Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 25, 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 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 8urt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller a few More rights the most impressive aspect of the latest round of fight trading in Canadas constitutional debate is the evidence it provides about the Power of Public a fierce and concerted Public Campaign has forced the leaders of nine provinces and the Federal government to in some cases against their own a broadening of the rights which the revised Constitution will guarantee t6 women and native As an exercise in Public it was As a demonstration of the right Way to make a it was less the argument of some provincial premiers that Parlia ment and the Legislatures should be Able to override the clause which provides that All rights and freedoms protected by the Constitution apply equally to men and women was never very Premier Blakeney of Saskatchewan fairly or was exposed As the heavy on that argued that he was Only trying to preserve the right of governments to implement affirmative action programs to Telp that was a specious argument because the constitutional Resolution specifically endorses the right of govern rents to adopt programs whose object is the amelioration of conditions of disadvantaged individuals or including those that Are disadvantaged because of National or ethnic age or mental or physical the fact is that there was never any valid reason Why governments should Havethe Power to override the general statement of the Only surprising thing was that it took a concerted Campaign by women groups to drive that joint the question of aboriginal rights was much More if Only because there is no common understanding about what they involve or whom they apply the latest which guarantees existing aboriginal rights May mean much or it May mean it is certainly better than the version proposed by Premier Bennett of British who was willing to recognize aboriginal rights so Long As the Federal government paid the but it Falls far Short of what Canadas native people have a right to the crucial issues for native people go far beyond the right to Hunt and fish will be preserved by the new they involve vast land the right to a degree of self government and the right of veto Over constitutional changes which affect their to they involve the right to some ill defined form of there is simply no Way those considerations could have been reflected in the constitutional amendments now being proposed because there is no common ground to be found among the governments of Canada or among the organizations which represent the native the Federal government has promised an Early Confer ence which will with those but the native groups have every right to be suspicious of a process which begins by taking account of everybody else rights and largely ignoring the proper course would have been to hold off constitutional Patria Tion until aboriginal rights had been properly defined and agreement reached on their that would have subjected the whole process of constitutional change to Long the native people will not be assured by this latest evidence that most and the politicians they will not allow the Pursuit of their own concerns to be deflected by the needs or interests of the country most vulnerable and distressed new threat to Security centuries of distrust Between Greece and Turkey seem to be about to damage the Security interests of nato yet in the greek government of the Day withdrew its country from its military commitments to nato because the defensive Alliance had failed to prevent the turks from invading soon Turkey imposed severe restrictions on nato operations on its territory because the Congress had imposed an arms embargo whose goal was to Force Turkey to withdraw from these which greatly pleased the Kremlin and its Warsaw pact eventually were negotiated Back to the status quo Greece is poised to renege on its recent decision to resume its military commitments to nato is selected As the Scapegoat for the failure of Greece to achieve a civilized relationship with its neighbor across the Aegean in his major foreign policy address to the greek Parlia prime minister Andreas Papandreou resurrected the nato Scapegoat theme because it successfully blends two powerful appeals to the greek electorate hatred of Turkey and the xenophobia that is As old As greek in his own commitment to getting Greece out of nato predates the Cyprus it is a mix of his personal antipathy to what he regards As imperialism and his resentment that nato failed to eject Greece from the Alliance when it was under the dictatorship of the who forced him into talks starting Early next year will seek the closure of four nato bases on greek including one airbase and one naval base near Athens and two bases on the Island of in Papandreou has declared the goal of creating a zone in the As a first he will negotiate the removal of nato nuclear weapons based in Greece shares a common Frontier with the Hartline Warsaw pact state of which May or May not be prepared to abandon the stationing of nuclear weapons on its even if Bulgaria did do or were to claim to have done the real threat to Greece lies not in nuclear artillery shells from bulgarian Cannon but in the triple warhead intermediate Range ss20 missiles based in european Russia and aimed at As they Are aimed at All european which cannot solve the political problems of its member will have to endure the blow to its Security posture if Papandreou has his As did the former greek government in and general de Gaulle before it in the Papandreou wants to retain the politic ally useful links supplied by nonmilitary membership of granting this wish is As much in natos interests As because political realities May change in the making it possible for Greece to return to the changing the rules again the Federal finance department changes its mind from one Day to the next on the meaning of its proposed new rules for subsidizing the poorest provincial an accounting it the Quebec finance Jacques determined to blame Ottawa for his own Calls the new subsidy rules a deliberate Federal assault on the Quebec such was the atmosphere