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Ellie Terrie Examinrr Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited lb Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Honshaw Managing Editor The Barrie Examiner Saturday October 1976 the inflationary pace There are those who argue that good deal more might be done such as reducing interest rates and cut ting down on government spending to reduce taxes and curb mounting public debt But the price and wage control measures might be considered start There have been differences of opinion over enforcement with variations of the guidelines allowed certain groups and some prices ex ceeding the guidelines there is much concern over rising fuel electricity and gasoline prices The controversy stirred by Mls at by voting themselves healthy increases before approving the controls has been duly noted The North Simcoc member Dr Rynard was one of the few who voted against this increase It is well recognized that inflation for sometimes it is the start makes problems everyone but perhaps There Inflationary trend still needs curbing Although there may be genuine justification for criticism of certain enforcement aspects there is no question that the federal govern ments price and wage control pro gram has been helpful in slowing overlooked that older retired people are often affected more than others Complaints from elderly who reported miscalcualtions on savings for retirement needs because of the accelerating derstandable The dollars earned even few years ago have lost some of their purchasing power due to the constantly changing values have been some ad inflation are un justments in oldage pensions but earned Currently nearly YOUR BUSINESS Selfemployed and tax pitfalls VINCENT EGAN Business and onsumer Affairs Anal Thomson News Service 32 happen to he Vl louanctr arc rr days sickmafl rw that you new ix cent of the rr for claimx On mileage ban iiom ri might be used may pct ir for business Solution Combine the Wu and claim 43 per ccnt oi the icn tal as business expensi WHATTtHLAlM If you own the car rather than leasing it the operating cx penses you may claim includi not only gasoline oil and lubrication but also licences insurance and ordinary repairs National revenue says that automobile ex arises must be reasonable an supportable by vouchers The tax collector wont accept an individuals claim for car expenses calcu lated on costpermile basis Ehr lBurrir Examiner 16 Hayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 721M537 Registration Numbcr MM Second Class Mail Return postage guaranteed Dal Sundays and Statutory Holidays excepted Sutnxrription rates daily by Harrier 81 cents weekly $4420 yearly Single copies If ccnts By Mail Harrie 344$ yearly Simcoe County £5400 yearly Balance of Canada til 00 year ll National Advurtisirig Offices if Queen St West Toronto nu l7lll fWiffathcart St Mon meal Member of the laniidian Press and Audit liiircau of fir culations The Canadian ll ex filUMVfly IIililltIl lo lllf U4 for republication of all news dispatches in this papar credited to it or liu Atimfllitlml Press or ltcutir and also the local news published theniii The Barrie Examiner claims Copyright in all original miwr tlg rig and editorial lilllllitl mated by itii employiw mii rogroduced in this news mpci yright Begin iiition Nam r2038l53lefllnlier6l IW Major accident repair ex penses whether to your car or to the roperty of others are deducti ile if the car was being used to earn income at the time of the accident But you cant clazrr any repair bills that were by the insurance com was being used for per pounds when thc acti rrid then none of the repairs can be arl ouanms expense lIitLYJE includes the ré of rcncd propertics 12 farm you may cum you incur in ror propcrtnw not in the pcri7 those In gt you no rliin pr rurpcri it you tally Illffl or lp4l MIA Wampu ilhvll ii Iv of icriu ting iii 112512 for ll ilil rfi notwil lliili your rr iiigrad opoi mum Lorrie pl cot In iiiiiiiifx or lN in most of the complaints have not referred to this aspect but rather the need to curb the inflationary trend The latter affects the elderly more because their savings were in period when the economy was tighter but the rises in cost of living have hit people generally That this is recognized by most Canadians was reflected by Gallup poll which indicated that 62 to 63 per cent of Canadians feel that work stoppage in protest of con trols on October 14 is irresponsible Many also believe that it shouldnt be necessary for the government to spend $12 million of the taxpayers money to convince people the con trol policy is in their interest For example an independent realestate agent whose sole office is in his home could claim the car expenses in curred in serving clients at their homes or at property sites tradesmen plumber elec trician or paintcrrwwho keeps his supplies at home and has no other place of business could also claim his car expenses in travelling to whatever places he has to Visit to serve his customers although the legen dary forgetful plumber might ha vc trouble in claiming