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the HER ALD Analyzing the peace movement A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Guelph Street Georgetown 3Z6 Ontario DAVID A BEATTIE Publisher and General Manager MIKE TURNER Editor Phone 8772201 DAN TAYLOR Advertising Manager CUu Mil Regbterad Page THE HERALD Wednesday January 1989 Editorial Halton Hills is changing Everywhere we look today we see change and with change comes adjustment With the arrival of 1989 Halton Hills moves closer to what has the potential to be one of the most exciting periods in the communitys history Changes that will be upon us in a very short time will have farreaching effects on generations to come Deci sions made now will carry much weight in the years ahead Less than two months ago we decided on the municipal representatives who will guide the community into the next decade But we all share in the decisionmaking process on issues that will affect our future as a community Never before has it been so imperative that we take an active interest in the wellbeing of Halton Hills Rest assured we are a community on the move As members of the community a certain amount of ap prehension is understandable and a sense of eager an ticipation is natural But apathy has no place in the framework of the future This new year presents a good opportunity to take an ac tive role in helping shape the future of Halton Hills and we are too Having reached this point in your perusal of the Herald youve no doubt come to a very obvious conclusion weve changed Certainly the most glaring change is in the cosmetic makeup and the very construction of the newspaper The mandate of any newspaper is to inform and enter tain YouU undoubtedly agree the changes that have been made are of the dramatic variety However these changes were not made without a great deal of forethought and much analysis Change simply for the sake of change can be a foolhar dy venture And having come to be known as the Home Newspaper of Halton Hills with a history dating back to makes the decision process all the more intricate Rest assured the decision to change was not made without a certain degree of soulsearching But the changes we have decided to make are changes we feel are for the better and will be seen as a positive step We felt it appropriate to launch the year that will usher us into the 1990s with our newlook twice a week Herald Our aim is to build on successes of the past and integrate them with visions of the future Maintaining the high level of integrity and honesty the Herald has come to be known for remains paramount for us as we convey local news and happenings to the public Our focus will continue to be Halton Hills a community were proud to be a part of Oyer the next few short years Halton Hills will undergo many changes the most discernible being the growth of the community We look forward with anticipation to both changing and growing with the community to suit the times But we will always remain the Home Newspaper of Hills For Canadians this holiday season is time to ponder our good fortune at having years of peace with the minor exception of Korea Many of us credit the existence of NATO for this bounty and some of us consider the greatest danger to peace to be the peace move ment Bruce Gray of Thunder Bay took issue with a recent column that had several uncomplimentary things to say about that movement including a reference to the suicide of a youth terrified beyond reason by the possibility of nuclear war The column quoting from Peace With Freedom Maurice Tugwells book on the peace movement noted peace activists have sought to sow irrational as oppos ed to rational fear of nuclear war with the goal of stampeding people into unthinking endorsement of the movements real agenda unilateral disarmament by the West Gray objected on many grounds including his belief the USSR wants disarmament Thats an assumption yet to be backed up by deeds despite Mikhail Gor bachevs fine words and strategic actions But there is one point Gray makes that must be answered I am not aware of any per son who has ever given a presen tation on the subject of the arms race which simply dwelt on the dangers of nuclear war Gray said On the contrary the main reason for speaking to the public is Queens Park Derek Nelson Thornton ServlcB to illustrate that through citizen participation war can be abolish ed I would add that I know of no peace organization which ad vocates unilateral disarma ment he said Gray is wrong of course The peace movement should be judged by the total thrust of its policies not a throwaway line here or there Let me illustrate More than a decade ago the Soviet Union began deploying intermediaterange SS20 missiles in Europe There was not a single peace march in Toronto to protest the Soviet action There were no press conferences or rallies at Queens Park against the SS20 COUNTER MOVE NATO decided to deploy cruise and Pershing missiles to counter the Soviets making plain all the time that if the Soviets took the SS20 NATO would remove the cruise and Pershingsrthe so- called zerozero option offered by President Ronald Regan It was only then that agitation by the peace movement went into high hear Now one heard impas sioned speeches and saw the placards at Queens Park denounc ing the United States the Pershing and cruiseespecially the cruise and the Canadian complicity in the arms race that came from us testing It and from Litton In dustries making the guidance system Above all there was stress upon the horrors of nuclear war Even in the legislature there were MPPs from all three oldline parties Liberal NDP PC who swallowed the peace line that labelled cruise and Pershing stablizing and absurdly first- strike when mainly Ignoring the SS20s Never once at a peace gather ing in front of Queens Park did I hear a speaker endorse the zero- zero option Never once was the blame for NATOs proposed counterdeployment laid on Soviet shoulders where it belonged Yet finally their offen sive having failed the Soviets ac cepted the option and to day the weapons- are in the process of being dismantled Did the peace movement that stage a Queens Park peace ral ly to honor NATO and Ronald Regan Not a chance The targets now were other aspects of NATOs deterrence pilot training in Labrador and the visits of nucleararmed ships to Canadian ports being two of the most prominent Frankly weve had peace for decades in spite of a Soviet- oriented peace movement rather than because of it DISARMAMENT- ISPIMIGOUTOF BEING RECOGNISED Tallies on jetsetting senators By GIL HARDY Thomson News Service Our jetsetting senators and their families spent million travelling to and fro in Canada dur ing the fiscal year ac cording to Public Accounts figures The money was paid for senators their families and staff to shuttle between Ottawa and their homes and to the occasional con ference On top of that Senate committees with their own travel budgets- are often on the road hearing witnesses and officials so senators can give sober thought to proposed legislation This may explain why a survey showed 20 senators last year were absent from or more of the Senate sittings The Canadian Press survey also found another senators made it to fewer than sittings Some of those absent were 111 But many were travelling In any event senators like MPs are allocated travel points each fiscal year One point equals a round trip between Ottawa and their home courtesy of taxpayers Both senators and MPs can use some of those to fly to other parts of Canada from their riding or Ottawa In addition they can lend a portion of their points to spouses and children so families can get together regularly without causing undue financial hardship Senators with the biggest travel budgets are those who cannot fly directly from Ottawa to their hometown Once you start chang ing aircraft and renting cars the costs rise The average senator received in salary expenses and travel allowance last year The total includes a base salary of The five top travel spenders were Liberals summoned to the Senate by former prime minister Pierre Trudeau Two are from British Columbia two from Alber ta and one from Nova Scotia Senator Graham from the Cape Breton area spent the most for travelling Calgary Senator Daniel Hays was second in spending in 8788 at Third was Joyce Fair- bairn Lethbridge who spent 43849 for travel Senator Jack Austin Vancouver was fourth at After Austin came Ray Perrault from BC whose travel cost was Five senators spent no money on personal travel They were Don Cameron who retired in September 1987 Paul who died in May Jean Le who retired in February the late Fred McGrand who also retired in February and Andrew Thompson who has been on sick leave Other senators and their travel expenses include From Newfoundland Ethel Cochrane William Doody Phillip Lewis Jack Marshall Gerald tenbeimer and William Petten From Prince Edward Island Lome Bonnell Heath Macquarrle Phillips and Eileen Rossiter2SB44 From Nova Scotia Mac- Donald John MacDonald Allan and Robert From Ontario Rheal Belisle Joan Ian Sinclair From Saskatchewan David Steuart From BC Ann Bell