Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 4, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg Ftp August Freedom of Trade Equality of Sivil rights Liberty of religion published did puff Tweti Days a week Wolf Wijtek ft38 361 by Canadian newspapers Goffi party limited in 9439331 66nald Nicol publisher John Depofe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor painful Northern closures the encouraging thing about the most recent decision regarding Northern Manitoba rail service by the Canadian transport commission is that it was made after thorough Public hearings were the discouraging thing is that the commission has decided that rail service to the Northern part of the province can be and in the Case of the Community of Swan the change that will deprive Swan River of passenger rail service resulted from the Ort the part of via that its trains will get More business by being sent through than through Swan the commission has apparently agreed with this it is unfortunate that it will not be possible to provide both services on a trial basis to see whether the experts Are right or it should come As no Surprise that the commission is willing to recommend reductions in passenger the decision might reflect sortie spillover from the earlier by transport minister that lines ordered kept in service by the commission were to be abandoned by government order because the commission had made what the government considered to be the wrong Pepins arbitrary shelving of advice Wilt have Many unfortunate of these will be that the commission will lose some seeing Pepin dump Many commission rulings into the garbage no one will blame those adversely affected by new commis Sion rulings if they do not accept the commissions word on their Fate As what is unfortunate is that at the Public As at so Many other Public the commission seemed to be faced with an either conventional trains of the Type that have run for so years make or they Are it seems that More time could be spent considering alternative types of rail passenger to Many countries trains designed specifically for particular some consisting of a single passenger some with a transit bus mounted on have provided service that can economically exist where conventional trains lose two years is reasonable the Federal Cabinet has reached a sensible and generally acceptable conclusion about construction of the Norman Wells pipeline and the award to pet Ocanada of Oil exploration rights in the Northwest it has approved both the pipeline construction and the but the work cannot Start for another two the Berger commission in 1977 recommended a ten year moratorium on Petroleum development in the territories to allow time for settlement of land the National Energy Board had approved a proposal from Imperial Oil and others to build a pipeline from Northern Alberta to the Small Norman Wells oilfield Halfway Down the Mackenzie River without the cabinets decision to allow work to Start two years hence in effect pares Justice bergers moratorium Back to six Northern native groups Are pleased about the Imperial is pleased about the approval at the end of the pet Ocanada has plenty of land to work on elsewhere during the two years and is not since Justice berserk produced his recommendation there have been on again off again efforts to reach an agreement Between Ottawa and Northern native groups Over ownership of the the right of the occupants to preserve their traditional fishing and trapping Economy and the sharing of Mineral the rights of the native occupants and of the Federal government Are undefined because the land was never ceded to Canada by the land claims negotiations of recent years have not produced an agreement partly because there was no urgent reason Why they but now that the exploration firms and pipeline builders Are eager to move there is some obvious urgency about pinning Down who has what rights to what land in the Northwest territories or to the Revenue it the two year deadline is Remote enough to permit careful negotiation but close enough to oblige the parties to negotiate Southern Canada needs whatever Oil and Gas can be found in the Northwest territories and will not wait indefinitely to go and get but the occupants of the land must be fairly two years is not too Long to Ottawa double Standard it is most unlikely that the individuals who negotiated the original Indian treaties Ever suspected that the special status they were giving Canadas native people would some Day be used As an excuse to steal and sell satellite television to other canadians who were denied it is just As unlikely that these same negotiators could conceive of a country where it was considered to be a crime requiring police action to pick up electronic signals that in trespassing on an individuals in to become angry at Indian tribes who see in the distribution of satellite television a Means by which they can earn and at the same time gain Access to a sophisticated communications system they can use to further their own cultural one must first adopt a mindset in which the watching of any can be somehow equated with criminal the Laws of Canada today prohibit the operation of a satellite receiving station without the appropriate licence issued by the Federal department of commune and prohibit the Sale of signals received without the approval of the Canadian radio television and telecommunications the Law has not prevented More than such receive an transmit operations from becoming a part of the daily lives of thousands of the Federal government is still in a quandary As to what it should do about it has decided to act As if the Law did not exist where no other signals Are and has no qualms about its own Law enforcement officers in Remote areas enjoying the where other signals but Are few in number the exact number varies the Federal government has decided to apply its Remote Rule and to ignore those who operate illegal in Urban where the government has licensed its own signal steamers in the form of