Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 15, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba I Winnipeg free september 1981 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published and printed six Days a week at 300 cart but Winnipeg r3c 3d by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller editorials the progressive thinking the Manitoba progressive party May still be More of a debating society than a full fledged political but at least it is debating issues that concern the people of the policy seminar held last weekend brought together knowledgeable people of widely divergent views to discuss issues of importance fiscal labor full employment and Industrial it reflected both the new party interest in political ideas and the distance it has to go before it can present Manitoba voters with a coherent set of there is no doubt that the progressives Are speaking to a widely Felt need for a Middle Road Between the conservatives and the new that Middle Road has usually belonged to the Liberal party but the under their new Douglas have so far failed to make themselves an effective Factor in Manitoba political Equa the progressives have begun to fill that largely because their Sidney is an effective and enthusiastic controversial St who can attract attention with the Power of his it remains to be seen whether the progressives will Ever become anything other than a forum in which Green can vent his zest for any party which can attract both who used to be thought a bit of a and Jake the former social can be said to Lack precise political and if the party is to be taken its official policy must begin to touch on More issues than simply the ones on which Green differs with his former colleagues in the the chief effect of the progressives to Date is to focus attention on the failures of the provinces two mainline the conservative governments main contribution to political debate at the moment is to spend Public Money on an advertising Campaign aimed at creating the impression that the state of the provincial Economy is better than it really the chief result of that Campaign is to increase scepticism about the Wisdom of the Lyon governments economic nip Leader Howard Pawley dithers for months before coming up with a position on a Central Issue such As the proposed Alcan the progressives Are not at the moment a reasonable alternative to either of those the Best they could probably expect in an election Campaign this autumn would be to play the role of the party becoming something More significant than simply the voice of a dissident former member of the it reflects a broader impatience with the leadership of both the conservatives and the should that impatience the progressive May yet prove to have a surprising the High Cost of catchup a report has just been submitted to the Federal government that in that most air traffic controllers Are not subjected to the same stress or responsibility As and should not be paid the it will Surprise no one that the which is the result of a Long and intensive study of the has not diminished the air traffic controllers determination to achieve pay Equality with the controllers Are determined to do just and have demanded a 61percent pay that would bring their pay to a Over two it is a classic example of the Canadian game of catchup that is to blame for much of Canadas labor John Crispo told a progressive party seminar on the weekend that it has taken a real Effort for Canada to beat the italians for the world record of working Days lost to but we have done Crispo suggested that a catchup philosophy has created much of the even in the professions that act like unions but maintain they Are not catchup is the the doctors want More Money because the who Are regarded As inferior by the medical Are catching up to the lawyers want More Money because those people who Only keep Are catching it knows who is ahead in the game or who is about to draw Crispo suggested creation of a body with no Power except to make Public whether new demands Are excessive when compared to the rest of he suggested that the body real Power would be in its ability to unearth the skeletons in the closet of any Organiza Union or that made demands that were out of Crispo said the danger in ignoring the catchup or in modifying a free collective bargaining was if the Freedom to bargain so do equally important but such As the one which said air controllers have no right to demand pay equal to do not seem to have much the fighter dilemma it is unlikely that the Canadian order for 130 or so f18 fighters will Cut much ice if push comes to shove As president Ronald Reagan attempts to Cut the hitherto uncut table defence department the Best Canada can Hope for is that the aircraft will have other areas of other reasons Why it should not be sacrificed to the balanced budget ambitions of the Reagan what is unfortunate in the entire exercise is that the f18 Hornet does not represent the Best military Choice for it As Are so Many Canadian defence a Compromise based More on economics than on military re it is a Compromise because it is a More expensive aircraft than the single engined f16 that was in the finals of Canadas selection those who wanted the cheapest were edged As they should have by those who saw the foolishness in buying any for use Over Canadas Northern that had Only one the by the time Industrial offset the other sacred cow of military purchases was properly came out As the second cheapest machine we could what should have been the highest priority in the that of giving Canadas airmen the Best machine designed for military did not seem to make it on to the decision there were better machines they were More such As the f15 Eagle or the f14 or they were built in the wrong such As the Zanavia Canada did the and decided on the basis of Price and Industrial if the f18 survives the Reagan budget it will not be because Canada has become the Only nation outside the to place an order for the it will be because the americans themselves have already spent massive estimated in excess of on developing