Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 10, 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 during his confirmation hearing in the Senate last William Clark proved that an ignorant Man who makes a laughingstock of himself in Public still can secure appointment to one of the highest posts in the foreign policy apparatus of a it was shown that it did not matter that this with his undistinguished record As a political Hack and place was unfit for the Job for which he was being it did not matter that his direct Superior did not want him on the All that mattered was that he was a California crony of Ronald Republican swiftly confirmed him As Deputy to Secretary of state Alexander Haig despite the fact that he confessed that he had no idea of the identity of the foreign ministers of South Africa and knew nothing about the monthlong Saga of Rhodesia ind Epen was not sure what nuclear nonproliferation meant and had not heard about the internal convulsions of the British labor party that were giving birth to the social democratic at the these subjects were being discussed on radio and television news programs and on newspaper front pages throughout the United voters across the and Ordinary people around the guffawed in amazed disbelief As this inadequate intellect was pronounced fit to hold the state departments second most important his major since being foisted on has been to direct the manoeuvres that resulted in the United states taking All the blame for the derailment of the almost concluded United nations Law of the sea Confer apart from his role in this diplomatic there has been a merciful silence about his his speeches Are written for so that his ignorance and absence of diplomatic skills Are less he rarely takes because any intelligent Junior High school student knows More about what is going on in the even fail Safe systems can break Clark was sent to Dublin with the simple task of delivering a letter written by foreign policy professionals and signed by president this sensible letter said that Reagan supports the recent joint efforts to seek a Northern Ireland solution being made by Irish prime minister Garret Fitz Gerald and British prime minister Margaret nobody packed a having delivered his Clark went on Irish which is watched in Northern and said certainly the Hope and prayer of All americans is that this will ultimately Lead to whatever the truth of that its Public utterance by someone in Clarks position was most unhelpful and produced Adverse unification goes to the Root of the fears of the protestant majority in protestants see such a development As causing them to be swamped by a Catholic majority in a state whose Constitution gives a leading role to the roman Catholic if it is Ever to the path will have to be carefully prepared Over a Long Clark does not waste time in thinking about what he is about to or about what its effect May be on his country with Reagan will not ask him to deliver any letters in Saskatchewan Way Saskatchewan proposed new homeowners Protection if it has any practical seems Likely to Force lenders in that province to offer the lowest interest rates they possibly can to Home mortgage borrowers whose Loans come up for renewal in the Blakeney government appears to be gambling that the process of clarifying the legality and the Legal implications of the proposed Legisla Tion will take at least a year and that by that time the mortgage interest crisis will have according to the explanation of attorney general Roy the legislation will give the Borrower whose mortgage matures next year three possibilities he can negotiate a new interest rate with the he can continue making payments at the previous rate or he can Stop making payments if he refuses the lenders proposal and continues payments at the old rate or stops the Lender can take him to court to prove that he could afford to pay the legislation provides the courts no basis for deciding what level of mortgage payments a Borrower can the legislation creates abundant opportunities for litigation Over the provinces constitutional authority to regu late Over the possibility that the government would apply the Law to some lenders and not to others and Over the level of payments a Borrower ought to be required to that Legal Haze creates a risk both for the Borrower who might refuse a lenders proposal for a new interest rate and for the Lender who might try to sue for a higher when they meet to negotiate Over a new the costs and aggravation of litigation will encourage them to reach an the possibility that the Lender might Stop paying and get away with it will encourage lenders to shave their profit margins As narrowly As they can in proposing a renewal Bankers Are understandably unhappy and Are muttering about boycotting the Saskatchewan mortgage if the legislation restricted the rates they could charge on new that would be a rational but so Long As they Are free to charge what the Market will Bear on new mortgages and so Long As there is Money to be made in new mortgages in passing up that business would not be other lenders will surely take advantage of it if the Banks do the threatened Boycott smacks More of political retaliation than of reasoned business Calculi Romanow says the new with All their Builtin will apply for Only a if that leaves lenders free to propose renewals for Only one year leading to a further renegotiation i if at that Point Market rates Are As High As they Are Saskatchewan homeowners will be in the same fix they in were before the new legislation was any who have been sued will have to Settle any amounts the courts find they should have paid during the difficulty will merely have been in some throughout the debate on a constitutional charter of the Saskatchewan government has insisted that rights should be governed by the political not by the advocates of the charter will be hugely amused to see the same government deliberately refusing to decide on homeowners rights and insisting that the courts must protecting Manitoba the pledge delivered by Manitoba new communications Len that the provincial government will use every Means at its disposal to thwart any Federal attempt to diminish television viewing opportunities in the province is both Clear and it loses nothing because it is a