Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 27, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba Chc blames cities Ottawa Council apathy is putting a lid on pub Lic housing in Canada says h. W. Hignett president of the Cen trial mortgage and housing corp. Municipalities Are reluctant to employ tools within the National housing act that could Guaran tee decent housing satisfactory to All he told the 1 Senate commons committee on consumer prices thursday. He Money available for projects to House Low in come families lies Idle for Lack of applications. Citing an instance in British Columbia he said four major Vancouver projects have for some considerable time been awaiting approval of the Ben Nett government. Ottawa was prepared to pay 75 per cent of the Money involved in their construction. Of spent last year by the Federal government for Public housing Ontario had taken British Colum Bia had a single project under Way. Max Saltsman Loo South took Issue with or. Hignett s criticisms. He said Many municipalities Are finding themselves develop in into Low tax residential areas with Industry and com Merce developing in adjacent communities and contributing major tax revenues to the out lying municipal governments. These bedroom towns could not encourage Public housing without working a further distortion in the tax base. By or Hignett s Osvin estimate each j unit of Public housing in 1966. Required a subsidy of a month from the Federal Provin Cial and local governments for. Its operating costs. Or. Saltsman suggested that the Federal government should extend its housing subsidization into the private Field to make rounded housing develop ment attractive to municipalities. Or. Hignett said there was Merit in the suggestion. Chc is a Crown corporation that makes direct Loans to the buyers of new and existing Homes and assists municipalities in providing a variety of housing projects and services. It operates under the National housing act which also acts As a Miar Antor of mortgage Money supplied for housing by approved private lenders Primar ily life insurance companies. 2 get terms commuted to life Ottawa up two convicted murderers have had their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment by. The governor in Council solicitor Gen eral Larry Pennell has announced. Frederick Myron Turner 32, and Michael Gregory 36, convicted in new West Minster . Early in 1966 and serve their sentences in the British Columbia Penitentiary. The executions had been scheduled for Jan. 31 after appeals to the British Columbia court of Appeal and the supreme court of Canada were dismissed. In each Case the conviction arose out of the murder of a woman with whom the accused had been keeping a common Law relationship which had been terminated by the woman shortly before the commission of the crime. The jury recommended mercy in both cases. The Liberal government thus maintains its record of com muting every death sentence since it came to Power in april 1963. Die chides Pearson conference Ottawa up opposition Leader Diefenbaker c h i d e d prime minister Pearson in the commons thursday for letting Ontario beat Ottawa to the punch in proposing a Centennial conference on confederation. Or Diefenbaker asked the Federal govern ment s a 11 e n t i o n had been drawn to the plan disclosed wednesday in the Ontario throne speech. It proposed that the province sponsor a conference on confederation to which the Federal gov and provinces would Send representatives. Or. Pearson said he under stood the proposal did not envisage discussions on constitutional amendments but would involve talks on the problems of confederation and that sort of or. Diefenbaker asked whether the Federal government is going to allow the provinces to take Over the vacuum left by the senior level govern ment on the whole question of constitutional Reform. 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