Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 22, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free March 1980 tax changes to Aid tourism considered reducing or removing the Mies tax this summer could be one of a number of tactics used to Spur Manitoba tour finance minister Don Craik said any change in taxation would be announced in the he a drop in taxes on hotels has been considered in past Craik other provinces have employed a Simi Lar Manitoba five per cent sales tax was lowered to two per cent from april to september in although the reduction did stimulate Craik said it want Crystal Clear if sales made up for the loss in Craik was responding to a suggestion by a local retailer that the sales tax be eliminated during the summer to boost unfair recall alleged the province has unfairly begun to Call on couples married in 1978 to return their Manitoba property tax credit an opposition member said married couples no longer seem Able to claim the tax credit they were entitled to claim As individuals before they got said Sam Yuskiw do under the tax Only one rebate is permitted per Yuskiw said he has had a rash of complaints on the finance minister Don Craik there had been no change in he promised to look into a skins cos sharing criticized nip la Saul Cherniack charged yesterday that the government is try Lioi Laturi not Mook ing to make the Manitoba Public insurance corporation look bad by a new cos sharing agreement with the motor vehicle the still being negotiate will require the vehicle Branch to pay 55 per cent of the costs of computerized Pic will contrib Ute 45 per actual costs to Pic since no 1978 Are million and to the government less than Mil said Cherniack you Call that sharing he Cherniack added the government was diverting costs to aut Opac to make the corporation look ineffective and to make the governments general deficit seem chairman of later said the corporation was stuck with increased costs because it had paid Only 20 per cent of information expenses under the previous a Bulldozer operator Breaks up Large chunks of ice along credit River near Northwest of heavy Rains and melting Snow have created treacherous River conditions in Southern Ontario and flooding Rivers threaten several Lyon Doest get extra salary Manitoba Premier Sterling Lyon said yesterday unlike former Nova Scotia Premier Gerald Regan he receives no salary from party in response to questions from Lac Dubonnet new Democrat Sam Lyon said he int aware of a Mani Toba fund similar to the one identified in Nova Scotia through ramp invest in quite Happy to Tell my Honor Able Friend i am not aware of any such fund and i am not the recipient of benefits from any such or maybe i should say Lyon told Lyon also dismissed suggestions that a fund exists to finance an indemnity for his pos retirement health care budget up 14 by Manfred Jager it will Cost the Manitoba government 14 per cent More to operate hospitals and nursing Homes throughout the province this executive director of the Manitoba health services said hospitals which so far have submit Ted budget proposals have asked for from eight to 25 per cent More Money to operate this year than they received in Edwards Only an eight per cent increase in funding is available for each ins Titu he said the 25percent request came from a major Winnipeg health facile the 14 per cent allocated by the government is required because of the opening of new personal care Home Beds in North Winnipeg and Rural Manitoba and because of the opening late this summer of the new seven Oaks general seven Oaks alone will Cost million during the first year of its Edwards said the 85 hospitals and approximately 85 nursing Homes in Manitoba were told 25 to submit 1980 budgets based on the principle of an eight per cent increase in operating exceptions will be allowed for some Rural hospitals and some Rural and Winnipeg nursing Homes to eliminate wage rate disparities the Provin Cial government it Cost provincial taxpayers million last year to operate nursing Homes in estimates this year Call for an expenditure of million for nursing Edwards certainly not to my said but if you would like to establish such a fund and make the initial contribution conservative party president Harold Piercy confirmed yesterday that the Premier int getting a second salary from the provincial Piercy said he had some concern about the Premier of a province collecting both a legislative salary and a party Piercy conceded Lyon was paid by the party when he was Leader yet didst have a seat in the Manitoba payments ceased when Lyon was reelected in Piercy there is nothing wrong with the Leader of a party being paid when he has no other source of he nip president Bob Mayer said he wished the party did have a Trust fund established to pay its were in the if i could find a fund with enough Money in id pay the Bank he now Federal labor received a year on top of his salary when he was Premier and opposition Regan said this week the fund was established 10 years before he became party Leader in the Trust fund was brought to Light in the course of an ramp investigation into the party make French official a Bill to make Manitoba legislature and courts officially bilingual was distributed in the provincial legislature yesterday first Bill to be published in both English and French in at least 90 it will repeal the official languages which made Manitoba Legisla Ture and courts the supreme court of Canada ruled in de Cember that the province had no right in 1890 to revoke the official status of French in the courts and in the Legisla under the proposed offi Cial language is defined As the English language or the French following the Federal government the Manitoba Bill says that in cases of the interpretation of the English legislation will prevail if a Bill is first introduced in if a Bill is introduced in that version will the proposed legislation is entitled an act respecting the operation of Section 23 of the Manitoba act the act which provided for the use of either English or French in the legislature and courts prior to the 1890 official languages earlier this the government announced it will spend about during the next 14 months to translate into French pages of provincial statutes and an unknown number of pages of regulations and other Docu in the the legislation and the minute like record of votes and proceedings in the House will be Avail Able in both Hansard record of debates in the legislature wont be available in both nor will there be instantaneous when an la Speaks in his remarks appear in French in Hansard and a translation will be available Only on language rights activist Georges whose English Only parking ticket led to the supreme court has been critical of the Lack of simultaneous claiming Manitoba approach Doest live up to the spirit of the supreme court Tempo the Best in modern consumer news and Winnipeg ree press unc ement free information seminar annuity quotations is pleased to announce another 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