Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 28, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba August 4 provinces consider possible charges against ramp by Hie Canadian pm Justice ministers Ift British Alberta and Ontario Are considering charging ramp officers with conducting illegal activities in their provinces As a result of information Given to them by the Mcdonald commission into ramp Manitoba attorney general Gerry Mercier said yesterday he is not yet prepared to comment on the he Premier Sterling Lyon May raise the matter at a press Confer ence in Morden in provincial Justice Ter Marcandre Bedard said yesterday he has asked Ottawa to make discus Sion of the commission report a top item on the meeting Agenda of Federal and provincial Justice ministers in no Bedard also said he has made a similar request regarding the Agenda of a provincial attorney general meet ing 12 in he said he intends to ask that Sivility for investigating illegal activities by the ramp fall within Provin Dai the commissions final re leased tuesday after a million investigation of the performance of the said there had been 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 the commission withheld part of its findings and gave them to provincial ministers for possible Legal since ministers in some prov inces including Newfoundland and Prince Edward is land have said the commission did not hand Over incriminating information pertaining to their in British attorney Gen eral Roy Williams said the commission has prompted a new investigation by provincial authorities into Covert ramp particularly opera Tion which involved secret counter subversive action by the forces Security although Williams has asked Federal Justice minister Jean Chretien to Forward commission transcripts of secret he admitted that it May not be possible to gather enough evidence to make one of the difficulties that faces All of the attorney general in Canada dealing with operation checkmate is that Back in 1973 virtually All of the files associated with this operation were Williams Williams also said the delicate nature of the evidence or the Impact it might have on National Security could Green suggests an Al Manitoba police Force Rule out any criminal in the executive assistant to attorney general Neil Crawford Slid the province was asked last summer to consider charges against the Force for illegal activities in the although evidence at the time was not Strong John scrimshaw said yesterday the province will take another look at the in attorney general Roy Mcmurtry office has admitted it is looking into charging the ramp or its officers for illegal a photo an Al Manitoba police Force should be considered As an alternative to an expensive contract with the Federal government for ramp Mani Toba progressive party Leader Sidney Green said he was referring to the recent 10 year provincial Federal agreement which will eventually Dun the province and municipalities for 70 per cent of ramp costs in Manitoba rather than the 56 per cent they paid under the former Green was addressing a Public meet ing of about 60 people in the Gateway Community Gateway Road and Bonner traffic matters progressive party candidates Jose Phine Young Concordia Lind say Ulrich River East and Merv Unger Rossmere also Green said no crime primarily traffic could be handled by a provincially run policing for criminal the prov Ince could contract with the City of which already has an Excel Lent criminal investigation in an Green said policing in Winnipeg would remain As it with ramp handling strictly Federal mat his dual police Force idea would apply Only to those areas outside the provincial eliminating the need for ramp services he he said he had discussed the idea with progressive party candidates Bud Murdoch Mackay and others and believed it would be favourably received within the no Cost estimate has been he adding that it is Only an alternative to be he told the meeting the progressive party is now known by Over 90 per cent of Manitoban and this had Cost Only about the other political parties have spent Over each in anticipation of the upcoming provincial election and the progressive conservative govern ments information services division spends another a he but it takes More than Money to turn a pigs ear into a silk he the new democratic party spent very Little to win the 1969 election but spent hundreds of thousands on the 1977 Campaign and Green Manitoban dont want to vote either tory or nip in the next election and know the progressives offer an alter he he said the party now has 22 Candi dates lined up and the major task now is to Field the people of Manitoba Are ready for the progressive if it is there by election then the says the f i s i work Crews Are tackling the Mammoth task of Clearing the main rail line near Saskatoon following a 29car chemical spill danger downgraded Saskatoon up spilled Chemi cals from a derailed Canadian National railways freight train Are not As dangerous As first officials said Gordon a Public relations spokesman for Dow chemical of Canada said instrument readings indicated no traces of Vinyl Chloride a cancer causing were leaking from derailed Tanker cars 12 Kilometres West of we have not been Able to detect a Vinyl Chloride Monomer Butte spills of ethylene glycol and caustic soda were confirmed but were being contained by dikes built by a team of emergency workers wearing oxygen masks and protective other overturned cars contained nitrogen aromatic concentrates and Dieth Ylene Saskatoon emergency measures organization had feared a spill of Vinyl Chloride after 29 cars of the 92car freight train bound for Winnipeg from Edmonton went off the Vinyl Chloride is a colourless Gas that causes dizziness and nausea on Contact and has been linked to a rare liver Emo director Bill Parker said pre cautions were taken in response to the possibility the most dangerous product on Board seven farm families in a four kilo metre radius were evacuated and ramp blocked off Road and air a Cess into the sparsely populated Grain farming reporters were not Al Lowed near the but the Emo called off the evacuation and blockade after it was deter mined the chemicals on the ground didst pose a said Saskatoon rail superintendent Gerald Ripley said the area was cordoned off because of the of an an Sparks Given off by the trains brakes ignited a grass fire that burned to within 30 metres of the spill before it could be it sounded just As if they had put on their brakes real said Dale who witnessed the derailment while i saw one end of it at the rear raising then everything disappeared in a Cloud of it made an awful mess of the the House is about 300 metres from the were one of the seven families Thompson labelled a sad place for indians by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press Thompson Thompson is a sad place for Indian people to live Victor John executive director of the Keewatin tribal told the new democratic party roving task Force on economic sur Vival of the family Martin said people of native ancestry face prejudice when it comes to getting houses and in dealings with some sections of the business it seems very strange that in a City where there Are hundreds of vacant apart our people have such a rough time getting a place to he Martin proposed that Canada mortgage and housing corporation turn Over blocks of apartments As Well As individual Homes to an Indian housing we would be prepared to undertake the administration and also to police the tenants sure they kept the apartments in top he Banks Are probably the worst offend ers in putting obstacles in the Way of indians trying to establish you literally have to have a Bank account for quite a few months before they will condescend to let our people write Martin it seems that we Are tabbed with a Label that Means we have to prove ourselves wild Rice royalties cancelled the Manitoba government has cancelled royalties on this years wild Rice Harvest pending a consultants re port on the natural resources minister Harry Enns announced the which net Ted the government Between and a were based on five per cent of net but inequalities have Enns said in a a departmental spokes Man said that a million pounds of wild Rice were registered last but a considerably larger amount was probably sold privately without registration and without Royalty Enns recently appointed consultant Harold Ross to study the wild Rice Industry with a View to revising the Royalty system for before we can be As far As the business Community generally is Martin they Are ready enough to take your but that where the relationship Martin was concerned that Only three per cent of the Inco metals work Force were of Indian he said new ways must be found to help people from the reserves and Remote communities establish themselves in the mining Martin was incensed that the Provin Cial government had not contacted the chiefs and mayors of Remote communities before letting the million Road construction contract for the Gillan Thompson he Felt that this Lack of consultation was also prevalent in the negotiations for the new Manitoba North lands when dollars Are being identified for the use of Northern they should be administered by the native people themselves instead of being placed in the hands of either the Federal or provincial he told the nip task Martin also said the reorganization of commercial fishing and the construction of processing plants at various Points in the North could be another key to increased Bausch lomb Contact lenses ask about our free trial fitting accent fashion opticians 3304 Portage Westwood shopping Centre phone 8853802 circulation hours for your convenience the circulation department is open from to monday to Well deliver to your for Home delivery Call 9570550 Winnipeg free press correction Lucky Dollar and Lucky Dollar associates flyer for week ending 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