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Page 1â€"The Wesionâ€"Y ork Times, Now that elected officials of the Borough of York have sold out the future of an independent York to a handful of ratepayers associations and an even smaller group of ratepayers‘ noise makers, can amalgamation be far behind? fhe elected officials have bought the Price Waterhouse Report recommendations lock, stock and barrel and have virtually written the obituary for the borough. . Perhaps the businessmens‘ associations operating within the boundries of the borough should commission an equally efficient group to conduct a survey and make recomendations in favor of their problems. Statistics sometimes are only as good as the results required. + There‘s a theory that says: Figures can lie and liars can figure. ‘ If we were to accept each and every survey ever taken, each and every report as gospel truth we would be in very sorry shape. There is no doubt that some of the recommendations given by the Price Waterhouse Report are valid. There is no little doubt that some of the things outlined in the report can implimented. There are also some things that no report â€" particularly the one in question â€" can take into consideration. The Price Waterhouse people were asked to study specific areas in York and to determine best land use. We all know that the best land use in almost every case would be industrial but what manufacturer would want to locate in York at current land values? So the Pâ€"W report looked at other alternatives and came up with a conclusion that "The taxpayers of the Boroufilh of York are therefore free under present conditions to choose the kind of community they wish without incurring financial hardship." They were not asked to take other things into consideration. They did not look at failing businesses that need expansions to survive. But they came up with what rate payers‘ associations wanted to hear. Ratepayers are only a small part of the population and an equally small part of the electorate. While they do have their communities at heart, they can suffer from tunnel vision. They fought amalgamation‘ with York unsuccessfully. Let‘s see if they can fight amalgamation with equal aplomb. p Westion Times. Other countries % 00 Writing obituary 199. incorporating the Weston Times and Chunty of York Times and Guide. and Weston Timgs Advertimer. ang e Secans Class Mail Regisirgtion Number 1588 tates $7 00 per year in advance to any address in Canada v 4 Mactiitian. Preyident and Publizner gill Bailey. Eqitor Moily Fenton, General Manager be accepted, adopted and Teleghone 241521 January %0, 1972 mittees established in the brief December session is to ment is nearing a decision on But how meaningful is the committee‘s contribution going to be? I leave you to judge, in light of the fact that its first meeting was held last week, and therefore the life of the committee will be less than two months. So let‘s go back to the last chapter in the Ontario irfi;&firt_lxxenul _ Task prize must surely go to McKeough. There he was on nestly telling his audience that the report established we have a problem! _ _ k;lly?A'nwetobelieve that it took this report, the umpteenth in a relentless the past ten years, to perâ€" suade Ontario‘s minister of have a problem in the growing, foreign domination of our economy? However, on â€" second ment which was released in However, on _ second What does the report thought, Mr. McKeough‘s propose for a problem now reaction is perhaps not so established beyond any strange. After all, it was doubt? hat‘s a new little more than a year ago problem; its _ recomâ€" that â€" Stanley â€" Randall, mendatjons are virtually Minister of Trade and i t! Development, . was concensus of reacâ€" unashamedly engaged in â€" tions: "Economists say extending the branchâ€"plant mtario Report vague, economy, with the vigorous/‘ shallow and amusing," as support of his Prime _ the headline reads. Perhaps Minister, John Robarts. Jack McArthur, financial Feonomic nationalists are ‘ columnist for the Toronto :‘pt;fifical weirdoes," . said Of all the spate of comâ€" "In sorey e Berge Minksrze is nep uP Maintain high standards Interdepartmental =>~ Task Force > _ problem; its recomâ€" f mendations are virtually i &! '» concensus of reacâ€" _ tiong: ‘"Economists say 4 ntario _ Report vague, /* shallow and amusing," as Mr. Randall. Economic "Latest Report is one small _ If a political party is nationalism is a "phoney step sideways to nowhere." financed, and therefore issue," added Mr. Robarts. It is easy to be cynical and greatly influencedâ€" by the But when the Conservative derisive about this whole business world, _ then leadership‘ race began, it matter. Joe Citizen can be inevitably it is going to take became evident that most of â€" forgiven for wondering what an ambivalent position on became evident that most of the cabinet disagreed. Every leadership contender adopted _ a _ nationalist the Davis cabinet needed a solidly documented rationalization of their about it. Now that position conference held last June at the Science Centre, to publicly expose . the tsue interdepartmental study. . And Darcy McKeough is Ontario has the heaviest foreign domination to be found anywhere in Canada: the Ontario percentage is above that of the national right! We do'have_a problem. average to decide wisely what to build. ‘‘Those of us in what might be called the housing in dustry should perhaps be