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Hopefully we've heard the last of washroom exploits Dear Sir: Now that the recent issues of homosexual activity in Shell Park seem to have been finalized, albeit preceded and followed by the expected abundance of controversy and radio, newspaper, and television publicity, the total activity in the same area over the past eight or so years is worthy of summation. Approximately eight years ago, myself and former councillor Jackie Cutmore, having received com- plaints from neighboring residents concerning what they believed to be sexual activities in Shell Park, the issue was presented to the Community Services Committee. Dear Sir: _ I am sure that citizens of Halton gave a sigh of relief on learning that "Michaels Canada" (Read, Texas) will favor their region not with one, but two, superstores of arts and crafts supplies this October. What is Michaels? Why waste time? But for those who have not read these announcements before, here it goes again. Michaels is the fastest grow- ing arts and crafts supply chain in the United States (Read the World). Their unique merchandising and marketing techniques makes it nec- essary to bring, not one, but two vice-presidents from the parent organization in the United States. Obviously, there are no qualified executives in Canada, (How do they get a work permit with thousands unemployed?) - OPINION t hasn't taken long for Liberal leader Jean Chretien's true economic agenda to Icome out. While spouting great epithets about spending "billion to create jobs. it now appears that this will only amount to a further case of passing the buck. Or in the words of our southern neighbours-trick/own economics. Last week Chretien said he didnt care how the provinces were to pay for 'their share' of the Liberals' job creation initiative. Well voters. you should care and you should care plenty. If Mr. Chretien has his way. it now seems the only way hell finance his much-vaunted job creation plan, is to have the provinces hit taxpayers again with more taxes. Surprise, surprise. And this from a guy who says he'll deal responsibly with the deficit? So look for even higher taxation at the local level to pay for federally-dictated programs. Ottawa has been closing the valve on transfer payments to the provinces for years and it looks like this isn't going to change even if our federal government does. Canadians deserve better Mr. Chretien. Once upon a time, this country had an institution called F.l.R.A. (Foreign Investment Review Agency) whose task it was to main- tain a level of sanity when it came to foreign acquisitions or invest- ments. The ground rule was that Canadian industry, or the Canadian public, has to benefit by such an investment, acquisition, or takeover. Unfortunately, that was one of the first institutions scrapped by the present federal government. The message was "come on boys, help yourself, the pickings are good". Where is FIRA now that we need it? That wasn't good enough, so FTA and later on NAFTA were introduced. olitical pundits of every Pmost recent public opin surging at the expense of If this trend continues and ti could be looking at the kind O' PCs were ousted in a wave of( many currently Tory ridings wi In the 1974 election. Oakv lawyer (now judge) Teny O'Cc done a decent job as an MP bl one-term Liberal MP Dr. Fran riding hasn't elected a Liberal n These are not good days ify As a party, it suffers from a prime minister Brian Mulroney issue. Forget the fact that ma Trickling taxation Price of protest elected a Liberal not good days if I. it suffers from EDITORIAL s ot every str lblic opinion 'xpense of the nues and the s he kind of Li _ wave of Grit ridings will ft ry O'Connor. It l MP but there h, Frank Philb iberal member Since the allegations were reported to be occurring in the freestanding outhouse. the best possible resolu- tion appeared to be to remove the outhouse completely. However, before any final decision was reached, the outhouse very mysteri- ously burned to the ground. The particular activity complained about seemed to cease for several years. Approximately three years ago. I received complaints from citizens regarding the rooocurrenoe of sexu- al activity in the new washroom! discussed this with the Halton Regional Police and was advised that they were working on the pro- ject and that they believed they had There are many questions the government should have asked of Michaels, such as, did the president, Annette Vershuren, formerly of 'Den For Men', really look hard enough for executive talent in Canadaorwasthisoneofthecon- ditions laid down by the boys from Texas? If so, how did vice-presi- dents, McDowells and Payton, get work permits in Canada? What other merchandise cate- gories are those superstore going to carry? After all, 20,000 sq. ft. - that's almost the size of a supennar- ket - would require an awful lot of art paints, brushes, and beads to fill the shelves. The phenomenal success in the United States is due to Michaels unique and innovative relations with their, so they tell us, cus- tomers. Twenty arts and crafts experts on the floor? Fifty? That's like our own ironmonger's story [can Guetjen's true economic agenda to nets about spending "billion to create 'amounttoafUrthercaseofpassingthe Jtbours...trickle<iown economics. how the provinces were to pay for 'their re. Well voters, you should care and you is way, it now seems the only way he'll n, is to have the provinces hit taxpayers Andthisfhmtaguywhosayshe'1ldeal 'Fi/lair ALONE CALL845-5585 NFOS fort cly associated with former 'arson Airport privatization involved in that deal. the aent in the person of local by most groups that he had g a Liberal juggernaut and wave to victory here. The te Reform bandwagon ve count down to Oct, ibemls, Conservatives swept the l e and we're indeed NDP into '. still pay- SPEAK YOUR MIND l Got a gripe? Give us a call. Readers are invited to express