Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 21, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba It 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 Carlton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt Managua editor Rudy Redekop controller editorials the Friendly president president Ronald Reagan wants to get on with prime minister Pierre Trudeau Trudeau presumably wants to get on with they have taken pains to deny reports that their last facet face meeting was fractious and when they met again briefly last week at grand they once again seemed Friendly a that Good will does hide the fact that serious differences Are growing Between Canada and the United states and that the president is under serious political pressure to do something about what politicians and businessmen regard As unfair discrimination by Canada against there Are three main complaints about Canada the National Energy program which gives special incentives to Canadia owned Oil companies and which has the announced intention of making the Oil Industry 50percent Canadian owned by the end of the decade the foreign investment review Agency they is making it Tough for foreigners to invest in Canada and which is about to make it tougher and a recent spurt of or attempted take of firms by those complaints have inspired demands in the Congress for retaliatory to tighten the rules on Canadian to restrict Access of Canadian Oil explorers to land to change or scrap the Auto there is a certain irony in the fact that politicians at the same complaining about Canadian restrictions on takeovers in Canada and demanding restrictions on Canadian takeovers in the United there is irony too in the fact that some of the proposed retaliatory measures could provide certain benefits to this making it harder for Canadian companies to borrow Money to take Over firms would do something to restrict the outflow of capital which is pushing Down the Canadian restrictions on Oil investment in the could very Well produce More in some of the trans order irritants May be not because of threats from Washington but because it is in Canadas own interest to remove the National Energy program has already been amended whatever the stated the Federal government surely cannot be interested in pushing the Dollar Down and pushing interest rates up in order to buy out More Oil whatever the eagerness of the economic nationalists in the Federal tying up useful foreign investment in a bureaucratic tangle does no service to there will always be irritants Between two countries so closely tied together As Canada and the United not All Are on the canadians have every right for concern about the indifference to environmental concerns displayed by the administration which seems certain to make Canadas acid rain problem even worse than it the perennial problem of the Auto made More difficult by the slump in the Industry and the pressure of Competition from still requires interest rates in the United states Are the business of the United but there is no question that they Are doing damage to foot dragging on the Law of the sea is a matter of concern for canadians As for All the people of the for years the settlement of differences Between the two countries has taken place against a background of demands for punitive action from the representatives of regional interests in the that situation is unlikely to but president Reagan came to Power expressing his determination to improve Friendship and cooperation with his country neighbors to the North and despite the political there is no evidence yet that he has abandoned that air Canada expands in surprised it few this Long being made of leap amp have them release the Gas Back into senator air Canada has been planning for a couple of years to expand its Winnipeg maintenance hangar the one the airline said it did not need when the Federal government called for its construction Back in the politicians needed the hangar built then to try to heal the old wounds left by the withdrawal of air Canada maintenance work from Winnipeg to Montreal in the the airline contended it had no need for the Structure on that got the government to pay for its construction in the airline managed to keep the new hangar nearly empty for a few but soon found it needed mainly for work on its Fleet of it has been used to capacity for the last three years and the airline has been working itself up to enlarging Claude the airlines has now announced the Long awaited roughly doubling the size of the Foury Earold the maintenance Crews working on 737s and other aircraft will then be Able to do their work More efficiently and air Canada will be in a position to solicit maintenance contracts from other airlines that need work done on their aircraft and for which Winnipeg is a useful spot to have the work the doubled hangar will presumably not be used to capacity at the outset any More than the first part of the Plant but the expansion will consolidate the Winnipeg plants position As the permanent Centre for work on the National airlines 737s and will give it a Chance to bid for additional construction of an air Canada building to House the airlines Winnipeg based computer hardware offers the Community solid Assurance that that is Here to a computer Centre can be located almost and the air Canada centres status As a tenant in the Richardson building has always suggested that it could easily be dislodged from and the jobs with by the slightest political wind or managerial intelligent selection of a site and design for the computer Centre and of the employees who will fill about 100 new jobs created by its expansion should make it an important element in the drive to revitalize Central Federal politicians will no doubt want the new Centre to contribute to the Federal government visibility with which they Are now it will fall to the province and the partners in the Core area revitalization to plead for a site and design that will contribute to the larger goal of making Central Winnipeg a More attractive place to live and funny figuring the strike which has closed Down the Inco Metal Compa nys mine at Thompson in a bizarre and unexpected result of the recent trend in labor contracts of indexing wages to the Cost of the Inco workers voted for a strike it because their leaders persuaded them that the substantial wage increases included in the last