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Page IIALTON HILLS OUTLOOK Friday May I 1987 Hallon Hills Outlook Outlook each Friday by The Halloo ifjlli Herald home newspaper of fialton a dlvJilon of Canadian Newspaper Company limited at Street Georgetown Ontario Second Mall Registered Number PUBLISHER Don Brander EDITOR Dave Rowney ADVERTISING MANAGER Carl Sinke MARKETING REPRESENTATIVES Pam Lowes Sharon Marshall Alanna Bo wen CLASSIFIED Terry Colter Elaine STAFF WRITERS Brian MacLeod PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Annie Mary Lou Foreman Joan Brown ACCOUNTING Dave Walker Pauline Miller Tbeir Outlook Tories believe Peterson is simply an opportunist Although it is hard tolKhovc when you look polls not in Ontario thinks Premier David Peterson is the greatest thing since sliced bread And probably most intense critic is Tom Long Ontario Pro gressive Conservative Party He a partisan of course with visceral dislike of Liberals and New Democrats or Grits and Socialists as he would likely say In thai sense he reminds me somewhat of Liberal Sean Conway another who Is young although not as young as Long and in whose veins partisan blood runs thickly Some blame media for being Others think Peterson is just lucky though they don i him simply Queens Park Beyond I hit believe Pete anything They opportunist David Peterson void of and vision views all of politics is one endless stream of necled and unrelated skill testing questions Long said in one speech There are no goals no fnunda lions Just a bewildering swamp of details and conflicting pressures He and his party nave purchased their program like some product off a shelf from a competing political party purely and simply achieve The Peterson Liberals may tern r a rtly hold power but they will leave no indelible mark upon the pages Ihe history of this pro- Hi Washington was simply cheap headline grabbing and his performance at federalprovincial disruptive But is more than Like his party leader Larry Grossman Long appears to genuinely view Peterson as a man who good with television fluff the atmospherics of govern Is how Grossman describes It but lacks substance Down deep Peterson Is how cliche runs There a touch here of Tory disbelief that man hey never look seriously as an opposition leader Is how premier with a bet nan per cent rating In polls They cant credit Peterson with that much skill land hat is one or the reasons they are now in tion Their view of Is best ex by a tasteless Joke about retards made at a testimonial dinner this winter Thai Ihe real David Peterson Ihcyll say Can you ever imagine BUI Davis or Larry Grossman being that Insensitive And they can understand why he gets away with such faux pas without any criticism sticking the Teflon Premier is the media half admiring half sarcastic label for It negative Long said tor most people is a view Peterson and his government that is quite jarring when first heard sine it conflicts so strongly with the general public perception People seem to rather like Peter son and his style They feel com with him He a younger more olive Bill Davis They trust him to run a competent government And whether it is true or not It is a perception that ihosc who arc repel by Peterson politics have lo acknowledge Long Insists at least publicly that the Conservatives can win the next election that once the orate starts paying the real David Peterson will come and be rejected by Being ahead or behind In the pells reilly means nothing nowadays John Turner and Miller about how going Into campaigns ana a volatile Most dreaming Some think lies actually running for leader in following election Maybe Bui his negative view of Is real And in the Grit euphoria caused by per cent polls It should be romemtwred there arc dissenters out there Berrys World Berrys World Story raises fascinating humaninterest questions There is absolutely no difficulty In finding people particularly among Conservatives who feel the medio have been overplaying If not overkilling those cleboratc renova lions on the residences of Prime Minister Brian We re talking specifically about the paid by the PC Canada Fund the money raising arm of the Conservative Party lo bring Sussex Dr and the prime minister Harrington Lake cottage up scratch Ottawa Report surrounding them So when it was reported first in Ihe Toronto Globe and Mail thai the PC Canada Fund was pitching in an additional ooo Tor home provements it was as they say news Apart from everyone else Canadian taxpayers spent more than million in the last couple of years fixing up iheso two and three other official residences in and around Ottawa The fact that the PC Canada Fund had to augment this for the Muironeys would seem to to qualify for greater press coverage than say youravcragecakcsale I let face we all love to Those who criticize Ihe media for generosity of wards on the sub make a point of saying money came from parly And since both the