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UICOIOIOO Ellie Barrie Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor The Barrie Examiner Friday November 26 197i Government must change its economic attitudes terest makes the task of reducing clot Des ite all the stress given the 23need or restraint in tax spending the outlook doesnt look like the vipeak has been reached There has to be definite change in economic attitudes at most levels Iof government if taxes are to start on the decline again Most people Seem to be agreed that reduced government spendingsaid to be Irunning at close to 40 per cent of Candas productivity when totalled up at all levels is worthy goal It certainly would be big step toward halting the inflationary spiral And reduction in taxes and trimming of bureaucratic budgets Iwould encourage free enterprise to expand and provide muchneeded jobs The federal government which Tshould be setting an example is spending some 16 per cent more in this current fiscal year than the last Zone In other words the government plans call for spending record $422 billion for 197677 from last April until next March 31 The antiinflation board itself will spend some $125 million or about $240000 week Provincial spending also has been rising substantially although not quite to the extent of the federal overnment The Ontario budget as climbed in excess of $10 billion Despite the heavy taxation the revenue for the last fiscal year was about $16 billion short of the Igovernment spending The federal government fiscal deficit was said to be in excess of $5 billion This means adding to the public debt and with todays high in cobioqc 35 YEARS AGO IN TOWN ZThe Barrie Examiner Nov 25 1961 Central Collegiate graduation top Grade 13 awards went to Janet Ayerst Earl Shannon Eleanor Jen hett Robert Lines Marion Meredith Robert Rumble Karen Emberson Susan Tschirhart Elizabeth Beatty LindaLee Sturgess and Joan Robinson Rev Jack Lindsay was guest speaker He urged students to develop intellec tual resources Harold Butlers Doberman Pinscher Heidi pre sented cheque to Jean Gable presi dent of Barrie and District Associa tion for Retarded Children William Malcomson manager Allan Brown president and Elliot Coles secretary of Barrie Agricultural Society guests at Kiwanis Club of Barries annual gwards night for junior farmers and aloooolicavccc TORONTO CPi The tario ministry of the environ research team that in cludes scientists from Univer future taxation greater challenge Even regional and many mu nicipal administrations also have been spending tax money much more freely in recent years and it has seriously affected the anti inflation program Property tax payers also have been made ap prehensive concerning the implica tions of the impending new assess ment based more on actual valua tion which is contemplated for 1978 taxation provincial commission has been holding hearings for pubic reaction about new reposals for property taxation an these should given careful thought and study by rate payers elected representatives Simcoe County administration hasnt escaped criticism at times but to the credit of Warden Orville Hughes and his colleagues the members for the current year reduced their overall budget levy against their 33member mu nicipalities This unusual achieve ment for these times reflects to the credit of the county councillors with the finance committee headed by Reeve Bill Gibbins of Innisfil meriting special mention great deal has been said about needs to overhaul administrative systems with main emphasis given the area and local levels for some surprising reason since tax rises have been greater elsewhere There appears to be more need than ever to stress that elected represen tatives spending pubic funds have primary responsibility to the tax payers who pay the bills DOWN MEMORY LANE 4H members Dr Edwin Wilson presented grand champion showman award to Ralph Cook of Stroud Ross Campbell of Stroud won Barrie Kiwanis Club Trophy for champion exhibitor in open classes for fourth straight time Mayor Jack Carroll of Stayner is opposed by Reeve Elmer Dority in Stayner municipal elelction County coun cil grants authority to set up countywide emergency measures system Mrs Jack Butler past president of the Royal Victoria Hospital Womens Auxiliary is presented with an anniversary cake by the auxiliary on the occasion of her 60th wedding anniversary Bobby Garners goal after 32 seconds of overtime play gives Bar rie Bay City Falcons 65 victory over rillia Lakeviews in Georgian Bay Intermediate League hockey game Ministry tries to convert lakeweed to useful product in the Kawartha Lakes system last year and Mr Neil esti ment is conducting an ex perimean project which may Soon transform recreation killing lakeweed into an imporlt tent lifegiving industry The project is part of cru sade to revitalize tired old ukes in southcentral Ontario Millfoil despised weed that is choking the lakes is being pulled rom the water by giant Weedcutting machines and as fertilizer and animal 61hr Barrie