Your business Monday July 979 the examiner servvng borne and srmcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited to Boytield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher NEWSROOM 72b 053 CIRCULATION 76 653° ADVEITISING 2b 3537 CLASSIFIEDS 728 2414 Snake species in jeopardy It is difficult at first impression to work up much en thusiasm for the plight of the Massassauga rattlesnake The plight of the rattlesnake is that its numbels are rapidly lining and may soon be an endangered species Where once that snake was common throughout the Georgian Bay area it is now reduced to last bastion on Beausoleil Island natonal park about 100 km north of Barrie The Examiner recently visited the site and talked with wildlife officials about what is being done to protect this fast disappearing species As the article pointed out convincing people that the rattlesnake needs protection is not an easy task After all not many people like snakes to begin with much less poisonous snake Not liking the snake is one thing And certainly no one would suggest that rattlesnakes be tolerated around cottages or built up areas But what concerns wildlife officials and environmentalists IS the indiscrilinate killing of the snakes in WIldeIlIESS areas far from harms way Biologically the rattlesnake is timid creature who rarely bites and prefers escape to attack Even when it does bite the result is rarely fatal Only two people in Eastern Canada have ever died from the rat tlesnake and neither victim received proper medical at tention Given that fact bees and wasps could be considered more dangerous to man Yet we do not go out of our way to kill these insects With the rattlesnake in apparent jeopardy the question is not whether we like this reptile or not The question is whether mankind has the right to destroy living thing that does not fit into civilization Surely all creatures even rattlesnakes must be guaranteed their preservation rie Grammar School this house at 726 Blake St was first used as residence for outottown students Marked by symetry simple massing good proportions modest classical detailing and central entrance and stairwell this house is readily identifiable as Georgian architecture Draw ing courtesy LACAC Committee By VINCENT EGAN Business and onsumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Canadas chronic shortage of jobs isnt going to be cured by the continuing and rapid expansion of our service sector despite widespread hopes that it will In fact Canada has been experiencing disproportionate growth in the service sector and the public administration and thats one reason why we are lagging far behind our international competitors This is the latest warning from James Gilmour director of research at the Science Council of Canada Growth in the relative importance of service employment may reflect de industrial society rather than postin dustrial society and the quality of the services will inevitably be low Gilmour told the annual conference of the Society of Management Accountants in St Andrews NB in speech read in his absence by Donald Daly It has become commonplace to interpret the expansion of service industries of communications and of information technologies during the past 25 years as leading to postindustrial society in which labor resources are chiefly utilized by per sonal social and business services Gilmour disagrees Through Canadas failure to be successful in industrial in novation the country is courting the risk of returning to peculiar sort of preindustrial society Canada he says is out of step with most of the industrial economies One example is the relative openness of our economy We import some 63 per cent of manufactures free of tariffs vs six per cent in the United States and three per cent in Japan In the international markets in which we have to compete Gilmour told the con ference the freemarket system is being increasingly dislodged by renewed em phasis on political economy as evidenced by commodities that are bartered by govern ments for political advantage and industrial imports that are increasingly regulated by quota agreements Service iobs growing too fast This Japanese model as Gilmour tact fully calls it stands in sharp contrast to what he terms Canadas industrially retarded nature In Canada growth of technological jobs has been far slower than in the US On the other hand the number of jobs for nonscientific whitecollar workers mainly in public ad ministration and in service industries has increased relatively faster here than in the US Instead of taking our inspiration from the Americans we seem instead to be following the pattern set by the classconscious British according higher social status to public sector and servicesector careers than to work in productive enterprises SPECIALIZATION The Science Councils research director says Canadas performance in design production and management has been relatively poor as shown by the slow rate of development of new products and adoption of automated or semiautomated systems of production We must specialize he says That is we must base our efforts on areas where we have or should have comparative ad vantage transportation communications fisheries management It wouldnt involve increasod bureaucratization topdown planning bureaucrats federal govemment control persecution of multinationals nor massive government incursions into the market place Instead the goal should be the creation of an environment more conducive to entrepre neurship and innovation There should be prime emphasis on screening what we do import and on building up our own domestic technology base in new areas of opportunity The recent Loto Canada purchase of $28 million worth of computer terminals from foreign supplier is characterized by Gilmour as policy catastrophe that wouldnt be emulated anywhere else in the world He concluded by calling for goal of industrial revitalization at cabinet level so as to reassure skilled working public that 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quaint many persons with the historical func tions of the municipal clerks office as well as the statutory requirements of that office By BEN STRAUGHAN Barrie City Clerk will now attempt to inform you about the oldest statutory office in not only local government but provincial and federal as well In fact the particular office goes back in history to when the actions of the very earliest forms of government were recorded as in Roman Greek or Biblical days It is the one main office that acts as liaison between the people and their elected officials and although referred to by other titles in the past is now known as the Clerk In the