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4 the tribune thursday july 29 19i jrcopim 2kbicrlptlms mm ptryur lacaaida 1j hiwkirembv andtt at cfrarfjuea ff miincimmwiwy mnppn aiudatim aad oottrio wttkty ntwtpaotn aswcuttoa ucmi dm aallj s ecomtaw aad sun nawourktvaorora ef cakvuta bcavar osbaa tfetiwmicjuda fisfi editorials new method is needed for picking chairman it seems that several members of regional council have belatedly discovered that york regional chairman garfield wright is unable to perform his duties competently mayors evelyn buck of aurora bob forhan of newmarket and marg britnell of king were all quoted in last weeks aurora banner as making remarks to the effect that t mr wright is ineffective and should not be appointed for another term mayor buck went so far as to call for his immediate resignation mayor gordon ratcliff when contacted by the tribune was less than enthusiastic about mr wright but he i fell short of calling for his resignation this stand is very surprising as mr i wright was voted in last term by acclamation by those very members who are now so eager to be rid of him this paper opposed mr wright and among- the area press his handling of meetings has long been an open joke i the root of the problem in our opinionis that the new council has to elect the chairman if a newly elected member of regional council accepts the chairmans position he must then turn around and resign his council seat thus necessitating a municipal byelection a regional councillor whois interested in the job faces a dilemma because if he runsfor i municipal office and then abandons it for the chairmans position he will be very unpopular with the voters who will feel he was using the municipal position simply as a stepping stone to higher office on the other hand the politician cant very well withdraw from the municipal 1 election in the hope he will be elected tothei chairmanship if a -great- number of in- durham official plan cumbents are defeated the new council members may not have the faintest idea who he is and therefore would be unlikely to vote for him or her mayors buck and forhan propose a system whereby the chairman would be elected by the outgoing council and we admit this would be an improvement but we feel the chairman should be responsible to the people not the politicians a chairman who knows the members of council are going to have the say as to whether he will be reelected is going to take pains hot to step on any toes at no other level of government is the top position decided by the other politicians at the local level it would be the same as saying- that the members of council should elect the mayor we feel the chairman should be elected at largeso that officials will be accountable ho the people not to the peoples representatives election of the chairman by council works against the smaller municipalities as well under this system a canny chairman is going to favor the large municipalities because they have the votes to make or break him in a democratic system that should be up to the electorate mews ttemioouncil considering restriction of dischaw3e of firearms sugar and spice are canadians rednecks at heart by bill smiley it must be an uneasy time for members of parliament first they were forced to vote on a moral question the abolishment of capital punishment in what must have been an agonizing examination of conscience versus expedience for many despite the fact that the bill squeaked 30 years ago this week t helpful to region once upon a time there were no zoning by i laws no siteplan agreements ho building permits andno official plans there was in other words no red tape of course without those regulations there was also uncontrolled sprawling growth and a host of related problems passage of the durham region official plan recently was another step in the direction of minimizing the problems of expanding r development or of- heading them off before they occur y r while the restrictions may seem un- inecessary for some individuals the overall fvbenfit to the region should be substantial excerpts from the tribune from august r 1946 incentive needed- 4 we are not sure that a peacetime budget instead of practically a full fneasurewar budget again would have done much tocure the unwillingness of people to workfor tragic situation is that people or many- of them do not want to work never was there a time when so many jobs were availableand the plain fact is that the young man who stands around complaining that he cannot get a job simplyii not very keen on work the financial post blames mrisley for bringing down another wartime budget instead of relieving taxation claiming that workers will not labor overtime when the govermerit- simply steps in and takes the money out of their pockets the post may be right but that is only part of the trouble there is a definite unwillingness for many young fellows to work unless they can get just the kind of jobthey think they would like motor cycle burns j driving his motor cycle north on tenth street at the east end of the town onsunday afternoon jackie castle felt things getting a bit hot under the seatand just as he jumped of fjto investigate the machine went into a v flamethe lad pushed it into the ditch where a lively few minutes ensued fighting the fire from spreading to the field crop just over the fence a couple of vfence posts were well burned before the blaze was extinguished and the mechanical part of the machine also got a good scorching although the tires were ap parently uninjured motor cycles are not very popular with the folks along main street who do not like the undue noise created by them hence they will say they are sorry for the boy but glad to learn another machine is off the main street well jackie castle has his machine insured so the financial loss will not be great if any to him getting a bit sensitive dear sir mr murray chusid appears to be getting a little sensitive to the publics reaction tojhe part he has been playing in the york sanitation controversy sincerely clarion baker n rr 2 stouffville through most mps must know that most canadians are against it and its that same majority that elects those same mps enough to make a politician lose a little sleep eh next they saw a comparatively small group of canadians the airline pilots thumbing their noses at the government and getting away with it and once again it was pretty obvious that a majority of canadians was solidly behind the pilots there is little doubt that most mps will be happy to get out of the pressure cooker ottawa has turned out to be this year and back to their own constituencies for a couple of months of fencebuilding babykissing and all the other nefarious activities of a politician on his home grounds my heart is not exactly bleeding for our mps but i am more than a little disturbed by the two incidents that have contributed to their unease in the past