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Ellie Elam Esaminrr Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Monday March 22 I976 Budget should decide if early Vote needed It may be that after they are in formed about the new Ontario budget details for the next fiscal year from April to March 31 many taxpayers will be calling for an ear ly provincial election But for the moment at least there seems to not little apprehension over the prospect of spring elec tion The main criticism appears to centre around the expense and anyway there was provincial vote held only last September The report that Ontario voters might face May or June election hasnt been received with too much enthusiasm by those who feel that minority government is inclined to be more responsive that one with large majority In this inflationary era with its record high taxes taxpayers have been showing increasing concern As pointed out by one commen tator all the political talk about restraint at any level of government is meaningless unless it is acc mpanied by positive action There are those who feel probably the majority of taxpayers there is plenty of scope for cutting back on tax spending if those elected for the task will face their responsibilities in realistic manner The tremendous increase propos ed by the federal government for its new fiscal years spending was certainly no example for an ad ministration supposed to show leadership for the program of restraint At the provincial level there is no denying that the aftermath of the excessive election year spending of 1975 is now beginning to be felt and has been the main cause of mark ed change in economic attitude Reports of likely budget deficit of close to $2 billion for the past fiscal year in itself reflected reason for concern Critics who cite the figures to show government ineffi ciency for failing to cut back ex penditures to justify temporary tax reductions are likely to command more attention in the future The in creased public debt which boosts carrying charges at todays high in terest rates makes the problem of effecting balanced budgets more difficult But those who feel that record tax ation is getting out of hand are like ly to clamor more and more for cut backs in wasteful spending and elimination of agencies and depart ments of questionable value rather than have governments shift their responsibilities by imposing even higher tax burdens The trend of recent years toward constantly increased tax spending cannot go on indefinitely without serious economic repercussions There is considerable evidence that this is already adversely affecting economic conditions with increased prices and costs more unemploy ment and higher welfare rolls It also must be recognized that the restraint programs to be effective should not be limited to Ottawa and Queens Park They are also the responsibility of regonal county an municipal administrations as well as school boards There is serious job to be done and taxpayers should be given the opportunity of seeing the proposed provincial budget before decision is made on an early election After they hear the details they might just clamor for another vote DOWN MEMORY LANE 10 YEARS AGO Barrie Examiner March 22 1966 Longdelayed debate in House of Commons started in Ottawa over capital punishment For and against appear to be about evenly divided on controversial issue in volving all four parties Prince Philip made hurried colorful visit to Toronto and helped raise $95000 for handicapped and underprivileg ed children Money will be used to provide gymnasium library and auditorium at Variety Village voca tional school in Scarboro This con cludes his fundraising tour through North American cities for childrens charitiesMetropolitan Opera tenor Jan Peerce was in Bar rie for Community Con certKiwanis Club held annual ladies night at Community House and dancing to Wally Perkins and Band Rev Ross Adams of St An drews Church was dinner speaker on marital problemsGeorgian Bay area suffered from lateseason blizzard and belownormal temperature for March INTERPRETING THE NEWS UK political battlefield ly now tattered and confused LONDON CP Harold Wil sons departure as Labor party leader and prime minister Ellie Barrie Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Da Sunda sand Statutory Ho idays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $4420 yearly Single copies 15 cents By Mail Barrie $4420 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yearly Balance of Canada $3600 year National Advertising Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto $44710 640 Cathcart St Mon treal Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of Cir culations The Canadian Press is ex clusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches in this paper credited to it or The Associated Press or Renter and also the local news published therein The Barrie Examiner claims Copyright in all original adver tismg and editorial material treated by its employees and re roduced in this newspaper yright Registration Num r203815register61 WEWANT YOUR OPINION Letters submitted for publication must be original copies signed by the writer Please include your street ad dress and phone number although they will not be published Letters which can not be authenticated by phone cannot be published For the sake of space mic interest and good taste Examiner reserves the right