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The Examiner is member at The Canadian Press CPI and Audit Bureau at ADVER SING Circulalons AaLt Only the Canadian Press may re publish news stories in Len Sevick manager CJMPOSlNG ROOM Jack Kerney tareman BUSINE SS Marian couch accountant EDITOIS Craig Elson managing editOr Published daily chPpt aw My Juno131mi serwng barrie and simcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited l6 Baytield Street Barrie Ontario L4M 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher NEWSROOM 726 6537 CIRCULATION 726 6539 ADVERTISING 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 72824 Halt vandalism The story is disturbing but hardly surprising fire set last week in Innisfil Beach Park destroyed the interior of concession stand Total bill several thousand dollars The incident will be repeated in variety of locations this summer in parks schools and public places The result will be the same senseless wilful damage Given the shortage of public funds the damage is almost obscene The way to prevent vandalism is hard to find Posting rewards increasing penalties and holding parents responsi ble dont seem to be successful Yet attempts must be intensified to cut down on van dalism The lies perhaps in more positive directions Most vandals are young people with too much time on their hands and low estimation of themselves as individuals One obvious step is more jobs Keep people occupied and they wont have time for mischief Theyll also have better of themselves as productive individuals Another way is education The Simcoe County Board of Education annually spends thousands of dollars to repair damage caused by vandals An information campaign to show how that money could be used for constructive purposes could result in peer pressure against the vandals Its problem for all of us Nor is one segment of the population solely to blame But waste at the best of times hurts No one contributing to vandalism should be unaware of the penalties to be faced or of the irresponsible damage they are doing barrie laqmark 200 Collier Street is an excellent example of the Queen Anne Revival style of architecture prominent during the years l885l900 This home built in l888 comes complete with all the characterising details shaped veran dah turret irregular massing and the overall voluptuous feeling of bath house and grounds Drawing courtesy LACAC committee Big bureaucracy BUSINESS 7266537 SALES Bert Stevens Wayne Hay Aden Smitn Steve Skinner Barb Boulton Ian Mulgrew city editor Bill McFarlane wire editor Dave Futlel sports editor Claudia Krause Litestyle editor RE FOR TE RS Stephen Nicholls Dennis Lanthier Nancy Figueroa Lori Cohen Richard Thomas Stephen Gauer entertainment Gary Forbes Betty Armor camera operator Terry Field Peter Hsu CLASSIFIED Freda Shinner Janice Morton By STEWART MacLEOl Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service Within the next year or so and par ticularly before another general election it would be nice if the new Conservative government could find time to consider that report by The Task Force on Canadian Unity specifically that bit about proportional representation Certainly the May 22 election emphasized the need for such system even in modified form as voters in some parts of Canada voted overwhelmingly for the Liberals while in other parts of Canada it was an allTory show As result no party can claim true national su port And whats worse the division close follows linguistic lines The unity task force cocltaired by Jean Calvin Folopchuk P999V Chapel Dows Brad Howcrott Da na omewood Delva Mitts Vikki Grant Connie Hart Jean Bass Don Saunders Lorne Wass Wilt Cadciaan Stan Wray Bill Raynor Ron Gilder Ed Allenby Janie Hamel Susan itchen Barbara Strigl PRESSROOM CIRCULATION Bin Halkes manager Steve White assistant manaaor Alva LaPIante Lisa Warry Elaine Porter Cheryl Aiken Fred prince Kim Pattenden provincebyprovince basis This would not only result in giving the Tories some additional cabinet material from Quebec it would also give the Grits rare smattering of members from Alberta The present system says the task force report merely accentuates the regional barriers in Canada In country as diverse as Canada this sort of situation leads to sense of alienation and exclusion from power Westerners in particular increasingly resent disproportionate number of Quebec members in Liberal caucus which has very Interpretingthe neWs Glenn Kwan asst toreman IAI Hanson toreman Don Near asst torernan Sunday and statutory holidays WE EK LY by carrier 95 cents YEARLY by carrier $49 40 this newspaper credited to The Associated Press Reuters or Agence France Presse and local news stories published in The Examiner The Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertising materia created by its employees and pubtished in this newspaper Copyright registration number toasts register at National advertising ottices as Queen St Toronto 864 mo oIOCalhcart BY MAIL Barrie $49 SIMCOE COUNTY St Montreal The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable tor damaqes aris 539 on ma out of errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid tor the space ac MOTOR THROW OFF 50ayear ELSEWHERE IN CANADA in Goa year tisement urgent report shunted aside few of their own If there were more Quebec members in the Progressive Conservative caucus representing more accurately the popular vote in that province that caucus would be in better position to reflect and understand the concerns of Quebecers No one is in better position to understand this than Prime Minister Clark And con sidering the state of the nation it would seem like good idea to begin the electoral reform process before Parliament is again embroiled in artisanship warfare and we are faced with another general election No dramatic breakthroughs tually occupied by that portion at the advertisement in which the error oc curred whether such error is due to the negligence at its servants or other Wise and there shall be no liability tor nan insertion at any advertisement beyond the amount paid tor such advertisement The Publisher reserves the right to edit reVise classily or reicct an advcr The world today Still time to change By JOHN HARBthN Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Senjce The repercussions of Prime Minister Clarks election promise to move the