Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 7, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free jims Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published six Days a week at 300 Canton Winnipeg r3c 3c by f p publications Western limited Telephone 9439331 second class mail registration number 0286 Donald Nicol acting publisher r s Malone chairman Peteh Mclintock editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Maurice Western Ottawa editor r h Shelford president general manager forum an improvised Cabinet the idea of an opposition Shadow Cabinet is British and works Well at enabling governments to change at blinding Margaret victorious in the recent required Only a few hours to Complete her Cabinet list since the new ministers in served apprenticeships and succeeded naturally to their roles in Canadian parties have imported the idea As the prime minister demonstrated on they have not been Able to endow it with much for this with its geographical is partly but the larger is the failure of the parties to overcome regional obstacles and to achieve satisfactorily National with the conservatives virtually barred from Clark was forced to improvise and one improvisation obviously led to most of those chosen were expected to serve in the new Cabinet but not in the posts among the shadows who did materialize were Walter Baker As president of the privy Council government House Allan Mckinnon As defence John Crosbie at finance and Don Mazankowski at but they were the Many More were diverted to destinations not foreshadowed by their work on the opposition Ray Hnatyshyn May Well have been surprised to find himself Energy minister and John erasers appointment or sen tence to the Post office was in no ones Crystal the Quebec weakness has also caused Clark to make certain temporary arrangements while he continues his quest for acceptable French speaking quite unrelated responsibilities have been grouped in holding it is absurd that Walter Steersman for the minority government in the House of should have to concern himself with the problems of the Revenue depart Jacques Flynn is similarly burdened in the with the Justice department in his Elmer with regional expansion under one Wing has Central Mort Gage and housing under the even More elusive is the relationship Between the Post office and the both under Clark has carried Forward the lib eral arrangement owing something to necessity which linked the wheat Board with the problem with transport is that it is a sprawling department deep in difficult while Mazankowski is expected to be a Strong it might have been sensible to permit him to concentrate on after the new prime minister is not in the position of his predecessor he has at his disposal the services of Well qualified wheat men one of whom Frank Hamilton was for years chief com missioner of the Board of Grain but while Clark had More room for manoeuvre than the Cabinet lineup there can be no doubt that the chief constraints bearing upon him and driving him into these strange expedients originated in the Quebec As a result the new government is a very blurred reflection of the Shadow Cabinet of opposition there were of miscalculations due in part to the strained Clar Wagner Flora Macdonald May prove a Good Choice As external affairs minister but would certainly be better prepared now to Deal with various problems if she had been marked earlier for her present responsibilities and had played the Shadow role in the 30th encouraging mining without Public risk Manitoban should be Able to judge for themselves the effect of the differing philosophies concerning the taxation of mining companies in this at the same time opposition members were greeting the new legislation with promises to repeal the Law As soon As they were politically Able to do prospectors in Northern Manitoba were announcing increased exploration plans due entirely to the the prospectors did not even wait for the change to become once they were assured by the new government that there would be an end to what they termed compulsory government participation in the business of they went Back to the mining companies responded in the same two Manitoba pioneers in the mining Sherritt Gor Don mines and the Hudson Bay mining and smelting both increased their exploration activities in anticipation of the changed Sherri Tgordon doubled its exploration budget this and increased its exploration budget by 50 per opposition members will argue that this activity has resulted because the new Laws will prevent Manitoban from getting what the new democratic party considers a fair return from natural it is to decide whether the nip is More interested in the rate of return or the degree of state control of the Hugh who has worked As a geologist in Northern Manitoba for 29 and who is Vic president of the Manitoba and Saskatchewan prospectors and developers told the associations annual meeting in flin flon that the philosophy of the previous government was to take Over the mining the Industry reaction to this philosophy was typical of its attitude elsewhere in the it simply wound Down its operations in Manitoba and concentrated activities in those areas where it was not required to accept government As a the mines minister in the previous Sidney appeared to Welcome the departure of the and promised to replace it with government activity in the Green is now promising to reverse the new Law if he Ever becomes part of another provincial nip Manitoban should consider carefully whether they want the Law changed they have lived with the stagnation in the North that was produced by nip they have discovered that even the resources of government can be easily strained by the amount of risk capital required to find and develop new Manitoban May prefer that this risk capital be found from some source other than tax the new which is opposed so vigorously by the is to allow investors who want to risk their capital to do without having a big brother in the picture who can participate in