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313 servmg borne and simcoe county Publisned by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited CIRCULATION 7266539 NEWSROOM 7266537 Two more are dead on our area highways The latest victims in the highway slaughter are mother and her 10 yearold daughter both killed after their pickup truck and tractor trailer collided Thursday on Highway 400 Extension In tragic irony the deaths oc curred during Safe Driving Week For all the slogans and all the war nings the gruesome highway toll continues to climb Where will it end This year more than 80 have perished on our area highways Across the pro vincc more than 1000 have been killed True in the present belt era the carnage was even greater The in troduction of mandatory set belts and lower speed limits back in 1976 have saved some accident victims from death But this year the pattern is on the upsu ing In Simcoe County theres an 18 per cent increase in accidents over 1978 ne reason is that more motorists than ever are on the road But the real cause of accidents speeding and carelessness 77 remains the same 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario L4M 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher ADVERTISING 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 7282414 The authorities do what they can Police step up patrols and the government mounts public cam paigns such as Safe Driving Week Thats well and good But in light of the latest statistics what may be needed is an exhaustive indepen dent study one which will tap every tacit of highway safety Drivers and their habits could be studied How well versed are drivers on the rules of the road What about retcsting of drivers at regular intervals and mandatory retesting of those responsible for accidents Are the penalties enough for serious highway violations And what about police who say they lack the manpower to intensify traffic control programs Not only the drivers should be looked at What about our highways too Some of them highway 27 for example are hopelessly outdated if not downright dangerous for modern demands its time we figured it out and declared war on highway carnage Were not at war of course But with death tolls like these we almost might be with nobody dying for cause Tories fishing for issue to reverse Gallup poll Ry STEWART MatLEOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service What we need said the despondent Conservative MP is nice easyto understand issue that cabinet can grasp and resolve What he was talking about in fact its what most Tory MP5 are talking about these days was that horrible Gallup poll which showed that the Clark government has man aged in just six short months to slip into the pits of unpopularity supported by only 28 per cent of the electorate The Liberals on the other hand attract support from 47 per cent Next to the Liberal leadership race this latest Gallup poll has become the most popular subject on the parliamentary coffee circuit subject of unbridled delight for the Liberals of more modest satisfaction for the New Democrats who were up five per centage points and of illconcealed gloom for the Conservatives You hear great many comments like the one quoted above about the need for exciting new initiatives by the Clark government What really depresses me said another Tory MP is the fact that we have com pleter lost the momentum that comes with new government Our cabinet ministers keep talking about the enormous amount of paper they must digest and this means simply that they have become prisoners of the bureaucratic system It was Gerald Baldwin the veteran Con servative MP from Peace River who said that government should institute daring new initiatives during its first three months of office after that it begins to become obsessed with the difficulties involved But in the first six months of the Clark government there has been an apparent obsession with trying to clarify assorted election promises while blaming the previous government for all of our ills Trudeaus JUst Society in 1968 might have been just crock says another Con servative but at least it was something to keep people excited about the new govern ment What by comparison has the Clark government been offering Well so far as new initiatives are con cerned the major emphasis has been on freedom of information and reform 0f txtrliamentary procedure And these like the mortgage deductability plan become so com plicated and academic that few people know the end result All this talk about increasing the role of backbench MPs making cabinet more accountable and making parliamentary committees more effective really dont thrill many people think it would be fair to say that many of the proposed reforms constitute windowdress ing and there is nothing in the current proposals to increase the flow of legislation the bottom line of any parliamentary reform As for freedom of information the entire package hasnt generated as much attention as the RCMP raid on an Ottawa journalists apartment in search of one piece of govern ment information That particular action and the governments convoluted ex planations did nothing to polish the image of open government And the Clark cabinet is also having ob vious difficulties in adjusting to the govern ment benches after so many years in op position In replying to the most simple Liberal questions the ministers have tendency to act like opposition MP5 getting in shot at the previous regime The Honorable Member should be the last one to ask such question is frequent preface to reply Considering the mess which his party left is another Even in the latest concern about possible heatingoil which follow earlier assurances of fuel sufficiency shortage this winter Prime Minister Clark managed to sound at one pomt like an opposition leader After saying that the possible shortage would be due to increased consumption he suddenly shifted the blame to the Liberals The shortages that might exist underline dramatically the failure of the