Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 14, 1966, Winnipeg, Manitoba Printed Puhl Tihart Dally except sunday by the Winnipeg press wilted 3uo Street. Knitl Tziba. John Mitun it Esir tent Shane Wacky executive editor r. S. Ma1.one publisher Vlee Park silent alsm Ime Western. Peter Macij Stock Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Section pages 13-28 2 Winnipeg thursday july 14, 1966 threat of retaliation it was Only to be expected that the proposed revisions of Canada s Bank act As they affect the mercantile Bank of Canada would bring Sharp and angry criticism in the United states. Finance minister Sharp has reintroduced some of the changes proposed by his predecessor or. Waiter Gordon a year ago. There is nothing wrong with the intent of. The proposals nor even with the proposals themselves in Gene ral the intent is to make sure that the nation s banking system remains in the hands of canadians. One of the ways in which this is to be done is to limit foreign holdings in Canadian Banks to 25 per cent with no individual foreign or Canadian owning More than ten per cent. Any Bank which does not meet this requirement will not be Able to increase its authorized capital and thus its loaning capacity the effect would be to stifle the growth of such a Bank. There is however one Clear exception that should be made to the Rule. The mercantile Bank of Canada has been operating in this country for some years. It is not a big Bank but it is owned by the first National City Bank of new York. If the proposals Are applied rigidly the first National will have two choices Only. It can sell 75 per. Cent of its Stock to canadians or it. Will have to go to the government Cap in hand every time it wants to increase its authorized capital. First National officials say they expect the government to be fair in such a Case but clearly they do not like the proposal. Their resentment is entirely justified. What Ottawa is doing As far As the mercantile Bank is concerned is changing the rules a Long time after the game has begun and changing them to the decided disadvantage of a single Bank. O t t a w a on the Evi j Dence of Hansard the party is at Sixes stronger language has been used by the new York times. While admitting the desirability of Canada control Ling its own banking system the paper suggests that this could to done indulging in punitive the times then goes on to raise a Point that has been raised a number of tires in this country since the. Proposals were first put Forward. It suggests that other More moderate and imaginative solutions would be preferable because these could. Remove the threat of dangerous and unhealthy retaliation against Canadian Banks operating in the United states that the present proposal could this could be no Idle threat. If the Canadian govern ment can discriminate against the one Bank operating in Canada what is to prevent the american governments concerned from taking similar action against Canadian Banks operating in the .? All the larger Canadian Banks do a considerable and profitable business in the new York Money Market. At least two Are in business in 1 sure through California Oregon and Washington. If the Bank act Revi j the summer adjourn Sions go through the Governments concerned will be men Selling the single Board by Tom Aphis fall a special com a Mittee sponsored by the department of education the the need for school Money bylaws. It would mean no major dislocation to bring All Manitoba a s s o c s a t i o n of aspects of education under a school trustees and the Mani-1 single Board in tuba teachers society will ochre and it could possibly be inaugurate a Campaign to done without the government s impress on the people of the offer of a referendum. Province the advantages of the Dauphin ochre Situa single Board control of Educa Tion on a division basis and to inform them of the procedures through which this desirable goal May be reached. What Are its chances of Success to help answer this ques Tion we made a recent Survey of opinion in a number of Rural divisions and found that the reactions were mixed. They ranged All the Way from thinly veiled hostility to indifference from a wait and see attitude to a positive response. In some divisions River for example Birdtail the feeling seemed to be we Are doing Well enough As we Are. All we want is to be left in others such As Tion however is not typical and any Lead Given Here toward single Board administration would not Likely be taken by other divisions As a precedent. Much More meaningful in. Its Impact across province would be such a Lead Given say by Swan Valley Pelly Trail or Beautiful Plains and there Are some indications that each of these divisions is anxious to be in the Van of the new movement. In Swan Valley indeed virtually ajl the trustees and apparently most of the people feel that centralization of administrative authority is the Only answer to their problems. Many of the Small schools in the conservatives and medicare by Western the party to break this or. Baldwin directed report should be positions or me Paunel even at the risk of his main available before we