Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 22, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Inquiry Assurance to Coit Troy ramp use social insurance As id system Ottawa up the social in suf Nice number has developed into an identification card the ramp considers vital to its Distant commissioner Henry Jen sen maintained he urged Royal commission into ramp wrongdoing to mend that the Federal police Force be Given free Access to social Ance the unemployment insurance commission last after 36 Cut hemp Access to its files until the Royal commission decides on the Lester pearsons Assurance to parliament in 1964 that the social insurance registration system would never be turned into a police id system was recalled by Royal commissioner Guy he asked whether Jensen was aware of pearsons then Liberal prime Jensen had never heard of he said he would have to study Gilbert observed that Jensens testimony was in some contrast with the late prime ministers we dont have an id in directly or Gilbert replied but this the social insurance number has evolved into pearsons Assurance came after opposition led by John die expressed concern that the social insurance files would be opened to the but they soon the Royal commission had and the ramp were using them to investigate not Only my crime but Public interest eases such As missing the ramp in ims was Given direct Access to social insurance data stored in a computer by the unemployment insurance com a Man in his runs the ramps big lower main land division from he led the forces commercial crime Section from 1967 to As an assistant he is two ranks from the top ramp he was among the few mounties not to testify under Protection of the Canada evidence act since the Royal commission began Public hearings last the Protection Means their Testi monies cant be used against them in future he is the first witness the inquiry has called on the relationship be tween the ramp and the unemployment insurance memos dating Back to 1942 show that the ramp and the commission were always wary of the relation ship because of confidentiality pro visions in the unemployment insurance Law and later the social insurance in an ramp internal memo said an allowing ramp to gain to such could probably be made Only under very special to As prime minister Pear son assured parliament that the social insurance cards would not Tutu into police id an ramp Deputy commissioner said in a secret memo to divisional com Manders that the minister of jus Tice has been assured by the ramp commissioner that we have no intention of seeking a Cess to this confidential but by the unemployment insurance commission had Given the ramp a telex number giving mounties direct Access to such data in the commission Jensen testified that by 700 to 800 accredited police forces with Access to an ramp computer also had Access to such foreign agencies like the Fri in the United states and an International police information brokerage based in also had Access through the ramp to unemployment insurance and so Cial insurance data Given govern ment by individual Royal commission counsel Tony Kelly of Toronto said his Relew of ramp files indicated that a num Ber of requests for such data came through with no reason he mid found 648 requests from june to july Jensen said Many of these quests May have involved investigations of unemployment insurance fraud rather than of other crimes or of Public interest cases rang ing from National Security cases to missing Jensen produced a total of 388 excluding those dealing strictly with unemployment insure from 1974 to the pres he said there has also been during this period one request from four from unspecified for eign and 27 from police other than the ramp in at the request of Justice David the commis Sion Kelly and Jensen agreed to go into the files again to clarify the the request came after Jensen said his figures we rent asked again whether the ramp at Headquarters demanded a specific reason when such data was Jensen said that if the re quest came from a police there must be a Good he said it would Only have harmed relations with other forces if the ramp had asked Why they wanted such of the ramp had thought there was a Legal it would have referred the matter to a solicitor general and asked him to have the Law when did by be come aware there was a Legal problem Gilbert asked about 10 Days i How Jensen said the fact that he was asked to represent the ramp before the inquiry alerted you still believe theres nothing illegal in it Gilbert Jensen said the ramp is going to Challenge the unemployment insurance commissions View on a Justice department opinion that giving confidential data to police is Allan representing solicit to general Jeanjacques Blais be fore the interjected that questions Are being asked but he didst want Jensen to think a Bat the was in sure that the musical ride wont be involved with Justice Mcdonald up photo Rick a Blind cd radio uses a laser Cane costing the Cane was bought for him after 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pipeline were grossly opt in keeping with such Industry beliefs As the As sumption that Early realistic Cost estimates might cause rejection of the in analysing reasons for the Cost Gao placed heavy emphasis on its View that not enough research was done on the individual problems to be encountered at specific largely because contractors kept being surprised by additional work required at specific Gao the Man hour of work needed to Complete the project totalled million instead of the planned among unexpected and unbudgeted surprises was the need to drive Rock bolts into unstable slopes near the pipeline Gao also questioned the pipeline builders labor prac saying that often More than 80 have been costly and inefficient since Quality of work Falls markedly after such sustained and the Gao accused the pipeline builders of giving too Little planning attention to environmental resulting in disruptions when government inspectors insisted on measures to safeguard the in other major Gao said future Arctic projects should have a continuing government audit to protect the consumer against unnecessary costs and govern ment approval of projects should depend on detailed plans for management and budget the Alyeska pipeline service sharply disagreed with the Gao saying the pipeline building performed More than adequate reconstruction research and were forced into unnecessary environmental in Aley Eskas the lessons to be Learned from the Oil pipeline experience Are somewhat different than the Gao the Alyeska View was put most sharply in a speech last year by chairman who told a Law Angeles audience that throughout the project the builders were continually burdened by new and changing government to meet bureaucrats he the builders had to do such things As Plant million Willow cuttings so that Moose and Caribou would think they Are in Natu ral surroundings near the pipeline in the same areas where we were earlier required considerable expense to open up sizeable vistas under the 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