former government to plan ahead surrounding the governments energy policy would be massive understatement It isjust one area in which the Clark grasp appears at best to be loose Thats what the despondent MP was saying We just need that one good issue thats all ours something that demon strates positive thinking and something that we can see through without different minis ters saying different things And perhaps it would help he added thoughtfully if Joe would just stand up and tell some provincial premier to go to hell Student gets the sack as lady Santa Claus TORONTO Tis the season to beon ly but not for Nancy Fulford Santa Claus 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 it you wish pen name will be used Include your telephone number and address as we have to verin 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 310 MRRIE Ont 4M 4T6 who got the sack because of her sex The 20yearltold theatre arts student said she got fired after two days as Santa at suburban shopping mail because merchants did not like the idea of woman in the role Miss Fulford has complained to the Ontario Human Rights Commission think made very good Santa but didnt happen to be man she said of her job at Morningside Mall in the Metropolitan Toronto borough of Scarborough If children are fooled by false beard red suit story about an arrival from the North Pole via reindeer then theyll be fooled by Santas sex Miss Fulford who worked with children at summer camps for four years added that she was able to hide her sex with plenty of stuff ing and deep voice which sounds lot bet ter through false beard She said mall manager Carolyn Dunigan called her and fired her because of com plaints from merchants about her sex The woman said she had 3850 contract for four weeks work but the manager offered to have Mi$ Fulfords 19yearold brother David replace her BUSINESS 7266537 EDIORS ADVERTISING Craig Elson managing editor Stan Didzbatis city editor SALES Bill McFarlane wire editOr Aden Smith REPORTERS Wayne Hay Stephen Nicholts Steve Skinner Marion Hearty Calvin Fetepchuk Peter Clark CLASSIFIED Dennis Lanthier Nancy Figueroa Lori Cohen Tony Panacci Richard Thomas Sue Bowen camera operator Freda Shim Terry Field omce Morton 331153219 lonMocMurchy Peter Roberts Alison Merkel the oil cfibis is Len Sovick manager Peggy Chapeli supervisor BUSINESS Marian Gouoh accountant Delve Mills Vikki Grant Don Saunders Connie Hart Lorne Wou John Shunk will Codogon cmcuunou 3R2gr Bitl Halkcs manager Ron GM Andy Haughton assistant manager Doug Boni Ed Allcnoy Alva LaPtante Janie Hornet Lisa Warry Susan Kitchen Elaine Burton WORM Stews CherytAiken PRESSROOM Al Hanson foreman Don Near asst foreman ELSEWHERE IN CANADA beyond the amount paid for such advertisement The Publisher reserves the right to edit revise ctosslty or reiect on adver Fred Prince Huge investment swindle could happen again Judg By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst In scathing royalcommission report on Canadas biggest financial scandal judge warned that another such crash was always possible That was 10 years ago To the great relief of Canadian investors the past decade unlike the 19605 has been free of financial scandal Mr Justice Samuel Hughes the oneman royal commission on Dec 11 1969 issued cutting fourvolume report to the Ontario government on his 52month investigation of the 1965 collapse of Atlantic Acceptance Corp of Toronto Hughes jurist who chose his words meticulously used the strongest possible language in denouncing Atlantics president Morgan who had died in 1966 as inventive ingenious incompetent and cor ru pr then two chartered accountants were serving jail terms and had been expelled along with others from their profession for their responsibility for financial statements reporting profits when in truth there had been immense losses Others who after the Atlantic collapse were found culpable and expelled by their peers included number of lawyers and member of the Toronto Stock Exchange CHEQUE BOUNCES Atlantic Acceptance had been operating for 12 years when on June 14 1965 it collapsed following the TorontoDominion Banks refusal to honor its cheque for $5019000 Estimated losses of its creditors and shareholders were $75 million Liquidation of its assets by Montreal Trust Co as trustee dragged on for years with holders of senior secured obligations eventually recovering part of their investment and the majority of creditors and shareholders recovering nothing Among the creditors in list that was able to publish at the time over the ob jections of the trustee were many of the most prominent Canadian and US financial institutions Morgan had capitalized on the practice called investment by crony portfolio manager at one life insurance company for example would invest in Atlantics securities YOUR BUSINESS solely because his opposite number at another financial institution had done the same Mr Justice Hughes strongly criticized director of Atlantic named Wilfrid Gregory lawyer who was president of the long established British Mortgage and Trust Co in Stratford Ont which held investments of $122 million in Atlantic and related com panies at the time of the collapse Gregory himself lost $1 million and smaller British Mortgage shareholders also lost heavily Their company was absorbed by Victoria and Grey Trust Co BITTER LESSON If there has been no repetition of the Atlantic swindle in the 10 years since the monumental Hughes report it isnt neces sarily because governments and professions have tightened their controls Mr Justice Hughes foresaw the im possibility of certainty If fraud is deliberately resorted to there is no one way of detecting it in advance that know of If every government enacted laws for every conceivable situation that might be foreseen most of us would pay no attention to what was done What has happened in the wake of the Atlantic collapse and the Hughes report is that financial intermediaries have shed some of their gullibility They have learned painfully the lesson that its essential