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THE HERALD Wednesday November2l Editorial Small business feeling pinch A new era purportedly was unleashed yesterday Tuesday with the delivering of the throne speech at Queens Park encompassing the hopes and aspirations of the recentlyelected New Democratic Party the first social democratic party ever elected in the trill mm pro vince of Ontario Throne speeches are like toasts given at a wedding and should be treated as such They have about as much basis in reality as the toast offered the newly wed couple by that long lost and never lamented Uncle Fred There is a reality and a disaster looming in Ontario however that the new provincial government must address and soon It is the plight of small business ancfthis sector more than any other determines the health and well being of communities such as Halton Hills Several reports issued last week indicate if this issue isnt addressed properly and soon communities throughout Ontario including Halton Hills will suffer A report released by the Canadian Federation of In dependent Businesses penned by economist Pierre Cleroux stated Ontario s present tax structure discriminates against small business putting it at a disadvantage with U S firms under free trade The report also stated Unrelated to profitability Ontario taxes automatically favor large profitable capital intensive firms and penalize small and medium sized firms The report contended taxes favor large firms because they are not related to profit and loss and economies of scale tend to make the real cost of these taxes lighter on bigger companies The report recommended payroll tax exemptions for firms with annual payrolls under 000 and urges municipal governments to roll back local taxes for small businesses Another report released by Statistics Canada noted that firms with fewer than employees accounted for 60 per cent of lost jobs in the first half of this year According to Catherine Swift vice president for research and chief economist of the Canadian of Indpeendent businesses the worst is yet to come for Ontario According to the Federal Business Development Bank 80 per cent of all additional new jobs created in Canada over the past several years have come from the small business sector Communities like Halton Hills exist because of small businesses and firms operating as satellites outside of the dense manufacturing zone of Metropolitan Toronto They provide much needed jobs job security the op portunity for residents to remain in their hometowns for employment and an almost guaranteed tax base for the communities they serve The alarm has been sounded Hopefully those in power will respond to the alarm before the emergency gets even more out of control The Halton Hills HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established A Division of Canadian Newspaper Company Limited Guelph Street Georgetown Ontario L7G 3Z6 K ROBERT Publisher and General Manager 8772201 rllara CLASSIFIED Joan Minnall CIRCULATION Mt ACCOUNTING iplchuk Account SUBSCRIPTION 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that the land thievery that was conducted in the name of the Royal Houses of Europe is etched in stone The land ownership issue is unresolved in our time Rampant western alienation is circling it s wagons around the empty relhonc of Preston Mann ing and the reform movement developments are of grave concern to many of us because the future of our country is at stake The declining economy will give a further edge to the temper of the times to become more nasty and dangerous Our local MP Garth Turner prefaced one of his recent fulmmations what are these clowns in Ottawa up to A good question to which many citizens would like an answer Let hear it what is and his band of clowns up to Ottawa our national capital should be bubbling with sparkling ideas that bind this nation closer together from coast to coast In stead it floes not matter from which region of the country you look Ottawa seems to be a big black hole into which tax dollars disappear faster than you can shout hold it Yours truly Albert A Georgetown Professor disputes students claims To the Editor A reply to Garry J Adjusting to university life The Herald Wednesday November All may be well that ends well but I think that you have done some damage along the way Your conclusions are positive but Professors do give a damn they can and they do But about getting your homework done Surely that is a matter for the stu dent and not the professor Usually there are very good reasons for test and assignment dates for example has policies which rule out major tests during the last two weeks of a semester When some students ask for an extension of a deadline they might consider the effect on those students who given the same number of hours in a day have planned their time carefully in order to complete the assignment to meet the due date it interesting that your university life could be summed up by one incident in first semester Are you stereotyping Have you had one bad experience and blamed an entire group Can you conclude that because one professor on one occasion threw garbage into a desk that all son professors throw garbage in to desks on a regular basis and that they don care what students think of them Has no professor in your three years at Ryerson done anything to exhibit a positive role model And by the way I find it difficult to believe that on the other hand no high school teacher has ever on any occasion thrown garbage an in appropriate place and that therefore all high school teachers care what students think of them He just teaches the lessons and goes back to this office or goes home Some pro fessors are women Men or women do you know what they do when they go back to an office or go home Do you know the number of hours that must be spent preparing for a lesson How many lessons arc taught in a week How many hours are spent evaluating and reporting students progress How muth time is spent on administrative activities within each depart ment could go on but you may feel that you are not qualified to make such statements without adequate research Because of cutbacks m educa tional spending I teach about 160 students in a semester up from about in previous years I know them by name by number but it s not easy I con their different backgrounds and- characteristics I have never throught in terms of Kevins Alices Andrews You say that you don I mean to give a negative image of I suggest to you that you have indeed given a very negative view of university pro fessors and that you have failed to give a basic understanding of university idi Lusby ill tnd Information Man I- acuity of Business Institute