Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free december 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 943933 Winnipeg free press 1872 Winnipeg Tribune 1890 living with the charter for All its the Resolution which passed the House of commons with Al party support yesterday is a remarkable example of the Canadian political it is not the package anybody neither in the government nor in the opposition but it is an example of How the process of Compromise can produce if Public some crucial elements of the Canadian population have been left out of the Quebec was not apart from several concessions pressed on it by Ottawa and the other the government of Quebec has now served notice that it will not even agree to the Deal it along with seven other last Premier Levesque wants More and even Many of those who disagree with his constitutional and his ultimate constitutional will regard the present Resolution As the not the of the process of constitutional Canadas native people have been left apart from a Brief and grudging reference to their aboriginal for them yesterdays Resolution will have to be seen As the beginning of a Long hard process of defining and entrenching a special position in the Canadian the Resolution invites them to a conference within the coming year at they will be Given the right to but not to help about their place in Given the doubtful prospects for that kind of it is not surprising that they plan to continue their opposition through the courts and within the political civil libertarians Are divided about the usefulness of the charter of which prime minister Trudeau has described As the Best in the there Are Good grounds for the charter begins with the statement that the rights it enumerates will be subject to such reasonable limits prescribed by Law As can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic considering the limits that have been justified in free and democratic societies Here and that clause could provide a major loophole for future the charter ends with the provision that parliament or the legislature of a province May expressly declare in an act of parliament or of the that the act or a provision thereof shall operate notwithstanding the clauses enshrining fundamental Legal rights and Equality any government which could not find its Way through the first loophole if it had the political Barge through the those clauses make the charter a much less potent shield against the abuse of Freedom than Many had the fact that they offers one real no one Reading Canadas charter of rights will Ever be left under the illusion that a charter alone is enough to preserve Freedom and there Are countries in the world which have Charters which sound much More powerful and progressive than Canadas and in which governments trample on the rights of people regularly and in such As the soviet even citing the Constitution can be grounds for no however Strong its can Ever be the final safeguard of individual rights depend on the preservation of a stable and just on vigorous and representative and on a vigilant and demanding a charter in which the governments which claim to be giving us rights also give themselves the Power to remove should be a constant reminder of the need for the muddled minister Manitoba new minister of Billie in his first Public statement since his promised two significant changes in Manitoba policies on Agricula Uruski told the National Farmers Union that legislation to change Manitoba agricultural land owner ship Laws would be introduced soon and he reversed Manitoba position in favor of changing the crows nest pass agreement on Grain freight until Uruski provides details of the new governments intentions in the area of agricultural land the agricultural Community can Only interpret what the minis Ter appeared to be this was that under the ownership of agricultural land would be restricted to Manitoba residents actually engaged in the business of farming the land they if this is what the minister intends to then Manitoba will Likely get Laws similar to those in place in Sas Katche in that no Canadian or is allowed to buy agricultural even former Saskatchewan residents who have left the province but who still own land will be forced to divest themselves of it by while the principle of having farm land owned by resident Farmers is so is the right of Canadian citizens to own land anywhere in the by reversing Manitoba position on the Crow Uruski has demonstrated a remarkable misunderstanding of the economics of Grain by suggesting if the Crow is to be the Canadian Pacific railway should first return All its land Grants and Reim Burse Canada for natural resources already he demonstrates an equal misunderstanding of Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller spare a Hundred for Mac the budget needs fixing unfit for the Job Richard Van Allen is unfit to advise the president of the United states on National Security or anything not because his actions May or May not be criminal but because they show a hazy understanding of How a responsible Public official should inquiries into his conduct by the department of Justice May or May not turn up grounds for action in the More immediately important court that is judging the Allen is the court of Public this is the court that the Reagan White House is worried about because an unfavourable View of Allen could rub off on president who employed him in one of the most sensitive posts in the it has always been something of a mystery Why or Reagan chose Allen to be National Security adviser in the first questions about Allens flexible business ethics arose during the 1980 presidential requiring him to take a temporary absence from his Job As adviser to Reagan on foreign his reputation As a foreign affairs specialist is modest with his main attraction to or Reagan seeming to be his previous connection with Imp Ecca Bly conservative scholarly institutions and a couple of staff jobs in the Nixon White since reagans Allen has seemed to be an insubstantial apparently unable to take advantage of his frequent Access to the Oval office to improve the presidents lamentable Lack of knowledge of world As Early Point Man on the Azacs Sale to saudi he was a dismal had Reagan not inter Allens incompetent work on Capitol Hill would have ensured defeat for the he has made a couple of speeches that displayed