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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Street Georgetown 3Z6 Ontar PAUL J TAYLOR Publisher and General Manager PHONE 877 DAVID Advertising umber Page SECTION A THE hit ALP Wednesday July IBS Courting fiscal disaster Bring down the government By the time you read this we d like to think Canada Liberal government will have collapsed or will be about to collapse under the weight of a nonconfidence motion that was expected to come before the House yesterday Tuesday The focus for the show of solidarity by the Conservative and New Democratic parties of course is last weeks budget not so much the blueprint for economic recovery as the government has called it as a fiscal disaster just waiting to happen skillfully disguised behind a smokescreen of half hearted incentive programs geared to the beleaguered small business sector and the unemployment problem Finance minister Allan MacEachen has had his chan ce Seven months of non stop cries of outrage and genuine pain failed to prompt any more than a token response from the servant name has ecome synonymous with arrogance disinterest and plain old fashioned tunnel vision has replaced Pierre Trudeau as the modem world answer to Mane An toinette that aristocratic French champion of class distinctions who uttered the immortal words Let them eat cake Like her it seems MacEachen has no idea what democracy is for or about like her he shall lose his political life beneath the guillotine knife albeit the sharp blade of our condemnation Having trotted out the old inflation issue once its Con meandenngs were milked for all they were worth the Liberal government has somehow concluded that what s best for the Canadian people is a greater rate of government spending and some frontal at tacks on the unemployment small business and housing problems Rather than confron tine the Bank of Canada and its colleagues in crime the Liberals believe they have our approval to increase the national debt from billion to almost billion in an effort to set things straight What absurdity The budget is bound to sink us and none of us sit by and let that hap pen Do not be put off by the budget s concessions to public pressure the civil servants six per cent wage hike ceiling the tough guy stance against labor the job creation programs These amount to just so much fluff These are critical times for Canadians make no mistake in realizing that a wrong move now could touch off a panic The new budget has already weakened worldwide confiden in the Canadian dollar business investments will con tinue to drop Unless the loyal Opposition can prove its worth in a way never before required The question of whether the Con servatives or New Democrats can provide the economic solutions we need is irrelevant at this point At hand is the ab solute need for them to halt the Liberal policies before they in even greater damage We wish the Opposition parties strength and stamina in their parliamentary efforts to bring down the Liberals Librarians study a terrible waste It was with heaping praise that the new School Library Program Guidelines was intro duced lost week to memb ers of the Halton board of education This yellow page report a full quarter inch thick could easily have been reduced to a mere three pages of useful information The report belabors a vague point in synonymous paragraphs that really don say any thing particularly new or useful in practical terms to school librarians or anyone else The purpose of the document is apparently to outline for teachers teacher librarians and administrators a school library program Its Just silly really to think that over ten board employees have spent three years producing a product that says nothing solid or constructive The thing about it is that Oils report has been ordered by oil school boards in Canada at a cost of apiece So far according to Hills trustee Arlene Bruce copies of the report have been sold outside the region with US copies having been bought by the Vancouver school board Wove had to print over 150 copies and orders are still coming in Pauline Weber editor of the booklet said By charging a copy the board hopes to recover the cost of pro ducing and printing the report Thanks to a compll review in a Canadian Journal for school librarians called STAFF COMMENT By Am Pedenan Emergency Librarian the board expects to continue filling orders for the report next year Mrs Weber said For some strange reason the cost of pro ducing the report Is Nobody can give a more definite answer editor Weber who said il cost several thousand dollars None of the Hills truste es knew and super tendent of program Bob Dixon who recommend ed the study be under taken In and super of finance Barb Moore both failed to respond to inquiries from The Herald as of press- time It hard to estimate the cost and pin It down to a particular dollar figure Mrs Weber claims She said the writing team of ten teacher librarians took off school days to work on the report and during their absence supply teachers were brought In to cover for them at their regular duties If the reports sell well Mrs Weber is hoping to make enough money to write up an evaluation of the school library program to lack onto page Why bother Two out of three Hills trustees sang the praises of the report I think Its really a tremendous textbook for librarians and schools and Its also Interesting for parents to sec what klndofprogramsgoon to sec kind of things librarians ore supposed to develop trustee Bruce said Acknowledging never the less that she doesnt think parents will read