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Big surprise. And how ironic that the conference would have been held in Detroit, debatâ€" ably the worst urban blight in Uncle Sam‘s domain. That city, more than any other in the U.S. demonstrates that social problems can have more impact on job creation than any other factor. Every G7 country has its own economic problems and Canada is no excepâ€" tion. We are a large country in physical size but a minor economic player on the world stage and after decades of trying to diversify our economy, the penâ€" dulum is again swinging back to our traditional role of ‘hewers of wood and drawers of water‘. What those at the G7 meeting didn‘t adequately address was the fact that the world‘s resources are in decline and those that are left are being ravaged at an unprecedented rate. And they also failed to articulate the importance of bringing the world‘s population under control. Simply put, there are too many people and failure to curb population growth will ultimately cripple any attempts to raise the standard of living for those in underdeveloped countries. We are living in a society where, increasingly, more work is being done by fewer people. That‘s the simple equation and when multiplied by millions of people, the impact is horrendous. Not only are businesses downâ€"sizing, they‘re also changing the way in which they do business. And that means fewer fullâ€" time workers, more partâ€"timers and contract personnel. The old days are gone, never to return. Natural disasters like hurricanes in Florida and earthquakes in California, have been the best news possible for lumber companies. They‘re going full out and still can‘t keep up with the demand for their products, the earth‘s products. Meanwhile we are left to ponder Canada‘s response to the unemployment crisis. Spend a few billion dollars on an infrastructure program it cannot afford and encourage provinces to do the same, all the while holding the threat of withholding transfer payments as a punishment for failure to capitulate. And what a sad spectacle we‘re now witnessing in Toronto, where the city is being browâ€"beaten to build more new subway lines than it can afford. So the province says they‘ll help out, plunging us into further debt, meaning more taxes to be paid by fewer people long after the subway lines are built, the workers unemployed again and the economy still reeling. Until Ottawa realizes the one overwhelming fact that Canadians are sufferâ€" ing from taxation paralysis and unemployment ennui, nothing can be done to get people thinking positively again. With experts in the thousands, economic reports a mile high, the feds still don‘t understand some basic economic truths. Cut taxes, thus giving Canadians more takeâ€"home pay to spend on goods and services which will expand to fill the need. The result is more employment, more taxes for Ottawa from productive workers and an economy of hope. Yes: 14 No: 14 Detroit was built by the auto giants and they‘re still there. But they‘ve also diversified, deâ€"centralized and become more important in other areas of the country. Canadians are not a stupid people. They see debt, both personal and politiâ€" cal for what it is...a pox on growth, employment and a better future for us and our children. No en Py e es Oy ty 2t 1 H i 1 All material published in the Oakville Beaver is protected by copynight. Any Tim Coles Production Manager reproduction in whole or in part of this material is strictly forbidden without the consent of the publisher. 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Any reproduction in whole or in part of this material iss(rid'yiomlddenwr;'?somme Doi notable from several standpoints. But the most important part of the conference was the conclusion that there wasn‘t a whole heck of a lot that anyone could do about the unemployment situation in the industrialized world. The much ballyhooed G7 Jobs Summit held this week in Detroit was Should the number of Halton Board of Education trustees be reduced? One wonders if Ottawa will ever see it that way. Economy of hope? RESULTS OF LAST WEEK‘S POL! 467 Speers Road, Oakville, Ont. L6K 3S4 Should the Queen‘s name be omitted in the new Girl Guides‘ oath? Results of the poll will be published in the next Friday edition of the Oakville Beaver. Cast your ballot by calling 845â€"5585, box 5008 to vote. Callers have until 12 noon Thursday to recister their vote. Bronte taxpayers will be asked to ante up $29,000 to finance the village school this year. The figure may go higher, as at last Friday‘s meeting of the Board, Principal R. A. Hopkins said,"I need extra money." Monday‘s swing of the annexation axe lopped the recently reâ€"grafted joint services branch from that none too stalwart trunk â€" town council deciding to withdraw from further discussion until the axe is testâ€" ed before the Ontario Municipal Board. But many observers yesterday expressed the belief that this preâ€" liminary swipe might rebound to slice off some of the fingers of the town‘s legal woodsmen .m greatly hamâ€" pering Oakville‘s effort to come through with the full swing that would chop out board approval of a splitâ€" ting up of Trafalgar. In fact, in the town‘s failure to proceed with an exploration of joint services possibilâ€" ities, township authorities see the final dulling of a town blade they have constantly maintained was never too keen at the outset. The principal said, "I must be the only teacher in Ontario to go without an increase last year. Something will have to be done about it." Chairman Robert Aitken commented," We need to be fair to the teachers, and if we would attract the best brains to Bronte we must pay them." He proposed a teachers‘ categorical schedule calling for category one teachers to receive $3,200 maximum, category two $3,600, and the top salary for category three $4,100. Raises would be at $200 a year to the maxiâ€" mum. British Petroleum took over Cities Service refinery 30 years ago Principal Hopkins said he wanted to be treated the same as other teachers and qualify for the categorical rates. But Mr. Aitken thought the principal should be considered separately. 40 years ago he axe of annexation, hastily forged by town Tcouncil many months ago from metal untemâ€" pered by a dip into the waters of ratepayer opinâ€" ion, Monday night hacked another limb from the already withering tree of townâ€"township relations. 30 years ago today Cities Service Oil Company, in a statement released in Toronto, said it had signed a letter of intent clearing the way for British Petroleum Limited Alook back at the events that made headlines in Oakville. The Toronto Area Transit Operating Authority is a proposed system to coâ€"ordinate and streamline transâ€" portation services in metropolitan Toronto and York, Peel and Durham regions. _Masson urged Queen‘s Park to enlarge the boundâ€" aries of the transit authority to include both Halton and Hamiltonâ€"Wentworth regions. According to deputy minister of transportation and communications A.T.C. McNab, Halton and Hamiltonâ€"Wentworth Regions were excluded from the operating boundaries of the authority to keep the system down to a workable size. 10 years ago Three of eight Southern Ontario sites selected by the Ontario Waste Management Corporation as potenâ€" tial liquid industrial waste sites are in Milton, just steps away from Oakville. Dr. Donald Chant, chairman and president of the Ontario Waste Management corporation announced that three sites in Milton are being considered by the crown agency for a liquid industrial waste site. Chant stressed the sites are possible sites only and there will be a further narrowing down of the list before it is finally submitted to Cabinet. to acquire all its marketing and refining properties in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. No price has been disclosed, although a Cities Service official said a purchase price of $30 million "is pretty conservative when you consider the Oakville refinery was worth $27â€"million when it was first constructed." 20 years ago Halton regional chairman Allan Masson has made a personal appeal to Ontario Premier William Davis for Halton to be included in the Toronto Area Transit Operating Authority. The prize of the package is the Cities Service ultraâ€" modern Oakville refinery, which went on stream here in May 1959. The three sites in Milton are near Bronte Road and Britannia Road. One of the possible sites consists of 935 acres on the west side of Bronte Road just south of Britannia Road and overlaps into Oakville‘s northâ€" ern border. TRY NOT TD THINK OF THEM MERELY As