Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 1, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba I Winnipeg free Winnipeg free press of f Equality 6f 6ivil rights Liberty of Publ spied week at 300 Calfon Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by publications Western United Telephone 9439331 second class mail registration number 0286 Donald Kii col publisher it Malone Peter Mclintock editorial Page editor Murray Lulana Goffig editor Maurice Western Ottawa editor r h Shelford president general manager forum a costly program a fifth fun new the Clark governments mortgage interest and property tax credit plan has been much debated by economists and its Cost at that is to say in is now placed by the minister of finance at billion a huge sum which will obviously limit the Freedom of the present or future governments to Deal with other serious problems such As the question of pensions to which the economic Council of Canada has directed attention in its latest it is far from that this is the total past experience having demonstrated that there Are costs in Voyed in implanting such programs in our Complex at least three political realities must be the first is that the which has already jettisoned Vartous Campaign cannot abandon this scheme without losing its political the second is that John i Frisbie must operate in a parliament of each competing for political the third is that the controversies developing in this parliament will naturally be carried Forward into another election probably in this will happen whether or not the Bill is approved by As now seems opposition critics in the House of commons have already indicated that they will seek to Amend the from All that has been said about the plight of renters and the misfortunes of those who have already paid off their the thrust of such amendments is reasonably the according to Lloyd needs to have its benefits it is arguable that those who have acquired Clear title Are not Likely to be in great they will have paid for their Homes at Low rates Many since mortgages Are Long term affairs about six per cent and in the As the economic Council they have derived inflation shelters of great but the Case of renters cannot be so easily it is also a very sensitive matter not Only because reiters Are so numerous but also because the pattern in Quebec is radically different from the pattern the Canadian figure for Home ownership is 62 per cent among French speaking canadians Only 45 per with the liberals More or less immobilized by the leadership Crosbie is under no immediate compulsion to make the will not disappear with passage of As the conserva lives appealed to the discontented Middle so will other parties Appeal to those who feel that they have been else re minted against by these tax in other legislation directed to limited purposes has the effect of establishing future claims against the already overburdened Treasury of various figures have been tossed around in in it is not possible to estimate the value of such claims because no one knows when or in what form possibly shelter possibly More expensive pensions they will eventually be what does seem is that Crosbie even if an accurate Falls Well Short of the ultimate costs of this when reasonable allowance is made for the pressures being created and the Normal play of political forces in the the facts on land the Call for tougher legislation to protect provincial agricultural lands from foreign ownership confirms that what appears to work on paper May not meet the requirements of real the request came from Frank executive director of the Board which administers the it was based on an investigation of 15 Canadia registered compan suspected of representing european investors in deals involving Between and acres of agricultural it has been estimated that about five per cent of Agri cultural land in Manitoba is owned by while some of them Are landed Muirhead fears that the amount of land owned by nonresident foreign investors has exceeded the amount which led to the original i when the new democratic party introduced the farm lands Protection act in it was estimated that foreign interests owned about per cent of the agricultural the legislation limited foreigners and corporations to no More than 180 acres and canadians who were not banners to no More than while the conservatives supported the Bill in Princi they did not see the need to restrict purchases by resident canadians and no farming when they came to the legislation was removing restrictions from Canadian individuals and while imposing a tighter 20acre limit on Howe within months serious loopholes were especially in the definition of Canadian which seemed to allow a foreign firm to establish a Canadian place 51 per cent of ownership in the hands of a Branch and thus avoid agriculture minister Jim Downey quite that he is not prepared to propose new legislation until he has evidence that the present Law is being the problem at the moment is that no including is quite Clear about the the first duty of the government is to find out whether a problem really exists if it How serious k at the it everyone is simply railroading the minister one of the More surprising developments that followed the election of the conservative government in Ottawa was the Speed at which defence minister Allan Mckinnon climbed aboard the old Liberal defence policy train on the matter of a new fighter aircraft for the armed Mckinnon lost no time in abandoning the earlier position of his party that the entire Purchase needed a Good second look in favor of the Short list of contenders that had been selected by the previous it was a disappointing reversal for those canadians who had with a change in that military require ments would take a dominant position Over Industrial offset equally disturbing Are the More recent reports that Mckinnon May not be aware of All the factors that should go into the Purchase the reports suggest that opinions which question the need for a new As opposed to a used fighter Are being kept from the As it is the Cost of new ground control equipment that would have to be purchased As part of the Overall the enthusiasm of senior military officers who have been promised new equipment is it would appear from reports that there May be a More Basic in the form of career advancement within the air Arm of