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« 2 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, June 26,1985 Section Two c ) Editorial Comment Better Take a Closer Look Whoever proposed the de-index- ing of government old age pensions should have taken a closer look at the demographic trends in Canada. Simply put, the Canadian population population is growing rapidly older. And that means that a decision to partially partially de-index pensions should not be taken lightly any more. There is, after all, a growing constituency constituency of older citizens who will object to the move and will be more than able to make their objections known. Today's retiree at age 65 has many active years ahead of him and plenty of time to spend on lobbying government agencies who act against his interest. Opposition Leader John Turner has not let the opportunity pass him by. He has published a petition asking asking the prime minister to "respect his commitment of the 1984 election campaign to maintain full indexation indexation for old age pensions." A letter of explanation from the federal Liberals notes that a couple will lose about $1,200 in real income income by 1990 if the de-indexation scheme goes ahead. It adds that the federal budget contains nothing to alleviate the position of more than 4.1 million Canadians who "already live in unacceptable unacceptable poverty." "In fact," says the opposition leader, "the Wilson budget is making making life more difficult for the weakest members of our society." Professional observers of the political scene are already predicting predicting a government retreat on the issue of pensions as outlined in the latest budget. If such a flip-flop does occur, it will be one of the first major indications indications of the growing political power possessed by those over age 65. V ery F ew Alternatives Conventional wisdom says it's stupid to give in to blackmailers. There are lots of good reasons for that rule. Giving in encourages others to use blackmail to advance their own objects and makes the world more dangerous for everyone. And then, there's the argument that one has no guarantee that the criminal who is attempting extortion will agree to keep his end of the bargain. In other words, once you have met condition A, the crook may very will return with conditions B and C. We all know the ideal response to blackmail but when the blackmail is of an international type and when over 40 lives are at stake, it's difficult if not impossible to be objective. It's only natural that there will be some form of negotiations among all sides in the recent TWA skijacking incident. There's little alternative. Obviously, Obviously, one does what one can to save as many lives as possible and buy time for those who are still in captivity. captivity. But whatever the outcome of the current hostage crisis, it seems pretty obvious that there will have to be some serious thinking on the subject of air travel security. We can start by asking ourselves if international travel is the absolute absolute right of everyone with a valid passport and enough money to buy a ticket. Perhaps, it's time we started cutting cutting down on overseas travel -- especially to areas that are the world's political powder . kegs. Travellers are going to have to understand understand that not every place in the world is as safe as Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, for example. There are areas in the world where, at least to our eyes, citizens are desperate and life is cheap. We have not yet reached the idealistic age in which the world is a global village where everybody gets along with everyone else. Or, at least if we do live in a Global village, we should be aware of the fact that there are a few sections of town where it's best not to travel after midnight. Airlines wouldn't like to see an end to international tourism for obvious obvious reasons. But we would probably probably reap certain benefits from a cutback cutback in non-essential flights. For example, tourists would spend more money closer to home and vast amounts of fuel, resources would be saved. Business persons, diplomats, and anybody else with a legitimate reason for overseas travel could be much better protected if the numbers numbers of travellers were smaller. And, in addition, it would be much easier to perform more careful security security inspections on a smaller number number of airline passengers. It goes without saying that any airport with lax security systems should be boycotted. While curtailing all but the most essential air travel may seem like an obvious solution to the hijacking issue, don't look for an immediate implementation of such a scheme. Overall, we seem to believe that a holiday on the Mediterranean is worth the risk of an occasional hijacking and perhaps even some loss of life. You could argue, after all, that even reducing airline traffic traffic by two-thirds wouldn't completely completely eliminate the hijack risk. Perhaps the government should simply warn its citizens of the fact that safety cannot be guaranteed outside national boundaries. And if tourists wish to take that pleasure trip overseas, then so be it. When a hijacking occurs, and hostages hostages are taken there can never be any question of a government winning winning its battle against terrorism. It's only a matter of cutting the losses. Letter to the Editor Oakville, June 25,1985 To The Editor Sir: With the election of a federal government which has an obvious respect for and understanding of the advantages of the Constitutional Monarchy for Canadians, the time has come to undo the republican moves of the Trudeau era, and to effect a 'restoration' of the Crown in Canada. Such a restoration should include both symbolic and substantive measures. For instance, the Post Office should proudly make available a wide number of Royal stamp issues; 