Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 24, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free november 1981 John free press i Sno Clearing Crews at Winnipeg International Airport were out in Force but the scene was deceptive As the Light Snow melted later in the environment Canada reports that while the snowfall was definitely a test run Tim Harbinger of things to temperatures for the next couple of weeks will remain above Normal with no major disturbances anticipated a storm is expected to pass to bringing Light d for rash of robberies four holdups in Winnipeg last night living proof that robbers Are striking More often continued from Page 1 his find and the Bank was after him for overdue pay so i figured id get some Quick by robbing a the Man Depourcq said another reason for the Rise i robberies is that More stores and Gas stations Are staying open longer Depourcq also said that while the number of robberies has police Haven solved a greater percentage of last year police solved 16 of the 24 Bank and credit Union holdups to while in the same 10month period this year they solved 28 of they solved 59 of the 161 Gas station and convenience store but have so far solved Only 52 of this years in the robberies last night hold up men struck four times in As Many and two of the robberies involved clerks being at a Man wearing a Balaclava and armed with a Small entered the Dawson Road car 390 Dawson and confronted the 17yearold male the attendant was forced and struck on the head with a the robber stole a Small amount of f existing rights clause Fly in ointment continued from Page 1 regarded As having the strongest objection to aboriginal said he could accept existing rights with future rights to be negotiate native leaders said this meant nothing More than acceptance of Hunt fishing and trapping rights and rejected Chretien brushed aside the importance of the word he said the provinces insisted on Federal lawyers advised him it Only clarifies the meaning and does not change what natives Are entitled under Chretien announcement this would be inserted into the Constitution the existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal Peoples of Canada Are hereby recognized and but inuit spokesman Watt expressed concern that natives could get less than under the previous up to the courts have interpreted native rights As traditional fishing and trapping they have refused to Grant property rights which could influence future land negotiations or claims of ownership to Mineral the native lobby has persistently run into trouble in the last two weeks because the various native groups have different ideas about How native rights should be the Federal government defended the premiers 5 decision to drop aboriginal rights from the charter of saying status indians opposed the clause and were vigorously lobby ing against it in and Trudeau has several times expressed dismay at the conflicting stands taken by native the National Indian representing said it would accept no aboriginal rights clauses that did not allow natives to veto future constitutional changes affecting at the same the native Council of representing one million Metis and no status had the vexed All premiers saying it did not want the clause on native rights to come into affect for three years so rights could be defined Money and fled on the youth was treated in Hospi Tal and at a Man armed with a Hunting knife entered the macs milk 628 Annes Road and robbed the female he received a Small amount of Money and fled on at a Man armed with a knife entered the macs milk store at 2367 Ness and robbed the female clerk of a Small amount of police believe the two incidents involving macs milk stores Are relat at a male employee at the Shell food store at 903 Hender son Highway was confronted by a Rob Ber armed with a the Man demanded Money and when the employee refused he was struck in the employee retaliated and hit the would be robber with a the thief fled on foot the clerk did not require medical intense lobbying by natives preceded rights pact French trial first in 90 years continued from Page 1 and its Small group of spectators in French and English throughout the Crown prosecutor Georges de Mois Sac and defence lawyer Vaughn Baird also switched easily from one Tongue to the often in the same for the right to a French Forest can thank his a Boniface insurance agent who watched the proceedings from the front Row of the Public the senior Forest fought an English Only ticket All the Way to the supreme court of Canada and in the court struck Down an 1890 Law making English the Only official language of the courts and legislature of Forest while Crown wit Nesses spoke the Only other English statements came at the begin Ning of the when the clerk asked him in English for his plea and with out thinking replied not after a couple of Long seconds and proding from defence counsel he also said Pas Trudel said he expects to be inundated with demands for French thorny questions through no fault of we have a dearth of people who Are experienced in both said the adding that de Moi Sac is the Only Crown attorney in the province fluent in both official Lan Trudel added even though he is he expects to encounter some thorny Legal the English Legal terms dont quite translate in French As one would a novel from English to he legalistic terms Are very Georges Forest said that since his traffic ticket Case opened the door to the use of French in Manitoba things have now swung full he said in an interview French speaking lawyers should encourage French speaking clients to request the use of French in their the elder Forest also said the Lan Guage Issue