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Home Newspaper of Halton Hilts Established A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 9 A THE Wednesday October The iceberg reveals its size When The Herald Aug front page alerted readers to growing concern over new provincewide map ping no one in Hilts really knew how alarming the proposals were Although the Federation for Aggregate Studies which provided us with our initial in formation about the new maps had warned that up to 40 per cent of the town could be ear marked for eventual gravel ex traction and pointed out how the proposed policies con Cabinet rulings we were still only seeing the tip of the iceberg at that time Last Thursday night something of the true scale of the iceberg was revealed More residents than were anticipated jammed the town council chamber to find out about and challenge or support proposals for a 14 acre aggregate protection package that would exert grave restrictions on the future use of much of Hills and part of Milton Sheldon drawing on years of experience contemplating the effects of urbanizing rural land was quick to note the political nature the proposal Proper tv rights including the right to do what you please with the land you ve honestly earned might well be undermined by policies which proponents are defending in some singularly unhumamtanan ways Wh Acton s Ross Knechtel representing a ward that might be drastically repressed in growth if such a is approved pointed out hat official plans acknowledge environmentally sensitive areas worthy of special protection By the same token he said they should also acknowledge peoplesensitive areas Such is the nature of On tanos for the future from hydro supercorridors and nuclear power to brand new cities where yesterday there was pasture As Mayor Pete has said Halton Hills is prepared to commit much of its natural resources to that kind of planning but where do we draw the line Projected demand for aggregate as outlined in the new mappings is far too excessive according to the Federation for Aggregate Studies Do we blindly allow the aggregate industry to set ex traction goals the same way we allowed Ontario Hydro to predict consumer demand ten and years ago We re still paying for Hydros vast And will we idly watch the democratic process eroded here in Halton as provincial and regional planners shore up their joint defences in the name of aggregate plans for the future the true value of which has yet to be established As the two parties move to align the area s official plans thus clearing obstacles to the aggregate industrys suspicious goals will the voices of residents attendinhe local public meetings be heard Another public meeting is being arranged for Acton this week or next Pay close atten and watch for any possible political motivation on anyones part Serious ns have arisen but like the proposals themselves we may yet realize the true scale of those concerns Third in a series Antinuke films pack quite a punch Id Special In the major public event of its current campaign the Hills Vole Yes or D armament group is present Ing free lie screen rigs next week a new film about effects or nuclear war If This Planet a National Film Board production has been drawing large audi ills shown and those who see it come away changed people The film features Helen Id a former pediatrician and Instructor at Harvard who Rave up her practice work full time for peace as head of Physicians for Responsibility In the film Caldicott describes the chaos and destruction hat would ensue after a nuclear attack and presents figures which suggest the likelihood of accidental or not within this The lucky ones would die she says and the living would the deid Survivors would be burned and blinded and forced to live underground Huge doses of radiation would reduce their resistance to disease which would abound because of the heaps of rotting corpses two superpowers continue to build up arms to the tunc of billion a year adding seven or eight new nuclear weapons every day Included in the film are heartbreaking clips of people who survived the atomic blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 These a one are enough to convince most viewers that worth any effort to prevent the same thing happening to themselves and their children If You Love This Planet is terrify ing and gloomy ends on a note of hope Caldicott leaves her audience with suggestions some tight hearted and some serious their own peace movement at home And she leaves us with the feeling that each of us can do something and that it is worth the effort Already thousands of people have been spurred to action by this film and it has been seen even In Russia You this half hour film here In Hills on any of three nights Sunday Oct at United Church 30 Monday Oct 18 at Trinity United Church in Acton a or Tuesday Oct 19 at St Johns United Cburch in Georgetown p All three churches are on Highway Organizers suggest that you cancel all other engagements to attend one of these free screenings nothing could be more Important Following the film Monday and Tuesday evenings special guest will be present to answerquestlonsandleaddiscusiion and coffee will be served Mr