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Assorted drivel on a sunny Moniday afternoon after 1 was done philosophizing on the benefits of the threeâ€" %a‘l:!y ’i’:lmcal system to budding oneâ€"party advocate j TL Those virile protectors of Ontario‘s sensibilities have struck again with the vigour of a Goliathâ€"slaying David. The Ontario film censorship beard has made a decision which has resurrected the image of this provâ€" ince as a home of barnyard rubes who‘sidea of a good time on a Saturday night is watching Tin Roofs being composed at the local ice cream parlour. Sitting on their lofty behinds, the learned gentlemen in their wisdom have decreed that residents of this fair province will not have an opportunity to view the film Pretty Baby by French director Louis Malle. The board has decided to make this judgement for e us rather than trusting the masses to arrive at its own opinion on whether the film has any redeeming qualâ€" ities or not. Evidently, the board feels the Ontario public is much too sensitive and much too slowâ€"witted to be able to make such decisions themselves. Father Cenâ€" sor Knows Best. , According to the vast majority of crities who have viewed the flick depicting the experiences of a 12â€" yearâ€"old girl growing up and participating in a turnâ€"ofâ€" theâ€"century New Orleans brothel, the movie is both excellently and tastefully produced. _ > 0n What annoys this smokeâ€"congested observer is the hypocrisy of the decision. It hangs over the air like the smell of well used gym socks in a locker room, in other words, it stinks. Perhaps one of the most important things a poliâ€" tician must learn is the ability to communicate with his constituents. Government has seemed reâ€" mote because individuals are not involved in the decision making processes. As a political candidate I believe that the political survey is an effective tool in combating this problem. Over the past two"*» weeks T have distributed 27,000 questionnaires throughout the riding of Waterloo. So far I have received 2,800 replies and I thank those of you who have taken the time to answer my questionnaire, most particularly for your comments. I will be answering by mail although it may take a few weeks to get through all of the replies. Opinion The results are most interesting. 62% of those answering the survey are opposed to a guaranteed annual income and only 30% are in favor. 52% would abolish the baby bonus for families with gross annual incomes in excess of $10,000.00 as against 44% opposed. Isuspect that the $10,000.00 figure would have been fairer as a suggested limit. Only 42% favor abortion for nonâ€"medical reasons while 52% were opposed. Only 32% are in favor of removing the possession of marijuana from the Criminal Code while 61% were opposed. 62% favor Any regular movie goer has seen many films illusâ€" First, an apology: A couple of weeks ago an item appeared in this column concerning city council‘s handling of grant requests, prior to finalizing the budget. I said in this space that aldermen tried to flipâ€"flop on one item. They didn‘t. Now, on to the meat of the matter. If that old adage is true, that power corrupts, we‘re being gently prodded towards a general elecâ€" tion this June by one of the most corrupted and contemptible governments ever to lead this counâ€" try into the sewer. It‘s hard to believe the federal government will and does continue to tell bareâ€"faced lies that they‘ve done such a good job governing since Pierre Truâ€" deau swept into power 10 years ago. Their premise that they should be reâ€"elected is simple, or so the Trudeaucrats tell us: They admit that yes, the country has had its share of probâ€" lems, but that they‘ve been capable of governing better than anyone else. Simple. arrogant pride. That‘s all they‘ve got to go on, the only basis on which they base their track record. ‘ The reason Trudeau and the boys don‘t recite moreé from that track record is because it is a poor one. Filled with holes and covered with black marks. o #*45 * % e vRdALt astonishing array of colourful curses and has viewed scores of actors being torn to bits in a multitude of trating acres of undulating naked flesh, has heard an violent, bloodâ€"dripping manners. Nonetheless, those flicks seem to find their way past the wary, God fearâ€" ing eyes of the censors with their blessings. It‘s time to censor the censors and put them out to pasture where they can instill their own questionable values on animals who may appreciate them, such as cows and ducks. If you think I‘m mad at the censorship board, wait until you read what I‘ve got in store for Larry Grossâ€" man, head honcho of the provincial consumer affairs bureaucracy. If he thought he‘d get away with the start of a new baseball season without some invective thrown in his direction about his beer ban at Exhibition stadium, he‘s nuttier than Paul Marck, himself a prime candiâ€" date for a rubberâ€"walled room:. wu i As bespeaks a secondâ€"year expansion club, the Toronto Blue Jays, more aptly named Turkeys by one astute Toronto observer of the baseball and political arenas, have stumbled their way to another inauspiâ€" cious two winâ€"six loss start as of this writing. That is bad enough indeed for the baseball junkies of Toronto and area who seem to get their prurient interest filled by watching Rick Bosetti try to run from second base to home plate on an infield grounder. Ineptitude seems to be the drug which stimulates these baseball crazed fans. On top of such dismal exhibitions, the weather has been more suitable for a snowman than those cute ball girlsâ€"the Blue Jays introduced last week to flash making pensions indexed to the rate of inflation available to all Canadians. 31% were opposed.: This figure demonstrates the depth of concern at the effect inflation has on the purchasing power of the dollar. Controlling inflation is a desirable objective. A more difficult question is how we can finance lg universally indexed pension. This quesâ€" tion could not be included in the survey. A resounding 80% feel that a member of parliaâ€" ment should follow his constituents wishes on the capital punishment issue. Apparently few people in Waterloo feel this issue is an important one in the coming election. Law and order was at the bottom of the list as a prime issue facing Canadians. 