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■ » ■ ■ 2-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, September 29, 1976 Loans & Housing Mat. Bring Loud Protests , Second Class Kail Registration Number 6368 :■ published every Wednesday at the Office of Publication Main Street, Orono, Ontario Phone 983r5310 Editor - Roy C, Forrester Advertising Manager -Rick Paterson TRUDEAU SHOULD SPREAD WORD ON CONTROLS Inflation is still a critical problem in Canada. August figures showing an average price increase of 6.2 per cent over 12 months, compared to 11.1 per cent a year earlier, are .encouraging. But Canadians should not be deluded into thinking that the battle is won. The severe price spiral of recent years began from a low point of only 3 per cent in 1971. To abandon the fight when prices are still rising at a rate higher than 6 per cent would court disaster That's why Ottawa's anti-inflation program, based on price and income controls, must succeed. And that's why Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau is fully justified in using a $1.1 million advértising campaign to persuade Canadians to support it. There is evidence that the controls program is beginning to take hold. Trudeau says the wage restraints have at least eliminated the demands for increases of 40 to 80 per cent that marked the vicious wage race before the control period. But Labor Minister John Munro points out that wage and fringe benefit increases approved by the Anti-Inflation Board are averaging 12.1 per cent a year. This is not only higher than the guidelines, but is keeping the rate of Canadian wage increases 9 per cent above those in the U.S., Canada's major competitor. The controls program, for all its rough justice, is still the best way we have to combat inflation, to cool the inflation psychology that leads to uncontrolled leap-frogging in wage demans, to provide a breathing space in which to work out new ways to generate economic growth, redistribute the national wealth and reduce unemployment. In this week's review of the anti-inflation program, Finance Minister Donald MacDonald said that abandoning the fight now would mean that "all our progress to date could be squandered. Our ability Jo create jobs would be impaired. Those on fixed incomes would be placed back in the same untenable situation in which they found themselves last year. With inflation rates coming down in the economies of our most important trading partners, our international competitive position could not withstand a new acceleration of costs." • The alternatives to a concerted effort to make the controls work-is either a return to the economic jungle that" existed before last October, in which inflation gets worse, or 1 a resort to the traditional weapons of extremely tight money and much higher taxes which would force Canadians to fight inflation by sacrificing thousands of jobs and deliberately creating economic Hardship. , / Few Cana Jans would choose those alternatives. The only real choice is to 'make the controls program work: Andy 1 they will work better, the more' people believe they will. But the program is under sharp attacked from some Canadians. New Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadbent is trotting out outdated and irrelevant statistics in an effort to discredit controls. The Canadian Labour Congress is desperately trying to marshal Canadian workers in oppostion to the program. And some powerful business groups are pressuring the government to short-circuit its anti-inflation efforts before the scheduled three years. Most Canadians believe inflation is the number ope enemy today. And it's that important majority that-Trudeau is trying to enlist for one of the most critical campaigns in Canadian history. 'Flowers with Feeling" For Any Occasion ^ Tel. 623-3377 OPEN ALL DAY WEDNESDAY- 'Mev A 3loxal c4xt 133 Church Street tiowmanville Fresh Flower and Dried Flower Arrangements for . FUNERALS -- WEDDINGS HOSPITAL and HOjVtE Be sure and take a took at our Bridal Showcase in our window. Last February's earthquake earthquake in Guatemala left an estimated one million of that country's poor homeless when it destroyed their adobe houses. Canadian churches, the World Council of Churches and other agencies gave an immediate response with money and materials. Recently, Recently, the Canadian International International Development Agency (CIDA) announced, through its Bilateral Divison, that it would provide loans and housing materials on a tied- aid basis. This has aroused protests from many church and nongovernmental nongovernmental agencies and at a meeting of the executive of the United Church Division of World Outreach on September September 17, the largest Protestant denomination added its voice to that of the Canadian Council of Churches," the Anglican Church of Canada, the Canadian Council for International Cooperation and others. "The program (CIDA's) like most tied-aid, enriches Canadians more than the poor of Guatemala," says the United Church statement. "In fact, it seems so designed that almost no benefits can accrue to the very poor, who are unable to assume responsibility responsibility for the proposed loans for housing." Other aspects of the government government program ciriticized by the church are: The materials offered are not the local choice, are unsuitable for the construct-, ion of houses in Guatemala and will be far more costly than materials being used by non-governmental groups such as the World Council of Churches.. The program will draw citizens' groups like cooperatives cooperatives and self-help projects under the influence of and dependency on the Guatemala Guatemala government. This will serve to reinforce the grip of an aoppressive government* on the people struggling to retain their independence. The Canadian Government's Government's involvement with Guatemala NGOs violates the principle formérly established established by Canada of reserving relations with overseas NGOs with Canadian or international international non-governmental organizations. organizations. The United Church urges that CIDA adhere to its prinicple of purchasing materials materials locally or by competitive competitive bidding. This ties in with a comment made by a World Council of Churches investigator, - Rev. Gers on Meyer, when ... Guatemala shortly after the earthquake. "Above all we must. make sure the people -themselves have a voice in determining what type of aid is given," he said. The United Church statement statement has been sent to Michel Dupuy, President of CIDA with copies to the Prime Minister, the Secretary of State for External Affairs, the President of the Treasury Board and the director,of the NGO Division of CIDA. An