Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 16, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free september curbs on foreign ownership of land not tight enough9 by Cecil Rosner others to allow them to buy up local Sneath a Ali i 7 r not Ricou i cell of jul sing iwans 116 Matt foam am by Cecil provincial legislation aimed at curb ing foreign ownership of Manitoba Farmland is still not tight enough despite amendments passed earlier this says the chairman of the agricultural lands Protection i still have concerns about this said Harold even now its not tight enough to do what it was intended to do prevent foreigners from buying up Sneath said foreign investors can work through Manitoba lawyers to set up supposedly and even arrange to have the of shares held by but by putting up sizable capital investment for deals to buy they effectively control the Farmland and use it for speculative and other non agricultural he provincial Law prohibits foreigners from buying More than 20 acres of Manitoba the Board has the Power to order corporations to sell land if the majority of shares Are foreign owned or if the company is effectively controlled from outside violations of the act and tightened certain other but opposition members and lawyers said at the time there Are still considerable Sneath said he is hopeful the Amend ments win prevent some of the abuses of the but Laid he is sceptical that they Wilt effectively shut wit fore pets from buying up Sneath said the Board is dealing with some cases where foreign companies May be involved in purchases of or More acres of Manitoba in people really crowd tells minister by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press i said youre a decent with a Home and a How can you be a party to this he if you dont like it you can go Back to where you came the woman speaking is Gillian pet Kovic of Oshawa and the Man she was speaking about is Justice minister Jean the Only Liberal Cabinet min ister she says she Petkovic has a High pitched voice and a British her father was born in Canada and she holds a Canadian pass a Grandfather died in a Canadian regiment i like she said even after the Petkovic said she and three other women had approached Chretien around the Back of parliament Mills West Block while about 500 other Home owners in the so called cavalcade of largely organized by the Toron to yesterday hollered Boos at opposition Leader Joe cheers at Hamilton new Democrat Ian Deans and demanded prime minister tru Deaus removal for High interest rates they say Are forcing them out of their few people have anything bad to say about Chretien personality and pet Kovic said she thinks the minister was simply out of these ladies didst believe pet Kovic pointing to her he was most of petkovits fellow protesters would have envied her she at least got to speak to a about 40 from the 500 bused to Ottawa from Toronto and other parts of help on the protest meet told continued from Page 1 told How they would lose their Homes within a few How their mortgage rates had How their children were suffering and How the government was mixed in were repeated damnation of the Liberal government by Heads of families who said they were not aligned to any in the crowds seemed most angry about past quotations from prime minister Trudeau suggesting people tighten their rearrange their budgets or Stop being Cosgrove said yesterday the Cabinet has about 12 specific proposals to choose from that would Aid Home he refused to discuss Cosgrove did not absolutely Rule out Aid to renters whose landlords May try to pass off the effects of their higher interest rates on he said there is a program helping them already and it is largely provincial his comments were noncommittal enough to indicate the government has no immediate plans to help he said that he will formally ask the Banks to Stop foreclosures and take other Steps to prevent Home owners from in confident because i know that the Banks have indicated that there bending Over backwards to help individual people with rollover prob asked if he was specifically request ing that the Banks hold off on foreclosures until the budget comes Cosgrove answered i he softened it a moment what in asking is that the Banks and the Trust companies continue their concern for individuals who Are facing rollovers and Treyve already demonstrated asked if that meant a freeze on Cosgrove said the Banks had already gone he said Prin Cipal on mortgages had been deferred by Banks in some Maceachen made it Clear that what Ever the government does it will not be a general program applicable to All the Cabinet meets today and Proba Bly tomorrow in Meach to work on the Ontario managed to meet housing min ister Paul and what they told him consisted of gut wrenching they emphasized Over and Over again that they were what they called the real people in the that they were nonpartisan and that there was literally no Way they gave Cosgrove numbers to show that no matter now Well their Homes were How tight they Drew their they could not meet Mort Gage renewal payments which have More than doubled because of interest rates in the 22percent bursts into tears Carol Cook of Toronto literally burst into tears when she made her Case to she said she has 15 Days to go before she must renew her at that the new mortgage will take 43 per cent other husbands payment on their Home will increase from a month to a she says no one wants to buy her there going to have to take us out she Marilyn Harte of Niagara told Cosgrove her fellow protesters had told them their but not the real we Are these people Are telling you their but there not telling you How angry we she shrugs and exhortations All we Are getting from you people Are shrugs and tighten your weve done it As tight As we can do weve made our payments for five years so that Means we could afford our Homes until these rates went up so we afford them any so were saying do something about if you cant do get out and let somebody who can do Hartes husband Ray