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Bila PN | 4 by Ray Argyle Pensions and Politics TERRACE BAY NEWS decline as more people come under the CPP. While it is true that taxes are high and there is a limit to gov- ernment spending, Canada can afford at this time an adequate NOTICE RE: Page 7 pension for those older citizens whose working lives spanned the hard years when the country did not enjoy the private and government security programs available to today's workers. BY-LAW 39 The three most vital pieces of legislation confronting Canada today will not be acted on until the fall because of Parliament's determination to have an 11- week holiday. The nation's 265 MPs, who are paid $18,000 a year, met for only 117 days, and they won't be back in Ottawa until Oct. 5. Voters would not have grum- bled at a short recess, but the long break parliamentarians have taken has left the country more exasperated than ever. The Pearson government's de- cision to close down the House of Commons at this time was particularly galling in view of the stalling on such important matters as the Medicare bill, the new supplementary pensions legislation, and amendments to the Bank Act. Along with the Munsinger caper, the George Victor Spen- cer tragedy and the Seven Days squabble, Parliament did give attention to such things as re- distribution of House seats and plans to reorganize the federal bureaucracy. As well, the House approved a $50 million rural development fund, ear-marked a similar sum for development in the Atlantic provinces, set up the Science Council of Canada, launched the Company of Young Canadians and adopted a policy of bil- ingualism for top civil service jobs. Parliament also received the government's white paper on broadcasting, strengthening the Board of Broadcast Governors as the controlling body of Cana- dian radio and TV. Then, it gave first reading to the Bank Act, Medicare, and heard the government's plans for supplemental old age pen- sions before running for cover. Delay on the Medicare bill is ther muddied the picture. Utta- wa insists on universal, compul- sory schemes. Alberta objects on principle, and the new Que- bec regime says it can't possibly meet the Jan. 1 target date. A new conference of provincial health ministers will have to be held first. . There is less excuse -- other than political expediency -- for the delay in the Bank Act legis- lation. Finance minister Sharp is determined to permit the banks to raise their basic inter- est rates from six to seven per cent. and later, remove the ceil- ing entirely. In the long run, so the Finance minister reasons, this will make money easier to obtain but both New Democrats aS many Liberals oppose the idea. The worse example of foot- dragging, however, came on supplementary pensions, stalled by procedural haggling during the last few days of the session. Health minister Allan Mac- Eachen, to his credit, had been anxious to put the plan into the legislative hopper. He blamed delay on the Conservative oppo- sition, but the fact that many Liberals were lukewarm to the scheme also contributed to the delay. For all that, the plan leaves much to be desired. It avoids a universal boost in the $75 feder- al pension for those over 69 (the age level drops to 68 next year) by offering assistance to those of the one million pen- sioners whose incomes are be- low $105 a month. Presented as a guaranteed minimum annual income, it nevertheless pre- serves the odious means test which is not only demeaning to pensioners, but costly to admin- ister. The government's position is that this isn't really a means test; that it is stop-gap legisla- tion to assist those too old to understandable in view of feder- participate in the Canada Pen- al-provincial cooperation in this Sion Plan; and that the mini- sphere. And recent elections -- mum income aspect will keep especially the defeat of the Li- down the cost. It will cost $225 berals in Quebec -- have fur- million next year but this will TO PROVIDE FOR THE ISSUING OF BUILDING PER- MITS IN THE TOWNSHIP OF TERRACE BAY Section 3, 4 & 5 of By-law No.39 of The Corporation of The Township of Terrace Bay, reads as follows:- Permits: H/ 3) No person, firm or corporation shall commence or pro - ceed with any excavation for or erection, alteration, addition to, reconstruction, removal or wrecking of. any building or structure or any part thereof, or to provide for a change of occupancy of any building or structure or any part thereof where a different purpose or use is intended by such change of occupancy without first hav- ing obtained a permit from the Corporation of The Town~ ship of Terrace Bay or its appointed agent." Issuance of Permits: "(q) Application for a permit shall be made on an official form to be obtained from the Corporation of The Township of Terrace Bay or its appointed agent and such applica- tion shall give clearly and fully the information re- quired to complete the said form, including the probable cost of the proposed work for which the permit is ap- plied for." Plans and Specifications: (5) The applicant shall submit with the application drawings and specifications sufficient to enable the Corporation of The Township of Terrace Bay or it's appointed agent to obtain full and complete information as to the extent and character of the work. The applicant shall also submit a block plan showing the location of the proposed building or structure with respect to the street and property lines and other buildings or structures then located upon the property." By-law No.39A, amending By-law 39 to include Section 10, reads as follows: Penalties: "(10) Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of this by-law shall be liable to a fine of not less than § Ten Dollars ($10.00) and not more than three hundred dollers ($300.00) exclusive of costs, for a first of- fence and to a fine of not less than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) and not more than Three Hundred Dollars ($300) exclusive of costs, for each subsequent offence." Residents are hereby requested to take notice of the fore- going and govern them selves accordingly. WeHanley, Clerk - Treasurer, The Corporation of The Township of Terrace Bay. ee The best education in the world is that got by struggling for a living.