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the examine Monday Feb 1070 Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited to Baylield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher MWSIOOM 7266537 CIRCULATION 7266539 ADVERTISING 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 7282414 Sad irony in cutbacks Each year the cost of education climbs higher Each year the prov1nc1al government make us actuely aware of this This year is no exception Once again the province has offered school boards an increase in grants that in no way reflects rising costs Dr Bette Stephenson education minister says the average increase in grants to school boards will be 427 per cent The grants will vary from area to area and Simcoe County officials arent sure what they will be getting But they estimate it will be in the area of five per cent School board officials point out the cost of utilities will increase by about 10 per cent Insurance is up by similar amount And the two major items in the budgetteacher salaries and transportationcan on ly go up Obviously extra money will have to found So our taxes can only go up And it is our property taxes the ones closest to our hearts and our bank accounts that will reflect the in crease So who do we blame Blaming the school boards is the easiest and quickest way out After all they are the ones who spend the money Theres certain amount of truth to that In the past school boards have spent excessively But for the past three years they have been faced with continual cuts backs Now theres little fat left to trim The provincial government meanwhile insists it must cut back its grants That makes sense too In all this theres certain irony to be found The irony is this The province and the schoolboard all publicly funded organizations in fact can drone on about all the money theyre now saving But the taxpayer continues to pay more and more As we prepare to enter the 1980s society appears to have two choices The choices are between ever increasing taxes or cutback in the level of services Perhaps the proposal made by the Ieterborough Board of Education in 1977 to abolish Grade 13 wasnt so farfetched after all Your business By VINCENT EGAN Business and onsumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Rock blue jeans soft drinks and beer have had their day in youthoriented consumer market Now the population of Canada is growing older and the action is in the markets dominated by young adults Demography the statistical study of human populations can be vital planning tool not only to companies that cater to con sumers but to governments and business generally The policy review and outlook for 1979 JUSl published by the CI IIowe Research In stitute Montrealbasal nonprofit think Dear Sir North America provide one of the most tragic examples of mans assault on nature We lost more wildlife species in the last hundred years than Europe has lost in the last thousand years In full public view with Ontario govt idly stan ding by Lake Eries Blue Pickerel was inexorably gill netted from 11 million lbs in 1956 to the last eight Blue Pickerel in 1966 For the last seven years we in POP Preserve Ontarios Pickerel begged urged and pleaded with the government to provide more protec tion for the dwindling stocks of game fish by restoring the size limitsand we were ignored and forgotten Whatever we suggest they call it useless while they themselves cant seem to come up with anything better On Jan 1979 buddy of mine and drove over the Silent Lake Provincial Park about 45 miles north of Peterborough for little ice fishing It was stormy week day and still there were four parties on this small lake about two miles long and half mile wide We bore 12 holes and tried three different locations We were using the regular tipups and fished with lace mi nows booked through the lips in about 20 feet of water After about four hours we landed two small lake trout about 10 and 12 We released them both without even taking them out of water Unharmed But while there other fellows kept all they caught even 10 inchers Thats why there are no letters to the editor Youth cult over in marketplace tank says that anadas volatilc demographic history is one of two factors ithe other being the international economic IlVlIOIIIIltlllt that contributi to tanadas uncertain economic futuri Among those titlllllitllliS who have doin well are firms that have anticipated the III crcascd demand for recreation tcnnis squash skiing and sailing by active young adults and those that have anticipated llli growth of the market for OIlVfIlItIltl pro ducts assixiatid with thc rising number of Slnflltrptlsoll households and iiiultiplc carncr families If surprises wcrc not perplexing enough Ill demography say thc Ilowc researchers it turns out that cvcn thc iiicvitablc is SllnltlllIltSlllltXlKtlifl fish in the lake thought to myself Yet the government is fiddling while ourlakes are lying On sunny Sunday in March in 1969 biologist Ryder watch ed how 60 ice fishermen using 120 lines on small lake