Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 12, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday March 12, 1968 veterans pension hike near continued or. Veillet said Vla offices Are allowed sufficient discretion in interpreting a directive on in come ceilings that no veterans will be turned Down because of a few the restriction in any event did not concern Loans for new houses. David Groos sought improvements in Home care for older veterans. Facilities at Many veterans hospitals were inadequate. Gordon Churchill ind. Pc Winnipeg South Centre led opposition criticism of the amount of time being taken to obtain translation into French of the report on veterans pensions by a commission headed by Saskatchewan judge Mervyn Wood. Or. Churchill said the report was ready last fall but or. Teil let has not expedited its translation. Robert me Cleave fax said the minister was seek ing Refuge n bilingualism personally or. Me Cleave would accept the report in any language including Iroquois. Tom Earnett Alberni complained of night m a r is a situations resulting Froin implementation of the supplementary old age pension. Veterans in receipt of the supple ment in some cases had their veterans allowances Cut to arbitrary income ceilings. Received Money the Ontario government received in 1964 in the form of the six per Cen parimutuel racing. Tax Bill changed continued describing it As a minor finance minister Mitchell Sharp moved quickly. A special session of the Cabinet was called for the dinner hour made to delete the sections of he new Bill which were identical to the Bill Defeated in february and leave Only the clauses which differed from the old Bill. The revised version of the Bill was introduced at 7 . Cost monday and received first read tax from Harnes ing. It comes up for second Reading approval in principle today commons when it will be distributed in printed form. The tax provisions of the Bill remain intact. The three per cent surcharge on individual and corporate income taxes Are not altered by the new version of the Bill. The stepped up collections of corporation income taxes also remains unchanged. A Section in the Bill providing for repayment of the special refundable tax to corporations earlier than 18 months after the Day the payment of the tax was made was dropped from the third version now before the commons. It was identical with the original Bill and therefore not acceptable to the speaker. The Resolution preceding the introduction of the new Bill last week was also not affected by the speaker s ruling. This permitted the government to move quickly monday to recover from the temporary setback and re introduce the revised version of the new Bill in a form accept Able to the speaker. Stanley Knowles Nipes North Centre first challenged the government s income tax measure monday afternoon As the House began its sitting. Prime minister Pearson was ready to speak on the proposal to set up a review Board for a voluntary examination of Price and wage increases. Rising on a question of privilege or. Knowles said he was Only Loo Well aware from i his Long years in the commons j that moves that were permitted to take place that were not in accordance with the strict interpretation of the rules soon became he did not want it to go into the records that the new income tax Bill had been All wed to be introduced for second Reading without being challenged by the opposition. He appealed to the speaker to make a ruling As to whether the new income tax Bill was very similar to the Defeated income tax Bill. He warned that if the House passed the Bill before it in the afternoon it would be in effect reversing the decision taken feb. 19 when the combined opposition Defeated the original income tax Bill by a vote of 84 to 82. Or. Knowles cited interpretation of rules from authorities on parliamentary procedure. Sum Ming up. He said he had tried in his attack on the Validity of the measure before the House not to make things too difficult for the speaker. He said he took the position that the new democratic party had no objection to the clauses in the Bill which were different from the original Bill the opposition had Defeated. But it did object to the sections of the Bill which were identical with the Bill Defeated last month. Eldon woo Liams Marcel Lambert Rusk evades query figures the answer Cambridge England Reu varsity is a sexually Permis Lars the Cambridge univer sity student newspaper varsity answered charges that the uni Sive Paradise by publishing monday a poll which said one half of All male and two thirds All girl students Are virgins. Order prison changes Washington a the . Supreme court upheld unanimously monday a Federal court order that Alabama de segregate All prison facilities. The state s contentions that its Laws requiring segregation in prisons and jails Are not unconstitutional Are without the court said in a Brief unsigned opinion. Continued metropolitan leg cramps and poor nails take Calcium Zurich Calcium Zurich is liquid Calcium effective for muscle cramps Finger nails vague rheumatic Type pains and aches. It May increase your Energy and resistance to infection. Calcium Zurich works wonders. Accept no substitutes insist on the genuine Calcium Zurich Only for 8 of. And for 16 of. Available at most drug and department stores. A Good name to know. G. W. Baldwin Gordon Churchill Independent c South Centre spoke in support of objection. Govern ment House Leader Allan Maceachen attempted to argue against the Points they made but the speaker said he would Reserve judgement and bring in his decision at 6 . The House proceeded with the passing of the supplementary estimates of the veterans