Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 22, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba All Ruth Waites lawyers angry at Call for stiffer sentences by Ingebor g Boyens and Cecil Rosner several Winnipeg defence lawyers feasted angrily to what they called inappropriate and ill timed comments yesterday by attorney general Gerry who called for suffer sentences to curb violent Mercier told a news conference yes As the fall court Assize that the Justice system seems More concerned with the Fate of Crimi nals Thart the Fate of he said the Crown has had to Appeal Many sentences recently and said judges should impose stiffer sentences to reduce the occurrence of violent of violent particularly sexual have to be dealt with very Mercier the cruel and inhumane nature of such offences and Long term effects on the lives of the victims requires an adequate but lawyer Jay who is de Fence counsel in one of nine trials in the fall said it was totally inappropriate for Mercier to be making the he has no business attempting to influence the judiciary like Prober he is supposed to be an Independent Law officer and he should not be at tempting to interfere in the judicial process in that a Liberal candidate in the upcoming provincial said Mercier was being politically opportunistic and was electioneering on the lawyer Norm also involved As a defence counsel in the said Mercier should be reminded that it is for the court of Appeal and not the attorney general to decide propriety of court Cuddy said he did not know whether Mercier deliberately made the com ments on the opening Day of the but in any Case the timing was Iliad 1 know if i stood up today and said that judges were being much too the Law society would have my Cuddy Merciers comments came on the heels of similar protests made by de Winnipeg Deputy police crime statistics show there have been 17 slayings in Winnipeg so far this five More than in All of Mercier said his Crown attorneys Are doing All they can to reduce the num see Mercier Page 4 sunny today 1 7 Cloudy tonight 5 september free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final 250 delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 end to Levy wont lower Gas Price Ottawa up Consumers Are paying just As much for gasoline and heating Oil despite the govern ments decision yesterday to remove immediately a special tax Oil con in a move Likely to outrage govern ment Ottawa dropped one con Sumer tax on Oil Only to replace it temporarily with a new Levy on Oil consumption of the same Energy minister Marc Lalonde announced yesterday he is lifting a Spe Cial Federal tax of a barrel on heating Oil and gasoline imposed ear Lier this year because of the decision by Alberta to Cut its Oil but he increased by the same amount an existing Federal the called the Petroleum compensation is aimed at having Consumers foot the Bill directly for higher priced imported Oil and product Ion from existing Oil Sands Lalonde later said in an interview in Edmonton canadians should not expect any immediate tax Relief to follow Albertas decision to restore Oil production to full Lalonde also said the Federal govern ment has no intention of retreating from its goal of putting More of the and Gas sector into Canadian speaking at the University of Alber the Energy minister told an Audi ence of about 500 that he sees no scandal in the Adverse reaction from the United states and the Energy Indus if As cant stand on your own feet because someone is coughing in that would be a he the minister said the american reaction pales in comparison to the ferocious and vitriolic attacks coming from segments of the Energy Industry in despite these the govern ment will not be pushed he the canadians nation program is Here to Lalonde told the crowd that the National Energy programs goal of putting at least 50 per cent of the Energy Industry into Canadian hands by 1990 was no we didst do it because we had a sudden surge of we did it because it was Good Good the same National Energy introduced last also brought into existence the Petroleum compensation charge being As of Midnight monday it went up to a barrel of Oil from a a jump of a bar the increase will remain in effect until the same Day an 1 increase of a barrel in the Well head Price of Oil shows up at the see new Page 4 Campbell expected to enter Cabinet in shuffle Ottawa up prime minister Trudeau is expected to bring at least two new faces into his Cabinet today in what is described As a minor shuffle involving a shift in some government sources say former Prince Edward Island Premier Bennett Campbell will be appointed minis Ter of veterans affairs and Serge the suave Montreal Bac Bencher who made a name for himself last year As co chairman of the parliamentary committee on the will be Given an unspecified no senior portfolios will be affected in the minor shakeup As Lloyd minister of employment and will Ilse his responsibility for women of sources the Job of Secretary of held by Francis Fox along with the communications is to be split Fox will retain communications but there will be a new appointment to Secre tary of there had been speculation in the past few weeks that Trudeau first Cabinet tinkering since he formed a government in would involve shifts of major notably Mark Macguigan out of external affairs and the hoisting of defence minis Ter Gilles Lamontagne to the but the sources said none of these portfolios is affected and no other senior jobs will be Axworthy got in hot water with sever Al women groups earlier this year when he attempted to