Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free july 1981 t focus Rosy picture of Canadas future by Peter Thomson Ottawa to say capital spending in Canada to the year 2000 Wilt exceed trillion Doest excite Many Ca it becomes More when 80 of Canadas business and labor leaders clearly identify a number of projects and put a Price tag on them of but the whole process Wilt really become important As so called Mega projects get under providing thou Sands of creating new commune providing for technological and stimulating manufacturing and servicing the projects have been time frames have been set the economic Boom is within sight in Many parts of the the major projects task Force of business and labor leaders has been working two years on the two weeks ago it presented its report to Trade and Commerce minis Ter Herb the task Force tried to identify each specific new investment through its size or through some major anticipated effect in employment or tech is expected to have a significant Impact on the Canadian As the vast majority of projects identified Are some per cent of total expenditures will be in electricity generation and transmission Manitoba will have a Good share of these with estimated capital expenditure of More than the province is also marked for a million Potash mine at Lazare and a million aluminium providing 400 and 700 operating jobs on the Ontario and Quebec All fall far Short of getting an equal share of investment on a per capita the Atlantic provinces especially Newfoundland and Nova Al the Yukon and North West territories will be the Boom areas for but there is something for every the task Force sees per cent of capital investment taking place in the Atlantic provinces 17 per cent in que Bec per cent in Ontario although that province has some 33 per cent of Canadas per cent in Manitoba per cent in Saskatchewan per cent in Alberta per cent in and per cent in the Yukon and Northwest Sorne per cent of projected invest ment was regarded As Multi provincial or of undetermined Here is How the task Force sees the investment breakdown for major projects u million per cent for conventional hydrocarbon exploration and development d million per cent for heavy Oil development d million per cent for pipelines a million per cent for processing and petrochemicals d minion per cent for electrical generation and transmission d million per cent for Forest products cd million per cent for mining d million per cent for transportation task Force predicts trillion in d million per cent for manufacturing and a million per cent for it is the nature of the investment that dictates where it will conventional hydrocarbon exploration is expected to be concentrated in the Northwest territories and Atlantic heavy Oil development will be Pri Marily in capital spending in Canada by the year particularly on electrical Power Alberta and Are expected to be the major areas for investment in pet electricity generation and transmission investment is spread across All transportation investment is expected to be concentrated in Quebec and manufacturing investment largely automotive is earmarked for Ontario and the bulk of Forest product invest ment is expected in Alberta and the task Force notes that a number of the projects involve developing sources of raw materials in provide opportunities for additional economic activity through the projects obviously offer great opportunities for there Are tens of thousands of direct jobs re begin Likely to take hard line on West Bank by Jim Durfeld new Day Washington have some sym Pathy for american policymakers on the the likelihood that Mena chem begin will continue As israels prime minister is going to make the Job of moving ahead with the Camp David peace process extremely the conclusion of experts inside and outside of the administration is that a reelected begin is going to take an even harder line on the Issue that most consider essential to peace the future of the Israel occupied West Bank of the Jordan simply begin is More interested in furthering israeli control of the area he Calls by its biblical names of Judea and Samaria than in turning control Over to palestinians As part of a peace analysts predict if begin is going to be More militant on Menachem begin and probable coalition partner Yosef Burg the West Bank Given the Likely nature of his new in 1977 he formed a government that included moderate As Well As religious political now he Only needs support from the religious and Hartline factions to form a in 1977 Ezer Moshe Dayan and Yigal Ladin moderates were important members of begins none of them will play a major role in the new such Hartline advocates As Ariel Sharon As the general Patton of Israel will be in this Sharon most Likely As defence in Many expect that in his second term begin will attempt to leave his imprint on history As the Man who made Judea and Samaria part of begin has always con tended that those which were taken in the 1967 War and which remain a major unsettled Issue be tween Egypt and Are a part of an increased Effort to colonize the West Bank is but american analysts admit that while a labor government might have taken what the United states considers a More reasonable position on the West Bank labor Leader Shimon Peres has always favored some Type of territorial Compromise that would address israeli Security a narrowly elected labor government might not be Able to carry out its the party not Only would have faced a very Strong opposition Leader in but also would have had to make major conces Sions to form a coalition with the religious Peres and his designated defence Yitzhak Are bitter 1 dont envy the position of a Mideast policy said William who performed that duty in the Nixon and Carter administrations and is now at the Brookings i think basically you have to Batten Down the hatches and contain the negative spillover because i think it will be unlikely that there will be any major Progress on the West Bank and i think it will also be important for this administration to make it Clear to begin that he Doest have a Blank that he cant do anything that he wants to the key question facing the Reagan will be How to accomplish those one group will advocate a Tough confront ing the newly elected prime minister but wednesdays White House announcement that future arms deliveries to Israel will not be delayed because of the israeli raid on the iraqi nuclear reactor is a Strong indication that the Carrot will be used before the it is a Wise decision not to confront one israeli analyst he does not react Well to that Type of it would be counter product begin is hard enough to get along with when you Are being Nice to the problem begin will fact and the leverage the United states might still have is that he will not want to pursue his West Bank objective so blatantly As to destroy the egyptians Rae i peace there is a great fear on the part of Many israelis that when Israel returns the last third of the Sinai to Egypt in there will be no More incentive for egyptian president Anwar Sadat to maintain Normal rela somehow begin will have to keep Sadat engaged in the peace one israeli analyst if he goes too too fast in his West Bank he will lose he needs to involve him for another five just How that can be accomplished is not the proposals for West Bank autonomy advanced by begin have been called unacceptable by and Many american officials have agreed that begins proposals have been Noth ing but a veiled attempt to keep control of the West one possibility would be to attempt to implement autonomy in the egyptian influenced Gaza strip before the West Sadat has suggested that which does not have the religious or