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Page WALTON HILLS OUTLOOK Friday March INT Hills la published each Friday by Toe Hilton Herald home of Hal top Wilt division of Canadian Company Limited at Gndpb Street Georgetown Ontario J28 Second Oats Mall Registered Number PUBLISHER Garnet Cowsill EDITOR Dave Rowney ADVERTISING MANAGER CarlSinke MARKETING REPRESENTATIVES Lowes Sharon Marshall Bo wen CLASSIFIED Terry Colter Elaine STAFF WRITERS An Sandy Campbell PRODUCTION SUPERINTENDENT Davo Hastings PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Myles Glteon Annie 0 Is en Mary Lou Foreman Joan Brown ACCOUNTING Dave Walker Pauline Miller Tbeir Outlook Byelection results not just PMs worry Ottawa Report By MacLeod WHICH THREATENS SOUTH AfRICA5 PEACE SECURITY IS CENSORED HEY WHAT Ever since Prime Minister Brian Mulroney announced three would be held on July delaying them as long as he could just about all the attention has been focused on Tory chances in the ihree tidings With opinion polls placing the Conservatives at on historic tow Just two years after they won the biggest majority in Canadian history Its perhaps understandable that we have a compelling interest In their fortunes But the results of the July votes are rather important to the two other parties In fact It could be argued the are far more critical to the Liberals and New Democrats than to the governing Conservatives Of course anything can happen in five months before lite are held In St Johns East Hamilton Mountain and the Yukon in that period its probable Tory popularity will rise It would be unheard of for a governing party to continue wallowing around per cent In the opinion polls Tor that length of time NONE SAFE In the opinion of assorted party In Ottawa all of the seats are up for grabs even St Johns East which was won In 1164 POETS CORNER Dew Sir Hard Is more intelligible In In rebuttal Than as hallowedIsle Hard bandlei name Create a critical waip menage parochial literary whos who Bard erudite J lis forte the mundane Hard reels oil names personages Villi elan authority presumption to familiarity self- a I a lion title a Hon If bard lakes liberties language Is wont to employ nonce words coinages some poor defenseless highland dialect Tries to it onto others lie a be duly censured Actons quasi bard Enamored of exuding Culture gentility Can be seen as nostalgic pilgrim Donning Mcintosh Treading moors rugged highlands medieval burgs Seeking apparitions f yore The Idcom parable bard A brooding Celebrated Canterbury Tales JOE HURST vative James with a margin of no less than votes Since then Mr McGrath has become the New foundlands 11m tenantgovernor the popularity the govern meet has- dropped nearly 3D tage points and the has made Impressive Inroads In that area And the way people arc talking around Ottawa these days it would be almost an upset if the Conser vatives were to win the riding Im winning a seat by votes and then two years later considering its retention an upset It boggles the But thats the type of thinking which is putting so much pressure on the two opposition parties Its something called Great Expecta tions And the Conservatives ac cording to all the polls dont have But the Liberals and New Democrats certainly do The polls put the Liberals far out In front at per cent and the 10 points ahead of Tories at per cent And while these standings suggest the Grits should have by far the highest expectations other polls place NDP Leader Ed In a unique situation Re Is again by far the most leader In country OPPOSITION FIGHT Ever since the Liberals emerged the 1964 election with seals and the NDP captured 30 there has been an ongoing struggle to establish which party Is the real op position The July will un doubtedly be the most crucial con frontation in this respect And as things stand the seems to en- me advantages Hamilton Mountain seat was by the in 1964 and although on outsider former Ottawa mayor Marlon Dewor seems to be a popular candidate You can bet your mor gage that Mr Broadbent will find many reasons to visit the area bet ween now and July While Erik Nielsen was a fixture In the Yukon for as long as most of us the former Tory MP didnt always an easy time There were several occasions In eluding the 1960 election when he barely squeezed In Should disaster strike the Tories and nil three were tost not much would change for party Given the polls and the fact that governing parties dont usually do well in byelections life would continue for Brian But should they pull off major upsets and do better than expected Imagine the effect on the Liberals and New Democrats It would almost certainly revive questions about Mr Turners leadership And the spectacular gains now being recorded by the would pro bably bo reclassified as another aberration The Liberals will go through the same agonies should the emerge as the big winner And If the Grits moke the gains the longterm of the popularity will still be called