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PAGE 6 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1981 So much for goodwill. Perhaps the city shouldn‘t have backed off its plan to go to the Ontario Municipal Board to get peakâ€"hour bus service for the Maple Heights part of town. And a decision to try and thrash out the lengthy bus battle with some Kitchener aldermen seems to have come to nought as well. It‘s apparent Kitchener representatives are willing to toe the Rosenberg line and good relations be damned. Morley‘s assertion that nobody nowhere gets a peakâ€"hour route is malarkey, as our cursory examination turned up about a halfâ€" dozen route extensions with partial service. Some people just seem to love to pick a fight for no good reaâ€" son. > Morley, in his sporting way, wanted to tangle with Waterloo it seems and has refused to let go since day one of his obstinate hold on an imaginery enemy. â€" Lo _ The wa'; the Kitchener mayor is proceeding though, the imaâ€" ginery could become real â€" at least there won‘t be any love lost between some groups of civic officials. So, after much ac;'imony. ink and toâ€"do, Waterloo has been forâ€" ced back to the drawing board and will now try and get an extenâ€" sion, fullâ€"service, for the Hallman Road route and has abandoned plans for peakâ€"hour service via the Glasgow St. bus route. The original request could have been granted a long time ago. Kitchener‘s stubborness on the matter is a minor debacle in Twin Cities‘ relations and mayor Rosenberg should take most of the blame. + We hope the "mayor‘s throne"‘ in Kitchener will find a new ocâ€" cupier in the notâ€"tooâ€"distant future. New ideas are important if Canada is to compete in world trade. New ideas, after testing, create new jobs for Canadian workers. But far too often we are borrowing our ideas (or technology) from other counâ€" tries. This removes our competitive edge â€" other nations develop a product line first. During this period, the N.R.C. undertook _ vernment investment in R&D. about 450 industrial projects with about 230 New foreign sales cut into spiralling trade Canadian industries. $93 million (1980 dolâ€" deficits, technologies (instead of nonâ€" lars) were spent by the Council on these proâ€" â€" renewable resources) are exported ; new jects. jobs are created; local secondary industry The industries concerned experienced a grows and diversifies; increased governâ€" direct increase in their sales of $1.8 billion. ment revenues reduce the hideous federal During the past session of Parliament, ofâ€" ficials of the National Research Council of Canada appeared before the Standing Parliaâ€" mentary Committee on Miscellaneous Esâ€" timates. They presented the case for inâ€" creased support for all types of R&D acâ€" tivity. _ Although work in the area of Research and Development puts our Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo area near the top in Canadian terms, its imâ€" portance to the economic and social wellâ€"beâ€" ing of Canada receives little notice in the popular media. Dr. Larkin Kerwin, president of the N.R.C., outlined a financial analysis of proâ€" jects completed by his agency between the years 1973 to 1977. â€"W relations soured WALTER McLEAN published every Wednesday by Fairway Press. a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo Record Ltd.. owner 225 Fairway Rd. S.. Kitchener. Ont. . address correspondence to Waterioo office 92 King St South, Waterloo. Ont _ telephone 886 2830 Waterioo Chromicle office :s located onZnd tipar of the 0 W Sports busiding epposite Waterioo Square Parking on King Street or in Wateripo Square Open Monday to Fnday 9 00 a m io $ 00 p m Editor: _ Phil Jailsevac subscriptions $14 a year in Canada $16 a year in Ursted States and Foreign Countries This illustrates, I believe, some of the giâ€" gantic payoffs a country receives from goâ€" vernment investment in R&D. Of the $1.8 billion in increased profits, inâ€" dustries sent $350 million in corporate taxes to the Department of National Revenue. So the investment of $93 million by the federal government had a return to it, in just four years, of $350 million. The program that Dr. Kerwin was referâ€" ring to is the "Industrial Research Assistanâ€" ce Program * (IRAP). Industrial clients receive responses to their proposed projects in two months from submission. Consequently, it has been very well received by Canadian industry. New foreign sales cut into spiralling trade deficits, technologies (instead of nonâ€" renewable resources) are exported ; new jobs are created; local secondary industry These program costs were shared: for every dollar contributed by the council, one dollar was put in by the industry, for which it got 20 dollars in return‘ However. industry was not the only one to benefit. It was not only an excellent investment. but a firstâ€"rate means of stimulating the economy . Publisher: Paul Winkler Manager: â€" Bill Karges establisheqa 1854 Research needs more funding John Barclay of Barclay Boiler Service Ltd., Waterloo, speaks with conviction reâ€" garding the sad situation of R&D support in this country. Back in 1978, Mr. Barclay apâ€" proached officials in the Department of Enâ€" ergy. Mines and Resources in Ottawa with an organic octane booster and preserver. Despite this potential, Canada has one of the worst records of R&D support of all the industrialized countries. Canada contributes just 0.8 percent of its Gross National Product to Research and Development projects. Other industrialized countries average 2.5 percent of GNP! At present, R&D is a shared Federal Goâ€" vernment portfolio. The Minister, Hon. John Roberts, has as well the important Ministry of the Environment to look after. R&D should be playing a major role in Goâ€" vernment thinking, if we are to have the longâ€"promised economic strategy for Canaâ€" da. His tested product had drastically inâ€" creased the clean burning of bunker tank sludge, at great savings to car,. truck and boiler operators. His product, now distributâ€" ed as ‘Balâ€"Chip‘, was termed ‘snake oil‘ by deficit;: depressed regions in Canada receive vibrant new incentives that release federal compensation funds for even more R&D supâ€" port. And â€" more Canadians find jobs... Since 1978, Mr. Barclay has invested some $80,000.00 of his own time and money. He exâ€" pects to retrieve it slowly, but in the mean time, both the profits and the benefits must be shared with American interests. It is being used experimentally to cut heatâ€" ing costs in Waterloo County Board of Eduâ€" cation schools. By adding it to light oil burners, the Board expects to save nearly $100,000 in heating and maintenance costs this winter alone‘ Mr. Barclay has used it in his seven vehiâ€" cles since 1978, at great savings in both fuel efficiency and maintenance. Piller Sausages Ltd., of Bridgeport, use ‘Balâ€"Chip‘ in their ten trucks (56 miles more per gallon) and in heating their production plant. federal officials, and his request for testing and manufacturing assistance was denied. Although Mr. Barclay‘s case is far from unique, part of the reason that his, and other dynamic projects receive little or no finanâ€" cial support from the federal government, is simply lack of funding. Mr. Barclay took his product to a Chicago firm which was only too delighted to manuâ€" facture and promote ‘Balâ€"Chip‘ in both the U.S. and Canada. It is now being sold by local Canadian Tire Stores‘! * Canadian jobs and knowâ€"how are going to warm U.S. hearts and wallets.