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Ellis limits Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus 4The Barrie Examiner Tuesday April 20 1976 Henshbw Managing Editor AntiWASP remarks need explanation One racial group everyone can hate and say they hate IS White Protestants An loSaxon SPs And racism directed to WASPs is ap arently an officxal part of ci tyfo icy in Barrie st week 35 residents of the Little AvenueBayview appeared at 205 townshouses At one point in the discussion he said The lowercost housing will bring variety of people Into the area breaking down the White AngloSaxon Protestant community certainly hope my children grow up in an all White AngloSaxon Protestant com dont munit he said Ha Mr every job But WASPs are everydays fair game Mr Fairweathers remarks are far more im ortant than an in dication of an iWASP prejudice The remarks beg some ques tions questions which every lanning board meeting to protes construction of Fairweathers remarks been made about Italian Greek Jewish FrenchCanadian or Chinese neighborhoods then civil libertarian in the coun try would be after his head and demanding he be fired from his resident of Barrie WASPor otherwise should demand be answered Does Mr Fairweather believe Dr area Eve in ow WASPs are the only can afford higherpriced housing Is Mr estin other ethnic grou are cost housing on Is planning in Barrie done on the basis of breaking up WASP communities or other ethnic neighborhoods people who Fairweather sug If this is so and apparently it is if Mr Fairweather statements are evidence what is the basis for this policy Is planning in the city of Bar public rie done on the basis of how Mr Fairweather would like to have his children raised Does Mr Fairweathers feel in about WASPs extend to in Barrie QUEENS PARK Adrift from system of one leader noted By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Traditionally in our system there was theory about leadership This was that the leader was the leader and that the final policies and decisions were absolutely his He stood by them and lived or fell on them In this century we began to drift more and more away from this system Particularly as labor lead ership and the socialists began to make themselves felt we began moving to leadership of consensus There were party policy conventions and policy itself began to be made more and more by cabinet This had two consequences One was that leaders or good many of them didnt have the authority which was their customary exercise The second was that party policy tended to be more and more confused STRONG MAN There are those of us who have regretted this tendency and seen in it weakening of our system For one thing it is fact of life that the more people who are involved in decision the weaker that decision is likely to be Then again history has shown us that are is suc cessful government basically only when there is strong man at the top There was sign of change 6hr Barrie Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Dal Sunda and Statutory Ho idays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $4420 yearly Single copies 15 cents By ail Barrie $4420 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yearly Balance of Canada $3600 year ly National Advertising Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto 1541710 640 Cathcart St Mon treal Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of Cir culations The Canadian Press is ex clusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches in this paper credited to it or The Associated Press or Reuter and also the local news publishai therein The Barrie Examiner claims Copyright in all original adver tising and editorial material created by its employees and re reduced in this newspaper yrziégt Registration iNum 15 registersl Oata 57 in this trend when Pierre Trudeau became prime minister of Canada Mr Trudeau is definitely the old style He is the boss And in his early days at least it was reassuring to see him take charge and things really happen Which brings us to the provincial scene ALEADER When Stuart Smith became Liberal leader the most promising sign that some of us could see in him was that he did show some potential for the oldtime leadership He seemed man who would make his own decisions and let his fate rest with them As it has turned out this rather has been the biggest disappointment with Dr Smit He wont make decisions on anything or at least decisions which he will stand by He has made bold pronoun cements and taken bold stan cb but time after time he has bowed to his members and party supporters and has re treated The result is that he has looked almost pathetic There is one ray of hope for Liberal partisans This is that Dr Smith is not stupid man and also he gives the appear ot er ethnic groups What is Mr Fairweathers ultimate aim in breaking up WASP neighborhoods Are city aldermen aware of Mr Fairweathers feelings about WASPs and does cit council believe planning should be tool to change social structures used as Some explanation is required about Mr statements Residents of Barrie should be demanding an explanation Fairweathers ance of being good litician He may just be iding his time Perhaps he has been afraid that if he took over the party too quickly and too strongly he could alienate good deal ofsupport It could be that he is waiting and intends to gradually assume the power which he as student of politics must know is the only wea with which he can lea his party suc cessfully if this is not so one would say the Liberals are in real mess incidentally it is con trary fact of life around here that New Democratic Party Leader Stephen Lewis would be the strongest adherent to the old