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the examiner servmg borne and Samcoe county TueidayfAuguat 21 1979 Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited l6 Baylield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher NEWSROOM 716 633 IICUUTION 26 6539 ADVIITISING 776 6537 CLASSIFIEDS 728 2414 Project merits new Hacker The apparent end of Keinpenfelt llaee under developer lid Jennings is set hark tmlevelopnient plans for litilllt lhe multimillion apaitineiitmndoininium project was widely recognized as beneficial to laiiie development that would have given deteriorating area bounded by ltwen Mel onald and Worsley streets 21 new appearance The city reeogniziiig the need for development had said the project would stabilize the area by bringingr new residents downtown soliiethlng uiy city lilt needs While the project is now in jeopardy file can still be hopeful solution can he found At this juncture the city should he doing everything in its power to encourage new development for the area While its unclear at this point who the city may be dealing with its not inconceivable to think that the original project or at least modified Kemjxnfelt llace could still get off the ground ertainly with all the pieliiiiinary plans and zoning changes in place second Keiiipentelt llate still makes development sense Perhaps modified project if that is what is needed might even be improved by providing more parkland something the area now badly latks The hope now is that new developer can be found who Will see the benefits of developing our downtown and get this pro ject or at least one like it back on stream for Iiaiiie Your business By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson New Service Legal fee insurance has been slow in coming to Canada although the concept is fairly well established in the United States and Europe Canadas first operational prepaid legal services plan began on June 1978 for employees of United Grain Growers Ltd in the three prairie provinces Essentially prepaid legalservice plans are financing mechanism similar to group health insurance plans say Larry Wilson and Brian Mazer of the faculty of law at the University of Windsor Ont They require that the individual client pay in advance for legal services which he or she may or may not need or use in the future they write in the August issue of Canadian Consumer Employees of United Grain Growers have the choice of basic plan costing $2160 year for an individual or comprehensive plan which despite its name excludes certain servicesi for $4020 annually When the individuals dependents are in cluded the fee is doubled Participation is voluntary This is an openpanel plan which means that participants choose lawyer Profs Wilson and Mazer say that all provincial law societies favor openpanel plans MIDDLE INCOME Experience in other countries suggests that prepaid plans may be the most ap propriate response to the problem of de livering legal services the University of Windsor professors say Its estimated that only 20 per cent of Canadians are able to qualify for legal aid At the other end of the scale about 10 per cent are estimated to be wealthy enouin to bear comfortably the expense of legal services That leaves some 70 per cent of the public that would probably be better served if legal fee insurance were generally available Middleincome people are often ignorant of legal rights and remedies and frequently Backgrounder Group insurance pays legal fees encounter difficulty in finding lawyer says Profs Wilson and Mazer Most people simply dont know when they havea legal problem If individuals recognize legal problem they often do not know where to find competent lawyer Many people are forced to resort to random selection from the telephone book when they want lawyer Since prepaid legal services give planholders ready access to legal expertise they should increase public awareness of problems that should be handled by lawyers or of legal rights that should be vindicated lawyers MORE SUITS Critics of the concept of legal fee insurance have expressed fears that this very public awareness would lead more and more people to resort to the courts when they dont want to make the effort to work things out on their own or when they disapprove on principle of what some person agency or government has done Whatever the reason Canadians do seem to be resorting to the courts more than ever be fore In Ontario for example the number of actions initiated in the provinces supreme court increased by about 20 per cent between 1976 and 1978 In an editorial comment accompanying the article by Wilson and Mazer the editors of Canadian Consumer published by the Consumers Association of Canada say At least in this first stage Canadian law societies appear to be in favor of legal fee insurance partly because it will give lawyers more work partly because it promises jobs for the continuing stream of lawschool graduates and partly because it may stimulate reform of our judicial system Despite the admitted selfinterest aspect of legal fee insurance it is probably wor thwhile Lawyers for example hope that it will encourage people to consult them more often especially about emotionally trau matic negotiations like separations and divorce 40 Crown Corporations need reducing but how OTTAWA CPi Those unfamiliar with Sinclair Stevenss colorful speech habits were understandably disturbed last week when the Treasury Board President spoke of blowing up few Crown corporations Were trying to identify how many of these animals are running around Stevens told reporters at news conference called to outline his plans for reducing the size of government Our counter is up to 401 Crown corpora tions and still counting He said many of them could be eliminated without parliamentary approval because bureaucrats had developed the practice under the previous Liberal regime of setting up government owned enterprises and sub Sidiaries Without intorming elected represen tatives we want your opinion Something on 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Conser vatives have labelled privatization begin Stevens says it is up to the prime minister to make any announcement