Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 30, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade of Equality of civil lights Liberty of religion it pub shed and a wanted six Days a week Ai 300 Winnipeg r3c 301 by Canadian company limited Telephone 9439331 second class Wall registration number 6286 Donald Vicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor forum the pms fancy Satin it Soi Ever since the occasion a few years ago theft he allowed himself some but politically observations on the decline of the Market Economy if prime minister f rude us new years romps with Buttice 1 Phillips on the ctr network have been exercises in Graceful Trudeau skates skilfully Over and around the facts while apparently encumbered by Snow pants along in his the exercise produces a vision of Canada which is wonderfully convincing so Long 4s prime minister is but which tends to evaporate the Tuset goes Black and the viewer stops to think about what he has just been in the latest broadcast sunday the prime ministers Way with the facts was even More creative than the aim was to present viewers with a Choice Between the new Canada envisioned by Trudeau and the collection of Independent provinces proposed by the greedy in the Trudeau told viewers a Good Many things about the Constitution which were not quite he for that the government was pushing ahead on constitutional change because it owed action to the people of Quebec who voted no in last Springs in the constitutional changes being pushed by Trudeau have nothing to do with what was being promised by most federalist campaigners in Quebec and Are being opposed by the elected members of All the provinces political he said that he was imposing an amending formula which had already been agreed to by All the provincial in he is imposing an amending formula which is quite different torn to agreed to in Victoria 10 years ago because it includes a Brand new provision for a Federal Yim posed and organized he has refused to accept the amending formula which actually was agreed to by All the he said that he was including in the Constitution Only those minority educational rights already agreed to by the pre Miers some years in the premiers did not agree to putting those fights into the there is a Good argument that they should but for Trudeau to claim that they did is simply to misstate the where the prime minister was not misstating Jie was misinterpreting anyone who questioned his approach to constitutional and Energy issues was a provincial list first and a Canadian if he had the Pijie or Money to think of Canada at All if the country should break up because sortie canadians were against the changes being imposed by then it was not Worth saving where that puts people who would like to see Canada preserved whether Trudeau thinks it Worth saving or not is anybody by the time he was Trudeau claimed he had virtually everyone on his including Joe the Only ones it were those same greedy All of this makes for Fine entertainment up to a Point but the final result is at a time when their Economy is in a dangerous when inflation is on the when interest rates Are at their when the Dollar is when Energy development has when regional strains Are stronger and More bitter than they have been for canadians should be Able to expect More of their prime minister than word games and debating was the session a waste now that it has the notion of starting sessions of the Manitoba legislature before Christmas looks less like a food idea to some than it once since nothing happened using the pre Christmas part except for a debate on the speech from the throne that was even More rooted in irrelevancy than there is a widespread feeling that the december part of the session was simply a waste of it was in quite that the debate on the speech from the throne is a traditional and essential part of every if it was it was because the members who took part said uninteresting and irrelevant not because they said them in and simply getting that debate out of the Way should make it possible for the if it has the to organize the business of the resumed session on a More rational and civilized in the 10 Days of sitting in december plus the earlier Start in february will provide an extra month of leeway for better management of legislature above criticism of this years Experiment should not deter a hard look at a More significant departure genuinely split the Public would gain instead of being jammed mostly into the first six months of the the legislature session would run through october and recess until and then go on for another three months until the split session no create some management problems but it would have one great Adan it would ensure that the legislature could perform much More effectively one of its prime functions scrutiny of the actions of the under the present the government comes under intense scrutiny in the legislature Between february and its actions Are probed in question its budget is its legislation is picked apart and its decisions Are exposed to votes of for the remaining six or seven the elected members of the legislature have Little Opportunity to impose that kind of they can complain about government actions by holding press conferences or issuing press but the Chance to make a minister directly accountable for his actions simply does not it a fall session As Well As keeping the governments actions in the Public could provide time for the to introduce some of its legislation which could be studied in committee Over the Winter the idea of a split session will never be popular with government who tend to regard time spent in the legislature As time some no would be Happy to spend All their time running their departments without having to bother about the nuisance of the but scrutiny and accountability Are essential in a if the sittings of the legislature can be rearranged to provide better scrutiny and Fuller then it is something the government ought to consider As a member of parliament i will not be Down Here upsetting our balance of under any in the summer months tripping Over the red carpet proposals for Cable to several months a recommendation was made that Canada establish new policies covering the use of communications since the recommendation was there has been nothing but rumours that the Canadian radio television and telecommunications commission was preparing to move on the if the Federal government has yet to make up its mind what to do concerning satellite television in and what Steps