Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 19, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press wednesday. February 19, 1975 speaker says govt. Free to stay silent by Richard Jackson free press correspondent Ottawa there is nol Iii in the commons rules to pre j business vent the government from wheal stonewalling opposition ques Lions speaker James Jerome magnate v. K. Pao whose i firm the government has re balt edly does hundreds of thousands of dollars Worth of the Canadian do we wait until every min ister has Ridden the whisky has informed angry conserva he referring to of lives. The government is not Liged to answer fully nor even indeed to reply at All he said and added he was Power less to enforce a response. Former conservative prime minister Diefenbaker and tory japs Tom co Silt of Eastern Ontario s Leeds Riding and Rob Ert Coates of the Nova Scotia constituency of Cumberland Colchester North were All storming recently that the government was hiding in silence or More often in the garbage of non answers to questions it saw As politically embarrassing or damaging. Die admitted that he had received an answer to his questions but had to wait three months while the government sought unsuccessfully to hide the he had asked who had sculpted statues and for what fees of former prime ministers of a thur Meighen and Richard bed Ford Bennett of the conserva Tives and Louis St. Laurent of the liberals. Two of the statues reported die who had traced them to their hiding place in Ottawa dead storage were such monstrosities that the government in humiliation had concealed them and delayed answering his questions in Hope he might forget. Both statues were so ugly As to be impossible of positioning with other former prime ministers on parliament Hill he claimed. R. B. Bennett s was Little More than a acceptable perhaps in the ancient egyptian Days of King Tut. And had Cost the taxpayers paid to sculptor Elford Cox of Willowdale Ontario. Arthur Meighen s was a mis Shapen of daddy Lon legs and Ichabod for it Marcel Brail Slein a sculptor of sack Ville new Brunswick had been paid there was nothing wrong with Louis St. Laurent a re ported die. In fact it was More than a i health minister Lalonde s re cent trip to Israel on a distillers Seagram private aircraft As guest of Charles Bronfman. And he made a biting com ment about the prime min ister s acceptance from a group of unidentified Toronto health freaks of that now More than indoor swimming Pool at the official residence at 24 Sussex drive. To All these questions there was no reply from the govern ment Side of the House Cabinet Lenic. Taking col. J. B. Peters . C. W. G. Davv Kins the department of National defence has announced the appointment of col. J. 15.x Peters As Deputy commander militia area Prairie and the appointment of . C. W. G. Dawkins As commanding officer of the Winnipeg militia service battalion. Festival events cent Able enough for parliament Hill. Its Cost had run paid to Vancouver sculptor Elek Imredy. M r. Coates protested to speaker Jerome that not Only had the government stalled far too Long in answering his questions about gifts and conflict of interest involving members of the Trudeau Cabinet but when it did finally respond the reply had been sheer gobble he had asked whose was the state s or the a Cabinet minister accepted gifts from visiting vips or received a presentation when going abroad himself. He knew who paid when Cabi net ministers were the donors rather than the taxpayers of course so these same taxpayers were entitled to know who benefited when the ministers were on the receiving end. Was the gift the minister s property or the he wanted to know Loo which members of the Cabinet had received gifts and what were they answering for the govern ment House Leader Sharp said there was no policy on the giving and receiving of gifts but he did concede that usually they were of a personal nature intended As Tom Cossitt protested that this was no answer at All and wanted to know what had happened to the guidelines on gifts and conflict of interest that following Are highlights of the scheduled activities for St. Boniface s festival do Voyageur. The festival continues until sunday. For further information about continuing e tents Contact the festival do Voyageur Headquarters at 219 Provencher Boulevard s t. Wednesday noon to Midnight lament Bertrand Arena Mission 50 . To Midnight l Auberge do violin trading Posl Centre St. Louis pro Bencher Boulevard and Nadeau Street with fiddling contests. Gerry and Ziz in St. Boniface College Voyageur trading Post 340 pro Bencher Boulevard with Lucille Emond and Les Louis j boys. 4 . To c . Girls hoc key Bertrand Arena. 