Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 26, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1 Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty 6f 6att6 de Towai Page pc Ditlof built managing editor editorials curbing the Security cops report of the the Throat to civil Liberty revealed Mcdonald Royal commission into Mist Canadian mounted police will not be ended bythe simple expedient of setting up a new Agency to take Over the internal Security chores now carried out by the of the new Agency simply carries on the ramp practice of breaking Laws harassing political then the threat to Liberty in the future will be every bit As great As it was in the Days when the ramp Security service was running out of if ministers of the Crown remain As indifferent w the factions of the new Security service As the commissions reveals them to have been about the actions of the then the threat to democracy posed by those actions Witt remain if the Only aim of the new Agency it to spare the reputation of the mounties by hiring someone else to do their dirty then nothing at All will have been signed by the three years of investigation carried out by the Donald like any other needs a Security it needs one to catch spies planted by unfriendly it needs one to Stop terrorism on the part of Canadian or who seek to achieve their political ends through it needs one to cooperate with the Security services of other Friendly but that Security whatever the name it is must operate within the Law and under the strict control of the elected the ramp Security service has not done partly because of weakness in the partly because of the failure of the responsible politicians to live up to their responsibilities and partly because the men in charge of the service grossly misconceived their revelations of illegal actions on the part of the Security service were appalling even More appalling was the revelation of the targets at whom the service aimed Many of those illegal through much of the Security service set out not to catch spies and terrorists but to harass and intimidate political the simple military minds of those in charge of the ramp were never Able to comprehend the difference Between dissidence and solicitor general Robert in announcing the first Steps toward organizing the civilian Security has chosen to gloss Over much of the Mcdonald commissions criticism of past ramp and in places to Point out the governments disagreement with the commissions View that All no matter How minor the is an extremely serious the commission is clearly in the right during the time the ramp was in charge of National it not Only broke in the commissions there was a willingness on the part of members of the Force to deceive those outside the Force who have some sort of constitutional authority or jurisdiction Over them or their Kaplan chose to speak of illegal activities in terms of driving too or too the evidence shows that those Little Pec Dillos were followed by illegal theft of the burning of barn and harassment of the evidence also shows that a Long line of and their colleagues in remained As indifferent to serious lawbreaking they did to the minor the one thing in a democracy that is More repugnant than having an Organ Mutton of spies is to have such an organic Tion that is out of the commission said it was convinced that Federal minis ters responsible for the ramp were misled by the Force and that relevant or significant information was at times with held from it is Clear As that if the ministers were misled they for the most willing there is no evidence in the report that they exhibited much enthusiasm for discovering what was they appeared to operate on the principle that the police should do what was necessary but not Tell them about it does not take too much imagination to come to the conclusion that the ramp would not have established a practice of at All the secret entry of private premises without or have a total indifference to the civil Law on without some tacit understanding that what the police were doing would not be criticized by the elected representatives responsible for the the ramp was clearly miscast in the role of political commission says disruption of Radical political groups especially in the Early 1970s was one of the most reprehensible kinds of wrongdoing carried out by the the Federal with its strict military Type apparently never discovered the difference Between the planting of a bomb and the making of a Public the commission states that there has never been a Clear and comprehensive Public policy on the methods and structures of the Security intelligence in it would be encouraging to think that this situation exists because Federal government finds the whole idea of using spies As repugnant As canadians generally consider it to for the the record does not Bear out this mail has been opened illegally for perhaps in anticipation of legislation that win make private written communications As open to investigation As Are private electronic More serious infractions of Laws have taken with or without the full knowledge of the ministers Canadas More than anything dictates the necessity of having an organization whose Job it is to prevent the spies of other countries from doing harm to us or to our what must be Paramount in the organization of such a Force is the Protection of individual and collective Canadian rights according to the Mcdonald commission have been regularly trampled in the past the Mcdonald commission proposes a set of strict new rules to govern the operations of the Security service in the establishing those and creating the will in the government to ensure that they Are will do More to ensure that the Security operations Are kept under control than taking away the uniforms of the officers in the ramp Security service and calling them something i the doctors tired Battle Manitoba doctors this year won from the government a 15 percent increase in the payments they receive under British Columbia doctors won increases totalling 40 per cent Over two since most of the wage earners who ultimately pay their Bills have much lower incomes to Start with and Are making do with More modest the doctors would be Wise to lie quietly enjoy their Good and avoid drawing attention to but the doctors assembled at the Halifax annual meeting of the Canadian medical association do not see it that