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The Acton Free Press Wednesday Nov B11 Understanding needed THE BOARD of directors of Halton Hills Legal Clinic are standing Ralph Ursel and Jonan McMillan seated from left Gordon Chapman Susan Tanner Morley Mills Monty Hyde and Pat Salt Missing are Rev Peter Barrow and Anne Currie Peggy Balkind will staff the office in Acton with Gordon Chapman and Ron Henry the duty counsels Canadians have lost their competitive position in the international marketplace and are now paying for their lack of discipline according to Federal Finance Minister Jean Chretien Chretien told the Halton Liberal Annual meeting that Canadians are being Judged as living beyond their means for too long But the Minister said the situation will im prove in the future He said the national unity couldn t be separated rom the weakness of the dollar and inflation Political instability Is closely interrelated with inflation and the weakness of the dollar he said My country is Canada I go to Quebec and speak of the virtues of Canada We started form nothing over years ago and now we are one of the most important coun tries in the world We have CANADIANS SHOULD get to know one another more freedom here than any and a lot of the tension between French and where in the world and we are English could be eased says Federal Finance it Minister Jean Chretien so sensitive about it He said the country has so many virtues but seemed in tent on concentrating on the disadvantages or drawbacks The country has too many good things about it to let it go down the drain The problem of two and two cultures has been with us for 100 years and it will continue to exist he ex plained Asked what the ordinary citizen could do to encourage national unity Chretien ad mitted there t a lot any one could do He stressed the need for understanding the other If you have relatives or friends Quebec talk to them write to them visit them show signs of under standing Chretien praised the ex change programs that sees French students visit Ontario and English students visit Quebec Students come back un dors landing something good about Canada He said often problems stem from not knowing any thing about the other culture He acknowledged being tempted by the separatists movement In his early years but claims after learning about the country and its many virtues he Is a staunch federalist The country has more vir tues than problems but we ways talk of the problems He blamed pert of that on the media who he said con centrated on the negative point of view DON GET HOOKED The next time you read a cigarette ad remember each is paid for by an in dustry that has carefully figured out that an average person once hooked will spend thousands of dollars In a lifetime on the product Don t get hooked says the Canadian Cancer Society First legal clinic now open here The first legal clinics in Acton and Georgetown ore now in operation the first of its kind in towns this size The clinic will be held two days a week in the Community Services Centre in the staffed by Peggy Balkind and Jill McCros tie An Open House will be held when everything ready to give people a chance to ask questions about this unique clinic Mrs or Mrs will be here on Monday and Thursdays Duty counsels here will be Gordon Chapman and Ron Henry These are the first legal clinics to be established outside an urban area and it a pilot project It will be reassessed In March Mr Chapman says Peggj is hired as a para legal and will attend training sessions at Park dale Community Legal Services a clinic that has been in operation for the past seven years Mrs Balkind moved recently to Knox Ave Acton from Georgetown Jill Mc Crostie was community worker in a clinic in Toronto and helped set up the Social Services there The clinic a type or store front lawyer where no appointments are necessary and the public is free to walk in gives sum legal advice and advice on other those unable to social problems only pay Other covered by the clinic would be problems with Unemployment ance Workmen Compensation and dance through the maze of social vices These matters are not usually dealt with by a lawyer in a private practice An important function of the clinic would lie in explaining vidual rights and serving as in information service for referrals to agencies and if he person can pay referral to solicitors However they would not recommend any particular solicitor Summary legal advice could include advice on going to court about traffic or small claims Other items handled by a community legal clinic arc landlord tenant disputes famil mainten other family problems such as wife beating harassment by bill collectors and legal matters such as welfare pen sions and advice on obtaining a Manpower retraining grant Going into the community to speak on the function of the clinic and explaining legal rights to groups schools churches or citizens organizations is part of the educational program of legal clinic approval for the clinic was given by Convocation the governing body of the LawSociclyof a few weeks after a meeting wab held in George town PEGGY BALKIND and Jill staff of the Halton Hills Com munity Legal Clinic display booklets on various aspects of the law at the HaltonBurlington Liberals elect new slate of officers The annual meeting of the Burlington Provincial Liberal Association was held Wednesday October 26 at the Charles Hotel Milton Julian Reed MPP for Burlington introduced guest speaker Vlnce Kerrio MPP for Niagara Falls Election of officers took place and the new executive for 1977 Is President Ex VicePresident La Reed 1st VicePresident Al Wilson 2nd VicePresident Isa Polysar Even though it has been closed since October of 1974 and actively on the market for past two years Poly sar buildings and property on Milton are still without a prospective buyer Polysar still has a general manager two other em and security per sonnel at the site working to liquidate the land and the buildinRs bell Dolly Moulden Secretary Lois Mackenzie Youth President Dun op Area Heps Lois Kowalachuk Pat Dowdall Sheila Rasp berry Bill Coats I rank Noel Bates Kay Ralph Denny Jack Lawson George Henderson George Burt No Watergate here Chretien While Federal Treasurer Jean Chretien sloughed off talk of RCMP break ins as much concern about nothing the saga continued to be un ravelled during an meeting of the House of Commons in Ottawa Mr Chretien was In Oak vllle speaking to the annual meeting of the Halton Liberal Association Prior to the meeting he met with re porters and he lough ed when the media and the opposition talked of government cover upa in connection with the break ins He said the government had turned over the cases to the Quebec Government when the federal government learned of the incidents Police arc human like everyone else They are bound to make mistakes They are like any other citizen If they have made mistakes they II have to ex plain it to the judge Those guys they are not above the law He said there was no intent to cover anything up If we had kept this under the table I guess it would still be there The press is dreaming that some day they get their Canadian Watergate Forget about it It won t happen is not Nixon I know you would be happy if It were true but it is not so forget it he told reporters PEOPLE PLACES and THINGS advertising is one of the best Hays to get your message across and put it all together in terms of people places and things the things people need in the place where they need them calls for an easy to use reaching method of com m That is exactly what we do at the Free Press every week in our class if led advertising section we put it all together for people places and things Let the Free Press classifieds put things together for you ACTON FREE PRESS WANT ADS WORK REACH OVER HOMES FOR ONLY 195 FOR 12 WORDS CALL NOW 8532010