was no less in he i worked hard for five i got promoted in my i turn around and for me to sell my House in going to lose Money on i put All kinds of work on i put rec All kinds of blood and now in going to have to get it makes me you Guys Are going to have to get up off your backside and do protest Leader snubs Aid offer Toronto up the Leader of a homeowners protest group refused a Liberal member of parliaments offer yesterday to loan him enough Money to make mortgage payments until the government introduces a new Mort Gage policy i sleep nights knowing i had received help and thousands of other canadians were continuing to suffer with the same problems and were in danger of losing their said Stan of who took part in yesterdays bus rally to Ottawa by 600 homeowners protest ing soaring mortgage the offer came from Norm member for the Toronto Riding of scar Borough during a live interview on Toronto television station the station ran a news item before the interview in which Dion said he was about to lose his Home because he afford mortgage interest pay asked what he was prepared to do to help homeowners in danger of losing their Kelly replied ill and Vance him the Money to keep him in his House so hell have a House for his family and his children until our policy conies my wife and i were grateful for the but we have to Dion it would also jeopardize our credibility among those in our group and among those people we Are speak ing Dion said he thought Kellys offer was a sincere but i think he was goaded into the offer by the interview if the offer was made by a private citizen in the private i might have Given it More said a hotel chef and father of two aged five and he likened the offer to pieces of meat to appease an irate Home he now pays monthly for Princi ple and interest on his his mortgage ends 1 and he expects payments will Rise to More than if mortgage charges remain at the 22percent Kelly said he was surprised by Lions refusal and defended his he was a family Man in dire Cir Kelly in just one Man offering to help another in Dis the he said was an immedi unprogrammed reaction to questions fired at me unexpectedly at the end of a live television provinces to fight sport Pool continued from Page 1 Banman said the Federal government earned an extra million in 1979 after the agreement with the provinces was in the year prior to the Ottawa kept or five per cent of for itself after the agree it received million from the Banman said it was very frustrating to see Ottawa ignore an agreement that took six months of negotiations to its another Nail in the coffin of Federal provincial he the minister said the intrusion of another lottery could undo All the work the Manitoba government has done to ensure gambling is because it did not want to be accused of promoting the province took two lotteries off the limited Casino required audits and Cut Back on lottery we Are trying to rationalize the whole he Banman said Ottawa May have to Amend the criminal code of Canada before it can authorize the Quebec finance minister Jacques Parizeau announced yesterday that Quebec will establish its own betting pools and May withhold the annual payment it agreed to give Ottawa when the Federal left the lottery Field to the Parizeau said in a statement that Quebec had held Back on setting up its own betting pools because it Felt they were illegal under the criminal code As previously interpreted by Ontario also May set up a sports betting said culture minister Reuben and an Ontario system May allow participants to pick horse race re sults the equivalent of of track bet Ting along with other sports Baetz told a news the Federal proposed for would award Cash prizes of up to million for correctly predicting All or some of the scores of a series of games such As professional hockey and base Baetz said the provinces also May decide to withhold their payments for the sole right to the Ontario contributes about million a year under the Federal provincial Ontario run lotteries will produce a net profit of million on million Worth of ticket sales this Baetz said the idea of a competitive Ontario Pool is far Down the Road of conjecture because of doubts about whether the wagering is the companies involved list held offices in cities outside Mani Toba and it is often difficult to deter mine who put up the dollars for the nobody needs to buy that number of acres unless he is an operating farm Sneath Hie Board is now looking into the ease of a foreign company which is apparently trying to assemble land in the Beausejour Sneath the company has promised to put a million Alfalfa Plant in the which May put pressure on politicians and others to allow them to buy up local he Sneath said he would favor Amend ments to the legislation which would put an upper limit on How much land could be bought by any he suggested a Section of land 640 acres could be set As the upper limit allowed for nonagricultural Pur some of the problems facing the Board Are illustrated by a Case involving two companies which were fined for failing to disclose their but still have not fully complied with the Sneath Hans eld industries and re child enterprises were convicted july 10 and fined the maximum for failing to produce documents disclosing their of the firms last year bought acres of Farmland South of por Tage la Prairie for Sneath said the related companies have produced documents listing their a majority of whom Are but there is no indication of How Many shares each owns and who has put up the Money for the he up photo opposition Leader Joe Clark mingles with demonstrators yesterday during protest in you want basketball volleyball Bonk balance Adidas Saga let ladles training for Cross country distance racing super special Autry leather i Autry leather Tachikawa Tiger volleyball shoes now in Stock from Only 36 Bowling shoes now in Bowling shoes by Sunbeam Combine top Grain leather expert workmanship Tor fashion a variety of styles t from 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