Burkhardt is a research assistant with Project Ploughshares and a gradu ate of University of Waterloo with a degree in religion and peace studies On the Sunday evening In Norval Norman Ball the Christian Movement for Peace will lead discussion Organizers nope for full attendance on each of the three nights If you have not yet decided how to vote In the referendum to be held here Nov or even If you have don miss this film It la not recommend for children tut it should be required tewing for all adults Doieni or worshippers gathered Inside the historic White Church south of Tor a special com me moral thanks giving Sunday service The service was led by United Church minister Walter Ridley and calm ed the youth choir Forever raid photos by Chris Just ignore the rahrah about new Cabinet shuffle By Stewart MacLeod Ottawa Bureau of The Herald am sitting here being swirled around by Journalistic excitement over Prime Minister Trudeau latest cabinet shuttle perhaps feeling just a bit guilty because can seem to get in the spirit of things Ever since Energy Minister Jean Chretien lold us to stop bitching and start feeling positive I ve been trying to get into a rah rah frame of mind But am having trouble with this 13 person cabinet shuffle which described as the bigger jewel presumably to separate it from the earlier little jewel which affected only five ministers And already there Is talk of still another such gem perhaps a January jewel It not that 1 have any negative reaction to this latest shuffle or the earlier one for that matter it a more a case of being somewhat skeptical about the significance of a shuffle that involves only existing ministers It a bit like the frequent reorganization and renaming of existing government departments after the process has been completed they go on doing roughly the same thing And by the same token when Trudeau next hangs his gavel to bring a cabinet meeting to order he will be sitting at the same table with exactly the same faces considering exactly the same issues WIDE VIEWS For the last couple of hours been listening to colleagues assorted ministerial aides offer a wholesale assortment of views on what It all means And I must admit it templing to pass along some of this as incisive personal insight For instance it would be easy to write that the change in senior economic portfolios means a nudge to the right for the government and it would be similarly easy to talk about which ministers were promoted or demoted Just about everyone is saying that former Trade Minister Herb Gray has been demoted to President of Treasury Board Yet when Robert Andres assumed that portfolio in 1370 everyone was saying he had become the most Influential minister in cabinet Now that what most are saying about Donald Johnston as he leaves Treasury Board to become minister of state for economic development which is not to be confused with the apparent promotion of Ed to Minister of Industry Trade and Commerce and Minister of Regional Economic Expansion II son apparent because has done a up job in International trade By thesamemethod Paul Cosgrove because he didn fare well as minister of public works has been demoted to secretary of state for finance Perhaps so but it could also be argued that any portfolio dealing with finance these days represents an automatic increase In importance From what I can gather about trie functions of cabinet not too much tile portfolio as the personality when It comes to wielding personal clout And try as I might I can figure out how Serge influence might be altered by his move from Minister of State to Secretary of State Nor can I decide whether William Romkey will be more powerful as Minister Small Business than as Minister of Revenue NOT EASY In Fact surprisingly few people to whether Romeo is moving upward or downward he goes from fisheries to public works and until we settle Ihis we naturally can t decide on the direction of his successor Pierre de Bane who had been francophone external relations About the only conclusion I would want to reach without fear of contra diction Is that Bud Olson who moves from Minister of Economic Develop ment to Government Leader in Ihc Senate is not as they say on an upwardly mobile course But then despite the prestige of his previous portfolio he was never considered the economic czar that Johnston now Is supposed to be You see it easy to evaluate cabinet shuffles A great deal of course depends on how he ministers now will perform in Parliament with their new portfolios any conclusions on this question arc a couple of months away In the meantime so far as the image or ability of the cabinet is concerned our views whether to be altered significantly by this latest shuffle It the same deck Of the governments gifts and our 1984 bicentennial Queens Queen i Park Bureau The Herald One of the quaint delusions under which many of us labor is that if we have in our pocket it belongs to us intact it Is really a gift from the government people whether they work on the shop floor or own the executive suite money Is something one earns Governments take a proportion of those earnings to spend in ways either wise or foolish One may approve or disapprove of who gets the cash