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ATS FTN are 1 vets t FTE IRI Ys 8 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, November 28, 1989 Letters oie Greatest concern is waste of taxpayers money (From page 7) Canada Sea to Sea." Members included John Fisher (Mr. Can- ada) well known CBC broad- caster, head of the Centennial Celebrations, and grandson of one of the founding fathers who signed the original Confedera- tionin 1867. Others included members of Parliament, and our greatest supporter, the late Rt. Hon. John Diefenbaker, and hun- dreds of concerned citizens for a better Canada as portrayed at the top of our letter-head. We are concerned about a wide range of problems. We deal with facts not fiction. Unjust taxes are number one. My great concern is the waste of taxpayers money. As a member of the Citizens Against Unjust Taxes (CAUT) I am fed up with Ottawa's flagrant waste, now to be joined by Pe- terson's Bill 8. The Mulroney government will spend $500 million this year on more French. ($1.3 million each day) Premier Peterson gave $600,000 to Ontario franco- phones to fight assimilation by the English-speaking. Another $500,000 for a French survey and soon. Do English speaking Cana- dians have some kind of cultu- ral disease? Bill 8 will cost mi- lions and millions more for a minority pressure group, fund- ed mainly by the federal and provincial governments. But there is not a penny for English speaking groups like the Alliance for the Preserva- tion of English. In fact, in Orillia recently when bilingualism was being discussed at a high school, a member of the Canadian Par- ents for French called the Alli- ance for the Preservation of English "racist." If you happen to dis-agree with special status for one prod- igal province to the detriment of the other nine, a truly "racist" St. Jean Baptiste Society and others enjoy name calling and downing English Canada. It was this same Society that pressured Robert Bouras- sa to scuttle the Victoria Accord in 1971 after he already agreed to it. For 18 years, we have paid dearly. Had Bourassa not scut- tled the Accord in 1971, there would be no need for Meech Lake today. In 1982, when Ottawa in- vited the Queen to sign the Con- stitution, Quebec boycotted the meeting and refused to sign with an insult to Her Majesty and the other provinces. Twice Quebec has refused to sign. Now they want special status. They want a country within a country with all the benefits, but control over non- French immigration, trade bar- riers against the other provinc- es, their own laws under their National Assembly, and a civil code different from the other nine provinces Legislatures, and British Common Law so ac- cepted by the world as the fair- est and most just. Even the American laws are based on democratic English Common Law. Had it not been for the fair- ness of the British in the 1770's under the Quebec Act and later the Constitution Act of 1791, Quebec would not enjoy the freedom it does today. This was pointed out to me in a letter from John Diefenbaker. By making this clear to Quebec he won 50 seats there and the larg- est majority in the history of - Canadain 1958. When Ontario wanted to buy hydro from Newfoundland, Bourassa refused to allow us to Life's Like That by Julia Ashton Postal blues new postal codes. Welcome to Port Perry -- home of over 100 post office. Last Friday, | went to pick up my mail at the knew that the only thing in the - That's right folks. Starting this week, Port Perry and its surrounding communities now have over 100 postal codes, thanks to the new community mailbox program initiated by Canada Post Corporation. In fact, if you want to get picky with num- bers, | used Canada Post documents and counted 106 new postal codes. I'd like to see Canada Post list all those codes on the sign outside of the post office. But seriously, Canada Post Corporation really had no other viable solution to alleviate the postal woes facing a growing community like Port Perry. A lack of parking at the post office and a limited number of lock boxes have caused headaches for postal employees and resi- dents for years. Even | have been a little dismayed at the service since moving into Port Perry from the rural area. A six-month waiting list for lock boxes meant | had to get my mail by general delivery. This was no big deal because | only picked up my mail once a week and could ar- range to do so during regular business hours. But what really ticked me off was receiving someond else's mail. Apparently, a woman with the same last name as myself moved to a home down the street from where | live at about