Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 23, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free november Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published six Days 6 at 300 Canton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press 1872 Winnipeg Tribune 1890 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray surf managing editor Rudy Redekop controller the Challenge of Trade Canada is in the difficult position of having a Small Domestic being part of no major trading bloc and earning 30 cents of each Dollar of Gross National product from foreign those realities impose certain restraints on this country Trade behaviour and shape the approach that should be taken in this weeks ministerial discussions of members of the general agreement on tariffs and Trade in the Basic position that Canada has to take is that of cooperation and no decisions on detail Are being taken this there will be no grand announcements of deep cuts in tariffs designed to smooth the flow of Trade across International it is largely a psychological an Opportunity for the 87 member states to reduce world anxiety by reaffirming their belief in a civilized conduct of International the credibility of this belief has been somewhat suspect recently Gatt members have been behaving like Sabr toothed tigers with each others always for the most impeccable of Domestic political Canadas treatment of japanese automobiles at the Van Couver port of entry recently is a Good lacking the economic muscle to prise from Tokyo a voluntary Export restraint agreement similar to that achieved by the United this country imposed dockside inspection procedures that were so and so As to damage severely japanese retail Auto agreement was forthcoming after anger and bitterness had been created in this was not a Trade policy Triumph of which Canada could be but concern for japanese feelings must be tempered by the knowledge that Japan has been a world Champion in the same kind of unofficial France is in Geneva with similarly stained it is conducting a Trade War against Japan just now in the videotape recorder the people of France prefer to buy japanese Vars because the technical features and instant availability outperform those produced by French the French government has moved to restrain Trade by sending inspectors around to sniff out foreign upon which a special tax is then and by enforcing absurd new import the japanese must offload their Vars at be drive them 80 Miles to Poitiers to be slowly checked by four customs and then drive them nearly 200 Miles to where they can be Canada and France did not do this because of a commit ment to protectionism but because Domestic Industry could not compete with the More efficient japanese and because Domestic jobs were being it is also True that Japan is no Slouch in putting together creative subsidy and Tariff packages that can be As devastating As no Tariff barriers to would be exporters to the Canadian and French incidents Are Small examples of what is being done throughout the Industrial the big bullies in this game Are the United states and the european economic both possessed of vast Domestic markets and great influence in the world Trade they have been using their economic Power unfairly against smaller As in the Case of measures against Canadian trucking firms and they have also been savaging each notably Over through the air has been full of cries of leavened with hypocritical accusations of opponents Lack of commitment to the Freer Trade that is espoused by members of Canadas interest is in a More coherent environment for settlement of Trade that can happen if Gatt members apply existing Gatt rules to rather than applying a Blind Eye in a selective Canada must be prepared to either or better its own restrictive practices to its trading perhaps the most important change that should be sought by Canada and other trading countries is a diminution in the meanness and selfishness that is creating an environment with a ghostly resemblance to that which precipitated the great liberals seek a Leader by its own the Liberal party in Manitoba must hold a leadership convention by next that Date will Mark exactly one year since its last Doug announced that he was stepping the constitutional is no guarantee that the party will find someone suitable for the or fill it by the required last weekends party Council meeting revealed a Sharp disagreement on just How a new Leader should be and the party vocal youth in an outburst that was much like its actions at the National wanted nothing to do with an Active leadership search at the present the youth Wing wanted the party president and its executive to act As a sort of collective leadership and voice of the it presented a Resolution which stated bluntly that there should be to leadership and which suggested if the executive was not prepared to take on the task of leadership and it should Delegate these responsibilities to the youth of the the Liberal Council decided instead to begin an Active search for a new but it also passed the youth Resolution with Only the first clause stating no Leader would be sought now the Council left in place the clauses which called upon the executive to leadership and the party and which requested former Liberal candidates to form a Shadow Cabinet to Monitor and comment on provincial government of the the establishment of a leadership search committee and the adoption of the vigorously worded youth Wing Resolution would indicate the presence of a vibrant it must be remembered that the actions were taken by fewer than 40 people in a party with a precarious financial while the party has a deficit of Only which is Small compared to the of the opposition conservatives and the still larger deficit of the provincial new democratic liberals at the the smallest base of from which to get Back on their financial the starting Point will be the selection of a new the provincial Council correctly decided that the party cannot go Forward on the basis of a committee in the observers have described Liberal fortunes in Manitoba As having bottomed each time the Low Point sinks it is As was pointed out at the that Manitoba while failing to elect