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14 Waterloo Chronicle, Wednesday, October 23, 1974 GOoING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE BILLS GOT YOU DOWN? "Our Only Business s Y our Insurance" PAY IT MONTHLY!! Pay your car and house insurance the UHURU BOOKSTORE (with no finance charge) easy way ... For Further Information Books Store Fixtures, Wire and Wooden Shelving Large Arborite Counter Electrical Window Display NCR Cash Register Revolving Racks, Floor Safe, etc. Phone 576â€"08 10 Waterloo Square EDWARDS COINâ€"OP *A LAUNDRY Lease Expires Day or Night 579â€"1330 STEWART INSURANCE Get the Facts for Your Car and Home . . . Phone Now 669 Belmont Plaza, Kitchener 500 Glen Forest Blvd. AGENCY LTD. Now has 25 Ib. capacity machines for 75:° a wash GAUVREAU 885â€" 1000 What are some of the goodies? Well, first, there are the inâ€" tangibles. There are very few places in this country where a person is afraid to walk alone, even at night. We have lots of air, some of it hot, some of it polluted, but most of it clear and clean. Nobody is literally starving in this country, though the oldâ€"age pensioners would give you an argument there. Nobody lives in fear of the boots in the hall, the poundâ€" ing on the door, the secret police. Our only secret police are ‘he mounties, and every time they try something secret, the apers find out, and spread it all over the front pages, chortâ€" ing. We have equality of welfare benefits. The old lady with $600,000 salted away in bonds gets the same oldâ€"age pension as the old lady who has two herring salted away. What could be more equal than that? We have equality before the law. What‘s that you say? There‘s one law for the rich and one for the poor? Nonsense. It‘s the same law. The only difference is in the amount you steal, and the lawyers you can afford. If you steal big, anc can afford a battery of lawyers, you get a light sentence. If you steal small, and try to defend yourself, you get the works. We have equality of opportunity. Ask any of our native peoâ€" ple. Just ask a Metis or an Eskimo if he doesn‘t have the same opportunity as the white boy who has to fight his way To continue the list, we have equality of speech. Even the Prime Minister can swear in a public plaee, such as the House of Commons, and get away with it. First of all, we should be grateful to be living in Canada, no matter how we squawk at income tax time, and gripe about the weather. Without getting mistyâ€"eyed or waving a flag about it, this is a grand country. Our society is far from perfect, and there are injustices, and we are often badly served by our leaders, and, yes, the Americans own too much of us. But these things are more than offset when we start piling things on the other side of the scale. * ‘ I‘d planned to write a column about Thanksgiving Day this year but the days went shooting by and suddenly it was past. However, I was undaunted. As, the preachers and writers tell us every Christmas, there is no reason that peace on earth and good will to ward men should be confined to a single day. Nor is there any reason that we should give thanks only on the second Monday in October. So here goes. Did you stop and give thanks on that day? Or did you just enjoy the long weekend, stuff yourself with turkey, and slump in front of the box to watch football? I hope you did better than that: at least went for a drive and gorged yourâ€" self on the fall panorama of colour, reason enough in itself for a deep and fervent thanks. I started to think of all the things we Canadians have to be thankful for, and the list seemed to be endless. Bill Smiley Well, those are just a few of the things for which we should *give thanks. Welch here to discuss family property law He will host a number of public meetings in the citâ€" ies which he visits. The itinerary of public disâ€" cussions includes Kingston, Ottawa, Sudbury and Waterloo. On Tuesday, November 5, 1974 he will be in Waterloo, in the Humanities Theatre, in Hagey Hall at the Uniâ€" versity of Waterloo at 8 p.m. ‘"When I tabled the Famâ€" ily Property Law Report in the legislature in March of this year‘"‘, Mr. Welch said, "I emphasized the deâ€" sire of the government to enâ€" courage as much public consideration of these funâ€" damental issues as possible. And we have peace in our land. Oh, there‘s the odd little fluster. Like the Mackenzie rebellion in Ontario and the Papâ€" ineau rebellion in Quebec and the Riel rebeltion in the west and some kook trying to put a halfâ€"nelson on the Russian head of state in Ottawa and a rabble of native people attackâ€" ing the mounties in the same place. But these are just trouâ€" bleâ€"makers. Right? There‘s no question about it. In this glorious nation of ours, everybody is equal. The only rub is that, as George Orwell put it, some are more equal than others. ~ through Upper Canada College, Trinity College, and Osgoode Hall law school. He‘ll tell you. Just be sure he doesn‘t have a beer bottle in his hand when you ask him. The Honourable Robert Welch, Q.C. _ Provincial Secretary for Justice and Attorney General continues his tour of the province to discuss the report of the Ontario Law Reform Comâ€" mission on Family Properâ€" ty Law. Stop and give thanks A film program will be presented to outline the major recommendations of the Ontario Law Reform Commission â€" relating to Family Property Law, and the attorney general and senior officials of his minâ€" istry will be present to disâ€" cuss these issues and to reâ€" ceive public responses to the suggestions for change. The public is encouraged to attend the program. During the normal course of family life, the ownership of property does not loom large as a day to day conâ€" sideration. However, at some time during their lives, aspects of these isâ€" sues will be important to many individuals and the reâ€" cent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in the Murâ€" doch case has served to focus â€" considerable public attention in this area of the