doubli IIllliitgt when hc goes back for histoolsi Also eligible to claim such cx penscs Would be an anesthetist who bases his practice at home ha no office iccoininodation clsewlicrc takes emergency call there and renders all his Ili to patients at liUupllill lax treatment of company ioi used by employees Will be llt owswl in the next column in llii Iltl tliist of series of two arllv 31 dont think theres lot you can teach me about humility CANADAS STORY rugged trip across Prairies iiy non BOWMAN It was on October ti 1874 that the North West Mounted Police arrived at Fort Whoopllp near presentday Lethbridgc Al ierta The greenhorn policemen had begun their trek from Fort Dufferin Manitoba on July ii The original force consisted of 275 men divided in to six troops troop rode dark bay horses ll dark browns bright chestnuts grays blacks and light bays When they arrived at Roche lcrcce part of troop was di verted to Fort Edmonton and arrived there on October 27 It was rugged trip across the Prairies and sometimes the police saw ho ds of thousands of buffalo In September the main body became lost near Sweetgrass and Colonel French went to Fort Benson for help It was there that he engaged Jerry Potts to be guide and Jerry who became an almost legendary figure took the po lice straight to Fort WhoopU The fort was supposed to the headquarters of the illicit fur traders on the Prairies They often got furs from the In dians by giving them Whoop Up Bug Juice which was mixture of whisky chewing to bacco red pepper inger mo lassw and water en boiled Sometimes castile soap was ad ded to the mixture The Indians Went wild and killed each other and some of the fur traders The furtraders also fought among themselves FROM PARLIAMENT HILL Quebec election could be grabber Ry STEWART MacIJIOll Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service With Prime Minister Trudeau warning us that Canada could break up over the buildin bili ngualism backlash the orth coming provincial election in Quebec could turn into real grabber The language issue likely will dominate the cam pai viously the bilingualism issue is viewed differently in Quebec than in the rest of Canada and in the campaign it will take on new complexities as voters try to sort out the changing policies of the various parties And if former environment minister Jean Marchand does enter the provincial field with Premier Bourassas Liberals he is bound to be caught up in the language issue because this is why he resigned from the federal cabinet Mr Marchand could not accept the terms of the agreement between Trans port Minister tto Lang and striking aircraft pilots and air traffic controllers Should he campaign provin cially Mr Marcliaiid is almost certain to emerge as an out QUEENS PARK Mining loses the glamor Ry nos tilll1ltN Queens Park Iturcau Ilioiiison News Scrv icc ltlltitNlt Shades of the past llicdisapjwariiigpast few days ago new copper mine was opcncd at lickle Luke llicic were some notable points about this new llincx llllllt line is that it is lllt niost nor thcily operating mine in in farm Second ll has been developed by forciin coiiipiiny llnion Minnre which lins invested soiiicsltitiniillion Third it has been developed in an area which had been pros cctcd years ago and which had been dismissed as gixilogicully potential PA Contradictions By VINCENT EGAN Ruslness and onsuiner Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Theres something con tradictory about prime minis ter who can scold Canadians for their materialism while enjoy ing lifestyle of nearimperial splendor himself Quite apart from the prime ministers conspicuous con sumption however theres an even greater contradiction in the poplular cliches that lie be hin fashionable attitude that decries economic growth labelling it crass and ex cessicely materialistic The socalled anti materialists zealously demand that economic growth be limited or abolished either to preserve the environmenta cause that anybody would sup portor for some more nebulous concept that material comforts are bad for people Yet they are just as zealous in their professed concern about unemployment and poverty roblems that flow directly rom economic stagnation That suggests certain elit ism class diddain Weve got spoken defender of French Ironically it is the provincial Liberals traditionally the federalist party who have taken the strongest stand on language and that con troversial Bill 22 which makes French the official language of Quebec is still sending waves of controversy across the coun try ISSUE ONFLSED The Union Nationale Party traditionally the defender of the French language and culture has promised to abolish Bill 22 in an apparent move to win sup port among Englishspeaking voters And with the separatist Parti Quebecois also falling over itself in an effort to attract English votes the whole la gua issue is becoming mu def There are sharp dis agreements within the Parti Quebecois over other issues as well particularly relating to economic policy And some par ty members dont like Rene chesques watereddown referendum