Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 15, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free my 1995 we Ottawa up prime minister Trudeau hinted strongly yesterday he is prepared to impose a new Federal Ergy policy on the provinces and ceded that such a move could Lead to some disturbance in the Fielding questions in the commons Over the across Leboard Price increases announced Friday for All Petroleum said the government would prefer not to use Over Riding Federal Powers to impose a new Oil pricing he also acknowledged to de Broad Leader of the new democratic that fridays increase violated the spirit of Liberal election Campaign removal of Bill applauded continued from Page 1 said the move didst make sense be cause the elderly can already collect a maximum of almost a month and support from children be Nec Evelyn representing the Manitoba association for rights and told the committee the legis lation would be demeaning requiring parents either to go demand ing or she said she was de lighted it would be nip family Law critic Saul Cher Nick described Merciers decision As very Cherniack and other opposition Mem Bers raised questions about whether reciprocity agreements with other jurisdictions for family maintenance would include parental they also questioned whether emotional aspects such As alienation of parents and children would be consid ered by the whether parental maintenance would interfere with spouse and child maintenance and whether it would put separated parents in the position of each seeking maintenance from sons and Mercier said opposition concerns were Good questions that deserve Seri Ous rather than make urgent Mercier said he would withdraw the proposal for fur ther Mercier offered an Amend ment to make it Clear the govern ment had no intention of attempting to reduce social allowances by forcing welfare recipients to take their children to court for support to Elvoid tying higher tie prices to world we Are try Trig to get agreement on the new Unhul that new policy is agreed 1 regret but we Are not carrying out our election hot i Hope that within a Short period of time we will be carrying it and 1 ant saying that there May be some disturbance in the country when we do thu deaf also expressed Hope that there will be provincial agreement to a new Oil pricing stalled pricing talks the prime minister was referring to stalled Oil pricing talks with the primary producing and he is to meet Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed on my 24 in a final Effort to find common the hint was the latest example of the tougher attitude the prime minister is taking toward the talks Between Energy minister Marc Lalonde and his Alberta Merv broke off last month with both sides admitting they were far the exl siting pricing agreement with Alberta and due to expire june was extended for one month to allow the two Heads of ment time to the prime minister was criticized by Broadbent and Bill progressive conservative Energy for a tax increase Friday which raised the Cost of gasoline and Home heating Oil by a Hal cent a or 2y4 cents a Revenue from tax Revenue from the tax goes into a subsidy fund from which the govern ment pays the difference Between Domestic and world prices for synthetic crude produced by Alberta Oil Sands Broadbent asked Trudeau to justify the he said the liberals campaigned against the proposed conservative policy of pegging Domestic Oil prices to world v we have not yet brought legis lated or the new policy for which we fought during the Trudeau it has not been done in the the government will continue to abide by the terms of existing Broadbent suggested the Only Cri Teria for the increase was to give unneeded additional profits to the multinational Oil Jarvis sought assurances the govern ment would Cushion the Impact of higher Petroleum prices on Low in come groups and residents of Quebec and the maritime who Are dependent upon expensive imported got a Job for a Driver witnesses said a Driver failed to make the turn at Pembina Highway and Calrossie Boulevard before plunging into the Canada employment Centre at 1048 Pembina Early this he headed for the crashing through a plate Glass window with Only inches to spare to avoid a Brick Wall and a steel door police Are looking for two men seen fleeing if his aim for Corners was it got decidedly better As the scene following the t r i fire kills 21 in nursing Home continued from Page 1 where the most Mobile residents were there Are various philosophies on How to segregate there is no sure right or wrong Shurman said when asked Why the least Ambula tory were higher some say the most Mobile should be on the first so they have Access to the outside and can enjoy there Are 19 extend care Homes in they Are also located in Saskatchewan and British Columbia and there Are about 30 in the United Shurman said it is the worst tragedy in extend cares he said there Are monthly fire drills in All facilities and the staff sets a fake fire and the staff they dont always evacuate the building in these he Merritt administrator of Mississauga said virtually All the patients who came Here were doa dead on All the people who died inside the nursing Mississauga fire chief Gordon Bent Ley said firemen had difficulty getting people out of the 202 room they were mostly in wheelchairs and Bentley said there was no problem with the fire detection equipment the buildings smoke detectors were work ing and that no cause had been nothing is left of the Well practically have to sift through the he said he had no explanation for the rapid spread of the fire by the time the fire department got the Blaze had spread across the entire third either the fire went undetected for a considerable length of time or spread very six firefighters suffering from heat exhaustion and smoke inhalation were taken to minister squirms Over remark Lamontagne tries to put Call for nuclear arms in line with policy by Carol Goar up news service Ottawa Gilles Lamontagne straightened his then Taylor receives top Job smiled into the television it was probably the tenses moment in the defence ministers 15year Politi Cal he had just been raked Over the coals in the House of commons for declaring in a weekend television inter View that the Only Way to get the v a v at consulate in new York from the news services Ottawa Kenneth the for Mer ambassador to Iran who became a has been appointed general in new York and commissioner for Canada in the which has been rumoured for a few was con firmed yesterday by external affairs minister Mark the 45yearold a Calgary native who helped six diplomats escape from Iran last re places Jim Nutt who will serve on the Canadian delegation to the United nations general news Roundup Robert Fowler Dies at 73 Montreal Robert Maclaren chairman of the executive committee of the c Howe research Institute and chairman of the Royal commission on broadcasting of died sunday at who was president of the Canadian pulp and paper association from 1946 to was the with the late Marcel of 10 to the confederation his second Book on