Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 20, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free november 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 water in the charter no As prime minister Trudeau has been complain ing Over the last few it is a Little churlish to urge the Federal government to Compromise Over the Constitution and to complain about the results of that there is evidence that a different approach to the search for provincial Accord might have produced a charter of rights with a Little less water in it than the document that was presented to parliament this an approach which permitted provinces to opt in to an entrenched charter of rights would have produced almost immediate results in Premier Sterling with his philosophical opposition to an entrenched would never have opted Premier elect Howard Pawley would opt in like a similar conversions might Jwell have followed with changes in political Power in other r those considerations Are now in the realm of might have the charter we have got is the charter we could get and those groups which reasonably wanted better Protection for their rights will have to take Consolation in the fact that at least an amending formula exists which will permit strengthening of the charter in Given the Way in which the constitutional Resolution was put together Over the past the premiers had some for insisting that parliament and the Legislatures be Given the Power to override charter provisions in specific the reason was set out succinctly by a British lawyer commenting recently on a quite different the trouble with writing he is that what looks like a simple and obvious Way of dealing with the problem you have in mind fouls up the situation you did not think that problem applies doubly in the Case of a which inevitably applies Over the years to great numbers of nobody thought about initially and which is much More difficult to Amend than a simple it applies to a much of which was the not of careful thought but of a process of furious horse trading in the parliamentary in the Feder conference Over the Telephone Between Ottawa and the provincial the big losers in that process were the native who found All reference to their aboriginal rights removed from the final draft of the the value of the reference which was originally included is doubtful since the aboriginal rights which were supposed to be guaranteed were never they May conceivably end up with something More satisfactory out of the conferences which they have been promised in the coming but native people have been deceived and ignored often enough in our history that their anger and suspicion at the latest double Cross is entirely losers also Are Canadas women who find while they May be constitutionally equal in Many they Are not necessarily equal when it comes to equal Protection and Benefit of the a couple of premiers apparently objected to that guarantee of Equality on the grounds that it might be subject to fanciful interpretation by the courts since their View won out in the those concerned with preserving and enhancing the rights of women will have to continue to maintain their vigilance against government attempts to use the notwithstanding clause to reduce them or eliminate the Only concessions in the final draft went to the province of whose government vigorously rejected them provinces now can claim fiscal compensation from the Federal government if they opt out of constitutional changes which would Transfer Powers Over education and culture to the Federal since All Quebec including the present believe that almost every Legisla Tive Power affects their that clause is Likely to be the subject of some the spectacle of Ottawa and the other nine provinces pressing constitutional gifts on Quebec do something to weaken Premier Levesques claim that the province has been isolated by the duplicity of the anglos Levesque has other problems at Home these Days his government is having to Cope with new evidence of fiscal dishonesty and even of the taint of corruption around the the final version of the constitutional Resolution will make it More difficult for him to use the Constitution As a distraction from his own loopholes Are so find another Legal word for in the nip lawbreakers the new democratic members of Winnipeg City Council lean be excused for a bit of riskiness in the Wake of their party provincial election their Little demonstration at this weeks Council meeting Over Public ownership of cites Gas Utility can be attributed to partisan High it need not Mark a lasting deterioration in the Way the Council tried and failed to persuade the Council that the Gas Utility should be brought into Public the nip councillors then faced a Choice Between agreeing or Dis of agreeing that the greater Winnipeg Gas company right to in the City should be renewed on terms More to the rather than make that most of walked out of the Council and legislators regularly have to decide whether to support measures they regard As the fact that their allies have just won an election does nonexempt nip councillors from making those they cannot look to the new provincial administration to win for them All the Battles they manage to lose in the municipal they must continue to live with the fact that their though improving its lost the last civic in that the nip was unable to win in especially in the Northern and Eastern whose electors voted nip in the Federal election nine months earlier and in the provincial election just treat failure should Tell the municipal new democrats something about the Quality of the program they offered and the impression their councillors and candidates had made on the the provincial results May encourage them to believe that they can take those wards at the next municipal election two years from but they have not taken them the Independent citizens election committee with the support of some Independent still has the upper hand at City the nip will have to come up with ideas More appealing than Public ownership of the Gas Utility and Council strategy More impressive than walking away from difficult choices before they can expect to change that i another bad Harvest soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev announced this week Junce the soviet unions Harvest is far below expect the five year plan that governs soviet agricultural economic