Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 19, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free March 1980 Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published six a at 300 Carlton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by newspapers limited Telephone 943933 second class mail registration number 0286 Donald Nicol publisher r s alone chairman John Dafoe editorial Pago editor Murray Burt managing editor Peter Mclintock editor emeritus forum snarling Over Oil despite the ritual snarling which apparently must precede every round of negotiations Between Ottawa and Alberta on the Price of there is Good reason to Hope that Premier Peter Lougheed and Federal Energy minister Marc Lalonde can come up with an agreement before the present one runs out on july if they the new agreement is Likely to in not much different from the one thrashed out Between Lougheed and Joe Clark a few months before that Accord is both sides will have to go through the War dance which will demonstrate to the voters that they Are fighting for their that will tend to obscure the fact that facing up to the reality of the Energy situation is in the Lon term interests of every part of the in the sunup to yesterdays initial meeting Between Lalonde and representatives of Saskatchewan and Lougheed had already repeated his threat to Block construction of two Large new tar Sands plants unless Alberta got the Deal it that he should provide the people of his province with net benefits equal to those in the agreement negotiated with the Clark if Alberta Ever were to Block the tar Sands the result would be a full scale confrontation Between Ottawa and the provincial Petro Leum development can be stopped by something Short of overt government policy Over the past Hal dozen years has already ensured that tar Sands development has proceeded at a much slower Pace than the Federal govern ment thought was Only the sync rude project has been attempted in that time and it is being plagued with technical problems at the that is a far cry from the tar Sands Plant every year which the Federal Energy department once declared to be the it is Clear that the policy muddle which results from inter provincial bickering can be just As much a Block to development As is any direct action by but the chief reason Why on this should get pretty much what he is asking for is not that he can hold a club Over the rest of us but that he is from All that is known about the agreement reached Between Ottawa and Alberta about the time the government fell last it represents a decent attempt to balance the interests of the producing provinces with those of the country As a it included but not excessive it ensured that a Large proportion of the revenues going to Alberta would be recycled through the National Economy and it gave a considerable share of the Revenue to the National Treasury to finance conserva Tion and the development of Energy Lalonde May be Able to improve on that in but the substance is Likely to be pretty much the reaching that kind of agreement will require Ottawa to Back off from its implied election promises of cheaper Lalonde was already doing that within hours of his appointment As Energy he no seek a face saving agreement which would allow slightly lower prices this year in return for higher or a lower Federal share of the in the years to if that is the Lougheed May be Able to accommodate but if the Federal minister thinks he can Reward his Ontario voters wit substantially lower Oil prices at the expense of Alberta then he will bring on the confrontation which everyone ought to be trying to grossing the Yards Mauv now Panoc Chloel if Federal government Money is available to Winnipeg for rail it should go into redevelopment of Canadian nationals East Yards and surrounding land and not into subsidizing Canadian Pacific to move its marshalling Yards out of the moving the car Yards would create an Opportunity for improving that Section of the but the advantages Are not so great As to justify paying the railway to do As seems the Yards Are to stay then the City should proceed with the proposed Sherbrooke Mac Gregor the private railway contends it is quite Content with the Yards it advocates of relocation suspect that is part of a bargaining position aimed at persuading the Public authorities to pay the railway for the costs of a it would secretly like to make anyway for its own but for whatever the railway has taken that position and can fairly be asked to live with the if the City and the Federal government decide to keep the overpass project Frozen awaiting relocation of the the wait is Apt to prove Money would have to be pried out of the Federal Treasury which faces similar applications from other terms would have to be negotiated with the construction of new Yards and a new main line to a Point where the existing ones could be abandoned would be a work of Many meanwhile the Sailer and Arlington Bridges Over the Yards continue to there Are two main objections to the Sherbrook Macgre postly inaction would appear that politicians in Nova Scotia Are suffering from the same paralysis As those in Manitoba when it comes to the compulsory use of seat Manitoba politicians have listened to the reasoned arguments Why seat belts should be made but have done in Nova the government has passed a compulsory seat Belt but has never proclaimed observers there say there is not much Chance that the Law will be proclaimed such government attitudes Are difficult to in British Saskatchewan and where motorists and their passengers Are compelled to use seat belts Accident statistics have proven that the use of belts has reduced the frequency and seriousness of automobile in one would think that a restraint minded government such As exists in one that is worried about every unnecessary Dollar would support any move that would Cut the budget of the department of to allow voluntary use of Seatbelt is not a defence of individual it is the government forcing everyone to pay for the carelessness of Manitoba goes one step further along this Road to insanity it is one of the few jurisdictions in North America that allows its motorcycle riders 10 decide for themselves whether they will Wear crash the Hill for this like the Bill for the Freedom to ignore dissent to every Gor overpass that it will be wasted if the main line and Yards Are abandoned and that it will bring heavier traffic onto part of Furby Street and other streets linked to the the Only indication that the Yards and the line might be abandoned is Lloyd Axworthy enthusiasm for relocation echoed by but Axworthy does not have the authority or the Money to bring about the heavier traffic on some streets