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Page THE HERALD Wednesday June 1989 Business Page GO usage up 14 per cent GO Transit train service in an increase in GO transit train use GO chairman Lou Parsoi td npr in a news release last week Was there really a second leak Your Business Diane Matey Thornton Sarvtcv The media have a way of confus things but it is beginning to look like there was no second budget leak Why anyone thought there was is a mystery Prom the time we learned that budget summary ended up m the hands of a salesman for Mutual Life Insurance Co we have been left with the impression that there was more than one source We might just as easily have ed that one person in the govern printing off note copies of the budget suit an and passed tbemaroundDJtti lends Late last week Scutram News Service reported that a after the original budget the raided the home a government print shop worker The tip came from one of the man s friends Bob McFarlane who works for Mutual In an affidavit RCMP Sgt Ovila Robichaud says he believes the budget summaries came from the printing plant To date two illicit copies of the document have been recovered one from Global reporter Doug Small and one from Mr Bob McFarlane In other words both socalled leaks may have come from the government printing plant WILSON A VICTIM Despite the evidence that the documents were stolen the Op position keeps calling for Finance Minister Michael Wilson to resign This time a number of political journalists and editorial writers have joined in the chorus What has changed Even more than before it looks like Mr Wilson has been the victim of theft an act over which he had no con trol True Mr Wilsoq appeared tonguetied in the House of Com mons the other day The is that he should have told the House about the HYUNDAI OWNERS For Service Call 8731818 leak the day he tabled the budget But there was no second leak In Mr Wilson s mind so meone had stolen budget documents and the were on his trail Talking about it would not have helped The issue we tend to forget was that the contents of the budget be disclosed as quickly as possible Mr Wilson did just that The ques tion of ministerial was and is secondary Did Mr Wilson fall short in his responsibility to the Canadian peo ple Not at all Should he have told us that Mutual Life had the budget summary too Perhaps NO DIFFERENCE In the larger scheme of things this information would not have made a great deal of difference to you or me But Liberal Leader John Turner and Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadbent would have been delighted Mr Wilson or perhaps Prime Minister Brian Mulroney did not want to give the Opposition more ammunition with which to blast the government They may have beer wrong but that does not mean the finance minister should resign No matter what the critics say Mr Wilson should not resign his post STORE HOURS 30 a 6 except Thursday Friday 30 a City Styas Ctos To Hornet Street Georgetown CENTRE GO Transit train service Georgetown has grown almost per cent over the same period last year with 7 trips a day The train line which runs from Union Station to Georgetown makes stops to Brampton Bramalea Malton North Etobicoke Weston and The cost is almost a oneway trip for those who wish to avoid traffic chaos and parking problems says Edmund Shea of GO Transit In formation Services in Toronto There were million trips made last year compared to 5 million trips between March and 1988 There a lot of people using GO Transit to com mute to get to work says Mr Shea He said people are moving further and further out of the large urban areas creating a greater de mand for improved train service There are eight trains arriving and departing out of Georgetown each weekday four in the morn ing fourintheeveni g GO Transit figure of an almost per cent increase on the Georgetown line reflects an average daily of 7 passenger trips in Apnl 1989 com pared to 6 500 daily passenger trips in April Mr Shea said many of these are return trips The Georgetown line does not operate on weekends Milton had significantly higher increases than Georgetown over the last year Milton experienced 8770109 Simon CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT an increase in GO transit train use of 29 per cent Mr Shea said this is because Milton like Georgetown is an end of stop that passes through populated areas The Milton line goes through the densely populated areas of Mississauga Cooksville Dixie as well as making a stop at Etobicoke GO chairman Lou Parsons said in a news release last week that the train company is proud of its employees for meeting the stag demand for rail service We re happy with the operation we ve received from the province and the regions in response to the transit needs of burgeoning populations in the greater Toronto area he said Halton Hills gets a PAL The Town of Halton Hills Union Gas and the Halton Regional Police Force will give extra eyes and ears to the police force The program called Operations PAL for Public Alert was in traduced in Ontario in J but was endorsed by town councillors Mon day night We felt that our employees could be the socalled eyes and ears of the police department said Union Gas representative James Mr McBnde said Operations PAL was strictly for observing and reporting people in obvious distress lost children suspicious activities crime in commission and concerns over utilities or municipal facilities PAL members have radios that allow them to contact the police quickly through a dispatch station where PAL members make con tact The Region of Halton approved Operations PAL in January Other members who support the pro gram include the City of Burl and the Town of Milton PAL won t cost the town anything The town won need to con tnbute money to participate in PAL said Mr Union Gas will provide the stickers for PAL vehicles OFFICE MAGIC FOR ALL YOUR OFFICE A STATIONERY NEEDS 136CGwli8l Georgetown Phone 416 8770109 132 Main Street South Georgetown Ontario 8770109 STEVEN FOSTER B A LLB BARRISTER SOLICITOR 37 MAIN ST SOUTH GEORGETOWN 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