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Monday Doc 12 1977 CIRCULATION 7266539 in the newspaper Thirty government pegple But the way total secrecy heart wasnt really in it And that is it munity honored Dec 12 1962 More than two inches of snow had fallen on Barrie in the previous two days Wendy Hicks was appointed coordinator of the Buy in Barrie campaign sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce Mrs Hugh Wallace president of the Barrie YMYWCA said the would build new structure bet ween Highway 400 and Grove Street near Toronto Street The $475000 building was to include an indoor swimming pool Barrie ci thousand Canadians have been chosen by fellow Canadians to receive Silver Jubilee medals The medals in recognition of Queen Elizabeth 11s 25 years on the throne of Canada are intended to honor community service in all walks of life The honor of those medals has almost become joke because of hamhanded handling by the Canadian down memory lane leers to the editor the examiner serving borrie and simcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Baytield Street Barrie Ontario L4M 4T6 Elio Agostini publisher ADVERTISING 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 7282414 Bad handling of medal honor If government were sincere about honoring worthy citizens you would think it would arrange for something more permanent than the fleeting recognition of story their It is no secret that there are people who contribute great deal to their communities far more than other ese people contribute mostly for their own satisfac tion and the intangible reward of being good citizen The silver jubilee of monarch is traditional time for honoring those people of letting them know their fellow citizens appreciate their work of letting them know they are not toiling unsung and unseen The Canadian government decided to give Silver Jub ilee medals which was good idea the medals were given out almost in shows that the Canadian governments The medals have been mailed out to the recipients No ceremony no indication of the people in com That does nothing but cheapen the honor and make mockery of the silver jubilee Creeping republicanism Maybe Insultingly bad manners Definitely ty council made its annual Christmas donation of $5 to home for the aged residents nursing home residents and welfare reci pients in the city John Holder was elected president of the Royal Canadian Air Force Association Buehlers Food Market was selling lean sliced bacon for 49 cents pound Mrs William Sargeant was convener for the annual Christmas party held by the aux iliary of Royal Victoria Hospital Anger frustration about riot Dear Sir feel extreme anger and frustration brought on by the reading of your reportage on the Barrie Jail Riot This anger and sense of utter futility are caused by the Ontario Corrections minister Mr Frank Drea cannot believe that man holding his post has views on jails and the court system as be ing methods of punishment rather than rehabilitation have two points wish to bring to your and Mr Dreas attention The threat of unusually severe penalty for these mens actions that is maximum of 14 years imprisonment plus the obligation once the term of imprisonment has lapsed to repay with the wages for the damage they have caused The further punishment of future in mates who have nothing to do with this specific incident by replacing the broken TVs with laques that will be Posted throughout jail for future inmates listing those convicted the damage they caused and their part in depriving inmates of TV say Mr Drea is demanding an unusually severe penalty for two reasons Firstly he refuses to acknowledge any reason for these mens behavior but rather judges it wrong unsociable and intends to use the courts as method of retribution for it The courts or separate party perhaps should inquire into the incidents that led to the riot Perhaps it was the only avenue open to these people They should be tried before rtial jury not judged by an obviously pre udiced man They are not even criminals but rather men being detained pending trials and court appearances and yet their actions bespeak desperate men Secondly Mr Drea wishes to punish them twice for the same crime But the real slap in the face is Mr Dreas statement that the TV sets will not be replac ed Future inmates are to be punished along with this lot and told of the event that led to their deprivation and given the very names of those convicted Is it Mr Dreas motive that these new inmates may indirectly add to the punishment of these men by wishing them evil or if chance permitted by causing them harm Welcome treat Dear Sir Having watched the previous six Santa Claus parades in hot sunshine in Perth Western Australia what welcome treat it was to see the Jaycees Santa Claus parade with snowflakes falling down The Jaycees and all partici ants in the parade should be congratulated or putting on such an eno able afternoon Bruce Dangerfield and Family Barrie And is Mr Drea not saying that inmates should not be given the privilege of TV After all he has already demanded that the present inmates be uired to each pay part of the damage in is corridor Would this money not go to refurbish it as it was Our jails are truly in bad state of affairs No attempt is made at rehabilitation for their inmates this we could all see for ourselves But now to realize that the man in charge of the provinces ministry of corrections is such petty aneyeforaneye ogre this is intolerable We do not move towards just society we do not even stand still instead we revert backslide lose all concept of civilized man Yours Sincerely Janet Eld Barrie How ironic Dear Sir Many of us are anxiously waiting to hear about the day to day developments in the Maniscalco case Rosemarie Maniscalcos body is being kept functioning by Iif support systems in order to give her unborn baby fighting chance to live How ironic that at the same time we close our eyes to the fact that thousands of other unborn babies with the same basic right to life are being killed by means of legal abor tion Annie Bergshoeff Midhurst 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 letters 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 address 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 Letters to the editor The Examiner Box 370 Barrit int AM 4T6 bible thought He that is not with me is against me and he that gathereth not with me scattereth Luke 1123 God leaves no room for the compromise or service by postponment Come take up thy cross and follow me BUSINESS 7266537 NEWSROOM Sean Finlay managing editor Randy McDonald