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I v i 4 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, September 19,1990 Cattail iatt Statesman Durham Region's Great Family Journal Established 136 years ago in 1854 Also Incorporating a The Bowmanville News |>| The Newcastle Independent . The Orono News Second Class mail registration number 1561 Produced weekly by „ James Publishing Company ..Limited 62 King Street West, Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 3K9 416-623-3303 Fax cn 416-623-6161 " John M. James Editor - Publisher Richard A. James Associate Publisher Peter Parrott Associate Editor Brian Purdy trdy Advertising Mgr. Donald Bishop _ _ Plant Mgr. □ A. 11 layouts and composition of advertisements produced by the employees of James Publishing Company Limited are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced without the permission of the publisher. 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Editorial Comment Rae Faces Deficit Dilemma ; You might refer to it as 'The Case ■of the Disappearing Surplus." | The little drama played 1 out last week indicates pretty clearly what's so i fundamentally wrong with government. government. For the first act, we take you to preelection preelection Ontario where Liberal incumbents incumbents are chortling over the fact that itheir party is the only" one in decades ito have produced budgetary surpluses •two years in a row. ' . In Act Two, we raise tjhe curtain on .post-election Ontario where an -outgoing -outgoing Liberal regime has suddenly discovered discovered that there won't be a surplus ; after all. Nope, it turns out that we'll 'have a deficit. ; Naturally, you might take a charita- •ble view of this matter, at first. The .Ontario budget is massive and it ; would be understandable if the estimates estimates werë out by a few million dollars dollars here or there. So how far out is •this latest figure? Well, in round figures, figures, it's about $700 million. At this point, one finds it hard'to be •charitable. At this point, one tends to .believe that the previous administration administration has been à little less than forth- • right with its public. Not that this is : unusual for governments. But, they don't usually get caught so red- handed. Look at it this way: Let's take a few zeros off the numbers and consider what would happen if we were not talking about a government deficit but were referring to a personal bank account. account. Let's suppose that in a matter of days, you found out that the account which was supposed to contain $23 actually actually had an overdraft of $700. No doubt, your bank would be on the phone demanding an explanation. And suppose tha,t all along, you had used this bank balance of $23 as proof of your skills as a financial manager. manager. Wouldn't you feel that your credibility credibility was at stake? Wouldn't you be embarrassed? There are two possible explanations to the Liberals' glaring oversight in their role as watchdog for the public purse. And neither one of these is very satisfactory. One explanation is that the government knew all along that the deficit was coming. But it cynically manipulated or withheld the facts in attempting to win an election. The second second explanation is that the Ontario government and its treasurer have no idea how much money is in the government government coffers until their civil servants who run the whole operation tell them. In this case, they were told nothing and assumed the nest. Sometimes, it would seem, ignorance really is bliss. The government must have had some idea of Ontario's true financial picture. Why, then, did it rely so heavily heavily on the projected surplus as a point in its political platform. Surely they should have suspected that this plank in the platform was a little weak. At the very least, they ought to have downplayed the surplus, knowing that Tough Luck for Toronto By the time this is appears in print, ; the nail-biting concerning the site of ! the 1996 Olympics will be over. ; And Canadians will know whether ; the city of Toronto will be hosting the I world for the 100th anniversary of the ; modern Olympic Games. ' From the little that we know of the ; Toronto Olympic bid, the games arc a ; good idea. ! For one thing, they will boost a : tourism industry which has been log- • ging somewhat in the past year and ! may bo going into a slump. ; I The public must keep in mind the ; fact thnt the traditional "smokestack" industries are cither closing or auto- mating or re-locating, There's no growth in job opportunities in that sector sector at the moment. On the other hand, it's the service industries sucli ns tourism tourism which have (until recently, at least) been experiencing growth. Tourism now ranks ns the third- largest industry in Ontario. However, it needs largo-senlo festivals and other attractions to draw a crowd. The Olympics would certainly fill the bill. There arc those who argue that the money being spent on the Olympic bid and the money which would lie required required if the Olympics were lo come Lo Toronto could bo bettor spent on eradicating eradicating social ills such as the lack of affordable affordable housing. There's some merit to that argument, argument, but it can be used to quash almost almost any initiative. One might just as well say, for example, that municipalities municipalities shouldn't fund parks, recreational programs, libraries or art galleries because because there are more basic needs for food and shelter to be met among the needy. Unfortunately, there's no guarantee