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cities They increase our population several times over But its all part of the priceand rewardof our vacation area The fact is tourists are an important part of the local economy They bring with them new dollars to spend dollars that otherwise wouldnt be spent in our area They are renewable and growing resource and one that should be carefully nurtured How important is tourism to our area Last year tourism accounted for an estimated $70 million of business in Simcoe County Indeed Simcoe County rates as the second most visited area in all of Ontario And there appears no let up in sight Those statistics suggest an active tourist campaign The Huronia Tourist Association is doing just that In particular the association has promotions aimed at encouraging tourists particularly from the Metro Toronto region and American tourists Its commendable that more and more people are recogniz ing the benefits of tourism and think of it as the important industry it is Simcoe municipalities realize the better the entire county tourist industry is promoted the more we all stand to gain Yet there is much to be done The Ontario governments We treat you royally program is moving into its second year Employees would do well to put into practice the theme of this program Hospitality is the key to capturing tourists and ensuring return visits People who are treated well in Simcoe will naturally want to return another year Whats more theyll tell their friends too Barrie of course has an important role in the development of county tourism It can support the work done through the Huronia Tourist Association and its general manager Boyd Robertson It can also continue to promote and expand tourist attracting events such as Kempenfest Most important however is the approach we take towards our summer visitors By simply being courteous and helpful we can give the right image to visitors If we do that everyOne tourists and residents alike will come out on top Dear Sir Why is it that so many Canadians accept old age pensions family allowances unemployment in surance hospital insurance medical insurance and other benefits of life in Canada and yet are reluctant to vote for the party which gave us these ideas the NDP Yours truly Robert Bell By LEONARD NOBLE The most recent of the everpresent Gallup Polls puts the Liberals five percentage points ahead of the Conservatives This has obviously upset Joe Clark in more ways than one After all he probably felt he had at long last lived down his Joe Who im age by the time the Prime Minister called the election Mr Clark mUSt have been more than lit tle overjoyed when the Gallup Poll taken in March indicated that the Conservatives were tied evenSteven with the Liberals at 41 per cent of the decided voters One thing that one has to admire about Prime Minister Trudeau is that he does not give up Regardless of bad press apparent mutinies by somc of his Liberal colleagues and more than quiet urgins that he resign he has not only steadfastly stayed at the helm of what many people have called sinking ship but has shown that on an individual basis Joe Clark is not match for Mr Trudeau when it comes to qualities of leadership Obviously Joe Clarks sarcastic suggestion that Pierre Trudeau has the personality of gun stinger may be only too true 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 Ex ominor sometimes has to edit condense or reject letters Letters to the Editor are run every day on the odltorial page Send yours to letters to th litter the 0m MI 370 Ml OIL CT letters to the editor Dear Sir Joe Clark performed at the Stroud arena Friday night and announced it was good to be here in Barrie Does he really not know where he is or was it slip of the tongue Can we expect more of this if he becomes national leader Inattention to detail could cost us millions Yours truly Mrs Simpson Stroud Geffing to know all about you What makes Mr Clarks political position even more perilous is the fact that he has at tempted up til now at any rate in the cam paign to be sort of Gentleman Joe oblivious and farremoved from the cutting remarks that Mr Trudeau has directed at Joes ability or lack of ability to lead the country Even now with the new Gallup Poll results showing the Liberals in the lead as aforesaid Joe Clark has simply replied that Once peo ple get to know me better theyll like me which rather reminds me of the stage play Anna and the King of Siam Im sure you all recall the movie version in which Yul Brenner sporting head finely shaved of all its hair played the part of the recalcitrant king while Anna the English Nanny who has come to Siam to look after the Kings overabundant supply of children aris ing from the Kings many concubines finds that after some time spent with the King that she is beginning to like what appeared to be rather unlikeable individual at first blush Anna upon finding her feelings changing from dislike to love for the King com mences to sing that now lovely standard which goes Getting to know you getting to know all about you Getting to like you hop ing that you like me too BURST INTO SONG Now Im not suggesting that Joe Clark find his voice and burst into song Im not even suggesting that he shave his head As mat ter of fact that fad has long blown its course and is about as dead as its alter ego the brush cut What do suggest is that if Mr Clark wants to get known so that he gets liked by the majority of Canadians hes better start doing something between now and May 22nd to endear himself because otherwise he will be relegated back to Joe Who which is one step removed from oblivion If Joe doesnt take the gloves off and com out fighting in the next round he may be remembered as one of the pleasantest aspirants for the job of Prime