Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 28, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 12 Winnipeg free october 1981 up photo via cuts expert declares tory my Nelson Ris right delivers bag full of petitions against cuts in via service to aide of Jeanluc Ottawa up the governments plan to reduce railway passenger ser vice by about 20 per cent is being enacted a parliamentary Legal expert the opinion of Graham counsel to the com Mittee on regulations and other statutory is based on a techno but was seized on yesterday by the progressive conservatives to continue their fight against the Eglington says the july Cabinet order outlining the route eliminations and reductions should be regarded As a As it should have been registered and filed with the clerk of the privy but was never registered never having been it has not come into Force and of no Eglington concludes in a report cited in the com transport minister Jeanluc Pepin said the general question is being examined by Legal experts in his de but added that he was not aware of Eglington opposition Leader Joe Clark urged Pepin to delay implementation of the scheduled to begin until he studies the matter or until the courts nation Rule on the but the transport minister said All the sex pet advice he has seen is that the Federal Cabinet order without parliamentary approval and the usual Canadian transport commis Sion hearings is and he reiterated that Only a court injunction will Stop the four groups from Saskatchewan filed claim last week in the Federal court of using arguments Sim Ilar to Eglington Penin tory co chairman of the regulations which Stu Dies procedures used in implementing government said later Egling tons remarks Are strictly an opinion and something the courts have not ruled but earlier in the Sinclair tory my for the Toronto Riding of called on the government to put off the cuts until the Saskatchewan Case and others being considered by groups in Vari Ous provinces Are he called on Pepin to join in resolving the Legal Issue through the courts or at least help pay the costs of the groups bringing the Pepin sidestepped the saying the government has the Legal Power under the National transportation act to make the Deci conservative George Hees suggested the government is cancelling routes in Atlantic and Western where there Are mostly to buy new equipment for Quebec and on Tario centres Well served by airlines but mainly represented by lib eral Trude Ati defends plan prime minister Trudeau defended the Federal saying the new equip ment will naturally go to these areas because that where the most custom ers people Are not using the rail service now As they did 50 or 25 years said the government cannot keep subsidizing the High Cost of train travel in areas where rail service is scarcely critics say the subsidies would have been unnecessary if the government had put Money into fixing up rail passenger service years As it was told to do by the Canadian trans port other countries have poured millions into electrifying and modernizing their via had to pay More than million for its equipment when it came into being in but Roberts talks in terms of scrapping As Many As 300 cars by rail buffs want via freed from ice cooled obsolete and at the same time fear the move to scrap cars is a plot to ensure Pepins cuts can never be re much of the problem stems from Vias conceived and brought to life in general budget in Stead of a legitimate act of Parlia ment All its As a the commons and the Senate have never debated the role of passenger service and the government has never defined it or put it in Legisla even More the argument was Pepins decision to make the cuts without Public with out even parliament being in ses Pepin argues the hearings would have taken four years and robbed him of the ability to rationalize the whole system at one but others say hearings would have at least made sure the facts were known and fully f Quality furs at once year Price 1 4oo natural Muskrat Pant 4oo Natur 1388 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to release the results of an internal Energy depart ment review of nuclear policy so Manitoban will know whether to be Lieve assurances that nuclear wastes wont be stored in their government backbench ers routinely denied the unanimous consent necessary for an emergency debate on the Blaikie told the com Mons his if would shed some Light on atomic Energy of Canada real intentions for an experimental underground waste disposal vault at Lac do Manitoban in particular Are concerned about the Liberal govern ments undemocratic and tragic pro nuclear he he also condemned the progressive conserva Tive government of Manitoba Premier Sterling Lyon for its casual neglect of such concerns in leasing land to the Federal atomic Clark review sought grand up Newfoundland tories unhappy with the performance of Federal progressive conserva Tive Leader Joe Clark formed a committee yesterday to press for a leadership the driving forces be Hind the committee Charlie newfoundlands minister of lands and and Betty president of the grand Falls Riding association said the committee will first write to Clark explaining the reasons for their Dis they said last night that Clark must prove he can survive a leadership review before claiming the support of All con after writing to the committee plans to get in touch with All provincial party presidents and with members of the National pc executive to press its demand for a leadership Tubrett said initial response from party Mem Bers around the country has been encouraging both Tubrett and Power spoke out against Clarks leadership at the annual convention of the Newfoundland pc association last saying Clark did not have the popular Appeal needed to win ;