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Ian Oliver Publisher Robert Glasbey Advertising Director Norman Alexander Editor Geoff Hill Circulation Director Teri Casas Office Manager Tim Coles Production Manager idents will be heading up north to the cottage for some relaxation or south of the border for a threeâ€"day shopping spree. Afterall there isn‘t much to do around â€"home, is there? Wrong. There is lots to do around Oakville and Halton within a short driving distance. In last Wednesday‘s edition of the Oakville Beaver, the Focus section feaâ€" ture a story on Halton Tourism. From Bronte Creek Provincial Park to walks along the Bruce Trail, there is lots to do in Halton. Besides detailing just how many tourist attractions there are in Halton, the story revealed that tourism is also big business in the region. j This long weekend, like most other long weekends, a lot of Oakville resâ€" e is ies ho ie e e n B um E2 According to Halton Region tourism coâ€"ordinator Pam Banks that tourism accounted for $19.7â€"million in hotel room sales in the region in 1991. A 1988 regional financial impact study of tourism in the region showed $166 million was generated annually from 4.4 million visitors. Banks believes these figures would have increased since then. But besides reaping the financial benefits of many tourist attractions withâ€" in Halton, residents can themselves enjoy the attractions which lure tourists from far and wide to Halton. In C)-ai;;/ille some of the most popular spots are the town‘s two harbors, Bronte Creek Provincial Park, splash pads in local parks, the local museums â€"â€" Erchless Estate Thomas House and the Old Oakville Post Office. Out of town attractions include the Ontario Agricultural Museum in Milton, Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, the Bruce trail in the halton Regional Conservation are and the villages of Campbellville and Lowville. Oakville Chamber of Commerce, 845â€"6613, and the Halton Regional Building on Bronte Road north of the QEW,. So the next time you are sitting around and complaining about nothing to do in town, make the effort and explore Halton. To borrow an old provincial slogan, "It‘s yours to explore." Dear Sir: I was very distressed to read in the paper that the Ontario government has decided to allow the truckers to use longer trailers and a combination of trailâ€" ers on the province‘s roads. Obviously, the Minister of Transportation sitting in his office in Queen‘s Park, is not aware of the conditions on the obsolete Queen Elizabeth Highway. This highway needs four more lanes. The QEW is wall to wall trucks and the poor little passenger cars get squeezed in between these monâ€" strous trucks. * My husband and I need to travel the QEW for business, and it is no pleaâ€" sure. The trucks have taken over the roads, sailing along at a tremendous speed, also travelling in the far left lane. We have been witness to many accidents along the QEW. These are horror stories where these tractor trailers have jackâ€"knifed, and demolished and flatâ€" tened passenger cars, that happen to be in the immediate vicinity. I dread the winter when the roads are icy. These monsters do not have good control (especially when speeding) and that‘s when numerous accidents happen. EDITORIAL _ Now the Department Transportation wants to give these trucks more length, which results in more weight. Tell me, where are the passenger cars supposed to drive? What are we to do? 3: suggest Gilles Pouliot, Minister of Transportation take a few trips along the QEW highway, and see for himself what a nightmare it is!! 467 Speers Road, Oakville, Ont. L6K 354 845â€"3824 Fax: 845â€"3085 Classified Advertising: 845â€"2809 Circulation: 845â€"9742 or 845â€"9743 The Oakville Beaver, published every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday, at 467 m, Oakville, is one of the Metroland Printing, Publishing Lid. group of suburban newspapers which includes: Ajaxâ€"Picke News Advertiser, Advance, Brampton Guardian, Burlingion Collingwood Connection, Etobicoke Guardian, Gso#'enwn Independent Acton Free Press, Kingston This Week, thlsa!m| is Week, Markham Economist and Sun, Stouffville/Uxbridge Tribune, Milton Canadian i