dictum of leadership rule The worst exponent of con sensus leadership was former leader Donald McDonald But Lewis when he took over quickly changed this Within matter of months he said that he was not going to be bound by decisions of party policy conventions And although his caucus meets regularly and he consults with them there is little estion in anyones mind at final decisions are made by one mamStephen Lewis YOUR BUSINESS Number of obless is human problem By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The latest jobless f1 ure+69 per cent of the la rforce last month+is one more reminder od the failure of Canadian economic policy When 69 people out of 1000 are idle thats very human and immediate problemeven when its granted that substantial number are not genuinely unemployed but are content temporarily to live on unem ploymentinsurance benefits Worse its become chronic problem Except for dip to 66 per cent in Janua the jobless rate has hove around the seven percent level for more than year The Trudeau overnment cant be accus of neglec ting unem loyment Its economic po icies have been dominated by noble in tentions to prevent unem ployment just as its social welfare programs have been dominated by compassionate determination to extend in surance benefits to more and more 1peogle who wouldnt norma considered job seekers In the pursuit of those goals the polic makers were willing to to erate the most destructive inflation ever seen in Canada and an ungrecedented expansion of pa lic spending TOO FEW JOBS in the end the good in tentions the compassion and the determination havent helped to reduce unemploy ment On the contrary their ef fect has been to ham the creation of new jo 5by eroding confidence in the stability of the economy and in the name of fighting in flation outlawing any rowth in corporate dividen and jrofit margins Confidence ultimately is the key to true economic recovery When business has suffici9nt trust in the future to go ahead and expand then jobs will be opened up oduction will grow and in flationto the extent that it is mm mm sun PARLIAMENT HILL Guncontrol issue swamps Parliament with more mail By STEWART MaciEi Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service The governments gun control legislation has swam ped members of Parliament under heavier load of mail than any single issue since the 1971 vote on capital punishment its just in credible says Don Ma zankowski the Conservative MP from Vegreville Like most MP5 from gener ally rural areas Mr Mazan kowskis mail is running heavily against the proposed legislation But urban MPs are getting the opposite reac tion And all of this means that Parliament Will neverbe able to draft guncontrol legislation that will appeal to all segments of Canadian society When the bill goes to committee it can be amen ded redrafted and tinked with in dozens of ways but re gardless of what emerges it wont receive unanimous sup port There is just no way To ronto bank clerk and thon trapper can share the same views on guns And in bet ween we have policemen target shooters hunters con caused by shortage5+will be eased But there are few if any signs from Ottawa that the government cares about any return of confidence The prime minister con tinues to denigrate the business sector The Treasury Board president plans to increase government spending by 20 per cent this year The AntiInflation Board issanctioning big in creases in prices of goods and services that consumers buy from governments liquor the use of airports etc and in wage rates for powerful labor groups And nothing is done to correct the notorious duplication of federal and provincial services BIG BROTHER Theres some slight encour agement in the fact that the top federal mandarin Cabinet Secretary Michael Pitfield has written recently about the danger that the private sector will lose its vitality as the public sector takes over more and more functions and manpower servationists gun collectors and prospectorsall with strong but differing views onguns The parliamentary debate so far indicates there will never be agreement It was SolicitorGeneral Warren Allmand who brought in the guncontrol legislation as part of his peace and security package and he describes it as workable moderate feasible approach to the serious problem presented by those who misuse firearms in Canada Under the solicitor gencrals bill handguns will continue to be restricted and such wea ons as machine guns will prohibited but the owners of longbarrelled guns now will have to be licensed There are an esti mated 28 million such owners of 10 million rifles and shotguns This plan will not work and cannot work says John Diefenhaker it will require multitude of bureaucrats He was referring to the fact that each applicant must have two guarantors it will be no trouble for ap plicants to find two guaran tors in settled areas of the country But what about the deep North where natives regard guns as necessary tools both for their livelihood and protection Erik Nielsen the Con scrvative MP for the Yukon asked the question Who in Gods white earth up there will find guarantor for an lnuit on King Christian island Many of these people carry handguns for protection against grizzly bears They now will have to switch to longbarrelled guns+providi ng they qualify for licence Wally Firth the New Democratic MP from the Northwest Territories also made an impressive plea on behalf of northern people My main fear is that by at tempting this big job the government has placed too much emphasis on conditions in big cities at the expense of geople who use guns as tool which to live NOT EFFECTIVE And Social Credit Leader Real Caouette isnt convinced that the