Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 20, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winn fun 386 it Rotten Wrt Pihsia r3g 38 by Emta Ian jaw Cap be bum Managua feat Al f Rama Equality of civil Riga Liberty of Israel gats its fighters it Cagal is to stand by Israel and is not about w let i Tew words in an arms agreement get in the administration has decided not to pronounce a a dict do the defensive or aggressive character of israels june 1 bombing raid on iras nuclear it will resume shipments of fight aircraft of the Type used in the raid even though the agreement governing such Gates says they Are to be used Only for defensive Pun one can argue Secretary of state Alexander Haig about whether a military action was Sive or in the Field of International that is certainly an invasion can be called assistance to an ally a military coup can be called a defence of democracy a Campaign of terror can be called a War of National Tion a local insurgency can be called a foreign controlled grab for words can be Bent or stretched indefinitely to suit the purposes of the statesmen who use when president at his first Post inauguration news Confer said that the soviet Union reserves to itself the right to commit any to to cheat in order to achieve its he was describing one Side of International politics in not Only the behaviour of the soviet the administrations action in resuming shipments of f16 and f15 aircraft Speaks louder than any words it might come up with about the reactor raid or the subsequent bombing of those raids clearly fall within the Reagan administrations rules governing what Israel May do with be drawing attention to the ease with which agreements can be circumvented when they Are since the administration is at the same time asking the soviets to enter negotiations on an arms limitation the administration has at least spared us the sophistical exercise that would have been necessary to put the color of defensive action on the june 7 it has simply brushed the difficulty aside to pursue its purpose of supporting Reagan has consistently As candidate and As that the must stand by its friends and allies and concentrate on opposing what he sees As International terrorism aimed at achieving communist domination of the his decision to disregard the limitations on israels use of arms gives a measure of How deeply he meant what he said and of the lengths to which he is prepared to Secretary Haig said the decision was influenced by israels willingness to enter into a indirectly with the Palestine liberation organization last month by which hostilities in Northern Israel and in Leba non were there is a Strong suggestion there that the planes Are israels Reward for agreeing to the the message will not be lost on begin and his hawkish they May be Able to win further favors from the by launching further acts of War and then allowing themselves to be persuaded to r the premiers take a poll the poll commissioned by eight provincial governments into Canadian attitudes on the Constitution is interesting but neither surprising nor it confirms in general terms what earlier polls had already revealed that a substantial majority of canadians is opposed to the Federal ments unilateral approach to constitutional since Ottawa went ahead with that approach in spite of the earlier there is no reason to expect that it will be derailed by the latest that is unfortunate As the poll most canadians Are strongly in favor of a commonsense approach to constitutional sixty per cent of those polled across Canada Felt that Ottawa unilateral approach was that View was shared by a majority of respondents in every Region of including 59 per cent in Ontario where the provincial government is wholeheartedly behind the Federal the idea that constitutional change should not be implemented without the consent of the provinces was supported by 77 per forty eight per cent believed that consent of a majority of the provinces was sufficient but Only 21 per cent agreed with Premier Sterling Lyon that no change should take place without unanimous the poll confirms that the premiers who oppose the Federal package and who urge another round of Federal provincial negotiations before the Federal government asks Britain to impose constitutional change on Canada Are not the obstructionists Federal politicians claim they Are but Are simply representing the views of most it confirm Sas Well whatever the decision of the supreme court of Canada on the constitutional the premiers have every and to continue political efforts to persuade the Federal government to change its the premiers position would be a Good Deal stronger As Well As opposition to the unilateral they could come up with assurances that a new search for consensus would actually produce some if they do the Federal government is Likely to decide that it has already paid its Price to Public opinion and push on regardless of what most canadians might the trustees latest bid Winnipeg school trustees Are continuing their Clumsy procedure of bargaining with Public opinion Over their rate of they opened the bidding by approving themselves a 93per cent increase retroactive to the Start of this stacked on top of raises they had already granted themselves of 10 per cent in january and a further 10 per cent in in the face of Public they decided to spread the 93 per cent into three annual increases of 31 per when that proved they decided this week on a simple 31 per cent this so that any subsequent increases would require further action by the the latest scaling Down brings the trustees financial ambitions out of the realm of Absurdity and within Range of rational consider following the january and March Winnipeg school trustees pay is now per a 31percent increase will bring that to the rate of increase since the trustees were elected last october will then be More than 50 Oer which is hard to Swallow in such a rapid Rise puts the Board in a poor position to ask teachers and other employees to accept lesser rates of annual As they will certainly have to but it is defensible on the grounds that the level of honorarium was unduly Low before and that the resulting is not seriously out of line