is traffic from the North end must come South whether the tracks Are moved or it is not a question of whether there will be traffic but of where it will the argument for relocation is based in part on the observation that the car line and Yards Cut North Winnipeg from the rest of the but the after was there first and the City grew around those who live or do business North of the tracks know when they go there How the land the District will be Cut off socially tothe same extent if the Yards become an Industrial now that the Gross costs of relocation have been carefully the City and the Federal government should quickly make up their minds that moving the car tracks is a project for the Long Distant future and turn their attention to other More pressing and immediate As redevelopment of the East Canadian National is eager to cooperate with the conversion of their while no cooperating can be expected from the the East Yards site lies adjacent to on the Banks of the offering a unique Opportunity for multiuse development around the attractions of the the rail passenger terminal and the historic site of the earliest settlements from which this City the City has already lost one Opportunity to bring the half deserted site to life As a new insurance company head but the attractions of the site remain and fresh opportunities will surely the City should make Clear the Type of development it would like to see there and encourage developers to make that Urban desert sense on cuffs attorney general Gerry Merciers decision to allow sheriffs and bailiffs to decide who and who need not be is a most sensible Handcuffs Are a Neces sary form of restraint employed by those charged with the enforcement of the but there is no need to have rules that Call for their use on each and every old people get into trouble with the so do sick people so do people who May find themselves charged with an 01 Fence but who would never dream of attempting to 1o use Handcuffs on such people simply because they Are required to appear in court imposes an unjust measure of embarrassment and sometimes of unnecessary discomfort it is possible in the the new flexibility in the use of Handcuffs May result in an unfortunate if this Mercier will do Well to consider whether the Overall effect of the flexibility is working before he is persuaded to reimpose the present Champagne for Reagan by David Macdonald Ronald Reagan must have broken out the Champagne when he heard that Gerald Ford had decided to declare his Teeter totter Campaign for the re publican presidential nomination to be at an reagans comment that it in complicates things is the understate Mem of the what it does is to remove the biggest potential Challenge to his smiling March to the a March that is being lined with solid successes after the Nasty fright he got in some of the Northern snuffed out it is difficult to know exactly what snuffed out Fords growing enthusiasm for entering the Republican the least Likely is the one he gave that such a move might Divide try this phrase sounds like a leftover from reagans pre Lowa cant about abstaining from the celebrated television debate among Republican contenders because such a debate might Divide the Republican when Reagan was disciplined by the Iowa most of whose members chose Bush in he quickly got Down off his High horse and into any Republican debate talk of dividing the party was in is the main reason Why Ford was keen to get into the Ford still bears a grudge for the determined Effort made by the californian to seize the 1976 Republican nomination when Ford had hoped to Breeze in on the strength of being the incumbent this grudge is entirely unreasonable be cause Reagan had every right to seek the nomination in 1976 but it says a lot about Fords shallow grasp of the realities of presidential this Lack of understanding Springs from the bizarre Way in which he reached the White he was an pedestrian member of House of representatives who was elected regularly from the fifth con Gressional District of Michigan from 1948 disliked by few and fully in favor of the go along to get along ethos of his older he was elected House minority Leader in when president Richard Nixon found himself embarrassed by the Resigna Tion of vice president Spiro Agnew in 1973 he offered the Job to Gerald Ford because he knew that this was a Man whose congressional confirmation would be a unlike Nixon privately preferred abrasive John he was right and Fords easy ride was repeated a year later when Nixon himself decided to causing Ford to be appointed hard fight things became Tough for the first time when Ronald Reagan gave him a hard fight for the Republican Nomina Tion in then Ford found that not even the Aura of the White House was enough to cover the gaffes he made while campaigning against Jimmy notably his announcement that Eastern european states were free to ignore their soviet masters whenever they he lost the presiden tial election and moved to Palm polished his Golf game and brooded about his defeat and the possibilities for but because he had not gone through the fiery Furnace that presidential Candi dates endure on their Way to their party nomination convention and then to the presidential Ford developed the extraordinary idea that Republican party operatives would fondly remember his presidency and organize a draft Ford movement at the 1980 nominating con this which would have let him hold himself above the Grimy work of fighting state was absurd from the Ford believed and it explains his decision not to enter the Republican nomination race in Jan the Early Seesaw of Rea Gans chances in Northern states con Vinced Ford that he could take part in the race after by entering on March the last filing Date for the May primary that will be held in his Home state of he foresaw an effortless cruise to starting with a big win in Michigan that would display his moderate Appeal in contrast to the righting extremism of who would be humiliated and thus repaid for daring to Challenge Ford in no Coronation this Blissful scenario disintegrated for three main Reagan displayed a Strong political recovery in primaries in the Southern particularly in South Carolina where Victory margin forced John Connally out of the race and cast George Bush into deepest Ford found that the Republican party machine had no plans made for an automatic Corona Tion he would have to fight hard right up to and including the nominating scrabbling for Campaign financing along the Way and trying to build a National organization from his wife who never or adjusted the pitiless Glare of Public attention on her and her family when in the White told Ford that she would not again risk her health by joining