to investigate before investing Then too the climate of investment in the 19705 has changed sharply Long gone is the blind confidence of the 19605 in the inevitability of economic growth But human greed is always present and human memories are short Thats why its prudent to remind ourselves from time to time of those 2748 pages in four volumes that Mr Justice Hughes wrote with such intensity and that are gathering dust on bookshelves Canadas Defence Ministry needs new policy for 803 By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Allan McKinnon the Conservative Minister of National Defence says he doesnt like White Papers on Defence Policy while External Affairs Minister Flora Macdonald is convinced her department needs one to replace the last Foreign Policy Review of 1970 In fact where Mr McKinnons department needs new policy document and desperately 50 Miss Macdonalds does not The 1970 Liberal Foreign Policy Review embraces many of the areas which progressive Tories including her own par liamentary secretary have strongly sup ported These have included wider roles for our aid and trade with the development world closer contacts with Europe which she emphasized in recent speech at the University of To ronto sovereignty identification in our own hemisphere Miss Macdonald says the world of the 19805 is going to be very different from that of the 19705 in terms of instability She is probably correct if we look at events in Iran with in cipient possibilities for something the same in another majorlslamic state And she wants Canada to find changed role in that chaotic environment common sense approach married with some compassion as she put it during her December 6th Toronto speech NOT NEEDED But new foreign policy review to be completed by the spring Surely what she wants she can outline in major policy speeches and by staying within the excellent guidelines set in 1970 But Mr McKinnons situation is uite different He is on the verge of buying out 130 USdesigned fighter aircraft to cost about $475 billion in estimated 1982 dollars and prior to his department reformulating its goals in new defence white paper This aircraft purchase plan has been surrounded with confusion acrimony con flicting and shootingfromthehip statements by the defence minister himself Moreover an alleged cabal of restless air generals are eager to get new toy before white paper comes along which could recommend another direction and different kinds of new weapons An internal memo to the defence minister as reported by Ottawa press defence critic Peter Ward suggests the department buy cheaper used American F4s proven machine to defend Canadas airspace This is direction which the minister himself proposed when he was the opposition defence critic In the United States General Alton Stay senior US Air Force General says the engine of the new F16 the General Dynamics Corporation aircraft included in the bidding for new fighter plane for Canada has serious reliability problems Miss Macdonald and Mr McKinnon are making visits to NATO in Europe but separately and for different NATO events Indeed separation remains the name of the game as successive federal governments fail to merge defence and foreign policy where this must be done FLORA WONT SAY Miss Macdonalds review will say nothing about defence purchases with these aircraft ordered no doubt long before her review appears And Mr McKinnon will say nothing about how defence relates to foreign policy since he will probably delay any defence white paper The traditional resistance of Tories in opposition to develop any kind of longterm planning is sadly revealed now in the present and separate directions of two closely inter related ministries COMPOSING ROOM Jock Kerney tarotnan Glenn won out foreman Kim Pottenden Published daily except Sunday and statutory holidays WE EK LY by carrier 95 cents YEARLY by carrier BVMAIL Barrie 40 StMontreol SIMCOE COUNTY 39 00 mg out at errors advertisements beyond the amount paid tor the space MOTOR THROW OFF Sal 50a year Sll 00 Year tisement By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO What is im rtant to note about the agreement ending illegal three da strike by correctional officers is that they di not win their key demand strike against the public in Ontario not only remains illegal but ineffectual In addition the aiding and abetting of such strike by Ontario Public Service Employees Union president Sean OFlynn has not gone unpunished The words of Mr Justice Douglas Carruthers when he sentneced OFlynn to 35 days in jail for criminal contempt of court bear repeating At some point you determined that you would rise above the law def it and more importantly take 3000 lawa iding citizens with you When the court ordered you not to do something you openly and publicly defied it with no reluctance whatsoever and you made your defiance known to the people of the province SO FUTILE And he might have added futilely The strike was supposedly launched to secure separate bargaining category for correctional employees Currently they are lumped into one category along with nurses and other institutional care workers The correctional officers believe they can gain more money if they have their own separate wage category And one has to have sympathy for their claim that they have fallen behind correc tional employees elsewhere although not with their desire to receive OPPlevel in comes They are not exposed to the same danger as police or even federal prison workers The government response is that special consideration for correctional officers already exists within the current categories Last year for example such employees The Examiner is member of The Canadian Press CF and Audit Burundi Circulation ABC Only the Canadian Press may republish new stories In this newspaper credited to CF 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 created by its employees and published in this newspaper 40 Copyright registration number 203815 register at National advertising ottlces 65 Queen St Toronto