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longest NlVllltz government since Confederation Whether yniiit Zl nnstrvzitive not thats record thats llltlll tn mutth barrie landmarks 5462 Owen Street This now very rare row of buildings is very good exam ple of how many residential streets appeared in the l870s Buildings were erected close to the road with sides almost touching 62 Owen closest to McDonald Street is the oldest of the four buildings and demonstrates the exterior material of the less prosperous person stucco meticulously engraved to appear like stone Drawing courtesy LACAC committee Your business By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Whenever the justice of carinsurance rates is questioned the insurance industry says in effect that the rest of us just dont understand the principles involved and that it would be unjust to reduce rates for some drivers at the expense of better drivers Plausible as that might sound it doesnt alter the injustice that is built into the rating system as it exists today In at least three provinces British Columbia Saskatchewan and Ontario governments are moving to change the system in response to public complaints about high rates In Ontario for instance there are 16 classifications of drivers young and adult male and female unmarried and married urban and rural low and high mileage and more The young unmarried urban male driver is deemed by the industry to represent the highest risk and he is arbitrarily socked with an insurance premium price so high that it virtually invites him to gamble on driving without insurance Even lowrisk mature driver can be hit with huge increase in premium if he is un fortunate enough to be in minor accident or to be ticketed by capricious cop eager to make up his quota for the day UNISEX RATES Ontarios minister of consumer and cor we want your opinion Something on your mind Send Letter to the Editor Please make it on original copy and sign it The Examiner doesnt publish unsigned let ters but if you wish pen name will be used Include your telephone number and address as we have to verify letters Because of space limits public interest and good taste The Examiner sometimes has to edit condense or reject lottors Letters to tho Editor are run every day on the editorial page Sand yours to letters to tin Editor the lumber Post Office Box 370 MIIIE 0m MM 416 Car insurance better way porate affairs Frank Drea is asking the provinces auto insurance industry to offer proposals to end what critics regard as blatant discrimination in the setting of premiums Some insurance people have forecast that socalled unisex car insurance rates would increase the costs of coverage for the majority of drivers by about 12 per cent while reducing premiums for young drivers by an average of about 30 per cent That hasnt been the experience in Massachusetts which incidentally was the first state to adopt the concept of nofault car insurance thus sharply reducing the delays and costs of settling an insurance claim There insurance companies have five categories of drivers now Male drivers between the ages of 20 and 25 who have clean driving records are indeed enjoying savings of up to 20 per cent on their car insurance Young women are paying the same rates substantial increase from their privileged position in the past And mature drivers premiums are about five per cent higher than they would otherwise have been This neither proves nor disproves the case for unisex rates Categories are technique used by the insurers to predict future risks but it is technique capable of infinite variations As recently as 35 years ago car insurers had only two categories business use and pleasure use NEW APPROACH The present system of categories may be satisfactory on an overall basis to the insur ance companies but then they are also satisfied with nearscandalous footdragging on claims and with system of arbitrary premium increases on truly trivial grounds Its far from satisfactory to the good driver say in his midtwenties with clear accident record and with perhaps minor traffic violations that have already been written off by the provincial authorities but not by the insurers Some of our governments have shown that they recognize the potential for improvement in the rating system The insurers could for example put proportionately more weight on the experience of the driver which isnt category now and less on age Highrisk drivers could be dealt with in ways other than with prohibitive premiums One possibility would be to expand the deductible the amount of damage that the owner would have to pay himself in the event of collision thus reducing the in surance companys risk In the end it remains the job of the in surance industry to spread the risk but equitably DOvi GET iOO EXCITED ABOUT THE CtOWOSiiiEv DONT KNOW ABOUT in ELECHON AND THEV iiiiiit YOURE PIERRE Wt Parliament Hill By STEWART MacLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service In the hazy heat of summer you dont hear much about Quebec independence and the forthcoming battle over the allimportant referendum Provincial politicians have been keeping quiet Premier Rene Levesque has been romping in the New England sand and most of his bureaucracy is scattered throughout the cottage