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Pago HILLS OUTLOOK September 1KB Halton Hills OUTLOOK published each Saturday the MILLS Home Newspaper of Italian A Division or Canadian ml ted at Street Georgetown Ontario 171 Second Class Mall Registered Number AD MANAGER Dan Taylor MARKETING Beth MacGillkary Caroline PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT Outlook Quebec to be battle zone Thomson Snkt When the federal ejection cam paign officially gets under way Its already oft to an unofficial start can expect to see a great deal of Prime Minister Brian They might sec a fair amount of the other leaders as well The consensus among those in within the Conservative Party senna to bo that the prime minister will make Quebec his primary battle zone Naturally this will serve to attract the other leaders into the province but pro bably not to the some degree There are several reasons why Mr Mulroney is expected to spend on unusual amount or lime there For starters Quebec is probably the meat politically volatile area of Canada and therefore the place where the most seats are up or Its also the province where Mr s personal popularity is highest and where his campaigning Is likely to be most effective For this reason Quebec candidates ore more eager for the prime minister to campaign an their behalf than those In most other regions One senior Tory said it would not be surprising If Mr Mulroney spent up to per cent of the campaign in Quebec working on behalf of the party candidates The Conser vallves now hold of the seats And while opinion polls over the last couple of years didnt give the Tories much cause for encourage ment in Quebec there seems to have been a recent turnaround In the latest Angus Reid poll per cent of Qucbecers supported the Tories a rise of four percentage points from a month earlier At the same time the Liberals dropped a startling II points to The New Democrats were at up seven points from July Despite the fact the was ahead of the Liberals few Tories ex pert that party to make any major breakthroughs In two elections this year one federal the other pro vincial candidates didnt come close to the parly standing In the polls What gives the Tories en couragement in Quebec are com with a June poll conducted by another organization That survey indicated the Liberals en- Joyed the support of per cent of respondents compared with only per cent for the Conservatives Although there have been some major inconsistencies among polling organizations there seems little doubt that Tory fortunes arc improv ing in Quebec And there are pro bably very good reasons for this Not only has the federal govern ment been very good to the province in terms of economic benefits but its no small matter that Premier Robert despite being a Liberal seems to be so sympathetic to the federal Tory cause His un compromising support for the free- trade deal is no doubt a factor While Mr has token the customary stance of remaining of ficially neutral In the federal cam paign the prime minister can regard his silence as golden It greatly helped the Conservatives In One recent survey there seems to be a new one every day round that 54 per cent of Canadians regarded Mr Mulroney as an average leader while per cent rated him below average Three per cent thought he was one of the best leaders this coun try ever produced This rather unspeciflc sampling with a generalized rating system didnt provide for easy regional In terpretations But it strongly sug grated that the prime minister received his most favorable ratings in Quebec and Atlantic Canada Still another poll indicated that per cent of Canadians think Mr Mulroney s Conservatives are try to buy votes with their spending projects But it also showed for In stance that while per cent of British Columbians opposed this on per cent of Qucbecers said they time might be well spent in Quebec particularly when he a In such high demand This Is not the case In all parts of Canada The prime ministers per credibility remains a question mark and despite the recent provement in Tory standings across Canada then- is a good number of Conservative candidates who havent issued speaking invitations to the prime minister I nod my signs printed months ago says a northern Ontario MP And Just to be on the safe side I us ed only my own name against a background of Tory blue You cant be loo careful SNAFU by Bruce Seattle Berrys World Big pitch Greed falls in with 3 Rs Your Business Diane Matey Thsoaon Stnlct Lately theres been a lot of talk about how to keep the kids in school Some people even are Insisting that they leam something while theyre there how to rend and write for ex ample The problem is that In Ontario at least a third of our students drop out of high school So the government has hatched a plan to turn them Into entrepreneurs That way If they leave school Ihcy at leasl will be natural aptitude for the academy will stay in school simply to learn how lo make money The idea of instilling greed in high school children has met with some resistance from people who