Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 6, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free november 1981 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published six Days a week at 300 Carlton 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 he an agreement at last the terse and cryptic document signed yesterday by prime minister Trudeau and nine of the 10 provincial premiers is hardly the stuff to inspire bonfires in the despite its it provides grounds for modest the chief reason for Celebration is the simple fact that it was signed at the clashes and confrontations of the past year had left Ottawa and the provinces on the Brink of a constitutional crisis which could have been immensely damaging to the Unity of the by finding an accommodation at the Lith the prime minister and the premiers at least saved us from the strains on National Unity that would have been created by unilateral action and from the International humiliation of having our Domestic differences debated in a foreign in doing they came up with a package of constitutional changes which May Well be More workable than it looks at first it provides for the two immediate Patria Tion and an amending it provides a charter of rights which does not contain the ironclad safeguards its enthusiasts would like but which does go a Good Deal farther than most of the premiers have been willing to go for the past year or the Pitfalls in the agreement Are obvious Over they May turn out to be More theoretical than the most immediate concern is the angry rejection of the package by Quebec Rene the resultant isolation of Quebec on the Issue and Levesques warning that the results of that isolation will be the initial reaction in on the part of journalists and the is Likely to be Sharp and Levesque is certain to use yesterdays events to prove to Quebe cers that the province cannot count on the understanding of other canadians and that the Only Way they can protect their interests is by when tempers Ordinary Quebe cers May begin to notice that the which their Premier Gays is such a threat to their in fact makes Little or no difference to their it might Force them to Grant the educational rights to their English speaking citizens that most of according already agree should be on the other it might not even do according to prime minister Trudeau proposed informally that the clause covering educational rights would not be proclaimed until All the provinces agreed to the Quebec Premier denounced that As in it is no different from the Deal which Levesque offered the other premiers after his Bill 101 restricted the educational rights of canadians moving to the clause which forbids provinces to give preference in employment to their own residents is misplaced in a charter which is supposed to guarantee fundamental and the amendment which restores that Power to provinces whose unemployment rate is above the National is an the net effect in the foreseeable Howe would be to leave Quebec employment policies virtually the scrapping of a provincial proposal that provinces opting out of constitutional changes which implement new National social programs should be reimbursed from the Federal Treasury strikes Down a Quebec demand that goes Back to the Days of Maurice since there Are no immediate plans for that kind of constitutional Amend Quebec loss there too is More theoretical than the other potential Pitfalls lie in the clauses which permit the one Way or to opt out of various constitutional the amending which would permit if they to reject changes which affect their is the very one which Trudeau claimed would Lead to a Chequer Board Canada or to separatism by in it would produce 1 that result Only in the event of a series of constitutional changes aimed at creating a vastly More centralized federa no one the moment is contemplating that sort of change if it were to come the result for Quebec would be separatism at one fell not by the so called which would permit provincial Legislatures to for five years at a that they were not bound by some of the constitutional provisions guaranteeing fundamental Lega rights and Equality rights could in Lead to a Canada in which rights enjoyed in one part of the country would be denied in in practical it would take a bold government to ask its legislature to deprive its citizens of a fundamental the provinces see that clause chiefly As a form of Protection against extreme or bizarre judicial interpretations of the in the agreement signed yesterday is a typically Canadian untidy and not terribly it is the kind of Compromise which has permitted the Canadian federation to muddle along for the past 114 As it reflects credit on All the political leaders who worked for and on conservative Leader Joe Clark by stopping Trudeau juggernaut last made it All sure looks familiar a but at a Price dissonance on Council the machinations and miscalculations of Winnipeg City councillors have produced an incongruous set of committee appointments threatening increased fractious Ness in the Council and a lowered Quality of civic results show that the Independent citizens election com Mittee caucus is still substantially in control of the but they also represent a failure by the mayor and All and especially by the controlling to suitable councillors for the jobs to be the ice proposed Jim one of its most experienced and hardworking for the joint position of Deputy mayor and chairman of the executive policy by presenting against him Only the Token candidacies of Bill Chornopyski for the one Job and Alan Wade the the new democratic councillors assured his Ernst brings to the Job a combative style sharply different from that of his Pearl who will be All the More sadly since he has argued and voted on the losing Side of the councils most difficult recent decisions scrapping the Sherbrook Mcgregor zoning rules for group Homes and City housing policy for example it is Clear that his ideas do not match the prevailing ideas of the he avoided a conflict interest prosecution last year Only because the attorney generals department found that the City charter did not Majce it quite Clear that a vote that is illegal in the Council is also illegal in a committee of the As Deputy Ernst will have a but not a in the deliberations of the Board of which brings together the cites senior he will have difficulty speaking effectively for the since his ideas Are not those of the Council the executive policy committee will not include a representative of the Core though that District was to be the focus of the cites attention under the Core