country of the Lauren tians On the surface nothing is happening But Liberal Leader Claude Ryan the federalist field general in the referendum campaign is quietly stocking up his most po tent weapon the one which Premier Leves que has little hope of countering What Ryan and his officials are doing while others are basking in the summer heat is quietlycon ferring with provincial premiers and their of ficials about his proposals for renewed federalism that will be presented to Quebecers as the Liberal alternative to Levesques vague sovereigntyassociation The world today By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service GENEVA PARK Ivan Illich scholar par excellence tall in stature and an intense aesthetic offers complex world view which in essence calls for complete change of all our institutions He was the keynote speaker the 48th annual Couchiching Conference ere Dr Illich Catholic priest educator social critic is in vogue because we all want answers why our institutions are in crisis Critic Illich and others say that our institu tions deliver goods and services we do not want have formed corporate lifestyles of their own which either ignore or exploit the individual Illich would tear down the basic structures of key institutions on which we must rely On schools he sees their escalation as destructive as the escalation of weapons On hospitals he says the medical establishment has become major threat to health 0n the church he says renunciation of marriage is not an economically necessary service for the poor It will be relatively long process and the specifics of Ryans renewed federalism wont be presented to his people until early next year perhaps few months before the referendum But by then the Liberal leader hopes he will be able to say that all other premiers have indicated their approval of his proposals And this is where he will have decided ad vantage over Levesque The premier will cer tainly not be able to claim support from other provinces for his sovereigntyassocmtion concept that has so far drawn unanimous negative reaction from his fellow premiers And since sovereigntyassociation is perceiv ed to be steppingstone toward outright in dependence it is unlikely that even drastic modifications would generate any en thusiasm in Englishspeaking Canada Ryan supporters see this as the one clean cut advantage for them in the coming referendum campaign They hope to conVince Quebccers that the Levesque proposals for an economic union between equals With the rest of Canada is unrealistic because The thin but demanding books of Illich have titles which are themselves new creations of the English language His book on schools is called Deschooling Society His text at tacking the medical profession is called Medical Nemesis The Expropriation of Health WHY DOCTORS FAIL He is saying the medical profession has created costly superstructure for itself of hospitals medical science and expensive drugs for sickness while abandOning our basic therapeutic needs to be healthy He attacks the schools because they are more concerned with accreditation than with learning for life and students needs But the Illich bag of theories about modern institutions has other parts to it He speaks in terms of hard and soft institutions right and left political answers and finally what he calls ver nacular versus commodityoriented His hard institution is capital intensive technologydominated corporation whose major projects not only snuff out ge nuine human values but in environmental terms pollute our atmospheres Soft ones by comparison are those neither the federal government nor the other provinces will cooperate 0n the other hand by that time the Liberal leader hopes to be able to boost that the nine other premiers have indicated their willingness to work toward renewed federalism If everything falls into place always dubious possibility in politics Ryan will be able to argue that vote for sovereignty association is merely vote for the status quo The only realistic hope for constitutional changehe would argue would be in rejecting the nonworkable sovereigntyassociation and later opting for the widelyacceptable renewed federalism It would certainly put new twist on the campaign So far Levesques Parti Quebecois has been saying that rejection of the sovereigntyassociation referendum would be in effect vote for the status quo Claude Morin Levesqucs minister of in tergovernmental affairs has even suggested that if Quebecers rejected the referendum even EnglishCanadians would laugh at them Catholic priest key speaker atCouchiching Conference related to what individuals really want to do selfhelp projects like hobbies building coun try places cxpressing oneself in genuine and open association with others Right versus left means solutions pro posed by capitalists or socialists Illich says each has the wrong goals because they create structures which serve political system or ideology but not those of the individual per son Vernacular versus commodityoriented is just as easy to grasp Commodityoriented means that the market system is telling us what we need and should buy The market system says we need two cars in the garage power mowers color televi sion material affluence The vernacular like the simplest words of