Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 19, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free november 1981 11 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 editorials Sterling Lyons future the style in which Sterling Lyon accepted defeat on tuesday night was completely in As a passionate believer in our parliamentary Lyon could have been expected to fight with All his weapons while the Battle was on and to accept with Grace the verdict of the electorate once it was while accepting he spoke of those other conserva Tive leaders Winston Churchill and John Diefenbaker who took a beating and came Back to try he must also have of other political leaders who have understood when the time has come to step the conservative government which was Defeated at the polls on tuesday was built in Lyons As the most Able Man in the As its strongest As its most dedicated he established the style by which it governed Over the past four that style was accepted on tuesday by 43 per cent of the but it was rejected a Strong majority and by an even stronger majority in sections of the population which Are certain to become increasingly important in the fun it was rejected by Large numbers of Young of Urban voters and of those voters in the Centre of the political system whose loyalties were put up for auction by the collapse of the provincial Liberal no party can Hope to win in Manitoba in the foreseeable future without appealing to those Many conserva Tives must be wondering today whether they can exert that Appeal with Lyon As no one should expect precipitate action on the leadership the conservative party has four years in which to rebuild its rethink its policies and decide on the Issue of the search for a new Leader will not be helped by the fact that a couple of Cabinet who might have been leadership went Down with the ship on if the Manitoba conservatives Are to have any Hopes of political revival in this they must return to a More consensual style of politics and they must find a new Leader who reflects that sign of the fiscal times Quebec finance minister Jacques Parizeau has now dropped the other shoe with a thud that echoes across the country and that should resound with special Force in the councils of the new democratic administration that is about to take Power in the Bills have now come in for five years of social democratic generosity in Quebec government spending and the parti quebecois government finds itself breaking a solemn alienating its closest political allies and imposing gasoline prices out of line with those of other in order to pay in his March budget this just before Levesque called the april 13 Quebec Parizeau reduced income taxes and forecast a deficit of less than the sceptics said at the time that the figures did not add up and that the real budget bearing the bad news would come after the whoever won returned to the Levesque government embarked on a Campaign of expenditure cuts which has already reduced health and education spending by half a billion dollars and Aims to Cut a similar amount from other the government has also arranged to increase electric Power rates and Siphon off some Hydro Revenue into government other Public sector employees and the Trade Union move ment Strong supporters of the pm up to Are increasingly angered by reduced employment and warnings that their pay will no longer Rise at the accustomed the harshest blow came this week with the presentation of Parizeau real the tax Cut promised in the Spring it turns was a income tax rates will not be reduced and the rate of tax on gasoline has been adding cents a litre to the Price of gasoline at Quebec filling even the deficit for the year will be slightly Over having just won the Levesque government can Only As the Lyon government did four years that bitter pills forced Down the Public Throat Early in the term will have been digested and forgotten by the time of the next it did not work for the Lyon Levesques skill at explaining and defending his actions and rallying support for them May allow him to fare but the vast Gulf Between the March euphoria and the november disillusion poses a daunting Challenge even to his Salesman Parizeau is doing his Best to blame it All on the Federal he delayed his cancellation of the Spring tax cuts and his announcements of gasoline and Beer tax increases until after the presentation of the Federal he contends that the tax increases Are necessary temporarily Only because the Federal government is not increasing its subsidies to that claim is unlikely to Cut much ice with Quebec motorists who now pay significantly More for their gasoline than they would in other prov the pm came to Power five years ago complaining that Quebe cers were the highest taxed of they still Parizeau steadily preached the importance of fiscal responsibility to pave the Way to Quebec had he practice what he the current betrayals would not be Manitoba new democrats have promises to keep and a budget to they have spent four years railing against the Lyon governments fiscal restraint and May be inclined to begin by sharply increasing government spend Premier elect Pawley should take careful note of the Quebec governments desperate financial plight and consider carefully the kind of reckoning he will want to present to the Manitoba electorate four years the vanishing perk because the free travel available to employees of airlines is such a visible it has Long been a controversial it is often described by those who have it As appearing to be Worth More than it at the same time it is universally envied by those who As part of their whisk off to the exotic capitals of the world for a weekend of and pay Only incidental the passes Are about to be taxed by the Federal govern ment As employee taxation officials say passes will have to be included in tax returns beginning in to single out free travel As a taxable Benefit is unfair in that it penalizes employees in one Industry while letting others go to tax All such employee benefits would require an army of bureaucrats to an army that would consume More in costs than it could possibly produce in if the passes Are issued on a