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publisher ADVERTISING 7266537 ClASSIFIEDS 7282414 BUSINESS 7266537 NEWSROOM 7266537 CIRCULATION 7266539 From the Revision needed of county rules When Simcoe County council is considering restructur ing proposalsa change in representation rules again merits serious consideration The county council made its last change five years ago which reduced the membership from 55 to 48 effective legislature Curbing OB under study from 1973 DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau ThlS was done by rewsmg the rules covering qualifica Thomson News Service tion of municipalities for deputy reeve Under the old rules municipality had to have 1000 eligible voters to have two county representatives This was changed to 2500 Since then the representation has climbed from the 48 to 53 and unless further revision is made could get back to 55 or more before long Anyway the representation is out of line with popula tion and taxes paid and an overhaul is long past due Over the past decade various reports have been made with recommendations which were placed on file for study but so far there has been no new action According to current tax requisition figures Innisfil township pays larger county levy than eight others combined yet has only two members against eight It should be explained these two members each have two votes but the ratio is still out of line The Innisfil situation may be corrected in vay by Barrie annexation but there are other municipalities which have legitimate complaints about unfair represen tation under the present setup few years ago report was presented proposing population of at least 6000 for qualification of deputy reeve Another report suggested ward system of direct election of county council members contentious issue which has been sharply debuted both in county circles and outside consideration of sensi ble revisions in rules to bring representation on county TORONTO Recently the town of Halton Hills near Toronto he meeting where council approved construction of new library The debentures to pay for it received routine Ontario Municipal Board approval Then some local citizens asked the OMB for review of the debenture approval Two board members heard them Their decision was to reverse the rior ap roval and to call for fullsea OMB aring on the library itself where the town could prove its case and objectors give their viewpoint The board indicated it had doubts library opponents received full hearing when coun cil approved the building And that to me is what that peculiar On tario institution of the Ontario Municipal Board is all about Aside from its other func tions it remains the court of appeal for the little man upset at his local politicians Now the government has before it the Report of the Planning Act Review Com mittee more commonly referred to as the Comay report after its author One of its recommendations would restrict the powers of the OMB In the Halton Hills case the board will take into account whether the library is needed within the terms laid down by Treasurer Dar cy McKeough that this is time of fiscal re straint Under the Comay recommendations the OMB could not do this The merits of municipal planning decisions would be strictly loca matter Comav would allow the OMB to hear ap ls from residents on the grounds they council more in line with population would be forward step simcoe yesteryear youll ow of 1lt at the bloom minty Archives Midliuist Archivist lctii 494 ii bvloiig Vlayoi lelpw of Harris just before the turn of tlic cciitui The 31 in yoplv Mlivw it we lm satrd on the bIllllI side of olliii Sticct Slllfmi Iioiii tlii wf Hut tho widow walk Photo UIHIIHy Slim Iiif oniin All llthHl Your business By lll hliAN Business and oiiwiiiir Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The threat of rotating strike of Canadas air controllers focuses public attention once again on the right to strike against essential services And once again the problem will be dealt with by emergency legislation while the basic righttostrike issue remains unsolved Well thats politics But some day some government of Canada is going to have to consider the rights of the public at large and then come to decision Wh not now In the current dispute air controllers are demanding 126 per cent more pay That represents just over $50 week on the con trollcrs current average salary of $21000 Since unions no longer explain the reasons for their demands one can only surmise what their justification is Controlling air traffic is responsible work culling for personal qualities not found in cv eryonc But does that lllftlfl that air con trollers are automatically entitled to in flntioniiry wrigc increases your after year Other people llilVC difficult jobs and the sense of responsibility that keeps them ill their chosen work because it is essential to society WAGE DEMAND The Treasury Board has offered the 2200 members of the Canadian Air Traffic Control Assmiution uaruntoed incrciisc of eight percent in iota compensation That would keep the controllers com fortlibly illllilil of IIlllilllUll and within the generous limits of lllt govtriiiiicnts and inflation pol icy But if the government ucccdcs to the Mt Right to strike and public need percent illiiiniid llicii it would act it prcc odciit Ulil would surely tic taken up by all other gioupz iii lftllllll aiiViiia iiiiil tbi slinky iiili lllllillltlll ittort would collapsi altogether The coiilrollcis tlirclit to lllltlltt then In fltitionnry wrigc dciiinnds by oiic dny itrikcs bore and there till iltltlti tiiiidi would 