to edit con dense or reject letter leaves Britains political battle field tattered and Confused In his own camp the party he has led since 1963 is riven with mutiny Wilsons political skill and determination to keep the Conservatives out of office have often been the only forces holding the disputing factions together Within the Tory party Mar garet Thatcher deposed former prime minister Edward Heath only last year She has yet to face national election The Liberals Britains third party are in shambles Lib eral leader Jeremy Thorpe is caught in bizarre crossfire of innuendoes regarding an al leged homosexual relationship and hush money Thorpe vigorously denies the allegations and none has been substantiated But the rumors combined with disappointing results in two 1974 elections ap pear to be forcing the Liberals into leadership contest of their own ERA IDENTIFIED Wilson first became prime minister in 1964 Although he was out of office from 1970 to 1974 the last 12 years seem likely to become known as the Wilson eraa period when he frequently dominated political affairs in government and op position When he reached his 60th bir thday last Thursday the weekly New Statesmannot al ways friendly to Wilsoncomv mented that he has come closer than any other politician in his time to an instinctive un derstanding of the British people In this he is compared in the public eye with his archfoe Heath whose cabinet was top pled in 1974 in an acrimonious and losing collision with the miners union Wilson often described him self as kind of family doctor to the nation not so mucn dr recting affairs as comforting country afflicted by intractable economic and social ailments Others however pictured him as canny political tacti cian deflecting his opponents with compromise and forming fluid alliances for immediate advantage But Labor party divisions re main and the split may show more openly as the battle for Wilsons successor develops Pundits agree the most likely successor is Foreign Secretarj James Callaghan 64 who also has adroitly sidestepped feuds that may have wounded other contenders NO SPECIAL DIET £12 TRAININ JUS KEEP JOGGIN ALONG PARLIAMENT HILL Dont be too surprised if Ouellet back in year By STEWART MacLhOU Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service Dont be too surprised of An dre Ouellet who has just re signed as minister of consumer and corporate affairs is back in the Trudeau cabinet within year Of course good deal de pands on how quickly the affair of thejudges fades away But the manner in which he resigned and the manner in which Mr Trudeau accepted the resignation leaves an ob vious opening for Mr Ouellets reentry into cabinet He was leaving he said because his personal appeal of contempt of court conviction made it dif ficult for him to carry on as By JOHN IIARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The new political crisis in Parliament has completely ob scured another public event EE PICK OF PUNCH Hes much better Receiving the last rites seems to have been just what he needed consumer advocate And the prime minister was quick to follow with statement that the resignation had nothing to do with attempts by federal ministers to in tervene in the case Few took that view too so riously But the fact remains that officially Mr Ouellet re signed because of personal case before the courts and when that case is disposed of the prime minister could argue that the former minister now can resume his full responsi bilities 0n the other hand had he re signed because he taudges on his behalf it would be difficult for him to return to cabinet THE WORLD TODAY Law of Sea conference obscured by parliament which could have longerterm effect on Canada than the fu ture of the Trudeau govern ment It is the third Law of the Sea Conference being held for the next few weeks at the United Nations in New York The last one held in Caracas Venezuela in mid1974 in volved as this one does well over 100 nations Some of them have no direct interest in the oceans since they do not have seacoasts But they rely on wa terborne commerce and the food of the sea or national live lihoods At this one in New York Can ada has the largest delegation 79 strong of any other nation except the United States As at Caracas the present Canadian delegation is in charge of the very competent Allan Beasley the legal expert from the external affairs de partment in law of the sea problems Unlike Caracas however this very large Canadian delegation is not composed mainly of gov ernment bureaucrats but in cludes representatives from all parties concerned about the fu ture ownership of our distant offshore waters and the huge seabed resources we now know they contain These include fishermen consumers groups politicians industrial representatives of the deepsea fish processors academics and of course the essential bureaucrats to ad without strong political erper cussions Mr Ouellet spent few hours discussing the resignation be fore anything was committed to Paper Its fair to ask why the prime minister with 59 Quebec MPs to choose from would want to bring Mr Ouellet back into his cabinet at future date MOST INFLUENTIAL Well the short answer is that the former consumer affairs minister at the relatively young age of 36 has been just about the most influential member of the Quebec caucus And had his cabinet career not been seriously interrupted he would almost