Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 14, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday june 14, tories place accent on Poi try by Peter Newman Ottawa special whatever the outcome of this election the conserva Tive party will never be the same. During the Long Steward ship of John Diefenbaker policy was regarded As a sub Branch of rhetoric and Given the very lowest prior Ity. Under Robert Stanfield the reverse is True rhetoric is so much a secondary consideration that the tory Leader has not been Able to articulate convincingly the intricate details of his own platform. The Man mainly responsible for the party s policy orientation is t. H. B. Symons president and vice Chancellor of Trent University a t Peterborough ont. A historian trained at the universities of Toronto Oxford and Harvard or. Symons is one of the new Breed of Canadian academics who believes that professors have too Long insulated themselves from exercising a political though not necessarily partisan influence on Canadian society. A thoroughly modern committed individual or. Symons Speaks carefully choosing his words As if each were shaped by a cookie Cutter. In a crash program he has recruited a cadre of seventy Canadian academics in Many disciplines All feeding ideas to the pc policy advisory committee which he Heads. It is a continuing body which will assist the conservative caucus once the election is Over. It s been a real con or. Symons told me in a recent interview that policy considerations Haven t become More important in this election. There in t much Long term significance to political style and capturing the Public imagination. I Don t mini Mize it but Over any period of time the thing that s. Going to count is what Laws Are made what politics Are implemented. Unless we As electors Are Given a Chance to know what these Are going to be and what they re going to do to our ii is we re being cheated. The prime minister has done very Little of this. J think it s been deliberate and i think it s very or. Symons in t at All convinced that Pierre Elliott Trudeau s Campaign style was designed to help halt the alienation Between the voters and the parliamentary system it s become a Good thing to develop and expound when you discover that apparently your style is interesting people with some degree of excitement but i really Don t think that the winning of new participation in Pur democratic process was initially a major part of or. Trudeau s objectives. It s just become a Good talking he is concerned that or. Trudeau seems to possess an authoritarian Streak and that he appears to be running a one Man almost gaullist kind of Campaign for the presidency instead of the prime minister ship of country. I Don t believe that the Liberal party has since confederation approached the Canadian pub Lic on such a take it or leave it one Man basis. Of course one of the things that or. Trudeau has achieved by calling a snap election is to severely cur Tail the Opportunity there has. Been for or. Stanfield to become known to the Canadian even though or. Symons is basically a conservative thinker like or. Stanfield he condemns or. Tru Deau s version of the just society As a vague restrictive concept and advocates going beyond it. There s nothing in or. Trudeau s just society that i would t take for granted. It seems to me that he s More concerned with Legal Justice than with social Justice. What we need is a society of concerns society in which people genuinely care about one an he rejects the stereotype View of conservatism As standing four Square for free Enterprise. At its he says the conservative party stands for individualism not Rob her Baron individualism but genuine individualism the rights of the individual citizen. In this i think it has an extra dimension in con Trast to or. Trudeau just society which is a two dimensional world. I think or. Stanfield s concern with social Justice adds a third dimension. It gives it depth. How people will be Able to live what Quality of life Are they going to have Robert Stanfield s concern for the Quality of life is the most important thing about his Point of View and about the contribution he can make to Canadian Public life. Nearly everything else takes its place in that context of his the Trent University president places French eng Lish relations in a similar framework claiming that while or. Trudeau comes at the Issue from a strictly Legal and constitutional Point of View or. Stanfield approaches the problem worried about what Quality of life will result from whatever arrangements Are. Negotiated. Or. Stanfield is concerned that French canadians should have the fullest opportunities As individuals to participate in National life As Well As in the life of quebec7and of other provinces. It s the same feeling he has about members of other cultural groups elsewhere in the country a concern that they should have All the opportunities and All the encouragement possible. It s not a constitutional approach in any restrictive sense but a humane a unlike most of the Politi Cal advisors involved in this Campaign prof. Symons is storage Grants advocated by Jed Stuart St. Francois Xavier Man. Special Gerald Cobbe Portage Neepawa Riding Liberal contender in the june 25 Federal election thinks Farmers should get government Grants for Stor ing on their farms Grain the Canadian wheat Board is unable to sell. Or. Cobbe stressed at a Manitoba Farmers Union town Hall Type meeting in the St Francis x a v i e r Community Centre thursday night the Stor age payment idea is his person Al dream rather than official Liberal party policy. Nevertheless he argued amidst a burst of applause that it seemed reasonable for the government to financially