Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 26, 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 Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller time for resignations the outgoing conservative during its four years in made a commendable Effort to separate politics from the administration of three of the High profile Crown corporations that touch the daily lives of most the conservatives separated the positions of chairmen from the chief executive officers at Manitoba the Manitoba Telephone system and the Manitoba Public insurance the object of the change was to identify the chairman of the Board in each corporation As being a political while leaving the chief executive officer free of political obligation or identification in the Day today operations he the aim was to avoid the sort of situation which resulted in the forcible removal of the head of Manitoba Hydro during the past administrations for the change in policy to work it needs the cooperation of the political appointees who find them selves occupying positions that were clearly identified As being there should be no hesitation on the part of the chairmen of Manitoba the its and the Manitoba Public insurance corporation to write their letters of resignation and offer them to Premier elect Howard f do Ruby t Pawley need not accept them if he has More pressing appointments on his but he should not be put in the position of having to demand such just As outgoing governments Are expected to dismiss their political employees As a Courtesy to the incoming adminis it seems appropriate that senior political appointees should look after their own the present change of government offers the first Chance to see what these appointees will and their prompt resignations would do much to justify the change in policy that put them into their it is possible that a new government May have changes in mind that go beyond the chairmanship of the three Crown As the it has the right to put its people into the positions it considers essential to the furtherance of its in the Case of purely its task should not be made any More difficult by individuals who might be reluctant to give up the Perks of their political sewage Fence sitting persuasive cases can be made both for and against Chlorina Ting the effluent from Winnipeg sewage treatment plants in order to thin out the populations of bacteria and viruses in the red with their attendant hazards to Public the Manitoba clean environment commis in its thorough and illuminating report on red River water makes both acknowledges Sharp disagreement among its members and comes Down squarely in the Middle of the it recommends Chlorina Ting some of the effluent to see How Well it the bacteria and viruses which Winnipeg contributes to the red River wind up on vegetables which Market Garden ers North of irrigate with River they presumably infect some of the people who persist in swimming or water skiing in the River despite warnings to the they Are taken into the Selkirk drinking water system where most of them Are destroyed by that cites purification those dangers to Public health would be though certainly not if Winnipeg chlorinated its but Chlorina Ting the sewage Plant effluent will have no effect on the much larger quantities of bacteria during Spring Runoff or summer go straight into the Rivers without the Benefit of the sewage treatment Chlorina Ting the effluent will probably Poison some of the fish in the River and will produce chlorine some of them dangerous to to replace the bacteria As health hazards in the weighing the arguments on both the commission suggests a Start on that solution offers the River the worst of both worlds most of the bacteria would still be supplemented by free chlorine to Poison the fish and by exotic new poisons to endanger the swimmers the water skiers and the Market the commissions Compromise solution can be taken As an honest confession of reflecting the alarming dangers to Public health on the one the alarming costs remedial action on the other and the conscientiousness the commission has brought to its but the objections to chlorination which dissuaded the commission from recommending it at two of the ttys treatment plants apply with equal Force at the the commission does not have the the bankrupt province politics of starvation the ethiopian government has appealed for International Aid to Avert the threat of mass starvation in the Northeast african a government official says that a severe food shortage has affected More than five million people 15 per cent of the population and that they face death by slow starvation unless help is a severe drought this year damaged the crops and the next Harvest is also expected to be the situation is made worse by the return of millions of refugees who had been displaced by the War against ethiopian rebels in the Ogaden and there As More than a million ethiopian refugees in Camps in which is also afflicted by that Ethiopia and the other nations in the Horn of Africa need emergency help is Ethiopia presents classic example of three major concerns that face the International organizations that must provide that although it is one of the poorest nations in Ethiopia maintains a Large army of at least it is Well equipped and led and backed up by East German and cuban it has made Large arms Pur chases from the soviet instead of spending the millions of dollars providing its own Aid for its own the problem is that without the the government could not survive and the territories of the Ogaden and Eritrea would almost certainly be a and problem is that Ethiopia is a marxist state and a member of the soviet it is to the soviet Union that its government should look most naturally for the soviet unions consists almost entirely of providing its marxist government with fighter planes and helicopter Moscow gave a minimal amount of food Aid in 1980 but has offered nothing this once it is the West that will have to feed the ethiopians if they Are not to the third is that once the decision to give Aid has been the International agencies such As the United nations and the red Cross that must Channel it face considerable difficulty in ensuring that it actually goes to feed the people and not the ethiopian and cuban totalitarian