Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 15, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free june 1979 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published six Days a week at 300 Carlton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by f p publications Western limited Telephone 9439331 second class mail registration number 0286 Donald Nicol acting publisher r s one chairman Peter Mclintock editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Maurice Western Ottawa editor r h Shelford president general manager Britain bold budget Margaret thatchers new conservative government in Britain has found a bold answer to the Joe Clark problem of cutting income taxes without a punishing addition to the coverall deficit increasing taxes on s it is a solution that cannot be exactly duplicated in Canada the British conservatives have increased what is equivalent to Canadian retail sales a tax that is set at the not the level in the first budget of the British conservatives carries out a Campaign Promise on taxes the Basic rate of 33 per cent has Cut to 30 per cent and the top rate of tax on earned income has been sharply Cut to 60 per cent from 83 per but the Price that has been exacted is an almost 100 per cent increase in the British equivalent of the retail sales tax the so called value added tax was eight per cent on Many items now will be 15 per value added a feature of the european economic Community to which Britain can be applied on a sliding scale it is a useful fiscal under the previous labor this tax was not applied to such items As Public transport and childrens these exclusions remain in other such As hotel were taxed at eight per while luxury items were taxed at per now the difference in tax Between purchases for a hotel Roo night and a set of Silver has been the new 15percent rate is uniform on that is not part of the Basic the British conservatives argue that an adult can decide whether or not to stay in a hotel or to buy an extra suit of if the decision is to indulge in this discretionary then the penalty is a 15percent tax addition on the canadians planning to visit Britain should note that this Means tourists will be helping to pay for the British income tax accommodation will involve a 15percent contribution to the British Treasury each As will the Purchase of items not being taken canadians May also help to pay if they stay at Home since the value added tax is aimed at imports and not Canadian goods into Britain will be More expensive for the British the whole thrust of the first budget of sir Geoffrey Chancellor of the is to Gamble that tax cuts will the incentive of workers and businessmen to increase and exports so As to reverse the country economic controls on set at ten per cent per annul by the former will be removed completely in the Hope that this will produce new invest there Are gestures that owe More to politics than econom pensions will be increased and the labor governments policy of giving pensioners a Bonus at christmastime will be but most British pensioners feel exactly the same Way As Canadian pensioners they would rather have a pension with stable purchasing Power than extra pieces of paper that buy less and the conservatives Are Gam bling that they can eventually control inflation by lower taxation and less controls so that inflationary increases in spending Power will become less one of Britain serious economic problems is similar to Canadas overspending by the the conservatives plan to Cut what the British Call the Public sector borrowing the Money borrowed to finance state Bureau Cracy and so that More of the Gross National product can be diverted to the wealth business and in the before their Long Range policies can take the government is tightening credit by raising the Bank of England base lending rate to 14 from 12 per much of the rhetoric surrounding the new budget will have a familiar ring to there is a emphasis on fiscal restraint and on Public sector the Money Supply is to be much As the previous government was with the partial aim of squeezing out of the Economy Money that otherwise could finance inflationary wage the message to the powerful British unions is that taxes have been Cut to improve workers spending Power so that wage increases to be sought should be modified in that sir Geoffrey gave As his target an eventual reduction of the Basic rate of income tax to 25 per another consideration for Union negotiators at the bargaining in the Public where the government has More influence on wage Cash limits have been set that Are aimed at leading to economies of three per cent in manpower the political difficulty about the cuts in the top rates of tax on earned income is that unions May see this As a handout to overpaid soccer movie actors and company but brutal tax rates in Britain have Long been a disincentive to those who earn Only moderately above average As has been seen in Quebec penal income taxes on business executives set by an ant business government can sap their will to do their Best work and can drive them the British conservatives Are taking some political and economic but this with its major shift from tax on income to tax on does show that a new analysis and new solutions Are being the Pope and the poles Pope Johnpaul is trip to Poland was a magnificent with millions of poles coming out to Greet and few people can have been unmoved by the of the even now that it has it is difficult to assess what the practical and political consequences of it will the tour was a reminder of How deeply rooted religion remains in despite All the efforts of the communist party to eradicate it was also a unique one that would have been difficult to imagine even a few years it was the first time that a communist regime has offered such a platform to the Leader of the opposition in the Catholic Church is the opposition to the communist party and the response of the people to the Pope left no doubt that it is the stronger of the two in every Way except temporal it will have created some discomfort in the the Popes plea for religious Freedom and human and his direct references to religious oppression in Lithuania and Hungary cannot have been Welcome in by speaking not just to the poles but