committee advises Ontario drinking age should remain 
     
    
   
   
    
     Toronto (CUP) — On- 
     
     tario students can heave 
     
     a sigh of relief now that 
     
     a provincial advisory com- 
     
     mittee has recommended 
     
     retaining the current drink- 
     
     ing age of 19. 
     
    

    
     The report, submitted 
     
     to Consumer and Com- 
     
     mercial Relations. Minister 
     
     Monte Kwinter, also calls 
     
     for extended hours of oper- 
     
     ation for drinking establish- 
     
     ments, tougher restrictions 
     
     on advertising, and looser 
     
     guidelines on the sale of al- 
     
     cohol at sporting events. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “A philosophy of mod- 
     
    
   
   
    
     eration and responsibility’>. 
     
    
   
   
    
     was the driving force be- 
     
     hind the committee’s initia- 
     
     tives, according to project 
     
     manager Rose- 
     
     mary Grange. Many of the 
     
     report’s more than 90 rec- 
     
     ommendations aim to re- 
     
     duce drinking and driving, 
     
     cited as the most important 
     
     alcohol-related problem. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Student re- 
     
     action has been almost uni- 
     
    
   
   
    
     versally positive, following 
     
     months of intensive lobby- 
     
     ing to prevent an increase 
     
     in the drinking age. 
     
    

    
     “We're very pleased,” 
     
     said University of Toronto 
     
     stu- 
     
     dent council vice-president 
     
     Titch Dharamsi. “An in- 
     
     crease would have been a 
     
     big mistake.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     Guy Giorno, president 
     
    
   
   
    
     of the Young Progressive 
     
    
   
   
    
     Conservatives in Ontario, 
     
     also. embraced the rec- 
     
     ommendations enthusiasti- 
     
     cally. 
     
    

    
     “We find it very pos- 
     
     itive,” said Giorno, whose 
     
     group had pushed to re- 
     
     duce the age to 18. “The 
     
     majority wanted to raise 
     
     it, and leaving it required 
     
     willpower.: Statistically it is 
     
     still inequitable, but hold- 
     
     ing the line is, to us, accept- 
     
    
   
   
    
     able.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     John Bates, president 
     
     of People to Reduce Im- 
     
     paired Driving Everywhere 
     
    
   
   
    
     (PRIDE), said he found the 
     
    
   
   
    
     report deplorable. 
     
    

    
     “It’s disastrous,” Bates 
     
     said. “Not only will 
     
     the extension of drinking 
     
     hours surpass subway clo- 
     
     sure times, but the refusal 
     
     to increase the drinking age 
     
     will cost many people, espe- 
     
     cially students, their lives.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     Most of the recommen- 
     
     da- 
     
     tions can be implemented 
     
    
   
   
    
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     budget of the Ministry of 
     
     Youth was virtually elimi- 
     
     nated last year following In- 
     
     ternational Youth Year eel- 
     
     ebrations, leaving Charest 
     
     a minister responsible 
     
     mostly for announcing and 
     
     promoting programs devel- 
     
     oped in other departments: 
     
    
   
   
    
     The government also 
     
     promised shortly after the 
     
     Katimavik cancellation to 
     
     introduce a national youth 
     
    
   
   
    
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     diately, although Kwinter 
     
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     Should they be passed 
     
     in their current format, 
     
     there could be major reper- 
     
    
   
   
    
     cussions for students. Not 
     
     only will pubs be allowed 
     
     to stay open until 2 a.m., 
     
     but alcohol could be served 
     
    
   
   
    
     policy, but has yet to an- 
     
     nounce anything. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Howard McCurdy, New 
     
    
   
   
    
     Democratic youth critic, 
     
    
   
   
    
     believes the Conservatives: 
     
    
   
   
    
     have been silent on a youth 
     
    
   
   
    
     policy because “this gov- | 
     
    
   
   
    
     ernment really doesn’t care 
     
     about youth. not one bit.” 
     
    

    
     Charest is not apolo- 
     
     getic for the government 
     
    
   
   
    
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