Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 17, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free thursday september 1981 focus conflict in the North province disagree on development by Terence Moore the Manitoba government and the Federal department of regional eco nomic expansion have noticeably Dif Ferent views of what should be done to improve living standards in Northern the Federal department wants to direct its efforts to the poorest people in the Region and bring them jobs and other the provincial govern ment wants to Lay the groundwork for self sustaining industries in the it May sound like a distinction without a but it turns out to make a real difference when it comes to laying government Money on one beneficiary or one project rather than the difference turns up in the slogans the two governments use As substitutes for exact description of what they for they give subsidies to a Money losing company that employs local people who would otherwise be the Federal govern ment Calls that human the Manitoba government Calls it a make work when they build roads or research natural Manitoba Calls that creating some thing of lasting Ottawa Calls it the Normal responsibility of the Provin Cial the Manitoba government insists on the importance of stocking Northern lakes with marketable which is helpful to northerners who have the Means to buy a fish a boat and it has pushed steadily for More Highway which directly benefits those who have cars and trucks and wish to drive to it is pushing even without Federal on which will produce Trees for harvesting by a later generation of loggers who can afford the necessary the Federal government allowed it self to be pushed into a great Deal of Highway construction and resource development under the old North lands which is now in its final Windup but when Pierre de minister of regional economic lists his priorities for future Northern development he makes it reasonably Clear that he wants to get out of building highways and deeper into creating immediate jobs for the Federal officials argue that a certain amount of Highway building and construction of water Supply systems and airstrips was necessary in the late 1970s because Northern Manitoba was then desperately Short of the most rudimentary but enough has been accomplished in that they Contin that the Federal government should turn its attention More toward helping entrepreneurs Start up companies that will employ especially a who Are now unemployed and toward drawing the unemployed into the labor two strategies mixed the old North lands agreement Man aged to accommodate both though the mix varied depending on whether the nip or the conservatives were in Power in the both strategies probably have to be the Road building and resource development favored by the province will not alleviate existing poverty in the if it leads to the creation of industries for Lack of trained local Man draw managers and workers from the but the local businesses employing lows kill local residents to upgrade their started up with Public assistance As the Federal department will not be Able to keep going if there Are not fish to be forests to be known Mineral deposits to be mined and roads on which to neither strategy seems Likely to work in the Manitoba government had its innings in the last couple of years of the old North lands following a joint review of the first two years of work under that the prov Ince persuaded Ottawa that the two governments should Cut of subsidizing Money losing local firms in the North and should step up Highway construction and resource now that the old agreement is in its dying the Northern develop ment strategy is under debate once again and Ottawa clearly Means to reassert its human development strategy and its primary concern for the poorest de Bane says he wants to put High priority on improving opportunities for Northern peo ple who experience extreme disparities in income and standards of which is government Ese for poor peo he has also proposed increased resources for human development a which Means putting More Money into training and employing the unemployed and subsidizing More of what the Manitoba government Calls make work me is still witling to help with local Community which is government Ese for waterworks and the like Only where extreme health safety or communication problems he makes no mention of helping with highways and proudly announces that his depart ment refused to help build the Highway from split Lake to aside from their merits in a develop ment Cash Grants to Busin workers and would be workers have a certain political Appeal to the Federal the beneficiary comes to a Federal government of fice perhaps the mooted governmental supermarket in Thompson to apply for the he gets it in a Federal government perhaps with a self congratulatory covering let Ter from a Federal he is left in no doubt about whom to thank for the and he can be reminded at election Road building and resource develop ment projects May be at least As Over the Long in making the Northern Economy More nearly self but that sort of work does not offer the same political a after is the people who use it scarcely if they which government paid for but thousands of Federal government cheques in the mail wit individuals names on them that is Federal presence and identity with a third of three Federal government wants development Aid to Benefit the poorest northerners the Canon Trade in special lease the Canon np200 and get up to on your present copier this is the worlds smallest Plain paper copier delivering big 11 x17 copies of Superb the np200 features breakthrough including dry Toner Fibre Flat path paper feed and Speed up to 20 copies a this is the copier for your office if you s Canon want More copier in less Tidro Pippy for a liar fixed youll receive a Bonus with your Purchase the astonishingly versatile Canon fc810 desktop which features up to 20 pairs of metric conversions plus dual display Trade in and 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