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B.C.. regarding the im- Mayor Frank ‘Ney of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island came out swinging last week against the Liberal administration of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. saying Canada could become an “ism" country instead of a democracy. Simply address your reply to the box number given in the advertisment (e.g. Box 50 “The Liberal") and add P. O. Box 390, Richmond Hill. Please include in your reply only material that will fit into a regular business envelope Nanaimo Mayor Deplores Canada's Drift Towards State-Socialism That is the quotation. Did Benson read the views of writer in the Financial Post November 15. who said: ‘ elimination of corporation ta 21 percent up to $35,000 is fair. “There just will not be any profit in future years. There just will not be any corporation tax from my firm.” the installation of private sewage disposal sys- tems (septic tanks) will NOT be permitted until weather conditions are satisfactory in the spring of 1970. “I am not very happy with that corporation tax. A little guy like me, earning just a little bit every year, and I am going to turn over 50 percent of that to Ottawa. Not bloody likely! Did he read another report the same paper saying: Mr. Speaker, why place small business in the same category as big business? Small businesses are not dealing in millions of do]â€" lars and should not be treated the same as the Royal Bank, General Motors. General Foods, Canadian General Electric or Dominion Stores. They do not try to borrow $40 million or $50 million at a prime rate. 01‘ course. the larger companies are better risks and are deserving a better rate, and banks and lending agencies are natur- ally going to treat small business- men differently. But to tax a small business on the same basis as a large corporation. probably with profits running into the mil- lions. is iniquitous! Fifty percent on $50 million leaves some working capital. but when you cut deeply into the prof- it of the small companyâ€"which is probably under - capitalizedâ€"sev- ere taxation may very well be mortal. Why remove the protection in Canada that is still available in the United States? Why not al- low a little company to gain some financial strength â€" financial strength in an era of tight money and very high interest rates? Mr. Benson claims that the let- ters he has been receiving have been running in favor of his proposals. I suggest that he does not read those which attack his proposals. To reduce taxes for nearly 4.000,000 taxpayers should cer- tainly win some favor for him, but did Mr. Benson read an inter- view with a businessman in the Winnipeg Free Press of November 8 â€" which charged that Mr. Ben- son has ignored 3 risk factor in small, private enterprises, and that “the small businessman is being shot down in flames"? What is badly needed. Mr. Speaker, for small business. if it is to survive â€" is some re- lief. not a heavier tax burden. The White iPaper proposals will be a serious blow to their oper- ations. Small businesses have to finance their inventories, equipment and accounts receivable out of the present taxing arrangement. Proponents of the White Paper claim that gross tax abuses have taken place, that some business- men have split their enterprises into smaller units in order to pay lower taxes. I do not doubt that is true, Mr. Speaker. but surely Ottawa can find a way of dump- ing out the dirty bath water with.- out throwing out the baby too! It should also be remembered that big business needs small bus- inesses. For example. Canadian General Electric depends on thousands of small suppliers be‘ cause they can produce compon- ents more efficiently and econom- ically than could the larger com- pany. If suppliers are forced to raise prices to meet higher taxes. large companies too will he forced to raise their prices. Will they be able to compete against foreign imports. let alone export their products at a competitive price? If a number of these sup- pliers are forced out of business â€"â€"and I submit, Mr. Speaker, that implementation of the White Pa- per proposals could do just thatâ€"- then the large companies would be in a very awkward position indeed. (Continued from Page 1) TO ANSWER BOX NUMBER ADVERTISEMENTS NOTICE TO SEPTIC TANK CONTRACTORS, ETC. York-Oshawa District Health Unit York Unit â€" 22 Prospect Street, Newmarket â€" Phone 895-4511 AS OF DECEMBER 24, 1969, If one M. on “The tax at is un- Kamloops Mayor Peter Wing, in a letter to the Canadian Radio - Television Commission, said the CRTC decision to deny cablevision to interior points showed confusion as to the needs and expectations of the citizens of Canada. He said the only reason he could see that there had not been a louder wave of protest against the CRTC report on cablevision is that the country as a whole is “being stunned by the things coming out of Otta- wa of late." He has been a collection agency for government, including the On- tario Hospital Services Commis- sion. Ontario Health Services. un- employment insurance, Canada Pension Plan and numerous other Mr. Speaker, there is no doubt about it. the businessman is being taken and he is mad! Up to now, the small businessman has strug- gled along, paying more than his way and putting up with all kinds of injustices. Now he is to be taxed right out of his shoesâ€"â€" indeed he will be lucky if he still owns a pair of shoes when Benson gets through with him. I share the fears expressed in the actions