company offer were not really increases at All but Only reflected the indexing which was won in previous to most workers these a settlement which Guaran teed that they would not Only keep up with inflation but would also achieve a significant gain in real wages Over three years would look like a pretty Good the Inco persuaded that the extra wages represent some kind of have been persuaded to strike for like any other unionized they have the right to take Industrial action to get what they think they Are underground mining is Tough and potentially dangerous work and those who do it have every right to seek the Best pay they can the Inco will create severe hardship if it not Only for the miners but for All those in Thompson who depend directly or indirectly on the continued operation of the in those it is important that those bound up in the strike understand exactly what they Are striking for and what they Are striking strikes in mining communities often involve More than dollars there is a powerful sense of and often of among but if labor minister Ken and Rod the nip member of the legislature for want to bring an end to the their first step might be to help both sides sort out the arithmetic of what is being offered and what is being nuggets from the tax report by Leonard Shifrin special to the free press every year at about this the folks at Revenue Canada reach into their Gold mine of information on Cana Dian incomes and extract a handful of nuggets for their annual taxation statistics but Only a the rest of the Book they fill with the new Lyre leased with statistics on is no Gold Nugget in the Gold Nugget category is the reminder that doctors incessantly bleating about the Inadequacy of medi care payments have the highest average incomes in after expenses had All been the average doctor took Home in who ranked pocketed while third ranking lawyers got also in the Gold Nugget category is the annual count of How Many High in come earners manage to avoid paying any tax at in the number of canadians who paid no tax on incomes of More than was in the number was included in that group of creative tax planners is 160 whose incomes exceeded up from a Mere 96 of them the year that is about it for most of what i was looking it was left in the Ever since the refundable child tax credit was i have argued that eligibility should be based on actual income after and not on the Taxman invention net in come what is left after retirement savings Home ownership savings plans and a raft of other if it turns out that some of those tax free Are qualifying for the my Case would be made in the Revenue depart ment statistics do not although actual income is used for most the pages on the child tax credit report Only net information on the unemployment insurance repayment instituted in is another missing nug when the measure was first an it was said that those with incomes More than 50 per cent higher than the maximum insurable earnings level would be required to repay 30 per cent of their unemployment insurance but the legislation provided net income it too was based on net in come rather than actual that Means instead of the repayment requirement starting at this it is possible you use All your deductions to be earning Well Over and still not have it the amount repaid was itself made a reducing other whats because the value of a deduction increases As income it provides biggest offsetting tax reductions to those with highest instead of paying Back 30 per cent of unemployment insurance benefits under the someone with an income just Over the repayment thresh old actually faces a surtax of 19 per for a person in a top the surtax is Only 12 per with All those loopholes built into the i was looking Forward to finding out who actually wound up paying Back but the tax data Book has no reference at All to the new the i am is that the Revenue it raised was too modest to warrant a Page of a shame that is a because the Statis tics on sources of incomes show that 170 people with incomes Over received unemployment insurance Bene fits in As did others with incomes Between and according to background papers available from the employment depart million was recovered under the repayment that is Only two thirds of one per cent of the years unemployment insurance out it is also an because it ignores the corresponding deduction which reduced other when that is taken into the actual recovery drops to about and built into the provision is a guarantee that even this amount will decline every while maximum insurable earnings Rise 10 per cent a the repayment threshold rises 15 per cent in order to remain 50 per cent someone should Tell the Revenue department that when a tax provision is that the evidence is much too valuable to leave behind at the outhouses Benefit on september a monopolistic Winnipeg newspaper caused severe and undue harm to the nearly 100 responsible families that reside full time in a Northern Manitoba resort area subdivision Park freeloaders should municipal officials this shameful inaccurate article becomes More intolerable when one realizes that it has ignored a Funda mental Rule of journalism by replacing fairness and objectivity by sensationalism and Tacky the vast majority of permanent Resi dents Are More than willing to pay an appropriate share of fair and equitable taxes above the existing service costs they now we support an agree ment Between the municipal and provincial agencies that will permit this form of a permanent resident is required and expects to pay for his own Munici pal Type some of these Are holding tank sewage mini mum per year cottage lease per year provision of own water Supply and sewage minimum per year Snow lowing up to per we accept these costs and other Lack of service burdens such As rough gravel roads hauling our own garbage to a dump or Central receptacle no Street lights no Telephone increased living expenses due to additional travel costs no fire or ambulance Given the fact that we pay much More for much less than our counter parts in towns and i think it is commendable that you rarely Ever hear the self sufficient permanent Resi dents local communities such As Cranberry flin flon and the Pas Benefit from increased economic activity All year Long resulting from permanent residency septic building and lumber realty companies they also have Winter Road blowing subsidized al most entirely by