Cable it regards satellite dishes As a form of vermin to be it has not shrunk from sending in police to seize and then to delay bringing lawbreakers to a practice that seems to Fly in the face of the right to a speedy trial established in 1215 at the Federal government seems to fear that its rules that limit what canadians can watch on their television sets will not stand up in the longer it leaves the the More complicated it under the the indians control their own Many of them believe they control the right to set up satellite and to sell the signals received to people who live rather than getting into another Legal squabble attempting to prove that regulations can win a race with the Federal government has a sensible course open to it could remove regulations that attempt to control television programming and and leave the control up to those who Are willing to pay for what they want to Canadian programs should compete with foreign and the result May be a pleasant Surprise to those who keep telling everyone that Canadian television cannot survive in an uncontrolled cheerful Outlook the scathing of Cereal Grain in expected to be in full swing within will provide the first tangible indication of the size of what is expected to be an above aver age swathes were knocking Down some Barley and fall Rye this past but the harvesting of other Grain is not expected to get under Way until Early this crop prospects Are Farmers this for the most have received that combination of moisture and hot weather that produces yields that go into the record it is a grim reminder of Manitoba weather that the first killing Frost of the 198182 Winter season occurred in the Eastern part of the province this past crop experts Are reporting that soil moisture throughout Manitoba is and that this moisture has already produced the first Good Hay crop of the the Good weather has produced its share of Weed but crops this year have been remarkably free of damage from the picture is in Sharp contrast to conditions experienced Only a year when was in such Short although no crop can be measured until it is in the the indications Are that this year the Prairies will produce a crop that will make the the supporting Industrial ser and the Rural communities the Good news will spill Over to have its beneficial effect on the Economy As a fiscal fantasies in Quebec by Frank Walker special to the free press Montreal when 50 percent of your budget is tied up in and 20 per cent in debt you do not have much room to in one important department Educa Tion some 87 per cent is then even the smallest economies have a distorting effect upon and for political reasons a referee for example sign a con Trad which indexes wages to you Are in deep you set up a pension system for the Public service which absorbs billion out of a billion budget and in the next few to Rise to 10 per cent of the whole your troubles Are com faced with this kind of the area of cutting inevitably affects most sharply those least Able to suffer a decline in their share of social economic conditions Force or so you to reduce or the rate of increase of taxes for Busi then someone has to take up the and when you find that extra or some of out of the so called profits of the Crown Corpora particularly those which must borrow heavily High Cost you merely postpone the Hydro for is due to provide about million a year out of so called profits Over the next few what this Means is that Hydro must borrow that extra amount at High rates of or curtail develop but certainly not lower the cuts in services which finance minister Jacques Parizeau has ordered affect the two big spending depart and social Between them they receive nearly billion of the such cutting As has been done is minor and based on care Ful but for those on welfare and other marginal any amount can fairly be described As too at that cuts Are into not the federation of Catholic school the largest in the prov will receive approximately an increase of More than million for the but according to Board members this gain will be can celled by increases in teachers salaries and by increases in other such As fuel in education it is the and what they who Are being and such though politically Safe As adult nobody denies that economies must be effected and Public spending brought under but the Hole which various provincial administrations have dug for themselves does not fill we have had a party in this province and the morning after promises to stay with us for we owe More than billion on the olympics and repaying that amount affects the development of our transit the Quality of the water we drink and the scope of Public it has caused delays in extending the metro and the sewage the latter the most serious social blot upon the provinces relatively painless at least part of this debt is being repaid relatively painlessly by impositions which do not affect the Quality of living cigarettes and lottery tickets though with an added bite in the property but even if we Are trying to Cut at All we still have flashes of the old extra a the target is to hold expenditures in the Public sector provincially to about 12 per cent which will involve a reduction in the civil service of about one per which is not while continuing to spend More million on the ministry of intergovernmental which is pure if fantasy could be replaced by Reali the department of the which spends most of its Money on vitally needed water purification pro might be Able to spend similarly Parizeau has permitted an increase of about million for the communications which essentially is the government owned radio Quebec one of our least needed when you come Down to it is salaries and Public debt which Are the dead weight upon the with servicing the Public debt costing about 32 per cent and salaries in the civil service continuing to evidence of the result is around us at All Levels of government and in virtually All Public such As schools and the arts in Mon Treal receive Only million from the compared with million in