Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 30, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free july Winnipeg free press tre Dorti of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published and of printed six Days a week at 300 Carlton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 second class renail registration number 0286 Donald Nicol publisher John dafo6 editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Peter Mclintock editor emeritus forum not enough for tenants the government has come Forward with the improved Protection that was needed for the fights of tenants in buildings that Are being converted into but for tenants fighting Ordinary the government offers one feeble possibility of additional the difference in the governments treatment of the two groups is condominium conversions Are most common in higher priced rental buildings inhabited by the kind of tenants who Are most Likely to vote under the rules Jorgenson first proposed to the legislature in Bill a landlord converting his building to condominiums could oblige his tenants to buy their apartments or else get out when their leases the outcry from conversion threatened tenants persuaded consumer affairs minister Warner Jorgenson to make extensive improve ments in that under his new set of any tenant in a building undergoing conversion can stay on As a tenant for As Many years As he has been in the to get the tenants out the landlord must prove that he needs to include their apartments in the condominium package to make it the arbitrator deciding the Case must consider possible mental or psychological harm to aged or infirm tenants if they Are forced to no such sensitive concern for possible psychological harm to tenants is shown in cases where the landlord is simply racking up the in those tenants Are still expected to move in the revised form of Bill 83 As in the original if they do not like the rent they Are asked to the revisions to the Bill add one extra level of Protection for but it lies in the hands of officials and the minister to put it into if the tenant is Alert and aggressive enough to protest a proposed rent increase to the government and if the government official proposes arbitration and if the landlord refuses arbitration and if the arbitration staff find that the proposed increase is excess Ive within the narrow terms of the Law and if the staff asks the minister to then the minister would empowered not obliged to submit the dispute to binding in its previous the legislation would have allowed the minister to impose arbitration Only when a whole group of tenants was being not in individual the revisions give the minister additional Power to inter Vene they do not give tenants greater Power to resist abuse by Jorgenson also came up with a new hinted at about moving if the landlord refuses arbitration and the tenant moves out rather than pay the increased the landlord would be obliged to pay the tenants moving costs up to the amount of one months but the tenant would first have to prove that the rent increase was excessive a difficult thing to prove under Jorge sons definition and that he moved because the rent increase was Given the Many factors that can enter into a family to including noisy Job birth of a increased family income and Many How can anyone fairly decide which moves Are motivated by rent increases and which Are not the new provision has a reasonable purpose to give tenants the Freedom to move so that the discipline of the marketplace will help keep landlords in line with their but As it promises to be an administrative the other weakness of the governments proposed land lord tenant system there is no Assurance that arbitrators will be chosen and instructed in such a Way As to ensure evenhanded treatment of landlords and tenants in a tenant can never bring his Case to arbitration if comparable accommodation in the same general is available that if he could theoretically no one is required to consider the psychological harm such dislocation might inflict on these who Are in the reliable conservative party their As legitimate and As deeply Felt As those of condominium threatened but they do not have the ear of the government to the same build on vacant lots City councillors and officials Are coming up with objections to a commercial builders proposal to construct Low Cost single family dwellings on vacant Cor Earea lots owned by the the Merit of the proposal runs a risk of getting lost in the the builder suggested he could produce attractively priced Small Homes if he could buy from the for a Dollar building lots which fell into City ownership because realty taxes were the proposed Dollar alot Price is being used to dismiss the whole scheme As councillors argue that other Winni Eggers would like a Chance to buy a downtown residential building lot for a Dollar and that they will complain bitterly if that Opportunity is limited to one Airport Banda id the catchup being attempted by the ministry of trans which has allowed the Thompson Public works depart ment to undertake emergency repairs of that cites Airport so that Jet service can be is at Best a Banda id solution to a much More serious Pacific westerns decision to cancel its Jet service to Thompson because of poor runway conditions should add weight to the already put Forward by a ministry of transport that local authorities be Given More control of airports in their had Thompson been forced to wait for the Normal proce Dure to provide it with runway its citizens would Likely have been without Jet service for months or Quick Access is vital to the operation of any Northern especially one of the size of it is intolerable that a citizen of because of Bureau cratic be required to spend More time getting to Winnipeg than a Winnipeg citizen need spent to get to London or the ministry of transport was at fault by not allocating sufficient funds to the local government District of mystery Lake for it to maintain the the airline must take some of the blame for not making its Case strongly before the runway condition deteriorated to the Point where it could no longer safely operate its jets the solution that has been that of allowing City equipment to undertake the work without the hassle of is a practical it should accomplish the Restora Tion of Jet service where it is in the longer what is also needed is More local authority for the control of particularly where maintenance is con but the on Dollar Price is not essential to the what is essential is to get some modern housing built in the inner City and to put it on the Market at prices working families can the Price an eventual