Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 26, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba L we 40r weft w Amft november 1 is Trudeau for separation Al by Peter Thomson press Ottawa prime min ister Trudeau yesterday promised to Lead the liberals in the next find then spent the next hour providing such a perfect political performance As to convince his audience the Campaign is it was Vintage he was person intelligent and witty As he f i e 1 d e d questions and turned the answers into the political pronouncements he intended to his theme was that Canada is and no simple Quebec referendum would make it no matter How the voting if a Quebec plebiscite showed a majority in favor of for it would be logical to hold a National referendum on Canad an it is like a he one does not just ask a husband or a wife if they want a you ask them the 50minute press Confer ence was in Sharp contrast to Trudeau Serene and sombre broadcast to the a tie it wednesday when he spoke of a crisis and a brutal question to be an if the nation was in danger it was Well on its Way to being saved on thurs Day by a prime minister who himself and his arguments with Confidence and Trudeau it had always been his in he to stay and fight see pm Page 4 Levesque marvels at size of task and Cabinet quarters Quebec up moments after he was sworn in As pre Mier of parti Quebe Cois Leader Rene Levesque acknowledged that he was somewhat awed by the magnitude of the task before the whole thing hit one just As i swore the oath of of the 54yearold former journalist told reporters As he began a tour of his new do main i but it want Only the Job before him and his Profiri dependence government that left him in his first official appear today Lancaster named map 70 How to ski and where to do it special Section 2940 win Tario winners 6 a Federal election in the Spring auditors cant find Wileys Toft 21 inside business Epfart Ance As Premier Levesque spoke briefly to a convention of the agricultural producers Union and told them that the building hous ing his office perplexed its really he told the we just had a guided visit of the place i Tell anyone going there needs a Pilot you need a map to find your Way around the the officially called Complex j but dubbed the Bunker because of the tight Security in Force there during the reign of departed Premier Robert houses the premiers Cabinet rooms and Cabinet just As he launched into his private Swearingin ceremony before fugues la Pointe by lighting a the new Chai smoking pre Mier remained True to his see Levesque Page 4 Auto registration hits Gas guzzlers by David Lee Manitoba new weight based vehicle registration fees were unveiled and As expected they will hit hardest those driving big cars with heavy gasoline although most Manitoba motorists face an increase of or thousands of others will see their annual registration rate Tri ple or even quadruple Over 1976 the new rates Range from a minimum of up 25 per cent from the 1976 minimum of to they take effect with the new registration begin Ning March the the first change in the fee Structure since were originally announced last april in pre Mier de schreyers ostensibly As a measure to conserve at that the also said the higher fees would add an estimated million to provincial coffers in a government spokesman said thursday an Examina Tion of motor vehicle records has indicated that about 80 per cent of Manitoba motorists will pay to More in 1977 to Register their as1 he anomalies in the fee Structure will pro vide some car owners with a slight fee although see registration Page 4 Rural Manitoba to get million a major development pro Gram for Rural aimed at substantially improving the incomes and life styles of farm has been signed by the Feder Al and provincial govern the new fou year pro which will primarily involve farm families Selling to Worth of agricultural products will Cost each level of government about despite its intention to pro vide on half of the funds for tote the Federal government has agreed to allow the Manitoba agriculture department to Fuby id according to the agree ment signed by Manitoba and the funds for the diversification part of the program Are intended to in crease the income of Farmers in designated areas by december of As the agreement said increased productivity by the Farmers through development of skills and knowl Edge in modern farm Man a g e m e n t should increase see Bubal Page 4 fill i Dollar rebates revealed Ottawa a grown corporation paid nearly million rebates to custom either depositing the Money into numbered Swiss Bank accounts or handing it Over in Cash in the commons was told a letter tabled in the House by prime minister Trudeau today shows that he was advised of the matter on March by former auditor general Maxwell a Swiss subsidiary of polymer a govern ment agreed to Bill certain european customers at inflated with the difference being remitted to the customers or their repro the former Audi to general As a result of this prac the customer is in a Posi Tion to reduce his tax liabilities in his own country