Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 8, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Winnipeg Fate Junt 17 Urban Institute presents criticisms of rent the Manitoba governments plans for rent decontrol fail to recognize and Deal effectively with several major the Institute of Urban studies of the University of Winnipeg said in a Brief issued wednes the announced allowable increases seem to have been formed in an informational the Brief it suggests the government should have paid More attention to a report on the Impact of rent controls prepared by its own rent review the Brief emphasizes the decontrol dont recognize the needs of the Low income and adding they will Only work for those persons who Are Well aware of their have a Large selection of alternative accommodation and have time to devote to the under plans announced in rent controls will be removed 1 for units outside Winnipeg and bran units first occupied after units where the rent is a month or More and units which Are voluntarily vacated by the tenant after in Mcgill announced that rent on units which remain under controls would be allowed to increase by six per cent in the year beginning 1 if the landlord pays both heating and Domestic Power used Tor cooking and air landlords who paid either the heating or electricity but not both would be allowed to raise the rent by per cent after 1 while landlords who paid neither heating or electricity would Only be allowed a five per cent in its the Institute of Urban studies listed 10 problems with these among them were the allowable increase for landlords who pay for heat May be too Low in Light of increases in the Cost of the vacancy rate in older apartment blocks in Winnipeg is so Low that Many landlords can be expected to try to vacate and hence decontrol As Many units As the Low income families thit need refit control most will be Pisni Elfid by the principle of decontrol by voluntary vacancy because they Are highly putting the onus to complain Oft the tenant penal izes the Tow income tenant because he is lets Likely to have an Ait understanding of his rights and obligations and the time and Energy to spend exercising his housing needs of students in Winnipeg and bran Don wont be the Brief suggests that the voluntary vacancy Princi ple will mean Many students will be forced to live in de controlled units starting in decontrol is to be unit by whereas controls were building by there is no provision for communication Between the tent alonians office and the rent review the Brief suggests an Agency or inter Agency body be created to provide coordination if the two Are to remain separate the changes dont involve the off it review Agency in monitoring maintenance or helping residents to determine if rent increases Are excessive in Light of deeming maintenance Levels or increased code bylaw enforcement and changes in the occupancy and maintenance bylaws Are leading to serious reductions in the Supply of inner Low rental to alleviate this the Brief suggests some provision be made for the pass through of All costs or Low Cost Loans to landlords so that they can upgrade buildings instead of being forced to close the Brief the private Sec except through the filtering process and a Small amount of Low rental housing or Low Cost has not increased the Supply of Low income housing in numbers sufficient to meet the it suggests that a vigorous housing program be instituted immediately to increase the Supply of hous particularly Low some time required for the desired results Price rejects task Force study on equal pay principle by Debbie Sproat Force on the concept of equal Ture she believes in the Prin the problem in several equal pay for work of equal Manitoba labor minister pay for work of equal value is Ciple but feels a task Force the labor department value last she Norma Price said wednes needed at this int needed because the gov Day she Doest think a task Price told the Legisla Ern ment is already studying lilt Lauri Umpai value Laai one women Bureau published holding up an Orange co the second part of a study on Vered the Bureau is Protection sought for unsophisticated investors to to a Lipri for a maximum of one will not interfere with Deal consumer affairs ministered Mcgilt of Manitoba introduced legislation wednesday aimed at protecting unsophisticated investors from middlemen Selling highly speculative commodity futures contracts in introducing the commodity futures act for second Reading in the Mcgill said the Bill will pre vent people from Selling such contracts unless they Are members of a recognized commodity recognized he will be those now regu lated by the Federal govern ment in such As the Winnipeg commodity sex or the commodity futures trading commis Sion in the United under the new Mcgill said anyone convicted of contravening its provisions could be fined up to or jailed for a maximum of one a commodity futures con tract is defined in the Bill As a contract to or to accept and pay a Quan Tity of a specific commodity at a future Date and at a specific Mcgill said the legislation will not interfere with Deal ing Between investors and their brokers interested in legitimate trading in com he it will prevent inducements and direct solicitation by unregulated middlemen acting As now herein affordable Way to move up to Skaff Habu Many people would like to move up from conventional belted tires to the smoother ride and improved handling Given by radial our steel belted Mark v was too much tire for the kind of driving they we found a solution to the in the affordable radial its the Mark in a new radial in the Atlas Mark in is built with 2 Tough polyester body plies and 2 Glass the Atlas Mark in radial gives you better Cor nering ride and safety than conventional belted tires at a Price that makes it easier for you to move up to that Why we Call it the affordable suggested Reiml two or