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Id reports Ontario entitled to equalization payments Radie hack ls Ontario The Provincial Treasurer ha acknowledged that over the past years Ontario has been entitled to almost million in equalisation payments However the Pro lias no intention of taking the money and it snot because the government is Under the present equal lia lion formula Ontario is tech nloally entitled to the money but the Treasurer added According to the principle fur which equalization pay ments were established On in the philosophical sense is not to re them since our per incomes arc well a the national overage I Critic Da vid Peterson don Centre the philo underlying the formula is not equal per capita Income but to equalize provincial revenues He demanded to know why Ontario has not taken the money and it was pride Teachers right to strike The Minister Education has announced the appoint of a three to study the law giving cithers the right to strike Tins commission will hold pub lic hearings on the four year old School and Teach ers Collective Act more commonly known as Hill 100 Opposition Members attack the Minister for refusing to make an internal mini review of Bill 100 which led to creation of the commit She stated that the re view completed last summer Would be given to make it public When their report was released rain pollution Premier Davis has ted a policy on acid rain which seems to promise at best slow action an pollution clean up The Premiers statement did not really answer I iberal Leader Stuart Smith demand for a clarification Govern policy on the Over recent two week period the Minister of the Environ mini has staled to t act alone on acid rain but must move on a in concert with the US that Ontario was prepared to go it alone The Minister had also stated it he dldn think he would be issuing a control order against Incu 1 id whose sulphur em is sions were found in one to be responsible for per cent of the acid pollution Later thai same night he told a committee of MPPs that Inco would be his first target If the Ontario Government start cracking down on and other polluters an mated 40 lakes in this province going to die What is going on asked Smith Sale of According to the Minister of Industry and Tourism the On Government will vchc mently oppose the sale of Nuclear Ltd to to reign investors However the government will not consider bidding for the company Itself the province will have no say if the federal government decides to deviate from its stated intentions and sell the uranium mining and refining company to foreign investors While the Minister said it would be premature for the provincial government to consider buying Eldorado he that drnst price increases ground less Slurs In the Legislature EdHavrol the Conservative member for Timiskaming has had to be rebuked for making ratisi comments about Italian born Members of the turc Opposition have asked the Premier to take tough action in the matter As Liberal Leader Stuart pointed out the remarks were not only but they were also highly contemptible and constituted an insult to all members of the Legislature He did not consider the rebuke administered by the Premier was strong enough and called upon Mr Davis to show moral leadership by re moving this Member from his caucus This same member was once fired from a government Job by the Premier for making slurs against Indians H5j TANDY L Guelph Street Georgetown