Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 21, 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 Carllon 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 the falling interest rates two years a prime interest rate of 17 per cent was by our present finance minister Allan Maceachen among Many As a it is seen As a hopeful the chief effect of the decline in rates during the past few weeks has been to turn the situation of Many canadians renewing their and for Small businessmen trying to stay in from one of utter catastrophe to one of extreme no is an improvement but scarcely one to bring much what would bring genuine cheer is evidence that rates will keep going Down at their present Pace for the rest of the Winter and that the policies announced in the budget will reinforce that at the there is not enough evidence that this in the the main reason interest rates Are going Down in Canada at the moment is that the tight Money policy being followed by the administration has had the predictable result and produced a this has inspired a loosening up of monetary policy since Canadian rate trends follow those South of the the effects Are being Felt Here As there is no evidence that the fundamental problems facing the Canadian Economy Are on their Way to the Canadian Dollar has strengthened slightly in which Means the Bank Canada has a certain amount of leeway to permit further interest rate but the improvement to Date coincides with rising Unzem massive layoffs in manufacturing plants in Eastern Canada and a continued High rate of measures to control the deficit contained in the along with the governments decision to Back off policies devised to discourage foreign investment in this country and to encourage the Export of should permit More leeway in interest rate but the Short term effect of the closing of tax loopholes will probably be to discourage at least until the Impact of the changes is fully the uncertainty surrounding the direction of the Economy at the moment provides some justification for prime minister Trudeau proposal that the planned Federal pro Vinci Al conference on the Economy should be put off until Between the Federal and provincial finance ministers will get together to fight Over Ottawa plans to Cut Back on Transfer payments to the by the provincial governments should be getting ready to prepare their own the Federal government May even be starting to think about whether it should be coming up with a new min budget in the Spring if so what it should Federal provincial conferences in themselves Are no More effective in solving economic problems than they Are in coping with any but a meeting in january could at least restore the Effort to agree on a coordinated approach to economic policy which was the present government once it was returned to that coordination is More Likely to come about a couple of months from now than it is at the when the direction of the and the effects of Mac each ens budget Are she Haransky crime the family of soviet dissident Anatoly Shch Aransky reports that a secret court in the labor Camp in which he was being held has sentenced him to an additional three years in Shch Aransky was sentenced in 1978 to three years in prison and ten years in a labor Camp after being found guilty of his crime was demanding to emigrate to Israel and forming a Helsinki watch group that monitored soviet compliance with human rights clauses in the Helsinki Shch Aransky was Well known in the West and his revelations of the consistent suppression of human rights in the soviet Union received much attention and were highly embarrassing to the the charge of treason Laid against him in its unprecedented in the trials of soviet dissidents in recent it could have resulted in a death but the court showed leniency by imposing a brutal prison the prosecution had asked for a sentence of 15 years the maximum in the soviet Union but the trial with a touch of the kafkaesque humor that often emerges from soviet Legal cited she Haransky youth and clean record in reducing this to 13 b the three years now added to this mean by the time he is Shch Aransky will have served 16 years in prison for something that is not a crime in any civilized in could not be considered a crime even in the soviet Union if its government observed the require ments of its own Constitution and its International agree it does not seem that Shch Aransky will serve All 16 it is More probable that he will die in for some time he has been reported to be seriously two years his after one of the rare visits she has been allowed with described him As looking like a Hying you could Only see such a face in Ausch earlier this his wife said after a spell Iii solitary his eyesight and memory were failing and that his weight had dropped to about 100 since he has spent More time in solitary confinement in the special prison within his labor and the new sentence that he has been Given Means that he has been transferred Back to a close Din prison with a More severe groups and governments in the West have attempted Many times to have Shch Aransky released and there have been several rumours that the soviets would let him go were the soviet government has had Many opportunities to gain credit by releasing either As a human rights gesture a conciliatory gesture towards former president Carter or president