Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 27, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free Fooy Maibet 1982 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade feta Quality of civil rights Liberty of refit sort published six Days a at 300 Canton Wishni Perl r3c 3c1 by Canadian company limited Telephone win Illbeg mrs piss 1872 Tribune 1890 Donald Nogol John Dafoe editorial Page editor Muf Irav sure manage Rifle editor Rudy Redekop Contr ofter off on the wrong foot there is no worse Way for the chairman of the biggest Royal commission in Canadas history to begin his work than by having to define his own political any Royal to be needs a chairman who is widely regarded not Only As competent credible but also As politically Fco Hald act Donalds inquiry into Pur economic future is no Ordinary Royal its mandate is so vast that its chances of producing useful and persuasive recommendations Are doubtful in the Best of headed by a chairman who still insists that he May throw the whole thing up to pursue the leadership of the Liberal the chances Are greatly Macdonald insists rather than being intended As a launching pad for his own political the com Mission in As he offers the fact that his commissioners include two Jean who performed valuable service As Canadas High commissioner in and William one of the Lowe profile ministers in the Diefenbaker he would also like to find an though the closest he has come to Date is Gerard Canadian National director of the United steel workers whether those appointments will suffice to deodorize the commission remains to be certainly some of the More nonpartisan notably the economists Clarence Barber of the University of Manitoba and Albert Breton of the University of Toronto do add some needed credibility to the commissions lineup it will need All the credibility it can get it to is to be its terms of reference instruct it to study not Only Federal provincial financial As the Rowel Sirois commission or Canadas economic As the Gordon commission but almost every political and economic Factor which could affect canadians until the end of this to Wilt look at not Only constitutional arrange merits which will preserve the Canadian economic Union but also those that will protect individual it will not Only determine the appropriate shares of fiscal Power Ottawa and1 provinces but will also decide How to the Senate and change the system of election to to will not Only look at ways to improve productivity and steer investment in the most hopeful directions but will also produce ways in which management and labor can Stop squabbling and Start working All these Are important All have been debated at length in the past no will be in the but if the Macdonald commission is going to solve them All for then members of parliament and the provincial Legisla not to mention newspaper editorial can take the next two years off and wait for the in those problems Are Likely to be too big and too diffuse to be solved by a single Royal even one beginning its work under the Best of a search for consensus is essential in Many areas if Canada is to survive As a healthy and prosperous the Royal whatever its political May be a sign of repentance on the part of the government has done so much to destroy consensus in the past few but that search would have been better pursued in a variety of rather than to have been entrusted entirely to a politically suspect Royal improving Tabor management relations could have been entrusted to a group with particular expertise and particular interests in that reforming the Senate and Canadas electoral Laws would be better pursued by a parliamentary commit by rolling up All of Canadas problems into one big Ball and trying to solve them All at the government Way Well end up solving none of a Legal injustice the government was wrong to fire Neil the Revenue department official in Kingston who had publicly attacked government policy on metrication and the constr nobody should Ever be fired for holding political views different from his so Long As those views and the expression of them do not interfere with the discharge of his the Federal court of Canada has found that the Federal government had the Legal Power to fire Neil that decision is a step toward determining what the Law is in Canada an unhelpful step in this Case but it does not alter the unjust and unwise character of the governments most of the things governments do Are within the but Many of them Are that is a distinction prime minister Trudeau sometimes appears to have difficulty last when he was challenged Over the Long delay in calling the Timi Skam ing he pointed out that the Law permitted a delay of six months and wondered aloud whether the questioner meant that the Law was that sly confusion Between what the government ought to do and before a court of it can get away with should not be allowed to blur the injustice of Neil erasers nor should the unsatisfactory conclusions of the Federal court be allowed to stand As the last word on the Justice Louis for the wrote that a civil servant could impair his usefulness As a civil servant by criticizing government policies which were not related to his chief Justice wrote by taking the employment he forgoes his Freedom to do other things that he might prefer to do during his work he forgoes that same As to the extent that May be necessary for him to keep himself fit to do his Job he has the undoubted Freedom to stay up All night but he May have to forgo it to the extent necessary for him to be fit for his work the next Justice William also wrote that there must obviously be a Grey area Between Public criticism of policy that would clearly impair a Public employees usefulness in his position and that which would it has not been shown that Fraser opposition to government policy impaired his usefulness As a tax assessor in the Way that concerned Justice it