continuation of the Correct stance if somewhat by the outgoing conservative admin Evans is in effect serving notice on Ottawa that the Manitoba government will not tolerate any administrative tinkering with the right of Manitoban to watch whatever they wish to in this province at the new Canadian satellite programming will have to compete for viewers on its rather than relying on the heavy hand of the thought police to ban its Evans will be Able to carry out this policy from a firm under the previous the Manitoba i Telephone system got into the business of owning satellite and of providing the electronic Highway for the delivery of the signals received to residents who had no Access to the variety of television programming available in larger the provincial ownership of these where it will be a significant Factor in any dispute that May arise if Ottawa decides that canadians should watch Only Canadian the Federal government has moved in the past against private companies that owned similar in some has had Federal police seize the equipment without subsequent laying of that would have the dispute settled in in the Case of one Winnipeg the owners of the equipment effectively held off such action by going to court and asking for a it is unlikely that the Federal no matter How convinced it May be that canadians should be compelled to watch Canadian would use police against a provincial perhaps this is what Evans Means when he promises to use every Means at our disposal to ensure that reception of television via is not terminated or interfered with in this residents of Rural Manitoba can take encouragement from Evans statement that it is the Clear and unequivocal policy of my government to support the enrich ment and Extension of television programming to under served areas of Evans obviously As did his predecessors in that no amount of regulation can make a crime out of watching Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller Bigfoot in Dublin i fear this Means the end of the company water cooler As our trusting living with change by Frank Walker special to the free press Montreal in Glis speaking que Becer has seen Many changes in his his whether he was Rich or is not what it he can still live and work in his own language but it be comes increasingly difficult to do what was once familiar is now he to put it no longer master in somebody else even he May appreciate How just most of the changes have he can hardly be expected to enjoy what has that would be asking too much of any human deep further he knows that what has happened is the future and that for is no in essential the Home it it is sad but it is Young leaving Many of his friends have left to Settle the Young Are going in droves his own in All prob among them for the fact that they May speak French is not the barriers which once existed for French speaking Quebe cers now exist for the top jobs Are going to the French and in a less than perfect world there is no reason Why they should the pillars of his establishment Are visibly the protestant school that once powerful and significant institution of the English speaking is not even a Shadow of its former Mcgill University struggles for its with declining enrolment and relatively meagre re he no longer asks and gets those private audiences from govern ment which were so much a feature of Anglo out in the the Anglo minority shrinks with each passing the Gaspe slowly turns even though the Canadian Flag flies bravely Over individual Homes in that strange and wonderful it is the Fleurdelis which flies Over official it is in a City As much the creation of the anglos As it was of the where the changes Are most drastic and most hardly in the main these changes Are More irritating than important store once in now in French the Core once so stolidly if not at least injustices there have been a pleas mean acts perpetrated in the main by a bureaucracy aided and abetted by a political but these have affected chiefly the As they did the Young practical nurse who was deprived of her Job for a failure to speak in even though her French superiors acknowledged her abilities in the there Are other examples which sur face at intervals to reinforce the conviction in the English mind that they Are victims of the new they in the sense that redressing the balance inevitably Means less for some and More for but the Case for the French speaking majority in Quebec is overwhelming by any what for whatever could not change there had to it is inconceivable that the majority should be forced to live on terms dictated by the which is How it even if we do not like to think of it As in terms of Quebec the Issue is the dam has been broken it cannot be As though this fact has at last been in Glis speaking Quebec has now chosen to fight when the Battle is declaration reasonable All across the province Anglo committees Are being recently in our local newspaper there was pub listed on a full Page a declaration by the coalition of English speaking que the declaration was reason Able in it stated in its preamble there Are a million of us who Call Quebec our and very much desire that our children will Al though we represent a variety of nationalities and ethnic our com Mon language is the declaration recognized French As the primary language of communication in it committed in Glis speaking Quebe cers to working with our French speaking fellow Citi Zens to build an open yet it found that the current policies and practices of the government appear to reject our concept of the even to deny us equal citizenship in our own it objected to rulings of the office de la Langue questioned Why English and other languages should be forbidden on and the reason Why English speaking residents of the townships should be denied social ser vices in their own it asked for fair and equal Access to a fair representation in the Public and quasi Public the right to be served and informed in English by and to manage Anglo health and social service ins Titu it is a moderate document and the Case it makes is difficult to though it May be doubted whether the which the coalition is the future which will mood of behind the is a rising mood of anger and even so moderate a human being As Alex a Lon term spokes Man for the English before so moderate an audience