certainly have replaced Health Minister Marc minister the Canadian delegation and run its operations VITALMEETING This is crucial Law ot the Sea Conference for us and for the rest of the world because so many nations are now restless to solve ocean sovereignty problems unilaterally This move is against our best interests since we have three vast sea coasts Atlantic Pa cific and Arctic in which many countries have stake What we are involved in at the United Nations is an early determination of the 200mile economic zone who will own or control the substantial seabed resources we know are there in addition to fish and agreement of socalled innocent passage for foreign warships Needless to say these are the three main issues which con cerned the last Caracas confer ence and understandably they were not resolved at that time In our case it has taken some time to accept the concept that someone other than inter national authority is going to control the 200mile limits In many countries of South east Asia and Latin America such unilateral declarations of control have already been made for example in the cases of Peru Chile and Brazil Lalonde as leader of the Quebec wing While Mr Lalonde is highly respected as an administrator and as an academicstyle tech nocrat Mr Ouellet com manded far more respect as gut politician one who un derstands political warfare in thetrenches Lalonde can tell you how people should react says one Quebec Liberal MP But Ouel let can tell you how they will react As result backbench MP5 from that province sought his advice continuously And many of them are truly upset that he is no longer in the cabinet and temporarily at least out of the running for the Quebecwing leadership Some even saw him as fu ture party leader Ironically Mr Ouellet was executive assistant to former justice minister Guy Favreau when he was forced to leave the Pearson cabinet 11 years ago over the Rivard affair He knew the dangers that threatened ministers WORKED HARD And after that he worked slavishly on behalf of the Lib eral Party in Quebec before being elected to the Commons in 1967 byelection He seldom turned down an invitation to speak on behalf of other candi dates and in helping to elect these Liberals he developed loyalty that wont soon dis sipate So providing the affair of the judges eventually fades away there will be immense pressure on the prime minister to rein state Mr Ouellet And provid ing the political climate is agreeable it can be assumed that Mr Trudeau would want to do just that He has relied heav ily on Mr Ouellet for advice Recent history has shown that the prime minister has distinct tendency to keep his basic cabinet team intact and there is no doubt that Mr Ouellet has been valued mem ber of that team Mr Trudeau displayed this tendency in rejecting the offered resignation of Bud Drury and also in the reinstatement of Jean Marchand who had his transport portfolio stripped away last year after his con viction on driving offence and bout of illhealth Even without any outside pressures Mr Marchand was promoted to the environment portfolio within few months This time there will certainly be pressure Well have him back within year one MP predicted optimistically Just watch We will Spain 367 reliving unforgettable war By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service TORONTO Old long forgotten flags equally old but living memories Nostalgic reminiscences about an event 40 years gone this summer The occasion was Spain 36 76 fourday seminar at York University an analysis in dep th political historic and cultural of the continuing in fluence of the cataclysmic Spanish Civil War on all of us 0n the conferences last day someone had found redpurple yellow tricolor flags of the old Spanish Republic which was overthrown by Francisco Fran cos military victory in April 1939 They were draped over the speakers table and on flagstaff placed behind it Probably no one in the au dience objected to their pres ence Thats because it was made up primarily of veterans of Canadas MackenziePa pineau Battalion which fought on the side of the Spanish Re public and against Fascism sprinkling of fellow volun teers of long ago from the American equivalent the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Marxist professors young and old at York University some Spanish student refugees from the long university suppression of the Franco years The venue was the ideologi cally appropriate Bethune Col lege in York University It is named after the irrascible brilliant Communist surgeon from Montreal who died of blood poisoning in China in 1939 administering to Mao Tse tungs hardpressed Com munist armies The work of Dr Bethune who went to China from Ma drid still besieged by Francos forces in 1938 is not forgotten in his namesake college Maos famous eulogy about him ap pears on plaque close to the porters lodge for all college visitors and students to see and read FRANCO ERA IGNORED Dont look for any realistic appraisal of Francos Spains emergence as modern if au thoritarian state since 1939 at seminars like these where the mix of emotions and scholarly analysis are used to recall the world of warring Fascists and Communists of 1936 Starobins own brilliant analysis of Marxist thought and Soviet political motives regard ing Spain concluded in nos talgic proposal for reunifica tion of the European working class movement Dr Horowitz reminded