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Home of Hitis WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 1171 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main St South Georgetown Ontario WILLI Publisher BOB Editor PHONE Clatl Moll Rag NumMMIlO A decision must be made soon Halton Region has about months rf landfill capacity remaining in its existing disposal sites The only comment any official can make with certainty is that by June there will be no place to dispose of the tons of waste generated dally by the region Efforts to select a new disposal site are bogged down in public par costly studies and con debate at the regional council which drags up the same arguments over and over again Coun Ric Morrow last week said the situation is critical And indeed it is For Region is facing not only with continued delay in deter mining which of several landfill sites to select but also according to Wallace Wells senior environmental engineer for M M Dillon the region consulting engineers a minimum of months delay to gain Ontario ministry or environment approval for any action the region takes But the clincher Is that Mr Wells says it is more likely that Halton will have to wait as long as three years for such environmental approval That would occur if an environmental assessment public hearing is held and the same arguments which are being heard today will be heard again tomorrow It is rather unenviable position for regional councillors to find themselves in A decision has to be made and that decision has to be made shortly Lets clear the air Hills Councils decision last week to delay action on the municipal complex question until next year is nothing more than a delay in the inevitable No matter what a new council might take in approving the the financing wQI ultimately ve to be put before the people for their approval There is nothing today to indicate that feelings over the 903 com plex issue will be changed by the time a new council is elected in December Therefore it is imperative that council members seeking reelection and candidates for council seek to clear the air before the election and make voters aware of their position on this question An alternative which this newspaper has supported in past is a referendum on the matter which would clear once and for all the confusion and concern that surrounds it It would give the new council its mandate A referendum could be held in conjunction with the municipal elections with little cost to the municipality compared to the costs that could result from further delays Cn Parliament Hill- Unless public opinion shifts Liberals face defeat Ottawa Bureau Of The Herald When Liberal MPs oil get together for special twoday think session you would expect Prime Minister Trudeau and other cabinet ministers to turn up with all aorta of fascinating facts future plans And right now with public opinion polls Indicating the party a popularity Is to a crisis level future plonsare exceedingly important for the 130 Liberals In Parliament Unless there Is a shift In public many could be whomped at the in the next general election For two days most of them gathered In Parliament Kill Weal Block to talk about their troubled times and to hear Mr Trudeau and party suggest ways of over coming obvious disenchantment Most wanted to hear great words of Inspiration to be told of stillsecret programs that would encourage the public to love the government and to be assured that will be an enormous shift In public opinion before the next election Now Just a few this caucus a Liberal MP was si ttlng In a ca felt r in sipping coffee and looking bock on what he had learned during those two days behind closed doors It t be fair to name him since fane meeting are secret and he was Just chatting on a personal basis NO ANSWER know what these meetings re all prove he was asking They prove that the answers I am Just a back bender but In many areas I fell knew more about what going on than Trudeau himself He began talking about how cabinet are always shown on television discussion issues on which they have acquired some expertise On television I guess all politicians seem to have the an but hi Is particularly true of cabinet minister only after they receive a thorough background briefing It would be Interesting if you could see these same people in caucus trying to deckle why the government Is so unpopular at the moment Most of dont have a clue Mr Trudeau told the liberal MPs that price and wage controls were the obvious publicdlscontentmmt He hod to live with he Tact that he campaigned against controls in 1974 and to defend He thought a new million ad verisfcig blitz would be effective in winning public approval and he expressed op timism that the Inflation program would be in to its final phases when 1 he next election Is held By that time he said the picture should be bright SOLE CAUSE This MP said he got the impression that Mr Trudeau and most of his cabinet felt that the anti Inflation program was so ley responsible for the government low stature on the public opinion polls The most recent survey Indicated that only per cent of Can ad fansnow support the Liberals while per cent favor the Con servatives Cabinet really convinced that this was entirely due price and wage controls the MP said I was surprised there more on things tike Before entering the caucus the prime minister said there is no way a government con be popular after Imposing inflationary controls We ve been stomping on people ex pectatlons he said Were telling people hey can charge whattbeywant earn what hey want and bargain for what they want We re restraining liberty and telling people all Is not rosy You con be popular like lhat The backbencher mused about this for a time I guess he Is right and he certainly kept mentioning this In but I am still not fully convinced What bothers me Is that while we the politic labor leaders and businessmen talk about controls the guy in me street seems more cuiKcitieu prices He ended the conversation by saying some Liberals Minister Don were pushing for a fullscale