Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 9, 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 Hawleys promises with Only a Little Over a week left to voting the new democrats have been making most of the running in Manitoba provincial election Premier Lyon has been Busy with the Constitution when he has been has had Little new to offer about what the conservatives propose for the next four Sid Green and his progressives have been turning out a series of and occasionally policy proposals that they will never get a Chance to Douglas Lauchlan of the liberals is vainly trying to establish his turf the Dps Howard Pawley is stumping the province at a Promise Day leaving the tories Little to do but to denounce his proposals As in the Case of to try the next Day to go them one backing up the Leader is a skillful advertising Campaign which is no More misleading than most such campaigns at election All that activity on the part of Pawley and those who produce his policies for him is it would be even More commendable if some of his proposed programs made More a number of Hawleys proposals Are highly Worth More Money for housing rehabilitation is especially at the moment when there Are vast unused resources in the construction spending a modest amount of Public help Manitoba towns perk up their main streets is an imaginative and useful stronger government efforts to promote safety in the workplace Are badly legislation ensuring women equal pay for work of equal value is not easy to enforce but it is an aim Worth those Are All useful though Pawley often expresses them in highly imprecise and they Are the kind of things one might expect from the Many of Hawleys other Are As strange As they Are the strangest is his Promise that an nip governments first and most urgent step would be to take tax Money from Manitoba workers and give it to businesses which Are having trouble making a profit at today High interest More tax Money would go to homeowners having trouble with the mortgage or Farmers struggling with nothing would go to Pawley is of that none of the tax Money would go to those who were greedy or government financial advisors would separate the sheep from the pass the Money on to the deserving and leave the undeserving to the mercies of the How the financial advisers would do the sorting is not made people who greedily bought houses they could not afford in selfish Hope that its value would Rise would get the problem there is to find a Home buyer who did not selfishly or that the value of his property would Rise with there would be nothing for businessmen who were poor but the Range of management skills in Small business is immense at the Best of times and sorting out the bad from the Good is no simple Pawley does not mention the potential for arbitrariness and unfairness in judgments nor the fundamental unfairness of taking Money from some people who Are hardhat by inflation and High interest rates and giving it to others who May Well be better the hard fact is in one Way or High interest rates create problems for almost shuffling Public Money around from one group to another is not going to solve the the Only real As the nip is to bring interest rates what the nip fails to recognize is that it takes More than the stroke of a pen to do so without creating even More economic Pawley has some More imaginative plans for the taxpayers he wants to spend million of it to help companies explore for Oil in unpromising areas of the province and he wants to use millions More to produce Hydro Power before finding customers to use those proposals look rather oddly like a plan to take from the poor and give to the better off or to take from everybody and pour it Down the chronic Hish interest rate fits of depression but what a marvellous not what they seem easing Back from the right Flie biggest question that must be asked about tie current hearings of the Canadian radio television and telecommunications commission new satellite distribution systems is whether things Are what they appear to there Are disturbing indications that Many applications have been not on the basis of what is now known to be available for delivery in the Way of approved Canadian satellite but of what will be available in the few people in the Industry believe that the package of programming already approved by the crts to be Deli Vered by the Canadian satellite communications Organiza Tion can com will be a satisfactory substitute for the unauthorized signals that Are now being distributed in the Remote and under serviced communities that qualify for can com there is understandable confusion about Ca coms Deci Sion to spend millions to scramble a signal package on the surface at May be difficult to Market in regions used to pay television and the two Canadian the scrambling could be better understood if the program Ming included anything attractive enough to the danger in the present hearings is that some applicants could be simply staking out rights for future the problem is that the available package May be so unattractive As to discourage potential applicants who consider that it is unsaleable and cannot compete with the unauthorized signals that already the fear is As has happened so Many times in the regulated broadcasting has produced applicants who Are willing to Promise what they think will be approved in the knowledge in they will win official approval for change in the no one doubts that can com will go officers of that organization May deplore the dissatisfaction with their programming that has been expressed in flin flon before the system is and say that the protests Are isolated in country where most communities want the new the question is whether these officers will be As once the hardware is in with similar Public dissatisfaction that would pressure regulatory agencies into allow ing additional signals to be added to the these factors Are All in the realm of the crts has a Clear