Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 22, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade tonality of rims Liberty of religion Luu pow we of tuft m by gym a set 4331 publisher John Zafoc de Ildria a item Muf trav Buff msfla6mj the fail transportation Industry in Western Canada is facing a dilemma that it both problem and til both National railways Are moving As Many East and As the Many stretches of single track in the systems will both railways predict within As Short a time As two the demands of exporters of Sulphur and Potash will exceed the capacity of the rail lines to except on a basis of delays that May be unacceptable to the the problem for the railways is that the double tracking necessary to expand the transportation system costs and that this in spite of statements made by prime minister Trudeau during the last election is not Likely to be found in government assistance the Opportunity for increased and with them increased profits from moving new quantities of Export is forcing the railways to consider whether the double tracking projects should be undertaken without government to do win mean that the other users of rail transportation Coal and the Potash and Sulphur have to assume an even greater responsibility for the movement of Grain than they do at the crisis facing Canadas rail transportation Industry can Best be tackled by reaching a new agreement covering the crows nest pass which originally set Grain rates at on half a cent per to mile in perpetuity needs to be changed on paper the Way it has been changed in the made originally Between the Federal government and the Canadian Pacific required the railway to carry Grain from a limited number of shipping Points at this rate in return for concessions that enabled it to build additional it was later expanded to include More shipping on both National the railways discovered that the perpetual rates required them to Bear part of the Grain moving costs that grew with each they retaliated by allowing their Grain moving Fleet to the Federal government countered by using tax Money to buy new Grain Hopper a practice later imitated by the Canadian wheat which used Farmers Money to buy and the governments of Alberta and which used provincial tax Money to do the same Manitoba used tax Money to lease the Crow once a subject of Tilani Nims later fell into Disfavour among the majority of agricultural nations because it proved to be a detriment to the efficient movement of and resulted in Tost the railways calculate that this year the loss on Grain transportation will be if the Crow rate were enforced in fact As it appears on the toss would be million the amount the Federal govern ment pays in Branchine the Crow rate for Grain no longer except on it is this paper Tettat is causing the the paper effectively prevents the railways from putting their Best efforts into moving Grain As they see the More Grain they move the greater subsidy they will have to it is the paper that caused the Mountain Region Vic president of the Canadian National Ross to say this week that he wants nothing to do with the control of the Hopper car Fleet unless Grain can be put on the same basis As other where efficient movement results in monetary rewards and delays Are costly for those who cause that problem cannot be solved Speaks volumes about the Federal governments Lack of perception concern ing the problems of the transport minister Jean Lite Pepin says the government will move when there is a Western with the exception of the numerically insignificant National Farmers that consensus the Saskatchewan wheat Pool is not enthusiastic about changing the Crow but will probably when the chips Are to a More efficient Grain constitutes about it per cent of the heavy traffic Load for Western rail it produces about three per cent of the rail except for political it would be quickly shunted aside if the railways were forced into a traffic rationing As they will Likely be before the end of the present while rationing appears simply because new track cannot be built quickly enough to meet the its consequences could be diminished by a determined Effort now to match the paper rules to the practical problems of Grain robbing the Northland the Federal government has agreed to spend million Over five years on a joint Effort to revitalize Winnipeg Core that comes to Between million and million a it has also reduced to Between million and million from last years million its contribution to Road build ing and Industrial development in Northern Manitoba under the North lands the net effect of those two moves is to Rob Northern Peter of around million a year in Federal economic development assistance to pay around 17 million a year to Urban the Federal government has justified the Winnipeg expenditure1 on the grounds that it will be Good for the it has explained the Northern cutback by saying it was not getting sufficient publicity for its Good but it has not publicly justified its in to divert Money from the North and spend it on Winnipeg some reasons Are the North lands agreement obliges the Federal government to put up 60 per cent of the joint costs while the Core area agreement obliges it to pay 33 per thus a Federal Dollar spent in Winnipeg Sparks More locally financed spending than the same Dollar spent in the the Core area arrangement allows Ottawa to take charge of individual projects and programs