Exammrr 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return postage guaranteed Daily Sundays and Statutory Holidays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $4420 rly Single copies 15 cents Mail Barrie $4420 yearly mcoe County $3400 yearly lance of Canada $3600 year vuoovluveee National Advertising Offices Queen St West Toronto 1710 640 Cathcart St Mon Member of the Canadian was and Audit Bureau of Cir auntions the Canadian Press IS cx clusively entitled to the use for republication of all news Qapatches in this paper credited to it or The Assoc1ated Press or Reuter and also the ldcal news published therein The Barrie Examiner claims prright in all original adver tili and editorial material area by its employees and roduced in this newspaper yright Registration Mim 203815 register 61 sity of Guelph is confident that the process can develop into successful commercial operation John Neil limnologist someone who studies lakesi has government contract for the weed harvesting through his firm Limnos Ltd En vironmental Management He also helps Ivy Wile the ministry biologist who is run ning the program and three University of Guelph scientists convert the weeds into food or silage for cattle EXPERIMENTS WITll AT TLE After two years of laboratory work the research has moved to farm near the Chemung Causeway near Peterborough Ont where field experiments monitored by Mr Neil are being done with 24 head of cat tie Mr Neil says the cattle fed on the millfoil silage are thriving but he hopes the production costs can be lowered He esti mates one animalcan feed fora year on two acres of lake har vest Peterborougharea farmers who have used the weeds for fertilizer on their fields are happy with the results The weeds are scattered on field with standard manure sprea der and left to rot Mr Neil owns two of the three water weedcutting ma chines in Ontario and has ac cess to third The bargema chines operated by one erson wallow into the lake it me chanical hippos and cut canals through the weeds to depth of five feet Conveyor belts carry the cut weeds into an accompanying barge which carries the cargo to shore for loading into dump trucks About 3300 tons of weed were gemoved from Chemung Lake males that 5000 tons will come out of Chemung and sister lake Buckhorn this year Some lakes in the southern part of the province are almost strangled by grabbing net work of matted vines thick enough in spots to hold small man The problem is most serious in the shallow seminatural lakes of the Kawarthas Last year an environmental study found that Canal Lake was 88 per cent plugged Mitchell 86 per cent and Buckhorn 85 per cent Fishermen and boaters were indignant and some cottagers have decided they no longer wish to isolate themselves by the lake merely to watch weeds grow For Sale signs are com mon in the BuckhornChemung cottage regions Chemicals that are sus ected of killing fish or driving em to other areas are still being used to eliminate water weeds in the area but environmentalists feel that weed harvesting is the answer Were trying to manage the lakes not destroy everything in sight says Mrs Wile If we wi out the weeds we wipe out fis that depend on them for food Our concept is that har vesting is economically and ecologically sound Mrs Wile and her research team have been preoccupied with two problems in the manu facture of cattle silage One is that the weeds at varying times have too high mineral content and are not acceptable as food because the animals cannot metalbolize them way will have to be found to lower the calcium buildup Another obstacle is that the weeds have too high water contentwoften as much as 90 per cent when 65 per cent is desirable UEBEC not VERMONIA was RIGHT ii sweo ii Cvtvvunx Glassco Commission findings largely ignored for 14 years By STEWART MacIEI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service If the Conservative Op position and some of our major newspapers had reacted with greater initial outrage sup pose wouldnt continue to feel this disgust about the appoint ment of royal commisswn to study government financial management But it has taken the opposi tion 48 hours to become en ragedthe initial reacton was incredibly mildand this hap pened only after reporters from The Canadian Press in su perb display of journalism pre sented everyone with the back ground facts Prior to this some major papers seemed to view the new royal commission as very positive step to con trol government spending And it is nothing of the sort Remember the Glassco Com mission which examined gov ernment administration and More notices getting restless Henry FROM PARLIAMENT HILL made long series of recom mendations in 1962 about finan cial controls Well most of these have been ignored for 14 years And every year in the mean time the annual auditorgen erals report has pinpointed weaknesses in the govern ments financial systems Little attention was paid to the com plaints Now AuditorGeneral JJ Macdonell has presented his latest report with the dire war ning