EDITORS The Examiner is member ol The Canadian Press CPI and Audit Bureau at Circulations ABC Only the Canadian Press may re publish news stones this newspaper credited to CF The AssocMed Press Reuters or Agence France Presse and local news stories published in The xaminer ADVERTISING busiuiss COMPOSING ROOM pumished dam except Craig 90 PMWIW my Len Sevlck manner Marian Gwoh accountant Jack Kerney loreman Sunday and Ian Mulqrew CIY ed° SALES Dem Mans Glenn Kwan asst foreman Sammy hofldays McFarlane wlre edl or May May Vikki Grant Don Saunders WEEKLY by my NEWSROOM Am 5mm Brenda Woods Lorne Wass 90 Ms Due Fun 59 5mm CRCULA7ON 321353 YEARLYbY carrier servmg borne and Simcoe county am Halkes manager Ram $4530 EV Thursday May 31919 Degnis mm mug its yvaridgeï¬asstani manager inï¬rm av MAIithgarne Wm Plant sv Montreal Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited mum cussmso Jamar ï¬agmghen swcoe COUNTY l6 Boyfield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Richard Thomas may chapesuperviso 53m pone 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needed to keep it this way Treating this crime severely is proper warning that Simcoe County will not tolerate any spread of this dreadful drug letters to the editor Dear Sir Your editorial on capital punish ment Examiner May 28 was logical reasoning piece defending your stand on abolition of capital punishment My exception to your article is in your final summation which is untrue The reason for demanding the penatg for murder is not for revenge nor for the good of the vic ar or relatives The death penalty should be imposed to prevent TEpEZZUDIi of the act by the same perso Du legislative system and radical are more inter the protection of the criminal and murderer than in the protection of society Our penal institutions seem ingly cant hold prisoners with any degree of certainty There are escapees early parole bereave ment leaves and early release for good behaviour The media has gleefully jumped on the legislative and judicial band Your business By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service If the Canadian economy is to prosper in the 19805 the fuel for that prosperity will be capital investment The hundreds of billions of dollars that will be invested in new projects over the next declt ade could well lift the economy out of its resent stagnation or could lead us toward ankruplcy Much will necessarily depend upon the Clark government Already doomsayers are clucking about the Conservatives bad luck in being elected to power just when slowdown is turning into inevitable recession to be followed by depression But new government if it chose to be guided by longterm wisdom rather than by shortterm popularity could make the 19805 decade of economic reconstruction of growt and job creation HEAVY DEMAND ur capital investment needs over ihe next 10 years will be enormous particulhtly in such fields as energy Bell Capacla chairman dc Grandpre believes For the next 10 years he estimates total capital investment at $870 million $270 million for social capital and the rest for business purposes Thats three times the capital spending of the 19705 Medland newly elected chairman of the Investment Dealers Association puts the figurc higher at more than $1 trillion thats one followed by 12 zeros The Bell chairman told the annual IDA convention on May 29 that Canadas total Gross National Product GNP the value of all goods and services produced during the next 10 years will probably total about $41 trillion If those estimates are correct capital spending would be 212 per cent of GNP In the opinion of de Grandpre that proportion should be increased to 25 cr cent if unem ploymcnt is to be reduced rom recent levels of about eight per cent of the labor force we want your opinion Something on your mind Send Lotth to the Editor Please make it an original copy and sign it iii The Examiner doesnt publish unsigned iot torl but if you wish pen name will be used Include your telephone number and address oswohovo to verify letters Becaqu ol Ipoco limits public Interest and good taste The Examiner sometimes has to odt condom or rolect lotion Lotion to the Editor or run every clay on the editorial pogo Send your to latter to the Eliot The labor but MM In IARII Out wagon for some obscure reason This surprises me for would think you people are aware daily of the rate of repeat in released prisoners and would ba voice demanding concern for society instead of criminals Eventually society will have to carry mace if they want to use the streets or parks in our cities Wesley Rogers Barrie Dear Sir Through this medium want to ask Mr Cotter if he discovered dur ing his research on the causes of homosexuality that it is often childs subconscious response to parent who is selfcentred and over bearing the sort of parent for in stance who hysterically leads moral