The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 5

Saturday, June 23, 1973 The Ottawa Journal Energy tax uproar highlighted session Legislature adjourns week early for royal tour Second CIim Mail Registered Number 0543. By JOE DUPUIS TORONTO (CP) After three months of sitting, the On tario legislature adjourned Friday for, a 6ummer. recess, a week earlier than usual to permit members to participate in the royal tour next week. Premier. William Davis and his 23-member cabinet are hosts at a state dinner Tuesday for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, which will be attended by members and their wives.

The five-day Royal tour of On tario towns and cities beginsderal here Tuesday and ends July 3 in Thunder Bay. The session, which resumes Oct'. 2, was highlighted by the government's dramatic withdrawal after a public uproar of a seven-per-cent tax on energy Imports rise $1-3, billion in 4'montlis By The Canadian Press Imports during April were valued at $1.8 billion, up from 5 hillinn fnf thr snmp tnnnth in 1972, Statistics Canada reported Frioay. The total value of imports for the first four months of the year stood at just over $7 billion, while the 1972 figure for the same period was S5.7 billion. In 1971, the import was $4 7 billion.

Sources, such as fuel to heat homes, that would have netted it $65 million in new. revenue. "All I know is that 99 per cent of the public were against it," Treasurer John White said when he dropped the tax proposal that left him with a budgetary deficit of $467 million rather than a million. However, a two-per-centage- point increase in the retail sales tax, to seven from five per cent, was enforced, approved by the house May IS with both the Lib- and New Democratic oppo sition parties voting against it. The Liberals entered the.

third session of the 29th legislation, which began March 20, with two new seats, won in byelections, to increase their strength to 22, as the official opposition. jury. It would be impossible a ti ft! v- a iiirv nrf. conceptions about the case," ne said. He said he and the special Watereate prosecutor.

Archi bald Cox, are concerned. Much of the testimony Riven in pubic to the Senate committee is hearsay, Richardson said.1 "I'm certainly not satisfied that hearsay evidence has beenj eliminated or kept to a min-, imum, he said. Mr. Davis' Progressive Con servative party holds 76 seats, the NDP 19. Altogether, jjie session approved 87 bills, and left 11 on the order Bills to apply brakes to be unwanted land development, particularly to preserve the 1.3 million acres of the Niagara Escarpment, were among the most significant.

Despite opposition claims that the bills gave them dictatorial powers over municipalities; the government pushed through its scheme for authority to buy land anywhere. It created a parkway belt between Dundas and Oshawacross Metropolitan Toronto to provide a green divider between urban sprawl Land bill attacked TORONTO (CP) Despite a tenacious, last-ditch effort by the opposition parties. Ontario's fiew land-use planning legislation got final approval in the legislature Friday by a 51-to-25 vote. tnree-Diii pacKage, wnicn gives the province new and sweeping power over undeveloped land in the" province, drew rritiricm rliirini? nil "phascs of its passage. The keystone legislation gives the province right to order a development plan to.be done on any section of the province.

Such a plan could void any conflicting plans and municipal bylaws that already exist and Richardson said he would that the Senate hearings be suspended until after the justice department concludes its investigation of former top White House officials. He said the hearings are not fair in that "they do not adhere to the safeguards that would ap ply in a criminal trial," citing cross-examination as an Cox is proceeding with complete independence in investigation, Richardson said, and is dealing with other justice department officials only on "a limited scale." Cox basically is using the investigative resources of the department. Richardson sa he is not re laying information about the investigation to President Nixon. The Social Development Division of The Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Homes for Eskimo Students Homes are required for Inuit students 15 to 22 years old who will be enrolled in various secondary and post-secondary education programs in Ottawa during 1973-74. The homes sought should provide the student with a supportive home environment guidance appropriate to the individual student's needs an understanding andor acceptance of his culturally different background.

If suitable accommodation is available, some of the younger, first-time students will be placed in group homes of 4 to 6 students. Students will pay standard board and room rates. If you are interested In participating in this program, please telephone Mrs. Paulette Laflcche 992-4911 and also a corridor for highways and hydro lines. Mr.

Davis also had to use his majjrity in the house to force acceptance of legislation to create' four regional governments. Pell, Durham, Halton, Hamilton Wentworth, all around' the Metro" fringe. The debate' over the new regions became so heated that Mayor Vic Copps of Hamilton, a visitor in the house, had to be escorted away by police after shouting his objections when the bill restructuring his city's gov ernment wasjntroduced. A few days later, a govern ment -backbencher, Paul Yaka-buski. (Renfrew South) was ejected from, the house, but not over regional government.

He was ruled out of order when he tried to apologize for i provisions for strengthening the French-language advisory committees across the- province, said outside the -house thenew commission would only be part of the mediation process. Mr. Wells the new body Gov't proposal passes despite opposition gives the province the right to expropriate land if need be. The other legislation would provide a parkway belt a utility corridor in Toronto and the other aimed at preserving the scenic Niagara Escarpment. The government opted for de velopment controls' instead of outright purchase in its escaip-ment'package." On Friday both opposition parties made a plea to Treasurer John White -to withdraw or revamp his legislation.