that the government has lost or is close to losing ef fective control of the public purse LONG STUDY He and 50 leading chartered accountants had spent two years studying the govern ments financial ad ministration and found it critically serious Im mediate action was needed he wamed and described what should be done including the LIBE WORLD TODAY How minority voices grow By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Has an ominous time now come upon us as Canadians to assess the same issues which separate countryissues ob served at distance in say he land Beirut and Belgium Not that Quebecois Alber tans or the emotionally involved spokesmen of the Inuit and Dene native peoples of the north are prepared or planning totake up arms andthrow bom bs But the recent political even ts in Quebec and the messages we have heard from the native peoples for months before the many northern hearings of the Berger Commission are clearly separatist in tone Then remember two years ago the car bumper stickers in Edmonton during the world oil crisis Let the Eastern bas tards freeze in the dark re jection of the Canadian govern ments decision to maintain national price for oil below the escalatin world oilprice What usiness id Ottawa have in making this kind of decision about natural re source which was mainly to be found in Alberta and about which that province should make the basic decisions Or if you like the lesspubli cized but just as vital issue of who owns the offshore oil and gas potential of our Atlantic provinces And what business By BOB BOWMAN Who was the first prime min ister of Canada Most people would reply Sir John Macdonald but the an swer depends on the definition of Gene Sir John was the fir st PM after Confederation but Canada existed from the days of Jacques Cartier However it wasnt until 1791 that there were le islatures in Canada although ere were in Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick which were British Colonies In 1791 Lower and Up Canada were provide Wit separate is it of federal energy minis ter to prognosticate in this re gard on behalf of national as op posed to regional needs REGIONAL DEMANDS STRONG If the Atlantic provincial off shore energy resources ever come to anything like hard pressed Britain and her North Sea oil the affected area will need the earning power for its own development and economic wellbeing We can retrace our history and find that provincial pre miers in Ontario and Manitoba of the mills were not on speak ing terms because of boundary disputes between the two over ownership of much of the Lake of the Woods territories Our history has been laced with these crises The many federal provincial conferences which Rene Levesque in sheer frustration with their results calls Chinese water torture often end in inconclusive re sults The most inconclusive of all in the context of federalprovin cial relations are the many conferences on bringing home the British North Amer icaAcl Of all the issues mentioned st far in this column patriation of our constitution is the one which arouses least general in terest and less understanding And yet we now have entered the realm of genuine and chronic concern with the state CANADAS sToay Louis Lafontaine our first PM legislatures so there was no prime minister for the nation Upper and Lower Canada were united in 1841 and their names chan edto Canada West and Canada ast They had one Parliament at Kingston Ont Lord Sydenham was the gover nor and ran the government When he died Sir Charles Ba got was ap inted in his place and he he more democratic licies He invited Sir LOUIS ippolyte Lafontaine leader of Canada East Reformers and Robert Baldwin leader of Can ada West Reformers to form government appointment of comptroller general who would be wat chdog on all government spen ding Instead Treasury Board President Robert Andras an nounced that the government was appointing fourman royal commission to look into the whole question of financial administration There were many things to consider he ar gued and there should be careful study of the whole proc ess of accountability under any proposed comptrollergeneral Prime Minister Trudeau was with him No no they all said the appointment of royal com mission was not stalling tac tic But there were other view points in the background More than one minister phoned re porters with the information that the idea of royal commis sionand they invariably re ferred to stallcame from the senior bureaucracy Its at of the realm the Canadian realm as single con stitutional and political entity going into the 215i century No longer can welook ask ance at therights of Basques in northern Spain in many ways the Quebecois of modern Spain the Croats of Communist Yugoslavia yes even the Welsh an Scottish Nationalists of socalled United Kingdom Their power to win issues as clear minority parties at West minster is in their ability to bargain when British govern ments either Labor or Tory rul ing by slim majorities face votes of confidence in the House ofCommons NEW