city editor Sheila McGovern assistant cliy editor Bill McFarlane wire editor Werner Bergen sports Claudia Krsuse lifestyle Marina Quattrocchl photographer RE PORTER John Bruce Paul Delean Richard Dunstan Pat Guergls Scott Hasklns Rudleigh MacLean Sue Burke Parliament hill By STEWART MaclEOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service With Parliament throbbing under the weight of all those revelations concemin the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and wit the government being battered about those bug ging devices no one seems to be paying at tention to other more mundane events around Ottawa Every editorial seems to be about the alleged RCMP scandals The front pages are filled with details about what Solicitor General Francis Fox has said There are pic tures of that Quebec barn the RCMP is sup posed to have arsoned to the ground And The world today By JOHN HARBRON TORONTO The war resisters here are aging now blending more and more into Canadian life moving into their 305 and many of them have long since become Canadian citizens They are remembered this month as their punchy and fighting magazine AMEXCAN ADA meaning American Exiles in Canada is published for the last time with special page issue surveying the history of the American war exile in Canada and abroad The first editor of AMEXCANADA who fled here in 1968 has long ago left the cause and this winter will be ordained Catholic priest in Alberta Canadas rich oil and wheat prov ince The current editor who also deserted in 1968 as second lieutenant in the University of Wisconsin ROTC goes home soon after almost decade in Canadian exile He is one of thousands of war resisters still JIMMY CARTER amnesty ADVERTISING Len Sevick manager SAL ESMEN Dan Gaynor Lyali Johnson Barb Boulton Dana Graham John Zarecky CLASSIFIED Ruth Blals supervisor Freda Shlnner Karen Atkinson Peony Chapeil Dana Homewood BUSINESS Marian Gough accountant Betty Armer Dorothy Bowiand Gall Mc Partand Vikki Grant CIRCULATION Jon Butler manager Linda Halkes asst manager Andy Haughton Judy Hickey Alva LaPlante Elaine Porter Gary Pringle there are pictures of that bugging device found in the office armchair of Nova Scotia MP Elmer MacKay Television specials carry the action into our homes just like the American networks did for Watergate These are exciting times We have sud denly joined the big leagues in intrigues We might end up wrecking our government our national police force and even the country it self but it will still be nice to know we made it to the big time gt However one disturbing aspect is that we are in danger of missing those daytoday details that tend to keep the country together As you know there is this theory afloat that apart from criticizing Toronto the greatest War resisters iust fading away here in the United States and abroad who were pardoned under Presisent Jimmy Car ters second amnesty offer that expired last October 4th According to AMEXCANADA about 60 per cent of the estimated 20000 war ressters who fled to Canada since 1968 will not be gomg home NOW CANADIANIZED Over the years they have become Canadian citizens married their Canadian girlfriends finished interrupted college educations and entered our work force On their accents distinguish them at socia event in working place or hearing them chat in subway or bus The flat English of western New York State northern New Jersey the twa of the South the broad As of the New Enlglfanders today blend with Canadian accents And many of them are no longer excited about the Vietnam War guess the fire has gone out of our bellies now on that issue war exile currently history teacher admits to the author Right now we have the same problems as everyone else how to beat the inflation pay the rent and not overspend the family credit cards Canadian college campuses which parodied the American ones with antiwar student up heavals of the late 19603 and were the major support for the growing number of US exi es coming here now are as conservative as American universities political science assistant professor from the US tells me you cant interest students in essays or courses on the causes of the Viet nam War Many of the war resisters who have gone home under the amnesties report drop in bitterness against them for refusing to be drafted or for deserting from the military For years the parents of hundreds of them have travelled north to visit their sons in Can ada persuading some of them to come home after amnesty and live with their families again With Canadian families of their own thats now easier said than done Moreover major sector of ob possibilities in the US are still closed tot in state and federal agencies ELSEWHERE IN CANADA The Examiner is member at The Canadian Press CP and Audit Bureau of Circula tions ABC Only the Canadian Press may republish news stories in this newspaper credited to CF The Associated Press Reuters or Agence FrancePresse and local news stories published in The Examiner Published daily except Sunday and statutory holidays WEE KLY by carrier 90 cents YEARLY by carrier $4680 BY MAIL Barrie $4630 National advertising offices as Queen St Toronto 6641710 s40 Cathcart st SIMCOE COUNTY Montreal $3650 The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable tor damages arising out at MOTogagrcg OFF errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid tor the space actually occupied by $3850 year Ottawa life still goes on amid weight of RCMP scandal force for unity is when Canadians get together to laugh at government ANOTHER SMELL And in the midst of this current crisis if we dig under all the paper around Parliament Hill we can find press release which an nounced that the department of fisheries and environment has established that wolves are attracted to that expensive French rfume which is peddled under the name Chanel No5 And the department was talking about real fourlegged wolves not the variety that works in the public service As part of the Canadian governments contribution toward making the trappingin dustry more humane biologists have studied ways of making traps more selective said the announcement If some specific scent or other lure could be developed to attract only one type of animal the killing of non commercial species might be reduced Through the testing of various scents it was discovered that Chanel No had specific attraction for wolves Now suppose it is up to opposition MPs to find out why federal biologist was running through the woods with bottle of Chanel No At the same time it would be interesting to know what his wife thought about it too You