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Barrie taxpayers lucky with taxes Taxpayers are lucky they live in Barrie Royal Trust Realty in study of tax rates in municipalities across Ontario says Barrie taxpayers pay among the lowest property taxes in Ontario In June 1977 the owner of fivetoeight year old threebedroom bungalow on 6000 square foot lot paid $625 in roperty taxes Chat am taxpayers paid $475 Sudbury ratepayers paid $1236 Taxes of course are always too high Every politician worth his salt makes it point to promise hell cut taxes The reality of government though is little different than politicians promises Taxpayers in cities and towns all over North America demand more and more services They also want taxes cut or at least held to reasonable levels The municipal politician is caught between providing the services and keeping taxes low It is tightrope act demanding great skill most of the time and often political courage Canadas story CarnarvOn important BOB BOWMAN on Prince Charles was invested Prince of Wales in 1969 the ceremony took place at Camarvon Castle in Wales The name Car narvon is strongly linked with the develop ment of Canada because Lord Camarvon piloted the British Columbia Act through the House of Lords in 1858 and introduced the British North America Act to Parliament in 1867 He also played an important part in speeding the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway to the Pacific coast and keeping British Columbia from seceding from Canada When Lord Carnarvon introduced the BNA Act to Parliament he made prediction We are laying the cornerstone of peat state perhaps one which at future day may even overshadow this country But come The level of muniCipal serum in Barrie is generally what may we shall rejoice that we showed high neither iifidigerence to their wishes nor jea ousyo ir aspira ions Taxes as the Royal Trust survey shows are lower British Columbiajoined Canada in 1871 on thaninost centres In Ontario the understanding that the building of tran It is easy to blame politiCians for their mistakes and scontinental railway would begin within two easy to find mistakes But this time Barries elected representatives not only those now serving but those who have served in the past deserve thank you from Barrie residents down memory lane Nov 18 1959 Gladys McKinley RR2 Barrie was found by Barrie firefighter Fred Coulter after being missing in swamp for two days Simcoe County Council voted to build an addition to Georgian Manor old peoples home in Penetang twoday conference on national sur vivial under MajGen Spar ing opened at Camp Borden with 55 officers taking part Applications were being accepted for childrens art class at the Barrie YMYWCA Instructor was to be Mrs Bettina Harvie Members of the Barrie Horticultural Society took bus trip to the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto Harry Hancock manager of the Barrie branch Bank of Nova Scotia was honored by employees at party He had been transferred to Swift Current Sask His replace ment was Harry Nutter the property committee of the Barrie Public School Board was consider ing request from the Prince of Wales School Home and School Association for playroom at the school South Pacific was playing at the Roxy Barrie Flyers defeated the Junior Canadiens in Brockville Nelson Leelaire scored twice Viau Motors was selling the 1960 Hillman Minx for $1975 Elmam if the little squirt thought he had warm welcome in Paris Parliament hill By STEWART MacllEtll Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service had been listening to that ommons debate on income tax legislation and the longer it dragged on the more predictable were the pronouncements There was George llccs PC klrince Ed are facing difficult times now But he wasnt at all gloomy lam smiling because lot of other Canadians are smiling with the knowledge that the minister of finance has the courage and the ability to make decisions Then there was Walter Baker the Con servative House leader who represents Gren Saltsmans contribution start to real debate cheek he announced that with the utmost humility and deference think it is time for an expert to wade into this debate TONE CHANGES As have said earlierand this is quite apart from party politicsl find Saltsmar well worth listening to on economm matters Although declared socialist he is also years and be completed within 10 By 1874 lit tle had been done Alexander Mackenzie had succeeded Sir John Macdonald as prime minister and inherited an economic depression He felt that the railway should be built slowly and only as the population of Canada spread west British Columbia was furious there was strong movement to secede from Canada and resume the status of British colony or join the US Lord