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NEWSROOM 7266537 CIRCULATION 7266539 Queen park Buying property mistake by city We should all be so fortunate as to own land the city of Barrie wants to get its hands on Who else but guardians of the public purse could afford to be so happygolucky with money Council voted last week to pay $130000 for land ap Maturity question praised at$95000 last year ï¬T The land is to be used as parking lot AVA 33 35921 It will provide 23 new parking spaces for downtown Barrie Thats about $5700 parking space In fairness to council it should be pointed out that the money for the land is not coming from taxes Its coming from the money collected from meters and parking fines Great plans though are afoot for the future of the new parking lot Its going to be decked Thats going to cost $1 million The decking may be started in another five to 10 years and we wont take any bets on what the price of decking will be by then There are several reasons why council should have stayed in bed on this issue It is very probable that this city wont need more park ing spaces in five to 10 years The energy crisis still goes on and appears to be getting worse and worse We doubt that anyones concept of downtown Barrie in cludes acres of parking lot Its all very fine to provide parking for downtown visitors but not at the expense of tearing everything down visitors might want to visit Council has agreed to pay $61000 for study of the downtown core Perhapsjust perhapsthe planners might come up with another solution to the downtown parking problem Might it not be wiser to wait until the study is complete before buying downtown property The $130000 price for the property is out of line with downtown property values if local real estate people are to be believed One said no businessman could afford to buy the land at that price for commercial developmentwhich seems is to us to mean that the city is adding to the businessmans burden once more by inflating land prices It wasnt wise move city councillors We dont suppose you will change your minds simcoe yesteryear Lost in the shuffle of other recent news AN OltilILAlN ed woildfllke give liou more leutlls at Canadas tiin we are more eni ana mos ine ar governmen communica ion Th1 ddition to the Simcoe ount ourt House built In lit to house cou council and dom md lmdlmldL ll serisrizes offices The first part wailf built in itit2 hydharles Tholnllpson who wall stage coach CriSlmfl sINCll Ol Exlclnal Affairs Minister any other member nation given our 32year am haying difficulty understanding the OFY operator and steamboat owner from the Barrie area The two storey addition consisted of 16990 square feet including basement which contained woodburning furnace This building served the county without any major changes until lltl2 when new front entrance was added as part of ounty entennial project The work was done by harlcs Alexander local con tractor At the same time new shingle roof was added In 1955 the caretakers residence at the back of the building was taken down and replaced with the ounty Services Wing This provid ed housing for the Childrens Aid Society which was the first county service begun in 1922 Health Unit Recreation Services Library Services and the Probation Service It was known as the East Wing The third and final renovation took place in Ittfil when the interior was redecorated circular driveway in front of the building was made by Thompson using linic Okay whos the smart guy who told his wife hes at the health food store Parliament hill Hy STEWART lic IIlil ttzimi Itiiriziu Thomson News Service Those chaps over at Treasury Board who keep an eye on the purse strings while trying to ensure that government is run efficiently certainly have way with words But then most of them in the planning and policy branches are fairly senior perhaps in the $illlllltltitrtzil range and there is no reason why they shouldnt be illll to express themselves with the same efficiency they ex pect from other public servants And they love issuing memos just came across this one on com munications and it is addressed to the deputy heads of all departments and agencies not bad circulation list for start What the chaps at Treasury Board are saving is that there should be improved twoway com munications between various departments and agencies Jamieson speech Those Treasury Board chaps certainly have way with words Lets talk more is what they are really saying Come to think of it that wouldnt be bad phrase for them Instead they introduce the subject this way The communication and exchange of ideas on administrative policy matters is en couraged and maintained to optimize the use mix and cost of administrative inputs in program results wish had thought of that first The enlightening memo goes on to talk about how communications can be tran smitted There are usually three ways to receive input from and to maintain twoway communications with departments and agencies Treasury Board advisory com Thomson News Service TORONTO Yesterday referred to the experience of the Ontario trade mission to Japan and discussed the failure of labor in our economic situation of today Today few more thoughts along this line For the maturity of labor is very im ggrtant question at the present time From th an immediate and long term viewpoint it might be even more potent than the nationalunity question For our whole social wellbeing whether one united country or several principalities depends in turn on our economic health Today this health is already impaired through unemployment and trade balances with prospects for the future not being bright And though there are worldwide factors which contribute to this here at home the biggest single reason for pessimism about improvement