IMPORTANCE The separatist victory in Que bec Nov 15 emphasizes con clusively the growing impor tance of minorities of opinion politics and racial strength in socalled unitary and federal systems We now ignore or abandon them at the peril of losing our national structure altogether this level that public spending is controlled And there is no doubt that The Canadian Press was cor rect when few hours after the appointments were announced it said that The top bureau crats led by Privy Council Clerk Michael Pitfield con vinced Prime Minister Trudeau to set up royal commission to delay action on reforms recom mended Monday by the auditor general Okay now lets look at this fourman commission BUREALCRAIIC FRIENDS It is headed by Allen Lam bert 65 chairman of the To rontoDominion Bank who on ce headed government study which resulted in deputy minis ters breaking that elusive $50 0003year salary barrier He is regarded as close friend of the Ottawa bureaucracy Another member is John Ed win Hodgetts 59 University of Toronto professor who is also very close to the same bu reaucracy He has actually written several books on public administration Then we have Gerald Stoncr 54 who lately has been deputy minister of industry trade and commerce But he is also for mer clerk of the Privy Council and he was deputy minister of transport when former minister Jean Marchand described that department as mess nice touch To round out the team there is Marcel Caron 57yearold accountant who along with four others was dropped as director of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd after Energy Minister Alastair Gilles ie didnt like everything in at Shop It is fair tosay that shor tly after became responsible for the agency felt there were weaknesses Its good to know that Mr Ca ron has regained his strength Togher the four commission ers will earn stipends ofSl000 day know Mr Trudeau has man other problems on his min these days but when he gets moment perhaps he should go back and look at his 1968 statements about con trolling the bureaucracy He said something to the effect that politicians cant allow public servants to lead them around by the nose No Berrys World You see ©19761iy NI Im YOUR generation LIKES big government butting into peoples private lives MY generation DOESNT QUEENS PARK Cliff Pilkey black and White By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Cliff Pilkey of Oshawa and the UAW has won the leadership of the Ontario Federation of Labor Cliff of course was New Democratic Party member here for one term And from the experience we hadof him one would say there are storms ahead MORE PATIENCE There are those of us who at least try and sit on the sidelines who believe that if there is to be any real progress in labor relations attitudes on both Sides of the table are going to have to change Less confrontation and more patient wisdom is called for And on labors side this par ticularly means that the ex treme shrillness which has characterized its public ap proach since the barricades of the 305 should be dropped There can be no domestic peace with termagant And how can we expect indus trial peace when the manage ment side has to try and get along with termagant in the form of labor CALM PRACTICAL Cliff Pilkey unless he has changed or changes will be termagant of termagants in his public presence as the top man of some 800000 trade unionists in this province rwfifi But one has to wonder does this have to be Or is it now merely an ingrained st le which is such habit at nobody even considers whether it perhaps should be broken or altered When not immersed in labor matters Cliff Pilkey is an in telligent and reasonable man But get him into labor and it is only blacks and white and mainly blacks Again Stephen Lewis when talking of occupational health noted that the NDP had to be abrasive to get action It was abrasive all ri did it really have to be With calm approach might it not have got just as far and perhaps even more quickly Stephen would have it that in the end abrasiveness has to be the resort But really is this true And is it good There is good example in his own personal political life that this isnt necessarily so For few years ago quite purposely he changed his own public presence and tried to drop the abrasiveness for which he had been so noted He felt that with the public at least abrasiveness was not ef fective Might it not also apply in dealing with government or with labor dealing with in dustry It at least is something to think about ght But IN ERPRETING THE NEWS Carter starts off listening to Congress By GARRY FAIRBAIRN WASHINGTON CP The first stage of Jimmy Carters political honeymoon passed its first crucial test this week as the presidentelect held harmo nious meetings in Washington with congressional leaders Even Republicans who hold onethird of the seats in the Senate and House of Represen tatives seemed ready to coop erate with Carters Democratic administration The honeymoon has begun said Republican Senator Charles Percy of Illinois He intends to