Camarvon offered to act as mediator in the di te between British Columbia and the eral government and his offer was accepted The Camarvon terms announced Nov 17 1874 delayed completion of the railway until 1390 but British Columbia would receive increased annual financial help from the federal government The deal mollified British Columbians to some extend but the movement to secede from Canada continued until Sir John Mac donald returned to power in 1878 Then the building if the railway went ahead quickly and it was completed in 1885 OTHER NOV EVENTS ismCanadas first highway was com pleted to Upper Tomi Que insL18 privateers raided Charlot tetown BisChippewas ceded 250000 acres now part of Simcoe County Ont liftRebels ambushed police outside Mon tre lassGrand Trunk Railway was completed between Guelph and SLraiord Interpreting the news Birth hailed Md The Examiner II member of The Canadian Pros CP and Audit Bureau of Circulo con on ABC Only the Canadian Press may republish news stories In this newspaper newsgooul ADVERTISING BUSINESS sundoY Ind crodllod to CF The Associated Press Reuters or Agence FrancoPresto and local Sean Inlay manaoind editor Len Sevlck manager Marian 6°09 mum statutory holidays now stories published in The Examiner Ratify McDonald cliy editor SAL ESMEN gemfgml 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lhlllfllltt smoothly along party lines And since it was delstand small Saltsman wanted to lsr Lsi Loss Blames and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson ews Service Wna is the mode for the Quew govern ment summer prograiit Shortly afte the Far Question was eiet ted year age Premier hone Ederogue die dared tr ar interview Witt business View that the gavernrnen wouic pattern economy or na of Sweeter Amid the controversies over in dependence anc France blatant meddling it as beer easy to forget that the Levesque government sand for socialism as well separatism To turn to Sweden as model lb only natural In many ways it resembles Canada lpo ation topogra ruralurban mix in some speci ic ways it resembles Quebec major industries include ship building iron ore and forest roductsi close look at SweClJens economy therefore could be instructive not just for Premier Levesque and the Parti Quebecois government but also for Canadian political leaders generally GOLDEN ERA in the 19605 Sweden was indeed an object lesson in many constructive ways Labor pro ductivity was improving at seven per cent year iexceeded only in Japan and exports of both raw materials and manufactured products were strong Even then however Sweden was notable in some other ways probably the worlds most advanced welfare system high taxes to pay or fit those services and there high living hosts Today Swedes are paying the price for their socialism we want your opinion wiiiiiliiiiigrm intl mind trmi it letter in the editor Please lllilkl it an vlllmni Mp1 and sign it We dont pubhsh unsigned letters although pen name ml it uniii upon implesl iilcllvli your addrch mri telephoni number because we have in vcrlf letter llill We wont with your address should Will pittel Weve oulid that short letters are the best lil Because of spate limitations public inicicst and good taste we somelliriis hich to will condense or reject letters lxileis to ill editor run Wednesdays and Saturdays Fiend yours in Letters to the whim ihi liixillililuii llox fllil Barrie lint MM itll Lnflatlon is running at 13 per cent lhrev deialuallons Within the past year have reduced the krona is per cent against strong currencies lo about 2ft cents Canadian Exporus blfifjk lflf have been growmg at about onefifth or one sixth the rate of growth world trade ludustrial alelitfitlSlll has become major concern On some days out of every 10 workers only six to Hile will show up THE INNOVATOKS An one Wishing to trace the roots of SW modern wealth must look back to the years around the lul of the century Swedes perfelted number of significant inventions from the safety match to the liylthousc from ball hearings to the tele Wine swnchin system that helped lian storm what had Mil an agarlan economy The growth of Swedish industry was con solidated during two world wars when the wuntry was prosperous island of neutrality and trade in continent at war Under the Social Democratic Party govern ment in the mid1970s industry was forced to increase wages 60 per cent in three years Note that the arti Quebecois has raised Quebecs minimum wage to the highest level in North America Domestic industries especially the service trades have simply raised their rices to of feet higher wage costs But Swot isll exports have suffered badly FALLING BEHIND No industrial innovations are taking place today to stimulate Swedish industry again unless you count furniture glass and crystal