Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 30, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free october Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published six Days a week at 300 Cariton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press 1872 Winnipeg Tribune 1890 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller confusion and anxiety if the Well heeled liberals who spent each to listen to prime minister Trudeau in Toronto this week expected to get a hint about the governments budget they will have been bitterly the chief effect of the prime ministers address must have been to spread the same confusion and anxiety among them that Trudeau agreed was rampant among canadians in if Trudeau confirmed the fact that confusion and anxiety is a perfectly Normal reaction under the Circum the chief effect of Trudeau speech was to expand vastly the list of those the government chooses to blame for its own budgetary the list of scapegoats is no longer limited to the the the newspapers and the now it encompasses the entire Canadian nation which must come to its senses and act collectively to fight the enemy which is wounding us any canadians who looked to the prime minis Ter for guidance about How they had behaved senselessly in the and what would constitute proper collective behaviour in the would end up vastly no doubt to the Relief of his Trudeau agreed that there was nothing wrong with being or even with getting though he warned that the Rich would have to Bear their share of the but Rich and poor alike Are supposed to join in the general sacrifice and rally behind the governments Effort to reduce its deficit and Battle Demon what a difference two years in december of the liberals were urging canadians to do the exact Herb the party budget was standing in the House of commons and denouncing the doctrinaire conservative fixation with the governments deficit and accusing the conservative government of being willing and anxious to impose on in addition to the Burden of record High interest rates the burdens of double digit inflation and higher the next eager Liberal maps were marched and reluctant ones were Dragoone to vote Down a budget which sought to do precisely what Trudeau now claims needs to be since that canadians have borne the Burden of interest rates which make the 1979 record Levels look double digit higher taxes and vastly higher Oil Trudeau dismissed any thought that this dismal record might Point to economic mismanagement on the part of the government he that was a tired cliche invented by editorial writers who just have to make not editorial can rely on More than their own like other they can and they can trouble at the web the authority to run the workers compensation Board rests with the three labor three employer Nomi nees and government appointed chairman who make up the appoint the 150 employees and set policy for if the Board and its senior staff Are systematically and wrongly refusing to help injured then the labor All of them proposed by the Manitoba federation of should be explaining Why they Are unable to do their Job an employee has been dismissed from the Board wrongly he and is asking to be the Board chairman contends that he had been giving information from claimants files to people who should not have received the employee says he was giving information to people in order to help injured along with 30 Anonymous employees of the has issued a Long list of charges that the Board has systematically sought to be unhelpful to injured workers and that employees Are taught ways to reject claims rather than approve the Mil has asked for a Public inquiry into the boards operations and labor minister Ken Macmaster has Russell chairman of the says any investigation should be carried out by an outside organization because an internal probe would be but the whole Issue raises questions about the Job being done by the appointed members of the have the labor appointees approved the practices which the web employees complain about and which the Mil demand should be investigated the Public is entitled to hear from them whether they approve or disapprove of the boards policy on release of information from claimants files and what efforts they May have made to change that policy whether they approve or disapprove of the boards hiring and firing decisions whether they Are aware of unfairness in the Way the Board deals with injured if the Board including the Mil cannot come up with then an outside investigation is the Only Way to Cope with the charges made by the compensation Board their complaints Are certainly too serious and too detailed to be brushed put a position on the table and Premier Bennett is going to talk to his fellow premiers and he Bennett put a position on the table and ill think about Rene in wonderland reagans Victory Ronald reagans snatching of an a acs Senate Victory from the jaws of defeat reinforces his reputation As one of the most skilled and persuasive political technicians Ever to occupy the Oval his feat bears comparison with some of the coups engineered by Lyndon Johnson and Franklin Delano Roose velt when they held the it confirms the swing Back to respectability of aggressive presidential influence in dealings with remarkably soon after it fell into disrepute when his fellow Republican Richard Nixon was in tip democratic speaker of the House of representatives that had rejected the Azacs Deal by spoke for Many when he in awed that Reagan had achieved a political forty eight hours before the opponents claimed 53 sure votes among the 100 in the the Senate voted 5248 not to oppose the in order to sell to saudi Arabia five airborne warning and control systems sidewinder Aerial refuelling planes and Range extending fuel tanks for f15 Reagan had to comply with the 1976 arms Export control this required him to give to both houses of Congress notice of intention to both houses then had 30 Days in which to vote on whether to or not the he lost in the Democrat controlled House but has won in the Republican controlled it is a major Victory because the fight for Senate vote was based not on party lines but on a titanic Battle Over whether the Sale would damage arms control or put advanced equipment in the hands of an unstable regime that might