Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 2, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published six Days a week at 300 Carlton 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 wrong Way to Reform Henry or his chosen agents in this Are free to take their chances with Manitoba juries if they go ahead with their plan to establish an abortion clinic in Winnipeg in apparent contravention of the criminal they should expect that a trial in Winnipeg will automatically follow the pattern in where Morgentaler was three times found not guilty of performing illegal nor should they expect actor Ney general Roland Penner to abandon his duty to uphold the Law simply because he and the democratic party happen to disagree with quite has made no such the 1969 amendment to the criminal code of which permitted abortions during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy when a Hospital abortion committee determined the life or health of the Mother was is clearly it is bitterly opposed by anti abortionists who Point that it is often interpreted so widely that it permits abortions to take place when there is no real threat to life or it is opposed by pro abortionists because it still deprives Many women of the Safe and cheap abortion to which they feel they Are the Way to change that Law is through rational the process of persuasion is always going to be emotional because abortion is an emotional touching the deepest feelings of those on both but the Issue is never going to be resolved if the debate is left entirely in the hands of the Henry Morgentaler and the Joe Borowskiy trading insults and references to there Are no baby kill ers on either Side of the abortion debate but Only people who have deeply differing views of Morgentaler and Borowski no believes deeply in his own but Public policy has to be settled on another Public policy has to be based on facts and the facts Are that a substantial number of mostly Young and mostly Are going to feel impelled to have an that feeling will exist whether abortion is Legal or when abortion was outlawed in Many women went to backstreet abortion often with brutal and tragic now that changes in the Law permit limited Access to those who can do so go through the Hospital committees and get the operation those who Are still frustrated because of delay or because there is no Hospital available nearby where abortions can be often go from Manitoba they go to North or Toronto still to the illegal Public of cannot be divorced from Morali those who take the moral View that abortion is murder cannot be expected to accept it under any Circum but All the evidence indicates that the majority of whatever else they might believe that the Law should not impose that View on those who Are convinced that they have no alternative to an abortion or on doctors who feel they should perform the if the Law is to reflect that the majority who hold it must persuade government that they Are As dedicated and sincere As those in the passionate minority who oppose abortion under any that persuasion will not be accomplished by Morgentaler calculated Provo a preserving the Deer indians who Hunt for food on unoccupied Crown land have More interest than anyone else in maintaining the wildlife herds that Are their food if someone in an Indian Community Hunts abusively or excessively so that the wildlife is his neighbors in the same Community will know about it Long before anyone in the provincial government or the provincial wildlife organizations or in the Union of the province should look for a Way of delegating to band councils or to bodies controlled by them the Power to regulate Hunting and the responsibility to maintain wildlife at least in parts of the province where indians account for most of the delegates to the convention of the Union of municipalities last week seemed to imagine that the province might impose limits on Indian Hunting in the interest of maintaining the numbers of game animals and of eliminating the practice of which seems to the recreational Hunter to be distinctly but the province has no Power to repeal the treaties Between the Crown and the Indian bands nor to repeal its natural resources Transfer agreement with the Federal which Are the bases of Indian Hunting rights in the that is a Blind but it remains that the numbers of Deer and Moose Are finite while possibilities for status indians on unoccupied Crown land Are particularly with the Aid of modern vehicles and equipment and it is theoretically possible for a few Indian Hunters to wipe out the game in some Hunting in the for or around the pegu is chief Louis Stevenson has forcefully reasserted the right of status indians to he has not shown what his band or others propose to do in order to prevent abusive or excessive Hunting and to maintain the numbers of game How Many Deer does chief Stevenson consider should be taken each year in the Interlake and what controls Are his band Council and others in the Region willing to establish to ensure that the number is not exceeded does he approve of the practice of indians Selling Deer carcases or Venison to no indians is he aware that such transactions happen that traffic is damaging both because it depletes the Stock of game and because it makes nonsense of the claim that indians need to Hunt in order to feed their what role Are band councils willing to play in stamping out that traffic chief Stevenson May find it in protesting the stance of the Union of to talk about Hutte rites and jews and the Kun flux but they Are not the Point at the Point is numbers of game animals and the effect of unlimited he is quite right that the province cannot take away Indian Hunting but Indian bands will destroy their own Hunting rights if they allow a few of their members to Hunt so aggressively or so irresponsibly that there is no game left to it would be insane to repeat in this Century with the Deer in the Woodlands what was done to the Buffalo on the Plains in the last Indian bands should be proposing a program of action to make sure that tragedy will not be Howard Pawley Lyon Tamer a sacred agriculture policy the jury is still out both agriculture minister Bill Uruski and cattlemen association president Lany Clifford seem to be trying to probe the Heads of Manitoba cattle producers reasons Why they Are or the provinces new beef stabilization Uruski says he is encouraged because cattlemen have joined the plan and suggests that their action is indicative of their support of this new marketing Clifford says that most have joined Only to get the and still object to the plans controversial Central Selling desk it is really too Early to draw conclusions either the who have joined represent about 10 per cent of the eligible producers in this is approximately the same percentage As took advantage of Saskatchewan earlier assistance a program which