Mississauga News, Newmarketâ€"Aurora Eraâ€"Banner, North York Mirror, ile Beaver, Orllia Today, Oshawa/Whithy This Week, Peterborough This Week, e 1 e o mat e er is copyi Monmmnleorhpa(dwsmabrialtsvbflybn%ien ;1'5 consent of the publisher. \QUESTION OF THE WEEK Do you believ e the federal government should enact legislation to prevent convictâ€" ed criminals fmm profiting from their stoâ€" ries? Give us your opinion on this topic by calling 845â€"5585, box 5012. All callers are allowed 45 seconds to respond and must provide their name, address and phone number for verificaâ€" tion. A sampling of the best answers will be published in the next Weekend edition of the Oakville Beaver. Judy Levy If the British look down on Canada, _ why do so many come here? Canada is a vast expanse of land where the inhabitants drink beer, watch hockey and are so square even the female impersonators are women. Sunday Times Magazine July 4th, 1993 h dear. The Brits are at | it again. I don‘t know _3# if it‘s their wretched climate, their inedible cuisine or just a consequence of being trapped in a clappedâ€"out, ninthâ€" rate, fading Usedâ€"Toâ€"Be United Kingdom, but the British press always seems to have lots of cheap shots to lob at Canada. The latest tirade in London‘s Sunday Times rants on for three pages about how boring and buffoonish our country is. snipe at various famous Canadians. Michael J. Fox is ‘vertically challenged‘. Boy, that‘s original. Rocker Bryan Adams is snickered at for havâ€" ing a hit song in the number one slot of the U.K. Hit Parade for 16 weeks. This is a bad thing? Canadian model Linda Evangelista is mocked and derided because she once said she wouldn‘t even get out of bed for less than $10,000. I think the author, one Simon "Which," a breathless author Mills, must have done most of Mills informs us, "presuming his creative work over large she was talking Canadian dolâ€" mugs of Watney‘s Red Barrel lars, is only about $8,000 in down at the local pub, because _ ‘real‘ money." the article is confusing and The whole article is like that incoherent, even for a rant. â€" goofy, lame, and off the Quite aside from misspelling the name of a Margaret Atwood best seller, the whole item is speckled with bizarre sentences such as: "The inhabitants like ice hockey and drink beer, and the Monty Python lot use to dress up as Mounties." Sounds like the author thinks John Cleese and pals were Canucks. I wish it were so, but sorry chaps, the Pythoners were ah...British. _ The article then goes on to D KFFTY/ The whole article is like that â€" goofy, lame, and off the mark. Lord knows there‘s plenâ€" ty to spoof about Canada, but you won‘t find it in the pages of the Sunday Times Magazine. And it ill behooves a nation that gave the world Neville Chamberlain, bangers and mash, and Twiggy, to start callâ€" ing any other nation dull. This isn‘t the first time outâ€" siders have held their noses and sniffed disdainfully over the shortcomings of the Great White North. Away back in the 18th century, the French philosopher Voltaire dismissed Canada as "a few acres of snow". Al Capone snarled, "I don‘t even know what street Canada is on." In Parisian argot "un Canada" used to mean a bad apple. In Spanish slang when somebody wants to say "He‘s in jail" they smirk and murmur "Esta en Canada." But you know what I notice? I notice that there are not immense lineups down at Canada Customs full of Canucks itching to go and live in Madrid or Versailles or Middlesex or Stokeâ€"Onâ€"Trent. Quite the contrary. The trafâ€" fic seems to be all in the other direction. Spaniards and Portuguese and Frenchmen and â€" my goodness! â€" British as well, giving up their pasts to come and make a life in chilly old, boring old, provincial Canada. Why is that, do you â€"reckon? Could we, in all our squareâ€" ness, be doing something right? Could it be that, when all is said and done, Canada is still ‘the Golden Mountain‘ as the first Chinese who arrived in British Columbia described it, a century and a quarter ago? Could it be that to be rich, successful, in the gravy is, as the Polish expression has it, ‘to have Canada‘? Nah, it couldn‘t be. _ Otherwise the British press would surely have told ‘us: 3