into question The only apparent way to avoid some form of political would be for each party to win one seat it seldom turns out this way Letters Universal day care not the answer when both parents are working out side the home The Katie Cooke com mission on day care has proposed that government set up universal day core so that all women would have access to free governmentrun day care Institutions at all times This would mean free day care for everyone for lawyers and doctors well low in The Nursing home reform nursing home politics Queens Park There Is nursing home reform There is also nursing home politics What were petting from the On Health Ministry is lot of the politics and very little reform The big news recently was the pro belling Country Place nur si home from the owner John The conditions in were cording to ministry appall That led a Press Gallery colleague here Lome Goldstein rcjll the grab of the Ark home also tor supposed inputting charges thai wire substantiated In fact the Eden operator finally went to court Jnd Hot his licence hack claims seizure of Place is no more valid He suggests the New Democratic pari and some of his Canadian Union of Public Employees staff arc nut to make an example of him And Ihat true Back in 1984 the NDP savaged Country Place In a press release that a labor arbitrator later labelled Goldstein rightly suggests we reserve judge ment on the validity of the latest seizure There is more than a little suspi cion it is pure politics with Health Minister Murray Elston try ing to make the government look lough Not that Country Place is the only political game being played at the moment Last December Fist on Introduced socalled Grey Power legislation that included bill of rights for nursing homes patients For in stance residents would gain as rights such things as as Information And theyll get councils committees established would keep an eye on the homes for the ministry To put it another way residents in nursing homes will legally acquire the right to snitch and scoop on the places At the same time the ministry will get greater powers with heavier potential penalties It Is though nursing home operator arc categorized as suspicious characters whose every moment lias lo be scrutinized or be derelict in their duty la essence one might call the ap proach Hut then bashing profit making nursing home owners for being rotten to their clients has always been good politics Of course he trouble with such on attitude Is 1hit it doesnt really deal with the mam issue And that is what nursing home is supposed to do and tie For example decode the average age of a nursing home real The common type of infirmity at age tends to be much different than It would be 10 years earlier Increasingly nursing homes where patients supposed require on J 114 hours supervisory care a day are filling in for chronic care hospitals government now considering this report and other submissions and will soon make a decision Child care for mothers who feel ihey must have a paycheck lo make ends meet is a problem that must be faced but is universal day care the answer We think noL As a group who believe in equal rights for women but not at the ex pense of other human tights we feel that Ihe government should consider the needs of children as well as the needs of women whether working In the home or In paid employment Love is a childs birthright Modem psychology as well as tradl tional emphasizes the Im portance to the small child of the parents especially mother The bonding that takes place between the child and the mother and father is of great Importance for Its emo tional security and mental health The child needs a great deal of tender loving care to be healthy and happy Some children have even died from lack of cuddling Day care institutions can never equal good home care in this respect even though they may sometimes be necessary if the family is In distress In case families need day care we should see that it Is provid ed by people who really lave children and will look after them well However universal day care is neither necessary nor desirable and would impose an enormous lax burden on everyone This like other this program would cost at least 111 billion dollars per year our whole national deficit in three years If such a heavy tax load were add to burden that we already carry most families would need Iwo incomes just to put bread on the tabic and most mothers would be therefore forced the job market as has happened en Our organization has mode some proposals to he government to help families who ore in need of help with curing for their children These ore as follows Families should get the benefit of any money spent on day care Only needy families should be subsidized these should receive the money directly so that they then choose the type of day care most suitable whether in the home or elsewhere Higher child tax credits and higher credits for spouses caring Tor children at home