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Monday Feb 20 1919 NEWSROOM 7266537 CIRCULATION 7266539 the eXaminer serving barrie and simcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Baytield Street Barrie Ontario L4M 4T6 Bruue Rowland publisher ADVERTISING 7266537 ClASSIFIEOS 7282 Disturbing development Is 1979 the year of the health care crunch Judging by the first two months of this year the question becomes disturbing one Lets examine the record January 19 Health Minister Dennis Timbrell an nounces new funding formula that means cutbacks in hospital funding 900 hospital beds to be cut in 197980 alone $980 day penalty imposed on chronic care and psychiatric patients tzed more than 60 days and 300 per cent increase for ambulance users January 22 Timbrell LakeshorPsyctatric Hospital announces closure of in Toronto Three hundred patients have to move January 24 Premier Davis tells senior citizens that Ontario may no longer provide free drugs to low income pensioners February 24 Penetanguishene General Hospital says it may be forced to close its doors because of financial restraints announced January 22 The hospital says it speaks for 18 other smaller community hospitals who received no budget increases under the new funding formula The record would indicate that the government is cutting back its commitment to health care and to smaller community hospitals in particular Yet quality health care should the right of every citizen in the province Instead of forcing smaller hospitals to close down the government should be looking at how to better utilize facilities Penetanguishene General Hospital for example could provide even more in the way of outpatient services thus cutting down overall health costs Adjustments can be made but only if the govern ment gives existing facilities time and money to ad just Closing down community hospitals can only mean reduction in the quality of health care and eventually the need for even more new hospital facilities Its enough to make you sick if you can afford it simc yesteryr Spacious lawns and large trees gave Collier Street in Barrie pastoral ap pearance In this undated but obviously longago photograph Thanks to the Simcoe County Archives for todays Simcoe yesteryear It was heartwarming to read the Examiner article of February 15 that the environmentalists are go ing to make last ditch stand to clean up our rivers and streams Being an ardent fisherman for 60 of my 72 years have seen some sad changes in the condition of the waters and the environment that surrounds it The price of progress certainly has dealt an unhealthy blow to the environment and it is going to take lot of money and hard work to regain what has been lost May suggest that everyone does their part to make Simcoe county as beautiful as our ancestors found it Yours truly Thos Jackson Barrie Dear Sir Dont misintrepret high school decision was the title of your editorial on February 12 But the Watergate scandel consister of similar faulty selfsaving deceit ful statements By building separate French school would we be helping to split Canada instead of uniting it Do unto others as you would have others do unto you is the Christian guide Suppose that Quebec had in sisted that its Englishspeaking citizens would only attend French secondary schools because this action would help unite Canada We would all laugh at such ludicrous suggestion We are not practicing justice in Ontario to our francophone citizens attended 1000 student school in Windsor Its name was Ecole de Sainte Rosaire It offered complete education to children Grade in both English and French went to high school in English letters to the editor Dear Sir No public grants were available for separate high schools and therefore the Frenchspeaking kids were graduating into unemploy ment That was their choice At least they had their pride and could still speak French They were excellent interpreters for the Canadian Armed Forces that occupied France in World War II and hard workers on the auto plant assembly lines but high school education was only their heritage and not their constitutional right In Quebec before Levesque it was the heritage of anglophones as well as their constitutional right to attend anglophone universities with full and equal provincial grants Mr Levesques attitude is that turnabout is fair play and he is tell ing the anglophone provinces to put their money where their mouth is They say that equality of op portunity is the motto of the Ontario Education Ministry but it only ap plies to anglophones To build franchphone high school in Essex County was possible when prejudice was faced squarely We must do the same in Simcoe County to build united Canada for both