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publisher NEWSROOM 7266537 CIRCULATION 7266539 CIASSIFIEOS 728 BUSINESS 726 6537 Queens park Need to update Canadas senate Those who believe the Canadian Senate should be either reorganized on more democratic lines or abolished altogether may have point Made up mostly of veteran politicans the 106member Senate traditionally is supposed to protect the country against any missteps by the elected House of Commons The 265member House tanother increase in member shi is contemplated is responsible to the electorate Blackwell had rivals By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service w1t each representative elected from his riding T0R0NT0 Summer days can be reflec The Senators are appointed by the government which on days Particularly summer days such as this years when everybody it seems is so tired out that what they want to do is nothing if possible usually means the party in ower Since the Liberals have been mostly in office in House of Commons dur in the past two decades the Senate too is dominated by Li erals In other words many of them are there because of their contribution to their own political party One might imagine that the older Senate should be able to play an important role in such things as promoting Canadian unity in sensible and fairminded manner and dealing with the growing economic problems Except for the efforts of valiant few who have tried to make their jobs more meaningful the Senate function has been largely disappointing The IDSmembers do share over $3000000 of the Cana dian taxpayers money annually to the tune of $30000 each In contrast to the Canadian system the senators in the United States are elected and thus directly accountable to their electorate who can vote them out of office or re elect them They also share in the policymaking of the House of Representatives to make up the US Congress When changes are considered in the Canadian constitu tion now contained in the British North America Act up dating of the Senate should be of the provisions given serious attention system of election even if for longer terms of perhaps eight years would at least be more democratic down memory lane 10 YEARS AGO IN BARRIE From The Examiner August 19 1967 Reeve Alex McAuley of Elmvale reported Simcoe County would save approximately $317000 annually based on 1967 figures if the provincial government moves ahead with plans to take over the full cost of administration of justice Largest item concerned $150000 of the countys share toward upkeep of the jail new exhibit for Simcoe County museum was 1900 drag saw for cutting logs which came from Stayner area Ross Channen director of the museum said it would be restored and ready for operation within short time Following some spirited debate on the value of the idea Simcoe County council approved recommenda tion of its finance committee which urged adoption of family counsell ing service Simcoe North Conser vatives hadnt decided which can didate for the party leadership they would support at coming fall con vention George Hess Alvin Hamilton Senator Wallace McCut cheon and Robert Stanfield were among leading candidates mention ed Heber Smith of Barrie was the North Simcoe member Orillia Majors downed Midland Indians three straight with Barries Nick Owen leading the offensive in South Your business By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson NeWs Service Within eight to 15 years the energy crisis could roduce an economic shock comparable to eighteenthcentury industrial Revolution or to the Great Depression of nearly half century ago Thats the forecast of Hetherington chairman of the Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers Association of Canada Hebelieves that any country that by then hasn developed adequate energy sources will find the cost of survival to be lilyW551 as high as the loss of political ependence Canada might be one such country From being traditionally an exporter of oil we have in recent years turned into net importerto the tune of some $2 billion this year According to federal forecasts Canada will be spending $8 billion annually by 1985 to im rt oil Other estimates range up to $10 illion Hetherington argues that Canadian elec tricity should replace imported oil as our pri mary energy baseand that the policy focus should be on nuclear power And since so much time is required to plan power projects obtain government approvals and then car out the construction there isnt day to ose if Canada isnt to be in vulnerable position by the time of the world energy crunch That kind of rompt action on nuclear poweror any 0t er maor energy develop ment just isnt likely to appen Simcoe baseball league playoffs Reeve Langevin was re elected by acclamation for second term after summertime nomina tion at Wasaga Beach There were contests for deputy reeve and coun cillors in the village election arrang ed for Saturday August 26 Coll ingwood town council approved tur ning over site to the county for construction of new home for the aged Reeve Alfred Cage of Pene tanguishene chairman of social ser vices told council the cost of the project would run around million dollars Reconstruction of Brad ford street was discussed at meeting of Barrie city council report from the finance committee estimated the cost at $250000 Members of Simcoe County council rejected proposal to increase their per diem pay from the present $20 reduction in members from 55 to 45 was proposed in special report Midland reeve Leonard Self sug gested reduction to 16 or 17 members elected through regional system arguing this would effect substantial saving No immediate acton was taken Protection to persons and property which includ ed police and fire departments cost Bradford ratepayers $4384390 for the previous year it was shown by the auditors report Energy crunch major crisis The great pipelinc debate has demon strated clearly that the threat of economic collapse in eight to 15 years is in todays scheme of things relegated to low priority ur immediate interests are environmental purity pseudosociology narrow nationalism and resistance to the plans of business