for which it can claim specific credit while its contributions in the North have tended to disappear into the joint Federal spending in Winnipeg can help reelect two liberals to parliament while five years of spending in the North have not elected a single these reasons would make the Winnipeg arrangement a More attractive object of Federal expenditure than the North lands but they do not show Why revitalization of Central Winnipeg is More worthy of Federal Effon than economic development in the two Are the Federal part of the Core area initiative Aims especially to provide training and jobs for unemployed or underemployed indians and Metis living in Central some of them at least would rather be living in the North except that Job prospects there Are even Central Winnipeg qualifies for an Effort at recon depopulation and on its own but the migration into the City of unskilled Northern who Are intended to be beneficiaries of the Grams once they reach the will surely continue so Long As Northern unemployment remains at its customary High if Federal development policy creates in Winnipeg training programs and Job prospects which would otherwise have been created in the migration will be actively regional expansion minister Pierre de Bane says the Federal government has a new approach to joint economic development undertakings with the the new approach apparently involves selection by Ottawa alone of the projects it will support and direct management of those projects and programs by Federal to ensure that Ottawa gets Public credit for what it for the new approach has meant in practice that Core area is in and North lands is the change has been made because Ottawa has been Able to get terms More to its liking for the Winnipeg arrangement than for the Northern not because development efforts in Winnipeg have been shown to be Wiser or More useful than development efforts in the As new approaches it is not dont disagree Tom chairman of the Royal commission on new spa has come up with the ultimate explanation of Why newspapers in Canada should be put under government control they disagree with the fact that they Kent proves the Lack of professionalism is journalism which arises from the Inadequacy of the resources that Are put into the editorial Content of Kents comment says All that needs to be said about the assumptions which influenced the chairman of the commission and the report it it should provide the government with All the information it needs to persuade it to treat the reports recommendations with the gravest sceptic Alliry Phil Mallette waking up Trudeau by Wilson special to the free press old Story about a Farmer who was seen vigorously ing his mule with a length of Toby four has bearing on our National affairs these a passing shocked by the Force of the stopped to protest and explained to the Farmer that he should teach the mule to respond to verbal look that what i want to the Farmer but first Ive got to get his it is an open question whether the Spadina by election results will have got the of prime minister tru Deau and the handful of ministers and officials who run the Federal govern normally such a reversal would get the attention of men in government but this has not been a Normal situation for Many the prime minister does not intend to seek reelection himself so warnings from the electorate May Cut no mus Tard with his recent Range of interests has been extremely largely confined to the constitutional issues and North South a Normal response to the Spadina warn ing would require that he Stop concentrating on his Hobby horses and give the full attention an effective Leader must to the entire Range of problems facing the Back in the it had become painfully obvious that the country severe economic problems required More action than it was possible for the Bank of Canada to take with the limited Range of methods at its the Bank urgently needed the reinforce ment of appropriate policies originating at the department of finance and put in place through a new it was always mystifying that finance minister Allan Maceachen could not see the political As Well As the economic hazards of he either decided not to alter his budget timetable or just drifted along towards the planned october Macaw Berisz this was it was inadequate it was worse than that politically with the rate of inflation rising and interest rates at crippling it invited the Spadina normally a prime minister accept ing his full Range of responsibilities would have questioned his finance ministers delays and insisted upon Early because he was More interested in the Constitution and african Energy Trudeau let the Drift the problems of the third world Are very serious and the prime minister is right to be concerned about he is dead to pay More attention to them than to the pressing Domestic problems that Are his first responsibility first Respo Sibili of any National to distort his priorities the Way tru Deu has done is since he reversed his 1979 decision to retire he has been self indulgent in his approach to Spadina was not the Only by election that conveyed a Joliette did Roch Lasalle has a personal Fol lowing in that Riding but in the past it has not been enough to produce the sort of sweep he pulled off this in he had effective support Many who in provincial politics work for the parti quebecois and who Are deeply opposed to the governments constitutional the liberals