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J The Newmarket Aurora Out April 1ST I l OTTAWA REPORT SKIM STEVENS MP The budget last Thursday has been described as a standpat budget that is stand- pat with more inflation than last year more unemployment than last year and less real growth To call that a standpat situation is a bit like General Custer claiming that he stood pat at the Battle of the Bighorn Some and I would suggest that today is as good a day as any this country got to star to wake up Our economy is in serious difficulty Such irreparable harm has been done in the past six years that we cow face a crisis that few in this country appear to be willing to address them selves to Certainly this government likes to befog the issue and to minimize our plight Speaking generally the federal government has three main tasks to achieve with respect to the economy Firstly they must ensure that their governmental activities are run soundly and efficiently with the least possible taxation and with a minimum of deficit financing Secondly they must cultivate an economic climate that will provide full employment for those who wish to work and a minimum of in flation To do this it is necessary that they in spire confidence in the private sector which in turn assures a cooperative positive attitude between business and labor Thirdly in a country such as Canada which is so heavily dependent on world trade it is essential that our federal government structure our activities to ensure that we remain com petitive and able to hold our position as a trading nation These three functions of government are all interrelated If there is irresponsibility in the handling of the governments first function it in turn influences the nations performance with respect to employment containing inflation and maintaining our position as a world trader This government has failed in all three respects in the past years The magnitude of their failure is not being recognized Let us review the facts Personal income taxation of the average family has jumped so that today it is a bigger expense for Canadian families than any other single item more than the family spends on housing on food and a lot more than they spend on transportation When Mr Trudeau took power it wasnt so Today the average Canadian family spends almost per cent of its income in personal in come taxes In the United States it is 14 per cent The difference in taxation is the result of Canadian governments now taking per cent of our total Gross Nation Product compared to 35 per cent in the United States That dead load in extra government cost eight per cent of our GN P or in dollar terms about per taxpayer puts a pressure on our productive people that is not shared by their counterparts in the United States With that added load we then find that our workers demand higher wages to offset the added tax load that is being imposed by government Its the takehome pay that workers are interested in If they are taxed more naturally they will demand that their gross wages go up and if you not only tax them more but charge them twice as much for unemployment insurance premiums as in the United States is it any wonder that they demand higher wages than are being paid in the United States short its government greed and lack of responsibility that has contributed to our present plight more than any other single factor in the country This greed is shown in the Ottawa level in two ways Firstly in six years ended last October federal spending jumped per cent almost twice as fast as the general increase in our economy Secondly since governments take of our GN P has risen from per cent to per cent and of that five per cent increase per cent has been at the federal government level We have touched on the taxation that has resulted from this federal government spending spree We have not touched however on the deficits and the debt that has and will be in curred by Ottawa in the current year Last Thursdays budget reveals that this government intends to run budgetary deficit this year of billion The deficit will be greater than total federal spending for fiscal year the year this line of Liberals first took power That deficit of 72 billion means in addition to paying all of their other taxes every taxpayer is being charged this year with a further short- fall of approximately Interest on that amount will cost each taxpayer about 50 a year or per month until it is repaid in future years What a legacy for our children and their children In our view the government if it had abided by its own guidelines which it set for everybody else with respect to pricing could have cut a further billion from its spending plans which in turn would have meant a 100 tax break for the average Canadian taxpayer and federal cash needs could have been lower somewhat Such a tax break would have helped to lower wage demands and to improve our real growth EAS GWILLIMBURY HEARS STINGING REPORT Hackson blasts OHS considers own shelter SHARON Newmarket and East Gwillimbury animal control officer John Hackson continued his attack on the Ontario Humane Society here Monday In an appearance before East Council Mr also announced that hes con sidering building his own shelter facilities While reluctant to discuss his future plans for the shelter control officer was outspoken in his criticism of the Humane Society and its Aurora shelter The society he claimed has failed to live up to its responsibilities in the area He told of a case in which the society failed to follow up on complaints of cruelty