guarantee that money saved by governments governments through not contributing to an Olympic competition would actually create the affordable housing or other things demanded of Olympic opponents. opponents. Canadians may be wary of an Olympic Olympic spectacle because of the fact mat the Montreal games resulted in a whopping deficit which was shouldered shouldered by the taxpayer. But there's no real parallel between the Montreal games and the Toronto games. After nil, the city already has a Sky- dome built and paid for. And this would surely bo the centrepiece for any Olympic competition. Similarly, many of the other venues and facilities are already in place. In short, we d like to see mi Olympic competition in Toronto. Regrettably, wo lmvo learned thnt it is the City of Atlanta which 1ms won the right to host the games in 1996. new information was on the way. The government is relying on the defence of incompetence. But the general general public tends to think that deliber- , ate manipulation of the facts is a more plausible explanation. They also wonder wonder how many other facts are manipulated manipulated in much the same fashion. They wonder whethe.r they can believe anything anything a government source tells them. . Incidents like the disappearing Ontario Ontario surplus are one of the reasons why people have such a low opinion of politicians and the political process these day s. It's one of the reasons why the previous Liberal government of Ontario currently finds itself on the one-way slide to oblivion. If governments lack anything, it's a commitment to fundamental honesty in their dealings. People have a right to expect that governments will tell them the truth. What they get is a second or third- hand vision of the truth which is filtered filtered through the rosy-coloréd lenses of whatever political regime happens to be in charge. Given the cynicism and opportunism opportunism which surrounds politics,, we have no doubt that the deficit/surplus fiasco will have yet another chapter. We fully expect that when the provincial provincial legislature re-opens in a few weeks' time, the interim Liberal leader leader and ex-Ontario treasurer will be on his feet. He will demand that the new premier account for the fact that although although he has been in office'for only a few days, he has already incurred a deficit. Lest we seem to be too hard on the departing Liberal government of Ontario, Ontario, we should point out that the cynical cynical use of power without respect for the intelligence of the public is not limited to any particular party. A number of us have been underwhelmed underwhelmed by the Prime Minister's exercise exercise in packing the senate with handpicked handpicked cronies whose first task will be to pass legislation implementing the Goods and Services Tax. We don't know how cynical or manipulative manipulative the New Democrats might- be in government because of the fact that they have never before formed a government in Ontario. We have said previously that the NDP must avoid the pitfall of becoming becoming just another typical government. It can do so by being honest with the electorate. If in four years' time, we hear Bob Rae and his government whining about .the fact that they can't possibly solve Ontario's fiscal woes because of the over-spending by their predecessors, predecessors, we will know tnat they are falling falling back into the familiar rhetoric and half-truths that are the stock and trade of about 75 per cent of those who hold political office today. The New Democrats can probably earn the respect of the electorate faster faster through honesty than anything else. ' /4/y IVIKVl-- 1 Going Away Present In the Editor's Mail The following is a copy of a letter to Garnet Rickard, Chairman of the Newcastle Community Liaison Group. Re: "Committee Wants Waste Removed from Newcastle" Newcastle" Canadian Statesman, Statesman, September 16,1990. Dear Mr. Rickard, Members Members of the NCLG: I was most pleased • to read in this week's Statesman Statesman that the Community Liaison Liaison Group (CLG) is now publicly declaring that its mandate is to remove the low-level nuclear waste from the Port Granby facility, as indicated by Mr. Rickard --1 quote from the news article: "We certainly are not looking looking at keeping it there (at Port Granby)". According to the Minutes of the CLG, on april 24th you forwarded to Council a letter which stated that "the Community Liaison Group interprets its role to review all options and present them to tne public." This motion came about after considerable considerable discussion amongst CLG members regarding Council's Council's very strong directive that the waste be removed from the site; however, contrary contrary to Council's directive, the option to keep the waste .remains open. This matter has been discussed discussed on more than one occasion. occasion. Only July 31st, a motion motion was put to the CLG: "that the motion to consider all options be amended to be more specific and that we consider all options involved with the removal and resiting resiting of the low-level radioactive radioactive wastes presently located located in Port Granby; and that we endorse the direction direction of the Council of the Town of Newcastle Resolution Resolution #0-329-90." In other words, no consideration be given to keeping the wastes. On a recorded vote, the motion motion lost. According to the minutes, Mr. Rickard, you did not support this motion - - in other words, one could say that you, personally and the committee by