to All the Peoples of Eastern the Pope offered Hope and encouragement to oppressed christians throughout the so Viet Empire and it was no coincidence that at the same time the soviet Union began a Campaign to promote More aggressively its official atheism and criticized party officials for being lax and allowing religious feeling to most alarming to the soviet must have been the Popes remark that the state must understand its Mission to express the full sovereignty of the neither Poland nor any other nation of Eastern Europe has been truly Sovereign since they came under soviet Domina Tion at the end of the second world As recently As 1968 soviet tanks had to move into Czechoslovakia to crush the liberalization movement and any expression of nationalism in Eastern Europe is anathema to the Church has traditionally been the guardian of polish and the emotions expressed by the poles during the Popes visit were As much nationalistic As one pole commented before the visit that Poland was suffering from social and moral malaise then came John Paul ii and the nations spirits soared for a but there is a great Deal of discontent in the country aggravated by serious economic and if there is to be a hangover from the High feelings created by the it will be experienced most severely by the polish government and its soviet a very Fine distinction lawyers Are often Able to see distinctions quite invisible to those without Legal such is the Case when attorney Gerry Mercier says that while the arguments to the supreme court by both Quebec and Manitoba concerning the constitutional Validity Quebec language Law Are the the two provinces somehow hold different Legal Manitoba Legal Kerr sup Quebec right to pass its language presumably to bolster his own arguments when Manitoba language Law comes before the Mercier says that supporting Quebec right to pass the Law does not mean support for the Law it is difficult for anyone not trained in Law to see what Mercier is driving is he offering the impossible argument that it would be All right to pass a French Only Law in As Long As the Quebec Law did not diminish the rights of its English speaking citizens it is entirely possible that the members of the supreme court would be As interested in the explanation As Are the people of l table two an unacceptable Deal by Peter Fla Dekel up news service Quebec it is debatable whether Canadas premiers would Ever negotiate sovereignty association with que but it is obvious that no Premier could accept the terms of the Deal proposed by the parti quebecois at its convention earlier this the pm program on Sovereign Tyas Socia Tion entitled equal to equal and approved massively by the party rank and file is a unworkable and unjust proposition for English it is so full of holes that it just begs for criticism from political Lead ers outside pressure will mount now that the pm has defined what it Means by pressure will mount on the rest of Canada to a confrontation could occur at the annual premiers conference this August at which que becs Rene Levesque will be the pm document assumes that the Quebec after winning a referendum could negotiate without difficulty an economic association Between a Sovereign Quebec and designed to sugarcoat the Independence Pill Quebec would the pm program assumes Quebec could reach amicable agreement with the rest of Canada on How to carve up the nations the Complex issues at stake like How to share the National debt and How to Divide up Federal property like Post the Csc and air Canada Are simply glossed the pm program gives the Blind Assurance that the rest of Canada will agree to a new political arrangement a common Market and shared political institutions in which six million que Beers would have the same Politi Cal weight As 17 million the program Calls for the establish ment of joint Quebe Canada commis Sions to administer the Workings of the common each country would have one vote and decisions would be taken in cases of a High court comprising an equal number of judges from both countries would Rule in favor of either Quebec or All Quebe Canada institutions would function on the principle of parity be tween the two the Docu ment but it does not Promise Quebec would pay an equal share of the while Quebec would recoup All the taxes its residents now pay to it would conserve the same economic advantages it now has within the Cana Dian a Sovereign Quebec would Benefit from a common Market with Canada in which there would be free movement of capital and people As Well As a common external Tariff Protection Quebec would expect Western Canada to agree to maintain the current High level of Tariff Protection for que be made forcing westerners to pay higher prices for shoes and other consumer goods they could get cheaper from the or that Quebec would expect Canada to go along with such a Deal is hard to considering that a report commissioned by the parti quebecois admits Quebec would be dealing from a position of weakness in such Neotia the pcs own study states that que Bec is More dependent on the rest of Canada for jobs and Export markets than Canada is on for 28 per cent of the Quebec labor Force jobs is directly dependent on Quebec exports to the rest of Only per cent of Ontario labor Force jobs is tied into exports to Quebe Cand in the other provinces the share is Only per the study goes on to admit that a free Trade agreement would favor que Bec at Canadas if goods from Canada like machinery and motor Lehi Cules entered Quebec duty free while Quebec goods such As paper products and primary metals were Given free Access to this Deal would not Benefit the other Canad an the study under this Quebec would do billion Worth of business compared to million in another part of the pm program Calls for a common Dollar Between a sover eign Quebec and but the platform also Calls for a reorganization of banking institutions which would allow Quebec to have its own Central Bank in addition to the Bank of Cana what the pm envisages is a body along the lines of the Federal Reserve Board to manage monetary made up of an equal number of representatives from Quebec and can but economists say such an arrangement could create chaos because Quebec and Canada would have differ ent needs