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Page 4 HILLS OUTLOOK Friday Mirth Hal ton Hills Otitic OnUook If each by The HUH Herald home newspaper of Hilton division of Canadian Newspaper Company Limited at Guelph Georgetown Ontario Second Mall Registered Number Mu PUBLISHER Garnet Cowsill EDITOR Dave Rowney ADVERTISING MANAGER Carl Sinke MARKETING REPRESENTATIVES Lowes Sharon Marshall Alanna Bowen CLASSIFIED Terry Colter Elaine STAFF WRITERS Sandy Campbell PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS MylesGlIson Annie Mary Lou Foreman Joan Brown ACCOUNTING Dave Walker Pauline Miller Outlook Progress on acid rain My work as Chairman of the Select Committee on the Environ which I mentioned In the last Premier Peterson recently pointed out thai Ontario education system must be improved meet the needs young people to provide them with new skills to compete In the modem world Speaking at the annual Ontario Liberal llcnlagi Dinner in Toronto Premier Peter son noted that there Is a per cent drop out rate front high schools in the province That rate is one of the highest in the world three times high as in Sweden and West many and twice thai of Japan and Great Britain As one of several in idatives help reduce the dropout rate the Ministry of Education will begin a special study on drop outs The objective of the study will be to recommend ways of ensuring that Ontario education system is relevant to the needs of young people and the realities of the labor changed to reflect the attitudes and expectations expressed by both the public and the industry according to a recently released government report The report emphasizes the promotion of responsible service alcohol in licensed establishments as well individual responsibility and moderation in the consumption of beverage alcohol The Ontario Student Assist I i Program OS API budget will be Increased by 17 per cent for 198788 Specific Improvements to S A I Include a sharp reduction in the financial contribution from parents of students from low income families As well sole support parents will now be eligible for grant to cover child costs A will provide more to students from farm families because farm assets will now be considered half their net value The decision increase assistance students from farm families resulted from a renew declining farm prices in he resulting on farm incomes In addition will assistance to studtnls ding degree granting religious schools and approved art schools Until students In solutions such as the College and the Theatre School in Montreal to cite just no examples txin It only for loan Much of the new funding will directed to increasing the grant assistance provided to students These change con with he Ontario govern men policy of Increasing to post secondary lions This Is the second increase in the Assistance in as many 1 was pleased recently to host a question and forum which was taped for cable television Guests on he show were the Honourable Jim Bradley Minister of he Environment and Mayors Kranti of Milton and Miller of Halt on Hills The exchange of views was most informative for all concerned will be hosting more of these programs in the future The show will be aired on he local cable channel In the near Berrys World And comrade what if this new openness turns us all into YUPPIES anxious anxious fAtems Grits cant gloat over recent polls Despite bung comfortably ahead of he Tones less comfortably of ihi New Democrats he Liberals really have little cause for jubilation over he opinion pol Is Git en he sorry position of the governing Conservatives and he fact the ore he official lion or government in walling hey should be much higher in public popular y With he Tones languishing In he low on the percentage scale of popularity one would expect the Grits to be well per cent perhaps month earlier Both the Tories and rose two points he former to per cent The highest recorded by John Turner I since he Tory slide began was 45 per cent last December be was taken immediately after lie party well publicized national That was when Mr leadership was confirmed by per of delegates Apart from that for the last year the percenlagc has been consistently in the And here Is small comfort in the news that he NDP which has never elected an MP In Quebec although acquired one by conversion is In a dead heat with he Liberals in that province Before the 1964 election the Liberals held 74 of the province seats NOT lD The fact that Prime Minister Brian Mulroncy scored so low in surveys about leadership per grabbed headlines recent ly And when only per of Canadians approve of a prime ministers performance It Is legitimate news But what received less attention in that same survey was the fact hat Mr Turner performance was ap proved by only per cent of respondents And while this look impressive compared with Mr Mulroney really remarkably low for an opposition leader Whal I mean Is Ion leaders don have to make unpopular decisions as prime ministers do Their Job Is tailormade for popular The approval rating for Leader Ed Broad bent was per cent which by comparison seems unusually high But when you stop and think about It a Ottawa Report Stewart Mad ei party leader who happens be lie an apparently unpopular govern men gc approval from wo of three Canadians What more striking it seems o me Is hat fewer than half of tie respondents Judged Mr Turner be satisfactory six per cent of those polled said they disapproved and per cent t make up their minds NOT GOOD Again these figures seem rather impressive when compared with the prime minister cent disapproval another per cent I decide but only 19 per disapproved of the way Mr was doing his Job while 17 per were undecided That particular survey was taken by Angus Associates last month and It was carried out before he Commons vote on cruise- missile testing which embarrassed the 40- Liberal caucus MPs broke ranks and In opposing further tests Delegates the party national In November voted over whclmlngly against the tests and Mr Turner has been criticized by many liberals for not accepting Ihls high level advice The embarrassing Commons vote was bound raise new Questions about leadership And although the Liberals avoided a spill on he recent freetrade vote II was achieved by way of an amend that merely added confusion o the party s own position on his basic subject Once again this debate did little to enhance Mr Turner pro file There are also many who feci the Liberal caucus Is not performing to Its full potential In he Commons and thai some front benchers are not displaying a consistent zest It not easy to make Ihc adjustment when vouve had a govern said one It not air to blame the leader Fair or no Its the reality of politics And If he continues to gain ground on the regardless of how the Tories fore you will be hearings lot more Peace beat recent years we have been In spired by a series of cross country athlclcs Strong willed men like Terry Fox and Hick Hansen have created he largest following but there are other worthwhile causes and other dedicated determined athletes Doug Mohr is such a man In these days of multimedia advertising many people complain about ads We are bombarded with them every day Some have been called or moronic and much worse Most of us wail and complain and let go at that but here are individuals who have the inner take the bull by he horns and develop worthwhile in ads Doug is such a A feeling of being powerless impotent cripples many fine people especially when they think nuclear weapons and the super power arms race The ask of oppos ing such weakness and fear is oo big and so the familiar cry is heard What can I one small in person do Fortunately some people are stirred by such op position to organize the many in dividual responses until they could stand in the path of a landslide and deflect from its course Doug Mohr Is such a man Who is this Doug He Is key figure In the Canadian peace scene He has ridden a bicycle across Canada raising awareness and money for peace He founded Ihp Canadian peace letter writing network and he Is the clair of Peace Productions in Kitchener Waterloo which produces the Ads for Peace You can be Inspired and empowered with his latest ideas and his analysis of the peace scene In Canada and around the world by ending An of Peace on April at in Georgetown High School RayPiercy for Hills Action for Nuclear Disarmament Poor service for VIA trains Recent news reports indicate hat VIA Rail is planning further cuts In passenger rain services in Southern Ontario It is no wonder hat VIA Is losing passengers when its trains have frequent breakdowns run late and when VIA fails to provide enough cars for passengers at Wind London Kitchener Guelph Bran ford and elsewhere forcing passengers to cancel trips travel by other means or wait hours for he next train Passengers treated especial ly badly when on March 1st train leaving Toronto at p was not held for five minutes so hat passengers on a late train from could make their connection for Brampton Kitchener Stratford and St Marys Transport Ontario is a profit organization promoting better public transportation We would ap preciate passengers on VIA trains writing to us at P O Box IB tion A Toronto M5W 1X3 about their experiences with VIA and their ideas about how improve rail vices As a consumer group wo believe the public voice needs to be heard now to slop VIA continuing cne A Twrtltin President Transport Ontario