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The Clarington/Courtice Independent, Bowmanville, Saturday, October 26, 1996 17 Reform Lacks Imagination Canada Post Will Stop Delivery of Parliamentary Notebook Alex Shepherd Durham MR Around the foundation of any building there can be, from time to time, little insects which can manage to pull the building down. This is the spectre of the federal opposition opposition parties and especially so of Preston Manning's launch of his so-called vision of Canada Canada this last week. I was doubly shocked when I saw their logo, "the fresh start team". This was the logo which my own campaign used in the 1993 election. Indeed, all of our buttons and literature bear, this wording. So much for the Reform Party's imagination. imagination. And the fresh start has al- , ready arrived. Most people recognize recognize governments have to be smaller and more efficient. And most people would like a tax cut, but responsible people would like to finally beat the albatross of government debt and deficit first. Remember, lower interest rates are for most people right now better than a tax cut and you get that by judiciously reducing government government spending and debt. The most profound departure departure from logic to me is that party's stand on giving more power to the provinces. I never get any letters from people in DürÜam who want that. Creating Creating a federal government whose only functions relate to •• monetary policy, international relations, coast guard and the like, will send us further down the road to dismemberment and a fractionalization of our country. Indeed Canada is one of the most highly decentralized countries in the world. This, week I spoke with some pharmaceutical pharmaceutical representatives. They tell me that getting drug patents to market in Canada is similar to the European Union. After the federal government approves them, the provinces go through a similar approval system lasting upward to three years, adding further costs to drugs especially to our seniors. Manning's solution would be to create 10 regimes instead of one; talk about duplication and overlap. People in Canada are concerned concerned about their healthcare system and rightly so. The previous previous federal government allowed allowed provinces to experiment with degrees of user-paid methods; the result is different systems in every province in Canada. Clearly there are no national standards. It makes little little sense that Canadian snowbirds snowbirds from Ontario can no longer get medicare when they visit their relatives in British Columbia.. Something is wrong with our thoughts of national building and indeed, it is, this kind of thought process which will lead to nation destroying. 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"There is no question that community newspapers are a vital link to the strengths of our communities, and I am pleased the government acted quickly on the recommendations of the ' Mandate Review", Shepherd said. "I expressed to the Honourable Honourable Diane Marleau this morning, prior to her press- conference, that the newspaper industry in Durham would be supportive of her announcement" announcement" added Shepherd. "Many of our community newspapers have expressed their concern regarding unfair competition from Canada Post. It is the purpose of government to act as a referee in the market place, not to be a competitor with private business," said Shepherd. Mr. Shepherd made specific representation to the "review committee. He has been a member of the Finance Committee, Committee, Vice-Chair of the Public Public Accounts Committee, and currently he is a member df the Industry Committee. 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