assist Farmers forced to store Grain the government had told them to grow and were unable to sell owing to unfavourable Market conditions. Fewer than 100 attended the Low key but not unto Struc Tive meeting which saw or. Cobbe and new democratic party candidate Kasmir Ros Chuk both newcomers to the political ring debate issues with s. J. Sig Enns conservative member for Portage Neepawa in the last four houses. St. Francois Xavier is to wards the Eastern Edge of the Riding which lost the Neepawa Carberry and Macgregor districts to redistribution. The Riding now includes the Interlake area and part of the old St. Boniface constituency. Or. Enns won Portage Neepawa in 1965 by about votes. The meeting was organized by the Manitoba Farmers Union one of a series of such gatherings the mfg is sponsor ing in Rural parts of the province. Mfg president Ken Singleton of Winnipeg was chair Man. The format was As follows each candidate delivered 10 15-opening statements. This was followed by Shorter rebuttal speeches the Candi dates speaking a the reverse order to that in which they gave their opening comments. Next came a question period with. Some of the questions prepared in Advance by the mfg and others submitted in writing from the floor. There were no personal slams threatened fisticuffs or blatant attempts at ship unlike similar meetings held earlier this week. Instead there was a serious and gentlemanly discussion. The candidates touched on a variety of topics but kept returning to agriculture the preoccupation in this Rural constituency. Or. Cobbe leading said the Canadian wheat Board Sells Grain not the political parties. It was therefore silly to compare Grain Selling records of the parties he said. He was pleased by the United states Senate s ratification of the new world Grain pact praised past Liberal feats in areas of National Unity and social welfare legislation urged canadians not to alienate youth Many of whom Are and declared prime minister Trudeau deserves to remain in office. Or. Enns said he thinks the biggest Issue in Portage Neepawa is probably unsold contrary to or. Cobbe s statement by setting wheat policy the government does sell wheat for instance former agriculture minister Alvin Ham Ilton minister for Quappelle in the incredibly Roth Rve grand prix from Calvert of Canada the last parliament was responsible for the Large wheat sales to China he said. Or. Enns said because of what Alvin did he finds voters in the Riding seem willing to Trust the tories again this year. Or. Roschuk said Farmers Are the Backbone of the country and that marketing of agricultural pro dudes must be made More efficient. He said the nip had useful Canadian writers criticized Calgary up an assist ant professor of English thurs Day found fault with Canadian writers for failing to write about the ugly aspects of Canadian history. Prof. Miriam Waddington of York University in Toronto said the Story of the Long struggle of the dissenting minority against the forces of colonial conservatism and of the inevitable defeats on political social and personal Levels had never really been told in a paper presented to the annual meeting of the association of Canadian University teachers , she said our poor people our indians our lonely immigrants our prisoners our Metis in Mani Toba few of these have found a place in serious Canadian literature they Are Only just beginning to find a place in our culture through the mass prof. A Ridington said All the Many aspects of the Canadian tradition have not yet emerged or made themselves fully Felt in the literary life of the country. There Are a number of traditions which exist in Canada Side by Side she said and some like to Call these traditions a mosaic. To me they seem More like a collection of solitary prof. Waddington said con federation was Only the begin Ning of a far reaching process. It furnished the Structure and the Frame for nationhood but the fragments of various Cul Tures and interests still move blindly and chaotically within it. When Canadian writers be come willing to examine the denied realities and admit them Back into our National life with emotional As Well As with historical and political aware Ness then and Only then will we be Able to speak of the Canadian tradition. Reunion for regiment London ont. Up More than former members of the Royal Canadian regiment Are expected for a three Day reunion Here beginning june 21 to Mark the regiment s 85th anniversary. The reunion for All present and former members is to be held in Wolseley Barracks. The regiment last held a re Union in 1962 when Prince Philip the regiment s colonel in chief attended the trooping the color. They re in the dark one of every three mexicans has supper by candlelight says the Federal electricity commis Sion. Villages have had a 54 per cent increase in electricity since 1964, but. Mexico still imports kilowatt hours from the United states annually. Marketing and Price review Board plan s. In reply to All agreed that medium sized 6r family farms must survive As practical eco Topi c units if possible they also agreed that Canada should have National education standards to facilitate moving children from province to prov Ince that Canada s Trade policy should be flexible and that welfare should Only be dispensed to deserving people. More interested in the Long term aspects of policy prob he worries for sex about the Canadian tradition of conservatism and is anxious to separate it from its More violent -.. Counterpart. Xhu e believes that at to Cor three Points in our history the conservative been decisive in. The nation.