Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 6, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free published at aids a at 300 carted by f Western of tufted Ruf Tief 086 Donald Micol it s Malone Peter muck Stock Edi Tofta Page editor Murray Burt editor Mauricew Sterki Ottawa editor r 5efi forum improving Fher sport Tif the ministerial insurance review committee is certain to create political problems of the Manitoba if Only because of the emotional reaction that has become associated with compulsory government Trio life some of thess pro Bluffis were recognized in the governments initial emphasis Ort the fact is just a and that government can it in whole or in of leave the entire matter on the the Man in whose shoulders the responsibility Harry has made it abundantly Clear that the will not result in any changes to aut Opac at the next general licence fid insurance renewal Date in the political problems will result not so much from the contained in the As from the attitude during its Public this Atti included the absence of the chairman from one of the and a timetable of meetings that was at least for Public gave no hint of the de tilted analysis that the report what the government must do is from the Many recommendations in the those which will result in a and fairer Deal for Manitoba there can be that insurance for personal injuries should remain exclusively with the whose primary interest in insurance is certainly to protect people rather cover property tire should be for the recommendation that private companies be allowed to compete for collision and third party liability the government has Avail it other conducted by organizations apart from its own review that suggest that Manito Bahs like but would prefer to have it compete with private there Are grounds to doubt the Wisdom of turning aut Opac into a Mutual rather than keeping much As it now As a rate policeman to guar tee that the Public has Protection from runaway Ems has pointed out that Many of the recommends tide to can be implemented without dismantling the present Public insurance High on his list 6f priorities should be the recommended increase in the amounts of no fault benefits that can be claimed for personal and recommendation that the More than 600 Manitoban who Are now receiving inadequate compensation Shemild receive retroactive it is inconsistent to have agree to pay higher no fault benefits to Motorist who Are injured in Quebec than it does to motorists who Are injured Many of the recommendations represent simple House keeping and bookkeeping the retention of the present claims centres makes and the Public could be better served if one of the conditions of private Competition was extended Centre the removal of existing govern ment which the report suggests run to More than would create a climate of Competition which private companies the report itself will Likely produce ample comment from Many sectors of the including that which opposes any change whatsoever in the present govern ment most Manitoban Are certainly More concerned with getting efficient Auto insurance coverage at a reasonable Cost than they Are in the ideological issues of Public or private the governments in choosing which parts of the report to should be the improvement of x system that has been unchanged in nearly eight liberals lose a Winner there is a Lovely irony in the latest Survey of political party popularity carried out by the Gallup poll of Pierre Trudeau has just quit As National Leader of the Liberal at least partly because influential people within the party had told him that he was Poison in the country and that the party was doomed to perpetual defeat As Long As he stayed at almost precisely the moment Trudeau was being Given that canadians were telling the Gallup pollsters that Trudeau was a Good Leader and that they were prepared to vote Liberal in sufficient numbers to guarantee the party a healthy majority in any Early that news might have been enough to provoke the liberals to overturn the government and try to Cash in on an Early they cannot do that because they have no whatever their they have to prop up the unpopular Clark government at least until that is not necessarily the bad news it either for the Liberal party or for the no one would really Benefit from having the liberals returned to Uri reformed and on the basis of a Strong temporary swing in Public and the country would certainly not gain by having the government forced to concentrate of Short term electoral considerations instead of the longer term policies it considers necessary for the Well being of the a majority government normally considers that it has four years to make its Case with the that Means it can spend the first couple of years making the Tough and potentially unpopular decisions it feels Are if its judgment is benefits of those decisions will be Clear by the time it has to go tithe a minority government is in a quite different facing an election at any it must tailor its policies with one Eye on winning opposition votes in the House and the other on its need to keep the voters Sweet for the moment when the inevitable election the current leaderless state of the liberals i will not give prime minister Clark four years to prove his it does that the conservatives can anticipate being maintained in Power at least until next that expectation should give them the courage to carry on with the Tough budget and the harsh but necessary decisions on Energy which they have been if they turn out to be then the voters will be Given some Opportunity to see that they were if they turn out to be then we will All pay and the government will be punished at the but if we do turf the tories we will at least have a Clear View of the shape and direction of the Liberal Way Down yonder Winnipeg taxpayers will probably be surprised to Leam that failure to Supply a report on a june visit to Quebec City has not prevented councillor lome Leech from travelling again at their this time to new Fie tween october 28 and november 1 he attended the 1979 Congress on Parks and Leech is chairman of the councils committee on recreation and social last he was one1 of seven Winnipeg councillors who Cost taxpayers a total of when they attended the annual conference of the federation of Canadian an organization whose membership dues Cost taxpayers a Only three members of this Large delegation supplied reports to the Public on a