the Canadian for the support of a new weapons one incident that tends to give credence to the latest report is the decision taken by the defence apparently without Mckinnons knowledge or to have a Canadian journalists Home searched by police because of articles that were critical of the new fighter although authorities conducted the search to discover if there had been a lapse of Security within the department which allowed the journalist to obtain it is to say the to conduct an action that could have such Public consequences without informing the minister one of the articles in question raised doubts about the Industrial offset work that was being offered to Canada if the general dynamics f16 was at could not be blamed on a Security because Public broadcast ing system in the United states had already documented Industrial offset problems experienced by other purchasers of the same the ultimate responsibility for Canadas decision on its military equipment rests with the minister of National but men who have held this position talk of the political blackmail that is often used against them by senior military decisions that Are taken Deal with the Security of Canada and the lives of these Are the factors that must be considered by along with the enthusiasm and desires of the nations military it is clearly the duty of the officers to make sure the minister is aware of All the consequences of his this duty includes providing the minister with opinions that run contrary to the established military perhaps it is time to change the reporting Structure that unlike the United which has its joint chiefs of staff with direct Access to the or the United with its equivalent of the army Council in All three Canadas unified forces operate under a single chief of this Means that All communications effectively reach the politician responsible through a single other nations have decided that such a system is simply not Good no matter How competent that individual May other countries prefer to have their politicians talk to several military officers who have equal political Access to the Kildonan Park what is Canadian Content by fired Cleverley Ever since when the broadcast ing act was Only the bureaucrats have known for sure what constitutes Canadian Content partly because the bureaucrats who work for the Canadian radio television and telecommunications commission cannot agree with the bureaucrats who work for the Canadian broadcasting the Brandon television station is in criminal a visitor to the court might get the impression he is in the Middle of one of those Tea where everyone is Only in you and no one dares to say it is crts policy to Lay charges against any Canadian television station that Falls by More than one per in the amount of Canadian Content it since the margin of error that can result in an appearance in court is less than 20 minutes a the wrong classification on an hour Long show can wipe out half a week of acceptable who decides the Brandon station is charged with showing Canadian Content programs that fall per cent Short of the regulated it sometimes comes Down to which bureaucrat you Are talking Toller Cranston is a Canadian he was filmed by a Canadian and a in prime on one of the Csc the Csc classified the program As the film was originally or dered by the american broadcasting which used the Best 20 minutes on its wide world of since it had 90 minutes left it offered the film to the the Csc took abcs edited it Down to less than an added an introduction and and produced its super because the film was originally produced for an american the crts classified the whole super special As and deducted the time from the Brandon stations claimed Canadian for five the Csc classified its this week in As presumably because Canadian teams the Csc later admitted this classification was in but a bran Don station representative said there was no retroactive correction of the network crts regulations make no provision for third party the Brandon As an is responsible for its own Canadian con the court will have to decide whether it placed too much Reliance on the classifications it was Given by the what went out then there is the question of what actually went out Over the the Csc produced for the court what its representative said was the Only document in existence that showed the network schedule for the time period under the Csc representative was unable to pinpoint the circumstances or the people responsible for some pencilled in the crts produced its own stack of today currency of the computer but both the Csc records and those of the crts were number coded As to a situation that led to some courtroom when the crts classification of Tennis from Wimbledon As american was no one was willing to swear that it was incorrect in Case the matches being shown were Between american players or in Case the television feed had been picked up from an american network rather than the there were similar arguments about the actual participation and there fore the classification the British Golf although it was not part of the one lawyer out Side the that the funeral of Earl Mountbatten got a foreign rat ing on the Csc because the corporation had plugged into the on the ctr the bureaucrats classified the same program As Cana Dian because that network had Dis patched a it was quickly determined that the use of an umbrella such As Csc sunday did not faze the crts it May be held stopwatches on Vari Ous segments before allocating a con tent neither could the Csc rely on the fact that a film might have a National film Board number As proof positive that it was one bit of testimony indicated that if the bureaucrats at the Csc and the crts they do not talk about except after the and since it is after the few of the differences Are communicated to the stations which May have carried the plead guilty Brandon is not the Only station to be charged by the two Ontario stations were but decided that a guilty and a were preferable to arguing the one was fined the other the maximum Fine under the regulations is once Laws Are the use of the courts is available for their enforce but Canadian taxpayers May wonder about the real purpose of the crts in bringing the they May wonder if the crts is concerned about the Lack of Canadian Content on the Brandon Sta it did not simply Issue a Clear order to increase that a