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I in lltoppod "' his or her to he elven to the arieuvtnz the vehicle. ff an would then be @911. the incident and ' ,proeeedinu. as the only till othe infraction. This certain! null! involve time and costs bus drivers involved. Errorscould easily be made in iden- tification of the vehicle. Stays. on list Resolution, 5,. Re â€" Remove Ring- bllled Gulls from the lllt or protected birds. This resolution was sent to The Honourable Suzanne Blais-Grenier. Minister of the Environment. A reply received from Suzanne BlaisaGre'nier. She stated that she had forwarded our resolution to The Honourable Tom McMillan. the new Minister of the Environment. since she no longer held the Environment portfolio. since early 1986. Mr. Gary Gurbin. M.P. Bruce- Grey and parliamentary secretary to the Minister of the Environment, replied on behalf of the new minister. He stated that the Canadian Wildlife Service is not in favor of removing the Ring-billed Gull from the list of species. protected under the Migratory Birds Convention Act for the follow- ing reasons; (i) Removing the Ring-billed Gull from the protected list would not provide significantly more flex- ibilityfor dealing with the prob- lertis, that exist now. CWS readily issues permits to scare and/or kill gulls incascs of obvious damage (such as gulls damaging crops). and it also permits removal of nesting colonies if the conditions clearly warrant it (as was the case in Nantiooke and Thessalon). (2) The fact that a species is not proâ€" tecteddoes not necessme mean .thttt'its numbers will be reduced to levels where it causes no Blackbirds and Starlings not protected and they conâ€" tinue to lie-agricultural pests in areas. (3) Even die-listing of the Ring- .Gull were to have the result of fewer hm of ‘lhltéhpeeies. CW5 would be con- cerned about the practical prob- lem of misidentification of Ring- billed Gulls in the field by people Involved in gull killing operations. This might result in unnecessary death of birds that are protected, but that happen to look more or less the same as Ring-billed Gulls. (4) De-[isting would require the com currence of the U.S,A.. our pane ncr in the Migratory Birds Cone vention Act. It is unlikely that the U.S.A. will be receptive to the proposal. Two information booklets are available. “Gull Problems in On» tario” and “Local Gull Control in Ontario”. These booklets are avail- able from: Canadian Wildlife Service Environment Canada. 1725 Woodward Drive, Ottawa. Ontario. KIA 0E7 May be in handbook Resolution 6. Re â€" Formulate a service to honor and pay tribute to our deceased member. This resolution asked the provin- cial board of Federated Women‘s Institutes of Ontario to formulate a service. A committee of two Women’s Institute members was utablished at the previncial annual board meeting of Federated Women‘s Institutes of Ontario to prepare a service for con- sideration by the provincial board at the semi-annual board meeting. April, 1986. The provincial board of directors accepted the submission the committee had prepared. This submission will now go forward to the provincial constitution committee for further study and possible inclusion in the next handbook. Sent to committee Resolution 7. Re â€" Request to extend financial assistance toward the pur- chase of the required prosthesis, to all women having had mastectomies. This resolution was forwarded to The Honourable Murray Elston, Ontario Minister of Health. Mr. Elston replied that effective Jan. I. 1986. the Assistive Devices Program was expanded to include all eligible persons 21 years of age and under. He has asked his Advisory Committee on Assistive Devices to begin work immediately to establish leUfllJEh and plank, lnr lurther ca- panxion. Our resolution ha: been forwarded In Mr Harm“. Stall, and to me advisory commuter: lur llual consideration. Hc hopca in he ahla tr. share with Federated Women . institutes oi Ontario lnlorrnatmn up further developments In llll‘: program No problem if you have normal vision Resolution 3. Hr: â€" Type of infor- mation printed on the labels of consumer products. This resolution was sent to lim- Hortourablc Michel Cote. MIDiSlcl at Consumer and Corporate Allall", Mr. Cole replied that the (cry sumer Packaging and Labelling Act and regulations require that man datory label information be \l’lfim. n tr. a manner “. . ,casily legible to [l’lc consumer. .in letters of not less than 1/16 inch (1.6 millimetres) in height ' At the present time, Information which must be shown on the label consists ofa product identity declarar tion. a net quantity statement. anc- the name and principal place of how ness of the dealer accepting respfine Sibility for the product. There la ru- regulation requiring that directiom or instructions be shoun on the label or a product to which [l'llS legislation applies. Since the labelling of certain (air? gories or products. including lel'llllzel'x. insecticides. herbicides. drugs and medical devices. are administered b} other federal departments. our reso- lution and the correspondence that accompanied it was forwarded b} Mr. Cote to The Honourable .lakc EDP. Minister all National Health and Welfare. and to The Honourable John Wise. Minister of Agriculture. for their consideration. A reply has been rcccitcd from Health and Welfare Canada. ‘.\1, Ho. Chief of the Product Regulation Division. in his letter had the follow ing information conccrmng labelling: “The labelling of consumer drug products comes under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drugs Act and regulations. Although no specific type size is mentioned in the regula- tions, all information required on a label must be a) clearly and promtncntl)‘ dis- played. and continued on page H H it C Jul). Aug. Sept. Who ‘3