66% felt ‘the unemployment insdurance program should be restricted while only 26% felt it should be maintained at the present level. Only 5% felt it should be increased. 66% favored a Federal election this spring while only 22% opposed it. I interpret this to mean that the voters of Waterloo are anxious to express their views on the present government. _I asked people to list the most important issues in this coming election, Economic questions stood out clearly from the rest. Inflation, unemâ€" But we do have a dollar that‘s hardly worth eight dimes and change. People thought it was so disastrous in the early ‘60‘s when the Diefenbaker government lowered the value of our buck to 92 cents, and it was the reason for the downfall of his government a year later. They‘re so ashamed to list their accomplishments, simply because there are none. â€" â€" Now we‘ve got the 85â€"cent dollar, which is likely to fall closer to 75â€"cents, and Trudeau and Chretien tell us not to worry. Easy for them to say. And how about unemployment? In the worst of times, economists say the economy is in its death throes when unemployment crawls up over the fiveâ€"perâ€"cent mark. The unemployment in this country is twice that a million unemployed . O And our country‘s leaders tell us not to worry, and not to even bother looking for a job if we‘re out of work. And inflation? How about those fighter‘s words from Trudeau three years ago, when the price and wage controls he promised a Liberal government would never bring down, one which he fought and won an elecâ€" tion over, promising to "wrestle inflation to the ground .‘ happened? We lived through three years who. ges , » s 804 q AADOL Lansss i# > h aic in 4#A bre .l pr : Reuuntes n o 0 .2 00 ... .1s Wietenpe Chranicle, Wedngediy, Agrit 19, 1978 : Pape 7 * % # en en rk > Bb But the last straw is that Honcho Grossman has again passed by an opportunity to introduce beer into the more often than not silent, frustrated stands in the park by Lake Ontario. Instead, we are left with scenes such as this one amplified in the Toronte Sun: aâ€"seore of empty liquor bottles all neatly lined up in the stands for a visiting photographer, proof positiveâ€"that you, can take the alcohol out of the stadium, butâ€" you can‘t take the alcohol out of patron‘s coatpockets â€" and ultimately their comely gams to encourage the otherwise discourâ€" The empty bottles are potentially dangerous misâ€" siles to be tossed around by their owners who earlier drained them of their contents or by kids. And it has been medically proven that paper cups, which once held beer, do not do nearly as much damage to the human skull as an accurately thrown empty whisky bottle can accomplish. Suchâ€" incidents are not beyond the reaim of possibility, myself a witness to broken glass remnants of such tosses in othéer stadia. Toronto is the lone franchise in the baseball world of overpaid athletes which doesn‘t serve the cool suds in its ballpark. Grossman‘s refusal to introduce it in Tororito is plain silly and places him as a prime candiâ€" date for electoral rejection whenever the next contest is held. ~ His nonâ€"action again confirms the impression that those whom we elect and appoint to govern us think that the public they serve is a bunch of immature nerds with minds of a twoâ€"yearâ€"old. s a But we can vote. ployment, government waste and productivity were the first choice by aclear majority. Leadership was next, followed by national unity and income tax. Bilingualism and law and order followed well down the list. This type of sampling of opinion is not scientific and the results are not necessarily representative of the community but I do believe there are some obvious conclusions to be drawn from the Ssurvey. Firstly, economic issues dominate as the prime concern of people in our riding. Opposition to a guaranteed annual income combined with support for indexed pensions can only be explained rationally on the basis that people want to control government spending and are thus prepared to abandon uniâ€" versal welfare schemes but they are frightened of the diminishing purchasing power caused by inâ€" flation and want some protection against that threat. The answer on unemployment insurance appears to bear out this conclusion. | If you answered the survey and signed your name and address you will receive the results in the mail. If you didn‘t get a questionnaire and want one, or if you would like to receive the results please write to me at 228 King Street South, Waterloo. of price and wage controls, with government proâ€" mises to bring doubleâ€"digit inflation down to fourâ€" perâ€"cent. That certainly is some track record, without even mentioning the dozen or so scandals involving cabinet ministers and other high Trudeau officials over the years. _ And inflation is still over nineâ€"perâ€"cent, more than twice that which we were told it would be. All this, from the man who calmly sweeps these momentous problems aside and says he‘s the only one who can save the country, as he wraps himself in a maple leaf flag and hides behind the national unity issue. Hell, Rene Levesque is no fool, and says he‘ll fight Trudeau bareâ€"handed if he tries to use that hackneyâ€" ed excuse as an election platform. â€" â€" The blunt observations of a friend of mine, a working stiff like you and_me, no intellectual giant or political scientist by any stretch of the imaginâ€" ation, put it all into the proper light. Why? He said he simply didn‘t know who to Beâ€" lieve. The. government‘s been lying to us, he says, and the opposition is untried and full of whimful promises. My only response was to swallow hard. (4 He simply mentioned in passing that he didn‘t know who he would vote for in the upcoming elecâ€" by Rich Hobson sy N* ue