Will the activities of the soontogo Crown agencies be handled as effectively by the organizations which are to replace them Who will buy them At what price Will the process jeopardize the future of those Crown agencies which now are beginn ing for the first time in years to show pro fit Stevens says the Conservatives have begun study to identify canadidates for privatiza tion Two Crown agencies which appear certain to be on the cutting list are de Havilland Air craft of Canada Ltd and Canadair Ltd the countrys two major aircraft manufacturers bible thought lint tioil tllllllltlllllill his low toualtl Its in that llllt et sinners tlirisl lied torus littlll1l When there no other tied made one llc still does He lied in advance and He awaits our acceptance Greater love hath no man than this that an lay own his life for his lrlend BUSINESS 7266537 EDITORS ADVERTISING Craig 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alleged to have asked in anguished tones Who chopped down the cherry tree George knew that he had done wrong and although he faced certain punishment for do ing such foolish thing he plucked up courage and is reputed to have said can not tell lie father It was who chopped down the cherry tree Because of Georges honesty in the face of advegsity his father did not punish him but tin fact praised him for confessing the truth That was probably the first reported case where someone received benefit from wrongdoing and admitting it This is not to say that George Washingtons father acted ill advisedly for praising him for his truth fulness but look at some of the situations and newards for true confessions since that time SEEKS GLAMOR Take the case of Margaret Trudeau She left her husband to persue more glamorous lifestyle which included number of torrid romances She wrote book about it all call ed Beyond Belief wherein she allegedly tells the truth about her sexploits and in stead of being castigated for it her book became bestseller and Margaret netted cool million or so In addition she was sought after for televi sion interviews got job as an actress and most recently has written an article for the September issue of Playgirl in which ac cording to newspaper accounts she reveals even more extra curricular affairs for which she undoubtedly fattened her already swollen bank account all for confessing her misdeeds while ago Dutch prostitute by the name of Xaviera Hollander sat down long enough to write book detailing quite explicitly her vlarious ways and means of satisfying her ieiits From the legislature gt By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson New Services TORONTO Once upon time Ontario Hydro called public meeting to discuss the route of power transmission corridor near Oshawa large crowd came to hear Hydro official explainthat as many as five possible routes existed and the utility would like public participation in determining which was preferable For hours the meeting dragged on with half the audience intent on dunning Hydro for sins of omission and commission that had nothing to do with the proposed power corri dor At the end one of the less vocal members of the audience asked to almost unanimous ap plause why Hydro was wasting everyones time Youve already decided on the route Why bother with this Charade he said That scoffer was jaundiced observer of public participation man who saw the whole exercise as trendy game signifying nothing True confessions bring MARGARET TRUDEAU cool million RICIIARD NIXON told all One of the ironies of our era is that the more open and democratic the powersthatbe are in making decisions the more they are maligned for secrecy And no organization has kowtowed more to the sacred symbol of public participation than Ontario Hydro If anything the utility has gone overboard paying undeserved attention to every kook and vested interest group in the province For example Hydro stung by criticism over the years that it laid out transmission tower lines without thought to local con ditions now asks people who live there what the best route would be The assumption behind these meetings such as the one near Oshawa is that people are reasonable that when the facts are me plained to them they will reach considered judgment THE OPPOSITION But it just isnt so Aside from the scoffers there are the antis the selfish and the plain foolish They tend to dominate meetings nowadays And one too has the impression playing St hefty financial reward Her book not only topped the bestseller list but was later turned into movie Ms Hollander had hard time making it to the bank with the weight of all of the loot that she had picked up from simply telling the truth about herself Perhaps the ultimate example of true con fessions bnnging financial reward for im proper immoral or illegal activities was the Watergate scandal MADE MILLIONS Former President Richard Nixon the only President of the United States of America who was forced to resign from office before he was impeached has made millions of dollars out or writing book on the subject and appearing on television interviews with David Frost Not only has former President Nixon done well out of this scandal but so have number of his associates who sat around the table with him in his office while the tapes cap tured their ignominious conservations Who would have ever thought that the Presidents aides could have turned their unethical and illegal conduct into moneymaker by telling all John Dean Nixons lawyer wrote book about his participation in the Watergate Af fair after he got out of jail entitled Blind Ambition You may recall that it also became successful television series all of which netted him million dollars or more Similarly John Erlichman earned like amount for his book on the same theme which was also turned into television series called Washington Behind Closed Doors Whats the moral of all this you may ask Quite simply Ijust dont know Im sure as in the case of George Washington honesty is its own reward but do believe Georges tale could have been more of financial suc cess if he had published treatise on the cherry tree incident not forgetting to add something about the affair he had with the girl next door