the anglophones and fran cophones Sincerely John Schmidt Barrie EDITORS NOTE The Penetan guishene decision is between building an all new French school or adding French wing to the ex isting school for the 350 students in volved The Simcoe County Board of Education suggests the former is more feasible while the provinces Language of Instruction Commis sion favors separate high school BUSINESS 7266537 Parliament Hill NEWSROOM ADVERTISING BUSINESS COMPOSING ROOM Craig Elson managing editor Len Sevick manager Marian Gough accountant Jack Kerney toreman tan Mulgrew city editor SALes Delva Mills Glenn Kwan asst toreman Bill McFarlane wire editor Dave Fuller sports editor Claudia llt rause Lilestyle editor Bert Stevens Julie Franks Ian MacLeod Aden Smith Steve Skinner Brenda woods FOR TE Carl De Gurse Stephen Nicholls Dennis Lanthler Nancy Figueroa Lori Cohen Stephen Gaucr entertainment Gary Forbes sports Betty Armer camera operator Dave Burcsik photographer CLASSIFIED Freda Shinner Pepov Chapell Dana Homewood Janice Morton By STEWART MacLIIOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service All that Liberal laughter over the Tory tus sle with sovereigntyassociation has suddenly died down And despite all those denials from Justice Minister Marc Lalonde the irits seem to have become mired in thc samc mess There are good many Liberal Mls who dont like this You see they had planned to wage barn burner of campaign against tiic Tory up By ININ IIIIIARN Queens Park Burcau Thomson News Service TORONTO One of the great lcvvlopcrs of Ontario anada and North America was William Hamilton Merritt Perhaps you may know this particularly if you live in the Niagara peninsula area But the chances re you dont really wasnt aware of Merrill until chan cing on brief mention of him in Joseph Schulls new book Ontario Since liltiT And then coincidentally finding out that all this year there is grand celebration honoring this pioneer in communities along thc watcr route in the peninsula The celebration is recognizing the tooth anniversary of the Welland anal BERTle INII This anniversary is perhaps sad perhaps startling but in any event pertinent reminder of how poor job wc have donc in Canada and particularly in Ontario of tilt covering and recognizing our roots National politicians Sir John Mac donald Joe lltW and others fairly recently have been getting sonic attention quite bit of it ducto thcactivity of tinBt But the men who physically developed the country havc largely been ignorcd With one notable exception Pierrc Berton has given them lot of time lie is the one commercial writer to havc done so And no mattcr what you think of Berton and some of us can bc supercilious about him at times hc has made and is making solid contribution in writing readany about our pioneers WllY KNOW Merritt howcvcr illustratcs what hasnt been done in this area and what should be done Ruth Blais supervisor Gail McFarland Don Saunders Vikki Grant Lorne Wass Kathie Mitchell Will Cadagan CIRCULATION 3I7IRWV Bill Halkes manager EBAIrmJM Steve White assistant manager Andy Haughton game quzl Alva LaPlante Rggiféler Pat Merson Elaine Porter Barbara smgl CherylAiken PRESSROOM Don Near toreman Harris Blanchard Brian Marr proach to the Iarti Qucbccois goal of sovereigntyassociation tor Qucbcc They were primed and they probably still are primed to accuse lory Lcadcr loc lark and his followers of being soft toward these aspirations and that only lrimc Ministcr Trudeau and his Liberals have thc necessary fibre to fend off Bcnc chcsquc The key point in this campaign would be earlier statements by Ilark and David trom bic tIt rloronto Roscdalcl which suggested the onscrvatives would be willing to negotiate with chcsquc on sovereignty Ontario history at $16 shot Again particularly in Ontario Mcrritt not only built the first Welland anal And remember this meant erecting water routc which rose 350 feet in its Icngth and 130 years ago working in limestone and before the lays of machine carth movcrs and bulldozers lie was only 32 when be com plctcd the first canal opening up the ircat Lakes as an inland sca But he went on to other outstanding and mammoth engineering achievements and almost equally nuissivc political and economic leadership The people of Ontario should havc thc op portunity to know morc about this mean and others who were the physical architects of the province Why Why should we know history particularly Ontario and anaduin history There is material in this for thousand and one essays Nonc will be written hcrc But let us just say if the Canadian public all of it really knew the deep story of thc history of our FrenchEnglish history what different tonc there would be to thc dcbatc about