to even though our property taxes Are on a you would pay in Montreal and Only in but we doubt whether the City of Toronto pays a Par time administrative assistant a like we do our administrative who works for the chairman of the executive committee of the City also has a full time teaching his City he does late in the or so we Are we still have to put into an to protect French speaking jobs and enhance French speaking a worthy enough objective but hardly a priority when hospitals Are in deep trouble and schools Are curtailing those areas of education which make All the difference in the Quality of the lives of Young no one expects a Trade while bargaining for its to act As though it is the guardian of the Public local conditions will be taken into but the Bottom line is How much can be won for those who pay the the for its has a responsibility to allocate its resources in the most effective but the contracts which were signed before the referendum and during the first flush of the parti quebecois Victory showed a greater concern for the party image and party aspirations than for the Public no More fogging i am totally opposed to the decision of the City to carry out his annual War on the mos Quito Ellis Devotion to chemical War fare on insects is Well rather than educating the Public on preventative such As the draining of stagnant water on ones property and the use of individual insect his department prefers the Complete saturation of Winnipeg with toxic one of these chemicals is a suspected health when opposition is raised As to the danger in using this chemical for Mosquito we Are simply told that the Quantity used is too insignificant to cause any ill effects on citizens of Are advised to keep pets indoors and windows closed while fogging is being conducted in their we Are also asked to take any dead Birds found after this Chemi Cal to the University for unspecified there is definitely no such thing As a completely harmless 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 adjusting anti Mosquito pesticide it has been proven that fogging is Only a temporary and after the effects have the Mosquito population is More ferocious then the Long Range effect on humans can be noted by the High incidence of respiratory and chronic diseases that befall Many weak and elderly citizens of j that Mosquito bites can be most especially to those with tender but with other alternatives easily and less citywide fogging is not the it is time for concerned Citi through their elected represent to demand that this insanity be stopped Don Woods Winnipeg spraying worries two bikers found a dead Squirrel on the grass by the Road on Cordova said to be killed by insecticide which was sprayed the night we asked at a couple of houses about what they the results were that the insecticide was not at All popular and some people got Side effects due to open windows letting the Spray the Side effects seem to be head watering uneasy breath hard to clogged noses and bad is it better than mosquitoes Margaret Bowers 11 Joanna Quad Bury 11 Winnipeg clarification i am writing with respect to the editorial titled empty barns in Mani in the june 29 edition of the free the editorial states that i identified stabilization payments As nothing More than consume supported what i actually said was that pro Ducer subsidies consumer subsidies As the Benefit accrues through to Consumers in the form of lower food prices and a stable food i am opposed to restricting productivity through the implementation of suppl management in the hog and cattle the alternative is an effective Federal stabilization program which would provide stability to the Industry reducing the productivity that drives the Economy of the James Downey minister of agriculture Winnipeg change Laws in an editorial of july you As Well you about the govern ments economically perverse insistence that people roust have the right to kill and maim themselves on our streets and highways Manitoba May yet be the last province to enact seat Belt and helmet surely even More is the seeming Public tolerance of intoxicated Drivers killing and maiming both themselves and innocent bystanders on our streets and at far greater Cost to the not to mention the incalculable personal losses to the families and friends of the innocent other countries have found that enforcement of strict nondiscriminatory Laws against Drunken driving have reduced traffic deaths and injuries dras it is to be hoped that the provincial government will realize that the Taylor family petition is not just an isolated but an indication that the Public attitude is changing and it is time the Laws of the country reflected Hartley Stinson Winnipeg useless maps i am fed food prices have risen 13 per cent gasoline prices go up every mortgage rates Are and our Dollar is not Worth the paper it is printed i hear we should practise then Why did politicians in Ottawa vote themselves a raise according to their work their production does not even Merit minimum wages As for prime minister Pierre tru he will go Down in Canadian history As the biggest failure he played around with our country until it is a then like a rat leaving a sinking he says this is Boring i cant fix what Ive done so ill retire gracefully on a big pension before the final collapse he probably will move All his assets to another country before the financial collapse and will sit smiling while Rome the Only satisfaction i can get is by even though i am just an average i am not so i know no one cares about me or my family or any other average person Only As slaves and production machines to feed their liable appetite for Power and every Day the Thumbscrew is tighter and work produce receive we cannot even withhold our taxes which Are skilfully removed before we get our we have no control Over How the Money is our protests fall on deaf ears and our votes Are we simply replace one group with another to do nothing except raise and collect their Doreen pry pen Winnipeg it was i dreamt i was related to i ;