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Queen's Park report 19 JANUARY 1976 DOUG MOFFATT, MPP DURHAM EAST In my last report from Queen's Park I indicated that I would be spending some time dealing with what is known as the "Special Program Program Review" by the Province Province of Ontario. The Special Program Review was created SNQWMOBILERS MAY CONTINUE TO USE REGIONAL ROADS As far as Operating snowmobiles snowmobiles on Regional roads a former county by-law still is in effect despite a move by the Regional Public Works Department Department to have snowmobiles snowmobiles banned from regional roads. Council of the Region last Wednesday voted down a proposed by-law to ban snowmobiles snowmobiles on the regional roads. A delegation of some 40 snowmobilers representing various clubs in the area were present to ask that the ban not be passed by council. Oxford BRICKLAYERS STONEMASONS Fireplaces Chminey Repairs AH type! of House Remodelling Flagstone Patio Slabs Concrete Jobs Phone 983-5606 to report to the province ways in- which spending "could be reduced.However, it is not really a program review at all. The report is too simplistic simplistic and too superficial. Many, if not most of its recommendations recommendations appear to be based on an analysis that goes no deeper than the numbers in the Estimates Books. There is no evidence that the impact of the Special Program Review's Review's recommendations on anything other than the provincial provincial budget was considered. considered. This amiable excersie in education for Maxwell Henderson, Henderson, Robert Hurlburt and Betty Kennedy produced an incredibly scattered array of recommendations. To me, the report is fundamentally antidemocratic. antidemocratic. It recommends, in many places, the establishment establishment of a private sector body to review government expenditure. expenditure. This review has always always been the function of the legislature, and in my opinion, opinion, should continue to be so. The report also recommends the establishment to a committee committee to review expenditure commitments before they are made, presumably to replace both the Cabinet and the Management Board. The report report sees government as a separate force in society, functioning independently both both of the public - which according to the report makes excessive and irrational demands demands for service - and of the private sector - with which it seems to compete. The private private sector, as distinct from the public sector, is to assume a direct role in government decision making. Throughout the report, one consistant result of many of the recommendations recommendations would be the creation of both direct and indirect indirect unemployment. Yet the report absolves the province ' responsibility for the whole ! DXSERVICE STATION i ® Highway 35 and 115, just north of Newcastle 1 ■ Featuring: . ■ Premium Quality Products | At the Most Reasonable ■ •Prices g Stove Oil &i on ■ Available in any quantity -- Phone 987-4215 ■ Up and down the bookstacks Tliurs. January 29th, 1976 ADULT One Canada by John Diefenbaker Diefenbaker (memoirs of the Rt. Hon. John G. 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Madeleine Hadley May pay more to go'Go' Commuters using the Go Transit system from Oshawa to Toronto may in the hear future be paying more for the trip. It is felt that a study now underway may well recommend recommend an increase in fares. Such an increase would have to be approved by the provincial cabint. The fares for Go Trains and Go Buses have not been raised since September 1972 and the province footed a $4.5 million deficit in 1974 up from the $1.9 million deficit in 1972. Oshawa commuters have been paying $1.55 for Go service to Toronto for the past 3*2 years. Last November the average number of transfers from Go bus to Go Train at the Pickering station was 985, for a total of 1,900 trips. . Orqno Weekly Times, Wednesday. January 28th, 1976--5 The total Lakeshore system Hamilton, averages 25,000 ridership, from. Oshawa to daily. Rejects endorsing airport JANUARY27 28,29,301976 EXHIBITION PARK -TORONTO-10 AM TO 6 PM tfe&TURWfi THE LARGEST SELECTION OF AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT UNDER ONE ROOF IN CANADA PREVIEW THE 1976 PRODUCT LINES CANADA'S FIRST IN DOOR yswriiiEtti <flwti785tt6Bo thaK EVtiu An attempt by Oshawa regional council, John deHart to have the region of Durham come out in support of the international airport at Pickering Pickering was voted down last Wednesday at a regular meeting of council. Coun. deHart wanted the region to go on record as favouring the airport constru ction which has been set-aside by the federal government after recommendation from the Province that they would not provide services to the proposal. The airport was an issue in the recent provincial election in the Pickering area. The recommendation was turned down by a vote of 16 to ' 9. ; if jackmaét Since 1912 Beautiful Flowers.. ... ..for Beautiful People 162 King St. East, Bewmanvilie PhOlte 623-3365 Ask Operator for ZENITH 36540 I 1 • » 1 » question of unemployment, and I quote from page 190, "in most instances, the size of the unemployed case load served by the GWA program is determined by federal policies." policies." While the report counsels the creation of additional unemployment it also recommends recommends that the province no longer involve itself in Manpower Manpower programs. It suggests that the newly created unemployed unemployed be absorbed without any retraining by the private sector. Now this is clearly impossible, given both unemployment unemployment in the private sector arid the fact that many of the proposed cuts will involve people who will not be in demand in the private sector. Indirect unemployment would would probably be greater than direct layoffs. For instance, the shift of costs and taxes to the municipal sector and thereby to the property tax will result in service reductions reductions and public sector layoffs. Also, higher property taxes will mean ' less consumer spending on other things, higher housing costs and generally jess consumption. Again, more unemployment will follow. It seems to me that the government of Ontario Ontario wishes to make paper savings at the expense of Ontario's working population'. Pierre says we must Anti-Inflate....so here's a couple of Anti-Inflaters Thursday Night Is (stil,) Spaghetti Night A lot of folk have found our Spaghetti Night to be very good, family value and fun too! Juice, Salad, Spaghetti and Meat Suace (All you can eat) Apple Turnover, Cinnamon Sauce, Tea or Coffee (Dinner for four, including a 6 qz. glass of wine each for Mom and Pop, per costs only $12.20, tax included ......try it, you'll tike it) .DUperson] AND NOW .... 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