As Canadas finance ministers gathered in Halifax to plan the next five years of Federal provincial getting and caught As it was Between had no minister to Send to the since More than one third of the Manitoba governments revenues consists of Grants and subsidies from this province has an intense interest in the rules that but by sitting on the Manitoba did not miss finance minister Allan Maceachen had already backed off on one feature of his the revised rules on deductibility of certain costs of residential when it turned out that the revision was halting construction projects in the few parts of the country where there Are the revision was further this week he had to Tell the provincial finance ministers that he had announced the new rules on transfers to the without accurately estimating the the proposed new rules would reduce provincial revenues Over five years by not by the billion previously the Centrepiece of Maceachen proposal is the adoption of Ontario As the Standard for until Ottawa equalization payments have aimed to bring the revenues of the poorer provincial governments up to the level of a theoretical average but the Oil and Gas revenues of the three westernmost provinces have grown so great that the Revenue raising capacity of the Ontario government is now below the National the Federal government is determined not to make equalization payments to in part because the Cost to its Treasury would be too great and in part because Ontario is All things a poor the equalization rules have been changed once already to ensure that Ontario would not Maceachen proposes to scrap the theoretical average skewed As it is by the resource revenues of a few provincial and make Ontario the Standard to which other provincial governments revenues should be Quebec and the Atlantic provinces Are unhappy with the use of Ontario As the equalization a decline in the Ontario Economy would lower the Standard and reduce their equalization but a decline in the Ontario econ from which Ottawa draws around 40 per cent of its would deprive the Federal government of much of the Revenue it needs to finance provinces cannot realistically Hope for a formula that would equalize them above recipient provinces Are also worried about the Fine print of the Federal the Way they understand an additional Dollar of local Revenue raising capacity from newfoundlands offshore for example would Cost them More than a Dollar in reduced equalization if that really is it is a defect in Maceachen but ministers cannot usefully discuss the merits of the proposal before their officials have met to find out what it the new Manitoba government can join the fray after the dust settles from the first ill prepared and indecisive our underdeveloped world it would be unthinkable today to have a say of people without running water and indoor but it happens in Northern Manitoba where settlements of that size Are without running water and sewage these Are the Indian the underdeveloped world within our affluent there is some analogy with the underdeveloped countries and the Indian reserves in Northern pure clean water that is Safe to drink is one of the great deficiencies in poor meeting that prob Lem is considered a High priority by economists and for it would eradicate a Host of debilitating Dis eases and improve the health and Liv ing conditions of the Superior sources Northern settlements have much Superior sources of water and people do not die because of polluted water As in underdeveloped but the provi Sion of running water and sewage sys tems would also reduce disease and discomfort and raise the Standard of providing these facilities would pay off in dollars and according to Hamish director of the Manitoba environmental Protection of environment studies by the department of Indian affairs in 1974 revealed that the Hospital and medical costs per Reserve Indian was a compared to for the average or roughly times basically conditions have not changed much since 1974 on the reserves and with inflation the differential would be Lack of and sewage systems is one of the major reasons Tor incurring health if it is assumed there is an extra health Cost of Only per capita on the this would amount to million Over a 20year period for a settlement of it would Cost less than that to capitalize sewage and water systems for most of the it would not be practical to provide these facilities for because of the Way the communities Are spread in environment Canada and the department of employment and Immi Gration sponsored a study of 28 Indian reserves in Northern the study examined garbage Dis Val Werier water and the handling of Petroleum none of these 28 communities has running water or sewage disposal sys except for a nucleus of such As the ramp head Quad nursing station and band outdoor privies Are the some communities have water delivered by in people go to a Central location to obtain water at a stand there Are problems with these facile standpipes freeze in trucks May not be Able to make Deli veries because of weather and the condition of the or there May be a breakdown in the water treatment then people will go to the nearest Lake to draw raw says this May be downstream from a waste treatment they May drink contaminated water and have done so on Many Lack of roads because of a Lack of Al weather it is difficult to collect garbage at different times of the garbage May accumulate around the in most reserves the garbage is merely dumped on a Central site and not trenched or filled in the Spring there May be Runoff into the water in most of the 28 Power is produced from generators fuelled with problems says with inadequate diking around Oil As Well As poor maintenance of dripping taps or Leaky Oil tanks Are poorly close to a River or invariably the sewage the water and the fuel line Are in the same says if the fuel leaks or spills it May run into the water source or gather under a school or at times the odor has been so that teachers have had to abandon their teach rage for a one of the problems is that the efforts of the Federal agencies Are not with each Agency going its own says Gavin were looking at a Lack of comprehensive services in the Lack of Lack of adequate and a Lack of a municipal Type