Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 14, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba I Winnipeg free september 1981 Imp scandals Mark Power shifts signs indicate healthy change in Italy by William Pfaff special to the free press Pisa the political scandals of re cent months in Italy Are the external signs of a subterranean shift of Power in the in an investigation is going on into a Stro Garm organization originally tied to the gaullist the investigation would not be possible if the socialists had not come to in a Cru Cial shift in political Power has anticipated a redistribution of private in both countries the Long political domination by a certain and even by a has greatly been to eventual constructive re there is an possibly Fanci to be made Between Italy political arrangements and the famous Tower in this which some say leans be cause the foundation has which others argue is a deliberate demonstration of skill by its Bonnano the upper part of the after is nearly italian political structures in recent have also been perverse demonstrations in How to defy Gravity and escape the but like the Tower of they however increased their so that without Reform they must eventually recent affair of the p2 masonic Lodge in possessing links of influence and blackmail throughout the was not specifically a scandal of the ruling Christian demo cratic the Catholic party and the anti clerical masons make an in congruous it was a scandal of italian government and but these have been under the domination the Christian democrats since the second world hushed up had such an affair Arisen be fore it would have been hushed As nearly All postwar italian political scandals have been hushed simply because in one Way or another some influential Christian or the would have come out the attempt is being made to cover up the scandals but it does not work any the old Power of political intimidation no longer is careers no longer can be ended or begun by word from the Christian democratic the party favor no longer is the unique Road to the top of no one else has taken the place of the Christian the italian socialist party is More important today than in recent and the communist of now conducts an intricate and elaborate brokerage of Power in but this Means merely that the Christian democrats no longer Are in unqualified their decline has been France and Italy have been under a certain Shadow because in both countries Power was too Long in the same geological in its but Unis the Church itself no longer possesses its old influence in an increasingly secular the italian communists Are no longer damned by the Mark of Moscow the country like the italian has Learned to function despite govern ment rather than through it works Best while the government obviously this is a worse Way to survive that if there were effective and responsible but it is a great Deal better than submission to the misrule of irresponsible and the present italian capacity to function despite bad government anticipates the changes which must eventually take place As the exceptional circumstances which imposed the on party Rule of recent decades slowly the French Case is comparable to the italian in demonstrating what goes bad when there is prolonged single party when the fourth Republic collapsed in unable to master the algerian general de Gaulle took charge of a government whose professional army soon opposed his whose elite military formations Mutin and whose police and intelligence services were internally divided on the question of algerian the generals followers therefore created parallel intelligence and com Bat groups whose loyalty was and these fought the military Mutiny and that secret army organization which carried on an underground armed struggle against de Gaulle and his government until Well into the one of these groups was the civic action service when the Battle was Sac lived policing gaullist putting up its running its providing Small town romantics with the Joys of secret organization and the hint of danger along the becoming More and More powerful friends it should have been suppressed a dozen years president Georges Pompidou is said to have the Sac still had too Many powerful and was useful to too Many important and its questionable episodes were always covered up so Long As the conservative parties were in because even the men who hated it also feared the damage it could do if it turned against its onetime its very existence had become a Means to blackmail the ruling Par now members of this organization have been accused of the atrocious multiple murder of a regional Sac official and his the associations of the crime with Sac have not been covered up because the new socialist government does not want them co Vered the Neo gaullist Jac ques Chirac and perhaps others from the government just turned out of will almost certainly be damaged for having allowed this group to or even for having made use of of it is a Good Day for democracy in France when such a group is it is an extremely Good Day for democracy when scandals Are impartially investigated As thus far has happened in the French to the Joy and of the federalism too Complex by Anthony Westell special to the free press Ottawa if you struggle through All 10 chapters and 196 Large pages of fiscal federalism in youll understand something about How the Federal and provincial governments share taxes and you certainly wont be an expert there Are rumoured to be Only about a dozen bureaucrats in Canada who really understand the system but youll be vastly better informed than per cent of your fellow and that the problem with this recent study by the Al party parliamentary task Force on Federal pro Vinci Al fiscal led by Liberal my Herb it does not face up to the fact most canadians simply dont understand How their sys tem of government and there fore cant perform their function As responsible electors in a the essence of a democracy is that the voters know which set of politicians to Reward when things go and which to warn or throw out of office when things go when we construct a system of government so Complex that not even the elected politicians know what is going we Are undermining the foundations of demo the task Force recognized that there is a in the Ideal Federal said a each level of govern ment would tax to support its own so that the people would see exactly which set of politicians was taking their Money and How it was being this was one of the principles established by Mitchell Sharp in 1966 when he was finance minister and preparing to negotiate a new tax Shar ing Deal with the he put it this Way the fiscal arrangements should give both the Federal and provincial governments Access to fiscal re sources sufficient to discharge their responsibilities under the they should provide that each govern ment be accountable to its own electors for its taxing and spending decisions and should make these decisions with due regard for their effect on other of it could never be quite that there must be some overlaps and some doubts about the exact responsibilities of the Federal and the provincial not to mention the municipalities which in the Only the agents of the but As far As according to the each government should tax its own people to meet its Respo Sibili Herb Breau led task Force on Canadian fiscal arrangements and be responsible to its voters for the the task utterly abandoned that on the grounds that it aint Good As the report explained in the realities work against the establish ment of Clear divisions of response by and certainly preclude neglect by Federal politicians of areas falling in provincial the tempt of work both As a political a Federal my cannot ignore any of the immediate concerns of the Federal As much As any provincial takes an Active interest in matters of health or pos secondary education or daycare a constituent appealing to a Federal my does not wish to be told that certain problems fall within provincial jurisdiction what is More in Many Federal maps have no desire to say any tendency toward efficiency through formal decentralization is off set by the readiness of Federal maps to be actively concerned anywhere their constituents interests appear to be at provincial Legisla tors often involve themselves in mat ters of Federal the task Force remarks that this is merely a homely observation of the Way things Are in the real world of and maybe it but it is also an explanation of Why we have an enormously Complex and costly system of government which almost nobody understands in other we have two or three governments taxing to support education and health and social and two or three sets of bureaucrats competing to administer the it May As the task Force that when we Telephone the nearest politicians to complain about potholes in the or that the kids cant or that inflation is getting we dont want to be told that we Are talking to the wrong level of maybe we just want somebody to listen and Promise to fix our even if the politician at the end of the line knows he cant do much be cause the problem is the responsibility of another but what do we do when the potholes get the spelling gets worse and prices go even higher that when we need to know who to blame and vote that just says the task in effect we must learn to live with inefficient and undemocratic because the politicians like it that at least we know who to blame for that View of fiscal France Italy Arnaldo Forlani is an old guard Christian Democrat socialist supporters celebrate Victory in France France and Italy have undergone profound changes in their politics socialist it is a Good Day for Italy when scandals multiply and investigations can no longer be Cut because and journalists know that Power in the country has become sufficiently Dis Persed for them to be Able to do their duty and be congratulated for rather than the governments of France and Italy have been under a certain Shadow in recent years because in 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