they want still they want More than they expect to be Able to win from the provincial governments with which they negotiate fee they therefore want expanded opportunities to charge patients for medical service above and beyond in common that is called the Cha prefers the term patient Particia the experience of 15 years has shown that medicare is a Good its popularity with the Public is shown by the fact that no provincial or Federal government is proposing to erode its its popularity with doctors is shown by the fact for All the grumbling about the fee few doctors opt out and the Cha wishes to keep it the Quality of medical care in Canada is Good and it is available equally to All canadians without regard to the patients fees have been kept High enough that the Overall Supply of medical manpower is though some localities and some specialities suffer each doctor is free to organize and conduct his practice As he sees subject to the disciplinary control of the local medical no doctor Ever has to worry about his patients ability or willingness to if the Cha or anyone else wishes to change the rules of they must do so in ways that protect what is Good about the system we no politician in his right mind will agree to changes that will erect new financial barriers Between the patient and the medical care he nor would the Canadian Public accept a system by which the Rich get firs class medical care and the rest get second class the cams idea about patient participation would reestablish the financial barriers and class distinctions that were virtually abolished in Canada 15 years it is a Blind the Cha wants to play on both tables at it wants to keep medicare going and milk the Public system for All it is it also wants to be Able to extract from patients whatever Money is available for extraction on top of the medicare a few doctors now play that where the provincial legislation but so Long As any patient can find a doctor whose fees Are fully covered by they do no great but when the medical association in the course of a fee dispute last that All doctors would the government responded with a threat to abolish All no provincial government could tolerate such a massive assault on the benefits of that reality should be obvious to though it seems to have escaped the notice of the the possibility of extra Billing or opting out serves As a crude safety valve to protect doctors since any provincial government that failed to raise the medicare fees would rapidly see its medicare system fall apart but the safety valve itself is dangerous since the Public must pay the Price of widespread opting out by doctors if the government misjudged the Market judge Emmett Hall last year pro posed a better system abolition of extra Billing and resort to binding arbitration to Settle fee the Cha would be Wiser to Back that which at least has a Chance of patient participation is a Lam sir or to answer your questions and alleviate All doubts you May have on our government pesticide spraying tax system favors the Rich High in come taxes not so with George who has an income of about but does not pay a cent it is All fair and our Federal tax say often favors the Rich at the expense of the George does not pay any tax because his income is chiefly from dividends from a wholly owned Canadian Cor he also has a Small tree makes a few thousand dollars on tree sales but writes it off in so any Money he makes does not count As taxable income under the system that favors an individual like be cause he pays no Federal income he also pays no provincial income provincial taxes Are a percentage of the Federal tax credit taxpayers who invest in Canadian owned corporations get a dividend tax it is calculated by one of those formulas that confound the Ordinary let us assume an individual receives in in an exer Cise called the Gross the dividends Are multiplied by 150 per for a total of then 25 per cent of this or s a dividend tax this is deducted from the Feder Al tax payable by the for a person May earn in dividends from a Canadian Corpora Tion without paying any assuming he has no other the rationale is that the corporation has already paid the and therefore the shareholders should not pay them the principle Here plays havoc with our vaunted work it says that a person May not pay any taxes on such but another who works by the sweat of his pays the full labor is taxed More heavily than says Jack Dean of the Mani Toba Law and an authority on tax Law the Canadian tax system gives an unwarranted preference in tax reductions to people who earn invest ment rather than income from labor or carrying on a More the system gives preference to people who earn business income rather than employment the employees get the fewest Breaks and proportionately pay a greater proportion of income la tax than do people who Val Werier earn business or investment the system of tax deductions is loaded too against the Ordinary wage the people who need the Benefit least get the most and the people who need it most get the says the reason is that the Mone tary value of a tax deduction to an individual is determined by his mar Ginal tax the marginal rate is the highest rate of tax a person the percentage of tax escalates with As an pension plans Are designed to prepare people for retire ment and As London one would think that the highest Bene fits would go to people of Low the contrary is pension contributions Are deducted from a person with a High income and a High marginal tax of say 50 per saves in tax in setting aside for a a person with less in and a tax rate of 25 who contributes to his saves in Rich another example is the deduction for dependent and Here As London the Richer person May get twice the Benefit in tax reductions than a poorer a person with two dependent children would have received deductions of 080 from taxable income in the tax saving for a person with taxable income was the saving Tor a person with income was says London if the object of the system is assist people who have less ability to pay tax because they have two then the greater benefits should go to those of lower income and a lesser Benefit to those of higher As the exam ple the reverse is Neil who teaches tax Law at Osgoode Hall Law school in in a recent Issue of saturday says there is a drastic need for tax he says that the income tax act is riddled with loopholes and Points to 1978 As an