Winnipeg Free Press

Thursday, July 19, 1979

Issue date: Thursday, July 19, 1979
Pages available: 96
Previous edition: Wednesday, July 18, 1979
Next edition: Friday, July 20, 1979

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 19, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 18 Winnipeg free july 1979 Atkey praises provinces for policies on refugees Ottawa up immigration min ister Ron Atkey says the provinces have cooperated Well with the Feder Al government on the question of South East asian he says the bulk of the Refu gees the government expects to arrive this Here Are some provincial views Manitoba manpower minister Ken Macmaster says the province will take about five per cent of the refugee he has mentioned a total of about in indochinese immigrants and he says the percentage could refugees Gold left in Saigon Toronto up hidden in a House in stashed behind dressers and beneath is in at least that where Nguyen Thinh left the Gold six months ago when he fled with his family and As a banking specialist who owned a Large Home and was known to have plenty of Money in the he came under the scrutiny of the communist after being thrown in jail by govern ment he escaped by bribing a policeman and strapping himself to the underside of a for the next three months he and his pregnant Diep Thi lived in a friends hiding from talking in the insurance office where he is in training for a policy administration he says we didst have any future in i would rather have died on the sea than live under the communist Nguyen and his sponsored by the Federal have been in Toronto for four in took them five months to get their escape began when Nguyen paid for his family passage on a Leaky freighter carrying 255 Viet namese refugees to Malaysia from Sai when they arrived in after five Days at sea under torrential Nguyen had Given birth to their first after seven weeks at a refugee Nguyen and his family came to the attention of the Canadian immigration authorities and were moved briefly to Kuala Lampuri before being flown to Montreal and then Rise because the mennonite Church is sponsoring so Many Winnipeg City Council is expected to be asked to establish a committee of prominent citizens to act As an umbrella group which could act As a guarantor for individuals and citizens sponsoring Refu Quebec wants third Quebec says it will take about one third of the that would be about refugees this year and possibly next Quebec will continue to receive More than its share of Marina Nguyen born at sea at least until the end of this says Jean provincial immigration the refugees would be settled in smaller Premier Bill Davis of Ontario has said the province will accept As Many refugees As want to Atkey has estimated Ontario would take about 40 culture minister Reuben Baetz says it is statistically Possi ble that refugees could arrive in Ontario by the end of the fiscal year next March Ottawa is talking of Tak ing British Columbia labor minister Allan Williams has said that tradition ally the province takes about 10 per cent of the province has introduced legislation designed to pro vide a Range of government programs and to direct financial and other sup port to groups engaged in helping Refu the legislation sets no limit on Vancouver has started a Campaign to prepare for and Interior Kelowna has another pro seats reserved the Alberta government has not yet set a Atkey has said the prov Ince says it will take a significant it would not base its intake on the size of Albertas population but on the ability to create the Federal government says it has reserved airline seats to bring refugees to Canada Between now and the end of the in some cases it is paying Premium rates but generally it is paying per half that for children under 12 and for the refugees sign a Noin Terest loan for their immigration minister Atkey says past experience shows that most of the Money will be he said the government has guaranteed that the Price to the refugee will not exceed when the govern ment pays Premium rates it picks up the Charters arranged the defence department says it has committed itself to 10 flights of its Boeing 707s to pick up those figures Are higher than what the immigration department has in addition the government has made these Charters Ontario world 26 flights making a total of seats up air 14 flights for seats another seats on 12 regular up ail flights air 18 flights for the defence department said it will pick up its refugees from Hong its first plane will leave july during reconstruction All your favorite stores services Are open for business lots of nearby forking Broadway is open or business during reconstruction now in Progress with additional parking now available in the a new paved tree parking lot 2 hour limit is available at Balmoral and Broadway Access from the South via parking now allowed 2 hour limit on Broadway Between Sherbrook and Young West of the construction additional parking available on the North streets in the Broadway shopping business All weather sidewalks Are available at All times along the entire length of Broad Way for your Street and sidewalk is not affected during reconstruction you Are Welcome on Broadway 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