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Pages THE HERALD Wednetday May 10 1989 Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Guelph Street Georgetown L7G 3Z6 Ontario DAVID A BEATTIE Publisher and General Manager AVAILABLE COPY White English males shunned BRIAN Editor Phone 2201 DAN TAYLOR Advertising Manager Let parents work Some o the attn by Regional councillors last week on t le issue of day care are cause for worry Although a report by Halton said the time is right to beef up the Regions daycare assistance program Fr Oliver said day care started in the home and thats ere it should remain Milton Mayor Gord Krantz said he doesnt want child care on a property tax base However we must assume that the Region does favor operating some daycare spaces because it runs a facility right here in Halton Hills Costs for day care can run up to a day and statistics show that there are now over 19000 children in Halton us ing daycare facilities now That figure is expected to in crease by at least 30 per cent by 1993 The attitudes of some councillors seem to indicate they havent yet realized the full implications of their favorable stances towards growth With growth will come more peo ple more jobs and a much higher demand to find some sort of service to look after children while one or both parents work With apartment prices running as high as a 01 vacancy rate will allow in Halton Hills and with affordable housing in town virtually non existent there are people who must live on or below the poverty line simply because they can not afford day care for their children These are people who want to work who want to con tribute to society and Who want to pay taxes Its important they get the chance to do just that How to catch that flying foul Editors Notebook Brian MacLeod Herald Editor Sitting in row five behind the third base line at Exhibition Stadium can be a thoughtful ex Thoughtful because the game between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Oakland Athletics last Wednesday was a pitchers duel The game in which the good guys ended up on the right side of a 0 score provided many a blase moment It was during ore of those blase moments that watching foul balls bounce around in the stands seem to take on an air of importance There must have been 30 foul balls hit Maybe three or our were cleanly by spectators Think of all those kids who went home and said Wow I almost caught a foul ball It just skimmed off my hands It dawned on me that many Toronto spectators haven yet learned the expertise behind cat This just wont do So I m offering you some tips on how to rake in one of those balls free of charge Oh win are you to Queens Park Derek Nelson Thornton Newt Service Why have ablebodied skmned English speaking males been reduced to second class citizenship by the Ontario govern menf Dark skins French accents and the female sex are preferred The government intern pro gram telis the story Established four years ago the intern project gives a head start to college and university graduates who want to make a career in government service The government describes it this way Through the twoyear on the job training program interns will gain valuable handson ex which will improve their ability to compete successfully for positions in the Ontario Public Ser vice OPS And how do you get to be an in tern You apply This summer there are 100 positions available star ting salary 300 All 100 places are reserved for what the government calls five designated groups First are aborigines Inuit In dian and Metis Second are so called racial minorities who are subdivided in to Blacks East Asians South Asians Southeast Asians and West AsiansArabs Exactly how these categories are arrived at and what proof you must produce to show you belong to a particular group detail ed The are explicitly racial if a little weird in that whiteskinned Latin Americans are unworthy of designated status but whiteskinned Arabs are Third are francophones defined as those for whom French was one of the first languages learned in childhood and still understood Then there are those who are mentally or physically disabled And of course women of any type and color form the fifth group What category you fit into must be indicated on resumes or cover letters One suspects that a person who did this with the inten tion of giving preference to white males would be up before the Human Rights Commission in seconds flat as well as being sub jected to moralistic lectures from Queen s Park politicians CAN APPLY True healthy anglophone white males whom the government euphemistic illy calls designated group members can apply for these posts But they will only receive due consideration if positions cannot be filled with qualified designated group members The chances of that are nil however since the government and its paid publicists continually point out that qualified non whiteswomen exist in great numbers held back only by the evils of white male racismsex ism The Liberal government reasoning for discriminating against anglophone white males is that recent studies in the com position of the OPS indicate that imbalances exist in the representa tion of some groups in certain oc areas and salary levels But that begs more questions than it answers For example francophones make up three to five per cent of the Ontario population depending on how you define them but six per cent of the OPS as of two years ago Thanks to the French languages services bill what some call the jobs for francophones bill that figure by the government own estimate will rise to 10 per cent In practice it will probably by higher In short on a straight percen tage basis francophones are already over represented What this internship program will do is give them an even greater stranglehold on government jobs in a province where per cent of the population can speak French The disabled are another in teresting category About six per cent of provincial jobs are already occupied by the disabled Socalled racial minorities pose another question Three East Asians South Asians and West AsiansArabs of the five sub groups the government is going to put on the fast track already earn on average considerably more than their white OPS coworkers according to government statistics About per cent of the OPS is white And this government says it op poses racism and sexism tell me how to catch a foul ball you ask Well I a seasoned veteran of two foul alls caught at Exhibition St Here s how it s done When you hear the crack of the bat immediately leap to your feet knocking over your neighbor s beer so he s distracted from the ball Drop your hot dog under the seat so it s far enough back that you won land on it when you leap into the air Yes if you want that ball you must leap Once everyone s got a beat on the ball they all brace hands stretched for the inevitable pain There is none Not if it done right At the last moment you must leap up to meet the ball If you don you 11 just be one of the pairs of hands the ball skimmed off No one else will leap up to catch the ball I assure you Next you must close both hands firmly around the ball and squeeze tight it will be spinning that s why it went foul just like George Bell did in the victory over the Yankees to give the Jays the pen nantlnl986 Remember Then once you ve got ball firmly in hand duck quickly back down under the mob to avoid a wrestling match Presto the ball yours A footnote make sure you then hold the ball high so the radio an nouncers will see what a spec tacular catch you made and men you on the air FIND SOME rifiWERS Nuclear industry to pay millions for government regulations By Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service The Atomic Energy Control Board will be ready within a year to whack the nuclear industry with a multimillion dollar bill to recover the cost of its regulatory operations The AECB is assessing cautious responses from more than 1 000 companies and interest groups to the cost recovery plan ordered three years ago by the federal Treasury Board About 2 ques tionnaires were sent out by the regulatory agency to measure public and industry reaction Based on responses that have been received Tom Viglasky who directs the activities of the board cost recovery group said there is a general feeling of acceptance but a concern with the size of some of the proposed fees The fees calculated to cover most of the AECBs million annual operating cost will add millions to the construction cost of a nuclear generating tion Viglasky group is cost recovery will not have a noticeable effect on consumers Initial studies concluded the fees would tack a maximum of 2 per cent onto the current charge per kilowatt hour for combined hydro thermal and nuclear power The nuclear industry and heavy users though will pay special fees reaching into the millions of dollars Universities and hospitals fear services may be cut back if their provincial governments are re quired to pay for the licensing and inspection of the institutions research reactors and ac celerators Uranium and thorium mming companies say another million in fees on top of start up costs for a new mine and mill could affect their competitiveness in the international market Viglasky agreed that even a small change in the price of a pound of uranium could affect a company bid He said the uranium market is soft really cutthroat right now A few cents a pound can mean the loss of a major contract which uses radioisotopes for the production of such items as smoke detectors high tech lab equipment and devices to measure the thickness of eggshells wants assurances that the fees will be applied equal I- AIRLY MILD It s the utilities however that have Viglasky worried He described the comments from On tano Hydro which could end up paying about million in AECB fees annually as fairly mild If Ontario Hydro gets approval to proceed with development of another nuclear generating tion it could end up paying an ad ditional million for all the site construction and operating cer tificates The utility expressed concerns with the equitable distribution of the fees and the impact they may have on research in a very nice twopage letter the one that really bothers me I m sure the other shoe will be coming at us from somewhere said