vigilante groups out to murder enlightenment Respectuflly Pauline Sourire Barrie Need for capital to grow rapidly FINDING FUNDS How will capital of that magnitude bc raised Chiefly it seems in ways that arc politically unpopular One way will have to be from forcign inr vestment against which the New Democratic Party stormed in the recent election But as de Grandpre points out the proportion of for eign ownership and control in Canada is dropping steadily and our net foreign inr dcbtcdness has been declining to 26 pcr cent of GNP last year Another way is through rcinvcstmcnt of business profits which arent always regarded as good thing Its hard to compete with the politicians or the headline writers who play the numbers game and focus on sensationalsounding percentage increases without relating them to return on investment or to meaningful period the Bell chairman said And still another way would Di for the government to stop taxing capital gains which de Grandpre equates with capital confiscation The Conservatives in thcrcccnt campaign promised to end the taxation of capital gains as means of encouraging Canadians to invest their savings in productive enterprises ROADBLOCKS Two major obstacles stand in the way of economic recovery in de Grandpres vicw Inflation There are several contributing factors including high wage settlements up 100 per cent in Canadian manufacturing between 1970 and 1977 with productivity gains of only 212 per cent in the same period but the primary cause has been excessive growth of money supply largely to help finance government spending Government spending This rose to 416 per cent of GNP last year from 337 per cent in 1968 and was the direct cause of large taxation increases and unprecedented growth of the public debt new government could remove those roadblocks if it has the courage to sacrifice the cheap popularity that inflation offers politicians bible thoughts And the publican standing afar off woï¬m not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven but smote upon his breast saying God be merciful to me sinner Lukc Iii Ill Here is the prayer that will put to rest the anxiety of your soul For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be say ed Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall be saved But he was wounded for our transgres SIOIISz he was bruiscd for our iniquitics the chastiscmcnt of our peace was upon him rsnaand with his stripes we are healed Isaiah Everything was covered at the cross and all we have to do is come Whosoever will may come come unto me will give you rest The Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advcrlvsmg maEYlal created by 13 employees and published this newspaper Copyright registration number 2038l5 register 51 National advertising ollices 65 Queen St Toronto 861 1710 otOCathcart The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable tor damages arts m9 out of errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid tor the space ac tually occupied by that porton ol the advertisement in which the error oc curred whether such error is due to the negligence at IlS servants or other wise and there Shall be no liability tor non nSerhon of any advertisement beyond the amount paid lor such advertisement On Education By TERRY FIELD Of The Examiner As unpleasant as the expression is to most people the debate that has ensued concern ing construction of distinct secondary school for the French of Penetanguishene has become numbers game The Simcoe County Board of Educations position is clear There are not enough pro spective students to justify the cost of new building According to figures collected by the board using survey distributed in the area some 110 students would chose the French school Further the board argues cnrolmcnt at Icriclanguishcnc Secondary School will drop Caveat empfor liy LEONARD NOBLE Thc Fiddlcr on tho liool proclaimcd Iradilion And so it is tradition with tho contcnl of political post clcction slatcmcnts Obviously tradition rcquircs thc losing lcadcr in an clcclion to announcc gloomily lhc votch lIthI spokcn It is as though thc votcrs spcak with tho voice of doom and probably do as far as tho loscr is conccrncd By the some tokcn tlic winncr always says and now its timc for us to gct down to thc busincss at hand lhzit stutcmcnt sccms to imply that thc clcction campaign has just been lot of fun and nonscnsc Ilowcvcr ts ull ovcr now and tomorrow will bc business as usual Losing Cabinet Minstch havc stntcmcnt that is as traditional as iambic iwntaunctcr vcrsc What are you going to do Mr Ministcr now that you are out of job the rcportcr asks Well replics thc cxCubincl Ministcr the first thing Im going to do aftcr lvc moved my stuff out of the office is for inc and the wife and kids to take nice long holiday Ive been working eighteen hours day seven days week for so long cant