Municipal Act the Clerk is identified as being one of the statutory officers that municipal corporation must appoint It should be noted that there is distinction bet ween an officer and servant which is bes described by Ian MacF Rogers QC in his lading Canadian text The Law of Cana dian Municipal Corporations which states municipal officer generally speaking is one who holds permanent position of responsibility with definite rights and duties usually prescribed by statute and sometimes by bylaw As distinguished from servant employed by municipality an officer appointed by it has in the performance of his duties some discretionary authority and has responsibility to perform vital duties of the corporation mere servant has only duty to obey orders The author then goes on to include in his list of persons who are officers the clerk treasurer assessor tax collectors and the auditors who occupy offices creatd by statute and then submits that the term officer also includes such persons who are appointed by council to discharge the duties attendant upon an office established by it He states further While members of municipal councils other than council heads ar in one sense officers of the municipality they are merely legislative officers and per form no executive or ministerial functions but the head of council is declared to be the chief executive officer of the corporation From the foregoing it is apparent that determination as to whether or not person is an officer depends less upon the title which he is given than upon whether he dexercises some discretionary authority an has resoonsibility to perform vital duties of the corporation rather than merely obey By JOHN IIAIUSKUN Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service While Nicaraguas military president has thrust his now destitute nation into cruel civil war rather than give up several South American nations are moving peacefully from military dictators to elected presidents They are Ecuador Boliva and Peru in that order with the Ecuadorian presidentelect coming to office on August 10th the Bolivan presidential elections in draw and Peru going to the polls in Will Ecuadorian presidentelect is 38 yearold lawyer Jaime Roldos Aguilera called Roldos the youngest president in his countrys 150 years of very stormy history The army triumviratc which had ruled in this tiny mainly Indian Pacificrim republic apparently have accepted the ver dict of the lls even though Roldos is committed lilï¬ral He has pledged to do something meaningful at last for his countrys illiterate and rural In dian masses who make up most of the 40 per cent of the countrys population who cannot read or write This is bound to anger the urban business ing orders SUMMARIZES DUTIES The Municipal Act summarizes the statuatory duties of the Clerk as follows to truly record in book without note or comment all resolutions decisions and other proceedings of the council if required by any member present to record the name and vote of every member voting on any matter or question to keep the books records and accounts of the council to preserve and file all accounts acted upon by the council ei to keep in his office or in the place ap pointed for that purpose the originals of all bylaws and of all minutes of the proceedings of the council to perform such other duties as may be assigned to him by council In addition to carrying out his assigned duties for the municipal corporation clerk is also rquired to perform other duties of governmental and not of municipal nature They are appointed in this respect for the car rying on of the good government of the pro vince performing public services for the benefit not of the municipality in its cor porate capacity but of the inhabitants and those of the province generally such of ficers are persona designata in discharging their statutory duties and do not ac as agents of the corporation Some examples of this are performing duties under The Marriage Act the Vital Statistics Act and acting as returning officer in the conduct of an election pursuant to the Municipal Elections Act Despite the fact it is the local council that hires him pays his salary and may fire him nevertheless he must carry out his statutory duties even if they clash with councils view point Acting in this role as persona designata he is also personally liable for default in the performance of any duties im posed upon him directly by the provincial legislature Therefore the Clerk must serve two masters the statute and the local coun cil and sometimes it is difficult to perform this role to the satisfaction of both How then does one uphold the ethics of this timehonoured position That is difficult question that defeats single answer but might lie in the establishment of high degree of profes sionalism demonstration of good faith and personal integrity careful observation of statutory pro and professional communities who could try and get the military to intervene again In landlocked Bolivia which has had almost as many national governments as years of independence none of the eight CIVllIan presidential candidates in the July 1st election have enough votes to take power MILITARY KEEP AWAY Yet as in Ecuador the armed forces which have run the country since the early 1960s is not interfering inspite of very inconclusive electoral result not anticipated Two former Bolivian civilian presidents Ilernan Siles Zuazo called Siles and Victor Paz Estenssoro have each won large portions of the Bolivian vote But so far neither has enough votes to succeed the generals who have run this very poor and isolated South American mountain and Indian nation during the 1970s In Peru where the generals in power have almost completely run down thenations economy civilian election is promised next year And perhaps it is what the military have experienced in Peru which accounts for the withdrawal of the generals and colonels from power both there and elsewhere cedures and uphold the laws of the communi ty in an attitude of concern for the rights of the individual wherever and whenever they may be affected and be dedicated and apply liberal amount of common sense GREAT CHANGES The municipal Clerk has come long way in Ontario from the use of quill pen to to days sophisticated office equipment Through evolution of government this most historic and important office still exists and will continue in the future as vital service in all parts of the world today The ongoing challenges that lie ahead for local govern ment will continue to be met In conclusion the following message recent ly printed in The Municipal World and taken from an article prepared by The Interna tional Institute