13118011llllnlnlllllltIlfllHllJltlltllllllllltlllllly chequos and maximum ot tllHlllllllUll to airline operations The travelling public would bc liiirt badly and remember that not all travellers by any means are idle pleasureseekersi that airlines would lose millions of dollzirs and that the strikers would lose the occasional days pay MONOIOLY POWER Candians have suffered enough from Slop pages of essential services Its no defence to say that the majority of publicservice coir tracts are settled pczicefull at the bargaining table and that the pu lic should therefore put up with the disruptions that do take place lublicscrvicc disputes arent in the same category as others because of tho monopolistic nature of the inzirkct for those services If one corniokcr is struck you can buy it competitors air If air traffic is shut down you cant fly to the place where you might be needed In free country nobody is forced to enter career such as air control or any other type of essential service llziving chosen to engage in nu essential service however workcr should be prepared to keep on working ivcn whcn that means submitting the terms of employment to compulsory impzirt ltll zirbitizition idntreceiveafairhearing but not takethe Ill tlIt prrltlll onemun microle to the six million blacks lccll hrfirst 0000 rinyicrly Parliament hill in ll STICWARI Milcllll ttttnwzi liurcnu llioinson News Service lcrhnps finally we gctting away from the belict llllll zill ziniidizin problems and pair ticuliirly those rclnted to the economy are caused by the existence of separatist gover nment in Qucbcc You know Wllill its been like Ever since ltinc lxyrsqucs government came to power lzist Nov 13 there hch been almost daily stories of the duinzigc this has done to zinzidzi lf investment in any particular field took it noSidivc it was because of uncertainty over the future of Quebec If any Quebec lklbftl firm movcd its head office to Toronto it was litcause of tlic lcvcsquc gtivernincnt lhc long range economic prospects for niizidai vcrc not promising we have been told icpczitcdly and thc rciison is the pissibility of scpzirotc Quebec When the tourist lliltlt picked up in the New England stiitcs it was because people didnt want to bicc llic unccrtiiinty of it Qucbcc Viltilllt Prime Minister lrudcnu would tell us that firms lciiving Quebec Were playing into the today By JOHN llAltIlltth Fttrllflll Affairs Aiiulyst llii ItitllthWtthlViCl ilINliIVA lAltK nt summer are talking talking Its till about ourselves nnd it lliIS bccn Sllllllllillttl notutnlly by events in Qucbcc Inst Nov IS with the lurti Quelxcois victory lhc grunddnddy conference for talking nimdiun is here on Lake Youchicliing which incidentally is ti plticcof big winds And for the 40th year in succession iinzidiains lizivc conic here to explore issues perhins not liiid solutions but ill leiist llStlISEil icin But this summer the famous ouchiching Conference is surrounded by comparative newcomers in the pastime of asking where do we go from here The thrust for this of course is the whole matter of Canadian unity and whether we will iinndinns this we want your opinion Something on your mind Send us letter to the editor Please make it an original copy and sign it We dont publish unsigned lettcrs although pen name will be used upon request Include your address and telephone number because we have to verify letters but we Wont print your iiddicss should you prefer Weve found that short letters are the best read Because of space limitations public interest and good taste we sometimts have to edit condense or reject letters Letters to the editor run Wednesdays and Saturdays Send yours to lxttcrs to the editor The Examiner Box 370 Burric nt MM 4T6 hands of separatists And at the same time his ministers would be telling us about the peat exodus from that provinceand much of it as it turns otit was exaggerated The federal government often appeared to be talking out of both sides of its mouth lTSIlE HELP But one message seemed clear So long as Quebec had government committed to the independence of that province zinzidu would face problems And initially there was even help in this regard from American investors as the zineidizin lflllill dipped in value In fact not long ago the influential rgnniuition for Economic Cooperation and lXVCltlpllltnl referred to Canadas uncertain political future when it predicted gloomy economic prospects for the country until at least the middle of next year And of course all along we have been led to believe that Quebecs own economy was vir tually on the skids and investments money was blowing out to the United States and ii tnrio in il blizzard of bills But now just in the last few days there are indications that we are beginning to see Them Canadian debate over priorities continue to enjoy cohesive coasttocoast nation Prior to this annual event was the large public conference held by York University of Toronto in June and called Destiny Canada To it came the John Docs from across the country compared to other conferences which have concentrated on socnllcd opinion makers and prominent people Destiny nnitdii will meet again this full when its 500 delegates having returned to their connnunitics collie back to York to talk some more Then there is likeminded conference planned for Oct 1546 by the University of Toronto But they will invite the elite to also discuss our future The Financial Post is holding several high lcvcl meetings one this full in Calgary And in Montreal the host of newborn talkiithons with things like Commitment Canada are springing up mainly within the worried EnglishCanadian communities in