Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 13, 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 Rudy Redekop controller behind the smoke screen behind the smokescreen Laid Down last night by finance minister Allan there Are two significant if everything goes precisely according to Canadas unemployment rate will continue above or near eight per cent of the labor Force Over the next five years the rate of inflation will continue in double digits Over the next two years and will average per cent Over the next that is the Best that can be hoped from the economic policies unveiled by the minister in his budget last since things Are already not going according to the reality might be by the time the budget was the economic indicators on which it was based had been outdated by new figures showing a Sharp jump in unemployment and a Sharp decline in economic those projections provide a measure of the economic mess which Maceachen and his predecessors in his office have helped to create Over the past several As they illustrate the relatively puny scale of the measures he has taken to Correct past Given the bind in which he found Maceachen came up with some useful proposals which at least will set the governments budgetary program on a More sensible he Over the a significant reduction in the Federal governments partly by imposing some modest restraint on partly by substantial in creases in taxes and partly by shifting some costs on to the the most significant tax increases were never spelled out in the they were hidden in the Oil pricing agree ments worked out earlier with the producing the chief sources of new Revenue turned up last night came in the closing of the loopholes for the Wel Todo which Liberal finance ministers have been busily building into the tax Structure Over the past the closing of Many of those loopholes was Long they had created serious inequities in the tax system which allowed massive tax avoidance for some people who enjoyed Large incomes and Clever some of Mac each ens proposed reforms May be criticized on the grounds that they inhibit saving at a time when saving should be encouraged to finance economic in an equitable and understandable tax system is Likely to Lead to More rational patterns of investment than one that is riddled with artificial tax the Revenue derived from closing those loopholes permit Ted the minister to offer some extremely modest income tax reductions to those on Middle the few dollars saved in income will come nowhere near making up for the vastly increased Energy taxes that canadians Are being asked to the Long awaited Relief to homeowners crushed by High mortgage rates was As derisory As most expected it to the government will help those whose mortgage payments exceed 30 per cent of their incomes to lower the payments slightly by going deeper into for the smaller number Lack the equity in their Homes to consider that Way it offers a modest to Cope with the coming rental it offers Small incentives for the construction of a few apartments in some selected having done and the hapless housing Paul declared themselves a lot of still wondering How they will pay their Mort will not Maceachen smokescreen extended enveloping neatly the plan to foist some of his deficit on to the provinces by cutting Back Federal support for provincial spending on health and higher education under the extended programs financing the announced his plans to Cut that support when he produced his last budget a year the proposal ran into protests from the from a parliamentary task Force and from some of his own Cabinet so Maceachen announced innocently last night that he had never intended to Cut those he dipped into another provincial pocket and pulled out several billion dollars by reneging on the governments agreement to continue part of the Revenue guarantee for the provinces which was established with the 1972 tax the minister stepped behind his smokescreen As Well to Deal with what was left of so called Western develop ment the he would undergo a re profiling and what that Means in English is that part of it will disappear and another part will be spent on projects that have nothing to do with Western since the fund was a silly idea to begin that is not important except As another indication of the credibility that can be Given to the budgetary pronounce ments of the present Federal As youve been made its not our correcting past mistakes school meals Are needed the Winnipeg school division started providing breakfasts and snacks because the teachers found that significant numbers of children in some neighbourhoods were arriving at school ill fed or the justification is partly educational and partly ill nourished children do not grow Well or learn assuring better nutrition should improve their learning and their physical but More than if the school does not feed there is doubt that anyone else the fact that they arrive hungry at school shows that their parents and the government social agencies Are not doing the schools have always sought to provide More than just sports and physical education programs do not contribute directly to better Reading or arithmetic but they Are justified As a Means of making children healthier and instilling healthy in the nutrition Field the regular pint of milk is one of the oldest and most widespread Means of giving children some Basic nutrients and creating a demand for wholesome it May be argued that parents ought to take their children out but experience has shown that physical education in the schools is it is therefore experience has also shown that in some parts of the City a nutrition program is that is Why is Wes the divisions acting has objected that the nutrition program will Cost about next year and that it is properly the work of a social Agency or of the provincial and municipal not of the school he has among other that the schools should inform the childrens Aid society about persistently neglected children and should approach the Federal government about making better provision for Indian or immigrant families whose children arrive hungry at within humane those Are reasonable though they May not Lead very far in a child who is usually not fed at Home is probably being neglected in other and the Cas ought to know about the but the Cas has no magic if the child continues to turn up hungry at the school is a logical place to provide him a the Federal government ought to be informed about the extent to which immigrant or Indian families May be relying on the schools to feed their but the schools must definitely