Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 4, 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 9439331 Winnipeg free press 1872 Winnipeg Tribune 1890 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller editorials guarding guardians evidence continues to accumulate that the Pearson and Trudeau governments unleashed the ramp against the separatist movement in Quebec without troubling to erasure that the policemen avoided breaking the the involve knowledge or complicity of Federal ministers and their assistants cannot justify what the policemen Are accused of to the extent that their involvement can be it includes the politicians in the responsibility for what was it illustrates the importance of keeping police action within the limits of the seventeen officers of the ramp Are charged in Montreal with theft of parti quebecois membership lists and of with kidnapping and with the burning of a their lawyers have argued on their behalf that they were just following sessions court judge Maurice Rous seau has rejected their claim that the charges against them be dismissed before the holding of even a preliminary he would not concede that Canadian Law knows two classes of those who must obey the Law and those who can violate it with the Mcdonald commission of inquiry into ramp wrong doing similarly found that government knowledge of police lawbreaking could not justify the criminal acts but the testimony before judge Rousseau from former senior ramp officers has reopened the broader question of the uses to which governments put their police William Kelly testified that in when he was chief of the ramp intelligence service and Lester Pearson was prime he was told by Marc then an assistant to that the ramp should collect political information in Quebec in the Way it would if Quebec were a foreign Power acting against the interests of John who succeeded him in charge of the Security and intelligence testified that he had been under pressure from the Trudeau government at about the time of the 1970 Fly crisis to obtain More information on Quebec the government did not provide him the guidelines he sought to indicate whether illegal Means should be in he resigned in no one has yet produced a smoking gun in the form of an order from either the Pearson government or the Trudeau government instructing the ramp to Kidnap and but it is Clear enough from the evidence presented to the Mcdonald commission and before judge Rousseau what was going both governments instructed the ramp to collect information on a Quebec political phenomenon which consisted partly of a terrorist conspiracy and partly of Legal and legitimate political the instructions from the two governments did not distinguish Between terrorism and nor did they indicate that the police Force should abandon its previous policy by limiting itself to Legal governments have a natural inclination to unleash the police against their political opponents when the Ordinary methods of political persuasion and debate that is an affront to the democratic process at the Best of it is doubly offensive when the police Are authorized or believe they Are authorized to use illegal Means such As breaking into the offices of a Legal political party to steal its membership solicitor general Robert Kaplan argues that policemen have to be for to break the Speed limit in the Pursuit of criminals and must therefore be exempt from the Ordinary requirements to obey the but that example and others he uses Are utterly irrelevant As justifications for using the police against the governing party political adversaries and tolerating their commission of crimes along the the Law As the Mcdonald commission recon make Clear to everyone what things policemen May do in the course of their that other citizens May not that will not prevent future governments from dragging the police into their political it will help develop a habit of respect for the Law among policemen and help protect the including those who disagree with the from politically motivated police i v t i in we attribute your i longevity Imam worthwhile proposal and now the bad news during the election Premier Howard Pawley promised to establish a provincial office in to look after Manitoba interests in the Garrison diversion his Promise demonstrated understanding of How the government system fortunately for the the Garrison project has been stalled by a division of opinion Between the House of representatives and the this gives him time to carry out his election More to find the right people to make sure that Manitoba concerns reach the right ears in the As things the Senate has passed an Overall Energy and water project Bill that includes new Money for work on the Garrison the House of representatives has voted overwhelmingly against revers ing a Foury Earold court ruling that is responsible for Garrison work being held at a the opposition by the new Manitoba government to any further work on Garrison represents the same position that was taken initially by the Schreyer administration and continued by the Lyon both those governments relied on the Federal its external affairs department and its embassy in Washington to carry the main Burden of responsibility for expressing and Manitoban objections to the both previous premiers limited direct involvement of the provincial government to occasional visits by provincial and frequent batches of correspondence directed to Legisla any direct negotiations dealing with the Garrison project lie within the sole jurisdiction of the Canadian and National the usefulness of Premier Hawleys Promise is that it will permit Manitoba to plug into the legislative process by using the Means most recognized in that a lobby directed at elected representatives and if Pawley goes ahead with his he May run into some Federal bureaucratic led by officials of the Federal department of external affairs who May see the Manitoba office in Washington As a threat to their influence in that such a View would be because any useful lobbying done by Manitoba would complement and support the main Effort being made by the government of the Best Way to Deal with such should it is to ensure the selection of Able staff who