to take to counter the increasing number of Canadian communities that Are being serviced primarily with satellite then it would be Wise to consider the proposals put Forward by the Canadian Cable television the made up of Canadian Cable has apparently grasped better than the Federal authorities the urgency surrounding the provision of Canadian satellite television the Cable companies Are on the firing line of the current with their businesses often threatened by unlicensed and who May take Over customers they have the licensed Cable companies have the most to lose in the unless they compete with their unlicensed they will Likely lose if they do compete without Federal their licensed status makes them liable for More severe penalties than those that can be applied to their unlicensed the association suggests that Canada should enter into prompt negotiations with the new administration to permit reciprocal reception and distribution of each others satellite at the moment rather fuzzy letter of agreement suggests that distribution of foreign signals is the association the Canadian govern ment should permit licensed Cable operators to compete with their unlicensed in this would permit the two licensed Cable companies to distribute the same signals received from american entertainment satellites that Are now distributed by unlicensed companies in North Ern and in places such As Falcon Lake and the association suggests that the without More Public should permit temporary distribution of other including licences could be dealt with As the association says it is aware of technical developments that May permit the operation of Home satellite receivers and it suggests a study be made of the benefits and costs to the consumer of an open sky satellite policy that would permit unrestricted reception of All television the association states that it is willing to accept a relaxation of some of the Protection that has been provided to it to in order to serve its customers the suggestions Are practical in the Light of technical developments in the if the crts is looking for a plan to follow to break into the modern communications it could do worse than consider by Frank Walker special to the free press Montreal some of our local experts Are Busy burying Premier Rene it is True that things have not been going Well for the parti quebecois but reports of its imminent demise should be considered exam the balloon has not so much rather it has been slowly and buoyancy can be restored with an injection of the right kind of political hot failure of will what we have seen in the past few weeks is not failure on a Large scale so much As a failure of will and stumbles More than there Are serious political the deficit seems to be getting out of hand billion compared with Esti mates in March 1980 of Quebec accumulated debt by this accounting will soon be the has naturally enough a different set of seen from the Liberal Side of the National Assembly the deficit for the year ending March 1981 will reach billion largely the liberals finance minister Jacques Parizeau overestimated the provinces economic growth and tax the fiscal position is serious but not the weakness is in judgment More than the lapses Are Small cumulatively they tarnish reputations and damage Credi relations with the Federal govern ment Are not so much bad As at a Long arms where other provinces Are in there lapping up fat crumbs from the Federal the Levesque govern ment is reduced to whimpers and com yet Federal contracts represent Quebec jobs and no Small offt Decuff deals at they Are major including a natural Gas Lique fiction shipbuilding and subcontracting for All represent skilled labor As Well As on Levesque has sounded More petulant than angry and has abandoned the leadership of the anti Trudeau movement to English speaking when the Premier has he has sounded stridently partisan rather than fur Levesque clearly cannot get much More mileage out of his tired old constitutional a majority of As the referendum do not see them selves As a distinct National society As the Premier would have but As French canadians or Plain canadians per cent compared to per cent who chose in a recent poll to Label themselves for the to and it May be a Long we have exhausted separatism As a major political defensive operation Levesques european de spite the re carpet treatment handed out in has slipped far below his pre referendum it has been a defensive a Laboured explanation of what went wrong on May a me too from a gang of belgian separatists does not add up to much in the hard world of real and carpets and bugles and receptions do not offset Premier Raymond Barres firm statement on the repetition of which must have jarred on Levesques something can be especially by those who love this part of for giving the name place do Quebec to a Square in German Des pres when it is touched on two sides by Aux Deus magots and the Brasserie both pleasant drinking but even place do Quebec is no More important to our future than naming a Street in Montreal after president John Kennedy was to Canadia american the failure to abandon his european junket and return Home for the funeral of Jean to in political Rene Leves que owed so was not Only a feel it was clearly seen As for a politician whose political Edge Al ways been a natural feeling for his fellow this was a bad mistake and not a mistake the old Levesque would have there has a Small matter of More another error of judgment than anything and certainly not of serious which has flickered around the government meanness on top of it we have an item of language Type legislation if passed and would reduce to one movie House at any onetime the right to show any one particular in Glis language unless not All this Bill engages in this kind of Picky much of it is sensible and helpful to the Quebe film but As so often happens herein a Little bit of meanness is allowed to infiltrate a sensible decision to the embarrassment of the great majority of this who Are As much the victims of this kind of prejudice As the rest of so much Energy Over so Many years has been deflected into the cultural survival of this with great and rewarding Success that now what is being done is More liturgical than these extra Little pieces do nothing for the Overall which is not Only Good and healthy but Strong enough to preserve what should be preserved years to the Quebec of 1980 is a different and better place than the Quebec of the quiet wrong has been done to but it is wrong in relative by compari son with