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8 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, August 21, 1990 Postal services cut From Page 7 many mid-sized and smaller rural post offices in Southwestern On- tario the past year, and in Nor- thern and Eastern Ontario now. We have served rural Canada to the best of our ability for the past 90 years as members of the Cana- dian Postmasters and Assistants Association. We certainly don't like being undermined by a postal corporation bent on privatization at any cost, particularly when it inconveniences our customers. We ask readers of this newspaper to consult their (Please recycle postmaster for the reduction in hours planned for your post office. Please call your Member of Parliament to register your op- position to this move by Canada Post. Tell your local town council you think 'better service' means longer, not shorter hours. Above all, let Canada Post know how you feel about its 'better service' for rural Canadians. Write to Mr. Don Lander, President, Canada Post Corporation, Sir Alexander Campbell Building, Ottawa, On- tario. K1A OC1. Yours sincerely, Mary Anne Doyle, President, Canadian Postmasters and Assistants Association, Letters io the editor Who is looking after Ont. interests? To the Editor: A key reason for calling the cur- rent election was to seek a new mandate to negotiate for Ontario in the upcoming reorganization Canada will probably undergo. Who is going to look after On- tario's interests? The federal MP's are not doing a good job! Let's briefly look at where we stand. ' -- All tenders for supplies and work let out by Quebec institu- tions have the following clause in the tender ad: 'Only those having their principle place of business in | this newspaper Ontario's Branch Quebec are allowed to bid."" On- Pets, and monument shops do not have much in common, but | am pleased with recent changes in both their legal rights. These changes are two that should have been made years ago, but as they say, "better late than never." More homes are now available for pets The new legislation concerning pets, is that apartment dwellers are now legally allowed to keep a pet in their new home. For years some people who live in apart- ments had been refused the right to own a pet. The decision of pet or no pet, was up to the landlord. No longer is this the case. Pets have recent been a to that list of "no no's" that a land- lord can use as basis for eviction, or considera- tion when renting out units. Pets, like color, creed, and sex of a potential tenant can not be used when choosing tenants. Anyone in an apartment can now keep a pet as long as it does not disturb, or interfere with others in the building. Many older people who cannot give a house - the constant attention it needs, take up resi- dence in an apartment, and are forced to live without their furry friends. There have been cases where these individu- als refused to give up their pet, and subsequent- ly told to find a new place to live. Pets are like children to the young and old alike, especially to those living on their own. A pet can fill a void of lonliness, make them happier, and keep them feeling younger. Constantly we are having our heartstrings tugged by television and newspaper ads show- ing abandoned, stray, and abused animals that need a loving home. The problem was that a great number of people who felt the twinge of guilt could do nothing to compensate it. Maybe with this new legislation, the goal to have no abandoned animals will come a step closer to reality. Monument Shop solicitors a disgrace A crackdown has finally been applied to Mon- ument Shops etc, on how they are allowed to Back Talk by Kelly Storry solicit their business. | realize these shops have a business to run, and that at some point in life we will all need one, but | feel this is one shopping task that should be done when and only when the de- ceased's family feels it is time to do so. These shops that so cold-heartedly drop price lists in your mailbox, call you up on the phone, and yes there are some that actually drive in from out of town and just show up on your door- step, brochure in hand. And all this within days of a loved one's death. For companies that constantly deal with the impact of death, it is hard to believe that to re- cruit new clients, they feel it f\Scassaly to throw | dignity and compassion for human life out the oor. Finally legislation has been put into place to limit their soliciting. Their type of soliciting should never have been allowed in the first place. Not to say everyone in this line of work follows these same rules of conduct, but the ones who do make phone calls, and make drop in visits to grievers part of the daily routine, need a lesson in compassion. Finally these people cannot use others misfor- tunes to drum up quick business. In my opinion - this new legislation will probably help business for these shops. The last place that someone is going to give business to is one with a blatent disregard for privacy. Telemarketing can be an efficient way to sell a roduct, but tombstones to newly mourning fami- ies via the telephone is a little different than someone calling to clean your carpets, or sell you a potato peeler. A little patience and compassion never hurt anyone. Put an ad in the paper, or on the televi- sion like everyone else, Pople will use your