Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 17, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Print of published daily by Winnipeg press company limited 30o Carlton strut Winnipeg. Manitoba. R. S Mai one publish i and editor Mchie Eicr took Maurice Western executive editor Ottawa editor r. H. general manager Winnipeg free press Western Canada s National newspaper Winnipeg tuesday july 17, 1973 Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Back to Gatt about two months from now the member nations of the general agreement on tariffs and Trade will meet in their latest Effort to increase the world s Commerce and Prosperity. Since this so called Nixon round of negotiations was scheduled the immediate problems fac ing Gatt have changed drastically almost incredibly. In some important respects they will require new approaches but it is Only under the Basic principles of the worldwide trading partnership that any workable Long term solutions can be found. The present situation unforeseen even a year ago results mainly from a shortage of food though there Are other shortages in such vital supplies As Energy in some until recently the United states and can Ada both huge food producers were seeking increased foreign markets for their agricultural surpluses. While the earlier rounds of Gatt had greatly reduced the barriers to Trade in processed goods of most sorts the barriers against food especially in Western Europe remained Many of them violating the spirit if not the let Ter of the International contract. Through the Nixon round North America intended to attack the existing restrictions not Only of tariffs but of quotas and other devices and it hoped to increase food exports on a Mas Sive scale. Now however North America finds itself Short not of food in total volume but of some products like meat or meat substitutes. The United states which Long subsidized its food exports has actually begun to restrain them and if possible curb the inflationary Rise in their Price at Home though such a policy must Worsen an Al ready grave foreign Trade when the removal of import quotas failed to reduce beef prices for example Export controls were proposed by the president for most grains and animal feeds in the Hope of encouraging meat production. As or. Nixon explained in allocating the products of America s farms Between markets abroad and those in the United states we must put the american con Sumer first. We will not let foreign sales Price meat and eggs off the american this dramatic shift in agricultural policy Means that the american Farmer must accept Domestic prices for his products lower than those that would be available to him if he could sell freely abroad. Even so his present Price is High by All previous standards and unlike All other prices it is not Frozen for the time being anyhow. Weather permitting he will enjoy on average a very prosperous year at the Cost of the consumer. Not Only the United states but other Rich nations Are also changing their farm policies. The european com Mon Market Long the Hub of agricultural protectionism has temporarily reduced its tariffs on beef. Canada has removed them from beef veal and pork. Mexico is limiting its sales of live cattle and meat to the United states. Brazil has levied a special tax on beef exports. None of these nations risks anything like the sort of hunger now afflicting the tragic drought Region of Africa but the demand for certain foods far exceeds the immediate Supply. When even Russia and China with their vast farm acreage must buy North american grains to feed their people the dimension of the food problem Sud Denly a Barilics. So do the problems of Gatt. Assembled to reduce import restrictions on foodstuffs As their first order of business the negotiators will find that Many of these obstacles have been removed already that some of the Groat food producers Are no longer pushing their exports but discouraging them. The food shortage will not be solved by abandoning Gatt s principles however. It can be solved Only by enforcing those principles More vigorously. The world s total food Supply May be insufficient in the Long term to support its exploding population As it is already in sufficient in some drought stricken areas. But in the vis Ible future the Supply can be greatly expanded the shortages overcome by sensible economic management which so far has Seldom prevailed. Instead tariffs and other restrictions on the movement of food Between nations have inhibited production where it could be plentiful and efficient and stimulated it where it is mar Ginal and inefficient. Nothing could do so much to augment total production and prevent human hunger As the removal of these artificial restraints. Thus the task of the approaching Gatt round has changed on the surface but there has been no change in the original need to open the Chan Nels of Exchange Between nations Rich and poor. On the contrary that purpose has become More urgent than Ever when Mankind s primary need is food and any at tempt to limit its production by Law is insane not to say criminal. Artificial stimulation the Federal government is still trying to promote Indus trial development in slow growth areas. Its most re cent spokesman on the subject is Justice minister Otto Lang. Despite the fact that Ottawa has had its fingers burned a number of times in carrying out this policy or. Lang says that the govern ment is not giving up. In Stead of withdrawing from Hie Field which hard eco nomic facts would seem 1o indicate is the Wise course he says that the government wants to assume a More aggressive initiating role. One can sympathize with the government Asil seeks to promote ils policy. Slow growth areas in a Prosper Ous country like Canada Are a h i o t on our National image. Ii would be politically expedient and socially desirable if Hoy could he re moved if the whole country could move Forward at a uniform Rale of economic expansion. Hut the sad fact is i hat investment will go to where it Lias inc Best Chance of a reasonable return. If it is persuaded through government Nisi glance to go into a less favourable area it is almost inevitably doomed to failure or forced into a position where in needs fur ther assistance. Like water economic development will not run Uphill. This does not mean that efforts should not be made to promote development in slow growth areas. The need is there and in is the responsibility of government to try to meet it. It is less than responsible however to spend taxpayers Money on projects that even before they Are launched have no Chance of Success. This has too often been the pattern in 1hc past. As the government assumes the More aggressive initiating role that or. Lang forecasts it should Lake a Good look at past fail ures and consider Hie Steps necessary to avoid them. Today s scripture he that Hatch his brother is in darkness and in darkness and know ctr not whither he Foeth be cause that darkness hath blinded his eyes. I John 2 11. 