when there were individuals with assessed incomes of More than who paid no the astounding fact says that Low income canadians pay a larger percentage of their income in taxes than High income tax tax expenditure reformers have Analysed the tax expenditure concept As the answer to changing the notes this is the View that whenever the government Grants a tax Concession or for whatever it is paying a what the government Falls to collect for some it is in effect giving this is called a tax there Are More than 100 tax preferences or subsidies in the income tax a study by Allan an econ shows that in 1976 the average tax expenditure Benefit for canadians with incomes under was for those with incomes Between and it was for those with incomes Over it was Brooks says that As a result of tax expenditures tax concessions or preferences the percentage of total government tax Revenue raised by corporate income taxes declined from per cent in 1951 to per cent in by taking advantage of the various tax Brooks says Many corporations Are Able to pay much in these Are the rates paid by some corporations Cadillac six per cent steel of seven per cent Union six per cent Toronto Dominion 18 per cent Power corporation 11 per there Are a lot of average income earners who would be Happy to pay the tax rate paid by these giant Corpora not even pravda 1 would like to comment on the editorial Poland free August the editorial concludes with two which i quote that is a dangerous game that can Only aggravate the already jangled nerves in the poles know better than anyone that they can Only exist within the limitations imposed by their place within the soviet they act As if they have forgotten they have achieved an amazing amount in the last year with caution and an Eye for soviet they May be Able to in achieve but they risk losing everything if events become so unsettled that soviet leaders Are convinced they must As a russian Nursery rhyme it takes a proud Man to refuse to doff his Cap at the Kremlin holy in the present it also takes a foolish and unfortunately must continue to doff theirs because the soviet Boot can break even the stiffest polish in you attribute to the soviets a go Given right to shoot and kill whenever they deem it what a grasp of political reality you quote the Nursery explaining How it is to be you have done your Best to bring poles to their so that they would behave to the satisfaction of their soviet Roas and you the free press one line of Solidarity Anthem better die on your than live on your if they had listened to editorial pundits like there would have been a nor to lands the polish disease is the disease of people who want to be free and i Hope that it will not Only to other subjugated nations of the soviet but that it will strike at the heart of the so that the people of the soviet Union become free As to the gruesome cynicism Dis played by you in quoting the Nursery even pravda would not have dared to put it that the soviets Are crude Ami cruel in the execution of their political but much More 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 rare specimen traffic hazards Subtle than you in presenting them to editorials Are understood As being representative of the views and policies of the newspaper in they Are also instrumental in the shaping of Public if so Why dont you speak for Freedom and which will Only be retained if we have stiff necks and not necks of Lech Fulmek Winnipeg hypocrisy recently Canadian air interrupted to the United states As a show of sympathy for air Woofer if canadians have considered that this u an attempt to meddle in the Domestic affairs of the United states i know How paranoid most canadians Are a Puj the United meddling in internal Canadian rightly i believe that if the situation were reversed an a segment o the Ameri can population i bowed sympathy Fps a Canadian you would All Rise up in wrathful take dear neighbors whom i Admire and that your hypocrisy will not Embarrass you in the Coleman Norris Wisconsin gruesome rhyme we would like to comment on the editorial Poland free August we approve of most of but take exception to the last which As a russian Nursery rhyme it takes a proud Man to refuse to doff Bis Cap at the Kremlin holy in the present it also takes a foolish and poles info run must continue to doff theirs be cause the soviet Boot can break even the stiffest polish we find it shocking that the author of the editorial saw fit to cite that gruesome rhyme As tothe people of Poland at this particular juncture of their his the Canadian polish Congress condemns Fredree press Lack of support of the polish and Falls that u should not give contort and encourage ment to the aggressive designs of the soviet president Canadian polish Congress Manitoba division editors note the aim of the Para graph to question was to describe the danger of soviet not to approve recently i saw an unusual sight on our Street this rare specimen had not been sighted any where in this country for six although it was indeed satisfying to View tills rare it nonetheless stirred keen feelings of resentment at the recent contemptible postal strike that had been i am sure there is no group of people More totally disliked than the inside postal workers at the instigation of their cause More hardship and ill will than any other group in and what does the Public stand to gain from this disgraceful Eft Rise a hike in postal rates you can be and the same old Rotten no wonder businessmen have switched to they have suffered enough from the so called postal added to is the ignorance and indifference of a Post master general who tells them to get into another line of while it is Good to have our mail service let us ensure that a strike does not happen let us All Contact our maps and the prime minis Ter immediately and urge them to ban the right to strike from this essential de Graff Winnipeg there Are an increasing number of vehicles driving around on City streets that should be taken off the i refer to those mechanical nightmares that have the trunk doors and fenders tied on with Bale wire so they wont fall the owners of these perforated mechanical nightmares should be forced by Law to take them off the Road and sell them to the car As they represent dangerous traffic Harold Mueller Winnipeg birthday William Rankin Winnipeg born August first the Good we still have someone left to now the bad ;