paying more attention to the fact the automobile industry on this continent is in some difficulty because it has tried to keep on telling the customer what is good for "One of the besetting sins of our time is the tendency to accept whatever is superâ€" ficially thought to be necessary and then to go on supplying it with technical efficiency well beyond the time when its usefulness is seriously questioned. ‘‘Despite the imâ€" perfections of urban life today, one of the healthiest trends in the long run is a rising public demand that things should be better than because they are old. Our society has a very healthy critical faculty. Public decisionâ€"making _ comes ‘under close scrutiny from many angles, and rightly so, for so many of the critical issues are related to public decisions. The public is saying increasingly that educaition is too important to leave to educators, that scientific developments and technology are too important to be left entirely to scien tists, that the political process is too important to leave entirely to elected they are. The established ways of doing things don‘t have to be accepted forever, and neither do good ideas have to be scrapped just , silent and forgotten, Donald C. MacDonald QUEEN‘S PARK REPORT so they went MPP for York South and provincial government spokesmen emphasize that it doesn‘t represent official policy, that for the moment they have no policy, either to Allegedly, the main recommendation of the Gray Report is a Review Board, to consider in advance foreign takeâ€"overs, presumably in order to forestall many of them. Immediately the businessmen‘s organizations of Montreal and Toronto condemned the idea. There were rumblings in Liberal circles. And the federal Conservatives, backed even more vigorously by the Metro Toronto Tories, flatly opposed it. "Latest Report is one small step sideways to nowhere." It is easy to be cynical and derisive about this whole matter. Joe Citizen can be fmfum_'hl played. For while the problem, it has no real recommendations other than press upon Ottawa, which is said to be finalizing its policy based on the leaked Gray Let‘s face it: there is a fundamental | cleavage developingâ€" between the business world and the general Canadian public. Liberals and Conservatives, in Ottawa and Queen‘s Park, vacillate between going along with the business "I have considerable sympathy for that point of view, provided that the critic who makes the statement has something constructive to suggest,"" Mr. Abela said. Mr. Cassidy said members of the board have every reason to be optimistic about business prospects in 1972. "There is little doubt, I would say, that we will surpass our 1971 record for MLS sales and set a record well above the halfâ€"billionâ€" dollar mark. Prices are likely to rise, but of course so will the investment value of property purchased. Further easing of the interest rate will help purchasers parâ€" ticularly in the first half of the year. There will be a good supply of mortgage money in 1972, according to all signs from the lenders. The production of new housing will probably in crease again this year. ‘Family formations in Canada will increase by an estimated 1,450,000 in the next 10 years. The almost 3.5â€"million Canadians who were in their twenties in the period between 1961 and 1971, and: largely in the rental «market, will be in their thirties in the next 10 years when they will turn more towards _ home "Increased emphasis on singleâ€"family housing, semiâ€" detached and duplexes will be in contrast with the past few years when multiple dwellings, particularly high rise apartments, dominated the _ urban _ residential development scene. Okay, where do we go from [COLQCI world, which has grest inâ€" fluence within their parties, and heeding the views of the general public. Those views of the general public are more strongly in the business world are to which is increasingly tied up If a political party is financed, and therefore greatly influencedâ€" by the business _ world, _ then inevitably it is going to take an ambivalent position on economic nationalism when creasingly dominated by will be checked by a policy born of economic nationalism. It‘s as simple to live by the free enterprise principles which . they normally loyal and very proâ€" British business interests of Montreal out in the economic cold. They were deprived of vignettes of Canadian history is worth recalling. In 1948 Great Britain repealed the Corn Laws and moved from a protectionist position within the Empire to one of emerged in those very proâ€" British business circles of Montreal a petition. It was called the Annexation Manifesto. It proposed that Canada should become part of the United States where the businessman could become part of another protectionist circle. Inevitably the patriotism of the business world is conditioned by the almighty dollar. That basic fact has ramifications â€" through Canadian politics today that are very farâ€"reaching ‘"One of the biggest tests for the housing sector of the economy in 1972 will be how to check the trend toward more and more governmentâ€" subsidized rental housing by making it possible for more Canadians to buy the housing they want. Municipalities must be persuaded that it is in their best interests to approve smaller houses on smaller lots. The twoâ€" bedroom bungalow must make a comeback. "A twoâ€"bedroom bungalow of 900 to 1,000 square feet, erected on a 40â€"foot lot just