Quebec and what more practical ap proacli to the national unity problcm today probably would result Incidentally the Schull book is new and Wclcomc It fills gap in presenting quick look at thc provinces political history since onfedcriition probably in as rcadablc style as could be expected from such pro jcct loc Schull is veteran professional writer and good one But carp This is part of the historical series being sponsored by the government The book pcddlcs for about $16 Surcly to toil it would have been possiblc to put it out at it pricc where it could reach Joe Public who doesnt have $lli to put into book Published daily except Sunday and statutory holidays WEEKLY by carrier YEAR LV by carrier $4680 Copyright registration number 7038 register BY MAIL Barrie 80 National advertising ottices 65 Queen St Toronto 664 um 640 Cathcart St Montreal SIMCOE COUNTV 33650 The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable tor damages arts ing out at errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid tor the space ac tually occupied by that portion at the advertisement in which the error oc curred whether such error is due to the negligence at its servants or other Fréd Prince asst toreman ELSEWHERE IN CANADA Wise and there shalt be no liability for non insertion at any advertisement beyond the amount paid tor such advertisement MOTOR THROW OFF $393 year $38 50 year Delegation from the no expressing their support and admiration MLévesque What ails the Conservatives is mess for the Liberals association In fact rombic is on record as saying any federal government Would be sil ly not to negotiate Ilc talkcd with embar rassing IIIIIUSIIISIIL about the economic links that wili always cxist hctwccn Quebec and tinturio It was glorious grist for the Liberal mill particularly after lrudciiii had staked out that simplistic position will not ncgotiatc the futurc of my country And with the Liberals planning to fight the next election on thc national unity issue this would obviously get them off to good start lark and roinbic did their best to dcfusc thc issuc WIIII ncw uptodatc declarations We are not going to negotiate sovereignty association said the onscrvalivc leader We arc going to keep this country together But the Liberals naturally would not ac ccpt this They constantly referred to the carlicr statements statements that con tinuc to embarrass the Tories lhc chortling on thc Liberal backtwitches could be heard for miles And on thc front hcnchcs cabinet ministers took advantage of cvciy opportuni ty to laughineg suggest that lark and romr bic should try to get their national unity act togcthcr Now comes the latcst issue of Readers Digest and suddenly the shoe has been transferred to thc othcr foot bet David rombic did it hundstand when he saw this quotation attributed to Lalondc four fifths of thc Iarti Quclxcois program can be implemented within the federal system and the remaining fifth can bc ncgotiiitcd IflltllIS ltllNtE The Tories could hardly wait to tackle the irits in thc tommons Flora MacDonald iit Kingston and the Islands wanted to know whether the onefifth was Quebec in dcpendencc Joc lark who has had great deal of practice in this field demanded precise explanation of Lalondcs position on sovereigntyrassocialion Considering Lalondcs predicament which included not rcading the article in question he took the only course open to him He talked about the Tory flipflop on the issue and declared that the Liberal position was simple and categorical that the government would not ncgotiatc sovereignty association Latcr he denied the exact quote in Readers liigcst lhc statcmcnt was not minc Anyway he said he was talking about governmcnt activity not independence Perhaps so but we all know you just cant makc dcnicd quotes simply disappear They keep bounding you particularly when you have political enemies who feel they have scorc to settle The only consolation for thc Libcrals is that Clark and the Tories are not too comfortable themselves Will this issue But if the New Icmociats can manage to keep their act together on national unity Ed Broadbcnt might have rollicking good time promoting the TroinbicLalondc retreat ceremonies Ill0 IT LOOKS LIKE cAiiAGiiANs gnu tfilllliti WRNED wro THEREIL BE GARBAGE OVER THE WHITE CLlFFS The Examiner is member at The Canadian Press CP and Audit Bureau at Circulations ABC Only the Canadian Press may re publish news stories in this newspaper credited to CP The Associated Press Reuters or Agence France Presse and local news stories published in The Examiner The Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertising material cents created by its employees and published in this newspaper Your business The politics