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» PAGE 4 Gordon M. Podge GENERAL INSURANCE i AUTOMOBILE = FIRE - CASUALTY = LIABILITY 179 HUDSON DRIVE | LETTER WRITTEN BY J.D. NEILL TO HON. EDGAR BENSON - cont'd from last week's News The Provincial and Federal Government's policy on Indian Welfare is shocking. Together they accomplish nothing towards providing the native Indian with a better stendard of living yet millions of dollars have been spent in this field. The only worthwhile monies spent, in this writer's opinion, have been in the field of providing secondary educa tion for native Indian students by bringing them into the larger centres and providing them with education, room and board. In this area alone the Federal Government has spent hundreds ef thousands of dollars constructing GOOD homes for netive Indians, not one of which is today fit to live.in. The native Indian has accepted this kind donation by the great white father as his due and once he has taken possess-; ion has promptly burnt the doors and cupboards in the house for firewood, rather than venture out into the cold for dead wood. Both the Federal and Provincial Government have sontributed jointly in excess of $10,000 per annum to the local Indian Friendship centre and in two years the centre has done nothing towards improving the Indian's lot but has provided a bulletin board for hate literature, neatly pin-- ned on by representatives of the CYC. The Federal and Provincial governments policy on welfare, MUST, in the name of all that is reasonable, be re-examined For example local recipients of welfare-able-bodied men, were asked by the local authorities to perform two days work per week on civic necessities - snow and gravel shovelling, eto., the authorities in Toronto learned of this by ; complaints filed by the welfare recipients and promptly ordered the local authorities to stop this practice of fercing peor relief recipients to work for their living. The welfere recipients, Sir, are quite frankly laughing at ue and have become quite skilled at weys of lengthening their stay on the rolls. The Federal government is distributing hundreds of thou- sends of dolliers in Old Age pensions ~- without a means test. Thie is net fair. If this is to be gradually implemented with the Canada Pension Plan, then this inequity will dis- appear so that the money will not be paid out where none has-been paid in except in cases of indigents. But if a means test were established now for the Old Age pension scheme then the poor could receive more and raise their standard of living rather than heving the rich receive this money needlessly. The same situation exists with the Family Allowance and Youth Allowance program. There ere many other areas in government spending where waste is obvious, but I see no point in further elaborating here. I believe I have made my point with the foregoing. With respect to declaration of ally types of income, the field of income possibilities oan be expanded far beyond the brief examples alreedy quoted, but those examples quoted Ha aa Bray HCL DRY CLEANING 8 LB. LOAD --- $3.00 TERRACE BAY NEWS Hours 1-4 p.m. Mon. through Sat.» LOADSTAR STEAM DRYERS - 10¢ for SUPERIOR COIN LAUNDRY & DRY CLEANING REAR OF SHOPPING PLAZA - TERRACE BAY - PHONE - 825-9787 FEBRUARY 19, 1970 TILDEN RENT-A-CAR - TRUCK DAILY RENTALS SHORT AND LONG TERM LEASING PHONE: BRIAN DUFFY Schreiber 824-2043 Evenings 824~2068 certainly should be examined, because the in the case of dance band musicians the average annual income is at least $500.00 per annum and often greater, the average small town fireman's income is at least $250.00 and mostly $500.00 per annum. With respeot to oleaning women, suffice it to say that the cleaning woman in ny office who earns $250.00 per year from me and is therefore not reportable enjoys a colour TV set in her home and is busy approximately 50 hours per week with several different employers and also enjoys a regular mothers allowance cheque from the Provincial Govern- . ment. I believe it will be obvious to the Minister that if the foregoing examples of undeclared income and unnecessary expenditures can be drawn from this small comminity where I reside - 3000 population - then ample evidence of this same kind of wrong mist exist in Canada's larger centres all of it well known to various government officials, but obviously being largely ignored. It, of course, stands to reason that these inequities are not only known to the writer but all Canadian taxpayers and when the government announces proposed increases in taxation rather than scheduled cuts in spending, those taxpayers whom the proposals affect will -almost inveriably be tempted to effect their own form of savings-tex evasion. Tex evasion is certainly against the lew but is it any more morally wrong than a government which does nothing to curb wastefully spend ing of public monies? Governments, in a democracy, are elected to pesitions of trust by the voters-to guide their country's affairs in a wise and just manner. I suggest that an eleoted government i is betraying that trust when it dees not do everything in its | power to curb wasteful spending and see that every citizen of the country it governs contributes ina fair and just manner | to the cost of good government. Taxpayers across Canada cannot help but feel their hackles reised when they read of government surplus assets sold at ridiculously low prices in & market where goods of less than equal value are sold at twenty times the price, when they read of vacation trips being made by the Prime Minister in an | official government plane-at the taxpayers expense, when they | see the Government run medical insurance costs more and does less and is predicted to go higher than a privately run medical insurance scheme supervised by the physicians them- selves. CONTINUED IN NEXT WEEK'S NEWS MAYTAG WASHERS ~- 35¢ PER LOAD 10 min.