of all these gentlemen. But did Mr. Benson. I wonder. merely shrug off the formation of this Canadian Council for Fair Taxation with some glib quip similar to the one he reportedly made about a Canadian being able to live on $30 a week? Now a group of small business- men which includes J. 0. Hull, of Public Relations Services Limited â€"John F. Bulloch. John Bulloch Limited; D. L. Savage. Savage Sloan Limited; and Ken Campbell of Campbell, Campbell and Mitch- ener Limited have been suffic- iently roused to form the Canad- ian Council for Fair Taxation, a non-profit organization to provide leadership for small businessmen right across Canada in fighting the White Paper proposals. I can only wish them success! It is high time that someone had the guts to begin and to bring the small businessmen together so that for once they can protest with a united voice! Yes; it is handing a stone to a small babyâ€"the small baby being the small businessman. The cap- tion reads: “When asked for bread, what father would give 'his son a stone?” The next ad shows a giant bur- eaucratâ€"this time. again, the White Paper â€" reaching for a trembling small businessman. And the“ caption reads: “Fe, fi, f0, fum; I smell the blood of a small bus- inessman.” Another example was in Don Mills advertising agency. Camp- bell. Campbell and Mitchener, which has launched a new ad cam- paign against Finance Minister Benson's proposals for taxing small businesses. They are dismayed by many of the proposals of the White Paper, particularly the one to raise the present low rate of tax on the first $35,000 of taxable income. They are also dismayed by the innum- erable questions that they feel the White Paper leaves unanswer- ed. and by the undetermined but possible ill-effects its proposals may have on them in the future. One ad pictures a ghostâ€"the White Paper On Taxation. Small businessmen in Canada are beginning to react. some of them violently. to the federal gov- ernment’s White Paper On Taxa- tion. Did Mr. Benson read. in the Globe and Mail of November 20, where Premier Ross Thatcher of Saskatchewan bluntly condemned Ottawa‘s proposals as the death knell for the backbone of prairie economyâ€"small business and min- eral development? But now. at long last. the "sil- ent majority". as President Nixon would say, in this case the long suffering small businessmen of this nation are beginning to react. I hope their voices will be united in one long swelling cry of outrage and protest. For example. in "Perspective~â€" a Business Forum" in the financ- ial. pages of the Telegram of Nov- ember 27. there was a story about a new group 1hal has been formed. Under the title "Small Business- men to Fight Tax Plan." one art- icle read: “A man who risks building a corporation from nothing will have no initial advantage over a ciVil servant with a fat. pension. nor over any wage-eamer”. (Continued from Page 2) From the same source comes news of a record- making effort. The St. Matthew’s Choir, consid- ered one of the finest in this area. is justly proud of its latest project. Under the direction of Eileen Robbins, the choir has cut a record entitled “The Voices of St. Matthew’s.” , Particularly appropriate at this season, the first side contains a selection of Christmas Anthems, including “Fanfare”, “Noel, Noel”. “How Far Is It ‘ To Bethlehem?". “Australian Carol Of The Birds”, ,_ “Glory Be To God Most High", “Coventry Carol”, ‘ “Ding, Dong. Merrily On High”, and "Carol Of The Drum”. 0n the reverse side are five anthems which should bring pleasure to all lovers of sacred music. , These are “Come Holy Ghost", “Open Our Eyes", “Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee”, “Brother ‘, James’ Air” and “The Lost Chord”. To close for 1969, I wish you all a great new decade â€" which when you think about it is ten times better than a Happy New Year. Organ accompaniment is provided by Mrs. Peggy Renshaw, organist of St. Matthew’s. This is an RCA recording, made at the studios in Smith’s Falls. 500 copies were made, and almost the entire number was sold before Christmas. In The Spotlight I well remember one restaur- ateur who worked the clock around. If he or his wife were not on duty, his son and daugh- ter were. For what? To fulfill the dream of being self-employed? Yes, but more than that, he did not expect something for nothing. He and his whole family were willing to work hard for it. Last week, I also met a young fellow who had launched an ad- vertising business three years ago. He was willing to sacrifice now for his future. In fact. he lived on exactly $30 a week to give his company a chance to grow. An- other young man in the electron- ics field told me he worked reg- ularly until 2:00 or 3:00 o'clock in the morning to make his young. growing business successful. All of these people appreciate He will hot have the worry or the headaches or ‘the heartaches that go with running one's own business. Why should he bother with all the problems if the gov- ernment is going to confiscate his money on the pretext it can spend it more wisely than he? I doubt that. Is the businessman not entitled to some consideration for the risks he takes. for the long hours, ef- fort and creativity which ultim- ately benefit the whole commun- ity and the whole country? Who is going to work 60 or '70 hours a week to build a small bus- iness if he gets no extra benefit from his efforts? Only last week. one man told me he would close up his plant. where he employed so to 60 peo- ple. Now the small businessmen of Canada