A goat apparently left to starve to death was reported Wednesday said Mr Hackson failed to do anything he claimed and by Friday when disturbed neighbors approached him the animal was dead Tuesday Aurora shelter manager Judy said her records indicated that the shelter had received no such call but admitted cruelty cases are often referred directly to the office in Thornhill Mr however receives all calls she noted He takes every complaint whether its good bad or indifferent Mrs said Mr went on to explain that he does not have the right to go on the property to investigate cases of cruelty He quoted the society as saying they would send the animal to Guelph for further investigation then stressed that he has had no word back and no charges have been laid Mr also accused the society of extremely poor public relations He said the presence of school children at Mon days meeting prevented him from repeating language used by an employee of the shelter to a woman who gave seven pups to Mr for delivery to the shelter She berated me terribly claimed Mr adding that the supervisor at the shelter wanted a cheque for 17 from woman She cursed her over the phone continued Mr You just dont talk to people like that Their PR is very poor Mrs said the charge is the normal adoption fee for seven puppies and the woman had been told that in a telephone conversation prior to contacting Mr Hackson Instead of paying the fee the woman had the animals brought in as strays said the shelter manager At the time she considered placing the animals for adoption there was a need for puppies said Mrs but by the time they were brought In as strays three animals had to be destroyed after being held for seven days Mr has received a letter from the Humane Society informing him that he will be charged under the Criminal Code if he delivers any more in jured animals to the shelter Mr told East Gwillimbury Council that Newmarket officials are upset over the societys behavior The society seeks donations in the area he said but residents dont seem to be getting very much in return He stressed that the contract with the Humane Society reads that they are to accept all animals and added that the society has the sole right to deal with cruelty eases In this area they have more power than the police do he noted Mr said Monday he is proposing to put up his own shelter and will offer to replace the services of the Humane Society for East Gwillimbury Mayor Angus Morton said he was sorry to hear of the lack of cooperation from the Humane Society and commended saying he was pleased with your report and the work you are doing Voodoo witch doctors curses and these remote scenes were all part of Laura Taylors life during her summer in Haiti Lauras summer serving By DEBBIE NEWMARKET For Laura Taylor a 17yearold Newmarket High School student her return from Haiti last September was not to have marked the end of an adventure but only the beginning spent the summer of building a school dormitory Haiti with Teen Missions Inc a church aid program This year Laura had planned give one more summer of my life to the lrd She would have spent this school sojourn in Virgin Islands Now because Laura was unable to raise almost 100000 she needed to join the team to the Virgin Islands this summer she will be unable to go After a conference with her church pastor Rev rover Crosby Laura decided to spend a summer working and attend college next fall hopes next year she will be able to serve the Lord with Teen Missions once again Laura has mixed feelings about last summers trip to Haiti The exercise began on July when Laura left her home in Newmarket to join her team at Boot Camp in Florida After several months of trying to get people to sponsor her and working hard at trying to raise the money needed to get there Laura found herself on Island ready to undergo what is affectionately referred to as a crash course in martyrdom An from Lauras diary describes the Boot Camp as a bug frog animal mud infested camp is quick to add that its a place full of the spirit of God LAURA TAYLOR St Pauls proposal presented RICHMOND HILL School in Newmarket was boards management A building proposal for presented to the York committee here Tuesday St Pauls Separate Region separate school night Share Life fops its goal NEWMARKET The Share drive In the Newmarket and East Gwillimbury Catholic communities has reached the mark The total tops the area goal of more than double last years goal of according to chairman Bob PIckard The campaign at St Johns Church In New market and Our Lady of Good Counsel In Sharon Is being bolstered by secondary fund- raising efforts planned for May and June he explained We were quite confident we could rtach our goal the campaign chairman added The Newmarket Sharon pariah Includes more than families Providing the proposal clears routine committee and board hurdles the proposal will go to the provincial education ministry for approval Last nights board session represents the first time the St Pauls proposal has come before the new trustees Following approval of three other building projects last year the 1976 board established construction of the Newmarket school as number one priority ofr At the same time the province informally agreed to recognize St Pauls for approval this year The delay in bringing Ihe building proposal to the committee was simply a timing matter Newmarket trustee Kathleen Taylor told The Era Since the province did not start a new fiscal year until April 1 the proposal could not be considered before that date she explained In other