Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 6, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free november 1981 Constitution Fig tends in Accord up photo continued from Page 1 disposal to prevent this from happen the Federal regime feels like a straitjacket to us and this feels like a tightening of Levesque opposition Leader Joe Clark gave signals yesterday he May try to delay the constitutional plan to provide More time to bring Quebec into the Levesque refused to say whether he will hold a new referendum or an election on a platform of Independence because he must first report to the National Assembly and consult his Cabi but Clark said Quebec objections could be accommodated if time was leaving open the possibility that he May again filibuster the constitutional proposal to allow enough time to try to win Over it would mean breaking the spirit of an Al party agreement specifying Only two Days of debate in the after which the constitutional plan would be voted upon and sent to Britain for but the agreement specified that Only the original constitutional proposal was subject to the time nip Leader de Broadbent praised the but stopped Short yesterday of promising his party Trudeau meets the two opposition leaders today for Trudeau and the nine premiers complimented one another at great length yesterday As they before live television audiences across the that they had made a pact Independent country it Means that after 114 years that Canada will become in a technical and Legal sense an Independent country for one and for Trudeau on a formula for Amend ing the Constitution in the future is the formula of the eight opponent premiers drawn up april but with adjust ments designed to appease Trudeau the charter of rights also has been we have a it is not the that was through the House of commons and the Senate during several tru Deau but we have a charter which canadians can be proud of and we will probably be say it is probably Best charter in the the agreement has already brought on Strong besides leaving Quebec the charter of rights has been among other a clause has been inserted allowing Legislatures and parliament to override the Charters pro visions dealing with fundamental free Legal rights and Equality mobility mobility which Ottawa touted As allowing people to work anywhere the country they have been adjusted so Newfoundland and others with High unemployment can prevent outsiders from working in Well paid new industries such As offshore a clause has been dropped which had said that nothing abrogates whatever rights native people May have and Indian and Eskimo leaders last night were protesting Levesque had been left out of All night negotiations leading to the a the consequences will be in Calculi Levesque said after the agree ment was made he said the document was created in a truly Canadian Way a Way which has too often ignored i say this with a certain bitter he the proposal which broke the dead lock also was made without the involvement of Manitoba Premier Sterling Lyon who had returned to leaving attorney general Gerry Mer Cier in it was based on a document presented Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford after representatives of Vari Ous provinces and the Federal govern ment discussed it and drafted it Over whose people were eating a late supper across the Ottawa River at hulls posh Auberge de la were Ontario Premier Bill Davis a key player in the negotiations and author of another leading Compromise propos Al said Trudeau demonstrated a willingness to Compromise that his critics would not have believed Davis said he wished Lyon had been 1 regret the absence of the Premier of Manitoba because i know he would want to be Davis Ster wherever you Good Luck in a few he added in an apparent reference to the 17 Manitoba Davis told Levesque he hoped the rest of the country could find the ways and the Means that your great prov Ince can be included in the agree echoing Trudeau who said the pact does not mean negotiation with Quebec is in contrast to the other premiers who saw yesterday As a historic Day for the Levesque said it was a sad one for Trudeau has deliberately Cho in order to obtain the support of English a proposal which reduces the Powers of our cards Are on the we Are asking the government to give up the unilateral character of this action and to give up infringing on rights and Powers of the National Assembly in any respect because behind the National Assembly Are the people of he Levesque said Only a referendum would have complied with the mandate he brought to Ottawa from both Liberal and parti quebecois members of the National Levesque also confirmed yesterday that Trudeau had promised the Day before to go ahead with a referendum in two years if the talks failed and to delay implementation of the charter of rights pending results of the he said Trudeau did his Best to destroy the referendum if Trudeau was he could resist imposing upon us this which is still in a straightforward Effort to enlist wavering backbench Liberal maps in Ottawa and the Lone tory my from Levesque called upon All que Beers in Ottawa not to expedite a Resolution which will encroach opposite View new Brunswick Premier Richard Hatfield took exactly the opposite As this country was born in com it will very soon reach its full maturity because of he Hatfield said the people of Quebec have not been we will still continue to work with Quebec and the people of Mercier made a pitch for the country to get on to More pressing economic matters now that the Deal is on behalf of he asked Trudeau to get on to the serious eco nomic problems plaguing the including High interest there is an important Job to be done with respect to our and neither level of govern ment can do it he Premier Bill Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed and Peckford said the new taken with the successful Energy show a new spirit of Compromise in the Bennett said he hoped a new has entered the country and the bitter Ness which has marked the country for the last two or three years is Lougheed said the constitutional agreement and the Energy agreements should be used As a launching pad for dealing together with other i feel More fully a Canadian today than any Day since Ive been old enough to think and to try to under Peckford Prince Edward Island Premier Angus Mclean likened the new Deal to a successful the Way the participants treat one another is often More important than what is written in the he Trudeau said it was the others who made the the final compromises were not of my he they were of the making of the premiers and minis