ignorance of european political history and realities and has been identified As a bureaucratic enemy of Secretary of state Alexander the whole picture is a rather Ordinary Tim server unable to grow into ail important against this Back the press disclosures about the matters now under investigation have an entirely appropriate air of seedy it is pathetic that an adviser to the Leader of a superpower should admit to having reacted to an offer of either a Silver or a Gold japanese watch by asking for it is absurd that someone in such a position should see nothing wrong in inviting to his White House office former japanese business clients during delicate Trade negotiations Between the United states and Allens tenure in his important Job thus far says much about Ronald reagans personal an Allen return to the White House would say a great Deal by Wilson special to the free press Ottawa Economy has done More than falter in the second half of 1981 it has plunged into a very Sharp technically a recession is a decline in Gross National product for two successive but no one outside the department of finance will care much about the Purist on budget departmental officials fell Back on this technicality when they were asked Why there was no reference in the budget to the serious difficulty in everyone knows perfectly Well that the Economy is in very serious difficulty with Little Prospect of real easing of inflation and none for Early improvement in production Levels and finance minister Allan Maceachen will Only be Able to stick to his guns and treat inflation As the most pernicious of our economic ailments if he is pre pared to accept some severe political since that is the he had better make the necessary corrections in his budget As swiftly and smoothly As he can so As to be defending Only the essential thrust of his budget and not the elements that reflect puritanism on the part of his there Are discouragements to both savings and investment left in his budget As it stands some of these Are logical enough but it is this sort of thing that should go Quick logic is on the Side of his officials in their proposition that firs year depreciation of equipment should be pro rated according to the length of time it has actually been in the effect of that piece of is to make investment somewhat More expensive and a More reckless time for such a change could hardly have been that is the sort of amendment to make when the Economy is a period when inflation is devastating private pension plans is no time to begin curbing provisions which facilitate savings the need for person Al savings has never been it is a very Good question whether anything of this sort would have been done if the authors of the budget highly paid officials did not enjoy a inflation proof pension plan them lavish Protection the problem is not Only that the officials who have Power in Fields such As this enjoy provisions which Sepa rate them from the hazards facing Ordinary the politicians who sponsor their ideas enjoy even More lavish Protection against the slings and arrows that outrageous economic conditions hurl at people in the real although Maceachen and his officials Are surely Correct in their View that inflation must have top prior Ity among our this budget is too often marred by the absence of a real world the theoreticians of the department Are too far removed from Day today if it is Correct that inflation is the worst As these men then the Case against them for their inac Tion during most of 1981 is strength intensified it is highly unlikely that any set of government policies could have avoided the recession that is now upon the argument is How that the Federal government has done a great Deal that has intensified the recession and which inevitably must prolong the weakness of the Dollar which trapped the country so rigidly into the american pattern of extreme interest rates was the product of certain parts of the National Energy program and of the Long and unnecessary quarrel with at the same time it was inexcusable that any Federal govern ment would abdicate for so Long from responsibility for inflation Leav ing that entire Field to the Bank of Canada with its limited Range of Wear the weekend meeting of Ontario at which disagreement with Federal positions was suggests that the country governing party is finally emerging from its Lem Ming that is probably the Healthiest political development the country has seen since the As the recession goes others in the liberals Eastern bastions May finally realize that a handful of Overly powerful men in Ottawa Are a Large part of the multicultural Kim the Celebration by the Federal government of the tenth anniversary of multiculturalism is badly the implementation of multiculturalism has been a miserable although presented by prime minister Pierre Trudeau in the commons in 1971 As a single policy of multiculturalism within a bilingual Frame unlike Bilin has had no legislative no commissioner in Ottawa and no status in the four most powerful Central agencies in Ottawa the privy Council the prime ministers the Treasury Board secretariat and the priorities and planning committee of since the policy has been in the charge of a minister of whose precise relationship to the Secretary of in whose department the multiculturalism directorate is has never been with a staff Between 37 and the directorate has been barely visible in a department with Over with a weak Junior the Impact of multiculturalism on Federal cultural agencies like the National film the National museum of the Csc and the Canada Council ukrainian dancers and on other government departments like external affairs and manpower and immigration has been negligible or the inter Agency coordinating committee ceased to function after a few the interdepartmental coordinating committee was never and no Federal pro Vinci Al meetings of ministers or officials at the senior level were Ever All were promised by the prime minis Ter in in no one could have predicted the depth of the prime ministers indifference toward the multiculturalism although he spoke often about bilingualism in and out of after his remarks to the tenth Congress of the ukrainian Canadian committee on october he said nothing More about nothing shows better the lopsided relationship Between multiculturalism and bilingualism than the great disparity in the Public funds