legislation will be ef fective even in big cities Referring to recent machinegun robbery in Mon treal he asked whether the bandits were good enough to produce the guns licence number before committing theoffence With 10 million guns unregistered he said bandits will simply steal them to commit crimes He could have added that anyone with decent machine shop can makea gun Perhaps by creating cer tain nuisance for gun owners the government will cut down on the number of weapons that sit in closets for no pur pose And this may eliminate afew passion shootin But still dont un erstand why the government hasnt been more receptive to op position suggestions that in stead of approaching the problem this way fiveyear mandatory prison term be added to sentences when anyone uses gun for criminal purposes The leg islation does contain provision for tougher crime sentences but at the discretion of the courts How about Swedish design deserves merit By JOHN HARBRON ForeignAffairs Analyst Thomson News Service Swedish experience in labormanagement relations welfare industrial develop ment and leisure has fascinated and frustrated Canadian leaders in business and unions for years But they have done little if anything to cop them here efence Have our difficulties in choosing and financing new aircraft for the forces shownus we could borrow from more ef ficient Swedish military plan ning and weapons purchasing methods In some ways it does But in the area where it really coun ts weapons source of supply we can only admire the Swedish experience The reason is that Swedish defence equipment tactical jets modern naval vessels electronic systems are all Swedishdesigned and built Even the socalled support systems based heavily on sophisticated electronics are built in Swedish plants of localdesign Like her merchant ships and her ears Sweden builds and innovates from her own resources We have great trouble in doing this and where an indigenous Canadian car is concerned we have completely failed to create one lNTEGRATION REASON In Sweden consumer and defence production are in tegrated within the major companies who supply the Swedish defence ministry Bofors guns Saab tac tical jets and Ericson electronic systems three Swedish arms and electronic giants are major supp rs to THE the R0 al Swedish Navy ar myan AirForce Defence orders may ac count for only one third of Bofors sales but they also have accounted for most of its irofit Saab builds the small tac tical jets about 1000 of them but is also major car bus and truck manufac Home Rule once hot issue By BOB BOWMAN Many Canadians are ap palled and concerned about the situation in Ireland but no efforts are being made to in tervene This was notthe case in 1882 when Home Rule for Ireland was hot issue On April 20 1882 the House of Commons and the Senate passed resolution favoring Home Rule There was no op position in the Hodse of Com mons and the vote in the Senate was 36 to Canadas invervention was not appreciated by the British government The colonial secretary said that the Canadian Parliament had ex ceeded its powers There was more criticism from Britain when Canada appointed Galt to be high commissioner there He was rugged individualist who insisted on expressing his own views and not those of the Canadian government Galt made number of turer for the Swedish economy and European ex port markets Canadian industries have never been able to sustain such joint consumer and defence production We buy our military aircraft off the shelf as they say or from foreign com nies who work out production sharing con tracts with Canadian plants The Lockheed Starfighter CF104 still in European ser vice was bought off the shelf from production line also servicing Japan West Germany Italy and the Netherlands The controversial Lockhed Orion would be built in the United States its ve com flex electronics pack ere in Canadian factories We must look elsewhere to see what we can borrow from SXvedens defence industrial experience And we find the Swedes view with less moral tremor than us the change of senior military officers from the forces to private industry with defence department business few years ago the former head of the Royal Swedish Navy left the service and ser ved on the board of Swedish Phillips the seventh largest defence supplier in Sweden One of the chief designers of Saabs Viggen tactical jet fighter later joined the Royal Swedish Air Force as major general in supply where he helped in the purchase of the ngen IIGHTER SYSTEM The purchase of weapons in Sweden is more tightly operating system than here where the defence depart ment is not trusted as its own purchaser function relegated to the supply and services department The Swedish Defence Ministrys Materiel Office with about 4000 employees oversees its own major military purchases which means close contacts with Syvedish private industry The same applies to Swedish arms exports now at about $80 million year speeches in Britain favoring Home Rule for ireland This embarrassed Sir John Macdonald just when Nova Scotia was unhappy about having joined Canada and wanted to secede Sir John fared that the British govern ment would make it possible for Nova Scotia to secede if leading Canadians kept ad vocating Home Rule for Ireland He sent cable to Galt in sisting that he check the text of his speeches with the government before delivering them His ad monition had little effect The Alaskan boundary was another issue that was becoming crucial at that time and Macdonald wanted British support As it turned out Britain supported the United States version of the boundary and Canada was deprived of seaport that would have provided direct access to the Yukon from the Pacific