certainly bore no comparison to the hypothetical civil servant chief Justice Thurlow was worried who arrived at work so Short of sleep that he was unable to carry his the Grey area that puzzled Justice Ryan undoubtedly does but the whole Job of judges is to draw Sharp lines through Grey not to lament their government employees will search in vain through the judges doctrines to find out whether they have any Freedom at All to speak or even to whisper against any government a More thorough statement is required from a higher Public service Alliance of Canada should find the to bring the matter before the supreme court of Canada not Only in Fraser interest but also in the interest of All the government employees who need to know what civic rights they if the supreme court finds that the statutes really do restrict those rights to such a Point that Fraser can be the statutes need Good a deficit Saskatchewan Premier Grant Devine is not the first Canadian political Leader to have benefited from a hand some nest egg left by his Premier Douglas Campbell left some Money tucked away for Duff Roblin to spend when he Premier of Bennett left a bit for Dave Barretts nip government in British but who would Ever have imagined a frugal nip government leaving a tidy budget to a conservative successor Only to see it blow its inheritance during its first term in that is what has happened in where Devines conservative government has just brought Down a budget projecting a deficit of former Premier Allan Blakeney blames the deficit on the fact that the new government has been spending Money like a Drunken abolishing the provincial gasoline tax and subsidizing Mort and his finance Robert an argue that the previous governments budget was nowhere near As tidy As Blakeney claimed it debt Ridden looking across the Border at a Mere deficit after years of balanced budgets or even will cherish the irony and wonder what All the fuss is Saskatchewan accustomed to their nearly 20 years of surpluses and balanced May take the matter More but voters tend to be More concerned about immediate Brendan butter issues than they Are about that is a sensible attitude so Long As their government do not fall into deficit financing in Good As Well As bad running up debts which Compromise their ability to Cope with new Premier Devine has obviously considered the alternative cutting services and has rejected he has made it Clear that his Lon term plans include the rerouting of some of Saskatchewan heritage fund Money away from Crown corporations and into programs which have a More visible and direct Benefit to individual residents of the i he is taking his time in the restructuring and has decided that a for which he is unwilling to take full is the Best option open to Only time will Tell whether the voters who embraced his cheap Gas and subsidized mortgages will Swallow the turnaround from Saskatchewan balance budget gallery Phil Mallette time for a cultural orgy by Christopher Dafoe special to the free press the arts and everything else Are pushed into the Shade during Grey cup the annual sports orgy is such a powerful Force in modern Cana Dian life that even those of us who have not attended a football game since the palmy Days of Indian Jack Jacobs and Glenn Dobbs face the Prospect of being drawn will Nilly into the at this moment i could not Tell you the names of the participating but i feel certain that All will be revealed to me before Kickoff even some sports fans now admit that professional foot As it is played is far closer to show business than it is to the greatest heroes of the Gridiron often enjoy a status similar to that once enjoyed Only by film stars and the game itself has taken on some of the trappings of the theatrical people who should know assure me that the last Down on the goal line during the final 30 seconds of a tied game can be matched for thrills Only by one of the More intense classical of Aeschylus or others have compared the struggles of giant footballers sweating in combat on the Gridiron to the epic clashes you read about in the old germanic legends so cleverly fashioned by Wagner into his celebrated operatic Cycle Der ring Das As a matter of i know a Man who watches the annual Grey cup football game on television with a recording of Gotherd ammering playing at full volume in the Back the gods of the Gridiron May not but those who witness their epic struggles have much in common with your average audience at attired in face mask and shoulder is a Force to reckon especially when the score is Grey cup weekend has been de scribed As a dionysian orgy wine and Beer flow hotels Are maid ens Are goal posts Are attacked in mobs surge through the streets chanting songs of lust and policemen Are insulted marriage vows Are the Laws of common decency Are flouted and that malady known As the hangover takes on epidemic in greek Art and the worship of artistic deities provoked outbursts of this in our own age sport alone or sport impersonating Sho Busi Ness brings out the beast that lurks in us when what might be called the sports urge is in full people in the Ordinary arts can Only look on with Wistful no artistic annual or provokes the wild and spectacular outburst of emotion encountered every year in Canada during the Grey cup rape and riot do for attend the annual opening of the Strat Ford John Hirsch May take an extra Glass of Champagne and stay up past but that hardly no performance by the Winni Peg chamber orchestra provokes riot ing in the the sports mania reflected in the annual Grey cup outburst is of fairly recent historians insist that the first Grey cup riot took place As recently As the late when a sober Cal Arian Rode an intoxicated horse into the lobby of the Royal York Art took a fairly Long time to get off the ground in this the too Busy Clearing the forests and bring ing in the was too weary at the end of the Day to enjoy let alone play