Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free october 1981 pm must offer premiers insist photo continued from Page 1 poses to bring Home the British North America act with a charter of rights and an amending must be debated for two More Days in Par after there would be a vote in parliament which Trudeau majority guarantees he will the prime minister said the measure would be sent to Britain for final approval within a few Days of passage in it will be up to the British to pass it and it will become the Canadian Trudeau Trudeau plans to see British prime minister Margaret Thatcher on Mon Day to Tell her that in Light of the supreme court of Canada the measure should be passed by the Brit ish House of the court has ruled that unilateral action by Ottawa to Patriate the Constitution is although it would defy constr tonal con tradition of reaching a consensus with the there have been reports of wide spread uneasiness among British Back benches because Trudeau is pressing ahead with the package in the face of opposition from All the provinces except new Brunswick and Trudeau said he is absolutely con Vinced that he could win a National referendum on his constitutional pack age although he is not contemplating such a move at officials say pm takes fight to meeting Quebec up parti quebecois leaders take their fight against of Tawas constitutional plans to the North Ern Quebec town of Jonqui�re this weekend when they gather for a meet ing of the pcs National the party highest decision making fresh from their bipartisan Victory yesterday in the Quebec National As which overwhelmingly passed a pm motion condemning the party Hierarchy will look at ways the current political situation could be used to promote the pcs goal of que Bec if we called an election on the Issue of sovereignty in convinced wed win both a majority the votes and a majority of the one party executive member enthused before the National Council the gathering will also give party brass a Chance to sound out members on other ways of fighting the Federal up to and including an election or referendum on the last the pcs executive issued a manifesto saying the next election should be fought on the Issue of unless circumstances forced an Early while the manifesto will be certain to engender its adoption is not on the Agenda at this weekends meet it will be dealt with at the pcs full scale policy convention scheduled for Early such a referendum would require Ena bling legislation that would have to make its Way through Bennett told reporters in Winnipeg he rejected Trudeau position that the provinces should Forward new propos als or be prepared to let Ottawa act unilaterally on imposed by Trudeau the unilateral act was imposed by if they want the Issue re solved it is incumbent upon them to put Forward weve Only been defending the Bennett said during a joint press conference with Bennett said it would be wrong for Trudeau to proceed on narrow legals this int some Sleazy contract like buying or Selling a used he lets have our Constitution the Canadian the provinces want to bring the Constitution Home with a simple amending formula and discuss the question of entrenched rights Lyon said he was delighted with the Progress of Bennetts tour and was pleased to see he and the Premier were As one with respect to the Posi Tion on the Lyon and Bennett said although the april Accord May not be the Best answer to the constitutional it is the rejected plan Lyon said once the Constitution is brought Home we can get into the ongoing discussions about Bills of rights and divisions of under their constitutional changes would require approval by two thirds of the provinces with a Popula Tion of 50 per Ottawa would also have automatic veto Power and up to three provinces would be allowed to opt out of any constitutional change in fringing upon their Trudeau initially rejected the april agreement because it didst include the entrenched Bill of during the press Bennett praised the Manitoba Premier who has been accused of intransigence Dur ing constitutional an slightly re faced Lyon sat quietly As his colleague praised him for his efforts in opposing Trudeau Patria Tion Lyon had said Trudeau package was unconstitutional and the supreme court says Lyon was Ben Nett he is great Lyon is one of the greatest nation builders i Bennett Bennett met later in Regina with Saskatchewan Premier Allan Blaken both declined to outline any items on which the premiers already have but repeated the Hope the Constitution could be returned to Canada with a simple amending i dont think its helpful to the process for me to speculate what we might be Able to agree to in a Given Blakeney so in declining to get into this fishmonger he said he Hopes Trudeau will have time to reflect on the Federal govern ments position and return to Canada with some sincere Bennett will meet next week with Ontario Premier Bill Davis As Well As with guests rowed to rooms firefighters use a Rowboat to take guests Back to their rooms at evacuation of 200 people wanting Back into the a Motel m Farmington Michigan after flooding forced the had to show a key before being rowed to their moms 3s out controls provinces fail to get assurances on billion Transfer payment cuts by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa finance minister Allan has All ruled out wage and controls for his next but he purposely left open to Specula Tion the possibility of a similar mechanism the tax based incomes Maceachen ended two Days of talks with provincial finance ministers by making no about five or six including Manitoba Brian Ransom wanted selective Aid to farm homeowners and Small business men suffering from High interest Ransom said the project would Cost Ottawa about Maceachen also refused to Promise he will not introduce billion Worth of cuts in Transfer payments to the those cuts would Cost Manitoba about million and would amount to enough spending to operate about five provincial Ransom Maceachen said most of the Provin Cial ministers asked him to Cut the Federal but none wanted the cuts to affect no provincial ministers asked him to take Canad Anborn economist John Kenneth Galbraith advice to Intro Duce wage and Price and the idea of a tax based incomes policy did not receive any Brave reviews pressed for his own the minister left himself space to i should leave something for i he unlike controls which set a maximum level on wage increases and Are sup posed to control Price a tax based incomes policy controls wage settlements by setting up tax penalties for companies whose average wage increases in a go higher than a figure set by the Maceachen said the provincial ministers indicated some de Gree of support for Ottawa stand that inflation is the 1 enemy and for monetary policy to curb although they wanted to make sure it is up by an adequate fiscal most provincial finance ministers said they were pleased with promises by Maceachen for greater Consul tation on National economic policy and Alberta treasurer Lou Hyndman said Maceachen was also warned not to strengthen foreign investment regulations in a Way that would harm the if we pull together As a team and