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4 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Wednesday, June 1,1994 Section Two Book Criticized as Being "Too Opinionated" by Gord Mills, M.P.P, Durham "Constituency Week" allowed me a change of pace from being at the Legislature, it was a busy week that included speaking to several groups on the work of an MPP, attending a press conference in Toronto to make the final announcements about the 'D' Day Parade in Toronto, attending the Cancer Treatment Open House at Oshawa General Hospital, meet with local community leaders, and Chief Gary Edgar over the Scugog First Nations gaming facility, as well as being in the constituency office talking talking to people needing help and or assistance. assistance. Sandwiched between events I did get my car serviced, saw my doctor and had my teeth checked. Having survived my personal 10,000 mile check-up, it's back to the grindstone at Queen's Park until the House breaks for the Summer. When that will happen is anyone's guess, given the track-record of previous years. During the past week, as I drove from one event to another, my mind wandered off thinking about why we don't try to get back to basics in this country of ours. What for example has happened to personal responsibility responsibility rather than the culture of dependency? dependency? I say that after listening to someone demand welfare, while being being the owner of a large RRSP. Everywhere, Everywhere, society seems to be falling apart. We have children, who can barely string two sentences on paper together, effectively 'divorcing' their parents to live without any code of conduct. No longer it seems, are the crimes of parents visited upon their children. Increasingly it is the reverse. reverse. People now spend longer and longer at the workplace believing that an ever-rising income is the way forward. forward. Husband and wife spend more and more time apart. Youngsters now spend more time communicating with TV role models than with their parents. The modem family is not one in which grandparents easily fit either. In their loneliness, they fret over health-care, or what the future holds for' them, and they visit doctor's doctor's surgeries and the office of the MPP simply to talk to someone. What clearly needs to emerge is a new relationship in which authority can give a lead, but in which individuals individuals must find a sense of purpose within themselves. History books tell us that previous moral revivals have been hugely popular for there is no substitute for self-respect and the security security of family. Okay - I'll get off my soap-box for now. At the last Committee of General Government, Bill 21 finally made some headway. This is the legislation dealing with the Land Lease Lot Communities. It has been a fearful struggle fighting to get this legislation legislation passed. Now, part from a few clauses that remain to be examined, the Bill will be introduced for 3rd Reading. The folks down at Wilmot Creek will be pleased, as I will be. This was something I promised to do when elected back in 1990. This Bill will ensure Wilmot Creek residents receive the same rights other home owners presently enjoy, and rightfully rightfully so. The Ministry of Health recently announced the first cancer strategy Outlook From Page 3 Abuse, which happens in the family, family, is different in many ways, but in other ways it is not. This kind of abuse doesn't happen to a whole community or to one particular particular group. It can happen anywhere, when a child least expects it or when they do expect it, if it is something that is on-going. The story I am discussing could be anyone's story of an abused childhood. childhood. A few changes here and there, it could be the story of someone you know like your mother, sister, daughter, daughter, son, niece or nephew. It could be anyone. It could even be you. for Ontario. The cancer strategy focuses focuses on the full continuum of cancer activities including prevention, health promotion, screening, early detection, detection, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, rehabilitation, supportive care, palliation, research research and education. The Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation presented the Foundation's Foundation's capital plan identifying a requirement requirement for 63 radiation therapy machines operating in the province by 1995. Recently, I arranged and acted as Chair, at a meeting with members of the Board of Directors of Oshawa General Hospital, Ministry Ministry of Health officials and the Director Director of The Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation, in Toronto. Toronto. The subject of the meeting was to identify the immediate need of radiation radiation therapy in OGH. Coming out of that meeting was an agreement by all parties that radiation therapy is needed needed in this area NOW. The machines will cost $18-million, however, I believe believe that new machines presently designated for installation at the Bay- view Centre could come to OGH in order to serve à larger area relieving the trauma of daily travel to downtown downtown Toronto for treatment I am looking forward to a decision being . made before this Fall. St. Stephen's Says Thank You to Co-op A sincere thank you to the business, business, industries and community organizations organizations for your active participation participation in the St. Stephen's Co-operative Education Progamme. | Your active participation in these work/study programmes is a significant significant contribution to community involvement involvement in education and represents represents a unique example of business, industry and education