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TTi Home Newspaper of Hills Tilt HERALD JUN1- A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 103 SI South Georgetown Ontino I Publisher Minority groups are an important voice Over the past two weeks we heard in totally unrelated in comments by elected of that would indicate a worrisome development in thinking among our official representatives The gist of their comments has been that vocal minority groups are bothersome disruptions in the normal order of things and that their lm should be played down The normal order of things they feel serves the silent majority and that is the group to whom the system should be keyed Basing their actions upon that attitude some of our representatives have developed strong antagonistic attitudes towards any individuals or groups appearing before them to either air a beef or ask a question Certainly some of that an may be deserved Some minority groups have indeed offered anything but reasonable attitudes themselves when making their of or unofficial statements An tagonism has in those instances deservedly bred contempt But our local and regional councillors and our board of education trustees should consider themselves fortunate to have the resources and knowledge offered freely by such very responsible minority groups as the Concerned Citizens Croup who ate busily battling Hydros line the Community Association the Georgetown and Acton Chambers of Commerce homeowners in and Hornby and even an individual such as Willy Johnson Thest minorities may indeed offer only a very select viewpoint but the of their presentations been remarkablv high in both content and presentation All have gone to great pains to present well supported arguments supporting their causes In recent weeks we seen residents of Cameron Street in Acton and Mary wood Meadows in Georgetown work through town council and its committees to obtain results for their respective problems In one instance it seemed as though some councillors felt thit one appearance was ill was required at which tune the feelings were still amicable A second by that same group produced in necessary hostility In other words don become loo insistent But it s public right to insist on their own behalf Representatives the people tliev are representing must work together Countering opinions are bound to crop up after all that life However both sides must respect each other when coming face to face On The Home Front Notes from a picnic table w to it siinsh IMr ui la Hi pen ihi 1 in il liowver I find in 1 mm has n I i li hi In to Hit girden Hi I flow r bids showing II rt suits thru hird lilxtir civil Ins dined I i filling of dffiniii kinshii the in f I inn i mplili with Mil sites I mil I On Parliament Hill si lui In II rebuild mil looking f r run an Is of the iMl i irlv morning bread I Ihnw for mil ind I wonikrilhiswife ever complains Ihi laik of when he likes il tin Villi l What can Habitat achieve I re id ignin when urge for lckles and ice hi H is growing ind ii up the moisture everything ii ing with lift rsi tin By Stewart Mac pod Ottawa Of The Herald was fully prepared to ignore this mammoth Habitat conference in Vancouver on the grounds that at least it t harm anyone but now I am not so sure grounds arc valid I just read that the CBC is planning is television specials on the 12 day conference not to mention 10 hours of live coverage on radio and two dady programs on radio Are they trying to drive us It a great idea for the lo bring together representatives of 140 tries to talk about the problems of human settlement Heaven knows there are enough problems to solve But you wonder Just how much will be accomplished delegates most of whom can make any commitments on behalf of their govern menus as they swap philosophical papers on the need for better living conditions In hi name of s the his been turned into rh cost if Ihi meeting will be mon thin million when untold millions spent by visiting itions is people could invoked tmd lo whelher tile money would lie hitter spint solving some liuiinn settlement problems in a led null- I 1 suppose shouldn loo cyme these things rh this muting w II help groundwork fir mterruilion il coope r Hut wlun vou get that people representing icjuntliss interests md an igimh that includes just about problem known to man only to incurable diet eoncrele results They It be talking ibout pollution Hit most effective use if natural resources risks of urban v how ire going calling for the public ownership if 1 ey II ill that pollution is a bad thing and wir will be roundly 1 no solutions in going lo imergi from i if this m ignitiick we II ibli lo inlioml reminding tint ini is hosting biggest t niteii conference in mi it sun il ill m press who now ire reed Iu I vi in licidenldlly up until struck the covemmint hid phnned lo spend million nstrilion involving hum in of kleg lies