Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free published and printed Days a week at 300 Carl Tori Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion the costly Grain strike Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor two weeks the Federal in a statement that surprised Prairie Grain company announced that it was preparing plans to use alternative shipping Points to ensure that Grain Sale commitments could be honoured in the event of a handlers strike at Thunder the statement caused Surprise to the Best knowledge of the Grain the major issues in dispute at the Thunder Bay the new wage Scales and a substantial costo living had been agreed the Federal government apparently knew what it was talking about As far As a strike was Grain and More particularly will be interested now to find out just what alternative plans Are available to handle the two thirds of the Prairie crop that is usually loaded in Thunder the strike will not interfere with the storage of this years Grain most Farmers have emptied their bins if Only because they were Able to receive a higher initial payment before August 1 than they can Farmers will suffer but will become eligible for Advance Cash payments on far stored Grain of a Grain companies will get the Grain and will be paid for handling what the strike will do is to further damage Canadas reputation As a reliable source of fifteen Hundred handlers will affect the income and future prospects of the will do so they they do not want to work five Days in unless they Are paid overtime rates if those five Days happen to include saturdays and the practice of working five Days in seven is common enough in any Job where services have to be provided around the it is reasonable when climatic conditions prevent Thunder Bay from operating 12 months of the weekend overtime is not the Only matter at Issue in the current the first terminal to be struck was operated by the Cargill Grain this terminal could be a pattern for future where the operation will be largely a matter of computerized in dispute is whether the computer operators will be Union or manage ment it is a matter of the strike at Thunder Bay seems to be taking place because no one has tried hard enough to avoid the Canadian wheat has decided to remain almost invisible in the As the the it could be reasonably assumed that the wheat Board have a special interest in keeping h it must be remembered that the has no direct financial it Only handles the Farmers the damage will be confined to individual and to the reputation of the perhaps it is time to follow the suggestion made by a japanese Grain who was trying to and Cope the problems of dealing with the Many strikes of the h6 suggested that Canada As a have a strike when everyone went on strike the rest of the he people dealing with Canada eos if expect business to take place without Labo related the premiers ear it is reassuring to be told by Premier Sterling Lyon that his ear is not for it would have been More reassuring if zealots in his progressive conservative party had not suggested to prospective members of the Keystone club that a donation of would buy them privileged Access to the no doubt the letter mailed out by the clubs like the brochures for Massage appeared to Promise More than could legally be at unlike the Massage parlor the Premier offered contributors their Money Back if they were not but there is no disputing the seductive tone of the they were sent to business and professional men who made up a select group of successful and concerned and promised an Opportunity to meet with the Premier and his Cabinet on a regular the letters did not make it whether the successful business and professional men were being asked for the apiece because they were influential or whether they would become influential once they kicked through with the what does appear Clear is that Manitoban who were not successful business and professional men were Welcome to keep their Money in their pockets and with the government through the usual v the trouble with this sort of silliness is that it encourages a View of politics and political contributions that people in Public life have recently been working hard and successfully to do away electoral financing reforms have been implemented to remove the suggestion that Large political contributors get some special Access to government in return for their All including the Are making efforts to broaden the basis of their financial the Keystone club is a step in the wrong direct getting what you pay for when the Canadian radio television and telecommunications commission begins Public hearings on the applications it has received from people anxious to provide pay television in this commission will do Well to remember that there is Only one difference Between As it is now and the pay to of the the difference that people will required on the or of what is offered on pay to by sending in their monthly by simply withholding that or cancelling the the customers will be Able to toss the crts lofty objectives for Canadian Content into the garbage what the crts should remember is that most of the applicants for the first Canadian payt licences know of the Power of the even if the crts seems blissfully unaware of because the applicants know full Well that to survive they must Supply customers with what they Are willing to pay the crts should guard against issuing licences to applicants who Promise More than they can reasonably expect to there Are Many Winnipeg for who Are still waiting with diminishing patience for the nightly appearances of the Ballet and theatre groups that were promised when the Board of broadcast governors consid ered applications for this cites first private television outlet the crts has set up some complicated ground rules for prospective providers of pay television in it has said that it will give preference to applications particularly suited to the Canadian context whatever that May mean Over those merely imitating existing modes of pay it has said it is unwilling to see a Cross subsidy pm pay television service by regular Cable the in successful anyone to in the the successful stations Are those which offer commercial free and specially such As extended sports most of the applicants vrho want pay television suspect that Trie same formula will succeed in they also know that such a honestly would stand Little Chance of getting the approval of the just As the Ballet and theatre never appeared on Winnipeg television pay television subscribers should not be surprised if the service that eventually comes to Canada imitates the successful pay television operations in the the of is to submit an application that will get the crts if the programming format is not the applicant can always plead before the same licensing body that he has invested Many millions of and needs permission to provide what his customers want so that he can get his investment it would be simpler to allow the marketplace to decide in the first Ottawa Monkey wrench by special to the free press Ottawa a hardworking group of parliamentarians from All parties has entered a new Factor into the equation of Federal provincial fiscal relations but the Cabinet May View it As a Monkey wrench in the task Force set up As a task Force to study the they heard Many representations and concluded that the govern ment should be warned against cutting its contributions to medicare and other programs where the Cost is shared by the two Levels of runs counter to the Federal