Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 8, 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 Cartton 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 impatient militants editorials most of the members of Quebec ruling parti quebecois have lost patience with their leaders step step method of trying to achieve Quebec against the advice of Premier Rene Levesque and of his colleagues in the government and the the party conference last weekend emphatically voted to fight the next election on a program of to treat Victory in that election As a mandate to declare Independence and to establish Independence whether or not an economic association with the rest of Canada can be whenever the pm has run for election on a program of it has the party ran in 1976 on a Promise to hold a referendum on the electorate put the party in Power in the rejected even a first tentative step toward a form of Independence which would include economic association with this the party won reelection by promising no further moves toward not even another during the current in the prime minister Trudeau and the nine other premiers Drew the Levesque government into a process of constitutional negotiation whose result will be to remove the Power of Quebec or of any other province acting alone to veto constitutional on the positive from Quebec Point of the Constitution package would create a wholly Canadian system through which Quebec can press for constitutional amendments without having to rally the unanimous support of other the package does not deliver the expansions of provincial jurisdiction nor the expanded Quebec presence in Federal institutions such As the supreme court which Quebec nationalists have always but it does create a workable system through which such measures can be the quest for renewed federalism has therefore produced results though they Are controversial in Are nonetheless the pcs step step quest for has produced Quebec is no closer to Independence today than it was when the pm won its first throughout the pcs soft pedalling of hard liners in the party have been warning that it was a waste of the they could persuade Quebe cers to endorse Independence Only by laying the goal squarely before explaining its advantages and letting them choose with their eyes since the step step approach has so far produced those isolated hardliners of yesteryear sound like prophets their impatient doctrine has become the majority View within the it remains almost that a majority of invited to vote for would vote against eighteen months they would not even vote for a highly equivocal mandate for the government to negotiate knowing Leves que and most of his colleagues in government Are not willing to defend the party uncompromising since he has just won Levesque has about four years in which to meet the Challenge from his he can try gradually to rebuild support within the party for a program he can defend before the he can resign himself to a period in he could consider cutting himself Loose from the pm As the founders of the social democratic party in Britain have Cut Loose from the labor for the Public disagreement Over Basic strategy Between the non elected party membership and its leaders in the legislature and government makes it impossible to say what the pm stands that coupled with the state of Quebec government finances and the unpopular spending cuts and tax increases the government has virtually Rule out the Early general election that had been mooted As a form of protest against the constitutional Reform Spain and nato Bankers should bleed a Little want meant to be taken Price and conservation for Many reasons it is Good news that Spain has applied to join the North Atlantic treaty a key one is that this certain to be approved by this months nato ministerial meeting in will help to support democratic forces in since the dictator Francisco Franco died in late King Juan Carlos has steered a often course for his aiming to establish and to sustain a soundly based parliamentary opposing him All the Way has been a coalition of righting political ousted political Hacks who served the late and senior members of the Spanish armed the senior military figures owe their positions to the dead just As they owe their ossified social attitudes to the Claustrophobic Spain he the Kings delicate task is complicated by such develop ments As the new manifesto signed by Junior officers and noncommissioned in which much is made of the vigorous criticism of the military that is now the implication of this rightly condemned by the Spanish chiefs of is that the democratic right of free speech should be curbed where the military is the who the Spanish retains close links with key military men and has shown an intelligent understanding of the military mind in his handling of the difficult task of altering the Post dictatorship role of the country armed possible for him to face Down the potential coup de Tat implicit in the seizure of the National parliament earlier this it also explains How he has been Able to achieve a peaceful amendment of the National restoration of parliamentary free elections and the adjust ment of the entire society to More Normal rhythms of extreme righting groups can stage Well attended belligerent parades but they Lack widespread popular sup port for the authoritarian regime that they seek to reimpose on Many senior Spanish military officers have Long been ambivalent about becoming part of they concur in the nato assessment of the soviet threat to Europe and they Are strongly they like the idea of Access to better weapons and More modern communications and planning systems than those now enjoyed by Spain they Fronza degree of traditional Spanish xenophobia they worry about foreign influences playing too Large a role in their country they Are concerned about a dilution of their Power and privileges if spaniards should compare the position of their military with that of other european countries and decide to modify that of the Spanish whatever their increased Contact with Europe will because Spain is in the Early stages of becoming a member of the european economic commune foreign affair it was obviously just a form letter that found its Way into the wrong the message air Canada delivered to a North Saskatchewan resident who