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35qu the examiner Wednesday0ct171979 Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited serving borrie and simcoe county 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher CIRCULATION 7266539 NEWSROOM 7266537 ADVERTISING 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 7282414 Land transfer worth pursuing Weve learned that Canadian National is quite interested in land exchange with Barrie which would give the city ownership of 20 acres of waterfront property Thats great news for all Barrie residents who want to see lakesbore property within Barries limits developed for citizen use Discussions on the land transfer which would give CN parcel of industrial land in return for the water front piece are still in preliminary stages as council has not said word publicly on the matter But MayoriRoss Archer has shown some initiative along with key city administrators in pursuing the matter The 20 acres could be used as prime location for recrea tional development as well it should be It is even possible that recreation centre could be built on the land although before major step such as this were taken there would have to be assurances the centre was needed CN officials want guarantees from the city that if the land swap materializes it would not be used for residential development This is clause citizens should be pleased to see That way it would ensure the land would be used for the pleasure of Barries citizenry and not for the benefit of limited number of homeowners We applaud city officials for intirest in the waterfront pro perti If the land transfer goes hiough it would be in line with Fiarries goal to turn Kempenfelt Bays scenic waterfront into an attraction this city can be proud of Simcoe native gets high honor The appointment of Jean CasselmanWadds as Canadas High Commissioner in the United Kingdom brings honor to Simcoe County Il native of Newton Robinson in the Bond Head area Mrs Wadds succeeds Paul Martin who is retiring Her background shows experience in both the political and diplomatic fields She has served twice as member of parliament for the riding of GrenvilleDundas During her tenure in office she was member of four commons committees dealing with agriculture broadcasting the civiliservice and external af fairs On the diplomatic front she received training as member oftanadas delegation to the United Nations in 1961 As the daughter of Earl Rowe former Lieutenent Governor of Ontario its perhaps not surprising that Mrs Wadds should have the background to rise so far in public service Her appointment as High Commissioner is distinguished honor for her family and for her native Simcoe County By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Whatever the other shortcomings of the US govemment its far ahead of other governments in its official commitment to the use of plain English Believe it or not its public policy enunciated by President Jimmy Carter in an executive order of March 23 1978 that each federal regulation must be written in plain English and understandable to those who must comply with it If only other govemments such as ours as well as businesses and institutions would follow suit the financial savings to con sumers alone would be staggering Consumers are constantly finding them selves stuckvith obligations as set out in con tracts full of legal jargon that they either havent read or havent been able to under stand Some law experts would contend of course that complex language is needed to express complex facts or laws That argument is summarily rejected by Rudolf Flesch in his newly published book How To Write Plain English Book For Lawyers And Consumers Fitzhenry and Whiteside 123 pages 811751 Flesch author of such widely read books as The Art Of Plain Talk is pioneer of the readability movement SLOPPY APPROACH He says that lawyers rarely bother to find the right word preferring to write down string of Words that are almost right in the hope that one of them will fit we want your opinion Something on your mind Send Letter to the Editor Please make it an original copy and sign it The Examiner doesnt publish unsigned let ters but if you wish pen name will be used Include your telephone number and address as we have to verify letters Because of space limits public interest and good taste The Examiner sometimes has to edit condense or reject letters letters to the Editor are run every day on the editorial page Send yours to Letters to the Editor The Examiner Post Office Box 370 IARRIE Out AM Legal iargOn consumers trap One of the dozens of examples of legalese quoted by Flesch is this item from list of conditions in sales contract presented to consumer This agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties Purchaser agrees that no representations oral or implied have been made to purchaser to induce him to enter into this agreement other than those expressly herein set forth Plain English translation Never mind any promises made by our sales people We are not bound by anything except whats in this contract Heres another example written by man who was probably the leading exponent of gobbledygook in the US bureaucracy In regulation concerning mobile homes this lawyer wrote of defects which have been determined to deleteriously affect the health and safety of the occupants of mobile homes containing such defects OBFLSCATION At issue here isnt only matter of simple and attractive literary style as opposed to complicated but technically correct usage Flesch makes it plain that many contracts are deliberately written in way that will ob scure the fact that the consumer who signs the contract is likely to be ripped off by failing to understand the formalities of cancelling and obtaining refund for example or not realizing that the seller has given himself the privilege of declaring the whole unpaid balance to be due immediately whenever he chooses One day before too long customer will walk into bank and ask for loan Flesch predicts Hell be given new Plain English loan note to sign Hell sit down take out his glasses and read the whole note from to At several places hell ask questions and get ex planations Hell read about the bank reaching into his chequing account selling his car without telling