'God Save the Queen' should be made the Royal Anthem by law, rather than resting on custom as is now the case; The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh should be accorded their rightful places within the Canadian Honors System; the misnomer 'Head of State' should no longer be applied to the Governor General, who is of course the representative of Canada's Sovereign, the Queen. The Monarchist League of Canada has prepared a detailed and easy-to-read set of proposals which we hope Canadians will consider, and in turn, urge their Provincial and Federal Members of Parliament to advocate. Citizens reading this document will, we think, be alarmed at how much of our monarchial heritage has slipped away, and will want to press Mr. Mulroney's Ministers to begin the process of backing up their loyal words with actions undoubtedly supported by most Canadians. The League will be delighted to send one or more copies of its position paper to anyone who writes - The Monarchist League of Canada, 2 Wedgewood Crescent, Ottawa, Ontario K1B4B4. Yours faithfully, John L, Aimers, Dominion Chairman and Founder The Monarchist League of Canada ®ljE 623-3303 (EatmZiran Statesman Durham County's Orest Family Journal Established 130yearaegoln 1654. 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S 15,00 a year -- 6 months 16.00 foreign -- 145,00 a year strictly In advance Ailhrnnjh nvm y pmciinbon will ho I,ikon to avoid error, Thn Canadian filntonman ncroplr. nrh/oMi r .ing in tin colutiwi tin the untli'iManilmrj that it will not tin liable for any error m the nrlveilir.ernonl published hereunder unless a prool ol •.licit advertisement e. renuesled in writing try thn advertiser and returned In Thn Canadian tîlalesman business ntlii.n duly snjneil by the advertiser and with such error or correction 1 ! plainly noted In writing thereon, and In dial case a any emu so noted is not t oriented by I he Canadian dalesman its liability filial! not em end raid) a ixnlion ol the entire resi ni -ni h .nlvaihilmeni as the spare occupied by the noted error beaut in the whole space occupied by such S' Tunnel Vision SUGAR and SPICE Curse of the 20th Century R*f Rill Smiley A newspaper article the other day reminded me of one of the inexorable laws of modern life: Things multiply in inverse proportion to their use. It is a simple fact, and we've all been through it, that there are certain things in life that multiply like rabbits, and others that invariably disappear forever. No matter how hard you try to get rid of pennies, they just build up, and if you carry your loose change in your pants pocket, as I do, after a week you are listing heavily to the right. You pile your 18 pennies on the top of the dresser and start again, and a week later you have 22 pennies in the same pocket. Another multiplier is the single sock. Start out a new year with 12 pairs of socks. In three months you'll have six pairs and six odd socks. In six months, you'll have 12 single socks. After years of suffering this, I've counter-attacked. I now buy 12 pairs of identical socks, so that after six months, at least I have six pairs of socks. Ladies used to have the same problem, before the invention of panty-hose. But this discovery hasn't lessened their problems. In the old days, if they got a run, they usually had a spare single to match the good one with. But now, if you get a hole in one leg of your pantyhose, pantyhose, you're scuppered. Out they go, the intact one with the bum one. Women also have other multipliers in the singles division: earrings and gloves. How many women in this fair land have seven or eight exquisite single earrings and four or five superb single gloves? It's quite fashionable these days for a man to wear a single earring, and a practical chap who lost a glove would wear the other and put his bare hand in his pocket. But women don't think that way, and the gloves and earrings proliferate in their solitary glory. Old keys multiply at a fantastic rate, until cupboard drawers and plastic bowls are overflowing with them. We have a huge collection of car keys going back to our fifth-last car, every key to the house before we changed the locks, and enough skeleton keys to outfit James Bond on one of his capers. New keys are diminishers. I have lost two sets of keys to my present car, and sometimes search for half an hour to find one of the new sets I had to order. The new keys to the new locks disappeared, and I had to take off the locks and go to the key man for new ones. I wonder where they are, at this moment? The new ones that is. Paper is definitely in the multiplier list, especially if you are a writer and/or teacher. I sit to write this column in a sort of tunnel between two massive piles of paper higher than my head. Makes me feel like an old badger. Bottles, particularly those on which there is no deposit return, pile up about as fast as you can empty them. But prepare to take back your beer-case of empties, and there are always two missing. Where did they go? Is there a guy, or a dame, hiding behind the furnace who sneaks up when you are beddy-by es, drinks two or your beers, then eats the bottles? For the ladies, the wrong shades of lipstick and half-empty bottles of nail polish multiply, along with saucers for which the cups have disappeared. Wire coat hangers reproduce like rats. The other day, while attempting to get my coat out of the closet,-1 knocked down six empty hangers. I carefully fished them up from among the parts of the vacuum cleaner, took another 40 empty hangers off the pole, tied them all together with cord, marched calmly into the basement and hurled them into the woodpile. Two weeks later, I knocked down eight hangers while getting my coat, and sat down and wept tears of fury and frustration. Pencils multiply, but there's never one in the house when you are trying to take down a long-distance phone message. Odd