Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free november 1981 up photo civil servant files for welfare to raise problem Lyon and Trudeau shake hands at first ministers meeting yesterday while Justice minister Jean Chretien looks premiers firm on Patria Tion continued from Page 1 ant discrimination would come into effect three years but a negative vote against the Sec Ond half by any six provincial Legislatures would kill that part of the it would have to be renegotiated from the beginning to be put into the Trudeau called hat Fields offer a significant Concession Worth discus sing and the ii leaders spent the after noon behind closed doors thrashing it out along with new suggested com promises on an amending his strongest ally Ontario pre Mier William Davis said he would give up Ontario veto Power Over future changes under the current for Mula designed to allow amendments to the 1867 British North America act once it is and he is reportedly prepared to make Ontario a bilingual province to appease Liberal backbench ers from Quebec who say Franco on Cariens need a language break similar to that enjoyed by anglophones in que on the provincial the common front of the eight opponent premiers Lyon said All the eight would accept is Patria Tion of the ban act and an amending not a charter of besides Quebec Rene Leves que and Albertas Peter Lougheed Are also adamantly opposed to a charter of chiefly because it would take away provincial Lyon said the supreme court has ruled such an infringement conventionally and Leves que said his province will never accept a Constitution which takes away Powers premiers from All parties have fought for throughout its Saskatchewan Premier Allan Bla Keney said he could accept a limited version of a charter of but including newfoundlands Brian Peckford and even Nova Scotia John Buchanan made Public statements which indicate they Are closer to Lyon than Premier Bill Bennett chair Man for the premiers made the same but he expressed a willingness to at the same time avoiding Concrete concessions in a Public statement prior to afternoon private at the end of the Day the 11 leaders had achieved something that had never been done at a constitutional Confer first was held in 1927 they All accepted the idea of Patria Ting the Constitution from Britain with no strings provinces in the past have said they would agree to Patria Tion Only if they got More the Premier remained on the difficult question of How to Amend the Constitution the British North America act once it is the amending formula is crucial because it sets Down How changes could occur once the ban act is the Federal proposal binds All prov but gives Ontario and Quebec veto Power Over constitutional Ottawa has an automatic Trudeau said yesterday he is not entirely Happy with the formula and is willing to look at other Trudeau eight opponents have stuck together since last april when they signed a so called Accord agreeing to Patria Tion of the Constitution with an amending formula which allows provinces to opt out of Amend Trudeau rejected the formula at the time and reiterated his opposition saying it amounted to incremental sources from both the Federal and provincial Levels believe an agreement on a amending formula is but agreement on the charter of rights is less most of the talk in private yesterday was on the amending but justice1 minister Jean Chretien said later that the Federal government is welded to the idea that agreement should be reached on All three a charter and an amending we want to see the entire he the premiers and Trudeau were to meet this but they had left yesterdays discussions so general on both the amending formula and the charter of rights that both were expected to be Likely Intermix was undecided whether to carry through with a plan to return to Manitoba at noon today to get Back into the election Saskatchewan Premier Allan Bla Keney who has Lent great support and some workers to Manitoba new demo crat Leader Howard Hawleys Campaign said he can understand Why the Premier would want to up a fed eral civil servant has made a symbolic application for welfare because he says his salary a year barely support his pregnant wife and two most people think that if youre a bureaucrat youre earning or or said Jacques Remil an assistant clerk for Revenue Canada in this Eastern townships City 140 Kilometres East of but when i Tell them my they dont believe Remillard is not More than Federal government employees across Canada with what Are called is employment ratings earn less than about below the poverty line drawn by a Senate committee for a family the size of they Are unionized through the pub Lic service Alliance of but their contract expired in december and they have received no pay in creases since Remillard said in an interview he has no desire to quit his in he thinks Little of those who unabashedly live off the but while he Doest expect to be accepted by the Quebec government he has applied