for Winnipeg area school Board chairman Mira Spivak still has her Eye on a year for with Small supplements for the chairman and Vic chairman As at the justification offered for is the irrelevancy that Winnipeg City councillors Are paid at that the pay for Winnipeg school trustees must be compared to that of trustees in other not to people fulfilling different the honorable solution is for the trustees to set their honorariums at a level comparable to those of other school leave them untouched for the rest of the current term and just before the next establish the level they feel should prevail for the following three in that the voters will be free to pronounce a verdict on the level of pay and on the people drawing 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 expertise highly successful i would like to congratulate the organizers and volunteers of Fol Lorama on yet another highly successful this years pavilions were As interesting and Lively As Ever and the shows were polished and of a High judging by the attendance in the several pavilions i visited this i would also say that the audiences Are becoming More responsive to this typically Manitoban i would also like to take the nity to thank the free Prew in Lar for its excellent preview insert which appeared August u was conv plete in every and was an invaluable tool for those wishing to your daily coverage of the festival was also excellent along with the response of the print and electronic Media in it helped to further broaden awareness of the i might add that Fol Lorama is an extremely popular tourist attract bringing visitors from far and wide to enjoy what has become one of North americas largest multicultural the organizers and volunteers of As Well As the Are to be complimented on making Folk Lorama enjoyable and Frank Johnston minister of economic development and tourism Winnipeg spraying on August 1 Watt one of a Large group of citizens protesting the fogging and Aerial spraying Over Winnipeg of the chemical we were met by a Wall of cynical tolerance at a meeting of the tee for recreation and social there were a couple of councillors who took our presentations seriously and two others who whiled away their time by alternately giggling and looking off into one of the organizers of the Val seemed to break make an impression with an honest plea for councillors to look at the the one Point that seemed to hit Home was the length o time residual effects of this chemical Are Pur Yin Cial officials the time to be one the manufacturers claim at least 1 the manufacturers directions for use include the Points that it should not be used in watershed areas or near Waterways and that crops exposed to the Spray so would not be used Tor human or my it is going to be interesting watching All that wheat growing around the City being minister of health Bud Sherman has the but saved multitudes must gasp with to hear the triumphant Roar of the big plane to Call our children in from play to respectfully Click our windows a to smell the we know we Are saved from the Fate of caged chickens in How comforting to know the minister has responsible their carefully fresh from years of management by minds brimming with exciting programs and with the latest scientific theories on insect men such As these can Tell a Public health emergency when it especially if it How misguided Are those irresponsible academics who abuse the stature of their who spout ill considered and who neglect their research As biologists and untrained in journal ism and Public these Heads should never be allowed to con fuse and confound the Gullible Public with the Herzog Winnipeg obvious Absurdity in a series of letters to the editor of the free Herb Senula has been working overtime to convince the Citi ens of this province that nip water Howard Pawley has agreed with Deputy pre Mif r Don Craw to give away part ownership of Manitoba Hydro to according to information available on there never nor can there an agreement to give away part ownership of Manitoba Hydro to a or anyone else apr that nit it against the protest made to and by the City the Spray tog please mow the instructions issued by the government to Gay w Dom Wetr gauge mask above All not worry a Abkian Winnipeg sent o the citizens of is Bujes attempt to ascribe to the 80 Ftfe Youj sovereignty and sewage by Frank Walker special to the free press Leger would be an asset to any he just happens to be Quebec minister for the which May Well be the most important portfolio of though its budget is relatively Small million its hold upon the Public esteem not nearly what it should the department is responsible for the water we which the other was described by Andre Deputy minister for the As so full of excrement and Industrial waste that he rarely drinks even the so called pure water from our taps Here on the lamentably slow Quebec has been lamentably slow in dealing with Montreal is a classic but All Over the prov Ince Beautiful Rivers Are Beautiful no longer but just victims of our direct flush methods of sewage somewhere in the province there May be pure but it is a Long Way off and pure by Luck in this respect Leger was right when he returned from Japan the other Day to announce a new waste disposal policy which will Force Quebe cers in a few Small cities to separate their Gar Bage at so that it can be More easily anything we can do in that line will be a Leger did not Stop at discussing his new he went on to blame Quebec lax attitude to sew age on our political he said reaching far and out deals successfully with its pollution problems unlike the Japa Nese know which country they belong after two weeks in Leger said he was impressed with the single minded desire of the japanese to Deal with Well he might but surely not for the reasons he the preoccupations of the japanese Are not the same As he they do not seek to be torn apart by opposing policies coming from two Levels of there Are no fights Between two Levels of elected by the same one which wants to control everything and another which wants to ensure the survival of the the japanese know that the future of their culture is what on Earth All this has to do with sewage disposal would be a