had applied for a Job fits just As easily into the widespread Canadian perception that when a corporation has its head office in Montreal anywhere West of Toronto is in another senator Herbert Sparrow waited until the Senate press gallery was full for the constitutional debate before he dropped the he had a it who had applied for a Job As a flight attendant with air the National airline sent its explaining that it had so applications from within Canada that it could not accept any from the senator suggested that it was probably the address that caused so much the applicant lived on Trudeau Street in North Given a particular political Outlook of the air Canada employee who answered the Trudeau could be the name of someone associated with another by Wilson special to the free press Ottawa the years when the Federal gov emment was deter mined to maintain artificially heavily subsidized Gas and Oil prices in Canada various of its members kept insisting that realistic pricing was no Road to their View was never convincing and the record during this last year of rising prices has totally disprove As prices have gone consumption has gone consumption curbed this is in Complete contrast to earlier experience for two years in a Price increases were curbing american consumption while subsidization was encouraging consumption increases in this when this disparity was at its american consumption dropped by Over five per cent annually while Canadian con sumption Rose by a slightly higher during the last ten months in which Price increases have been consumption of Petroleum products in Canada has dropped by per based on National Energy Board Fig decline during the last few months no doubt has been in part a response to the deep recession the Economy Slid into at midyear but that played no part in the pattern of the first six months of the the first half was a period of remarkably Strong growth so that the effect of two differ ent sets of economic circumstances must just about cancel each other the country consumption of heavy fuel Oil has dropped per cent this of Home heating and diesel fuels eight per cent and of gasoline per the importance of this changing Pat Tern of demand is great because Canada is still a heavy importer of crude Oil at High world prices and during the Middle period of this decade the level of imports will about this must be paid for with foreign Exchange and it is a major Factor in the country heavy International deficit with an and verse effect on the strength and Steadi Ness of the dollars because Canada is a heavy importer of consumer and Industrial goods there is always a direct connection Between weakness in the Dollar and the rate of the decline in the dollars value to around 83 cents produced by the National Energy program and the dispute with Alberta added about two percentage Points to the costo living a Choice of fuels higher Petroleum of also add to living costs but when these arise from Domestic Price increases the consumer has some options most people can Cut Down on their Automo bile mileage without much inconvenience and a great Many canadians have a Choice of fuels for Home heat the Trudeau governments have Al ways been strangely indifferent to the growth in Canadas International Defi Cit which has occurred since the mid apparently reflecting the prime ministers personal View that there is nothing wrong with the Force draft approach to some of the Nep goals was adopted with indifference to its effect on the dollars the International deficit and the Cost of the senseless dispute with Alberta while the Federal govern ment was still committed to artificially Low Petroleum prices derailed the two Meg projects which could have made the earliest contribution to reducing dependency upon foreign prospects gloomy it appears Likely that the Federal and Alberta governments will make the adjustments necessary to shells Oil Sands project but prospects for getting imperials cold Lake development under Way again Are far Gloo the Federal stubbornness which wrecked one of these projects and seriously delayed the other was a apart from their potential contribution to self sufficiency these were the enterprises that could have stimulated the whole Ontario insistence on Low Energy prices played an important part in the Federal if these projects were getting under Way now there would be no greater beneficiary than Ontario heavy Industry huge increase larger Stamps one of the great contradictions contained in the suggested postal rate increases is that the increases seem to be designed specifically to have their most severe Impact on Small Busi Canada in the past two has spent Large amounts of Money promoting and Selling advertising it has a Large contingent of marketing sales persons out calling and Selling advertising mail As a High cos effective advertising it would seem the right hand at the Post office does not know what the left hand is for hundreds of Small that promote their business to other the third class category was their by raising the third class rate from 15 cents to 30 cents a punitive 100 per cent Only will third class advertising mail no longer be it will no longer be that the Canadian after the 42day postal strike which had a devastating Impact on Small would specifically select Small Busi Ness to Bear the major Brunt of the postal increase makes me wonder if anyone with any degree of common sense is running things Steigerwald Winnipeg Small businesses when the 17cent postage stamp came into effect the stamp was about the size of a now the stamp is so that Many times i have to cover part of the address with or put the address on after affixing the heaven help us when the 30cent stamp is we will need larger Enve Lopes and longer Why is the Post office insisting on using for Manitoba instead of Hayes Winnipeg peace on Earth with the approaching of the Christ Mas season and All its peace on Earth is a phrase you will hear More than Ever peace is the most important element for the future of Mankind this year with the speedup of production of nuclear weapons and the threat of nuclear peace has become of great concern to the human history has shown that common of common will and joint action by millions of people can foil the warmongers plans to drag the world into mass demonstrations have escalated in