Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 16, 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 pm Mem m m editorials Challenge on education the sigh of Relief from Canadian universities was almost audible when finance minister Allan Maceachen announced that he would not be cutting his Grants to provinces for the support of pos secondary education at least not just had he made such reductions As he appeared to threaten universities in at least some provinces might have found their provincial Grants reduced but when the universities take a closer look at the they will find that their worries Are not for Maceachen has announced that he wants provinces to Start spending less of their Money on universities he Are sitting pretty and Are producing excessive num Bers of unemployable graduates and to spend More on skilled Secretary of state Francis Fox and employment minister Lloyd Axworthy will discuss policy and labor Fla ret needs with the provinces the next year and a half to work out rules governing the Federal support of pos secondary if the Federal government is not satisfied with the results that have been achieved by the Spring of Maceachen he May freeze the pos secondary Grants to which now use annually in step with the Gross National Fox and Axworthy Are Likely to find a Chilly reception in Many provincial provinces generally consider that education is their business alone and that the Federal though it pays a Large share of the has no place telling them How to run their education the threatened freezing of pos secondary Grants which would amount to a decrease relative to inflation intended to persuade provinces that they must to the Federal it is unclear from Maceachen statement whether he would selectively Grants to uncooperative provinces or whether he would All provinces to fall in line before any province would enjoy the annual increase in the two Federal ministers Are Likely to be asked Sharp questions about what the Federal government which claims a responsibility for meeting National manpower is doing within its own programs in order to meet the shortages it has found in certain skilled a parliamentary task Force chaired by Montreal Liberal Warren All Mand this year examined Federal manpower programs and the efforts of employers to train the skilled workers they need and found grave the Federal government now finances Trade straining courses taught in provincial Yrun schools and colleges and could be using that education purchasing Power to train the skilled tradesmen it finds this does not happen primarily because Ottawa chooses to use those courses to remove from the unemployment for the duration of the people who have no marketable skills or who live ii areas where there Are always More Job seekers than the task Force also found that Federal Grants or corporate tax rules could be used to encourage employers to do their own it has not been shown that a shortage of Trade straining facilities in the provinces is the reason for the shortages that have been noticed in nursing and other health occupy in machine in tool and die in microelectronics and computer each Industry and each occupation has its own particular economic Circum and in an evolving there Are always some trades in Short the general observation that Canada is Short of skilled workers is not a helpful basis for education or manpower Maceachen argues that the present level of support to universities is not required As it was in the 1970s because universities have expanded to Deal with growing and no longer need to but provinces have been relying on their present level of including the Federal to finance just the continued operation of those expanded the Federal Grants Are not financing r provincial governments will therefore have Strong arguments for resisting Ottawa Effort to have them reduce their spending on but Maceachen has armed his two ministerial colleagues with a still More powerful the big stick of the Grant freeze the universities and their lobby groups Are condemned to make All Over again their demonstrations of the value of University education and the damage Canada will do to itself if it reduces University the separation the ambiguous Leader confusion on the Crow Saskatchewan Premier Allan Blakeney criticism of the Canadian National railways complaint about the economic consequences of the crows nest pass agreement shows Only that Blakeney has managed to confuse the National interests of Canada and canadians with the interests of the Saskatchewan wheat Blakeney jumped into the argument by criticizing the car for saying it needed Money to cover its Grain transportation losses so that it could invest in increased Blakeney said he was singularly unimpressed with the idea that car investment was somehow tied to its reve presumably they the in do that which is Best for National Blakeney if they do wed better ask ourselves Why we As citizens of Canada Are owning this particular the Saskatchewan Pool could not have said it nor could the isolation of this thinking from that of the rest of Western Canada be put More Blakeney obviously thinks that the National interest is served by preserving a freight rate that was set nearly a Century and has been for political since its he obviously thinks that the deterioration in railway equipment that has been a direct result of this unchanged rate is in the National he must think that it is in the National interest to avoid confronting the problems posed by the Crow and to allocate tax Money at the Federal level to provide costly equipment so that the if not the of the agreement can be he must think that it is in the National interest to allow the transportation system that was designed to move the Prairie Grain crop to Export to deteriorate to the Point where the main problem is not growing or Selling but getting it from the farms to the holds of cargo he must think it is in the National interest for him to take a position that is isolated from that of every other responsible agriculture organization in the a position that refuses to address the but Only to complain about the Canadian National railway would be acting in less than the National interest if it maintained its past awkward silence on the real economic problems it faces As a result of the crows nest pass the car is acting in the National and in the interest of every Western by doing