Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 31, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Winnipeg free october 1981 million in Pic benefits wrongly paid Ottawa up the government paid at least million Worth of unemployment insurance benefits to per sons who were not entitled to them in says a report tabled in the commons the figure is contained in the 198081 annual report of the employment and immigration commission tabled by employment minister Lloyd a aside from the overpayment found by employment officials while invest Trudeau threatens to hang on by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa prime minister Trudeau yesterday said he would sweep Quebec even if Premier Rene Levesque wants to run separatist candidates against the liberals in the next Federal elec and he threatened to hang onto the Liberal leadership just for the he said Levesques talk sounds like opposition Leader Joe Clark and for Mer opposition Leader Robert Stanfield just before an election saying and this time we Are going to take 20 seats in you you say that you whistle in the Levesque said before the 1972 or 1974 election maybe he would run candidates and then ended up asking voters to spoil their we still swept the province of que Trudeau said he challenged Leves que then and challenges him now to fight come and if they want to come and fight let them come and fight federally Trudeau said he is not sure whether the parti quebecois would say they Are coming to Ottawa to destroy Canada or to improve i dont but let them Trudeau said Quebec Liberal Leader Claude ryans decision to vote with Levesque against the Constitution was a tactical although not a serious ryans decision plus a pm poll saying the majority of Quebe cers would Send separatists to Ottawa if they ran does not amount to an erosion of Trudeau i just feel like adding that that seems like a tactic of the pm to keep me in politics into the next because i dont see How i can leave if they Are sending candidates up i would want to stay around and take them a pm poll last week reportedly found that among Quebe cers 35 per cent would vote for the pm in a Federal 22 per cent for the eight per cent for the progressive conservatives and three per cent for the new gating insurance auditor Gen eral Kenneth Dye says in the report that other overpayment As Well As underpayments were but not detected by the Dye put no figure on his an official in his office said dyes state ment is an Assumption based on a review of rather than investigation of individual Dye said his tests established that overpayment and underpayments not previously identified by the commission still three key remedial measures promised by the government in the past for this chronic problem include an employer reporting program to catch people who work and collect benefits at the same time a better internal monitoring system and a better rec Ordo employment system to reduce errors made by employers which in turn Lead to errors in in billion in benefits were paid to about million the million Worth of overpayment in 1980 were detected in investigations of the report said this turned up the investigation prompted the department to impose financial penalties on totalling the government launched 400 and the courts imposed another million Worth of fines on the the government wrote off Mil lion in hardship and the re port says there Are doubts about collecting another million Worth of penalties and overpayment from the the claimants in question Are either poor people who cannot afford to pay the Money Back or people who cannot be tracked remedies slow Yvon head of the unemployment insurance said in an interview he is optimistic the Over payments will gradually be reduced As remedies Are it is a slow Charlebois and Axworthy had predicted last year that by the end of the department could reduce the annual level of undetected Over payments by about on third from the 1978 level of million found by the Charlebois said he doubts that has because the govern ments remedies have not been fully chief among the reme Dies not yet in operation is an improve ment in the Recordo employment pro this is the system in which employ ers fill out a form with information about employees who Are leaving their it is on the basis of this information that insurance Bene fits Are calculated for the auditor generals office attributed almost half the overpayment in 1978 to errors on these Charlebois said he Hopes to launch an education program for employers in 1982 to Cut these errors by teaching employers How to fill out the forms and convincing them that the forms Are an important step in cleaning up the insurance he said Many employers give the forms a Low priority usually have them filled out by a Junior office clerk Many complain it is too nip says Ottawa plans More cuts in transport costs Ottawa up the Federal government plans still More cuts in trans port including elimination of Low freight rates for Prairie new Democrat transport critic Les Benja min said in the Benjamin waved excerpts from what he said was a plan put before Cabinet to shrink All transport spending in line with the 20percent reduction in railway Pas Senger service to take effect transport minister Jeanluc Pepin sidestepped a direct question about the document but defended his via rail decision As controversy on the subject swirled on several earlier Don Mazan Kows Caribbean Aid plan heralded Bridgetown Reuter the Caribbean Community countries will receive a Aid package from Canada for Energy development Over five year period a Canad an embassy official said the package is part of a Energy allocation for the third world announced by prime minister Trudeau during the recent Commonwealth meeting in transport minister in the former progressive conservative released the report of a tory task Force into the via decision which said Many canadians Are suspicious that More cuts Are in the Benjamin said the document he used to question Pepin was actually made Public two weeks freight rates it urges termination or some other Resolution of the Crow nest pass freight rates he it also Calls for cuts in the Atlantic and Eastern freight rates used by flour Millers to ship their products to the maritime and urges reductions in freight subsidies on products being shipped from the maritime to Market in Central compensation schemes for Farmers should be examined and fishermen forced to become self reliant Accord ing to the plan prepared by economic development minister Bud Ben Jamin the Regina West my asked Pepin about the plan but the transport minis Ter avoided a direct taking advantage of the question to clarify his comments on the possibility of More rail passenger i thought i was saying something extremely Pepin Pepin told the commons he is sur prised at the stir he caused with thursday that via service will be curtailed further if the Crown corporation int Able to attract More r up photo cruise ship sails As 191 poles seek better times Here Montreal up the cruise ship Stefan Batory steamed out of Montreal last night after a three Day Short by As Many As 191 poles who have chosen to stay in at least 106 passengers requested refugee status after the polish ship docked while another 85 arrived with immigration papers obtained in their Federal immigration spokesman Patrick Gau Dreau four Crew members deserted the ship As although they had yet to report to immigration the Many of whom say they were ground Down by the Lin Gering economic crisis of their Home have already begun spreading out to new Homes across sixty three of the refugees have opted to Settle in while an other 25 chose said Gau seven poles Are bound for the one pole will live in new Brunswick and nine of the refugees Are no meaning they have not made a Choice some going Home the official figure will be known Only next week when the Captain of the Stefan Batory does a final Tabula Tion somewhere at but some were clearly preparing to return groups of the ships 3 ilium i me snips Wrzosek family celebrates with Toronto polish Community Jere seen in a business j i since or jviorilr6ai Stockins us on Winter apparel and buying Large quantities of scarce in their the ship will not be any lighter for its return voyage because the holds of the Stefan Batory will contain Worth of food and drugs destined for relatives and friends of the Strong Quebec polish distribute goods the polish government has Given the labor federation Solidarity per Mission to distribute the which should preclude the danger of various polish groups from other provinces have already collected and sent in the form of food and medication this while Quebec poles have gathered in most of the refugees interviewed to Date say they came to Canada for economic seventy six poles from earlier Voy Ages this season left the ship and later requested refugee status this Federal immigration minister Lloyd Axworthy announced tuesday that Normal conditions Are to be relaxed in processing and handling the those with 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