Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free july Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion putt Tofield and six Days a week at 300 Carton r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt editor editorials mandates for begin israels prime minister Minachem begin my won two important votes of Confidence in hit combative approach to the neighbouring Arab his conservative coalition ims won a renewed mandate from the israeli electorate and the Reagan administration has resumed shipment of f16 fighter aircraft despite israels use of similar aircraft to destroy an iraqi nuclear the israeli electorate and the White House in endorsed the june 7 air begins election Victory is a trifle like most israeli election in that his own liked bloc did not win a but the country has always been governed by the fact that liked and Shimon opposition labor party finished virtually Neckar neck is beside the begin went into the election As the head of a coalition labor and the other opponents of the coalition did not win enough support to unseat that govern Moshe despite his great won just a single seat for his newly founded with his coalition partners and his has the governing coalition May go through clamorous reorganisations and noisy comings and goings As israeli governments often begin remains in the begin governments management of the israeli econ omy has permitted championship level inflation which reached 133 per cent last the voters overlooked that dismal begin and his Ultra nationalist supporters have multiplied and strengthened new jewish settlements displacing Arab occupants from the Israel occupied West Bank a policy labor dismisses As the status of the West Bank and us inhabitants is still a subject of negotiation with but begin regards it As historic ally and irreversibly part of the voters apparently preferred begins though it threatens a dead end to negotiations with begin also concluded the peace treaty with returned most of the occupied Sinai to Egypt and despatched his air Force to destroy the iraqi labor quarrelled with details of tone and tactics in these manoeuvres and in the continuing process of negotiation with Egypt but offered no fundamental change in the voters have authorised begin to carry West european countries have been increasingly critical of begins their efforts to persuade Israel to Deal directly with the Palestine liberation organization have earned them Savage attacks from but his relations with the any that matters the United Are in excellent the Reagan administration will not As its arms agreements appear to that weapons it Sells to Israel must be used Only for defensive pausing Only Long enough to work out a Way of calling the june 7 raid the government will continue delivering the fighter aircraft previously contracted the contract is in amended to say that the weapons May be used for any purpose begin Calls whatever the rest of the world May the countries of nato and the Warsaw pact have lived for years with hostile nuclear weapons targeted on their cities and military ready to be launched at Short Israel faced the threat of an iraqi nuclear reactor despite International might some Day be used to produce nuclear weapons which could then be aimed at destruction of that reactor was not a defensive act in the Ordinary meaning of the rather than Strain relations with the Reagan administration is putting itself through the necessary verbal acrobatics to Call it since begin has no need now to prove his there Are slender grounds for hoping that he May feel Strong enough to make the compromises with Egypt that would permit Resolution of the status of the West Bank and its it seems More Likely that he will feel vindicated in his uncompromising stance and free to pursue his vision of Judea and Samaria integrally incorporated into the prospects for just and lasting peace in the Middle East have dimmed cheating the elderly about on Quarter of the canadians retiring at age 65 last qualified for three weeks of unemployment benefits never got they did not know they were entitled to the the government was not about the Tell and so they never that is not just a few people getting As the bureaucratic saying in the it is a Large scale failure by the unemployment insurance commission to seek out its creditors and pay almost All working canadians contribute to the unemployment insurance for most of those reaching retirement the Little on shot retirement payment is the Only tangible Benefit they will Ever the general practice of governments is to write the rules for a Benefit program and then raise the paper barricades to fend off All those not being try to collect the applicant Lucky enough or Alert enough to find out that the program exists must run an obstacle course of for filling and produce supporting the routine helps slow Down those who Are trying to cheat the but it also intimidates those who Lack the skills or the stomach for bureaucratic elderly people Are especially prone to confusion or Intima when governments offer benefits to the such As the unemployment insurance retirement Benefit or the guaranteed income supplement or the provincial govern ments school tax they have a special duty to make sure the intended beneficiaries know what is due to the unemployment insurance commission is clearly not doing it is Content to Tell employers about the retire ment Benefit and leave it to them to pass the word along to their the result is that about of the retiring workers who could have made a claim last year never did saving the unemployment insurance fund about the citizen who owes the government Money is never allowed to get away with pleading that he did not know where to pay or How the government is mighty Quick and efficient about collecting its taxes and Canada pension contributions and unemployment insurance it seems to know who we Are and where to find us when it is Why does it have so much difficulty locating us when it comes time to pay a constituent Assembly there Are some ideas whose time has come and one such is the revived last week in a report prepared for the Canada West for an elected constituent Assembly to write a new Canadian the idea has surfaced various academics and journalists have produced variations Over the years last the Federal conservatives came out with their own badly timed proposal for a National constitutional Conven none of them has led to any action and the Fate of the latest is