fall to soviet influenced or might endanger the National Security interests of by far the most determined opposition was mounted by the pro Israel which began working last Spring and which seemed assured of Victory until the eve of the Reagan and his close advisers expressed frustration about the effective tactics of this in the they seem to have overcome them by dropping the whining and doing a better Job of lobbying this Marks the second significant defeat for the pro israe i lobby in recent on May the Senate voted 5444 not to oppose the Sale to saudi Arabia of 60 f15 Reagan is strengthened in his efforts to continue pushing through his economic he pay a Price in reduced numbers of jewish voters supporting Republican candidates in the 1982 midterm elections and the Republican presidential candidate in significant numbers of jewish voters switched from their traditional democratic loyalties to support Reagan in the 1980 presidential broadly democratic congressmen opposed the saudi Azacs in the Middle reagans win will reassure the Small number of Arab states on which he is counting to forestall increased soviet influence in the it gives him added influence with saudi whose vast Oil reserves and production Are crucial to the economies of the Industrial it strengthens the position of Hosni Egypt new who is following the line of the assassinated Anwar it May help the survival of Jafar num eiris regime in under internal threat because of a rickety Economy and under external threat from Libya Moa mar most it should give Reagan leverage in supporting and advancing the Camp David peace a first sign of Progress May be the agreement of saudis Crown Prince fahd to a joint communique issued after talks with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt during his state visit to West they agreed that Egypt Hosni Mubarak deserves Trust and that the rest of the obligations under the egyptian israeli peace treaty should be this could mean no More than that Israel should keep its Promise to hand Back the last slice of Sinai Peninsula next it be the opening moves of a saudi position change that might Lead to full Public backing for the right of Israel to live in with its Arab Israel and its supporters will be has firmly committed himself to underpinning israels Security and to working for the regional peace that is the Only Lon term guarantee of israels ability to by losing the Israel has avoided the possibility that it might take the bulk of the blame for what some would have seen As a humiliation of the by Frank Walker special to the free press Montreal Are times when listening to Premier Rene Leves que is like listening to the Duchess in Alice in never imagine yourself not to be she told than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be perfect Levesque on his and the Days Are this is almost perfect listen to him in Toronto we have to have a defensive which is humiliating for our it is True we have to go against the Drift of an entire Conti nent we Are really North Ameri cans As deeply rooted Here As any of probably More so while discussing Quebec language changes in the education system and adversely and on what Ontario had done on its Side of the better to humiliate Quebe cers than he did not but the suggestion was there that somehow Good could come from abusing a humility is but when did Humilia Tion become so but that is really not what Levesque was talking he was doing in Toronto what he does so playing the Man of faced with an overwhelming he never for a moment imagines himself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what he or might there is nothing wrong with Levesques political he As did the that if you take care of the the sounds will take care of and sounds Are very important in our increasingly Oral the Premier is a master at the game of the implied he is expert at the Art of the delphic if circumstances Force upon him acts which Are in themselves they Are he tells us with regret and Only because Fate offers no other Given new Cir he will eradicate the evil immediately and All will be though one can doubt whether any process of reversing Good and bad comes that there Are decent anglos who find the relatively quiet climate in Quebec today justifies any inequities which May have been perpetrated to buy As though peace is nothing More than the suspended animation of the to quote Jacques Barrun in another con that is not what experience should Tell there is nothing new about a process of pressure and and we have seen it at work Here in recent the heat is on As far As the language Laws Are and just As it is being Levesque rises to talk about self imposed and Camille minister of education and author and administrator of those same language talks about a Day not far in the future when those English signs he is so Busy ordering removed will be allowed to Rise trapped into error Laurin has since denied saying what he did which is on what he intended to say according to he was trapped into error by the Montreal Gazette that change would depend upon the evolution of mentalities and the Consolida Tion of the French whatever that at same time the double talk makes the head spin Laurin is planning changes in the education sys tem which will eliminate the protes Tant school boards of the one of the major instruments which gives to these same anglophones control Over their own school there Are no straight lines in Laurins thinking but there is an unchanging he May seem on occasion to be reversing himself but he is always moving in the same direct for Levesque and Laurin the objective and has always no matter what changes the climate of the moment May require in the Lan Guage being an French speaking common objective nothing More and nothing less fits in their scheme of to bags and it after a common and worthy enough objective the world the experience of whether they Are in Brittany or or Wales or Scot or Macedonia or the rest Gouche would seem to show that such Independence is the Only guarantee of genuine it does not mean for that reason that it is the or indeed the better course to achieve human nor does it mean that the new Minori ties in these new majority states will be though they often nor does it mean that the system would unjust to though it often though it be currently it also