what it can to bring the problem out into the open where it can be and where Steps can be taken to move the the National interest will not be served by using the Public ownership of the Canadian National As an excuse to maintain and that Fly in the face of All reasonable even those acknowledged by the government of loneliness loneliness is being a Western Liberal and the Canadian broadcasting corporation apparently wants to make that loneliness even worse than it recent Csc newscasts quoting the minister of employ ment on Western alienation referred to him repeatedly As the Only Liberal elected West of Thunder Bob who was elected to parliament even though he was a May consider further first he will have to determine whether the Csc erred because it did not know he was a or because it was not aware that Boniface is West of Thunder by Anthony Westell special to the free press Ottawa minister Pierre Trudeau constitutional Deal with the provinces gives yet another twist to his constantly changing and always puzzling Public he went into the conference widely identified As the Hammer of the inflexible and set on confrontation he came out As the great the master of Many of those who once accused him of refusing to negotiate now complain he has negotiated too conceding on Points of principle and yielding when he should have stood Ever thus it was Ever thus with when he first emerged As a political superstar in there were those who circulated pamphlets seeking to prove he was a communist with a direct line to and others who were quite sure that he was a reactionary Conser some 13 years that argument continues Barbara a conservative suggests in her recent that Trudeau is either a crypt communist or a Man without moral while most of those to the left of Centre in Canadian politics View the prime min ister As a equally controversial has been Trudeau method of Many critics have accused him of converting the prime minister ship into a and of taking advice Only from a super group of political cronies and senior others have examined the Complex machinery of Cabinet committees and supporting staffs he has assembled and have concluded More than most prime he seeks consensus on poli the conventional opinion is that he is contemptuous of parliament and in suiting toward the opposition in the House of yet it has been his policy to provide Public funds to Lead ers of opposition parties to help them do a better and Joe Clarks entourage now numbers More than 50 four or five times what it was when Trudeau became prime tyrant or libertarian is Trudeau a tyrant because he invoked the War measures act to Deal with the Fly crisis in or a civil libertarian because he has fought so hard to entrench a charter of rights in the Constitution is he a Follower of Galbraith in distrust ing the Market and favouring govern ment or a disciple of Milton putting his Faith in monetary policy in Quebec he has always been regarded As an but Many English and certainly most now regard him As a nationalist because of his support for the National Energy if he is the great centralist trampling on provincial As Many it that provincial governments have grown much faster than the Feder Al government in the past and How come the provincial premiers have acquired a National status they never enjoyed in the eras of Lester John or any previous prime minister unconventional Trudeau of course never promised us he announced Back in 1968 if there was a con Stant in his political it was the inclination to oppose the conventional Wisdom of the because convention might become the tyranny of the a while a viable Point of View for a commentator on As tru Deau has it seemed an impracticable philosophy for a prime minister who must seek to build majority sup port for his yet in As distinct from gov Trudeau ambiguity May be his greatest impossible to pin Down on the political spec Trum with any and unpredictable in policies and he remains the subject of endless argument and hated one year and respected the attracting the interest and support of a shifting coalition of a More consistent Leader would Long ago have bored us half to death and led us to defeat him at the the constitutional for better or for presents yet another image of and offers him the possibility of a new lease on political going Down How is it that the prices for farm produce Are going Down the Farmers Are told that there Are no markets and almost every Day we see pictures in newspapers and magazines and on television depicting the starving people of the and we Are told that there is no food available for while Here we find the Farmers close to bankruptcy because their produce cannot be perhaps the Lack of sales is because almost All of the Farmers produce is handled by marketing supposedly producer marketing but How much say has the average Farmer in the operation of these boards How much incentive have these marketing boards to sell and try to obtain a fair Price for the producer unions Are in no Small measure to blame for the plight of the Western strikes in the Grain handling and transportation systems lose a lot of markets by preventing in this ties up freight movement causing congestion in some takes weeks to straighten the government claims that the rail roads Are unable to handle enough Grain so they must be but when strikes tie up the Grain handling system for a couple of months every will any upgrading of the rail roads help Clayton wheat for the starving i macs shocked the Manitoba action committee on the status of women macs is shocked by the recent Harry it is extremely disconcerting to hear an la attempt to debase a who happens to be a on the basis of her then the Down owner decided to reinforce the sexual slur by Enns by running a sexist cartoon referring to an imaginary which suggested the reporter had used sexual promiscuity to entice a free press editor into taking Legal action concerning the All this would suggest that sexism is alive and Well and living in the chauvinistic hearts of the response to Enns comments and the Down owner car Toon does prove some Manitoban be Lieve in fighting against sexual Dis macs applauds the courage Ingeborg Boyens has demonstrated in defending her human we also respect the support other members of the print and electronic Media have Given macs offers the support of our organization to Boyens and the journalists who Are backing at