approach to Quebec Indeixndence However its almost certain that his party will make some deep inroads into Liberal areas role llut fourth and most dis couriiging the mine completed the development of the known commercially viable ore bodies Intlntario lt marked the first tiinesiiice the Second World War that On form does not have new mine coiningonstrcam Lt OFF This province was perhaps not biiili on its mines not com pletcly biil its ore bodies cerr tninly contributed to the great growth and prosperity of the province And they still do of course with prixluction continuing to flow in nickel iron uranium and other base metals But the bloom is off the rose iold is threatened with being out priced it made say the nogrowth people so all you other people should lower your expectations and be satisfied with what you have The prime minister would never put it that way of course But thats the message that some Canadians feel they are getting from himand thats why ey fear that the antiin flation program may really be means freezing them into their present economic station inlife WEARING HALO Somehow the nogrowth elit ists manage to cast themselves in the role of the enlightened morally su rior to those not on their ban wagon more sensi tive than the masses Such pose can serve as cover for the politics of self ishnessan unwillingness to share their abundance with the poor who might demand more or themselves as they are lif ted up by economic growth failure to maintain eco nomic growth means continued poverty de rivation disease squalor egradation and slavery to souldestroying work for countless millions of the of the province when the votes are counted Because of the way the seats are distributed the party was able to elect only six members in 1973 despite the fact that some 30 per cent of the voters su ported the PQ The Liberals ected 100 Recent public opinion polls indicate that the PQ now is slightly ahead of the Liberals in terms of popular support but that 50 per cent of the voters are undecided However no one is suggesting the PQ will form the next government Given the present distribution of seats along with the vast amounts of money available for Liberal cam paign Premier Bourassa would appear to be in little danger of being toppled There are several reasons why the Liberals could benefit from an early election rather than waiting year With the language issue ablaze because of the air dispute Mr Bourassa could safely take on Ottawa as the defender of the French lanr guage Surveys have shown there is massive support in Quebec for Frenchspeaking pi lots and controllers And with Mr Marchand in the campaign this would be natural There is also reported to be some conceni In Quebec ity that the popularity of the fed eral Liberals will continue to plunge which could have some Spilltiff iii provuicial politics And the premier is also anxtous to exploit current rifts in the larti Quebecois along with for cing the From Nationalc into action before its new leader Rodriguc lliron becomes well established So far Mr liiron hasnt spent imich time dis cussing policies apart from his views on Bill 22 Regardless of what issue Mr Bourassa advances as his main platform plank its likely that uiilingualisin and bilingualism will emerge as the biggest con versation pieces in the camp agn And it could even involve Mr Trudeau directly Although he doesnt become involved in provincial politics he said this policy would have to be re viewed if the future of the coun try was ever in danger And judging by what he said in Toronto recently he seems to think we could be close to that point worlds population writes Ox ford economist Wilfrid Becker man in his recently published book In Defence Of Economic Growth Clarke Irwin and Co 277 pages $565 In other words unless the economies of the world con tinue to expand there just wont be enough jobs to relieve poverty and to employ the strengths and resources of growing population The verty of some cant be blam on the affluence of oth ers To considerable extent poverty or affluence is the re sult of the way in which society chooses to organize it self The most obvious contrast is between the prosperous but landpoor Japanese and the stagnation of the Indian sub continent WHAT THEY WANT Anthony Crosland currently Britains foreign minister once wrote thisprobabl aimed at the nogrowth fad ists in his own Labor Party My workingclass con stituents have their own version of the environment which is equally valid and which calls stated BEADEBEOB Condominiums assessed same as detached homes Dear Sir This letter is in response to an article which appeared in The Barrie Examiner on Sept 30 In the article Mayor Parker that condominium townhouse residents pay reduced tax rate because they do not have city services such as garbage collection and snow removal This is not true The city planner Rick Jones stated that residents do pay slightly reduced tax rate because they live in medium density subdivision This is not true The tax rate in 1976 for residential public assessment is 2825 mills This is the mill rate applied