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Acton Free Press Wed May 1976 agricultural critic Must reclaim 2 million acres to feed Ontario by year 2000 DONALD makes a point for Halton Burlington candidate Bill Johnson and the audience at Georgetown high school Gray disagrees with MacDonald Hilton Burlington ogres mm candidal liri found remarks agriculture- and food critic Don ild it last Inn In ind the ispccts Mai Don ild speech hard to of developments in field of he attended mn ting ht id MuDoiidlds opinions on but hi dislikid scire iilits such as used it high school I fell the Out ino Government is dont good job with culture in Or disagrees with tai ins that that if agricultural is not frozm land ill be used up for purposes this fur his Mens said he from the Ontario College 20 igo hi gradu itis told then then would i world shortage of food and arming would be the to gel into I still waiting fur it to he Short igis of food II it when I sn it lie icDon seems forget tin IK pereinl in m production on ino farms in the list stars He said wi would need i pinml increase f would do it gien tin chance m airman of Hie Ontario and an Gns said larmers ire operating it fi percent of People onl ind a half pounds of lurkc per so thin s no sense in ing an mop The same is irui in and i industries where farmers in iLstrnttdiuKi GO percent ap icilv tht limit id demand Poll tin ins MatDonilrl in not mount filling ratt birth programs in Indn Chin and Pakistan suggesting world may lit imputation growth whtth would mem much less in for food Ik sud latest fig for Ontario s poput projeilion in wire not the 12 million prednt id The population inirease will from immigration not the birthnli and that irend be slowed down the downtrend doesnol to improve subsl inlwllv for Hi I it immigrants now find other par Is of world more ittraclive than or Ontario and this could also a bearing on his pro vince ition Tin PI undid ill slid he did urn until to gel invoked in irgumenl over how were gomt out of production bet he flit Bill wis irguing that v due of growing imps had improved firmtrs ire speeuhlors hold putting the I d into production nisi il is now profitable to do si pointed to the US f irmitonoinv isanixample where em produce and sill it less tost thin Ontario innirs because hue i subsidy system wluehistwo half limes in in of the most incUitiis sets is that be on tariffs Hi the federal is inding off igneultural tariffs to get remarks about big chain stores and monopolisation of food produilinn did not disturb Mr Hi said the big eh had grown packaged ind presented ihur products better than inune else and this was the their success On other hind he noted small merchants tan also prosper if have good business Ontario must riclaim tins of thousands of acres of agn land developers arc not sitting on if Iht province is meet its own growing food Agriculture ind critic Don ild old a sp dunce at the Georgetown high school ly mghl said good land is being used up by few people living on huge tracts Untold of art also bunt gobbled up by higliv hydro corridors develop If some tiling I ilontsoon in agricultural province will producing two or thru to mut its own minis In study has shown Mil Don ild tint bv tht yt to per of On t inos food will hue to be impnrtid to meet needs of popul ilion projtled it million did lis lo iht hid dropped tally tht list three viirs and if was not dom soon si ibihe tinners would leave in in numbers their Tiny tin m ike enough from farming alone the In his opinion Hie was shirking lis responsibility to the farm community behind a of hick his points took the Minister of Agriculture Bill Newman was Using to rebut the of Hit tint 16 acris of I is going out of produiliou hour of d Mr Niwmin now it rallu per hour going out of I if an being brought iik into produttion iht hitler economic for fir mirs However siul tin open lo question 1 I in emit incident illy hi from tin brief of little over million acres of prime land which Laves thi two million acres solve tin alarming problem suggested there should be a barrelled approach insure land now in production is kept way ind re- another two million which have been lost thai is done by the Ontario will be importing Hi per cent of its food needs I hi said the Government has refusid to riiogmzi the problem All lhal government policy offers by of more foodlinds is the con that the amount of 1 for growth should lined by Bill tint I r of li mid snd cr dolhr inlage with ind this has on farmers when prixlutls from the such is hot house torn iloes lo two ire dumped on the an in beef into the Si itis are than ours ray siys enabling the sell their beef cheaper here in mi sill in the US lan build a viable industry here if we areiontmually threitmed the imports Grav We have to ourselves Hi advocated rather than high lo protect Canadians ray s the auto pact was i good example of what he was at If he felt in both luring food should In so no one iounir lenefitted it Ihc expense of another Gray also said hi with Minister lhal official plans zoning by laws wen He control land ruber thin freeze idvociled by hi maintained would only hitch mother body lo il idding fur govirnmint bun iu George Gray men Many small ints ihu left the business world to find in industry will fewer hours md heller pay hi says aieounting for tin Inn Gray ilso fell s mm hid not en into account i mm in nee synthetic foods on the mirkcl in idt from soy hems ripe other pro He ootid when is it took pou Is of grain to one pound I lo pounds or pound of thicken or wis pound for pound ratio th ind liny wouki soon on Hit in irktl Hurt hi ready marktl for g mi but could mean difference in e xpansion or dtilmi of slock forxls Inedsuch is lo found to be good There In a reluc buy it first Hie will tin m it will iheajnr Gny eoniludtd Truck car A of in occurred ly win n driven Arnold was in collision with a parked ir owned by Gibson ltd llallon Regional Police say St John Ambulance Milton Branch fiUo4ed to- extend you ok to attend The Annual Review of