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6 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER June 12,1974 © A Oakville Beaver O a k v i l l e ' s c o m m u n i t y n e w s p a p e r KIRK SIMPSON Advertising M an ager WILLIAM C. LEEDER Publisher ROBERT J BLANS Editor Published every Wednesday by Inland Publishing Co. Limited, Oakville offices at 334 Church St., Oakville, L6J 1P1. Telephone 845-3824, Toronto 849-7885. Home delivery in Oakville S6.00 per year. Subscription rates by moil $26.00 per year in Canada, $52.00 elsewhere. Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association. Third Class Mail Permit No. 550 editorials No con tact with p eo p le This newspaper makes no bones about it -- we support the return of a Progressive Conserva­ tive Government to run Canada. The blatant inability of the Trudeau Govern­ ment to manage the affairs of our country should be reason enough but the problem goes much deeper. Postal problems, Unemployment Insurance schemes, seemingly uncontrollable inflation, Canada pension abuse, housing shortages, patty- cake international relationships, and ever in­ creasing taxation.. . . . The list of Liberal blunders goes on but the most glaring example of the Liberals' ineffi­ cacious approach is their obvious lack of contact and concern with the Canadian electorate. Our country is not made up of 109 Liberals who loosely call themselves the "Government of Canada" -- our country consists of more than 20,000,000 people who have been crying out for some feedback to their expanding problems only to find their pleas fall on deaf ears. The Liberals have neglected the very people who reluctantly voted them into office for a se­ cond time -- wistfully hoping for some concrete advancement. Some of the neglected people include those legitimately out-of-work and registered with the Unemployment Insurance Commission (UIC). As it is the UIC is overburdened with bureau­ cratic appointees who don't know what they're doing. The entire scheme is a costly fraud. It costs the public purse tens of millions of dollars and yet the Government refuses to do very much about those who may be cheating the system. Progressive Conservative leader Robert Stan­ field is not a critic advocating those people with­ out jobs not be a charge on the public purse. But he does ask purse strings be kept tight and any tip-offs be avoided. Mr. Stanfield has also demanded a public inquiry into the administration of the Royal Can­ adian Mounted Police (RCMP). Conditions in the RCMP force have become intolerable. It must be embarrassing for the Liberals to be facing a public inquiry right in the middle of an election campaign. We, as Canadians, know only too well the ex­ panding concerns of having to live under the guideless rule of the Trudeau Government -- so, well, in fact, that we tend to overlook the cre­ dibility gap our Government is creating in foreign countries. A case in point involves the recent repulsion expressed by External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp over the fact that India had exploded a nuclear device. Immediate withdrawal of aid to India was recommended by the Liberal cabinet when our esteemed officials realized Canada had been directly responsible for India's nuclear arma­ ment! A familiar contradiction which emphasizes the twisted thinking the Liberals have displayed in both domestic and international dealings -- their shock with India's action is akin to locking the barn door after the horses have fled! As businessmen the Liberals have been pla­ gued by disgraceful labor problems. If it isn't someone at our airports then we're lucky to get our mail. These strikes -- legal and illegal -- have cost Canadians millions of dollars and have aggravated each and every one of us. In any business, if the company fails to op­ erate efficiently, management must be prepared to face a comprehensive overhaul. Similarly, the management of this country must undergo a drastic change before our coun­ try faces the cataclysmic crumbling which ap­ pears so evident. It is for the future of our own country that we urge you, as voters, to review the situation dili­ gently and vote for the one alternative which can revitalize the very heartbeat of Canada . . . PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE. | strictly Hey, we re really coming up in the world. Not only is li'l gfi Oakville known as one of the richest communities in all^v Canada, were now a political key to the next federal parliament at least that's how CTV's Weekday analysts see us. Why just the other day, as they did a sweeping documentary on the election battles brewing from one side of Toronto to the other side of Hamilton, they centre-shotted Halton riding as the filament to light a majority government's way to victory by predicting that if a party wants to get in with a majority, it will have to take Halton." Well Archie, Frank and Terry, you got your orders, Now get working -cause all of Canada is watching. Everybody including our Oakville Beaver reporter was duly impressed with the way Oakville Councillor Archie Donaghey chaired the recent committee-of-the-whole meeting at regional council Bing, bang, boom and three items had passed into eternity without so much as a beep from our usually verbose politicians to break the rhythm. Well, almost everybody, that is. Stopped from starting a discussion because he didn't signal fast enough, Archie's cohort Terry Mannell argued against having a five-minute recess. "Oh no, let's just charge ahead. Why, if we recess, we might end up discussing something." Heard around council chambers as the regional officers were launching their attacks at the staff for not telling them about five lapsing works projects -- "Funny. The same people attacking the staff were and are opposed to hiring an administrator for the region." For all of you who asked Liberal leader P.E.T. those questions -- we're still trying. Because of his hectic schedule last Saturday, we're surprised local Liberal candidate Dr. Frank Philbrook got time to shake his hand much less check up on the state of the nation. But plans are afoot to get those answers for you next week, so don't give up hope. Those were the good old days. An Ontario Hospital Association publication published a 1929 Toronto Orthodpedic Hospital invoice. The invoice reads as follows: 10.5 days of maintenance and nursing $26.25. Operating room expenses $10. Dressings $3.25. Pathological examinations $1. The total bill was $40.50. It was noted in the article that the same treatment provided to this patient would currently cost $723.50 or $72.20 per day. bymary My pet philosophy in life has always been to look for the lessons that can be learned from any situation in which I manage to find myself, no m atter how unpleasant, unfortunate or incredible that situation might be. And such should be the attitude of all those connected with the Regional Municipality of Halton as the wounds opened last week by the excellent if undiplomatic Bates' report on the lapsing of five regional works projects begin to heal. Nobody was saved by his inked sword as it slashed its way* through 16 pages of criticism leveled at anyone involved with those contracts from the high-and-might Queen's Park officialdom right down to the individual staff members of area municipalities. The regional solicitor concluded his explanitory tirade with a series of suggestions to improve the chaos that now reigns in the regional headquarters on Harvestor Rd. in Burlington and, although I don't agree with the method of presentation, each of them should be taken to heart by the people they are directed at. There are the practical solutions made by Bates such as a more specific provincial bill that sets out a procedure for expediting the transition from a one-tier local-municipality structure to the more-complex two-tiered regional system. The staff at both area-municipality and regional levels are encouraged, throughout the 16-page critique, to open lines of communication -- a relatively simple chore but one that has not been promoted until now. However, as the author points out "unless council is prepare* to embrace regional government all the staff report and all tU l good intentions will be unable to undo the seeds of distrust this incident has caused." Therein lies the crux of not only this $1 million goof but many of the situations that caused me, just several paragraphs above, to refer to regional government as 'chaos'. Each and every week, when I face this column, I wish I could report the pending success of our infant Halton Region and each and every week I'm back to calling for co-operation and consideration among councillors for the many and varied incidents of petty parochialism. My head is getting bruised, my throat is getting hoarse and my enthusiasm is waning. I'm beginning to wonder if I 'm asking for too much?