Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 28, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free Winnipeg free press of Trade Trust Ify 6f civil Liberty erf six Days a to Dot glut Tutt wit ipg rdc 3c1 by Cifu Dart Donald Nogol publisher j6mn Pate editor Murray Burt managing editor my controlling the there appear to be two Basic axioms about National Security agencies every country needs one and every sooner or gets out of the Mcdonald Royal in its report on the Canadian Security confirms the describes the extent to which it has run wild and proposes measures to get it Back under solicitor general Robert Kaplan is already chafing at some of those measures he would bind the Security service in red that is precisely the intention and red tape has never been put to better the revelations in the report about the actions of the ramp Security service reflect those about other National such As the Fri in the United because of fear or indifference on the part of political have become Powers unto like the Canadas is has gone far beyond its mandate of catching spies and preventing political it has snooped and spied on dissident groups and on legitimate political including the it has compiled files on almost a million it has used its Powers not Only to Deal with violent and illegal activities but to disrupt and defame those involved in Legal political so Long As we have a Security under whatever there is always a danger that it will resort to that kind of the Best Way to ensure that it does not is the Way suggested by the Mcdonald commission to define As strictly As possible in Law its mandate and the methods it can use to carry out that the commission would first define strictly what the Security service should be empowered to Deal with espionage and Clandestine foreign interference in Canadian and political violence and then it would define in Law the methods the service could use and the permission it would have to seek to use those that As critics of the commission involve making Legal some actions which today Are though it for permit the open it is Safe to assume that the police have been opening mail As Long As there has been a Post even though it is against the the commission would permit Mai opening under the same controls As apply to electronic and it would make those controls a Good Deal tougher than the ones which now apply in the Protection of privacy act under that the solicitor general can authorise bugging in National Security the commis Sion proposes that both bugging and Mai opening would have to be authorised by a judge of the Federal court on an application which had been approved by the solicitor Gener that system would provide no guarantee against and solicitor general often show Little eagerness to subject police applications to deep scrutiny but it would substantially improve the safeguards which now the commission also proposes that Federal and provincial Laws define precisely the ways in which police can break other Laws in Pursuit of their some of those ways Are trivial for example or not paying for the electricity used to Power a Kaplan thinks that legislative authority is not but we have All seen what happens when officers or their superiors use their own judgment about what Laws they ought to be allowed to besides having the Law spell out what they could the commission also defines what they ought not to do under cover for should not participate or illegal acts gain credibility with the people they Are snooping the acts that the commission would prohibit Are not figments of someones they have been commit Ted by a Security Force which has broken the jaw in the Pursuit of dangerous Kaplan should not be quibbling about the rules proposed to curb those he should be actively promoting cutting school buses there must be other hobbles besides the Winnipeg school divisions reduction of bus service for its youngest French immersion pupils will not Only simplify the bus it will remove one of the unnecessary grievances against immersion harboured by those not involved in French immersion pupils Are sometimes unfairly regarded As the spoiled children of the school the Federal and provincial governments provide special financing to school divisions to help cover the extra costs involved in operating immersion immersion teachers and parents to have a whole school to which can involve muscling out pupils who Are not in immersion and obliging them to attend a More Distant As happened in Boniface and nearly happened in Assiniboine South until Parent resistance stopped the divisions it is not As often noticed that a concentration of immersion pupils can help keep a school open for no immersion classes when the Small number of pupils in the neighbourhood would dictate closing but the most visible special privilege of immersion pupils in Winnipeg has been the bus virtually immersion pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 and 2 have been picked up at close to 400 locations around the divisions giving them much Shorter walks than the vast majority of pupils in regular English classes who must walk to the nearest some busing is necessary since immersion cannot be offered within walking distance of every family that wants even with the distance Many immersion children must travel each Day is a Small penalty they pay for participating in the but rightly or the generous busing arrangements have been seen As a special privilege accorded to immersion children and their families and have fuelled resentment against the starting this the division will require Many of its bus Riding immersion pupils to walk a Little farther generally the same sort of distances other pupils must walk to be picked up at the nearest school or another neighbourhood gathering that will put them on a More equal footing with other pupils and remove the basis for immersion no longer has to prove its educational numerous including one published this year by the Manitoba education have found that immersion pupils learn at least As much As those in regular English classes As Well As acquiring an excellent knowledge of nor is the lure of special busing arrangements needed to persuade parents to put their children into the numbers in the program Are growing steadily from year to year in All divisions that offer what problems there Are arise from to rapid parents of immersion pupils should Welcome the reduction in bus it will free them from the accusation of receiving favored treatment at the expense of costlier Stamps As is being so widely the change of the Canada Post office from a department of government