Europe and other world areas for the defence of peace and the struggle against a peace March from Copenhagen to Paris was joined by thousands of marchers and supported by tens of thousands who met them in Paris on August 6 which was also the anniversary of the bomb ing of it is ironic that also on this president Ronald Reagan despite the production of the Neutron which will destroy people but leave materials there has never before been such a Strong and necessary movement for world peace As it is important to make this movement even to turn it into an invincible Force so that Mankind will we want to be Able to enjoy Many More christmases and festive activities with our families and we must strive together for peace on Simpson Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to misguided Hope needed it is to be hoped that the new Provin Cial nip government is going to adopt a More positive attitude in future to the deficit left by the per haps Howard Hawleys government is going to be Able to give 43 per cent wage settlements to healthcare work ers and other members of unions who wish parity with Alberta and and also come up with a balanced i wonder Why Pawley is reintroducing rent controls when they were so ineffective in the Schreyer years and have not worked elsewhere i Hope that Larry in his years out of has become less combative and will be Able to work with the medical profession in a spirit of cooperation rather than of Confron we need our doctors to stay in Many people left the province when the nip were in Power i recall the signs in the University of Manitoba in those Days will the last person to leave Manitoba please turn out the lights i seemed to have used the word Hope a because i feel that we Are going to need Margaret Mary Glassco Winnipeg voice of socialism the election is now Over and the results Are i Hope that you Are Well satisfied at the in All the years that the conservative government was in Power i never read one Good thing about them in your i suggest that you change the name of the free press to the voice of socialist in the the Only use i can see for your newspaper is for lighting wrapping fish and for emergency situations in the Len Hanson Winnipeg talents bypassed the articles and comments of the past week concerning appointments to Cabinet posts within our newly elected government suggest to me that our Way of or May be some elected Las who were not selected for portfolios cried which me is not Only childish but disgust it has always been my conviction that candidates were elected for the purpose of serving the people of Mani and not merely to bolster their own images or to the sad people such As Russell Al Brian Corrin and others who had their massive talents bypassed this May i suggest they hang their stockings up and Trust that Santa will bring them something More in keeping with the calibre of people they really Short Winnipeg unintentional on behalf of the mennonite oratorio and of the Winnipeg mennonite i would like to Correct an erroneous statement made by Ronald Gibson in his review of the Bach b minor mass free november he it is about 12 years since we last heard it on the a Fine performance of the work was presented Here Only a year and a half ago by the mennonite oratorio choir with the Winnipeg symphony in the Centennial concert i am sure that the error was uni Nten but by implication it under mines the music making of the mennonite people and of this choir in it is a pity Gibson missed out on this first rate perform Laurie Hunter Winnipeg Geoff Martin set out to criticize Meyer brownstones letter brutal his free november 4 for being Martin not Only fell into the same trap but even went to the extent of falsifying Well known South Africa has not been attacked on All sides by terrorists As Martin it has been the apartheid re Gime of South Africa which has been attacking the neighbouring african countries in the vain Hope of halting the liberation struggles launched by the nationalists in South Africa and Nami Bia Southwest although these nationalist forces maintain bases in Friendly african they Are operating from within South Africa and Namibia and making their presence Felt As witnessed by the recent successful raids against police stations and communication lines in South misguided people like Geoff Martin equate oppressed Peoples struggles against repressive regimes like South Africa with Africa has suffered Long under capitalist so if the liberation movements in South Africa and Nami Bia choose to carry russian arms and fight against a regime that has Force fully installed itself in Namibia and South that is their South Africa stands universally condemned in the United nations As a regime that denies Basic human rights to its majority Black and has maintained itself in Power by Bru Tal i wonder if Martin is aware of the fact that Many members of the South african government were Allied to the nazi cause in the second world War they Are using the same nazi tactics today to suppress the Black Are we going to Praise them for fighting or Are we going to take a stand and support the majority in their fight to win Basic human rights in their own land Loxley Manitoba anti apartheid coalition Winnipeg not practical i read with interest the article City told to clean up sewage in red free november the use of chlorine in the red River would be Akin to shutting the door after the proverbial like most cities in the sewage treatment is the last item on the and no Money is to be spent unless a disaster i would like to enquire if this is Only a summertime problem Why have not storm water retention tanks been considered could it be that the plants in question Are so totally hydraulically overloaded that they cannot Cope with another gallon certainly storm retention tanks would protect the plants against Shock loads and the possible addition of up Wardflow clarifies would lower the present effluents suspended solids con tent every most sewage works have untreated sewage discharged direct to Stream during storm but the sew age is so diluted it has Little or no effect in the Long the thought of spending a phenomenal sum such As to install and per annul to operate on a method that the scientists Are Uncertain As to the outcome seems Roberts Winnipeg come Reagan is giving a Christmas 4 i i ;