believe they should be spending more time on reading writing and rllhmellc This narrow point of view presumes thai children have only so much room in their heads you con fill It with basic skills or business skills but not both JOB SKILLS OH Toronto residents believe that the three arc more Important for students than career and Job skills a survey shows Seems lo me theyre the same thing Ignoring the critics the Ontario Ministry of Education plans to plow ahead with Its new program offer a course in January to Grade and 12 students The students will en and spend time working with them This will spur their self- confidence curiosity and creativity the ministry hopes One Toronto high has gone a step further allowing itself to be adopted by Olympia and York Developments Ltd the family company Where better to the secrets of business lac- gram Is the fact that its students already have the basic skills down pat Most of them are bound for university and some of them ore considered gifted With its excep tional student population William Lyon Mackenzie Secondary School hopes to work wonders This fall will open Its Creative Inquiry Centre which It hopes and Y will help finance It Is also apply ing to the federal government for financial assistance Mae Wnesc North York trustee says the part nership between school and business will help both of them SELF STARTERS The world of business needs to know we are trying lo develop our young people as creative thinkers selfstarters she explains In the schools Job- shadow ing program students may spend one day a month a company executive or work at Ihe company over the summer Students will learn to relate what they are learning in school to their future careers When It comes to the new centre Lynn Hindi principal can scarcely contain her enthusiasm The centre will be a resource like a library available all the schools students The idea Is to allow the children to express themselves creatively using the latest technology The centre will have five com media the arts com munlcatlons computers and robotics A youngster given on assignment con go to the centre and develop a video instead of simply writing en essay Or he con write a short story and prepare It for prin ting on the desktop publisher This adds a creative element so kids are not Just giving us back in formation we have given them Ms says They are taking It and processing it through their own minds and expressing It In a variety of uptodate ways To create a video requires organization decision making plan analysing synthesizing she points out It mokes you wish high school had been like thai when we passed through Instead it was stultifying Our onethird drop out rote is testimony to the failure of Staff Comment Key to the schools Innovative pro- our valuta as well What a motivator the almighty buck la these days While taking a whirlwind tour of the CNE Monday I subjected myself to a pitch by a wayward en cyclopedia salesman I just wanted to see how he would budget placed that kind of money hopelessly out of reach You know just to satisfy my own curiosity listening to a dissertation by the smiling In credibly friendly salesman Im but prised hes not recruiting unsuspec ting students into culls The lure was to ask myself and my fiancee enter Tree draw We did And the bait was set But who was balling who I knew going into the discussion that even if this man were to hyp notize me couldn t afford that set of encyclopedia So I figured I was safe He started out by showing us a nice set of leather bound books for a casual seven grand Nope How about this set Nope He then flipped the pages of his neat glossy picture book to reveal a bargain basement price of Just I con see youre breathing a tittle easier now he said with a smile Honest Waltaminutehesald He dashed out of his chair suit and all only to return with a neatly bound three volume set of philosophers and writers works All the writers ore contemporary AfterFreudhesaid Nope He figured it was lime to change tactics He glanced at my better half Do you like him he asked I suppose so She was playing it cool I guessed The smiling man In Ihe expensive suit disappeared once more He returned with a pile of cookbooks valued at almost MOO No charge he said stilt smiling This man must own a muffler repair shop I thought He then showed me a set of en cyclopedia for But I couldnt even afford my weekly ration of beer this week I sold figuring that would drive the proverbial knife Into his heart Thats okay he said still smll ing No its not I retorted A paperboy could afford the budget I can put you on he said smiling I wondered If he meant the kind who del vers them He offered me a deal to put down and then pay for months Lets see whats times 36 plus ITS What happened to I dont have the and Im not going to have the But you dont have to pay until November not going to have it then Ive got enough for a column I whispered to Karen We got up from table But let me hove your phone number Well coll you in 10 days and you con still have this deal You can nave your cake and eat It too Nope