or in Exchange for soviet spies held in the Silver lining for the jobless every the Kremlin has it has been Resolute in its determination to slowly destroy there is something about this courageous More so than any other that has brought the full fury of the soviet police state Down on in persecuting his tormentors have made him a living Symbol of soviet tyranny and of the longing for Freedom that even the vast Power of the soviet Empire cannot if we cannot free or do much to relieve his we can at least make sure that he is not downgrading Garrison it is to be hoped that the North Dakotas who heard Manitoba Murray Donnelly Tell them that the Garrison diversion project is one of the smallest issues in Canadian american relations will realize that the speaker was a University professor and not a representative of the Manitoba it is possible in Thor thinking of a political Garrison is not an important International Manitoban can take heart that their new Howard thinks one of Hawleys Campaign promises was to establish a Manitoba office in Washington to make sure that lawmakers were made aware of Manitoba concerns about Garrison at every Hawleys concern about and its threat to the water Quality and future Marine life in Manitoba lakes and echoes the concern that has been expressed by former premiered Schreyer and by Premier Sterling while the projects ranking on the list of International problems May be a matter of its importance to Manitoban is real and in one of the greatest dangers to Manitoba in the dispute is that the people in charge of communicating the position of this province Are Remote from and could be persuaded to Trade off objections to the diversion for conces Sions in and to them More it is unfortunate that Donnelly made his remarks in an address which dealt with differences in attitude Between the newly elected Manitoba government and the administration that was there should be no hesitation on the part of the new government to emphasize that its Garrison is one of strongest a position already made Clear by Pawley by Leonard Shifrin special to the free press Ottawa As the Man in front of every Silver lining there is invariably a dark the dark in this is resurgent in Canadas jobless rate was seven per in Only two months it was per cent and closing in fast on the postwar record level of per the Silver lining is that those num Bers May save the unemployment insurance program from employment minister Lloyd Axworthy cutback last when the employment department failed to convince Cabinet to give it an extra million for a new Job creation it decided to try raiding the unemployment insurance Kitty for the to that it proposed restricting eligibility for benefits and shortening their the proposals were set out in a departmental task Force report re leased during the summer As an invitation to an intensive process of con the package included a number of genuine reforms improvements in maternity for example with the cutback pro and no one has had any difficulty distinguishing Between the unions have endorsed the improve ments while rejecting what the Canad an labor Congress characterized As the thrust of the task Force report and most of the specific Busi Ness on the other have welcomed the cuts and attacked the All of that was entirely of and unlikely either to make or break the the really intensive process of consultation is the one involving provincial govern ments and Liberal caucus and under the task Force the minimum period of employment required for unemployment insurance which now ranges from 10 to 14 weeks depending on regional Job less would become 15 to 20 vast difference the difference Between the employ ment departments estimate of the Impact of its proposals and provincial estimates is so great that it is hard to believe they Are both talking about the same according to a worthy and Only 30000 peo ple would be Cut off the unemployment insurance Rolls in All of by new Brunswick welfare minister estimates that people would lose their entitlements in his province at the request of the a delegation of provincial welfare minis ters is slated to meet with a worthy and with their Federal counter Monique Early in december to press their provincial officials say they Are Well aware of reports that miss begin shares their opposition to the and she int the list of Federal ministers reputed to be unhappy with the proposals is virtually a who who of Ottawa social policy portfolios starting with the minister of social development when he int wearing his Justice hat Jean As for the Liberal a commit tee of Atlantic province members has been says Moncton my Gary to try to dissuade the government from making the the maps Are in favor of Job creation pro he but they see no reason Why the Money for this should be taken from people without i have yet to find anyone even in the employment department who contends that the new program could create jobs for All those whose unemployment insurance benefits Are the rest would simply swell the num Ber of unemployed whom the unemployment insurance safety net already fails to the employment department recently released a Survey which examined a group of currently employed workers who had been unemployed during the previous of that Only 52 per cent had received unemployment the others the sur vey primarily because they did not work enough weeks