buttons multiply until it seems like a button factory. But when you need two the same size and color, forget it. You have six thousand buttons, no two alike. You think you don't take many snapshots. Been to the attic lately? There are twelve boxes of them up there, right from your own baby pictures, through your courting days, into your own children at every stage, and about five hundred of the grandchildren. But just try to find that especially good one you wanted to send to Aunt Mabel. Completely vanished. Shoes multiply. My wife had about thirty-six pairs, most of them out of style, just like that outfit she had to get the shoes to go with. She had to tear my comfortable old shoes out of my hands to put them in the garbage. I go to a half-price sale, buy three new pairs, and they sit there, stiff and stark, while I go on wearing the old shabby ones. Stamps run out; magazines pile up to the ceiling. Bills and receipts multiply while bank accounts diminish. Pornography flourishes as sex drive diminishes. Television channels multiply while their contents diminish in quality. Workmanship diminishes as cost of it soars. And I've just touched the surface. How about acid rain and fish? Or safe, salted highways and holes in your car? Was it always like this, or is it just a curse of the twentieth century? Make up your own list ; two columns, one headed Multipliers, the other Diminishers. It will shake you. [ Letters to the Editor ] June 7 th, 1985 Ottawa, Ont, K1A OAO Dear Sir: A recent report on Global TV left the impression that Conservative Ml's were "scratching their heads" to identify non-partisan Government Government appointments other than those of Ambassadors Stephen Lewis and former Commons Speaker, Lloyd Francis. The TV report wns apparently apparently based on information and documentation supplied by Mr, Don Boudrin, M.P, which, I think, at least deserves deserves some scrutiny by the public. The fact that Mr, lion- dria lists the Honorable John Hoslcy, Speaker of the House of Commons, ns our Number One patronage appointment should tell you something about the quality of Ills research, research, lie alleges that approximately approximately 1,000 Order-ln-Coimell appointments have been made since September and concludes concludes they have been all-of a partisan nature. Let me give you a few facts about some Order-in-Couneil appointments appointments which should indicate the extent to which Mr, Bou- dria lias been purveying gravely misleading information information to the media and to the public. 1. Approximately 150-200 of the alleged 1,000 Ordcrs-in- Council involved changes in Deputy Ministers and Associate Associate Deputy Ministers, Hie appointments of PUBLIC SERVANTS to Boards of Crown Corporations and the re-appointments of Chief Executive Executive Officers of VIA Rail, CN and other Crown Corporations Corporations and advisory bodies, etc. 2, Forty-two (42) federal judges were appointed after consultation with and approval by the Canadian liar Association. 3. Twenty-six (26) Queen's Counsels were appointed at New Year's, among them Senator Pierre DeBane, the Honorable David Smith and the Honorable Don Johnston. 4. Twenty-nine (29) Parliamentary Parliamentary Secretaries appear to be numbered among the total described by Mr. Boudrin, Boudrin, 5. Liberal Senator and former former Senate Speaker, Maurice Riel, was named a Privy Councillor, (i. Former NDP Lender Tommy Douglas was named a Privy Councillor. 7, Former Manitoba NDP Finance Minister, Saul Cherniak, Cherniak, the Honorable J.J. Biais ami Panic Gauthier, Quebec President of the Canadian Hnr Association, were appointed to the Canadian Security Intelligence Intelligence Agency. 8, The Registrar of the Supreme Court, the Clerk Assistant of the House and I lie Dominion Archivisit were all appointed by Order-in- Couneil. 9. Each member of the household staff at the Prime Minister's residence was appointed by Ordcr-in- Council, I gather Mr. Boudria included these employees in his head count. May I list at random a few dozen ottier high-profile Order-in-Couneil appointees of great repute who either belong to the NDP or Liberal parties or who have no known political affiliation: 1, Mr. Gerald La fores l, Justice Supreme Court of Canada 2, Dr. Paul David, Senator 3, Mr. Richard J. Doyle, Senator 4, Ms. Sylvia Gold, Chairperson, Chairperson, Advisory Committee on Status of Women. 5, Mrs. Helene Balllargeon- Cote, Citizenship Court Judge G. Mrs, Pierre Laporte, Citizenship Citizenship Court Judge 7. Mr, Hamilton Southnm, Chairman, Official Residences' Residences' Commission 8. Honorable Bud Drury, Official Official Residences' Commission 9. Mr. Rocii Bolduc, Director, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Corporation 10. Mr. Denis de Bcllcvnl, President, Canada Ports Corporation Corporation It. Mr. Pierre Fortin, Member, Member, Economic Council of Canada 12, Mr. Jean-Roeh Hoivln, Q.C., Director, VIA Rail 13, Justice Jules Dcschcnes, Chairman, Royal Commission on War Criminals 14, Mr. I,. Yves Fortier, Q.C., Chief Counsel, Royal Commission Commission on War Criminals 15, Mr. Claude Caslongtmy, Member, Industrial Renewal Hoard IG. Mr, Bernard Lamarre, Chairman, C.D,I,C. 17. Mr. Antoine Turmel, Member, Board of C.D.I.C, 18. Mr. Harrison McCain, Board Member, Petro-Canada 19. Mr. J. Claude Couture, Q.C., Chief Judge, Tax Court of Canada 20. Mr, Paul Audlcy, CBC Internal Review Task Force 21. Mr. Ken Dauby, Member, Canada Council 22. Ms. Catherine MacKinnon, MacKinnon, Member, Canada Council 23. Ms. Coline Campbell, MP's Salary Review Task Force 24. Mr. Bob White, Co-Chairman, Co-Chairman, Industrial Restructuring Hoard 25. Mr. Wally Majesky, Director, Director, CM i 1C 2G. Mr. Gerry Caplun, Co- Clialrimin, Broadcasting Tusk Force 27. Mr. Fiorina Snuvageau, Co-Chairman, Broadcasting Task Force 28, Ms. Mlml Fullerton, Mem- Turn to Page 9