Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 19, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fun a to Vii 0 Winnipeg free november 1981 a debate Over whether the province should consider buying out the greater Winnipeg Gas ended in City Council last night with a walkout by six new democratic party an nip motion to have the province consider buying the private Gas Utility monopoly was soundly Defeated by a vote of 19 to Independent citizens election com Mittee and most Independent Council lors stood to defeat the Only Independent councillor eve Lyne Reese and labor election com Mittee councillor Joe Zuken supported the seven nip then Council considered the cites position in negotiating a renewal of the shkw5s9bhec urious foam a group of homeowners is furious with the Federal and provincial govern ments for refusing responsibility for controversial ure formaldehyde foam insulation installed in their Glenn founder of the homeowners with urea Formale Hyde foam insulation Huff in Manitoba said once a new provincial Cabinet is he will take the concerns of about 250 homeowners in the group to the new minister of consumer he said a representative from con Sumer affairs minister Andre Ouellett office told the groups executive recently the application of the foam was a provincial the representative said the province was to control and inspect former provincial Consumers affairs minister Gary Filmon denied saying provincial premiers turned Down a Federal suggestion they be responsible for controlling installation of the Markowski what we want to do is clarify the provincial governments Respo Sibili he the Federal representative said there would be assistance programs for those who have installed the Markowski he said Many of the estimated to Are frightened of the health hazards associated with the foam Insu Markowski said the group has called a Public meeting for at at the Union 570 Portage motorists will be Able to Park free on saturdays at metered spaces on Down town streets beginning this saturday and up to and including the enabling bylaw passed City Council last it affects 409 parking meters in the area bounded by main Street on the Colony Morial Boulevard on the Ellice Avenue on the North and Mary Avenue on the the lost Revenue to the City for the Experiment has been variously estimated Between and motorists will be restricted to Park ing for the one or two hour periods designated on the behind the push for free saturday parking in the Core area has been the downtown a group of businessmen and profession als who Hope it will attract weekend shoppers to businesses in the if the businesses want the free Park ing to Council has determined i hey will have to participate in defray ing the killed when hit by car an 81yearold Winnipeg Man died last night from injuries received in a collision on Portage Avenue at Raglan police said Bruce of William was taken to health sciences Centre in critical condition with Multi ple injuries after being struck by a car As Portage Avenue at he died a Short time police Are seeking the assistance of anyone who May have witnessed the Gas bar Bandit sought police Are searching for a gunman who robbed the Domo Gas bar at Ellice Avenue and Wall steet of an undetermined amount of Money last police said the about in dred the Gas bar at about demanded and received some Money n oin the female and then fled on Gas distribution franchise with greater Winnipeg As prepared by City the negotiating document states that the cites position is that the franchise should be the current franchise expires in de 1983 and if would extend for at least 10 years and up to 25 years greater Winnipeg Gas exclusive distribution rights in the the document also asks for redress on eight grievances on matters per Taining to the current including Street Restora costs of assessment of work future City related City bylaws and other and Gas rate different on the last the City is concerned that Winnipeg Gas Consumers May be subsidizing the Gas company Rural located As far away As and asks for Gas rate differentials Between those customers and the those within the City Boundary the seven nip councillors plus Zuken and Reese voted against the position in the document that the fran Chise with greater Winnipeg Gas be renewed and were Defeated in much the same division of votes As on the Public ownership but they voted with the rest of coun p motion to buy Gas firm cil in approving the eight grievances As matters for negotiation with the Gas company during the franchise renewal then came a vote on an executive policy committee recommendation that the entire including the recommendation for franchise renew be submitted for the cites representatives on the franchise negotiation committee to councillors Alan Wade and Magnus Eliason objected to that vote being Wade contended it was out of because the two substantive matters in the Brief had already been voted on Glenn free press Eliason said that to vote on the Al encompassing executive policy committee recommendation would Force him into the position of either approving something of which he Dis approved franchise renewal or Dis approving something of which he approved negotiation of the eight City but mayor Bill Norrie ruled the executive policy committee recommendation must be voted and was upheld by a majority of Council at that councillor Alf Skowron rounded up nip councillors Helen Harvey Alice Balsillie and Bill Chornopyski and led them from the Council chamber prior to the councillor Eliason was about to leave when Norrie informed him he could not do so once the vote had been called and Eliason returned to his the walkout violated councils procedure but there Are no penal ties for such the executive policy committee recommendation to approve the entire Brief for submission to the franchise negotiating committee was approved by a 20 to 2 councillor Eliason was among those voting in Only councillors Reese and Zuken with new democrats Savouring tuesdays candidates by Ingeborg Boyens at least one senior Manitoba civil servant was prepared yesterday to tender his resignation if the new nip government does not want his ser Rene Deputy minister of cultural said just hours after the fall of the Lori government that All senior bureaucrats should be ready to let a new administration determine their a new Premier have to ask a civil servant to he said in an he should have an Opportunity of inviting them to during the election pre Mier elect Howard Pawley said his government would not launch a Campaign of bloodletting against provincial employees