Quebec Goodness knows we have enough to talk and worry about in Canadian society at present At its halfway point this conference was engrossed in an analysis of what it called the New North and the Metro lis The late French geograp er Andre Siegfried reminded Canadians in an earlier time in this century that if we forget our nor til we forget ourselves Well Dr Siegfried there is no wony about such national for getfulness this summer All these issues including major look at whether Canada is racist society or not are domestic issues Are we so intent in navel watching we have forgotten the external world If so that world has not forgotten us The major foreign economic news affecting Can ridii as this conference meets is the constant decline in the Canadian dollar Sagging economy not Quebec blamed for dollar decline things differently And it seems there are other reasons for Canadian problems in fact some of the pronlcms may not be as serious as we had been led to believe It was interesting to see how the Wall Street Journal reasoned why the Canadian dollar is declining on the international money markets lt was not because of possible hicbec indcixndcncc said the newspaper it was because the markets are telling Prime Minister lrudcziu they have even less con fidence in his economic management than in the US administration The ltlulfltll went on to talk about inflation strikes price and wage controls and low pro ductivity but not about separatism While the nations troubles are frequently attributed to the rise of the Quebec separatists added the newspaper it would be more accurate to say that the rise of the Quebec separatists is closely related to the countrys economic mismanagement Thats the first time have heard that viewpoint from outside the country QUEBEC GROWING And on the heels of this comes re ort from the Conference Board of Cana which dispels the idea that the Levesque govcrn ment has already wrecked the provincial economy was really surprised to learn lhill Quebecs effective growth rate for 1977 is ex pected to be 33 per cent higher than every province except Alberta British Columbia and Ontario And next year Quebecs growth rate is expected to rise to 43 per cent This is slightly below the national average but this is nothing new And so llll as unem ployment is concerned the Board expects Quebec to narrow its traditional lead over the national average It the Wall Street Journal is right and it certainly gets support from New Democratic Leader Ed Broadbent that it was economic problems which gave rise to separatism then the onfercncc Board report represents good news for the whole country And better still we just may be starting to bury that belief that grasshopper plagues on the prairies are somehow related to scpnrnl ism iii Quebec ED BROADBENT agrees action that they did in Halton Hills of order ing new hearing instead the OMB could only recommend to the government that something be done How the overnment will react to Ccmays recommen ations is uncertain but there are Indications itll tinker with OMB powers only after careful consideration As recently as July Premier William Davis answered question in the legislature with defence of the OMB am very concerned about the rights of people who can be affected by the municipalities without some avenue of appeal he added That was the principle at stake in the Halton Hills case and if Comay is adopted it will be abridged to some degree Historically the Liberals with their belief in local autonomy have been the OMBs severest critics next to the local politicians who resent the usurpation of their authority In general they support curtailing the boards powers and theyll likely look on Comay with favorable eve Canadas story Convoy duty forournavy By BOB BOWMAN Early in August 1941 the RCN destroyers Assiniboine and Restigouche were on convoy duty in the North Atlantic when they received wireless message in secret code ordering them to rendezvous with the battleship Prin ce of Wales No reason was given but the de stroyers raced to the designated position in longitude and latitude and sighted the bat tleship in rain and fog on the morning of Au st on they learned the se of their mission The battleship filled lamp Iignal We have the ime minister the first sea lord the chief the Imperial General Staff and the chief of the Air Staff on board are proceeding to rendezvous with the resident of the United States Assiniboine and Restigouche were to provide antisubmarine protection for the attleship to Argentia Newfoundland The battleship was racing through rough sens at 30 knots which made it impossible for the destioyers with their eggshell hulls to keep pace They asked the admiral to slow down and he reduced speed reluctantly to 29 knots Those tunndiiins destroyers did magnificent jobs during the Semnd World War helping to win the bottle of the Atlantic but the race to Newfoundland must be among the most exciting llltllltlllls of the men who took pa rt They arrived at Argciitizi on August and passed thiough lane of US destroyers until they dicw near the cruiser Augusta with President ioniscvclt Secretary of State or dell Hull and lending American military tut viscrs on board The US was not then in lllt war but after two dtl of confcicixts Prime Minister Vliltlchi and President Roosevelt issued the Atlantic hairter that promised tricdom to oppressed notions alter the war bible thought For determined not to know It and among you save Jeuul Christ an hlm crucified Horlntldiuiu 22 We must never lctivc the scene of our Sillviition iii our wrsonul griititude or in the presentation of the gospel to others