to a Crown corporation brings with it an increase in the Price of mailing a firs class letter to 30 cents from the present there will probably be great Public the protests will not have a firm it already costs nearly 30 cents to mail a letter the difference is that the proportion of the Cost not covered by the Price of the stamp is subsidized by general tax it is announced policy that the new Crown corporation Post office will be required to stand on its own financial a decision that Means that the users of the service will pay directly All when the visible Cost of mailing a letter almost there comes with the change a reasonable expectation that the letter will arrive the Public will probably accept the increase with reasonably Good there will be cases of individual hardship As is often pointed in terms of dollars and cents the Cost of mailing a letter has not increased that much since the key to Public acceptance of new postal rates will not be found in the amount that is charged to deliver a during the recent postal strike Many As Well As found it acceptable to pay As much As or to get a letter delivered from one City to the key to Public acceptance of the new postal rates will be As satisfaction or otherwise with the Post office has always been in the service that is lawbreaking was ignored by Wilson special to the free press Ottawa the Crux of the Long and searching Mcdonald commission re port is the conclusion that the prime minister and government knew that the ramp had been doing illegal things for 20 years and took no everything else in the ramp affair and the report that has no matter How important in is sub ordinate to that key Factor the govern ments knowledge of a pattern of activity and its seventeen present seventeen including tru were present at the meeting of the Cabinet committee on priorities and planning on december at which John then director Gen eral of the Security made the key statement that for 20 years the ramp had been doing illegal things and had never been the Evi Dence that he did say it lies in the Handwritten notes of the privy Council offices Man present As a record that was found almost by Chance in pc late in 1979 and which reached the Royal commis Sion four months later in none of the when questioned could remember Starnes state ment and that is in itself very reveal obviously the revelation that the ramp had been doing illegal things for 20 years without getting caught did not come As an electrifying Surprise to any of those if it the failure of memory even after 10 years would be if it were no great sur prise the failure of memories 10 years later is human and understand it is Clear from the evidence to the commission that Starnes state ment was never followed up although the question came up a Little at a meeting of the Cabinet committee on Security and from the conclusion of a Able Man must be that the Cabinet was not concerned that the ramp was doing illegal seven years after these two commit tee on december the prime minister told a press conference his View of the proper relationship Between government and in ignorance the policy of this and i believe the previous governments in this been that they in politicians who happen to form the government should be kept in ignorance of the Day today operations of the police Force and even of the Security it is a matter of stating As a principle that the particular minister of the Day should not have a right to know what the police Are doing constantly in their investigative in what they Are looking at and what they Are looking and in the Way in which they Are doing by the most important of these words Are the Way in which they Are doing John Starnes had told him seven years earlier one of those that they had been breaking the Law for 20 years and by not follow ing up he had the Royal commission has now told us the whole Story in making it Clear what went on behind Trudeau Doc Trine of controversy Trudeau 1977 statement stirred up controversy because of the denial of the doctrine of ministerial responsibility which it if the minis Ter and government Are not to super Vise the Way in which they Are doing who is to maintain control of a Security service where Doe the Hea Viest responsibility he now with Trudeau who did not follow up a warn ing that the ramp had been breaking the Law for 20 years and thereby a with the men who ran the Force during those 20 or with a director general whose warning was brushed aside it seems to me that president Harry Truman was right when he put a sign on his desk the Buck stops the Buck has come to Trudeau and he cannot pass it if Trudeau had accepted the Buck when John Starnes tried to hand it to him on december a great Deal would have been those were exceedingly difficult Days but the Security service was operating with no formal mandate did not receive one until five years Trudeau left it to make up the rules As it went the result is to be found in the scathing towards the much less so towards the men in government who possessed mate tories started it i would like to congratulate you on the excellent Quality of your recent editorials commenting on the Trudeau governments divisive on the Constitution and the National Energy your leading editorial for August under the title uncooperative federalists is particularly Apro pos in this As you Point the minister of regional economic expand Pierre de has completely abandoned cooperative federalism under his current approach to Dree May i comment on the statement in your editorial in respect to cooperative federalism devised by an earlier lib eral government headed by Lester in it was initially devised by the Diefenbaker administration and the Alvin Hamilton was its chief the program of National develop ment launched by the Diefenbaker government covered All aspects of Federal provincial in the area of welfare the Hospital insurance program was a major cooperative federalism was applied with particularly positive effects in the area of resource As minister of Northern affairs and National i worked closely with the provincial resource ministers in preparing for the resources for tomorrow which was held Diefenbaker cooperative in Montreal in this con which concentrated on the Wise management and the multiple use of renewable provided the basis for the Canadian wildlife federa the resource ministers and secretariat and the establishment of the department from the standpoint of federa Provin Cial cooperation it is interesting to note that Rene who was then the minister of resources in the Lesage succeeded me As the Gen eral chairman of the