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Page 4 — Halton Hills This Week, Wednesday, October 20, 1993 | HIS WEEK . Georgetown, Ont. L7G 4B}, CIRCULATION MANAGER: Marie Shadbolt . Halton Hills This Week, y QE. Web Printing. i this newspaper, \vices at wrong price, goods or services may not be sold ‘Advertising is merely an offer to sell which may be withdrawn at any time. PUBLISHER: Ken Bellamy — EDITOR: Colin Gibson PRODUCTION MANAGER: Kathleen Topolsek OFFICE MANAG! HALTON HILLS THIS WEEK IS INDEP! 2254 PHONE: 873-: Vote for yourself! Well folks, it’s almost here! We're talking Monday! The BIG E-DAY! Federal election day! A chance for Canadians to really choose who will govern them into the 21s century. T don’t think I"ve been this excited since my pet fish Ralph developed claustrophobia and I had to take him for daily swims in my shower. Sad to say, I lost Ralph one morning when I was trying to clean under one of his fins. But that’s another story. . Back to the BIG E. The Reform party seems to be causing all sorts of problems for those used to the status quo in Canada. That's as it should be — especially come election time. But that doesn’t necessar- ily mean the Reform wannabes are any better — or worse — than the political bozos we have been putting up with for years. Don’t fool yourself! Preston Manning is a lean, mean polit- ical machine and has a few personal bucks to boot. He also has a few political debts to collect on behalf of his dad, Emest Manning. In addition, the Reform Party has received corporate contri- butions from Imperial Oil, Rogers Communications, Canadian Occidental Petroleum, Winspear Securities and Canadian Pacific. Not what you would call your average Ma and Pa comer store operations. Getting back to the tie-in with Emie and the kid = the All- Canadian bash boys. Ata recent Reform rally admitted he had played a Part in the Emest Manning Social Credit party radio broadcasts which aired throughout Western was to be excluded from this got beyond the talking stage. William Aberhart (co-founder with Manning of the Social Credit party) came up with the recall of elected officials idea way back in ‘30s — pre-Pres, don’t you know. The law was quickly rescinded when it was discovered 60 per cent of his own constituents wanted him recalled. The memory of the ‘Dirty *30s* is still a frightening specter to quite a few Canadians, when jobless and homeless men “rode the rails" across our country looking for work. They found it in Alberta, all right. Emest Manning, Premier at the time, set up work camps and those who rode the rails through his province were summarily tossed into these camps and forced to work for their keep. In the early ‘60°s, Emest Manning fought long and hard against. medicare. Signs in. Preston Manning's Alberta constituency proudly proclaim him “The son-of Ernest Manning.” ‘The racist issue — well, sorry to say, I’ve always felt there is a bit of racist in all of us. There has to be. Pride of heritage is part of an individual's makeup. That will never change. But when you have self-avowed racists in a political party, like the Reform turkey in Toronto (who Supposedly slipped through the screening Process and whose candidacy has since been revoked) you have to wonder how many others are hid- ing in the bushes. ut, nobody's perfect. Most especially not some of the dim bulbs elected to lead Canadians into the land of the light. Native aboriginals weren’t given the right to vote, until 1960!. Remember the Chinese head tax? How about the theft of property and the fi to virtual i camps that Canadians of Japanese ancestry went through when the bugles blew for World War II. Remember when. Jews, fleeing the horrors of Hitler’s Master Race in Europe, las some excellent ideas that need exploring. I agree with their Philosophy that our political sys- tem needs revamping. I also don’t feel Canada’ will benefit — at this particular time - with a majority government con- trolled by either the Liberals or the Progressive Conservatives. At the same time, we would be in a sorry state if either the Reform or the Bloc Quebecois held the balance of power to stalemate a newly-elected federal government in. what just might be a government of opposites that attract for the com- mon good of Canada. The results of the Oct. 25 election will not only test Canada’s mettle, but also test the commitment of those politi- cians who baffle with moose droppings, while assuming that Canadian’s brains are stuck in neutral. It's about time these denizens of the pig trough checked ut. 2 I personally think the best thing that could happen to Canada would be a minority government. Then, with all the hues from the political spectrum front and centre in Ottawa, we would really see who wants to work for Canada and which politicians are merely excess baggage. Colin Gibson Jay Anderson, George- town: “It will be a case not of who wins the election that matters but-who loses the election. We dont have much of a choice.” 