to qualify for and yet the department wants to raise the requirements by As much As 50 per cent with unemployment verging on rec Ord it is hard to imagine Cabinet Hurrah for the women a most significant development in the vote was the election of seven women to the it is the largest female representation in a jump from two to seven or an increase of 350 per the return of the nip May be no More significant than the introduction of a bloc of women in the Sterling Lyons socialist tirade to the the nip government of de Schreyer was no red Schreyer did reduce some taxes for Low income such As doing away with medicare premiums and making new group of women my a them part of income based on ability to it More a moderate than a Radical the new prominence of the fair sex is of great import and there will be some change in women Happy thought Are differ ent from it has been a Long haul for the women to obtain a handful of seats in the legislature and i attribute this to the women lib movement and Manitoba progressive the lib movement has influenced a major change in our culture in the past it has been finally a know Nellie Mcclung tireless worker for women rights Ledger that women Are people like others and no longer will there be such edicts As in the that put women and dogs on the banned list in Beer it is mind boggling that it was once declared in Law that women were not persons and so were not entitled to the first Manitoba was the first province to give women the vote in 1916 following the heroic efforts of suffragettes like Nellie in years after the birth of the first Edith was elected to the the male Strong hold was finally but it was a minor Rogers was a it was not until 1963 that two women sat in the House Thelma who became minister of municipal and Carolyn the last session of the House also returned two Norma a conservative who be came a Cabinet and june the now for the first the nip has female representation and five at one the conservatives elected two there will be no Token women to fill Cabinet there is a lot of Talent among the group and Premier elect Howard Pawley will not be faced with the Prospect of appoint ing women As a the women themselves were responsible for their it is interesting to examine the experience of Maureen nip candidate in Val Werier who had a smashing majority she won votes the next highest being 676 for the redoubtable Steve executive director of the Haemophilia is Well having served on the Winnipeg school Board for 11 six of them As she was the first woman elected chairman of the Manitoba association of school she has four 16 to 23 who were very supportive in her in the she women ran in constituencies where they did not have a women had been Active in the but not in the front this election was a group of women who were party activists Early on went to fight Nomina Tion Battles in very Good seats for the they had Tough fights for the nominations and had to do a lot of campaigning within the her nomination Campaign lasted nine because of the Way it went in her when it started there were Only 120 nip Mem Bers in a heartland of nip she herself signed up 750 members a family an individual senior then she fought to hold their support for the nomination and won it the women candidates did a lot of preparatory says hem they went into it knowing they had a Tough fight to win the Nomina during the election she knocked on and her hard work paid will women Las play a different role than men she in the Way government women tend to be team players and builders rather than Strong individuals doing their own i also think we will be More interested in whats happening to peo i think women tend to think More in terms of How government affects i see it As a Peoples movement and that Why we were i think we will help government stay closer to As an she cites the pro posed Logan Industrial where land is now under i was appalled at what government was prepared to do with absolutely no human there was no Contact or discussion with people whose Homes were to be she have different experiences and backgrounds and so their attitudes and values Are differ Myrna an impressive Victor for the nip in is a program officer of the women an Agency of the provincial department of she too fought to win the Nomina Tion and knocked on thousands of she started campaigning in March of i do think we have a different says because weve had different special needs so she will press for special needs for women in a constituency where there Are a Large number of single she would also look to the needs of and place More emphasis on women and minority groups in the labor there has Only been a Token Effort to this she Muriel a teacher at Kelvin High will quit her Job to devote full time to the after taking Osborne without any she also believes there will be a different out look on the part of we started with child family Law and equal pay for equal most of us Are Strong on environmental we tend to look on How our economic system serves the we dont take no for an answer to the needs of the retarded and the we have developed a bit of an urgency about some of these human men Start with what the Economy is says and How they can manage with so much we look at it the other and How the Economy can meet the Peoples there you have there will be a different and a More com passionate one with More women in ;