Rhes Are temporary unpopularity but to the possible Impact of amendment of medicare proposed by the Pearson Govor Mern. The other parties Are Deal Ami in no sense surprising. Or. Doug Las has. Always been a promo rent of state directed schemes. He would prefer a More j comprehensive plan but will accept this As a beginning. The nip feels that there has the country in these tactics evasion. Some conserva Tives evidently have been i forces we inject their pres j sure into our economic system land then we whine and buted in the form of taxes and whimper about the results so there is a loss at both reason it seems to that such an unbiased while most of the parties have taken a More or less firm line on medicare the conservatives seem to be thrashing about in search of a policy. Rolling River and fort la j the division have already Bosse while there seemed closed Down or Are planning to be an open mind on the to do so and even More would matter one sensed that there was a greater enthusiasm for consolidations than for single Board authority. In Brandon the chief obstacle seemed to be the Militancy of some Mem Bers of the City s elementary Board who Are rightly proud of what they have achieved in elementary education but hav ing built their Little Empire seem unwilling to lose it to a new division wide to Ait. In this s e n s e was ruled out As procedurally an objection which it i would be difficult to sustain against his argument. In our Survey was not exhaust already been enough debate on from the line a pin the matter Ami has been trying to pressure the govern ment into speeches of the two front intervened on under heavy pressure to retaliate. In a game of this kind Canada is not Likely to be the Winner. Nor should it. Be overlooked there is now in the making a report for the Congress on the desirability of bringing foreign Banks including Canadian that operate in the United states under Federal Law. Passing of the Bank act provisions without exempting the mercantile Bank could possibly Lead to last minute and highly unfavourable for Canada changes in the congressional report. The fact is that there is to danger of foreign investors taking Over Canada s banking system. They now own one relatively Small Bank and they know that they cannot Ever acquire another. The proposed revisions should and prob ably will be approved but they should include exemption for the mercantile Bank. This would do no harm to Cana Dian Banks nor to the banking system. But failure to treat the mercantile Bank justly could have most serious repercussions for other Canadian Banks. T u benches who intervened on shag. The "iea-1 monday that there is no Unity All its stages of opine of the off Daj opposition. Or Walter Dinsdale medicare on an inflationary situation. It was his Conten i but oui v t v it Cir it msp1fett Wah Ensor Ueni Totive bourse. It did Tion that social programs i Sion Plarl medicare and the should report on education calculated that in the space of increased National productivity although in fact the three Levels of government had been in contrast the social creditors Are opposed to the plan. Or. Thompson is isms 01 detail Ana Aisa for productivity in effect the spokesman claiming some credit for the or u i n u a dispensing welfare and though off my some critic wi1h Little isms of detail and parliament of the Alberta i Diefenbaker g o v e r n a e n t which appointed the Hall compulsory. Said flatly we features of was heartily endorse this from the economic Council of also apprehensive about the or Quito it far More offi Ciu Cost estimates. In other Days or. 18 months something Between and s2 billion per annul had been More or less committed to be raised by Federal taxes and paid out of the Federal Treasury. This calculation was incidentally based upon the official and doubtful Esti Canada As to the relative prior mates the medicare what he sought prior to the coming into Force of the medi care legislation was a report the cities of present and proposed and other measures would have attracted rather to cant omission at no Point was t u to o a j propriety j there any reference to the old be he argument about Bank Saiq at another Point when a can a financing once such As the minister hypo Jonsy during debate on the can Ada assistance plan in House of commons last week in Canada of the needs test Scure in f u 1 1 o n remarked Beine indispensable element in so has in mind a in Ful i Oiveri Cial credit pronouncements present a major distortion and still an of Faith of the Economy and of any realistic scheme of when there Are so obviously two conservative scheme. It is also to be expected that with the adoption of that scheme pressure will swiftly develop for the All divisions and it did to be comprehensive even in the divisions that were visited. But if not comprehensive it May at least be taken As indicative. From the Sampl ing of opinion made it was obvious that there will be no great United wave of enthusiasm for single Board control but it was also obvious that a Lead might be Given by some divisions and that if this happens others May be per s u a d e d to follow their example. The