the but if the machine it will not be the Darling of the forces As it was once if it it will probably be in reduced and this will probably push Canadian costs we May find that we thought we were buying Only to find that the delivered through circumstances beyond our has escalated rather what we thought was to be a cheap fighter May turn out to Cost More than the better ones we have turned Legal illegality is it possible for a Junior government to prohibit what a senior government permits the Manitoba court of Appeal not Only thinks this is entirely but has ruled that the Junior governments order need not necessarily interfere with the jurisdiction of the senior it perfectly Legal for a Manitoban to own a device that warns of police radar in it May be licensed by the Federal it illegal for a Manitoban to operate a motor vehicle carrying one of the federally licensed All that May be perfectly Clear to those Learned in the but to the average citizen it would seem to make a lot More sense to have the two Levels of government get together and agree on what is acceptable to you got time to sign a petition to Foster development of solar Energy Gas Battle goes on by Peter Mclintock special to the free press Victoria when prime minister Trudeau and Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed announced their Energy nobody in Canada was Hap pier than Premier Bill for months the Bennett government had been carrying on a vendetta with Ottawa Over the Federal governments Levy of an excise tax of 30 cents per cubic feet of natural Gas and derivatives now it appeared that the Battle was Crown corporation did not object to Ottawa Taxa Tion of natural Gas As what it did object to was the Federal government collecting this tax from a provincial Crown corporation Selling Gas within a Hydro is such a Corpora Saskatchewan has taken the same stand with respect to its Crown corporation which distributes natural whether Ottawa or the disputing provinces Are right is a matter for the courts to Section 125 of the ban act says no lands or property belong ing to Canada or any province liable to but until the courts Settle the has decided to withhold the Federal tax on Domestic arguing that As a Crown is part of government and one government cannot tax so since last has been sitting on the tax Money it should have been sending to to the tune of this would have amounted to and May still amount to some million by the end of the when the agreement was Bill Bennett was jubilant As he saw the Federal government had abandoned its tax on natural Gas for he predicted that after octo will get the full Price on Export Gas i have tremendous satisfaction that the fight is he Felt that the agreement would help to ease much of the discord which created the climate of confrontation which has been our recent came the it came when the full text of the agreement had been read and the relevant As far As was read the Federal government has agreed that the rate of tax on natural Gas exports from Alberta will be reduced to and stands ready to enter similar agreements with other Gas producing so the Premier had to backtrack he admitted that his province would have to negotiate with just As Alberta but he was confident that in a country built on equity and fairness we cant have the prov inces treated differently and that our negotiations will be far quicker and smoother than but will they unpaid Bill there is that unpaid Bill of it seems unlikely that Ottawa will talk before that is nor has the atmosphere Between Ottawa and Victoria been exactly Condu Cive to for months the sacred government has engaged in All out Ottawa notably through its Energy Bob in his Energy minister Marc la Londe has been the villain of the when it has not been the prime minister or the National Energy not Long ago he was warning the Canadian Gas association against like phantom lurking in the gloom until defined by the Ottawa bureaucracy and let Loose to if not your Cash flow and to satisfy the hunger pangs of a monstrous Ottawa there Are also some practical considerations which cannot be tax removed the Export tax on Alberta natural Gas was but on a quid pro quo the quo was Albertas agree ment to pay possibly billion or More in exploration and development incentives to Canadian companies drilling in that province Over the next five hitherto Ottawa took care of these on of Alberta should come out Well gaining As much As billion in the five Withan out payment of Only can afford this kind of Deal it costs As much to Drill for natural Gas As for but potential Revenue from the former in would come nowhere near the Oil revenues Alberta will Gath what might have to pay out in incentives when measured against possible not look too in All fairness to Bill Bennett he was not the Only one in to jump the on the morning following the agree government officials were quoted As saying that provincial reve Nues could jump by million this year by million in a Good year As a result of the so goes into its negotiations with Ottawa like a poker player holding a busted flush against an opponent sitting with a full there a wild card in the what happens if the courts should decide that Ottawa Gas tax is unconstitutional change of face returning from a trip abroad 1 was amazed to find soviet athletes playing in the Canadian ice hockey Tournai it is barely one year ago that Canad an athletes were denied their Chance to participate in the Moscow olympics because of the soviet invasion of Afagh at the time of the Canada the russians still occupy that either the olympic Boycott by Canada was a Money saving or the present opportunities for monetary or prestige gains and the entertainment of the have brought about this change of perhaps sports and politics do not but it seems to me that Canada is making this mixing its Koenraad Lindner Winnipeg Canada cup no Boycott i i not machines this is in response to the letter sadly free september Chamish claims that when his wife was treated in the emergency depart ment of the health sciences Centre three years ago the Type of care she encountered was less