Likely to be the the latest proposal has two distinguished Chancellor of the University of British Columbia and Roger a political scientist from the University of in an admirably balanced they set out the pros and cons of turning Over the Job of rewriting Canadas Constitution to a body especially elected for that unhappily for their the list of disadvantages looks much More imposing than the list of Adan the obvious advantage claimed for the idea is that it takes the business of constitutional renewal out of the hands of jealously guarding their and turns it Over to the a constituent it is could set aside political partisanship and regional jealousy to produce a Constitution which would reflect the needs and desires of the Canadian the trouble is that a Constitution needs to be More than it needs to be to be accepted and to be put into any attempt at Constitution writing which seeks to ignore the very real problems of linguistic and regional differences will not solve the problems of Canadian Unity but Only make them the paper suggests that the new drafted by a constituent Assembly with equal representation from each should be adopted if approved by referendum in eight with the Yukon and Northwest territories regarded together As a single province for the purpose of the the process of permit the Western and Atlantic provinces to impose unwanted constitutional changes on Ontario and or All the provinces East of plus the Northern to impose them on the three most Western that would be even More divisive than the federa Provin Cial squabbles that make up the existing approach to constitutional untidy As it May it seems that canadians have Little Choice but to leave the Job of negotiating constitutional change up to the elected politicians who have to live with the tantrums from Levesque by Frank Walker special to the free press Montreal expropriating prop erty for a right of Way carrying Oil or natural Gas into and across Quebec is sensible and profitable we have heard no word of protest about expropriating land for a right of Way for Hydro lines from Labrador across Quebec for the profit of new in Competition with this is Stark not Only madness but financially and politically local lunatics if Premier Rene Levesque had stopped his reaction to Federal Energy minister Marc Lalonde proposal it would have been incongruous but nothing he chose to go much Between it stand he told a press he would not i leave that to your to my which is pretty tolerant of political the pre Mier was threatening the physical destruction of the Newfoundland Power line by his at by encouraging some of our local Luna tics to return to the Days of Levesque did not mean the actual blowing up of transmission but was Only hoping for one of those frightening ice storms which Are a feature of the whether such a costing Many millions of would Ever be built when a line already is some thing but the Prospect of it is a potential muscle for newfound which has not a Deal is More though to achieve one Means a lot More flexibility and com Promise than this province has yet the Levesque with its irresponsible cannot be As summer the Premier is these 10 Odd fits of political he is worried about the effect of the Federal govern ments proposed Bill of rights upon Quebec language and he has a reason to since Quebec would be affected by while with a far worse record on has been allowed to escape by virtue of a rather obvious political but the Bill of rights is not Levesques Only there Are Feder Al ministers who seem to take a special Delight in needling the government of this and Lalonde is especially Good at there is nothing wrong with needling a or a Provin Cial except that in the Case of Lalonde and others of his colleagues from this it i simple Competition for local As much As the Federal liberals today depend upon their Power base in and the infighting Between the two groups is Basic and Federal goodies it has done us some we receive our share of Federal goo and we May deserve but they Are a fascinating manifesta Tion of Federal which a practical electorate is unlikely to strangely the political Bat Les seem to leave most of the Popula Tion quite the revival of without has pleased the faithful but done Little to move the but there Are issues which Are of immediate concern to the we Are already in education and the social the results of the new fiscal achieved not so much by cutting expenses As by con trolling a move which has precipitated an outburst from our very political labor the Premier and his administration have also Man aged to offend the feminist movement and the More Liberal among the party quebecois social apart from its the strength of the parti quebecois has always been its social and some of the legislation passed in this particularly that involving the health of Industrial Protection for unions and improvement in the is in the Best traditions of a Liberal cutting Back in some of these sectors is cutting where it hurts a Battle with the feds is Normal stuff for any Quebec administration when con fronted with such serious Domestic in that the Federal authorities May Well have done Levesque a Good certainly we should be treated to some interesting political theatre Over the quiet life life is generally quiet the fete fit ional was a Model of what such affairs should be an occasion for the Friendly and a Little the one moment of Vio Lence had nothing to do with the Cele it was the usual gangster stuff with which we Are we did break a local and perhaps nation Al we drank ten million bottles of or five for every Mon Trealer Over the age of 15 in the two Days of the fete million profit for the local but in car anyone should doubt the normality of life in Quebec Here is a question from history or the history of Canada and As taken by students across the province on june history 412 is a compulsory without which one cannot obtain the vital secondary v certify the fact that the Levesque government d held Public hearings before pass ing Laws on the j held hearings by the minister of education in connection with the Green paper1 on educational q held a referendum on the Issue of Sovereign Vasso iat n is evidence of its desire to a interfere with the Economy b consult the Public on issues c promote re forms of the tax system d safeguard Freedom of the a great Canadian the life and death of Terry Fox has a profound effect on millions of canadians of All walks of his life represented the inward and