their opinion on a topic of their choice by calling 845-5585, box 5250. All callers are allowed 45 sec- onds to express their Opinion and must provide their name, address and phone number for verification. A cross section of the responses will be published in next Wednesday's Oakville Beaver. everything under control. The police, subsequently. laid a number of charges. However, for whatever xenon. be it technical or for the lack of evidence, the charges were dismissed when they appeared before the court. A few months ago, when this third series of incidents occurred. I received phone calls from the con- cemed are: residents following which I received a telephone call from councillor Flynn. As the acting mayo: a that time. it became my responsibility to deal with the request of the Halton Regional Police for approval from the Town of Oakville to install with experts to help with each prob- lem. That's what the company's president and three out of five vice- presidents, all from the U.S.A., promised a year ago. Michaels opening dazzled you with previously unseen discounts, on some very visible items - same as the Price Club now, Towers, and many others 30 years ago. But by and large, the bulk of the merchan- dise will be at the same price as your neighborhood art shop or high: er. After a year or so, those dis- counts will disappear and so will your art shop. The only good thing Canada's former prime minister uttered, when debating with Mr. Turner, was, "you could have said lift Sir." And so can the people of Halton and of Canada say; No, to the ever increasing plunder. Stay out of these stores. [ /i/iisi,i.,), af1ljtr ip I"); L:flss's/ (ll (r l "2gg L. (i"",",;:::,,;.:, 'its-lt, if; ’5. 'ii-ici/fill,, ijfliij1i W, f , (t?l-')ltitiiiii5i,_ I» ( ’ m Kg )iillof-" 'iff V”? I u cf.il.2,.); __ .1'1?3j.-f_i:zj The Oakvme Benet webomes your comments. All letters must be signed and include the writer's address and phone number. Lenora smut! be typed. double-spaced and addressed lo: WI to the Edna. m OetttiN 300w. 487 Spoon Rd., Camille. Ont Mk MM 467 Spears Road, Oakvllle, Ont. L6K ClasslMd Advertising: 845-2809 Circulation: 845-9742 or 845-9743 845-3824 Fax: 845-3085 Peter Tesar OM 'rifi' I i, I, : I‘HE OAKVILLE BEAN/EI, I continued to monitor the situa- tion quite closely. and in so doing am very pleased to be able to say that in my opinion the Hallon Regional Police were most effective in their surveillance and the obtain- ing of evidence required to lay charges and, subsequently, convict any offenders. Perhaps. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Kim Campbell seems to have her own secret language. When pressed about the sanctity of safety nets, she says, "I am totally committed", When pressed very hard, she "would rather be tied across railroad tracks than cut such programs. Or, "nobody has sug- gested this to me". Decoded, it looks like "Watch me", as Pierre Trudeau said before invoking the War Measures Act. This was on a Friday evening and apparently could not wait until the council meeting on the follow.. ing Monday evening. After several telephone conversations with Town staff and elected officials, I made the decision to authorize the instal- lation of the surveillance camera. I have no concern that innocent people may have been videoed while using the public washroom as I inspected the facility myself dur- ing the course of this surveillance. Dear Sir: After the English-language debate among the federal party leaders, a voter interviewed on CBC accused Reformer Preston Manning of using "code words". Manning said, "nobody is looking over your shoulder when you vote". Decoded: "your neighbors won't know you chose us". surveillance cameras in the public washroom. Any type of sexual activity in public places and before the eyes of other people is in my opinion - both immoral. illegal, and simply dis- gusting. Speaking in code My congratulations to all those involved for hopefully bringing this mess to a conclusion! Sander Schimmelpenninck Ralph Robinson Councillor Ward 1 Robert Gin-bay Advertising Director Norman Alexander Editor Geoff um Circulation Director Teri Gnu Qlltce Manager Tim Cotes Production Manager Ian Oliver Publisher MPePRFrmrPPN Clearly, when taxes paid by Oakville residents are determined by the mayor of Burlington, then it is high time that Oakvi1le's own council lead us out of this illogical regional strait jacket, terminating all ties with these bloodsucking municipal entities which extract both services and tax revenues on an unfair and disproportionate basis. Without doubt, Oakville would then be in a position to serve its residents more efficiently and more economically. The Citizen's Committee on tax reform describes some most encouraging and well thought out alternatives to the dreaded prospect of 1988 evaluation MNA. Overwhelming support is evi- denced by the delegations, and likewise, by Oakville's mayor and member of Oakville's council. Regional Council is on the brink of endorsing committee's recommendations... democracy, clearly is about to be served! Out of the blue, the mayor of a city called Burlington decides that regional council should not adopt the findings of this tax committee, and should refer the matter to the province, pending some sort of guarantee that Ontario will ultimately implement regional M.V.A. The province, for its part, contemplating such a development would probably find it an embarrassing hot potato, leading in tum to some common-sense reappraisal of Oakville's untenable situation. Alfred Dobell Dear Sir: A long discouraged. but wistful Oakville resident, attends Regional Council meeting September 30th hoping that some logic may finally prevail in the matter of municipal taxation. Throw off' illogical strait jacket {Black I White 1 Female I Male 65 and older 55 to 64 35 t054 18to34 LETTER OF THE DAY WEEKLY FOCUS rm Oakvmo Emu. mum-hon ovum sum-y. 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