most positive reactions came from the Dauphin ochre school area and from the Swan Valley Pelly Trail and inclusion of optometric dental j Beautiful Plains divisions. It and other forms of health care j May be that the first break not included in the plan nip through will come elsewhere members have already sex in the province but from the with the credit stes. But conservative policy on medicare remains of we pass these Var measure. The Economy and of any ious measures j have men pressed dissatisfaction with areas visited these seemed to i the scope of the present the government de j i lie k u v c i to til c it v us owned and thereby set a evident misgivings example in our extravagance q a Maceachen has now needs test Scure or f u 11 o n remarked piously two conservative in government we provide decided against pressing the e7ficientlv at one Point that there would policies warring on the front even wage increases measure through All stages As of dets Edibe Universal support for the Bench it is not surprising that without regard to sound Basic the nip has demanding that a repaid medical variants Are to be found guidelines. We shirk our duty the 5ummer to increase As a canadians but As he also one of most of these factors or at hold the most Promise. The Dauphin ochre area of course has close to a single administrative authority Al ready. In this unique develop ment in school administration in Manitoba started in 1947, All finance and most of the administrative Power is vested ther will thus be time for in the. Area and the searching discussion in the still existing local boards have. Do so if the elementary school in Swan River could accommodate their children. Though there Are still Over 60 individual boards in the division it is already obvious that Swan Valley is Ripe for the change to a Sinarle Board authority. A it is looking for is a Lead from the government a Lead that May be forthcoming through this fall s Campaign and there is a distinct possibility that a referendum could be held before Christmas. In Pelly Trail and Beautiful Plains tile Issue is less Clear Cut but in these divisions too there Are Hopes for Early referendums. Among the obstacles in the Way of Reform in the Pelly Trail division is the fact that some of the larger District boards feel they have a smooth operation going including reserves for building purposes and they see single Board control As depriving them of their Money and the Power that goes with it. But some Progress has been made. The move toward single Board control has the support of the Home and school associations As Well As the teachers and Many of the trustees and a division superintendent was appointed following the passing of Bill 16. Here As in Swan Valley the feeling seems to be that if the government will provide a Lead and give the people Assurance on some questions they want to have answered a referendum May not be too Long delayed. Ivi. La t i Topf vpj11 Iii in i to i i 1_ r i i.tn-. U spokesmen for the opposition needs of the mid visuals Ancl insisted this did not speeches of the debate least in Large part because of this i very limited much of the act families of farted in addition to members from the responsibly was by or. Bake Wmk h cant legislation. It is helpful remain some Union schools in made much of the fact Sun it of examining peace often j complain in House Ana h some pm Beds the Al eafe schools plan he almost All prov sup of Jade Pondell line and we mumble the. Office have involving More than one Rural similar forms of i. P 7 am of plate criteria on this occasion to have aleut Price. Control. To responsibility to j three Village will rehabilitate those families certain appropriate criteria assistance will be admits i India Iduas and Thern Imi i in on a basis themselves i Orri a Imp Rel. Or. Des of or ibid Ilir Means lest As the meanest test of or. To has Bem approved Douglas who a n the ten a of Vocial govern Ern ment of Saskatchewan for who Are closer to Tri Itier Iii j i v. 17 years without Ever the principle of need f or or. Diefenbaker or for welfare pay do Tiglas. Ments Sarif the plan was humiliating a Wou id brins the Public to their this is certainly valid. The trouble is that in recent years the parties have developed a style of non he debate in matters of social was amazed that certain legislation. The Central issues the views of a Krefl Jef imposed Price con t responsible minority in the Ever political party. And economic sense we or. Baldwin made Short have absolutely no Jurisi. Work of the argument action to tamper directly with or. Mac Jiachen said members of this House who portray themselves As great have go Fie unde bated a while speakers concentrated on mar the Public May Well ask humanitarians s u goes Ting Gmal matters As there May these gentlemen just what that if they had administrative be poli Cal ask in critic Iang their notion of welfare is. I control Over this plan they the government Cor what it is their what Are welfare programs would apply it humanely doing the opposition has Vav l Rel r Etc Lilc j i to for if Thev Are not to help should intimate that All ten concentrated ardently on