him that post1945 phenomenon has been the opposite strong revival with great power of the European bourgeoisie espe cially that of Francos Spain Horowitzs capsule analysis of the tap roots of support for Francoism in 1936 and during CANADAS STORY Cops and robbers on both coasts By son BOWMAN In the Roaring Twenties when there was prohibition po lice and bootleggers played games like cops and robbers especially on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts Ships with liquor from aboard would anchor outside the 12 mile limit and unload cases of spirits into small boats which would run for the shore Some times the bootleggers had ar rangements with radio stations to let them know if the coast was clear If tune like No No Nora was played at pm it meant keep away but Tiptoe Through the Tulips meant come on The RCMP had coastal patrol boats but they couldnt chase dozens of small boats at once They would catch some but the bootleggers were full of tricks If they saw they were going to be caught they would throw the cases of liquor overboard at tached to marker buoys that were weighted with bags of salt When the salt melted later the buoys would come to the surface and the bootleggers would haul up their liquor Until the Second World War it was possible to get pint bottle BIBLE THOUGHT And he said unto them Go ye and tell that fox Behold cast out devils and do cures today and tomorrow and the third day shall be perfected Luke 1332 Jesus is Still curing the in curable delivering the un touchable and everybody to the amazement of many and even to the criticism of some In the mighty name of Jesus my Father ask you to do it again and again even in this moment for any reader who has need Amen and thank you loving his long era avoided the tradi tional one of seeing it solely as an allegiance of church army and Falanage Party There was he said th warted enlightenment in Catholic communities in Spain of the 305 an indecisiveness mysticism which we could say Franco unified in military form THE TRUE SPAIN The surface reality of Spain 367 which is only the first of many such seminars to be held on this 40th anniversary year of the Spanish civil war included nostalgia for lost war an in tense desire for strongly politi cal left solutions for future Spain The reality in depth in this seminar was the unpredictabil ity of the Spanish character and of Spanish history the future relying ominously on the past It is time to question again if in Spain the past will win The Spanish Civil War be came an event in Canada primarily because the Commu nist Party made it an event admitted Professor Norman Penner of York Universitys At kinson College Thats the kind of latterday admission which might justify an told you so from an old RCMP hand of the bitter 305 Certainly the RCMP took their lumps at this conference being compared to Trotsyites as un desirables The emphasis of the Spanis Civil War on the writings of several generations of British and European writers was major part of Spain 3676 Critiques of British French and Latin American writers on the Spanish Civil War were def tly handled by British French and Spanish literary specialists Spanish realism paked for moment when Dr Jose Maria Valverde lean and sardonic Spanish scholar who quit the University of Barcelona in 1969 to come to Canada answered in kind silly question about Ger man and Italian military parti cipation in Spain PERSONAL MEMORY Asked how he knew about this in any formal way Dr Val verde recalled the raids on Ma drid by German and Italian bombers They were trying to kill me he said needed no more direct information Spain 3676 was so much seminar for memories and reminiscing about bloody causes and death that an Amer ican scholar suggested the con ference should be dcromanti cized The professor Irving Horo witz Latin American special ist attempted to do this in precise rebuttal to Professor Joseph Starobin of York University former and once prominent member of the Com munist Party of the United States of overproof rum for one dollar along the Atlantic coast Of course the bootleggers didnt always win The police had their own tricks The game was played in good spriit for the most part but there was anincident Mar 22 1929 that received in ternational headlines United States coast guard vessel caught the Canadian rumrunner Im Alone coming up the coast and ordered it to stop The Im Alone tried to es cape but the coastguard vessel open fire and sank it after chase that lasted two days The Canadians were cap tured and put in US prison which caused some hot words between Ottawa and Washington It was very unsporting on the part of the Americans OTHER MAR 22 EVENTS 17ooBienville LeMoyne of Montreal began exploring Red River Louisiana nosStamp Act was given royal assent VHSCaptain Cook named Cape Flattery on Pacific coast 1885Canada mobilized troops to fight in Northwest Rebellion lszzCoal miners in British Columbia and Alberta went on strike until August lessViolent storm caused $5million damage to Malton Airport Toronto WE ANT YOUR OPINION Letters submitted for publication must be original copies signed by the writer Please include your street ad dress and phone number although they will not be published Letters which can not be authenticated by phone cannot be published For the sake of space ublic interest and good taste he Examiner reserves the right to edit con dense or reject letter