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BEST AVAILABLE COPY Cartoon captured court decision Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Guelph Street Georgetown Ontario K ROBERT MALCOLMSON Publisher and General Manage BRIAN Editor Phone DAN TA LOR Manager Page 6 THE HERALD Wednesday April 18 Fight now We cant understand Halton reluctance to halt fenn Aggregates proposal for a 30 to tonne landfill in its tracks Aggregates wants to put a landfill site in its quarry bordering on southern Hills The landfill site could be twice the size of the landfill proposed by Reclamation Systems Incorporated for the Acton quarry planning and public works committee defeated a motion last week to reject the landfill pro posal Aggregates manager Mike Connor said after the meeting a rejection by Halton Region would have killed the proposal How many dollars does Halton want to spend fighting landfill sites Halton Hills is setting aside a year in preparation for the fight against the Acton dump Burlington and Milton citizens groups have spent millions fighting proposed Regional dumps in their municipalities Havent Halton s politicians learned anything from this This is heating up as a battle between northern and southern municipalities once more Milton s Bill Johnson Hills Rick Bonnette and Regional Chairman Pete a Norval resident voted for outright rejection of the landfill proposal But Rob Forbes Pat McLaughlin and Barry all of Burl and s Fred Oliver voted not lo the Unless proposals like this are stopped before thc can gather steam taxpayers dollars are once again going la land in the hands of consultants on both side the issue How long can we sit by and watch private enterprises make mone digging huge holes in the ground then make even more money filling it up with garbage With the oversupply of quarries in the Region it s eas to mi Halton as the garbage capital of southern Ontario in a very short time Halton council will debate the issue today Common sense and prudence demands council over turn the committee s decision and put a stop to the endless proposals to bury everyone s garbage in Halton Derek Nelson Queen Part TORONTO The Toronto Sun editorial cartoon on the Supreme Court decision shutting down the judicial inquiry into the Stan- affair caught what many thought was its essence Cartoonist Andy drew Premier David Peterson kissing the justices feet and mumbling thank you thank you thank you Some suspicious minds even think the narrow terms with which the inquiry was framed in the first place was a deliberate attempt to scuttle it It was the ageing of Criminal Code wording in the inquiry terms of reference that cause the Supreme Court to bring It to a crashing halt Although Attorney General Ian Scott has said it would be to reestablish the inquiry under different terms of reference others aren t so sure NDP leader Bob who from the beginning has called for a much wider inquiry into contacts between the development industry and politicians said Scott was a political misuse of the court decision NOT HAPPY In short while the inquiry may now be dead nobody except the principals and the government is happy about the result Nor should they be The real public benefit of the in quiry under Mr Justice the prosecution or persecution of any of the peo ple who were involved in the wide ly diverse activities that have come to be summed up under the title the Patti Starr affair These activities included Starrs fund raising and funddistributing activities as head of the Toronto section of the National Jewish Women s Council her connections to the development giant Corporation and the building of a profit housing coop and the strange case of the refrigerator that Gordon then ex ecutive director of the premiers office received but didnt pay for The aim should have been to find out what had actually happened in each of those circumstances It now appears unlikely that the facts will ever come out in any coherent manner And that unfortunate The Starr affair has and is continuing to have much broader consequences than the pyrotechnics triggered by the machinations of a political groupie In particular the Starr affair has hurt the political process in general leaving an impression of widespread corruption even though there has been no evidence of it It has ruined or at least dented the careers of numerous politi who were hardly at personal fault because they didnt keep track of every single dollar donated to their campaigns It has tarnished the image of a highly respected chanty the National Council of Jewish Women DISREPUTE Worst of all by bringing per and corporate fund raising into such disrepute the Starr af fair has probably made inevitable the end of private financing of political campaigns Corporations and unions will almost certainly be banned from making political donations during the next round of so called elec toral reforms expected next year Individuals may well too be prevented from contributing or at least have greater restrictions placed on bow and who This could leave financing of political parties entirely or almost entirely in government hands using some variation of allocating tax dollars to political parties based on the vote they received in the previous election At the same time third party advertising for or against an issue would be banned The beneficiaries of all this will be the three old tine parties Liberals NDP PC A new party having no voting record won get any money Outside individuals aligned to no party but having a cause will be silenced That could be the real legacy of the Patti Starr affair Whose voice Canadians up to competition ting will be auctioned off at a Rotary Club meeting in Bolton to day with proceeds to help build a seniors centre there We II try to find out how much the painting went for beck wed even like to give It a critique Rattanmi UP Garth Turner is Mi own bent public relation man MP penned a column Man XL the purchase of the L raimoD painting Voice of Fire by the National Geflery of Canada Mr Turner called the work a big boring painting He added to make matters worse it was painted by an American Well be threw one more barb at the gallery Thursday when he in the media to his Georgetown constituency office to watch him paint his own Voice of Fire It took him just minutes albeit the If youve decided to drag your wheels thats two wheels out of the garage to enjoy the spring weather youd better be aware of some new regulations announced this week by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation governing bicycles From now on a bicycle is included in the definition of a vehicle bicyclists must identify themselves to the police bicyclists are not allowed to ride their bikes along a crosswalk or a pedestrian crossover They must walk their bikes across the road bicyclists should indicate a right turn by extending their nght arm horizontally a person walking a bike along a highway without sidewalks may walk on the right sfde of the highway not on the left side facing traffic eif Wv OTTAWA Canadian manufac turers are not wimps when it comes to facing competition from the rest of the world Thats a spot of good news In these morbid times Especially so when there an increased world trend toward lower trade barriers and greater integration of national economies True the statistics upon which the assertion is based are at least a decade old But Richard Caves the Harvard University economist who rummaged through the numbers and dreary formulae to reach his conclusion says his fin dings suggest pur manufacturers try wQftenotm should respond well to increased competition under the Canada S freetrade agreement Caves report was part of the background compiled by the Economic Council of Canada when the federal agency was for mutating an policy Canadian producers by no means retreat In disarray when import competition stiffens says Caves an American He talks of fightjng responses and says manufacturers in the were ag gressive sellers who behaved as though exports were a regular and substantial part of their BARRIERS FELL Part of Caves study shows that although Canadas tariff barriers were falling during the 70s the foreign share of sales of manufac tured goods also declined This varied in different sectors of course Foreigners grabbed a big share of the clothing market for instance but lost ground in machinery and printing sectors Moreover Canadians are not just resting comfortably on their natural resources he suggests SkiHsand research aft otherm itn Jo now vantages that foster our sales abroad Just as Caves study was releas ed last week the Conference Board Issued a report on globalization which means a unified world marketplace The private research agencys publication looked at now suc cessful Canadian firms are ad justing as economies become more interdependent and intercon nected Successful firms it suggests will need to increase productivity offer environmentally safe pro ducts beat competitors to the market with their products and services and improve technology so potential clients will see them as capable suppliers The Conference Board notes Canadian output is still about 30 per cent lower than that of the US our major trading partner due to short production time less specialization and more resistance to new product lines There are no major signs of productivity im provement either the report says