Minister of Canada but Im afraid thats not one of the chief qualifications for the job Your business By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The surest way to attract agreement of large numbers of people is to argue for bigger and better pensions as every politician knows question beginning How do you expect people to live on followed by the current Canada Pension Plan rate has been sure fire crowdpleaser since the CPP began Pierre Elliott Trudeau in the current election campaign has used number of From the legislature By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service Toronto Dabbling in foreign affairs is an infrequent but not unusual occurrence for On tarios legislators And last week they were at it again This time they commemorated Armenian Remembrance Day which marks the 1915 beginning of Turkeys slaughter of more than million Armenians in that country The House unanimously supported resolution by Liberal leader Stuart Smith calling on the federal government to issue statement in condemnation of the crime of genocide by Turkey Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Tom Wells attacked Turkey not just for the mas sacre but for the event being unacknowledged and unrepentant in the country where it occurred Which he noted contrasts with West Germanys acceptance of blood debt for the Second World War Holocaust suffered by the ews And NDP leader Michael Cassidy too linked the two genocidal actions and warned against repeat Which is all very well Provincial politicians arent ostriches and shouldnt necessarily have to hide their heads in the sand just because an issue falls outside their field of authority But what always puzzles me is why certain issues are discussed while others are ignored It is peculiarity of the 20th Century that extermination of human beings is considered less atrocious if done for one reason rather than another SCOOPS WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED $0 FAR AEOUT THE PEANUT PROBE RIFFIN BELL variations of that theme to good political ef fect He points out for example that about half of privatesector workers dont belong to em ployer sponsored plans that such plans account for only 12 per cent of all income of people 65 or over and that most private pension plans are fixed while living costs are rising NOT INTERESTED Pension experts respond that pensionplan participation seems relatively low only be cause so many workers dont have long term commitment to the work force great many people go through stage of moving from job to job before settling into Ontario dabbles in foreign affairs The slaughter of people because of their ethnic origin as with the Armenians and Jews not to mention Crimean Tatars Bengalis and Watusis is justifiably con sidered horrendous crime RED BLOC But the deliberate murder of millions because of their class origins and political beliefs as throughout oe Communist bloc is somehow never subject to attack by our politicians Neither Wells Smith nor Cassidy men tioned the even more bloody Holocausts per petrated in those Marxist lands Premier William Davis has protested two foreign political events in the past few years One was when Ugandas Idi Amin regime murdered two churchmen the other when the Soviet Union staged the ScharanskyGinzberg show trials in Moscow And theres the puzzle Why should he pick on the government of one tyrant and one act by an even more tyrannical state and ignore the rest of the dictatorial and violent regimes of the world Asked that once Davis said those were the matters that struck him as worthy of com ment Now that may show something about Davis or about the moral emphasis the media give some events as opposed to others or about the publics perception of atrocity in ourtilted world Or perhaps all three Still it would be nice if next year on Ar menian Rembrance Day someone said kind word for the dead in the gulags of Russia China and Vietnam or the slave plantations of Mozambique and Equatorial Guinea Bigger and better pensions theyre nice but costly lasting job or dropping out of the work force for say marriage And many young people they find arent willing to set aside even part of their income for their retirement years which at age 20 can seem as remote as the dark side of the moon While monthly CPP benefits of about $170 may seem inadequate they were never in tended to be an only source of retirement income Prudent people try to build up alternative assets and sources of income for their retirement and recognize that some living costs commuting to work for in stance disappear after retirement For those less prudent or less fortunate the government provides income supplements LOOKING BACK No universal pension plan will ever be considered satisfactory The better the benefits to pensioners the higher the cost that must be borne by active contributors Yet benefits have improved remarkably in the past say 40 years Until relatively recently Canadians had to wait until age 70 to qualify now eligibility be gins at 65 In the past there was no spouses allowance no entitlement to health support such as hospital and medical care or prescription drugs To qualify for pension it used to be necessary first for the applicant to sell almost everything of value and to use up the proceeds The home its furnishings and life in surance could be retained but after death they had to be liquidated and the proceeds used to repay the pension benefits Today even the wealthiest receive CPP benefits and public officehulders bureaucrats and politicians upon retire ment receive superannuation that rises automatically with every increase in the inflation rate for as long as they live COUNT THE COST No one could argue against the Trudeau election promise to give workers who change jobs the right to switch their