Canadian Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem which he has since made commitment of his new government con tinue to spread Now there are signs they will affect our considerable trade and technical assistance deals with the Arab countries At stake in three contracts alone are close to $17 billions in engineering services for Saudi Arabia Libya and Algeria all major oilproducing countries and all engaged in major modernization programs The biggest single contract Canada has ever made in the entire Arab world is the $1 billion arrangement by Bell Canada to design build and operate basic com munications system for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia senior Bell executive from Montreal has literally joined the Saudi government in state job not unlike that of Deputy Minister of Communications Bechtel Canada Limited with its $700 million contract to establish natural gas processing system for SONATRACH that countrys large state and oil production corporation had the largest Canadian in dustrial commitment in the Islamic world until the Bell contract was signed MANY AFFECTED And only days after Prime Minister Clark repeated his promise to move the Canadian Embassy to Jerusalem Canadian Westinghouse in Hamilton negotiating $85 million generator contract with Libya was nervous about delays in their contacts with the Libyans This North African uilproducing nation is the most fanatically antiIsrael of all the Arab states If this werent enough Walford Vice President for Corporate Affairs at Canadair Limited Montreal admitted at the big annual Paris Air Show that Middle East orders for the firms successful new Chal lenger business jet could be in jeopardy because of the selfsame Clark promise Certainly there are no more eager customers for this kind of aircraft than the rich and often selfindulgent rulers of the many North African and Persian Gulf all states They have already bought other kinds of these executive aircraft from Canadairs competitors But were not through with the list Allan McKinnon the new Tory Defence Minister was hoping for personal coup early in his new job with the purchase of secondhand 14jet fighters from Iran These had become redundant when the present revolutionary government indicated they did not want them They could have been Luc Pepin now Liberal MP and John Rob bought lbiactk bygthe lIgnited States from whom arts former premier of Ontario warned us we wou en uyt em Your about this type of regional breakdown Our But perplexed Defence Minister McKinnon business research of experience in other federations admitted to reporter for the international Hy VINCENT EGAN Business and onsutittr Affairs Analyst Tltotttson News Service Sonic politicians win elections othcrs losc but thc bureaucracy keeps on growing and spending That means that the majority of in dividuals along with private businesses have to pay an everincreasing combination of direct indirch and dtltlltd taxes Oncurcsull of llCSS has been the emergence of rdlass 77 public office holders with the ability to rcquisition almost at will the fruits of productive labor burcziucracy that is guided more and more by sclfriiitcrcst rather than public iittcrcst Th burcrtucrats thcmsclvcs dont 501 the picture lll thosc terms of course The Public Servicc Alliance of Canada has been can powerful class Stock Exchange said that Canadians have been attributing goodness of motive an unselfishness of purpose sublimity of objectives to such people who if they were in business would be branded immediately as selfinterested What is surprising is that we have not recognized the selfserving nature of many proposals for additions to the power of government said Pearce Bunting it isnt unnatural that the ncw class will find it vulgar that ordinary men and women in the marketplace can determine the shape of our civilization If there are problems they will find political solution But they are too often sacking personal advantage rather than public benefit Summing up the governments approach to the economy in recent years Bunting said indicates that when party membership in the central parliament becomes concentrated in regional blocks it is an advance signal of eventual disintegration URGENT MATTER The report released prior to the May 22 election said that because we see developing signs of such situation in Can ada we have come to the conclusion that electoral reform is urgent and of very high priority The latest election results clearly rein forced that argument For instance the vic torious Progressive Conservative party managed to win only two of Quebecs 75 seats although it captured nearly 14 per cent of the popular vote in the province And west of On tario the Liberals took 22 per cent of the popular vote while electing only three MP5 from 80 seats Had there been proportional representation the Tories would have had about 10 MP5 from Quebec while the Liberals would have about 18 from the West And Quebec Premier Rene Levesque would not have been able to say as he did that the WASHINGTON CP The long awaited summit meeting between President Carter and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev appears unlikely to result in any dramatic breakthroughs in relations between the superpowers The infirmities of the two leaders policial in the US and physical in the Soviet Union and the intricacies of the roblems facing them are among factors bind the limited expectations being ex pressed about the June 1618 meeting in Vienna The chief public focus of the summit is the signing of new strategic arms limitation treaty SALT II document that is the product of seven years of negotiation Casting shadow over this achievement is possible action by balky US Congress which has been acting in de fiance of Carters leadership and which may challenge any commitments he might make to the Soviet leader than they did to the signing of the first SALT pact which was hailed as the start of new era in relations between Moscow and Washington During plenary and private discussions the two leaders will touch on range of issues vital to the interests of both their countries and their allies High on the agenda are further nuclear arms limitation and other weaponry issues including US officials say discussion of Carters decision to develop the MX strategic nuclear missile as counter to Soviet missile improvements In preparation for the meeting the two countries have