must admit this is far more in teresting than hearing about Mounties stealing dynamite Another thing that helped keep mind of the sordid details of the current po ice crisis is the television coverage of the House of Commons Although the coverage centres solidly on the crisis you can with some ef fort concentrate on other aspects of the live performance TV CONSCIOUS The Tories as you may have heard seem to be the most aware party when it comes to improving TV images Party Leader Joe Clark even had his hairtrimmed before jum ping into the RCMP debate And several mon ths ago the partys head office produced series of helpful hints for MPs who might find themselves on TV The document was emphatic in saying MPs should not show bare hairy legs on television and noseblowing is not recommended while the cameras are on All sound advice And now that the Commons debates are being carried into many constituencies see that Dr Bruce Halliday POOxford has sent newsletter into his riding calling for viewer tolerance would hope that those of you who are surprised or appalled at what you see and hear will be as tolerant and understanding as possible and accept the fact that ou are seeing bunch of Commonersw ch in deed is the origin of the word House of Com monsacting in free and easy fashion Doesnt sound like promotional material for TV super special And oh yes there is something else ou may have missed through all this hub ub about scandals Lest you think our govern ment is concentrating on scandals to the ex clusion of all other good works you will be heartened to hear that without any fanfare the supply and services department has issued $99996 contract for the de velopment and evaluation of rig for the study of dynamic fatigue in flat grass There now that has kept my mind off the Mounties The Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertising material created by its employees and published in this newspaper Copyright registration number 203815 register 61 that portion at the advertisement in which the error occurred whether such error is due to the negligence of its servants or otherwise and there shall be no liability tor nonelnsertlon of any advertisement beyond the amount paid tor such advertisement Queen park Positions not clear By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO 0n the economics question there is not much that is specific or even in notative in the positions of the opposition par ties in Ontario They do more or less have itions But they are not clear or irect as is the governments SMALL BUSINESS Liberal Leader Stuart Smith has been placing great emphasis on development of small business for more than year now At present the Liberals have private members bill on small business which has gone through second reading and will be con sidered by standing committee Essentially it wouldide that ment do certain amount of its purchasing from small business and would establa committee that woe devoted to its develo ment Anything that can done for small business of course has to be praised It represents big share of our economy and portion of our needed industrial development could evolve from it But nobody imagines that in it there is cureall On the broader and more basic issues the Liberals are less definite Their financial critic David Peterson on the long term can see the benefits to Canada of tariff reductions and the need for world class industry But he also knows the havoc that dropping tariffs now could create and he therefore could probably be classed as leaning toward protectionism with probably stronger use of quotas and antidumping controls Even steel at present is being hit by dumping Except for small business however the party lays down no clear paths BAN IlAIDS The New Democratic Party at this point has no recognizable clear lines of economic policy It rather comes out with pocketfull of bandaids It talks of more spending mor house building and lower taxes Essentially it appears to make the mistake of looking to the 19305 and the approaches of John Maynard Keynes to meet the problems of today And they dont apply any more In the 19305 the great problem was that the world fiscally got out of whack Today the im ortant problems include technology growth of industrialization such as in Japan the Third World and other com plex matters With its leadership in limbo the NDP gives the impression of mostly marking time Following its convention it may be more direct Cbnadas story Independence forCanada BOB BOWMAN When did Canada become an independent selfgoverning nation rather than colony of Britain The answer is Dec12 1931 when Parliament in Britain passed the Statute of Westminster The statute defined Britain and the self governing dominions as autonomous commu nities within the British Commonwealth equal in status and in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs though united by common allegiance to the Crown The new definition of the structure of the Commonwealth was actually determined by the Balfour Declaration during the Imperial Conference in 1926 Canada had been moving toward this position for many years An important step was the granting of responsible government as recommended by Lord Durham in 1838 The British North America Act creating the Dominion of Canada in 1867 was another im portant move Gradually Britain began with drawing troops from Canada and the last garrisons were closed in 1906 at Esquimault and Halifax Until 1903 it was the practice to have British officer as commander of the militia in Canada but Canadians have held that position since then Also in 1903 Britain sided with the UmQ rather than Canada in the determination of the Alaska boundary This led Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier to create Canadas own department of external affairs to handle foreign relations although the department was not actually formed until 1909 One of the most dramatic moves towards independence was made by Prime Minislei Sir Robert Borden following the First World War He and Field Marshal Smuts of South Africa insisted that the dominions should sign the peace treaty with Germany in aspendently rather than have Britain sign for em This was followed by similar arrangement for seats in the League of Nations The big powers felt that Britain should represent the dominions and that they should have only one vote among them Bor den and Smuts fought and won this battle Borden said The expect us to be in the front line of the fi ting but will not give us even back seat in the League of Nations OTHER DEC EVENT 1812Loyal and Patriotic Society wasfor med in Upper Canada In