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6 - The Canadian Champion, Tuesday August 7, 2001 SCOMMENT Where' s 'O0F COURSE TH'E HARRIS COMRMENT 15 CONCERNEL) ABOUT SMOG CAUSED BY CARS ANDT RUCKSd extra police officers îÔbDôOM~TING It's good news that the Halton Regional Police Service bas received L A funding to hire more officers, however where's Milton's share of the additional manpower? As reported elsewhere in this newspaper, last Tuesday Police Chief Ean Algar accepted a cheque from the solicitor general for $54 1,013 to - hel pa fo th cot oadEtinaloffcer. - HI Then on Friday, we received a press release announcing that 1l new ~ O E f1sN ofieswill be added to the ranks o Halton police this Friday. Five officers will be assigned to Halton His, four will go to Burlington, and NEWI HIGHWAYf two will b placed in Oakville. Milton received none.M......... Following the last round of recruiting in April, Milton was assigned just two officers compared to four each in Burlington and Oakville and three in Halton HuIs. And in police hiring before that, we can recali that the town received only a few, if any, officers. Police have promised Milton more officers as the town grows, but isn't Miltonright now just as needy and deserving of some extra law enforcement personnel as Oakville, Burlîngton and Halton Hills? O UR READERS WR-ITE Train whistle could save lives, says reader Dear Editor: A while back some citizens of the vil- lage of Campbellville got a petition 10 stop the train wistle. In the lune 5 Champion, a photo sbowed a tractor-trailer unit had been struck on a double track by a CN train going west. If that whistle had been in place abd blown, the driver would have detected that there was a second train approaching and could have prevented this accident from happening. This driver had angels that day. If it would have been an eastbound train that had colfided with the tractor-trailer, he would have been in piect into a body bag. The accident could ha' could have been a sehool of day with your loving comning home. After loved ones are d corne back and tbey're g Wby are there homs sirens on ire trucks, ambulances, etc. They al] - to save lives saine as1 train. It could be a lovedi day. Census records pro vide Iînk to past: reader zs and shoveled Dear Editor: As Canadians completed their se been fatal. It census formns recently, many won- bus at that time dered il their descendants, hun- cildren aboard dreds of years from now, will have access to the information they pro- lead, they don't vide. ony orvr For the estimated 7.5 million ,one fvels . Canadians engaged in the search of olicles and their ancestral roots, census records pic ave and from tbe 1800s provide a wealth of tIe ha te ron a information and a vital link to the theofyosteonea past. That link was abruptly sev- one o your one ered after the 1901 census when L. Smith legislation of the time was inter- Campbeflville preted to mean that records should be kept away from the eyes of researchers in perpetuity. In the past few months, my office bas received petitions signed hy more than 9,000 Canadians from every province calling for the pub- lic release of historie Census records aller a reasonable period. 1 bave, along witb Senator Lomna Milne, introduced a private mem- ber's bill that would allow records to be released after 92 years. This bill would also give citizens the ability, during this period, to, file an objection to the release of their information. This strikes a reasonable balance between the need for genealogists, historians, and medical researebers to bave access to this information and the An expert panel of eminent Canadians from academie and legal backgrounds, appointed by former Industry Minister John Manley, was unequivocal in calling for the'release of records after 92 years. The panel also conclusively refuted arguments that the govemn- ment had promised records would be sealed in perpetuity. Our census information is a bistorical treasure that tells future generations who we were in times gone by. This treasure must not be lost. MP Murray Calder Dufterin-Peel-WeIington-Grey *THE CANADIAN CHAMPION Box 248, 191 Main St. E Milton, Ont. 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The publsher resrs te rgbi to categesîso derisomets ne dcines Tim Coles Praductieuet Muinuiger ihie Mions Casuedias Orarepîns le a Riecyctabtie Produet Victoria Street residents asked to accept group home Dear Editor: Victoria Street residents have a wonderful opportu- nity to teach their own kids love and compassion by opening their hearts and creating a warmn welcome for the children who will be living in the FGI group home. Those kids will need a lot of love and understanding - not rejection and judgement, wbich is why they're in that home to begin with. A proactive approach rather than fearful and reactive could look like a neighbour- hood-welcomning barbecue, individual families drop- ping by witb meals on moving day. Ask your kids how they would welcome their new neighbours. Do unto others, as you would like tbem to do unto you. Brenda Stephenson Campbellville Pud by Steve Nease our share of1 The Milton Canadian Champion is a %cyclable Product n Tim Coles Production Manager