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7266537 Thursday Doc 15 1977 NEWSROOM Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited l6 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Elio Agostini publisher ADVERTISING 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 7282414 CIRCULATION 7266539 the examiner serving barrie and simcoe county BUSINESS What is lake really worth In the next few months technical experts for the provtncial government will sit down and try to put price tag on just maintaining Lake Simcoes current water quality But they will not be looking at the costs of returning the lake to its pristine state state in which lake trout and Whitefish reproduce naturally That cost is too high and ministry of environment of ficial warned the politicians making the decision that even if bold new environmental constraints were in troduced in this area they might not work Politicians representing the municipalities in the watershed were faced with huge deCiSion in Newmarket Tuesday The handful remaining when the vote was taken chose practical approach They said they would maintain the lake as it is and they would try to improve the lake as much as they could afford Were in tough times economically and that was politically wise choice But there is more involved in the Lake Simcoe Strategy Committee than politics The group was required to make philosophical decision Politicians arent good at philosophical decisions so they took the political way out One representative Orillia alderman Frank Kehoe questioned whether he even had the mandate to make that kind of decision It is true that because of 30 years of neglect and disrespect Lake Simcoes water quality has deteriorated to point where it can no longer support naturally oc curring cold water fish population It is true that costs of returning the lake to pristine state would be astronomical require environmental con trols the likes of which Ontario and Canada has never seen and may not even work in the long run Massive programs to bring back cold water fish have been tried elsewhere One ministry of natural resources official pointed out they tried it in Lake Tahoe in the United States and it worked But experts will argue how long But why not try Even if it doesnt work wouldnt it be nice to tell our grandchildren well at least we tried We cant afford to pay the cleanup costs but can we 7266537 afford not to Which do you think your grandchildren would rather have warm water fishery or bills to pay for fight to keep clear cold water Iake We think its time the public helped their politicians make that extremely difficult decision The head says improve the lake as much as we can afford The heart says improve it at all costs Engineers write MP about plan Dear Sir Please find enclosed copy of letter which is being forwarded to Dr Rynard MP SimcoeNorth by members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in this constituency for reasons stated therein From the Canadian Transport Commission Preferred Plan issued April 1977 it was recommended single route between MontrealToronto and Winnipeg via Rail at North Bay the Toronto section would join the Montreal section thence to Winnipeg this is now been changed in the Final Plan for thc Toronto section to operate via IN through Barrie then be routed to GP at Parry Sound thence to Sudbury and connect with the Mon treal section It is fact in spite of the large populated ctties of Sudhury and Thunder Ba 1N Transcontinental has continued to andlc more passengers Yours truly Hilarkcr Locomotive Engineer Ba rrie write your mPP If you would like to write your Member of Parliament or Member of Provincial Par liament printed below are their mailing ad dresses If you send us copy of your letter it might be suitable for our Letters to the Editor columns After all if there is mat ter of concern that makes you want to write to your MP or MPP if it is not personal matter it should be of interest to your friends and neighbors tool FEDERAL Dr Rynard MPNorth Simcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont KtA 0A6 Ross Milne MPPeelDufferinSimcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa OntKtA 0A6 Sinclair Stevens MPYorkSimcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont KIA 0A6 Gus Mltges MPvGrcySimcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont K1AOA6 PROVINCIAL George Taylor MPP Simcoe fcntre Ontario Legislature Queens Park Toronto MIA 1A2 Gordon Smith MPP SimcocEmit Ontario Legislature Queens Park Toronto M7A 1A2 Georgi Mchguc MPP Duflerin Simcoe Queens Park Ioronto MIA 1A2 it will last Honorable Sir It is my wish to communicate to you my elected representative in Ottawa my most urgent concern with regard to the recently reltxised Final Plan for Western lranscon tiiienlal Passenger Irain Service The Plan contemplatm the virtual eliniina tion of Transcontincntal Irain Service over lines of Canadian National To accomplish this will rmunc upgrading of Canadian Pacific tracks resulting in large subsidies paid to private corporation and the ultimate lay off of many employees tanadian National at the present time has fast track in service Montreal to Wituiipeg which would not require any modification or upgrading Required by the Final Plan are cxtciisivc modifications between Iiorval and Vaudrcuil and also near South Parry as well as the en tire track between Vaudrcuil and Ottawa The exixndilurc of vast sums of the ana dian Peoples tax dollars to upgrade the facilities of the privately owned Canadian Pacific Railway is ill advised and cannot be supported by the facts The improvement in service suggested in the Final Plan are minimal and could as easily be instituted by schedule changes over the present publicly owned System As concerned Canadian urgently re quest that Public Inquiry be launched to ful ly investigate the so called Itinal Plan for Iranscontiiiitital Passenger Service It is also of deep concern that the Final Plan was approved by Orders in Council without the right of Parliamentary Debati Your intervention on my behalf in this iin nortant matter is respectfully requested Member Brotherhood of Loinol ivc Engineers Iiiv lifiz legislative Iteprtsenlative 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 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 