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LER SUEY aA vw MEd PRAT 3 The A ARR EAE f RATE AE FERS HA Ca | Editorial Comment #4 ) { 7 : oO Ta Ee re TIA 3 +2 BAY SH fi * ET vy ae IY 48 ILE YB, ot § oo by J. Peter Hvidsten MILK CANS It doesn't seem so long ago that I spent much of the summer on my uncle's farm. During those visits I him milk the cows....by hand. When the pail was full, he would get up and carry it over to a stainless steel milk can and pour the warm bubbling liquid out. When the milking was complete, these cans were "thencarried to the milk house, where they were stored until it was picked up by a milk transport, and taken to market. This process of storing milk is uncommon now, but there are still a few who use this same process. But a recent announcement will soon ban the use of the old milk can. Yes, soon all Ontario farmers will have to store their milk in large stainless steel, electrically-cooled bulk containers. Not only will this put an end to the small farmer, but the use of this type of equipment is strictly against the religious beliefs of a group known as the Amish. ' becomes law. Their faith forbids the use of electricity, =) and they will not bend from their religious convictions. ) There have been no large outbreaks of disease or plagues by careless storage of milk....so why the new regulation. Apparently the Ontario Milk Commission feels that i milk stored in cans is unhealthy, and the consumer a3 could end up with bad milk. Why they feel this way ri] now, after milk has been stored in this manner for 574) decades is beyond me. § ; ? To date, the Amish and others using the milk cans have been able to meet the health standards. There is no reason to suspect that they will now drop their standards. At any rate, the commission already has the control on the quality of milk they accept. If the milk is impure or high in bacteria count...:it is simply not . accepted. ~Maybe it's time for the commission to use some of of a quart of milk, rather than to think of new hair-brained schemes which can only raise the cost of this nutritious food. "Wear a moustache'. ORANGE JUICE Remember those Florida Orange commercials you've seen on the TV for the past few years. Well, the smiling face of Anita Bryant will no longer be a part of them. would trot out to the barn in the early morning to watch The Old Order Amish, about 150 strong, may well have to leave the province of Ontario if this regulation their spare time for thinking of ways to reduce the cost -- Anita has apparently already lost her job as the orange juice queen in Canada's commercials, being replaced by Catherine McKinnon. And word has it-that she is about to be fired from the United States campaign as well. ) } Apparently, Edward Taylor, Florida's citrus commission executive director thinks that the con- _ sumer will not think about orange juice if they see Anita...they will think about the gay rights issue. It obviously doesn't pay to be outspoken....even if you believe in what you're saying. FLABBY KIDS Do you know where your children are? Well, if you do, and it happens to be sitting on the living room floor in front of the boob-tube, chances are that they will grow up fat. This is the finding of both U.S. and British doctors as printed in a special report in the Sunday Star. Kids who spend all their spare time glued to a TV .. set may well grow up to be fatties. \ " According to the story, one cookie a day will soon ~make a child swell up like a balloon if his only exercise is switching the channel changer. A youngster who is a TV addict will likely leave grade 13 overweight and his chance$ of losing the flab later are very slim, they claim. : "Kids must stay active to stay slim." One doctor stresses that regardless of what food was eaten, it was always inactive children who made the weighing scales groan. U.S. doctors would like to see the youngsters off their butts....they don't want today's kids to become tomorrow's heart attack victims. There ar million fatties now in the U.S., and if percentages are correct, that means 8 million Can- adians in the same situation. Time to: get out jogging! CANCER SURVEY ' Ever natice how many things are bad for yo health, cause cancer or other diseases. Well, just recently I heard that scientists in the U.S. fed shredded money to rats....and they ended up getting cancer. The conclusion' of the .tests were, "Too much money causes cancer', Guess we won't have to worry about that. EY - questions. control over tiie federal police force. SKA GT $ % y £5 Police state » 5 Members of the House of Commons sat in shocked silence last Friday as Solicitor General Francis Fox admitted that the RCMP had broken into the Montreal offices of the Parti Quebecois. The raid on the office took place in January, 1973 and the police stole membership lists and information on party financing. Fox waited until just before the weekend to make the disclosure and since then more allegations about illegal actions by our federal police force have. surfaced. Some people, including members of the opposition, are now calling the affair Canada's Water. © gate. . _ ¢ . Members of the opposition naturally enough, would now like to make some political mileage out of the affair by proving that members of the Liberal Party have known for some time about the break-in, or perhaps even ordered it. Canadians.of ajl parties should be hoping that the illegal actions were indeed politically motivated. For while it is utterly contemp- tible to think that a party would use the RCMP to this ends, the thought that the police would act on their own in such activities erodes a fundamental premise of our democratic system. } : In any democracy it is absolutely essential that ultimate control over both police and the army rests with the people of the state through their elected" government representatives; in Canada, the federal cabinet. If this control is lost, and the police begin to take, it upon themselves to break and bend the law where they may seé fit, the freedom of, political association is jeopardized. : Whether one agrees with the philosophy and goal of the Parti Quebecois is immaterial. Itis (and was in 1973) a legitimate political party pursuing the achieve- ment of its goals through the accepted democratic: method of the ballot box. ai If the RCMP or any other police force decides on = its own to carry out illegalities against a political - party, the fine line between democracy and police state disappears. oo If the action was politically motivated and order: ed by present or past members of any political party, a thorough overhaul of the operations of the police is needed, as are the immediate resignations of those involved. « The arguments in favour of this action by the police cite national security and the unity of the country as the motivating factors. If police powers as widespread as these are needed to keep the country together, Canada would be better off divided. At least - Canadians could be partially sure that they still live in a-democracy. The whole affair has compelling implications Jor ' all Canadians, and so far it has only raised more Who ordered it? * Was it an isolated incident? If not, how many more similar activities have the Mounties been involved in? Who's next on the list? If the break-in wasn't ordered by' a political - party, when did the federal government learn of it, and why has it taken nearly five years to become public knowledge? Fe The debate no doubt will continue this week in the House of Commons. Canadians can only hope that the r federal government will disclose all the facts about this sordid and dangerous affair, and then take the political consequences. Playing politics with funda- mental democratic concepts like freedom: of political association cannot be tolerated. 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