old employers pension contributions into their new em ployers pension plan without having to have been on the old job for at least 10 years before earning that right One could ask however why it has taken Trudeau 11 years to discover the glaring necessity of legislation to give workers that right His promise to ensure that private pension benefits are adequately protected against in flation to study the feasibility of bringing homemakers into the OFF and implicitly to equalize pension contributions and benefits as between men and women all sound good during an election campaign The costs however could be staggering but then politicians are always strangely si lent on the costs of their election pledges THERE ARE NO SIMPLE EVASIVE ANSWERS SPECIAL COUNSEL PAUL CURRAN The world today USSR denies human rights By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Five Soviet citizens imprisoned tortured mentally and physically who did what we take for granted criticized the government literally blinked their way into freedom last week in the bright sunlight of New York and klieg lights of the press They are Alexandr Ginzburg the human rights activist serving an eight year term in Soviet labor camp Mark Dymshits Eduard Kuznetsov doing 15 years for attempting to hi jack Soviet airliner Valentyn Moroz leading Ukrainian dissident and Georgi Vins Ukrainian Baptist leader Freedom for Moroz has been promoted by world Ukrainian communities since 1965 when he was first jailed For wishing the same rights and freedoms for Ukrainians in the USSR which peo le of this nationality have anywhere but insi the Soviet dictatorship Moroz has been in jail for 14 years Mr Vins is fundamentalist Christian sent to Labor camp and exile for 10 years on charges of defaming the Soviet state What he said and preached was not much different from the pitches of the fun damentalist churches which you can hear or see on numerous North American radio and TV stations In exchange for these five the Americans surrendered couple of Soviet spies members of that countrys bloated United Nations mission who were tracked down and caught by the FBI few years ago SPIES AS HEROES Apparently they were given socalled heroes welcome at Moscow airport while that great travesty of the press called Soviet newspapers said nothing about the exchange of the five socalled dissidents word which this columnist loathes and hesitates to use In our society they would be un derstandable critics of the government Hundreds of us here would be dissidents in the dehumanized Soviet police state including most lawyers our entire journalistic commu nity preachers anyone unhappy with the system and saying so The exchanges took place in another example of the interplay between power politics and individuals used as pawns in process In this instance the process is the lagging SALT 11 Strategic Arms Limitation discussions between Moscow and Washing ton The discussions are slowing down in part because of growing American rankandfile resistance to doing business with monstrous system which can only jail and persecute its opponents Americans are asking if SALT ll is another Soviet smokescreen like the Helsinki Conference on human rights which the Russians have cynically ignored to compel Washington to place ceiling on its vital defensive weaponry And while we can only rejoice at the release of these five one wonders what kind of games manship at the top will take place to secure the release of Anatoly Sharansky and Yuri Orlov the two leading domestic opponents of Soviet fascism When we become casual or even cynical about our national election campaign currently under way never forget these five brave Russians and what they stand for EVERYONES RIGHTS It is the same right to criticize the state which is normal function in our country But doing so made them prisoners of the Soviet state which never relents and never apologizes for denying its citizens human rights and personal freedoms Interpreting the news Soviet spy swap aids SALT talks By GLEN SOMERVILLE WASHINGTON CP Last weeks swap of Soviet spies for Soviet dissidents at New York airport helps President Carter soften the way for conclusion of strategic arms limitation treaty SALT with the Soviet Union Analysts interpret the swap as bizarre form of communication between the two superpowers designed to show their willingness to continue seeking better relations with one another Administration officials were happy about the success of the negotiations leading up to the exchange and quickly noted it will provide better reception for an arms limitation treaty Since Easter Carter has made conclusion of the prolonged SALT talks priority In major speech in New York last week he appealed for public support for new treaty as the best way to make the world safer But Carter still needed demonstration of his ability to deal successfully with the So viets to offset growing sense of unease in Congress about new SALT agreement White House aides were quick to point out that Carter played personal role in the talks leading to the release of five dissidents by the Soviets in return for two captured spies IS BOGGED DOWN While new pact limiting the spread of nuclear arms has been in its final stages for months it lately has bogged down over the issue of verification The term refers to American ability to determine whether the Soviets will live up to treaty terms The New York Times has quoted an unidentified senator as saying it would take until 1984 before the US could replace the capability of monitoring Soviet missile tests that was lost when listening stations in Iran closed down Administration officials denied this but left the controversy bubbling by refusing to disclose topsecret monitoring devices they say are to replace the lost Iranian stations