tough talk for mp on gst the tribune wednesday november 8 1989 p3 from page 1 myers voiced concerns about the added paper workjthe gst will burden her small business with as well as the transition cost to convert her present system and mr attewell agrees the new tax system will pose a pro blem for smaller businesses but advises owners to pressure the province into helping reduce paperwork and says canada is blessed with a real problem of having three levels of government bill naylor of stouffville who also spoke during the ques tion answer period says anyone making under 25000 a year shouldnt pay any sales tax and questions whether the 750 credits are enough people earning 20000 or 30000 a year enjoy minimum life quality and i think youre tax ing money they would need to buy food with youll end up with more people on welfare which will defeat the whole purpose of the gst he says graham hoade owner of the earl of whitchurch englishstyle pub on main st says he has some concerns on how the gst will af fect his restaurant business but says if they push it through well justhave to live with it mr attewell told the audience the countrys deficit has now reached 321 billion costing canadians 80 million a day in interest its a tragic thing to go through this 15year deficit but hydro upgrading in town ontario hydro will be undertaking a voltage conversion pro gram in whitchurchstoiuffville due to an increase in the number of customers and electrical growth in the area the newmarket office informed council in writing the hydro company wrote a letter to the town stating the pro gram is necessary to maintain an acceptable level of service security for customers ontario hydro will assist property owners with upgrading their primary lines and will provide all labor costs and minor equipment costs like insulators and pole top material that will range from 250 to 2000 depending on age and length of private lines however the customer will have to pay for the new material and will be given credit for the residual value of existing poles and conductors old poles remain property of the customers for whatever scrap value they are worth ontario hydro is advising council to take advantage of this opportune time to upgrade lines while the company is offer ing to pay 100 per cent labor the issue was to be brought up at council in committee last night staff theft on rise store owners told tracy kibble staff reporter there is a growing number of sophisticated thieves out there some of whom are employees ready to milk merchants out of hardearned profits according to a loss prevention expert from miracle food mart bonnie greswell manager of the loss prevention department for the large food chain said peo ple are stealing more today than they did five or 10 years ago and employers have to set rules to deter employees from stealing greswell was the guest speaker at the chamber of commerce breakfast meeting at the meadowbrook golf and country club wednesday to discuss the everincreasing problem of in- house theft if you want embezzlement to stop you have to lay charges she advised attending local merchants greswells department was responsible for apprehending 159 internal thefts at miracle last year totalling nearly 18000 and nabbing 960 customers with near ly 28000 in stolen goods however she says it is difficult to tell if the figures are accurate because although most profit is lost through cash sometimes the crime can be covered up through paper work it doesnt seem to matter how much money employees make and it doesnt exclude any customers either ive caught priests jail guards police of ficers and lawyers stealing she said some of the employees miracle has apprehended fired and pro secuted are 20- or 30year employees she said she advised local merchants to establish sa set of rules with employees to deter stealing you have to let people know ex actly what is expected of them and what they are to expect she suggested that a periodic employee parcel check be per formed as routine to ensure anything leaving the store is ac companied by a receipt but dont ever do a parcel check on customers she warned greswell was asked what motivates employees to steal and she answered for the money she cited one example of a cashier who taped universal pro duct code bar stripes that iden tify product and price through the scanner to the underside of her wrist when a friend was checking through the cashier would scan the 59cent code taped to her wrist instead of the actual price but the loss prevention depart ment randomly checks register tapes and notes any recurring amounts i dont care why people steal and i dont care if its one dollar or 30 1 dont want confessions i just want them out of miracle food mart we really have to do our homework and really dig employee embezzlement can cut into your profits by one or two per cent which is con sidered acceptable at miracle 02 per cent is acceptable its just ballooning the whole deficit- is accountable because of the monstrous size debt that is gobbling up interest he warns the tories say the current manufacturers tax fst which generates 18 billion a year has serious flaws because only 75000 companies are included and more than 20000 special ar rangements deprive the country of revenue the replacement of such a complex and old system would introduce fairness into the system although he admits there are places for improvement such as taxing junk food and not basic groceries mr attewell predicts the tax will reduce the deficit and will have no adverse affect in terms of life quality for lower income canadians and seniors a credit of 750 will be sent to families earning less than 30000 in four installments before the system is in place and by the year 2011 payments to seniors will double the gst will operate on a spend more pay more format the federal finance committee made up of eight conservative four liberal and two ndp representatives will closet ourselves in quebec to come up with a draft based on the many concerns for ottawa friday the 14member crew has gone from community to community across the country for six weeks to give canadians a chance to voice concerns which are recorded to prepare for the nov 28 deadline michael wilsons finance minister draft legislation is underway now for the gst the federal government has spent 10 million selling the gst to canadians as susan myers pointed out but mr at tewell admits the negative response could lead to an early election century mill looking to move stouffvilles century mill is selling all its retail inventory but will be keeping on with the in dustrial part of the trade until the land ishther sold or leased according to treasurer dave nokes the land is too valuable to run a little retail store he said of the business located on stouffville rd east of kennedy rd nokes said the frontage and the store area are small and the land is more suited to an industrial operation the retail outlet has been open for six years any inventory not sold will be shipped to the mills larger gravenhurst location this has been a gradual evolvement from a strictly in dustrial yard to retail he said the company will continue to sell pallet skids and industrial- grade lumber until the land is sold and at that time century mill will look for another location we will look for a second loca tion somewhere down the line if the land is sold we will look faster ring a bell a ring in a case was found fri day at the rear of the iga store in stouffville the owner of the ring can claim it at the tribune office 54 main st w stouffville a swirl of algae is seen along the shore of musselmans lake local resident mary rassenger said this past summer was the worst shes seen in six years for lake pollution she says the problem is so bad she wont allow her children near the water musselmans lake slime disgusts local mother tracy kibble staff reporter if musselmans lake gets any worse a windsor dr resident says she and her family will have to move from the lake they have resided at for six years mrs mary ressenger a mother and nurse at a west hill hospital says she will notallow her two young children to swim in the lake any more and that this year is the worst ever for pollution we used to swim in that lake six years ago i wouldnt touch it now this is the worst ive ever seen it she says rassenger says when she looks out her window there is sludge all along the shoreline its not like dark green slime but a lime green color like somebody dumped oil into the lake there is a dark blue green and white film on top you cant even stick your foot into it the young mother of two says she and her husband hopped in a canoe and paddled around the lake one day and in places she says we could smell fecal matter its got to be sewage rassenger told the tribune her well is not contaminated and she is not totally against the water proposal if they want to bring in water fine but they will have to bring in sewage first rassenger says 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