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Page 18 THE HERALD Wednesday May 1K1 OTTAWA REPORT Ottawa Throne Speech fills important gaps The cannons boomed on meat Hill The GovernorGeneral clopped up to the Parliament Buildings in a horsedrawn car riage And inside MPs trooped from the House of Commons back to the brass bar at the entrance of the Senate in a tradition that goes back to the origins of the British system of government It was the Speech from the Throne the government da for the next few months and there was a lot more going on here than a ton of pomp and cir cumstance Because we face so many major challenges right now as a country I wanted to make sure the three main themes of that speech were presented to you for some comment First of course is national unity The country threatens to break apart from within and the forces of regionalism and separa tion have been unleashed on Canada Ottawa has been buf feted about by this at the eye of QUEENS PARK REPORT Explaining insurance bill delay I know that most of you have heard the announcement from Financial Institutions Minister Brian Charlton that Cabinet has agreed to delay the introduction of auto insurance legislation until the fall Some of you have already called my office with your concerns and I want to take this opportunity to answer some of your questions about the postponement The process of preparing any legislation takes a fair bit of time and there is still work going on with the auto insurance bill This is a delay and nothing more Our government is not backing away from our commitments nor retreating in the face of the op position from the insurance com panies Quite frankly we are pro posing a complex piece of legisla tion and we want to make sure that the end result meets the needs of the drivers In the meantime we will con tmue to listen to your conccr and try to implement those view points into the legislation Just remember though we are deal ing with more than six million drivers seven million vehicles insurance companies and twenty thousand industry employees directly affected They are entitled to the most comprehensive consideration of issues the government can deliver You should also remember that if the industry complains of uncertainty and indecision their concern relates to their profits and not to the needs of drivers This has been a banner year for insurance industry profits because the no- fault scheme the previous government provided massive subsidies to car in One of the advantages in taking some extra time to prepare the package is that we will have an opportunity to look at a full year of how the Ontario Motorist Protection Plan works Strangely enough for the first BANNERS BILLBOARDS ENVELOPES LABELS POSTERS Well Get Your Customers To Notice You SINCLAIR AVE GEORGETOWN 4528180 time years fourth quarter pro fit figures for insurance corpora tions usually available in April have been delayed We are on a complete and comprehensive insurance program that will be better than what we have now more af fordable simpler to understand available to everyone who drives and available at affordable prices Some of you may wonder if the government is considering a BC plan or Quebec system The Minister has been carefully dying the four Canadian tions with public auto insurance in order to learn from them but our program will be unique to On tario because our situation is dtf ferent from any other Canadian province the storm But Ottawa alone can solve the problem So this is the plan first the commission reports its fin dings on what average people think ought to happen Then the committee studying how the Con should be amended reports Then in September the government makes everybody an offer unveiling proposals to Quebec the rest of the country and aboriginal people After that five months of study by a Parliamentary committee travelling to all provincial capitals Finally then a resolu tion a referendum maybe Then likely the next month another major proposal this time on how to make Canada more competitive Given what the truckers have been telling us over the last few days do we have any choice but to devote all kinds of energy to getting com Of course not And so Ottawa is going to be setting educational standards pumping more money into research and development and concentrating on how we can trade our way to prosperity Okay I know It s just a lot of fancy buzzwords right now but after spending some time the other night with Bill Wmegard Minister of Science I feeling a lot more confident that the government knows the problem and is forming solutions Finally and most important of all is new legislation coming to make Members of Parliament more independent As regular readers will know this is something I have been ask for since the day I got elected More free votes in the House of Commons More ability to speak out on issues regardless of what the governments position is And as a result the ability to bet represent the people who vote forme I don t have to tell you how peo ple are feeling about politicians in general The cynicism and mistrust have come from many sources some of it is certainly valid and all of it has to be ad dressed This may be an step in restoring dignity and respect for our public Free Members of ment will give what it needs and I am anxious to see that day arrive The Throne Speech will not change the world but it fills in some of the gaps while ing the problems we all know ex 1st It s makeor break time for national unity for economic recovery and for the way we all feel about governments I hope to be able to report to you in a year that we have made real progress on all fronts especially in saving our country I be interested in your com ments on maybe how we can do that better Youllneedagood reason to switch your mortgage to us Howabout7 We got solid reasons hy you should switch your mortgage to us So if your mortgage is up foi renewal consider Royal Bank Hereswhy LET Sound advice from mortgage specialists I n erv Royal Bank branch there 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