iamority, support the possibility of leaving the wastes at Port Granby. It seems that one version of your mandate is stated publicly, another supported supported hy committee in the official rebord. On several occasions, CLG members have expressed expressed concern with loc public input. When the public public is given the impression through the local media that their wishes are being heeded heeded (ie. removal of the waste) by local council Resolution and by public statements made by the Chairman of the Committee, why should the public be involved? Perhaps Perhaps we, in the public, have developed a false sense of security security in our trust of public statements. I, for one, would appreciate clarification of the position of the CLG - is the CLG considering all options options (including leaving the wastes at Port Granby), or does the CLG support the removal of the wastes only?I wish also to make a comment comment regarding the brochure brochure which came to my home by mail recently. I was pleased to see that you are disseminating information to the public. This brochure is a good place to start to reach out to the community. However, I take exception to the statement "The Town of Newcastle has a waste site at Port Granby..." The site is not a "Town of Newcastle" waste site - it is owned by Cameco (formerly Eldorado Resources Limited). By stating stating that "The Town of Newcastle Newcastle has a waste site", there is the inference that government - through the licensing process, and through the siting process. Also stated in the brochure brochure is: "Help us 'examine the waste problem, what the possible solutions may be and in proposing 'a longterm longterm answer for further detailed detailed engineering investigations investigations in the next phase of the procegs.".Alreaay, it appears appears that the CLGjSiCgpfi- dent that it will move on to Phase IV of the process which addresses these very issues. Perhaps, it would- have saved a great deal of time and tax dollars if Newcastle Newcastle jumped into the process process only at Phase IV rather than spinning wheels at Phase III -- as I interpret the siting process, it is only at the very late stages of Phase IV wherein transportation transportation consultation with other other affected communities begins. begins. In fact, according to "Opting for Co-Operation", Phase III is the phase in which a community expresses expresses an interest to participate in siting a facility. After the CLG of the interested community community has reported to Council, Council can "opt out" of the process (to not be a host community). If, then, we as a community have repeatedly repeatedly stated "NO" to being being a host community, why are we going through the motions of this Phase III? Could you clarify this matter matter also? Thank you, Mr. Rickard, for taking the time to read my correspondence, and I look forward to receiving your early reply. Sincerely, (Mrs.) Helen MacDonald, Bowmanville Boosters Try to Ease Confusion Open letter to all resi- , dents of Burketon, Courtice, Enfield, Enniskillen. Hampton, Hampton, Haydon, Kendal, Kirby, Leskara. Maple Grove,- Mitchells Corners, Newcastle, Newcastle, Newtonville, Orono, Soli- na and Starkville. We recognize that the above-noted heading is at this point in time somewhat unique. We could have employed employed the all encompassing 'Town of Newcastle" or referenced referenced "communities within within the Town of Newcastle." However, we consider each of your communities unique in that you are still individual individual entities which we in Bowmanville Bowmanville once were. Prior to 1974, we were a Town, we had a Bowmanville Town Hall, we had a Bowmanville Library, we had a Bowmanville Bowmanville Fire Department. Just a few short years ago, the Town was canvassed for the Bowmanville Fitness Centre which has miraculously become become the Town of Newcastle Fitness Centre. The same fate was in store for the new Recreation Complex, except for the timely intervention of the Skate '88 committee. Up to now, your communities communities have not faced this blatant blatant intrusion on your time- honoured facilities. In starting out several months ago as Bowmanville Boosters, it was felt by some that this general heading could be taken as our being strictly Bowmanville. Crt course, we are Bowmanville Boosters. Pride exists in our community just as it does in your community. For many years, we competed with and against the communities communities referenced here and we felt the pride you exhibited and respected you for it. Today, Today, you still have yours and don't let anyone take it from you. Ours has been and still is being eroded by the insensitivity insensitivity of past and present local administrations. Mayor Hubbard states that we In Bowmanville have not lost our identity. In point of fact we are no longer longer recognized as an entity at Queen's Park. Birth and death certificates are no longer recorded as Bowmanville, Bowmanville, project tenders within Week to Honor Meals on Wheels "Dear Mr. James: » Meals on Wheels Ontario has proclaimed the week of September 23-29 as Meals on Wheels Week across the province. In the Town of Newcastle we have nine routes that run three times per week. Four routes are within the town of Bowmanville and rural rural routes run to Tyrone, Newcastle, Orono, Courtice and Hampton. In honour of Meals on Wheels Week we want to commend our 150 volunteers who deliver meals in six different different geographical areas in the Twon of Newcastle. We thank Bowmanville memorial memorial