Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 5, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free december 1981 7 the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and the author s name will be used and letters Are subject to editing Doern replies to reviewer one of the problems with our modern educational system is its failure to teach people How to Allen Mills is a Case in i stated in the preface to my Book that i had attempted neither a formal history nor a political science although there Are numerous political science observations throughout the in i quoted Plutarch who wrote my plan is not to write his but for the most distinguished Public achievements do not always reveal mens Virtues or but often a Light a word or a jest tells us More than the greatest sieges or the most important wednesdays Are Cabinet Days is about personalities and it is a personal it is the Cabinet according to unfortunately Mills failed to read or comprehend these undoubtedly he would also put Down such popular writers As Pierre Berton and James there Are a lot of armchair politicians i have been elected by the people of Elmwood in 1977 and my nip predecessor retired with a majority of 228 on november was reelected with 67 per cent of the vote and a majority of the Best Mills could Muster in a nomination fight in Wolseley was a third place Mills says that a history or political science treatise on the Schreyer years still remains to be but that is also True of the Campbell and Roblin the problem is by the time some body gets around to writing the Public will have lost someone should also Point out to him that there is a difference Between a firs class Book review and a column by Fred in the i will Content my self with booming Book and the following observations a timely and prophetic Book Peter Carlyle absolutely fascinating Heather sharply etched cameos of rivals and colleagues and an successful Effort to catch the life and style of an elected politician within his context of caucus and party Doug entertaining and enlightening any one who enjoys politics will enjoy wednesdays Are Cabinet ton Russell Doern Winnipeg Florida Homes Florida enterprises has been representing general development corporations Florida Homes and to me Sites in Manitoba for nearly two for the Benefit of our Many custom ers in i would like to Correct several errors which appeared in the article Florida dreams turn to night free october general development is Florida largest and most respected Developer of planned we Are not simply a land sales company As discrimination alleged this letter is to bring to your Atten Tion a highly prejudiced and inequitable practice of the department of employment and our baby was born october on october 20 we brought him Home from the childrens Aid two weeks earlier i phoned a Branch of Canada employment and immigration to enquire about forms necessary to apply for a claim for maternity i was told that i was even though i have paid unemployment insurance premiums for Over nine the reason i was not eligible was that our son was my husband and i feel discriminated against because we Are adoptive and not biological part of mater nity leave benefits Are paid to allow the new Mother to establish a Bond with her my employer recognizes the importance of this role and Grants equal maternity and adoptive when then does Canada employment and immigration Grant this time Only to biological parents Why Are adoptive parents denied this Chance to do what is Best for their child Susan Stewart in revenues in 1980 from Community construct utilities and other Community outstripped Home site revenues by million to while general development was credited with building Homes in your or that of the Toronto was apparently not aware that competing builders construct As Many Homes As the company does in our thus the True rate of Home building was double what readers were led to the combined population gain of our communities of port port port port Labelle and three smaller communities is running at 13 per cent per this is five times the growth rate of by any the growth of our com which already have is extraordinary and not inadequate As suggested in the Arti a documented study of property re sales in our communities shows that Over 90 per cent of Sellers receive a profit which averages 150 per we do not sell Home Sites for investment but rather for future eight five per cent of residents of our communities Trade their Home Sites in on one of More than 100 Model Homes we instalment with reasonable monthly payments Canadian rep resent the Only Way Many people of modest Means can own property and thus Purchase a or retirement As you will discover from Mani Toba government officials who regulate general a company that keeps its you May seek further verification from several thou Sand canadians who have chosen to make their Homes in our commune Paul Guenette president Florida enterprises Winnipeg think not poor the new nip government faces a deficit of it would be a mistake to take this too Manitoba outstanding debt amounts to something Over billion if the Bonds of Manitoba Hydro and Mani Toba Telephone system Are the Rise in prices during the past year has reduced the real Burden of this debt by More than thus Over the the Burden of Manitoba debt has not and by roughly the amount of the prospective even within the confines of the regular budget the picture is better than it no private business would expect to pay off All of its annual capital expenditures out of current the new government would be Wise to restore the capital budget approach used by the Roblin and Schreyer this would reduce the deficit substantial in some two thirds or More of the million budgeted for debt charges is not properly Classi fied As a current it Sim ply helps compensate the holders of Manitoba Bonds for the fall in the buying Power of their trans Fer of this amount to capital account would reduce the apparent deficit by a