a single provincial still received a higher percentage of the vote than their cousins elsewhere in the it is True that of All the Western is the Only one to have elected Federal it is also True that like the other Western appears to have Little sympathy for liberals or Liberal the party has had four leaders who have been progressively less successful in turning around this each failure makes it More difficult to find anyone willing to try until someone is found who can clearly make a Case for the traditional Liberal Middleon therond course in liberals in this province will continue to support other political Walter Dinsdale at the very Start of his political Walter Dinsdale had few of the of a a modest War he was a Small City University teacher who took on the might of the then powerful Prairie Liberal machine and Defeated chosen future minister of Grant Dinsdale was full of the conviction and sincerity of youth in that first 31 years and it was this conviction and sincerity that brought him Dinsdale went winning 12 consecutive Federal to become a political giant of sorts he served in the Cabinet of John Diefenbaker arid became the member of parliament with the longest unbroken period of in recent it was ironic to see Dinsdale challenged precisely because of his age and his length of service by candidates who seemed unaware of his personal political Walter Dinsdale never forgot his obligation to his cons Titu the boundaries of Brando Souris changed during the time he represented but the new addition brought with it More voters who seemed entirely satisfied with dins Dales on several he had the distinction of being the first candidate declared elected after the polls closed in work extended beyond the Normal limits of political he received honors from organizations representing the because his interest in helping the disabled went far beyond his own family in Walter Dinsdale served Canada with the same dedication and spirit he had at the controls of his wartime night fighter cute Little commission faces big Job by Anthony Westell special to the free press Ottawa the recently appointed Royal commission on the economic Union and development prospects for Canada has a much bigger and More important Job than most commentators seem yet to have it is being asked to examine and to make recommendations on the Way in which we manage our National and also on Canadas place in a rapidly changing world economic critical issues in it is being asked to tackle two of the most critical and controversial issues concerning our National fun the economic Union is supposed to be managed by the Federal government in cooperation with the provinces and with advice from business and but it has been obvious for years that there is More conflict than co opera More hostility than spending and taxing Power has ebbed from Ottawa to the so that the provinces and their municipalities now spend far More than the Federal the in have begun to regulate inter est rates within their yet the provinces Bear almost no Public responsibility for the state of the and Federal provincial conferences intended to coordinate Strate Gies end More often in political Squab Bles than in the Federal government has recognized the need to draw business and labor economic but its efforts at unilateralism have been inf business has lost Confidence in Ottawa and organized labor is at War with4he the need for Reform of our National institutions is and that will prob ably require changes in the cons Titu a Royal commission could spend years on that subject but Donald Macdonald and his colleagues must at the same an even More Complex significant changes Are occurring in the world say the com missions terms of particularly in the sphere of Industrial Active the utilization of natural resources and movement of capital within and among countries existing economic relationships countries and among individuals and groups within countries Are characterized on the one hand by increasing interdependence and at the same time by intensified rapid shifts that putting it Western economies Are shifting rapidly from the Industrial to the postindustrial from the production of goods to the production of information and ser computers Are the engines of the new Economy which is International rather than National in technological Competition is and capital flows easily across with change in technology and eco nomic organization goes change in culture and in social and Artst students of the future agree that some form of a postindustrial society is emerging and out dating Many of cur political and economic the commission is in with exploring this future and finding in it a place for a boggles the mind and prompts sceptic waste of time it is customary in fact to be sceptical of Royal to regard them As just a Tim wasting device by which governments postpone to argue that their recommendations Are and some indeed prove to Bei a waste of time and a few prove to be of critical import for the Royal com Mission on bilingualism and a Cultura list produced a blueprint for action on the Issue of bilingualism just when it was needed to meet rising discontent among French others Are More important for the research they gather than for their they generate in identify problems and pro vide a forum for National the report the original Royal commis Sion on eco Zonjic prospects in the 1950s had Little immediate influence but remained a source of ideas years to the new Royal commission by to solve our but it May be Able to give us a broader measure of agreement on what the problems Are and the Range of possible gulags still exist i feel compelled to respond to naive and therefore dangerous com ments by Many dignitaries including our prime minister about Leonid Brezhnev and his policies while in Power in the soviet Many Are claiming that he stood but the evidence demands that we make a More honest Avraham Shifrin spent ten years in a soviet and gave testimony before the Senate subcommittee on International Security on february he stated although the concentration Camps House far fewer peo ple than they did during the Peak of stains the fact remains that there Are millions of prisoners in the concentration Camps and