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Page 10, Whitby Free Press, WednesdaY. FebruaiY 9. 1994 Shep herd " arpointed tofinac omte Durham MP Alex Shepherd has been apponted te, the federal finance committee. "People are drowning in a mea of taxes and workcing more tha half the. year just te earn the. money te, py governinent. It's got tp," says Shepherd. He says the economy carinot be stiuated with so higii a percentage of people's disposable incomne goirig te governient. "In sme ways, gov.rnment cari b. obstructive. One 0f my goals wiIl b. te give smre stimulus te small- anid mediuni-sized businesmes and get governient out of people's way," h. says. Shepiierd says reformeftiihe GST ima top priority for the. federal goverMnent, and the. conmittee will take a consultative approach to changing thei. tax. -GBROOKIM2Iw- PROPOSED REJCONSTRUCTO Disagreement over, Cassels road width By Mark Reuor A report recommending the reconstruction and wideninq of Casuels Road East was received as information by Town ope- rations committee Monday. In the reor public works director Wayne Hancock recom- mends Casuels Road be recon- structed to a pavement width of 9. 1 metres (30 feet) from Bald- win Street (Highway 12) to Queen Street and 10 metres (33 feet) from Queen east through the ,jroposed Brooklin Meadows The departmnent had originally proposed -10 metres of pavement along the entire stretch, but chan&ed its mind after residents comp ained at public information centres. The new width allows room for Panae supper at church A pancake supper will be; held Tuesday, Feb 15 5 to 8 pan., at St. Thomas Angican Church in Brooklin. Money raised by the. church from the supper will g toward the Christian Children s Fund. The coet is $5 for aduits, $3 for children ($12 for a family pass). The church is at the corner of Winchester Road and Anderson Street. For more information cal 668-4643. Gospel group at Burns Church The Torchmen from St. Catharines, Canada's premiere southern gospel quartet, will be in concert at %urne Church, Ashburn on Sunday, Feb. 13 at 7:30 p. Ailare welcome, and a social hour will follow the concert. There will be an offering. For more information, cal 655-4240. The date of the oratorical con- test held by the Optimist Club of Brooklin ha been changed te Wednesday, March 2. The contest was originally scheduled te be held today (Feb. 9). 'optimismI The Right Stufi' is the subject of this year's contest outh under ae 16. Tii. contest willb. held at St. Thomas Anglican Church, Brook- lin. For more information call Grant Milison at 655-8153. two lanes of traffic, a parking lane and mountable curýb and would cost about $20,00>0 less te reconstruct, aya Hancock. It also meets the, Ontario Ministry of Transportation's minimum urban collctor road standard-- any narrower and the ministry may not share as mucii of the coet, he notes. 'Wayne... Fim simply saying tiiat it'smyopinion thisroad~i b. nàeede af that width when you're on your fourth harp,' said the, Ion. dxssentîgmembor, councillor Joe rum, wiio warits the. road bujît two feet narrower (8.76 metres) east of the. bridge. «From Qu.en Street over te, the. bridge, tiiere'm no need for tiiat kindiof »aroad - ie'* goin d"cmate the. place - wesgtoftlhe bridge, fine... (but east).iu al r.sidential and will remain rosi- dential as long as ariyone around this table is still on the. face of the. earth... «Having that kid of aroad - tiiat kindfof width - in that part of Brooklin is absolutely idiotic... thus siiould mot happen in Brook- lin, anid rm gong te argue (agaùnmt it) until the cowm come home. 'Màhiroad is going te be a main entrance andexit from that subdivision going te, Highway 1L2 and te tthe downtewn area,N countered councillor Marcel Brunelle. 'We build roads te, travel on anid were going te have a major amount of traffic travelling back and lbrth... I tiiink tiiat forthe. safety of the. people that are going te b. drivirig intiiat area, we've got te keep that road at a collecter standard." The report also recommends repaing and widening the. Cas- uels Road bridge, wiih was built in 1940, tothée9.1lmetre width -- it's now about seven metres wide. The existing concrete iiand- rails are i poor shape notes Haricock, and would b.replaced witii an aluminum «vertical bar ralngkrown as'Metro Rail.» Tedepartment aloo recom- mends a teýxtured concrets finish for the. prent concret. wall face, altiioui Hancock notes the, "aesth.tic tr.atments» will cost nmre $10,000 more than the. standard concret. wall and steel rails. Hie mays smre of that extra coot may b. paid for by the. province. Galmioway at society meingV The. Brooklin Hortcultural Society will iiold its nert meeting Weded, F.b. 23, 8 p.m, at Br=ooklih iUnited Ciiurcii. Martin Galloway wifl diucuas Iandocaping with perennials, witii (Iug-a-mug). AUl are welcome. ParlBy Moi hephepor As a backbench MP, I was fortunate enL'ugh te be one of the first members te speak durrng the opening week of Canada's 35th Parliament. I mentioned that sinaîl- and mediunx-sized businesses have created between 17 and 83 per cent of new jobs, and that a large portion of our economy is controlled from outside our bordera. I believe, and ]Pm finding support for my view from other MPs, that through incentives and support