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REGIONAL GOVERNMENT Its Costly Program In Ottawa Region SNOW QUEEN Cindy Saunders won the title ceremony at Sacred Heart of Snow Queen he Church hall last Saturday Georgetown and Area evening Miss Saunders is Snowmobile club at a shown here taking the Bilingualism Is Increasing winners stroll down the centre of the hall with crown and bouquet Some authorities consider the most complex to be the Man aboriginal language in Land Andiljangwa The lllllt government become official on January I 1974 Will It work How much will It coil The following report by Mac Johnston of The Heralds Ot tawa Bureau looks at the tawaCarleton regional true lure five years after its birth as an indication of what we might expect OTTAWA Opinions remain divided on its merits and success alter five years of regional government In tawa Carle on Regional Chairman Denis Coolfcan says regional government has matured He acknowledges that costs have risen but says that the population is greater and services belter particularly planning More and more people on the council take a broad outlook and wear a regional hat when they sit on regional council And the system has the ad vantage that you dont neglect things locally even though you have an overview Mr Cootlcan said Regional councillor Dr A Taylor reeve of Township says he felt from the that regional government was an unnecessary step I was very apprehensive from the start about the possible costs that might be Involved and the intervening years have proven that the costs far for exceeded my expectations he said COSTS TOO MUCH Taylor a veterinarian says it costs too much to ad minister regional government You know bigness always mean more efficiency In fact I think it tne opposite He believes that since the province created the region its their baby and theyre making damn sure it doesnt die of starvation The province is pumping in on awful lot of money Whether thatll be the alley tomorrow or not I don t now but if it isnt were in trouble However Dr Taylor says Im wise enough to know its here I think It s up to us to make it work Both Taylor and Frank Marchlngton reeve of Tor Township are advocates of the two tier system now in effect Mr Marchlngton views himself as a constructive critic He says the county system really didnt do its Job with respect to planning and social welfare CANT STOP You can t go back you cant stop you ve got to keep moving but when you move a head you ve got to know where you re going and how much it will cost Mr Marchlngton said He feels that control of these sophisticated forms of government has slipped from the political to the ad minislrativc level the burcnucraej and that there is a tendency to accept this as inevitable Ottawa Major Pierre Ben oil advocates a one Ier system but he says he s open on the precise setup He would like a complete one tier or a divided one in which the two parallel tiers urban and rural coordinate their activities Mr Benoit says he realizes this would ignore the historic aspects of some communities and their sense of identity while Indicating political orientation toward bigness or centralization He advocates centralization of local government saying he is accomplishment oriented ana centralization Is more effective PLANNING The mayor says benefits to Ottawa have not been tangible financial ones but Intangible ones such as planning on a more sensible basis drawing off pressure from the city Mr Benoit says everyone must look beyond the strict political boundaries set up 100 years ago and must develop cities people can live in not Just exist in A developing trend is the desire of he province to give more decision making power to regional governments says Mr He says the ministry of in mental has Mr Coolican says It really become impatient Theyre depends who youre talking to regional government determined to decentralize and who has had the latest Ihaventseenthemyet Im these things from Toronto experience they didnt like expecting them Its getting Possibilities here Include Finally Taylor was near Christmas he replied authority for land division committees and committees of tentive driving following closely failure to yield the right of way improper and unsafe passing and speed too fast for road weather or traffic con- asked if he sees the benefits of ditions THE UNEXPECTED A high contributing factor to idjustment approval of zoning bylaws solid waste disposal Police officers from Milton and policing which some detachment of the Ontario councillors are particularly Provincial Plicc Investigated reluctant to take over because general occurrences during they envision the week Nov costs Included In this number Mr Coolican does say I were three break and enters think were going to get ad two thefts one disturbance responsibilities before three domestic complaints one the plan is approved if were building found insecure by prepared to lake them over officers on patrol two persons reported missing and later GREATER POWERS located one assault one Many of the newer regions violation of the Game and Fish Act one drug seizure and one Marchlngton feels the province trespassing complaint Is simply shoving back on the The remaining occurrences municipality another were relatively minor in nature responsibility which it is 111 and required Utile time to equipped to meet with Its clear narrow tax base This same reporting period If there are increased local officers Investigate responsibilities there should be fourteen collisions involving greater income he said in vehicles Four of these eluding more unconditional collisions resulted in injuries to grants so municipalities can set drivers and or passengers and their own course to meet local properly damage OPP REPORT many collisions is the i act of the motorist who cither doesnt know how to drive correctly or else totally disregards both the rules of the road and con- for others drivers have been sum moned to appear in Provincial Court at Milton for traffic violations associated with their lar ope respective collision and more Mcndo charges arc pending needs Mr Marchlngton says the existing conditional grants influence the municipality when setting priorities so that the priorities aren I necessarily orderly ones Ottawa Mayor says the system is working not as well as it could and not as badly as It could He says the provinces latest direction of promoting restructuring county systems rather than forming regional systems Is the same in conceptual terms but politically at the provincial level its a hell of a lot more saleable I would think thats the primary motivation And on whether the balance of power lies with elected of ficials or the administration estimated to exceed The percentage of people in Canada who speak both English and French Increased from 12 in 1961 to In A report published by Statistics Canada shows there were 900000 bilingual people in Canada In 1971 an Increase of in 10 years Ontarios population included people or 29 per cent they were bilingual in 1961 the number was Although the British Isles were the ethnic origin of 4 per cent of Ontario residents 1 per cent of the population said they speak English most often In the home Languages other than English or French were the mother tongues of 16 2 per cent but only 10 3 per cent report they speak these other languages most often at home In the metropolitan area of OttawaHull or 2 per cent spoke English most often in the while 203595 or per cent spoke French Those who could speak both languages numbered 196750 or per cent In the census metropolitan area of Toronto there were 159815 people who reported they could speak English and French In 1971 compared to in this was an in crease of per cent Other languages were spoken most often In the home by 458595 or per cent in cluding who spoke Italian In metropolitan Hamilton people or per cent spoke languages other than English in the home of these or 4 4 per cent spoke Italian In metropolitan London or 94 per cent of the 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