requiring different fiscal to act As one pm strategists assume English Canada would act As one in negotiations with the election of Joe Clark shows English Canada has re cognized itself As a nation capable of dealing with Quebec on an equal foot says pm Bac Bencher Jean Pierre but that Assumption is knocked Down by the government study cited earlier which states if there were Commer Cial negotiations Between Quebec and the other Canadian the rest of Canada would certainly not have a homogeneous since Ontario interests differ from the other prov and there is clearly no interest for Canada to treat Quebec As a 5050 partner when Quebec makes up Only 25 per cent of the National population and could fall to Only 15 per cent of the Canadian total within 20 Accord ing to some resurrection the Pope has gone to Poland and exercised an unbelievable Freedom in a so called communist no the communists have taken the lesson of Iran to heart that people Are look ing to a spiritual taking advantage of the Pope sought to express his desire that All Europe should be United under the thus using religion to accomplish that which seems impossible through politics and could this be the Man who will Resur rect the holy roman Empire and fulfil the prophecies of revelation chapter 17 Hannenberg Pope John Paul ii daycare concern As a concerned Mother of two pre school i was distraught to learn about the governments decision on March not to increase funding to individual child care one of my children is presently at tending Bambis Day care Centre and Nursery school in Shilo on a Par time basis and i Hope that my second child will be Able to Start in the fall of this Bambis Day care Centre is supported to a Large extent by a government without this which amounts to almost per the Day care facility and the Nursery school would most Likely be forced to close its i am not a working Mother there Are Many women who do work full or Par time in Shilo and use the Day care and Nursery facilities which Bambis they can go to their jobs knowing that their child or children Are not Only just being looked after but Are developing mentally and emotionally with the excellent skills and materials provided by the trained staff at i Hope that other parents of pre school children will realize the benefits for themselves and their children of Day care centres and Nursery schools and will become involved in the Effort to persuade the government to recon Sider its Linda Clarkson letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from the authors name will be and All letters Are subject to better forecasts in a recent news a Weatherman related the Many and some Abu Calls he gets because he does not forecast Fine and warm Are these people so stupid to think the Weatherman makes the weather but it is to wonder Why our weather office cannot make More Correct fore there is a new forecast issued every eight hours or Why the need for sudden changes and revised fore casts people at work Are Busy and May not see a change but the weather with All the sophisticated and up Iodate should be Able to forecast eight hours to make a forecast for two or three Days ahead is about As accurate As the Farmers Eph Portigal Winnipeg self serving so Manitoba wants French to be the Only official language of Quebec courts and National am i to that this is the opinion of elected representatives of that this is the opinion of Manitoban As a whole i gather that the Manitoba rationale is if Quebec charter of the French language is supported in its then Manitoba will be legally free to step All Over the faces of its own French speaking perhaps you should consider what you Are you Are supporting an act which removes the rights of million people Quebe cers from representation in their legislature and from being tried in one of Canadas two official Lan it makes More sense to make Mani Tobas courts and legislature All French English speaking people in Quebec outnumber Manitoba entire when i read about such self serving actions As that which is coming out of the Manitoba i often wonder Why i love this coun Robert Stewart Quebec because they Are not fortunate enough to be born in an affluent we take exception to supposedly religious people in Iran who Are sentencing members of their former administration to death for their participation in the killing of men who opposed did these members actually kill these people or was it by their instruction who Are the actual murderers people who kill or people who cause killings a True deterrent for murder would be the adoption and enforcement of the ten in our country we can buy murderers and we can cause murder by deplorable we stand by and watch our Laws being abused and close our eyes if it is to our i am sure that it is the Cost of maintenance of a convicted murderer that is the Issue Here and not his surely death would be preferable to life Thomasson Winnipeg no religion buying murders write there Are a great number of us who would wish to reinstate capital punish ment in an Effort to discourage people from killing each i find this would we not be commit Ting the same crime How can we play god and take a life when we accept no responsibility for the millions of people starving to death while we live in abundance we sup port the Laws and people who do nothing to Stop or alleviate this suffering or protect innocent children who will die on Friday evening May 18 the House next door to mine was then my store and apartment above were set on fire and completely the building in which the sunday school literature was stored was not but All the names and addresses were so if any of you were expecting a letter or parcel of sunday school please write Geraldine Schell Charing nop 1go some time ago i visited the Manitoba Home for Retar dates in Portage with a party from our before the tour started we were Given a talk by the chaplain on what to also that a lot of the problems we would be made aware of were because of Low financial help from the saturday i returned to the Home with two friends to see the shrine talking to some of the children i was amazed to find they do not have any form of Church service on a also they get no religious teaching at Josie Winters Winnipeg its embassy they have a Specif on Moscow to ;