the same time as | did. She is known by her middle name, but her first initial is J. Every time | went to get my mail, | always got some of hers along with it. | returned her mail promptly but always wondered if my mail was getting misplaced like hers was. "Once the new system is in Placa, this shouldn't happen again," a postal employee told me. That's a relief, but | feel sort of empty when | think about the new supermailbox system. mailbox would be a community newspaper from Uxbridge, but | thought | better pick it up so it wouldn't have to be redirected. After waiting my turn for about five minutes, | finally got up to the wicket. "Hi Julie," postal employee Penny Toye said. "I'll go get your mail." She brought me my newspaper and said, pS will be the last day | bring you your mail." That comment made me feel sad. Heck, | was finally getting to know all the postal em- ployees and they were getting to know me. | could walk up to the wicket and they would get me my mail without asking my name. It was a great feeling and now it's gone. And on py given trip to the post office, | was sure to bump into at least half a dozen - aquaintances. It was easy to waste half an hour of the day just stopping to talk to friends while at the post office. Yes, those days are gone. Oh, we'll still see our postal buddies when we need stamps or have to get a parcel weighed, but it won't be the same. It's the price we pay for progress | guess. We out-grew our post office and the Cana- da Post Corporation had to find a new way to service the needs of Port Perry. * The community mailboxes are meant to be a convenient way for Port Perry residents to got thew mail. | counted the paces from my rstep (cutting across the back lawn) to my community mailbox. It took me 180 steps (but only 171 to get back home -- | must have been cold.) In comparison, it took me 199 aces to get to the post office, but once | was there | had a great time talking with old and new friends. The community mailbox is the only solution to the postal probes so what do you say -- your community mailbox or mine? buy direct, we had to buy it from Quebec. Quebec sells New- foundland power to the States at about ten times what it pays Newfoundland. It was Bourassa who thumbed his nose at the Su- preme Court language ruling, that Quebec had no right to make English signs illegal. He then passed Bill 178 outlawing English signs. Now we have Bill 8, more French in Ontario at a huge cost. Bourassa says Meech or he'll separate. The bottom line here in- Durham Region is that Onta- rio's Ministry of Citizenship re- leased figures that show people with French as their first lan- guage account for between .35 and 2.5 per cent. Up to 12 per cent have a mother tongue other than French or English, yet 90 per cent speak English. Why then is French mandatory in high schools? Why not Spanish, the number two language in the Western Hemisphere? English is the language of commerce the world over. French is not even listed in the top ten in the world. Now, Toronto is going to have three French TV chan- nels---more wasted money. In Durham Region, French Immersion is costing us $26 million per year. Buses for Im- mersion students cost an addi- tional $234,000. Unfortunately, French Immersions students are unlikely to get the jobs. As Jean Chretien said "you're not of the blood." The jobs will go to French Canadians, the whole ploy be- hind the scheme.Ask any Eng- lish speaking employee of the federal service. Why should we spend hun- dreds of millions to appease a small minority that claims to speak French, In closing, I have in front of me a letter from Premier Peter- son re. Bill 8. He says it was adopted in 1986 with the unani- mous support of all three par- ties. What he didn't say was that 52 members were absent. He says " we view the provision of French language services as a major accomplishment." Political pandering to pres- sure groups, funded in main by Ottawa and Ontario, the lan- guage charade is sheer hypocri- 8Y. How much of the new GST will go to French programs? Enoughis enough. Je me souviens. We too, remem- ber. Dean Kelly, : President, Association of Dedicated Canadians, Port Perry, Ont. P.S. By the way, it was the Pe- terson government that raised the sales tax to eight per cent. They are takingin provincial in- come tax $60 million from peo- ple making less than $10,000 . peryear. DECEMBER at the LIBRARY DEC. 2nd - MAGIC with STEVE HEPBURN SCUGOG All ages welcome, no charge. MEMORIAL pEC. 5th & 7th - GIFT CRAFT PROGRAMME PUBLIC LIBRARY Ages 5 to 8 and 9 to 12 Years TED E. 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