further the City of seems to be suffering from the distortion that inflation brings to conventional accounting the real Burden of its debt will have fallen by some million during on an inflation adjusted basis it must be running a surplus of million or yet the City now proposes a on third reduction in its capital what was it the Bible said about those who Bury their talents a modern equivalent would read if we think we May All become Clarence Barber professor of economics University of Manitoba Winnipeg True Blue in response to Willaine Crofts whatever has River Heights done to deserve Warren Steen and Dan Mckenzie not free november 28 i say it is not we vote by River Heights is comprised of con there is a Santa but you will not find him in the Paw Leybag that if you intend staying in this province after the Bills come Vogel Winnipeg modern Nero the news item tories leave million headache received consider Able space on the front free november now that we Are hearing More talk of do you plan equal prominence to the legacy of prime minister Pierre Trudeau among Many More horrific facts the interest payments on the National debt amounted to billion last this experts expect and predict these payments to reach in the past decade these costs have escalated More than it appears to me that Canada is on the Slippery slope leading towards economic while our talented prime minister is greasing the slide with his careless attitudes and does Trudeau play the fiddle could he be the reincarnation of that roman emperor of old Nelson Green Winnipeg Howard Pawley told not to worry too much Over lx5s Lemines professional business peo ple who Are hard honest and capable of supporting Seldom do they depend on government welfare or unemployment when we vote federally Dan Mckenzie we take the straightforward approach in support of constructive such As the mortgage deductibility clause in the Clark instead of splitting our Power by voting nip and then marching in Masse to Ottawa to protest High interest we Are intelligent enough to realize that votes divided in the West can do Little toward checking a Federal govern ment which is easter oriented and inclined because the being cannot Ever win a Federal when we vote provincially War Ren Steen we vote on the Side of free Enterprise because most of us Are progressive and we hate strikes and artificial Job Crea Tion by government payroll we do not approve of sumptuous offices outside the legislative such As the Woodsworth building built under the former nip adm Nistra we believe in permanent Job Crea Tion through Industry in the such As versatile and through a no socialist atmosphere of a government which has the Intelli gence and comprehension to negotiate such giant projects without the Albatross of regressive we hate rent which Are counterproductive and discriminate against a segment of our the landlords and construction one of the most disturbing things about the recent provincial election was the election of a Large number of women to the history has shown How dangerous this can the control of the government of a Large and powerful nation by a woman or women is a unnatural one need look no fur ther than the recent histories of Israel and India to realize common sense and attention to the comments of women politicians should remind us that intense Selfin Terest and a guilt inflicting attitude will never promote the Gener Al Well being of the a desire to succeed and promote relationships among human beings make men the natural ruling and governing Phillips Winnipeg Bank profits in his free no vember 23 John Mccallum shows clearly that he has a lot More sym Pathy for the Canadian Banks than he does for the people who Are trying to refinance their Home he says that the namely the cannot borrow Money at 16 per cent and lend it out at 12 per cent and stay in business very what he does not Tell the readers is that the Banks Are doing quite thank the latest figures for the third Quarter of 1981 show an average Iron fist once again the Iron fist of big Busi Ness Cones crashing Down on our As we hear the news that the Banks will no longer mortgage foam insulated those of us who were either foolish enough or naive enough to believe that the government exists to protect the safety of the Public find that we can now choose Between living in a Poi soned environment in our or out on the Street in the cold and Ronald Phillips Winnipeg org up profit increase of 53 per cent Over 1980 for the five major chartered the chairman of the Royal Rowland whose third Quarter profits went up 64 per said that increased efficiency and a widening of the Domestic percent spread were As his Bank gathered in million in profits for the first nine months of this what Frazee is talking about is the difference be tween what the Bank pays to those who Deposit their for which the Bank pays and for what the Bank charges borrowers for the fact is that an improvement in the spread or interest margin added up to extra millions of dollars for the what Mccallum should have told readers was that the Normal spread through most of the 1970s was two to per while recent spreads have been higher than four per and while loan rates Are Quick to go up As soon As the Bank rate is they Are much slower to come Down when there is a not Only does Mccallum not Tell readers about the High Bank profits which Are being made because of High interest he also does not Tell them that the government allows the Banks to get away with tax rates that Are lower than the tax rate for people earning under per the average tax rate for the five largest Banks was per cent an insignificant amount compared to their 50 per cent rate a decade if the Banks paid taxes at the Normal corporate rate of 46 per they would have paid million to the Federal they paid about the nip has been proposing to the government for a number of years that it direct the Trust companies and insurance companies to allocate a certain percentage of their