Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 14, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4lwlnnipeg free budget measures left in doubt i continued from Page 1 the opposition parties to bring Down but what do other think is going to happen to those record gasoline prices your guess is As Good As Stu Imperial Oil marketing manager in Edmonton said last Ladner was As confused As canadians about the Fate of finance minister John Crosbie higher gasoline Ladner said he would simply wait until he would Tell the Oil companies what to its hard to say what is Golf la to he the Only informs Tion f have right now is what t heard on t guess Tell us what to do i Hope so Liberal Allan Maceachen said he bet lives All budget measures Are invalid ated by the Trudeau declined any com then pending today caucus Herb Liberal finance said after the vote that the government should immediately Roll Back excise tax increases on motor cigarettes and he said the government has no mandate to impose the taxes announced in Crosbie budget tuesday constitutional expert Eugene a Liberal said that budget tax changes announced to take immediate such As excise and sales although not formally endorsed by leg generally continue in Force until a new parliament can Deal with John a Winnipeg chartered accountant and tax said he thinks the defeat of the budget renders the tax measures anyone who paid the High Gas Price yesterday should perhaps go Back for a he a were right Back to Square Dale a University of Manitoba professor who teaches constitutional the Quick answer is the tax increases have no Legal Gibson said while there May be some measures which the government can enact through governor general in most of the tax increases re quire in stating that All his budget measures remain in cited the precedent of a Liberal budget in on that As in the current the minority government was Defeated in a vote May 8 rejecting the budget of then finance minister John Turner presented two Days then prime minister Pierre Trudeau resigned the next but his government was returned with a majority july after the Turner said it meant his budget including such immediately enforced measures As re Moval of sales tax on shoes and cloth would not then Energy min ister Donald Macdonald also said the government would be unable to collect an announced tax on Oil the opposition conservatives said this was an unnecessary election pain ploy that attempted to blame them for loss or delay of tax after the return of the turn or brought Back his budget plus in a november Macdonald also changed hid line and arranged with Oil companies to with hold the Export Ontario so Isief urges Canad Chicken with said it was of the to Lefi Toronto up Ontario William Davis said today he will the Federal tories in the 18 Tion despite political i urge canadians support the prime minister Argive Clark a he said in a Ontario policy position remains my per Spraj political loyalty remains the who to told help Clark win 58 of to be addressed jts seats last has and natural Gas with his Federal former govern live had five Ysl though been have had Somi believes Clark few months to City May upon Diblein National Beals to unite government canadians Rea tories question of that they i Jere aware of am confident that the present government recon Fiji it As a problem Handsp continued from Page 1 the cultural affairs said the government is doing the Best we can with the resources we the archives have been More popular than he the department Hopes to get a bigger budget for the he which could mean equipment for the restoration lab As Well As More he said the department has asked for More resources since the collection arrived with the proof the said i Giuld the left Dave Dis Tribuz Campalo annual Zibrida but did not in Davis in Florida of Slege football years to grips with would make a1 condition of of the still intends to cation in length mfg for t of business journals in the but it is obvious the Manitoba government does not appreciate the value or they would have a conservator restorer right on the shoestring operation Arthur a York University pro said the government is running a shoestring Ray said 20th Century records have not been classified to Public does not have documents still sitting of have been microfilm form Anat is 6suseto6tewwr and tear on the books Are falling maps Are still in pages Are going Brittle from a Lack of the microfilm program is going so slow because of a shortage of the province asked for the collection so they should properly maintain if the government should Wash its hands of and turn it Over to another pro Virice Ottawa would love to it is the most significant collection is the realize is once Are just Dot going to take said45ii r in the search specific Al for the documents to in despite the increased the budget of the archives has remained an agreement to Supply microfilm of post1870 documents to the Public rec Ord office in London has also fallen behind prime minister Clark announces he has asked the governor general to dissolve nation votes 18 the restoration Laboratory at the provincial archives building is used As storage room because there Are no trained in a Telephone Joan the archivist of Hudson Bay records in said Between 1968 and 1974 a staff member worked full time on classification when the documents were still housed at the company Headquarters in it was extremely Tim consuming but we knew it was absolutely Essen said if documents were not restored on the they were sent out to the British government was never very keen on letting the documents out of the coun but we were told everything would be maintained at the same there Are More than one million documents in the collection and of Only 200 have been out Oscity registration car hit continued from Page 1 ligation dismissed Merciers re quest for a Legal opinion As Why they would be talking about a Legal opinion at this late Date is beyond he what about the fact that its been kept under wraps for eight years what about the morality of it More to this than just whether its technically Legal whether theres some regulation allowing the Point is we All must be governed by the same the Legal question centres on the authority or Validity of a private 1971 agreement Between aut Opac and the former new democratic party Cabi nets management committee allowing the government to Register its vehicles wherever they Are primarily although the Manitoba Public insurance corporation act allows Auto Pac to waive regulations to ensure no waiver has been revealed and officials cant recall one being Moylan this week raised the possibility of an implied waiver because of Auto acs agreement to the policy but Phelan rejected the you go into aut Opac As a private citizen and Start talking about an implied waiver and laugh you out of the he Phelan said he Doest know How Many private motorists have had claims denied because of infractions of registration but he termed baloney aut Opac chair Man buttons