the total including cries out for Alan Murdock is an official of the medical services Branch of the depart ment of National health and which monitors water Quality on the he agrees that the Lack of proper water and sewage systems in crease the incidence of primitive at Cross a Reserve of three leading Calls on health services Are due to the physical environment coughs and colds impetigo infections caused mainly by cuts and Mosquito digestive All these can be associated to some degree with the primitive water and sewage facile i suspect it is the same for other Indian says Mur the fact that there is no running hot or cold water May be a major Factor in the incidence of gastroenteritis diarrhoea and at Cross there Are about 60 to 150 visits a month to nursing stations for digestive mainly Gas no comparable figures Are available for but Doc tors say it must be much lower in the rest of As Murdock Lack of running water aggravates Gen eral living How do you do your laundry or Wash or have a Bath he there Are those who will Well this was the Way of life in Early Mani Toba counters Murdock my grand Mother had no running but she had a better House than the Indian people without running housekeeping becomes almost a full time my grandmother did not have crowded living were asking the indians today to Cope with poor providing water and sewage facilities is a sound investment in people and something that should be done in our underdeveloped Anonymous when an editorial ignores economic dwindling growth and and political Gutter snip ing by a political and recommends the reelection of that party As the free press did in endorsing the progressive conservatives then that editorial should be lest it taint the Good names of More sensible contributors to the Stephen Burgess lapses victorious nip supporters i would like to draw attention to what i consider poor organization in the recent during the Only one of the three parties in our Riding left Campaign literature at our and that was Only one on election Day i had to make three phone Calls to find out where i should i finally obtained this information from the chief election officers when i went to my polling station i was informed that i was not on the election the enumeration offi cer said she visited every Home three i was then shown the new regulation which i should have been aware that i could not prove my own i am i can make countless purchases with two sets of signed ids but i cannot Register to vote with the Post office and depart ment stores leave cards to inform homeowners when they have missed a but election enumeration officers do nor do they leave any notification of what a no registered voter should do in order to qualify on election the polling officials were also surprised that i had not been informed by ice staff when i i Hope these information lapses can be overcome during future elections in Paul hurly Winnipeg letters the free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to the red scare whereas people almost everywhere else in North America have now disco Vered and repudiated the fraud and deception of socialism and left lib the people of Manitoba have voted to return to this fashion of gov there will now begin a reign of economic terror such As has no Prece Dent on this Side of the Iron its victims will be All those who enjoy or aspire to above average incomes All employers without exception All investors foreign and Domestic All those who seek to secure their futures and those of their families through private these Are the spark plugs and King pins of economic Progress and develop they have been put on notice that there is no place for them in he new Peoples Republic of Manitoba Dorosh Winnipeg disappointed we admit that we know Little about after getting Perso Nally involved for the first we would like to express our disappoint ment in the recent election so much in the result of the election As someone has to win and someone has to our disappointment stems from the fact that people with proven ability were totally ignored because they happened to be on the wrong Side of the our sympathy goes out to people like Sid Murdoch Bud Ben Hanuschak and Steve to say we Are disillusioned by the support Mary Shore received is putting it she May have been an unknown in the political but when people from her Community whom she has continually helped in the past ten years fail to give her any support it leaves us with a rather bad Eddie and Sharon Kaye Winnipeg preserve Falcons your Brief item Peregrine Falcons free november 4 was read with great Environ educators and the general Public Are concerned with the continued preservation of this species and also of Phyllis Ann Rodwyck Winnipeg lets hear it with regard to the article pretty Tough to fit right saturday plus october 31 concerning Indian people living on North main Street we see numerous articles of this nature which give people the impression that All native people in Winnipeg live on North main i realize that there Are quite a num Ber of native people on North but have you Ever looked or taken a Survey of the number of nonnative people living Why is it we never see an article on this group of people they live on the drink in the fight in the but we never see a writeup on Why do we not see articles about Middle aged White men who cruise main picking up 12and 14year old native girls if 12and 14yearold White girls were to be followed and coaxed into cars i bet that would make the lets be How about doing an article on native people living in Winnipeg who support their families and try to live decent lives they far outnumber the few living on North main you native people out who Are decent people dont let this lets hear from natives have been put Down Long it is time to stand up and be Lynne Sinclair thanks i would like to express my thanks to a gentleman whose name i do not for his assistance to me when i had an unfortunate Accident on Gra Ham september he took me in his car to the emergency department of the Misericordia hos Pital and phoned my i was touched by the kindness and concern shown me and Trust through your he May know and realize the extent of my Joan Mcleod Winnipeg and another thing Lalonde Stop saying its time i retired ;