Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 16, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba The Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and the author s name will be used and letters Are subject to Winnipeg free november 1981 7 readers forum choose Between tories and nip never within memory has the Mani Toba provincial election scene been so pity the uninformed voter who is trying to make an intelligent Peoples party the assertion in the free press of november 6 that i had urged Manito bans to elect an nip government on november 17 was not an accurate report of my remarks at the All Candi Date meeting referred i did not Call for the election of an nip but for the election of a Peoples majority in the Legisla including which would put people before in such a legislature nip members would constitute the Only group Able to form an alternative the communist party is not indifferent to which party forms the next but we do not give a Blanket endowment of the none of the other parties comes to grips with the key question in this election need for Unity of the farm and democratic move ments around an anti monopoly pro Gram to break foreign control and domination of Manitoba Economy and Bur that is Why communists Are needed in the Manitoba legislature As part of a Peoples Ross Winnipeg Choice from among the amalgam of political parties and the nip and the conservatives Are at least known by their but t one looks in vain for a coherent set of policies and principles from either the Liberal or the progressive lib eral Leader Doug Lauchlan Hopes the liberals can make a but a comeback to what the same sort of lacklustre performance we had during the 30odd years under Liberal premiers Gar son and Campbell so far Lauch Lan has not offered anything he talks vaguely about pursuing a Middleon therond As for the hastily formed Progress Ive it can readily be it can hardly be considered to be a serious it would not exist if Sid Green had succeeded in becoming Leader of the Green is a very Able Man who played an important part in the nip but he was never Content to play As a member of a team he had his heart set on being this the membership of the nip denied Over what was really a phoney he left the nip and formed his own serious voters in this election will choose Between the nip and the conservatives and not waste their votes on parties that have no Chance of forming a government and have nothing to add to this Campaign except Charles Biesick Winnipeg Al cans new primary aluminium production Plant located at Grande Quebec in favor of Alcan most Kildonan voters counted this is in response to the article thousands of Winni Eggers off provincial voters free october in the article Mary Beth nip candidate in Kildonan was quoted to have said that entire streets were not As returning officer in i refute that state the Only portion of the Riding of Kildonan which had to return to enumerate was one Block of airlines Street Between Pearce and car Ruthers and consisted of 33 at the end of formal revisions we added 380 names to the voters lists which is a percentage of approximately per when compared to the original enumeration of if this is what the reporter considers to be a poor i would suggest he study statistics from other i would also suggest that the report David consult with people who Are aware of the True facts before he quotes statements from people who Are not aware of i feel that this is an irresponsible Job of and has caused unnecessary concern to the people of the Riding of and in the City of Winnipeg As a Pearl Springman Kildonan returning officer Winnipeg Many promises As a Homeowner and taxpayer in i am should opposition Leader Howard Pawley and the nip form the next government after november my tax dollars will not a Factor i read Fred Cleverley article strike hangs Over this free november 9 on the effect of incas Thompson strike on labor min ister Ken Macmasters the suggestion that the strike will have an Adverse Impact on his chances for reelection is people in Thompson View the strike As one and the election As if any the work Macmaster did trying to get the two sides together to talk has been appreciated by Thomp son Mike Landers undoubtedly be used to finance the government owned Oil company he is the Many Pawley has been making of be reflected in higher property i am not opposed to helping those unfortunates who need but i do object to having my tax dollars used to support Worth less and no beneficial i still recall the Many financial discs Choy and Saunders air our tax Dol Lars supported when the nip was in the socialist philosophy de mands that All Industry must gov i believe that the governments role should be one of rather than participant and that it should leave industries in the hands of private in Don Woods Winnipeg As a councillor for the Village of Teulon and chairman of the Industrial development i was pleased when Alcan announced a site in Rock Only nine Miles from As the preferred location for their pro posed the Interlake certainly needs an economic boost to provide jobs for the people who live in the i have also been working As a doctor in Teulon since i soon discovered that some of my patients had become concerned about environmental poll i was surprised to find they had been scared by a flyer about environmental damage around alumni num smelters circulated by a Winni Peg based group called i have been to Quebec and visited Al cans smelter at Grande which was opened i also visited the older Plant at to compare old aluminium with the new Alcan smelter at Grande baie using technology of the 1980s is like comparing night to during the War