would lave from einst to wast to how we hive our Hut undi r the restnint re grim begins it linmi Troubles the 1 is beset by lis vishis will child by blowing a lit rt I tin r fun of duln tin meeting for lime Ihe in government would hive ken riheved if the whole monstrous evenl j ired now ihil on were The of the world will be on as one representative ifter mother nils for it ioi per it ion mo spinding thii us She eomiKumis the whole ifirt bringing die lions home by from the lot park is though I don t hive of my own small iircnfl id Mien has In en where ls it going bulldozer roars the dislinee digging out vet swimming pool for s me fortunate firmly first niched i ind i this Rookie Queens Park are learning the hard way By Derek Vela on Queen Park Bureau Or the Herald the things a rookie MPP I know In this house of minorities onethird of the members are newcomers who privy to all the wild and wonderful ways that the provincial parliament operates MPP Doug Durham provoked consternation among the veterans deluding party colleague Jim llcnwick by trying to have expert witnesses debate the safety of aluminum wiring before a supply com studying ministerial spending estimates Clear Ideo The precedent setting idea upset the old timers mainly because of the hours of parliamentary time It would devour The committee clerk explained It this way There are hours of supply so for every ministry sent to committee you deduct 10 hours from the clock The com mitteeshave to report bock within days so day the House alls day is deducted Including Wednesday the house All clear While admitting I never understood he mathematics of time Mr Ren wick said what it really means Is that the time they use Interviewing he expert witnesses would come off other committees and the house proper as well an their won committee For hat reason he helped vote down Mr plea At least one other rookie wondered why two hours I be on after the after the vote Tradition hejrd and w still puTzled a wonderful thing Rapid TruniU Opposition members of the Ontario continue to be than with the provincial gov in public Leader Stephen Lewis wondered about recapturing part of the million Ontario is spending on new transit designs if they should prove as ill fated as the magnetic levltation system of two years even though you are now using wheels which Is In novative hough Hound one- MPP Mike caught between hop and disbelief Nrw Ill Queens Park seem in some confusion ibout who the next prime minister of Canada will be Premier William Davis while answering a question In the legislature happened to phrase his reply bo hut it included he words and the suggestion in by leader of cur national party and he next prime minister Surely they weren l both there were hey naked an Innocent sounding Jim Lib rk ire as prone is the rest of us to grumble their working conditions In recent committee diicussions they been hammering away it various features of ihelr job they consider objectionable MPP Mike Cnsildy Centre is still lending his crusade for higher salines for through he mechanism of independent eommilux Sean Conway ib can I understand why he is forbidden to have a small tnpe recorder into he can memos letters and so on and instead must haven portable on his office desk Small recorders disappear staff say Timendiange MPP I PC intrt upset because MPPs have to pay deposits on telephones in Ihelr ruling out of their own pockets A dozen other MPPs have their own complaints from expense accounts to collect telephone calls to salaries to ittitude of attached civil servants Tilings have changed Mr sat in the house from 1926 to 1915 and made very happily so the lime I Ihing a year and a rail pass which wns saviour to him now make the equivalent of J28 have wo offices and two assistants and other benefits m the problems of hum in We II the run ilinns of the world no I go ignoring the needs of the poor the poor nations of the world must l iter technology that newly dew loped countries must shore their for tunc s w ith ir lie brothers it will ill Ik But think ho ninth more effective would be i KM heads of stale meet in some illy underdeveloped country ind committed their governments to new inttn lit mil project on set rii would focus more attention on ihi prollem ihun ill the glossy photographs produced by Ihe government for honey production 1 ml scurries the inng erralu mef muth belter org wised ihs It spec la UK Hun myself hedge til it needs trimming md a paper bag that has untidily blown a corner and I know that if I go inside house will need vncumming and listing on a day like this it is all too cosy to push ihe guilty feelings of things to the back of one s mind it is i In lutllu day glorious w inn earl summer kind of r ire for thoughts md unction 1 simpl losit with tin radishes soik in the w ind lln sum limb higher into the cloudless skv Viewpoint Should there be parents licenses Gerry This