Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 26, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba S wife Peg free it 1982 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of of Eligoh published six Days a at 300 Garlton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited telephone9439331 Winnipeg free press 1872 Winnipeg Tribune 1890 Donald Rico publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller living with it is top easy to dismiss As bigotry of racism the anxieties of Rural Manitoban Over the expansion of Hutt Erite Colon those who have objected to Hutt Erite expansion Jive sounded unenlightened but by Urban Liberal Hutt Erite society is not particularly simply taking sides for or against Hutte rites solves Noth the expressions of anxiety at the convention of the Union of municipalities Are a signal that the interests of Hutt Erite colonies and those of their neighbors do conflict or May a set of arrangements needs to be arrived at with the help of the provincial government which will be consistent with the fundamental principles of an open including Freedom of religion and Freedom of and which will accommodate so far As possible both the legitimate wish of Rural and Small town people to maintain their communities according to the familiar pattern and the legitimate wish of Hutt Erite colonies to pursue their traditional Way of life and their religion and to keep a Little distance Between themselves and the control of land has attracted the most the history of Ireland and the history of the Middle East Are there As warnings that Competition for land and difference of religion can Combine in an explosive Manitoba problems Are nowhere hear As nor its methods As As those of Ireland and the Middle but the examples show the depth of feeling that May eventually arise if the Public authorities ignore the grievances that have been voiced and allow them to but control of land is not by itself the Central and a Law or policy aimed at preventing Hutt Erite colonies from buying besides being incompatible with the freedoms of would miss the the Union of municipalities was quite right to reject hat it should be remembered that the same Laws and opportunities which Hutte rites use to their collective advantage Are open equally to everyone others choose not to band together in such intense and self sacrificing collective they enjoy greater individual Freedom As a but the Price they pay is that no individual Farmer can Wield the Market Power of a hut Terife the Hutte rites Are not to blame for they did not write the Laws of Canada or of which they scrupulously the unwritten rules of Rural and Small town life demand a kind of neighbourliness which is unknown in everyone knows everyone else who is visiting who is in financial what happened at the Curling rink and what unusual incident upset the routine of the school everyone children the family that tries to stand apart from that kind of neighbourliness becomes an object of gossip and mild when a whole Cluster of proclaiming their apart Ness in ownership of contiguous a measure of economic self sufficiency and collective stands apart from a degree of hostility perhaps Mankind should hot be that but Rural and Small town Mankind is that Way arid always Jias Hutt Erite colonies from their system of the advantages of great Market Power and of Listii Trig the challenges to their values and beliefs to which a More free and easy Contact with the wider society might expose theft but pay a Price in renouncing individual Freedom and in the unmistakable chill in their neighbors feelings toward without without seeking to Lay blame or to take the provincial government should find quietly but what the record has been and what the future probably1 holds in Between Hutt Erite colonies and their the Premier is entitled to hear from Hutt Erite leaders How they see the future evolution of their colonies Over the next few he is entitled to hear whether Fiey consider that expansion of existing colonies or creation of new ones has an Impact on businesses and social dynamics of nearby communities and whether they consider they should collaborate with school Board and provincial authorities to find ways to mitigate that he is entitled to hear from levelheaded spokesmen for the Nonu Sterite Rural interest what the effect of Hutt Erite expansion has How much of the hostility arises from real injury and How much from vague or groundless fears that could easily be banished by a Little Frank specific problems should be identified and dealt Are dropping enrolments in of Colony schools seen As a prob Lem surely a basis can be found for educating both Hutt Erite and Nonu Sterite children without prejudice to the local school or to the religious and traditional character of the Hutt Erite is ignorance a problem a Little Public relations work by Hutte rites might go a Long Way to build on the immense respect they already As efficient As Shawd businessmen and As people of High principle and deep and to add to that respect a degree of warmth that is now Hutte rites know this world Well enough to know that material Success Breeds that bigness makes Little people apart Ness arouses those Are not just crosses that the pious must Bear they Are also social realities which the big and successful and self Solat ing must Deal no frightful Likely to arise soon either from the operations of Hutt Erite colonies or from the outcry against but life will be a whole lot easier All and much future grief May be if the government listens to the listens to their gets them to listen to each other and persuades them at least to try to understand and accommodate each others needs and let Petrovan Cut prices if environment minister John Roberts has a valid study that sets the Cost of producing unleaded gasoline just half a Centa litre higher than producing the leaded he does not need to wring Bis hands in Public about the Lack of social responsibility of Oil companies which five times the he needs Only to open the Federal governments window on the Oil Industry and instruct pet Ocanada to offer unleaded gasoline at a Price that reflects the True Cost of producing instead of issuing warnings about the dangers to Canadian children posed by the use of leaded Roberts within his the Best Means to persuade canadians to use the no polluting if unleaded gasoline costs Are just half a cent a litre below the Cost of producing leaded fuel of equivalent octane Roberts should be Able to persuade his Cabinet colleagues to