course of Given the ground rules As they now any licences granted now should have a definite expiry limit that would revoke the licence if the service is not provided within a reasonable such limited licences would ensure that there will be no claim staking for the and would guarantee that the potential customers would get exactly what the in its has decided they More Bucks for Garrison no no matter How taken toward new construct on the Garrison diversion project should be this past week an allocation of million for More work on Garrison survived As a minor item in the in the of a program of billion Worth of Energy and water projects for the coming financial the appropriation has passed the House of although the Senate must still vote approval of the full appropriations Bill before it takes the most recent allocation if such Demon stration is the dogged determination of those elected representatives who support Garrison to overcome the obstacles that have been placed in the projects the More recent allocation will not Advance the project of the Only million is Likely to be spent on new with the bulk of the Money going for administration and to the Experiment designed to prove the effectiveness of the screens engineers Hope will satisfy Canadian objections to the possible Transfer of Marine life from the Missouri River system into the Hudson Bay at the construction of the most contentious part of the the Lonetree Reservoir and the new Rockford which would help irrigate land that drains into Canada with water from the Missouri is stalled because of court the politicians Are busily working away at methods of bypassing these rulings so that the project As originally designed can go responsible officials at every their intention to do nothing that will damage Canadian political lose no Opportunity to further processes that will do exactly by Eric Dowd special to the free press Toronto William Davis has been forced to Tell the increasingly vocal righting extremists in the Ontario progressive conserva Tive party who would like to take off on the sort of philosophical adventures Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher have embarked on in their own countries where their bread and butter comes facts of life the Premier spelled out the facts of life for Ontario conservatives after two of his policies had run a steady gaunt let of criticism from the most sustained and bitter attack had been on his planned revisions to the human rights code which will extend Protection from discrimination in the provision of housing and jobs to groups including the physically and mentally elderly people and families with in its first the legislation had flaws notably in making employers automatically responsible for discrimination by their and barring dissemination of material advocating discrimination in a Way that could be interpreted to Stop the news Media even reporting a discriminatory state but it is basically enlightened and quite undeserving of the frenzy that has been whipped up against Davis has heard righting critics say it conjures up the sound of Jack boots and is socialist and that he is intent on setting up a Gesta have gone so far As to question the need for any human rights the phones of conservative maps also have been kept ringing by party members who want to know what a tory government is doing buying 25 per cent of an Oil the Dingru Nelement extends to a High Frank the treasurer who has to find the believes that with few of which this was not business should be left to the private although he has sublimated his differences in the interest of trying to present a United Cabinet Proba Bly at least seven or eight ministers agree with Davis was uncharacteristically Blunt in defending his actions at a policy he said he would be delighted if he could say humans have become so perfect there is no need for human rights but in the real he said he agreed that governments cannot legislate morality but that they could provide examples of the Premier defended the Sun Cor Purchase As being a catalyst for Cana a ionization of the Industry and pointed to the Canadian National on Tario air Canada and the Cana Dian broadcasting corporation in his party must have been squirming at this assessment As Public corporations that have been no theology Davis claimed the Ontario conservatives Are attracting people they would not have attracted 20 years conservatives in the province always have been different from those in Brit Ain and from the Republican party in the United Davis he urged them not to get caught up in a theology which is counterproductive and leads us away from the reality of this Davis was telling his party clearly that apart from any philosophical differences it May have with conservatives abroad cannot afford to pursue an ultralight Wing path if it wants to continue being the Ontario conservatives have Man aged to stay in Power by generally staying close to the Middle of the spec Trum and not shirking when necessary from such leftward stances As budget rent controls and making employers collect Union righting attitudes in the Ontario party have been fortified by the conservative experiments in the United states and the conservatives Here have had several issues to rally including the human rights where they forced a partial government and the far right also has found a voice in the Toronto where columnists like William Buckley and Barry Gold water can feel very much at encouragement the right Wing has also had its share of encouragement from Davis in his grubbing to find votes wherever he the Premier keeps delivering such philosophy As the most important part of running a government today is to know when not to interfere in peo Ples and promising to remove government from All sorts of Regula Tion of although Little so far has Only a few months before the March Davis was grab Bing at some of the favorite planks of righting the Premier tried to make Lawa Dorder