Success and avoid private private investors Are particularly wary of any Law that requires them to accept government As a rather than a tax the new approach is to encourage private and to tax profits at a rate that does not discourage the previous administration appeared so dazzled by the Dollar value of mining profits that it could not see the risk involved either in monetary or development Collver goes Dick who has announced that he is stepping Down As Leader of the Saskatchewan progressive conservative is not a Man to go unnoticed whatever he Collver has to his that to be a political Leader is to be noticed in a Way that is not always since he became a provincial party Collver has been involved in several including one launched by a Branch of the government he was attempting to his political achievements have also been he became Leader of the conservative party in Saskatchewan when the party was virtually having disappeared during the Ross Thatcher Era when liberals and conservatives banded together under Liberal colors to defeat the first socialist provincial government in during his Collver United the opposition against the socialists under the conservative his candidates took seven seats in and last year the conservatives took to become the Only opposition party in the Saskatchewan last year it was the Liberal party that disappeared in that Colliers decision to give up the leadership is under considering the Cost to his personal life during his political he said he had been the subject of vindictive attacks directed against himself and members of his Fame describing some of the attacks As Collver said Only that his experience As a businessman had not prepared him for the political he urged other businessmen to become involved in politics so that the free Enterprise system can be this is Good politics is a rough and is often described As War without the unless business men such As Dick Collver Are willing to defend their which Are under constant then their opponents will be after Sinando behalf Dick Collver is Only 18 months Short of what Many politicians describe As being the optimum time to remain politically by stepping Down he is giving his successor time to pick up the leadership and carry it an african Opportunity by Allen Pizzey special to the free press the Black government installed by the april elections in Rhodesia is Able to Lish Southern Africa has the potential to form a common Market with enormous economic Bishop Abel the new prime has said that he favors such an idea and is not averse to relations with White ruled South Africa to bring it my policy is to be pragmatic and our aim is to have every stomach this would make Independence mean the Bishop of this would mean continued relations with South Africa and i Hope no one will be too emotional to disregard the realities of our economic relations with South he maligned Malawi Bishop Muzorewa pointedly mentioned Malawi much maligned for Trade and cultural links with South Africa which is far More prosperous for its policies than Are its immediate neighbors and Zambia and Tan in fact Zambia is buying Maize from Malawi this Ndabaningi Leader of the largest opposition party in Rhode has also indicated his approval of an economic web in the White rhodesian the most productive in the third and whose enterprises have flourished because of the need to get around International would undoubtedly Welcome the Chance to gain Access to the markets of their Black and South which already has Trade deals with Black Africa running into millions of has always claimed it should be considered by the rest of the continent in relation to what it can offer economically rather than on the basis of its internal race the beginnings of a Southern african economic partnership already exist to a limited Rhodesia and South Africa have close and probably use Merable the impoverished states of Botswana and Swaziland Are linked with South Africa in the Rand customs whereby they All share in the benefits of imports and exports and have their currencies based on the South african Rand and its value through landlocked and totally dependent on South Africa for their imports and the three countries will sup port any move which strengthens their its marxist philosophy has open and growing Trade links with South a new agreement for increased rail traffic Between the two was recently Mozambique policymakers answer questions about their dealing with Pretoria with the pragmatic dictum that their people must be develop ment seeded up and the cheapest and closest source of Supply for Many necessities is South the countries involved All share the same Type of rail system and the rail and Road links Are improving rapidly among the port facilities of Mozambique and South Africa Are the and ones available to the landlocked members of the potential common and the main monetary link already existent among them is potentially the most lucrative practice deplored the practice is deplored by the Black but is unlikely to Stop altogether for some especially with the Price of Gold expected to hit an ounce some time this South african mining is intensifying and old mines Are being reopened to take advantage of skyrocketing a Black economics professor at the University of Rhodesia said of the idea of setting aside political considerations for a Southern Africa common mar Ket the Mutual benefits for All countries in Southern Africa of opening up Trade Are Way above the the country with the most to and which has the Stark possibility of losing altogether from any economic alignment is it too is part of the same rail and Road Grid As the rest of the but bad blood be tween zambian president Kenneth Kaunda and Bishop Muzorewa could mean the exclusion of Ernest minister of finance Here and second Vic president of Bishop Muzorewa United african National Council recently warned Zambia that if it continued to support anti rhodesian guerrillas one Day our soldiers will be dancing in Cairo right in the heart of the animosity of both