As the Cana Dian club of talked of the need for English speaking Quebe cers to mobilize their if they want to be More than tolerated Surv anglos were not interested in pres enting briefs he if we have to Well March if we have to Well there is much of this kind of talk at one meeting a speaker de scribed the situation As a state of there was even mention of Gas ovens a remark As silly As it was there will be much More of it is receiving play in both the French and English but talk essentially it however unhappy the anglos May be within the confine cof the nature of the overwhelmingly does not lend itself to that sense of isolation which leads to despair and a French speaking que Becer has no where to go an English speaking que Becer can go senseless recently we entered the Northstar parking lot and took a ten minute ride to the top and Back Down having found no parking the most Amaz ing part of this fruitless journey was that on our Way we passed several More cars on their Way we told the attendant that the lot was full obviously he did not know and seeing at least ten More cars lined up to get we entered the parking lot across the Street from the Marlborough on Smith we found a spot on the upper most when we tried to leave after the we were con fronted with a solid mass of cars below people were still entering their but were unable even to Back we moved at a Pace of maybe ten feet every five the most disgusting similarity be tween these two situations was that with the slightest bit of common sense they never would have surely in this age of scientific some system could be devised in the Case of the Northstar whereby they could keep track of the number of parking spots available at any Given they should also have a full sign at the Entrance to Light up when even the smallest of parking lots has discovered this As far As the other lot there was a fixed charge for evening Why not pay upon receive a coded stub and hand it in when depart ing Marlene Roche Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to bad form Bravo the Spanish word Grappo As interpreted into English by Dave Haynes in his column answers free de Cember 5 is quite Haynes said that it Means Tough or his English interpretation does not seem to Jive with the real meaning of the word Grappo in Spanish Means or Good looking and refers to the masculine while Tough or Brave could mean Bravo in i Hope Haynes will be More accurate in Juanita Aguilar Winnipeg Russell doers response to a Book review of wednesdays Are Cabinet Days was an embarrassment and in sult to the voters in the Elmwood Doern replies to review free december not Only is it generally thought to be in bad form for an author to publicly respond to a but Doern fails to see that in that act he has confirmed Many of Allen Mills by attacking Mills with crude personal and then quoting from other More favourable Doern proves that he has wretchedly bad taste and that he is i do not care about prof Mills own successes or failures in the political i also do not care if doers Book is or even As a resident of i am concerned that the person representing me in the legislature conducts his affairs with integrity and the results of the november 17 elec Tion should not be the occasion for Doern to boast about his personal popu if 67 per cent of the vote was cast in his favor it probably has much to do with the fact that he ran for the new democratic party and that the progressive conservatives had per formed poorly while in although there would be advantages in having our la in the it seems that Premier Howard Pawley has acted wisely in excluding this should continue to be the Case until he learns to act in a gracious and thoughtful John Siebert Winnipeg decision a fact in the the Strong Public commitment of the Small group of Columbus school parents for their cause was they wanted another study of their area with the Hope that a school other than Columbus would be chosen for it has become that they Are unable to accept that the decision has been it appears that they have become obsessed with a Quixote like Devotion to this special interest group refuses to look beyond its own thanks to the Jame Assiniboia school Board and this division offers some of the most sophisticated programs in the this is a progressive Board which is dedicated to providing Quality education to All children in the regardless of socioeconomic Columbus students will have just a few blocks further to walk to Robert Browning school next they will have less of a distance to in than Many other children in the Divi Sion and they will continue to walk through residential As they do perhaps if previous boards had been Able to predict the population they would have added portable class rooms to Robert Browning when it became instead of build ing Columbus just a few blocks i Call upon the Small group of Colum bus who make up Only a tiny portion of the entire to reassess their motives and let the Board get on with its excellent Leyah Mcfadyen Winnipeg honesty i would like to commend the honesty of a free press employee who found and returned a purse that i lost near the i believe his name to be Joe he found my purse near the Portage Avenue and memorial Boule Vard Corner where he his promptness and honesty in contacting me and returning the purse intact saved me a great Deal of Incon i am grateful for his Assis Tance and Bernstein Winnipeg derogatory in her column of november once again Frances Russell used the derogatory term Wasp in referring to a segment of our according to a person who is Anglo Saxon and protestant is fair game for ethnic for someone who applauds so called social russells out bursts sound dangerously Undem Ocra like Many Penthouse socialist Eli she has a socially democratic conscience Only when it suits apparently Anglo Saxon protes Tants do not suit she sets them apart according to their ethnic and religious background As Mere the next time Russell mounts her soap Box to Champion equal perhaps she might think about what she does to fan the fires of social Ryan Winnipeg metric boo boo in an article on Wood burning free december 1 Drew dem May be aware of the finer Points of Wood burning for efficiency and but is lacking in his knowledge of one cubic meter equals cubic one Cord of Wood contains cubic Hamill ;