prime ministers of residence on Sussex Drive and I is collage on for the use of all subsequent prime ministers it ing argued thai the Tories are doing The winners out of this ore thi taxpayers sold Tory MP Allan Lawrence And Transport Minister John has said the taxpayers should be grateful Perhaps Bui even if we acknowledge this along with the act Ihe story might hove received more attention than It technically the whole business does also raises some Interest questions OBVIOUS INTEREST Just as the American public seem unduly fascinated when Nancy Reagan at horrendous expense had IK china changed In the White House Canadian public has always had more than a passing in tertst In the lifestyle or the Muironeys Ihe closest we have lo a Canadian first family When Mila Mulroney established her own office In he same public building as the prime ministers it became a first for Canada There were stories galore about costs Involved Ana Ihcre has certainly been unabated Interest In her elaborate wardrobe the prime minister too for lhat matter and ail the presidential style trappings read about a prime minister who re quires closet space Tor suits and pairs of shoes of them expensive imparls Equally fascinating was the report thai Mulroney re quired 30 feel of hanging space for blouses and suits and feel for evening dresses along with room for poire of shoes For most of us who do it the other around it was probably find I to tome to terms with a living rt m being changed four limes match new and fabric There is no point describing renovations even if some do seem rather difficult to comprehend And certainly no one would want the prime minister and his family to live in second rale digs Considering they gi through in an average work week no one would begrudge them decent quarters where they could put up their feet once in awhile But hat doesn mean ll a none of the publics business or that he media should turn a blind eye Among the arguments on behalf of the resulting media attention The themselves have perhaps more han any predecessors chosen to be a very public family And everyone has an abiding Interest in the goingson of public families The costs of these renova lions not to mention the war drobes Involved would strike most Canadians as extravagant If not staggering Thai makes news Then of course there is fact donations political parlies such as money contributed the PC Canada Fund corn lax credits for the donors Tills means lhat we all have some indirect financial stake in parly funds Letters Is not Canada a democracy Edit note This letter was lent to lb Herald Tor publication Right Honourable Brian PrimeMinister of Canada Parliament Hill Ottawa Dear Mr As a student and a concerned allien I feel it Is my responsibility to let you Ihe elected leader of this know how the common per son about Issues debated in Parliament I am aware there are many issues so I wish to express my views on only one the Reinstate ment of Capital Punishment Ever since 1978 when Parliament voted to do away with Capital Punishment by only six votes peo ple begun to react The costs of con fining a criminal has grown dously specialized doctors per guards social workers special facilities regular prison staff and many more costs arc paid from the taxpayers money Your government spends over forty thou sand 400001 dollars to confine ONE prisoner for a year If you took a per son convicted of first degree murder that wo sentenced to life twenty fiv years the costs would range into the millions of dollars Even after the twenty five 25 years Jail sentence what is stopping a person who has just wasted his life Your government has asked us how do we feel about Capital Punish and we have told you in the lost election Seventy three per coil of the people you represent have old you Capital Punishment I feel it should be reinstated but with restrictions Obviously Capital Punishment lsnot for all criminals not even for all murderers for hose who endanger our country through treason the persistent murderers the premeditated murders the especially Cop killers When the people elected your government in 1984 they elected a thai would listen to them Since the polls on the Reinstatement of Capital Punish ment have been in favour and also in the House of Commons where the people arc represented we find the same feeling yet Capital Punish has not been reinstated I understand any decision reinstate Capitol Punishment Is be opposed by ihc Senate These people were appointed by you and other prime ministers and we the people had no say in their appoint merit How can ibese people have Urol over the peoples decision representative government gone today its Capital Punishment we are denied what will it be in the future I feel you its an elected of have a responsibility to the people Do you not realize what a democracy Is Is not Canada a democracy We elected you and the Conservatives not to moke your own decisions but lo carry out