for small- and mecium-sized businesses te, create new techriology, we cari regain control of bur economny. I told the House w. could create new, long-term sources of capital by using pension funds and other saving vehicles as the basis of economie growth. As the government promised, MPm pension reformn will be one of the first items of business during this session of Parlianxent. Double-dipping by defeated or retired MIPs inte the taxpayers' purs. is over once the legislation is passed. Thie governnent reafllrmed the need te end the GST and> I hope te hear ideas on what it should be replaced with.. I know tlus tax has been hard on both the consumer and s0mall businesspeople, and unfair te thoee on fixed and Iow incomes. There is going te b. a substantial consultative process prior to the uncorina budget. It wîll give the people of Durham riding the opportunity te express their opinions before the legislation is proposed. Take advantage of the oppotunity sa, I cari take. your opinion te Ottawa. Shephebrd y that 23 cents out of every C dollar collected gogos teward administration of the. tax, makirig it an iriefficient tax. TI hie maiden speech to Parliarnent Feb. 4, Shiepherd presed the. goverriment mot te cut farm.rs' $500,000 capitalgan exemption. as their retrement noat egg, oI believe it in v.r imprtant te retai ths deduction," he aïdL Shiied nidmont farmer" 'liv. a difficult financial life" requrn contanLivenmon i v wmaikery and buildings. "The. low return on thee Ontario ridirig NP Dan McT.agu. bas been appointed te thie Standing Joint Comiitte. of the. HSo f Gommons aand the, Senateon Officiai Languagesand the. Standing Joint Committe. of the. Houee dCf ommons and the. Senate on the Scrutiny of Reg":atîoS. "The. federal government's Official Languages pàlicy bas generated a significarit amount of debte in Canada. With my appintment t te .Standingt JOint Oommittee on Official Languages, I have an opportunity te consider the. various aspects relating te this debate," said McT.ague. "As a fluently bilingual Memiber of Parliament from Ontalo, I am n rteresed in examinng the. importance of Cariada's official languages in greater detail. investments p uts a constant hole in tielr pocets, lusaing thein unable te inveot in or t«et cave gen.raly " h. muid. H. told the o mmon that dditJ away Wîth tii.exemption mWr ot ignifcantly add to governmemt revenues. "Revenu. fror this »ec 1989to19b 3an mr cent &=o 190 t i a*d iy19 percent from 1990 te 1991-4 nid Shepherd.y Had tdm formerd do dedtoei mot been avaflabe i 199, the. Durham MP pointed out it would on1y have accouted for $235 nùon. "I alm look forward te being a member oif the. Standing Joint Committe. on the Scrutiriy 0f Rguations. Reulations from variuis fedral government departments and- agencies have a cogsiderable impact on the. daily liv.. of Canadians. "For the. most part, the». regulations ensure sucii diverse things as safe transportation, quality food and envr*ommental protection. However, in more case%~ regulations may b. improperly deuigned, too burdensome on the public, or are beyond the. mandate of the. issuing department, tiiereby usurping the. role of Parliament. "I emreextreme camus they may b. unconstitutional. This committee will b. responsible te examnine ail federal regulations and statutory instruments" ta detormine if they. are valid." Quaker Oats'chair at DRMA meeting Jon K. Grant, chair of the. Q uaker Oats Comp any of Canada Ltd., will be guest speaker at a meeting in Whitby on March 3. Grant will discues 'Business and- the. Environment -- A Chal- lenge for Management' at the. meeting of the. Durhamx Region Manufacturers Association. Grant is chair of the. Ontario Round Table on the. Envirornment and Economy. The meeting begins at 5:30 p.m. with a reception. Grant will speak at 6:30 p.m. and dinner is at 7:30 pa. Tii. Durham chapter of the. Certified General Accountants Association will iiold a 'Bow- lerama' on Saturday, Feb. 26 to rais. funds for the. 'Durhamn Heart and Stroke Foundation. Each participant will bowl three games of 10-pin at Northi End Bowl in Oshawa, from 4 to7 p.m. Ite cost is $12 per person or $60 for a team of six people. Prizea will b. awarded for bowl- ing kils, and there will b. giveaways. taindaim Thereg*îs io da l i Mondayeb. 21. T r trcLi lnda Tetroe at 6835285,aftr 6p.m. Cost is $40 for members $45 for nori-members. For more ifor- matin caîl 434-1412. Internati'onal Niht upco&n The Durhamx Business and Prcbional Women's Club will iiold International Ngi on Wed- nesday Feb. 23,6p.. at the. Earl ol'Durham Retarat, 227 Brock St. S., Wiiitby. Guest speaker is Mina DiDo- menico of tiie Toronto Business and Professional Women'm Club. 5he will ,discusa iier experiences as the, 'YungCareer Woman' from Canada selected te attend the. 1993 International Congreas in Nagoya, Japan. The cot teattend the dinner meeting.is $25 for members. $30 for non-mçmbers. Cal Xaren Graham at 427-6930 or Leah Murray at 728-9115 for more information. CAPIC to meet The local chapter of the. Cana- dian Association for Production and lInventory Cntrol will meet on Tuemdy Feb. 15, 7 pm., at thieEarlofôLýuiam in Whitiby. A guest apeaker from Hayes- Cana Corp. will dicuss'Qulity Fucion Deploymont.' Formore information oeil Elain. at 721- 3320.