Viewpoint column has come about in moat disheartening fashion young Toronto father of age Ins been sentenced to 18 months in refor matorj for negligence in ith of his nineteen day old son The baby ihroat has been partially from overly hot food us leg twitted broken causing a spinal fracture there were bile mirks on the baby nose lesions on Ihe body and the right hand from loss of circulation This is nineteen days old Mr told the sobbing Loiner tint having read psychiatric evidence he was satisfied lhat the baby is not intentional but due to the mans as i father Tins kind if offence is one of i term but 1 fear thai to you by the itn of your personality said Krever to the baby father Our first comment has to be what kind of lines do we run in this country when all wi heir from magistrates is prison you might HI lurf ye 11 illowing lo become parents less inslruetion than the humane gives with each new puppy or kitten cm we lie so blind we protest ihe things these What protest will hear regarding the death of this 19dayoId infant wi issue licenses for everything most often everything of little improtinee jerk can have a baby Vii ilk ibout rights our precious freedom When is ignorance poor man who will serve IB months in reformatory did not have the right to isiroy a human life His ignorance is our ignorance His crime II as Justice fetts the baby s kith was not intentional but due to fatherhood inadequacies Why in todays society Is this necessary appear to be social serviced to where were the agencies to help this man and his wife who he claims Is mentally ill According to the baby father he bit the nose to make mm cry to if his wife would tike notice of the crying people tell me they don like to reid the papers It me mm mon remark Social probler disappear by closing your eyes and ignoring them No should have to defer sentence because of what will happen to the prisoner A 19dayoId baby should not have to die in such a fashion vjiswers only come when you are to look long and hard at the questions then act education of our young people with respect parenthood in today society Is a must Times have changed People have changed Lifestyles have changed It is not lhat our laws need altering It is not enough to say such terrible things as the of the baby and the sentencing of the falher happen They did Do something now Write your MP Talk to your friends Tell your minister how you eel Wntea letter editor Remember thil jour son or daughter could marry such Ignorance does not know social It could be your grandchild Tell Children Aid how you feel We need towards parenthood day day living beginning in public schools We need some type of licensing something that says your more than biologically ready Rights That baby docsn t have any Don I speak to about rights Queens Park Commentary- Government looks again at insurance companies llj thin I Ileum Park Bureau Of The TOHONTOSmee time immemorial it the insurance industry has not been in Ihe finest of odors here Iu the thirties Mitch Hepburn put through an amendment to the Insurance Act which would give the government power to set Insurance rntea The act has never been proclaimed miming it lias never been law but also despite pressures from the industry it has never been taken off the books In the fifties the rate boosting on auto insurance used to make Leslie Frost furious In more recent years there has seldom if ever been a session at which there I been complaints about insurance Iliepliok Now the feelings of the break wide select committee has been named inquire into the industry formally it is called the Select Committee on Company The inquiry bears promise of being very The terms of reference give it almost unlimited scope And its membership from the opposition parlies includes some of Die best talent In the Vernon Singer vcternn and lawyer who has long been on insurance is chairman Also from his party arc lawyer James and accountant Marvin Shore representatives include lawyers James a brain and Pal These men will not only assure there is detailed examination but also an intelligent auto insurance as in some other provinces though it is not likely to The Conservatives t favor it and probably the Liberals wuuldn I either Bui it will be inquiring into rates profits assets investment policy and a host of other And there is the field for any number of groundbreaking recommendations could for example propose what profit return and therefore rates should be Or could recommend that a substantial proportion of insurance money investments be directed into low Interest mortgages There are practically no limits to what it might propose Most notably the course of the com niltlecwillbe or at least should be followed closely by Industry and business generally For it Is the first time at least In recent memory that a committee of firflvlncfi has enquired Into a major induitry In other words It la opening door