planning had set a goal of 239 million tonnes of each neither Brezhnev nor any other soviet Leader has said what the actual Harvest is this which May be an indication that it is disastrously Western estimates Are that it in and that the will be Only 170 million that would make it the worst since and the third year in a Row that the crop failed to conform to the the continuing crop failures present some problems to the soviet they will have to buy More Grain imports will probably at least equal the record amount in the West last it appears that Money has already been diverted from other projects to buy but purchases the situation is Likely to discontent among soviet the situation is not nearly As serious As it is in but is serious enough to cause concern in the soviet Are More affluent now than they have Ever but still must queue for hours to buy meat when it is and there is still not enough of the right kind of consumer items for soviet citizens to spend their Money their continued frustration is a source of worry to the govern because it contains the seeds for worker unrest that could Lead to something similar to the events in the soviets place most of the blame for the poor Harvest on bad and that certainly seems to have contributed to it has been said since russian revolution in the Kremlin has claimed that the soviet Harvest has been damaged by bad weather for 64 consecutive that is a of but it is a bit too close to the truth to bring Many chuckles in the the Root of the problem is the cumbersome centralization of soviet agriculture and the inefficiency of the huge collective private plots in the soviet Union account for less than two per cent of the agricultural but they produce 30 per cent some products up to 50 per cent of the nations there is an obvious lesson but soviet leaders Are unable to learn from not because they Are stupid but because they Are bound by their ideology to the present even when it does not and that is an interesting lesson for it should help them to remember in their Moscow despite the absolute Power of the soviet leaders and no matter what they May they have less flexibility than Western leaders because they Are restricted in their dealings by the chains of their by Frank Walker special to the free press Montreal there was Little Consolation for the illegals and their parents in the report Francois Aquin presented to education minister Camille Laurin the other but there was the pocket sized lawbreakers it is have to report to French schools next but they will not or rather be deprived academic credits for the four years or less they have spent in the English Catholic which they easily could have been under the that is a reasonable for the the Aquin report Given mandate and the Circum the former quebecois member of the National As Sembly recommended that no punitive action be taken against teachers or parents who had defied the something was quite even though it would have been Aquin further suggested special French classes be Given to these Chil Dren to help ease their Way into the French there is More to the reality of the situation than the requirements of the Law or the humane interpretation placed upon it by the Montreal most of the Ille gals Are italian and their parents came to Canada to Inte grate into a not a relatively Small part of English was for them the key to Freedom and to lock them into the enclave of Quebec or to make it More difficult for them to escape from is in their eyes a if we know of thousands of parents willing to take a Chance by defying the Law to make their children fluent in there Are Many More thou Sands who feel the same Way but who choose to obey the for All these Aquinas and the acceptance of it by has been they have been handicapped in achieving one of the expectations which brought them Here in the first place a better life for their children on an English speaking they did not leave their Homes in Italy and Portugal to Settle in a Halfway learning a new language but not the language which was the ticket to that better As they saw for an immigrant arriving since the passage of Bill there can be no the Law is there in place on but the parents of the Ille gals arrived before Bill 101 was even thought at a time of free the rules have been changed in in effect made there lies the injustice and the cruelty of what has keen it should never have no Law should reach Back into the past to encompass people who accepted in Good Faith a situation based on differ ent it depresses be cause what was done did not contribute to the preservation of French language and it merely Force fed into the French system unwilling not hurtful it would have been simple enough and in no Way hurtful to the Hopes of the parti quebecois to have begun the process with newcomers and to have left alone to follow their desires those already resident in the that is not the of which Laurin and his colleagues Are they Are quite prepared in Pursuit of a decent objective to permit an Indus there is no despite the report and implied threats by that those involved Are pre pared to acquiesce in its Many of the parents will continue to Battle what they see As an injustice and the Union of English speaking Catholic teachers has already announced that it will continue to assist any illegals in their for the government this presents a serious even the most hardened supporter of Bill 101 is unlikely to fancy dragging into court Quebec citizens whose Only crime is that they wish their children to become proficient in it will hardly look better to drag into these same courts teachers whose Only crime has been their lives upset As for the their lives have been upset enough without forcing them into schools where the Atmo if not May beat least unfriendly and the future of these Young people is Compro there is no easy Way the Law is there and it should be to favor the lawbreakers by allowing them to continue breaking the Law is to put a Bonus on illegality and to discriminate against those who abide by the to reverse system at this stage and permit free Choice would cause great even if it were politically it is a problem without a new set of Small victims created by they will not be the but the inevitability of what is happen ing does not make it easier to live children Are suitable can non fodder for political it does not help the cause for which the parti quebecois was the