are going to stand up and be counted. They are not. as the socialists would like to have the public believe, against helping those who need help. They have always been in favor of helping the unemployable. They were limited only by their own initiative. Mr. Benson’s ob- jective appears to be to make it much tougher for them to do this. He is not only hitting small business but putting a heavier in- come tax burden on the very indi- viduals who have initiative, en- ergy and imaginationâ€"the very qualities most needed to make Can- ada a greater country. One newspaper recently re- ported that Edgar Benson did not think tax increases would destroy initiative. Could anyone seriously believe that his tax proposals will not kill initiative? They have alwaysfi supported those who cannot work and those who were sick. We live in a country where men and women have traditionally had the opportunity to reach the pin- nacle of their chosen en’deavors. Abraham Lincoln once said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time: but you can- not fool all of the people all of the time.” Well. Benson may be fooling a lot of the people all the time. but the small businessmen of this country are not among them. They are going to demand that Benson call his White Paper by its right nameâ€"out and out socialism! They have always been in fav- orrof caring for the aged. Mr. Benson has given business- men a real issue and they are no longer going to submit weakly. I ask: why cannot Benson be hon- est? Why does he not admit his proposals are not genuine tax reform but simply a significant step forward toward killing off free enterprise and turning Can- ada into a totally socialist state with the federal government as its “big brother"? The small businessman has been a good corporate citizen, 3 major force behind every community im- provement effort. Now he has “had it". chores, including various sales taxes. At his expense. he had to work for the government and em- ploy additional bookkeepers and equipment. “Many people are beginning to realize what is happening. Many believe the federal gov- ernment’s policies on taxation may actually break the sinews of this free enterprise economy. destroying all the traditions They will go into bankruptcyâ€"- I say there is no question about itâ€"or perhaps they will be bought out by larger companies or Amer- ican businesses. To me. this is asinine and totally incomprehens- ible. Let me remind Mr. Benson that small businesses do not have Forcing small Canadian busi- nessmen to curtail their profits through brutal taxation, rather than allowing them some money to put toward expanding their businesses, is weakening them to such an extent that, eventually. they will go into bankruptcy or be bought out by larger businesses. Mr. Speaker. why is Benson ag- ainst the small Canadian business- man? He is certainly not for him. Has he forgotten that most small businesses in Canada are owned by Canadians? Why, Mr. Speaker. does not Mr. Benson encourage the right cli- mate for small businessmen to grow according to their own init- iative and ingenuity? Why then does he not encour- age the right climate for small businessmen to grow. according to their own initiative and ingenu- ity? Why is government always taking? The small businessman will us‘ ually go out of his way to protect his employees. He, indeed. has a heart and a soul, a compassion, an understanding. There is another case here. of a small businessman whose driver was involved in four accidents within a year. His interested boss found out that this man had a medical problem behind his driving difficulties, so the man was kept on the payroll although no longer able to drive. Indeed, when it was necessary for him to go out on a call, someone else Went along with the driver and did the driving. Thus. it was un- economical and bad business prac- tice. but another case of heart prevailing over sound business judgment. But small businessmen are usually more genuinely inter- ested and vitally concerned with their employees. I suggest that the average small businessman is infinitely more concerned about his employees as individuals, than Mr. Benson will ever be. Large companies can- not know their employees and their problems intimately. Large unions do not seem to care about their members as individuals. If an employee refuses to join a un- ion. he either falls into line or he has no job. For instance. three employees of a Burlington plant refused to pay union dues and they were fired after six to ten years of service. Last week a businessman employ- ing some 50 people told me about one of his employees who died suddenly at the age of 40 leaving a wife and three youngsters. the youngest of whom was eight. That fellow is personally going to look after that family and help to finance it until the youngest is 21. Here is a man with a strong sense of moral responsibility, and he is not going to the government for help. what they have earned by their own hard work and appreciate the value of achievement. Why should this kind of initiative. this energy. be destroyed? Why destroy the small businessman who is willing to work longer and harder than most people? Why make it nec- essary for him to merge with an- other company. or a larger com- pany. in order to exist? Does Mr. Benson believe that he can spend money for social bene- fits better than the small decent businessman who is usually vitally concerned with the welfare of his employees. in a very personal way? If the purpose of increased taxation is to