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it - f Orooo Weekly limes, Wednesday, October 11, 2000 - 9 Level fi OTTAWA, October 5, 2000 - Agriculture and Agri- Food Minister Lyle Vanclief will strongly emphasize the need for Gairns Group Ministers to stay the course on the elimination of export subsidies and other trade-distorting trade-distorting policies hurting farmers farmers when Canada hosts the Group's 21st gathering this month. The meeting, scheduled for October 10-12 in Banff, Alberta, is the second time the group has met in Canada since it was established in 1986. Mr. Vanclief said Canada is working with the Cairns Group to maintain the pressure pressure on the world stage to achieve a level playing field for trade in agricultural products products during the current World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations. "What we want to ensure during this meeting is that Ministers remain focussed on the very real problems trade- and production-distorting subsidies and trade barriers are causing for farmers around the world, including in Canada," said Mr. Vanclief. Mr. Vanclief pointed to record farm subsidies in the U.S. and the European Union (EU) that are bound to affect already depressed world prices for crops, especially grains and oilseeds. International Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew noted the Government of Canada will use the meeting as another step in the process of ensuring the agriculture negotiations deal with the practical global trade problems problems facing Canada's producers producers and-processors. "With more equitable trading trading rules, the Canadian agrifood agrifood industry will-be able to compete on a more equal footing and further increase its presence in world markets," markets," said Mr. Pettigrew. "Canada will continue to press for a WTO agreement that benefits Canadian exporters in this vitally important sector." The 18-member Cairns Group of agricultural exporting exporting nations includes Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Fiji, Guatemala, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Paraguay, the Philippines, Thailand, South Africa, and Uruguay. The EU's Agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler and Egyptian Minister of Economy and Foreign Trade Dr. Youssef Boutros-Ghali are scheduled to attend the meeting and will discuss with Cairns Group Ministers their perspectives on the WTO negotiations on agriculture which began in March. "We will be listening very carefully to what they have to say and hope to have a constructive constructive dialogue about how unfair trading practices and subsidies can be reduced to the benefit of rich and poor countries," said Mr. Vanclief. The Cairns Group was formed during the Uruguay Round of Genera! Agreement on Tariffs and Trade negotiations negotiations with the aim of bringing the rules governing global trade in agricultural goods in line with the rules covering trade in other products. That round established the WTO and provided a rules-based framework for agricultural trade, taking an important first step in reducing agricul tural support and protection. The Group will focus its efforts throughout the current WTO negotiations on achieving achieving a more^ fair and market- oriented agricultural trading system. ' The Community With Future THE CORPORATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON : NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING-HIGHWAY CLOSINGS ROAD ALLOWANCE IN LOT I, BETWEEN CONCESSIONS 1 & 2,FORMER CLARKE - . TOWNSHIP (UNOPENED) . '• TAKE NOTICE THAT the Council of the Corporation of the Municipality of Clarington, at the meeting to be held, in the Council Chambers, 40 Temperance Street, Bowmanville, Ontario, on Monday, October 16, 2000, at 7:00 p.m., proposes to pass a by-law to stop up and close and authorize the conveyance of part of the unopened road allowance between Concessions 1 and 2 in Lot 1, in the former Township of Clarke, now in the Municipality of Clarington, and described as follows: ' Part of the unopened road allowance between Concession 1 and 2, in Lot 1, former Township of Clarke, Municipality of Clarington in the Regional Municipality of Durham AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE THAT before passing the said by-law, Council or a Committee of Council shall hear in person, or by his Counsel, Solicitor or Agent, any person who claims that his land will be prejudicially affected by this bylaw bylaw and who applies to be heard. INTERSECTION OF OLD KINGSTON ROAD AND PRESTONVALE ROAD, CQURTICE TAKE NOTICE THAT the Council of the Corporation of the Municipality of Clarington, at the meeting to be held, in the Council Chambers, 40 Temperance Street, Bowmanville, Ontario, on Monday, October 1.6 th , 2000, at 7:00 p.m., proposes to pass a by-law to stop up and close a portion of Old Kingston Road being the intersection of Old Kingston Road and ■ Prestonvale Road in Lot 33, Concession 2, in the former Township of Darlington now in the Municipality of Clarington, and j described as follows: - Part of the road known as Old Kingston Road being the intersection at Old Kingston Road and Prestonvale Road in Concession 2, Lot 33, former Township of Darlington, Municipality of Clarington in the Regional Municipality of Durham. AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE THAT before passing the said by-law, Council or a Committee of Council shall hear in person, or by his Counsel, Solicitor or Agent, any person who claims that his land be prejudicially affected by this by-law and who applies to be heard. HUNT STREET, BOWMANVILLE (UNOPENED) TAKE NOTICE THAT the Council of the Corporation of the Municipality of Clarington, at the meeting to be held, in the Council Chambers, 40 Temperance Street, Bowmanville, Ontario, on Monday, October 16 th , 2000, at 7:00 p.m., proposes to pass a by-law to stop up and close and authorize the conveyance of part of the unopened road allowance known as Hunt Street in Part of Lot 11, Broken Front Concession, formerly the Town of Bowmanville, Municipality of Clarington, and described as follows: Part of the unopened road allowance known as Hunt Street in Part of Lot 11, Broken Front Concession, former Town of Bowmanville, Municipality of Clarington in the Regional Municipality of Durham.; AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE THAT passing the said, by-law, Council or à Committee of Council shall hear in person, or by his Counsel, Solicitor or Agent, any person who claims that his land will be prejudicially affected by this by-law and who applies to be heard. Patti L. Barrie, A.M.C.T., Town Clerk Municipality of Clarington 40 Temperance Street Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 3A6 MUNICIPALITY OF arinqton ONTARIO