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THE ERA WED MAY VOL NO Editorials Local issues paramount Interest in the June 25 federal election seems to be focussing more and more on issues of national import relations with Quebec international affairs and inflation in our economy for instance We should not lose sight of the more local issues directly affecting residents in this area The housing crisis although it is a national one has hit urban and suburban areas such as York County hardest In Metro Torontos fringe areas land speculators have been allowed to force land prices so high singlefamily homes for the average working man are all hot out of reach Combine the high prices with the equally exorbitant mortgage interest rate being charged by the federal government and home owner ship becomes an impossible goal for most wage earners Singlefamily residential development within Metro is slowly grind ing to a halt for lack of land and attention is focussing now on the southern half of the county During the fiveyear term of the government elected June 25 many subdivisions will go up in this area There is no easy solution to this question but all three of our candidates should be asked it nevertheless because it directly affects the future of this riding There are other federal issues which are particularly pertinent to the problems faced by an area located hard against a huge metropolis and perched on the brink of a massive development boom a Should a federal office of education be established not to take over any provincial prerogatives in this everthorny field but to initiate and coordinate programs aimed at career retraining programs to increase worker mobility within the nation and to undertake nowneglected research programs Another field where the long arm of Ottawa may be able to reach into the municipal field is that of planning Much research will have to be done if we are to build communities in the future that will match the potential of this great land A federal planning research authority which could put vast resources from around the world at the disposal of municipal planners could be of inestimable value during the next five years to the men planning the boom in York County Where do our candidates stand on these Lifes little problems Nothing trivial thia week Im going to ask and answer some questions about the more profound aspects of life If you dont like the answers supply your own When i3 a politician during an election campaign going to pro- the populace the thing for nothing partly for the sheer hell of it What has Pierre Elliott who is older and has even less hair got that I havent Not much really Except a million dollars a brilliant mind bags of charm no family shackles and a couple of is we not some otherworldly have to pay for it Why are so many draftdodgers really is made of hot in Mexico and they dont know of getting attention is week cold and rainy on weck- literally and igura- happens to my Hocks Every time my wife washes I lose one sock Never a pair always singles matching Theyre about a as on a rabbit pened with the old upright and gray darkgray darkblue or black Where did this vile canard begin babies when they a supposed to be lous demanding syi This is poppycock at least in our family Hugh I want only to be left alone when were ill Its the females who talk end lessly about how they feel discuss every twinge demand fresh tea ever halfhour and complain about the slowness and of the service After three weeks of it I know Why do black people loot dur- golf or fish thats why Why alt the fuss and admira tion the teenagers march ing had for money on May 1th They chini lawnmowcr with proceeds going to the underprivileged of the world and see what response you get When are the clots in this coun try going to stop cutting down avenues of beautiful trees in towns and cities in order In widen roads and create speedways Never un less we nonclots start holy war When are governments going to get rid of that vast strangl ing afterbirth of a bureaucracy to a crock About as many leg Why is teaching school like wash ing dishes There always another stack coming along unless you to stop eating Any more questions No Well I guess that clears up a lot of things that have been bothering They demand representation flt q nd dental checks and half hour THE Readers Timothy SI lire Who rll we as adults ever Newmarket Ont ear to the word Dear Editor Mm Brown I have never written a letter Newmarket of protest before but this time I felt I must I am the 22yearold mother of three children 155 Ave Newmarket Ten years ago I spent a few Editor days in hospital in the bed next to mine was a sixyearold boy with the top half of his body almost completely burned Some older children had thrown fire crackers at him and his clothes had caught fire The nightmare of this childs pain and the fact that he would be scared for life has never left me Today my fouryearold son came in the house with a fire cracker some older child had given him and all the horror I felt ten years Is there nothing we can do How many children will be hurt and disfigured for life this year feel it is up to us as parents to force the issue Could there not be a law against the sale of fire works to children including young teenagers Is money so impor tant to our merchants that they make it at the risk of a childs I would like through your paper to appeal to the Mothers of young children who live in East Gwil- Subdivision A couple of days ago my son drove me down to the plaza a matter of three minutes drive and he had to stop suddenly to avoid young children no fewer than three times Had my son been in the car alone and one of these children had been hurt he would undoubted ly have been blamed because he was a teenager In one instance I very much doubt if an older person could have reacted as quick ly as he did Most of the houses in the Subdivision do have fenced in back yards so for your own peace of mind would you please kep your two three year olds off the THIS WEEK By Ray dealing hot hand be given their best airing of three parly leaders Prime Income the role Quebec in Confederation housing crisis and such matters us The election campaign was only a few days old when the number the federal government but not yet presented to Parliament The housing shortage was the next target for the Tory leader pledged a Conservative govern ment to make loans to provinces and municipalities to permit them to buy up land for future housing needs Housing was the No subject of attack for the New Democrats Mr Douglas promised an housing scheme to build Warning that Quebecs conference- Robert Thompson For tender picket up the tnierviilive lenti She destruction of nomination in bis Hod Deer rid- any clearcut right vs left liviiioii the Wan blurred almost as Con servative leader In his first big speech appeared to push the Tories far to the left date to choke off provincial deal- richer than it now Is afford it To a degree the country already guaranteed income with welfare pensions to the iil a minimum old age penlion of per month A ire formal plan would falling for a end bureau to attack by Ottawa the provinces and mi air and wnter 11 Illlllil- of iiKni now deal with Ihe growing prob lem although pollution Is prima rily a provincial responsibility and the could support in both French Canada and the West The Conservatives be heading Inward some kind of a special stains for Quebec Mr called for changes In the which would permit the provinces make International diction In effect the PC chief Quebecs participation In the Paris education talks As if the Quebec issue wasnt sufficiently distieising for the Tiuiti the I moved Imdily on another favorite jeet regional economic disparity Mr promised to set leiH developed regions imprc their economy and raise living standards It looked like a game of in which the Liberals enjoying the benefits of office were so far holding most of the cards