letters Letters to the Editor are run every day on the editorial page Send yours in Letters to the Editor The Examiner Post Office lio thl ISAIIIIIII Oiil LIM ilti NEWSROOM ADVERTISiNG BUSINESS Sean Finley menacino willr Len Sevick manager Marian Gough accountant Randy McDonald my editor SAL ESME Betty Armer sheila McGovern assistant city editor Dan Gaynor Dorothy Bowland Bill McFarlane wire editor Werner Bergen sports Claudia Krause Ilteslyle Marina Qualtrocchi photographer RE PORT ER John Bruce Pout Deleon Richard Dunstan Pal Guergis Scott Haskins Rudlelgh MacLean Sue Burke Parliament hill Hy STIIWAIII MacHCOI Ottawa iiurcau Thomson News Service The formation of that common front committee by various antiseparatist forces It Quebec may represent significant step forward for federalism but the real trick will be keeping it together Within that cominittcc arc countless conr stitutional viewpoints running from the status quo to virtual separatism all within the framework of some form of on federation and it may be difficult to prevent the factions from fighting among llltlllStthb Of course Rene Levesque has the same potential problem within the Parli Qiic becois party that now maintains unity only because of the common bond of separatism Your business liy VINCENT EGAN Business and oiisiiiiitr Affairs Analyst lhonison News Service Iiard work innovation and supreme dedication to self interest certainly pay off as you might confirm by looking at the prospcrity of Japan The yen the Japanese currency is lilting embarrassingly high Its recent valui was about 458 cents Canadian record high Its that high because Japan is exporting far more than it is iiiiporling Its trade Stir plus in the first 10 months of this year was $13360 million US or nearly $15 million Canadian Japanese exports are booming because the Japanese work diligently applying them selves to products with high technology con tent and high unit value such as cars and consumer electronic goods and leaving the production of textiles and gimmicky goods largely tootlicr countries of the Far East And Japans imports are low because the Japanese are pastinastcrs at the art of protectionism which they are forever decrying in other count rics Throughout almost the entire post war period the Japanese have been dragging their feet on their commitments to tadc liberalization always portraying their coun try as special case that ncet cd more time to LYall Johnson Barb Boulton Dana Graham John Zarecky CLASSIFIED Ruth Blots supervisor Freda Shinner Karen Atkinson PEWY Chapell Dana Homewood IEIS WEIOUIZ PITIY DIFFERENCES AND f0 lHEGOOD OFTHE DUNIRY Gail Mc Parland Vikki Grant CIRCULATION Jon Butler manager Linda Halkes asst manager Andy Haughlon Judy Hickey Alva LaPlante Elaine Porter Gary Prinole The new unity committee was formed during three day Quebec ily symposium sponsored by tlietouiicil tor ziiindian ITnity lhc idea was to bring all profidcralist political parties together with the various groups dedicated to national unity in hopes of organixing some sort of united approach in opposition to the promised referendum on Quebecs constitutional future lntil now the many organizations promoting taiuida zip pcarcd to be tripping over each other and the political parties in the province have been similarly tripping over each other trying to find ii comfortable position between scpa ralism and the stnliisquo lAlillYOMING Since these parties will still be searching for votes after the referendum they will still Booming Japan to import more prcptirc its industry to inch foreign tilllr pctilioii in the lOllltSllt intiikct MOVING IIICI Japan has to its credit takcn stcps in the direction oI llllptill liberalization from time lotiiiii And Nobuliiko llsliiba minister in charge of external economic affairs earlier this month promised that Japan would soon offci large lradc concessions to its partner They cant come too soon to suit such North American business leaders as Thomas Mitr phy chairman of General Motors Corp His company he says is selling about 7000 cats ii year in Japan whcrc total annual sales of iin ported cars are about 100000 Japanese car makers are exporting to the US aloiic at pace of about 1000000 units ycar and to Canada at about tenth of that volume It may be of course that Japanese cat Iiiivcrs simply prefer Japanese cars as being more suitable for that small heavily popiilatcd country 01 it may be as iMs Ilionins Murphy suggests because nonlarill forces push the Japanese price of North American car tip by lit to 70 pct cent more than its domestic price Maybe liicy do better jtil of saying youve got to buy Japanese he said obliquely Published daily except YEARLY by carrier SIMCOE COUNTY MOTOR THROW OFF ELSEWHERE iN CANADA Sunday and statutory holidays WEEKLY by carrier 90 cents $4680 BY MAIL Barrie $4680 Montreal $3650 $39 year $3850 year Common front committee may be significant step engage in these individual policy searches but in the meantime the situation could be clarified somewhat for the average Quebccer Providing the various factions of the new committee can hang in there together until the referendumit might be two years awéiy much of the current confusion should on As publisher Claude Ryan pointed out to the 250 delegates there have been few positive aspects to the federalist campaiin so far While the Levesque govemment has been defining its objectives with relative clarity the fcderalists in all opposition parties have been generally negative No they dont like separatism and they want to remain Canadian but they have all been shy on specifics Somewhere between outright separatism and the status quo there is an answer to the current dilemma says interim Liberal Leader Gerard Levesque There must be redefining of con stitutiotial powers within Confederation says Union Nationale Leader Rodrigue Biron Federal Conservative Leader Joe Clark has said that more power should be shifted to the provinces But Prime Minister Ttudeau says all the power being sought by the Parti Que becois is already available to the provinces under the present constitution It was becoming very difficult to figure out how separatism should be fought The formation of this new committee might be the fiist positive move For as long as they can stick