area initiative and in the implementation of the proposed new development ice councillor Harold who won More Council votes than any other appointee of the comes but his Corydon Ward is still a Long Way from Logan nor does the new executive committee include a representative of the seven member nip the for Mer executive committee included Alan representing both the Core area and the and worked the new committee is both in the committee chairmanships and in the other executive the suburbs Are Back in the results might have been the nip group could have assessed More accurately the strength of its bargaining position and the prospects of an Alliance and joined in putting together a slate of candidates which the other groups would have it chose instead to go for broke in a turned out to be a vain Effort to freeze out the ice and up the ice could have used its controlling position to bestow prestige and influence on a set of appointees More thoroughly representative of the City and the it chose instead to Dicker with the independents resulting in a chairman ship for Independent Phil Rizzuto and executive committee seats for independents Evelyn Reese and Jim Ragsdill and to freeze out the nip and the inner the new appointments do not necessarily signal a significant change in the direction of Council chairmen Are in a position to make mischief or to obstruct measures they disapprove but final authority still rests with the full smooth functioning and sensible decisions would be better if the inner group were More in Harmony with the full v inadequate Navy the recent arrival of a United states aircraft Carrier at Vancouver provided Greenpeace supporters with a made to order incident designed to gain publicity for their antinuclear the visit also demonstrated to Canadian naval who Are responsible for the Protection of Canadian How badly equipped Uliey Are to discharge this rear Admiral William the top Man of Canadas Navy on the West had no hesitation in describing the situation As he sees Admiral Hughes said that the Canadian Navy has equipment barely adequate to operate in by saying nothing about Canadas potential to defend itself in the face of a naval Admiral Hughes said a great Admiral has offered the suggestion that the defence currently standing at would have to be doubled in order to permit Canada to act As a Sovereign nation with coastlines to the figure is probably it is just As accurate to say Given the current Federal governments attitude toward All defence Admiral Hughes is simply talking about Ottawa for the or rather men now saluted As the new fathers of and in the life of our these were four incredible through their Canada is to achieve the full nation Hood that has eluded Canadian efforts through most of this the Constitution will come Home and be placed within the care of the Canadian a the main a very Good Constitution it will Complete with what is now a of rights and free Doms that decently reflects our highest principles As a democratic in the of night a handful of bureaucrats got together to do a bit of tinkering to make it acceptable to the in the end they made it a far better Docu just As Premier Lyon but most other provinces As have been it sustains the supremacy of our and removes the potentially dangerous straitjacket that would leave the final say about the nature and limits of our rights in the hands of the this and much was achieved in the dark hours of wednesday night and thursday and Given first ministers Sanction during the final hours of the but at a dangerous opposed and left was the gang of eight opposing package became a corps of in line behind the each with his key concerns that the Canadian As que becs Rene Levesque was to pronounce at the final Public session of the four Day that is the Way it has always the motivating principle was a Good Day after a raft of confusing and contradictory proposals was floated from the conference it was because the 11 first ministers were determined not to fail this one last the supreme courts judgment in late september had Given them one strip victims Gregg shill Days report of a week end spent on main free october 31 was in the tradition of All such articles Long on description and Short on main Street is a microcosm of the problems of the inner not just because of its social but because of the Way it is organized there is a great Deal of Money being made on the but it does not stay it flows to the the main Street hotels must represent licences to print who is making it who Are the owners How much of the profits Are reinvested to clean up the hotels the main Street strip will be virtually unaffected by the Core area Initia keep profits on main strip Little is planned for the area in terms of and funds do not exist in sufficient Quantity to launch the training and education pro Grams on the scale there is no Point in closing Down the the Trade would move else the answer is to expropriate every hotel Between William Avenue and Higgins Avenue and hand Over control to a properly constituted representing native organizations and appropriate social the prof which How end up in would be invested in the strip first in humanizing the drinking joints and using the hotel rooms As emergency crash pads and detox centres for those who need profits could also be invested in establishing Small Busin esses along the if we wish to provide people with an Opportunity to participate in society what we must do is provide them with some enough Money has been taken out of the strip Over the years it is Lime now to reverse that no other solution is Likely to produce and unless something is done we can Only look Forward to a series of further articles describing the life of the main Street Peter Ferris Winnipeg carriers Union paper boys should have a Union because some newspaper companies to not pay them it should be 79 cents a or More if the company can afford Tony Pietrafesa Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to double Standard now is the time while i do not condone As in the Case of resource minis Ter Harry Enns reference to Ingeborg it is interesting to note what ruffles the editorial feathers of the free press and what does your moral conscience is piqued when one of your journalists charac Ter is yet column after col you allow Boyens and Frances Russell to assassinate the character and philosophy of Sterling Lyon and the conservative govern not the slightest Trace of objective observations can be found in their which often Are nothing More than attacks upon those whose political views do not coincide with their that Boyens and Russell