int closed As far As he is a sign in the Boniface courtroom said no he plans to write a letter asking it be supplemented with one saying de Fence de Ottawa up women and native people May or May not have won a constitutional Battle Only time will without they won the rec Ord for intensive Cros Canada lobbying aimed at gaining Basic if in Canadian history has there been such a concentrated and vigorous Effort to Sway the minds of so Many governments As there has been since that was the Date prime minister tru Deau and nine of the 10 premiers All but Quebec Rene Levesque announced they had reached constitutional including a much contested charter of there were some Hooks to the parliament and All Legislatures would be Able to opt out of Basic constitutional rights accepted by All canadians Legal Freedom of speech and the press and Freedom from among and the rights of the first citizens of the North american continent were not initial reaction could have been de at As there was Little complaint about possible restrictions of such Basic rights Freedom of the in fact there still is but women groups launched a concentrated and continuing Campaign to reinstate the full effect of a clause that said the clause on native i St fits does not Settle land Issue Ottawa up Justice minister Jean Chretien added a potentially explosive ele ment to the native rights clause that was reinstated in the Constitution in a lat night Chretien said Ottawa and All provinces except Quebec agreed to add the word existing to aboriginal and treaty rights the clause had recognized and affirmed in Ottawa original Chretien said the word Only clarifies the meaning of the clause and does not change what natives Are entitled native leaders Are uneasy with that interpretation and suggest the newly worded clause raises some Touchy questions about aboriginal or for the courts have so far limited the definition of aboriginal rights to fishing and since Indian and inuit groups across the country have claimed aboriginal title to great tracts of would this new clause prevent them from pressing those claims native leaders say the change was made because of a letter from Roy Ontario to Chretien this summer which summed up the feeling of several Mcmurtry said the original clause recognizing and affirming aboriginal and treaty rights would have serious and unfortunate consequences for urging Chretien to drop the clause from the Mcmurtry said aboriginal rights were Uncertain but it appears they Are property rights of a kind Quebec inuit Leader Charlie Watt said the letter shows Why the term existing was added using the term really limits aboriginal rights to Hunting and and what affect would it have on future Chretien Only clarifies Northern land claims settlements and Feder a provincial talks on aboriginal rights the crees and inuit of Northern Quebec signed a land claims agreement with Ottawa and the province in 1975 the Only land claim settlement to but what about land claims talks aready underway in the the Mackenzie Valley and the Eastern Arctic if any new rights Are worked out in a political Settle will they be put into the Constitution or merely be protected by legislation and what about the one million Metis and no status indians who have never before been legally recognized by Ottawa As aboriginal Peoples with some special status provisions of the constitutions charter of rights must apply to men and women the premiers and agreed that the Equality in certain also could be subject to the provision allow ing Ottawa and the provinces to pass Over Riding for women this left open the possibility for blatant while Many others praised the agreement Al though some recanted later women launched an intensive the full Story will be a Long time in but either represented by women groups or by waged a devastating lobby in the nations progressive conservatives and new democrats worked Judy minister for the status of worked with tory Flora Macdon Ald and new Democrat Pauline Jewett to pressure the whose government not Many months before had been in conflict with women made her office available to the same groups to lobby for provincial word gradually came out that premiers were agreeable All but Saskatchewan Allan he said he would not agree to open the Accord to strengthen the Equality clause unless native rights also were put the nip apparently immovable in the face of relentless held his native groups were at work always together Ottawa and the provincial after months of leaders of about one million Metis and no status and about inuit formed a coalition in Ottawa to fight for rights Al though they did not agree what the rights most of about status indians did not join the coalition but also continued pressuring the natives held an aboriginal rights Day across the there were secret and not secret negotiations with the Federal there were demonstrations at the drop of a Feather but Ottawa made no secret of the fact it was using the pressure from women and natives to Sway reluctant provincial gov As late As yesterday Trudeau was telling protesting indians in to keep up their there were false Erola postponed a Champagne Victory party last week for All who had fought for women rights in the previous two but she seemed determined and Clear in her thoughts if there was to be it would be for the not the govern Erola threw her party last she and other maps were told then by Justice minister Jean Chretien that Equality for men and women and recognition of native rights would be included in the new Christmas Cearan starts this thursday see t Wrijil tops will be Selling at come Early for door opening specials 412 Portage 260 Carlton 483 Selkirk Kildonan place 4 ;