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tk stourtviui tobuke tliarjky april t 1965 page it and enjoy all the spring values now on sale when you for bist selection of mlftchahdisi weldons footwear 39 main st w stouffville phone 6403614 shop in stouffville report from parliament by michael starr mp there are two matters to be cleaned up before the session will prorogue and a new one commenced the actual sitting time is now well over eleven months for this session and it will be closer to twelve month by the time we prorogue the longest session on record in the history of parliamentary ses sions in canada one of the bills is the com pletion of the canada pension act now that the translation of the proceedings of the commit tee have been made in the french language parliament should not have much difficulty in dealing with this bill in full and passing it the other bill is known as bill c142 and is an act respect ing the operation of certain established federal provincial programs sharedcost pro grams have been evolved over the years to meet a variety of specific needs such as the pro vision of basic welfare services basic health services require ments in economic development and in some cases problems whicli although temporary or local were beyond the capacity of local resources this has brought about a two fold benefit the provinces ob tained financial assistance that was necessary to enable them to provide such services and at the same time it ensured a basic standard of service across can ada these programs have grown to large proportions the financial aid as made up of federal transfers to the prov inces in the current year amounts to s900 million this has been a substantial measure of assistance to the other two levels of government many of these programs par ticularly some of the larger ones fall primarily within juris diction and for which the prov inces are responsible this bill provides the opportunity for the provinces to contract out of certain of these programs when a province does so the federal government would compensate the province in the form of either an equalized abatement of federal personal income tax which would be subject to adjustment or of cash payments depending on the nature and size of each pro gram the bill specifies the dura- lion of the interim period for each of the programs which the government of canada proposes to include in the contracting out arrangement many of these would end with the termination of the present fiscal arrange ments with the provinces on march 31 1967 any new ap proach to sharedcost programs could he integrated with what ever new fiscal arrangements are divised for the next period there are certain joint pro grams which for various rea sons do not lend themselves to this arrangement and a longer interim period has had to be accepted in such cases for ex ample hospital insurance welfare programs which include old age assistance blind per sons allowances disabled per sons allowances and the wel fare component of unemploy ment assistance the hospital construction program and the roads to resources program province to contract out of a joint program must enter in to an agreement with the fed eral government a province wishing to contract out has un til october 31 1965 to enter in to such an agreement there is certain assistance that the federal government now makes available to the provinces that will not be sub ject to the provisions of this bill i refer as an example to j the capital assistance compo nent of the program for the construction of technical and vocational training schools some people in canada view j this contracting out program as the first step towards the bal kanization of canada wherein ail provinces would ik masters in their own jurisdiction there is also the viewpoint that in view of this situation the prov- irccs should raise and collect big dip in paint save 275 a gallon on ciltone satin latex jfntqjuil during this great april sale save sti a quart tin latew on ciltone semigloss buy now and paint later but dont miss getting canadas finest paints at the lowest prices ever offered hundreds of colors to choose front first quality material only offered on this sale developed in canada la meet canadian needs by canadian industries limited hendricks hardware 29 main st w i stouffville phone 6403622 iheir own needs for the pro grams in the form of taxation rather than have the federal government act as a collection agency on their behalf top price for otter the current fashion trend which saw average prices paid for otter pelts at five north bay fur auctions last winter and spring more than double prices paid for beaver has not altered the fact that beaver still arc the mainstay of the multimil lion dollar trapping industry in ontario lards and forests offi cials point out in numbers alone complete fur returns for 1963 show that 9448 trappers took 167t08 bea ver and only 8326 otter at the five 196361 north bay fur sales 1857 trapper members of the ontario trappers association 50 292 beaver were sold al an average price of si 103 for a total of 70559676 a majdr proportion of the total receipts for all furs of sj 142843 the 2025 otter offered sold for 62- 74350 for an average of s3098 total value of all wild fur ex ported or tanned in the year end ing june 30 1963 is reported as 3439311 similarly otter led in price at the first of this seasons sales on december 14 500 briging aji average of 3075 and a top price of 56 13000 beaver aver aged 1052 with a high of 30 wildlife officers say otter- al ways has been in demand for a number of reasons one because it is not as plentiful as beaver another because of the fine ap pearance and wearing quality of the fur and the lightness of the garments made from it through modern techniques which apply of course to bea ver as well a beaver coat it was recalled by one oldtimer once weighed a ton not so today otter beaver and other furs arc much lighter in weight and much more is being dvsc with them to enhance their at tractiveness