desire to trim from its the Crux if the task is that the refs no Struc Tum imbalance Between Federal and provincial reve nue raising a View that contradicts prevailing government think faced with its huge and chronic built up through the budgetary measures from 1975 a Federal theory has developed that the Central governments resources Are Over stretched and that the provincial Side should Bear a heavier share of the costs of joint this is a convenient View for Central government ministers and officials and it is it is not the share Cost programs which have thrown Federal finances into a mess it is past budget policy and refusal to face the implications of income tax indexation during a period of High the income tax was indexed without that taxpayers Are inevitably shoved into higher and higher tax brackets by inflation even if their real incomes do not that is patently a socially unjust result of inflation while he was finance John Turner introduced indexation As a it has the inevitable secondary effect of denying the Treasury inflationary increases in the yield from its most important source the income it does not that inflation will Stop push ing Federal costs up or that the Central government will not need substantial increases in its the honest Way what does follow is after Index t government wishing to keep its House in order will have to raise the necessary additional revenues the Hon est by deliberately adjusting tax rates correspond to its rather than relying on inflation to produce the the Post indexation Howe rejected this As government costs a succession of income tax cuts were introduced in the budgets presented by Donald Macdonald and Jean Chretien in unsuccessful efforts to stimulate the Economy and to increase they Hung the Millstone of these multimillion Dollar deficits around the Federal governments in their budgets were completely wrong for the economic conditions of the they stimulated inflation rather than the the department of finance has never had a worse record nor done the nation More during the 19751978 fallacy John understood the fallacy on which the budgets of the four pre ceding years had been based and set in what now seems a minor and inadequate to Correct the his fault was not that he went too far but that he did not go far enough towards undoing the damage created by Macdonald the liberals saw that his efforts provided the Means of defeating the Clark government and used Thern last budget largely to introducing the fiscal aspects of the controversial National Energy pro among other it touched off the the provinces arid helped value of the producing Stu More inflation and contributing to vely High interest Federal fiscal policy has been in never never land for six years now and the task Force has wisely refused to be confused by claims that past foolish Ness really represents some fundamental structural change in the relative economic strengths of the Federal and provincial the Only Rea son the provinces appear stronger is that their affairs have been Wellman aged while those of the Central govern ment have been grossly new fertilizer a great Deal of concern is currently being expressed Over the rising costs involved in farming on the a considerable contribution to these Ris ing costs stems from the increasing use and rising Price of Between 1970 and Prairie farm fertilizer Bills Rose from million to current projections indicate that fertilizer use on the Prairies will triple in the Manitoba is in the fortunate position of being Able to arrest the accelerating Price of and at the same time expand its Industrial the greatest demand for fertilizer is for anhydrous ammonia to compensate for declining natural nitrogen Levels in Prairie nitrogen from the air is combined with Hydrogen to form nitrogen is available but currently 76 per cent of Canadas Hydrogen comes from natural Gas and 23 per cent from liquid these sources Are neither cheap nor Alberta has designated about 60 billion cubic feet of its natural Gas reserves for anhydrous ammonia an accelerating demand will exhaust this allocation in less than 20 rather than converting Albertas increasingly scarce and expensive Energy reserves into it would be far to use electrolytic Hydrogen produced by Manitoba abundant hydroelectric resources to manufacture anhydrous ammonia with a stable Price tied to the Cost of the technology for anhydrous ammo Nia production from electrolytic Hydro Gen is Well Cominto operated a Large Plant at until the when it was enticed to Alberta by then cheap natural establishing the anhydrous ammonia Industry in Manitoba would be relatively it would require Large quantities of electricity and Man would be Well advised not to Rush into Lon term electric Power Export current at tempts by the Lyon government to develop Lon term Export markets for two thirds of the remaining Power potential of the Nelson River can Only cripple Manitoba Industrial and contribute to rising costs for food producers and Consumers Philip Eyler 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 editing generic monsters enjoyable visit anhydrous ammonia could Cut costs of fertilizer not political 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religious Ken Campbell president Renaissance International Milton your article research requires Money free August 21 has to be the Best news of the it is about time these leeches got off the taxpayers Why should my tax dollars support these researchers and keep them on High salaries so that they can continue with such foolish experiments As Why a Man Falls in what happens to Polar bears after they Are Force fed Oil and other ridiculous experiments on animals and some humans they cannot even discover a cure for the common cold or head the same applies for All these goofy tests on plants that the universities have been it is getting so that a Kernel of or Are not what god intended them to but instead Are weak generic Mon Jansen Winnipeg god in Constitution 1 read with concern the article entitled scholars question reference la god in Constitution free August the Lead paragraph states god May have made it into the proposed but his next appearance May be in a if that statement will Ever be proven True it is my firm conviction that we As a nation and As individuals will be on not it is common knowledge that the Laws of our country have As their basis the moral Laws of As set Forth in the the use of the Bible in our courtrooms sufficient evidence to this therefore i believe that any one having difficulty in accepting the supremacy of god could also have difficulty in being a la abiding Citi this could Well be the underlying cause for the rapid deterioration of our As is evidenced by the dramatic increase in All forms of crime and civil Les Loewen Winnipeg 1 enjoyed Reading the free press very much while visiting in Winnipeg from the people Are and from what 1 have seen of like Winnipeg Best of i enjoyed my trip on air i have travelled on Many air but feel air Canada is the what disappointed me the most Dur ing my visit was your postal As i could not Send word to my the strike did save me Money that i Wouldhave had to spend for cards and Smith county Ireland Good example i have noted that the Boni face Hospital has an enclosed area for at the other the poor patient is pulled out of the ambulance outdoors and exposed to the ele Why cant other hospitals follow the example of Boniface Hospital Pothe Winnipeg birthday Edwin Winnipeg born the september id like a Pound of anything that the fruit flies ;