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Walden meets new friend hris llarper of Newmarket holds Walden luck for his llinonth old son hristophcr as Babe an 11month old Great Dane starts to take an interest Babes interest in the duck earned him sharp peck on the nose Christopher and his father were visiting entennial Park in Barrie Sunday when they made friends with the duck which belongs to Jon Butler Innisfil Examiner Photo Most leaders optimistic about summit conference LA MALBAIE Que CP Although most business labor and government leaders appear optimistic about the outcome of the toplevel economic confer ence which opened here Tues day fewwlike the presidents of two of Quebecs largest labor federationsfiare using the oc casion to criticize busineSs leaders as well as the Parti Quebecois Yvon Charbonneau Quebec Teachers Federation president launched tirade against big business terrorists who he said should be chased out of the province while Quebec concen trates on creating its own plan ned economy Two of the terrorists said Charbonneau are Earle McLaughlin president of the Royal Bank of Canada and Bernard Finestone Montreal Board of Trade president Norbert ltodrigue president of the Confederation of National Trade Ifnions said the CNTL is opposed to the social democratic philosophy of the Fire ban extended PEMBROKE mt lll ban on open fires was extended Tuesday to include most of Nor thern Ontario while 1000acre forest fire 63 miles north of this community remained out of control The fire halfway between this city and North Bay is one of ill fires burning in north eastern Ontario Ross Reagan ministry in formation officer said the ban will help but the area needs lot of rain to stop the fires from spreading He said there are crews on Highway 17 and air surveil lance crews watching for new fires There are 150 firefighters in the northeast region including 40 flowen in from northwestern Ontario Extra helicopters have been brought into the area The northeast reagion which includes the 3000squaromile Algonquin Provincial Park had 54 news fires during the weekend and about 1250 acres have burned Parti Quebecois and the gover nments middlcclass nation alism Your objectives your pol icies are not ours We dont see how you can dictate your will to large Canadian and American companies lDPTII1lSlI But the mood among most of the 150 delegates following the opening session of the confer ence billed as an economic summit was one of optimism tempered by belief that the best possible outcome of the talks would be an agreement to hold further discussions Premier Rene Levesque in the opening address invited participants at the threeday conference to engage in self criticism and said the goal of the meeting was to produce new measures for job creation and an economic recovery Despite sound system roblems the examlner Wednesday May 25 1977 19 Smith pleasedwith election debate TORONTO CP The balky sound system seemed to pick on Stuart Smith as its chief victim Iuesday night but the Liberal leader pronounced himself satisfied with the threeway 0n tario election debate Although Premier William Davis and NDI Leader Stephen Lewis largely escaped the occa sional bursts of static and dead air that plagued Smith at the CFTOTV studio they were less enthusiastic about the hour long debate the only one scheduled before the June9 election In separate news conferences after the broadcast all three leaders declined to pick win ner As the leaders were question ed in turn by Ab Douglas of the CBC and Fraser Kelly of CF TV on variety of issues the opposition leaders generally sided against Davis although Smith found himself in the minority on one or two occa sions Neither Davis nor Smith par ticipated in one discussion in which Lewis told Kelly the NDI has no intention of nationalizing the provinces natural resource industries but would exercise control over them in other ways And the leaders while ex pressing their views on national unity abided by their agree ment at the outset of the six week campaign that it was not an election issue In reply to an interviewers question Lewis said he had always been less impressed than some of his NDi col leagues with the social democratic credentials of Quebec Premier Levesque although he had welcomed the defeat of Levesques Liberal predecessor itobcrt lsiurassa Eventually he had come to realize that separation was Levesques primary goal and the NDP like the other two par ties was determined to keep Confederation together In reply to another question Davis said the premier of Hi tario has key role in keeping the country together and he has no political ambitions beyond filling that role Smith stressed that anglophonis in Ontario should not be tempted to deny language rights to Franco Ontarians because of measures being taken in Quebec to restrict the language rights of the Englishsrwaking minority Any such move would merely provide ammunition for the separatists The Liberal leader said hi tario residents will have to ac cept lower standard of living in order to share their wealth Ontario political leaders stand ready for debate to be broadcast live from Toronto television station Tuesday night Liberal leader Stuart Smith left New Democratic leader Stephen Lewis centre and Premier William Davis were to debate issues pertaining to the June provincial election Tl Photo with other parts of the country Both Davis and Lewis disagreed Lewis said he has an inherent optimism in the economic future of our pro vince and Davis said that if the Maritimes for example become more healthy Ontario will benefit The Liberal leader also received no support for one of the ciiief planks of his partys platform that spending in the public sector should be limited Bond interest move urged lllAWA li Pro gressive onservative Jack Ellis Hastings urged the government lucsday to make interest earned on municipal bonds deductible from income for income for tax purposes He told the Commons such move would cut municipal costs stimulate domestic in vcstmcnl in municipal bonds and provide the federal govern ineiit with way of helping financiallyrpresscd local governments Max Sallsman New Dem ocratic finance critic said the suggestion would benefit the rich and further distort the tax system Municipal bonds have beeoine tax haven for the wealthy in the ITnited States because they qualified for deductions ©Personalitydltugs iii iiiiillllllllltlluiliilii munl Looking for something different or unusual in mug Then come into The Panhandler and discover jUSl about the smartest collections of earthenware and ceramic mugs available Some tall some short but all interesting with distinctive decorator designs that project per sonalities of their own The perfect conversation piece for friends or HGIQllbOUTS or as treat for your self Come see them at The Panhandler were not very far from you Youll like our selection and our prices by the guidelines of the anti inflation board Davis said such arbitrary restrictions would cause serious disruptions in education and health services Lewis sug gtsted that abnormal incrwses in government spending be looked at and dealt with iii dividually on their merits On other issues Davis found united opposition arjayed against him Lewis and Smith each said the governments announced target of 100000 new jobs year for 10 years would not keep pace with the number of young people entering the job market even if it was achieved Attacked again by both leaders for refusing to ban sports fishing in the mercury contaminated English Wabigoon river system Davis said closure of the system might be politically popular but it was cosmetic measure that would not solve the problems of the nat ivc people in the area The premier also said dcclirr ing interest rates have stimulated housebuying and that price increases in the pro Ontario election 77 Vince compare favorably with those elsewhere Smith and Lewis said prices are kept high by delays in ap proving building projects and in putting 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