few months on the first issue capital punishment it is readily apparent from the closeness of the final tally that the country is split right down the middle on the issue and thats not good but i can live with it the majority has spoken in a supposedly free vote and its not going to wound this country to the vitals if a few murderers are hanged or kicked to death with a frozen boot or otherwise executed in whatever cute manner is decided on its the second issue that bothers me considerably for behind the pilots palaver about safety and the governments obduracy amounting almost to stupidity concerning bilingualism at- our airports lies a niiich darker murk that is the obvious backlash of english- speaking canadians to the governments chosen policy of bilingualism this bitter backlash is not just bad in my opinion it is dangerous again and again we saw oh television perfectly ordinary citizens who backed the pilots stand even when personally- in convenienced by the strike that was not a strike blurting uiings like im sick of having it bilingualism shoved down my f throat this is not the voice of reason but of bias and i hate to see it in this country which i love so much for a couple of centuries the french of canada had english shoved down their throats not by law but by business com merce politics education naturally they resented it now theyre trying to achieve equality of opportunity through bilingualism the result is a strong and ugly racialism bouncing back at them from those english- speaking canadians who are biased and bigoted as in most bigotry the retorts are based on ignorance and fear civil servants too stupid or too lazy to learn french are afraid for their jobs protestants abhor the rise of rome even though most frenchcanadians these days are more protestant than the protestants conservatives fear any change in the comfortable pattern of canadian life in which for generations a frenchman was a frog to belooked down on maybe im out of touch but i havent noticed anybody trying to shove french down my throat i hold no brief for the province of quebec- i am as sick of its whining and demands as the next guy i think its politicsare and have l more corrupt than any of the other provinces which isnt saying much 1 dont even care that deeply about quebec separating from the rest of canada nations are not sacred but none of that has anything to do with the french language i though canadians were growing up learning tolerance becoming more sophisticated more fair but the latest ugly developments make me wonder are we just a bunch of rednecks at heart jobless benefits ewo by sinclair stevens mp 7 i nwto punuln johnbartolicsgirden it jttitgoes to show that theres more than one- waytorecycle a snowmobile inltvhi i mx vf the canadian economy struggling to recover from its 197475 slump is now faced with two governmentcreated problems we havcpan overly relaxed employment in surance scheme linked to an overly severe antiinflation program canadian unemployment insurance has become a major work disincentive and it has increased unemployment levels in the country in a booklet released this month entitled unemployment in canada the impact of unemployment insurance the authors christopher green and jeanmichel cousineau conclude that the impact of unemployment- insurance on the unem ployment rate is not less than one percentage point and uoy believe it could be as much as 15 percentage points that represents out of a total of 700000 unemployed 100000 to 150000 canadians unemployed not because they cant find a job but because they prefer a uic cheque this latter group are encouraged not to seek work due in large measure to an overly relaxed liberal unemployment insurance scheme vthei greencousineau publication sponsored i by v the economic council of canada- makes it clear that the governments amendments to the unemployment insurance act of 1971- contributed substantially to the present unsatisfactory dilemma it is pointed out during the two years following the passage of the ui act of 1971 there was a large and unmistakable increase in the ratio of job vacancies to unemployed persons for- given rates of unemployment the rerjltsnt shift in the- unemployment iv vacancy relation suggests a substantial worsening of labour market frictions in 1972 and 1973 and is consistent with the hypothesis that a major liberalization in the benefit levels- coverage and administration of the unemployment insurance program will tend to raise the rate of unemployment the second problem facing the nation as we try to regain our lost momentum is the governments current approach in regulating business and labor in the name of fighting inflation labor spokesmen have complained that the program is inequitable now businessmen more and more state that the margin rates being set for their ac tivities the introduction of retroactivity and the general confusion in the program will result in our industries being unable to generate the required cash needed to produce more jobs and business activity it appears that the proposed changes may well lead to postponed investment decisions and an increase in unemployment thereby delaying economic recovery it is essential that the government moves as quickly as possible to remove this double- headed threat to our future prosperity faced with evidence that the unemployment in surance changes are in fact contributing to unemployment it is necessary that the government correct these oversights without further delay a certainly rather than press as the government has been doing for the early introduction of a guaranteed annual wage which would be a further disincentive to work it would be preferable for the government to shelve that idea and spend their time making the unemployment insurance scheme more workable and above all a program that would come back to the original principleof insuring only those who cannot in fact find work secondly faced with legitimate criticism with respect to the antiinflation program it is important that the government responds to this criticism to insure that the economy is not needlessly impeded readers identify historical sketch we would like to thank all the people who phoned or dropped into identify the historical sketch which appeared in last weeks issue of the tribune r as it somewhat embarrassingly turned out the house is the one nowowned by george ross and which is used for his photography business of all the houses in stouffville this is without a doubt the one most familiar to the editorial staff of the tribune as george handles our processing and printing v- it could have been worse the sketch could have been of the house which now houses the tribune office now that would have been embarrassing we also learned the house was built by john urquart who camejto stouffville in 1859 and the house was changed extensively by ted cadieux when he added the photography shop some years ago