accompanying letter was' signed by Rev. Donald G. Ray, Secretary of the General Council and Rev. Garth W. Legge, Secretary of the Division of World Outreach. ueens Park Report: One of the questions which has become more and more important particularly to the people of Durham East, the Town of Newcastle, and a great number of people across across the province is the closing of various arenas due to orders of the Minister of Labour, the Honourable Bette Stephenson. The municipalities municipalities must undertake engineering engineering studies of all arenas and if the engineering firm will not certify that the arena is safe then the ministry places an order to force the closing of the arena immediately. All municipalities municipalities affected are forced to adopt some other means of providing facilities to cover all activities which take place in the arenas. In addition, if the arena is to be closd permanently then arrangements arrangements must be made to finance construction of a new facility. No one quarrels with the importance of safety in public buildings and no one would want to be responsible for any accident which might occur: However, I disagree seriously seriously with the present government's government's policy with regard to arena closing because they have not really mqved to provide substantially more funds under the Wintario* program or any other program program to make sure that all our communities have access to proper recreational facilities. facilities. I am not saying that any community should have a totally new arena constructed for it and handed over by the province. All of us agree that it is an important component of the community and that people feel sorpe sense of contribution. towards it. It does seem to me, that Wintario Wintario money has been spent on some rather frivolous activities activities and for à year or two it would have made greater sense for the province to establish the replacement of arenas as a priority item for Wintario funding, That is not the case. There has been no move by the government to change those priorities. As a matter of fact, a retient statement by the Minister of Labour and the Minster of Culture and Recreation indicates indicates that there has been no change at all in the maximum. amount of money available to municipalities. Aside from a Letter to the Editor v If Canada is to pull out of its iheadlong plunge into the abyss of permisiveness and perverted progress, we had better stop to rediscover some of principles, standards and ethics that went into the building of this nation. . It's time we recovered our sense of hufnour, sense of decency and sense of honour. It's time we returned the. three R's to the schoolhouse and gave some authority back to the teacher, the parent and the policeman. It's time governments began began protecting the law abiding abiding citizen instead of pampering pampering the criminal; time that politicians realised that ttîey were elected "servants" of the people - not their masters. masters. It's time the shackles were taken off businessmen and producers allowing them to work and sell on a eompeta- tive jmarkèt instead of hog- tying them with bureaucratic red tape and endless controlling controlling boards intent upon determining determining their output and income. It's time the entertainment media began 'pointing to the stars instead of feeding us the "realism" of the sewer ; tiipe we saw the family unit as the first "Unit of government instead of an arena for combat over who wears the pants. Let's go back to clean air, clean language and clean politics; to a'days work for a days .pay and saving fdr a rainy day - instead of living it up and expecting taxpayers to provide a financial umbrella. , Perhaps then; instead of increased crimp, violence and addiction, this weary nation 'might find time tb'bind its wounds and get on with the. business of living as civilised human beings. Yours Sincerely, , , Patricia Young. few minor changes the same amounts of money are to be contributed. I am concerned that people in the province of Ontario may see the spending of money on arena facilities as an unnecessary demand in this time of restraint, high property taxes, and exorbitant exorbitant escalations in • almost everything that we have to buy. I sincerely believe that the , cost of spending or the cost of erecting new arenas or other recreational , facilities is a way in which we can save tremendous amounts of money. money. If we deprive all of our small communities of these kinds of facilities what we will do' is create the kinds of problems that will lead to increasing policing needs at escalàting prices and that we ' may well have social costs to pay for a number of years as 1 a direct result of these programs. Some péople have suggested suggested that a sensible way for municipalities to solve these problems particularly in the Town of Newcastle would be to construct one new central arena. I think this does not make sense in the long run because there are great numbers of people in all parts of the municiaplity of Newcastle Newcastle who wduld not be able to have their children take part because of the lack of transportation. Remember there is no public transit of any sort outside of Bowman- ville and all of those outlying areas depend on private transportation to get to the arena or anywhere else for that matter. If central arenas, arenas, or central recreational facilites are to be built then we will have to spend money over great perods of time to bus. people to those facilities. That" is liable to cost more in the long run that any arena cost. , I have worked closely with the people in Orono, Newcastle Newcastle Village, and the Town Council in Newcastle in an effort to solve some of fj- difficulty. It appears now thâv~ the Newcastle arena will be available with certain reapirs for one year, the Orono arena may be available with some répairs for one year, and the Bowmanville arena will be I available with repairs for a number of years. That still leaves us with the problem of collecting by public subscription subscription the cost of replacing the Newcastle arena, and the Orono arena over the next couple of years. I sincerely hope and believe that the people in the Town V Newcastle will take part in - " erecting these facilities' so that all citizens will have ; access to the kinds of recreational recreational facilities that our modern modern society needs and have decided that are important for all members, not just young people, but all members members of our community Doug Moffatt, M.P K_. Attention Farmers!! WHY RAY MORE? M SAVE ON * Diesel Fuel * Motor Oil * Gasoline P'hone' 668-3381 - Collect DX FUEL OIL For Prompt Courteous Service CALL US TODAY -