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PAGE 4. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7 1978 WHITBY FRIBE PJS whîtby lse vr enda Puby M.B.M. Publishbmg r~ f ~ 7I ~and Photography Ine. fUie C unty ~Ph ne 668111 Volce o h onyTown Michael Ian Burgess, Publlsher - MaIlnaglng Editor 131 Freek PrestBuordin The only Wh4tby newspaper Indepenidently owned and operated by Whltby residents for Whltby residents. PO. Bo~x206, Whltby, Or Community Editor Contributing Editor production Manager Prini & Promtlofonal Manager CIassited Ad Circulation Manager lit. Whitby Chamber 0f Commerce -Brian Wlnter --JimQuuili -Marie Burgess - Robin 1 -n Leesa Menard Me Iling Permit No. 460 'Member of the: Better Business Bu reau ot Torontb * Will the real Ed Broadbent please si Dear Edilor: i nove just received a bulletin from the lea der of the federal ýN.D.P. After -readlng it 1 now know wh y these oe~ are caIledJ3 ULLeIins. Now 1 iwouid appreclat e It If t he reai Ed Broatibeni *would please stand up? <One Ed Broatibenfi leads Ihe federal N.D.P. and is ihe arch enemy of large multinational corp- orations and of course * anadians aIl know'what multinational corpora- tions do, they take pur raw mâteriais, our "onYand national Inde- pendence and.enslave our *workers. S Thereàs another ,Ed BroLdbent who 'W the Federal mernber for the, Oshawa-Whilby -Riding anti Ihis Ed Broatibent 15 lsappolntied tb learn Ihal, hie 1axpayers of ail1 nt Canada Mill nol be chlpping ln 1topay for recnsiuciionof the * Oshawa airport, and as .dBroadbent points nui * "Tht al1rport ,i1s u sed * motlyfor transportIng *personnel and materi1als raeeded for GM 'poduc- tion actvitles/' ýandup i was uncler the impres- sion that GM was one of the Iargest multinational corporations in Canada and that GM macle a healthy profit ferm the personnel and,,materiais that Iand,,ai Oshawa air- port,, also the City of Oshawa collects a ýheal- thy tax bite from GM. .The N. D. P. remi1ndsmr e of the fellow Who got a bit drunk and tried to walk the two railway rails at the same time. -He did allright and went about a mile straddling the track until atrain came along and split hlmn right clown the middle, and It was a long time before he reco- vered,. The experts sa id it was a Weff le Group that hit hlm. 1 think* it hap- pened In Ontaria',,not 50 many, years ago and It really wasnit, liquo r that he got drunk» on, It was a littie bit of 'ego rnixed- with power,- topped off wifh a clash of lack of principies. ýýSo,, wlli the ýreaL Ed Broadbent, -please' stand Up? Thomas -Doucette 157 Hillcrest Drive Whitby, Ontario. Tbanlcsfroin the, * The&ard of DIrýçlns, the Centme oi '>1tb4Whilf>y -5nirs'. Thank >c:Uvi!y Cenilre#. W(oud keep up'the good work 41k Suce Ihenk you,. for the. the New Year. won«dsrful Publlciltyandi Wlshlng von and yc coiverae we recelveti frOmn staff sason's grceting; *Yiýur 'P.per throughout l he pWu year andtibte ours sincerei lerfi.> opr1inw R. Barsam, Secretai ma-d from the p*eople Inv- civetS tn the neëws trom ose Dur Y# ly, (for the Bard of Directors.) TVpec ids 'are, too late Deaqlgr Sir: As Parents of a school- age chlti, we wish Io caîl to your attention a problem which has risen in our home for severai years regarding the viewing of rnany 'Speciais' for children carrieti by the T.V. stations. In short, these specials are put on T.V. too Lite for chiltiren ta watch. 