an claiming these were being undermined by the opposition parties simply because they wanted to ensure that complaints against police were investigated by Davis flaunts his own Christian beliefs where he talking of the need for a spiritual basis to not unlike some right wingers who like to pretend their policies were inspired in Davis pandered to a isolationist Streak in the last Campaign by trying to get across the Mes Sage that Liberal Leader Stuart a psychiatrist born in could never understand How Rural and Small town Ontario Daviss Only noted contributions to International affairs recently have been to urge that Canada should be rearming More to support the United Davis has Only himself to blame if some in his party Start acting like the John Birch ban wars another remembrance Day is a Day to remember those who lost their lives in two world wars wars that we were told were to end All i remember and my handsome uncles killed in action on the Battle Fields of and in my newly graduated from univer who flew with the Craf through the Battle of Britain and then was reported missing in action Over remember the War dead now the threat of a third world War looms More ominously every the leaders of the two superpowers have stated that they Are willing to meet and negotiate arms yet they seem to be locked into a desperate arms race which cannot be president Ronald Reagan dares to suggest that a limited nuclear War is our Only recourse is to and protest we the tremendous amounts of Money being expended on arms must be used to ensure life for the starving Peoples of the third the United nations is the forum where these negotiations can take the special session on disarmament in 1978 produced a final Docu ment stressing the dilemma facing Mankind if nuclear weapons Are not our government Reaf firmed this goal in the speech from the throne in the department of external affairs has a division of arms control and Here in Winnipeg we have a coordinating committee for with Clearing houses for information at idea 418 or the United Church 120 Maryland let us demand action when the Spe Cial session of the in meets in our world will not be saved by bomb shelters or my concerned citizens must remember and Myrtle Wells Winnipeg birthday Gregory born november letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to erroneous on october the free press car ried an article reporting on a speech delivered by Rowland chair Man of the Royal Bank of to the Canadian club of Winnipeg the previous i am writing to Correct two erroneous statements that the Arti Cle attributed to Frazee concern ing operations under the foreign in vestment review the first allegation was that the foreign investment review act is being applied this is not the act applies Only to changes of control of business enterprises car ried on in Canada and therefore subject to Canadian Only Canadian the second allegation was that for eign investors Are obliged to buy goods and services from Canadian even when domestically sourced goods and services Are this is also not there Are no absolute requirements regarding sourcing that Are imposed on foreign the foreign investment review act does say that one of the factors to be taken into account in the assessment of renewable investment proposals is the effect on the utilization of parts Compo and services produced in Cana the government does not expect investors to offer undertakings to source in Canada if the required goods and services Are not available Here on competitive i would Call your attention to some other statements that were contained in Frazee speech but which were not for he said too Many foreign owned companies keep the principal Export activities and the advanced technology research and development jobs at he also said investors who come Here expecting the same atmosphere or philosophy they were used to at Home Are kidding and they offend canadians when they demand we pull up our socks and do things their in concluding his Frazee made a Point that i think the majority of canadians would agree with when he said canadians want and need foreign invest ment but on our own and in a proportion we Herb my minister of Trade and Commerce Ottawa pollution Laws i read with interest Val Weiers column of october about Manitoba giving Inco a licence to i was amazed that the Manitoba government does not have strict pollution control it is to be hoped that they will Correct is this a preview of what we can expect from the proposed mean smelter a citizens committee should be formed with experts and knowledge Able Lay people to make up rules and regulations with relation to people have a right to be protected against George Hamilton Winnipeg nonsense senator Gordon Gibson it new proposal that Canadas Senate be elected is on a representation population it would be another version of the House on an equal repro province province it would give Eastern Canada More clout than it has now imagine Little Prince Edward Island with ten with ten Sena Ontario with ten and so giving a province with a population less than that of a medium sized Cana Dian City equal say with another 80 times its size does not make nor does the fact that the five Atlantic provinces East of the Ottawa River new Prince Edward Nova Scotia and Newfoundland would have half of the new Senate together with they could outvoted the West whenever they i would rather abolish the it is anachronistic and to copy the United which has 50 Many of them of similar is to ignore the Canadian two thirds of our population lives in Central Canada Ontario and so the Only Way we can give regionalism an effective voice in this country is to limit Ottawa Powers and give our provincial and municipal people More say than they have in other is the Way to not More Power at the Centre something which an elected Senate would impose on canadians Jack la North Vancouver Seymour if were not allowed to does that mean were an Essen tial service ;