have a Talent for meeting and communicating with both bureaucrats and the potential threat posed by the Garrison should it be completed As to Manitoba and to the water Supply systems of Many Manitoba is far too great to allow bureaucratic jealousies to Block new ways of advancing and protecting Manitoba nuclear negotiators there is something to be Learned about soviet and american approaches to the Geneva talks on theatre nuclear weapons by examining their appointees to Lead the Neotia both May smile for the cameras but neither will smile at each they have been sent to accomplish different tasks that Are incidental to reducing the threat of regional nuclear War in Yuli ale Sandrovich Kvit Sinsky at already a considerable authority on West with a consider Able dislike of he will be hiding this dislike while attempting to Sway West German Public opinion into believing that Moscow is More serious about peace than is his 74yearold negotiating Paul Henry has a general Brief to create the opposite he is perhaps the least credible figure for reassuring Europe that could have been selected by Ronald Nitze revels in the discussion of Postni Clearway Mega death factors and has been a consistent proponent of huge defence spending for 30 he believes that there is no limit to requirements for nuclear warheads and does not flinch from discussing their use to achieve political his personal commitment to reducing nuclear firepower in Europe must be clocked at somewhere adjacent to absolute Kvit Sinsky cannot be put Forward As anything less of a his background May be less Well known but there is enough in the Public Domain to Send a chill Down european his assessment of the soviet invasion of Afghanistan was that after a Brief military Campaign the afghans would be transformed into political and cultural slaves similar to those who populate the entire soviet germans who wish to divest themselves of their tactical nuclear shield at any Price May wish to consider the implications of substituting the name West germans for afghans in Kvit Sinkys sinister by Frank Walker special to the free press Montreal known fondly As the used to Back in the that under the Drapeau system his Job As chairman of the executive commit tee of the City was to announce the bad while the mayors was to give Forth the it is no different if there is bad Yvon the present is pushed front and even though it is common knowledge that members of the civic party do not at least without the permission of mayor Jean unhappy responsibility under this system budgets fall Natu rally to the chairman of the executive and so it was the other it was Lamar res unhappy responsibility to announce a billion draft the first time the City budget has crossed the billion Dollar it was also his unhappy Job to Tell the owners of single family Homes that their taxes would go up by an average of nearly 14 per which is Only half the fourteen per cent is very much the average the reality is 49 per cent for some Homes and three per cent for the result of increases in valuation Over the last Montreal is a rental City and apart ment blocks have been spared such massive property taxes on these will Rise Only per Steep enough when other costs Are taken into but very Good politics in an election general High interest rates Are partly responsible but also involved is a 30 per cent increase to1 million in the cites payment of its share of drape aus olympic businessmen another concern of the mayor off much More City costs Are but not As rapidly As inflation would which Means that what is being done is being done at the expense of the mayor has not announced whether he will run again in but chances Are he if he will probably at the moment his civic party controls All but two of 55 seats on City Council and these Are held by anglos whose interestingly will catch a Large part of the extra Burden imposed on single family nonetheless he will have to produce something out of his bottomless if he is to win in the comfortable Way he likes to so far there is no hint of our latest we have gone the route there and it is difficult to see what he can find to set in motion that curious Blind euphoria which seems to overtake the voters of Montreal when faced with the Opportunity to dump the the trouble with the whatever it is made up is that it can Only offer pedestrian it cannot outbid the demands for open City government do nothing for the though they May make the life of the press much the fact is we have something unique in mayor and the City seems to know it and to be prepared to live with fiscal when they Are countered by decorative honest burghers the mayor knows better than most what those citizens of Mon Treal who support him really they Are not the within Folk and certainly not the naughty and the purple hairs they Are honest burghers who do not like their streets to be the scene of angry demonstrations or uncomfortable reminders like they Are not comfortable either with traditional which May explain the mayors unceasing harassment of the wretched though they appear Able to tolerate the indignity of topless waitresses and the exploitation inherent in sex shows As though these last Are somehow nor do they seem unduly angered by increasing crime though the murder of a policeman can Rouse them As it roused the mayor to demand our streets be made All this makes it very hard for those who do not think City government should be secret in practical drape aus supporters Are not in any sense they like essentially what he and dislike what he he is an almost perfect reflection of what they would Hope to be and they approve his words and his the opposition has recently issued a draft a worthy document based so help common they Point to City polls showing per cent support for with the two groups the opposition is split gathering per cent of popular compared to 47 per cent for the civil no stars they Are hoping to unite the cites progressive and democratic they May but there is Little sign of they Hope to produce some but these have yet to Shine in the political seminars will be but the one certainty is that they will be attended by the honest Folk who will turn up in their thousands to vote for the mayor on election