Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free october 1981 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published and printed six Days a week at 300 Carllon Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press 1872 the Winnipeg Tribune 1890 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller the Sham consultation a year Federal finance minister Allan Maceachen announced that he planned to Cut billion from Ottawa contributions to provincial such As medicare and higher but he referred the matter to a special parliamentary task All the members of the task including the majority from his own told him not to do Maceachen announced he would do it this Maceachen called the provincial finance ministers to Ottawa to consult about his plans for the including the contemplated the provincial ministers told Maceachen not to do Maceachen said he was going to do it under the it is not surprising that people Are beginning to feel that trying to give advice to Maceachen is a waste of the parliamentary task Force proved that the reasons Maceachen set out a year ago for cutting the Federal contribution have no Federal Transfer payments Are not out of their relative Cost has been constant Over the past their rate of increase is now declining and they Are Likely to continue decreasing in real the provinces have not reneged on the terms of the cos sharing agreements two studies demonstrate that they Are doing precisely what they agreed to the Transfer payments Are not the cause of the Federal deficit that was created by political decisions on taxing and spending made by the Federal the Transfer payments were not a product of Federal weakness they did not result from the Federal government caving in to the they were an example of Ottawa using its spending Power to push the provinces into adopting programs that the Federal government wanted them to none of cuts any ice with Mac each any More than the fact that the Federal government when the new system of fiscal transfers was established five years that it would stay in effect for the foreseeable Maceachen of is that he has a and apparently deficit that he does not know How to one easy easier than cutting Federal spending or raising is to reduce the Transfer payments and thus move the deficits from the Federal government to the that move does nothing to solve the problems of inflation and High interest it simply moves part of it from one jurisdiction to it does nothing to achieve Maceachen proclaimed aim of preserving the Power of the Federal government to help the poorer prov the cuts in Transfer payments will Hurt the poorer provinces the Maceachen knows All that at least he has been told it by everyone he cared to in As on the to the Federal govern is a Sham these More delay on the Grid Manitoba Energy Don says that unless agreement can be reached on the Western Power Grid by then the potential Grid Saskatchewan and will probably begin seeking other arrangements to meet their future Power Craik also suggests that the stumbling Block to a Grid agreement is now the Price Manitoba will charge for its his position that the Price must be right in any negotiations that commit parties to a 35year period is the statement puts a definite Gonogon Date on a project that has been announced several and pinpoints a new stumbling Block that apparently replaces Saskatchewan reluctance As the main Factor for last a technical study conducted by Saskatchewan and Alberta gave the Green Light to a Western Power and Craik predicted that negotiations to go ahead with the Grid would be completed within the Grid had already been mentioned As an objective of the Manitoba government in an earlier speech from the last the Saskatchewan minister responsible for Doug said Manitoba was pushing for an april 1 signing of an in Craik said that april 30 was the deadline for and suggested that Saskatchewan would have to reach a decision by that Date or face the possibility that Manitoba and Alberta would go ahead with the Grid without Saskatchewan Early in Craik described april As being a watershed month for Manitoba in terms of starting work on the next Nelson River Power generating the same Albertas Deputy minister responsible for Robert described the april 30 deadline As crucial for a decision on a project that had been under study for More than two Manitoba wanted the agreement so that it could Crank up construction on the new Power station during the summer and Alberta wanted to satisfy its private Power companies that their provincial government would not leave them without future on april Craik said Manitoba and Alberta were pretty much in agreement on the Grid a week a report was published saying that Manitoba was considering routing Grid Power through the United states if Saskatchewan continued to delay the on May the Western meeting in issued a carefully worded communique that in that technical studies were that the project was feasible from a technical and that the decision to go ahead was now a political on May of said that Manitoba preoccupation with its potential Potash mine had stalled negotiations on the the following Day Saskatchewan filed its negotiating position on the and Craik said the hiatus in the talks is now on june agreement was announced on the preferred Power routes for the another meeting was held by the ministers involved during the August meeting