believe sexual discrimination cannot be Tanya Lester for macs Winnipeg misconception with regard to the article danger stalks pretty free octo ber i think that your concern about kiddie porn is most i am also pleased with the Way that you Are attempting to make the Public aware of the connection Between Young sex symbols and Young sex unless your desire is to mis inform the you have fallen Short of your Brooke Shields is not 13 years she is at least if not two years May not mean a lot to you but i was always under the impression that the purpose of the press was to Tell the Public the please excuse my Linday Gray Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to a conceived one of the almost inevitable scourges of modern civilization is we in Manitoba have been relatively fortunate up to the present time in that the pollution we have is relatively there have been episodes where Asbestos has been used for insulation or by and we have had a relatively healthy Environ it now appears that our idyllic interval is about to one of the Meg projects that pre Mier Sterling Lyon is dangling before our eyes is the Alcan tentatively slated for construction near bal a More ill conceived project in a More ill conceived location would be difficult to last a free press reporter wrote a series of articles on Alcan and its operations in and at Kiti Raat in anyone who took the time to read and digest his findings should be shaking his head in disbelief that the project has not become More of a political Issue in the current perhaps the leaders of the opposition parties feel a few votes Are More important than poisoning the citizens of Southern Manitoba for the Plum of approximately 700 Arvida and Kitimat were visited and an investigation of the environmental As Well As the financial Impact of the smelters was carried there was no doubt that the income was and in both the smelter was the Raison Detre for the individual cites there was also no doubt that the environmental Impact has been with vegetation and animal life being adversely human fluorosis has also been claimed at although Alcan denies the Alcan has told local Balmoral farm ers and cattlemen that milk cows would not be allowed to Graze on land in the smelters Buffer in Farmers have been paid compensation for damages sustained from More indians of the Regis band near have had their cattle affected and Are now con tending with fluorosis from an alumni num Plant in new York state which apparently meets All emission Stan Arvida and Kitimat Are hundreds of Miles from metropolitan in the Case of the site in question is Only 30 Miles with the prevailing winds blowing the pollutants directly Over the most populated area of the another Factor which has not been mentioned is the transportation of the raw material of aluminium Baux across the this is a Gross waste of our vanishing Energy the Bauxite is mined in India and Malaysia and would have to be shipped from there to the Canadian coast and then shipped Halfway across the Energy and the Money envisaged in establishing the Alcan Plant at bal moral would be much better spent in other my Winnipeg rehabilitation there Are a Large number of particularly Law enforcement who think what we need to control crime is to hand Down More severe when a person who has been battered and humiliated since childhood lashes out by harming someone else in order to get even with do you really think that humiliating him More is going to make him behave better in future criminals do not need More punish they need different treatment altogether and by that i do not mean softer lets Stop talking punishment and Start establishing better ways to rehabilitate the criminal and to help the Grierson Winnipeg polluters once again Val Werier has hit the Nail on the head with his october 31 column on the smelters at Thompson and flin flon Are easily the worst source of pollution in the prov the futility of our present Environ mental Laws is Well documented in the another example of this Folly occurred in when Hudson Bay mining and smelting at flin flon applied for a licence to pollute the the clean environment commission gave him and s a five year licence to a group of concerned citizens appealed that Deci Sion to the Manitoba municipal which then gave it a seven year i at that a spokesman for environment Canada told me that it was possible to remove 95 per cent of the pollutant at a Cost of Large Industrial corporations have the capital resources to clean up their they must be compelled by government to do instead of acquiring an interest in a Hydro Alcan must be told to put that capital into pollution control the clean air of Southern Manitoba and the sur rounding area is at Jim Henry nip candidate la Verendrye constituency Winnipeg paranoid logic i Hope that most of us who read comic strips like tumbleweeds and redeye read them for a Good Cri Uckle and do not dissect them looking for racist philosophies As does professor Len Kaminski in his letter of november to follow professor Kaminskis i paranoid logic we would see and end to Andy Capp because All englishmen Are Lazy alcoholics and Charlie because All Short people Are insecure i resent the implication that people who enjoy these strips myself included have a bigoted sense of perhaps if this is All professor Kaminski sees when he reads the strips he should examine his own Atti Dave Fraser what excess the Hydro follies Premier Sterling Lyon accuses the previous administration of having overbuilt Hydro there is now 30 per cent overproduction As a result of this free october one would like to know 30 per cent of Manitoba Hydro current capacity is Hydraulic Mega Watts Thermal 369 megawatts Gas Turbine 25 megawatts diesel 31 megawatts total the Thermal units Are usually held in Reserve for those times when the Hydraulic plants cannot meet these figures do not include City Hydro generating since Lyon failed to specify 30 per cent of let us use Only the first figure of yet because of Low water Levels this the Thermal units had to be employed to meet Hydro this in formation was acknowledged by the government during question where was the excess capacity Lyon should have asked Don Craik to run these figures through his computer to Check for accuracy before making such an irresponsible Zaluski Winnipeg the fact that he wants to vote Liberal next time proves the need for brain sur ;