1 finn Nifina in in of div Canadian in Canada taking out British undoubtedly or two pleasant visits says so right there air conditioned 3 of every commission. In years must be determined has stirred committed to m different heritage to see passport f was with the i of a historic the nationality if to some of office a to some French from downtown canadians perhaps to Croydon in the a remnant of a and a Era. But most lunar House. As i considered it a meaningless irrelevancy. Now the British it one Grey february morning clutching a file of documents the r says those few appropriate for off Lofv several High rises in k Raffik who want in s s i w in and out setting out t and to live Here care my Docu like right. Interview la 71 e Are the Tom Earle the parents or London it were born in who was at a vhf and . Office As soon Asj at the time of our births. In what amounts to a British proclamation of signature was dry on the new act. With his help i thought concent we problems to write. Act in . Immigration whole affair has the and Case of a a by records a controversial right to stay Here. This is possible Only be cause a Canadian citizen is a British subject. The and writing to Canad a i assembled parents birth certificates wedding certificate and my birth Ottawa the decision of or. Justice Osier in Magnet Lull ownership. To what owners in not the government allows in of feet dual nationality for i took my seat six nations Case creates so Many uncertainties Over is used rather loosely income categories or who Are identifiably indians and who until britons who have taken out Canadian in lunar House and waited for the number to a vast area that some cases it has a been governed those few by leaving Home will have to be sought from the supreme court of Canada. Thus it is manifestly unjust to say that 1 a i allowances for age groups occupational act moreover not All the mean that far from renouncing his British i was near the front of the queue when the finding that the Indian act drink but Benefit from lands the Emigrant swears inoperative the Ontario May not. But it and in Trust. Maintain his allegiance to j. Has struck a blow at considered eminently protections might h nation but also at an Eskimo should Indian act have to not indians but children Are Eli j h pm he Nave existed Lor take game for for tons and to which Many although that right is safeguards recognizing a 1971 immigration act attach much to neighbor. Alienation of to All the Indian year has i be waiting room acc. This was in fact the immediate reaction of John Gasson. Executive director of the Indian Eskimo words rights May be acquired through a variety of circumstances and in these cases they re not and others Are related to them although perhaps not exclusively. Thus the question of status is a has yet to recognize aboriginal rights it cannot very Well convey what it has yet to fully into effect. Emigrants to the Commonwealth republics would not be so fortunate. And since an Airport lounge without the bar. Civil servants perched behind Check in counters of i v e partly Alt these Haven t been have been straight in the Light of the Many reserves Are whatever its above of the six nations and their special relationship to the Crown. Or. Justice Osier could probably have based what has to be found and what the govern in e n t has Long since recognized As a Long term goal Lor the litigants of the six nations and perhaps for apprehensive citizens of Africa or Brown Asia you Don t need an understanding of higher mathematics to realize that numbers nicked into place like flight numbers and a Monotone voice announced number 1g to ruling in favor of the is True of the Means of general finding of is work for Ioui a r y chiefs on while Osier does not of the old White com 1 the woman behind grounds. By calling the some own others do to be and people like desk what i nto question he has others have lease property to the look to he a Fine show of a problem that concerns so is True also is or to to of March. Com Inonu Calls Indian people generally. In All systems for seeking canadians including w went is that the the basis in some Way define what is needed is us living in Britain my Prem court has eternal verities but in the Case guidance from the the trouble using birth said of found certain sections judgments reserves the word advisedly to mining any d on grounds of of taxation based indicated to Clear and not split out our suggestion was shattered when she said nation and that this in fact s the basis of the whole not All and documents would be forwarded for cannot be much y i Gurment that the act i f cd in due course. Discriminate w e do not Lave separate acts govern no the various Peoples an exciting certificate was t necessary. Jul t pleaded i had assorted pigmentation who came Here As whenever 1 1 think about Rof Cerr devaluations. And she s making frequent use frequently and but this discrimination was deliberately imbedded in the Constitution by the fathers of confederation. It was an explicit recognition of the inherited duty of the Federal government to protect indians and Indian the Indian act. However outdated it May now be was Milt on this 16 Days on its h 1 g h ways and byways through scenery which has