rrcspccially if the business is big and foreigncontrolled One way to reduce Canadas monumental need for imported oil would have been to develop the naturalgas deposits of the Canadian Arctic But the government has rejected the Gas Arctic proposal to send the gas southward through the Mackenzie valley The technical environmental and financial studies that supported such development apparently received scant attention in 0t tawa Instead the government has thrown its support to pipeline thats planned to follow the route of the Alaska Highway It will carry gas across Canadian territory between two US points although Canadian branch line could be built later But the issues of the environmental and social impact of that route have been much less intensively studied so far than in the case of the Mackenzie Valley and so its doubtful whether the alternative proposal will ever help Canada to avert the coming crisis What seems likely therefore is that Canadians will go on endlessly debating whether any alteration to the natural sur roundings of the territories is permissible in the public interest and if so how much while we continue to run out of gas and oil from the diminishing traditional sources LP llltnl cxrriisi Iiiir ItllllNItlll rigls Iltll Ile III Parliament hill By STEWART MacIJZOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service The governments decision to gradually phase out its secondlanguage training cen tres could go long way toward restoring some sense of tranquility to Canadas gublic service And it will certainly remove eavy load from the shoulders of Maxwell Yaldcn the new Commissioner of Official Languages The training program for public servants began in 1964 when the prime minister Lester Pearson declared that both French and Englishspeaking Canadians should have the right to communicate with their federal government in their own language And because there werent enough Frenchspcak ing public servants to provide this service crash program had to be undertaken to crcatc more bilingual employees It hasnt been smooth process for many of the public servants involved Some 63000 jobs have been designated as bilingual and to fill those positions employees either had to pass secondlanguage test or agree to become bilingual at public expense in the last 13 years the government established 5323 languagetraining classrooms the majority of them teaching Englishspeaking public servants to handle French Many older English employees complained of discrimination because jobs above them had been declared bilingual and it would not be practical for them to learn second language late in their careers The world today By JOHN IIARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Review Monolithic communism favorite word of the professional antiCommunist no longer exists In its heyday the Soviet Communist system of the late 19405 and early 19505 could we want your opinion Something on your mind Send us letter to the editor Please make it an original copy and sign it We dont blish unsigned letters although pen name will be used upon request Include your address and telephone number because we have to verify letters but we wont rint your address should you prefer Weve ound that short letters are the best read Because of space limitations public interest and good taste we sometimes have to edit condense or reject letters Letters to the editor run Wednesdays and Saturdays Send yours to Letters to the editor 1110 Examiner Box 370 Barrie nt AM 4T6 iiimuls IIii liiisiiiii There were other complaints that because the governments primary concern was to acquire more Frenchspeaking public ser vants that the training program naturally favored those whose first language was Fren ch For time Ottawa seemed to be seething with resentment Above all there were constant claims that the training program was largely ineffective that graduates seldom achieved full working knowledge of the second language and that they of ten had no opportunity to use it once they left the languagetraining cen tres But the overnmcni facing continuous complaints at the largely Englishspeaking public service automatically discriminated against unilingual French Canadians was forced to press on with its crash training program to prove it meant business And at the same time it established series of Fren chonly units in the public service where some of these unilingual cmployccs could find employment Not only was the entire program generally disruptive but it was frequently misunder stood Many Canadians thought there was no cmploymcnl available for them in the public service unless they could speak two languages These were the types of complaints frequently handch by Kcith Spiccr thc witty unconventional Commissioner of Official Languages who has spent seven years ing to sell Canadians on the value of bilingua ism as the overseer of the Official Languages Act count on pushing the buttons in nearly all the worlds communist states including the Peoples Republic of China Under the tyrant Jose Stalin Moscow was truly imperial an world capital Its emissaries were either the leaders of other world Communist states or heads of strong Communist parties in democratic nations The first crack in the system came very early after the Second World War with the fallaway from direct Soviet domination of Yugoslavia under Tito in June 1948 The largest continuing split in the Com munist world was and remains the Soviet Chinese break which began slowly in the mid 1960s and has continued since then Tiny Communist Albania in the Balkans became Communist Chinas only close Com munist supporter in Europe an association which is presently disintegrating But the most dangerous breakaway for Moscow in Europe has been the rise of Euro communism and the intention of Western European Communist parties to work within democratic systems Part of the reason for this is that Com munist party leaders in Ital France and Spain see cooperation wit larger non Communist parties who keep winning the elections as bringing them closer to part in New language commissioner still faces tough task And these werent the only complaints faced by Spicer whose office heard