Hospital as well, for their continued supply of meals for the program. The major funding for this program comes from the Ministry of Community and Social Services, United Way our community are noted as being in the 'Tomer" Town of Bowmanville; our parks established years ago, now •are signed as Memorial Park - Waverley Park, Town of Newcastle. Where, Madam Mayor, other than a postal adress, is the Town of Bowmanville? We are certain that each of you, respectively, would be reacting to such callous-,, ness, just as we are. It is ' this kind of attitude that perhaps gives rise to what appears to be a Bowmanville only cause. Further, we are being portrayed as wanting to replace replace the Town of Newcastle with the Town of Bowmanville. Bowmanville. How ridiculous an assertion. assertion. .We are attempting to remove the confusion that exists with two Newcastles, not add to it with two Bow- manvilles. Wouldn't you expect expect a bit more Common sense would be present at the Municipal Administrative Administrative Centre. We have stated publicly as well as at meetings with the Mayor and Council and we repeat it here again - our suggestion was Pine Ridgè District and it is only a suggestion. suggestion. Any other suggested name would be, more than welcome. Let us assure' you once again we have no intention of forcing the name Bowmanville Bowmanville on any community. However, we will continue continue our efforts to eliminate the confusion of two Newcastles, Newcastles, reinforce your communities communities as individual entities and not "communities" within within some fictitious fantasy and put the name of our town back on our own institutions. institutions. ; Bowmanville is not alone in this. All of our communities communities could be in danger of losing their identities to the "Town of Newcastle." We extend extend an invitation to each of you to join with us to help restore some degree of sarin ty to this part of Durham Region. " { Yours respectfully, • Don Gilhooly, . Chairman -Name. .-;o Change Committee Writer Comments on Recent Native Issues I'm a non-native.' My ancestors, ancestors, French and English, came to this continent in search of freedom from oppression. oppression. I'm proud that, unlike unlike the United States, our pattern of dispossessing native native people of their traditional traditional lands has been achieved through negotiationa and treaty. I'm ashamed of our appalling greed for this land and its resources. Like manyCanadians,' I feel that we are the most fortunate fortunate nation on the earth. We enjoy a very high standard standard of living -- we are blessed with an abundance of minerals, water, forests, oil and rich agricultural land. Canadians benefit from social programs that many nations in the world may never achieve. And yet, -amidst all of our, wealth, power and pride, stand native native communities from coast-to-coast - an affront to my image of Canada - bereft bereft of their land, their ways, their languages, their cultures and their future. In this multi-cultural mo- siac we call Canada, many people believe, as does our federal government, that the solution to the "Indian problem" problem" is to assimilate them into our culture - "which one," you might ask. As a young nation we placed no such assimilation demands on waves of European and Asian immigration, nor do the and Bowmanville Legion Poppy Fund. The, Meals on Wheels program program is a very worthwhile and needed service within our community. Please join us in celebrating Meals on Wheels Week in the Town of Newcastle. Yours very truly, Sally Barrie Meals on Wheels Co-ordinntor we now. In the community I grew up in we actually celebrated celebrated our cultural diversity every summer with a Fiesta week. Why, then, do we insist with our attitudes and legislation legislation that the native be absorbed absorbed into this multicultural multicultural pot - bringing their beadwork and dances to the party but leaving their beliefs, beliefs, traditions, political systems systems and, most importantly, their relationship to the land, this elemental bond between Indians and their mother, the earth - behind them? Would we ask this of any other culture in Canada? Canada? Of course not. There can be no doubt that the i events in Quebec this summer will form a watershed watershed in our relationship with aboriginal people in this country. If you believe that the Indians are calling our for special treatment in our society, I'd ask you to consider another possibility that deserves a response other than anger and denial'. They are really only asking for a basic respect, as a people people and as individuals, from, people who ask the same. x Respect from our government government and from all Canadians Canadians that flows from an understanding understanding of the history of native people in this country before and since the rest of us got here. . • [ , Respect that the agree- • ments we have made -with them will be honoured. ' ' Respect for their beliefs and traditions so that their cultures may flourish, in this future generations, add*- ing their vibrancy to th$ greatness of our country, i Maybe that's a lot to ask}- - to some people reading this it likely sounds insane. However, However, in order for us to develop develop and grow as a nation in this post-Meech era of national national distrust, we're all going going to. have to learn that same measure of respect for one another. j It's obviously a challenge we have to meet as individuals individuals - our federal government government refuses to acknowledge ■its