Home buyer in the District could minus the Cost of putting a House on would indicate about the Price the City could appropriately ask for the no prudent buyer would pay and if the City holds out for More it will simply be stuck holding the unproductive vacant if councillors Are worried about giving preferential treat ment to one they can arrange to invite proposals from if some other bidder will bind himself to build suitable houses on the 22 available lots and will offer a higher Price for the he should get but the lots should not be sold off one by one to speculators who will simply sit on them and leave them awaiting a speculative the other major objection is that Many of the lots Are Small just 20 or 22 feet that poses a Challenge to the builder to come up with a design that will make Good use of such a narrow space and still provide a attractive but it is not a fundamental obstacle to the whole the City can retain a veto Over any design that would not make but it should be supporting the builders not looking for roadblocks to throw in his give it Back since it is the taxpayers Money that some members of the Manitoba legislature say they do not perhaps it is time those members were put on the same basis As any other employee for whatever rejects a the usual practice is not to Force anyone to accept Money he says he does not All elected members have the option of refusing the pay increases approved by the legislature the other surely a simple statement to that effect by those members who voted against the increase would carry More weight than any number of it is a sinople fact that a Good member of the legislature is Worth every Penny and possibly a lot it is also a fact that a bad member is not Worth a higher elected members of the Manitoba legislature Are required to make sacrifices in their personal lives that few employees would be willing to make for their regular if the legislators set their Worth too the voters will be Quick to remind them of this and if any really believe they Are being the taxpayers would be perfectly Happy to get the Money letters Trio press welcomes itt Turs trom Radoi s writers must give their name the author b name will be used and letters Aru us Hect to Edi tuvo not ugly perfidy i rolled around on the laughing when i heard july 23 that the United states was going to investigate Savage violations of human rights by the new bolivian Mili tary dictatorship whose coup prevented a left Wing government from coming to Power the is going to decide whether or not it will continue trading with the dictatorship upon the results of this if America follows the pattern of its behaviour in latin America not to Garcia led coup mention the rest of the world that it has for the past Hundred the dictatorship will get full in every from the no matter How terrible its violations of human the history of latin America Over the past 100 years is the history of the United states either militarily or through the in every nation overthrowing left Wing governments and governments that we rent going to be puppets of the land of the and replacing them with other usually righting that the has fully supported such paradises of human Freedom and democracy As Stroessner Somoza Jimenez tru Willos dominican Duvalier Batistas Salvador Al lenses democratically elected left Wing government in Chile was Over thrown by the Cia in 1973 the current military dictatorship of general Pino Chet has received full support from the head of the free world Ever american opposition to castros Cuba boils Down to this not that castros Cuba is a dictatorship but that castros which possesses among other things most of the worlds Supply of is not controlled by the if the truth Ever comes out about the recent coup in Bolivia and it wont not in our news rest assured that made in the will be clearly stamped in its Taylor Winnipeg with regard to Richard Garlicks Story in the free press on july his comments on rowdiness at the Flat picking workshop were clearly unjust the Calls for Doc Watson during the Chai dancers set were due to the fact that the dancers ran Over their time by about 10 As to the crowd turning this is Patent the crowd was assured from the stage that Doc indeed be the later announcement that he would not naturally Drew the demonstration of the Flat picking by Norman Blake and Dan Crary Drew the most internal applause of any work shop 1 and earned them a standing it has not been my experience that ugly crowds ask for Jim Johnson daily drivel i really enjoyed backstage pass guest Ken in the july 16 Issue of the free As Well As Many other True music agree with him More when cit1fm first came to the it was refreshing to hear new songs and not the same rehash of year old Materi its like a regular am station we have to listen to the same old disc jockeys drivel and daily they love to hear themselves talk and Are no different from any am disc in sure to some 1418 year old they May sound but to those of us who know and appreciate Good they Are As nauseating As keep up the Good work and i Tim and get Back to playing exciting Bonnie Anderson Winnipeg Zimbabwe storm gathers by Heidi Holland special to the free press Zimbabwe signs of gathering storms in Zimbabwe have dampened Confidence in the governments intensive Campaign to boost foreign Aid and without which Robert Mugabe administration will be forced to curtail Many of its election promises and frustrate Black Hopes of a prosperous far from stable lets face this country is still far from commented one Western Diplomat his observation reflected growing concern among foreign governments and multinational corporations Over feuding Between the ruling Zimbabwe african National Union patriotic front Joshua Komos minority patriotic front which could result in Komos withdraw Al from Mugabe coalition govern ment and eventually to civil War be tween the two tribal recent bitter attacks on Nkomo by leading members of have endangered the Fourmont hold Campaign to disarm guerrillas who have retained their weapons since the British monitored ceasefire in de Cember last around of the former Bush fighters Are Loyal to and they have become increasingly reluctant to surrender their guns in support of government observers believe Nkomo still holds the vital key to peace in Zim despite his Debele sup porters being hugely outnumbered by Mugabe Shona Power base be cause the patriotic front Leader has a sizeable and disciplined an impressive Arsenal of heavy and russian another disquieting clash gathered momentum recently when Mugabe threatened to sever diplomatic relations with South wary Prospect Ive investors and foreign Aid agencies