for it to underline his plight to politicians and the welfare agents in Sherbrooke Al ready have calculated he is earning Only a month More than what hed get from social considering welfare recipients in Quebec can get some drugs and Home appliance repairs for Remillard said he finds the situation revolting and a chunk of the he pays for income tax is but he cant see any logic in the remaining sum helping to pay welfare families who Are receive about As much As he is at if and when a new collective agree ment is Remillard and other Low salaried civil servants will Likely get a Lump sum in retroactive but while he would gladly Welcome a he Doest expect a significant especially after the Treasury boards latest offer of per for years our raises have been behind he calculating he and his colleagues Are getting 28 per cent less than their counterparts in the private boy takes bus from garage i continued from Page 1 months ago when another bus was stolen from the in that a Man fell asleep on a bus late at the Driver did not notice him and parked the bus in the the Man woke up Early the next morning before the Day shift a started the bus and drove Borland said one Way to tighten Security would be to build a Fence around the garage and outside com but with three garages in the City that could prove he he also noted a Fence would be useless unless there were Security guards posted at the Gates on a 24hour basis to keep an Eye on people coming and he added any such Large expenditures would also have to be approved by City transit officials Are continuing to look at other less costly ways of tightening Borland he refused to discuss what other changes have or May be saying it would Only tip off intruders on what to watch private investigator bared facts Saskatchewan will go to court Over reductions in rail service private investigator Dave Cohoe laughs but didst find it funny being naked in a hotel hallway locked out of his own room by sent to Toronto on a Domestic he was Given a room in the Royal York hotel with single Beds which we rent Long enough for him so the hotel made up a Long Couch in an it was warm in the so Cohoe opened a window and went to bed without two hours he was awakened by a noise that sounded like he got up and leaned out the suddenly a woman screamed and Cohoe discovered himself facing a naked Man and he was a big Guy and very Cohoe wrote in a report to his Boss he grabbed me by the Arm calling me a forced me into the Hall and slammed the wearing Only an embarrassed Cohoe went along the Hall to the House Telephone just As the hotel detective stepped off the but its my Cohoe said As he was Given a Blanket to Wear during the ride to police head Quad an apologetic hotel official later explained that a desk clerk new to the Job had rented the room to the couple after Cohoe had checked it took two hours and a Telephone Call to his Boss to sort the matter from the news services Saskatoon Saskatchewan will take the Federal government to court Over the decision to Cut via rail passenger transportation minister Gordon Mac Murchy said Macmurchy said negotiations have failed to change Ottawa mind and the Only alternative open to us is the court the minister said a Regina lawyer has agreed to take the Case for he said he has no other details at this Legal action already has been started by several including the towns of Watrous and Melville and a railway lobby transport the via rail cutbacks Are scheduled for protesters Block trains la fifty persons blocked two via rail trains for about 12 hours yesterday to protest a transport Canada decision to reduce service to this isolated Region of Northern Quebec from six to three trains a provincial police finally dispersed the protesters and cleared the tracks of Sand and scrapped cars which had blocked the carrying a total of 100 the trains travel from Montreal to la about 250 Kilometres to the North then 350 Kilometres across an Iso lated Region of Northern Quebec to Senne the line continues to Cochrane in Northern fishermen lost in storm new Delhi a flotilla of Indian Navy ships searched today for fishermen reported missing in a furious storm which battered India West coast before weaken ing rapidly the storm packed winds As High As 140 along the coast 290 to 480 Kilometres Northwest of there were reports that at least people were there were 12 confirmed deaths at the port of about 330 Kilometres North West of where Strong winds collapsed a factory Wall and a car Dock Gate and Sank several Madha Sinh chief minister of storm lashed Gujarat said 110 fishing Macmurchy takes via to court news Roundup boats had returned safely but another 185 were Salim stays in in running United nations tanzanian foreign minister Salim Ahmed official candidate of the african states for in Secre said yesterday he plans to stay in the race despite a veto which blocked his nomination last in the first two rounds of secret he 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