the demand for aluminium for the War Effort was so intense that Many alumni num smelters were allowed to expand and without adequate emission control much information on environmental pollution hazards was collected in those the raw material dissolved in produces Only aluminium and Carbon using a powerful electrical the water used in the process is Only used to Cool the molten aluminium being cast into there would be no chemical pollution of the Runoff arid no slag heaps of spent All the raw materials at Grande baie Are Distri buted into the plants by automated compute controlled conveyor systems from closed Hopper the environmental information being circulated by Cias is misleading and not relevant to the proposed which would be even More technologically advanced than Grande the people of this area Are Only interested in the potential environmental pollution from an Alu Minum smelter using technology of the tar emissions in older smelters have been a concern Only to the actual production modern technology has reduced this the most important pollution Cern in the aluminium Industry has been the emission of modern emission control hoods and dry would remove 96 per cent of the the majority of the expert opinion would indicate no harm from fluorides from the proposed but in All fairness a minority this topic will be fully explored by the thorough environmental Impact studies now being which will be subject to Public debate before the government imposes emis Sion control people drinking fluoridated water in Winnipeg Are exposed to a lot More fluorides than would be the people living in the imme Diate Vicinity of the proposed the fluoride exposure of workers in the smelter would be Well below Safe if it is so Why is a Buffer zone needed cattle Are More sensitive to fluorides than and crops or vegetation Are much More inside the Buffer zone there is some possibility of harmful effects on and possibly but not i believe that Al cans approach to the occupational health of their workers is ten years ahead of its the work ing conditions at Grande baie Are better than the working conditions of most workers in in my Al cans proposed smelter would not cause any harmful environmental effects on the residents of the Interlake or we want to bring economic Benefit to our people and i am confident that the govern ment can set standards to ensure no environmental Ken my pollution peril 1 spent three years As a welder in Al cans and i am aware of the dangers that such an operation can pose to living things in and around it dangers that few Mani to bans Are aware within ten years of the fluoride emissions from the Kitimat smelter had killed 20 Square Miles of surrounding kit Mats rough terrain gets an average times As much annual rainfall As there the fluoride emissions Are continually being washed into Flie Pacific with Manitoba Flat terrain and less the emissions would pollute our Farmland As Well As underground and surface drainage system in a Short smelters in Oregon state at present comply with emission limits less than on third that expected from the pro posed Manitoba smelter with five times the makes Oregon state 15 times As capable of dealing with the fluoride As Manitoba the limit was set after a rash of multimillion Dollar damage settlements in the late 1950s and Early 1960s threatened to close the at present Manitoba has no fluoride emission limits and our government is welcoming an environmental catastrophe at election time in the Hope of a Small economic Alcan has contributed to the progressive conservative expecting concessions from the govern ment in i feel that As taxpayers will have the Only Chance to voice our protests in the coming elec Joe Matula member aluminium smelters Winnipeg Devotion doubted after being inundated with conservative election propaganda i feel forced to How Long after election Day will it take for the much touted Meg projects to fall into limbo How does it help senior citizens to pay a Day if they have to be in Hospital we Are continually being assured health care is not deteriorating in while staff ing has been drastically Premier Sterling Lyon and his team Are saying much about their Job Crea Tion while neglecting to mention Plant closures and our illustrious Premier has the Gall to suggest he is a Strong voice for most of us have no Laid eyes on him in the past four he refuses to take part in any All Candi Date makes an appearance at Oakpark High school to speak to Stu allows questions but no rebut Why this strange reluctance if the conservatives Are doing such a great Job june Mcleod Winnipeg action by pcs lacking a recent sunday night election forum on to May not have made everything but it did expose for everyone watching that either minister of labor Ken Macmaster does not know what is in legislation which he administers or he is prepared to misrepresent it to avoid serious criticism of his govern ments performance in the critical area of workplace safety and it was noted by a press questioner that the minister has not yet appointed a chief occupational medical officer As required by the workplace safety and health Macmaster flatly replied that he was not required to do that the act did not say consulting the it is easy to find Section the minister shall appoint As chief occupational medical officer for the purpose of this a person who is a duly qualified medical practitioner and who has training and experience in occupational on previous occasions there have been suggestions that such Well Quali fied persons Are and that there is no need for such a medical this is the first time to my knowledge that the Legal requirement has been Macmasters mis leading