permanent permitting Access to prime recreation al Sites for Snowma resort subdivisions Are less subject to theft and vandalism with permanent residents in stranded or distressed resort or Park users can seek Aid throughout the year when Perma nent residency i have towed cars and boosted batteries for several permanent if handled and promoted can attract new people into the including retired citizens who otherwise would seek alternate permanent resort areas in North 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 permanent residency an asset for provincial using the sensation seeking Winni Peg Media As a Battleground will cause Many unnecessary casualties on both by the Northern residents have Long known that the real Benefit of Southern tabloids is received in out houses and Johnson the educational trip this i was fortunate enough to be chosen by the Rebekah and Odd Fel Low lodges of Manitoba to attend the 32nd United nations pilgrimage for which is sponsored by these organizations it consisted of a three week educational bus trip with 46 other students from West pm Canada and the first week of our trip was spent in we saw the Grain elevators at Thunder the locks in Sault the nuclear Power labs at Chalk River and there we Learned All about our system of the second week we spent in new York at the United nations building where we had briefings on Necef and the who and Learned about International such As the North South the final week we toured such cities As and All in All it was an unforgettable i applaud the Rebekah and Odd fellow lodges which Are willing to spend so much work and Money to broaden the minds of the youth of Sylvia Apostolakis Nelson Mclntyre collegiate Winnipeg birthday Madeleine flin born Manito september we wish to draw attention to the following which affects a Federal a Canadian citizen who believed in official bilingualism in this country was somewhat surprised recently stopping at the passport office in Winnipeg to renew his he realized that out of five employees Only one was Able to answer him in consid ering that the office in question is in frequent Contact with the one cannot help being puzzled by this Type of negligence within a civil service using both official but the visitors bewilderment did not end there for the passport had yet to be picked the Only bilingual employee happened to be away on Holiday or sick leave at that and the Best her Young colleague on duty could do was to express herself with angry Ges in the Best of silent movie Trade to make him understand that she did not understand Man passe port Sil Vous Plait How dare speak French in a Federal the applicant returned somewhat without the document which he had already paid it seems superfluous to elaborate further on a situation which is Unwor thy of the civil service and contrary to the official languages we at the society de education Francaise hours do Quebec that the deficiency observed at the Federal level four no bilingual employees out of and sometimes five out of do make for a rather High ratio could be remedied in the Long run through and it is for this reason that our associations primary objectives Are to reestablish French at both As an Entrance and a curriculum exit re because of incidents of this the francophone members of this a r Tion do not feel that they Are treated on an equal footing with other Canadian it is High time that they be entitled to travel from one end of the land to the and use no other language than their own in any govern ment it is just As important that Federal authorities do not give the impression by such examples that they do not take their responsibilities since such a dismal attitude encourages provincial bodies and universities to neglect their obligations towards the teaching of As they have done for More than ten de Seth a Winnipeg Speed bumps in response to the article committee ignores Speed bump free september 15 i would like to commend the operations committee for rejecting the report by the streets and transportation department regarding the removal of Speed which were installed on an experimental basis in several of the cites it would seem that the attitude of the streets and transportation department has not changed that it is better to do nothing than to to solve our speeding i submit that if Speed bumps have no apparent Why is it that All major shopping centres and drive through restaurants install them i can Only relate to the Speed bumps in my immediate and they most certainly have had some they have not solved the problem but for once it was a step in the right if the streets and transportation department did not take such a negative attitude and put their efforts into improving the program it most certainly would the Speed bumps in our Lane have most certainly had a positive John Krahn Winnipeg right to strike business people in most canadians have had it is time to change the Law governing Public servants right to it is urgent that the Law be in particular for those in essential it now is Clear that Canada made a serious mistake in 1967 in granting Federal employees the right to some of the nations Quarter million Federal Public servants have abused the privilege and have threatened Public safety and in the Case of the postal they have caused great economic unless action is taken things May get even thirty nine of the 81 Public service bargaining units have already indicated their intention to choose the conciliation strike option the one used by the inside postal workers in the next round of contract those 39 groups represent 70 per cent of the total Public in the contract of Federal clerks will even More than air traffic controllers have been without a contract for ten of any attempt to curtail the strike privilege will meet Strong opposition from the big Public service their leaders have already threatened to jeopardize the careers of several maps if any change is at the Public interest must take precedence Over Public ser vants we can no longer afford to allow the rights of the Public and the health of the Economy to be jeopardized by unions that possess the Power to bring vital services to a the Public service staff relations act must be amended to severely limit the right to lets guarantee that essential services will function and lets strengthen the penalties imposed on illegal Roberts president the Canadian chamber of Commerce 4 t ;