deep desire to express within All of us the capacity to to to sacrifice and to his life represented the courage and Challenge to overcome the mythical concepts of an idealistic society and the coming to grips with the alienation of human in Canada we face Many differences among the Many cultural and ethnic but whatever the differences one of the common predicaments we Are vulnerable to is psychological and emotional suffering is the pain of suffer my transcends All social and economic Terry Fox Mara Thon of Hope touched a live nerve in the Canadian sensitivity that is too deep for i am especially saddened by the passing of Terry Fox when 1 realize that he was a great a great human symbolizing courage and honesty for those who suffer Over whelming Odds that restricts their hold on in View of current Indian demographics of social fatalities and i can Only speculate How Many Indian intellects have been lost to i can Only speculate How Many geniuses among our Indian youth remain uncultivated for the Lack of meaningful sup port and i can Only surmise How Many Brilliant talents were never never never sex never realized their potential for the Good of the struggle continues behind the veil of insensitivity that Shields us from the rest of the Jack Brightnose Winnipeg selfless example in the hearts of canadians from coast to Terry Fox is he will remain alive As Long As Canada re members Brave deeds and those who perform the bravery that he displayed after he lost his right leg to cancer at 19 also motivated him last at to run Kilometres across Canada to raise Money for cancer Terry Fox helped to raise More than million for cancer but he did much More than he helped Many with cancer to Bear their suffer ing with renewed courage and he helped All canadians by his selfless Sherman Winnipeg minister of health province of Mii Toba Winnipeg letters the free press welcomes letters from rudders writer must give their name and address the author i ii Dot will be ubed and letters Are subject to editing grieving Canada Terry Fox has and with his death comes a bottomless Well of grieving All across we will always remember his Cour the number of Miles he the pain he was in and the Money he but will we As he the struggles of ail terminal patients i think All cancer victims Are heroes because they All fight against an enemy that we do not know How to now that Terry is will we remember that All dying people de serve our sensitivity and humanity Many of us avoid the terminal or we try to placate him or to change the subject when he wants to talk about his own it is not that we Are insensitive our own fears and insecurities will we struggle for More hospice where the dying Are not avoided but helped through the stages that come when one faces death in Winni Peg we have Only one hospice at the Boniface despite All that Terry people like him will still and learning to help them with their dying is a part of the Noble cause of Terry Sherry gold1n Winnipeg Terry gave Hope june Canada lost one it its Terry the Young Mara Thon of Hope died of Terry is hero because he inspired and captured the hearts of Oil those who heard of his desire to run across Cana he is a hero because he refused to let a Handicap diminish his desire to accomplish a he is a hero because we All knew that he would probably lose his larger Battle with even if he did win the Small he is a hero because he demonstrated to All who watched that one does not have to be afraid of and that when you learn that your future has been taken away from that you can still still have still interact with the present so that the past becomes meaningful to those who most of ail Terry is a hero because so Many of us have been touched by either directly or indirectly in a loved a Good Friend or respected a when All is said and death is a Normal and inevitable stage of to prepare for it is to accept to accept it is to fulfil our unique qualities of being human Terry Fox has become a and rightfully his death and his attitude toward it makes my own death and those of my family a Little less As my who also has cancer and who goes to sleep knowing that he May not Wake up the next Day for the problem is ill die for those of you who you have to handle Terry Fox made it easier fur me to handle James Shapiro department of psychology University of Manitoba Winnipeg defence of forces As the wife of a member of the Canadian armed i am irate that the free press Only contribution to National armed forces Day june 25 was Mcnees distasteful re Marks about the Mcfee states that there Are 110 generals in the armed in there is Only general Ramsey chief of defence if Mcfee took the time to visit a recruit ing Centre he could find a More accurate number to base commanders and company offi cers Are not always chauffeur driven at the expense of lesser members Are encouraged to form a car some ride bicycles even officers to and from on Large base transport company supplies bus ser vice similar to City bus there Are inter base bus runs to transport members and dependents for business or personal with regard to a new general receiving new carpeting and wallpaper for his subsidized does Mcfee know How Long the old carpet was there these so called subsidized Homes Are not subsidized by Canadian taxpayers but rental rates Are based on the aver age rates of the area surrounding the particular or Mcnees expensive moves every three years Are a Little Post Ings Are for five years or unites the member wishes a As for the childrens schooling the moves Are made during Peak periods of june to As members of the armed forces move to areas across their children become canadians not easterners or Wes Mcnees last Point pertaining to the Large number of personnel leaving the forces is not quite people Are leaving the forces because Pride in service does not feed and clothe their Many members Are tired of a three tonight per cent raise when inflation is double digit the main Rea son the Young recruits do not slay in the forces is that they cannot accept the rules and discipline i think Mclee Slu Iid talk to the military Community be Ion writing on this things Arnot always what it v Jein Mills Dominion Day prolific usage of Canada has been noticed in Recert of Trie free the act pertaining to Public holidays has still not been repealed or the name of the Public Holiday is Dominion John hendr1cks Manitoba Branch the monarchist league of Canada Winnipeg Fegi be m i d n at Prinie 4 ;