must centre on labor SEES DOLLARS You might say this is because labor is blinkered It sees only the track directly ahead and that in very short perspective And what it sees on the track are prin cipally the dollar and personal gains It cant even see the whole track let alone the race course And this blinkerism applies not only to labors objectives but to its approaches TOWARDS FATE To give just one example of how inadequate our labor structure is to fill its place in society lets take the case of ratification of agreements With almost all unions now new agreemen ts arent effective until they have been en darsed by majority vote of the general membership This is supposed to be the democratic way But it is form of democracy that is not followed in other spheres When government for example proposes tax increase it doesnt have plebiscite to get agreement No our democratic system is to elect ople who are momentarily our peers and live them govern for us And if they dont govern the way we feel they should we kick them out Presumably the same system should be followed with labor And if it were we might at least reasonably expect the elected leader ship to concern itself with the broader questions INDIVIDUAL GAIN But what happens now is this The real power the ratification is in the hands of the members and quite often the leastinformed members They will not even know the broader im pacts cant be expected to And they will vote dominantly on the aspect of personal gain Their settlement individually can cause some slight upset in our economy Collec tively whole spectrum of settlements can seriously disturb the whole economy and ttees on interde artmental through this OUTSOClalheallh The world rcllfrnmittelsnezlllderiliflililmal departlrlnental in And the WhOle Procedure essence today puts means we are being pushed to fate by By JOHN lIAltltItftN Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Don Jamicson to the United Nations General Assembly lamicson in his hurtlhitting style known to Canadians told the United Nations to shape up end thc long and pointless rhetoric which precedes almost fill major iciierzil Assembly activities zind design new structures to get things done Again in his typically open way he suggested smaller meetings of the foreign deserves attention member nation who would put up with anything out of politeness the comments are still under way old record of working hard and long in all major UN functions at last to strongly criti cize the body year ago reported in series of colum us on the excellence of our own United Nalt tions permanent mission under the serving Ambassador William Barton and the multi farious duties it must conduct within the in ternal structures of the United Nations recall restlessness there about the way Now that represents real breakthrough doesnt it And bet that if Treasury Board hired some outside consultants for $100000 or so they might even come up with fourth and fifth ways to communicate perhaps men tioning letters and telephones memo So will turn my attention to another memo also from the chaps at Treasury Board who were so specific few months ago on the delicate issue of measuring per formance in the public service This time we are dealing with operational performance measurement and the purpose of this cir cular is to state the Treasury Boards policy and guidelines governing the measurement of ignorance Civil rule secretaries or foreign minim of the material moved through the larger performanceofgovernment operations statisticiansitstatsll3iirrmitts rials 23312 as or UN been York Tierney is based on the that House which had to go before the Gemmi Assembly elsewhere and the high politics of the General IS soun management practice for control and some agreement that what they agreed to Assembly Planfllng and accountability Purposes By BOB BOWMAN would largely be accept in primmic by the But there was not the feeling that the monitor the movements of the relationship October 1764 brought great changes to General Assembly Canadian government or the department of between the results of operations and their Canada ClVIl rule replaced military on Oct Canadas exitma affairs minister is external affairs should talk tough openly in assomated costs and the desired effects and other regulations were announced on spoke harshly about the future relevance of NW york what original concept Wait until Og including currencyReplaClng ï¬end Your the UN if its major bodies the General Well Jamieson has done so from country private industry gets its mitts on this idea With British money involved severe Assembly and Security Council continued in whose credentials and servrces rendered to EASILY UNDERSTOOI problems There was even some playingcard business their present ways the UN areimpeccable As opposed to the memo on easy com money in Circulation and it was redeemed at By VINCENT EGAN Business and onsunier Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Less than six months remain in which to revise Canadas Bank Act now due to expire March 31 1978 That may seem like plenty of time for other projects but in legislative matters it isnt The eleventh hour has in fact arrived On three major issues affecting the banking business acceptable compromise must still be made between economic desirability and political expediency says economist Binhammer of the Royal Military College in Kingston Ont Here are Prof Binhammers proposals for compromise as described in the current issue of The Canadian Banker The payments system It has been decided to establish Canadian Payments bible thought Iiut as touching brotherly Iove that write iiiilo you for ye ynurgphm taught of God to llHl om aimihmy Thessalonians tlzlt It is not religious lillk but the love of ml rclivcd in Christian iltlS