PAGE 8, WlE-DNESI)AY. APRI 1,.29, 198 1 , WIITBY FRI-EL PRESS Commuing is stili a vible alternative TORONTO -- AIlthough house prices in Metropolitan Toronto are escalating rapidly, there are still bargains available within easy commuting distance, says Bob Martin, Chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Association of Canada (Ontario). "Some people have been scared by the 'energy crisis' into believing that com- muting is not an WIN A RECORDING CONT R AC! economically viable alter- native," Martin says. "However, that really isn't true. " "Even including com- muting costs, current prices in areas like Oshawa, Whit- by, Burlington and Milton, for example, are very at- tractive. " "HUDAC Ontario calculates that the cost of driving an additional 30 miles to and from work each YoU ,-uEWHISTLE STOP day works out to less than $165 a month -- including maintenance and depreciation. " "If you had to use that $165 instead for monthly interest payments on a first mor- tgage at 16 per cent interest rates, it would only cover $12,200 of principal," Martin says. Even if it was assumed that retail gas and oil prices will rise by 15 per cent a WIN A TRIP FOR TWO TO WHEELING, WIEST VIRGINIA CAN BE A STAR ON TELEVISION INT\II'R ii c~CHOO COUNTRY TALENT * SEARCU Every Thursday ait ili< RADIO 8:30 p.m. () F 111 F BR-DANC:ING1 - Si [ow'.- 1'Rl)) l]. ~ EVSLDON ILOCA. XLiIIIF. VSION TlO REGIS'l'ER l'ORT'11E (A 10>RADIO (COUNTlRY SAIICALL HID1 AY INN 293-817 I year over the next f ive years (which is higher than most current predictions), the average monthly cost would be just over $200. "0f course, if the driving costs can be shared through a car pool, they can be cut dramatically," Martin con- tinues. "And - mass transit systems can be even more attractive for a commuter," he said adding, "The cost of a monthly GO train pass from Whitby, for example, to Union Station in down- town Toronto, is only $68. If you used that $68 towards mortgage interest payments instead of commuting, it would allow you to cover just over $5,000 of extra mor- tgage principal." But the actual difference between average new home prices in Whitby and those in Metropolitan Toronto is about $30,000. And the same trend is generally true around the whole Toronto market. A 1,500-square-foot new house on a 30-foot lot would cost just under $100,000 in Scarborough. The same size house would cost about Give a UNICEF gifi to a friend and help a child. 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People point to the national income figures for 50 years ago or 100 years ago and say I want to settle for, less, that I'm willing to sacrifice alI the &"progress " government has made for a simpler world of long ago. I think these accusations are simplistic. It hasn't been government that has contributed substantially to our economic improvements over the years; it's been the dedication and innovation of men and women working hard. Our technology, efficiency and productivity advances have corne from the private sector. Our income and wealth have been a function of these advances and have occurred through the workings of free enterprise, flot through - but even sometimes despite - government action. When conservatives like myself talk enthusiastically about the past it-'s about the values of those days. There were new frontiers that called for pride, courage, risks and a pioneer spirit. Technological innovations opened new fields of development and exploitation. Some were profitable, some were not. Risks were taken because the rewards were high. Some ventures failed because the risks were too great. Mistakes were rarely duplicat'ed. Some ventures succeeded and rewards were forthcoming. Progress was made. Our central government in Canada today seems deter- mined to remove these sticks and carrots, these risk and reward variables, this mechanisrn of progress. If the gover- nment has its way, I think that more than our economic life will be made dreary. When the last of the pioneering, en- trepreneurial motive is crushed, it wilI appear as if there are no more new frontiers, no more values of the individual wor- th preserving. A great man, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, recently described our dilemma: "Western nations have lost the will, faith, vitality and leadership required to set about the needed reconstruction of society in accord with the great values and principles which inspired and guided western nations to greatness in times past." 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