the Muzorewa and Sithole groups toward Zambia stems from president Kaunas sup port of patriotic front guerrilla Alli Ance Leader Joshua the Zam Bian Leader virtually evicted both the Banc and sit holes faction of the Zimbabwe african National Union Anu from his country several years Maize from Rhodesia that decision recently came Back to haunt Zambia when it was forced to ask for Maize from informed sources Here said former Premier Ian Smith and his advisers favored sales to Zambia in Exchange for a possible diplomatic quid pro quo in the form of pressure on the Nkomo people to ease off the Bush the sources Bishop Muzorewa and Sithole used their positions on the ruling executive coun cil of the reelection transitional government to veto the idea with the attitude of let the zambians there is Little in the recent history of Africa to suggest that the new govern ment Here will be easily swayed from such decisions in Emer gent Africa Are often made More basis of political principle than economic that consideration often Only comes to the fore when it is absolutely that attitude of could also militate against the formation of an economic Community cutting across the disparate political lines of the coun tries of this but with the ties already there the common Market idea must be considered a Strong possibility in the Allen Pizzey in a Canadian Fri writer living in that crossing in an article by Paul the Law is an ass May 1979 Sullivan appears to be beating the drum for Alderman Joe Zuken in his fight against closing the main Street Portage Avenue intersection to Pedes he concludes by telling us that the Manitoba human commission is looking at the whole question and May decide to Lodge a formal complaint against Council and the developers for violating human it is Nice to see this kind of statement appearing in it reassures us that Joe Zuken slapstick humor is alive and Well in i am one of the Many who will drive past this intersection 50 times for each time i walk across not having to contend with pedestrians is a real As for my passages on if i really wish to avoid going All i have to do is walk a Block in any direction and Cross with the i will take the concourse thank the Side splitter of that the Manitoba human rights commission is spending time on this but they May be working with our tourist Industry in if crossing that inter Section is declared a human the International association of Jay walk ers is bound to consider Winnipeg As its new our human rights commissioners seem to be having Trou ble differentiating Between a human right and a vested All Over the fluoridation of Public water sup plies is being and because it infringes upon individual does this cause our human rights commissioners to speak out against the practice in Manitoba the silence is the final of is that we Are paying Dutton Winnipeg Happy 96th birthday Tekla Winnipeg born Western june letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from the authors name will be and All letters Are subject to intriguing footnote this year Marks the 60th anniversary of the Winnipeg general Al though a great Deal of research has been done on this event one aspect remains generally in 1975 the journal of the Canadian aviation historical society ran an Arti Cle on the Canadian jn4 aircraft win according to telegrams preserved in Ottawa the general officer command general used the plane for reconnaissance and its moral a late was Evi Dently and other ranks from militia served As this must surely be a unique use of an aircraft in i would very much like to hear from anyone who saw this plane supposedly even sniped at from Elmwood or knows anything of the Pilot or i would like to add any of these fur ther details to the fascinating Story by a journal Larsh member 133 Cedar Street 10 l3v 2c8 in Japan inasmuch As prime minister Clark did not know that they speak Spanish in i do Hope that when he goes to Japan this month someone will have advised him that in Japan they speak Frank Mercer family Law is it free press subtlety or Mere coincidence that part of the May 29 article on proposed amendments to our family maintenance act was right beneath one on the Ontario system either Way the Eastern connection gives one the main article reports that the Manitoba government wants to set up a Central registry similar to one operating in Ontario for the past couple of is this a Good Model the other article says that 19771978 show Ontario men owed their wives and children up More than million from the previous fiscal year and expected to increase at least another million this How successful is their Law if unpaid maintenance is rising 20 per cent per year obviously their minister of Community and social services is not very for he says those who do not pay child support should be locked up in the would look Good for some of these obviously a Central registry and greater enforcement Powers Are need but can we not either design our own Laws or copy them from better sources some of the most objection Able features of the tory family Law have already been imported from on surely it is time that both our Laws and our marriages were truly made in Murray Smith Winnipeg Gas savings in View of rising Gas prices and the possible threat of Gas per haps the City should synchronize traffic 1 am sure everyone knows that a car going 50 will use much less fuel if it moves steadily than if it has to Stop for Wishart Winnipeg our new pm Charles Joseph Clark deserves the respect and nothing nothing of the outvoted the nip and the people of a divided this division has been due to an antagonistic out of tune for too Many a conservative government not unlike the Lyon provincial administration in Manitoba will need the patience and support of unit conscious in All to a new Era in Canadian history has begun Era of Charles Joseph progressive conservative prime the Champion of and a stable a United Cana congratulations to All those voters who helped in the defeat of Pierre Elliott Lewadnyj Winnipeg prime minister Clark ;