Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 7, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Civil servants Bias fed for failure to co operate agencies need More Power to help lawbreakers Ottawa up a gov or aleut study uyt private Aid Volun Teer agencies need More Power Aid authority to help people who get into trouble with the Law. The a Page made Public tuesday says non government agencies such the John Howard and Elizabeth Fry societies need More encouragement Coop ration and Money from led a private agendas and All the report said Many vol Cieus of civil servants and that Middle level civil ser vants have been misting at tempts by their to establish greater co opera Tion with non government meats. The study prepared by a five member group beaded by judge Robert Sauve of president of the Quebec workmen s compensation Board masted mid dle level civil servants for refusing to co operate with organizations engaged in counselling crime Preven Tion parole supervision and after care service to sex convicts. The group set up to study the role of the private sector in criminal Justice was appointed by Federal and provincial Justice ministers a year ago to investigate the it said Many Volunteer agencies relying on govern hmm a few dam hit hard by con timing Federal and provincial spending restraint programs. The group offered 27 recommendations including an in month freeze on All staff positions in govern ment criminal hiring ser vices and in All private Agen cies while new financing a negotiation of an agree ment Between governments and private agencies on Divi Sion of responsibilities with Ottawa and the provinces formally committing them selves to the principle of encouraging greater use of non government groups in criminal Justice. Government retention of responsibility fur ers in custody Law enforce ment and prosecution. Non government Olga no Patlon Assumption of responsibility to organize communities to develop crime prevention programs. Formation of an inde pendent National association to Analyse criminal Justice policy. The group held hearings across the country and said co operation among Volun Teer groups and Between groups and governments was so scant the meetings brought some agencies to Gether for he first time. Although the study was or dered by both Levels of government the group faced considerable reluctance on the part of some senior government managers to Coop More than one civil ser vant considered the outside pressure groups As a bother some the report said. Some civil servants apparently resisted the investigation Nan lao Injety feared to would Lead to a loss of Power the report said. For their part Many volunteers were suspicious and resentful. The group was unable to determine Bow much Money All Levels of government in Vest in private agencies involved in criminal Justice work but said it appeared to be a Small fraction of total spending on Justice. Many Volunteer organisations face serious financial problems and need a guarantee of continuing minimum Levels of government support the group said. The group said crime prevention programs and pro Grams for helping sex convicts started under opportunities for youth and other Federal plans were Success Ful hit the financing did not last Long enough to provide continuing help. The group also said there was a Lack of adequate help programs for the increasing number of women who Are getting into to Uuie with the Law. With such a Low priority on women s services apparent in sane governments the task Force members won Der if the Justice system is not too mate dominated and the report said. The study called on governments to find ways of involving More volunteers i crime prevention and other criminal Justice activities. Senior policy makers in and out of government appear committed to this goal but resistance comes from their Middle managers or from professionals whose profess onal existence is the group noted a dangerous dependence by individuals to let the government solve certain kinds of human problems. We Are prone to Dele Gate our dirty the group said. The criminal Justice ser vices have become the dumping ground of too Many problems that Are More pro Perly the responsibility of if members of the group included Morris Bartlett pro Fessor of social work at me Morial University St. Johns Gloria George president of the native Council of Canada Ontario social worker Keith Couse and Frank Miller former parole Board member. Cows in Only 7 minutes car chief fears controls will straitjacket Crown corporations Ottawa up Robert Bandeen president of Cana Dian National railways says he fears recent Federal proposals to tighten control Over publicly owned companies would put Crown corporations into a i Bandeen said in an inter View that in is a Commer Cial operation and should be free to adjust to changes in the Economy. Crown corporations should have Strong boards of directors to keep an Eye on spend ing by corporation executives and prevent poor in vestments the in president said. He agreed that atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. Decl apparently had this Freedom when it entered controversial negotiations on nuclear reactors with Argentina and Korea. He said he does not know much about the decl situation which led to a com Mons committee inquiry. Judge claims Ottawa blocks shows inquiry Edmonton up a judicial inquiry into operations of Royal american shows resumed tuesday after a two month recess but or. Justice James la Craft the inquiry commissioner said a Federal procedural Roadblock May be virtually fatal to the commission s effectiveness. The inquiry sat Only until mid morning before adjourning to today. Commission lawyer Ron Burger said proceedings should be held up again until All relevant material is produced by Ottawa. The evidence in particular that the commission deems essential relates to a secret agreement that exists Between the ramp and the National Revenue department. Ivan Whitehall lawyer for the two Federal depart ments told the inquiry that Ottawa would not produce 10 flies relating to this agreement which Berger claims he needs. Whitehall contends that the material which is Rele vant from those files already has been produced and that because the documents concern Federal policy an agreement Between two departments the Provin Cial inquiry has no constitutional authority to compel production. Berger and la Craft appearing perturbed both re minded Whitehall that the Federal government had agreed to cooperate fully with the inquiry. La Craft said that according to the evidence he has seen officers of the National Revenue department had seized documents Token during a july 1975, police raid on Royal american shows. At the time Florida based outfit was the Midway for the annual Klondike Days exhibition. The documents had been Token to ramp Headquarters from Edmonton City police then transported to Saskatchewan and of the evidence came into la Craft said. There was a police raid on Royal american shows at Regina following the one in Edmonton. A Federal policy paper announced aug. 18, recommended increased govern ment control Over budgets of Crown corporations. It also said that corporations like in should comply with government directions of a general corporations would have to submit detailed capital budgets for such items As equipment and would need Cabinet approval for any changes in these budgets. You can t argue with their intentions there have to be controls Over finances of Crown Corpora Bandeen said. I Don t think that removing some of the Powers of the Board of directors and turn ing them Over to the Cabinet or other bodies will create the degree of control that is a better step might be to increase the authority of the directors and hold them responsible for the operation of the corporation be said. The government policy Deve loped after More than three years of work would seriously reduce the Powers of boards of directors. I guess what i fear More is that turning some of these to the Cabinet and then through the Cabinet to the bureaucrats or the senior officials would tend to put corporations into a Stra Tyack in could outline with certainty its spending plans for several years ahead if the government could forecast with certainty what would happen in the Economy. In should have the free Dom to adjust its budget to meet changing conditions Bandeen said. We Are a commercial of he said. It was not possible to pre pare the detailed capital budgets anticipated in the government policy paper it could Lead to wrong in the in president said he has no objection to careful control of Crown corporation spending. But the policy proposal would produce a rigidity that May be counter product the government has announced plans to introduce a Crown corporations Bill in parliament this fall. The policy paper was re leased in August to allow time for comment by the Crown corporations Audi Tor general j. J. 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