ser- vice when they are ready. They do not need a brochure or telephone call to let them know these businesses exist. Maye in some people's opinion the best way to get business is to spread their name around and as quickly as possible. But it appears to me that the way some of these businesses perform their duties, they want people to commit to the urchase of a tombstone with their trademark mbeded on it, before the mourner has even come to terms with the fact that a loved one has actually passed on. tario allows any company to bid on our work. -- The telephone is a major utility and we have given Bell Canada exclusive access to our homes for this service. Bell Canada receives almost 70 per- cent of its revenues from Ontario yet corporate head office func- tions are in Quebec. Western pro- vinces have clearly demonstrated that a province can in fact have its own telephone company. This should be especially of concern when we could end up with our phone company controlled by a foreign country. i.e. Quebec. Currently jobs are created in Quebec with our phone dollars. For instance all full size phone booths located in Ontario appear to be made in Quebec. They have the jobs, we don't. -- Quebecers form a majority of the federal civil service. This means they are able to direct federal spending and policies in a manner more favorable to Quebec. Let's look at a few recent examples: -- The Canadian space pro- gram was moved from Ottawa to Montreal to ensure Quebec received the major benefit of . direct jobs and spin-off benefits from this high tech area of activity. -- Fusion is possibly the next major source of energy to power the globe. Canada has a fusion research plant in Quebec operated by Quebecers even though it is a national program. The economic benefits of success in this research are enormous. Fusion power would be an en- vironmentally clean and safe . source of energy. -- Quebec receives most of our dollars spent on major defense contracts as illustrated by the Orlikon plant built in Quebec as a condition for receiving a federal contract. -- Mulroney stated that the federal governments intention is to make Montreal the high-tech capital of Canada, when he an- nounced Air Canada was going to do all its aircraft service in Montreal. -- To encourage international banking the federal government made Montreal and Vancouver tax havens for international bank- ing operations. Toronto has the majority of banks. This is a direct attempt to remove jobs and sup- porting services from Toronto. This occurred even though the current finance minister is from the Toronto area! -- The "Drug Patent Act" was passed federally to protect "Canadian companies."' This in- creases all our drug costs but in- creases revenues for e com- panies, the majority of which are in Quebec. -- Nutrasweet Co. received an unusual extension of a'patent on aspertine. This was to encourage it to build a plant in Lasalle, Quebec. We pay for this by higher prices for products with aspertine. -- Ottawa has old land in the Malvern area of Scarborough at market prices making over $110 million over the past few years and putting the money into general revenue to be used in _ their normal programs. This land or proceeds should definitely have gone towards easing the housing situation in the Toronto area in- stead of bankrolling federal spen- ding in Ottawa and Quebec. -- In agricultural products On- tario is not receiving its fair share of production quotas. For in- stance we are allowed to produce roughly 7 million less chickens than we consume and Quebec pro- duces roughly 27 million more chickens that it is allowed to ex- port to other provinces. Other pro- ducers of agricultural products have similar complaints. Who is looking after Ontario's interests? We need provincial leaders to do this. Saying "Itis a federal area of responsibility' as an excuse to do nothing is not good enough! We support programs financially and receive less back in benefits. For instance Quebec's premier was asked by his opposi- tion why don't we draw out of the Canada Employment Insurance Program. He stated that he wishes to stay in because Quebecers received $1 billion more a year out of it than they paid in. Ontario is paying more than receiving yet we stay in the program. This illustrates provin- cial politicians have a lot of areas they can bargain with to sway federal actions. t It has been stated that Ontario employs 100,000 people as a result of exports to Quebec. I suggest it can be shown that Quebec employs much more than this figure as a result of preferential federal practices and inequities in our current trade relations. Who is going to look after On- tario's interests? Lets talk about it in the current election campaign! Yours truly, Chuck Suikki, Stouffville, Ont. =< co - : Correction The obituary for Walter John Kerry on page 31 of the August 14 Port Perry Star con- tained two typographical er- © TOIS. The third paragraph should have read as follows: "On July 16, 1960, Walter married Elva Stearman who mourns his loss along with their four children, Paul, Donna and her husband Jeff Ireland, Mark and Glenn." The Star regrets the errors and extends an apology to the Kerry family. La "EMMERSON INSURANCE BROKERS LIMITED 193 QUEEN ST., PORT PERRY, ONT. LIL 1B9 PHONE (416) 985-7306 ALL LINES OF GENERAL INSURANCE * HOMEOWNERS - FARM - AUTO COMMERCIAL + »