of growth By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The economicgrowth policy proposals made by representatives of business and labor with some organizational help from the federal government seem to point the way toward the industrial strategy that Canada so clearly lacks In presenting the governments general agreement with those proposals the other day Labor Minister Martin OConnell prais ed the general laborindustry approach in these words This is the Canadian way We are not go ing down the British route The words were barely out of his mouth when the Canadian Labor Congress CLC took tip from British labor and denounced the governments response as selfserving and political tThe CLC let it be noted has officially aligned itself with Canadas socialists the New Democratic Party Labor had exactly equal representation with industry on the 23 task forces that were set up by federal and provincial first ministers year ago to look into ways of strengthening industry And both sides were equally represented on the overview committee that reviewed the initial 23 reports and boiled them down into 46 recommendations to government The government agreed with large ma jority of those recommendations emanating from the consultations of some 500 labor and industry leaders plus some academics BASIC PRINCIPLES Three basic principles emerged from the consultations of the 23 task forces and later the overview committee To give high priority to stimulation of economic growth and job creation To foster an environment of understan ding in which more effective consultation can take place among labor business and govem ment ta remote possibility now in view of the haste shown by the CLC in denouncing the proposals of which labor had been co authori To recognize the vital importance that manufacturing industries have in enhancing the living standards of individual Cana dians Some of the specific recommendations of the overview committee are eminently sensi ble and won full concurrence of the govern ment Two examples in the area of foreign trade Grcatcr anadian aggressiveness in seeking the removal of nontariff trade bar riers in monitoring the use of them by other nations and in reacting aggressively to them when others riase them It is often alleged that the Japanese are masters at the art of protecting themselves from competition of foreign products by using means other than tariffs to keep such products out of the Japanese market Encouragcmcnt of export consortia similar to those used by many other countries to strengthen their competitiveness on foreign markets lTIlT GROWTH It is by no means certain that even the kind of harmony shown among government labor and industry in reaching such wide agree ment initially would be enough to allow Canada to achieve coherent industrial strategy And its much less certain in view of the Lts politically motivated denunciation of thc threesidcd efforts to arrive at such strategy The basic question is whether Canada can hope to become mature industrial nation when our rate of improvement in labor pro ductivity remains as low as it is In the 197277 period productivity grew at onethird of the previous lowest rate of in crease since 1943 These figures illustrate the decline in average annual rate of productivity increase per person In the goatsproducing industries annual productivity increase was 51 per cent bet ween 1967 and 1972 and only 19 per cent bet ween 1972 and 1977 Ihc scrviccproducing industries showed an average gain of 22 per cent in the earlier period 12 per cent in the more recent period it UK schools Hooligans spark new Flying Squad BARNSLEY England tCPi teachers Flying Squad has been set up to tackle classroom hooligans in this busy Yorkshire town These teachers will handle youngsters that headmasters have branded unteachable but they are forbidden to use the strap slip per or cane We are looking for teachers who are tough and utterly dedicated says John Wake chairman of Barnslcy education committee And we are offering top pay to those who can tame the toughs Four of the eight troubleshooters will go in to the hooligans own schools to teach them The others will set up headquarters in va cant school and have the students sent to them The students will be youngsters who would otherwise face expulsion Wake says We have responsibility in law to educate childrcn and educate them we will Barnslcy has been forced to set up the pro gram because of increasing hooliganism by 12 to 16yearold thugs who break up classes and bully younger children In several cases teachers have been assaulted by groups of thugs and one of them 28yearold male teacher had to receive hospital treatment after being knocked down and jumped on