Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 25, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday july 25. 1968 15 separatism on in Quebe continued St. Jean Baptiste is Quebec province s Patron Saint. Those demonstrating at the annual Parade said they were protesting or. T r u d e a u s presence As guest of Honor on the reviewing called him a traitor to their pro Quebec cause. A political High Point in the Post de Gaulle separatist enthusiasm was the resignation of influential Rene Levesque from the Quebec Liberal party which last october went on record As against separatism in All its or. Levesque a provincial Cabinet minister during the Days of the quiet revolution founded the movement solver Ainette association to press for an Independent Quebec linked in an economic Union with the rest of Canada and to work for Unity of All Quebec separatist groups but after the St. Jean Baptiste Day violence he denounced the riots and suspended merger negotiations with the province s largest separatist party the Kassem Lement pour 1 Independence National. The other group affected is the Rolliement National with members the second largest in Quebec. Within the Mesa itself crack pcs disunity have appeared. Francois Aquin like que an Independent member of the Quebec legislature and a former Liberal has openly with his Leader by manding a rigid policy " psf French unilingual ism for this province. Pierre Bourgault Ein Leader said last week he is pessimistic about the chances of unifying separatist forces soon and added that without such Unity there is Little Hope for an inde pendent Quebec. Quebec s Liberal party which officially proclaimed a policy of special status for the province within confederation following the Levesque schism has decided to re examine its position Fol lowing the decisive election Victory by or. Trudeau whose liberals took 56 of 74 seats in Quebec. Party Leader Jean Lesage is currently surveying party Fol Lowers to determine How strongly they feel about constitutional issues. He indicated after Early results last that there is a Strong anti separatism sen in the party and that Fol Lowers Are mainly concerned with bread and butter economic problems. Yet Quebec France relations continue close. Premier Daniel Johnson s ruling Union natio Nale government in Power since june 1966, pushed ahead with extending International contacts at French language educational conferences in Gabon and Paris earlier this year each time with the disapproval of the Federal government. De Gaulle was seen As a provocateur behind attempts to have Quebec gradually receive the status of an Independent nation Al state in a family of French language states. Tension and friction Between Ottawa and Paris and at the same time Between. Ottawa and Quebec Over Gaulle visit last year was touched off by an official Canadian government reprimand of the French presi Dent for meddling in the inter Nal affairs of Canada. Gen. De Gaulle subsequently cancelled his planned trip to Ottawa scheduled after his tour of expo 67. Parallel tensions surfaced Over the Gabon and Paris meet Ings of French language Educa Tion ministers with the Federal government taking the View that invitations should have been extended to Ottawa rather than Quebec and that delegations to the conferences should have been with Canadian not Only Quebec support. It is not yet Clear what effect or. Trudeau s election Victory will have on the tactics and goals of Premier Johnson. The Premier had planned to. Visit France and London in mid july but was forced to postpone the trip when he suffered a mild heart attack. The trip Jow. Has been tentatively rescheduled for the fall. Strike working hardship montreal1 up the walkout of Quebec liquor Board employees five weeks has. Meant doing without a Friendly nip for most Quebe cers heal Huard six pit Means making idol in a 41, a Geh Esat worker Viot the liquor spa put for inc temporarily lost his salary when he went on strike. Now gets Only a week it s difficult now and it s going to get harder if the strike list s says mrs. Huard. But we re not going to. Give up. Even if the strike lasts a year Well wait Well her husband added it s the Only just have to earn More daughter Nicole 13, who had polio some years ago is due to enter Hospital in september for seventh operation., the guards insurance com Pany pays half the surgery costs but the other half takes a big bite out of their budget. Lit addition medical Bills have to be paid for1 another daughter who is suffering from anaemia. The Farnoly diet is heavy on cheap but filling foods such As we Haven t paid the in ilk Man Oruie rent since the strike mrs. Huard said. The guards pay a month for a fairly Large but sparsely furnish ii. Flat in Pointe St a Low income District of Montreal about families of liquor Board employees Are affected by the strike salaries Range be tween and a week and Union officials say the average striker has four children. Or. Huard says he can t change to another Job. I injured my leg on a pre Vious Job and no one else will hire the last liquor Board strike it took him two years to get the family finances Back to Normal he says. During that strike the Union provided some extra financial help to the picketers. Cosmopolitan club of Winnipeg newspaper fill a card game no. 11 starts today win up to How to play 1. Purchase Bingo cards in sealed envelopes from your local drug store. 2. Mark off Bingo numbers on your cards which appear below. 3. Mark off additional Bingo numbers which will appear nightly in this newspaper. 4. Full card Bingo must be telephoned in by 10. . The same Day. 5. If you hive a full card Bingo Telephone Whitehall 2-4720. 6. Winners of Bingo will be announced after Bingo is declared. 