in the area of Thunder Bay caught over 300 kg of lake trout before the afternoon was half over In other Words an estimated years trout produc tion of that small lake was removed in jUSf one day Needless to say few people fish that lake anymore They run their snowmobiles across the fishedout lake to another one that still has fish While the govt is fiddling It has been shown that pickerel actually lose weight in the winter months Most Shield lakes are low in nutrients have short growing seasons and low temperature regimes The situation is desperate and the remedy has to be drastic We of the POP make an impas sioned appeal to start releasing undersized game fish on volun tary basis So please release all unharmed pickerel under 16 inches all unharmed smallmouth bass under 13 inches all unharmed Iargemouth bass under 14 inches all unharmed pike and lake trout under 18 inches We are absolutely certain and We guarantee that if we do abide by these rules fishing will improve tremendously Joseph Leslie For the POP 641 Aylmcr 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And for one could certainly Use frein start From the nioiiicnt that lonscrvativc Lcadcr Ioc laru went bclorc national television audience and said Tory govern iiiciit would increase the deficit have been in state of convoluted confusion lip until then had understood the Conservatives to be Violently opposed to the massive Liberal deficits In fact from various Tory coin incnts hail the impression thcsc deficits werclcading usona rampagetoruination Ilarvic Andre thcIory MI from talgiiiy chtri who is his partys Ircasury Hoard critic warned us that Finance Minister lcan hrcticn was being overly optimistic in predicting deficit of only $l2 billion Our projections indicate that we would have difici this year of something like $th billion maybe even higher than that which is islionoinical After this dire warning along comes Iiirk SCOOPS NO NiooiAMEs HEAR With this tclcviscil onscritic platform plank Were going to havc to run the risk of slightly higher dclicit now but Il will he diltcrcut kind of deficit It will bc stimulativc deficit that will causc pcoplc to go out and do things And what wcc got now is dead weight lclicit otic that is having no effect on the growth of tlic country Then he went on to contusc inc about Ill creasing thc deficit III the short run to reduce it til tlic long run and he said he would dcly anyone to reduce the deficit witlioul incrcas ing it Or soliicthing to that effect In any event iiiosl people Including loiiscrvatiyc Mls were hard pressed to offer full ex plaiiiition about the partys economic pro gram Itut guess we should give Sinclair Stevens some credit for trying Stevens is the Tory finance critic and if Clark discusses economic policy with anyone ll would likely be with this gentleman According to Stevens there is nothing confusing about what has been said on llicsubject Surely the press and the public will even Iually understand there is no confusion in this party lcrliaps so but am just about convinced that this tiinc has not yet arrived What con vinccd inc was Stcvcns assertion that lark had never advocated an increased dcl icit LOWIIII DEFICIT While lark was explaining that he didnt have time to go into thc matter in dctziil WHATS MORE THEY COMPLETELY sitcns was claiming that his Icadcrs pro poszil fora stiinulativcdeficit was taken out of context by reporters who wanted to discredit thc party On tll toyear basis link and and the lrogressiy onscivativc party stand for lowcidcficil That will be great iicws for Darcy AliKcougli thc lormcrOntario treasurer who said he sincerely hoped that llark was this iitiotcd about advocating bigger deficit ltut hold on minute While Stevens said everyone stands for lower deficit on year to year basis its not quite clear where everyone stands on month to month basis And we havent even begun to considc decade to decade basis Icnitxirary to me is monthly and tem porary to Mr lark is monthly said Stevens The increased deficit would show up in the statistics for one to three months after the first Tory budget he explained and then ll would disappear before the year end statistics werccoinpilcd Ill need sonic hpr on this one Meanwhile Iark entered the discussions again by cxpaining to reporters he didnt know just how long the increased deficit would last There is some question as to whether it would be matter of three months or iiionthsoi five minutes want to assure Stevens that am not try ing to discredit his party but humbly sug gcst hc and his lcadcr have few loose ends to ticuphcrc NGtthATlON The Examiner is member oi The Canadian Press CPI and Audit Bureauot circulations ABC Only the Canadian Press may re publish news stories in this newspaper credited to CF The Associated Press Reuters or Agence France Presse and locat news stories published in The Examiner Copyright registration number 703815 register 61 The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable tor damages aris log out of errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid tor the space ac tualty occupied by that portion of the advertisement in which the error bc ELSEWHERE IN CANADA curred whether such error is due to the negligence of its servants or other wise and there shall be no liability tor non insertion at any advertisement beyond the amount paid for such advertisement The monorc can it last The warld today tw By JOHN IIARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service TORONTO In the early 1980s at least the Canadian national identity will continue to be as monarchy Americans will continue to see in us some kind of unshakable colonial txmdage as will our domestic anti monarchists Many Canadians remain cautious and unfecling about the elevation of socialist farmer and Westerncr Ed Schrcyer to His Ex cellency Edward Schrcyer complete with the panoply and style of the semiregal governor generals office But the choice and timing of Mr Schreyer as governor general rcrassert the tenacious Canadian mix of throne family hearth and history Western Canada is filled with paradox The thousands of immigrants who fled to Canada to escape the harsh nineteenth century im perial systems of Eastern Europe including the Schrcyer familys ancestors embraced here new but benign inonarchist tradition If you tell the Ukrainians often enough they will belieyc they won the Battle of Irafalgar wrote cynical Stephen Leacoek who nevertheless knew well his anadian cultural and political shapes Governor General Schrcycrs first address to us was not only in English and French but with brief excerpts in tkrainian Polish and German THE FIRST DOMINION We remain thc original Dominion of the Victorian Empire Whatever the lateacoming and now republican Nigerians Ghanians In dians aiid Pakistanis thought they had in common for time with the white mans British town the anadian mosaic through law history and necessity inot wishing to become part of the Inited statest emerged with the monarchist tradition By comparison the Americans have from time to time continued to see the White House incumbent as monarch The manipulative Richard Nixon and his court of presiden tial aides were called the imperial presiden cy as was the Schlesinger book on the modernAmerican presidency But both the wide use of the expression in the media and the superb Schlesinger criti que sought comparisons with the worst of the Roman Emperors not to copybook constitu tional monarchy invbcing by the same America which rejected king in 1776 The true kings in the White Ilouse were the philosopher kings They were Woodrow Wilson who tried and failed in 1919 to re fashion global pcace on the ideals of American denimracy Franklin Roosevelt who did reshape American democracy at home in the early Ittilits and John Kennedy whose brief span gave America new if tem porary vision of idealism in the early 1960s Yet populism and egalitarianism surround the White Ilouse incumbent as it never does thetanadian Irinic Ministcrship Lincoln and Truman the great American populist presidents of this century and the last justified the American adage that any boy can be president NOIOllIJSlSlllClth Our tradition of political leadership usually ptlltlllS Iiti le of this plcbcianism The origins of John Iicfeiibiker and an Abe Lincoln are about identical poverty rural background small town lawyers advocates of the com monman Yet Lincoln remains in history as one of the great republicans Iliefcnbakci with Ger man name remember remains probably the last of the strong monarchists of kind anachronistic in the Itltttls lopulist lltIOtS are lit demand in Canada on the verge of the Itiitos The Communist thinesc have raised up as hero for us the radical and Communist Montreal doctor Nor man Bethune who worked briefly and heroically with thcir wounded and dying 40 years ago in their rise to power And we have raised up from our past as hero Louis Riel hanged as rebel in 1885 by monarchist and father of onfcderation Sir loliii Macdonald Wllltll WILI ST Who can tell which will prevail III the 1980s monarchy in our vast northern hemispheric nation or the more indigenous values of populist heroes the American tradition winn ing in the end bible thought But the anointing which ye have received of him abidetli in you and ye need not that any man teach you bill as the same anoin ting teachetli you of all things and is truth and is no lie and even as it hath taught you ye shall abide in him John 227 Stop looking at what is going on around you and draw upon the strength of His Spirit who lives within you Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world we want your opinion Something on your mind Send Letter to the Editor Please make It on original copy and sign it The Examiner doesnt publish unsigned lot ters but if you wish pen name will be used Include your telephone number and address as we have to verily letters Because of space limits public interest and good taste The Examiner sometimes has to edit condense or reiect letters Letters to the Editor at run every day on 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