been exchanging problems for placing equal limits on Western and Eastern military forces in Central Europe But officials here are making no predictions of an agreement on this or any other issue that would be discussed Hopes for firststep test ban on killer satellites in space have been fading as the difficulty of making quick agreement radio service of the CBC that any proposed deal with Iran would not now take place With our difference with the Arab world over the Conservative position about the em bassy in Israel whether it should be in Jerusalem or not think there is no chance at all of getting Iran to give us good deal on the EMS they have TIME TO CHANGE In Canadas economic selfinterest Prime Minister Clark still has time to reconsider and postpone indefinitely his illadvised move The Bell contract alone including its sub contracted portions represents about 50000 Canadian jobs write your ditcting fair deal campaign which Govcmment has taxed productivity mp lectton merely emphastzes the two Carter cannot even give Brezhnev becameapparenliana ySlSln lCalei amongothcr goals advocates fully indexed Sdung SKtaking ork and the desire to for Soviet pensions for all Canadians improve oncs placc canad35 assuranCes that the arms treaty desrgned Carter also to pea you would like to write your Member of This is thc by now familiar tcchniquc by which this privileged class dcflccts criticism of the automatic increases iii their salaries and pensions with every increase in the costa oflivingindcx They arent deterred by llll counter argunicnt of actuarics which is that universal indexing of pensions would be unintaginztbly expensive and would erodi any lingering public will to resist inflationary pressu res DOLBLIISTANDARD In talk to session of lhc onfcrcncc Board in Lnrtzidu the president of the Toronto we want your Opinion Something on your mind Send Letter to the Editor Please make it an original copy and sign it The Examiner doesnt publish unsigned let ters but it you wish pen name will be used lnclude 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 reioct letters Letters to the Editor are run every day on the editorial page ll has subsidized unemployment con sumption debt and social immobility llc contended that thc failure of our social systcm to contain the growth of social de mands within limits tolerable to the market was the essential cause of inflation although politicians refuse to accept even part of the blame for inflation lNlTlii TARGET Anyone who works on Bay Street and specially one who presides over stock exchange is an inviting target and can expect to have such criticisms answered with countcraltacks on big business dont want to sound as if everything can bc liilltl at the door of government Bunting sun Vic as businessmen and individual cttircns must share resixinsibilitv We need only to look at the dumping of chcmicals thc ovcrcutting of forests the pollution of lakes or in my own industrv the flouting of securities laws to recognize business decisions the effect of which was not only to create new regulations but to creati new regulators Once all that is granted however and all of us could add other examples of the sins of bustness the fact rcriiains that the business world does provide competitive stimulus to more efficient delivery of the goods and The PepiniRobarts task force incidentally did not suggest any break from our parlia mentary form of government nor did it recommend an entire overhaul of our elec toral system What it did suggest was sort of supplementary form of proportional representation which would be piggybacked on our present simplemajority single member constituency system MORE SEATS The task force proposed that membership in the House of Commons be increased by about 60 seats and after the present 282 MP5 were elected in the normal way these 60 seats would be awarded the parties on the basis of their percentage of the popular vote The report suggests that this be done on SCOOPS SAY YOUVE GOT TO FEEL SORRY FOR PIERRE TRUDEAU to place controls on the growing nuclear arsenals of the two countries will be ratified by the US Senate Brezhnev for his part has been reported for the last few years to be in failing health Now 72 his ability to participate in the kind of freewheeling summit that characterized his meeting in 1972 with former president Richard Nixon is in doubt Also up in the air is the question of how binding any deals he might make with Carter will be on his successor APPROACH MODEST Given the circumstances it is not surprising that both sides are taking more modest approach to the meeting FIRST THE CANADIAN VOTERS FUT HlM OUT OF restraint in the Mid le East and in Southern Africa Soviet support for UN peacekeeping force in the Sinai to monitor the EgyptIsrael peace treaty will be sought by the US The question of Soviet sponsorship of troops in Africa which has proved one of the touchiest issues since Carters elec tion and the warming of US relations with China also are expected to come up It appears the most likely area for agreement may be in the idea of holding annual summit meetings between the su perpowers Administration officials consider these meetings good for US Soviet relations AND NOW HEAR MARGARET THREATENING ro cons HOME Parliament or Member of Provincial Parlia ment printed below are their mailing ad dresses It you send us copy of your letter it might be suitable for our Letters to the Editor columns After all it there is matter at concern that makes you want to write to your MP or MPP it it is not personal matter it should be of interest to your friends and neighbors too norm STEWART MPSimcoe South Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont GBMTTGES MPGrey$imcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont MOLEVIIS MPSimcoe North Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont Mitt IIAT MPWelIingtonDulfarinSimcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont PROVINCIAL MOTyin MPPSimcoa Contra Ontario Legislature Queens Park Toronto GardensM Send yours to MPPSimcoeEast LOTT to the Editor mdt p19 dm Ontario Legislature The win And another tact unfortunately remains Queen Pork Toronto Office Box 370 that political llltll is being eroded asthc MUM new class of the big bureaucracy finds MPPflutterin Simtoei Mn 0t more reasons to incrcasc its power over the QUWT P°fki T°°° 4T6 economy and thus ovcr anadians lives