our language is what we really want in our hearts Vernacular needs are those which man can protect and create for himself and which he does not need to buy or sell in the market place CAN WE CHANGE THEM How applicable are the theories of Ivan ll lich to all our institutions in crisis Are there answers for changes in them or do we need totally new institutions First of TwoPart Series From the legislature Budget still on the rise By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO res arring note to the firstquarter lifilfiflmstics just released by the provincial treasury The revised forecast adds $6 million to the budgets original prediction of $15558 billion in expenditures Compared to the total amount the new levy sounds little like worrying about the paper clip loss in an office theft where the crooks made off with the computer But what is really at stake is principle For the first time in 10 budget quarters more than two years the estimated expen diture boundary has been breached While former treasurer Darcy McKeough took pasting in the legislature for the massive deficits he ran up noone could deny that he put the squeeze on nding Every quarter of 1977 an 1978 to which can be added the yearly spending for 1976 McKeough managed to keep government ex penditures under the level he predicted GOOD TRY It was partandparcel of McKeoughs game plan to bring provincial spending under control with the aim of balancing the budget by 1981 Because the economy never performed as well as McKeough said hoped prayed it would his revenues never matched expecta tions That doomed 1981 balanced budget and increased the deficits Current Treasurer Frank Miller signalled somewhat different approach is the spring budget this year The balanced budget goal remained but was pushed back to the mid19805 and more flexible approach was taken to how much should be spent in any quarter or in any ministry One budget paper explained that the ob jective is to achieve gradual reduction in cash requirements rather than to target for specific revenue and expenditure growth rates ONE WAY So goodbye rigid McKeoughstyle ceilings hello flexability which unfortunately is really another word for higher spending Millers first quarter report shows this The $6 million spending increase being mat ched by an additional $43 million in revenue The worry here is what happens if in the next quarter or two revenues decline thanks to OPEC federal policy or whatever while expenditures continue to exceed planned limits Politically it would be impossible to cut back on the additional spending promised POLITICS FIRST Already the Conservatives astute political antennae have picked up major signs of discontent with their restraint program especially in the health and social services field where the cry is cutback This cutback of course is such that the health ministry budget went from $33 billion in 1976 to $36 billion in 1977 $39 in 1978 and is estimated at $42 billion this year Still Miller has found an additional $65 million for health by rearranging the budget and increasing estimated expenditure It was necessary politically and may even have been really worthwhile The danger is that well keep exceeding estimated expenditures while ignoring revenue and never get overnment back where it should never have eft Balancing its expenses against its income interpreting the news Hopes dim for Namibia peace NEW YORK CP Appointment of new South African administratorgeneral in Namibia or South West Africa dims hope for peaceful transition to majority rule in the territory Prime Minister Pieter Botha recently selected hardline academic Gerrit Vit joen to succeed Judge Marthinus Steyn as overseer of the territory on South Africas northern border Vitjoen in addition to being one of the coun trys top educators is chairman of the Broederbund literally band of brothers secretive rightwing society of Afrikaaners The organization includes most of the Afrikaaner leadership in its membership and has powerful voice in the councils of the rul ing National party With that background Vitjoen is unlikely to follow the more moderate ways of his predecessor Although he ran Namibia with strong hand Steyn did liberalize some of the more onerous strictures of apartheid in the territory He also administered elections which while boycotted by the South West Africa Peoples Organization SWAPO were the first of their kind in Namibia For years fivecountry group including Canada has been pushing transition ment to bring the territory to indepe ence under UN auspices The plan called for civilian administrators to enter and run free elections while UN military force provided security during the voting and during the transition period Prospects looked good until late last year when the South Africans balked at what they claimed was an effort to favor SWAPO PLAN THREATENED South Africa then angered the UN by stag ing its own elections b0 cotted by SWAPO and has since proclaim an interim govern ment Those steps together with the appoint ment of such staunch conservative as Vit joen as administratorgeneral do not bode well for the UN independence plan After months during which the talks were moribund they have resumed with Britains Sir James Murray acting as Spokesman for the Western five