regimes Are reluctant to allow International agencies to control the distribution of Aid within the country preferring that it be dumped off at the Point of entry for them to look after this happened in Cambodia once International sympathy was belatedly aroused by first the mass Slaughter and then the mass starvation of the cambodian Vietnam another soviet client state refused to allow Independent it was impossible to know if the massive Aid was going to the people or being used to keep the army of vietnamese invaders in Good fighting none of these is capable of easy the ethiopian government cannot be forced to Stop spending its Money on its army and the soviets cannot be forced to Supply food instead of pressure can be put on the government to allow International Relief agencies to take Complete control of distribution of the but if it simply the donors Are left with Only Hobsons Choice to withhold Aid and let people or to give it anyway and Hope it gets there of no real As the ethiopians and the russians know full in a matter such As this the Western nations Are prisoners of their own incitement apart from the seriousness and commitment with which participants expressed their the most impressive thing about last weekends demonstration on parliament Hill against High interest rates was its orderly is not Good enough for Dennis Mcoder president of the Canadian labor Congress which organized the there will be More of the he if economic policies Are not that is fair what is not was Mcdermott next remark this time Well demonstrate within the House of that amounts to nothing less than a threat to unleash a mob on the elected representatives of All it is a tactic which is certain to Lead to from Mcdermott no the threat is simply a ploy by a Clever labor politician who recognizes that a Little calculated demagoguery is a useful Way of restoring his waning popularity in the movement he the problem is that some poor fools Are Likely to take him at his if they someone is Likely to get you can that it will not be Dennis by Frank Walker special to the free press Montreal Savage As the cuts already Are million for Hospi social services and universities and onerous As the new impositions will be the highest prices for Gaso line in some say North Ameri do not solve the Quebec As an economist technically still spending More than it earns and cover ing the deficit with frantically expensive real trouble the province is in real for All the savings achieved at such we As one financial critic put the champions of higher higher High debt service costs and higher with no end in sight except More of the if that were All it would be but the min budget signals something business and the Rich Are not its we have gone As far As we can in that said finance minister Jacques admitting that he had been impressed by the lobbying of both the weight and the sacrifice is being borne by those least Able to Bear it the users of the the the poor and the the very people the parti quebecois set out to for a government with a genuine social conscience this is the relatively Small gains in improving the social balance in Quebec Are being Cut social the minis Ter noted has never been the Way to cure these words May prove the most memorable of any Ever uttered by not All the gains Are by any but any relapse inevitably has a serious effect upon this area of if there were angry rumblings before the minister tabled his supplementary there will be louder and More vigorous protests in the months the Core of parti quebecois beyond the outright is being the party already unhappy about the fiscal orientation of the govern will be made More the min budget is to the very heart of what Many pm supporters there is far More to the parti Quebe Cois than the simple goal of ind Epen though it is the common thread blending its disparate it and a party of a curious amalgam of the old with its concern for the material Well being of the workers and the new with its More elusive goals of a life of better the unions supported the govern ment because they rightly saw in it a political party sympathetic to the Union As it has proved to it has passed valuable legislation govern ing workers rights and workers the new the aspirations of which often run counter to the desires of the saw the parti quebecois also As More understanding of its objectives than Claude ryans lib ant establishment the new left is very much a part of the new like the new left in the United states and it is ant establishment but almost apolitical in the traditional sense of it draws its support from the Colleg educated Middle it is Active in the women rights movement and in that myriad of environmental issues clean Green saving old build Protection for wild and Here again the pm government was seen it is drawn in Large part from the very same people As interested and concerned in such and it has proved to be the new lefts concerns Are untouched in the min budget but they Are threatened As the Money Supply tightens and government involvement is pared the old left is already in it sees itself As directly not Only by cuts in social but in warnings to put the brakes on from even Rene Leves the provinces Public service employees have been warned already by their salaries and benefits account for 46 per cent of the prov inces and this does not include pension the clauses in their contracts will Cost the province this year monstrous these Are monstrous they Are a prime cause of the provinces prob Levesque did not ask for these contracts to be reopened but came close to it when he said they May be asked to Call into question the collective agreements that have led us to this the unions did not but they will have to in the there is no Way this Burden can be borne it was Parizeau comment about social which May prove the most if the parti quebecois does intend to abandon what the Premier has called the heart of his party and if separatism is in As the polls seem to show it to then the parti quebecois can become a party without a purpose or a social democracy has always been Levesques Ideal social the social democratic Label which has been affixed to us suits us he once he is attracted by what he sees As the swedish now his minister of finance has put social democracy on the Back As he