than Chamish suggests that it lacked com and re All properties that Are necessary for one to Label medical care As Good it never fails to amaze me How people can base judgment on a particular situation that occurred As Long ago As three years and make such a statement on a single the emergency unit at the Hsc is situated in such a centralized location that the numbers being served make it very difficult for the medical staff to formally display the aforementioned although not necessarily i can assure Cha Mish that these traits Are present in the minds of the treating Chamish May find it hard to but the medical staff Are human beings and not unemotional the pressure of an atmosphere As full of tension As an emergency unit add an extra Strain to the individuals who Are performing their Over the past few the Volun Teer services department of the Hsc has instituted a program in which adult volunteers act in order to provide patients and their families with emotional support As they await Many More volunteers Are needed in this program if i would encourage Chamish to take part in the program As a Volunteer to enable him to get a better perspective of what actually does Roma Blaschuk Hsc Volunteer Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and the author s name will be used and letters Are subject to grossly overpaid the picture of the inside postal work ers free August 21 hard at it in an attempt to Clear the backlog of strikes me As the work of a Blind and innocent reporter or pure i see a very different scenario being played especially by the Many militants of the Canadian Union of postal work i believe Many inside postal workers Are deliberately working at a slow Pace in order to build overtime and thus recover much of what it Cost them to remain on i believe a number of Sorters simply throw what they have in their hands into the nearest Slot or bag at the end of a just to be Able to walk out on the i have seen recently anywhere from six to 60 letters that have arrived at a Rural Post office located in a direction very different from the addresses on the i do not accept this Type of sorting As Normal i see it rather As deliberate acts coming from a no care these militant who think of themselves As being hard done will use the newly won right to refuse to do whatever they deem dangerous and look for lightweight bags to pick i mistrust our postal i see the inside workers As being grossly overpaid and and much in to Cap off my feelings of last week i received a letter that took seven Days for though it was mailed Here in the the inside postal workers have held the Canadian taxpayer to they have done irreparable harm to the Economy Over the since the Federal government stupidly voted them the right to the new Crown corporation could fare somewhat better because of differ ent bargaining and because it is expected to pay its own As costs of mail service usage will decrease and alternative forms of communication will then the inside postal workers May Well reap their own Albert Wolfe Winnipeg a great pm prime minister Pierre Trudeau has the qualities that make him the Best prime minister we have had and Mackenzie he is has and has the Quality of he is the Best Man to uphold Canadas interests from and foreign and the Best Man to fight for every Canadian wherever he or she resides against the greed of the newly Rich most of the press including the free press and the Sun Are playing the dirty game of and by editorial and headline innuendoes on news have poisoned the minds of the Why Doest the conservative party come out with a platform plainly stat ing How they will Stop inflation and bring Down interest rates they can because Canadas problems Stem from worldwide conditions and Are not the fault of Trudeau he is an intellectual and a i May be one in a but i like Trudeau Eph Portigal Winnipeg not reported i have been taking the free press for Many since in my opinion it was Superior to Many local newspapers and because of the excellent level of report i was always under the impression that the free press supported the underdog especially those unfortunates who have been forcibly retired because of myself whether because of Lack of interest or oversight the free press has not yet printed one word of the important hearing held before judges Matas and Osullivan in the Manitoba court of Appeal on june i was in attendance at the hearing and i was awed by the dignity and solemnity of that important the judges ruled unanimously in my favor and decided on August 13 that an action by the City of Brandon to prohibit me from making further appeals be dismissed and that the order of judge delivered october 1980 which prohibited the human rights commission from considering a complaint filed by me be set Many including feel that the Public is very interested in the mandatory retirement Issue and be Lieve that human rights cannot be protected in a Only a free press can do John Green excellent service i would like to thank the attendants of the Winnipeg ambulance service who responded in a matter of minutes to our 911call on september when our was taken also our thanks to the doctors and nurses at the Winnipeg childrens hos Pital who helped in Joeys fast recon and Pothe Winnipeg health Hazard Why has the bylaw referred to in the cat lady free August 24 not been enforced the conditions As described in the article make it obvious that it should not Only Are Bertha Rand and her neighbors in danger of but the cats cannot be properly cared i am not a veterinarian nor Ami a but i do know the Cost of caring for one cat the Cost of inoculations is in the area of per and the Cost of food at least per or per for 30 cats it would be per Are All of Rands cats fully inoculated if the department of health and the cites bylaw enforcement Agency Bent on allowing this might suggest that the humane society and the police move in and exercise their something has to be done to rid the area of this Hazard to both humans and compassion must be limited to reasonable Donna Delaney Winnipeg hold it the moral majority Doest like the news youre i i i ;