report Mrs Bruce said that it intend ed to be read by parents anyway It to be used by school librarians and classroom teachers she said With the meat of the matter buried in the back pages of the report it s doubtful whether any body will be willing to wade through the fluff about The joy of read ing viewing and listen ing and finding and using Information a IlbrarysklllBprogram to find It As for school gaining anything from it other than the role description stating what the board expects of Its school librarians there I anything new something that even Pauline Weber admitted Continued on page Afl When Clark meets the press critics observe dignity grace By Stewart MacLeod Ottawa Bureau of The Herald Watching Tory Leader Joe Clark over the last couple of years the one thing that has intrigued me more than anything else is the decency he displays In dealing with his journalistic detractors I ve been waiting for him to explode at us But day after day press conference after press conference he will gracefully accept questions from bis critics acknowledge them with respect answer them with pain slaking sincerity And although the temptation on occasions must be great ho simply never puts down the questioner If we said some of the things about Pierre Trudeau that we have said about Joe Clark the prime minister news conference would be raging Inferno Even as things stand they are usually peppered with assorted putdowns and other minor But not with Clark that he has taken more Journalistic punishment than any political lender In recent history some of it as far removed from politics as his swimming walking and eating habits he has never given the slightest Indication of bearing grudges It treated with the How he can muster up this degree of decency is something that has me for a long time BACKGROUND HELPED We now were sitting in a restaur ant and If you must know we were baked beans and 1 was trying to out just how difficult it was deep dawn for Clark to deal with his detractors the way he does Surely there must be occasions when he has an overwhelming urge to laah out at some of ua That little chortle came out of the corner of his mouth No not really And then he went on to offer an Interesting on as to why it might be cosier for him to accept this criticism than it is for other political leackrs I had an advantage in this respect as I was literally raised In a weekly newspaper In High River And weekly newspapers exist to bring people together to be an agency of cohesion In a community You were taught not to Injure Then when I was 17 I went to a city daily and I was startled by the contrast There you were expected to analyse to critic re and sometimes make snap decisions on Imperfect Information You quickly learned about the adversary role that exists between politicians and the press the impact of nil this at a very early age has I think helped mc a great deal I public prepared for what would happen than many of my colleagues And as 1 once heard Dal ton Camp say to Bob about the press You vc gat to learn to live with those guys Clark am led as he recalled that CITES TH IP But even with this background and understand surely there were occasions when he felt he was simply treated unfairly by the media Without hesitation he mentioned his tour of Southeast Asia prior to becoming prime minister On that occasion was unmercifully dissected and in the view of some elaborately embellished That line between truth and fiction was crossed a fair bit said the Tory leader And I think that was costly for me But there was no trace of annoyance as he spoke I have another advantage In that I don bruise easily he continued And later he was to add I don bear grudges cosily But there some journalists he feels bitter about Oh there are one or two I d rather stay away from there is Just no way they v give me a fair break but Us not a case of being bitter it a more case or them me with their standards But I get along with them alright If you look Tor the pleasant things in people you can normally get along with them And I don feel any need to put people down or to seek revenge There Is just no point to that So Joe Clark t have to swallow hard feign respect when confronted with queries from his most caustic critics Not all he says cheerfully Most questions deserve respectful answers Not even in the back of my mind is there feeling that I have to Bet tie He paused for a bite But that s not to say I forget I remember things very clearly But the in thing is what I do what I remember Dont call them liars bandits our are gentlemen By Derek Nelson Queen Park Bureau of The Herald Every once in a while story appears about one or other MPP here being expelled from the Legislative Assembly because he used language No women have qua ficd yet The latest was MPP Tony Grande The scenario and Grande was no exception usually goes this way An opposition Liberal or New Democrat will ask a cabinet minister a question The reply will be In too member eyes and he will then accuse the minister of mislead the House or as in Grande case use the word lying Instead Under standing orders one MPP cannot accuse another of uttering a deliberate falsehood so the Assembly Speaker Invariably asks the opposition member to withdraw his accusation Usually he will but sometimes either for the premeditated reason that It ensures more publicity for his point or sometimes from genuine anger he re Bingo The Speaker has the Sergeant at arms escort the member out for the remainder of the day sitting The MPP Is named GAME PLAYED The following day the member normally withdraws the remark and Is again