Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 8, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Pepin refuses to reconsider via rail cuts no in Ottawa up theft will to no changes in government lit skid the is an advertising plans to eliminate or my railway Campaign to explain Iti which passenger service on More Titan 20 will Rettice rail sender by and existing transport minister eliminate jobs within the Federal Jeanluc Pepin said Crown Pipin told a news conference he does fhe government has been heavily criticized since announcing More than a week ago it plans to effective this two transcontinental and 13 regional As Well As reducing service on six much of the criticism has centred on How the decision was made and an Pepin unveiled the plan out any prior Public debate while com Mons was off on a three month summer the Cross country which open tuesday in Are being held by a conservative task a summary of findings will be presented to the Pepin also questioned the Ontario governments threat to fight the elimination of three Toronto area commuter he said an Ontario study on Provin Cial rail policy released at the Start of this year basically supports Ottawa Snow Ontario transportation min ister James is a bit embarrassed because of the Pepin he conceded the report did suggest that commuter service should continue to be supported by the Federal gov but said Ottawa is doing that through its support of via the Federal government plans to Dou ble via rails capital hear suggesting the province could make arrangements to operate the commuter Pepin repeated that the service eliminations and reductions Are necessary the transport department spends million of its annual budget to subsidize passenger rail ser he there Are limits to what the government can he also defended the Way the govern ment carried out its saying the Cabinet didst make a decision until after the House had adjourned for the and he argued that if Public meetings were the Money saving moves would be delayed another four transport a pro rail lobby yesterday revealed a plan it said shows via rail could be feasible without reducing service a move it considers a serious the group said the government should buy two Storey passenger cars that Are on third cheaper to operate than equipment now on the not Rule out some minor but emphasized the Basic details of the government plan Are set and said Ottawa will ignore a series of Cross coun try hearings organised by the Ive he said it will be up to those who want any such As an increase in the frequency of a to con Vince via rail it will make Money on the marketing Board for beef urged Calgary up formation of a cattle marketing Board to fix prices and production similar to activities of the Canadian wheat is one of four options suggested in a report released yesterday by the sen ate agriculture the document is designed to save an Industry that has been subsidizing Consumers for a great Many said the committee Liberal senator Harry Hays acknowledged at a news Confer ence that Canadas beef producers rejected a pricing and quota system in but maybe after another eight years of losses Treyve been Hurt enough that take another the other three options suggested in the report Are formation of a National income stabilization program with Market sharing a similar pro Gram that includes import and a produce operated suppl manage ment program with marketing quotas and import Hays pointed to statistics in the 171 Page which is expected to Lead to Public hearings among producers in the showing Farmers with 100 or More cattle have averaged earnings of or less a year during the last and those Farmers make up Only four per cent of the country cattle Indus the other 96 per cent have fewer than 100 cattle and earned As Little As per head a year during the last prime minister Trudeau and sons greeted in Nairobi yesterday by kenyan president left Metal Loose at nuclear Plant Montreal up Hydro Quebec officials reported yesterday that three Metal pieces had come Loose inside a steam boiler at the trouble plagued Gentilly ii nuclear generating which has been stalled for years by various technical problems and is still in the testing the pieces were torn Loose by the Strong currents in the of four Ward air locks out rotating strikers Toronto up Ward air Canada flight attempting to re turn to work yesterday after a 24hour rotating strike against the airline in say they were barred by the company from boarding a scheduled Merl chief negotiator for the Canadian air line flight attendants said Airport Security staff ordered members of a returning Union Crew off a flight scheduled to depart for Europe about the refusal to allow Union members to return to work after their rotating strike constitutes a lockout by the said the Union official said Airport Security personnel at Mirabel International Airport near Montreal also barred a Union Crew from boarding a flight for Europe about earlier in the Ward air senior Vic president Tom Spalding reiterated the company position that its not lock ing out Union flight attendants because there on he said the company views the use of rotating strikes by the Union As being an Al inclusive strike which Means All Union flight attendants Are on strike from the first strike action until a settlement is the main Issue in the dispute is a Union demand for parity with air can Ada Day said the latest company offer would keep Ward air now earning a starting salary of a per cent below air Canada heritage fund Worth albertan told at the Plant because their holding bolts were poorly some tubes which had just been replaced at a Cost of million because of a previously discovered manufacturing were the problem was discovered wednes Day during a routine its still impossible to determine the value of the damages or even to say if it will delay putting the station into ser said director of construction at Gentilly apparently the damage is minor and so that it might be possible to make the repairs at the same time As the final Michel said there is no radioactivity in the system because it has not yet been put into the provincial Utility alerted other owners of nuclear plants to be on the Lookout for possible construction faults at their the boilers werre built by Babcock and Wilcox of Canada whose Parent company built some of the equipment at the infamous three mile Island Plant in in Hydro Quebec and Babcock and Wilcox agreed to share the Cost of repairing an earlier break in faulty tubes in the steam the