space available and if no pass user deprives a potential paying customer of then the value is considerably less than it because those who Benefit do so Only at the risk of disrupted journeys if the seats Are the calculation of benefits would be a tremendous an employee who is asked to As taxable the Economy fare applicable to a free trip should surely be if he is bumped half to deduct the unexpected expenses representing whatever it costs him to stay away from although the value of the travel benefits May be it is Likely that airline employee unions will View the taxation departments decision As representing a real Cut in and bargain while the tax on passes will show up in the governments Revenue the extra Cost to the airlines of substituting Money for the privilege will come out of every other passengers some May consider that the tax department has accomplished what every airline has wanted to do for years that is to find some Way of showing Revenue from seats that Are the real danger in singling out airline passes for the attention of the tax collectors is to be the government should tax Al other Perks that exist in other will members of the armed services who take advantage of empty seats on what is known As service air be taxed and if who will determine what the value of such transportation really is should not employees of department stores pay tax on the discounts available when they shop what about employees of corporations who enjoy corporate rates when they stay at hotels will the benefits become taxable because they represent a saving to the or to the employee if they Are classified As employee then thousands of civil on business or will find they Are paying because they enjoy discounts that Are available because of where they the Federal governments desire for More Revenue is but any new taxes imposed because of a change in policy need to be fair to All More women june Westbury career in the Manitoba legislature lasted Only a single term along with a number of other significant she prepared a place for those who followed the most offensive aspect of the silly fuss Over a washroom in the legislature for women members was the Assumption it implied that a woman in the House was a temporary in the Wake of tuesdays there Are seven women in the five new democrats and two Given the level of Talent they at least a couple Are Likely to be in the seven seats out of 57 is scarcely adequate representation for half the provinces but a sevenfold increase in representation in a single election at an impressive rate of if nothing the election Campaign just finished should have put an once and for to the notion that the role of women in election campaigns was to do the backroom work and run in the occasional unwinnable if a similar rate of Progress is seen in the next four years or so from the efforts of Manitoba Early pioneers of women rights will finally have been even if a Quarter Century too thought i could Tho Leht i could parole not just the National parole Board has been criticized for coddling criminals and allowing them out of prison at risk to the when i attended a recent hearing of the Board at Stony Mountain it so happened two of the cases were of the highest risks in the minds of the Public one a the other a my conclusion after sitting in on the session with the approval of the prisoners was that Ken Howland and Dennis the Board were most protective of the Public a first was sentenced to three years for raping a woman after being invited to her hotel room follow ing an hour of evidence was that he also choked and bit the bitter about parents prior to his appearance at the parole Board an institutional counsellor talked about Mike and his Back his parents had separated when he was and he was raised by an Mike is most bitter about his he got married in was a construction labourer and a car Penters he was taking a masonry course in technical according to the Mike has a lot of ability and a High and should go on to his con duct at the pen was he drinks too much and one psychologist says he cannot control his behaviour under he and another psychologist have recommended Day As Well As his parole Mike is an expressionless with a pasty complexion and an air of to put him at Chisholm asked How it had been in the he i have been sex offenders Are maltreated by other but they Are not aware of mikes offence for he is from another it is the unwritten code in the pen not to ask Why one is but there is nothing honorable about a society behind the pen is a mean its muscle simple one pen staffer said to me the Tough Guy pushes others for if a weaker prisoner wont fetch a fee As he May end in the or it May be simply that he does not like the Way he he then he added the currency Here is flesh and if a Guy wants a Transfer he May Cut himself to get As i he May beat another to exert his both parole Board members questioned Mike at length about his Atti his Val Werier give a Little Premier Rene Levesque does not want Quebec to be part of Canada and have an identity of its but wants to Premier Rene Levesque turn Canada into one big province of Quebec with his constant stubbornness with regard to minority language canadians already recognize Quebec As not minority language but majority language this is evident by the influence of the French language All across French canadians helped to form can but so did a lot of other National if they now feel that the rest of Canada owes them a favor by giving in to Levesques maybe they should look at the concessions canadians have already Given the province of the major Thorn in this Issue is even though Canada is a multicultural there is the intrusion of the French language on As a diverse have had to put up with my advice to Levesque is to be quiet and learn to give a Little like the rest of us have had to Bruce bakun Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to arms buildup in his final address As Jimmy Carter said that the accumulated firepower of the second world War and Korea can be packed into a single plane or submarine that any third world War would be like a com plete second world War every second of every minute for an entire after