Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 26, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free september buying out foreign firms 0 slows Down by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa Canada is taking a look at changes in the foreign investment review Agency and has slowed Cana a ionization but neither move has anything to do with prime minister Trudeau said yester complaints against fir a include the length of time for foreign companies Stock drop cuts Dollar by i cent Montreal up the Canadian Dollar came under pressure on International Money markets yesterday after ending the Day at nearly a half cent below thursdays closing a foreign currency trader with the Bongard brokerage House in Toronto said the decline was due to the poor performance of Canadian Stock markets and an expected Rise in interest rates in the United Findlay said sharply Down Stock markets were causing a dramatic Selling off of stocks by particularly foreign investors who then convert to Weir Canadian dollars into National he said Canadian dollars were also sold in anticipation of the higher interest rates indicated by today Al time Low prices on the Bond wishing to invest in Canada must wait to get through its filtering Trudeau we undertook last summer to review the Fira process and that is being done he we Art doing it and began doing it independently of this present rash of a the reference is to undersecretary of state myer Rashish who said last week relations Are slipping dangerously toward a crisis because of Canadas nationalistic poli canadians nation activity would not be slowed in the Oil but similar activity planned for other sectors has been postponed because of the weak Trudeau if the Dollar gets it might even be he forging ahead in Energy what the minister of finance indicated is in that in order not to Worsen the value of the we would proceed with due Trudeau except in the Energy in the Energy we intend to reach our goal of 50 per cent Canadian Iza Tion by that is the temper of the govern ments feelings right that is the mood we Are it May Well if the Dollar gets Strong we May decide to accelerate i dont Trudeau also said that Firas Basic goals will not be lost in the the Agency ensures that any foreign invest ment also involves significant Benefit to the prime minister also said he is not calling upon the president reagans administration to Cool the rhetoric Over Canadas nationalist death threats received at Canadian embassy Ottawa up Canadian embassy officials have been receiving death threats in troubled an external affairs official said yester chips departmental spokes said in an interview the threats have been appearing recently in let cards and Telephone the embassy had contingency plans for evacuation of All five personnel and their Filleul said the department is unable to pinpoint a reason for the threats in the Central american country which has been in the throes of a civil War for More than a he discounted the idea that the threats Are connected with the embassy inquiries into the death of Raoul 30yearold new Bruns Wick missionary who was shot recently by government there have been demands in Canada for an inquiry into the circumstances of the in another legers parents rejected guatemalan charges that Leger was involved with it is fair to say that embassy officials in Guatemala have been receiving death threats Filleul i dont the messages Are always his inclination was to say there was no connection with the death of the recent death threats seem More a symptom of the increasing violence and tension in i dont think the threats Are directed at Canada in of was shot july 25 by guatemalan troops during what authorities said was a four hour gunfire Exchange Between marxist guerrillas and Security in an official statement Leger was described As a foreign terrorist and a Leader of a subversive marxist friends and former col leagues of the slain social worker deny he was a you know what they Are saying about about my its not Herve Leger said in a Telephone interview from a Small fishing Village on the Northumberland Solidarity granted role in naming factory directors Warsaw a polish workers won the right yesterday to join the communist government in naming and approving factory but the new Law May face an immediate Chal Lenge from Solidarity unionists who want a larger voice in How factories Are trouble broke out in the Coal with to miners striking in southwestern Silesia after a dispute with pro government Union leaders led to the arrest of a Solidarity mine Lead Solidarity the dispute was Over a statement by the pro government Branch Union in the area supporting the regime and the Solidarity Leader at the sos Nice mine was seized and charged with limiting the Freedom of the rival the Bill on workers self manage which represented a Compromise Between the government and leaders of the Independent labor federation Soli was passed with 15 abstentions but no negative votes in the 460member it gives the workers 8 leading role in and a not Clear role in factory and says disputes Over the Choice May be arbitrated by the exactly How much of a voice the workers would have in the final approval process and what percentage of factories in Poland would be covered by the Law were not immediately Clear the measure provides for exclusive government say in naming managers of defence related industries and other vital areas to be determined through Union government and gives the government Blanket approval to name directors of Public the parliament also passed a Resolution telling Solidarity to end the sow ing of disquiet and any actions violating Law and social the measure gave firm endorsement to pre Mier Wojciech streets patrolled the measures were passed As in creased numbers of military police and soldiers patrolled Warsaw streets after Jaruzelski said they would help fight ant soviet lawlessness he blamed on the first Union free of communist party control in the soviet Western diplomats said Jaruzelski crackdown