conference whose relevance to Winnipeg problems seemed minimal at councillor Leech has yet to give his report and so have councillors Bill Ric Nordman and Phil there is some Good news for Leech wrote a report on his new Orleans trip and submitted it to his it contains interesting information and yeasty views of a kind that will make Good Reading when he writes his Quebec City councillor Anne who also went to new has written a report it tells what she saw and Learned and it contains useful hints relevant to it also was primary concern attorney general Gerry Mercier is acting wisely in considering an Independent review of the Enns inquest held recently at Portage la the Case is a shining example of the need to have Justice seen to be if Only to maintain Public Confidence in its police the inquest itself followed an unfortunate sequence of events when Mercier appeared to be tangled in the legalities of Manitoba relatively new Law on Mercier ordered the inquest Only after the parents of the dead Man had engaged a lawyer to argue their request for a Public the inquest found no fault in the conduct of the but Mercier himself has said following the inquest that an additional review is desirable in order to satisfy All including concerns of the attorney generals the primary concern should be Public Confidence in those employed to uphold and enforce the submitted to Leech of which she is a both reports should now be forwarded to a full Council meeting so that All councillors can read them and so that members of the Public can do the the two councillors deserve commendation for submitting these the principle at Issue is that voters have a right to expect such accountability from elected officials who especially in a year in which taxes and councillors salaries were raised while City services were now that councillors Leech and Zorowski have shown the there is no excuse for other travelling councillors to forget their duty to Supply reports on councillors Nordman and Rizzuto should take special Bloodthirsty what is it about the air of Sylvan new Hampshire that draws from president Carters 81yearold Mother the most Bloodthirsty sentiments in she smiled her Sweet smile during a visit there and said of the possibility of Teddy Kennedy running for president i Hope to goodness nothing happens to everyone and everyone who read her instantly realized that she was referring to the possibility of now she has again visited new Hampshire and told the mens club of Bow about her unique suggestion for solving the tense Iran As her son was employing statesman like restraint in the White miss Lillian said she knew How to Deal with the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini if i had a million dollars to id look for someone to kill this moral approach is popular in the ruling councils of the the simplicity of the idea is also not untypical of what is to be found in the virulent editorials in new Hampshire notorious Manchester Many of them written by the extreme righting Wil Liam such Are much less appropriate when expressed by a gracious old lady who is also the Mother of the current president of the United if miss Lillian cannot restrain she should go Back to the Rocker on her porch in Plains and share her views on National and International affairs Only with her s and language by Alexander Craig special to the free press some Comfort from the old joke about marriage the first 30 years Are the is it the first ten years taking a break from his Middle East Robert Stanfield chose to end his musings on the tenth anniversary of the official languages act with that ques his article was one of several contributions to the first Issue of Lan Guage and a new quarterly Magazine just the commissioner of official Stanfield paid tribute to the continuing Al party support the act re we should he pm that the principles and requirements of the official languages act Are essential if we Are to live together in so so but whereas English speaking canadians Ontario can make a Good career in the Public service without leaving their native the same does not hold True nearly so much for English speaking grand theory the grand theory and ideals represented for the articles in language and society Are uplifting necessary for those in Ottawa working out which Way the country As a whole is at the mundane but just As essential level of working out where individuals Are in terms of employment More practical considerations come into in the English speaking minority is engaged in the slow and painful process of learning it is a this realization has been masked for it by the fact that it has been Long rooted in dominating Many of the society main in the English have been clearly the majority among the non French speaking population of the much More in they Are the provincial representatives of the main language group in the country As a yet things an article in con Cordia University Magazine earlier this year was Why anglos dont get government its David was formerly education reporter for the Montreal Star and an Assis Tant to Premier at the end of less than one per cent of the senior level jobs in the Quebec Public up to and including Deputy were held by English speaking canadians Only 26 of the such at the Quebec government hardly advertises jobs in the English language Media Between and december for 600 com petitions were advertised in be 400 in la 250 in be Devoir but Only 75 in the Montreal the minority or of it at has been taken up energetically by William the Man member of the National Assembly for Pointe the Radical conservative dentist is the kind of politician at is not Content with Mere none he backs up much of his Case in this respect with reliable he is very keen and determined on one occasion when we were discussing minority representation in the bureaucrat i had to suggest to him that he give the Little boy with emergency dental problems priority Over my Job Hopes dim in an interview some years Premier Rene Levesque stated his be Lief that the English speaking que Beers had no reason to because Federal civil service and Pri vate Enterprise jobs were As open As Ever to since the pm government took the latter no holds True so As Shaw has diligently prospects for in Glis speaking canadians getting jobs in the Federal government and remain ing in Quebec Are not too almost 20 per cent of Quebec is no French and More than half of this 10 per cent of the total Popula Tion is yet