reduce the Federal tax by the equivalent of one cent a the for Canadian would be unleaded fuel at a Price of up to five cents a gallon less than the cheapest leaded canadians would do their duty by the Environ ment without any More encouragement than in the history of unleaded gasoline shows that canadians were willing to protect the environment by paying five cents a gallon More for unleaded fuel when it was first it was not until the switch to metric and the coincident escalation of the Price of unleaded fuel to the Point where it was tworan Dahal cents a or nearly 12 cents a higher than leaded fuel that buyer resistance really started to set at this Price canadians More willing to sacrifice the environment Tanto further deplete their at this substantial difference in canadians were apparently willing to enlarge their Gas tank intakes so that they use cheaper and there have been reports of service station operators who actually sold leaded Gas As at the higher with his latest Roberts has the suspicions of Many canadians that the Cost of producing unleaded gasoline was not 12 cents a gallon More than the Cost of producing the old leaded if the actual added Cost is half a cent a or less than three cents a it is a difference that can be readily offset by a reduction in the Federal a reduction that should be accompanied by the maximum amount of should these moves not Roberts and the Federal Cabinet should have no hesitation about using their window on the Oil Industry to protect the there is no need to get involved in Price or for pet Ocanada to require additional Public pet Ocanada needs Only to offer unleaded Gas at the Price the governments environment experts say reflects the True the motorists will do the the threat to medicare by Leonard Shufrin special to the free press Ottawa the talk has been about family health min ister Monique begin told the social policy session at the recent Liberal policy but the Issue on which universality is really in danger is the scenario she proceeded to paint for the delegates of How easily our medicare system could collapse like a House of is indeed the most imminent danger facing Canadas so Cial safety amid a multitude of no one seems to be disaster the medicare disaster scenario sees by doctors with the Gap Between what the health plan pays and what doctors particularly specialists demand growing this eventually leads to Calls for supplementary insurance to cover those extra and that brings the private insurance companies Back into the in no time at it is like the premed care Days All Over those who belong to Well paid work groups Are protected by group insure others who can pass the physical and afford the buy individual everyone Only second class health care is available if they can find even it is years now since extra Billing began to Blossom in Cana a Survey taken a few months ago in the province where it is most found one person in four reluctant to visit a doctor because of the almost 20 per cent said they had actually put off seeing a doctor for that reason needless to not the to income 20 per Royal commission three years Ottawa commissioned a study by Justice Ermett whose 1964 Royal commission report led to the National medicare find out How serious a problem extra Billing really two years he reported that it could scarcely be More if it is permitted to he it Over last the Federal and provincial health ministers finally got around to considering that miss begin went into that Feder a provincial echoing Halls finding that for medicare to be saved extra Billing had to be and she came out echoing the prov inces claim that it merely needed to be since the 11 governments have allegedly been at work designing a new Canada health act which would embody rules to control the so called negotiations have been deadlocked and going no where almost from the Day they the proposal Ottawa put Forward was it wanted Ontario style ground rules for that Means a doctor who wants to schedule has to opt omit of direct participation in the medicare thereof what the plan would have paid to the doctor is sent to the patients in and the doctor May have to Chase them to collect that was Fine with the provinces which already use a but to such As which permit doctors to claim from the plan directly while charging their patients it was an unacceptable Federal intervention in their Sovereign higher fees what they actually feared was that some extra Billing doctors might de cide not to opt out under those circus res stances and would demand higher medicare fees instead the other Federal was that if extra Billing exceeded cer Tain Levels in a province to put it another the proportion of health a plan fell below eral1 contribution would be reduced that All provinces was a scandalous How dare Ottawa even consider reducing its health care contributions just because a province want using them for the intended purpose As appalling As the current stale mate it int difficult to imagine if Ottawa capitulates on imposing real controls Over then medicare Fate will be and with everyone but the doctors lobby More concerned with other mat it could a Ripoff a correspondent recently criticized the Imperial system of measurement he it originated from the size of King henrys the metre originated from an attempt to measure an arc of the neither measurements related to a reproduce Able the metre was later defined exactly with reference to the distance Between two lines engraved on a bar of which is kept at the Bureau of weights and measures in the Yard was defined As an exact fraction of this same but the most enduring alloys do not endure so the present International Standard of length is a particular Orange radiation emitted by an isotope of Krypton in an electrical the Standard metre is wavelengths of this the Standard Yard is wavelengths of this the Imperial system has its Adan a length can be divided by five or seven by so subdividing the the multiples of foot and Yard provide Low and convenient num Bers when used to make measurements that relate to and our in it is preferable to leave an adequate As it rather than spend millions of dollars of taxpayers Money on the unnecessary imposition of a new because a private firm might get a contract within the 10to20 per cent of our offshore Trade which is with metric the Road signs in Manitoba must All be if the private firm gets a contract to build or Cut in let it do so at its own sex they take the the change to metric is an Opportunity for the five Pound package became the