investment portfolio for Home and that these be loaned out at a reduced rate of this is the procedure now followed by european birthdays Reginald Ontario born East in december Beatrice born Manitoba december 1 Mccallum tells his readers that the mortgage interest rates cannot come Down until the rate of inflation has been that is the same advice Sterling Lyon and finance min ister Allan Maceachen were giving the electors of Manitoba and the people who demonstrated on parliament Hill recently have indicated what they think of that kind of David my Winnipeg North Ottawa interest rates i have a beef against Gerald governor of the Bank of and the Federal they say they Are fighting inflation by keeping inter est rates interest rates were High in the 1920s and that led to the depress Ion of the a better Way to Stop inflation would be to Stop easy credit by requiring a larger Down payment on that would encourage and possibly Cut Down on Mary Smook Winnipeg civil service damaged by political acts among the More prominent casual ties of polarized politics is the concept of a nonpartisan civil in his last news conference before leaving former Premier Sterling Lyon claimed he had de politicized the governments staff and warned the incoming nip administration not to tamper with of Lyon did not Depoli Ticie the civil in a yearlong Bloodbath which probably contributed to his defeat november Lyon got rid of what he once described As a rat infested term and regular civil servants suspected of nip sympathy but he promptly replaced a num Ber of them with individuals supportive of conservative according to an order for return placed by former fort Rouge Liberal la june and answered by the government March the conservatives fired 49 senior officers from Branch director to Deputy minis Ter they replaced them with a total of 62 new senior 32 hired from outside and 30 promoted from by there were 275 senior civil compared to Only 264 in 1977 when the firings Many wrings at the lower Levels of the civil service Are also suspect poli one servant who sat on the provinces redeployment committee Frances Russell says the top civil service inherited by the nip is totally the senior government service is comple Tely progressive the fact one Manitoba govern ment employees association spokes Man civil servants no longer think they can count on their jobs when governments what happened to the civil service in 19771978 was the worst single thing Ever to occur to the Manitoba Public says another source the efficiency and competence of the civil service has been Ever since those Many senior people have been More concerned with maintaining the proper political links than with the delivery of while Many expect the new govern ment to fire at least some of the tru Blue tories at the suspected tory appointments at the lower Levels Are a quite different the nip cannot afford to engage in another their own credibility would suffer they were fierce critics of Lyons actions and they would further damage the morale of the pub Lic in an Premier Howard Pawley said he was leaving the Deci Sions on staff up to his i Trust there can be a minimum of but there at be a need to take firm i want to make it Clear that i dont expect parti san loyalty from civil All i ask is that they remain Loyal to the government and people of the Premier is hopeful that political such As Manitoba Hydro chairman Kris will re sign on their Krist Jansson has said he has no plans to do the position of the Crown Corpora Tion chairmen is to de politic ize the daily operations of Crown utile the tory government split the roles of corporation Heads in two a political chairman and a nonpartisan general Krist John Bulman of the Manitoba Telephone system and Campbell Maclean of the Manitoba Public insurance corporation All were Given three year contracts in the orders in Council appointing them september political appointments usually serve at the pleasure of the the former governments appointees no doubt Are not eager to take the new democrats off the forc ing the nip to fire them would be one Way to Blacken the new government in the Public mind and take some of the sting away from Lyons dismiss the Dps decision to relieve Cabi net Secretary Derek Bedson of his responsibilities prior to taking office has already done some damage to the governments Napers argue that be sons removal he has not been but at the moment is await ing reassignment is quite different from the summary dismissal Lyon meted out to three Deputy ministers the weekend before he took but that is a distinction without a the Cabinet clerk since the Duff Roblin clearly will have difficulty finding a comparable Job within the Manitoba Public be sons Fate perhaps stands As the final Symbol of the politicization of the senior Public service in his Michael a former head of the planning committee of Cabinet under is clearly As is the Choice of nip president and former school superintendent Bill Regehr to be Hawleys principal the pre Miers office now is modelled along the lines of that of Saskatchewan Allan Blakeney and will operate quite differently from the highly personalized style of the Decter will be the premiers Liaison with the Regehr will be his political chief of staff and Dan Oconnor his communications of new democrats argue that they Are merely making explicit what was Al ways implicit those close to the centres of Power by share the political views of those they Only when competing parties share the same Basic philosophy can senior bureaucrats avoid political even if the nip suspects that politicization by the tories has reached into the lowest Levels of the Public it cannot afford to Fol Low the precedent established by its partisanship at the top May be inevitable with but it remains As undesirable As Ever in the rank and file of the doonesbury Dohty think h5akiy just0een thinking Mil you him Pear to tmnot6mn6 con6kk5 can Pear whats that Poivan at the foot of me my the Heap of Atman ;