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p 4 weekender august 19 1995 stajx ion stay tuned for the future of the gta howard moscoe feels like the shrimp clinging to the side of an overturned v and thats an apt description of the metro politicians plan to revamp government moscoe and the other metro politicians voted to streamline regional gov ernment from 134 council lors to 27 who would be directly elected theyd take 21 munici- palities and create 15 and one region the region dubbed a super region would look after regional roads tran sit policing and welfare the timing of this plan and its announcement is intriguing it preempts viewpoint jo ann stevenson the provincial gta greater toronto task force recommendations due sept 30 premier mike harris established this task force to study municipal finance issues such as the ever looming issue of property tax assessment and transfer payments it also includes not sur prisingly the governance of the gta including restructuring potential interaction with munici palities and provincial government and infra structure the metro plan to dis mantle itself may be no more than a face saving effort an attempt to do the deed oneself before it gets done to you as one of the councillors rioted it is the province which calls the shots on boundaries government makeup numbers of politicians and taxation when the gta task force reports- to the province in september it is likely to include many of these metro proposals but its only a guess adam by brian basset ah9vmtp0 im vtobmg 0m a wwut aw vwe atlhegfjce so wlhovir three cmiioren nokipdng simtwome cwdwmjmajoolwemoct whether whitchurch stouffville or uxbridge will be included or excluded from the gta or whether they should want to be excluded or includ ed some municipalities will fight against inclusion seeing it as a tax grab to bail out a struggling downtown area- others will see the streamlining aspects as a great boon to a tax stressed population the balance of power between the gta and the province is up for grabs the struggle for control in the next few weeks will be worth watching the tribune weekender edition a metroland community newspaper patricia pappas publisher joann stevenson editorinchief andrew mair genera managereditor debraweller director of advertising barry goodyear director of distribution vivian 0neil business manager pamela nichols operations manager smuftvnir all enquiries 905 6402100 fax 905 6405477 6244 main st stouffvlue ont itxhringr all enquiries 9058529741 fax 905 8529741 88 brock st w uxbridge ont the tribune published every wednesday and saturday is one of the metroland printing pub lishing and distributing group of suburban newspapers which includes mnrkham econo mist and sun ajax pickering nowa advertiser auroranewmarket era banner barric advance brampton guardian burlington post cityparcnt collingwood connection etobicoke guardian georgetown indopendcnlacton free press kingston this week lindsay this week milton canadian champion misissnugn news northumberland news north york mirror oakville beaver orillia today oshnwn-whitby- clarington this week peterborough this week richmond hillthomhillvaughan liber- al scarborough mirror todays seniors con tents not to be reproduced without written per mission from the publisher permit 1247 s are you an unreachable back in the spring of 1807 an english poet by the name of bill wordsworth took a look around decided that england was going to hell in a handcart picked up his quill pen and dashed off a few stanzas of patriotic outrage that began the world is too much with us late and soon getting and spending we lay waste our powers little we see in nature that is ours wordsworth was writing about his countrys loss of innocence nearly 200 years ago can you imagine what hed think if some body plopped him down in pic cadilly circus today never mind piccadilly circus i could blow poor old bills mind just by setting him down in my favorite armchair and letting him leaf through a few maga zines i have for instance a copy of last weeks macleans magazine which contains a full page adver tisement that looks like a movie poster it shows four attache- casetoting business types three guys one woman striding purposefully toward the camera and away from a city skyline theyre smiling obviously fin ished for the day and looking for ward to a little rr ah but looming over them like an immense rolling thunder cloud is the satanic image of the boss a redfaced ogre scowling angrily at the departing four some fists clenched the advertising copy reads a tale about four of the best in the business but the moment they leave the office they become and then in huge elliot ness- style letters the unreachable s no one can get in touch with them and theyre not in touch with anyone eke basic black arthurblack ifs an ad for cantel the cellu lar phone folks the moral in case you missed it is that any business person who doesnt have a cellular phone welded to the hip just isnt committed businesswise with cantel youre always accessible warbles the ad copy well no offense cantel but i dont want to be always accessi ble like your unreachables i actually have a life outside of my work i like it that way oh i realize that all this stuff represents progress but i have one small question whats the rush where is it were trying to get to again im reminded of a poem called a child speaks will people never never learn that meadows should be played in how long before they really know that streams were made to wade in they should be shown and made to see that caves were made to talk in that trees were really made to climb and rain is meant to walk in instead they build their hous es tight as though theyre meant to stay in will people never never learn the world was meant to play in we used to know that back when we were kids how come we forgot