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The worst example of this is Question Period in the House of Commons — 45 minutes a day of pure theatre, when the Liberals and NDP say Canada is a complete fail- ure and the Conservatives react by saying this is the best country in the world. Well, I sit in my seat, and I listen to both sides, and I wish we could have a better system. I know when I drive around Halton-Peel that there is good, and there is bad. Life is not lived in absolutes. People Tooth Chatter by ALEX TRENTON, Denture therapist LOWER DENTURES Ifyou are a denture wearer, you will experience some kind of discomfort during the life of your dentures. Lower dentures usually cause more trouble than uppers. Because bottom dentures have litle suction to hold them in place, they are more likely to move around, therefore causing various forms of discomfort. Also, poor ridges cause dentures to move easily, because the has ite fot on fr sabi. The a tay mov 0 you akan chew Dieu te of all these factors that efeds fatingona the lower dentures, most people do have trouble at some point. In fact, mar lowers, They divorce them from. their upper denture mates by tossing them in the most unlikely places! Some seek refuge in bottom drawers, bottom of the bed, under the bed, amongst lipsticks and combs in ladies’ handbags, lunch pais, back pockets, and i the get lucky, they are left forever soaking in a denture bath or cup of water! SOLUTIONS There are different techniques that can be used to improve the fit of the lower denture, such as a ‘soft-liner insert. This is a permanent liner that will stay soft and give added comfort and stability. For more information, contact our WE CARE ABOUT YOUR SMILE! AM. .T., The Denture Clinic, 18 Church Street, (416) 877-2359 Positives and negatives in government Garth Turner MP Halton-Peel lose their jobs. The value of their houses goes down. It gets hard to keep the kids in decent clothing. But at the same time, in this area, there are streets of new houses being built, rows of new cars pulling onto the 401 each morning and additions being built to high- tech industries in places like Bolton and Burlington. Personally, I believe the future will be brighter than the present. But not for everyone — and that’s where politics fails. National lead- ers tend to lump everyone into the same boat. The prime minister says we're doing okay; the leader of the opposition says we’re a nation of unemployed and food banks. My job as an MP is to make sure that the government in Ottawa knows what the real picture is, so we get the help we need. One day that may mean introducing a new company in Caledon to the services. provided by the industry depart- ment, so they can get help in selling to aclient in Australia. Another day, it means visiting the Job Finding Club Georgetown, where a group of unemployed people help each other develop the skills to find new, and better, work. The club is funded by the federal government —- but there’s never enough money — and it now operates just every other month. The morning I visited, I found an atmosphere of positive energy — the dozen or so people there were upbeat, determined and obviously feeding off each other. They told me that being together had made all T.V. Repairs REPAIRS TO ALL MODELS OF TVs s VERs Also Morevenes. snivee Conver Free Eatimatea on Carry-] nT TV Repairs 873-1820 J.J. Electronics 960 Guelph St., Unit 37, Georgetown Free GST with $500. min. purchas Flight & Lodging provided (Meals Address: Phone: 348 Guelph St., Georgetown mt Ma [rf VP Pit Down-Rite to Kokomo! Florida Keys hactlitioe Special... Saxony Textured ~ available in 38 colours (Underpad &Insalation incnded) $ IQ, QZ say Peel & Stick Tiles 9BE Enter our draw for a Trip forTwo- extra). Draw Date: Nov. 15/93. Ballot must be taken into store —$500. min. se. 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And for the rest of us, who watch the weak real estate market, who have wages frozen when the cost of food and cars is going up, who have some trouble paying for new snowsuits and field trips — life could be better. It’s not perfect in Canada these days, for sure. But compared to most other countries — the U.S. included — we’re not doing so badly. I watched President Clinton on CNN the other night pledge to have every American child vacci- nated against diseases like small pox and measles. He said only Bolivia and Haiti have worse vacci- nation rates than the United States. Of course, in Canada, we take this for granted. We have universal health care, when 35 million Americans have none. We live longer than most of the people on the planet. We have what the UN says is the best plan to protect the environment. And we’ve created more jobs than were lost in seven of the last seven months. But it’s still not perfect. And it’s not a disaster. On balance, let’s just hope it gets better, bit by bit. If I can help it happen — which is my job — then I hope you will call. My home number is in the book: (416) 873-8745. Turner in town Halton-Peel MP, Garth Turner, will be available at Oxbow Books this coming Saturday at 2 p.m. to sign copies of his recently pub- lished book, ‘Garth! Just What the Hell is Going on in Ottawa?’ Constituents and the curious are welcome to visit with their Ottawa representative. o> 9-1-1 bss OPEN BOWLING BOWLING LANES call tstote i 0/- W740)