of Municipal Clerks is worth repeating The profession of municipal clerk is timehonoured and historical one extending to Biblical times and beyond The modern Hebrew translation of town clerk is Mazkir Hair which literally means the city or town reminder The English Bible called him the recorder The recorder kept the records of the important events of the time The Hebrew Mazkir was one who caused to remember or call ed to mind He wys among the highest of court officials the chancellor who called the Kings attention to important matters of state The town clerk was an official of varied powers and functions in different parts of the Greek world and was also recognized by the Romans in their colonial world It was the town clerk who persuaded the rioting citizens of Ephesus to leave the followers of St Paul unharmed and return to their homes thus preserving the law and order of the time In the Middle Ages clerk became synonymous with scholar He was the per son who recorded the happenings of the day and tied together the past with the present In England the town clerk became respected and important official in local government and when the colonists came to America the office of town clerk became an integral part of the democratic communities recording the birth and death of its inhabitants the land transactions and the action of freemen assembled at the annual town meetings Today the office of municipal clerk con tinues to be key element of our local democratic system South American dictatorships trying presidential elections The Peruvian army took over the nation on October 1968 from President Belaunde Terry an elected leader in what was called the military socialist revolution The military was to do in decade what century of inefficient civilian presidents had failed to do through most of Perus history They would bring great foreign interests under local control make every Peruvian literate quite task with 60 per cent of the nation tucked away in remote and con servative Indian communities But the Peruvian armed forces after 11 years in office have failed in all these major areas and the military of Ecuador and Bolivia have ruled badly as well The generals clearly feel they should get out of the limelight as the sacred reputation of the military is sullied with the same corruption laziness and mis management of the civilian presidents who they threw out of office to clean up the gov cmment Nevertheless the most powerful military establishments in Brazil Chile and Argentina show no signs whatsoever of reverting to elected and civilian governments inspite of the trend to do so Tho Barrio Exomlnor claims copyright on all original now and advertising material crootod by its omployooo and published in this newspaper Copyright registration number meals rogiuor Tho Publisher rooorvoo tho right to edit rovioo classify or roioct an advortilo Skilled labor needs examining By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO The situation regarding skilled workers in Ontario is trotesque For decades there have been government directed apprenticeship programs which supposedly train skilled workers presumably for the needs of the employment market Despite period of unemployment there have been complaints from employers that they cant fill openings for skilled workers And for the past while there has been quite bit of publicity about employers going to the United Kingdom and Europe to recruit the skilled tradesmen they desperately need Even on the surface theres something wrong When you get bit closer to things you know just how rotten the situation really is There has been some awareness of the skilled trade situation by government but until recently not enough and particularly not enough grasp of thevsevenity of the problem In recent years there has been talk about apprenticeship and with this from time to time promises of new programs or new approaches Nothing very concrete ever seemed to happen Various cabinet ministers in charge always had lot to say about the future new day was coming it never seemed to arrive When you had closer look it was apparent there was great bureaucratic snarl greater even than normal itil INDUSTRY NEEDED It also became apparent government itself probably could never handle the ap prenticeship question successfully on its own Above all there was one key essential to success There must be cooperation to some extent from labor but most importantly from industry More than cooperation there must be active participation Experience in other fields has shown government can seldom get private sector co operation let alone active interest It was evident to some of us think recall writing on this at least year ago that if we were going to settle the apprenticeship problem and it was becoming more and more urgent that we do so industry was going to have to be brought into it and preferably lead the way HURRAII The government has now recognized this Shortly after Dr Robert Elgie was brought into the cabinet as minister of labor he was directed to tackle the manpower problem At the close of the recent spring session he announced his solution He established fivemember manpower commission which would be attached to his ministry but would act semiindependently The fulltime chairman would be prominent industrialist Pollock president of Canada Wire and Cable Company Limited It is not often one can give government full hurrah but it gets one on this move We cant say for sure this new approach will work because you really cant say that any one thing will work these days But if there is any chance of break through in the manpower problem this commission could make it One reason is that an industrialist is heading it This is vital to success While there are various factors in the problem of the skilled work force the reluctance of todays youth to go into trades being one of them the greatest power is with industry Industry determines what skills are needed It has to have say in how these skills are acquired and to what degree Finally it has the greatest say of all in that it does the em ploying TOP MAN With this program the degree of success rests with the individual running it It has to reflect his grasp his initiative his drive his foresight knowhow and ability to command In Don Pollock the government has come up with an outstanding choice and perhaps an extraordinary piece of luck write your mp It you would like to write your Member of Parliament or Member of Provincial Parlia ment printed below are their mailing dd dresses ll you send us copy of your letter it might be suitable for our Letters to tho Editor columns After 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