resource minis ters it was planned that the resources for tomorrow conference of 1961 would be followed by a similar conference Deal ing with nonrenewable in in the 1962 election the Diefenbaker government lost the sup port of the two Central on Tario and and this conference never took Ontario and Quebec reacted to a feeling that the Diefenbaker government was concentrating too much on Western and Northern since Federal provincial cooperation in the Field of resources has gone steadily backward resulting in the impasse created by the hastily conceived National Energy program of last the vague feeling against Western and Northern development of 1962 has now blossomed into a specific program of discrimination against the As you have pointed out in your Walter my congratulations a delightfully entertaining evening was Rainbow product Ion of funny Becida Gaborek was As indeed were the cos Tumes and but not a word was mentioned about the Ziegfried John a local Talent who possesses a truly remarkable i Hope to hear More from him in future prod congratulations to Rainbow stage on a great Scott Winnipeg 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 kindly Manitoban seeks relatives 4 reverse policy on August Winnipeg school Board 1 passed a motion to Stop door to door busing of All those Grade 1 and Grade 2 French immersion students living More than three Quad ters of a mile from their place of the reason Given for this change in policy is to save millions of to effect such the school Board will instruct parents to have their children congregate at the nearest elementary Public where they will be picked up by bus and transported to their French immersion after these children will be transported Back to the same elementary from where they will make their Way this change in policy must be re versed in the interest of the safety of the children affected by this ill con Cei Ved and dangerous in order for the new system to oper ate these Fourr to Lightyear old Phil Dren would have to be at their local school at least 15 minutes before other children and will Back at the school at least 15 minutes after regular school closing to begin their trek of up to three quarters of a mile the implications of this for the safety of these children can be seen by mining some of the safety measures currently in operation in the Public school All Public schools employ a system of school patrols to ensure the safety of school children across Busy these patrols Are on duty from to to for kindergarten 12 to to and to As is evident the children congregating at the local school 15 minutes before and being deposited by the bus 15 minutes after regular school hours will not come under this protective at the end of each Days school teachers ensure that each child is properly and safely attired before 4 i starting for this is an important safety precaution for the very Young children especially in Winter when danger of treacherous roads and the plying of Snow removal equip ment create a hazardous situation for but especially younger Chil these problems Are exacerbated by the unpredictability of school which can and have run up to one hour this would mean that children would be returning to the local school when darkness has How much More dangerous would it then be for these youngsters to navigate their Way not Only through the heavy but also through a flow of cars at the Peak Rush hour it would seem logical to assume that it was safety consideration that led to the original decision to provide door to door busing of French immersion Stu dents in kindergarten and grades 1 and if that decision is to be applauded As one of by the same the recent decision of the school Board to end this busing is to be roundly and vociferously denounced As ill conceived and extremely Carol Ann Randall Winnipeg not both ways with regard to Carl rides letter decl free August come you cant hold up atomic Energy of Canada limited Independent technical advisory committee As a Paragon of scientific virtue when you think it disagrees with a Vic president of and then condemn the same committee As a party to a carefully orchestrated response from the nuclear Industry when the committees science Secre tary writes to Tell you there is no you cant have it both Friesen on july my Daugh Ter and i were in a car Accident near my husband was badly Hurt and the rest of us bruised and we Back in Hill Minnesota largely due to the efficiency and help Given us by Many the nameless people whom we must thank Are those at the site of the Accident who immediately called for medical faceless people to me at that but ones whose kindness i will never forget those at Pierre the police the medi Cal staff who evaluated the situation correctly and sent us on to further medical care Boniface hospitals night emergency from doctors to who not Only gave the medi Cal care needed but passed on to us their strength and the list is but again the Christensen family is truly appreciative and we Hope that we can repay your kindnesses by being equally Good to canadians visiting the Christensen family Hill Minnesota immoral i apologize to Jones for assuming that he was a member of the Canadian Union of postal from the proselytizing tone of his letter it was a mistake easily i surmise from the rest of his letter that he did not read mine of july 28 very my main Point that there is a world of difference Between strikers in private Industry directly punishing their and strikers in the Public service sector punishing Only innocent if Jones cannot perceive this difference then we Are both wasting our time writing let ters to the free we had better leave it that we each have our own morality i consider the punishing of innocent people to gain ones ends to be while Jones does provided it is unions doing the punish ing and not Belyea Winnipeg Canada is a difficult area in which to Trace As an administrator of a modest estate of an aunt who died i have been trying since 1974 to Trace two Canadian cousins who Are they Are in their Margaret and daughters of Joseph who died in from Telephone Calls to where they were known to reside at the time their father it was Learned that the was married to a after years of that includes classified advertisements in several widely read we have come to the conclusion that our remaining Hope of tracing them lies in a popular newspaper letters Page that might be read by an acquaintance who knows where they Are we were advised that they might have moved Richards 116 Dumbreck London England birthday Elizabeth born Grey August heres for pickets knowledge of obscene language ;