Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 11, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Chafik critical of soviet stand on Issue of Basic human rights Norman minister of state for has criticized soviet and East european countries for their reluctance to discuss the Issue of Basic human rights at the conference on Security and cooperation in held in speaking at a Public forum on multiculturalism sponsored by the citizenship Council of Friday Chafik said while the Western countries zeroed in on the question of human the soviet Union and Eastern european countries with the result being an unsatisfactory final the Belgrade conference which began in october was reviewing the implementation of the final act reached Between the 35 countries that were signatories at the con Ference held in Fin in Chafik said the Belgrade conference was both a fail ure and a while discussions on the main Issue of human rights and detente were disappoint it was the first time the nations off the world looked upon the application of human rights in other coun he we have no alternative but to carry on in that form for the next three to work on and Zero in on the Norm Chafik shortfalls of other Chafik he said he was encouraged to note that soviet and East european countries dont want to face the world criticism on the Issue of human rights they have faced in the last hopefully we will effectively achieve a greater de Gree of Freedom in that part of the Chafik Chafik called on All canadians to work towards a Multi cultural society in Canada based on the ethics of human rights and if a Rich nation of 20 Mil lion people with two official languages All the cultures of the pull it then this coutry is going to and the world is going to if we As one nation cant see the through the difficult then this whole world will collapse like a deck of said the main question is whether the nations of the world can live in har forum on Unity fails to gain much enthusiasm from students by Cecil Rosner Secretary of state John Roberts ran into a mixture of hostility and apathy from students at the University of Manitoba Friday As he spoke on the Federal governments attitude to National students grilled the Federal Cabinet minister on the governments actions permit Ting ramp to open mail and increase its refusal to hand documents Over to the Keable commission and its inaccessibility to Western Canadian View Roberts gave Brief replies to the questions and stayed at the sparsely at tended which was scheduled to last for two for about 40 during the the last in a series of five at the a group of Marx is Leninist students handed out leaflets charging that none of the invited speakers stood for genuine Unity in Canada or for the National and social emancipation of they said it was a farce for Roberts to talk about National Unity and Canadas cultural heritage while the state imports imperialist culture into can Ada through Csc television and other the statement said the forum was organized to give speakers a platform to pro Mote the Unity fraud of Trudeau and the Independence fraud of Rene lives but what the Trudeau government really stands for is the continued subjugation of the people of Quebec by Force of Roberts told students that Many people dont clearly understand the Liberal party official languages adding that some Quay pleads for Unity Portage la Prairie up Federal Revenue minister Joe Guay put Forward an impassioned plea Canadian Unity in a visit Friday to Portage collegiate at a news conference Fol lowing a discussion with Stu who represents the Winnipeg area Riding of was moved to tears As he tried to relate the of Quebe cers toward Quebe cers have been there a Long he we the Federal govern ment want to give them an if they come out that they will be under Guay said that in his re cent visits to he found that people in Quebec Are More concerned with us than we Are with have a vested interest in misunderstanding the poli he said the policy strove to guarantee language rights to canadians without shoving either English or French Down anyone the government wants to entrench Peoples Freedom to choose their language of Edu cation in the he Roberts replied to student criticism by defending the governments refusal to hand some documents Over to the Keable commission in the interests of National be and he said that while measures such As opening of private mail May go against the Grain of Public they were necessary in the kind of world we live in reply to one student who said the Federal government Doest give a Damn about Roberts said the Lack of Liberal maps from the Prairies often gives peo ple Here a distorted picture of the the lines of communication with the government would be better if there were More regional representation in the com he m Early Bird special i your own Little nest by popular demand this offer held Over until March 14th one of our most popular this Beautiful Home will be available for summer living in these Fine areas Lakeside Meadows Transcona 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of Multi Chafik said he discussed the plight of dissidents in the Ukraine and Baltic states and he hoped something positive would come out of he said he asked the so Viet ambassador Why his country of More than 200 million people is afraid of releasing a few Hundred Disi surely its not going to destroy the Economy to let them out in to a free said the soviet ambassador Tena Tilley accepted plans for a Low level meeting to study individual cases involving dissidents in that he the Maples 71 Manila 6331078 Mission gardens 3 Rte Uto 2942273 All season 143 regatta Ginger Wood 2238 Burrows 51 Stephanie 6692 an invitation from an opposition member of the Manitoba legislature to chairmen of the Manitoba govern ments task Force review teams to fully discuss their recommendations with the nip caucus and others on monday has been turned the reports Are still on a confidential Conrad task Force co chair said he minister without portfolio Sidney spi the Othet task Force who was out of the City would Contact Ben Hanuschak rows to explain the absence of the seven review team in letters to the review team dated Hanuschak noted one of the chairmen had publicly disclosed and commented on some of the recommend and argued this re moved the cloak of confidentiality from your Delibera because of this and the Impact the task Force recommendations Are expected to have on proceedings of the which begin next Hanuschak went on 1 request that you attend on March at 10 Oclock in Forenoon in room legislative building the nip caucus room to meet with me and with other members of my caucus who May wish to at tend and with others whom we May and to bring with you All relevant Docu ments and in order that we May have a full Dis Cussion of 1 those recommendations already publicly 2 the remaining 120 or so recommendations contained in the said 3 All recommendations in All other reports that you will be this meeting will continue Day to Day until we shall have completed our Hanuschak Frederick 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