but one assumes that what government t grab is ours This Idea however clashes with a delightful new concept that seems to be gaming increasing acceptance in bureaucratic and political circles This new approach describes that portion of personal or corporate Income not taken by government as another form of government expen diture a tax expenditure It is as much a drain on the Treasury as any new or expanded program But this is true only if one assumes the Treasury is entitled to all money you have and what it you keep is an expenditure The quotes above are from the text of a speech by Leader Bob Rae but I ve heard sentiments from those in other parties Makes one wonder doesn t ARABS HERE The Jewish world chutzpah meaning lots of nerve received living illustration here at a recent demon it ration on the steps of the Legislature Palestine Liberation Organization supporters and their allies were complaining about massacres In Lebanon which has to set some kind or record for hypocrisy Fortunately the politicians at Queen Park haven yet stooped to pandering for terrorist votes and the demonstration was ignored But looking on should have been Ihe ghosts of the Christians butchered in Damour and other towns conquered by the in the Lebanese Civil War And parked in the background might be rows of Jewish women and children slaughtered by the fighters of the who never fight the Israeli Army if civilian targets are at hand The blood of Bashir Geyamel the first true Lebanese nationalist lies thick on their hands too BICENTENNIAL HOW One has to be sympathetic to a portion of Acting NDP Leader Jim objections to a bicentennial celebration in Ontario in 1964 As said it smacks of being a preelection expected in 1965 extravaganza to make people feel good about Ontario and by extension the Conservative govern Moreover Ihc year picked Is artificial in that United Empire Loyalists whose arrival is the linchpin for proposed celebrations came both before and after the year Lastly cancelling such r expenditures would be a good example of restraint To those arguments I would add one of my own In that the coming of the Loyalists Is something for their to celebrate and that Includes organ zing and paying for not the provincial government But then who worships at the shrine of multicultural ism as do all politicians in Ontario has never objected to cash flowing from the Treasury to other ethnic and cultural festivals So why not Personally Id be more happy if our educational system would teach the Loyalists like William and Colonel John Butler who opened and saved Ontario for the POETS CORNER White Valentine Know flakes always make me think of you gently folded folded In my arms Drifting through the night seeking safety a last Thank God for loving peace of mind It all the world here and now we could leave it all behind So now ray love I say thanks You been to lakdcnUnding Your I pare your spirit white never been demanding Each year Dili day I II pray that we return once more We U reminisce boot yesterday for what In store Halton Histoi from our in the taxi business Clarence has his Arrow Taxi Company to Mr Kennedy Smith to cstabfch business here He operated from lis home on Street for some tine then purchased Simpson s Taxi did took a location on Mam Last March he sold the Jock Morrow who now operates Jock Taxi and transferred his Taxi to Brampton AGORepreseda lives from the Harrison Home School Association were told by the pub school board last Wednesday thit the problem of shtfing pupils back and forth between and Harrison Schools would not exist if the developer had built homes in a log progression and not left a pocket of vacant land between Sargent Road and the for east nd Board chairman Edwin VYUson that the enrolment number at ILirrison and varies each term for that reason the boundaries of each school are altered si YEARS of the liberal governments economic I management are little more than bellyaching reactionaries and poor mouthers who are afraid to toward Canada future Prima Minister Pierre Trudeau charged Saturday in a visit Speaking before an enthusiastic of at rally in Oakvtlle Trudeai lashed out at opposition spokesmen concentrating on minor details If policy administration white lake part in a broad dialogue op the challenges of Canada futile I in told the welfare backlash is strong in these parts that some are annoyed thot a certain of those drawing unemployment find welfare don t deserve it and that time even say It my fault he said Takin to the streets The Herald For the second less than three weeks body killding and fitness were an attrition at the Hills youngsters they think fllneis Is Important INGrR JACKW1N lis nice to be You feel good after had a good work out If we have fitness wed really be out of shape SHI- Rill think fitness is important because If you re not fit you cant participate in sports as much At school like pin dodge ball and cross country PAUL GARDINER I think is important for quite a few people like athletes I play soccer and baseball and I feel really loosened up after a MICHELLE Yes I think fitness Import ant Ifwedldnthavelt Wed be out of shape you r out of shape you get fit and you have to diet You wo t live long either