Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 30, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free november Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published six Days a week at 300 Carton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press 1872 Winnipeg Tribune 1890 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller the Cai needs a focus f Winnipeg Core area initiative lacks a control Ling objective around which All the participants can rally and which can serve As the test of which projects should be undertaken and which should if someone could find and that commanding a certain amount of nonsense might be winnowed out resistance of neighbor Hood groups and passivity of private capital might cease to such Large obstacles to the Success of the the control system would work a great Deal better if the joint captains could Tell the Community what their destination no one has yet said in one sentence what the Core area initiative a bit of it is helping inner City residents renovate their which has been going on for years and another bit is persuading employers to build manufacturing plants in the inner bit is helping the inner City unemployed qualify for existing another bit is assembling and Clearing land Ifor downtown another bit is helping neighbor Hood groups build and operate daycare centres and clinics and recreation centres and the another bit is finding reuses for buildings around old Market another bit is pret tying up parts of Osborne Provencher Selkirk Avenue and perhaps main an f other bit is doing something about schools this portmanteau strategy ensures that plenty of people have a stake in one Little Corner of the in the particular program that appears to Protr Tise benefits for but in the absence of a override focussing there is no basis for making the Trade offs that Are necessary when the various purposes the resulting dissipation of million and of the of Public authorities is one the dissipation of Public especially the support of private employers and developers who might be willing to climb aboard a ship whose captains appeared to know where they were is a More serious the original Core area partners appeared to be committed to bringing new Industrial Plant to the inner City to employ people who live the new provincial it turned is not prepared to do that at the expense of Clearing an existing on closer it is less than obvious that plants have to be located in the Core in order to employ Core the Aims of having More people live in the Core and having More people work there have come in conflict and the strategy of the Core area agreement offers to basis for resolving the Winnipeg has a great Deal of downtown development work still to do along the streets South of Portage Avenue before it will have a downtown of the Quality a City of this size can but the Core area partners Are trying to push downtown development further North of Portage and perhaps East of main on land probably better suited for other the alms of strengthening the downtown and of distributing economic benefits to Core area people who have not shared in downtown Prosperity have quite unnecessarily been brought Ritto once the strategy Laid Down in the agreement offers no basis for picking one course or the criticism has been directed at the control Structure of the the committee of one mayor and two ministers and the Core area office which has proved unable to bring about speedy agreement on crucial issues among the participating but major Reform of the control Structure by itself is unlikely to concentrate Community efforts in a More focussed what would help More would be a clearly stated purpose and a stripping away of secondary or contradictory juggling premiums most Manitoba motorists Are Likely to regard the modest increases in next years aut Opac Premium rates As something almost Akin to a in today inflation oriented anything that increases by less than the rate of inflation is often considered to be a Price reduction of in the Light of Auto acs healthy performance during the past two it could Well be argued that the provincial governments insurance Agency ought to be in a position to announce Price reductions rather than increases for some Manitoba aut Opac in the past two taken significant Steps to increase the Protection available to Manitoba and to Iron out some obvious areas of unfairness in the application of its this years decision to allow Young Drivers to pay regular at least until they become part of the statistical Accident pattern that appears to plague their age is a Good it follows last years decision which allowed Manitoba for a Small additional to insure themselves against or under insured Drivers who might cause them serious and costly As the decision to establish the highest no fault benefits anywhere in North America for Manitoba motorists is a commendable departure from earlier practices of fixing but not on a no fault the equalization of Drivers licence rates for both sexes flies in the face of accepted insurance because on the Are safer Drivers than men and have in the past benefited financially from this it is a move that is in keeping with the times and with sexual those leave some questions about aut Opac most Given the Finan Cial reports of the last two whether it is in business to deliver adequate insurance at a breakeven Cost or whether it exists to provide the province with funds to spend in areas not remotely connected with automobiles or last aut Opac recorded a modest sur but still increased this the Agency is predicting a surplus but is on increasing aut Opac has almost a full years premiums tied up in goo works Many of which Are not returning anything close to current interest it by its own nearly on fifth of a years total premiums in ready when aut Opac was being set those advocating the government entry into the insurance including Premier Howard who was responsible for establishing the argued that a government insurance program would need neither investments or things that caused premiums to remain unnecessarily an insurance company that was in effect the government could be considered Able to pay its at that one member of the government front Sidney was frankly in favor of the Agency so that it could also generate Money for other government purposes and greens