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T ocdls are tngen o the shol a ~ That could sum up the Region‘s efforts in atâ€" Note a point in Police Chief Syd Brown‘s report o tempting to hold this year‘s tasx levy increase to to council last Thursday. Over the past five years, the rise in assessment across the Region. If the police budgets© have been underspent by a total The government should fall flat on its fat, pompous gaal had been met, Regional taxes would not have of $750,000 including $228,000 in 1973, $395,000 in f face, over its decision to prosecute the Toronto Sun increased. ~ 1975, and another $164,000 in 1976. Last year, it was under the official secrets act for supposedly ‘"unâ€" As it turned out, council approved a 7.3 per cent much smaller, about $30,000. covering* classified information about Soviet spy rise in the tax levy which, minus an anticipated 3.5 per ‘"*At first blush, one might assume that the foreâ€" activities in Canada. cent increase in assessment, leaves a net 3.8 per going figures suggest some economic of efficiency At least I hope so. cent tax increase. . . wizardry," Brown said. ‘‘Such is not necessarily the _ | Trudeau and his cabinet of assorted â€"â€"â€"â€" have gone The Region had one break in that the assessment case because services, goods and manpower neéds too far this time. originally was forecast at increasing by only 3 per were overlooked or ignored resulting in a need to . ‘ Even if you‘ve just returned from a fruitful season cent. (One report during last Thursday‘s budget catch up in 1977 and subsequent years." " of fur trapping, isolated in the Canadian north, meeting indicated the assessment office was preâ€" That was one reason Brown cited in defending you‘ve probably heard by now that the Trudeau govâ€" dicting a 4.6 per cent climb in assessment. If only‘! ) this year‘s police budget which will cost Regional ernment has become greatly irritated in recent The increase that there was, which will add an avâ€" taxpayers 12.7 per cent more this year while direct ‘ weeks. erage of $3.40 to a property tax bill of $500, was due Regional services will cost only 3.3 per cent more. | First, a little background music, please: to a 12.7 per cent increase in police costs. The Region also used a large surplus at the end , , The source of this itch in the first place was Services directly under Regional control. (which of 1977 of nearly $1 million to reduce the impact of i Tory MP Tom Cossitt‘s grumblings and disserâ€" â€" doesn‘t include the police but includes such things â€" _ this year‘s budget. With a tight 1978 budget, however, tations in Parliament that the Soviets were attemptâ€" as roads, waste management and health and social it is highly unlikely that the Region will have such ing to persuade loyal Canadians to become turnâ€" services) only rose about 3 per cent which would a large surplus at the end of 1978 to help reduce next â€" coats on their country, and dabble in a little subverâ€" have more than met the Region‘s selfâ€"imposed goal. year‘s impact. § sive activity. That indeed is a cammendable effort but a word The ‘small budget increase is a direct result of : And Cossitt wasn‘t just frothing at the mouth. He of caution must be expressed about next year. the current perception that large government exâ€" | had leaked RCMP papers to back it up, which he The Region will spend $30.6 million in 1978 for serâ€" ~ _ penditures is a major reason for the economic difâ€" waved in front of newsmen‘s noses. vices directly under its control, which is 7.1 per cent ficulties the country. is enduring. ‘Restraint, reâ€" The Trudeau government promptly demanded reâ€" more than last year. The increase was entirely due to straint, restraint‘ has become the Gospel According turn of the document, or they‘d arrest Cossitt. higher welfare and road costs. to miticians. i ~ Cossitt promptly replied that he didn‘t have the 4 t‘s not necessarily wrong; government exâ€" document, after going through government harrassâ€" anghfii v}vlelfare 'ilse ihas due 1o ho ‘Dlesk PAONOLIY penditures have needed to be controlled better. But 3 o 7 o gh unemployment which has forced more peoâ€" A â€" * o ment, including suspected wiretapping, over the ple onto welfare rolls. The increase in road costs is like any other public mood, it can be carried to matter. due to the Regi V lifving f 91 t an extreme. Needs will then always have to be postâ€" . d gion now qualifying for a 91 per cen R C iT al : Whereupon Trudeau, through his new Solicitor Genâ€" incial bsid bo the 1 poned or the public will simply have to do with . provincial subsidy program above norma s eral Jeanâ€"Jaques Blais (pronounced Blah), were aliotment reduced services. left with the proverbial egg all over their faces. 10 C The question facing all levels of government Their blind drive for ultimate domination over _Outside of those two areas, the rest of the serâ€" then is to strike a proper balance between cdontrolâ€" all foes, principally the thorny opposition, appeared vices controlled directly by the Region rose only .5 ling its costs to reflect the public mood while at the to grind to a standstill. per cent in costs this year. Keeping the increase same time keeping the belt lpose enough to maintain They needed a new whipping boy. that low is indeed an admirable effort. But in doing the level of service that that same public has come Coâ€"incidentally, at about the same time Cossitt so, some needs obviously had to be ignored, postâ€" to expect. called Trudeau‘s bluff, Toronto Sun Editorâ€"inâ€"Chief Peter Worthington, an upstanding journalist of_inâ€" . ternational repute, laid bare in his column just what â€" ' the fuss was all about : he revealed the contents of the & 2 6 ® secret document on Soviet spying. . ~~ hm * This gave Trudeau and his