together members will be looking into all the options available to the prov inceawhile keeping close watch on public opinion and with any luck they may be able toput the Parti Quebecois on the defensive for the first time Ryan was obviously conscious of the fac tions within the new committee when he ap pealed for unity based on basic principles And the questions that must be asked are Do we want to live under federalist regime Do we want to be Canadians He is among those who feels there should be highly positive opposition to the Parti Que becois referenduman opposition that will appeal to supporters on the basis of specific policies There has been too much negative reaction so far he says perhaps thinking about those bumper stickers Say No to the ref erendum But it all comes down to question of unity within the ranks as Quebecers stew over the unity of the country At least this is one distin ct step forward at the moment and as provin cial Creditiste Leader Camile Samson says When the house is on fire its no time to argue over the colors of the firemens unifor ms The Examiner is member of The Canadian Press CP and Audit Bureau of Circula tions ABC Only the Canadian Press may re publish news stories in this newspaper credited to CF 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 material created by its employees and published in this newspaper Copyright registration number 203815 register 6i National advertising offices 65 Queen St Toronto 8644710 640 Cathcart St The advertiser agrees that the publisher shalt not be liable for damages arising out of errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid for the space actually occupied by that portion of the advertisement in which the error occurred whether such error is due to the negligence at its servan noninsertion of any advertisement beyond the amount paid for such advertisement is or otherwise and there shall be no liability for Queen park is deer By DON OIIEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO In his appearance before the Task Force on Canadian Unity Ontario Pre mier William Davis stressed that there should be immediate reform of practices bet ween the federal and provincial govern ments Particularly he said there should be an end to the fragmentation duplication and overlap that now exists in the policies and programs of the two levels of government This is fine objective Though we un doubtedly will never see an end to it or any thing like it there is lot that could be done And as thought he might put Correc tional Services Minister Frank Drea in charge of negotiations GETTING ACTION For one thing Drea gets action In little more than to months in office he has announced jail closings that have been hanging fire for long time announced that prisoners will work on highways and done an exceptional number of other things that have been opening eyes around here And second he has already demonstrated that he is well aware of the bad situation in duplication between the two levels of govern ment He has already announced that he wants to see single parole system in Ontario to be run by the province rather than the dual provincial and federal systems that exist now and has already had early talks with Ot tawa on this Then further he would like to see even tually one system of penal institutioons in the province instead of the federal peiiitentiaries and the provincial reformatories and jails that operate now As first step toward this he hopes to take over the prisoners in the womens peniten tiary in Kingston twhich would mean this old partlyfilled building could be torn down and house them at the Vanier Institute in Bramp ton Then he aims at taking over some male penitentiary prisoners with financial agreement with the feds of course and perhaps 10 years down the road he can see the province by agreement taking over the penitentiary system This man is door ANOTHER DOER Incidentally there is some comparison to be made between Drea and Bob Macaulay the onetime minister of everything around here Both are men to get things done largely because they cut through the bureaucrats in fact push them aside And both are original thinkers Macaulay so much so that he was the first man to bring in any iicw imaginative Conservative policy since George Drew led the partiy back in 1943 Macaulay by the way was in hospital recently for serious operation The day before surgery he had drawn up plan of reorganization for the hospital No days after he was dictating to his secretary on the telephone The operation is reported to have been suc cessful Cbnadas story influence still strong By BOB BOWMAN The hanging of Louis Riel following the Northwest rebellion in 1885 is one of the reasons why the Conservatives are so weak in Quebec It was Conservative government that insisted on the death penalty for Riel In fact Prime Minister Macdoiiald said He shall hang although every dog in Quebec barks So Louis Riel has influenced Quebec elec tions ever since 1885 although somehow John Diefenbaker overcame this in his landslide victory in 1958 Riel caused big upset in Canadian politics as early as 1871 Ontario had been solidly Conservative following Confederation as it has been most of the time ever since However in 1871 following the Red River uprising Protestant Ontario was angry because Thomas Scott had beep put to death by Roman Catholic Louis Rie Newspapers blasted Macdonalds govern ment because Riel had not been arrested In fact it scented more likely that Riel would be granted ati amnesty because he had helped organize the Metis to defend Manitoba again st an invasion by the Fenians IlGov Arr chibald had actually gone to St Boniface and shaken hands with Riel although he preten ded not to know who he was This fanned the flames of resentment in On tario even more There was an election in Ontario on Dec 15 1871 and the Consenative provincial govern nienl led by John Sandfield Macdonald was defeated by the Liberals Edward Blake became premier In effect this was also defeat for Sir John Macdonald whose home was in tin tario mat Kingston and then in Toronto Blake offered reward of $5iioo for Riels arrest and this was the reason why he was not able to take his seat in the House of Coiir mons later although he was elected as the member for Provenchcr Man