Drapeau will be going burying overhead Power sprucing up neighbourhoods and improving old spending on sewers and after peaking next will decline sharply sewage is among his a big or the environment though the City has done much to clean up its air in recent but free Flowers they decorate each Small Home and for months raise their collective voice in Praise of the Jean Drapeau is a strange human being but he May Well be the Best politician in this he May also be the ultimate expression of demo cratic if these values represent what people really and not what they should that is a mistake the mayor never but one which his opposition never fails to no harmful effects the letter by ill con free november 16 requires a response and a Call to Manitoban to consider All information sources before deciding for or against the proposed aluminium smelter in All the information is being assembled in the most extensive environmental studies Ever done in Mani Toba and will be presented during pub Lic hearings in the All Manitoban will have an Opportunity to be a number of studies were completed at crust quotes the Union the followup study sponsored jointly by the the work mans compensation Board and the company and conducted by the univer sity of British columbian department smelter Grande of denied the findings of the Carnow report to which crust Al cans Quebec operations Are not in an isolated part of the the Saguenay Lac Jean Region of que Bec is often referred to As the alumni num capital of the we have three smelters in that one of which is the largest in the world and another the the Saguenay re Gion is Home to More than Jonqui�re is a City of about the Arvida Plant is right in that City Buffer a City of about is ten Miles Ville de la baie houses people and is right next to our new Grande baie in is a City of and is just Over two Miles from the the modernization of those conventional built in some cases As Many As 50 years is making those communities even better in which to work and raise a a Manitoba employing state theart combined with an adequate Buffer zone will ensure that there will be no harmful effects beyond our property that is a Promise that will be monitored by by Alcan and by Manitoba regulatory a Manitoba aluminium smelter would be a positive economic creat ing about 800 construction jobs for five Over 700 permanent jobs for Manitoban in the smelter and wide ranging spinoff benefits for All Mani Martens Public affairs manager aluminium company of Canada Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to untapped Market not so the article saturday night and no free november 21 hit the Nail on the there is a real need in Winnipeg for interesting night spots and mature discotheques where people Over 25 years of age can go for some fun on saturday my wife and i Are newcomers from Toronto and we really like we particularly enjoy the wealth of cultural activities which rank with any in any major City on the sometimes we just want to go out and have some fun at a club that offers varied and interesting live in recently i visited bran Don and it has an elaborate entertain ment North that is far Superior to anything in Why do not the hotel owners Wake up and realize that there is a untapped Market in catering to the Over 25 crowd instead of All competing for the same entertainment you would think that at least one owner would have the foresight and imagination to go after the i Between mar As for Dario executive director of the Manitoba hotel owners he should take his head out of the when was the time that he went out on saturday night Peter Orourke Winnipeg in your article on the University of Winnipeg upcoming production of the imaginary free november 26 it was observed that Moliere has not been performed in English in Winnipeg since the Manitoba theatre centres 1967 production of this observation is incur the Black Hole theatre company at the University of Manitoba produced Moliere the miser last the production was reviewed in the free november Chris Johnson faculty adviser Black Hole theatre company University of Manitoba Winnipeg no Access on november i went with friends to the Centennial concert in my the Parade of the Public safety building has a wheelchair sign at the Entrance indicating from which Levels wheelchairs can have Access to elevator and at the end of the Tunnel we were faced with a flight of stairs leading up to the Hall or while pausing to consider the bar other visitors caught up with seeing our several men acted spontaneously and carried me up in my among them was a Mem Ber of the Winnipeg philharmonic a warm thank you to these helpful gentlemen who spared us a Long trek Back to the car and late arrival at the 1 How Many other people in wheelchairs have had this experience if Access by wheelchair to the concert Hall from the Public safety building cannot be the sign at the Entrance to the Parade should at least be accompanied by an explanation that there is no wheelchair Access to the Hall at the endow the Bossen Winnipeg a blatant fraud As a teacher whose duties in the social studies area sometimes Lead him into a discussion of totalitarian propaganda i am now forced by the action of our Federal government to rethink my attitudes on this i visited an exhibition trailer on the which featured the lives of the indigenous people of this affluent looking of All adults Busy at White style occur anyone who has lived for any time in the North knows full Well that most native people Are culturally passed Over by Whites for employment and treated As third class How this paternalistic which does not reflect the True wishes of the majority of the dare perpetrate such an insult to the Canad an using the taxpayers baffles All it is a blatant fraud Bob Bishop leisurely travel i am particularly interested in the former passenger service route of via from Winnipeg Westward to Van i took via rail from Edmonton to Winnipeg and thoroughly enjoyed my leisurely and inexpensive the meals in the diner were delicious and the train conductor and helpers very perhaps via rail would have More people travelling if the train schedule was Why do we have to Cut the entire route Durston Winnipeg it was i dreamed i was a new car i ;