allocated to in was spent on multiculturalism compared to on including million for official languages in Edu at a Celebration at the National arts Centre in Ottawa on october Trudeau boasted of Canadas entry into the second decade As an officially bilingual and multicultural referring to the the pro Gram declared one of our proudest accomplishments has been the enshrinement of the principle of multiculturalism in the proposed Reform and Patria Tion of the Canadian cons Titu would that this were so to play politics with bilingualism would endanger National but with political expediency is the ethnic identity has always been a Fine Playpen for political it May be foolish to Cele brate a political paper but it is wrong to lie about human rights that do not Manoly Lupul director the Canadian Institute of ukrainian studies letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to Amant in recent months there have been numerous letters to the editor of the free press with reference to care of the mentally handicapped in expressions of opinion have exhibited the fact that All those persons concerned with the welfare of the handicapped Are most sincere in their particular approach to the needs of each individual or this is a Lovely thing to observe dedicated commit any person who has followed the rapid growth of Amant Centre and its programs is aware that we Are a Forward thinking and a Forward acting we offer care to the totally physically and mentally handicapped child and Young this care is administered with the philosophy exemplified by the Sisters of which accords coupled with con Cern for the dignity of each i Dividu As Well we offer a daycare program for children who already live at Home respite care for parents in need of some Relief a school which includes mainstreaming into Community schools separate which make ready trainable children for Community living a group Home for Chiu Dren and an apartment living project for both within the Community Amant is lacking at a residence for profoundly retarded ambulant older children from the Winni Peg area who would otherwise be placed apart from their families at the Manitoba school in funds Are currently being raised by the concerned parents group to provide such a facility at this which arose As a direct need As expressed by parents of these has the full support and approval of the Amant Board of in Amant is according to the needs of those for whom it Ann Speirs Public education Amant society Winnipeg up inaccuracies during the past i have noticed an increased amount of inaccurate poor grammar and poor printing in the free you have a responsibility to the Reading especially to the Young to ensure that the articles you print Are accurate and give both sides of any in the Issue of november Ritchie gages article entitled natives fire on Ottawa in marking riels is an example of inaccurate the third last paragraph states that Kiel formed a provisional government in Manitoba in 1885 and tried to gain support from indians in the Riel sought to some degree the support of the the indians and some settlers before he set up his provisional govern ment on february 1869 not the article stated Riel was an my in 1873 and 1874 for the District of but was expelled from the House of commons in the re Porter failed to Point out that Riel had ordered the execution of Thomas or that the negotiator from Manitoba failed to obtain an amnesty agreement for Riel and his associates from the Canadian government when the Mani Toba act was riels involvement in Scotts death and the negotiating teams failure to obtain an amnesty for him contributed to his the Way the article is pre any Young Reader who is not Strong on Canadian geography is liable to believe that the Battle of Batoche occurred in Prescod Winnipeg two languages i do not know if one should laugh at Bruce Sakums letter give a free november 19 or cry because he does not understand Canada at Canada has two official French and not English and not English and the French along with the formed French is not a minority language in the problem is that most immigrants think that French people represent a minority like the polish we do we Are real be bakun that we Are not shoving French Down Peoples throats if we How is it that so few anglophones speak French but we want our rights to be i am sorry you feel that anglophones have had to put up with the French language on Corn Flake boxes and on French i have an Why dont try watching Channel 3 and learn French you will be a better Jean Duval Winnipeg meeting needed last the Board of Assiniboine South school division 3 established a task Force committee to study and make recommendations on the reorganization of the divisions the Board had presented its own reorganization which met with much Community and student unrest mainly because of the suggested change of Charleswood collegiate to a Junior High i attended two of three Public meetings As a former i was insulted by the main objectors criticism which suggested that the Board considered Money Only and disregarded the the Board has always put students the task Force has now presented its recommendations and i wonder if the Community is fully aware of the implications of the it is based on emotional issues and completely disregards the educational factors affecting the High school and Junior High school by making Tuxedo Shaftesbury and Charleswood collegiate grades 7 to it has not solved the declining enrolment do they not realize that course alternatives Are controlled by the number of students and therefore the number of teachers available two High schools instead of the present three would have helped to solve this problem and offer More course selection and flexibility to our to Assiniboine South does not offer late French immersion classes starting at Grade 7 and i feel that this must be considered in the near when parents realize that it Only takes a petition for 20 students to request and that the department of education now has a full program developed for perhaps it will become a i strongly suggest that Parent groups and interested people ask their schools or trustees for a Public meeting with the task Force before the Board makes its final emotional issues must not come before the education opportunities of the students of Assini Boine Joanne Maxwell Winnipeg and another dont buy me anything for i cant afford i ;