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Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited GuelpE Street Georgetown L7G 3Z6 Ontario DAVID A BEATTIE PubUsher and General Manager MIKE TURNER DAN TAYLOR Editor Advertising Manager Phone Tory race is wide open Second Clmu Mall Number HERALD Wednesday March 1989 When help is needed March is Red Cross Month and The Canadian Red Cross Society is asking Canadians to stop and think what their community and the world would be like without the services of the Red Cross Across the country the Society is hard at work every day helping Canadians through a variety of programs and services Red Cross helps thousands of Canadians to a healthier life by collecting testing processing and distributing blood and blood products It provides emergency assistance during local disasters trains people in first aid and offers courses in water and boating safety Throughout its history the Red Cross has dealt with the most urgent human needs A humanitarian organization begun in the late 19th century to assist wounded soldiers Red Cross volunteers are still working hard to prevent and relieve suffering help the victims of disaster and pro mote good health in Ontario communities and around the world Ii local neighborhoods Red Cross programs and ser vices provide physical and emotional assistance to those in need These services include the shortterm loan of wheelchairs and crutches Meals on Wheels Services visitation programs for veterans and disabled persons and transportation services for those who are otherwise housebound To avoid duplication of services Red Cross works with other organizations and if need be refers specialized cases to the appropriate agency Red Cross comes face to face with need every day The generous and humanitarian spirit of Canadians helps make a difference for thousands of people here in Canada and around the world who depend on the Red Cross for assistance This March remember When help is needed The Red Cross Support your local Red Cross branch part of your United Way family Counted with the quitters There is a possibility the looming Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership contest could be wide open And that would make it much more of a thriller than any previous provincial leadership race that won by the NDPs Michael Cassidy in All leadership contests since then in the three oldline parties Liberal NDP PC have had acknowledged frontrunners who in all cases have gone on to win But maybe not this time The onemanonevote principle recently adopted by the Tories throws the race wide open Interestingly at the constitu tional conference that approved the onemanonevote system the heaviest applause won by a poten tial candidate went to Dennis Tim- brell A former and cabinet minister tie has twice run for the party leadership and failed to at tain it yet he probably remains the person most representative of that portion of the party that eschews ideology of any kind At the moment he is seen as the one likely having the broadest follow ing among Tories But haw deep is it TimbrelTs critics suggest he is yesterdays man that since he pro ved incapable of organizing a win ning campaign for leader in when it was his for the taking he is unlikely to succeed in beating Editors Notebook Mike Turner when the push was on for people to butt out I think finally got it together now And maybe youre right one month isnt such a big deal But you have to go a month before you can go a year Queens Park Derek Nelson Thornton Scrvfci Premier David Petersons Liberals Second choice on the applause meter at the constitutional conven tion was party president Tom Long who has been unofficially running for leader for a long time He is a conservative with innovative ideas of how the party should be structured and of how a campaign against the Grits should be run He is considered to be the best organized of the undeclared leadership candidates But he alienates many people some ideologically and some on personal grounds NO CORONATION That neither Timbrell nor Long has a coronation ahead when they declare goes without saying And that opens up the fascinating possibility of a Joe Clarkstyle leadership finish As some may remember Clark became federal PC leader in by coming up the middle out of nowhere when the two frontrun- ners deadlocked Clark was everybodys second choice Some of the other Tory hopefuls can read the past too There is North Bay MPP Mike Harris one of the few PCs to better his election totals in the face of Petersons sweep and a pro bable favorite for leader among whats left of the Big Blue Machine crowd who surrounded former premier Bill Davis Harris the Tory house leader has one serious failing When ex pressing outrage in the assembly he rings false because he isnt an outrageous man Another dark horse is Leeds MPP Bob Runciman whose alwayscalm exterior masks a conservative heart and who probably has the most varied background of any Tory candidate union president corporate manager small businessman newspaper owner Both and Harris had rooms at the constitutional conven tion for delegates to meet them Neither are broadly known among the rank and file Burlington Cam Jackson was also present although with a lower profile than the others Backroom genius John Tory who has been and done everything in the PC Party including run the last provincial campaign and