see it as long long one Another senior Republican Senator Howard Baker of Ten nessee said Carter showed im pressive candor and knowledge of issues Blitt Carters prime target was he Democratic leadership that controls the two houses of Congress Support from these houses will be essential if Car ter is to achieve success in his White House programs The Georgia Democrat and his youthful staff had paid little attention to the partys national establishment until late in the election campaign Few if any senators or representatives be lieve they owe their election to Carters campaign AGENT CRITICIZEI After the Nov election there were complaints from members of Congress about Carters liaison agent Frank Moore who had been executive secretary to Carter when Car ter was governor of Georgia Carter however won enthu siastic praise from the Demo crats as he committed himself to farreaching advance con sultation on presidential acts He apologized for Moores failure to return their calls and more than balanced his aides acts by giving many key Demo cratic legislators his private telephone number in Plains Ga The recipients later made little effort to hide their pleasure at the status symbol But there was more to Car ters wooing of Congress than flattery Promising to give serious at tention to congressional advice Carter also seemed to move to ward the view of Democrats in the House that economic trou bles would be better met through public works projects and creation of publicservice jobs than through major tax cut Representative Henry Reuss Dem Wisc chairman of the banking and currency com mittee said he told the presi dentelect that tax cut would be an inefficient means of stim ulating the economy Later Carter told rters that the news media ha made an excessive assum tion that he is planning me or tax cut proposal he stressed in the campaign He said he has not yet decided between that and the publicworks option APPROVE GOALS The congressional leaders gave general ap roval to the goals he outlin for his first year in office Six per cent growth in the economy up from the annual rate of 39 per cent in the third quarter of 1976 drop of 15 percentage points in the unemployment rate to about six per cent Greater emphasis on inter national economic problems in US foreign policy return to bipartisanship inforeign olicy Consu tation and slow deliberate approach to his pjmmised reorganization of the government The initial friendship does not guarantee continuing good working relationship with Con gress many divisive dis agreements could arise in pur suing the general goals Also the personal link neces sary for good relations with Congress may become weakened by other pressures and the tendency for White House occupants to be sheltered from the outside world by their staffs Whether the Carter presi dency can avoid such pitfalls may depend on his determina tion to listen to congressional leaders to accept modifications in his programs and to refrain from righteous inflexibility which many critics predict may become charac teristic of his administration Pipeline debate heats across northern BC VANCOUVER CP In matter of weeks Trans Moun tain Pipe Line Co Ltd will ap ply to the National Energy Board in Ottawa for approval to build $450million oil pipeline geross northern British Colum ia Trans Mountain says the 760 mile line linking proposed tanker terminal in Kitimat with Albertas pipelines to the United States would give BC communities permanent jobs and millions of dollars in new investment Opponents say the project would threaten the coast around Kitimat and the interior wilderness through which it would pass What is Worse they say the pipeline is designed to meet only US needsCanada is to act as land bridge carrying Alaskan oil to refineries in the innLETHOUGHt Hath not my handmade all these things Acts 750 Before we get too possessive about what we call our own it would be well to take another look at the real owner and the power behind it all Without Him was not anything made that was made US midwest Trans Mountain is seeking approval to build terminal at Kitimat capable of unloading two 300000ton supertankers at once TANKER TO PIPE From Kitimat oil shipped from Alaska and the dle East would flow 30 inch line to Teriace BC then along an existing natural gas pipeline through the Telkwa Pass to Prince George BC and on to Edmonton At full capacity the line would deliver 600000 barrels of oil to Edmonton daily for trans mission through existing Al berta lines to the US Trans Mountain heads con sortium that includes Inter provincial Pipeline Co Hud sons Bay Oil and Gas Co and six US refineries The pipelines op nents in coalition heade by Van couvers Scientific Pollution and Environmental Control Society SPEC include range of environmental groups and the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union SPEC says pipeline construc tion would create regional in flation strain community serv ices and increase crime Major oil spills from tankers would destroy commercial and sports fishing