tire Type radial radial steel belted ii Bias from each 42 25 33 95 29 to each 5515 7347 50 steel Lett Radul its 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but it will require some time to bring about the desired re Price made the com ments while speaking on a private members Resolution proposed by Lloyd Axworthy Axworthy has said a task Force on the problem is Nec Essary because current equal pay legislation applies Only to men and women working at the same not to men and women doing similar kinds of he suggested an accountant and a child care worker might have equal amounts of train ing but the accountant would Likely be paid three times As much because it is a traditionally male the minister didst quarrel with the but didst give me any Hope this was a matter she was interested in Saul Cherniack Johns Cherniack said too Little research has been done on the principle of equal pay for work of equal the res he Doest say we should accept accept the it just says we should establish a task if the government rejects this Type of he it should also reconsider the 40hour work week and other legislation developed Over the Donald Orchard Pembina said the equal concept was admirable but suggested the free mar Ket will take care of the prob any task Force would have to make Many value judge ments and members would Likely end up chasing around in a Circle and never getting to the he Cherniack said evaluating different types of work int easy but added negotiations he had done for the United steelworkers of America had involved evaluation of the work of employees doing Dif Ferent criteria used included extent of technical the numbers of years it took to develop a the risk and the Job Parley raps pcs on family Law Bill by Mary Ann Fitzgerald Howard former nip criticized Manitoba conservative government wednes Day for ripping the guts out of the provinces family Law the result would be to return women to the status they had prior to 1977 when the nip government passed its marital property which would have ensured them equal sharing of family assets during a marriage and a half share of commercial assets on marriage Pawley told the he spoke during debate on the principle of the conservative governments new marital property with a companion family maintenance forms the family Law shortly after the conservatives took office last they suspended the two pieces of legislation left on the books by the nip administration for review and have now rewritten the two new Bills Are being piloted through the House by attorney general Gerry Pawley was particularly angered by the conserva Tive move to give the courts wide judicial discretion to vary the equal division of commercial assets on marriage the nip legislation allowed Only limited discretion to the courts to vary the 5050 sharing formula if it was shown to be grossly unfair or unconscionable having regard for any extraordinary financial or other he has ripped out the very guts of the legislation passed last june by ripping out the he is ensuring women will not have advanced in a greater Way than before the legislation passed in Pawley the conservative marital property he set out 10 circumstances which the courts could consider to vary the equal sharing of commercial they included one Catchall allowing variation if equal sharing would be inequitable having regard to circumstances the court deems its a Catchall clause to ensure the principle we started out to achieve in family Law will not be effected in practice through Pawley it lends itself to wide deviation restricted discretion is being replaced by unrestricted in this Only in exceptional cases will equal sharing be considered just by the although Pawley admitted in some instances women might receive More than half the commercial most were unlikely to do so because generally they dont initiate or participate in their husbands business Mercier asked Why Pawley was opposed to women receiving More than 50 per cent of commercial Pawley denied he had said that and under the nip legislation it would also have been possible for women to receive baptismal certificates not required in Bell contract a contract which Manitoba Telephone sys tem workers would have to sign if they Volunteer to join Bell Canada for a project in saudi Arabia Doest specifically ask them to produce birth or baptismal according to papers tabled in the Legisla Ture the which Bell Canada asks for in the contract Are the results of a medical Drivers and International the along with information about employees pay and working conditions were tabled by consumer affairs ministered Mcgill of Manitoba after Lloyd Axworthy Rouge last week warned that the provinces Telephone system might be implicated in discriminatory actions by cooperating in the recruitment of workers for a Bell Canada project to saudi at the Axworthy noted Bell Canada is being investigated by the Federal human rights rom Mtoto because of certain clauses in its contract with the Arab which might be he noted the admission by Bell officials in a radio interview that the contract with saudi Arabia included a clause saying the company had no present business relations with he noted the 40 per cent of an employees salary Bell would pay the Telephone system if any of us employees were neither Axworthy nor Saul Cherniack Johns who had also expressed concern had studied the documents wednes Day in the documents tabled by it said that in addition to their Telephone employees would receive a 20 per cent foreign service a 20 per cent compensation for working six Days a week in Stead of a hardship remuneration of a year if they were located in major cities in saudi Arabia or a year if they were sent outside those cities and a completion Bonus of 10 per cent of the Basic pay if they completed their which Are to extend for either one or two the employees could be exempt from Canadian income taxes on these ;