Opposition spokesmen cited the lack of compensation for land owners whose land could be "down zoned" by the New Democratic Party Leader Stephen Lewis said whatever good was contained in the bill would be destroyed because the public would be preoccupied with the compensation aspect. The treasurer, he charged, by refusing to consider -development rights was making a mockery of the legislation. Mr. White said the govern; ment recognized that private property owners had rights but noted that the public also had rights. Eddie Sargent (L Grey-Bruce) predicted that the next election would be fought on the land planning legislation.

Plan may prevent speculation TORONTO (CP) Revenue Minister Allan Grossman announced a fundamental change Friday in the government's Home Ownership Made Easy plan (HOME) in an effort to prevent speculation and protect the public interest. Under the original scheme, lots were offered on the basis of a 50-year lease with the option to buy after five years at the original market price. W. M. GAR-TON, 52, of St.

Boniface, has been promoted ti) commanJer cf Air Defence Command at CFB North Bay succeeding N. L. Magnusson, 55, of Winnipeg, who retired after 32 years of service. Gen. Garton was deputy commander of the 24 NO-RAD division, in Grand Falls, Montana Now, the homeowner can still buy the land but it will be at the market value at the time he or she exercises his option.

Also, the lease terms will not be fixed for the full 50 years now. They will be revised to reflect current market values if and when the house is sold. Mr. Grossman explained that any increase in the value of the house would go to the home owner but any increase in land value would return to the government. "These revisions will prevent speculation," he said.

The changes apply to future agreements and do not affect current leases. k. Richardson fears probe will hurt prosecutions CHICAGO (AP) Attorney-General Elliot Richardson said Friday there is "a very serious possibility" that the Senate Watergate hearings will hamper further prosecution attempts. Richardson told a news con-' ference that news coverage ol the hearings would influence Mr. Lewis said the Niagara Escarpment Legislation marked the end of the Scarpment.

Mr- White disagreed, and said in future years it would be looked on as hallmark legislation. he made concerning French-language high school teachers embroiled in a dispute at Cornwall. Proposals were offered for a regional government in Haldi-mand-Norfolk in southwestern Ontario, creating a new town of 150,000, several miles away from a spot where a consortium of companies had purchased acres on a speculative venture. A major five-bill energy package was endorsed, spurred by Darcy McKeough, special assistant to Mr. Davis on energy policy.

Centrepiece was the creation of a new ministry, of ensrgy, likely to be headed by Mr. McKeough, who used the session to make a political omeback after resigning as treasurer last year over a conflict of Body Ja ba ttles pro TORONTO (CP) Legislation establishing a commission to help mediate disputes in volving language instruction in schools was introduced Friday the The bill, which will be de ferred to the fall session of the house, comes in the midst of a dispute in Cornwall involving a battle by French-speaking for a separate French high schooMn the city. Some opposition members in the legislature complained the bill would be too late to help the Cornwall dispute if is delayed passage unt I fall. Education Minister Thomas Wells, who introduced the lengthy bill that also contains called the languages of instruction commssion would have no power to impose binding arbitration. He said the hope is that commission decisions I would be enlorced through public reaction.

ft too many of disputes we only get a one-sided story," Mr. Wells said. "Our hope is tffat the commission can I give us an objective view, which would tend to stabilize the whole system of mediation." The commission, composed of a chairman and two French-speaking and two English-speaking members, would be" summoned when an impasse is reached in disputes between the local school board and its, lan guage advisory committee. Ontario established a permanent council of French-Ian-, The legislation also turned Ontario Hydro into a Crown corporation and established a power rate review board under the aegis of the Energy Board. Mr.

Davis also announced when he unveiled the energy package that Ontario would challenge in the courts the constitutional right of Alberta to es tablish a two-price system for its well head natural A corporation was established to enable the province to exploit and market technology 1n rapid transit developed by the German firm of Krauss-Maffei. The Germans are providing the pilot equipment, for a 10-year, $1.3 billion program to install monorail or-air-cushion in systems in Ontario. posed guage schools, headed by Dr. Laur er Carriere, a year ago to. plan and advise the government on French-language education in th nWwinrp Mr.

Wells said the council arfif the new emphasized Ontario's intent that the province's 500,000 French-speaking minority has a right to an education in their language and a voice in its application. The bill would also: Boost the number of French-speaking ratepayers on language advisory committees to six from four. Require school boards to seek the advice of the committees before reaching any fi nal decisions. Set up a review procedure when boards reject committee recommendations. living in info's 'award winning rV community Heron Gate 1, 2 3 $180 Jim 3 4 Jggm $260 Jl furnished 1 Models on Display X3 in the Cardinal fD I ROOFTOP LOUNGES M7jf COMMUNITY POOL.

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