earlier serve as principal secretary to thenpremier Bill Davis was also Another intriguing possibility is Durham Regions Stephanie Ball a failed candidate in the 1967 elec tion With the publication of this newspaper on March 1 1989 I will have completed one albeit short month of going without a cigarette Big deal you may say Come back in a year and see if you car say that Good point The simple fact of the matter is I never realized how easy this could be except of course for the last time I quit then it was for three months You know the story of the father who finds his son secretly smoking and makes him sit down and smoke the entire package in one sitting The kid gets so sick he cant even look at a cigarette I suppose quitting came in a similar way for me I was finally so sick of smoking quitting came very easily The first few days I quit were of course the toughest not so much because of the urge to smoke but because I wanted to keep it a secret I figured if I was going to fail I didnt particularly want to have to bear the wrath of the nam The truth is Ive simply sue- combed to peer pressure which is quite interesting when you think about it While I was growing up most of my friends smoked but 1 had no interest in following suit In stead I started in my twenties Fur industry experiences renewed confidence By MacKENZIE Theres a fresh optimism in the fur industry which just a few years ago seemed to be under a mounting by animalrights activists A triumph over activists in Bri tain and an expanding market for fur garments has given the in dustry renewed confidence The turning point in the conflict over animal rights was the British proposal to label and perhaps ban products made from the fur of animals that may have been trap ped in Canada It pitted the British trade minister and activists against the fur industry and the native people of Canada and Greenland In the end the plan was scrubbed for legal and technical reasons Kirk Smith executive director of the Fur Institute of Canada describes the termination of the labelling campaign and the return to common sense as a watershed in the international debate on the fur issue There was a significant shift in both public opinion and govern support after radical animal- rights groups turned to violence attacking research labs and fast- food outlets as well department stores that fur garment he Their actions exposed them to public scrutiny and their ultimate aim to eliminate the use of all animals for research clothing and food became clear he explained The animalrights ideology in herently contains the seeds of its own destruction It is a concept that leads to a belief among the radical fringe that the ends justify the means that animal life can be placed above human life Unlawfulness and violence is therefore condoned Smith said They are really turning off the public Smith also said the movements efforts in Britain have been blunted by the jailing of some of its leaders But theres a question of whether the movement ever presented a serious threat to the fur industry though it did seriously hurt the sealing industry In 1986 when sympathy for the animalrighti cause was peaking industry sales were up more than 16 per cent And Alison Beal marketing director for the Fur Council of Canada reports total exports increased from million in 1966 to more than million in 1987 markets are healthy she said buyers visiting Canada and there is a steady growth in the industry FASHION The main preoccupation for both Europe and the Orient is fashion she added Smith said extremism does not have a significant impact on the in dustry The international fur trade is healthy and growing and the occa sional blasts of emotional pro paganda dont make sense and the consumer understands that he said The labelling drive he said was an extension of the successful cam paign against the East Coast seal hunts The activists thought they could go and do it again to the fur trade and then the leather in dustry and on and on It hasnt happened Its not going to hap pen But the labelling issue now dor mant in Britain is still stirring in the European Parliament where debate continues on a resolution that deals with both labels and traps Under constant lob bying from natives government and industryi however the pro posal has been watered down to such an extent the resolution may not have any effect even if it does survive the complex Euro pean parliamentary process It will have no impact now said Beal Its virtually in coherent and theres nothing that can be legislated upon within it Native groups still see a threat and intend to continue lobbying in Europe A spokesman for In digenous Survival International an Ottawabased native coalition said the group is more optimistic now but its members recall the impact the European ban on seal skins had on communities The ISI continues to monitor the fur market and is planning to send another delegation to Europe in the spring Both Smith and said the Canadian delegations were effec tive in convincing politicians in Europe that research and action is being taken in Canada on the issues of trapping and conserva tion European lawmakers now realize though that the aims of the animalrights activists are pro gressive and the focus could shift from imported furs to European leather goods food products and farm practices said Smith Now they are all hitting stone walls he said