make maximum use of our the Dollar could get he Ontario treasurer Frank who the night before said he might not go to yesterdays talks Over the Transfer payment turned up and emerged to Issue conciliatory comments based on Maceachen promises of increased consultation and further Manitoba Ransom seemed pleased about that it at least contained a hopeful note Federal minister slams double crossing Banks Downers firm registered in Ottawa Toronto up Federal housing minister Paul Cosgrove said yesterday that Banks and Trust companies have double crossed the government and homeowners by earlier pretending they would show compassion toward people unable to renew their Cosgrove said representatives from lending institutions promised last week to Bend Over backwards to help those troubled by mortgage so he there is no evidence of their i get the very definite impression that the representatives of the financial institutions were playing a cat and mouse game with the government last week while they wait to see what we will he neither Cosgrove nor finance minister Allan Maceachen exacted definite commitments from the Bankers at the but the institutions promised to join a study group on the problems of soaring mortgage in Terest while Maceachen has said repeatedly that there will be no Universal plan to help Cosgrove has hinted that the study group May help prepare some measure of in terms of having better consultation in the he Maceachen gave no indication about Transfer he the ministers had a general discussion about the sort of relationships that should exist Between the provinces and the Federal Ransom and that the part that 1 found perhaps More hopeful for the future than the actual the Specif of what we talked Manitoba took Ottawa to task Over what it saw As excess government when Maceachen expresses to me that he really thinks they have done a Good i cant Miller pointed for that while the Federal government has been increase its staff by the Ontario government has been reducing its by five to we have reduced our we initially had reduced it by in so until i see action by the Federal real i have difficulty in accepting his we pointed out that if we really saw evidence that the Federal government was dealing with their own expenditures the Way we Are dealing with ours in we would be much More receptive to sitting Down and talking about How jointly we Are going to keep our deficits Down we All seem to agree on Ransom the Issue is More important when Ottawa is duplicating services and staff by deciding to go it alone instead of renewing the Canad Manitoba North lands he Downey for pastureland continued from Page 1 Downey owns All of sections 6 and in township Range 1 All of Section 17 but the Northeast and Section 18 except the Southwest the former Hugh holds a mortgage on the the land is registered in the Winni Peg land titles office under three separate titles in the name of Prairie Grassland Manitoba company Branch files show the sole director of Prairie Grassland As Murray a Kil Larney the company was incorporated in about two months before the property Pur Chase took All of the 500 shares issued by the company Are held by Melita auction Mart in not the said i was along As a very minor Princi files of the Manitoba companies provincial department of consumer and corporate show no record of Melita auction marts but Melita is listed in Ottawa in the Federal department of consumer and corporate those records show James Dow the ministers and Morris a Melita Are the directors of the the Federal records do not give a share ownership breakdown but Downey says he owns the Deputy director of the Manitoba companies Greg said a venture carrying on business in Manitoba must by Law be registered in the in a company which Only owns shares in a Manitoba company is not considered to be carrying on business in Manitoba under the corporations a lot of people Are ignorant of the they think because they Are registered they can move around Ciupak Downey said he didst know Why which was first incorporated in 1971 and is still want registered its something i didst Downey said he incorporated federally because he expected to be doing cattle trading business in Sas Rankin said he and As could see the potential for cattle and the Teulon property was within easy commuting distance of where Downey is often stuck on legislative certainly he has a right to have a said Alcan first considered moving to the province three years ago at the invitation of the Manitoba govern it signed an agreement with the provincial administration in committing itself to a million feasibility the company announced last week the site it had selected for further study was located Between Teulon and Impact studies says Filmon the environmental and socioeconomic Impact reviews of the pro posed Alcan smelter in the Interlake District will be the most extensive and comprehensive Ever done in environment minister Gary Filmon said at a press Confer ence he released copies of the Provin Cial governments guidelines for those which will be done at Al cans expense with interim Moni Toring by provincial interdepartmental advisory environmental impacts reviewed will include fluoride liquid and solid ground water regional geology and land the socioeconomic impacts of the proposed smelter on municipal infrastructure and local business will be Filmon said Alcan has indicated it May have the two reviews completed by 31 this after the conclusions of the studies have been reviewed by the interdepartmental advisory which also have Power to request More then Public hear Ings before the clean environment commission and a new socioeconomic review commission will be held next possibly around april following the clean Environ ment commission will Issue orders pertaining to the smelted and the provincial Cabinet will have Power to Issue orders relating to the socioeconomic Filmon encouraged Manitoban to participate in the the guidelines for the studies Are available to the As will be the Alcan Impact studies the government review of them and the reports of both commissions Fol lowing the Public hearings next this May be the first of a series of major projects that have to be evaluated by the provincial govern Filmon citing the pro posed Potash mine in southwestern and the proposed Western Canada Power Grid under which Manitoba would sell electricity to Saskatchewan and Molnar Earl president and chief executive officer of voyager Petroleum is pleased to announce the appointment of Edward l Molnar to the position of executive vice president of the Molnar will immediately assume responsibility for directing the company extensive Oil and Gas exploration and production associated with voyager for the five years As vice pro he previously held senior management and engineering positions in the Canadian Oil and Gas in Molnar holds a Bachelor of science degree in chemical graduating from the University of Saskatchewan in voyager Petroleum is a wholly owned subsidiary of newest group a diversified Alberta based has extensive worldwide Oil and Gas interests with its primary activities concentrated in Western Canada and the United v voyager Petroleum 4 ;