who recognize Zimbabwe economic dependence on the White South noted foreign minister Pik Bot has warning that South Africa will not crawl or beg to establish either Trade or Diplo Matic agreements with Al though Mugabe subsequently modified his the Zimbabwe government has continued to attack South Africa for alleged subversive military operations and Salisbury businessmen fear the Botha government could be provoked into cutting vital Oil and fertilizer supplies to Zimbabwe or sever Trade agreements even if Mugabe prefers to retain a selective relationship with her hated foreign Money has also been with held from crucial development projects in Zimbabwe until the extent and implications of White emigration can be assessed in economic recent signs of a Large and steady White exodus mean the country could be heading for an acute shortage of skilled manpower which will seriously negate the Efficacy of development although official statistics indicate that Whites left in May and a monthly average of have emigrated since the beginning of the reduction of the White Community is very much Exchange control Exchange control legislation allows an emigrating family Only in Cash plus its household effects and a whereas the annual Holiday cur Rency allocation is per person Over 12 and for younger Many White families who wish to sell their houses but cannot legally Export the Money Are surreptitiously disposing of All their property and leaving the country ostensibly on trading additional currency on a flourishing Black Market or making periodic return trips to take nieces and grannies with their Holiday South Africa for Short most of the departing Whites Settle in South Africa or they leave suspecting that education and health standards will decline in Zimbabwe under Black alarmed by govern ment threats of higher and intimidated by daily propaganda on radio and television in favor of the guerrilla comrades whom White rhodesian regarded As their brutal during the seven year immigrants the South african diplomatic mis Sion in Salisbury reports enquiries from prospective zimbabwean Immi Grants in and the Londo based scorpion society which assists for Mer rhodesian to Settle in the United Kindom estimates that around people travelling on British passports immigrate from Zimbabwe each Many not having completed emigration formalities at Home for fear of their assets being Whites have been encouraged to quit Zimbabwe because the present eco nomic Prosperity of South Africa has created unprecedented employment opportunities across the even the least qualified zimbabweans Are being offered jobs in South with daily press advertisements ranging from vacancies for used car salesmen to posts for architects and one Transvaal Hague enter offered Over 60 jobs in a recent full Page advertisement in a Salisbury former White convinced that their position will deteriorate steadily under Black Are anxious to take advantage of the economic Boom in the while it we realize apprehensively that there will be a War eventually in South said one departing but anything is better than the humiliating treatment we can expect in Zim fatal flaws in Oil proposals by Wilson special to the free press Ottawa the Trudeau and Lougheed Oil proposals had their a peal and could be defended but each Man found fatal flaws in the others ideas and the negotiations the differences Between the two men were greater than two sets of figures suggest with some objectives in they had very different Basic even canadians will inevitably wonder if failure was inevitable in these latest discus Sions and whether two other men could not have found More common ground and ended with an fatal flaws in this neither was prepared to Compromise on what he considered the fatal flaws that was Trudeau term but Lougheed could have used it in the competing sets of propos the country will not know for a while just what the consequences of this Dis agreement Are to the prime minis Ter has decided to play a waiting contending that the Ball is now in Albertas one seem All but certain there will be further delays in getting on with the development of new Energy sources which the country badly needs to reduce its costly Reliance upon heavy imports of foreign Trudeau insists that there is no linkage Between the Oil negotiations and the constitutional discussions which have also been under Way but that surely ignores the question of on two vital ownership and control of resources and Powers Over the there has not been much Progress in the constitutional Progress there has been largely limited to less fundamental it is unlikely that the disagreement Here will make matters anything but More difficult when the two sides sit Down next month and go Back to their discussion of the two big issues that were the real sticking Points in Toronto and few things could be much clearer than that the Federal and Alberta governments do not really Trust each constitutionally the Federal govern ment does have Power to impose Export taxes and has used it in the this Alberta sees use of this Power As a Means of intruding the Federal government into provincial control of the Alberta proposals contained sub Stantial offers of financing from provincial revenues for Energy and trans port projects outside its Trudeau seemed to take objection on the grounds that these would be business investments from which a Good return could be expected rather than at the very it is a Good question whether business investments by governments in such projects Are really less worthy than any Long term observer of politics and govern ment would have to suspect that this was not the real Issue and that it was actually the role to be played by differ ent Levels of government that became no Comfort no one should take too much Comfort from the fact that there apparently will be a Lull before the next act in this unfortunate drama begins to in the potential for a very costly dispute is there before the involving damaging Federal provincial that problem can be minimized for the time being if each Side behaves with restraint but the Lull will not last for Long because of the big issues that remain the Price of Oil is not the greatest of these open prob lems the country1 could live with either the Federal or provincial Price the greater problems will arise Over the need to get on with new Energy projects and the ways in which they Are to be the need for the projects is last december the Federal and provincial governments were very close to an agreement with which the country could have lived easily the fact that political pressures upset it is galling and it May Well be costly to this country ;