letter sent by the crts to the station concerning earlier programming was not interpreted As such an order by the taking matters out of context is questionable at but harking Back tothe Tea a snippet of courtroom banter seemed to put a degree of perspective on the Gravity of the one lawyer had noted that a sports which contained a segment of British football and one of japanese Canadian had a split classify when he was asked which por Tion was classified As Canadian con he replied the japanese of letters i to Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from the authors name will be and All letters Are subject to marys role review reviewed we would like to Call your attention to Donald Gislason review of the pin Zukerman recital in the free press of november we Are not taking Issue with the fact that he did not care for certain portions of the a reviewer is entitled to express his opinions of a perform Gislason is not entitled to be destructive and we Are referring specifically to both his biting attack on Zukerman Pinchas Zukerman constructive criticism is always acceptable from this one would almost think that Gisla son harboured a personal grudge against her As Well As his supposedly complimentary comparison of Zuker mans phrasing to a seducer unbuttoning a this is totally out of place in a review and so far beneath the dignity of Zukerman not to men Tion the free press that we Are embarrassed to have to Send a copy of this review to him and his management representatives in new York it will certainly color their opinions of Winni Peg when the possibility of any of their other artists appearing Here Why would they want to expose these professional musicians to such an in professional writer to paraphrase you a review of uneven Quality with very few Fine Laurane and Lois Schultz classic concerts Winnipeg after Reading Donald Gislason exceedingly strange review of the Zuker Man concert i have one question i would like to ask him where do you find a Bra with buttons Sheilagh Geer Pine Happy 99th birthday John Winnipeg born december the article written by Judith Fin Layson under her column Between the november should not go by without she could have extended a Courtesy to women by entitling her article some women face attack from faiths rather than women face attack from As i am sure Many women do not share her analysis but have strengthened their Faith daily by the sources she feels Are attacking the comparison made of Ayatollah Khomeini and Pope John Paul is too ridiculous to even comment it is the comment on the Virgin Mary that is particularly you May accept Marina Warner As your authority Many of us would rather accept biblical How she could completely ignore the in the old and new testament in reference to Jesus and Mary in writing such an article is difficult to he was the Climax of All the promises of children fulfilled in when he came into the world he was being prayed for by a whole people Ana promised by a whole he was bom wholly of wholly of conceived of the holy Spir he was the gift of god to this gift was made human through the Virgin Mary of whom the lord did mighty she embodied Isra Els expectations at their Mary was not the Herald nor was her task to preach the Luke and John in their writings discover More and More her this is More than her blood relationship to Jesus Luke her whole person is involved in the Mary kept these things in her heart and pondered them Luke Mary was one who she conceived him in her heart before conceiving him in her it is this Beautiful role of Mary that makes her the woman of history and destiny who inspires us the woman who Speaks to us of human dignity and placing her in a special place in the mystery of Christ does not pose any problem in making women feel inferior but rather gives women an Ideal to strive regarding women in the Priesthood the Christian Priesthood is primarily the Quality which All the faithful pos sess As priests a Quality Given them in baptism and the peo ple of god Are priestly because of their readiness to each is invited to serve in his own the spirit that directs the Church also directs those who serve and Many of us Are Content with this there Are those called to a special ministry As you refer these have in All instances until present Day been but when the time comes god will Call Forward others to his deacons have been recently called Forward i question her other remarks re Garding the role of women in the Church has she been involved in any Way in these discussions the article she wrote was probably based on what she read or saw on edited for and with much commen of a visit of Pope John Paul to the United states of it was Awe inspiring to see thousands upon thousands of Young and men and priests and listening and accepting the Blessing of an outstanding human being Pope John Paul and Many More thou Sands who continue to hold Mary As their Bernadette Russell president Manitoba provincial Council Catholic women league of Canada needless uproar an uproar has been created because Crown counsel stayed proceedings against an entertainer who was caught with a Small amount of marijuana for his own presumably out of gratitude the entertainer made a charitable a Law righteously Indig said this proves there is a Law for the Rich and a Law for the which proves that Law professors May impress students with their learning and yet not be aware of what goes on in the real this is certainly not the first time that proceedings have been stayed against an accused person on humanitarian grounds and i Hope the criticism generated in this Case will not deter Crown counsel from staying proceedings in appropriate cases in the Joseph Bellan new Law needed perhaps it is time for a new marijuana one that applies to All people not one Law for the Rich and one for the it is very sad to realize that a conviction would be damaging to Burton Cummings career but perhaps some people do not realize that there happen to be other people besides Burton cum mings who also have would it not be damaging to their careers also in that Case no one should Ever be but since people cannot afford to donate to a would it be Wise of me to suggest that since to Burton Cummings is like to most other no one gets but they All donate to a Charity of their Choice Poetker new y so whats wrong with voting for someone with 4 Kiodt Teado Fiir i ;