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Page THE HERALD Wednesday April 10 1991 Ottawa Report Taxpayers robbed of political accountability MPs Notebook As regulars will know I have lately turned some attention towards the issue of taxes which are too high at all levels And I have been en couraging taxpayers to come together and make some noise about the situation Until that happens I believe we will never get real tax reform By reform I mean an integration of all levels of taxes and an end to this stupid practice of one level of government taxing and then giv ing money to other levels to spend The current system robs taxpayers of real accountability from politicians The government that spends should be the one that taxes If Ontario for example controls health care and education then it should tax to fund them If the feds control national defence and old age security then it should tax only to support them If Halton or Peel fund policing then they should tax for it That way the people could have more control through their votes on levels of service and Garth Turner MP Progressive Conservative Saturday Apnl 10 a m Martingrove Collegiate in Etobicoke corner of and Martingrove Wednesday may l 7 30 m at the Community Complex in CaledonEast See you there levels of tax But Id even go beyond that Less government and a more in tegratud tax system with fewer taxes would suit me In a report to Michael Wilson this week Im urging him to call a federal provincial local conference on taxation to discuss these impor issues Meanwhile there are some people who cant wait Tax pro testers mark these two dates on your calendar big turnouts of concered taxpayers are ex pected Canada Post has been on my mind in recent days as we see more changes to postal service in several areas Quite abruptly last Monday residents of saw their service reduced as the retail postal outlet near there stopped providing full service It was nobodys fault things just didnt work out But I will confess to be ing peeved that Canada Post pro vided almost no notice to people of the change wrote a steamy letter to the Corporations president saying I expected more out of the outfit Then we heard that the post of fice in is going to close to be replaced later this year by another retail postal outlet I have no great problem with this so long as the level of service pro- Queens Park Report New health care directions New Directions in Health Care This week 1 would like to discuss the new directions in health care proposed to the Legislature by Health Minister Evelyn Gigantes On March 14th as you remember the Minister an nounced the provision of million in new funding for and improvement project in hospitals and other health care facilities 59 Ontario communities Priority was given to projects that would be labor intensive and to those that would produce greater public benefits in areas such as workplace health and safety environmental im and energy vat ion Our hospitals in Georgetown and Milton will both receive monies under the pro gram and their projects are ex pected to create a total of 1027 weeks of work Noel Halton North MPP How Democratic Pirty On the following day the Minister announced an additional million in funding for com munity health employment pro jects Jobs will be created for up to one year communities across the province in the areas of health promotion public health mental health and addic tions and community support services The ministry gave priority to regions of the province experiencing the most serious difficulties One project involves training native persons and women at nine public health units in promotion of prenatal nutrition and care and in the prevention of tobacco and substance abuse AIDS and sex transmitted diseases Other initiatives include a project that helps lowincome people improve their nutritional choices through community gardening develop ment of programs to help deal with the stress of bereavement and unemployment and the ex pension of home support ser vices Funding was provided to District Health Councils to hire staff to help with the implementa tion of the Graham report which recommends the establishment of more communitybased men tal health services Seven com including also received funding to hire staff for health promotion activities in alcohol tobacco and nutrition programs On it the Mini ii traduced for first reading the Regulated Health Professions Act and other related health legislation Eight different acts currently regulate 18 health pro fessions The new bills will bring health professions into a uniform regulatory sstem in eluding seven professions now unregulated Ms Gigantes in cheated in her statement that con sumers have the right to receive health services that are com performed to suit their and desires On the other hand health professionals have the right to work in a system that is equitable and in which their autonom is respected and their contributions recognized The legislation preserves self governance as Ontario s regulatory system but contains features designed to ensure a more open and accountable BRAMPTONS CHEAPEST MATTRES SALE Bed Frame 39 unit Per Single Mattress Conjunct SINGLE SET Double Mattress Spring Construct Queen Mattress Queen Set Orthopedic Twin Mattress Set Double Set Year Warranty Sealy Double Set Orthopedic new Sealy Queen Set Orthopedic King Set QUEEN ORTHOPEDIC SET m 119 259 129 318 399 599 699 647 735 99 FREE PILLOW Serta I MATTRESS CLEARANCE SALE COUNTRY MATTRESS SHOP 4520929 190 WEST UNITS TO BRAMPTON RICE BUSINESS vided to Palgrave does not go down as a result Right now Im arranging a Town Hall meeting so the com munity will have a direct op portunity of questioning Canada Post officials Stay tuned for details of date and location Finally I was not the first to know about the Palgrave postal situation because Canada Post sent my notification to the wrong Back in the House of Commons this week we are debating some proposed changes to the rules which govern Parliament You may have read or heard about some of the changes and reac tion to them The reason is to make the House more efficient because right now there are countless wasted hours as people make long partisan and usually empty speeches So the length of those speeches is going to be slashed to just ten minutes Also shortened is the time MPs will actually be sitting there in Ottawa So the changes will reduce the number of days Parliament sits but lengthen the hours in those days As a consequence the total debating time be the same Also as a consequence we will all be able to spend more time in our ridings The plan is to have the House of Commons sit for three weeks a month allowing people like me a week a month to come back and do what I do In the riding meet with people hold public meetings answer phone calls help out through red tape deal with immigration taxation etc work with municipal attu provincial officials and most im listen The opposition said this change was and I quote fascist an attempt by the 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