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Future growth and prosperity in the local and national economy will only come when entrepreneurs like Frank Milligan weigh their options and decide to stay home and invest in Canadian workers. Unfortunately, there are too few like him around these days. _ Worth studying Once word got out that Polywheels was shopping for a new site, the proâ€" posals came in, some like a an incentive package from the State of Tennessee, were very attractive. And then there‘s the jobs that will be created. Polywheels now employs 97 people but hopes to raise that to 120 by this spring and possibly to 200 in the coming year. Like the Lear Seating plant that has set up shop in the Winston Business Park area of north east Oakville, the Polywheels expansion illustrates the kind of spinâ€"off impact a major plant like Ford can have in a community. But after shopping around, Milligan, who was earlier this year named the Oakville Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneur of the Year, decided to move down the road to the Mack plant where production machinery can easily be accommodated and expansion is possible. the July 21st drowning death of 20 year old epileptic David Haas at the Bronte Creek Provincial Park swimming pool, were wideâ€" ranging and deserve to be pursued vigorously. The recommendations put forward at the close of the inquest into Other recommendations are more complex and impact on the entire emergency and health care system in the region and the province. Case in point is the suggestion to have both Burlington and Oakville firefighters trained in the use of defibrillation units and to investigate the feasibility of having ambulance workers trained in the use of endotraâ€" chial inturbulation devices that are used to clear airways.Presently, only paramedics and physicians are permitted to use the devices. Some of the suggestions, such as having prominent signs displayed asking those swimmers with severe medical problems notify the pool supervisor, are just common sense. Suggestions that lifeguards use special highâ€"quality nonâ€"glare sunâ€" glasses make sense since the glare off the pool can be severe, especially during the midâ€"afternoon periodâ€"the time when the Haas tragedy took place. The parents of David Haas have applauded the recommendations of the inquest and will be monitoring their implementation. We hope that the regulatory bodies take these recommendations seriously. \QUESTION OF THE WEEK What options would you suggest to the federal government as a replaceâ€" ment for the GST? 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 ediâ€" tion of the Oakville Beaver. Give us your opinion on this topic by calling 845â€"5585, box 5012. Forget the Natural Law Party, now there‘s a new group that‘s a laugh What‘s made me sad is the realization that I will probably never again hear from the Natural Law Party. They were big in the past federal election. They fielded some 230 candiâ€" dates from Bella Coola to Bonavista. The Party spent untold hundreds of thousands of dollars on newspaper, magaâ€" zine, radio, and television ads. They vowed that, once elected, they would end war, pestilence, disease, poverty, crime, the deficit, and waxy yellow buildâ€" up overnight. Canadian voters detected something a little fuzzy in the Natural Law Party Election Platform. Perhaps, it was the utter lack of detail from the Natural Law candidates, who dismissed all scepticism with the explanation that Natural Law had been "scientifically proven". Maybe, it was the statâ€" ed plan to replace our Armed Forces aircraft with 7,000 mediâ€" tating disciples levitating crossâ€" legged in harmonious formaâ€" tion. Canadian voters may be naive. (We did hoist Mulroney into the saddle two terms in a row) â€" but we‘re not bone stupid. The Natural Law Party never (ahem) got off the ground. They didn‘t, alas, elect a sinâ€" gle candidate. Not because the new gang of SOB‘s are turning out to be no better than the old gang of SOB‘s. I wasn‘t expecting miraâ€" cles. he 1993 ~Canadian Federal Election results are already growing mold on the sanitary landfill site called History...and already I‘m filled with regret. And that‘s a pity. We need all "THEY SAY YOUR AIR SICKNESS WILL HAVE TO WAIT ‘TIL THE NEW YEAR. â€" SOMETHING ABOUT ‘SOCIAL CONTRACT CUTBACKS‘..." Specifically, the credit card. For the first time in history, you didn‘t have to have wampum, beaver pelts, gold dust, or cash on the barrel. All you had to have was a wafer of plastic and sufficient linguistic dexterity to pronounce the words "Charge It". The rest was magic. the comic relief we can get. We always have. Each decade has given human kind at least one predominating fad or folly to take our minds off our troubles. Back in the Roaring Twenties, somebody invented miniature golf and bathtub gin to help us forget that the country was broke and so were we. For the more adventurous, there was goldfish swallowing, wherein the hero (often after having been over exposed to the aforeâ€" mentioned beverage) took it upon him or herself to lower live and wriggling goldfish into their throats and down their gullets. In the 1940‘s, some fiend invented the rotary powered lawn mower while some other fiend came up with Weed and Feed, the first combination ferâ€" tilizer/herbicide that made lawns grow like Sumatran Jungles. The Cult of the Lawn was born and North American weekends were ruined forever more. What did the 50‘s bring us by way of diversion? In the immortal word of the businessâ€" man to Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate...plastic. t House burn down? Snort. Your loved one kick the bucket? Chortle. Famine? Nuclear War? Stop it, you‘re killing me. "Laughter is the way to God," says a Taisokyan spokesman. "There is no reason for sorrow. Only selfish people think about their own loss." At the.very least, it‘ll be good for a laugh. Alas, no such luck. The Party appears to have vanished more thoroughly that one of magician Doug Henning‘s stage elephants. So what now? Well, I hate to raise false hopes, but there‘s a rising young religion in Japan right now called Taisokyo. It only has one tenet. Its disciples must laugh. At everything. Do I see a place for Taisokyo in the Canadian Parliament? Don‘t see why not. It‘s got all the attractiveness of the Natural Law Party â€" plus a sense of humor. Which got us to the 90‘s â€" a decade which showed real promise â€" what with the Natural Law Party looking to take over 24 Sussex. It was annoying, but it proâ€" pelled us to the 80‘s. Which were really a pain in the astrolâ€" ogy department â€" or rather it‘s related offshoots of crystal therâ€" apy, harmonic convergence, and the chance to be "channelled" by the ghost of some 8,000 yearâ€"old Mayan priest who knew no better way to spend eternity than to help you and Shirley MacLaine get to know your "real" selves. At least until the end of the month. In the 70‘s, it was horoâ€" scopes. It became difficult to meet someone and not be greetâ€" ed with "Hi, what‘s your sign?"