In such relatively new industries as com tortj and chemicals Sweden has fallen in And as far as steel is concerned Japan is producing rings around Sweden The CentreModerateLiberal coalition government which ousted the Social Democrats in last years Swedish election is hoping to rationalize industr moving workers out of obsolete steel mil for exam ple into other sectors with greater growth prospects But the defeated Social Democrats and their werful labor supporters are not only resist ng the new overnments efforts at economic recovery hey are also pushing plan to require industry over wyear geriad to transfer commonstock ownership the federation of unlonsnot to the gov ernment nor to individual workers but to the labor organization itself If the plan succeeds few labor leaders and union bureaucrats will hold full control of the Swedish economy Minister Jam hrctlcni is moving in the right direction And of course there was lolly Abbott the minister res lonsiblc for small business telling his col cagucs lil sober tones that we lly ItllltN IIAIHIHUN weigh Affliil Alialynl llloiultoll News Service The great ilnadlan love in for the Swulisli way of life and ecolloiiiic model coil linucs even thouin Swulcn faces the same kinds of difficulties we now all stiffer The latest convert to the Swedish model is Quebec sciaralist lreliiler Ilene Levesque who has hinted along with some of the economic thinkers in his liirti Qucbtcois that Swedens cxillll lt lh one to follow Admittedly the lit lllllllllilll for the Swedish way has coinc largely from the New Demo cratlc lllity iii Canada olir trade union leaders and socialist thinking licadciilics lhc welfare state apparatus of Sweden upheld while Swedish industry ruiiiainod colllpellllvt llild innovative was clearly the way of tile future to be copied bolus bolus by wotlllladlllils Sweden we were told had not exixirienctxl nation wide strike since liltitl and its labor maul lcmcni formlllll for negotiating ob viatei lhc wasteful North American ex perience with at rikes iiiid confrontation few shrewd observers from Canadian ill dustry did sec the we in which major Swedish firms were able to absorb both defence and consumer product requirements combining such diverse needs in it way no major Canadian company has done TIIE SWEDISII VISION It looks as though what Canadian social democrats saw in Sweden is what they wan ted to see In fact its welfare state is bible thought sought the Lord and he heard me and delivered me from all fears Psalm 344 Fear is what the devi uses to rob usof our productive time for the Lord Father like you said in your word deliver us from fear and replace every one of them with faith In Jesus great name Amen Fear thou not for am with thee hot in there under the television lights decided to leave But before got to the door Max Saltsman the New Democratic MP from Waterloo ambrldge got to his feet and with tongue in dangerously out of hand liicoiiles ill excess of 2000 per alumni can be taxed at the loperr cent rate Sales taxes on household items are often in excess of lb per cent And wage increases granted to workeis during lti7576 came to staggering 42 per cent At the same time Swedish liidustrits have lost some of their ability to ads and the terrific over burden of tax ant wage iii creascs to keep the welfare state moving along has priced Swedish goods out of world markets So do we have to to Sweden anymore to find out what the rive for total welfarism can do to an alleged open economy In fact as New York Times editorial board member and economist Leonard Silk points out Sweden has been on slippery path during this long base when we have admired her economic ba ance After the Second World War Swedish economic planners decided to devalue the krona rather than depress prices for Swedish goods in world markets Luckily for Sweden says economist Silk the opposite took place and Swedish prices remained constant while prices in other in dustrial nations continued to climb As result Sweden altered her exchange rate in the opposite direction in July 1946 cutting the value of the dollar and the pound by 14 per cent The appreciation of the krona and fine Swedish goods offered in export markets ac counting for one third of the national income gave this northern monarch the strength rom which to develop the wel are state many Canadians have admired since the l950tl But Swedish price competition has been reduced Those very high wage increases have helped the process Swedish industries are finding it hard to compete in the depressed world markets and the country faces 13percent inflation and ii rate of unemployment at previously unheard of seven per cent Sweden it would appear has joined the ranks of the rest of us in the industrial north with no full recovery plan in