4 . To Midnight la Verendrye trading Post 614 Des neurons Street recep Tion of the new festival Queen a . Concert theatre. . To 11 . Sock hop Windsor Park collegiate 1015 Cottonwood drive. By miss club la Verendrye with the Andre Roussin or Chestra. 4 . To 11 . Youth Post 202 Kenny Street games amusements and a teen dance. 5 . To 8 . Voyeur invitational basketball tour facial has confirmed. Gets arms by Jim Hoagland Cairo special the soviet Union tons has made previously undisclosed arms deliveries to Egypt in recent weeks a senior egyptian Windsor Park collegiate 1015 Cottonwood drive. G . To 10 . Voya cur m i n o r hockey tournament Bertrand Arena admission 50 7 . To 10 . Moc Casin dance and bonfires pro Bencher Park. . To Midnight l Auberge do Violon trading Post Centre St. Louis pro Bencher Boulevard and Nadeau Street with fiddling contests. 7 . To Midnight Casino pro Les Centre 340 Bencher Boulevard with int resides. . To Midnight Bis Tro 340 Provencher Boulevard with Les 100 Nons. 8 . To Midnight Ukrain Ian night 412 Marion Street. Thursday noon to 1 . Voyageur trading Post 340 Provencher Boulevard with Lucille Emond and Les Louis boys. 1 . To 4 . Golden age variety program 202 Kenny Street. 4 . To 11 . Youth Post 202 Kenny Street games amusements and an old tyme Nile. 4 . To 1 . La Veren Clerye trading Post 614 pcs the deliveries Are part of an order for weapons placed for Egypt by algerian president Houari Boum Dienne in mos cow during the october 1973, War and Are not considered by president Anwar Sadat As re placement for the military hardware Egypt lost in War the official said. Confirmation o f the Deli veries came from an official authorized to speak for Sada after the egyptian presiden said in an interview that prime minister Trudeau Street Kinfolk supposed to have been drafting. Do we have to wait until everyone connected with the Cabi net goes on an expense paid japanese he asked in reference to Margaret tru Deau s far Eastern journey As guest of Hong Kong shipping night with Dolinny Cloutier starting . 5 . To . Voya g e u r invitational basketball tournament Windsor Park collegiate 1015 Cottonwood drive. C . To 10 . Voya russians were still refusing to Supply him with the replace ment for the 1973 losses. Sadat made a Clear distinction Between the weapons or dered under contracts signed before and during the 197 War the material needed to re place his losses and the arms that he will require to match the major military build in Israel and Syria since the War. In the absence of a peace settlement he indicated thai he will press the russians to deliver arms in All three categories and hinted that agree ment on this might be Rea Ched when soviet communist party Leader Leonid Brezhnev visits the Middle East this year. Sadat and soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko agreed during Gromyko s trip to Cairo two weeks ago that certain items will be com Sadat said but it will not reach the replacement. There have been contracts be tween us and the soviet Union that were due in 73 and 74. I in i n o r hockey Lour am waiting for them nowhere to go but Down and can give you a whole new horizon a totally new Outlook on your future. Quite apart irom being a comprehensive and Well balanced newspaper five times a week the report on business Section has whole pages of advertisements for executive professional technical and specialist personnel. No need to have that sinking feeling. Read the Globe and mail. Available at All major hotels and Newsstands. 7 a plaque commemorating the mennonite Cen Tennial is unveiled in the Manitoba legislative building by John c. Reimer curator of the mennonite Village museum in Steinbach man., and premiered Schreyer. Designed by Margaret Quiring of Winnipeg the plaque shows a Farmer and his family gazing Over a ploughed Field at their Home. The inscription reads in commemoration of the 1874-1974 Centennial of the mennonite settlement in Mani in the upper left hand Corner is the Cen Tennial Symbol a Bible encircled by a sheaf of Grain with the words we came we toiled cod Public works minister Russell Doern was chairman of the unveiling ceremony tuesday. Others present included Gerhard Lohrei chairman of the mennonite Centennial committee and j. J. Reimer chairman of the mennonite historical society. 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