NDP sing the free trade blues Vol. 16, No. 3 Wednesday, January 22, 1986, 28 Pages Nigel Schiling named Peter Perry '85 Few were surprised Friday at a gala variety night and reception when it was announced that Nigel Schilling is 1985's Peter Perry Award winner. Cer- talnly no one was more surprised than Mr. Schilling himself as he mounted the stage to accept the honour amid- st loud applause from tlhe capacity crowd in the Centennial Building auditorium. On- stage, Mr. Schilling joined a long, line of former winners of the award which honours the town's finest volunteers and community minded citizens. "I1t's nice but it's not necessary," said the soft-spoken lawyer as lie hoisted the large plaque which now bears bis name. It was typical of the unassuxning manner that has characterized Mr. Schilling's dogged and consistent. con- tributions to a wide range of community ac- tivities over more than 15 years. And it is a quality that his legal partner describes as being second nature to Nigel Schilling. "He's just a really fine person," said Brian Evans on Saturday. "As long as I've known him he's taken an interest in the community. "He's the kind of per- son that genuinely wan- ta to pay back the com- munity. As -a professional the com- munity lias been good to him and 1 think he feels that lie wants to pay some of that back. " The accolades weren't hard to corne by when the Free Press surveyed some of Whitby's more community minded citizens on the subject of this year's winner. 'II think Nigel was an excellent choice," said Don Frise, past president of the Whitby Chamber of Commerce. 1"What he's done for this community bas been over and above the cal of duty. 1 hate to think what life in Whitby would lie'like without people like Nigel always working behind the scenes. There are very few like him and they do so much." tee chairman Mandy Crawford there were some top-flight nominations for the award this year and it was a difficult choice but in the end, when committee members had settled on a winner, it was clear to everyone that they had made the right one. "Nigel seemed to have sucli broad based involvement in the town that he really was an obvious choice. He's just an outstanding citizen," said Mrs. Perry selection commit- S PG. 3 I';I~~r V6rf V In good Company Nigel Schilling was named 1985's Peter Perry That's probably one of the reasons he was seiec- NDP trade critic Bob MacKenzie spoke to a meeting area party members Saturday at the UAW Hall in Oshawa and tore a strip off. the Mulroney governnient for its initiatives te strike- up a free trade agreement with the United States. Free Press Staff Photo NDP -spokesman attacks free trade A free trade agreement with the United States could cost hundreds of thousands of Canadians their jobs, according to a leadin'g member of the 'NDP's provincial caucus.- '-ý Speaking to members of the NDP's South- Central Ontario Council in Oshawa Saturday, Hamilton East MPP Bob MacKenzie said an interim study on the im- pact of free trade with the U.S. bas indicated as many as 20,000 jobs in the clothing and textile industries could be lost along witli 45,000 jobs in the electrical'industry, 10,000 jobs in furniture manufacturing and up to haîf of ail brewery jobs. As mucli as seven percent of Canada's jobs could go by the boards if the Mulroney government goes aliead witli tbeir "wrong- headed and premature" initiatives to strike-up a trade agreement. with our neiglibour to the soutb, said Mr., MacKenzie. He added that even the, Conser- vatives have conceded as many as 281,000 could lie "sensitive" to a free trade agreement., "Mulroneylias said that free trade will secure anid create new, jobs. Then we find out that we're being asked to give up real jobs' today for make-believe jobs tomorrow. "I have asked over and over again wliere these new jobs are coming fromn and I couldn't get an an- swer," said Mr. MacKenzie. The MPP attacked Prime Minister Mulroney for being two faced and assuming one stance on free trade prier to the federal elec- tion only to change his tune and corne out in favour of free trade on- ce lie bad an over- whelming majority in the house. Aecc'ording to Mr. MacKenzie, Mr. Mulroney stated ~inequivocalIy that he would bave notbing to do with free trade SEE PG. 16 $4, milion expansion for Dupant plant IAward wlnner Friday night ai the Centennial ted as the Chamber of Commerce Businessman of Dupont Canada an- IBulilding. Mr. Schilling was descrIbed by selection the year two months ago. Mr. Schilling is Joined here nounced last week that commlttee chairman Mandy Crawford as an "ob- by former Peter Perry winners Brian Winters, Bert it will lie spending,$4 vIo crd enti forillte ouwy. Freee Press Staff Photod ByanDavesdiversify its packaging crdntaswl teljuwy rePrs tf ht film operations in Whit- by before the end of this summer. nMore than $1 million Province cuts back grants to regio met wllar flhiest-t don wllao bane st- Durham regional counillors learned last week that the province is prepared to pay only half the increase in un- conditional grants they had anticipated for 1986. According to regional finance commissioner Jack Gartley, bis depar- tment had anticipated receiving an increase of about two percent over last year's grants of $13,426,000. However, Mr. Gartley said lielias since learned that the province's uncon- ditional grants to the region this year will only increase by ap- proximately 1.1 percent - about $958,000. (Unconditional grants to the region last year constituted 26.5 percent of the $50.5 million wor- thi of provincial grants paid to Durham.) Mayor Bob Attersley was not prepared to say whether or not the news foreshadows tax in- creases in Durham this year but lie said coun- cillors would lie scrutinizing their biudget literature very closely in the upcoming budget sessions. 111 think we're going Wo have to do some p rioratizing and if we' can't afford to do something then we just can't do it. There's a limit to what the tax- payer is prepared to pay," said Mayor Atter- sley. At the same tîme, lie added, councillors -have an obligation to provide a certain level of service to the .taxpayers. Judging fro m wliat lie heard at a two day regional planning session in Hali burton last week, Mayor Atter- sley said i t was clear tbere is a lot of work to lie done in al regional departments. S L. F PG P1 build close to 14,000 square feet of additional laboratory and office space, according to per- sonnel manager Dave Blacklock, while the remainder will lie spent on- technological im- provements including the installation of state of the art computer facilities. Mr. Blacklock said the only nt created wil Dupont v will lie moi from However, jobs belon to 300 wor] ployed att lie more se the revaml lie more co: Mayor E said the nt what lie ha: ail along, t: "ion a roll". "Dupont plant. Tbt good inv Whitby anc corporate c really prou ýew jobs to be Il1 lié taken by ,vorkers who ved to Whitby Kingston. lie said that iging to close -kers now emn- the plant will mcure beause ped plant will mpetîtive. Bob Attersley ïews confirrnis is been saying that Whitby is is a leading leyve got a estmnent in d their a good citizen. We're dof them. " SEE PG.19 ..........................~