him in a new attempt to get Back to it is no wonder that Ford Wei when he had that final meeting with his political advisers in California last sat his subsequent announcement that he would not seek his party presidential nomination this year must have been the psychological equivalent of committing one thing is unchanged by this announcement if anything remotely resembling a dead lock occurs at the Republican nominating convention he will be waiting for the Call with bated Day care on behalf of the United i wish to commend the recent action of the Manitoba government to increase its Finan Cial support of group Day care centres for the 25 per cent increase in maximum chargeable fees and the subsidies provided will assist these organizations in meeting rising costs and in continuing the provision of their vitally needed the governments requirements that All centres must be incorporated and represented by a Board of at least five Only one of which is an is very we this move will place the responsibility for Centre operations on properly constituted boards of and we share Minaker Hope that parents will become increasingly involved in the management of the agree with the governments Deci Sion to allow centres to make an additional charge to parents of up to Jar More Money for Day care Day Over the subsidized this will permit More appropriate cos sharing by those parents Able to pay and will provide an optional source of Revenue to centres which May require these actions will contribute to the maintenance and improvements in standards of care in the increased reve Nues will assist centres in employing and retaining qualified a significant step Forward in the interests of Manitoba children has been we Are pleased that As part of the governments process in making these changes it examined the Community Day care report which the James Richardson the Winnipeg foundation and United Way Ian Morton president United Way Winnipeg who laughing is Paul Sullivan for real does he really not have the mental capacity to recognize satire when it is presented John Campbell Lehr letter on Fox Hunting reached a Peak of Clever writ ing not yet achieved by i am just astounded that Sullivan went to the trouble to put into print his ignorance about the genre of writing called sat no doubt if Sullivan had been alive at the he would have written a rebuttal to Jonathan swifts Modem he ends his column with the ques Tion who laughing believe most of literate Winnipeg macintosh Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes tetters irom writers must give their name and the authors name will be used and letters Are subject to Airport plans i realize with All of the fast breaking International events in the it May be difficult for a Canadian news paper to concentrate on any Canadian event of major it is hoped your reporters would find time to at least keep abreast of proposals which May have far reaching Impact on the Canadian tax in Otto then minister of announced the formation of a task Force on Airport management to study the feasibility of a new administrative and management Structure for 24 principal airports across this task Force continued under transport minister and is to present the final report to trans port minister Pepin by the end of March in the task Force has determined that the Best Means of Man aging Canadian airports lies in the concept of an Airport authority at each while trying to sell this predetermined concept to the the the carriers and various interest the task foce emphasized the local autonomy we have now Learned local autonomy Means to the task Force a the Airport manager will have More decision making authority than at present b the employees of an Airport authority would not be Public ser vants c the Middle Levels of the decision making process would local autonomy does not mean municipalities or provinces will be part of the decision making the task in a Progress report issued in july of stated that the Airport authority would be an additional Buffer Between the Public and the How blatant must they be before someone takes them to task for this attempt at obfuscation in my firm this is simply a sleight hand attempt to show the theories of proposition 13 being adopted by transport will the minister not look Good when he can show a Large on in the expenditures of his department and a very Large decrease in the number of Public servants Santa Claus really is alive and lives in i am a Public but i am also a Cana a taxpayer and a reasonably intelligent person who does not like being fooled William Freifeld National president Union of Canadian transport employees Ontario breaking i can appreciate the frustration of the shopkeeper in the North end As i have also been the victim of criminal actions and the inability unwillingness of the Winnipeg police Force to Deal with these my Home was Bro Ken into and Over Worth of possess ions were the nature of the article stolen led both my wife and i to the same conclusion Aslo the identity of the culprit of the yet the Polce were not at All interested in the identity of the criminal when we reported the burglary we told the police who we thought was responsible for the they asked us what we had done about when i replied that 1 had confronted the person whom i had Felt responsible for these crimes they re plied that they could not do anymore than that since then no action has been taken by the have been to Over 30 places where this Merchan Dise could be redeemed for monetary the police spokesman in your March 1 edition claim that they Are working on something in regard to North end Are they also working on something in the Case of Home and other crimes of violence against la abiding and working members of this Community i say let the storekeepers who Are prone to robberies keep once innocent victims begin to fight criminals will think twice before com mining these violent How Many of these punks will risk getting their Heads blown off for Richard kell1e Winnipeg adults to blame this past numerous cases of male prostitution have been publicized As police crack Down on homosexuality involving Young at Public and press response to these actions was Shock and the cases seem to say the Young male prostitutes were to As these Streetwise 14 year Olds look advantage of adults with problems re lating to no matter How you look at the kids were taken advantage most of these kids Are to to make spending they sacrificed their it was the adult males who paid the kids to satisfy their sexual needs who took advantage of the poverty the kids find themselves the kids were 14 years no blame should be Laid on Don Marks Winnipeg Carter says Hes afraid the will lose it they come to Moscow or the ;