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NATIONAL DEFENCE DND marks roil-out of new armoured personnel carriers Jin- and Athielie Brownlee celebrated their Silver Wedding Anniversary with family and guests at the Crossr-oads Christian Assembly Saturday afternoon. The Brownlee's who have made their home in Orono since 1980, were married on September 18, 1948, in Ottawa. FROM PARLIAMENT H IL L Alex Sehr When Parliainent resumed last week It didn't take long for the silliness to begin. send to Ottawa to represent question period, the media their vlews, shouldn't have event of the day, bas almost the right to free speech, become a total waste of time. assembly or protest, they Originally. question period should. And they do. 1 see it provided the opposition with every day as 1 walk from my an opportunity to challenge office to the House of the goverriment on policy and Comnmons.. administration. But whien the official oppo- Today, because it is the sition used their first whole media's central focus, MPs opposition day, strangely jump up and down on cue to called, "supply day" to debate perform. Scenes of outrage, the gun control issue I ques- denial, accusations and innu- tion the relevarice. endo, are scripts MPs read Now 1 know there are some from. hard feelings about this in . A casual glance at the Durham, and 1 fought the morning papers tell good fight at the time the Canadians what question House was dealing with the perlod's theme will be. It gun issue. The reality is the appears nobody takes the maj ority want it anid it is now time to do independent the law of the land. research anymore which Debating something leads you to the inescapable already debated and decided conclusion that someone's three years ago seems budget ought to be cut. absurd. The opposition lead- Ail opposition parties er couldn't walt to get bis pic- jumped on the APEC issue ture wlth the protesters on concentrating on the students 1-. But what affect on public who, eight months ago. were policy did it ail have? pepper sprayed by police. Canadian voters cari sim- We're suppose to believe ply wonder, with justification, thereis intrigue in ail this. on what the cost of running That there were cover-ups, this whole, "show" is to them. secret instructions, foreign And what it is they are getting encounters and irisurgencies. i retumn. if you tbink back to that It seems strange the real eight-month-old issue riot one opposition is within the person was maimed although Libaral Party itself withiri the there were a lot of hurt feel- caucuses we have set up. ings. I.ast week 1 chaired two meet- Again, look at what the ings dealing with the economny media is reporting from anid the federal budget, tax around the world. It conflrmis and bank mergers. And I just how lucky we are. People attended a third wlth the are slaughtered, thrown in jail chairman of Canada Post. and neyer heard from again, In all of those meetings or executed without a trial. there was dissension, conflict And here in Canada the and honest opposition among opposition will spend a whole members of the govemning week debating student party. demonstrators at the APEC For example, the Minister meeting. of Finance Paul Martin, is 1 am not sayirig Canadians, suggesting he should take the or the political parties they employment insurance The Honourable Art Eggleton, Mmister of National Defence, participated in an event to mark the roll-out of the first of the 240 new armoured personnel carriers (APCs) to be built by Diesel Divisiýon General Motors (DDGMN) of Canada. Patrick O'Brien, Member of Parliament for London- Fanshawe, Sue Barnes, Member of Parliament for London West, Joe Fontana, Member of Parliamerit for London North Centre, and Rose-Marie Ur, Member of Parliament for L-,ambton-Kent- Middlesex, joined the Minister ti marking the occasion. The APO replacement pro- ject is an excellent exarnple of how the federal government has helped generate econom- ic and industrial growth right across Canada," sald Minister Eggleton. "It also demon- strates the feder 'al goverri- merit's commitment to pro- viding the Canadian Forces with the equipment necessary to fÙlfill the tasks they per- form." In August 1995, the feder- ai government gave approval in principle to the Department of National Defence (DND) to procure up to 651 armoured personnel carriers known as light armoured veh-icles (LAVs). On January 9, 1997, the federal goverrment awarded a $552 million contract to DDGM to bulld 240 new eight-wheel- drive APCs, designed to fuI a wide variety of military and peace support roles. The APC replacement project has broad industriai and regional accounit and reallocate a por- tion of those funds for pro- grains which have nothing to do with employ7ment or train- ing. There is dissension between government mem- bers on this issue. The opposition, however, half-heartedly asked a couple of questions about this issue that would see your employ- ment insurance premiums tumned into tax dollars and spent anywhere. Imagine, for a moment, payirig car insurance and the insurance company says they're lowering your benefit level on the last accident because your premiums were allocated to another division of the company! As good intentioned as tbat may have been, that's not what the premium was paid for. It wasn't the original deal and someone ought to talk about the flduciary resporisi- bility and trust. Ail of tbis;alludes the oppo- sition parties and the media of our country. It's too bad. I think people like you and me thought this was one of the fundamentals of the word "1responsible" in the term "ýresponsibIe govemnment." benefits, including up to 16,500 person years of employment across alI regions of Canada. The Canadian Forces use APCs in a variety of missions, including peacekeeping and peacemaking operations such as those in Bosnia ande Halti. As well, they are used to de liv- er humanitarian aid and to support disaster -relief opera- tions such as the Manitoba flood effort in 1997 and the ice stormi in Quebec and Eastern Ontario in 1998. The APC is an important element of Canada's multipurpose, combat-capable anned for-ces. Diesel Division, General Motors of Canada Ltd. was established in 1949 as a manufaeturer of diesel-elec- trie freight and passenger locomotives. Today, it is a major designer and manufac- turer of armnoured vebicles for the Canadian and U. S. armed forces. It employs about 2,700 people at its major assembly facilities in London, Ontario. Do they work for eveynAete a **, Cse' r0 N PmUBLIC NOTICE 1999 Municipal Grant Program The Municipal Grant process was initiated to assist organizations with funding fôr programs and services not provided by the Municipality. Applications for Municipal Grants are now available for local orga- nizations that provide social, health, recreational and/or other ser- vices that directly benefit the Municipality of Clarington and its residents. 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