not erect a racial Barrier at the lunchroom refusing meals to some children on the pretext that they in some obscure a Federal an additional Effort May also be needed by the schools them selves to reach the parents whose children arrive hungry in order to teach them what Good nutrition consists of and Why it is perhaps to involve them in the operation of the nutrition the trustees have to set some the division should not wind up providing meals at every it has no Call to do that since most parents want to feed their children and Are Able but the trustees dominant consideration must be the hungry bureaucrats can argue endlessly that someone else ought to feed him and is failing to do the but if the school then children will go that is the harsh and no amount of theorizing about How society ought to work will change the division should not set a policy aimed at making children suffer for the poverty or irresponsibility of their by special to the free press Ottawa was never the cards that Allan Maceachen could produce a really Good budget this year because to do it he would have had to modify one of the governments Basic policies and get the great Energy Meg projects Back on the at the same since he could not be expected to turn the clock he would have worked away at undoing some of the worst mistakes of his Liberal predecessors at the finance in the Maceachen has produced a Hal Good there is nothing in it to remove the roadblocks that have stopped the great projects to develop unconventional projects that if they had not been stalled by government madness would already be pouring big investment funds into the Economy with benefits extending far beyond their actual the budget ignores that possibility the one no inflationary Way the econ omy could be stimulated because the minister of finance could not address the minister of Marc stood in his so the Economy will go into recession without the Only government action that could have reversed the that in itself is a monumental failure of policy by the Federal some aspects of the National Energy program Are undoubtedly highly popu Lar but there Are other aspects of it that Are a dead weight on the Economy and they will at least As far As the finance minister is if it were not for this perfectly valid might Avereen aspect to the govern ments economic this is not a bad budget and in some ways it is a very Clever by an overdue clean ing up of the tax it raises Federal revenues in just about the Only acceptable Way during an economic downturn that makes general tax in creases in this the finance minister has been Able to make an attack on the chronic deficit his predecessors built into Federal it does not undo their errors in a Day but the size of the step is Maceachen will probably bring Down on his head screams of left Wing protest for having coupled his cleanup operation with a reduction in the mar Ginal tax rates for the higher a realistic View is that it is better to set top marginal rates at Levels that do not discourage initiative and also collect the taxes incurred than to set them higher and then Riddle them with Loop the size of the increase in actual tax paid in some As revealed by the departments study of shows How inequitable the existing sys tem has there is a suggestion in the budget papers that the department proposes in future to tidy up the corporate income tax system As it has done with the individual it is better to set reasonable tax rates and actually col Lect them than to establish higher Levels and then let them be riddled to the Point of Gross the cleanup of the income tax act produces savings for a great number of if they Are grateful they have equal reason to be resentful with 10 years of so called tax such a cleanup of the act is it is the same government that produced the inequities that is now trying to Correct them and the response of the citizen ought to be Why didst you get it right in the first place it took High priced Talent to produce the mess now being there is a technical respect in which it is proper to quarrel with the budget too Many future reve expenditure and deficit project ions Are stated As percentages of real Gross National this technique is applied to past when it is applied to the Howe it leads to the expression of deficits As a percentage of a figure which is Only a guess and the result lacks it seems to have been used More for propaganda purposes than there Are some other elements of propaganda in the this is nor if not in most politics but it is out of place in a budget which is supposed to be a statement of integ propaganda never adds to Interi since he is dragging a collection of millstones around with Mac Eachen did As Well As could be expect gouges the Public has not reacted strongly As yet to the proposed postal increases announced by people have either bought the government line that we have the lowest postal rates in the free world and that the new Crown corporation is going to be run As a or they feel the rates wont affect them too they would be wrong on All the United states has just put into effect a postal its firs class rate will be 20 cents and even that is being seriously challenged As being too our proposed rate of 30 cents will be 50 per cent higher than the insofar As the Crown corporation being run As a business no private business could increase its rates by 76 per cent or 100 per cent and survive in the no private business could declare itself a monopoly and say to its customers it is against the Law for anyone else to handle letter which brings up How it will affect the in for there Are some each of which has a electricity and some form of that Means they get at least three Bills a a total of some at the present 17cent that would Cost in postage each postal rates rising As of january those invoices will Cost about a month or More than half a million dollars a year based on the 24cent proposed volume that Hal million dollars will be passed on to the customers by the and even though the utilities could get private distribution to deliver their Bills they wont be allowed to be cause it is against the even the Public will have to pay in postage to pay those per month or 000 More a based on the proposed 30 cents firs class canadians Are a docile in the there would be riots in the streets if their government tried to gouge them to this the figures shown Are just the tip of the iceberg and the Public has until november complain to the Post write him postage free Steve Steigerwald Winnipeg conned Are we being conned about Alcan establishing a Plant in Manitoba in the near future