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Letters Let'scleanour environment To the Editor: -- We would like to express agree- ment with Mr. Sims' concern about littering as stated in last week's Letter to the Editor. During Pitch-In Week, beginn- ing May 7, there will be various clean-up activities around Scugog. We intend to join the Bahai' community who have volunteered to clean the causeway area at Port Perry on Monday May 7, starting about 7:00 p.m.. Mr. Sims and his family or any other individuals would be most welcome to help in this or any other of Pitch-In Week's ac- tivities. The Township is pro- viding garbage bags. Just contact Mr. Earl Cuddie at the Township office, who is most helpful with in- formation about these projects. ~ Nancy Lee & Chris Ruch Scugog Township Bilingualism worth keeping To the Editor: I am becoming increasingly disturbed at what I think to be. a growing level of intolerance by Canadians towards their fellow citizens. In recent weeks this has been particularly true in the area of tolerance towards Canadians who may speak an official language different from our own. Canada is a country of two official languages, English and French. I | - welcome this. But even if I did not, I recognize that it is and must continue to be an enduring characteristic of Canada. If we who use English as our mother tongue expect, when we travel in Quebec and other francophone areas, to be welcomed and serv- ed with courtesy by public institu- tions in our own language, we must be prepared to encourage and support public institutions which offer services in French in anglophone areas of Canada. And just as we may wish to preserve English as a basis for our culture, we must accept that our fellow citizens who are francophone wish to preserve French as a basis for their culture. I believe that respect for our two official languages is par- ticularly important to Canadians who are of neither French nor English origin. For many of them, support for multiculturalism is important. If today we say that we cannot afford linguistic duali- ty, tomorrow we will be saying that we cannot afford to ac- commodate the special needs of aboriginal peoples. In effect we will be saying that we cannot af- ford Canada and the things that make it different and distinctive. A Canada which supports linguistic duality is a Canada in which multiculturalism is safer from attack and where the special concerns of people of Native origin are more likely to be ad- dressed. Conversely, intolerance towards one group of our fellow citizens is likely to breed in- tolerance towards other groups too and invite reprisals. I am sure that most Canadians wish to preserve and expand Canada as a bilingual country which nourishes its cultural diver- sity. This is what makes Canada the interesting and blessed coun- try that it is. Lets keep it that way. Yours sincerely, Allan E. Blakeney former Premier of Saskatchewan OLYMPIC STAIN Solid or Transparent - 4 litres ................. 24.99 B/P VINYL SIDING Horizontal, Double 4', Double 5', Vertical ................. eee per sq.ft. HY [] 4 DISCOUNT VINYL SIDING Assorted Patterns and Colours ....... per sq.ft. 49.95 WE ARE YOUR (4 | | ul [I TONS y, fl | nit iT msi W 1 [ | | RB 4 fn mT! . fr " A 3 | | Il A an 181 PATIO SLABS 12x24"... 2.44 24x24" ........ 4.29 PRESSURE TREATED LUMBER 1%6 ......... int .32 | 24x30" ......... 5.04 2X4 conn lin.ft. .36 | This week celvered at 2%6 ........... lin.ft. oe 2X8 oo... lin.ft. . 2x10 ...... lin.ft. 1.16 LATTICE 4x4 ........... lin ft. a 4x8" ........ 9.99 po -- in. ft. To 2%" ........ 5.19 X6X0' ............ . H 1X6X5" verre. 155 1x8 ........ 2.69 4x4x8' ............. : ve 2X4X8" ooo 2.82 STAIR EACH STRINGERS / WHEELBARROW 49 99 VR TR | SOTO PN MONO CAULKING 3.99 Assorted Colours .......cccceeeneenee. tube Square - Used ......ccccceeeerrrnnnnnnen. each = SUPER SPIKES | 1 2 09 DECK BLOCKS 5 05 LANDSCAPE TIES 599 BYIRBIIB' .vsesssssianisssssnsnsssanunnsnnnsmmmsnns FENCE BRACKETS .19¢ C.R.C. SHINGLES 10 year (good) ........ bundle 10.49 15 year (better) ...... bundle 1 1 85 ~éf Zi 20 year (best) ......... bundle 1 5.95 i We] (Ar [ roides anon ceccs | Walue and NARS = projects, come in and talk Service You to the experts at Lake scugog Lumoert | GAM Build On 13,44! ) GANS KN nr i + ppl we A GT NN TA 11 VANEDWARD DRIVE - (OSHAWA ROAD) PORT PERRY - ONTARIO - PHONE 985-7391 Roof Truss Divielon - Phone 988-9718 cilstie Lo 10] Jo] centre J oll]: PROD ell): D SER OMP PR