the obvious conclusion that the net contribution of the corporations to the social programs of the federal govern ment equals 0 during the four years of trudeau government grants to corporations in creased from 391 million to 530 million per year or 352 percent not including tax remissions tax concessions and tax cuts manpower training accelerated depreciations or depletion allowances during the same trudeau years average unemployment increased from 48 per cent to 64 percent or by 33 13 percent according to the may 8 budget speech of the minister of finance the philosophy behind these giveaways is to butress the canadian economy to provide in centives for canadian industry to grow and compete and provide jobs the finance ministers faith in industrial incentives is sadly misplaced in view of the record but as pointed out in my previous letter his corporate friends are showing their gratitude in campaign funds wally gustar new democratic party candidate federal riding of york simcoe dear sir i was interested in your editorial last week concerning the traffic problem in stouffvilie where we shop each week my own estimation would be that the majority of those creeping through the town on the weekend are heading north as you pointed out i cant understand why there is no sign on highway 48 to tell people they can miss all this crush by going a little further north and taking the bloomington road leave the stouffvilie road for those who wish to come into town for shopping its to be hoped that the powers that be will take note of our suggestions and at least let the through travellers know there is an easier way jos shenhall whitchurchstouffville qimin gwujjjt snow in august by mark xiblett on a recent afternoon as i sat in my sumptuous office leafing through my portfolio of stocks i received a call from a friend of mine in the name of a long- suffering public he besought my aid he had it seems a problem springing into my peerless vehicle the magic tortoise i betook myself to the property of my friend call him jack frost upon debarking i observed jack approaching me swathed to the eyeballs in layer upon layer of warm clothing mukluks snowmobile suits hudsons bay blankets and the like this gave me pause whats with the arctic explorer get- up i demanded he uttered another hollow moan it was his day for hollow moans i could see and replied you know of course this man mckeough well i cant say i actually know him im not sure anyone does really there is a large school of thought which maintains that there is no mckeough some say that bluff amiable bill davis sometimes drinks a strange drug and turns into mckeough others claim i that there once was a mckeough but he died during the siege of leipzig by bruce the strange seventh king of poland in 1137 whats your interest in him you are aware that mckeough im- j posed a land freeze in the noise areas around the airport said jack i nodded assent and he led me to his bathroom now as one who has covered meetings of uxbridge township council i am not totally unacquainted with cold bathrooms still i must admit it gave me a start to see a blizzard in progress centred over the sink while a miniature iceberg was drifting up and down the bathtub crushing jacks rubber duck and toy boats without a word jack led me around to the back of his house there a fullscale arctic scene was being enacted peering forward to investigate i saw that driving snow was plastering the rosebushes and a glacier was grinding its way over the vegetable garden there was even some cretin out on an ice floe clubbing baby seals strangest of all the snow and ice stopped dead at a line running straight through jacks house and diagonally across his lot jack led me back to the house from march to august in a single step as it were and proceeded to explain when the land freeze was first announced he paid little attention but within a few days the first snow started to fall when a northeasterly gale tore the corner off his house and the bathroom two closets and half his bedroom froze solid he began to wonder about it he was told by clive carpetbagger that this was simply a result of the land freeze noone would be allowed to build in this area until final runway locations have been determined so until this matter is cleared up about christmas 1984 at last estimate jack would just have to suffer a little inconvenience will you be compensated i asked jack he gave another of his famous hollow groans and produced a letter from carpetbaggers office this stated in unequivocal terms that compensation would be forthcoming when all avenues had been investigated and after government appraisers had been given a chance to make studies and after the j matter was ruled upon by five boards a tribunal fifteen committees three courts of superior jurisdiction and attilla mckeough jack was assured that he or his estate or the estate of his heirs would certainly be compensated that sounds about right i observed i notice theyre planning to streamline the procedure i still dont see what your problem is 1 want my land back he howled i want a chance to grow my prize roses again and my giant rutabagas and my blueribbon turnips i want to be able to go to the bathroom without taking an icepick and a harpoon i want the freeze lifted now i patted him on the shoulder and tried my best to console him but it was ob vious he didnt understand for truly the good book revised statutes of ontario 1970 tells us what mckeough hath put asunder let no man join together darcy givcth and darcy taketh away blessed be the name of darcy