mystery even if Leger was Correct in his assessment of japanese Hopes and if there Are no fights Between two Levels of government in it is because there Are not two Levels of government in it is a unitary with local matters determined by some 46 it is not a federa As for despite All the wonder with which we treat the japanese Industrial attributing it to japans sense of acceptance of authority and survival mentality the latter being about the Only so called virtue shared with Quebec has frightening cultural born of the very industrialization which is so highly there is a deep and All pervading love hate relationship be tween Japan and the which is both aesthetic and it is a frequent theme of japanese novels and it reflects itself in a growing Lack of Confidence in is the Iden Tity of not interested nothing of stopped sovereignty has very Little to do with we have failed in handling this not because Ottawa exists but because we were not in what was not visible did not even As Long ago As the de pression there was Money for sewage As Winnipeg which was not taken up by that explains Why we will pay billions of due Over the next few for what we should have done decades ago for almost every aspect of sewage disposal is now under attack and much of the drive can be rightly attributed to Leger and the government of which he is a but there is an incredible amount to be Only nine of 60 beaches in the Montreal area Are fit to swim you cannot drink the water in any of our local lakes and though Only a few Miles away in Mont Vou can the water from Lake Quebec has some of the most Beautiful Countryside in easily accessible from the big but an estimated cottages built there do not even have septic tanks and dump More than 200 million Gallons of sewage every Day into the surrounding lakes and and this is tourist country and tourism is very important to que what has to be done is on so vast a scale and involves so Many billions of dollars that the real danger is that it May be just too big to we have been so reckless and so careless of our resources that we Are in danger of being overwhelmed by our own working hard Leger is working most of the crimes of Montreal Island will be rectified before the decade is local regulations will put a if not a to the dumping of sewage by both individuals and but animal is a problem and the havoc wreaked by chemical water supplies Are becoming suspect which probably accounts for the fact that Quebe cers drink 80 per cent of All the bottled water in Canada 20 million litres of the Cost ing who drink the stuff when Normal col form bacteria which should be around to cles per unit of i the Yamaska for a count of Between and for that condition the local pig banners can be there is too much pig manure even to spread upon the and somehow we have to find some unfortunate place in which to dump wherever that it will be someone else Leger May feel that our negligence in this matter is caused by our political but he knows our political problems Are they Are not and the minister should be wary of conclusions which Spring from Brief visits to strange the qualities which we Praise so highly in the japanese Are hardly qualities we would choose for few North americans would abandon individuality and variety for conformity and monetarist policy cant work by Ruben Beuan special to the free press Money is created through borrowing the banking system creates Money in response to the demands of according to monetarist Tion is caused by excessive increase in the National Money Supply and will end Only when the growth rate of the Money Supply is brought Down to the Correct borrowing must therefore be curbed limitation of borrowing will bring s corresponding limitation of the Money Supply and therefore reduction of the inflation this is where High interest rates come they deter thereby contribute indispensably in the bottle i Liast sur Dity in order to question its integrity is device con Money used by not Overly intelligent their efforts to be Clever they make them Teiry an4 they cause temporary difficulties the deterrence of some invest ments Means that feasible and useful ado axons to the Economy Are not made and that the workers who cow have been build log them Are unemployed As people who borrow despite tie higher interest rates must pay in creased interest stiff interest rates Are bad v curb borrowing even Wuy therefore to Ham non what Nash pm in Kwim Imp rates As Long As despite the clamor raised by victims and by critics demanding speedier so goes the monetarist it according to principles that Canadian economic policy has been directed since so far the policy has been dear failure the inflation rats higher than it was at that time and appears certain the Rise contrary to monetarist this failure is not accidental and temporary but inevitable and enduring it derives from fundamental fallacies in the monetarist for one intent rates in their present Range of to per cent Are not bound to pause eventual reduction in whether any Given interest rat is High or Low depends on the perception of of Cerf b years when the no Terest rate Norm was five per an increase to seven per cent would have tend a strongly deterrent Many people who had been contemplating is Normal and new interest rates of order per cent have been in effect for considerable period of tiros our assure us that they will continue Thev no inn Annear As Hegji is to Joiy did Way were first a rate ofl8 per cent Dot rep fed i i Tod Money at if psf loan or mortgage would Nave away it they were a Auto upon to pay interest at the very High rate of seven per be established Norm being about 30 per it would ply Lake interest rate to exercise comparable deterrent in a usher interest rate deters borrowing Only for a relatively Brief period alter it has been unreduced Only so Long As it appears very much above of a Tomary level once the new rate has been in effect for sufficient time it becomes the Ary level we Torr Wing p Weed on the customary monetarist pm tar Tatterset rates this cd Perth to the claim that High trained Over a Long if uhf jul eventually curb at overt Kumm is oat they win the airy become accepted w Normal gn4 thereafter attract up amount spsfiw9brw so ;