prisons of the soviet Union and that conditions Are just As bestial As they were in the Days of to our prime minister and others is this peace Shifrin said that there May be 100 Camps or More in a single the late liquid each one holding to prison Moscow has 27 huge prisons and in a City which tourists love so there is a huge concentration Camp with towers and barbed wire is this peace thousands of these prisoners Are there because of their Faith in the communists want to destroy All Reli when is it a crime for people to worship god is this peace Shifrin concluded his testimony to Congress by warning to the extent that the Kremlin is Able to repress All dissident it is Freer to engage in expansion and blackmail in his essay in time february 1980 Alexander Solzhenitsyn Felt that the period from 1945 to 1975 could be seen As another world War that was lost by the West without a and in which some two dozen countries were abandoned to comm is this peace John Craig Winnipeg discouraging As a person involved in a Small retail business in i know All too Well How Tough times the follow ing incident gives a but important insight into part of our while a customer was being attended two gentlemen wandered by the glanced our Way in voices loud enough to be heard several feet away said dont know How Hes staying in hell be the next to the tone of voice was not one of but full of it is a sad commentary on Peoples general seemingly they will be Only too Happy to see More Busin esses then they will finally spend or at bankruptcy for a hard working Small it is not too is it any wonder we Are in such a mess Harvey Cohen Winnipeg the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their flame and names will be used and letters Are subject to lights needed i returned from an agonizing two week trip to Winnipeg where my father and still confined in the intensive care unit of Misericordia to add to our great emotional was the impossibility of the Street from the Hospital parking lot to the As you must there is neither a Stop Light nor even a pedestrian crossing and on each visit we risked life and limb to visit especially when accompanied by my elderly it is critical that some changes be instituted so that cars do not come barrelling off the Bridge and around a Blind Corner to do possible bodily harm to those already Perien cing the personal trauma involved in visiting a patient in the Mona Werier Liebling los California Judas priest i am sure that i am not the Only person who is disturbed by the negative criticism which in the free press the Day following a Rock this has happened after concerts Given by harlequin a Winnipeg and Billy Squier after Judas it is not hard to see that the reviewer does not enjoy these particular assign his although eloquent in its is sarcastic and negative and lacks any positive hint of Praise or attending a Rock concert is an experience in and any one who does not enjoy Rock should not the Judas priest concert was enjoyed by these who came to see the the performance was of a highly professional Standard and the per formers instantly established communication with their i Hope Judas priest will return soon and i wish them continued the informative articles on our favorite Rock by Are enjoyed by All of Rylaarsdam Book sales soar the childrens Hospital Book Market volunteers wish to express their gratitude to the people of Manitoba for their continued support of this unique Cana Dian project of 22 last Mays Book Sale was a special one for our our dreams were fulfilled As our sales reached of which was turned Over to childrens Hospital of Winnipeg research foundation for paediatric re search two thousand dollars went to the Peter pan Volunteer club of childrens Hospital for child health the people of business firms and the news Media play a vital part in this worthwhile As we Are All medical research is very costly and research monies Are but the future health of our children depends on All of for this years miss Book Foury Earold Kelly Goshulak of is off her medication and in thanks to we urge you to continue your sup it takes All of us to make some Childs dream come Marie Burgess em1ilie Kerr May Davidson childrens Hospital Book Market volunteers Winnipeg listen to vets another remembrance Day has passed and what have we remembered not the arms race is becoming so out of proportion that i wonder if All who died for world peace died in i was i did not lose anyone in a but Many did lose someone cared our leaders Are holding talks discus sing cruise nuclear warheads and computerized in six minutes our country could be a blackened even if Only due to a computer if the people of the world could sit Down and remember the reason for memorial services on november perhaps we would not have to add any More names to the list of people we on remembrance Day we should listen to those who have lived and fought in times of if there is another War one thing is there will be no one left to Gwen Paquin Winnipeg High finance a recent and states that the health sciences Centre has placed privately five year debentures at per extendable at the option of the Holder for an additional 10 this is an Issue that has been approved by the Hospital the Manitoba health commission and the Capi Tal finance compounding the interest on the debentures will Cost the Public approximately on Quarter of a billion it has been estimated that a Toper cent sales tax would bring in a year to the provincial i suggest we put it on immediately for capital funding in two this would pay he Hospital the electrification of the transit system in another three would More than cover the estimated Cost of moving the up rail Yards out of Winni Hall Winnipeg addicted parents it seems to be sheer hypocrisy at a time when video game protests have reached fever More Bingo Halls Are being built and encouraged throughout a Large Safeway store at Mountain and Mcphillips has been converted into a Bingo similar to the video Rowdy smoke filled Bingo Halls Are equally mind unhealthy and tribute to family youngsters should Rise up and pro where Are their addicted parents tonight Charles Anderson Winnipeg a old owing to cutbacks tonight Coq news Wil be a repeat of last nights Coq ;