of the almost Federal Public service jobs in Quebec excluding Hull Only per cent Are held by those whose first official language is English speaking representation in the National Assembly in Quebec is very and the few on the Liberal Side have to follow Claude ryans minority grievances thus play very much second fiddle at elected As a Union National conserva sits As an but without party support looks to be in difficulty when it comes to retaining his in the he is using his own particular autonomy with he has been working closely with the third actor in the the minority representative on the National not so much with his counterparts in that grand theatre that is the House of but rather with Parlia ments the ombudsman in matters of Max As commissioner of official Lan Aldens main ask is to ensure equitable participation by each language the government in Quebec has set up a task Force to study ways to make the civil service More representative of the population As a Camille Laurins White reaper on cultural development policy for Quebec expressed the desire of the pm government for Quebe cers to strengthen their links with the report admitted that the government must begin by setting an example in its administrative services and its very As some Public servants will hasten to remind there is of difference Between policy and Reali inequities there another actor in the drama of current Canadian linguistic the and those who act As their spokesmen outside elected have to make known dissatisfaction with the inequities and Lon term problems implicit in situations for Only five per cent of the Public work Force in Ontario is composed of French speaking Cana while they make up 10 per cent of the in new Brunswick the situation is even More unfair speaking canadians Are 39 per cent of the population but have Only 21 per cent of the Public sector i one solution to the language problem proposed by various sectors at present is for the country to have two uni Lin Quebec to be entirely and rest the country purely the Best Public response to this solution so far has probably been by Davidson former chairman of the president of Carleton University and co chairman of the bilingualism i and two Una he would be a Back Ward in an article in language and he declares that would mean loss of language rights for Lon established Canadian populations at a time when the world More recognition of rights and oppor not it would probably make operation of a Federal administration satisfying both sides extremely what seems to be the easiest solution need not always be the talking about Quebec earlier in his Dunton observed that the English speaking minority has contributed greatly to the development of the province where it has been so Long Home for most of its Mem Bers is very much in Lan As in partners rights have to be respected otherwise the first 30 rather than the first ten years May be the Alexander Craig is a freelance writer in letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from the authors name will be and All letters Are subject to proof of god the letter of november 7 entitled no god by Stephens protesting the practice of religious exercises in Public with racial indicates immaturity on the writers his life experience has Likely been so limited As to require proof of the existence of the Type of proof he is probably demanding is Likely the Type that is based on the evidence of the five despite the fact that All scientists have discounted this Type of proof Ages ago in favor of real values and such As love these Are not taught in pres enday resulting in the immorality and violence in our society it is unfortunate that today school curriculum includes such trash As sex education and darwinian theories in Stead of some moral and Christian principles which history so clearly indicates Are Basic to Freedom and Vogel Winnipeg Happy 91st birthday Reginald born East in december Happy j06th Mary born de Cember Brochet mail i Felt i should write concerning cer Tain allegations made by the mayor of relative to postal service in that perhaps it would be Best to begin by explaining that Brochet is a Remote and isolated native Community situated in Northwest Manitoba and accessible Only by Brochet has a very Small Post office that is allowed 24 hours a week in which to provide postal these hours Are scheduled by the local Post master and the zone postmaster from flin flon so that the majority of Resi dents have Access to postal service when it is most convenient to since mail arrives at Bro Chet by airline schedules Are also a the schedule of office hours for Bro Chet is wednesday and Friday to and to thursday and saturday to but closed Between and we depend on the integrity of the postmaster to keep these of because of the Remote nature of the we cannot provide constant supervision and at times must depend on the Community itself to inform us of any problems in this none have been reported outside of the recent letter to the Edi it was mentioned also that mail Deli very was inconsistent both for Deli veries and the mail schedule for Brochet Calls for thrice weekly ser on thursday and Satur our records indicate that since july there were Only two occasions where mail was not delivered on sched ule to on october 16 and 18 the runway was too soft for an aircraft to land and consequently the Carrier did not go As on october 25 and bad weather prevented the flight from leaving and mail was sent on the 26th and 28th the fact that Brochet does not handle cods or Money orders dates Back to september when an audit of the office indicated operational and financial problems that forced us to curtail services at cods and Money orders Are available to the Community from Lynn few do you feel on agog me Coffee zip i Lake sending funds to that which then mails the required cod or Money order to the we do not prefer this since it is costly and complicated for us to once we Are confident that prob lems encountered in the audit of Bro Chet have been it is our intention to return both you see the picture As we see it is quite different from the one painted by Alex should the Points he made have some substance to we would be Quick to resolve them once they were brought to our being advised through the editorial Page of a newspaper and with generalities that we cannot substantiate locally is not the proper Way to do Hebert area Northwest Manitoba District Western postal Region Winnipeg i ;