a Bach fugue on the Prosperity and the Canada Council changed All the arts took Root where Only wheat had grown people began to sit up and pay Atten arts is still waiting for us some distance up the we have passed the polite applause stage in Many have entered the Era of the standing but the first real arts riot is still a thing of the Distant praying hard for All i there May be a Richard Ouzounian fan but its members do As riot in the streets following an Ouzounian opening at the it May come to that some Day Ouzounian is praying hard for the the coun try simply is not ready for the urge to smash up the stage May occur o some disgruntled members of the Audi ence following one of the less Success Ful theatrical but As yet the number of those who take things hard in the arts is not sufficient to make a mass eruption we will just have to wait for Twenty from now a push from Applebet the arts in Canada May Well be a Leto produce the sort of mass hysteria that engulfs the nation every cup for the time we will simply have to keep smiling and try hard not to look too think of the big game As a form of break a but make certain that it is not your staying warm As Toast on a fuel Bill of the last Winter in Saskatoon was one of the coldest in this Century but al his wife and four children were warm As on a fuel Bill of Only that was All it required to heat his Bungalow of Square feet for the entire year than one tenth of the Cost for a Standard a designed Bungalow in the highly successful Energy showcase to prove that great savings can be made in heating costs with proper i visited the House this week and was surprised to discover that it has no heat from the hot water system also heats the the House is airtight and Well insulated that sufficient heat is generated from the hot water Heater and distributed through a fan Coil the traditional heating system is no longer required in such Energy conserving Treppel although quite exclusive in its insulating fits into the Mold of Middle and upper class Homes in the it sold for about in about More than the conventional but Treppel figures savings in Energy will pay for the increased Cost in seven the House was designed with an extreme level of there Are double Walls with an air space Energy having houses a Boon to budgets for a total Width of 18 the vapor Barrier is on the outside of the Interior All the double glazed windows Are the insulation in the Walls and ceiling is at a level of compared to the average higher humidity one of the things we noticed immediately was the higher says our plants went we slept had fewer less in a conventional old about of the air changes per hour As it filters out through says the moisture moves out at the same Treppel House is so airtight that there is a Hazard of stale this is solved by a heat a device like a car that transfers the heat from the inside air As it flows out of the House to the cold air coming we continually get fresh says my Choice would be to have a couple of windows that can be particularly in authorities say it can and should be for such windows can be constructed to Val Werier a Benefit More than i disa Dvan insists when questioned the sealed wife says theres virtually no Dpt in the we Are also isolated from the noise of winds and its a secure the Treppel House was one 14 constructed by builders As an Experiment to prove that great savings in Energy can be it was an cooperative venture sparked by the province of and included agencies of the Federal the and the University of because of the innovative project and the great display of the Canadian housing de sign Council this week honoured the major Dana chairman of the Prairie seated the group with certificates of this and other ventures have Given Saskatoon the reputation of being the Energy innovator in the in terms of residential Garem of the National search says thit Gss tettion the or Ettesv number of Energy efficient Hong in ail types and anywhere in the delegations of Danes and themselves very competent in this Type of re have visited As Well As others from the United states and the rest of the economics of Energy saving houses has been so Well demonstrated that 90 per cent of new houses built in Saskatoon have these says Keith president of Victory in Winnipeg houses Are being built that Are Low on by companies such As flair de Green custom says a Square foot Bungalow in a Normal year will Cost to to the heat comes from electric baseboard the Home has double and Grzenda says it costs about More than the conventional no basement the first conservation House was built in Regina in 1978 As a demonstration project by the province of Sas today it is heated at Only a says gob head of the department Oil mechanical Engi peering of the University of Sash catch wan at and this is a House of to is Jurre Jet on a but with the same Basic features of Energy the Ehm difference is that the Regina House has no and a basement can account for a lot of heat Besant department monitored the consumption of the 14 Energy showcase Homes from january 1980 to june on Fiey consumed on third to on half of the Energy of conventional Besant discovered that the literature available on heat losses was for basement floors accounted for 41 per cent of the heat loss in the 14 the remedy is simple insulate the basement another problem was the proper installation of heat found out that the main prob lems for future design were in attics and says Besant Many other interesting conclusions were among them that a insulated airtight House with Southern exposure windows obtained 20 per cent of its heat from the flt St is a significant free source of exploited by All the 14 there is a message to the Public says Besant a House of Jot Energy consumption is not necessarily a Freak and in fact is More Able cold no condensation no cold it is a Clear rebuttal to those who would have us Jive in plastic or borrow underground save on ;