responsiblity to serve ojl of the people in this country. Brent Lavictoife 12 Brown St. Bowmanville, Ontario Thanks for , The Coverage Dear Johnnie: Many thanks for all your great coverage of the "12th of July Walk" at Orono in The Canadian Statesman and The Newcastle Independent. Independent. Ï ' "Thank you sincerely, * In every warm way! - Will remember your kindness kindness * For many a day!" Fred Griffin. Rec. Sect. Bowmanville L.O.L. #2384, Officers and Members Andrea Adair of Newcastle. case. Responsibility for the site rests with the federal Family Wants Port Granby Waste Removed from Area R.R.l, Newtonville, Ont, LOA 1 JO Sept. 10,1990. Newcastle Community Liaison Group, ' Bowmanville, Ont, Dear Sirs: On behalf of my three young daughters and myself, myself, please note thnt wo re- quest the radioactive and other wastes be removed from Port Granby and our community. Moat pooplo, myaolf in-» eluded, are diaincllnod to attend attend mootlnga or demonstrations, demonstrations, however strongly thoy fool about an issue. Therefore, Therefore, you may not reçoive an accurnto indication of how this community of Clarke fools . WE DON'T WANT TIIB WASTE 11 I mysolf lmvo only attendod ono mootlng/domonstratlon in my llfo • that was at Port Granby in April 1988. My husband and I bought a farm as far from the city os possible to provide a more healthy lifo for our children, only to find thnt we were poisoning thorn with Port Granby and other area waste dumps. Perhaps at greater risk than wo from the waste are pooplo who drink Lake Ontario water. Finally, with all duo respect respect for tho time and effort of your committee, tho money money and time spent on this issue issue is wasted since Newcastle Newcastle Town Council and tho pooplo have nlrondy ox- pressed their desire to rid this community of Cnmcco's Port Granby wastes. Yours sincerely, Judith Ilurvid and Tamil- iy P'S-I And it silly that your office is located In Bow- mnnvillo, miles from tho pooplo who arc concerned about this problem. The waterfrônt should be clean, green, open affordable, affordable, attractive and accessible to everyone. Those arc some of the principles the Royal Commission Commission on the future of the Toronto waterfront is recommending to bo used as guides in regenerating the area, David Crombic, the person heading the commission, commission, released the second second interim report of his investigation into the area along the lnkcshoro that stretches from Newcastle Newcastle to Burlington. The report is thick, attractive attractive and sots out many wonderful and, perhaps, perhaps, utopian, ideas. There nro roughly 80 recommendations. 30 of which relate to tho environment. environment. Tho report suggests preservation of tho Oak Ridges Moraine, improv- La" ing water quality in ' , doublini ittko Ontario, "doubling the number of trees in wntor- front municipalities and creating now community forests in waterfront areas. areas. It's recommending partnership agreements with communities along the lnkcshoro and the province and suggests the area should be declared a provincial resource. And the commission would like to sec a 150 km long waterfront trail from Newcastle to Burlington. Burlington. Whether the affected levels of government will follow through on these recommendations is yet to bo scon. So is tho question question of whether tho bureaucracy bureaucracy will make it easy for this beautiful rejuvenation rejuvenation to take place. It is hoped governments governments won't bo a- stum- bang block Lo getting tho recommendations based on tho nine principles implemented. implemented. Clean, open, nffordnblo and accessible are my highl|ght8 of those nine principles. Accessible is my most important. Kvoryono should lmvo access to the waterfront, including the residents of the Town of Newcastle. I'm not a frequent visitor visitor of the lakefront in Bowmanville. In fact, I didn't even know the beach was there until this past July. I used to think nothing existed past the marina. On my initial visit to the area, the trip was highlighted by a pot-hole filled parking lot and sitting sitting on seagull droppings on tho boulders jutting out of tho water. Some of the principles of Crombio's report, such as tho emphasis on cleanliness, cleanliness, would help turn tho area into nn attractive attractive nren to visit on n Saturday Saturday altornoon. In contrast to Bowmanville, Bowmanville, tho waterfront nron in Whitby, while not as a ritzy condo complex is planned for the waterfront waterfront area. Smacked between these two municipalities is Oshawa where a beautiful beautiful boardwalk stretches across its shoreline. It's clean, doesn't cost any- ' thing to visit and is available available to everyone. Right now is an opportune opportune time for this report to come out. As I write these words, the Town of Newcastle is about to release release the results of their own waterfront study. ; It is hoped those ook- ing after the public, business business of this municipality will keep foremost in their minds the importance importance of all tho residents in tho Town being given the opportunity to enjoy lakefront. the ....... „ Whatever comes from tho consultants' study for tho future, the public must figure prominently in it and the public must bo defined ns everyone, Luoniumy v» uuuw uuuvin i» pot just those who can afin afin question in tho future ford it. MIIUI HI MIMWUJJ 1T1IIIU ilUL very sandy, bus n rugged- ness about it that is vory appealing. Unfortunnloly, the accessibility accessibility of that bench is in nimslinn in Pnlnrn