help the masses, Mr. Benson ought to know that the masses are composed of many in- dividuals. They had disagreed with idea of socialism to which the ion was committed. Another Thornhill lady, a longtime resident, said, “People are always complaining. We should stop finding so much fault and learn to be thankful for the things we already have.” Mrs. Heidi Vockeroth would dearly like to the resolvement of all world conflict and that public be more and more aware of: this_necessit_y So perhaps Rochefoucauld had a point when he said “If we have not peace within ourselves, it is vain to seek it from outward sources.” Daily conversation with people reveal the fer- vent wishes they have for the future. Sometimes the authors cannot be recalled but the words they speak reveal the nitty-gritty of their feelings. Things that people want in general is immediate action on such problems as inflation, pollution, the illegal drugs, high costs related to food and housing, a more efficient medicare and a more sane approach to the unrealistic salaries of our educationists, pol- iticians and other bureaucratic elite. Stella Davidson who reports for the Thornhill Mustangs would like to see the Mustangs break the jinx that has been keeping them from winning. Not so many hockey injuries either. She wishes good health and a Happy New Year to all. Stella David- son is wife of Norm Davidson, manager of the Mus- tangs. “I'd like to see the midgets win the Ontario Championship,” said Manager Ed Ast. “Would also be wonderful if the current high interest rates came down.” Manager Bill Sim of the bantams would like to see Thomhill make plans for its own arena. “We’re paying out too much money for ice time.” ‘ Ken MacCallum, manager of the juveniles would like to see greater participation of parents in all phases of their children’s activities._‘ (Continued from Page 2) sentiments of Edith Windsor. Edith is the wife of Ed Windsor, coach of the Thornhill Peewees. Rambling Around PEACE AND OTHER THINGS HAPPY NEW YEAR the This is the choice that Cana- dians must make: Is this country to continue as a nation of free people. dedicated to the worth of the individual and the individual's right to achieve through his own efforts and dedication? Or are we going to allow government to be- come so big and powevfu] that one day we become a nation of robots responding to the com- mands of a ”big brother" in Ot- tawa? Mr. Asper said that most com- mentators have reached agree- ment on several fundamental as- pects of the White Paper. That it is not tax reform: it is social reform. That the word "reform” is a euphemism for “tax rise". that. if adopted in its present form, it will have a profound ef- fect on economic growth. invest- ment patterns, work incentives and risk‘taking in certain areas. That; last year's estate and gift tax esca- lation was only the first ingredient and the White Paper represents the second. But there is more, much more to come. In other words. Mr. Benson is by no means through with any of us. Lord help the small business- man. Lord help the middle income man who is vital to the future growth of our country. We are well on our way already to becoming a completely socialist state. There is no question in my mind that it is Mr. Benson’s inten~ tion to speed that process. A soo- ialist stateâ€"with all its apathy, paternalism. and real danger to the democratic traditions we have always valued. Mr. Speaker, I be- lieve that what is really at stake here lies in what is not said in the White Paper. The small businessman is gen- erally a man who fulfills a dream he has carried in his heart of be- ing his own boss. and he thereby creates jobs for other people. How many small businessmen today. struggling to make their business- es grow, willing to accept all the vagaries and risks of the market,- place will not throw in the sponge in hopesless frustration because of Mr. Benson? Stiff competition between small businesses often gives the con- sumer better value for his money. Small businesses often provide Specialty products or services which benefit the community and which are not provided by larger concerns because they do not rep- resent a mass market. Most small businessmen have a community spirit. They provide that per- sonal touch which still gives them at least some advantage over the large supermarket. How many young men who might have set up their own small businesses. tomorrow or next: Week. will not throw up their hands in disgust? . I suggest that Mr, Benson’s White Paper is like an iceberg. What shows is menacing and frightening enough; but what is hidden beneath the glossy surface of his smoothly presented propos- als is infinitely more dangerous. the evils of the conglomerate or a monopoly business. I suggest that. today. quality is not necessarily synonymous with size. and that there is still a right- ful place in the market for small businesses. By nature, the small businessmen are active and in- volved in community projects; and it is no exaggeration to say that this country would not, and cannot. exist without them. I suggest Benson‘s proposals will in no way upgrade people in this country. By destroying the backbone of Canadaâ€"the small businessâ€"he will wind up putting an untold number of Canadians out of jobs. In effect. he may de- stroy all of the qualities which have made this country great, and which are so badly needed to make it greater still. I agree with the Winnipeg law~ yer. I. H. Asper, writing in the Globe and Mail Report on Bus‘ iness of November 27. see‘ the