As the conserva Tives did four years but Pawley was non committal about staff its premature for me to make comments in that he told asked if there would be major Pawley Only a statement from the new govern ment on the extent of the bureaucratic upheaval is expected within 24 to 36 in just after the conservative government was about six Deputy two career civil ser vants and four personal secretaries were let about 60 full time civil service positions were eliminated in the following four Normal paring this time Lyons personal senior bureaucrats and special information officers hired by the conserva Tive government May lose their jobs in a Normal round of Deputy ministers avoided any com ment yesterday As did most civil ser they simply said they would wait and see what Jim executive assistant to finance minister Brian said anyone in my position expects employment May not be too Perma nent when they Are employed by a Shilliday and several communications officers in the civil service Are former Winnipeg Tribune staffers who lost their jobs when the paper folded 14 months Prefontaine has been on loan from the Federal government under the interchange Canada program for about the Deputy minister said he had been planning to leave the Toba service anyway his con tract expires in Prefontaine said his resignation offer does not indicate an unwilling Ness to work under the but he said he would not want to continue if he was not controversial Manitoba Hydro Board chairman Kris accused by new democrats of being the architect of tory Hydro said he currently has no plans to i will watch and see How things it is vitally important from the standpoint of Manitoba to get plans for the Alcan smelter and Power Grid on the drawing my objective is to see positive things Kristjanson the Utility chief executive officer Laurie also a conservative said he would also wait Glenn free press f for a decision of the Hydro Board about his i Haven any i dont know any of these people and what they really he Blachford said he is still enthusiastic about the Power Grid and they Are Good Manitoba government employees association president Gary doer said the Union would protect any employees covered by its contract even communications officers like Harry the former Tribune finance editor and longtime critic of the nip joined the civil service As an executive aide to Deputy Premier Don we will do for him As we will for any other said we Are not going to make judgments regarding their doer said he did not expect the same kind of revolutionary Council sweep from the nip As he saw in Pawley already has assured the Mega he will not authorize wholesale cuts in the civil doer and the new government will need More employees to run the programs it plans to doer said he was pleased with the election results and does not foresee undue difficulties in the big unions dealings with the new sign outside House in Wolseley constituency indicates at least one Liberal supporter May feel a move is in sixteen Defeated or retiring Mem Bers of Manitoba last legislature will receive pensions ranging up to a month for to qualify for pension Las must serve a minimum of eight of the 11 who have served As Cabinet ministers in either the Defeated conservative government or the former administration will receive additional pensions based on higher the exact amount was unclear the Basic pension for an la who has served the minimum eight years is a rising at a rate of a month for each extra Las contribute seven per cent of their total annual indemnities and Al now a to the pension Cabinet ministers also contribute seven per cent of their additional now about the maximum pension a Manitoba la can receive is a month for 23 years of but none of the retiring or Defeated Las qualifies for that former nip finance minister Saul Cherniack and tory Morris Mcgee 19year veterans who did not seek Are entitled to Basic monthly pensions of according to the Cherniack would be entitled to an additional amount for his years in fifteen year veterans of the Legisla such As Defeated Energy minis ter Don progressive party Leader Sidney progressive la Ben retiring former nip Cabinet minister Saul Miller and tory la Henry Einarson who failed to win his party nomination in glad Are entitled to pensions of a plus an additional pension for time spent in Las elected in 1969 would receive pensions of a they in clude new democrats Tom Barrow flin Bill Jenkins Logan and Ron Mcbryde the who didst run this time retiring tory Jim Fer Guson and former nip minister Bud Defeated tuesday As a progressive candidate in Boyce and Mcbryde would receive additional amounts for Cabinet Las elected in including new Democrat Harvey Bostrom re who didst seek reeled and Community services minis ter George Defeated in would receive the Basic la pension plus additional amounts for Cabinet Las who did not serve the mini mum eight years will get a refund of pension contributions plus compounded vote totals fail to deter communists Manitoba communist party will not give up its political fight despite another predictable drubbing in tues Days provincial while the Manitoba progressive party intends to meet next week to discuss its political the communist party has no plans to contemplate whether the fight is Worth were a part of said party Leader Paula Fletcher in an interview the party ran two Fletcher in Burrows and Bill Ross in and received a total of 265 in the party ran four candidates and attracted less than 300 Fletcher admits the Force Hast been with us but adds it is no cause for despair or Disi Llu our party is 60 years she said weve been outlawed in Canada three times and some of our people have been put in but weve survived and Well continue to she was Quick to Point out that the party political fortunes Haven Al ways been As weve had our election ups and she noting that two communists have sat in the provincial Fletcher said communists also have been successful in civic and school Board party Mem Ber Joe Zuken has been an elected official for 40 first As a school trustee and then As a City while Mary Kardash is a trustee on the Winnipeg school she said the party is Active in All partly to spread the ideas of working class Rule and the need to fight monopoly we consider ourselves a serious political Fletcher adding she wishes the Media would show More objectivity and fairness by providing coverage of party Active she said she plans to complain to the Canadian and telecommunications commission about the Lack of coverage provided during the theres no place where we can com Plain about the i ;