company also provided equipment for use at reactors in and Point technicians made a rapid inspection of the other three generators at Gentilly ii this week and found that bolts were not equipped with and at least one of them had become but Only in the fourth Generator had the bolts actually blown the bolts hold up 200pound Hatch ways used to go inside the pressurized tanks to inspect or repair the Generator produces steam to turn a Turbine and the stations electric Gen had the bolts come undone after the station was put into Michel said the battering of the Metal pieces would Likely have caused leaks in the welded Walls of the he said this would not be such accidents Are expected since there Are thousands of tubes in the system under a few drops of radioactive water leaking out would set off an alarm Bush off Tell us minister trader left Nairobi to Bonitt if tits Tahr of Tatai m Wiki Nis Init tons twi Froid for weekend la the kenyan Bush leaving no from Home that he attention from International to Canadas economic an aide to Trudeau said the govern ment has no plans at the moment to recall parliament before 14 to take action on the opposition Leader Joe Clark and new Democrat Leader de Broadbent have demanded an Early return of parliament and a new budget ordeal with economic woes that Nave tent interest rates soaring to record Levels and caused the value of the Canadian Dollar to frustrated in their attempts to prod the government into an Early the opposition parties Are toying with the idea of shaming the liberals into action by sitting in the commons and firing embarrassing questions at rows of empty government the notion originated earlier this week in newspaper editorials in Toron Edmonton and Calgary and has yet to be ruled out by either of the opposition party commons speaker Jeanne Sauve has refused comment on the Prospect of a lopsided unofficial but Deputy speaker Lloyd Francis suggests the two parties might be forced to hire their own Hall to make their pitch to the there is a regular Way of summon ing parliament and in sure Madam speaker respond to a Call from a minority any unauthorized sitting in the commons would take place with out the sound system and television broadcasts normally Avail that still leaves open the question of whether maps could get into the Cham Ber and whether reporters and visitors would have Access to the galleries to follow the proceedings Jock Clarks press emphasized yesterday that the idea did not originate with Clark and is not being actively pursued at the present i cant say that were doing any deep research on Broadbent press Secretary Peter Omalley said much the same Clark wants the government to draft a new program of economic Reform and present it to parliament by the end of the Broadbent has suggested maps return to work after labor Day finance minister Allan Back in town from his cottage on Cape Breton rejected both demands who left Canada july 27 to attend the Royal wedding in was greeted on his arrival yesterday in Kenya by president Daniel Moi and Canadian High commissioner Geoffrey Trudeau and his three Young were All Well tanned after a we Klong Holiday in the prime who will address a United nations alternative Energy conference next inspected an Honor guard and several troupes of chanting dancers As soldiers toting machine guns lined the perimeter of the viewing Trudeau and the boys including and several hours later for a weekend in the Ken Yan Bush to see Lions and other wildlife for which this East Afri can country is kenyan officials released a detailed itinerary of Trudeau plans to visit mount Kenya National Park and the Masai Mara game Edmonton up provincial or Lou Hyndman sprinkled a heavy dose of words like prudent and cautious into his comments As he told albertan yesterday their heritage savings Trust fund was Worth billion at last the funds annual report for the year ended March said there was another million saved up in the form of capita projects like a new childrens Hospi Tal and irrigation capital projects used to be included in total fund but have been reported separately for the first time As deemed inclusion of the deemed assets would put total fund assets at total fund assets at March were nip Leader Grant Notley immediately blasted Hyndman for not earning enough Money with the it had a net invest ment income of million during am for spending too Little of it on Ordinary but Hyndman insisted in the annual report viewed As a savings the fund is not its investments of billion represent Little More than one years budgetary he compared with other accumulations of savings in it is about on third of the combined assets of trusted pension plans in the and less than on half the accumulated assets of the Canada pension Hyndman also went out of his Way in the report and in yesterdays news ence to Tell albertan most of the fund is tied up in Lon term investments and is not available to meet a growing list of Money More than on half the was tied up in Lon term Alberta investments at the end of the 198081 More than billion of this total was invested in the governments Telephone and housing Cor Loans to other provinces or their Crown corporations amounted to the first repayment is due in the Lon term Loans at interest rates Between 11 and 13 per cent meant the funds average yield through 198081 amounted to per a rate Hyndman called at least equal to the rate of inflation for Hyndman said he expects the return on the funds investments increase As Money managers Branch out this year with a new policy allowing Purchase of As much As a five percent share in any solid Canadian before the end of the there will be significant investments in Canadian Hyndman declining to predict what significant might said albertan want solid returns rather than speculative there was continuing debate in the alb rat Cabinet Over the policy of putting 30 per cent of All nonrenewable resource into the resource contributions last Pri Marily from Oil and Gas amounted to Only per cent More than in the preceding readers i digest notice to customers of readers digest for your arrangements have been made with the Toronto Dominion Bank to receive payments of readers digest at any of its branches across Canada during the current postal please take your readers digest ill to your local Toronto Dominion Branch with your thank you for your readers digest association Canada the provincial winning numbers Friday August Here Are the 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