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Section Two The Canadian Statesman. Bowmanville.TnlV 23 1975 5 When Some Laws Are Enforced WhiIe Others Are Not, There Us r A Laws.! A Loss of Respect fo by Allan Lawrence, M.P., am not inclined to agree. (Northumberland-Durham) Like a Raw Nerve in an address to the Cobourg For I can assure you that 71 Rotary Club, on Friday, within our own area. the July 18th. w.. vholeegion¯¯ich I repre- Ifully appreciate that this is sent in Parliament, this sub- not a political forum and your ject is like a raw nerve. Every hospitality to me today should time it comes up, I can not be repaid by any type of prepare for another small partisan political speech. deluge of mail. But I would like to speak to The most recent example you on a subject about which was the advertisement which many people feel strongly, was placed in various news- sincerely, even quite emotion- papers by the Ontario Provin- ally, and unfortunately, due cial Police Association. It was mainly to governmental atti- headed "Let there be more tudes, it does now have respect for the law", and political over-tones., included in it was a coupon to I deprecate the intrusion of be mailed to members of any political thrust into the parliament, on which the matter. But with the situation sender could indicate whether existing in Canada at the he or she believed the present moment, political action is the capital punishment law should only way, apparently to recti- be upheld or abolished. fy the problem. Several Dozen Coupons But I will attempt to be as I received several ozen of Non-political as possible for I these coupons, as did many would like to speak to you, other M.P.'s from Ontario. very broadly, on a matter that What impressed me particu- is of concern to many of you. It larly was that, not only did all is a broad subject, with a the senders support the stand diversity of ramifications, and of the Police Association, but is generally referred to as many also took the time to "Law and Order or sometimes enclose a letter or note as "The need to restore Law explaining the reason for their and Order". views. Their comments made It tends to be a contentious interesting reading - the topic when discussed. There example: "I am concerned are widely varying view- over the growing crime rate in points, and they do not our country, and I feel it is necessarily follow specific helped a lot by not upholding olitical party hnes, either the laws that have been ere in Canada or in the other passed". And: 'I am not in- democracies. That is certainly avour of taking a life that the case within my own only God can give, but when party's caucus at Ottawa, innocent peope lose their where some assure me that lives, and amilies and left to talk of "returning.to Law and face the world without their Order" is pejorative - that it father, I think it is time we implies that matters are retaliated"., worse than is really the case I Another writer was more BO WMANVILLE DENTURE CLINIC 33 King St. E. - 623-4473' _î COMPLETE DENTURE SERVICE PATRICK G. DEEGAN, D.T. [ Office Hours: i Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 12 Noon CCLEARANCE ON ALL 1975 COLOR T.V.'s 20" Zenith Solid State Chromacolor Il e Solid State T·ning System a 20" Chromacolour Picture Tube * Automatic One-Button Tuning * Double Service for Senior Citizens THE AUDUBON 'F4086M Fine-furniture console styling in 20" color TV. 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Wherever I go throughout this area, whenever I am speaking to the people of Northumberland- Durham this is one subject which almost always comes up iii the conversation. To me there is as firm an indication as we could have of an increasing concern by large numbers of Canadians, over the drift away from accepted standards of morali- ty, and fron respect for the code of law and true justice and recognized order. While this broad question of law and order centers to a considerable extent on the narrower question of capital punishment, that is a matter which I don't want to dwell upon today. I think most of you are well aware already of my personal views about capital punishment. If any of you aren't, let me know and I'I be glad to send you a copy of the speech which I made in Parliament during the last debate, about 18 months ago. Changed from Abolitionist From some unfortunate ex- periences, while I was invol- ved in law enforcement in the Province of Ontario, I person- ally made the transition from being an abolitionist to be- come a retentionist. And, sadly, nothing that has hap- pened since has persuaded me to alter my stand again. There is one point Imight mention, in this regard, how- ever. Those who favour the total abolition of capital pun- ishment put much stress on the argument that it has not proved a deterrant to crime. That may be so, but it is also evading the issue over the law as it now stands. The present law only calls for capita p unishment for the murder o aw enforcement officials, an not for the great majority o murders, those resulting fror uncontrolled passions, fear hatred, or derangement. The deterrent factor wa perhaps put in a bette