Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 12, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press wednesday july 13 second Only to Jusi infield Canada near top in creating work despite jobless rate Ottawa up despite an 8.6-per-cent unemployment rate the highest in the Industrial world this country ranks next to the top in its rate of creating new jobs. Preliminary figures issued tuesday by statistics Canada indicate Job creation Sec Ond Only to the . And prospects for this year at Best in recent history. However the economic Council of Canada and the conference Board in Canada two research organizations both have said unemployment is expected to re main at its present rate or Worsen by the end of the year. In the first half of this year More than new jobs were established. Inter National figures Are sketchy but already it is Clear the growth of jobs in Canada will outstrip that of most Western nations. Statistics compiled by the Paris based organization for economic co operation and development for the first Quarter of 1978 indicate can Ada s 0.9-per-cent increase in total employment was comfortably above those of All other members of the inter National body except the . The organization is com posed of government repro Schreyer says jobless rate Here the worst for decades figures released by statistics Canada tuesday show Manitoba s unemployment rate is the worst it has been for decades opposition Leader de Schreyer told the legis lature tuesday. If the current employment situation is the Best the province can Muster As it moves into its prime season Schreyer said it s Likely the situation will Only get worse As fall and Winter approach. He made the comments after finance min ister Donald Grain told the House figures released in Ottawa showed Manitoba s actual unemployment rate went Down from 6.2 per cent in May to 5.5 per cent in june. The number of unemployed decreased from in May to in june Craik said. He noted Manitoba s unemployment rate continues to be the third lowest in Canada. The total number of people employment in Manitoba in june was he said adding on a year Over year basis the num Ber of Manitoban with jobs in june 1978, was up Over june 1977, according to actual Schreyer commented that in the Early and mid-1970s the number of jobs increased by to from one year to the next. This year s figures should be cause for no complacency he said adding the government should reconsider its Job creation policies. Leonard Evans later asked if the government planned any special employment programs to help the Young people who Are unemployed. Senta Tives from each of its member nations the West Ern industrialized countries and Japan. For the same period the United states had a 1.1-per cent growth rate Japan had 0.3 per cent West Germany had 0.1 per cent Italy had 0.6 per cent and Sweden had 0.2 per cent. Finance minister Jean Chretien told the commons shortly before the end of the last session of parliament we have created new jobs in the last year. I think that is a commendable he did not specify How much or what kind of improvement is but statistics Canada estimated in a recent report that Job creation would have to be maintained near its present level until 1980 merely to keep the unemployment rate from going higher. The report offered what it termed three exploratory calculations relating employment and Job creation in the next few years. Emphasizing that these were Nei ther predictions nor prescriptions the report said to keep unemployment in the eight Peir cent Range until 1980, Canada would need to create Between 000 and new jobs each year. For unemployment to drop to. Seven per cent by 1980, average annual Job creation would have to be Between and annually. To reduce unemployment to per cent 0.8 per cent higher than the current unemployment rate in the United states would have to be Between and jobs created a year. Finance officials say there Are two major forces which make it hard to create jobs As fast As Job seekers enter the Market Canada has the world s fastest growing labor Force. The Post War baby Boom was More pronounced than in any other nation the birth rate peaked at 3.94 children per woman in 1959 compared with the . Rate of 3.64. The Post War babies reached their Peak period for entering the labor Force in 1977. Demographic project ions show the influx now will decline steadily until the 1990s. More canadians scially women Choos ing to work than Ever before. In 1977 there were 41.9 per cent of All adult women working compared with about 35 per cent five years earlier. Pc restraint program denounced by Green nip front Bencher Sidney Green angrily denounced the much touted conservative restraint program As a farce and a Snow Job tuesday claiming the provincial payroll has swollen by More than 100 employees since the Lyon government took office last. October. Green Inkster told the legislature a recent Statis tics Canada report on provincial government employment says Manitoba had civil servants in March compared to Only 14, 090 at the same time last year an increase of 102 employees. It shows 100 More civil servants under the conservatives than the former nip administration had last he insisted. The opposition critic demanded an explanation from labor minister Norma Price on the Federal Agency s Fig ures in View of the allegations or suggestions of great reductions in the civil service by the conservatives. Price the minister responsible for the civil service com Mission said she would investigate the matter. Outside the House Green said the report indicates that this whole so called restraint program is a Snow Job. If any positions have been Cut they be been More than replaced by the Uruski proposes delay of controversial Bill by Robert Willaard Bill Uruski nip St. George tuesday proposed to delay by six months second Reading approval in principle of a controversial Bill that would provide Public funds for private schools of up to per student. If successful the motion will effectively kill Bill 57 which if enacted will provide about million in Public funds for private schools in the 1978-79 school year. Under current so called shared services in Public funds was spent on private schools in the 1977-78 year. Private school enrolment in Manitoba is about Uruski and other nip Las criticized the Legisla Tion saying it is one step closer to full fledged funding of private education in Manitoba by the Public purse. Once enacted the legislation will cause a proliferation of Small private schools throughout the province waiting for government support said Russ doom nip Mercier says fears by women unfounded attorney general Gerry Mercier said tuesday he believes Rural women s fears that Manitoba s revised family Law legislation would deprive them of their Dower rights on the farm Homestead Are groundless. Mercier made the comment to reporters after the question had been raised for the second time in two Days during Public hearings by a committee of the legislature into the conserva Tive government s revision of the new democratic party government s marital property and family maintenance legislation. The proposed new legislation defines a farm Home As the House and the land immediately surrounding it. While the Dower act defines the Homestead As the House and 320 acres of land. Mercier explained that the Dower act provides that the person in whose name the Homestead is held can t sell mortgage or assign the farm Home and 320 acres without the consent of the other spouse. That Dower right in t lost even though the proposed new marital property legislation defines the Rural marital Home in a More limited Way and classifying Mucic of the acres referred to in the Dower act As a commercial asset be explained. The proposed new family Law legislation presumes an equal sharing of both marital and commercial assets and Only in cases of Clear inequity would flirt equal sharing be varied by the court be said. The sharing of Bath marital and commercial assets would apply Only when a marriage Breaks he under the legislation. _ in the event of marriage breakdown the value of assets is calculated and decisions Are nude As to the disposition Between spouses. On the Date of Papfi Callow shove be Wade for the division of property Mercier said. 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