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S OUTLOOK Friday February 1WT Hills it published each Friday by The Hilton Hilt Herald home newspaper or Ha Ion IIIIU a or Company Limited at Guetph Street Georgetown Ontario MB Second Number PUBLISHER Garnet Cowsill EDITOR Dave Rowney ADVERTISING MANAGER Carl Strike MARKETING Sharon Marshall Bow en STAFF Am Sandy Campbell PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Mytes Annie Lou Foreman CLASSIFIED Terry Colter Elaine Kuzyshyn PRESS FOREMAN ACCOUNTING MarkZUIcr Pauline Miller Outlook Humor Im a preferred status prospect You ve undoubted I had flic penence of specially selec yourself Probably this was led a warm and delightful feeling lo look in jour mailbox one morning and discover that you Just become a Preferred Status Pro II true I have Just received a nice letter from Karen Porgcs an obviously splendid person who turns out lo be the vice president of marketing for American Ex press Canada Karen writes I am pleased to till you that you have been specially elected as a Preferred Status pro for American Express Card membership Preferred Status means thai arc one of a limited group of Cano American Express believes is likely to qualify for Karen goes on to outline the many advantages of carrying an American Express card and con dudes her letter the reminder this card soys everything docs a fellow say at a time like this Ive never been a preferred status prospect for anything Just ask my And now right out of the It really terribly flattering Already I feel sense of spiritual kinship with Ustinov and have spent much of the morning exclaim Thats not my briefcase Those arent even my briefs Still this docs raise a nagging juration To wit how docs someone Poets Corner ANTICIPATING I feel you moving rcillculy As the lime keepi drawing near Youll enter Into busy world ha lag anything ear Ive you grow these pail lh Ive ell yourevery move Im looking forward 10 all the year all the lean Ill have to Maybe on a buiy day 1 be very Impatient with you Juit remember that Ill love at The good and bad youll do So until he day you arrive Ill Joy Ill lave you ihroogh good and bad Whether are girl or boy LINDA Palmer form litter minced thai you were pirl of 1 luck minority hub was being of 1 rale on magazines be taught dud were not talking Heller Homes and hen We talking a ham 1 limit credit card So how did I m mage In selected is 1 limned group of Canadians whom American hold in par If the selection was made mi lh basis of nn earning power then lbil limited group he largi enough imply cans from It possible perhaps lhal American Express lusts its special selections on recommen dalions from other credit com ponies If so they may have heard about the nice il Visa with whom I ve had an amiable relationship Every month the people at Visa send me a bill month I file it carefully with all Ihi bills on top of the fridge Every third or fourth month they offer to send a nice man to my door vfet will seize my card cut it up into small pieces fling them to the floor and jump up and down on them this point I send them just enough money lo get within a few dollars of my credit limit and were friends again for another couple of months But somehow or other Kami PaRes has the idea that I a Preferred Jitaius Prospect creates terrible dilemma because if I fill out the application form Karen is going to be awfullv disillu There are for instance two little blanks which ask about nature of business and annual earning There arc many who tan 111 in such blanks boldly and confidently Then there are those of us who would haw to enter doubtful In the first blank and quite bit less than Wayne really In the Worse yet there is a particularly disconcert mi section which asks what kind of bank accounts you have There are blanks for chequing savings and loans accounts There is not unfortunately a blank for overdrawn account All things considered Im going to have to pass on Karens kino Invita tion apply for my American Ex press card today despite her thoughtful reminder that the cord of fen protection security and convenience Ill have to stick to my own paralleiled and security system specially recommended for Persons of No Status Whatsoever An over Visa card and In case of acute emergency an American dollarbill stuffed behind the drivers licence Dont leave home without them Zundel affair is really issues Queens Park The Ernst affair is rially our issues that are all I could speak personally to ask mv wile grandmother to establish that her entire family was willed out by the Nazis strikes me as an Incredible ordeal to ask of any one individual and an extraordinary ordeal to dtmind of a community said of is the one charge of spreading The Ontario Court of Appeal Inter decided trial judge erred and ordered a new trial Attorney en em I Inn Scott now has announced he will that But the case is really a symbol of much wider issues After ill was acquitted on a second charge of spreading false news omelhing a Zionist Freemason Communist banker con against Islam Arc we assume that in this instance was telling the truth The real Issues are three are the limits of free speech in Canadian society How should society react to the publication of views that cause agony or people What is the responsibility of the media in covering issues and trials arising out of the existence of zealots like Bunder Leader Hob touched on the first two of these elements in ap proving the Scott appeal Scott himself said all that was needed on the third point when he suggested the question of publicity for was entirely In the hands or a free press to decide You knowwhotoaskaboutlhat meanwhile had asked why la It in we novo to fore the of the Holocaust to prove It happened asked the lo prove the hap than formerly pamphleteers like who doubled or doubts if favors amending the forbidding group haired make This would in he I The aim would to il financially impossible for operate and for them spread haired throughout Ihe pro In other words the answer Hoe and others is lo selectively narrow bounds of free speech Selective because It is not NDP policy make hatred against an identifiable class rich or landlords or doctors for example a Jul for the favored groups that would be protected seems clear law would act for the sole reason thai people feelings would have been hurl I sec The should be clear hire wasn advocating violence or genocide against a group ironically he was denying that particular genocide actually took Otic can have sympathy for people who feel mental anguish because of what has been written about of which they arc a member whether It be thdr ethnic origin na t tonality or even class But emotional pain a very sub thing and much In lite can cause it Mandating state to soothe such agony It hardly a legitimate use of such a mighty weapon MPs Report Parliament resumed sitting on January following a holiday recess There have been numerous initiatives taken by government over the past few months and in order to bring my constituents up-to- date on government business in this New Year I will briefly outline a few such initiatives CHALLENGE million for The federal gov student summer job program will receive million in funding for 1987 The Challenge employment program now in its third year of operation helps students find summer jobs and to develop entrepreneurial skills An evaluation of last years program indicates BO per cent of the l jobs created were a direct result of government support Dur ins if Of I created under this pro- in Georgetown Further information and application forms will be available in early February at Canada Employment Centres across the country running lights on new car Transport Minister John has released the pect Ilea linns for the daytime running lights The new regulation specifics that as nf September any new vehicle manufactured wiih a daytime runn light system must meet the technical requirements or the Ted era I government After December will he man hat all vehicles lured in Canada or imported into lie fitted with a daytime run lung light Hie new safety feature will reduce daytime multiple vehicle collisions by per cent and savi up to million a year In medical and damage costs Draft legislalion on environmental protection has been released jointly by Environment Minister Tom McMillan and Health and Welfare Minister Jake The government would hove broad new powers o protect the environment and in traduce lifecycle management of chemicals In the next few months the legislation will be reviewed by the provinces industry and labor and environmental groups beore being presented to Pari I a in 1987 accepted it would give Canadians some of Ihe toughest environmental protection measure- in the Western hemisphere Softwood lumber leltlemrnt Canada will not have to pay an onerous IS per cent duty on softwood lumber exports to the United States as a result of a settlement reached between the two governments In stead the reiki government will collect an equivalent export tax thereby ensuring that lh money re mains in Canada The agreement Will also protect Canadas control over Its forestry resources because the provinces will retain control over fees they charge lumber companies