him and charging 20 per cent of the unpaid loan for letter on their lawyers stationery When hes through hell take off his glasses and put them back in his pocket Then hell say wont sign this and walk out bible thoughts till praise the name of ind with song and will magnify him with thanksgiving Psalms tiil Zttt Everything we do or say should be geared IO giving Him glory honor and praisc Let everything that hath breath praise llic Lord praise ye the Lord BUSINESS 7266537 The world today EDITORS Craig Elson managing editor Stan Didlbalis city editor Bill McFarlane wire editor POR TE RS Stephen Nicholls Dennis Lanthier Nancy Figueroa Lori Cohen Tony Panacci Richard Thomas Stephen Gauer Sue Bowen camera operator Terry Field Cathy Heather Mary Delaney SALES USEARBBEAN TASK FORCE If Parliament Hill By STEWART MacLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service You have to hand it to those 180 or so reformminded Liberals who spent an entire weekend in Winnipeg not talking about Pierre Trudeau What they did was provide us with greatly expanded lexicon to help us thorugh future beatingaroundthebush events Its pity we didnt have this available for previous Tory conventions although come to think of it Tories never did beat around the bush when it came to criticizing leadership This is not leadership review declared Blair Williams the bright and articulate former Liberal party director who organized the Winnipeg nonvleadershipreview The idea he explained was to bring reform minded Liberals together to discuss the future direction of the party Yes it was quite true that Party Leader Pierre Trudeau was not invited for the simple reason that this would encourage conversation about the past and there would be no point in dwelling on this unsavory subject This event was in tended to provide clear uncluttered glimpse into the future And so on Naturally it didnt work out that way The delegates were obviously preoccupied with the partys present difficulties and they wanted to talk about them But this in itself presented certain difficulties because they werent supposed to talk about the most controversial aspect of the difficulties the party leader So with typical Liberal ingenuity the By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The Conservative Govemment through External Affairs Minister Flora Macdonald has announced it will initiate foreign policy review with very few details in this regard so far forthcoming What we might expect is coming piecemeal from the public speeches and informal press conference comments by Flora MacDonald She has told us our traditional role in peacekeeping will be closely investigated as to its continued usefulness Foreign aid giving will be analyzed from several points of view the human rights record of countries receiving aid from Canada and whether some needs of poor countries are more apparent than real In her speech to the Toronto Empire Club on October 4th Miss MacDonald was going to question our aid role throughout Africa but omitted any direct region in her final spoken remarks She did attack Pakistan both over its record in seeking an independent nuclear facility and for identifying Canada as an imperialist power at the recent Havana Non Aligned Nations Conference even though Pakistan has been major recipient of our aid The Pakistanis responded almost im mediately as you might guess claiming that Flora had accused the wrong country Miss Macdonald has also been accused of killing the anticipated $12 billion contract with Argentina for second CANDU com éyvki ADVE TISI NG Len Sevrck manager Wayne Hay Aden Smith Steve Skinner Barb Boulton Calvin Felepchuk Peter Clark CLASSIFIED Peggy Chapell superwsov Doug Boni Freda Stunner Janice Morton v11r BUSINESS 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advertise agrees that the publisher shall not be Imbll for damagas arising out SIMCOE COUNTY $3900 MOTOR THROW OFF 41 so year ELSEWHERE IN CANADA OOGVERI advortrnmant mont Actuallq There are onlq dozen 6wa cole Troops in Cubatie test are PIERRE IRLIEAL wasnt invited delegates got around their sticky little problem by developing new lexicon which enable them to hammer Trudeau at will without once referring to him or the party leadership FLORA MACDONALD attacks Pakistan mercial nuclear reactor because of her of fhand criticism of that South American nations human rights record BAD ARGENTINE RECORD Like the Pakistani one it is an abomination for socalled modern and civilized nation But doubt her remarks squelched contract about which the extensive all CIA spies Liberals careful to avoid direct criticism of Trudeau NEW DEFINITIONS As an example British Columbia Party President Shirely McLaughin carefully avoided any criticism of Pierre Trudeau Instead she said merely that the party has lost touch with the grassroots of Canada And if thats not criticism of Pierre Trudeau Id like to know what is Another delegate shouted that there was no passion at the top in the Liberal party Oh no he was not attacking Pierre Trudeau perish the thought he was just referring to the top whatever that might be Former labor minister Martin OConnell always an honest broker said that the partys approach to federalism tempts us into central in struments and programs to the detriment of regions And where did the Liberal party get its approach to federalism From Pierre Trudeau thats where But of course Mr OConnell wouldnt criticize the leader If the Liberals dont adjust to the times said Hu Harries former MP from Ed monton we may have an Alberta prime minister for the next 25 years Again this was not criticism of Trudeau It was just reference to leadership Sure Former Manitoba Liberal Leader Izzy Asper offered the entirely reasonable view that the party used to stand for something cant tell you what Liberal is today From Douglas Lauchlin defeated Liberal can didate from Calgary the delegates were of fered the proposition that the party is on the wrong side of the street on whole set of is sues Flora testing the waters for foreign aid review documentation had already been concluded in Buenos Aires for West German reactor sale instead of the Canadian one None of these asides or generalizations make for coherent foreign policy nor are they meant to do so Miss Macdonald is not only