thursday seemed to be aimed at showing the soviets that the poles were taking the Steps demanded in a series of Kremlin warnings during the past Jaruzelski told Solidarity to muzzle its politics during the second stage of its which begins today in the Baltic port of Gdansk where the Union was born during widespread labor protests last but Solidarity watchers predicted some chapters will Challenge Union leaders in bitter debate when the con Gress newspaper publisher Brydon Mccrea estimates the new postal rates will Cost his Small summer paper an extra a Ouellet predicts better services improving performance of Post office termed corporations first priority continued from Page 1 with 15 Stamps which Cost her those same Stamps could Cost her that quite a said an noyed with the proposed i Send All my Bill payments and per Sonal letters by Ouellett belief that the extra Money would help the new Canada Post do a better Job was heralded by Winnipeg businessman Rudy Lowenstein As Good id pay the rates if the service was he but the service is id like to see it More he said the postal rates would be come part of his overhead for shipping parcels to Brydon the publisher of a Small summer said at those prices ill expect the volume of work to increase for one half of the present Post office and no increase in the pass on increase Mccrea publishes area a Small newspaper which circulates to members of the Lake of the Woods property owners among the proposed rate increases Are an 18 per cent increase for second class which will Cost his subscribers five cents More a copy for a total of More a wed pass that but what amazes me that the United states Post office gets firs class mail to Canada for 18 he a two cent Rise for firs class mail proposed by the Post office was rejected last week by the Independent postal rate said postal rates in detail postal Cost increases proposed by the government yesterday involve hundreds of different depending on the kind of its its shape and whether it is going firs class by air or in a lower class by ground transport following Are highlights of the in including the scheduled Date of implementation in subject to final confirmation by the Federal government in two months d the Basic firs class letter rate would increase to 30 cents from 17 cents if mailed to a Canadian and to 35 cents from 17 cents if mailed to the United d the firs class letter rate would Cost 21 cents per letter in bulk mailing of at least and 21 cents each in bulk mailing of at least if pre sorted by the the bulk first class rate now is 17 cents per d third class addressed mail would increase to 30 cents from 15 bulk third class rates would go to a mini mum 13 cents from nine d firs class parcel rates would re main unchanged tip to one rates for heavier parcels would Rise by Between nine per cent and 34 per depending on weight and Dis Tance to be fourth class parcels would increase by Between 16 and 40 per depending on weight and d most publishers second class mail ing rates for Canadian newspapers and periodicals would increase by about 18 per special rates for non Anadi an publications mailed in Canada would leap by 100 per april d publishers mailing rates for books would increase by per cent for books under v4 Gram and 24 per cent for books weighing 5 april d the Basic fee for registering mail would increase to from the minimum fee for Casho delivery mail would Rise to from Dave a postmaster in grand the proposed new rates for Domestic second class newspapers and period the publishers Book rate and the rate for Library books and education films would come in to effect april John an Klavins depends on the mail to distribute a monthly newsletter for the latvian fraternity Konkordia Zel it goes to the United states and Canada four times a year at for each an Klavins said the Post office is Sloppy in its ability to deliver mail As there is a wide disparity in the arrival times of the the newsletter goes second class to California and it takes three or four weeks to get he Ouellett said Canada now has the rates of any Western Industrial nation and will still compare favourably with european where domes tic mail costs about 35 cents a Ouellet said he held off the rate increases until 1 to avoid penalizing Consumers during the big Christ Mas Ouellet said the first the new Crown corporation will be to improve reducing the lion deficit is a second formula to be set Michael president of the new Crown predicted yester Day that Over the Long haul canadians can expect to see rate increases tied to some kind of a formula instead of their being set from time to time by the Warren said it will be necessary to put some degree of predictability Back into the situation to allow Busi who account for 80 per cent of the to do some Mel a spokesman for Bell estimated the postal increase will add million to Bells annual mailing Bill of about he said the postal rate increases could become ammunition for a future in crease in Bell despite the general disapproval of the business the Canadian periodical publishers association was this is the first time weve Ever been listened to by the said association president John Par had a Promise made by Ouellet that wed get six months notice of a rate and we got it and we appreciate he said association members would have time to adjust subscription and advertising rates to recoup the percent increase in second class r monday tuesday wednesday september 29 30 on the mall from 5 each evening i conjunction with travel films shown each evening in the auditorium from 5 9 Marlin travel scars offices throughout Western Canada on to rep i v5j o l service expert nce reliability greyhound Tours sport Jit Tours club med Norair Ward air Holiday House Voyageur insurance tar6et Tours fiesta holidays Majestic Tours featuring the following participants sunward holidays Pacific Western airlines budget re Tacar Delta hotels adventure Tours Success travel school fun Sun holidays pleasure Tours 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