business last night the committee opened tenders for construction of an ex pansion to Holy Name Separate School In King Township one of three projects approved by the province last year Every morning for two weeks Laura and her colleagues were made to run an obstacle course The course was also used as a punishment It began with a quarter mile run a swing on a rope over a pond more running a climbing venture up and down both sides of a 20foot cargo net more running and a crawl across cargo net stretched over a pond Then there was more running both straight and through tires and running through a straight course which ended in a sheer 16foot wall Laura recalled an incident at the wall in her diary 1 wish the whole camp could have been at the wall We got everyone over but Jon Two guys were on top of the wall One hung over the wall and the other held him there Then Jon had to jump up to grab his arm But he jumped and jumped and we began to get discouraged Then finally he grabbed on and made it over You never heard a happier team After two weeks of an incredible endurance the teams were ready to leave for their destinations and her companions found themselves as quite an oddity in the Caribbean island as they were the first white people to be seen in those parts for some time When the vehicle carrying them got three flat tires one after another the group found itself quickly surrounded by natives They were stared at and even prodded Laura notes that the team had to be very careful as far as attitudes towards the Haitians were concerned The way they reacted to Ihe Haitians was going to be the way the Haitians reacted to them Despite what we as civilized people would like to believe Voodoo human sacrifice and cannibalism are alive and well and living on Haiti she said On her travels Laura observed many things On the way home we passed a white Voodoo cross Although we werent close enough to see Debi said theres a human skull at the base of it Despite what we have been told cannibalism and human sacrifice are practised in Haiti Laura and her friends were living yards from a witch doctor Her eighth thing on a list of articles I want to remember about staying in Haiti is Voodoo drums to sleep by Mostly the group ignored the drums but one night it went to watch the fires and really listen to the drums It was the worst feeling Ive ever hod Laura said The witch doctor is a very influential figure in the community slie observed He has a great knowledge of herbs and a great deal of control over the people in his community who while not stupid are ignorant and live in a poverty which can only be described as appalling Laura explains that the income per capita per year is usually 100 She witnessed ignorance fear and malnutrition that most of us may only view on television newsreels The richest Haitian is usually a witch doctor Several times during the course of the summer the group had curses put on them How do you over come a curse You pray Laura feels that God showed himself to her many times and in many ways last Summer she recalled one incident where a group of people from her team had a day off and travelled from their encampment at Verrettes to the town of Port au Prince They carried with them a load of citrons which were piled on to the roof of the bus As they made their way down the snakelike bumpy roads the large fruits became loose and began to fall from the bus roof to the road At first the group ignored the falling citrons but finally so many of them had fallen off that they had to stop the bus and pick them up The group grumbled as this was work on what was supposed to be a free day A little more than a mile down the road however they came upon a wreck which was the result of an accident that had occurred only a short time before If we had not had to stop we would have been involved in the accident Laura said It was an accident in which people were killed for Laura the days in Haiti were full of brick laying and prayer and she feels that she has achieved at least partially her goal of growing closer to the Lord Laura will remember many things about her trip to Haiti Slamming lids on the outhouse toilets to scare away the cockroaches and the Haitians copying us probably not even knowing why we do It fresh avocados melons and bananas friends like Bob and all the people on the team who became not just her friends but also her second family Everyone on the team is my brother or sister in Christ she writes in her diary on departure and Ill miss them dearly Although the future lor Laura is not completely certain she does have a wish to become a nurse She does not know how she will fare but she is not concerned and she is quite firm in her belief that the Ijord will provide if she is meant to achieve something My belief in what God can do has grown says Laura Despite all our failings he can do a lot Everything happens in Gods good time Laura says And we know that all things work together to good to them that love God to them that are the called according to his purpose Romans Fire fund likely to top 200 mark NEWMARKET Tne fund for a Timothy St man burned in a fire a month ago is expected to top the mark this week Bill Van Laan was released from York County Hospital Thurs day fund organizer Ralph Foster said but is still unable to return to work In addition to cash donations ranging bet ween and 50 the fund has been bolstered by the donation of furniture by an East Gwillimbury woman The fund remains open and donations can be made at the Royal Banks Upper Canada Mall branch or by Mr Foster at A