remember anything different NEXT TIME Ill miss all that activity but Ive got no regrets After the holiday who knows Maybe Ill be back into the race the next timc around Losing backbenchers are little less sure of themselves Theyve not shared the spot light nor do they now have the opportunities as their Cabinet colleagues Consequently they come across something like this when asked what theyre going to do SCOOPS Way 1995 may Oil YES MR SMITH FULLY RECOGNIZES THAT AM THE PRiME MINISTER substantially in the 19805 leaving it under utilized Today at P85 there are 967 students Some 300 take at least one course taught in French and 100 of those take full fivecourse pro gram taught in French FEEL POWERLESS It is situation trustees and board ad ministrators feel powerless to correct In an attempt to reach agreement with the corn munity compromise was offered an an nex to the existing high school for use by the French community It however is proposal that has pleased neither French nor English and is no longer real option Simcocs Frcnch Languagc Advisory Corn Oui of iob into the fray Ive got number of options that arc open to mc bunch of irons in the fire you might say At thc pltStIll timc Im not quite surc which one Im going to takc or whether or not Ill takc any of thcm On tlic other hand thc winning potcntiul Cabinet Ministers almost purr whcn iskcd by ncwsnicn if thcy bclicvc they will become Cabinet Ministcr To tell you the truth we havent given great foul of thought to that qucstion lNotc tlic rcgal wc First prioritics first we always say Now that wcvc bccn clcctcd wc will only say that were prepared to follow out the ordcrs of thc Irimc Minister If we can better scrvc both him and our Country by bccoming Cribinct Minstcr thcn so be it llRIlillE SUCCESS To what do you pcrsonally attribute your succcss at the polls thc reporter continucs Firstly rcplics Mr Cabinet Iotcntial Wc rcprcscntcd thc bcttcr Party Secondly we tool that we were more in tune with thc needs of thc constitucnts in our riding than wcrc our opponcnts and thirdly but not last ly the unsung voluntccrs of the Party organization wcnt ubovc and bcyond thc call of duty to insurc that all thc votcrs in our riding got our mcssagc Ihc ncwly clcctcd potcnitail backbcnchcrs arc little more modest in thcir ways lhcy thank cvcryonc in sight for thc hpr in getting them elected Ihcy cvcn havc few good words for their opposition George fought good clcan fight and respect him for it There may be ncwcr and better ways to say these things but when all is said and donc you just cant beat tradition mittee the local office of the Association CanadienneFrancaise de lOntario the French teachers association an undetermin ed portion of the community and some students at P58 want the new school and dispute the boards numbers They cite ex amples of other French schools where enrolments proved higher than expected They argue that the community would res pond if it had school and they play their own version of the numbers game The numbers they use are less tangible because no study has been done but to them the figure is substantial They say that had separate and distinct secondary school been built 20 years ago 10 years ago or even five years ago fewer French speaking residents of the area would have been assimilated into the dominant English culture CONCERN FOR LLTURE It is not just concern for the French culture and language they are exhibiting but fear that way of life is in jeopardy In most homes French is not used but some 80 per cent of the communitys residents have French surnames What is needed the new school supporters say are French institutions in which French is spoken daily Without them the children of the French community will have no place outside the home where their culture is domi nant The result they argue will be total assimilation The third participant in the numbers game is the government of Ontario Charg ed with the responsibility of ensuring its con stituents are educated the government has allowed for instruction in French and French schools where numbers warrant the action There are 302 French elementary schools in Ontario 25 French secondary schools and 35 mixed high schools such as PSS where instruction in various courses is offered in both languages Ontarios policy demonstrates some respect for Francophones but does dose of respect result in an equal amount of op portunity Numbers are useful but they never reflect the concerns of people and their desires The French have lived in this area since the scvcntccnlh century and have become an in tegral part of the Canadian experience N0 WINNERS Yet the current discussion on their culture ccntrcs only on numbers Everyone is playing the numbers game but no one is winning The school board uscs numbers because it must satisfy provincial guidelines the French community has responded with its