in two put ind Epen he May revive the latter As an Issue while he proved he could win without the separatist he has yet to prove he can win without social circumstances change any but a social democratic party which is not Able Ever to stand on both its legs at the same time is seriously up gyrations the gyrations of the free press Over the provincial election Are i write to Point them and to ask three questions concerning in its final editorial before the elec Tion november 14 the free press told us that the nip was too commit Ted ideologically to a profound hostility to investment from multinational victorious Howard Pawley i this prevented it from being willing to sell some of Manitoba water resources to Alcan for private on the basis of this Ideo logical fault in the the several failures of the Lyon government which the editorial acknowledged were to be and we were urged that Manitoba Best Hope for Prosperity and development lies with the and invited to vote that Way even though the editorial indicated How so the Meg projects still it struck me at the time that the editorial was loading words that if you substituted healthy scepticism for hostility concerning multinationals a More accurate description of the Dps actual it seemed to then what the free press was putting Forward As perverted ideology on the part of the nip might seem instead a matter of sound business try substituting Princi ple for ideology in any and see if it does not reverse ones if ideology As such was the then haunt we been seeing for four years where the Lyon ideology was taking us in eco nomic matters it seemed to me that the free press editorial was a tortuous exercise in rationalizing a preference already adopted on other on the Day after the the free press summarized editorially some of the reasons Why the people of Manitoba rejected the conservatives so on Csc radio that morn John the free press also reflected upon the reasons for the Lyon governments the general consensus of All the the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to including the free press and its editor on was that the fundamental reasons Lay Iii the Lyons governments harsh and unfeeling its counter productive restraint its Nar Row righting ideology which infected everything from economics to social policies and constitutional to put it positively electors appeared to Hope that the nip would offer the reverse of these policies and this the interesting thing is that the reasons the free press found after the election for the preferring the nip to the pcs were far More and More than the shallow and even if my about terminology Are accepted false grounds upon which the free press based its advocacy of the pcs before the which raises the questions should the free press editorial Board do some of that furious rethinking it urged upon the progressive conservatives after the concerning the free press own failure to discern what Manitoban think important does the Laboured logic and eccentric conclusion of the november 14 editorial indicate that the free press is unduly animated by a single Issue ideology of its own is this ideology quite unconnected with the fact that the free the Only surviving paper in is owned by one of the largest multinational corporations in the world car Ridd Winnipeg editors note the answers to rides questions Are the aim of the free press editorial Page is not to be on the majority Side of every Issue but to provide readers with a reasoned and forthright expression of opinion which reflects the Best judgment of the editorial writers ideology of the free press has been printed at the top of this Page for 90 years Freedom of Liberty of Equality of civil rights Manitoba having just returned from your wonderful province of and particularly the areas of Stein Bach and i wish to extend my thanks to All citizens whom i and especially to the shopkeepers who were so helpful and the treatment afforded me by every one was so memorable that i have already planned another trip to the Western part of our thank i will be Mary a Capell Fenelon historic Home As a resident of and a student of Manitoba i am appalled at the dilapidated condition of the a drowned Woodsworth the historic Home of the founder of the Kcf at 60 Maryland Street has been allowed to deteriorate and is fast becoming a blight on the neighbor if the nip were really serious about rehabilitating Homes in Winnipeg Core area they should have set an example by fixing up their own property the rundown condition of this historic Home is both an insult to the memory of Woodsworth and to the residents of Alex Reid Winnipeg not a Success with regard to Graham Hills letter metric a free october i am sure that Hill is entirely aware that the metric conversion pro Gram in Australia is an entirely Politi Cal affair it is in Cana i too was interested in reports emanating from Australia dealing with the repeal of importation bans on Imperial measuring Conse i contacted the australian High commission Here in which forwarded to me a Cable it had received from Canberra regarding this the tone of the Cable can Only be described As diplomatic and was of Little True this is not it is easy to imagine the style and tone of state ments going out from Ottawa to far Flung embassies describing an unpopular policy which had backfired on the incumbent the fact remains that every Indica from the official one suggests that the metric conversion of Australia has been a even a cursory examination of the australian press will persuade one of i opposed the compulsory metrication of particularly in the food stores which Are slated to change on january on the democratic principle that the people should be consulted on something that affects each one of them the people have not been either through parliament or some other i am grateful to Hill for encouraging the Public debate on this important the present govern ment will certainly not do Bill my disappointed i wish to express my disappointment with the article United Church minis Ter fined for her third shoplifting free november i know your paper wants to report the news and often looks to sensationalism for but do you realize How these headlines can Hurt the credibility of the whole when Only one person has been found guilty Irene Foster ;