espouse Only their own biased Politi Cal beliefs while being protected under the skirts or so As not to sound chauvinistic of journalistic i sence is As a responsible newspaper surely the free press must require of its journalists a High Standard of objective to allow anything less Ren Ders your newspaper morally Bank As manifested by the slanted writing of Boyens and double standards Are not exclusive to the women liberation movement Elaine Ryan Winnipeg with regard to the recent controversy concerning the cartoon published october 28 in the Down owner with so much wrong with this world of Why do women bother about something As silly As this rarely have women had the Opp Ortu As they now to get revenge on someone who has done them an Indus i speak of the statement by resources minister Harry the minute Enns uttered the words he realized his and visions of votes going to his rivals leapt into his mind hence the Swift if women really want to do some thing about situations such As now is the if they the women could Likely Cut Enns vote total by half and he would go the Way of Many politicians who run campaigns with their minds in and their Mouths in High show Enns wherein lies your Power Baker Winnipeg Manitoba Talent recently i represented my company As a Delegate to the 8th International symposium on Small con ducted in there were Over 800 delegates in representing 66 countries throughout the for Joan Cohen Ottawa editor important new according to the they need look Only for a formula which would satisfy the bulk of the it would not require unanimous when they finally it was in an area where critical concerns of Quebec were ignored and most especially its concern that it retain control Over social and cultural thus the final formula incorporates key portions of the gang of eight accordino the Resolution now going to but sacrifices the provision mos vital to the portion retained allowed up to three provinces to opt out of transfers of Power to the Federal government approved by the but the compensation to opt ing out which would have permitted Quebec to establish its own parallel was dropped at the insistence of Trudeau Albertas Premier Peter Lougheed in had what he wanted the Power to protect albertan against any centralizing moves of but Alberta is not interested in Craft ing its own social under Federal pressure the proposal was dropped that would have allowed provinces to opt a charter of rights provision enlarging minority education rights in in direct conflict with Quebec own Bill As the theory the men who crafted these proposals and handed them to Rene levesque1 As virtually a fait a comply at a breakfast meeting thursday morning had decided that Quebec would in the end reject any consensus plan for constitutional and thus were ready to Jettison their first calculation May have but the final decision was with a package that recognized the aspirations of Ottawa and English Canada if Neces make an end run around Levesque and plan to convince que Beers their legitimate interests were being carefully safeguarded in the being brought Home from there Are no assurances to offer As prime minister Trudeau tried to suggest in the final of the some Good intentions by the the country and a Promise that future Federal agreements on social programs will provide them with the necessary com their new promised in the separatist referendum Battle a sh6rt year and a half gives them at least one Albertas Peter Lougheed warned five Short Days ago that this isolation would prove to the but the stamina of men working under enor Mous pressure under if self is to Morrow they will for reasons one can Only guess Manitoba representatives were not around for the Al night along with Premier Hatfield of new Bruns Wick and they saw it first at the morning meeting of pre but Sterling Back Home in has had his deep concerns the charter of rights future legislature will be Able to set right any or unwanted Side that occur when the courts begin to interpret the new rights prime minister Trudeau has a Resolution that the British will embrace with Relief and quickly How does this nation now Tell Quebe cers that we care about their aspirations and if we do and in the next Quebec election Battle Levesque invites them to buy his separatist Why should they ref use the purpose of discussing ways and Means of improving the opportunities available to Independent business Ven All delegates attended a Large recep Tion at which the evenings entertain ment was presented by Al though i Only recently moved to Manitoba from British i must admit a great sense of Pride came Over me As i watched both Young and from Manitoba Entrance such a Large worldwide Gath it was surprising to see Frank John minister of economic develop ment and on hand to introduce the bearing in mind he is at present in the midst of an one could sense the Pride he conveyed in presenting such an out standing group of entertainers from it seems strange that one must often travel to other parts of the country to appreciate the Talent and achieve ments which Are developed in our own Brewer Winnipeg schizophrenic the Jame Assiniboia school Board has approved the erection of a lighted sign to be placed in front of the Board this Board also intends to spend thousands of dollars on a bulk mail postal drop of its communication to ensure that every resident receives a spending Money and time at Board meetings on trivia on the one and closing schools on the seems schizophrenic to yet this seems to be the stuff school Board meetings Are made All the important decisions Are made in is the function of the Board to discuss important matters concerning our Chil Drens or to look its own corporate body Shona Davidson Winnipeg right of Choice regarding the activities of Renais Sance International masses of religious people telling the rest of the masses what is Good for them Noth ing much As changed Over the years and this mentality seems in no danger of i grew up in such an but managed to escape the clutches of these misguided for i have come to believe with the help of my purpose in life is to love my neighbor As my the Book that these crusaders quote gives explicit instructions regarding demonstrating Charity in ones life is not Only to allow your neighbor his but to accept his decisions and his Renaissance is overstepping the activities of he went where he was wanted and gave to those who wanted what he he did not muscle his Way into anybody i shudder to see these self appointed apostles attempt ing to take away from Man the most precious gift god gave us Freedom of Rempel Winnipeg 4 ;