7. You can buy a card anytime As All stores Selling cards have a master card showing All numbers called to Date 8. Persons connected with the administration of this game their immediate families and children under 16 Are not eligible. Widening continued Bingo cards 50c each available at most drug stores play at Many you wish proceeds Are in Aid of the i Owca building fund Webb place civic charities endorsement permit 68-10 16 17 18 24 27 28 29 buy your card now w collects the monthly payments distributes it to creditors and keeps them from hounding the debtors. The procedure used by Mani Toba s old administrators Earl Billman and an assistant is to work out a careful breakdown of the income and expenses of each debtor. After deciding what is surplus or. Billman makes out an order for that amount to be paid to the creditors Over a 36-month period or until the debt is paid off. The debtor takes an affidavit on the Validity of his declarations and pays a filing fee of the Only fee charged by the government under old. A notice is then sent to each creditor and if no objection is received a county court judg ment is issued. Creditors rarely object to the procedure since most old cases Are hopelessly in debt and would nev2r be Able to meet the payments for which they have contracted. In addition the creditor court judg ment at no expense and if the debtor defaults Over a 90-Day period a garnishment order can be applied for. A Good example of the kind of service offered by old is the typical Case of George a warehouseman from Transcona with six children and debts totalling or. X s net income is a month including family allow Ance but his expenses without debt payments run to monthly. Or. X was on a tread Mill and in danger of losing his Job because his nine creditors were constantly harassing him for payments he could not meet if he wanted to pay rent feed his children and look after All other necessary costs. He applied to s office for help and after following the Normal procedure had All his debts consolidated. A monthly payment of is now being taken out of his pay Cheque and slowly but surely he is retiring his debts in an orderly fashion. Or. X is Happy because he can sleep nights and the creditors Are relatively Content because they Are assured of getting their Money. And the government stands to gain As Well. For instead of having another potential welfare Case on their hands or x is a working wage earning member of society. Administrators of the act in Manitoba were understandably irked a Short time ago when a National Magazine published a Story on old giving Cre Dit the legislation to Albert s Philippe Gibeau chairman of the debtors assist Ance Board in that province. The article claimed or. Gibeau engineered old Al most on his own a claim that astounds Manitoba spokes men As or. Gibeau was Little More than three years old when Manitoba set up its act. Alberta s legislation did not come into effect until 1959, and t was almost a Carbon copy of Manitoba s act. Manitoba spokesmen particularly or. Billman and c. P. Gilraine the two county court officials most closely connected with old Here also find it Ronic that it was because of Alberta that Manitoba s act was swept i from the la books in 1961, and could not be re instated until june 1967. Although the act had been operating in Manitoba Success fully since 1932, when Alberta climbed on the bandwagon in 1959, the judiciary in that province immediately challenged the legality of the act contending it to be out of the jurisdiction of the provincial government a Long court Battle followed terminating with the supreme court of Canada decision ruling lie legislation invalid because bankruptcy and related matters were Federal not provincial prerogatives. The court decision wiped out the legislation in Manitoba As Well and it was not until Ottawa amended the Federal bankruptcy act dearly in 1967 than old could once again be set up. This time Alberta did take the Lead re instituting its version of old in May 1967 a month before Manitoba followed suit. The present act is practically the same As Manitoba s original the Only major change being the stipulation ruling out single Loans of More than it is this provision that Manitoba authorities would like to see. Changed because they argue that Given today s economic conditions Loans of More than Are More often Likely to be the Rule than the exception. Although they concede that any change would have to be made by the Federal govern ment they Are confident that under the terms of the Federal legislation Ottawa can alter the provision if petitioned to do so by provincial authorities. Since last september when the legislation was again put into operation More than 200 harassed debtors have been granted Relief through Mani Toba s old scheme. And this figure is Only 25 per cent of the total number of debtors who have applied for Relief during the same period. Although Only a Quarter of the applicants Are accepted or. Billman Points out that the major Impact of the legislation of debt Law seen is that debt counselling is Given to the 75 per cent who Are refused. Or. Billman will often communicate with creditors on behalf of the debtor and make informal arrangements for reduced monthly payments a procedure creditors gladly accept because if the debtor is taken under old he is Only forced to pay five per cent interest on his Loans. Secondly the will refer debtors not accepted to some other Agency or counsel them in some other manner so obligations can be met without recourse to the act. County court officials Esti mate Only five per cent of All applications Are refused on the basis of their being so far in debt that the act does not apply la these cases it is usually the bankruptcy court that takes Over. Of file orders made approximately 50 per cent of the debtors have kept up with required payments. Of the half that Are in arrears most have made partial payments and the rest Are seasonal workers who have been out of work through the Winter months. Although detailed figures Are not yet available the attorney general s department estimates that old costs the provincial government about a year to operate and is Likely to Cost More in the future since applications for Relief Are increasing steadily Budapest a More than c o m m u n i s t chinese soldiers and peasants worked feverishly round the clock to repair smashed dikes of the overflowing Yang tse Biver troops fight flood a hungarian newspaper correspondent reported from peking on wednesday. 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