that amounts to consecutive second world there Are Over nuclear on equal to one and on Quarter million there never has been and never will be any defence against nuclear Wear each superpower can wipe out the other superpower 50 to 70 times and can destroy the entire world from 20 to 40 times How can any sane person support an arms buildup according to Donald of the International physicians for the prevention of a Likely attack on a City such As Winnipeg would be a on megaton this is the equivalent of 70 Hiroshima exploding in one place at one i suggest that Manitoban join operation Box c Otta k1y this is a group that encourages the Canadian govern ment or any other government to propose a world vote in the United nations on nuclear such a vote might focus attention on this Issue and enable people in All countries to speak out against the completely insane policy of arms the future of Mankind is at stake and the time is getting Ann Henry Winnipeg it wont happen Mike assured the Board of his criminal of because i dont want to come Back Arnie a Legal Aid lawyer representing said he should be Able to see the psychological the prison psychologist was contacted at once through the parole officer but his reply was that he did not see any reason to provide the that it contained nothing and in any he had gone Over it with apparently the reports of the psychologists had not delved comprehensively into mikes Peltz told the Board Mike himself had been the victim of a homosexual rape a few months before his the suggestion was that this May have had something to do with his behaviour Chisholm recommendation was that Mike be Given Day because he Felt further imprisonment would not do him any Good and that he was no risk to along with his recommendation was the rider that Mike stay away from alcohol and that he take psychological Howland he did not feel Mike was ready to go out in the Community and that he first required More counselling and after Mike and Peltz had Howland said that the Case management team at the pen should have taken Mike under its Wing and provided split decision because it was a split All the reports on and the written reasons by Howland and Chisholm were forwarded to a third parole member to cast the final the Prairie regional parole Board office in Regina was six Days later Mike was notified that Day parole was on the conditions recommended by d d d d Don looks like an unlikely he shambles in his face Grey with prison wisps of White hair straggling Over his a White stub ble on his a Man who looks much older than his 65 his record goes Back 35 years for thefts and and then he went straight in in he was working for a woman who was terminally and claimed she nuclear madness the clock on the cover of the Bulle tin of atomic scientists now says it is four minutes to the hour of worldwide nuclear the time has come to confront the in end of our civilize we in Winnipeg Are sitting next to the missile silos of North so per haps we have greater reason than most to say no to nuclear both superpowers at this moment Are acting out an irrational scenario which a majority of the worlds leading nuclear physicists believe will inevitably end in an fallout which will destroy human lives imme condemn hundreds of millions More to a horrible and devastate the Earth itself so that it will be Barren and contaminated by Radia each one of if he wants the world to must must inform his government that preparation for nuclear War is indeed and we want the nuclear arms which costs the world billion begged him and paid him to put her out of her he choked placed her body in a and set the House on for the next ten he was a skid Row reported the Penitentiary finally in he went to police to but he was much in his that he was Dis missed As a he returned again and was charged with tried and sentenced to the pen to three years for Why did you keep it to yourself for so Long he was asked at the parole it was Beer for Beer for dinner and alcohol for he in glad i turned myself otherwise i would have drunk myself to death i figured her husband was doing time for something i had com verbal abuse in Don sat in his de not involved in any of the institutional he took a lot of verbal sometimes physical abuse from other because he was old and the parole officer suggested full parole with special conditions that he be supervised by the salvation army where he would reside and have pm the Board agreed with the parole officer that there would be Little risk in releasing Don because of his age and under full parole an offender must follow Many including permission to marry or incur debt he must live in approved accommodation and must report to the police once a the parole act says that full parole May be granted after serving a third of the where it will help re form and rehabilitate the inmate where release would not constitute an undue risk to society and where he has derived the maximum Benefit from so a few weeks before a year after he had been Don will leave the pen for a life of close supervision with the salvation about 38 per cent of applications for full parole Are of those re leased during eight per cent committed new crimes and were returned to it is impossible to avoid for most the transition to Freedom by Day or full parole has proved in the Case of a Man sentenced for there is no Point in keeping him locked up behind bars for another two who will quarrel with the decisions of the Board concerning Mike and Don second of two articles a to Stop before it is too we live on a planet of poverty and hunger for hundreds of millions and this wasted Money could be spent for clean housing and the eradication of let each one of us begin by writing a Brief letter to his my protesting Cana Das however in the nuclear arms Winnipeg respect treaties one wonders Why native rights have not been guaranteed by the cons Titu do the governments of Canada intend to be bound by the promises Given to native people in return for the use of their lands if let the Constitution say canadians want the treaties made Between the government and native citizens we do not want our politicians to make us out As liars and Pratt Winnipeg i ;