constitutional questions is scheduled for publication this air negotiations begin Post office Bill expected Ottawa Canadian and British officials began talks yesterday in Lon Don about whether British airways will be permitted to land West of Winni the talks began a Day after a British airways official threatened that his airline would Stop air Canada flights from Western Canada from Landing at London Heathrow Airport if the British were not granted Landing rights in Edmonton and Van Couver by next april Ottawa the government Hopes to introduce legislation this week turn ing the Post office into a Crown Cor government House Leader Yvon Pinard told the commons yester if the opposition agrees to allow it to proceed the Bill could get second Reading approval in Princi ple and be referred to committee for detailed study by the end of the when the House is expected to adjourn for the he no survivors in crash Moscow an Aeroflot Airliner has crashed in Central killing All passengers and in the second reported soviet air disaster in four the newspaper kazakh Tanskaya in an edition reaching Moscow said the Airliner crashed last monday outside Alma capital of the soviet kazakh As it headed for the crimean resort Centre of it said All passengers and Crew members were but did not say How Many people were Suzuki to succeed Ohira Tokyo japans governing Liberal democratic party chose Zenko a party Stalwart Little known by the to succeed the late prime minister Masayoshi Ohira As party president ensuring his election As prime minister later this will be the Liberal demo cratic candidate for prime minister when the Tower House of the diet con Venes of the party won 287 of the 511 seats in the june 22 a majority of which ensures his elec russians to talk seriously about disarmament is to find sophisticated Wear like nuclear this appeared out of step with Cana Das record As a Strong promoter of nuclear disarmament and to the Point contradiction of prime minister Trudeau reputation As one of the worlds most eloquent advocates of a scaling Down of the arms now Lamontagne was in the Small television studio in the basement of the parliament while journalists grilled him in both Canada does not want to become a nuclear he no nuclear weapons the country has no nuclear weapons and wants he he was by advocating that the Western Powers collectively keep enough menacing Mil itary hardware on hand that the rus sians feel no inclination to risk an International if i could get rid of nuclear bombs and conventional bombs and every kind of i would be he but the Only Way to have real peace to talk about disarmament is to be Strong recalling his own years As a fighter Pilot during the second world Lamontagne said hed seen enough bombs to last him a but he remains convinced that the germans would never have attacked Poland in rotation in the House could not help noticing How Trudeau twisted in his As his defence minister boldly repeated what he said on the weekend i said that the Only Way we could have a very efficient deterrent would be to have sophisticated weapons by we could or nip to the Lamontagne under fire 1939 if the allies had made it Clear that they had the strength to Stop Hitler and they we rent afraid to use Russia seems to be aggressive at the he when there Are Are two the Best Way to live is with equal i know the prime minister is against nuclear weapons and so am but we live on a Complex in a danger Ous we cant be Lamontagne said he had come to the studio from the stopping to consult he said he detected no disapproval from but those watching the prime minis Ter closely during Lamontagne inter the Tat we mean seriously that we want to talk about peace and disarmament and that we will talk from not from Trudeau has never wavered in his opposition to the spread of nuclear one of his first acts As prime minister in the Early 1970s was to replace All nuclear weapons used by Canadas nato contingent in Europe with conventional hints at protest he has insisted Canadas new fighter the be equipped with nonnuclear weapons and he even went so far As to suggest that Canada would protest strongly if there was Clear evidence that France is testing a nuclear As it has hinted it might Trudeau stated unequivocally that Canadas opposition to nuclear weapons is As firm As it is not government policy to advocate any form of nuclear development of new armaments or further deployment of old conservative defence critic Allan Mckinnon told reporters after question period he was convinced that Lamon Tagne has Little support either in the Liberal Cabinet or in the Lamontagne shrugged off such spec but he could not shrug off the uneasy look in his Eye or the desperate note in his Ottawa plotting ways to extract More taxes Ottawa up the Federal government said monday it is considering All techniques for raising needed reve including tax increases and a Energy Export tax that is strongly opposed by four prime minister Trudeau said in the commons As government siders what is to be in us fall Bud is thinking of various instruments including excise and direct tax removing indexing provisions from income tax Tad a Petroleum if the minister of finance we rent looking at All these instruments to determine what is Best for the Economy at least Cost to the people be he doing Bis he told conserva Tive but be said including the yet knows what will be in the across the Energy minister Marc Latof de told reporters is Victoria despite opposition ran British Columbia and the Federal government still is considering an Export tax on Ottawa should make an Effort to the provinces but there Are positions when this is not Possi he the tofliw1 4jmj Fwy ii that Ontario and concerned about electricity also Are opposed to such an Ratonde met Energy minister Bob acct Euatt Throe Days after a joint meeting of the and Alberta Cabi nets agreed on a United front against any kind of a Federal Export the meeting said the tax would be a wholly unjustified attack on provincial re source Lalonde rejected statements by Premier Bill Bennett that an Export tax would be a Federal grab its massive debt and would have nothing to to with Energy to said the tax would be to help meet Ottawa Energy and not to raise revenues for the general operation of the last week Energy minister Yves Berube and development minister Barnard Landry of Quebec said they would fight any tax on Hydro electric they said such a tax would increase Power rates to que Bec interfere in provincial jurisdiction and Stow own construction new we warn those who conceived of this eventual tax that the government of Quebec opposes it and will oppose it with Ontario Energy minister Robert Welch said last week that his province has been opposed to any electricity Export tax in the past and sees no reason to change later in the week an Ontario Hydro official said the possibility of such a tax has thrown a Snag into off Tia Tiffin on a million Cable Wner Lake Lalonde has mentioned the possibility of an Export tax on All Energy in answer to Western complaints that the present tax on Oil exports is Dis criminal ;