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6 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed. January 27, 1982 letters Allan Lawrence slams federal budget (From page 5) could, we expanded our team of Conservative MPs to over 50, broke up into sub- committees, and within the last three weeks have been into 14 large cities from Van- couver to St. John's, New- foundland, and many many smaller communities as well. As one of these smaller teams of 7 or 8 MPs, 1 listened to presentations in Express (From page 5) but their main value is that they were made at all. At least those lovers of freedom in Poland know that someone cares enough to do some- thing. Remarks like those made by our Prime Minister have caused great joy in Moscow. I neither like nor trust Pierre Trudeau. His views are far left of the socialists in the New Democratic party. It never ceases to amaze me how the Liberals capture such a large number of intelligent voters with this man as leader. That aside, I can tolerate his rule while he remains in the country. , When he ventures on the world stage, representing himself as spokesman for Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver, and only missed Kamloops B,C. because of bad flying weather. The diversity of the reputable groups who appeared before us, just one - of a half-dozen smaller sub- committees across the country, was really impressive: Boards of Trade; municipal councils, Federations of Labour, farm disgust Canada, representing me, my embarrassment is intense. It seems, to out- siders that Canadians give only a shrug of a shoulder for anything that matters. I think you should re- examine your editorial stand, and give your support to democracy, not cynically decide that the world cannot be made better, so we should take it as it is. We can't go to war over developments between an oppressor and its "client" states, but surely, as Canadians, we should express our distress and disgust at such behaviour. Yours truly Glen E. Morehouse R.R. 2, Seagrave organizations, senior citizens coalitions, branches of the Canadian Consumer's Association, car dealers' groups, life insurance and underwriters' Associations, real estate boards, fisheries associations, forestry councils, mining groups, management people, tax experts, Chambers of Commerce, lawyers, doctors, Indian Chiefs -- in short, a very real cross- section of the Canadian community. We met and listened from early morning until late at night. In very strong language and with unmistakable concern, they almost universally came to the same conclusion after pointing out in detail how the Budget and the Government was affecting them: the MacEachen Budget was an 'economic tragedy and a financial disaster for Canada's future. Everyone was going to be hard hit, from the senior citizen who now was being actively discouraged from preparing for any type of financial independence, to the resource industry worker who was to be penalized for working in Canada's frontier or in the bush. Everyone with any sort of an income will be hit, although many will not realize how badly until early in 1983 when they ~ NATURAL HISTORY NOTEBOOK PRESENTED BY: THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES, OT TAWA -- ~ National Museums of Canada range. SHORTNOSE STURGEON ACIPENSER BREVIROSTRUM The only Canadian occurrence of this small sturgeon, up © 143 cm (aft. gin) in length, 1s in te St. John river, New Brunswick . In the United States where it 15 clossified as endongered, 5 range 15 the Tidal nvers 3 coastal waters from Mame 1 Florida. Due manly 1 pollution, however, it has disappeared from much of this \ OR HGR WAY WOH 70 YE Wort ; COL, ar ENDANGERED in Canada, some are cought accidentally in commerzial fishing operations, and, according To size limitations, may be marketed. : . Recommendations for © protection wnclude pollution - aoifrols , larger gil net mesh 3 size 5 the use of Traps instead of gill nets. Although a rove speces . the SELF have to make up their 1982 tax return. Generally, this Budget is restrictive and negative, instead of pro- viding positive incentives to Canadians. I was surprised and truly regretful, at the many detailed and specific ways individual Canadians and organizations listed how they were going to be hurt by the Budget. And I was proud to hear the many constructive suggestions how the Cana- dian Government could change their policies to assist Canadians and the economy so that Govern- ment would be a help, not a hindrance, to its citizens. Some of these will be incor- porated in a Special Report by the Official Opposition to the Parliament of Canada on the Economy and the Budget, to be presented in the House of Commons sometime after Parliament resumes next week. Watch for it, so that your support or suggestions can be given in an effort to change some of these Budget proposals before they become law. Any written - brief, argument, or presentation will still be welcome from any of you, but I would appreciate your views as soon as possible, addressed to me at the House of Commons, Ottawa. Yours truly, Allan Lawrence M.P. Durham-Northumberland Kawartha Authority needs help to monitor lake water During the summer of 1981, the Kawartha Region Conservation Authority. co- operated in the expansion of the Ministry of the Environ- ment"s SELF HELP program. This program, which has been run success- fully in other parts of Ontario is designed to. monitor