1 cannot allow our eight year olti son, Greg, to watch many of them end it only causes tears of frustration toa al1 put on at-8 p.mn. or 8:30 p.rn. on Schooi nights. I suggest these programis be -shown at earlier times or weekends, anti they then wouid be enjoyed anti seen by more chiltiren anti a delight to we the parents. We are enclosing a list of signatures and atitresses of a few of our frientis andi neighbours who agree. Concerneti Parents, Mr. & Mrs. Hi. Cruse 75 Southlawn Ave., Aïewdays ago £ 3Spwie tpdthe Roie>y Club -in Klrkland ]Lake concernlnti he loonM and .pesgimlum we hear from some quartersabout econmlconditUonsu n ,Canada. II s difiutto expiain fuly wby there are so,ùiàany doomsayeru at work, wby so - many seem to 1tïk. sheer deligbt -in Canadaý-boshing. Perbpo 0 sme egre AtAu Cb~raterIstic feature of being' Canadian. The, fAda aboutCg~nada, toweve-4 do uiot support this dark, gloomly, description of our current, affairs. Nowadays, nearlyevery. article we read on economnics, begins. by saying that we are in terrible shape, unemployment 15 high, inflation is out of control andi the dollar As down. For 'starters let's considereacb one of these tbree items. In Canada, the rate of growth in our labor force s thie higbest' in the western world. The response to this demand for job. creation is nothing short of remarkable. Canada bas createti more employment in thie past 10 years than any other industrial society. On average, a quarter of a milionew. jobs were created every year during the Iast decade, 369,000D jobs last year alone. More Canadians are working today than ever in our history. Many homes now have several wage or salary earners which was much less common in tAie past. As everyone knows, tAie main cause of inflation bas been a dramatic increase in energy prices imposeti upon us by the oil-producing natiodni. Our own oil-producing provinces would have bit us equally bard if tbey had not beén restraineti to some extent by the federal government acting on bebaîf of the total national interest. Despite world-wide inflation, Canada has been able to maintain a gooçi measure of control aver rising costs. Even in the fact of inflation most Canadians have ,Mat, since 1968, an increase of over 50 per cent in their reai disposabie income. We don't even neeti statistics to pruve this. Just look around, are we not living better, in a material sense, than we diti 10 ycars ago? TAie devaluation of our currency bas bath negative anti positive aspects. 0f course, it means that travelling abroati is more expensive; of course, it mneans imports are dearer. But, as an encouragement to business and industriai activity in Canada it is a pep-bill. A lower Canadian dollar means that wc are intcrnationaliy more competitive anti that our own domestienlly nrodIuc'<I I Canda re reenty ejoing an economic boom which would flot be the case if it were not for the devaluet i nadian Dollar.' >To add a few more Items w tlhe 'cIheer-up" list'let me mention' that exportsare at an ali-time bÎigh and more andi more of these exports are-finisheti or semi-fabricateti gootis. Canada hae' the* capability. of' beconming 'seif-sufficient Wn energy, few nations are so well-favored. This will -not be cheap energy, .butý our grandchuldren anti our gréat-great- grand- chiltiren wiil at least ,not freeze'in thie durk,. buhgry orld. Food- costs are up, that lu true, -but Canadians spenti mch 1Issu Mtheir take-homepsy on (ood than do Europeans or -tie Japanese sudrnst, oepeopeS ai'he worid. Suriytli~fIerl ifcitproves that we are lntroube.,Not a "ail,: Ilslarge,. true. ýIt amoits lt hrpercent oM our g~ o~inlprodt.-In Germiany ýtii.defjcit 'amounts to four' percent çM the grass national produect, in- Japmn 5.5 percent, in Great Britain 3.8 percent. None of these countries feel a sense of-panîk, no shoulti we. Deficits are necessary in, time of war, anti tbey shoul e expected as well in time of world-wide economic difficulty. Today, in tbe western industrial world, the rate of economie growth bas. slowed down. Governments everywhere are earnestly and conscientiously seeking ways to stimulate growtb. By compari son, Canada basý 4one extremely' well. From 1968 to 1977, our growth rate was 4.5 per year. Japan andi France did a little better, but we came third andi this lu flot a bad record Letters to the Editor Box 206 Whitby, Ontario LIN 5S1 Ott'.a eport JNorman. CafikMP 9b ýnt.