affairs and finance departments. This will enable the veterans to get the 15 per cent increase in their pensions announced last december by veterans affairs minister Roger Veillet. The increase is retroactive to Jan. 1 of this year there were gasps of Surprise in the House when speaker Lamoureux returned at 6 . And ruled against the government s new income tax measure. He pointed out four clauses in the Bill were a repetition of the Bill Defeated in february. There were eight clauses in the new Bill. He said Fulbright said he understood this to mean you have no in Tention of consulting with us prior to reaching that Rusk insisted that senior members of this committee have been consulted and the hearings of the last two Days have made their views pretty Well in other words Fulbright retorted your position is that you already know our we know a great Rusk said. Senator Frank j. Lausche Democrat Ohio suggested that Fulbright could offer a Resolution in the Senate that no additional troops be sent to Vietnam. But Fulbright said this was impossible when we be had no indication of what the administration plans you be got the cart before the Senate democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana said that any Senate Resolution would have no Power As to final presidential decisions. Senator Albert Gore demo crat Tennessee said it would be futile to present a Resolution either approving or disapproving of the administration s poli cies. I doubt if either could pass the he said. What is Gore said is the teamwork envisioned by the Constitution Between the president and the elected representatives of the after listening to the senators talk about the constitutional requirements for the Senate to advise on foreign policy Rusk said the committee would not expect me to dispose of these far reaching constitutional questions in a casual Corner of Portage Carlton open mon., thurs. Fr1. Evenings Reg. 1.19 Albert b. Boxer 360 Broadway ave. 943-7574 competent advice and service in Fields of life and health insurance for personal or business needs. The new clauses were not objectionable. The opposition s chief Finan Cial critic or. Lambert told reporters that it was another example of tile government s he said the govern ment should have known the rules of the House and should have tried to abide by but said or. Lambert they go blithely on their Way and things like this or. Sharp pointed out that the speaker s ruling did not alter the substance of the income tax Bill. The finance minister brushed aside or. Lambert s suggestion that the incident was another example of bungling by the government. Or. Sharp said we had our doubts about the Bill s accept ability from the Start. But he added that the requirements of the relevant rules were not spelled out clearly. All the government could do was pre pare its new tax measure As Best it could and Hope it passed the test. But it failed. 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That meant taxpayers Here will be paying for a Federal medicare program without receiving any benefits or. Mol Gat said. Or. Mol Gat also accused the government of failing after 10 years in office to produce a Long term program to Deal with the growing problems of Urban areas such As amal gation in greater Winnipeg and water and air pollution control. The government has also failed to alleviate the Cost Price squeeze in agriculture and has continued to place an unfair share of taxes on businesses and farms after introducing a sales tax he said. Or. Mol Gat warned the government not to Cut Back on essential services to implement its declared policy of stopping tax increases. Let the Premier Walter Weir Check the Money that his minister of Industry and com Merce Sidney Spivak is Likely to spend on jaunts and trips let the Sale you be been waiting for Istl Ltd. 251 furriers Portage ave. At carry St. Would have Endang the Premier scrutinize the Independence of the i Money that goes to Dalton Camp s advertising companies and the other myriad Public relation projects of his govern ment let the government watch How Money is thrown out in overpriced land acquisitions and i let the Premier keep count on i m o n e y spent needlessly in duplication of or. Mol Gat said to Cut. Expenditures the government should Start by firing the Mani a Toba boundaries commission Seit j up two years ago to make a study of local government areas. The commission has t done any work on its assignment of study the reorganization of municipalities in greater Winnipeg or. Mol Gat said. My recommendation is to proceed to total amalgamation one greater Winnipeg municipal government for the metro area. This is the Best j Way to provide the most efficient and economical services to i our or. Mol Gat said his party has government to Clear j contract study ordered by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff prime minister Pearson Lold the House monday he has asked for a report from the Justice depart i ment on the unanimous decision of the supreme court upholding Hie Validity of an apartheid clause in a Job contract. The prime minister was asked in the commons by opposition members if his government would introduce legislation Mak shocking at the i t i ing such contract clauses illegal in the future. Or. Pearson said he would examine the report from the Justice department before reply ins Friday antiquated Vaughan Street de a Tention Home for the past five years. The answer usually was we Haven t got the Money but the government has j enough Money to hire High priced Well heeled a Propa-1 the supreme court upheld the Validity of apartheid clause in the Job Ganada or. 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