to condominiums as well as detached homes There is no reduced tax rate Condominiums are assessed the same as detached homes there is no reduction in the assessment for medium den sity According to the Assessment Act Revised Statutes of On tario 1970 as amended Section902 For the purpose of sub section and of section 86 where residential assessment is made with respect to unit as defined in The Condominium Act proposed unit as defined in that Act or unit or suite in the building of cooperative housing corporation the value at which such unit proposed unit or suite shall be assessed shall be based on the same proportion of the market value thereof as that at which owner occupied single family residen ces in the vicinity are assessed This simply means that if WE WANT 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 public interest and good taste The Examiner reserves the right to edit con dense or reiect letter THE WORLD TODAY Hey Canada What gives By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service So far the message has been hat Prime Minister Trudeau was in deep trouble at home but in fine shape abroad be cause foreign countries and their media knew little of Can adas internal problems This is no longer true in fact never was where the United States was concemed Trudeaus revolutionary Vivas for Fidel Castro and his Marxist revolution rever berated around the US mak ing those who are always illin formed about Canada wonder for the first time if something is wrong up here In terms of the revolutionary Vivas nothing was wrong since they are symbolic like clapping your own speech or in troduction at the head table Russianstyle which now is en demic throughout both the Communist and Third Worlds Turdeau could have done it with little less enthusiasm and much less auspiciously in stead of doing it in front of 200 000 Cuban workers in ien fuegos organized for the Cana dian prime ministers visit current analysis of Canada by the private Research In stitute of America predicts Mr Trudeau will be gone within the year and that not much im provement in Canadas eco iioinic and cultural life will take place until either John Turner or Joe Clark becomes the next prime minister LISTS FAILURES It cites the failure of wage and price controls reemer gence of the bogeyman of bad EnglishFrench relations through the failure it says of the bilingualism program the economic downturn and that flirtation with Cuba The flipflops in our recent external affairs ministers must be conundrum for our United Nations and other world associates after the long regimes of the likes of Mitchell Sharp and Paul Martin each in his own way quitessential Canadians in the game of in temationalaffairs Both Alan MacEachen and Don Jamieson are totally un known quantities to Canadas allies and associates abroad giving much of the same kind of anonymity to the office holder as to those who hold it from smaller middle powers like Finland or Norway Our sadly diminished military role in NATO result of the 1969 policy review which cut our fighting forces in half in Europe has not changed The army in Europe will get the German Leopard tanks but af ter years of hemming and hawing about replacements for the Centurion tanks whose style was new when the Second World War was old IN IRPRETING THE NEWS The EEC feared uncertainty ROI lRRlb LONDON act The West German elections have pro duced what Western Europe generally feared weakened and potentially deadlocked gov eruinent What the people most wan ted according to West German press reaction to Sundays vote was decisive government whether it be the socialistlib eral administration they in fact returned or one led by the mildlyconservative Christian Democrats So did Western Europe par ticularly the European Eco nomic tomniunity iEEt which looks to Reno for leader ship and stability and has bun dragging its feet for months awaiting the election results The EEC members feared iiimrtainty more than chan since there are few major if ferenees between the less than radical socialists and the other for economic growth They want lower housmg densities and better schools and hospitals They want washing ma chines and refrigeratois to re lieve domestic drudgery They want cars and the freedom they give on week ends and holidays And they want packagetour holidays to Majorca even if this means more noise of night flights and eating fish and chips on previously secluded beacheswhy should they not enjoy the sun Yes the nogrowth camp would respond they want them because advertisers have brainwashed them Thats not so in Mr Cros lands opinion They want them because the things are desir able in themselves Not having washing ma chine refrigerator in car and holiday may not be as up lifting as the antimaterialists might think SUPPLY II ESUURCICS But what about the no rowth camps contention that ie eur thii resources are rapidly being used up and that by the your major parties in the narrow spectrum of German politics The fringe extremes of com munism and fascism have vir tually been eliminated MAJORITY SLASHED But what they got was