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HILLS OUTLOOK Friday May Halton Hills Outlook ii published each Friday by The Heaid home llillg or Canadian Limited at U Street Georgetown Ontario a8 second Mall Registered oumber0943 PUBLISHER Don EDITOR Dave ADVERTISING MANAGER Carl Sinke Pa m Lowes Sharon Marshall CI Terry Colter thine STArr WRITERS Brum MacLeod PRODUCTION Dive Hastings AnniiOIsm Miry Lou I unman JoanHrown ACCOUNTING Dave Walker Pauline Miller Tbeir Outlook Throne speech offers hope for Ontario roads Queens Park IH Derek 1m Tucked away in the luck of the Throne Speech was a welcome five- pa graph reference to roads Thais roads those asphalt and concrete arteries hat with ml lines and pump the blood of country two decades thej vc lyiored by governments in the pursu I of more sexy issues The 1 governments Throne Speech promise a change Appreciation Hie im portent role tint roads pi in tourism and other Ontario in the fettmR products to on time Ihe government Mill mi and Ontario sub Investment in Us ill network New links will be built in high growth areas and funds will in pro for Ihe pro vincial highways and roads it pro- One in Jit suggest 1 1 about One might also hold any til we sec the dollar figures for transportation tint show up in Treasurer Boh Nixon budget There was some speculatit And re kiting then The Ontario lion lus some statistics about our In tin decide road use his in dnmalicalh rogistn lion is up per anil truck registration up per cent in past decade Yet in the same period road subsidies have alien behind inflatt ns me million The resuli his been i in the percentage of roads in province can defined as adequate In minmpal m thai half the roads will fir iriequa in fn the ispor spent on highway rehabilitation of m that ministry was going to recelv money when in act its budget In crease t match inflation Roads fact a problem opposite of seal pups schools and hospitals They I warm and They don They arc in Jargon of the 1960s things spending money on people health lion is preferred pre Or as former Premier Bill said cities are for people not cars as if something than people drive cars All that roads do in fact is keep our society functioning Presumably thai a people aim Roods bring us frch food from the other side of the continent and deliver monv of us to Jobs that our ancestors would have considered an Inconceivable distance away from where we live Poets Corner I- Never again will life be mi asurnl black and Hard to ignore historic accord to hold lhlijs it the will require an extra million annually sajs To bring things kick stan dard tin ami required is closer to millnn In a billion budget million is pocket mi which is whv suggests smaller amount rather it what is reall required it would be better to wail a few days offering any on the constitutional cord reached between Prime Minister Brian Mulroncv anil 10 provincial premiers can one ignore such an historic event prime minister standing here and the premiers giving him a standing as they announced thai for first Confederation the heads of government hammered together constitution il icconl jeceplabk to nil of them Not only thai Just about ever participant said tin new accord is even belter linn they had expected One cant Ignore II not when you have premier in Canada helping on prime minister and saying wl II all have a far belter country us renull of this agreement And an obviously excited Mr Mulroncy was not disagree It a good day for he Mid a belter fedcr So you at all join declare Manitoba A breakthrough for as a Canadian partner said Premier Tile other premiers hid similar comments all were unusually generous in pouring praise on Ihe prime mmislir for his negotiating skills light ask shouldn the parade and officially open Well perhaps we should It Jew that constitutional eh and Iheitpolential effects lake the legal experts I recall flying back Ottawa from Victoria in after the heads of government had reached on earlier tentative accord The plane charter was filled with some 130 federal officials oil celebrating dawning of a new constitutional era in Canada Prime Minister and the premiers Including Robert am a for Constitution Sings were being composed on Ihe aircraft ore irchuig from Victoria wis one better renumbered numbers couple of weeks I tier when Ihe Jucbec legislature loo a look at proposed l hi whole exercise up in smoke it was 11 years iter before Mr and nlnt premie rs were able reach agreement To do so Quebec which they did was always a But the deed done Canada got its own homegrown lion and was led lo Prime Minister Mulroncy to complete the family circle so speak He wise made it priority objective to pt siyiature on the stitution a process which now seems well on the road to comple tion this marathon bargaining session It was never perceived a an cosy process for Mr Mulroney a of some renown Trying to accommodate one pro while other provinces are as ing to pry ul own interests is not quite the same as all leaders starting off on the same fooling The fad Mr Mulroney was able to accomplish Ihls a great deal for his negotiating skills Iris take away from him in this respect On the hand let wail a till before popping champagne if for no olher reason than to give the experts lime to tell us what all may mean for Canada s future There arc some people Pierre lucluded who pro touch this accord wilhn bargepole As he used to say It easy an agreement if Ottnw willing to gve And then Is reaching away store no doubt that In accord gave up same Trudcau held heart Some rather powers that Mr very close to his key Letters Red Cross World Day May may already be circled on your calendar as a special day however we all have good reason to celebrate this date On May 1928 Henri was bom and later become founder of the Interna Commillee of the Red Cross Each year a different Iheme is chosen to celebrate World Red CrossRed Crescent Day This year selection Is the Child Alive programme which aims to stop deaths from proven table disease Red Cross knows no boundaries In keeping with the basic Red Cross principles help comes without regard to race religion or Through the Child Alive pro gramme Canadians help the Red In lis efforts to make all children around world children May is World Red Cross Day Remember the Red Cross today and everyday Yours sincerely Nancy Sc Public Relations Chairman Georgetown and District Red Cross Red Shield campaign Dear Sir Many of you have personal knowledge of The Salvation Army in oneway You and women dedicated lo God and service to others The my Is hard at work in our ty as well as in almost every city and lawn throughout Canada They reach lonely depressed parentless children the sick and the wayward of all ages We can help in at leas two ways with our dollars or as a volunteer canvasser Lei us do our part to held the Red Shield Campaign reach its target of for the 1987 appeal inthelialtonllillsarca Yours sincerely Mr David Manes Honorary Red Shield Chairman Hills Ontario Wilson The Salvation Army Mills Ontario National Forest Week Dear Sir I am pleased to support the vance of Notional forest Wee in Canada and remind Canadians that our past present and future an lied closely to this valuable were granted the provinces and Ottawa got nothing in return But to talk about giving away the store Is absolute foolishness says Nova Scotia Premier John Buchanan What we now have is true equality among oil provinces theme for 1B87 Forests A Shared Resource La des chesses pour reminds us that there arc many ways In which we depend upon and enjoy mosaic of which cover almost this country We collec tively share in their economic use and environmental in Jeanne Sauvc