national thinkers conference like the one held In Kingston in And I hope we hove one he concluded because I am not sure our thinking la en on the right rock BUS STOP TO TRIP Prejudice and bigotry Its real name is hate By GERRY This week Viewpoint looks at an Insidious grow In hat is taking root in homes throughout Canada Homes here In Ontario homes here In Hills It is a learned experience Undeveloped and during the first five years of life It Is something Canadians have sat back smugly denouncing as they watched with complacency he problems of her neighbour to he south and similar problems elsewhere on this ever shrinking globe of ours What we are speaking of has many names Some of which become mere soft pedaled disguise for the truth It Is colled intolerance prejudice bigotry by some a realisation of he differences between peoples but it a real name la hate Hate bom of fear A fear hat we might have to give up something that we feel is just ours alone Fear Is a product of hate that nurtures and constantly feeds Its growth The innocent victims of this of hate our children They learn at home to develop prejudice bullion Intolerance and ignorance Racial prejudice Is the most Insidious of the spreads It cloak of Ignorance and hides from its victims the reality of truth For instance it Is believed by many hat we have tens of thousands of Pakistanis over running this country taking our Jobs our housing taking from this The truth is the majority of Pakistanis people entering his country are skilled technicians and professional people who moke a valuable contribution to our society Our country is multicultural and multilingual like it or not mats lie way It is The of children In large urban schools language other than English at home And it is In the home lhat hale begins Children as we have said before are the In vie Urns of our sickness Educators bemoan the foci hat there Is they can do combat prejudice from rearing Its ugly head for the seed was planted long before he youngster arrived at What do we do then Do we continue a hands tied behind the back attitude SOLUTIONS Solutions Well as we have stated many times before a solution to any problem does not come about until you know what you are dealing with and why Intolerance of other cultures and customs deprives a human being of so much It takes away It adds nothing Here In Canada because our country Is so large and because our population was and Is sparse when compared with other countries throughout the world we did not have problems of racial prejudice before now It was easy to condemn racial violence in the States because we saw few black people here Now we are discovering that we are not only prejudice but perhaps we nave one of the wont kinds of prejudice a surface smile and en undercurrent or pure hatred Why The reasons are as many as there are people For the moat part intolerance appears to be handed down from generation to generation Part of a cultural heritage We are better because The truth of which Is we are afraid to look at our own weaknesses therefore we shall find something to be superior about We might not be wealthy but we are proud we known our own kind aid Though the animal Instinct Is to herd together amongst its own kind and to fear and keep out outsiders and Intruders who are not part of the pack man who Is the superior animal should be above this We devalue ourselves as soon as we evaluate with a false set of values based on race colour or creed An individuals worth as a friend a citizen a countryman or just a plain human being should never be based on such a shallow measuring stick HAVE A CHANCE We still have a chance here In Canada it We do not have the hundreds of years of Wecanstillcut way this malignancy before It spreads too for To do this we have to take our heads from the ground and shake the sand from our eyes Look at what has happened and Is happening Ireland Look at Watts Look at Rhodesia We have to listen with our ears and see with our eyes Listen to he ears of children who arc victims of vicious hate Bee what we do to our own children and watch and listen how they In erpret our feelings Children are mirrors of what we teach them they reflect only what they have been taught or experienced We learn to walk by walking to love by loving and to hale by hating I Let us cut away this killer of humanity before It reaches out and destroys us before In Cans da it reaches a point of no re turn On The Home Front Back in the dog house again By SUSAN DeFACENDIS According to my husband I am once again In that most unwelcome of abodes the dog house He informed me hat 1 should stop putting my children down each week In print and start stressing heir positive side of their many accomplishments Believing that the sanctity and peace of a marriage not to mention the financial sup port should be preserved at all costs I have given the matter some serious thought and under the circumstances dog houses being as uncomfortable as they are unwelcoming came to the rapid conclusion that he is ab solutely right We have three beautiful healthy In children and I am sure lhat If I Just concentrate hard enough I shall be able to come up with some brilliant evidence to prove this fact over he next few Strangely enough whether due to ESP or Just plain coincidence I cannot say on the very day my husband made his pronoun cement Richard actually took a giant step forward in maturation Intelligence and physical prowess He closed a cupboard door No I did not receive this as hearsay evidence I witnessed It He reached out one beautiful year and 3 month old arm and literally closed a kitchen cupboard How many other mothers can claim to have seen this feat performed by one of such tender years In a voice trembling with barely sup pressed emotion I asked him If he realized what be had done and requested that he repeat the act so that I could be quite certain I was not suffering from a delusion brought about by years of wishful thinking Slowly and gently but firmly he did it again Despite my excitement I naturally as a concerned and loving parent checked