Special interest groups dominate meetings nowadays George to the Hydro dragon exerts psy chological fascination for some people All this is not to totally decry the idea of public participation It has its uses especially in that what used to be done in the back rooms in private is now open and public Those who are genuinely neutral yet in terested can join in and learn Good examples along that line are Hydro site selection meetings where local opinion leaders are invited to be part of the stepby step process of choosing location for new generating station NOT REPRESENTATIVE But in general participatory democracy is cruel and expensive joke foisted on most of us by the noisy few What is wrong with the public participation theory is that the public in general the literally silent majorityi rarely go to such meetings Those who attend usually have special interest to promote and what they see and hear always somehow only reinforces their prejudices rather than opens their minds In short often the people who participate in public participation arent the public at all ror Is duo to tho nogligonco of its sorvcmts or otherwise and thorn shall be no liability Ior non insertion of any odvortisomont beyond tho amount paid Ior such Tho Publishr reserves the right to dl rows clouin or reject an odyortila Cuba extends its influence By JOHN IIARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Cubas alleged subversive role in the Caribbean was in the news again during the Nicaraguan civil war Rightwing members of the US Congress insist they see second Cuba from the victory of the Sandinista coalition forces in Nicaragua against former President Anastasio Somoza The usual US intelligence sources had released or leaked the usual information of Cuban arms shipments by air and sea to the Sandinista guerrilla forces Not since the early 19605 when Castros thennew revolution attempted to spread its message around the Caribbean has there been so much interest in Cuban external role in Latin America But so far there has been no Cuban activity in Nicaragua or anywhere else in the region to suggest the escalation of Cuban subversion as it was attempted in the early 19605 At that time Cuban guerrilla groups which included members of Castros armed forces had infiltrated key countries around the Caribbean and in Central America Venezuela with its democraticallyelected government became major target of Cuban guerrilla activity By the mid1960s Cuban paramilitary groups were supporting small but active proCastro guerrilla organizations inside Venezuela CASTRO OVEREXTENDED None of this is taking place in any Carib bean or Central American nation at the present time for the pure and simple reason Cuba cannot afford any more major overseas ideological adventures Rather than involving himself deeply in his own hemisphere in this way Fidel Castro and his top technocrats are wondering how Cuba will meet its promised economic goals for the 19805 after Cubas costly fiveyear in volvement in Africa Only these men know the real cost of Cubas African activities which have siphoned off military manpower Cuban government specialists in farming housing and medicine to growing number of African nations Moreover the African commitment is continuing with no indication that the Cubans will withdraw soon from their various military and social development roles in very wide range of countries These now include Angola and Guinea Bissau in West Africa Ethiopia in Central Africa Mozambique in East Africa The same American congressmen who claim there is new Cuban presence in Nicaragua based on their weapons ship ments during the civil war and now in the arrival of Cuban farm specialists should still keep their eyes on the Cubans in Africa This is where the Cuban external role remains strong and from all appearances will continue to be so Meantime Havana is host next month to the next international meeting of the socalled nonaligned nations of the Third World This major event to include about 90 countries mainly with Marxist or farleft regimes rather than nonsaligned per so will mean an additional financial outlay for the hardpressed Havana bureaucrats But there will be little complaint from them or even from Fidels most loyal followers who are privately very worried about the ability of Cuba to maintain in definitely this very expensive world presence GLOBAL ROLE They have fulfilled one of the major goals of the Cuban Revolution This is to see Cuba onceignored and exploited Caribbean island as leader of the Third World Interpreting the news Why did Young step down UNITED NATIONS CPI The official explanation of Andrew Youngs resignation as United States ambassador to the UN leaves number of questions unanswered On the face of it Young held brief and unauthorized discussion with Zehdi Terzi the Palestinian Liberation Organization representative at the UN and then lied about the meeting to the state department and State Secretary Cyrus Vance At first Young said the meeting was ac cidental and the discussion was limited to small talk Later when another version of the incident was leaked apparently by Yehuda Boum Israels ambassador to the UN Young admitted that he and Terzi spent about 30 minutes talking over resolution due to come before the Security Council Young then tendered his resignation However some things have not been ex plained For instance Milton Wolf the US am bassador to Austria is reported to have had three meetings with PLO official two by accident and one by design That brought no rebuke from the state department only caution about such meetings being against policy The US policy is that there should be no negotiation with the PLO until the organization recognizes Israels right to ex ist Despite this there have been several instances of indirect contact between the US and the PLO through the good offices of Kuwait Youngs meeting with Terzi occurred in the home of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the UN COUNCIL VOTE DUE The fateful meeting came at crucial point The Security Council was due to vote on an important Palestinian resolution It tacitly accepted Israels right to exist but called for establishment of Palestinian state