beyond Metro could probably be produced to sell for about $4,000 less than some of the housing closer to the centre of Metro which young couples are being offered today," Mr. Cassidy added. t Mr. Abela urged members of the board to seek ways of using their knowledge and their negotiating skills in helping to resolve conflicts over how Toronto should develop. What happened? There ‘‘The economic system which gives us freedom of enterprise and opportunity for profit can justifiably expect us to contribute something to its good health. And where as a board would we apply our talents, our judgment, _ our _ healthy imaginations, our well tested critical faculty to better vation and the future im provement of the urban bomplex at large and our own neighbourhoods in particular? _ . My topic for this week is chosen for me. It is "Unity‘. The Christian minister who writes about anything else during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity would be a traitor to his cloth. It‘s a difficult subject to write about in a about it. Ecclesiastical commissions may discuss and outline plans for it. But for most people unity doesn‘t mean a thing. Yet it should. Unity is un?omm . It was for unity that Jesus prayed : "‘that they all may be one." It was for unity that he strove: ‘"Who is my mother and my brother: Ne aske0. "Whoever does God‘s will, he is my mother and my sister and my brother." No bigotry, no narrow exclusivism there! It was for unity that Christ died: Unity between God and man: unity of man with man: "In Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, bond nor free, all are one in him." Unity is important. It has . universal significance. It also has local significance. "How good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity‘‘ sweetly sang the Psalmist of old. How difficult it proves in practice! We hear much talk about the Brotherhood of Man but very scant evidence of it. We have the United Nations but it is more torn by verbal logistics than ever a battlefield was torn by military logistics. It produces confrontation but very little in the way of real coâ€"operation. It provides yet another, less bloody but no less bitter, battleground for opposing ideologies. It shows that unity is not a "skinâ€"game." Its source lies deeper than body or mind. In fact the source of true unity is spiritual. Let me explain It is here that the Christian Church has a decisive role. It is given to the Church, in Jesus Christ, to demonstrate to the world the true meaning and example of unity. When he became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1942, in the middle of World War II, William Temple spoke prophetically about this world wide fellowship: **As though in preparation for such a time as this, God has been building up a Christian fellowship which now extends into almost every nation, and binds citizens of them all together in true unity and mutual love. No human agency has planned this. It is the result of the great missionary enterprise of the last 150â€"years. Neither the missionaries, not those who sent them out, were aiming at the creation of a worldâ€"wide fellowship interâ€"penetrating the nations, bridging the gulls between them, and supplying the promise of a check to their rivalries. The aim for nearly the whole period was to preach the Gospel to as many individuals as could be reached so that those who were won to discipleship should be put in the way of eternal salvation. Almost incidentally, the great world fellowship has arisen; it is the great new fact of our era .. ." A hot time ahead? Since 1942 slow but steady progress has been made towards the enlargement of this fellowship in practical ways. The World Council of Churches now numbers 252 member denominations, including, as well as Protestants, the Eastern Orthodox Churches. The Roman Catholic Church is represented at its meetings. All these Churches are coâ€"operating in a worldâ€"wide outreach of relief and development, medical care, educational enterprises, distribution of the Scriptures and the ongoing communication of the saving truths of the Gospel. Through Joint action for Mission (JAM) they make wise and discriminating use of Church resources, in both money and manpower, on a worldâ€"wide scale: A report released * by Labour Minister Gordon Carton indicates that again this year Ontario can expect a very busy year in collecâ€" tive bargaining. The â€" Department _ of Labour‘s report on collective agreement â€" terminations shows that 2,327 labor contracts in industries other than construction will expire in Ontario in 1972. This is 180 fewer than in 1971. . There you see the worldâ€"wide community, the universal brotherhood of man, in embryo. Starve or in any way neglect that embryo and all hope for the future of mankind will be lost. On the other hand, subâ€" stantially more employees will be affected by the 1972 terminations than by those for 1971 â€" 324,059 compared with 263,633. Next year‘s higher employee coverage is due mainly to the much larger number of major bargaining units in which agreements are scheduled for _ renegotiation; _ 37 agreements covering 1,000 employees or more will be open for bargaining in 1972 compared with 28 in 1971. The industries in which the largest numbers of agreements will be negotiated or the largest numbers of employees will be affected include food and Busy year in collective bargaining 9+ beverages; paper and allied products; primary