two Kilometre the quart became the a loss of 12 per cent in each the biggest Ripper offer is the Federal with its sneaky increases in taxes per litre of fuel and and that in a cold country in which transport is a Basic necessity of the Economy and fuel a Basic necessity of Linford Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to puritans Henry j not is foot i must come to the defence of the free press with regard to its Publica Tion of the cartoon Steinbach free october the drawing was quite appropriate in its accurate analogy of the Steinbach school Board As possessing the mentality of an Era Long these townspeople who suppressed their childrens individual Choice to have a Rock con Cert wielded their religious righteous Ness As if it were indeed a in a progressive society such As exists today in North it is sad to see that some people Are still subjected to the paranoid behaviour that these Steinbach residents Dos Labelling Rock music As evil and detrimental comes dangerously close to the attitude of religious zealots who Burn books and other As is a Puritan is a person who lives in the constant fear that somewhere is having a Good i think this accurately describes the Steinbach school congratulations to the free press for showing the incident in its True Blaw cos Gruye Winnipeg Das Boot with the end of the second world War almost 40 years into our i feel it is time that the countries that fought against nazi Germany gave present Day germans some help in dealing with a uncomfortable leg there is Little doubt since the end of the germans have been doing a lot of soul searching in an attempt to Deal with their role in the but to this Point have been largely germans now live in a divided coun try on ground that holds the largest concentration of nuclear weapons any where in the world and quite possibly ground Zero in the event of another worst of they live with the Nightmare that was hitlers nazi Ger Hitler had the by and of the German while those of us today look Back on Hitler As an insane dictator who brought the world to the Brink of to the German who suffered the humiliation of the first world War and the unworkable ver Sailles Hitler was their Sav with the Rise of germans had their Economy grew and they regained National but the fact remains that Many even from the Start of hitlers Rise to did not support in Hitler was he did not Trust the berliners and rarely ventured there As he saw his Power base As the bavarian capital of among members of the armed a similar situation while Hitler restored the army and gave birth to the Many of those who served despised Hitler and the nazi they fought because their country was not to push Nai of special note is a West German film entitled Das Boot or the the film gives an incredible insight into the lives of the men who fought and died in hitlers there were Many who Brand those who manned the boats As cowards who preyed on helpless merchant shipping crossing the nothing could be further from the i do not believe that image is held by the men of the Canadian Navy who fought the in his Book bloody Winter Captain John Waters wrote the men of the boats were painted As the blackest of villains guilty of the Wanton killing of thousands of defenceless merchant but death from Torp Doeing was no death bombing nor a Convoy of armed merchant men covered by warships a defenceless further wrote Schull life for German boat Crews was an ordeal uncomfortable even to imag in the cramped interiors of the steel shells which might Well be their tombs they spent As Long As three months with Only an occasional glimpse of Stormy sunlight or a breath of fresh these boat Crews fought with All the their Allied counter parts did of who went into the boats Only this is not an attempt to excuse anything the Nail their crimes must never be present Day germans Are in a despot ate search for their identity and need the support of other films such As pcs Boot should be widely seen to present a fairer picture to people like who were spared the Nightmare of the second world mjg Haeft spas Jaq irate ratepayer this is addressed to All both Fulland Par time residents of the Winnipeg to Appeal their assessment on land and buildings in some has increased in excess of 200 per effective Are you prepared to have your municipal taxes increased by a similar amount if Council in its determination feels justified to improve its municipal tax Revenue without adjusting the Mill rate at the same time sustain the revised assessment property taxes could the ongoing economic decline is a primary Force in the continuing difficulties being experienced by All walks of life it should be a requirement Council and school trustees initiate a broader process of Public pre budget consultations on the specific tax changes under in these Days of limited disposable income and economic our elected representatives should respond Accord As a express your con write councillor and in addition submit your letter of Appeal to the town of Winnipeg Shaw Winnipeg welled russians the funeral spectacle in Moscow for Leonid Brezhnev shocked not be cause of the death of Brezhnev but by what we expected to see an what we actually we All know russians walk around in that their locomotive boilers Are giant wooden barrels held together by steel hoops and Only the firebox is made of Iron because they have no steel to speak i do not How they managed to put on that welled look because we All know they have not enough to eat and starve if we did not sell them our i suspect that All those magnificent buildings Tinat we saw Are what Digap me is that we know How miser Able things Are in we have been educated to expect How things really Are in Moscow instead they dress up in their Best take on look just to fool what is the matter with these rus sians dont they know what is expected of them Mike taczynsk1 punitive tax people Are beginning to realize just How bad the nip governments percent tax on employees earnings really even Frances Russell now admits it is no laughing the tax is a self serving piece of political it was introduced because the government thought it was politically smart and that the Public was stupid to see that it would have to pay this hidden there was no concern for what was Best for the no concern for Small no concern for workers who would lose their the Public is realizing that it was deliberately and that it really is a tax on so much for political the so called excl Siv mandate of the Janzen Winnipeg now heres what i better better fringe ;