statement can Only reveal How desperate his government is to avoid responsibility for the tragic Litany of Industrial accidents and disease that has been exposed during the past four years of tory legislation which was passed in the Spring of 1976 was just becoming useful in the fall of the conservatives decided to let it Wither on the Murray Smith Winnipeg nip gloom and doom the provincial election although strangely is in full is preaching doom and worrying about the past and saying that Manitoba future lies in government domination and Regula Tion of the what does this mean to Manitoban it Means an increase in personal and Small business destruction of incentive and initiative for individuals to build and invest in Manitoba and the flight of capital from the with the opposition in Manitoba will truly become a have not prov the present progressive conserva Tive government has a positive Outlook for Manitoba Given the cur rent state of the National it has done a decent Job in managing Manitoban it did not spend it will Nilly like the nip which got involved in All kinds of Money losing the government deserves the Chance to proceed with its plans for our prov inces it needs our help and our support so that As Manitoban we will All Jeffrey Harwood voters to pick new Broadway theatre cast tomorrow the audience gets the Chance to pick the cast for a show that has a guaranteed run of four perhaps in our own Broadway the sad truth is that most of the people who will pick the and foot the will not bother to take in the for some they were forced to sit through even a few performances of the theatre in the sunken they just might throw politics to the wind and select the and for their entertainment for the leads in the the Audi ence vote really Means very except to determine on which Side of the theatre the main actors will be Sterling Lyon will unless a sudden epidemic of the plague and so will Howard unless the gods of the Lake Rise up in some sort of Wrath and destroy the Only Choice the audience has is where the two main actors will the one that manages to get sufficient numbers of his prospective supporting cast elected will sit on the speakers right while other will sit on the both Are Good and if compulsory attendance was the Lucky audience would have to at tend when or were engaged in debate on a major either of this or some that have been on the stage in the the realities of Fred Cleverley Manitoba Broadway production make these occasions rare Sterling Lyon is Good his drawn out answers Are skilfully worded to if not the information that was at least a reaction opposite that mixes loud voices and the other ingredients that make a show Worth in Manitoba Broadway he has been mis his should be a Jimmy Cag Ney a always going for the the dignity that was Duff Robles or at de fits badly on like a coat that is too Howard Pawley is Good he has been for nigh on ten years to look to show anger when everyone who knows him knows How difficult it is for a Nice Guy to be to be or to be he in the last prod out concerned and out decided at every turn by Sid there Are members of located in the constituency of who Are threatening to remove if they do he will be his forays into his own endless land of his determination to take the All the time necessary to prove that he is always May not be the Best of but it is Good if Sid is denied a part in the 19811985 the real losers will be those whose employment requires that they attend most of the theatre product there is a in every theatre to forget the supporting Manitoba Broadway has in the actors and actresses that were worthy of bigger there Are some promising candidates for the new what would a show be without Jay Cowans endless aversion to Lead poisoning or the suspense that grips the House every time Harry Enns slumps in his fingers under his and starts his Little singsong directed at the no one has Ever been certain what he although the interpretation varies depending on where the listener Harry is an audience sound carries much better to the visitors gallery than it does to the other Side of the chamber or even to the press Harry is Likely to be in top for the new production while Harry will Likely be Warner Jorgenson will his knowl Edge of House rules will be even if they Are not always followed by his Warner will miss the legislature As being a parliamentarian in the John Diefenbaker Trade he is not Likely to miss further Contact with Vinyl also from the nip will be the two Miller and Cher regular members of the Audi ence will miss particularly the exchanges on matters of finance be tween who by any definition must be a capitalist in socialist cloth and people such As Don Craik and Brian who do not separate their political and personal philos the most promising member of the from an entertainment Point of is the vital conservative John he is not As his nip opponent Jim Wald ing so often to put people to sleep while he is he is More Likely to get some Quick lessons on what members term parliamentary of that he gets into the this As the show is More Likely to have some women in both the conservatives and the nip Are running women candidates in seats where they Are Likely to be which must be something of an accomplishment for prospective women politicians in by this should push ahead plans to have a women room for something the the atre has lacked in the voters out in Sturgeon Creek by All Likely to reelect the present minister of Frank if they every one of them should take the Opportunity to attend at least one performance of the they would find out Why within the confines of the tory caucus 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