to be some of the most gorgeous in the world and our stops in big or Small towns whenever darkness overtook us i invariably give voice to some superlative. A federation with six republics and two served in most restaurants till 10 or 11.00 . No question of your car being broken into at night. Fantas in no doubt about it. Yugoslavia must be a monstrous Thorn in the Side of the Kremlin. Two Days spent across the Border in which seems rather Dicey has been to give More autonomy still to the republics and Hope for Rule by consensus holding the nation together with a More Active communist party breathing Down the neck of a relatively weak Federal fact. Inflation has come mainly from a poorly managed spending spree which is now being painfully rectified. Meanwhile there in t much private capital for inflation to wipe out while incomes and pensions can be adjusted to avoid disaster to have paying jobs and the tendency Lor workers she said i could take my passport and return when evaluation was finished. Even if two journeys were needed i reason e d my Extension of residence permit would mean some red tape anyway and this Way i would have that special status. We old Commonweal thurs m n what is probably four languages Hungary confirmed up what the party has Moonlight is endemic. As the government suggested in its 1969 policy statement is repeal with the both latin and cyrillic script three major religions four radically memory of communism a la russe was t playing me tricks. Hungary since marshal Tito s rage of last december and it reads almost like a the sobering accounts of Yugoslavia s political and financial was on february s. My pal reality arrived in the office on june g. Three act ment at the same climates in a enough with some stalinism. Is before f was scheduled Small land mass five undertakings. Evidence of fear of hardworking Well j leave Jondon for but a new problem is in familiar All As you travel Happy people in a Beau meanwhile that posed both for the government and r a b n s and so to area. Land with a Only birth Orlif ment and the indians. If political of those huge you May the full one Justice Osier is right Road system that s t i t o i a n d in t the leaders strongmen. You May with letter of discrimination How is from what it there s party which Are so believe that the end can there letters to lation to be written Industrial that makes in Iron curtain justify question 1 Canada to the Home will cover the Indian people As a special Case without being As vulnerable As ils springing up in erstwhile peasant communities. Towns with a Hustle Federal headache seem like a Bagatelle. It s Long standing it s at the Root in fact one company 1 visited managed to celebrate marshal Tito s birthday Means. But without Telephone Calls to and from some harsh measures to most understanding person Tion Alize i t s agricultural who convinced me to Solete predecessor to the condemnation of the courts at least part of the reminiscent of aggressive capitalist nations. Supermarkets galore. Shop windows crammed with evils and widely publicized never dreamed it through to been even so i would get visitor podium flags an speeches yet have the props stashed away for the nex occasion All within the am get More co passports through the mails operation elsewhere it is in return for special care hard to imagine How this and Speed country Cou d have been h All seemed May originate in the fact that the word of goods which made you shake your head As it dues of local or Ieiri Pride so an hour and a into the Industry 1 returned to the image and reorganized for migration officer s smile really believe in the 20th ecu wave. Cone were the the third remarkable attractive new houses wonder marshal Tito Long ago had to reject in so Short a time wit i out marshal he signed and the questions about Tho meaning the recent explosion under formula of tight the passport China s nuclear device look. Yet for upward surge in Only two months reminded the world and everyone you talk and decentralize what has happened Lavia continues will enjoy leu More at. Superpowers in particular that no agreement can be of much Validity unless it takes into account the interests of peking. French experts born in the area where you meet them. Delightful a network of hotels and motels almost always clean amazingly modern and sometimes economic authority. Though getting hardened o sectional propaganda by the time i reached Belgrade. 1 was nevertheless taken by Surprise by the concierge at a big hotel. Overhearing the past year seems i depend on economic Aid Anc a step Back to the russian j helpful defensive pressures Camp. Answering such Cri i from the West. One Hopes cism. Marshal Tito had this that Canada recognizes this to say Yugoslavia is no and in dispensing her favors going anywhere. Yugoslavia gives Yugoslavia preference is staying where it by Over such off beat nations o m e than Ever in the country of my forebears. The act necessarily discriminates among canadians and Ottawa officially looks on it As a purely British affair. The British Point out that China possesses a of age North e too believe that As warhead. She has a suf the Moon Olli with delimit from excessive Yugoslavia will Eon foul the we of number of Hom bars look round her when the Licay. The v stability of popu nationalism til Olanco i i a h if marxist capable of carrying air to ens Are Bare so has a serious economic Iron Leninist theology by ground nuclear missiles As course Aggra Lem. Chronic Oping from socialist bust As a submarine that prob International Infra into a modern capitalist s can fire missiles from below v lion and a in ciely mrs. The sea s surface Sunshine is a certain regional incomes s her Down the Road to Don sent the uninvited chinese about a year ago Par i main nevertheless Loos land. Alex guest at the Washington act allow where or i go Croatia than in at the country today one 1 h o r feast May yet spoil the there hath passed away Tito had to countries its can see plenty of id. Mire t Only liets voracious from the Earth. Down. His formula for the balance of payments with feed such speculation ;