re turn by razorthin margin of the leftcentre coalition made up of Chancellor Ilelmut Sch midts Social Democrats and the small Free Democrat par ty Their majority now is eight seats compared with 46 in the List Ilundestag and 50 when the first swept to power in axe The Christian Democrats un der new leader iielmut Kohl actually emergal the biggest single party III parliament but even with their partners the right mg Christian Social Un ion they cannot hope to win hen parliament votes to ratify the election results Dec 12 The can however make life miserable for the governing of nogrowth fad won or so illltil date sounds so iin iressive those resources wil all be gone Such theories were advanced by study group at the Mas sachusetts Institute of Tech nolog taken up by thv Club of Rome and later by host of neoMalthusians Other academic researchers scientists and economists have studied the future supply of life sustaining minerals and come to the conclusion that they are adequate to sustain measure of economic expansion that will not only maintain the growth of todays livin standards in the lndustrializ world but also he to lift the deprived nations of sin and Africa out of their povertyif they so choose There the disagreement stan ds to be resolved by future eventsand perhaps the kind of human ingenuity at in the past has alwa found new wa sof meeting ol needs ven among those pegrle who dont sharethe doom ay fears of the no rowth camp theres concern ut the effect that economic growth is having on the environment But theres no reason why en density suggested detached homes are assessed at say 50 per cent of their sale price then the act states that condominiums assessed at 50 per cent of therr sale price shall be Where is the reduction for as Mr Jones Condominium owners pay full taxes There are no special rates no consideration for den sity and they do not receive full services would hope that those people who ut so much effort into fighting against ving these services of gar age collection and snow plowing to condominium residents now spend as mudh effort to correct this situation am very disappointed that city officials and es ially the mayor would not ta the time or have the concern to check in to this matter before making statement which is incorrect and has misled other members of council Taxes in the cit of Barrie are high enough Without being denied services which are paid for in those taxes RONALD CHARLEBOIS Donald Street About year ago or less NATO Secretary General Jo Lunds openly berated Can for her indifference to the need for weapons moder nization as an important NATO member and founding nation And few days ago External Affairs Minister Don Jamieson suggested very strongly we would pull out of Cyprus where our peacekeeping mission has been consistent since 1964 un less other UN nations helped to pay the cost LEAVING CYPRUS The Canadian peacekeeping role in Cyprus an unbelievable one of never having fired shot in anger at Cypriote during that islands very bloody times of troubles is still the classic model of this kind of United Na tions operation No wonder world powers are asking whatever has happened to the land of Lester Pearson and the Pearsonian diplomatic style which gave Canada stat ure in the world far beyond her military capability to take ac tion The malaise in policyformao tion which Prime Minister Trudeau admitted to in domes tic terms exists in HE ternational ones as well The same uestion is being asked abroa we Canadians now are asking ourselves Whatever has happened to Can ada iilzlir coalition which already will under considerable pressure within its own ranks Many observers wonder if the coalition can survive four yearg until the next elections Sources in Brussels have made clear their alarm that Schmidt trying to hold his coai lition together while an embolZ dened opposition is breathing down his neck may be so preu occupied with domestic affairs that the EEC will suffer iiTlIBLE THOUGHT Preach the word he instant in season out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine Timothy 42 Since its His word that He has promised to bless we ha¢ better do our best in presenting it My word shall not pass away vironmental controls cant be worked into system based on continuing economic growth Neither the restrictions of the nogrowth theorists nor the su port of economic growth necessarily lead to Utopia nor even to broad acceptance of either spiritual or material val ues But its strange to see Liberf alsor liberalsdrifting toward nongrowth economic policy The liberal tradition hasr een one of supporting an economic order that allows inf dividuals to find fulfilment Not everyone attains that ideal Some people might even feel themselves closer to It if they were in the straitjacket of nogrowth economy Nevertheless its tradition that has bi progressani unjustly mo nod wordln materi optri al and even politi lwayu that less is more But catchy slogans cant cha facts And the fuctvtlii that leu means ctally for those who have tle now Those who want to abandon that tradition are preaching at anv