3 Linda Armstrong, Glen Williams: “I'm concerned the public will turn this elec- tion into a retaliation vote like what happened in the provincial election.” : Jei People’s Forum Thoughts on the | a) Kevin Euwen, Georgetown: “I do'not have much confi- dence in any of the political Parties to effectively manage the affairs of Canada’ : Jean Shewell ENDENTLY OWNED & OPERATED. F. ‘AX:873-3918 Judy Alton, Georgetown: “I am undecided about the sincerity of the political lead- ers on what they say on the issues.” Reform Party not racist To the Editor: e: Editorial “Let the Voter Beware” * T must point out to you hei remarkable success was purchased in part by the replacement Social Credit fundamentalism with t ‘uracy of remarks respecting Preston Manning. You stated “The Reform Party has glibly hidden the role that Preston Manning played behind the scenes when -his father, Ernest “Manning, William Aberhart, unveiled the racist and fuhny money Social Credit Party way back when. I was living in Alberta when William Aberhart's Social Credit party won the Alberta election of 1935 by taking 56 of 63 seats, with 54 per cent of the popular vote. This was the unveiling of the “Social Credit Party,” as you put it. It was not difficult to hide the role of Preston Manning because he was not born until 1942, seven years later. Where did you get our facts? William Aberhart died in 1943 the “funn money” principle died with him. Mr. Ernest Manning took Over as premier. Of his administration, the Canadian Encyclopedia has this to say: “Social Credit won nine successive elec- tions and governed the Province until 1971. This nservative financial and social policies which even bankers could ‘applaud. Success was also purchased by judicious use of massive oil revenues which flowed to provincial coffers after 1947”, " Not a bad record, as I see it! It shows that Preston Manning has good political blood lines, like father like son. Furthermore, what gave you the idea the Social Credit party®was racist? When it came to power, Alberta was a dirt-poor, depression-ridden province. It had \no attraction for minorities and. none were there. There were no minorities except for Indians on reservations on which to practise discrimi- nation if one were inclined to do so. Social Credit was _ NOt racist. Again, where did you get ~ your facts? Richard Hill Terra Cotta, Ont. Editors note: For more on the Mannings, father and son, check out the column on the left. The racism issue is also addressed. Your own views on racism speak vol- umes, Rural posties disappearing To the Editor: With all this sudden, renewed interest in jobs, jobs, jobs, (especially by the Tories), you'd think Garth Turner and his cronies would Stop stripping away the remaining 7,000 jobs held by rural postmasters and their assistants in smaller Canadian communities. Despite what Garth says, the contracts replacing: these jobs.are a joke (just ask the folks in. p i Belfountain, Limehouse and Cheltenham) and what was once the backbone of the Canadian postal service is now a fraying patchwork. There’s probably more truth to the “Morning Smile* in the Globe and Mail Oct. 14 than many incumbents will admit. “The real reason politicians. want to get reelected is that they know they couldn*t find a job in this econoniy”. (But then there’s always patronage, I guess), Liz Armstrong Srin To the Editor: ¢ persistent vendetta against Councillor Heaton has no place in your com- munity paper. He is man- dated by Ward 2 residents and only they can take him to task for what you and 's. Monahan see as errant behavior. Councillor leaton showed me the Papers which were far too trivial to justify the attack and your concurrence. Your Weekend Edition (Oct. 9) featured two letters deploring government and council’s denial of their own By-laws. These were prorogued after three years of superbly represented public inputs. Yet the zon- ing decision abrogated pop- ulation: density, minimum parking rules and height ordinances, all hardly dry on the statute books where the process to get them there had cost hundreds of thousands of dollars more than the MVA delibera- tions. The coming municipal election is skewing voters towards a protest against government’s and politi- cian’s indifference to peo- ple, their paymasters. The protest is past angry and borders on revolt. And still, politicians and government ureaucracies don’t get it. Mrs. Monahan’s commit- tee for all its attributes, like trustful, cooperative, hard working, superbly time- managed (they completed in eight months what regular committees take three years to accomplish) conscien- tious, comfortable, bal- tL sj Vendetta against Heaton could have added that regional shams are legion in town. A recent cynical ploy by government is to convene public committees, feed them libraries of quite spec- ulative and often sloppy, information all purporting to support the government decisions. As the game pro- gresses, the public input is ignored or discounted and replaced.on agendas by points which support the administration’s case, If data is challenged, the issue is doomed, in the nicest, politest way, with an occasional consultant’s put down. It is a power-mon- gering process. Embarrassing, vindictive confused, furious, angry Robert Heaton, the original adjectives which you wisely expunged from your printed version, is a lot more per- Ceptive than Mrs. Monahan thinks. He was, moreover, too much of a gentleman to » libel her. She is not immune to a libel suit by serving on a public committee, which no doubt you advised her. George Editor's note: Get real! Mrs. Monahan’s complaint was treated like any other news story affecting our community. I have never on the-phone then turned her over to a reporter. Are we now supposed to sup- Press unpleasant news because of one individual's ibilities? Especially an anced, pected, sacri- ficial (potential tax losers), magnanimous (tax win- ners), hard working, stu- dious, positive and sensible, seemed to miss the point. She should be affronted had Councillor Heaton denied these accomplishments, But he hardly need apologize for saying the process they were in was a sham. He elected one? Not as long as I'm running this newspaper buddy! "What persistent vendetta? We took up Mr. Heaton’s cause against council regarding the story about the memo making Heaton off limits to town staff and have never had a vendetta against anyone! Clue in!