seated in the Assembly It ji a game often played for obvious reasons mainly by opposition members but sometimes even the government benches get Into the act w charges the Grits or New Demo crats are misleading the place Most of this Is fun and the current session of the Legislature has had the usual quota of expulsions and attempts to call the other guys nasty names without breaching the rules The purpose of these rules are to ensure minimum level of order and decorum In the Assembly by assuming that all MPPs arc gentlemen in the 10th century sense and entitled to have their words takin at value The rules say from not calling each other liar these gentlemen should not Impute false or una vowed motives to their fellow members make allegations In a general sense or use abusive and Insulting language To do so Is unparliamentary EXAMPLE For all the light hearted games manship Involved in this there are exceptions MPP Bob Nixon Oxford Norfolk once went to the brink with MPP East to get him to withdraw an allegation Aid In the last parliament then speaker Jack Stakes expelled Ed High Park Indefinitely when he refused to withdraw a cheap charge of corruption against MPP David PCWlson Heights The and Judgment of the Speaker is tho key here and one has distinct Impression that often MPPs on all sides go out of their way to test the talents of whomever occupies the Chair MPP Albert Roy East seems to be leading that brigade this session with back up from Grande ROBIN HOOD Roy actually succeeded with the word bandit using it to describe the government benches until Deputy Speaker Sam Curcali who is sharp and balanced reconsidered his accept once of the word under Conservative protests Roy then conceded he did not mean bandit In the true sense withdrew and substituted the phrase Robin Hoods in reverse instead But Roy was less accommodating when Speaker John Turner ruled tho word hypocrisy could not be used In connection with Treasurer Frank Miller he said without using it he I criticize tho government Still for peaccfutness he later backed down Meanwhile his point Is on flic and the game continues one of tho more diverting minor most of the time occurrences around this place THE HERALDS Special Report on Riding the Recession returns next week THIRTY YEARS com by the public school board reveal sharply the school population will be increasing In years to come and why the public school came none too soon These some figures show the necessity of Immediate planning for more high school accommodation For the next five years pupils entering high school from the local schools will number from to 55 Start ng In 1957 Jumps to then to and In present indications are that at least 100 Georgetown pupils will be first formers Coupled with this Is the fact that rural school enrollment Is growing too Both Nerval and Glen Williams are growing communities and In time will be sending more students on to high school TWENTY YEARS AGODr Harry Harley of is officially the member or parliament for riding A recount of the vote cast in the federal election in was conduct before Judge Elliott at the Milton court house June 30 and indicated no change in previous standings between Dr Harley and Sandy Best the incumbent who led by votes before the services ballots swept Into a vote lead About votes were Invalid according to the election act and were ineligible Tor tion Dr Harley victory puts county out of the government for the first time In five years TEN YEARS AGO Georgetown Golden Year weekend celebration an obvious success for the revellers was likely a success as well according to committee spokesman Dan He told The Herald yesterday that a meeting Wednesday will deal with financial end of it and determined just how much they will be able to turn over to the Georgetown hospital II was just great to sec so many people in Georgetown lng Mr said Somebody up there sure took care of us by perfect weekend weather With rain Friday and again Monday It was like the parting of the waters ONE YEAR AGOTown negotiators and officials from the Canadian Union of Public Employees representing public works members or Local have settled on a twoyear contract end almost two months of negotiations Town or Ken Richardson told council Monday night that both parties met earlier that day to iron out the remaining details or the new package The members of the local who ore respons ble for garbage collection and park and cemetery maintenance will receive a per hour wage Increase over their agreement in f year of the new contract and an eleven per cent rise In 1982 The agreement is retroactive to April POETS CORNER Special Days around hurts to roll your in my mind Memories sometime more real than the separating More the pity You never really knew how glances warmed my being like sunlight In a winter porch Vtr II never goodbye We made it lobelia I just put you like a photo In an album and lake you on on days Dickson The Chain The scraping of the rusty clamps into my soft tender flesh I try to break free but I am too weak Nothing can stop the powerful grasp It conceives Desperately with strength from fear Itsell I hold on By kim Mcmullen A113 student Immature Confusion I leave my kin In search of a change 1 need I look for that change In dark alley ways But there it no change Only forgotten members of a forgetting society So 1 Join with others who say seek the same Their hard timet coo trait ray Idess Eventually II Is the changers from whom I seek the change I feci that I will find my corner la life circle What kind life can a changer UveT Maybe it living that needs a anger By TONY SAXON A Undent