of Canadian premiers held in Craik has now set a new deadline for agreement the end of the year and has told of a new stumbling if Price is a cause for delay then the Manitoba government must look to its own from the begin the Western Power Grid has been Manitoba Manitoba has pushed so hard that it is not surprising that the other partners in the scheme believe they can get a better Deal than the original Early negotiations on Price established that Grid Power from Manitoba would be Over a 35year at costs that reflected the costs of new Thermal this Price would be fair to the and to the buyers As since staking out this Manitoba has tended to treat the Grid As an accomplished its most recent in the series of Meg project under a heading of huge projects generate economic activity the government says the Western Power generating jobs and construction activity As Well As the other two the Potash mine and the aluminium Are still the Power customers know if they Are being it could be that they suspect that the anxious to Salvage at least part of its Advertis ing might sweeten the the nip pays the first of the new democratic party election advertise ments cart be As most election advertising for selecting and colouring figures in order to gain the highest political Benefit from Manitoban will and just How Howard Pawley and his colleagues have determined that residents of the province have left for Greener pastures people leave Manitoba As they left during the nip regime and As they leave every for a variety of reasons and Educa Tion to name a people move into the province for the same in a couple of recent More moved out than moved but not in the numbers to justify the Dps scare those with memories longer than four years May get a chuckle Over the statement that the nip can ensure that Manitoba Farmland remains in the hands of Manitoba they May remember that the attempt to take Over Farmland and rent it to tenant Farmers resulted in a massive antigovernment vote in 1977 by Rural there is one part of the that will strike Home to every even those who support the present it is the information that this advertisement is paid for through voluntary contributions to the nip and not your tax the same cannot be said for the election advertisements being run by the Lyon however selective and incomplete the information in the nip it is no More selective and incomplete than that in those being published in the name of the government of at the nip is paying its own Money to broadcast its own gallery Phil Mallette War on poverty stalemated by Leonard Shifrin special to the free press the latest word from the Battlefront is that Canadas War on poverty has begun to resemble the persian Gulf stalemate Between Iraq and in according to statistics Cana the proportion of canadians living below the poverty line was per continuing a steady drop from More than 20 per cent in but in 1979 the drop and the figure remained at per now the preliminary information on 1980 has become and the proportion of canadians in says statistics was per last years seeming Lack of change is an a closer look at the numbers reveals that two significant developments took place cancelled each other the first was Ottawa monthly increase in the guaranteed income supplement for the the boost took effect in july and had a Clear Impact on poverty rates among senior the rate for families headed by seniors dropped by almost a from per cent to per for the drop was considerably reflecting the fact that an individual pension was still less than the poverty instead of 40 per cent of singles being in 45 per cent that improvement in the situation of seniors was offset by a deterioration for every other age where the family head was aged 35 to for the poverty rate went from nine to per in the under24 age it climbed from per cent to per single Parent families headed by women were particularly hard in Stead of the 36 per cent who had sub poverty incomes in last year saw an incredible per cent of them Liv ing below the poverty Canadas Economy was in recession much of last and that de presses but As statistics can Adas numbers it depresses some incomes a lot More than one of the reports annual tables sets out incomes at each of the quintile Marks the incomes of those 20 per cent of the Way up the 40 per cent of the Way 60 per cent and 80 per the top of the highest quintile the income of the country top earners is not in the face of an inflation rate of per the incomes of those 20 per cent of the Way up the ladder Rose Only five per while those 40 per cent of the Way up increased per at the 60percent incomes gained per and at the 80per cent the increase was per in other senior citizens sex 1980 was a year in which the managed to get Richer despite the state of the while the poor tightened their belts and got Over the a number of including the Senate poverty com Mittee and the Canadian Council on social have proposed More generous poverty lines than the statistics Canada but the Sta scan lines continued to be the accepted each year they Are updated in line with the consumer Price Index of Infra and every Hal dozen years or when the family expenditure Survey is carried they Are revised in the Light of its As Long As Canad an earnings have outpaced inflation Over the intervening the Revi Sion produces higher poverty Stan a revision based on the most recent Survey is currently