claim that it Only voids coverage for those who Delibera Tely try to defraud the government services minister Harry who holds responsibility for both aut Opac and the vehicle has said Laws May have to be changed to Legal ize the registration continued from Page 1 the nip was also in an almost Jovial since those maps Hope to Garner floating Liberal votes because the feel the liberals Are floundering without a nip Leader de Broadbent told re porters after the vote that Clark had ignored his own May election promises to provide Energy lower interest rates and tax Clark did not name an election the governor general has the option of asking another party Leader to at tempt to form a government but Schreyer has indicated he wont take such a Broadbent yesterday appeared to Rule out a coalition with the saying the Liberal party was hypocritical and that a and Liberal coalition would be totally inappropriate from a constitutional Point of until the moment when the 139133 vote was no one was completely sure the government would the liberals and the nip were half prepared for a Las minute change of heart by the social credit Many liberals did not realize until an hour before the vote that external affairs minister Flora Macdonald and tory my Lloyd Crouse were stranded abroad on parliamentary business and that Saskatchewan my Alvin Hamilton is seriously ill in two liberals Brunswick Maurice Dionne and Quebec Claude Lavoie actually left Hospital Beds to Quebec my Serge Joyal was the sole Liberal who apparently boycotted the the air of unreality which blanketed parliament Hill yesterday seemed to persist after the upset probably be cause the tory collapse want expected even earlier this As the Day wore without any evidence of relenting by social credit Leader Fabien it gradually dawned on All maps that this showdown was not a Mere Token gesture of disapproval like four previous non conf Dence but in the even the five social credit votes have been enough to overturn the combined and Liberal attack As the government lost by a six vote As speakers inside the commons de bated the outside the refused to support the tories unless they cancelled the slated 25 cents gallon excise tax on earlier in the finance minister John Crosbie refused to con Sider any special tax concessions for Roy was insulted and driven to the Wall since he was finding it difficult to sell higher gasoline prices to his relatively poor Rural Quebec he stormed out of the commons and erupted with the charge that both the liberals and conservatives always treat Quebec like a poor relation and we will not accept we will Rudt serve As a Crutch to the conservative fumed repeating his charges that the excise tax is a blatant encroachment on provincial when he heard of roys tory House Leader Walter Baker gave reporters a shocked look and muttered i Welcome you to a moment of the historic moment which saw a government fall on a budget for Only the second time in Canadian history left Crosbie fuming that voters Are going to pummel the liberals in revulsion at the avidity for the lust for Clark echoed Crosbie charges at his press saying Only six months ago canadians voted to change the government of Canada because they wanted to change the direction of our by their action the opposition parties Are saying canadians were wrong to make that Vancouver Liberal my Art Phillips argued that an election was necessary because the budget was such a bad one that even the social credit could not vote for immigration minister Ron Atkey said that Clark began bracing for the possibility of a defeat shortly after noon yesterday when he asked senator Lowell Murray to draft an address to the to be used in the event of a transportation costs push inflation to from the news services Ottawa a Sharp Rise in transportation costs pushed consumer prices up one per cent in november from octo the largest monthly change since statistics Canada reported the latest figures push the inflation rate for the 12 months ending in no vember to per slightly ahead of the per cent rate recorded for 12 months to statistics which measures changes in the Cost of a Basket of commonly purchased goods and ser says higher transportation and housing costs accounted for two thirds of the Overall monthly As a the consumer Price Index for All items stands at for no news Roundup up from the previous month and in that Means that the Standard Basket of goods and services which Cost in 1971 the the Index base was set at 100 now costs the purchasing Power of a 1971 Dollar in november was about 51 unchanged from october but Down from 55 cents a year laureates Issue Appeal Stockholm the 1979 Nobel Lau reates issued an unprecedented conceited Appeal for the release of the wife and daughter of an exiled soviet pro chemistry prize Winner Herbert Brown of the United states said yester Day at a joint news conference with the soviet Edward that All this years winners with one exception signed the Appeal to the asking that Loans keys family be allowed to join him in the Brown said economics prize Winner Theodore Schultz of Chicago agreed the Appeal but preferred to write his own personal letter to Rains Stop Relief efforts Bogota torrential Rains pre vented aircraft from delivering medi food and other Relief supplies yesterday to earthquake stricken areas along Colombia Pacific coast where at least 200 persons were reported search parties found the bodies of More victims of the earthquake As they dug through tons of boards and other debris covering the remains of hundreds of stay of execution won eighteen hours before he was to die in the electric convicted killer Joseph Carl Shaw won an indefinite stay yesterday from a Federal appeals judge who said All issues should be considered before such an extraordinary event is car ried who admitted killing two teenagers in had been scheduled to die in the electric chair at the Central correction institution in co at 5 House fire kills eight Chicago a fire that May have been deliberately started with gasoline engulfed a Frame House killing two adults and six children who were trapped in an upstairs some of the victims were found lying across the charred remains of a others on the firemen from a station House two blocks away set up a ladder and donned Gas masks but could not reach the Energy bus pact reached Brussels Canada and the euro Pean economic Community have agreed to cooperate in the develop ment of the Energy a new Canad an method to save the Canad an Mission to the dec reported the staffed by experts and equipped with sophisticated is Able to measure and Analyse on the spot Energy consumption in Industrial and commercial plants and to identify potential Energy savings of As much As 20 to 30 per cf5 crashes in Quebec a cf5 Jet from Canadian forces base Bagot Ville crashed yesterday afternoon after taking off from the Airport at laterriere near a spokesman for the base said Pilot can of la ejected from the aircraft and want the cause of the crash is under ;