version is the one that has at the very the juggling of premiums appears to give less than Justice to those Drivers with the Best claims those in groups whose claims do not exceed 90 per cent of premiums paid will have their premiums but even those whose claims represent 130 per cent of premiums will face an increase of Only nine per someone else has to be paying the it would appear that some of those in the groups aut Opac says claim less than 90 per cent of their premiums in fact claim much so much less that they Are subsidizing the other in Normal prac they should have their premiums the government backs off quietly John Crosbie says despite its handsome Lead in the the progressive conservative party remains Vulner he is though it is difficult to see that Crosbie is doing much to decrease that vulnerability by joining with those in the party who keep sniping at the leadership of Joe As Crosbie the Liberal despite its Low Public esteem at the has a tactical advantage because it can choose the timing of the next the Job of the conservatives is to build a party that will appear to canadians As an acceptable alternative government when Ever the election is it is More Likely to appear like an acceptable alternative if it gets Over its perennial Squab bling about its in undermining his Leader and pushing his own ambitions is not Crosbie says he wants the leadership question dealt with and dealt with in the Best of at the Best of issues of leadership Are Seldom dealt with when Crosbie gets no Issue is dealt with at any volume much less than a mild by Wilson special to the free press Ottawa not since the great de pression has there been such a grim recession in the and not since then has recovery Octen left so fully to the private sector of the rather than being attacked through govern ment yet in this shifting of responsibility away from government is being carried out by the most interventionist Federal administration this country has Ever seen in the motivation clearly has no philosophical but arises entirely from the restrictive the govern ment sewed around itself the years of fiscal irresponsibility from 19741975 curious there is an even More curious contradiction Between the interventionist philosophy of the Trudeau government since it regained Power in 1980 and its approach to the surging problem of it left action entirely to the limited methods available to the Bank of Canada arid did none of the quite obvious other things open to a Sharp crackdown on credit would have stopped the inflationary and speculative Boom in housing prices the government kept a Handoff approach to the takeover with All its inflationary until Bank of Canada governor Gerald Bouey finally was Able to prod finance minister Maceachen into Tion Long after the government should have and the present finance minister was one of those encouraging takeovers in the Energy sector where they contributed to his the disastrous 1981 get made no concessions to the private sector far from nor did the later 1982 in spite of the free fall of the there had been none of the necessary consultation which would have averted some of the disastrous Steps that have contributed to the depth of the until the arrival of Marc Lalonde at the finance depart ment at the government attitude to the private sector was unequivocally government knows Best even when it was abundantly Clear that most of the responsibility for economic recovery was being left to the private since Lalonde replaced Mac Eachen the style has changed radically and wholly for the unlike his Remote and withdrawn Lalonde has consulted widely and has responded quickly to Well founded criticism of government positions taken before he arrived at the finance his very limited Steps to create some jobs were dictated by the straitjacket already re straining the his eco nomic statement or min budget was responsible and probably did a Little to Start some recovery of but it should be remembered that at the Energy the same Lalonde was the most interventionist minister in the Trudeau minister replies the article by Fred Cleverley tiny Price difference lost free november 25 on the Western Power Grid is based on it is not surprising then that the conclusions drawn Are there is a very serious matter which involves the editors of the free Cleverley quotes Robert Mon the former president of the Saskatchewan Power As say ing Manitoba position in the Grid negotiations was like the old Sterling Lyon not Only were the positions different in important but Moncur in fact never said they were but the free press already knows about this inaccurate quote attributed to according to a letter received from he states i have never said your last proposal was a lot like the old Sterling Lyon it is not he goes on to say that i have talked to Winnipeg Csc radio reporter and two different Winnipeg newspaper reporters a Fitzgerald Long Spruce station from the free press and Lyle Sinkewicz reporting for Southam 1 told them All that i was president at the time of the that i was mis and what i thought the actual facts As you the free press at that time chose not to report these inac it is astonishing that Cleverley did not Check his sources even though he quoted on the other Sinkewicz Story was reported in the Brandon Sun on october he reported who lost his Job with the change of government in Sakatch also agreed with Parasiuk that the main reason for the collapse of the negotiations was a dramatic softening of the economies of Alberta and Sas due to the termination of the big Oil projects and the resulting drop in Hydro requirements for the the government of Manitoba was and remains committed to the Western Power Grid provided that equitable terms can agreed to by the the agreement pursued by the former government exposed Manitoba to unacceptable the proposal advanced by the present government spread these risks More evenly among the the Likely Prospect of Federal financial assistance also reduced the provinces risk i am confident that Manitoba proposal would have been the basis for an agreement among the three provinces had not a devastating recession inter changing the buyers views of the desirability of Power Public discussion and rational debate is required on the Western Power Grid As on any other topic of economic what is important though is that this