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oo -- ro . { 5 i 4 EAR PLA CTH BES SS 10 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, June 1, 1977 re Candidates Speak oO Bill Newman - Conservative The people of the Scugog area have the opportunity on June 9th to share in setting Ontario's direction for the next four years. As your Progressive Conservative candidate in Durham-York, I have been cam hard to earn your support for myself and for Premier Bill Davis. The dominant issue in this election is one of leadership; which politicial party can be trusted by the voters of Ontario to guide our province through the unsettled days ahead. All of Canada is confronted today by many problems. Our existance as a united nation is being questioned for the first time in more than a hundred years. Ontario has always played a leading role in our national discussions and it is now more important than ever before that our voice be heard again - through a provincial government of stability and experience. There are other issues of course. One is the simple alternative of whether we should continue with a government founded on basic, free enterprise principles, or whether we should experiment with costly socialism. In other provinces like British Columbia, the socialist experience has been an expensive lesson in the growth and cost of government, with a corresponding stifling of the private sector. Our provincial Liberals, of course, have fallen on lean times. In this election it is forecast by the experts that their numbers will be further diminished. In my - own campaigning in Durham-York I have been ap- proached by many people who say they have supported the Liberals in the past but are voting Conservative this time. They are declaring themselves in the strongest possible way against the ambitions of the socialist party. - I welcome their support. I have enjoyed my time as an M.P.P. in the provincial house. It has been hard work but it has also carried the satisfaction of being able to solve many problems and accomplish many things for my con- stituents, I would like to continue my service as your voice at Queen's Park. On June 9th, therefore, I sincerely seek your vote and support. A & A SMALL ENGINES WE SERVICE & SELL + Lawn Mowers ~~ Roto Tillers' v Chainsaws w+ Outboards v Mini-Bikes HWY. 12 NORTH OF GREENBANK e eo Liz Catty - Liberal In this, the thirty-fifth year of uninterrupted one-party rule in Ontario this unexpected and unnecessary election is truly a cause for reflection and concern. For us in the Ontario Liberal Party it is a responsibility we recognize clearly and our policy proposals present a reasonable and workable alternative to the direction in which the old Conservative y has led us. The billions of dollars which we have invested over the past 15 years in Education have not been justified. It is a fact that 44 percent of the 312,000 unemployed in Ontario are in the 15-24 age group - a clear verdict of massive misspending! We propose a well-constructed core curriculum, province-wide examination standards and a return to comprehensible grading. The economic advantages of Regional Government have yet to transpire. To date this has simply removed responsive local authority beyond the reach of the citizenyand created a new bureaucratic control mechanism which is a financial burden on the taxpayer and contributes little to the gross provincial product. It is time that we examined Regional government in the light of experience and made such modifications as are essential to make the idea acceptable to the majority. Is it humanly and sociologically responsible to isolate our senior citizens in institutions removed from the daily lives of their children and grandchildren? Should the retired citizen becomg automatically a ward of the government and cease to act and think independently? Or will this trend not produce generations of people who are cut off from the cultural heritage of their fore- fathers and become easy prey to indoctrination by demagogues or the whim of the mass media? We seem to declare ourselves intellectually bankrupt with such policies. The Liberal philosophy has traditionally "upheld the rights of the individual, young or old, rich or poor. We want to bring back pride in achievement whether at school or at work or in retirement. Considering our unemployment situation we believe it makes more sense to direct thousands of young people towards the forest industry, train them as wardens and actively prevent the million-dollar losses in timber and pulp by fire annually. We will create at least-100,000 new permanent jobs in owner-managed firms by subsidizing wages up to a maximum of $2,000 per annum. The reductions in unemployment payments and the increased productivity resulting from this programme will make our commit- ment the cheapest job-creation programme around. Our commitment to keep tax, fee and rate increases by the provincial government in line with wage increas- es is firm. Unless this is done every Ontario family will suffer the squeeze between fixed income and spiralling unavoidable expendiditures such as hydro, water, rates and fees. Pollution and environmental controls must be enforc- "&d to restore our most-precious-renewable resource: clean water. Where the livelihood of local communities actually depends on water, on fishing and hunting it is totally unacceptable to the Liberals that mercury pollution has been allowed to poison such resources. Or is it cheaper in the long run to pay thousands of dollars in medical treatments rather than install pollution control equipment to avert disease in the first place? The many hundred aspects in which the provincial level of government affects our lives cannot be enumer- ated in this short appeal. We have touched on only -- some of the most obvious and we know we echo the feelings of the majority of Ontarians who see the urgent need for a new and vigorous approach to our common problems, We, the Ontario Liberals have the grit to tackle the task!. A TR] - SA a [Sigil Allan McPhail - NDP Right now, there are several things that concern me deeply about Ontario -- the increasing unemployment, the lack of affordable housing, the fact that we are, losing more and more good agricultural land, the way in which our lakes and rivers are being polluted. These things are not inevitable and with good management _ they needn't happen. We have not been getting that good management from the Conservative government in Ontario and this, I feel, is the overriding Issue of the campaign we are facing today. 3 After 34 years in power and many, many studies, there has been no action on property taxes. We have an enormous provincial debt which costs us millions in interest payment annually. And the Tories have Bitte to offer. to help:solve our unemployment problem. ! Unemployment is at a level in excess 000 in the province. Except for a few thousand \short-term summer jobs, the Tories have opted out. They say that the responsibility for creating new jobs rests with the private sector. But what have those in the private sector done even though a Conservative government - gave them lots of tax incentives? Not enough. What is worse, the Conservatives have accepted a 5.3 percent unemployment rate as representing full employ- ment. This relegates young people and women of all ages to the 'secondary' labour force thus telling tiem that it doesn't matter whether they have a job. The Tories have swept unemployment under the.carpet. The Conservatives argue that it would cost too much money to create jobs. But we-are-spending hundreds of millions on unemployment insurance and welfare and getting nothing for it. This doesn't make sense when there are useful projects awaiting action in. every community. . Property taxes have become an oppressive burden on everybody, particularly lower income families and senior citizens on fixed incomes. The Conservative government. has studied property tax reform for ten years; it has no fewer than six reports for its guidance. But when the Blair Commission report was made a few » weeks ago, the provincial treasurer said that it was too controversial to table. So" nothing has been done. Basically, the Conservatives are unwilling and unable to grapple with this problem and bring equity to the property tax situation, - Perhaps the best of many examples of Tory govern- ment is Pe deficit financing into which they have drifted. The conservatives argue that Big Government and overspending are our greatest problems today. Yet nobody has created bigger government and greater deficit spending than themselves. The Conservatives appeared to be a tolerably good government when times were good. But times have become tough. The times require that some acceptable balance be struck between employment and inflation. The. times require that some long-range planning be done to cope with energy shortages. The Conservatives need to be told that, after their 34-year run of power, the people of Ontario will not give them any more time, Queen's Park is in need of new direction, new ideas, and a more creative administration that the Ontario New Democratic Party can provide. 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