cohorts all the ammuniâ€" & * r tion they needed, even though they were then and . m opoommy ooooommeeer ooo are continuing to fire merely blanks. TM* _ s Taoaima w i . o A writ was issued against Worthington and the | | M @RP@®IR y B oa#WaARG . . _ _ 2 Sun, which in effect, said they had breached the Ofâ€" | | d oR &A Y DA CRAAA P _ â€" _ _ L en _ ficial Secrets Act and were threatening national seâ€" e s s s l i e e o i n n â€" | Lt curity by making public the secret document. ' $ s That‘s the Trudeaucrat tirade. . * Well . . .Bull, horsefeathers, and balderdash! . , Well . . .bull, horsefeathers, and balderdash! c O_ & . Trudeau and his band of cretins are just trying to tidy up their own sloppy housekeeping all the while oo m a n a s trying to bring this country closer to their communist c ® : â€" ~ ideal. The government‘s credibility in this matter is so . paperâ€"thin it‘s translucent. On one hand, Trudeau Professional development activity days (P.A. better use. I‘m not suggesting that they give up all says the KGB, Soviet secret police, and its activities days). Are they beneficial? Do we really need so of their holidays but how about setting aside two in this country, is a threat to Canada, while on the many? My questions exactly and I thank Cambridge or three days at the beginning or end of the week for other it is openly embracing the Soviet government, trustee Lorraine Mansfield for bringing the topic professional development. Perhaps attendance could as if to divorce one from the other. up before the Board of Education‘s committee of be on a voluntary basis and teachers could then Since when is government and its policies difâ€" the whole meeting a couple of weeks ago. < make a choice between a workshop and a Florida ferent from those of its law enforcement and its While I don‘t disagree with the fact that teachers vacation. If teachers are as dedicated to their proâ€" techniques? are professionals and that as professionals they~ . fession as they claim to be attendance shouldn‘t be And where does the government get off in trying should be afforded the opportunity to further fdfiv_el- a problem. | to feed us all this bull and then try and shush it up op themselves, I do question the number of days a » ; : : f as if its none of our business? and the way they are scheduled. f delvguo;s;e::!adta;;n a;:am:‘t’u?“: tl-':‘ t::: 'af ;::;: ( Trudeau, in trying to muzzle the press, is only Mrs. Mansfield questioned the necessity of a half of that, they should be schedliled with the students } making concrete his plans to have a government conâ€" day the first day of classes. This is the least of my interests in mind , trolling the people, instead of serving them. worries. For the amount generally accomplished ~ t In essence, he‘s striving to fulfill the socialist in the classroom that day, students are not being Teachers have a very definite job to do and if one | promises he probably made to himself, with absoluteâ€" shortchanged by spending an afternoon at home. combires the nine and one half development days 1 ly no regard to the country or its people. Approximately seven or eight years ago (in with the increasing number of days students miss i Stagflation â€" that double edged fatalistic sword of other words when I was there), professional developâ€" due to inclement weather you get two weeks may ' : high unemployment, coupled with inflation, is at an ment took up one day of the year. This is what I be more when this job is not being done. 4 allâ€"time peak, we‘ve got a dollar that‘s not even can‘t understand. Every year since then we have Maybe teachers are better organized than they worth nine dimes, and here‘s a buffoon who calls himâ€" added a day or two and in 1978 we are up to nine and were when I sat in the classroom but if we missed self our Prime Minister playing the modern preâ€" one half days. I wonder if teachers are more proâ€" two or three days of classes we hustled to catch tend game of cops and robbers. fessional as a result of it. To make matters worse up and the push was still on in the last week in June. Parliament‘s function has become so clouded. the days are scattered throughout the year with the Despite the heated debate between trustees that the dayâ€"today inept workings of the government exception of two scheduled for September and two, evening they more or less joined hands at the end so shrouded in scandal and doubt, an election is only four days apart, in the first week of March. of it all, called a truce and accepted the nine needed to clear the air I realize that education isn‘t simply the and one half days. I was disappointed to say the And Trudeau has got to be put out. He‘s a danâ€" "readin, writin and rithmetic‘" it used to be and least despite the fact that Kitchener trustee Grant gerous man. and his continued ruling of the country that teachers are always being forced to catch up MacDonald said words to the effect that not all with his consequencesâ€"beâ€"damned attitude. means with new developments in their field but why was as rosy as it looked. certain disaster for all Canadians . can‘t some of this be done on their own time? My only hope is that trustees took the discussion Don‘t be fooled by his emotional pleadings that It‘s a known fact that teachers have the longest seriously and intend to look into it further. It‘s hard he‘s the only one who can save the country and Conâ€" vacation period of any other group of professionals. to pinpoint exactly what changes need to be made federation. . . While I don‘t begrudge them their two months in regarding P.A. days but parents, some trustees, But surely he can and will destroy it. the summer, (envy them yes, begrudge them no) I and myself have known for a long time that someâ€" wonder if their spring break couldn‘t be put to thing needs to be done.