the rest of Canada and its treatment of there can hardly be cause for the decision to a provincial general election until next Spring has been a this is an overtired government and it is acting like teachers role a Manitoba school superintendent was recently quoted As expressing con Cern about the number of Days some teachers have been away from their classrooms to engage in department of education since the depart ment of education pays for substitute teachers when it asks regular teachers for this concern must Stem from a belief that a teachers role in education should be limited to that of classroom administrators who hold this View seem to have forgotten How much a teacher is isolated from communication and interaction with his colleagues during his working and How Little Opportunity there is for a teacher to engage in leadership activities while remaining a classroom to deny teachers the Opportunity to demonstrate leadership in matters of curriculum and instruction is to deny them one of the most effective avenues to grow teachers no i service if we cease to allow teachers time away from their teaching duties for this purpose we Are in danger of losing some of our Best and brightest teach the proportion of harmless Drudge among the ranks of teachers will it has been my privilege As a univer sity professor to serve on curriculum development committees with teach major both philosophical and Are explored at length by these although there May be some immediate disadvantage in a teachers being away from his class for a committee meeting or i service pre in the Long run the Quality of the total educational program in Mani Toba must surely Benefit from teachers having taken part in this kind of expert Harvey Williams Winnipeg the innocents a great number of people Are Vinced that setting up another abortion committee to carry out More Abor one to be in the new seven Oaks Hospital would be a serious we would ask minister of to use his influence to prevent the setting up of such a com particularly at this time of year we cringe when we read of the Slaughter of the in the reign of Herod the so called while at the same time we set up a committee to permit to be carried out a much wider Slaughter of the innocents in our own Ham Busy Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and the authors name will be used and letters Are subject to two traditions to Charleswood student Council the student Council and students of Tuxedo Shaftesbury High school Are genuinely concerned at the recent Deci Sion by the school Board to reorganize five schools in Assiniboine South school we Are concerned for a number of Charleswood students will have developed Strong traditions within their school and will not want to lose we Hope that with the blend ing of both traditions we can create a stronger if reorganization takes place and this seems Likely there is a need for students in both schools to better understand one so that the transition is As smooth As we do not like the statements of ill feeling being spread in both we feel mat both of us Are representatives of our school in that we Welcome change and look Forward to seeing you in the upcoming school we Are concerned about the Quality of programs being offered in the High school and we see Tion As being beneficial to the student bodies of both we Are concerned that the student body of with schools have the Chance for dialogue in the near future so that plans can be considered for the meeting of both schools in the Spring 98j and that programs m jointly for the till tons for future consideration have been d joint student Council d student Council representatives from each school visit each others schools to answer questions and give d holding student Council elections in the d changing Tuxedo Shaftesbury High schools d activities to introduce the student body to each the students of Shaftesbury Welcome you and Hope that out of the Combina Tion of our schools and their a newer and greater one will Dan Kornberg president Marina Soubry Vic president Tuxedo Shaftesbury student Council Winnipeg thoughtful doctor i am writing As a former patient of John he operated on me in 1979 for open heart surgery and i will never forget his thoughtfulness and kindness to myself and the other tents with serious medical he was always ready to give of his emotional i am positive that his intention with regard to Elsie Miles was Only to make her feel More comfortable in strange it bid that the Bead incident Winnipeg face facts i am a car i Park All Over the City and i have never had my car towed Why because i pay for my i move my car before 4 because of the stowaway ten years ago i was in the towing i towed away illegally parked cars because most car owners like to Park for at that time it Cost about 35 cents an not but they would rather take their chances and save 35 i charged to redeem a i refused to release cars after 9 because of angry impaired Drivers who came looking for a fist maybe the towing companies Are out of but face if these Chi Selers who try to save 35 cents or would pay for their parking there would be no reason for towing Cook Winnipeg ban act with All the talk going on at present about constitutional changes and amending no one talks about a Section of the ban act which above everything should remain in our nothing has been mentioned by either the the App or the about the Sions in the ban act that allows the provincial and the municipal ments to borrow from the Bank of Canada at the Cost of administrating the even in this age of inflation this Cost would not exceed two per cent of the the provision is but the stipulated repayment period of six months deters any government from using with All the committees popping up All and All the meetings the provincial premiers nothing is heard about ensuring that this part of the ban act remains in the new constr and that the repayment period be extended from the now six months to 50 just As is provided by our Federal government to governments of other for example million for 50 years at no interest charge million for 50 years at no interest charge million for 50 years at on half per cent if the same terms were allowed to our provincial government As Are Al Lowed to the countries think of what in Manitoba could not Only to alleviate our economic situation but also for the the the shortage of Beds in the jobs for students coming out of our colleges and the list of priorities is longer than the throne speech Ted Bezan Winnipeg for toe fat we does w uhme the husband in or ;