persuade them not to hold a potentially embarrassing constitutional conference on women it is known that Axworthy considered the repercussions to have permanently hampered his ability to operate in the portfolio and he has told colleagues he wanted the responsibility shifted to someone with a clean the appointment of had been widely speculated because he is one of two Liberal maps from Prince Edward which has had no representative in Cabinet since the death a year ago of Dan who was also minister of veterans once considered a Maver ick among Quebec has represented the Montreal Riding of Maisonneuve Rosemont since Joyal earned High Praise from All political parties for his adroit co chair Manship of the highly charged special Senate commons committee on the Constitution which reported in Gebru up photo stationery store owner Allan Singer leaves palais de Justice for lunch break Quebec language Law goes to court by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Montreal in a minor court and before a judge who refused to provide an English Only Montreal Busi Nessman Allan Singer showed up yesterday Complete with defence lawyer and press agent to do Battle with que becs controversial French Only Legisla Claude Armand singers gave Montreal sessions court a blow blow summary yesterday of the Battle plan he will Likely use in a separate Case before Quebec Superior court beginning that water shed Case is almost certain to go to the supreme court of a Wes Montreal was charged by the Quebec govern ment because he refuses to take Down his English sign and replace it with a French hearing delayed the hearing for Singer has been delayed until december by agree ment on All sides to prevent the sessions court from having to Deal with something upon which the higher court will inevitably Sheppard told court the Basic French language Bill is beyond the jurisdiction of the province and a violation of the British North America act in that d it infringes on Ottawa jurisdiction Over political freedoms and other Feder Al domains such As airlines and Tele d it creates a new criminal offence out of certain uses of Sheppard argues that the right to protect French does not include the right to prohibit Bill 101 was adopted in a French Only version in an English version was rushed through the Quebec National Assembly in after the supreme court of Canada ruled the first version Sheppard said he will argue Anglini nation of the Bill after the fact has not made it the lawyer said he also challenges the Bill on the grounds that it contradicts Quebec human rights see French Only Page 4 judge attacks ambulance procedures delay in getting boys to Hospital raises question on common sense by Gregg Shilliday a provincial court judge questioned what he termed a Lack of common sense in the Way the Winnipeg ambulance service responded to the drown ing of two Transcona boys last provincial court judge Arnold con Ner vigorously questioned officials of both the ambulance service and the cites emergency 911 phone Centre yesterday during the first Day of an inquest into the deaths of Shawn Allan Horvath and Jason Lee the five year old boys drowned july 15 in an unsupervised apartment Block Pool at 120 Prevette judge who has already expressed doubts about the phone centres efficiency at two inquests ear Lier this expressed Strong concern about an ambulance service delay in transporting the boys to he was told that due to a mix up at the phone the ambulance ser vice thought Only one person had been reported he was the ambulance supervisor dispatched one when the attendants arrived at the scene and discovered two they refused to transport the boys to nearby Concordia Hospital until a backup ambulance attendant Norman Troughton told judge Conner that this was Normal procedure because it int practical to transport two patients in one ambulance theres too much motion in the vehicle for proper resuscitation efforts to be carried judge pointed out that the nearest Hospital was Only a two minute drive he suggested transporting the victims to a Hospi Tal where there was Superior lifesaving equipment and qualified personnel would have been better procedure than waiting 10 minutes for a backup Amu Troughton refused to accept the judges he insisted that the risk of transporting people in an Over crowded ambulance was too great and referred to the additional difficulty of Legal judge Conner pounced on telling Troughton were talking about Sav ing human life not who sues he added that after three inquests involving problems with the phone Centre and the ambulance in having a great Deal of difficulty in understanding these delays due to what about the com Mon sense Point of View he said the essential question was if you could have gotten them there Concordia Hospital 10 to 12 minutes would it have made a differ ence judge Conner also pressed at some length a police supervisor of the phone see delay Page 4 Hes the Boss despite Tough talk that Hes the conserva Tive Leader Joe Clark got Only qualified support from 40 of 65 maps interviewed during the last two joint attack external affairs minister Mark Macguigan joined the in condemning soviet but disagreed with Washington on Aid to developing Selling love House parties for hawkers of everything from plastics to perfumes have been upstaged by salesmen pushing love lingerie and Batter powered new nation Britain handed Belize its own Constitution yesterday and the tiny country happily began its Independence with requests for million to get things Index Ann 18 31 7 23 53 21 34 18 Jumble 31 47 sports 17 to ;