sharing in career career planning for youth. Artistic Hair Designs, Bi-Way, Bobette Unisex, Bowmanville Ambulance Ambulance Service, Bowmanville Memorial Memorial Hospital, Bowmanville Veterinary Clinic, Canadian Tire, Canadian Armed Forces, Cobourg, C&C Motor Sales Limited, Darlington Auto Centre, Centre, Dr. Emily Stowe Public School, Durham House Child and Family Centre, Durham Regional Police, General Motors of Canada Limited, King Street Bar and Grill, Mother Teresa Teresa Elementary School, Msgr. Cleary Elementary School, Municipality Municipality of Clarington, Animal Control, Novak Financial Group, Oliver's Pizza Pizza and Subs, Oshawa General Hospital, Hospital, Pet Valu, Port Dairlington Marina Hotel, Shoppers Drug Mart, St. Joseph's Joseph's Elementary School, St. Stephen's Stephen's Elementary School, Stratha- ven Lifecare Centre. Farm Summer Wage Subsidy Announced The Summer Wage Assistànce Program (SEWAP) for agriculture was recently announced by the Ontario Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. Agricultural Employment Services Services are once again the delivery agent for this program. SEWAP provides a $3.00/hour wage subsidy for farm employers whose gross farm production production was at least $7,000 in 1993. The subsidy is designed to create new jobs for youth. The job must last a minimum of 6 continuous weeks with a minimum of 30 hours per week. For more information on. employer eligibility, full program details and application forms contact your nearest nearest AES or OMAF office. Application deadline is July 22, 1994. However, funds for the program program arc limited and therefore the program may end prior to the deadline. deadline. While on the topic of health and of interest to seniors and others who receive drags through the Ontario Drag benefit Program, the. Ministry of Health has identified a number of improvements to address the inappro- Ç riate prescribing and use of drugs. here are 36,500 ODB recipients receiving receiving over 100 prescriptions each year. It is estimated that 20 per cent of all hospital admissions of seniors relate to problems with medication. In November 1993, the Ministry of Health established the new Health. Network, an electronic pathway connecting connecting pharmacists and the Ministry of Health. In the space of 3 months, 3,700 claims were highlighted with the help of the Network, preventing potentially dangerous drag interactions. interactions. I tend to get a little short with people people who complain about the decline of our health services. Until we took office, health care spending was increasing increasing at the rate of 12 per cent each year. One doesn't heed to be a rocket-scientist to understand that if that had been allowed to continue our access to health care, something we have come to believe as our birthright, birthright, would disappear to be replaced replaced by a scheme where those who have the money would get the service. service. Times have been tough, but we have managed health care effectively. A generation of Canadians still remember remember what life was like before medicare. These people survived the Dirty '30s. Many watched as a family member got sick and died because there was no money for medical care. As profits decline in companies the axe as a rale falls on the workers. They seem to be the ones getting the pink ticket. Not so with company executives. executives. The 22 executives of Dofas- co Inc;} the prideof Hamilton, awarded awarded themselves $4.3 million in salaries and $1.6 million in bonuses in 1990. This was the same year the company wrote off $713 million as a result of losses at Algoma Steel, brought about by the decisions made by the very same executives! Until next week - A cynic is someone who found out at age 10 that there wasn't a Santa Claus, and is still mad! The Editor: Once more into the break (official RCAF history supports contentions in The Valour and the Horror TV series). series). The newly-released government publication appears to categorize the World War Û bombing offensive in Germany as immoral. Surely, a judgemental call? Like me, I believe most Canadians would be under the impression that a government-published work of history history should be scrupulously objective! About this one, war historian Jack Granatstein says: "This account, astonishingly opinionated opinionated for official history, too often seems like nothing so much as the TV series with footnotes." "The Crucible of War seems to have been lacking a guiding editorial hand." In his book review, Professor Gra- natstein states further: "The Crucible of War seems to have been lacking a guiding editorial hand, one needed to rein in the intemperate intemperate judgements that mar it." The 1,056-page volume, written by four public servants in DND, seems only to muddy the waters^ further further concerning the difficult question of bombing civilians. " " - Incidently, the series was commenced commenced in 1924 (that's right) and there is still one book to be completed. completed. The conduct of the air war over Germany has; become a public issue of great significance which cries out for clarification - particularly now that DND has gotten into the act. It is obviously time for an impartial impartial inquiry. NOT by the courts...there are no legal questions involved. NOT by Parliamentary body...keep politics out of this. The Government should establish an "Ombudsman-type" investigation (effective; (effective; inexpensive; decisive and, above all, speedy). We owe this much to the air crews, to their families and to history. history. The "rights or wrong" debate about bombing German civilians during during World War II started with the Reverend Cosmo