ters around this Trudeau said he regrets that there is no provision in the new Deal for a referendum final Appeal to the sovereignty of the he said his other regret is to the people of Quebec whose government will not be a signatory to the agree he said he is still willing to the Constitution is not written in Stone for All and i Hope that in the weeks and months to we will be Able to convince Quebec to treat their anglophone minorities equitably in the school Quebec chief disagreement was Over language rights aspects of new Quebec Premier Rene Levesque denounces the Accord As Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford applauds eau lost Lyon says charter now Only a declaration of there not entrenched continued from Page 1 Lyon they can Call it what they wis if it makes somebody Down there have jollies to talk about an entrenched charter they can have All the jollies they i know that the clause going into it is such that it permits the government of Manitoba to override Lyon reiterated his belief in the supremacy of parliament which allows elected officials to legislate human rights rather than allowing the supreme court of Canada to interpret the meaning of a entrenched Char it the modified charter will not serve As his Trudeau first Model to turn this country upside Down and to move it towards an american he told reporters while campaigning yesterday in Pine Lyon also expressed regret that Quebec was the Only province which failed to agree to the i regret that this could not have been accomplished in such a Way As to not alienate he told a press conference late yesterday i can see ramifications Down the line which can be very unhelpful to Canadian he said that perhaps with More an agreement could have been worked out which would have satisfied he said its unto Trudeau now to heal the rift which has developed with que who left Ottawa wednesday to return to election campaigning left attorney general Gerry Mercier to negotiate the final Deal for Manitoba the Only shame is that this want accomplished on Day it could have been accomplished last Lyon he said the amending proposal is basically the same As that proposed earlier this year by the Lyon said Manitoba lawyers will re main in Ottawa to Monitor the wording of the amended proposal and to ensure it does not change in nature before being passed by the House Tif com we want to make sure there is no slip betwixt the cup and the the Premier said that with the Constitution out of the governments in Canada can now begin dealing with economic problems by calling a Feder a provincial conference on the econ i think Clearing the decks of the constitutional squabble now enables people to have Hope that now the government of Canada will come to its senses and Call a meeting of the provinces with respect to the Economy immediately after the Bud he the Federal budget is scheduled to be brought Down next commenting on the agreement soon after it was Pawsey said he would have to wait for More detailed information before giving a Fuller assessment of the but he said the agreement itself win bring immedi ate positive this that we can now concentrate on the Basic issues that con front the country and Victory for the Liberal that what is important is that the agreement is a great thing for this country and this prov Green said that in virtually All re Canadas existing Constitution is better than the document which has now been be said his understanding is that clauses in the charter of rights will not be but will be subject to periodic approval by the provincial but who has been an opponent of an entrenched said he want sure How effectively the proposed system would nothing it will mean an unsettled and unpredictable Constitution Al situation in coming he employment and immigration min ister Lloyd sex j pressed satisfaction with the cons Titu loss of rights riles natives Ottawa up native leaders expressed and finally disgust yesterday upon learning the Federal government had bargained away hard fought native rights in Exchange for a constitutional agreement with most of the but the government says it made the move because of native opposition Here and in where intensive lobbying had gone on against the native rights clauses which were a spokesman for Justice minister Jean Chretien said that with All the trouble caused since the clauses were added to the original Federal package in Jan the government decided native rights should be dealt with in future constitutional most native groups in the country opposed the saying it didst go far reports circulated earlier this week that several led by British Columbia Premier Bill Bennett with possible backing from new Brunswick and were pushing to have aboriginal rights there was speculation the provinces opposed the provisions because they May have led to conflict Over land and fishing rights and Gas and other subsurface All the the final agreement shocked native still reeling from the one called Canada a racist predicting that unless Britain sends the Constitution Home with clauses protecting native there could be disgusted by what he described As the Federal governments premeditated Sel had Little to preferring to Cool off for a few Days to let the sickening decision sink after four Days of prime minister Trudeau and nine provinces All but Quebec agreed to a watered Down charter of the agreement drops the key clause in Trudeau package that would have guaranteed aboriginal and treaty among other the Deal also drops a clause in the charter which said that nothing in it abrogates any rights native people May native leaders will retain their right to sit with first ministers in future to define what rights natives May Laii Chlan said he was personally relieved that the agreement appeared not As for Premier Rene Levesques re to emasculate that very important Fusato sign the final a the charter of said he suspected the Premier he added that he preferred to ignore had been really finding ways of creat whether or not the agreement was ing difficulties All firm continued from Page 1 the record is per set in Ottawa began keeping unemployment statistics in the rate was per cent in per cent in july and per cent in the increase puts to rest suggestions by finance minister Allan Maceachen that septembers increase the Lar Gest on record was an aberration or sampling error in the unemployment sur statistics Canada said the seasonal Lead busted rate was up again in october for both with the exception of women aged 15 to 24 for them the rate declined by to october unemployment rates for other cities with the september rates in brackets Saint Cath Thun Der i t ;