does not follow automatically that there is something intrinsically Good about this exercise of which has authored some of the most terrifying horrors of contemporary for the survival of Quebec is the whole Good of it justifies it is not and that is equally True for the vast majority of All those in Quebec who Are All the Strong collective emotions Are tied up in and it is hard to argue perhaps even impose but French speaking Quebec is not All of just As English speaking Canada is not All of we logical Only in the sense that wonderland is which is real we Are a particular country As we will be something if we May be superficially happier free of each but will we be the better for it or Are we not More useful to the world trying to prove that something very difficult and rare in human experience can be done without abusing one or the other metric a Success As an australian temporarily based in i read with interest the article by Fred metric gets the Boot from angry free october Cleye Leys personal anti Metri cation Bias was not Only through the tone of the article but also in his limited Choice of reference a he neglected to for exam to the june 22 Issue of the weekly news bulletin issued by the australian information service in which reported that the australian metric Board established in 1970 to oversee the conversion program had successfully completed its task and was wound up june he neglected to mention that our schools have taught solely metrics for ten years now and therefore the younger generation knows nothing else but metrics and would not wish to revert to a More complicated system of Cleverley also neglected to men Tion that the resistance to metrication was confined to conservative minority groups concerned essentially with matters of the removal of a prohibition on the use of no metric measures is not an admission of failure As Cleverley on the it is a confirmation of the Success of the changeover and acknowledgement that the elderly and the insecure should not necessarily be penalized because of their inability to metrics Are alive and Well in austra and i am sure that australians would rather see their Ca Nadian friends read More accurate articles concerning our lifestyle Down Graham Hill Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to Sydney Australia not acceptable with respect to the outrageous attack on Ingeborg Boyens by minister of natural resources Harry Enns was not there and the outburst was not reported but when the ministers language is so foul that Csc requests callers not to repeat any of it on the we May safely assume it would offend most of his he has flagrantly insulted a responsible and respected journalist in front of her professional colleagues during a filmed press it really sufficient that Enns Send Boyens an apology it is about time Enns Learned that his violent temper and vicious language Are not acceptable in Public apparently he has not Learned this from having to withdraw insults hurled in the nor from having to apologize for an irresponsible and unfounded attack upon the mount Carmel Murray Smith Winnipeg distressing it is distressing to know that one of our Cabinet ministers would personally attack a reporter As responsible and dedicated As Ingeborg i would like to express my support of the free press in its decision to ask minister of natural resources Harry Enns to re tract his comments and Enns attack was directed to wards one female but it undoubtedly was an attack on All it is reminiscent of Premier Sterling Lyons statement about women As remarks such As these Are i am sure i am not alone when i express my support if your paper decides to take subsequent Silden Winnipeg embarrassed i would like to voice my support for your Ingeborg in any action she or the free press might take for the remarks made by minister of highways Harry As a i was personally embarrassed that a Cabinet minister would make such Ron Mark Winnipeg congratulations congratulations and thank you to the organizers of the Manitoba child care association for the informative and Well run held at red River Community College october 17 and Howard National consultant for Day and Frances coordinator of childcare services at gave stimulating and interest ing both Clifford and Chopek commented on learning As being a lifelong process and it was Gratifying to see so Many childcare inflation professionals in attendance at the con obviously because they hold the same Joan Kunderman director Rocc Day care Winnipeg it is Canadian its rights Are for All Leyden North guaranteed rights what Are Premier Bill Bennett and the other seven dissenting premiers dissenting about under the political smoke the eight premiers Are opposed to canadians having their human rights guaranteed and protected in the Canadian Constitution for All the dissenting premiers do not believe canadians Are ready for human this group has already tried to negotiate away our rights by offering to agree to Patriate the Constitution with the existing amending formula if prime minister Trudeau would drop the charter of the prime minis Ter Premier Bennett and the other seven premiers Are doing canadians a Seri Ous disservice when they attempt to negotiate away our they have advocated both the dropping of the charter and watering it if the charter is up for negotiation canadians stand to the proposed charter of rights is not social credit or it has reached the Point where when you go into a store you see that the Price of bread has jumped a few cents from the Day before two per cent milk is 76 cents a quart and the Price of fruit is getting out of people talk about the High Cost of mortgages but i dont hear anyone telling the poor families that they will get a break on their food god help these poor with two or More i know the of hunger As i have lived in poverty All my and 67 years i still feel the with a Grade 3 schooling and put out to work at age think i have had to pay a High Price just to Lillian May Lambert Winnipeg right on the letters to the editor of october 20 entitled Echo my senti i also agree with Anderson about the tasteless cancer feature by Brian it is difficult to feel anything other than passing sympathy for the perhaps a feature on a victim with a More exemplary lifestyle would have been More Ian Reeve Thunder i ;