perspective recently, durin the demonstration by priso guards, when it was pointe out that while four priso officiais were killed betwee 1950 and 1974, four more hav been killed in just the pas year. And, as has been note in the U.S., kidnapping wa virtually unknown when it wa a capital offense, but now tha it is not a capital offense,i seems almost an everyda3 occurrence. Demnand Tighter Controls Public concern over law an order has many manifesta tions. Currently, each tim there is a shooting or a crim involving guns, we heari renewed and growing deman for tighter controls over al types of firearms, presumabl through purchase permits registration and licensing While one can strongly sym p athize with the sentiment ehind this demand, I an inclined to doubt that th measures proposed woul achieve the desired effect. Our present laws make i very difficult for a privat individual to own a haudgun and I believe the grea majority of owners of huntin rifles are cautious and pru dent about their care and use And any law enforcemen official will tell you that mos criminals who posses fire arms either stole them or go thern illegally from a sourc outside this country. So we corne to the anomal where tighter gun control would undoubtedly createz great deal of bother an expense for those who ar already trying to obey the law while no amount of legislatio and bureaucracy of tha nature could hope to clean u the trafficking in illegal fire arms among criminals. STORES AND OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE Bowmanville New Neighbourhood Shopping Centre IPEAL LOCATIONS FOR: Bank, Pharmacy, Milk Store, Dry Cleaners, Shoe Store, Barber and Beauty Salon, Card and Gift Shop, Restaurant-Delicatessen, Bakery, Pizzeria, Ladies' and Children's Wear, Grocery. 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But again, in the Toronto Globe and1 n I fear the administrative by Scott Young - w d controls would be both stag- incidentally is becomin n gering and self-defeating, and more than less full-timer n those who want ammunition dent of this 'constituency. e for illegal purposes would still column was specifically a t get it, illegally. gun control, and it raises s d More Severe Sentences questions that scare me. s My personal preference Mr. Young referred I s would be to impose consider- recent kidnapping in whi it adbly more severe sentences on bank Manager's wife it criminals who use guns - say a family were held ransom I y minimum compulsory sent- considerable amount ofi ence of five years for anyone ney. The writer wond who is convicted of possessing whether the bank mana d or using firearms illegally. had a gun in his home, w - This should have a valuable might have happened if he1 e deterrent effect. Any person used it, and whether he w e who has a gun in his hand is have been a kidnapping ta a likely to use it if he becomes if it was known that he d sufficiently frightened or des- armed. Then he continue ll perate. So we should make it y clear to criminals and poten- , tial criminals that even hav- ing a gun is strictly a loser's - game. s In the view of many who are n or have been involved in law e enforcement, one important s d factor in the declining respect for law and order is the t Non-enforcement of laws and -e statutes which already exist.1 l % e , There are many examples' t which could be mentioned. g The Lord's Day Act has, in - many areas, dwindled to t. insignificance because the V 1 t local authorities choose to t ignore it. Try shopping in * - Cobourg, and then in the t metropolitan Toronto area on à% e a Sunday and you will see what I mean. yLaws are Soft-edalled s The law governing abortion Ninety-six acres of famil a procedures is rigidly enforced and excitement on threei d in some jurisdictions and e almost winked at in others. Toronto waterfront. , And of course there is the This year two giant-siz n Criminal Code provision res- weekly on the world's lai t pecting capital punishment in Cinesphere: the great p which has not been enforced - since 1963. Some of us are of and returning by popular the belief that the laws breathtaking, "North of respecting narcotics are soft- pedalled, so far as milder drugs are concerned, because those responsible for enfor- cement are aware that federal government members are not : happy with the existing legis-. lation. A cynic might say that I shouldn't speakorcomplain of these things, because it is enigmas of this nature in our laws which keep some of my coileagues in the legai profes- sion in business. Bad Law Should Be Changed But I want to emphasize to you that if a law is not a good iaw, then it should be changed. And the place to make that change is in the Parliament, the Legislative Assemblyior the municipal'council where the law was first enacted. It should not be left to adminis- trators, to enforcement offi- cials or police officers to determine what will and wili not work. That is not their job, and it is grossly unfair to saddle them with the respon- sibiiity. Lose Respect for Laws What is frightening is that when the general public be- gins to see and to understand that some laws are enforced while others are