-. And thinks that we entering such a j period now. In Canadian conservatism at its he says there in real inclination and Capa City the nation. That is a concern forthe development ii Canada As an autonomous political Community with its distinctive culture and institutions in North America. There is a very real and difference in this with the Canadian Liberal tradition w h i c h from time to time has argued for reciprocity or economic Union with the United. States. When a few weeks ago the liberals signed the Norad agree ment without allowing Public discussion they showed this difference. Consciously and unconsciously the can Adian. Liberal tradition often sees Canada s future As one merging into the United with Robert Stanfield prof. Symons maintains nationalism in t the old Flag waving variety but a quiet thing a matter of deep conviction that Canada has something to offer that there is something distinctive and that our future lies As an Independent nation. In the Liberal he canadians Are often sort of failed americans americans who just Haven t quite made Good or americans with a difference and we re he suggests that the liberals May be alienating canadians from their genuine inheritance and Trade. The tilings that make them canadians. He. Concludes these things can t be replaced. You just can t graft on gimmickry substitutes for your heart even in these Days of heart Goldberg won t seek Frk s seat United nations Reuters Arthur j. Goldberg retiring . Ambassador to the in ruled out thursday any idea of succeeding to the late senator Robert f. Kennedy s Senate seat and said he would announce his personal plans next week. He said he will leave the unas soon As the Security Council c o m p 1 e t e a consideration of three Power Security assurances under the nuclear non proliferation treaty and the Cyprus ques Tion. Goldberg told reporters both issues will be debated next week. He is president of these purity Council this month. At a Farewell meeting with in correspondents asked whether Goldberg governor Nelson a. Rockefeller of Ney York had invited him to take Kennedy s seat. He replied nobody has talked to me about succeeding senator Kennedy and will i do not think anybody lottery deadline extended Montreal up the june 15 deadline for the monthly draw of mayor Jean Drapeau s voluntary tax scheme has been extended in definitely because entry forms Are pouring into City Hall in unexpected numbers. The second monthly draw was boosted by publicity Given the first draw in May when in Silver ingots were awarded to 151 donors to Montreal City coffers a City Hall spokesman said thursday. He said a for in ties will be set within the next new Days. The draw would be held shortly. After the june 25 ederal election. A contribution is sufficient of enter the draw which Fea ures a grand prize of timid audience for Duff Roblin by Joe Wiesenfeld it was a Lamb like group of people that put questions to Duff Roblin thursday night at a Beaupit meeting staged by the Winnipeg South Centre c d is Ergative association at Crestview school in Assiniboia. Any b e a r -1 i k e tendencies among the 50 people present were conspicuously absent As or. Roblin calmly answered questions submitted earlier on slips of paper. There was to participation from the audience during the meeting nor did or. Roblin s answers spark any debate. Moderator Bill Trebilcox read the questions to Tive candidate. On the Issue the conserva of Unity the the biggest our tax Bill former Manitoba Premier explained that he had made his position Clear at the conserva Tive convention last september. There can such thing As two he said. We must have two languages and one United nation and every other candidate took substantially the same the question of French English relations brought a rebuke from or. Roblin for the present government. There is a better Way to Settle French-english1 relations than the Liberal idea of confrontation or either or he said that the constitutional conference held in Toronto last november proved that Consul tation not confrontation was the Best answer. Language group relations led immediately into the question of Quebec s participation in the recent Paris education con Ference. The provinces May and do speak to strangers but Only the Federal government can speak with or. Trebilcox s next slip of paper had to do with the Federal medicare scheme which eight provinces have not yet accepted. All the Federal government has to do to make it acceptable is to loosen it up. The provinces should be permitted to have Small variations. Medicare is going to Cost More and More every year of Crystal Ball. It will be very expensive and hard to or. Roblin was asked Why he had not countered action to remove Winnipeg s air Canada overhaul facilities to Montreal while he was Premier. Lack of Power stopped or. Roblin said. He said that All the provincial parties had combined to Send delegations to Ottawa to plead Winnipeg s Case but Only the Federal government had Power to act. We will continue to go after it we need it. There s business enough for both Mont real and taxes another of or. Rob Lin s delicate subjects in Mani Toba came up in a question asking about the High level both federally and provincially. Single item in is education. Although it is very hard to pay i Don t think anyone wants to go Back to a second rate educational system. Yet we be got to fix this system that is out of joint. The Federal government has to be cautious about new at a later Point he returned to the subject saying you can shift some it the tax but i Don t see How taxes can be in the matter of tax Reform he recommended an increase in exemptions to both single and married people but noted that such an increase could not be carried out immediately. Talc deposits wide Dadeville Ala. 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