Lang, the Archbishop Archbishop of Canterbury, back in the early 1940's. He . spoke out against it - based on Christian principles. Most combat servicepersons went 1 to church (me included) but Nazi Germany Germany ignored the lessons from the pulpit - and went on with its brutal campaign of murder. In Normandy, after burying some of my platoon, I asked our Padre "why?" He held up a bible and said: "God's word is here. Some people do not want to hear it." The "villain" of the peace (as seen by Christian leaders in Britain) was Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris who said we must destroy Germany's armament armament potential. Hitler had many factories in cities. The workers who made the weapons of death for the German war machine lived there! What choice did Bomber Command have? I wonder...if the war against Germany Germany had been conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury??? Well, draw your own conclusions but in doing doing so, remember what Adolph Hitler Hitler was all about. ' - Terance McKenna, co-author of The Valour and The Horror, is quoted quoted in the Toronto Star on May 18th às saying, "We're delighted. We've always been confident that we had the facts on our side. Obviously we're delighted that the official history, history, literally decades in preparation, supports our interpretation." OK - but because the latest "black mark" against Bomber Command comes in an official history doesn't necessarily make it true. „ The record of Billy Bishop was clearly set out in Volume 1 of this series, series, entitled Canadian Airmen and The First World War, published in 1980. The National Film Board challenged challenged that record in its production The Kid Who. Couldn't Miss. This time around, the NFB/CBC, which financed the film, and Gala- film which produced The Valour and The Horror, seem only too ready to embrace the theories in Volume HI - The Crucible of War. Depends on whose ox' is getting gored, maybe. Sincerely, H.C. Chadderton, OC, O.Ont. DCL,LLD. Chief Executive Officer The War Amputations of Canada. Is Canada more socialist than the People's Republic of China? I've thought about this question since meeting Chinese economists, business leaders and agricultural groups when I was in Beijing. Consider this. An economist, working for a type of Chinese crown corporation set up by his country's Ministry of Agriculture thinks Canada Canada is too socialistic. I asked him what his organization does to market Chinese agriculture. He said, although initial funding came from China's central government, government, the corporation must make a profit. For a fee, he said. China exports agricultural technology to Argentina, Brazil and Columbia to help set up rice operations. The economist said the corporation corporation is also establishing a mushroom farm in Hawaii, on a fee-for-profit basis. "If you would like to get involved in our agricultural sectors we will direct direct you, once again, a fee will be charged," he said to me. They want a base salary for their expertise and a percentage of the year-end profits. That deal is set up with any country they do business with. Asked about future development, he said China's main agricultural concern is migration of farm employees employees from rural China to the cities. Right now 60 per cent of the country's working population is employed employed on farms or in rural areas. I asked if his government was studying how to set up a social safety net such as unemployment insurance or welfare to deal with future urban problems. "Have you considered Canada's social welfare system," I asked? China started to but discarded studying Canada's social welfare system system concluding it is too socialistic, he said! Now don't get me wrong. The Chinese still impose restrictions on their people. They control a person's movements throughout the country. They control media and the state owns all land. Still, when I toured a Beijing dairy I asked workers how they were paid. Through an interpreter they said they received a base salary and a percentage percentage of profits at year's end. I visited a 5000-cow dairy operation. operation. There, farmers are given plots of land and quotas to meet. Produce under quota and you are penalized, over and you receive a bonus. Of course I was leery when told there is no unemployment. But that's what all communists say. Unemployment, Unemployment, they argue, is the capitalists' problem. Although there is some unemploy ment in Shanghai (pop. 8.1 million), what the Chinese say it true. Underemployment is their problem. problem. Five farm workers may be doing the work of 3, but you have to keep the five. So, in a sense unemployment is dispersed throughout the population. But aren't we attempting to achieve this by reducing the work week and job sharing? I asked about workers injured on the job. Companies must continue to support workers and deal directly with hospitals and doctors when fees are paid, I was told. Isn't this analogous to user fees? Average per capita income is $1,000 a year and accommodation is paid for by government. Although not having to pay rent or a mortgage is a help to any family, the Chinese still save 30 per cent of the $1,000. Canadians, on average, save five- per-cent of total earnings. I walked into a five-storey department department store and saw television sets selling for $1,000 Canadian and shirts for $16. Obviously, there is a rising middle class with money to spend and they want to spend it. So, are we more socialist? They seem to think we are. Are we better off? I think so. Would I want their government and economic system? Not at all. Do I think this country should be less socialistic? Indeed I do. . . :