testing the waters but letting it be known that foreign policy considerations by the stillnew government are to be as important as economic and domestic ones The Tories have been in office for only four months In that short time they have found out including Flora Macdonald that policy changcstaketimeto accomplish Miss Macdonald has invited public par ticipation in her foreign policy review The same kind of call went out from Pierre Trudeau as new Liberal Prime Minister in 19691970 when he was planning major foreign policy review But in the end it was all more form than substance Trudeaus mind was made up already on most of the foreign policy changes and the public role in the end was small Yet whether Trudeaus call or Floras invitation it is tricky business trying to relate the priorities of private groups heavy on selfinterest where international affairs are concerned to what must be coherent workable foreign policy role Some want larger not smaller public sector role for Canada in Third World nations and almost no place there at all for business especially for Canadianbased multi national private firms of errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid for the space actually occupied by that portion ol the odertIsamnnt in which the error occurred whether such or ror IS due to the negligence of its servants or otherwise and thorn shall be no liobtlty Io non Insortion of any advertisement beyond the amount paid for such Ih Publisher reserves the right to dl muse classin or rnpct an advertu From the legislature Facing facts about taxes By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Critics accused him of job butchery for cutting the size of the Ontario rivil service reductions incidentally that have Since been partly lost His enemies said he was starving essential programs of needed resources by limiting the rise in government spending not stopping it mind you just slowing down its growth Now year into his retreat from public life exprovincial treasurer Darcy McKeough has surfaced to infuriate his oppo nents again by saying it was his cutting about which he is proudest of all in office He brought expenditure growth increases down from 25 per cent in 1974 to six per cent in 1978 He remembered that fondly in recent speech on government spending and restraint programs made before the Institute for Research of Public Policy GOOD SIIOW And so he should although one might note that the incredible Tory deficit of 1974 grew out of large unbalanced budgets of the prior six years during two of which McKeough was treasurer Today he acknowledges the error of his ways seized on Keynesian economics as an excuse for doing things which would be popular politically or for not doing things for the same reason he said Stripped of all its rhetoric Keynesian economics as pursued by the media politicians bureaucracy and consumers of government services is spend spend spend It is an attitude directly contradictory to that which most Canadians learned when young what McKeough calls the small town values was brought up with WISE WORDS These recognized there are no free lun ches that debts have to equal credits assets have to exceed liabilities or you go broke and that to put it mildly the debts have to be paid Government in the 19605 and early 1970s preferred to believe there are free lunches medicare education and that debts can increase forever deficit spending It is so easy to bribe the electorate with some new free program McKeough has no easy solutions other than the basic and obvious target of achieving balanced budget as soon as possible And that is the process McKcough began before he left Queens Park and did well enough to receive the compliment of being attacked by the leaders of the prospending Ontario Public Service Employees Union TWO WAYS He realizes there are large special interest groups lined up to insist they need more money from government from road builders to teachers to municipalities to hospital boards to provincial politicians and bu reaucrats themselves Politicians in particular compound the problem because they are elected to do things and that means opening hospital wings not shutting down hospitals because their beds are surplus to requirements But McKeough believes it can be done as long as expenditure targets are picked and stuck to andmanpower controlled In addition people must face the fact that the tax system is means of raising money to pay the bills and not system to redistribute income he said backgrounder Indian art up for auction OTTAWA CPI Interested in buying 6863 miniature birch or elm bark canoes at bargain basement prices Then submit your bid to the Crown Assets Disposal Corp which is trying to auction the canoes and thousands of other native han dicrafts ranging from stylishlybarbaric silver and turquoise necklace to hundreds of brown plastic baby dolls Claudine Nadeau president of the cor poration said in an interview Monday that this is the first time it has been sold Indian art Weve always been known for our junky jeerxs she said of the federal agency which auctions off all government surplus material The corporation which opened its auction Monday at the Museum of Man with re ception for reporters and government of ficials acquired the collection from the Radian and northern affairs department last Closing day for the mailinbid auction is Oct 30 and the collection is open for public viewing at the museum until Oct 21 UP FOR AUCTION The collection formerly known as the Canadian Indian Marketing Services Inven tory has had long and dismal history Inventory custodian John Piper said the service was created in 1972 to sell Indian arts and crafts to retailers but failed to sell Significant quantities of its inventory It then ran afoul of the Commons public accounts committee in 1977 when it overspent its $1 million budget by $4000n Basically the service suffered from and inexperienced management he sai Crown Assets expects to recoup some of the govemments loss but by how much remains to be seen Mme Nadeau said The inventory covers everything from beautiful ceramics rugs and prints to the beads dolls canoes and brass tomahawks It is now reported to be valued at about 8780000 The worst such as strings of dried seeds and berries infested by insects is gone