own set of numbers while the province sccms contcnt with existing legislation that in this case places dollars ahcad of minority rights Perhaps its time for the province and othch to stop using numbers in dealing with the rights of our FrancoOntarian minority bylineinert More grants anger Smith By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Opposition leader Stuart Smith was incensed here last week when the government handed out $1 million cash to two more prosperous corporations The grants the latest in series are part of the recently announced commitment to what the government calls supporting Ontarios industrial base The money is to keep the industry here or help it expand where it might otherwise leave Ontario or do nothing Or at least thats the goVernments reasoning Smith has different perspective Does industry and tourism minister Larry Grossman not understand he will end up having to bribe every prosperous company to stay in Ontario Smith contends any manager worth his salt will threaten to move to Tennessee or wher ever since company costs would in fact be lower there in order to get money from the government MUCH DISAGREEMENT Does he not understand that such gants can only lead to every manager in Ontario standing on the steps of Queens Park with his hands out Grossman rejects Smiths reasoning as naive arguing instead that the Americans are offering massive incentives for com panies to move and that Ontario must meet the competition Conservatives he says dont like the idea of bribing corporations to do what they nor mally would do anyway but Ontario is not going to lose the jobs and investment in volved by doing nothing In short there is fundamental cleavage in ToryLiberal views over how to handle the increasing offering of incentives to cor porations by governments to get them to leave onejurisdiction and go to another SEVERAL CRITERIA The NDP oppose all grants unless the government gains equity in exchange but its opposition is partly hamstrung by general union approval of the grant programs job making aspects Grossman said several criteria are used in determining whether grant should be given ornot One is to check the companys facts just how much cheaper is it for them to go to Tennessee and then figure the costs to Ontario if the firm does leave Thats not just the price in unemployment and lost investment but whether it is singleindustry town for example or high technology export industry Plus theres the question of how reputable the company is PROBABLY NECESSARY Smiths criticisms notwithstanding the current suicidal bidding wars between states and provinces probably make the grants necessary But theres danger in the current ap proach The decision on whether to giï¬gtants or not by the politicians and senior civil ser vants involved is not cutanddried procedure Without rules without regulations without criteria without legislafidhp is how Smith puts it lot of it is value judgment which puts premium on the human factor That kind of unstructured formless decisionmaking always results in an error sometime interpreting the news Anti nuclear protest grows By JOHN WARD NEW YORK CP Growing sentiment against nuclear power is causing concern to utility companies in the United States There have been protests against atomic power before but the entire question has be come overheated in the aftermath of the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant near Harrisburg Pa this spring That mishap still is under investigation and is subject of shrill debate by spokesmen on both sides of the question Across the US opponents of nuclear power often including cadres trained in the antiwar protests of the 605 and early 70s are gathering their forces Earlier this month some 70000 protesters massed in Washington in an antinuclear rally one of the largest demonstrations since the Vietnam War More actions are planned across the country on June which has been named an international day of protest against nuclear power FEELS EFFECTS The vocal groundswell against nuclear power has already had some effects in Washington House of Representatives committee has proposed sixmonth moratorium on new construction or licensing and Senate committee has voted in favor of resolution calling for the closure of all plants which do not produce an approved evacuation plan within six months The utilities find themselves in poten tially disastrous bind Some 40 companies now have an estimated $50 billion invested in partiallycompleted reactors They fear these projects may be hit with demands for millions of dollars in new mandatory safety equipment necessitating design changes and further delays in the already long lead time for nuclear plants The projects may even be halted completely by the nuclear lobby There is already de facto moratorium on new construction No new reactors have been ordered for about two years