ol the believer that will winnthisworld to Jesus In Wind and deed for Bank Act Association to handle chcqueclearing and the electronic transfer of funds But it hasnt been decided who can belong to the CPA nor what cash reserves must be held in an ap proved depository As Prof Itinhammcr points out there is no need to require every deposittaking in stitution to be CPA member Some would be better advised to retain todays old fashioned system of clearing cheques Nor is it necessary he believes despite the Bank of Canadas insistence that deposit taking institutions hold specific minimum cash reserves He would have the chartered banks reserve requirement substantially reduced and leave the socallcd nearbanks exempt Mltll BANKS New banking competition In the interests of broadening competition in the financial services field the governments white paper on banking proposed relaxation of the stiff requiremean facing new entrants into the business Instead it proposed incorporation by letters patent much simpler legal device than the existing method of obtaining charter by special act of Parliament However the white paper would subject the granting of letters patent to the approval of the GovcrnorinCouncil on the recom mendation of the finance minister This would open he door to political tinkering contends Iof Binhammcr Since there is no permanent Canadian correspondent at the United Nations any more we heard of no fallout from the un expected attack on the UN from this unan ticipated high Canadian source But you can be sure flint among the I49 nations estmcinlly the oldtimcrs who always considered the Canadians thc Silllfilkyrtlflilll DON IAMIESON hard hitting If we dont know how the UN bureaucracy will react or what Secretary General Kurt Waldhcim will do about the blast from the otherwise cool Canadians we also dont know what Jamiesons department thinks about his blast The directorgcneral of the UN division of the department of external affairs is career diplomat Geoffrey Pearson He is lowkey zind unflappablc operator who has done some quiet troubleshooting for the department in other places where Canada has lost patience Certainly the ima of the Canadian diplomat except for ose of us who share days and weeks with them on their foreign aSSignmenis often under very trying con ditions still is the hackneyed one of living the good life abroad In Ottawa the ima of the foreign service officer is one of pu lic servant who main tains his elite position in the Canadian public service through silence aloofness and mystery about thejob Noni these wellfixed images are ac curate epl the essential one of not wishing to it set ay apple carts at home or overseas as etrimenta to the basic diplomatic func tion SILENCE MUST In fact it uires only the slightest in discretion by iplomat in touchy country to bring about his instant recall If blast against country or an agency is needed the external affairs minister must do it All the more credit goes to Jamicson for his unexpected Canadian warning to the United Nations munications this one on government per formance is comprehensible to many or dinary citizens For instance had no trouble coming to terms with this bit of economic philosophy It is obviously fundamental in measuring performance to be able to relate costs and results But just in case anyone has trouble with this the memo adds that further in formation on this subect can be found in the Treasury Board pu lication BenefitCost Analysis Guide Ill pass this time Another paragraph that grasped in flash reads like this For most types of per formance indicators reasonable ap proximations are generally sufficient providing that they are in general agreement with the financial records Of course if they are not in general agreement with the financial records we can assume there will be hell to pay There are couple of questions that deputy ministers are asked to keep in mind while measuring performance Are the existing indicators sufficiently accurate for their in tended use and are the indicators provided in time to be of significant use No deputy minister could ever think of these things on his own But my favorite iece of advice for the deputies is that bit out not overlooking im portant indicators Movements of the unem gloyment rate for example can have caring on the degree of difficulty ex perienced in obtaining placements in man power program No kidding halfvalue No doubt it would be worth great deal today There is some in the De Ramezay Museum in Montreal which can be seen by special request only French civil law was retained in Canada but British criminal law was adopted as it was considered more humane The British also gave Roman Catholics in Canada complete freedom in Britain they could not hold public positions be officers in the army practise law or medicine or even be apothecaries British criminal law included the right to be tried by juries This led to some problems It was often charged that Frenchspeaking Canadian was at disadvantage when tried by an Englishspeakin jury There were basica ly three possibilities when Britain took over Canada from France The first was that the country should retain completely its French character with as in India an alien people under British rule The second was that the French should ac cept the culture of Britain and become Englishs aking and Protestant Third at the two races should live apart united only by common government each retaining its own distinctive features One hundred years later George Etienne Cartier the political leader who brought nench Canada into Confederation said that the idea of unit between Wench and Eng lishspeaking anadians was Utopian dream The uturc of Canada depended on co operationnot unity OTHER OCT EVENTS witA storm caused heavy damage in PEI