The HaltonPeel Corps Tomorrow Thursday May 1976 at 800 at The Fred Armstrong Arena Brown St Milton Ont Don ild of spent on food During Hie I is twenty shirt of food doll his droppid lo tints he itknowledgid il might Ih this lime But ih s the rs gross income the firm g He lirmtrs net miomt after costs of in in would mi I 111 cents if tin d on food hi protlund Don el Hi ins is It iving in droves Sunt of the f rs tin il igriculturi sud And of those in still in firmtrs who work it tin r Industrie s lo brief to ike iiiion ill the In si I in would In under con in if tiny M itDon ild s the Mini sterol is trying to lull ptopli llu situ itu is not so is I of ir lilt belli m is idling ton us prdiliu Hi Mac Don suggesting it is irv old political rispettmg ruril local lulonomy Instt id Hit spt said tin should pay hied such as the l ill ino of Municipalities and Ihc ino of Agrolo- eisls which Pro to inj priim farm land for other purpose to review ill ihe norm pi inning Ixidns up lo On prounciil pi inning itn s with i fin pe lo pniMniiil 1 lo ike i binding decision says ind tin I dis tin si as bung ven though il by itl Predicts farm costs are bound to rise pre fr to giM agncul priority the pirts ting his of out trio of ilmosl six to it high gi in fond linn 1 in food film in lluirowi lOSh of t will rise dm whnh has bet fund nut ihst Ih it I in sit lluri until somtoni mis to list it for my other purost II no firm Itll in unless wt ingt our ipprn nil it Don ild Hit suggested s should take It from llu llnlish BC farmers voluntarily en rolled He said it insured farmer for poor years and tost for the plan were equally shared In onethird premiums by Ihc farmer province and federal government He said Ihe plan negotiated on each commodity each year to cover production and get a fair return for the farmer also covered up was in the forefront of many far sighted agricultural pro grams and he predicted the entire country would soon follow suit with the slabs lizalion program We arc told it is an in of free inter he said would the province but that the Social government of is about as fni enterprise as a government can git has riiained The speaker also spoki glowingly of NDP programs m Manitoba where farm land is sold by f i land with would be leased back to his son In this manner fir has pension and son tan stay on farm without a huge ipital debt He poinled out that in Ontario a farmer property lax on the lools of his Irade i fail find in town or The bur den bee ime so great Queen Pirk first to per tent and increased per In IJ62 the drafted an igniullural policy calling for i of arm 1 ind from property icDonald sud but has just now set up commission to study proposal The food industry is the gisl industry in but farmirs represents less than JO per tint of those involved There of middlimin from ihe farm gale to check counters nibbling away it profits until Ihere is left for far mer speaker claimed Ik Miller report showed ptopk p lying It per more for food than iry which stem muth until dins tin billion spint on food ye ir in md that per tint rcprisenls million Gi int supirm such islobliws Stunhirgs AP ind Dominion had most monopoly on food Inbulion and industries hi said Argus which owns con of tar CFKB and CJAD Mon has its finger in almost every piece of agricultural pie from farm machines to retailing MacDonald Ihe giant chains own the farm produce sell to their own processing plants Ihcir own wholesaler handles it before Ihe retailer sells They are playing games in the family charged and shuffling chains cheat the taxpayers as well as consumers I Beryl Plumlree sal in t find a villain the speaker noted sarcastically It is not just a firm prob lem the preservation of cultural land is society s problem the speaker con eluded question and piriod followed in which Icy Mills asked why farmers shouldn I be given the same fauhlies as doctors to ply their profession He said doctors were gntn hospitals lie asked why farmers were not land to work replied that Mr Mills wis ahead of his leasing land to ivoid large capital outlay for young people anxious lo farm was one answer it kind of upsets the theory of land for people of the of Agriculture lold the spiaker some far feel if land is kepi for Ihe bottom goes of its value The spiaker said that happened in BC but soon returned to market prices MacDonald ilso snd bis party disagreed with so called developers rights in which farmers close to urban centres have the right to make a million by selling their farm to developers He said the entire community pays for the folly In reply another loner the speaker said he has introduced a Private Member s Bill in the to prevent computer pricing in supermarkets which would see the price taken off the product on the shelf and have it read by a computer at the checkout counter He snd it took Si to install one of the computer units but a store could save each year it was in operation meaning the equipment would bo paid for in more than a year Supermarkets would make much more profit and he some of it should be passed on to the consumer in lower prices MacDonald did not oppose Ihc computerized shopping provided it preserved prices on products for the purposes of comparison shopping With that provision the super market would null make saving on a investment The speaker was intro duced by newly named Burlington candidate Bill Johnson and thanked by Archil Brown the party s organizer Look Up M Please JEWELLERS I Stock Reducing Sale Advertisement this Issue S ONLY SPECIALTY LIGHTING STORE CHATELAINE LIGHTING York Road 814 Multi Bright Ideas for all your Lighting Needs EXTENSIVE SELECTION OF HOUSE FIXTURES Ch Her re Hen Con Clean q ilure Paris etc on Fan FREE PARKING pi in which I lion tut of THIS WEEKS SPECIALS US NO CABBAGE 3 39 3 1 39 15 CANADA NO 1 TURNIPS BANANAS US NO 1 TOMATOES 3 CANADIAN COOKING ONIONS CANADA NO CARROTS OPEN Jbiaslor or bags far I or CLOSED Tues Wed 9am 7pm MONDAYS Thurs Fn 9am 9pm EXCEPT HOLIDAY Sat Sun 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