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Ontario treasurer John White is besieged by reporters yesterday
Ontario treasurer John White is besieged by reporters yesterday

Ontario treasurer John White is besieged by reporters yesterday

Date4/24/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: Ontario treasurer John White is besieged by reporters yesterday. After Premier William Davis announced the government will withdraw its proposed 7 per cent sales tax on energy, White said, . . . To acknowledge that the energy tax proposal was intolerable was not a defeat for me, it was a victory for democracy.
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