Are still Given to ing at the Pequi stes but they command the support of a very Large segment of the Quebec population 40 per cent in the Over 50 per cent in the last provincial they Are a fully legitimate political party with broadly based support and their move ment is no passing it is time for the powerful men in the Federal government to recognize that the Pequi stes Are not Only separatists to be fought tooth and Nail but Are also the legitimate vehicle of expression for More than half Quebec their effective support of the conserva Tive in Joliette conveys the same sort of message Spadina native people face a Cycle of Urban failure consider this an unemployment rate of More than 30 per p a society where More than half the families Are headed by single the vast majority of them an impoverished country of the underdeveloped world is the shocking picture of the native condition in As revealed in a study conducted by the Institute of Urban studies of the University of the patterns of native employ ment in Winnipeg labor was commissioned by the Federal government and corroborates previous re it is the most comprehensive examination of native employment and the findings Are perhaps even More startling Titan previous oppressive problems the native situation Here is similar to other Western do not detract from the reality that this is the group with the most oppressive the report a Strong argument for greater emphasis on native concerns in the Flo omillion Winnipeg Core area initiative propos the report is based on period around the Survey covered All of the Central City area and about half of the outer City and Deve loped suburban interviews were with More than based on the Survey it was Esti mated there Are about of whoa Are status Reserve to Cuas and Metis and estimate for the a Airt City is a native population of including about status indians and about Metis and no status in Val Werier the natives come to the City to seek a better they May obtain better but economically they Are not much better off than on the says Stewart senior re search officer of the Institute of Urban and author of the the females come to the City because of family or because of problems on the Reserve or in Home migration from out of the province has been amounting to per cent of status Indian household most of these came from bands in Saskatchewan and Northwestern on the unemployment rate of the native population is More than 30 per More than five times that of the general City the present Urban native population is a Young with More than 45 per cent 14 years and the study Points to a startling trend nearly on Quarter of the increase the labor Force age group 15 and older in Winnipeg to 1985 is expected to be of native native employment is heavily concentrated in Lowe paying such As in processing construction and service for the the most common jobs Are in service and a the Tor they Are at lowest rung of the working As chambermaid and occupational mobility appears to be largely nonexistent or very says the in other few natives gravitate to better says the report with the exception of Metis no status the majority of native employment is irregular or periodic in average lengths of time Between employment tend to be quite in excess of seven on the native household income is about half that of the general City most depend on some social especially the single it is appalling that just Over half of families have single it poses great social and economic single parents get the worst Deal in our society and suffer the most deprive Noi tudy Clatworthy says there has been no study on this development among natives and it must be assumed it arises because of marital birth out of and the movement of single from reserves to the the Obj was Ontario and upstate new York have Many single but it is expected in that culture for it is a matriarchal society where the woman plays a major it is not True of the culture of Manitoba most single female parents have Large families cannot afford to the Ratai mum pay would not Mainetto their families and they Are Tetter there is no incentive to aside from the responsibility of looking after the Fame the says would be to supplement working Moth ers with social that makes the phenomenon of single Parent families not apply exclusively to the Tim executive director of the social planning Council of Winni notes that 1980 reports from elementary schools in Winnipeg school division reveal that per cent of families Are headed by single this takes in the whole inner with a population of about the incidence of single Parent families in the inner City ranges from per cent in the Tyndall Park school to per cent in David Livingstone near the lord Selkirk Lowental develop Sale says there is great stress on which he attributes partly to the economic situation and the desire to have All sorts of the material things that Are touted by people Are better off than they were in former but the expectations Are much putting pressure on families to obtain such comforts As two cars and living beyond their As for the the dislocation is at its with the incidence of single parents More than twice the average in the inner the Issue of the natives must be faced by themselves but it is also one that must receive the priority of the Core initiative it is a responsibility of the including the to help break the Cycle of Urban failure that plagues the original people of our ;