not, that there are some laws which mnust beaobeyed and others whicb can be ignored with impunity, then there is a general loss'of respect for all st to rious at, I the you nute- brief umn Mail Who, g a resi- His bout ome to a ch a and for a mo- ered iager what had ould rget was s: "In common with other citizens these 'questions have occurred to me. If a citizen becomes too hyper about threats against his home and family, tragic accidents can result - have resulted - that never would have happened without the presence of a gun. "Yet if a man had his wîfe or child taken by kidnappers, and had failed to do what he could to protect them and harm eventually came to the wife or child, what would his, nightmares be? These are questions without sure ans- wers; because a man in such a position is usually a peaceful man without the automatical- ly violent reactions that in some cases would have been the only way to head off the threat. "I suppose one answer is that nobody knows his own reactions until the time comes, if it ever comes.Those two or three men walking up the driveway could be harm- less, but if you don't know them, do you put the chain on the door and blow the dust out of the barrel of your .22 just in case?< Troublesome Imagination "That ring at the door late at night - could it be the first gambit in a rush that finds you facing the choice of paying ransom demands, or taking a chance on death or injury to a loved one? Imagination is troublesome, sometimes. "For instance, I don't do any hunting any more and it is a long time since I was trained in various firearms, but you don't forget how. Sometimes when I look at our mailbox in the country, where someone blasted it with a shotgun at about 15 yards range, I think what a hell of a weapon a shotgun is. For protection. If needed." That is not light reading. Those are serious fundamen- tal - considerations which have crossed the minds of many of us and which, I would suggest, are why so many Canadians are concerned to- day about law and order. Wild west shootouts may have some entertainment value when seen on television, but none of us want them on our streets or in our homes. Many of the specific issues to which Ihave referred to this afternoon will probably come up for discussion and delibera- tion during the fall sitting of Parliament. I'd suggest that it is very much in your interest to follow these events.closely. Let's Hear Your Views And as your Member of Parliament, I would welcome hearing from you about your own views. 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Often while working to achieve betterment, we have to use drastic measures. eetterment isn't always a smooth road. If we don't heed the resuits of our labour and, the results of others labour and gauge our present actions upon them, then we will in all probability become extinct over a period of time. At best we will go into a new dark age, where we will regret not having been more responsible as individuals. As I see it, our very survivai is being threatened by not having à deterrent to crime. Some, in their blindness, sow and reap crime. It is building up, and to ignore the murders and assaults is to be a coward and let yourself be led to the slaughter. Didn't Christ force- fully chase the money-chang- ers out of the temple? We are doing well in so many areas of life, why throw it all down the drain to those less able than ourselves? We can re-instate capital punishment, which will be a good deterrent until we can manage something better. 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(Except during CNE) FOR INFORMATION: Write: Ontario Place Corporation 8 York Street, Toronto, Ont. M5J 1R2. Phone (416) 965-6332. a A Crown Corporation of' the Goernmen o tar. Ministry of Industry and Tourisn Claude Bennett. Minister. ., - -- - 1- , . e THE EDITOR hanging in the balance o er this issue. Some talk of police brutality as if that was an issue. To me, this is a symptom of a refusal to make decisions about the blacker side of lif e. Policemen, have a dirty job right now, bequeath- ed them by the irresponsibility of people who could change things with their laws, but prefer to let the police shoulder the hard work so they won't have to be touched by it. If the police decided to quit, what would we do then? Sincerely, Brendon Moore Dr. Carman K. Hethering- ton, director of Agriculture Canada's Meat Inspection Division, Health of Animals Branch, died in Ottawa June 3, 1975. He had held that position since 1959 On Friday during the annual Sidewalk Sale here, President John Pogue and Vice President Tony Brand of the Chamber of Commerce presented 10 Citations of Merit to businesses in town that are either new or newly renovated. This photo shows one of them being presented to Mrs. Connie Townsend of Connie's Hole in the Wall, King St. West. Other awards went to The Optical Boutique, Jack Ricard Real Estate Limited, Port Darlington Marina Hotel and Hairport Styling. Citations that were awarded last year but not presented at the annual meeting went to Brooks Supertest, Eva's Fashions, George's Men's Wear, Jensen Steel and Vowles' Heating and Air Conditioning Limited.