nearing and the new poverty Marks should be available Early in the new at the instigation of the new chief statistic a review of the whole basis on which Sta scan calculates poverty lines is also under according to any notion that the object of that exercise is to hold the poverty standards Down is pure Para there is no they to win the War on poverty by redefining the enemy out of being the trusting sort that i of course i accept their assurances also sort Calgary Concrete Jungle lacks human scale downtown Calgary no Appeal to the pedestrian 1 was speaking to the senior Vic president of a Large development corporation in Calgary about the Lack of human scale in the he we have spent several billions of dollars in the last several years in High rises in Calgary and it Doest he it is a denial of the human spirit to have spent this colossal amount of Money with Little regard for the people who frequent the High rises Are boxes of Glass and huddling together with out Green space or downtown Calgary has no no Central no Appeal to the pedestrian except the Stephen Street Only at night does it look the office towers lit up like a chandelier in the Concrete canyons during the Day the Concrete canyons shut out the warmth and Light of the and it worries people like Jim landscape we wont have a single downtown Park with sunlight in another five years unless measures Are taken to preserve the open he George City planning direct wants to limit the building Heights around Parks and malls to let the Sun Shine in there must be reasonable Access to the he it is a modest goal by any but leaving in the Sun cuts the profits of land is so expensive that developers want to build As High As they can Many fortunes have been made in land and according to one thousands of the stories Are legion Vai Werier about people making Money on real one Man bought an old two Storey House for five years the lot 50by120 but it is on the Edge of he was offered million last he cant believe says a he thinks it is greyhound bus lines bought to from the City of Calgary for a bus depot ten years ago at a Price of Between and today the land is estimated to be Worth greyhound and other entrepreneurs Are making Money but not because of any efforts of their it is because of the growth of the but the benefits do not accrue to the Douglas onetime chairman of the National capital has stated that there must be More government intervention in the land process to ensure that the land Speculator is forced to contribute a larger share of his gain to Fullerton denounced the practise of treating land on the marketplace like soap or Fried Calgary is reputed to be the fastest growing City on the with newcomers flocking in every it is staggering to report that Calgary projects accounted for 66 per cent of All commercial construction approved in Canada during the first Quarter of it is expected that City building permits will total billion or More by the end of the construction of office buildings is the biggest Industry in you can hear the City says one visitor about the ubiquitous there is an atmosphere of great Energy and Hustle and Bustle in Cal it is also an Friendly City without the snobbery and imperious Ness of old wealth in the but the growth has not made Calgary the promised the Hothouse growth has spawned a great Many blame outsiders some Cal Arians like to blame out Side entrepreneurs who come in to make a fast without any concern for the i know of one Vancouver Developer who built similar office complexes in Vancouver and says one pro in Calgary there were none of the Fine the the Bill editor of the Calgary her says the City is a difficult place in which to in terms of getting getting a bite to or buying a there is great dislocation in construction and growth of the there is an upsurge of unhappy he Calgary has the highest suicide rate in the the highest alcoholism the second highest divorce it is a Lack of says As Well As the High there Are too few people who have their parents too few who have grandparents there Are too few family the general attitude of the leading citizens in town is pretty Well that of the chamber of they want to see the City its not Only a matter of its based on a fear it wont last while its happen Treyve got to Cash in on the surge of development and influx of people does not make for a stable one phenomenon in Cal Gary is the giant teenage teeters hear of a party and head As More than 400 gathered at a recent one and caused extensive education and police authorities attrib Ute the explosive parties to alienation and there Are so Many strangers in the biggest problem facing the City arises put of but Gold says there is no real debate on the Issue during civic there Are no political parties on the municipal level and no platforms presented to the elec there is no accountability to the there is a similar political situation and Winni Eggers have no cause to be smug about the development of there is a lesson to be Learned from Calgary in any future there must be adequate land use and zoning and a place for people in the there is an ironic note in the growth of the silence of the depicting scenes of Calgary in the was partly shot in Winnipeg because there were not enough old buildings left in they were among the casualties in the construction of billions of dollars Worth of buildings in the past few a development that denies the i ;