metals; metal fabricating ; machinery; electrical proâ€" ducts; nonâ€"metallic mineral products; metal mining; transportation; communâ€" ication; electric, gas and water utilities; wholesale and retail trade; hgaith and welfare services; and local administration. The months in which: the heaviest bargaining will occur are March through September, November and December. About 38 per cent of the agreements covering 36 per cent of the employees will expire during the spring. Bargaining during this period will be dominated by the retail trade industry, particularly food stores. Agreements for nearly 17,900 employees in this industry will expire between March and _ June. The â€" next significant group of exâ€" pirations in this period will affect 11,790 workers in electric, gas and water utilities. The major bargaining units involved in spring negotiations are those in DON REED Rev. Reed is Minister bF Westminster United Church The chief source of nourishment for this worldâ€"wide fellowship is God himself in the Person of the Holy Spirit. But the Holy Spirit uses human means for the fulfilment of His purposes. This is partly what we mean when we say God came to us in Jesus Christ. Thus the worldâ€"wide fellowship and service of the universal (or ecumenical, as we sometimes say ) Church is sustained by the Holy Spirit through the agency of small fellowships of local Churches. This is what makes unity at the local level just as important as worldâ€" wide unity . The one cannot exist without the But before I go on to discuss the significance of local unity let me lay low one bogey that troubles many people with respect to Church Unity. "Will it", they ask, "mean one single Church with a massive bureaucratic structure and one form of worship to which everyone must conform?" No, it will not. The unity of the Church is not a dogmatic unity . It is an organic unity. It is a unity in diversity. It is the unity of a living growing thing in which there are strains and tension, and the very real possibility of rupture. But only on this basis is life possible at all. So when Church unity does come it doesn‘t mean we will all be Roman Catholics, or all Presbyterians, or all Anglicans, or whatever. It means we will all be Christians who fully know and fully realise and who fully work within a sense of unity in Jesus Christ. We may still go to different churches. We very likely will. But we will not speak of it as my church. Always it will be our church. And in all regards, funds as well as fellowship, activities as well as prayers, there will be much more sharing between us. So how about the local unity which is so important? Well, it‘s comiing. It most surely One of the clearest evidences of its coming is in the success of Weston Information & Referral Centre: When I wrote about Unity a year ago this Centre was still a dream.‘In May last year it became a reality. And through the coâ€"operation of all the Churches it is providing a splendid service for the residents of Weston and the wider community. For those of you who do not know of its existence it is located in the Borough office, 2000 Weston Road. It is open Monday through Friday 9.30 a.m. to 3.30 p.m. Wed. Thurs. and Fri. 7.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. and Saturdays 11.30â€"3.30 p.m. Its telephone numbers are 244â€"2000 and 244â€"2020. It exists as a free service supplying information or referral on anything to anyone. Without being either bashful or boastful it is true to say that apart from the Churches, working in coâ€"operation, we would not have an Information and Referral Centre in Weston. Through it Church people have found a new source of unity. And I am convinced it is but the beginning of many similar joint ventures of benefit to the total community and which will stand as evidence of the growing unity between our Churches. By the time you read this column another local venture in unity will have taken place. On Tuesday January 18 at 7 a.m. (that‘s morning by the way ) some 10 or 12 ministers and clergymen will have met for prayer and a communal breakfast at . St. John‘s Anglican Church, Weston. The very fact that they will be there at 7 a.m. is itself powerful evidence of the strong impulse towards unity they all feel today. And who knows what consequences will flow from their prayers? For those consequences we must wait. Meantime there are two things that can delay the unity that is to be. One is the shortâ€" sightedness of the clerics. The other is the narrowâ€"mindedness of lay Christians. I haven‘t space to elaborate. But I have a feeling that you will know what I mean! Unity Ontario Hydro, Dominion Stores, Toronto Transit Commission, Loblaw Groceterias, Steinbergs, Canadian â€" Westinghouse, Canadian General E;ctric, Hamilton Civic Hospitals, Domtar _ Fine _ Papers, Council of Printing Industries and Ontario Council of Regents of College of Applied Arts and Technology. Summer negotiations will be dominated by the Steelworkers Union which will be bargaining for some 21,500 employees in the primary metal industry and 19,900 in metal mines. The significant bargaining units in these industries that will be involved are those at International Nickel, Steel Company _ of _ Canada, Algoma Steel and Falconâ€" bridge Nickel Mines. Other large bargaining units involved in summer include those at Steinbergs, Toronto Dress and Sport swear Manufacturers Assn., Electroholme, Masgeyâ€" Ferguson and Outâ€"board Marine.