prospect say few things The first was that small btsinesses in Canada always face difficulties because policies affecting them am formulated by people with outstanding qualities in the field of law who have never met payroll And one listening to both Abbott and Baker he decided that it is no wonder that small business is in trouble He seemed impatient with government and Official Opposition spokesmen for being afraid to criticize btsimss and these flag waving hes about free enterprise would not solve the problem The best the minister could come up with he said was suggestion that small bminess has too manv forms to fill out And the Tories blamed all economic ills on poor postal services It was few things were said suggested the NDP member because get somewhat sick and tired of people running down our govern ment services That was strange statement from the op position side of the House So far as postal services are concerned he said that during the last strike it was not average citizens who were inconvenienced It was the businessmen of in community who suddenly discovered at without the post office they could not even survive Yet they are the ones who have done the most toward destroying the post office under the guise that it is government operation and not free enterprise TIME TO STOP The way Saltsman sees it its time to stop subsidizing junk mail including newspapers and start giving the post office more money anti paying its employees better He had more to say If you talk to small businessmen they complain about govern ment interference but ask if he wants to go back to the days when he did not have old age pension Canada Pension Plan medical tier vices and hospital insurance progrluns for his employees the conventional wisdom to txmlplnill about BOCllllld socialist memulmn he will but if there were no intent lloylnnnl insurance ill the depressed mean Canada right now there would be wave of lwikrupiclm that would make the I030 look pale by com piiriliou This In no time for in medium imposition otalollloutn about MINI mutton or mean it less fla waving by the gmviument tutti Sn inllmn ill in lime lot mtiwbluui talking And IIRII would settle to statement limit the miwmmmu bitit in dimlod that it undonilootl tlw mum viii fieuliioo it in incl HM lime in playing anion and mullill Ilw mmmml or the rm of the Imlltlufiflw mtt st But it Would do the gineminent mm Jon pm if it llIll ililon lent tloimiv on thin toutv Silltnillnlli tNIIIIIHIHNt mu all to it start drawing fire By BRLCE LEVEII LONDON CP Britons generally have hailed the birth of Princess Annes son there seems to be increasmg concern abou the high cost of maintaining the Royal Family newgtpafir which splashed news of tin arrival new baby on its front page carried plCqutS inside of Princess Margaret swimming off tropical island Margaret is sunning it on the Caribbean island of Mustique where she is staying with her young friend Robby Llewellyn says The Daily Mirror Clearly she knows how to nd her 5000 $10000ayear pay rise from British tax payer Traditionally Britons have looked to the Royal Family for example during hard times Therefore there was wide disappointment recentl when the Queens budget was in creas by 18 per cent boast equivalent to about $1 million since 1975 The Labor government has ruled that wage increases generally should be kept to an av erage 10 per cent Enforcing that policy brought widespread blackouts by disgruntled power workers The police also threatened to strike before backing down and the firemen actually did walk out demanding 30percent wage increases Two thirds of the Queens 18 room in crease goes toward the wage bil for royal retainers at three major households Buckingham Palace Windsor Castle and Holyrood House in Edinburgh ANNE GETS MORE The incnellse under the civil list also calls for the quivaleilt of it $300000 increase it the Queen Mother and $10000 mow for Illll was Aline to give her it total of $l00000 The Queens ill per cent increase bring her annual expense allowances to about $4 million Douglas Hoyle Labor Ml for Nelson and Collie linked lriiue Millistoi Janina tailuglwl whether his to lot com winqu rivalo guidelines on in coded to imply item the riddle mttu It on hi dont the appli in the civil lint in it fact that time one in IN the tiilmu vIImui and mmilw IN the upper ope im mi axial imltnlimi ill IPW the itinlmmilclwti Vlwnkflt inlkn about the mm In Itnilu iii mltmmlimi tuition ltmln Wfitil to him Philip who in Ivan out when in In eliliclnu of ill thyhint more limit and almost none to the grlndstmw emuouch to lrltolno whom pmblems Hoyle cmld take some mince therefore in the fact that in this nmtmverslai civil list table of increases the Queens husband got no lMlGl 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