Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 14, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Levesque to stay on pending referendum Montreal up Rene Levesque will stay on As president of the parti quebecois and Premier of Quebec at least until a party referendum indicates whether he has Rankan file support on so the referendum will be carried out 30 and 31 in the Quebec City Region and 6 and 7 elsewhere in the Levesques Levesque told reporters yester Day that party members will be asked Clear and Well delineated questions on How a pm govern ment should go about attaining Independence for Quebec and whether a Concrete offer of eco nomic association with the rest of Canada should be included in the party As they will be asked for a Clear statement that the pm will respect the diversity of nation Levesque fell out with delegates to the party general convention 4 to at which economic association was All but eliminated from the pcs main Plank he was also angered when the delegates resolved to hold a pm government to declaring sovereignty after winning a majority of National seats in an election where the main Issue would be asked yesterday what sort of result he expected from the refer said he believed he would get overwhelming sup port from the grass but he refused to say How Strong a major Ity would be needed to convince him to stay on As president and coming out of a meet ing of the party Levesque said at a news conference that since the convention he had been trying to decide whether to return to private life after 21 years in or if his duties toward the state should take Priori he came to the conclusion no one is indispensable but in the Many people underlined the fact that to leave now would be to give up at the worst moment for the government and certainly for our political of Levesque said the party must go though a a Quick and real re pressment of the positions adopted at the convention if he is to it would be he for the government and Cau Cus to tackle the problems they now face with the party shooting at us from Maceachen faces fire confronts provincial counterparts on budget Toronto up finance minister Allan Al ready snowed under by criticism of his budget from labor and opposition Steps into another blizzard today As he meets his provincial counter the the first since the news two weeks ago that Canadas output fell sharply in the third will Lay the groundwork for a first ministers conference on the Economy in late january or Early in the finance minis ters will resume negotiations Over Federal plans to save billions of dollars by slowing Down the rate of growth of Aid to the prov inces Over the next five Ontario treasurer Frank Miller has urged Federal Maceachen to go Back to the drawing Board and draft a new Miller predicted the provinces will offer Maceachen specific suggestions when the today conference opens he said the economic slowdown is about As abrupt As weve seen in 25 years or More and Mac Eachen now should take some Steps to stimulate the Economy instead of trying to slow it Down even Manitoba finance minister Vic Schroeder agreed Maceachen should consider a new but attending his first such conference since the change of said he wants to co operate with Ottawa and is not Here to there had been reports Mac beleaguered by increasingly virulent attacks on the Bud get and a tide of bad economic news in wanted to Post Pone the meeting until but Federal officials denied that saying Maceachen was willing to go ahead Maceachen refused to talk Busi Ness with reporters when hear Rived at a reception for the minis ters and their delegations last but he has maintained repeatedly that the budget is the Best Way to bring Down both interest rates and inflation and Lay the ground work for future finance minister Hugh Curtis of British Columbia said the Federal budget have been much worse if it had been written by an enemy of the were More than just j handle one of the largest fireside collections in Winnipeg youll pick up some hot gift 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disobedience or worse unless Mac Eachen reverses his economic cooperation needed Phillips said he Doest believe Mcdermott reflects the views of the average i think that this was a very unfortunate tirade that was really preaching anarchy rather than a he said of the labor leaders i think that what we need in Canada today is not despite his support in general for the governments latest anti inflation Phillips said the budget did not take into account the depth of the recess Ion facing Canada and was wrong to disincentives for investors in the he said Maceachen failed to heed warnings from the association Early this fall that markets for manufactured goods were beginning to fall off and he predicted the Economy is not Likely to recover before the Middle of the association has already made several suggestions to Maceachen for changes in tax policy to encourage More in but Phillips said Hes opposed to the idea of referring the budget to a parliamentary committee for detailed people 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