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-t vrww wvpiy umn, wo«n~aav, ucembr 11,1991 15 I Report From Ottawa by Ross Stevenson M.P. for Durham For many Canadians, the amount we pay in taxes is the most obvious effect of government and how it influences our lives. Taxes paid to federal, provincial and municipal govemments have a considerable impact on our personal affairs -- how much we have left for living costs and any extras. The amount collected in taxes also determines how much govemrments can spend on essential services, and on vital programs such as health care and supporting those needing special assistance. From conversations with ail the people I meet each week, I'd estimate at least nine out of ten believ e they're paying too much in taxes. So far as the federal govemnment is concerned, Id have to agree- that we are paying much more than would have been necessary if Ottawa had taken a different course over the past 20 years, and flot gone so deeply into deficit financing. More was spent back then on programs and services than was collected i taxes. We're paying heavily for that now. SRealistically, a balanced federal budget will flot be achieved for at least another three or four years, no matter what the political'stripe of -the governiment. l'mi definitely no happier about present tax levels than any other Canadian. When expressing our frustration or anger about taxes, we sometimes lose focus on why aIl this money is needed and where it goes. A surprising number of Canadians have the idea that they're taxed much more heavily than residents of other countries. While we may have the highest personal income tax among the leading industrial nations -- the so-called G- 7 -- that ignores the social security taxes, also charged to residents of A pilot electronics course linking Durham College and two Northumberland and Newcastle High Schools will become a formai fixture in the 1992/93 school year. Since, 1989, students at Bowmianville High School1 and Courtice Secondary School have travelled daily to the Oshawa-based community college for an introductory, college-based electronics course using the sophisticated and expensive equipment available at the college but flot at the high schools. "Electronics is probably the most rapidly growing area of employment but we dont have the facilities or the numbers (of students) at each high school to offer a course like this," says Brian Colville, a guidance counsellor at Bowmianville High School. According to Colville, the course is the first of its kind in -the area and is a spin-off froin the articulation agreement the Board and the commiunity college signed several years ago, said Colville, According, to Harold Murphy, Guidance Head at Courtice Secondary School, the joint programa is payingoff. "We went into lhe Durham Skills Olympics with nothing but this course and our students went head to head with the best in that region and emerged with a silver modal." Talks move into lOth month Negotiations between the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education and its teachers unions are now into their tenth month. Last year it took 6.5 months to come to agreements on the contracts. Compensation, benefits and working conditions are the major points yet on which to form, agreement. Secondary teachers are asking 6.5 percent in wage increase with the board offering 4.3 percent. Colville said "a student's interest is maintained because they are able to continue consulting Durhamà teachers after they've completed the course . .. Having completed this course may mean they will -be given advanced standing at Durham College. He adds that a bonus with the, course is that "students are in the college meeting people and college is no longer a mystery." Because of the success of the three year old program, The Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education is planning to place one of it s own teachers at the college to teach the course. Durham College is currently providing staff to teach the high school students, sald Colville. Both guidance teachers attribute the success of the programa to the extra work undertaken by staff at the schools and at the college, and to the help of College President Gary Polanski and the Board's Chief Superintendent Grant Yeo. -Taxatîon those other coumtries. According to a study by the Organization for Economics Cooperation and Development - an independent research group based in Paris -- the average Canadian production worker in 1989 paid less in federal and provincial incomne tax and social security contributions than the workers in 18 other countries,, including the U.S., France, Britain, or Germany. Only i Japan did workers pay less thm Canadians. The independent OECD study shows that in each of the G-7 nations durinig 1989, the income tax and social- security contributions for- a one-quarter couple with two children, as a percentage of the worker's gross earnings, averaged out as follows: Germany 26.6%; United Kingdom 24.0%; Italy 23.3%; United States 19.0%; France 18.0%; Canada 14.6% and Japan 8.9%. When Canadians compare their taxes with the apparently much lower rates in some parts of the U.S., they frequently overlook' that our taxes include the cost of a health care system which many Americans envy., To buy equivalent private health coverage, U.S. residents have to pay $350 to $400 or more each month. When you 1look at the broad picture, total tax revenues for our federal, provincial and local goverrinents equal about one-third of the value of what our country produces each year. Again, that puts us in a better situation than France, Germany, Italy, or the United Kingdom. ,.ý And our tax systemn is becomning fairer. Those earning less than $15,000 pay only .8 per cent of total personal incomne tax. More high-incomne Canadians are paymng tax than ever before. And somne 300,000 senior citizens have been relieved from tax on their incomnes. Last year corporation incomne tax revenue was 60 per cent higher than for 1984, even though corporate profits were 10 per cent lower. While none of us enjoy paying taxes - me included -- compared to elsewhere we're not doing as badly as mrny Canadians believe. .$7ichen Corer Buttercrunch Almond Cups 1 cup butter 1 cup sugar 1/3 cup honey 1/3 cup whippmng creamn 3-1/2 caps sliced almonds 1/4 tsp sait In medium saucepan combine butter, sugar, honey and whipping cream. Cook over mediumi heat, stirring occasionally, until mixture comes to a boil. Boil gently 1-1/2.minutes, stirrmng constantly. Remove from heat; stir in almonds and sait. 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PSYCHIC AND SOUL READING AVAILAULE Store Hours: Thursdays, Friday and Saturday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m 5367 Main Street, Orono pat irwin lycett <983-9605 PUBLIC NOTICE REGULATIONS FOR 1991-92 WUNTER SEASON ýDecember 1, 1991 to April 129 1992 Area residents are hereby advised, of the Provincial and Municipal Regulations applicable Io the 1991-92 Winter Season, Decem ber 1, 1991 to April 12, 1992, as follows: The Highway Traffic Act (R.S.0. 1980): Section 147. (10) prohibits the parking of vehicles on any highway in such a manner as to intertere with the movement of traff ic or the clearing of snow from the highway. Section 147 (13) provides the authority for the removal of any vehicles, at the owner's expense, found to be causing an obstruction on a highway. Section 157 prohibits the depositing of snow or ice on a public roadway. Town of Newcastle By-Law 91-58: Section 4-6 (i) prohibits the parking of vehicles on any highway for a period of longer than three (3) hours, and is also applicable to overnight parking on any road under the. jurisdiction of the Town of Newcastle. ~Ire Dates of Publicaton: Wednesday, December 4, 11, 1991 Walter A. Evans, P. Eng. Director of Public Works Town of Newcastle 40 Temperance Street Bowmanville, Ontario LiC 3K6 P. 0. 4080 A new linkup between High Sehool and Durham College ........... .................. ............ .... . ..... - - - Lýý --j M-7-17,W777= ....................