Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 6, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sweden frees soviet pcs offer million child dental plan by Joe Rubin health minister Bud Sherman yesterday announced a two stage dental care program covering children Between three and 18 As Well As senior citizens 65 and the program to be launched april 1 and be in full operation by june 1984 will be expanded later to cover All Manitoban Between 18 and implementation of this final estimated to Cost is targeted for june the existing dental pro Gram is available to about children in kindergarten to Grade the announcement comes on the heels of opposition Leader Howard Hawleys Promise wednesday to extend dental coverage to All kindergarten to Grade 12 students in a four year expansion in the first year of that Cost but Sherman said the Money ear marked by the nip is there is absolutely no Way it could be done for he a million dollars make an Iota of differ ence in the existing dental the governments school dentistry run by dental nurses and Hygiene operates in 17 Rural school Divi a Manitoba dental association sponsored program for children oper ates in 13 school divisions in Brandon and Portage la Prairie currently Are not the government also will form an advisory committee to study the ques Tion of Universal dental care and the Best method of its we expect to hts committee to be operative in and make its recommendation to the government by the Start of the new fiscal april so that implementation of stage one can commence immediate Sherman the programs first to Cost about will provide dental coverage for the estimated Chil Dren Between three and Sherman said the Range of which will handle both prevention and will be based on the existing Clear tonight 2 sunny tomorrow 15 november 1981 free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final 250 40t with supplements Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 class mail registration number 0286 Levesque refuses to sign Accord 9provinces agree on Patria Tion by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa prime minister Trudeau and nine of the 10 premiers have signed an agreement which should bring the Constitution Home from but Only hours after is was made Public it came in for harsh criticism and raised fears Quebec will be further the agreement was made without Quebec it weakens various provisions of the charter of rights and drops a clause protecting aboriginal main Points these Are the main Points in the agreement d agreement to Patriate the cons Titu d acceptance of the so called Vancou ver formula under which the Constitution could be amended with agreement of seven provinces containing 50 per cent of the d agreement to a modified charter of rights and freedoms which would be entrenched in the d acceptance of language rights for French or English canadians where numbers Quebec Premier Rene Levesque the Lone Premier opposing the plan t vowed yesterday his province will use every Means at its disposal to protect its historic rights from what he sees As constitutional he would not sign the Accord because Quebec would not be compensated for programs stemming from the rights charter if it decided to opt out of specific education rights it also would be victimized by a guarantee of inter provincial worker mobility and the imposition of minority education the Premier he also attacked the dropping of a proposal to hold a National referendum on the rights the kind of vote his parti quebecois government is convinced it could win and thus Bury implementation of the entire rights neither the present Quebec govern ment nor myself will Ever accept he we will take All Means at our i see Constitution Page 4 jobless figures hold firm in Ottawa up the number of persons unable to find work remained at in the same number As in september but up from statistics Canada said in the rate was Down to while in it dropped to per statistics Canada said that once seasonal variations Are the National unemployment rate actually went up to per cent from per cent in see jobless Page 4 of photo Quebec Premier Rene Levesque quietly smokes As prime minister Trudeau confers with finance minister Allan Maceachen As Constitution talks Lyon Calls pact Victory for the country Glenn o1 Coce Onemo Premier insists Ottawa failed to win entrenchment Glenn free press by Maureen Brosnahan and Cecil Rosner Manitoba Premier Sterling Lyon yesterday called the new constitutional agreement a Victory for the country and insisted Ottawa failed to win an entrenched charter of the Premier said the Federal govern ment gave up More than the provinces in reaching a final i think that what we have ended up with today does represent a consider Able watering Down of the Federal Posi he opposition Leader Howard Pawley also found the agreement encourage i am pleased that the intransigence of some premiers and the prime minis Ter has been overcome and that a constructive Compromise arrangement appears to have been arrived Pawley said Manitoba Liberal Leader Doug Lauchlan applauded the statesman ship of both the premiers and the prime minister which allowed them to com Promise their positions so that this historic agreement could be Lauchlan pleased Lauchlan said he was particularity pleased that Lyon moved from his earlier completely intransigent Posi Tion because it was the Best thing for As Well As but progressive party Leader Sid Green said the Only positive aspect of the agreement is that the ban act will be Patriate to Green said that other than Patria the Only other advantage of yesterdays agreement Between Trudeau and nine provinces is that now Hope Stop talking about the signed Calls for an amending formula and a charter of rights which allows provincial Legislatures to override the Federal Char ters provisions dealing with Funda mental Legal rights and Equality who has always opposed the proposed charter of said this Means Trudeau has lost the Battle to gain an entrenched charter of he said the charter is now Only a declaration of despite tru Deaus claim that it is i say there not were certainly satisfied that there not in we have agreed to them if they had been see Trudeau Page 4 haggling in Small hours Ushers in new Constitution As the Constitution Accord is announced in Premier Sterling Lyon Tours a Selkirk manufacturing Ottawa up Canadas new Constitution was conceived in a Kitchen and born in a railway station after All night gestation in two smoke filled hotel the Story of its birth is a potboiler political drama full of inevitable Cli Ches Midnight Telephone and lawyers haggling Over Legal Fine print As the Sun came at least six premiers and prime minister Trudeau were directly involved in let hour negotiations which eventually produced the agreement signed yesterday by Ottawa and All the provinces except but ingredients for the Accord had been simmering on a Bac Burner Long sources they say elements of the approved plan were kicked around in Jean Chretien Kitchen when the Federal Justice minister invited attorney Gen reals Roy Mcmurtry of Ontario and Roy Romanow of Saskatchewan for drinks after the supreme court of Canada handed Down its constitutional decision in there will Long be arguments Over who played what role in the final but Federal and provi Hial sources sketched this initial picture As the Compromise emerged gang of eight huddle d As the gang of eight premiers huddled at the chateau Laurier tues Day afternoon to consider accepting a charter of rights in return for their favored amending Trudeau and his two original allies William Davis of Ontario and Richard Hatfield of new Brunswick met with their officials the conference d there were two meetings wednes Day Mcmurtry and Romanow huddled in Davis room at the four four blocks away at the chateau Blakeney was hosting another by he had been joined by Newfoundland Premier Brian John Buchanan of Nova Angus Maclean of Prince Edward Island and officials from Al Berta and British d at some a Call was made to Manitoba Premier Sterling who had returned to Winnipeg earlier wednesday to resume campaigning for the 17 provincial the premiers turned in about leaving lawyers to clean up d by 8 the draft was ready for presentation at the breakfast meeting of the gang of eight on the fourth floor of the chateau d shortly after 9 the final closed session i under stand you have a proposal to Trudeau is reported to have said to a few and an Effort to bring Levesque were made before the leaders came Down stairs to announce their Accord during a final televised the Bank of Canada rate dropped More than half a Point and chartered Banks swiftly followed suit by lowering their prime election giveaways nip Leader Pawley was blasting tory resource giveaways yesterday while Premier Sterling Lyon ventured into enemy territory Roua Lions the three oldest members of the the Lions have been walking tall this week As they prepare for the semifinal against the Robirt Stop the City will continue to use five ambulances identical to 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