Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 16, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday april 1 1 for your interest save with a j save with a 1-5 year Commerce -6 year Commerce term Deposit i guaranteed investment certificate by Mort ii Jim by Cai Juii Imp Ciul Brj of legislature redeemable 1 to 6 year fixed term interest paid Semi annually redeemable before maturity but subject to an interest penalty non redeemable 1 to 5 year fixed term interest paid annually f non redeemable before maturity minimum Deposit of ask for details. Other competitive rates available for Shorter terms or ote interest payment options Kates subject to change without notice. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Pawley heaps scorn on new tory budget i by John Sullivan 1 opposition Leader Howard Pawley yesterday heaped scorn on the government s new budget calling in a apology for inaction since 1977 by the tories. Pawley said the budget is an empty easier Basket containing Only alibis and apologies 10 disguise ilk government s admission of the nip Leader said he was amazed Ai finance minister Brian Ransom s assurances that his record Milhon deficit projection remains within manageable limits and does not mean abandonment of the tories balanced budget promises of 1977. Pawley said that when the former Schreyer ment recorded a deficit in 1977-7s, Premier Sterling Lyon condemned the nip As fiscal arsonists and said it was so wild and reckless that it was inca Pable of i wonder How the first minister defines his own gov he said. Are there firebug Loose in this Promise a joke saying the largely stand Pat budget is ill equipped to Deal Wilh the needs of Pawley Dis missed the first 40 pages of Ransom s budget statement As fillers from which Only the pulp and paper India re would the highlights of this budget would barely fill a postage he said. The opposition Leader said this year s 15-per-Cem jump in expenditures made a joke out of Craik s Promise in october that spending would be held to eight per cent. At the same time he said the tory policy of acute protracted restraint has become one of acute protracted Manitoban have been waiting patiently for 3years and i find that in going about the province More and More Manitoban Are asking what was All this he said he also condemned the government for its 2.2-per cent Job creation record and blamed the Consen alive Raissez Faire ideology for Manitoba s economic stagnation he noted the government s flip Flop on tax credits first denying any inequities in its 1980 reforms and then providing million in tuesday s budget to Correct the problems. Noting that the government s move to a percentage tax on gasoline had meant a 20-per-cent jump from is cents a gallon to 23 cents in the last year and millions of dollars in Windfall Revenue Pawley challenged tory promises of tax Relief. 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In a statement released yesterday Bernard Chris Ophe president of the Mani Toba food and commercial workers local 832, said the action is possible if the employer refuses to agree to the workers major demands on wages and Job classifications. The Union represents five workers most of them j morticians at the Home. Christophe said people in the area May not have a Cess to burial services if a strike occurs. The next two weeks will be he said. No talks have been held since Friday. Funeral Home owner Walter Strilchuk said sen ice would be maintained in the event of a walkout. We d just continue As he said. I have enough staff and other Funer Al Homes to support the employer has offered wages of to s6.31 an hour. Christophe was unavailable for further com ment. Kostyra to contest Riding Eugene Kostyra a Long time new Democrat was nominated last night to rep resent the party in the seven Oaks constituency now held by retiring Saul Miller. At a nominating meeting at West Kildonan collegiate Kostyra 33, a National representative with the Canadian Union of Public employees Defeated Ben Zaidman chairman of the Board of trustees for the seven Oaks school division. In february Miller 6-1, announced he would not seek re Etc Ion to the seat he has held for the nip since 1966. Both candidates in their nomination speeches As Well As nip Leader Howard Paw Ley slammed the conservative government for tues Day s budget failing to live up to election promises and ;