the water quality of selected lakes through the use of private volunteers. Since the program set up last year met with such success, the Authority is in- tending to operate a similar one this summer. However, volunteers are needed! -The Ministry will provide. . the necessary test kit and the: Authqrity will instruct people how to use it and provide overall program co- ordination. All that is needed from you is your time and interest. If you reside (or have a cottage) on Balsam, Cameron, Sturgeon, Pigeon or Scugog Lakes give us a call -- it's not only inter- esting and fun, but you will be actively participating in the fight against deterior- ating water quality within " the Kawarthas. _For further information on HELP: program, call the Kawartha Region Conservation Authority in Fenelon Falls at (705) / (From page 4) Welocalsdidn't havea chance. It was Depression times. We were lucky if we had the money to go to the Saturday night movie (two bits), let alone take along a girl and feed her afterwards. i} But the hockey imports had everything. Flashing uniforms. Great physiques. The roar of the crowd. And money. They got about $15 a week for room and board and spending money. They often had two or three dollars to throw around, so, naturally, they got the girls. (Some of them arestill stuck withthem, ha, ha.) Ironically, about a third of those guys who made us green with envy would be knocking off eighty-five to a hundred thousand a year if they hadn't been born 40 years too soon. They were good enough to make the so-called NHL today, but not then, when there were so few teams and so many aspir- ants. . . ; _ There were only eight teams then: Toronto, Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Ottawa Senators, Boston, New York Rangers, New York Americans, Chicago an Detroit. * There were probably just as many hopeful players. Today there are 21 or 23 or 28 teams in the NHL. Nobody seems able to count them anymore. Well, figure it out. Take a quart of whiskey and add a similar amount of water. Split the remains intwoandadd a half of water to each. What do you get? Not a whiskey with water. A water witha touch of whiskey. And that's why so many once-ardent hockey experts like me just don't bother going to games, or even watching them on TV, unless the Russians are playing, when you see a few flashes of the old-time hockey, instead of a group of high- school dropouts high-sticking, slamming each other into the boards, pretending to fight by dancing ring-a-round while carefully clutching each others' sweaters so they won't be hurt, tripping, clutching, hooking and doing everything but play hockey. ' Perhaps the most sickening thing of all is the great hugging and kissing and dancing that takes place when one turkey has scored a goal by shooting toward the end of the rink and having the puck go in off a teammate's stick - pure accident. : It's O.K. I don't necessarily want to go back to the days when players had some dignity, and didn't have to pat each others' bums all the time. Nor do I want them reduced to the sort of wageslavery they endured years ago.- But please spare me, on the sports pages, from their con- stant whining, tantrums, hurt feelings, -and never-ending in- terest inthe big buck. (From page 5) Duddle mumbled with growing irritation. = "You just don't understand," he countered. "We have to fightinflation.' : "Why?"' 1 asked naively. This rather fundamental question took Mr. Duddle off guard. He obviously hadn't though about it lately. "Well, becauseinflationis bad for economy,' he eventual- ly offered. : "Inwhatway?" lasked. = ° ie 7, *"Well, if inflation runs rampant and people's expectations: outstrip growth and prices rise, our products will become too expensive on world markets. This will cause a drop in our foreign trade on which we depend so greatly. If trade drops off, many businesses will have to shut downand lay people off." "But isn't that what you're doing anyway with your high interestrate policy," I asked with growing puzzlement. . "It's not that simple, Bob. You see; we are trying to slow fhe Seepomy down now to prevent a bigger disaster in the u Vdd ' * - Threemorelines appeared in my already furrowed brow. "In other words, you're saying that we should put people out of work now so that they won't be out of work in the future. Or to put it another way, that we have to destroy the economy tosaveit." : "You're over-simplifying again, Bob. As1said, economics isa very complicated issue, The average taxpayer just doesn't have the capacity tounderstandit." . : "His calm disposition having eroded by now, Mr. Duddle Yose from his chair, ambled over and put his hand on my shoul- "Look, Bob, don't worry about it. Leave these matters to the experts. The important thing to remember is to tighten your belt and exercise restraint. That's the most patriotic thing any Canadian can do. At any rate, I can't discuss this with you any further. have a meeting to attend and the limou- 'gineiswaiting." ' He shook my hand again and bid adieu. Rushing towards the door, he stopped for a moment to take a rose from the bunch of cut flowers sitting on his marble-topped desk. Stusting the flower in his lapel, he turned once more, and waved, : _ "Don't worry, Bob," he said as he disappeared down the hallway, "Weknow what we're doing." * . Thealarm bell went off. Iawokeina cold sweat. Soon, however, I recoveed from the shock. Afterall, itwasor™ am. a BH C