about everything from unilingual airline tickets to the fact that not enough FrenchCanadian composers were utilized for the music played in super markets MOVE UNIIELPFUI But it was the public service that produced the greatest number of complaints as the crash training programs altered careers and created host of resentments The situation wasnt helped the fact that the gov ernment in an of ort to make the city of Hull an integral part of the national capital began moving 15000 public servants across the tawa river Even icer in his last annual report was critical the governments bilingualism pro gram and he said the problem would not be solved until secondlanguage training shifted from the bureaucracy to the schools Trouble is this takes time But now we are told the government feels it can phase out its languagetraining programs by 1983 while reducing the number of esignated bilingual jobs by about one third And some of the $65 million now spent each year on the programs may be shifted to bilingualism education in provincial school systems The timing couldnt be better for Maxwell Yaldcn 43yearold career public servant Given present circumstances in Canada his new job will produce enough headaches without having to worry about the career paths of the countrys 350000 public servants European communistic orbit undergoing change in trend ninning the country though not assuming full political power Italys Communist leader Enrico Berlinguer ran his party on the platform of independence from Moscow during recent Italian elections The same is true of Georges Marchais head of the French Communist party and on ceastrong roMoscow sup rter Spains ntiago Carril Communist since the civil war of the 19308 was bitterly at tacked by Moscow for falling into line with nonCommunist parties in Spains new de mocracy As if this were not enough two of Russias Eastern Euro an satellites have restless leaders not ways in line with the Soviet Communist leaders The Prime Minister of Romania has led his country on course of moreoroless indepen ant socialism for several years and now rte the EuroCommunists in the West far the Russians have left him alone as he pursues his separate economic as well as political sitions Polan Prime Minister Edward Glerek former industrial worker with the best party credentials in Eastern Euro nevertheIeSS runs country in whic bitter anti communism is only below the surface Sol am in mood for reflection And natural bent for this is this question Who in many years here stands out most in memory BLACKWELL STANDS OUT And this is thought that causes no con cern have known George Drew have known beslie Frost have known John Roberts and currently of course know William Davis But none of these though fine men all stan ds out in my mind as does one other The man most remember over the years is Leslie Blackwell RAN SHOW Blackwell was attorneygeneral from 1943 to 1948 But much more than that he was the num ber two or you might say numer oneanda half man in the government The government of course was headed by George Drew And with Drew there never was any question who was boss He was But he liked to boss so much staff that someone had to keep the home shop running And this was the job that Blackwell inherited And filled magnificently DREW WON worldclass baseball pitcher six feet two who had lost leg in the First World War then coached both the Varsity football and water polo teams he was mans man who was never the first to leave any party He led strenuous social life But he probably got triple the work done of his colleagues And his reward was an anachronism When Drew moved on to Ottawa in 1948 Blackwell ran to succeed him He should have won But he didnt Lulie Frost did And the irony was that Drew put Frost in He was afraid of Blackwell Wt It would be too strong and he still wanted to control the Ontario party from Ottawa AndofwurseassoonasFrostgotin everybody found out who the real strong man was Drew in effect was told to clean out his desk Canadas story Anniversary of ieppe By BOB BOWMAN This is the anniversary of the battle of Dieppe one of the most controversial actions of World War Ii It was the first combined operation of army navy and air force against fortress Europe with the 2nd Canadian Division providing most of the army Casualties killed wounded and prisoners were 3350 of the 5000 soldiers who took part The Royal Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force also suffered heavy casualties and number of small ships of the Royal Navy were lost There is no doubt that the operation was too costly The question is whether it was justi fiable Dieppe on August 19 Imwgsj idieaisal for DDaythe actualErni Europe by Allied forces that took place on June 1944 and led to Germanys surrender one year later im rtant lessons were learned at Dieppe that elped to make the Normandy landi successful One of them was the need for heavy guns of battleships and cruisers to destroy German gun emplacements There were only destroyers at Dieppe and their guns were not strong enough to destroy the Ger man artillery hidden in caves in the cliffs They took the heaviest toll of Canadians lan ding on the beaches However Diep would not have been as costly if there ha not been some bad luck commando force receding the main attack ran into small erman convoy in the dark and warship protecting the convoy opened fire This alerted the German defences on shore so the element of surprise was lost The Canadian battalions that took part were the South Saskatchewan Regiment Cameron Highlanders of Canada Roya Regiment of Canada the Essex Scottish Royal Hamilton Li Infantry the Fusiliers de MontRoyal an the Czigary Tanks to whom this writer was attach bible thought And now Lord behold their threatenings and grant unto thy servants that with all boldness they may speak thy word By stret ching forth thine hand to heal and that iii and wonders may be done by the name or fly holy child Jesus Acts 429 90 Dont give uplook He is the mlthlptt specialist bringing wi Him miracles and wonders Father please touch shattered lives broken and diseased bodies with miracle just now in Jesus mighty name Amen We give you praise