Aquin report precedes the changes in the education system of the which will restructure a sys tem almost As old As this time English speaking Quebe cers will be their privileges Are in jeep or their depending on How look at the groundwork for a major controversy is already in place and once again the victims will be not natives lose our Canadian native rights move ment has coalesced around resource development and land use the regional and cultural costs associated with development far outweigh any possible if the government were interested in establishing a dialogue with its indigenous partisan participation is definitely not the Way to do to have meaningful and constructive the government must state clearly its own position on the Indian people have been attempting to find common positions to these vital issues via our elected political ins Titu but the government is committed to Divide its indigenous people in a no constructive in spite of countless studies done by the Federal government and by the Institute for research on Public poli there Are no substantial arrange natives March on Ottawa orients concluded to Date for natives receiving a share of the and corporate taxes generated by the development of nonrenewable i have lived in which was realized november that the Federal government would not recognize aboriginal claims in the our future has been the die has been this dynamic moment for Canada has once again legally paralysed its indigenous we shall continue to be separate and worlds Tsa Meahl peace Vigil in its report of remembrance Day services in the free press wrote of the 300 who gathered at the Cenotaph to remember those who had victims of another ceremony took place at the Cenotaph that one hour some 150 people came together in a silent Vigil of not to remember the but to affirm a future goal a world without we came out of respect for the feelings of those who commemorate with poppies and wreaths the sacrifice of those who served in two world but we also came to reflect upon the present threat of a nuclear truly the War to end All we Hope in the years to More May join us and that remembrance Day May include both the remembering of the past and the affirm ing of a future of Paul Chorney coordinating committee for disarmament Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to coins donated Boeing strike some of your readers might be interested in the Story behind the picture that accompanied the article titled United Way free no vember the Chest Bank that Sandy a loaned representative to United has just emptied is a Mil car tintype Bank that was used in the 1964 Community Chest the coins in it were of 1940 it accompanied the donation of a gentleman who found it among his parents he was one of the hundreds of people who came to United Way offices personally to make contributions anywhere from to the coins will be sold to a Coin dealer so that United Way can realize their full Miriam Nixon Community relations director the United Way Winnipeg right to life recently we Learned the Happy news that Prince Charles and Princess Diana Are expecting their first this Little unborn child is rightfully being heralded As heir to the As he or she will one Day inherit a King despite bitter opposition to Over of our unborn children in Canada Are denied the most Basic human right of the right to Myrna Howard Winnipeg the Boeing strike is beginning to get a Little but the Side of the workers Union and nonunion not stated the Boeing factory went ten years without a turnover seemed to be High and Many Felt it was due to wages and working enough new Low paid employees Felt they needed a Union to enable them to get decent Many older employees Felt a need for a Union to protect them from Petty abuses and favouritism in promotion As Well As to improve the company dragged out negotiations for three months after the usual time for an annual raise it then you will not receive any raise for the four months july to octo All the including non Union worked hard and Long hours to build up Stock before the All Canadian including win have paid double time for Over time after the first eight All employees had to sign a form accept ing overtime work when called for considerable pressure was used by foremen and supervisors to get employees to work overtime when the work was done working 16 to 32 hours a week extra in order to help the the company offer has cancelled All double time after the a lot of extra time will be required to up on production and the company will want workers to work hard for extra one of the Best illustrations of the company attitude is its desire for the employees to be keenly interested and devoted to company i know of Many employees who worked each weekend for three or four besides overtime almost every the company reduced the incentive pay for learning your which was almost always a hit or miss the company would rather pay Over an hour in the United plus double than pay unionized canadians a fair for some years there has been an increasingly tense and unpleasant atmosphere in the and Many fear this will Worsen and Hurt productivity for years to Union people ask is the company More interested in smashing the Union which came into being mainly because of conditions the company created it is in treating the workers As having some value and right to respect Kenneth Emberley Winnipeg lives on the line we hear and read much about police but do we Ever listen to their Side these whom we depend upon to protect put their lives on the line every time they go out on it is time for All of us to stand on the Side of the police officers and voice our views and feelings As to what is Hap pening in our sick Henry Neufeld Winnipeg bouquet to up thanks for two regular features in your saturday plus Section the Book particularly those of David Williamson and the column by Arthur thanks also for the october 31 article by Leslie hooded bigots twist symbols of former pastor of the East Kildonan Baptist is one of the finest Christian journalists in i Hope to see his writing in your pages Gordon Sinclair has a gift for see ing the lighter Side of but sometimes he does Little More than trivialize important i Felt the latter was the Case in his columns on Renaissance and on the film not a love Gordon Nickel acting editor mennonite Brethren Herald Winnipeg that not Treyve been doing it to the Dollar for ;