we those whose needs Are great i provincial administrations no j Taoism while excoriating Mim est sur Rev or. Diefenbaker matter what their political sters for their failure to do and or. Douglas Are not were made up of i other things which might be a inhuman Scrooge who would i popular with voters a though bring the Public to their j expensive to the Treasury arguing that everyone is entitled to Public assistance regardless of his needs the Canada assistance plan and realistic scheme for coordinating All Public assistance programs in the country. Apart from pro Viding for Federal participation in existing provincial programs for the aged i or widows for the Blind and there is no guidance Nixon s Folly departure from the latter Day opportunist tactic of non tha t since medicare has been these controls. Limited debate on social measures. The subject of a Royal commis to. The indirect method of what seems still to be lacking Sion report no More discus fiscal and monetary Steps we j is a official conservative necessary it Tsimpos set in motion inflationary i position on medicare. Is we to judge a Bill at the Resolution stage because the terms Are not known. Many j interests were involved above recognized i responsibility to j three Village define some of the important schools and 12 one room issues involved. To this extent j schools six of will not at least there has this Faliti in the main this is a single Board area. The area Board s financial control includes the Power to set up a Reserve fund Tor future building a fund incidentally which eliminates Britain and the common Market All those of the general Public and it was desirable that when Iris if declarations of intentions mean anything. J a jiit7d4i the contents of the measure before too Iong Bri Tairi could be Richard Nixon has not improved his image in Canada not that it was Ever very impressive by his recent others in need it is intended statements in Chicago that primarily As a preventive and this country should be Cut rehabilitative program for off trading with the breaking the so called Oepen i Dency Cycle of families. Who i United states because we remain on Public from i c o n t i n u e to with one generation to another. Enemies of the communist China or continues to Trade although in a most limited Way with Cuba is the height of absurd Ity. Undoubtedly if Trade Between Canada and the Were eliminated or curtailed Canada would suffer Al though there Are other coun tries who would Rush to Supply us with the materials we now buy from the United or. Alan Maceachen. Or. Nixon was speak Uig but the Would suffer equally if it were Cut off from its largest and closest source of raw materials on which much of its Industry is based to say minister of National health11 Only As a private citizen. But and welfare in an Able speech As a one time vice president of defending the principle of the his country his naivety is plan pointed out that higher i startling. Canada and the welfare payments such As United states Between them those Alvo Cattel by Trade More than any two Dirle Teker and Dou in the world. Last from their protected positions year the United states bought on the opposition benches Are billion Worth of Canadian not enough you can dish out i goods and products. Canada As much Money As you like bought Bivion Woith of but this in itself will not break j goods from the americans the or Pendency Cycle re a entirely aside from the i pints of Public assistance j close links that bind american must he Given a real Chance to and Canadian business to break the suggest that Trade of this were Public debate on a National scale. It was i m p o r t ant to consider the measure not. Simply on its own also it relation to the Over All Economy. In this context or. Baldwin had various misgivings. To begin with he doubted the Validity of the Cost figures which had been used noting that in most great projects original Esti mates had been greatly sex. Needed. This was also True of maintenance and carrying charges. Experience with most social welfare schemes had been similar higher costs being reflected in taxes which were borne by the Small consumer in two forms. It is Art inescapable fact that As a result of the proven extravagance waste and bad management in government the taxpayer s Dollar when returned to him in the form of benefits has decreased when passing finally win its passport into tha european common mar Ket. By Russell Elmin yet As. Anyone marooned in Channel port during the j British strike will although opening of formal t confirm it still can be a Long negotiations is not an imme 22 Miles Between Calais and Diate Prospect in. Recent weeks Britain and the six France West Germany Italy nether lands Belgium Luxembourg would appear to have edged Dover. In Britain 80 labor Back and possibly devalue the Pound Sterling. On the other hand some Continental business leaders however receptive in principle to Britain s eventual membership shiver with apprehension Over the potential comp it Tion for example from Britain s dynamic com benches led by Mercial vehicles Industry. Tary chairman Emanuel Shin Well have denounced any nearer