him over for a possible fever of 106 degrees and assured myself that he had not suffered any physical damage such as stretched tendons pulled muscles or water on elbow Amazingly he appeared to have effect at all in fact he was In better condition that his mother who was definitely in shock Imagine the future possibilities 1 can clearly see now that he has taken such a huge overnight leap Into a new phase that his bedroom dresser drawers may now be closed by a newly firm hand It is even within the realm of credibility that he may very soon bend down and pick up the chewing gisn wrappers littering his bedroom floor take out the garbage eat his vegetables speak nkely once a week to his sisters turn off the television comb his hair save his allowance and smile while sitting at the breakfast table It is positively mind boggling He may even prove to be an Inspiration to the other two My husband Is unquestionably right How can motherhood be a bummer when one Is surrounded by bo much gratification From now on I am turning over a leaf Positive thinking obviously brings It own rewards From here and there Believe only me Critics of Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau are fast becoming legion Among them people who have long suggested that given an appropriate moment and cumstanccs suggestive of crisis would present himself If not as a pseudo- delator hen certainly as a demagogue These la Iter critics are about to have a field day Mainly because and his Liberals have stepped forward to defend a million advertising program to be billed to the taxpayers and designed to tell he same why only traitors would defy government a will in imposing measures to control Inflation The critics won I be Inclined to look further than Trudeau a salient points for ammunition Since a demagogue is one who leads by appealing to the passions and prejudices of a populace what Trudeau had to say will qualify him well In critics for title The massive expenditure for advertising is Justified Trudeau said because situation Is akin to one In wartime At such times all governments spend from the public purse to promote the sale of bonds urge conservation and patriotism And In present circumstance the Canadian government will be making like wartime counterparts to do the latter Mr Trudeau suggested But here a the passage from Trudeau to media representatives that willsetthecrlticaoff and have them zeroing in They the Canadian people t listen labor unions and listen to the businessmen objecting lo wage and price controls The PM have better incurred wha lever wra la to come had he pronounced that the nation should have no other gods before me Canada Is not at war tho government la still by Ihe people among these unionists and businessmen and criticism of government action Is neither to be abjured or prohibited Canadians as a race may listen to whoever they choose to heed and whenever they want to listen It is unfortunate for Hint at a time when the fortunes of Ihe Liberal party are at a low ebb and when there have been strong appeals to him by colleagues to change a personal image that his first public appearance in months should have been one which will replenish the arsenals of those in critical opposition to him and government policies Had Trudeau wanted to rally Co ad- all Canadians to his side he could have done much better than suggest that groups which represent them alt have been talking through backs of collective hats In the matter of action to cure national economic His We fear that while Trudeau assuredly knows whereof he speaks In terms of the seriousness of an overall situation his current effort that of the complex ad program will do Utile more than touch off new broadsides aimed by business labor and personal critics at this Liberal heart Mercury Queens Park Nothing noteworthy in Chamber brief ByDONOHEARN Queen Park Bureau Of The Herald The Ontario Chamber of Commerce was by here last week for Its annual presentation and meeting with the cabinet There was nothing really noteworthy in Its brief It had a few good points such as stress on the need to now put a clamp on education costs But for the most part it was pretty blah Broad statements on questions such as consumer warranties and property tax changes which dldn t really make any strong And even these were confused with Using polarizations in and others of those lingo terms which are such a curse today Probably a lot of the time even lis own members have understood what It was talking about Ironically one of its proposals that students leaving school should have skills In communication Perhaps it wain t aware it was providing Its own evidence of the need The big catch in this of course Is that educators are probably the worst group of communicators we have today FELT ABOVE This aside however one Important Impression was left by Ihe Chamber a visit This was the failure of commerce lo Its proper and needed role in the political economic spectrum of today a society In Canada and the province This spectrum today Is composed of government labor and commerce with the public of course over riding all And in this Ihrecflgure forum the voice of commerce Is very weak The Ontario Chamber has mem bers These arc mainly mall businessmen but even so it you added the Jobs the represent Ihelr total product they would represent a very substantial factor Yet the Chambers political whack Is cream puff It Just docsn carry punch As just example for years It has been advocating that all labor votes should be by secret ballot certainly something that Is desirable But wear probably to it than when the Chamber first started proposing It Behind this would bo the attitude that commerce historically had towards govern men It felt It was above government that It was hands off And so It largely stood on the sideline and watched the passing scene even when It was gradually coming under more and more government control and Influence It becoming actually la a subject of government and should be In there fighting But It doesn have the experience and to date really know bow to do this i