um 640 Cothcart FROM THE LEGISLATURE received an extra two per cent GOOD POINTS The government objection to formal separate unit is that this could lead to doubling or tripling of the existing eight categories negotiates What is important here is not the merits of the separate category argument There are good points on both sides What is key is that an illegal strike against the public was authorized by the OPSEU to win this separate category N0 LUCK On Nov 28 four days prior to the strike Management Board chairman George Mc Cague told OFlynn facetoface that the government would agree to binding ar bitration on the issue He repeated the offer in writing Nov 29 the same day twothirds of the provinces correc tional officers voted to strike OFlynn rejected the offer and the strike began Dec Meanwhile the government obtained an interim injunction Nov 30 from the Supreme Court of Ontario against OPSEU support of the strike When the union ignored the injunc tion the government asked the court Dec to find OFlynn in contempt The agreement ending the strike Dec gave the union the binding arbitration they rejected Nov 28 and did not violate the im portant principle that nothing should be gain ed by an illegal strike with which Meagre flood defences could mean real trouble LONDON CP Like an uneasy gambler who has just pulled the lever on slotma chine anxious floodwatchers cross their fingers every two weeks as high spring tides lap towards the top of Londons meagre flood defences Because until the Thames Barrier is finished in 1982 luck is all there is The threat of the river bursting its banks and paralysing Londons heart is increasing say experts here Tides are getting higher as the city gradually sinks on its bed of clay while the entire southeast corner of Britain tips downwards by foot every century For several days twice month at new moon and full moon tides are at their highest This is when the city is most vulnerable says Ray Horner chief engineer of rivers Looking Back uy uun UHEAKN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service Even during his days in office Leslie Frost was somewhat of an enigma He had tremendous personal prestige probably greater than any other Ontario premier But at the same time good portion of his regime was surrounded by scandal His term in office broke down broadly into two periods During his initial four years he established firm base In the succeeding eight years he carried on from this base and gradually grew into his renown as Old Man Ontario sometimes The Great White Father BOOM TIME Ontario was at the absolute peak of its history in those early years Everything was booming The first years after the Second World War were recovery years and as well years of planning There was plenty of work for everybody Many veterans were back in school Many of the women who had been in war plants and private sector services went back to their homes But the big drive the mam moth rebuilding was still being planned And the planning turned into action just about the time Leslie Frost took over George Drew had opened the door for the new Seaway Hydro engineers had drafted host of other huge power plant projects Massive highway building and rebuilding programs were just ready to start Fac tories and pulp mi were being built There had to be big catchup on schools hospitals and other public works projects Practically nothing had been built of course since the depression hit in 1930 Essentially all the leader of the province had to do was keep hand lightly on the wheel and foot lightly on the brake The biggest problem of the day for leader of Ontario was to find the raw materials with which to build It was utopia for politician OPPOSITION WEAK In Frosts favor too was the fact he was practically free of meaningful opposition in the legislature He was faced with woeful opposition again perhaps the weakest in Ontario history The Liberals had been led into the slaughter by Walter Thomson in 1951 leaving them with only eight members Farquhar Oliver took over as leader for second time and even the eight were hopelessly ineffective One night in 1955 dropped by Liberal election meeting in Espanola had to drive out the next day and take Oliver and his crew to Grave nhurst They were stranded Nobody had made travel arrangements This was typical The CCF forces had also been cut down Heydoys of Leslie Frost This is when the question of probability comes into play Highvelocity winds and Im talking about 80 to 100 miles an hour can push wall of water from the Atlantic into the North Sea and then down the wedge to the Channel When surge like this sweeps up the Thames it could mean real trouble FACTORS COMPLEX But Horner says the size of surge depends on the length of sea over which these high velocity winds prevail and the direction of the winds flood is the result of so many variables you cant possibly predict it Its question of probability mean whats the chance of hurricane hitting Toronto it LESLIE FROST Ontario was booming The party was left with only their two mildest veterans Bill Grummett kindly lawyer from Timmins was the house leader Tommy Thomas likeable but gentle Welshman from Oshawa was his caucus Typical of their problems was the partys problem over the closed shop concept The CCF officially favored it Grummett who like so many CCFers of the time had switched from the Tories didnt He was prodded so much in the house that he finally came out against it and the policy he was supposedly leading ey were remarkable times remember in the space of few months Vismng the Seaway site and four other power plant sites under construction Des Joachims on the Ottawa River near Pembroke the Rayner plant at Thasalon what 15 now Terrace Bay and site near Dryden in northwestern Ontario Anyone who couldnt establish himself in that climate would have had to be dolt And dolt Frost certainly was not He was far from dolt also about the scandals which followed In fact there were suspicions about question whether the Graat White Father vs the province ltwltr