the bargaining table. Public relation Effort to gloss at the Western european Over genuine difficulties in in it Tri the get off welfare to dependency Cycle rag Rutilde be wiped out be ice a 11 a a there Are Many cause Canada Sells wheat to nothing of losing s6 billion a year in sales of american products. To abolishment. Conversely the Cost is further increased be cause that portion of the than that made by the e president is Bard to conceive. A More foolish suggestion pubic Onieh has the oppor he the Unity to pass on the increased taxes paid always manages to do. So in such a Way and with such an increment that the aggregate of the amount passed on in higher costs of goods and services. Invariably exceeds what has been Contri birthday Mabel Winnipeg born Sletten minn., .a., my 14, 1881. We meeting in Brussels Jean de Broglie Secretary of state for foreign said France would consider Britain s common Market entry with an open mind George Thomson minis Ter responsible for european affairs affirmed the political j will for membership now exists in Britain where pro common Market maps Bank ers Trade unionists and academics have just launched a Campaign for a european political in the european parliament at Strasbourg president Walter Hallstein of the com Mon Market executive com Mission has spoken encouragingly about the topicality of i a new British membership bid. J dossier on the British Applina and in Bonn foreign Tion. Any sympathy for minister Gerhard Schroedef disclosed that West Germany has informally approached its common Market associates with a View to drawing up a yol Yed in getting into the common Market. Significantly prime minister Harold Wilson has not discarded the famous five conditions Laid Down by labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell in 1962 and great pains Are taken to stress the importance of safeguarding British agriculture and. Essen tial interests of the Commonwealth and european free Trade a s s o c-1 a t i o n n o t w i t h standing prime minister Georges Pompidou s visit to London and efforts to inject More cordiality into the Anglo French entente Concrete evidence is lacking that presi similarly French Farmers resentful at Britain s open door to world Price Canadian wheat feel at a disadvantage because of the general efficiency of British agriculture. Should negotiations get under Way it is widely taken for granted the bargaining will neither get bogged Down Over minutiae tariffs for Kangaroo meat or Cricket bats nor come to a dramatic halt at the moment of nearing their Climax As in january 1963, when Gen de Gaulle s veto slammed the door. Ultimate Success however May Well depend on All important preliminary behind the scenes soundings and whether they Lead to a prior tacit agreement As to the nature Fttie economic com this situation roughly duplicates itself in Beautiful Plains. Here too a consider Able amount of groundwork has been done involving trustees and the general Public. Those who Are in the Van movement have worked hard to convince the people that delay will be harmful and have advocated taking advantage of the financial incentives provided for in Bill 16. They want to rather than follow the trend in. The province and the optimists among them Are prophesying a referendum within a year. But again the complaint is heard that the government has not Given a sufficient Lead in the matter and they Are waiting anxiously for that Lead. It May thus be prophesied that while the special com Mittee set up to promote the cause of single Board authorities within the divisions May not find its arguments equally Well received in All divisions it will find an encouraging response in some areas. Its efforts win Lead to some referendum is with a Good Chance in these referendums the vote will be favor Able to the cause they espouse. And while this May be Only a beginning in the move toward single Board authority at the division level across the pro Vince it will be a significant beginning. It will be the setting of an Exa Niple that other divisions sooner or later will be encouraged to follow. A Rhode decisive government might have made the path toward single Board control a lot easier and simpler but in what is now less than an Ideal situation one can Only be thankful that at least this much has been made possible and wish the committee Dent de Gaulle now is ready to Unity to be fashioned. The reopen the common Market recent seven months common Well As it prepares for the plan As a basis for later format talks with Britain. Admitting Britain to the club is counter balanced by an apparent hardening in Paris and in other common Market capitals of the feeling that Britain must first solve its balance of payments problem Market crisis Baring the i forthcoming Campaign political schism among the six Over interpretation of the 1857 treaty of Rome would Indi Cate a British signature May be meaningful Only if an enlarged common Market is. Tailored to the political realities of changing Europe today s scripture the Meek also shall in crease their Joy in the lord and the poor among men shall rejoice in the holy one of Israel. Isaiah ;