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Town wants people to serve on downtown board The Town of Whitby is stili looking for person who are intersted in serving on The Board of Management for the Whitby Central Business District Improvement Area. Members of the board must be persons qualified to be elected members of council, assessed for business assessment, or nominees of corporations assessed for business assessment. Person interested in ser- ving on the board , of management are asked to contact Don McKay the town A MaUter of Justice There's one law for the bureaucrats at federal and provincial goverament depart- ments and agencies, it seems, and another for ordinary citizens, particularly peopie operatlng smaller businesses. The problem: governiment officiais take advantage of their prviieged and powerful positions when It cornes to en- forcing the maze' of many times conllicting regulations that control our lives. The resuit: the cosi of fighting Ottawa or provincial authorities is 80 prohibitive that in most cases Canadians find it l caper to pay a pen- alty rather than appealing what may be a legitimate point. In short, the systemn is grossly unfair to Canadians seeklng justice froin the hun- dreds of goverament boards, agencles and commissions tbat rule our lves. The matter is especlally Im- portant for smaller flrms because they lack the expertise and financlng (bat it takes to battle agencles such as Revenue Canada or the pro- vincial labor relations boards. The Americans have found a solution to the problem. The U.S. Senate bas passed legisia- (ion forcing the government (o re-imburse smaller com- panies for their costs when (bey are found blameless of wrongdoing in government- related actions. It's high time such legisla- tion was brought forward In Canada because independent business people are sincerely concerned about the issue. Members of the 56,000 member Canadian Federation of Independent Business, for example, recently voted 88% ln favor of such a move. Aside from tbe simple justice sucb a change would provide, government bureau- crats migbt be forced to have second thougbts about the ar- bitrary rulings and financial penalties that create hardship for entrepreneurs. Wbicb Is not (o suggest (bat goverament employees sbouldn't enforce the law. Tbat's their duty and respon- sibllity. But in ail falrness, people lncorrectly charged witb wrongdoing should be com- pensated for their cosus when, tbrougb simple error or lack of understandlng, the govemn- mientis lindeed proved (o be an ass. -~ PRESS Carriers are needed in Ajax, and east of Haz- elwood and east of Kendalwood in Whit- by. Anyone who feels they can do the job for a long period of time can apply at: THE WHITBY FREE PRESS 668-6111 Each new carrier is eligi ble for a F RE E PASS to the B ROCK THEATRE in Whitby. Ur