and avoid his country foreign Exchange control where they the letter Henderson told the prime minister that the of tent to which the Crown corporation might be Contin gently liable for aiding and abetting such transactions largely of on whether the customers concerned Are apprehended by their respective National while it might be possible to defend the actions from a corporate he publicity surround any charges against a Crown corporation could have serious and consequences the Odd Fellows have a weighty about four years ago Odd Fellows grand Lodge of Manitoba received about 300 weigh Scales i a since then Treyve been unable to place photo by Gerry Cilins the until recently they were kept in but because of the Cost they were moved to the Odd Fellows 4025 Roblin Bou where they now stand or lie Dollar below Par new York Reuter the Canadian Dollar continued to fall sharply today in Light trading Here and heavy Selling on the Canadian mar dealers dealers in Canada said the Bank of Canada was support ing the Dollar which was quoted at cents from the opening the drop came As Banks reopened after the american thanksgiving holi on thursday the Canad an Dollar fell to parity with the the Canadian Dollar has dropped in value since these Parati St parti quebecois won Las weeks Quebec it fell to but Drew to Par the next Day and has since stayed at Par or inflation reduces saving nuclear agent fees changed after Surprise Sale to Korea v by Jeff free press correspondent Ottawa when atomic Energy of Canada first exclusive agent rights to a Tel Aviv company in the Crown corporation didst really believe South Korea would Ever buy a Candy nuclear reactor from by the time South Korea almost miraculous interest was put on paper in january of in the form of a com Mercial decl was already locked into a minimum 5 per cent commis Sion for a reactor the commission to a subsidiary of United development of Tel Aviv was confirmed by decl at that but a year in Early 1976 when the first Bill for arrived on the John Foster decl president desk of decl president John Foster and when decl chairman Boss Campbell decided to renegotiate the agents the estimated Price for the South korean reactor had jumped to More than Pri Marily due to As a very Little Money was saved for tax payers by As a result of the the Tel Aviv agent demanded that if decl wanted the commission dropped from a unaccountable 5 per cent to a one per cent fee plus accountable then the one per cent commission would have to be based on the higher 1976 Cost decl had to pay million in or one per cent of contract in addition to the maximum allowable in sex in the Tel Aviv agent got a Promise of up to another in Post Canada pension More compiled from dispatches Ottawa t maximum an Nual deductions from employee earnings for the Canada pension plan will be in creased in 1977 but the amount of Money some peo ple pay into the Federal unemployment insurance pro Gram will be the top pension plan limit will be next up from this the fed eral Revenue department employers will pay up to for each employee in the plan and self employed contributors will pay a top of manpower minister Jack Bud Cullen said unemployment insurance payments will he nine per cent less As of the reduction to Talling Cullen made the announcement As one of three measures the government is taking to Cut the other two Are Mil lion Worth of make work pro three quarters of it goes to the local initiatives program lip and the rest to a new program called the Federal Ljubo intensive projects the Federal government has announced plans to pump million Winter into Job creating projects see nuclear Page 4 see f bks on Page 4 the program Fucai been into three major each with its own Are about farm with guaranteed manage ment assistance and various conversion Grant to Quali fied f about Tomol for Fawn Wajter which wiil mainly Ift Olve the pm sower Sion of incentive Grants to Tow water and sew systems Nui Tumi intr Olaf Ottawa to consider addicts disabled new alcoholic rehabilitation plan Likely free Piess Ottawa a new Federal push to and drug addicts is signalled a draft social services that Ottawa Nas Tew review we tee for tip past according to a Federal so a and 9 provincial Agency Nas estimated treat one in is adults drinks at a dangerous extent of time drug addition problem is Tardor to pin Down Becaj Jse of wide variety of drugs a addicts and Alcott pics Are to be defined As disabled per along with physically or meat atty impaired i Dividu in Aew Federal social ser vices the Decu dict tens Normal daily health and welfare min ister Marc m recent months Nas promised new of alcohol and drug social service agencies in family care the Aew social services legislation is intended to replace tree a facial services in Kif will m As Well As pc few fir tin bled a team of Federal headed by Sist ant Deputy via Osier far Sor Najaf Lynnl dry tit Federal legislation was fives the go ate Abby Thi at f ederal province 1 f a r e Westing to Ottawa Only of version by and past weets to re the latest Federal be Arad the Curt eat of assistance v ;