discussion not be based on inaccuracies and on quota Lions that were not Wilson Parasiuk minister of Energy and mines Winnipeg much further Down that Road than even Herb his economic statement pragmatic but that was not the Quality evident in his Energy Security omnibus Bill last Winter which stalled the House of nor was it the underlying Quality evident in the Tough and candid speech he delivered to the Canadian society of new York last the Point of recalling the previous Marc Lalonde is not to attack the pres ent one but to suggest that they Are in fact the same Man As anyone would he claims pragmatism approaching the nations economic problems with almost rid Freedom of he accepts reality and is but that is no proof that in different circumstances he would be less interventionist than in the optimistic forced to leave economic recovery largely to the private he takes of Short term economic prospects May be a on the optimistic there May be some political Wishful thinking behind since the latest american indicators do not Sug Gest that recovery in the United states is quite As imminent Assoc of the Lalonde forecasts suggest he like everyone he is aware that he belongs to a government that at mid term is on the ropes and that if it Hopes to avoid decimation at the next election it must win Back some before that Liberia party owes it to the country to answer the question Lalonde Cah Noty is it pragmatic or doctrinaire letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to arbitrary sour grapes bouquet for to the Post office has taken a lot of knocks those of us who count on second class mail service to distribute Small circulation magazines or special interest newspapers have been especially critical of slow and haphazard now Canada Post deserves a Pat on the in the past three the delivery of our newspaper in Winni in Ontario has improved Weare grateful for this improvement and Hope it we also Hope it spreads to other parts of Western Canada where the old delivery problems the hundreds of cultural and other special interest periodicals that circulate in Canada play an in though rarely role in linking canadians together and promoting the values that can enrich our since most of us operate on a shoestring and serve readers scattered across a huge we need a dependable and reasonably priced de livery All Canada Post actions that bring that Ideal closer Are App re Allan Siebert editor men ignite reporter Winnipeg seniors lose in this Day and age we should All be extremely aware of preventative medi sport activity for our senior Citi Zens should be one of our prime con they will soon be in the and we should do All in our Power to make sure that they enjoy their Well deserved Golden there is no question that a Large percentage of our seniors is unable or afraid to go out on our City streets after dark Why deprive them of an activity that they can participate in during the Day swimming classes and group exercise the reference is in regard to charging seniors for an hour of swi mining and exercise in our Public pools once or twice a week usually at or noon for citizens Over 65 years of annual passes of per person May not seem a Large amount to people still in the but it is a Large amount to those who exist on old age pensions of Winnipeg City Council should certainly be urged to reconsider its Deci Sion in this three cheers to Harold Brown for his letter pointing out this matter to those of us who were ignorant of the proposed the majority of doctors will agree that moderate including is the most important preventative measure that one can take to ensure Good let us not deprive our seniors of this excellent Margot in Winnipeg wrong numbers the answers column free november 15 gave pinatas latitude As degrees a path and its Longitude As degrees those values would put you on the wrong Side of the Winnipeg 23 Kilometres East of Pinawa at a lonely spot just South of 3ryan the Correct coordinates for Pinawa Are latitude 5045 degrees Longi tude degrees Arthur Williamson the Issue is not that mandatory Seatbelt and helmet Laws would re Duce traffic it is a matter of personal no government has the right to arbitrarily decide what is Good for the individual Over his and i will not support any politician who tries to dictate what is Good for whether i like it or what would you Call a state which determines How an individual leads his life no doubt the soviet Union has mandatory helmet Steve Doroshuk Winnipeg less government the objective for Accord ing to the two professors being inter viewed on Csc radio is to attract without capital there will be Little Job creation and continuing recession and what is our present government doing about this it is establishing income first it was the land lords so that now property investment Money is leaving the now it is the doctors whose income is to be who is to be next if the government systematically goes about legislating lower income earning potential for the citizens of Why should anyone invest Here for that will anyone have any Money to invest Here what is needed is a return to free that Means less govern lower taxes and an investment climate that permits profits and allows individuals to earn income without Ern ment if Manitoba does not change the present we will wind up with the cheapest rents and the lowest doctors Bills in we will also be live in substandard housing and pay the High est provincial tax rates in Canada Buller Winnipeg recent letters indicated resent ment present in Manitoba concerning the doctors dispute with i sour grapes attitude distressing the solution is if you think a doctors life is so become one and you too can have the same so called privileges of the the amount of responsibility a phys Ician carries cannot be minimized As some have been trying to doctors literally hold our lives in their can other professions make the same claim i am grateful that there Are people who want to become in any with everyone so Busy personally attacking the medical pro real issues Are being Over this is not an Issue Only concerning the physicians of it is an Issue that concerns the preservation of every individuals Freedom of if we do not support the doctors in their struggle with the who will help us when it is our turn Nancy Zettler Winnipeg i dont know How you pulled it off Feyt the Tyck i ;