according to a press release from Alcan free octo Ber 23 Alcan is reducing its product Ion at Kitimat on november 1 by seven per because of a soft world Market for aluminium the an Nual production capacity will be Cut by the company has a backlog of tonnes of ingots Worth Alcan has also revised production rates in its plants in Australia and in another article in the free press business a Chase says that the aluminium Industry is in for some slow years in the last half of the in the Light of these can you see a Board of directors recommending to its shareholders that a new Plant be built when existing ones Are not being operated to capacity May Frith birthday George Winnipeg born port november letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to viewing options not bogey men instant expert i was amused by the article liberals downplay Federal party free october Here we have a party which Calls itself the Liberal party in Manitoba led by a Man who lost by votes As Pierre Trudeau 1979 Liberal candidate in Calgary Doug Lauch the losing is hired in 1980 As a senior advisor to Trudeau Cabinet Lloyd so that he parachuted into the Manitoba Liberal leadership a few months the instant Manito ban Liberal Leader decided to run in so he bought a House in the Riding and became an instant expert on the problems of the Wolseley this thinly veiled attempt by the Federal Liberal party to manipulate the people of Manitoba will probably Back resulting in the election of no should that be the then there will be no provincial liberals in any legislature West of Oscar Johvikas Winnipeg in the concept of equal pay for work of equal value and am committed to working toward that my com ments with respect to the immense difficulties in resolving this Issue should not detract from my fundamental position that women should Defini Tely receive the same remuneration As men when both sexes Are performing work of equal that is not Only but should also be a Basic human i realize that when a great number of views Are being expressed some of them complementary and others con is a Builtin Poten tial for i also realize that Politi including do not always express themselves As clearly As they might wish and that the resulting Ambi Guity May sometimes reflect unfavourably upon whatever the i believe the Public has been left with a misconception regarding my position on this vital Issue and i would appreciate your assistance in correcting this Lauchlan Liberal Leader Winnipeg a fair return in your editorial of october 28 rent control wont you report that opposition Leader Howard Pawley and his have assured landlords that the proposed nip Law would ensure them a fair return on their invest i was involved in a conversion of a regular apartment to a and recently the investors had the Opportunity of purchasing one suite each at a reduction of 25 per cent of the regular the rent review Board will not allow an increase rent on this suite and the net return on the it s Yasbin Cattal Cost is per the Federal Tion system Tomore accurately reflect government is offering More 20 the contribution made by Many per cent on Bond what is return in the eyes of the i Aih obliged to say that the latter statement is considerably More accurate than the i firmly believe equal pay although i have found Little fault with your coverage of the current election i feel i must write to Correct a misconception generated by Inge Borg Boyens article on the election forum sponsored by the Manitoba action committee on the status of in her report of november miss Boyens alleges that i said i didst believe equal pay for work of equal value was a realistic goal she then goes on to say that i would reorganize on this us the provincial governments classic Ica total Cost Tion system to Munro Are Ratov Eov Ernnie Inglis the article by reporter Sheila bean Cree Tongue takes crts by free november 4 on the crts hearings May have misrepresented my position on the reception of satellite signals in Northern and con sequently has done a disservice to the thousands of northerners for whom i was making a at the hearing i specifically told the crts that two principles should guide it in its the first was that All Manitoban should have a comparable Equality of Choice of television viewing when questioned by crts i said that northerners should have Cess to networks an stations through the satellite sys and that the Laws should be changed to allow for the Legal reception and rebroadcasting of those i also said that there should be More Access to All including both Canadian and the second principle i suggested was that communities throughout the prov Ince should be provided with adequate opportunities for local nowhere in my presentation did i Indi Cate that this local programming should replace the broadcast of or Canadian but rather that it should supplement those Broad i told the press conference and the crts that the Lyon government was preventing the full development of these facilities and programs by Refus ing to allow municipalities to include major expenditures for satellite receiving stations in their tax Levy i suggested that All three Levels of government must sit Down together to make the necessary changes in when i was asked by the crts As to the reaction of the residents of Leaf rapids to the replacement of stations by Canadian i told them that they were angry and tragedy further told them that i shared that anger and Felt that they had been done an injustice by that in i do and told the crts that i the reception of and Canadian programs via the sat elite system in norther commune Jay Cowam la Churchill Man minister of consumer and corporate affairs Andre Ouellett verbal attacks and accusations of grand slam rip off towards the major Oil and the Petroleum Industry in leave Many canadians shocked and corporations such As Imperial Texaco and Many did not reach their present stature by being bad corporate or by being deceitful and unfair to the con the Petroleum companies in question Over the voluntarily contributed technically and resource fully to Canada indirect to All the Federal Liberal government appears to have socialistic ideologies and it is endeavouring to Force them onto the Public and corporations through the medium of their their allegations that this supposedly grand slam Ripoff by Oil companies has been going on for decades is absolutely the Public is Quick to recognize a Ripoff and to Boycott it canadians do not need a such As Ouellette department to draw a picture of the bogey Man for Westmacott Winnipeg excuse How do you spell Macea Chen ;