strategic meaning of the West Bank to be a testing begin has rejected the say ing he feared that what was done in Gaza would be used As a precedent for the West but if the United states presses the Gaz first it might be a Way in which begin could keep Sadat and it would offer the Reagan administration an Opportunity to demonstrate four years when begins elec Tion was a stunning american officials said that it was an aberration and that their strategy would be to get through his term in office As Best they could and then Hope for a More cooperative labor even after the Camp David agreements were the attitude was that autonomy was a Way of buying time until begin left the scene and some Type of territorial Compromise in the West Bank became but the very close election results tuesday indicate that the liked Victory four years ago was not a temporary Israel seems to be devel Oping two Strong political one the other More at the it appears that the conservatives will lated to the there is a warn ing comment in the report that Cana Dian education and training systems have historically failed to equip Ade quate numbers of canadians with skills which meet Job Market there is potential for Canadian manufacturing related to the Meg projects assuming Canadian companies invest in the necessary facilities and technology and develop the capability to service these markets with generally competitive manufactured the potential exists to penetrate Export markets out Side the traditional Range of Semi Fin shed or Low value added there can be no question that the task in its has painted a glowing picture of Canadas future economic development but flowing from an impressive list ing of Meg projects Are two Funda mental questions will they Bunch putting far too much demand pressure on the Economy at one time How realistic is the list the report itself notes that one million project of Esso resources in which was to take place be tween 1982 and has been can two other huge the cold Lake heavy Oil project and Al Sands Oil Sands estimated at billion and billion Are on hold and in danger of being cancelled if the Federal and Alberta governments do not soon reach agreement on Oil pricing and a multitude of other projects will have to wait for approval at one level of government or another and the rec Ord for expeditious action is not delays at the Start of such projects can push them Back onto the projected starting time for others thus result ing in bunching that would not be Good for the Canadian or for the project if there is not to be some the project list probably will not be completed by a target Date that keeps drawing one other Point should be More than 90 per cent of the potential investment identified by the task Force is and is made economically feasible by soaring Energy without the open nations Price raising actions of the canadians have such a promising fun United Church sex report has Playboy style when the United Church study on human sexuality first became the common caution to critics was that they should not believe All of the sensationalized press the document has since been Distri buted and is being studied by individual would be critics have discovered that the first reports were rather printed disclaimers that it is neither a policy statement of the United Church of nor an attempt to Tell people what to will have not nearly the effect on Ordinary Church members that the unbridled assault on traditionally held values in he report will the report May not be a policy statement of the but it is cer Taimy an attempt to reshape the think ing of the Church and its members through a document that has All the identifying features of a textbook de signed to preach the if it feels do it philosophy that is quite popular outside most Christian churches to begin the report puts traditional biblical teachings in their place by urging students to allow the Bible own integrity As a statement out of a Remote past the condemnation of homosexuality in Leviticus if a Man lies with a male As with a both of them have commuted an Abom Fred Cleverley ution they shall be put to death was the report part of a general holiness code that also prohibited eat ing rare wearing mixed fabrics and having marital Intercourse during the the report the same Laws do not prohibit and the practice is mentioned Only once in the to discriminate so arbitrarily Between male and female homosexuality is intolerable for the conservative As much As for the Liberal inter Preter of the the report goes on to ask its readers if they really became heterosexual As a matter of Choice for it invites each to remember times or situations in which they were strongly attracted sexually to others of the same in the total study the report sufi Gylfi brainstorm the Slang terms you have heard fur female and male homosexual How would people feel being Given these names what do you see to lie the Justice issues in Community attitudes to homosexual persons what actions might you Lake for a the Reader gets the impression that he had better forget that instruction from a Remote past contained in group discussions have a prominent place in the Church members Are invited to in groups of talk about the place of sexuality in your your Joy in they Are also invited to close their eyes and experience a sexual taking As Long As they like to do you need not share what you did or with whom if you would rather in a group of six share what it was like to live through this you Ruy wish to reflect on what you did not wish to share if congregations really did the memories of what their fellow members had fanta sized could Rake their minds off Dull sermons for months to come almost As Central As the acceptance of homosexuality As a Church Norm Are the changes advocated in tradition Al attitudes toward marital while the report chides the Bible for its use of euphemisms to describe it suggests that intimacy is a and is not synonymous with genital the report cannot be equated with sexual exclusivity it we think it it is Only because we Are hens of the tradition Onich has condemned inter course was seen As the most Central and sensitive aspect of prob ably because the woman was regarded As a Possession whose most valuable Quality was the ability to produce male Fidelity was grossly distorted when it was understood chiefly As the guarantee of direct modern birth control methods changed in an age when All traditional stances Are being Reeva the notion of sexual exclusivity As a necessary component of marriage is also being some marriages require the report others Are willing to include the potential for genital expression with a person other than their if you do not happen to says this document which says it is not an attempt to Tell people what to then you have a and you can rationalize this dilemma by inserting in on one of the three Handy charts where it can be tested against your own commitments and against society and again your own Faith in the Almi t All the it is Worth remembering that the liberated authors of this non policy policy statement of the Church much earlier advised their students to cast critical eyes on historical rec including the the report says there is a new awareness that history is written usually from the Point of View of the privileged and and certainly not through the eyes of the Little people of the foot the report do not write the Annais of it would do the foot soldiers of the Church have much to do with writing proposed policies on what will be accepted As the sexual teach Ings of the the Banner that is being waved is not of the kind that will cause a Stampede at the recruiting doonesbury kih6 up Ftp co Britt soul the to on that i i i ;