was remark ably similar to Uruski will need More members than he now has to claim support for his Cliffords prediction that cattlemen will take the Grant and letting the government Chase May prove so those who have joined Are still in the there Are really few winners in the had the Manitoba government been As intent on helping the cattle Industry Over its difficult times As it was obviously intent on furthering its plans to create an orderly marketing situation for cattle in the it would have had few objections from those in dire Straits in the a onetime Grant would have been More difficult to sell to those who have to pay but it would not have attempted to impose a marketing system on an Industry where the majority of producers oppose by Wilson special to the free press Ottawa All the agreements the original six signatories of the 1955 treaty of Rome struggled through in creating a new Community in none was As difficult or came As close to destroying the whole Ideal As the one establishing the common agricultural they succeeded in the end Only be cause the ideals of Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman had created a new will common to six countries and so Strong in those Early Days of the european economic commune nothing could destroy the negotiating meetings More than once went through the straight through the night and the next Day and into a second night As with grim determination sought to crumble the barriers Between fatigue men collapsed from sheer fatigue and had to be helped out of the there was one heart attack at the negotiating table where the Cap was being torn out of the reluctance of each of the six to make one delegation member said proudly at the beginning of the next round of negotiations accept heart attacks at the table rather than accept it was far past Midnight one evening during that round when Maurice Couve de the French foreign minis Ter who was sitting As chairman came to the press room and told the waiting correspondents it is extremely difficult but i be Lieve there is some time after five he came still just barely the minis ters were so exhausted that he had called a recess until 10 when the talks that round negotiations did not produce the Cap but the barriers had finally started to agreement came not Long Ever since the original six went through the ordeal of producing a com Mon policy on Price supports and import the Cap has been As close to being sacred As any thing in International other countries seeking to join have had to accept when Britain it abandoned the Era of cheap food that started with repeal of the Corn Laws in the mid19th Ever since it was one american administration after another has detested the common agricultural policy of the european Community be cause the levies imposed on imports make it the Reagan administration set out to Challenge it during last weeks Gatt talks in Gen Eva and the Issue did great damage to the general desire to use the meeting to build resistance to it almost wrecked the talks in the common agricultural policy has done three things d it has permanently increased the value of food against other commodities within the Community d it has produced a very healthy and prosperous agricultural Industry within the Community d like most schemes for supporting farm prices it has led to the production of heavy much As american farm policies did in the United states in the first dozen or so years after the the problem of disposing of the pluses has exacerbated the longstanding dislike of the United states for the Cap detestation is probably not too Strong a the Cap does result in subsidization of the com munits exports agricultural sup port programs Are the biggest sin Gle item by far in the Community internal affair Many criticisms of the Cap can be made but most of them really Deal with something that is an internal Community but the Issue of subsidized exports is an International problem the Community is not alone since the United states accuses among other of subsidizing some of its in some cases it is obviously True that we it could hardly be More unfortunate that the Community farm policies became the biggest Issue at three Gatt negotiations because there was never the slightest Hope of the problem of International Trade in exportable food surpluses really needs to be separated from the current Rise in protectionism threatening Trade in Industrial there is a vital difference food exports reflect eco nomic solutions to social issues within the exporting this fact makes it extremely difficult to eliminate Fea Tures that Are obnoxious when they reach the International Maestro Koizumi the subtitle of your article Koizum the musical free november 27 reads critics at Odds on cites new after read ing the i Felt that perhaps the title should have been changed to read the Only recent source of criticism that you cite is Ken who is not any longer a music Why not on the other those of us who have heard Kazuhiro Koizumi recently professor Chester Dun and critics in Toronto Are ecstatic about his i would hardly Call that being one Chicago critic judging one performance in 1980 hardly constitutes a significant critical ignored in Boston that City is a Busy cultural Centre the music critic might have been Busy or might have insisted on a night off instead of the 250mile round trip to where the concert took Maestro Koizumi my main is not merely with this particular but with the the free press tendency to exaggerate the difficulties and the questions facing the Winnipeg symphony in a time when survival is difficult for any arts do you really think that your almost sensationalist slant regarding the symphony is responsible reporting i think in this you greatly exaggerate the inevitable questions we All have about the new appointment of a musical was it really Neces sary to attack the problem in this Way i saw Maestro Koizumi when he came to Winnipeg last and joined with an enthusiastic audience in a spontaneous standing his Ity to speak to that orchestra with a conducting technique which is both lyrical and precise gives me few doubts about Koizumi ability to do his with my vote my version of the Canadian critics score is four to Kathleen Geminder music critic Csc radio Winnipeg misrepresented it is with great concern that i must take your editorial staff to task for misrepresenting the stand of the Mani Toba medical association in the present doctors i would have no objection to honest disagreement with the doctors i disapprove of what you but i will defend to the death your right to say attributed to i am certainly prepared to defend our stand against honest i cannot defend your misrepresentation of our if this were the Mma i would be against the please Check your facts is Only Good journalistic Martin Davis Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to juveniles the information in frontage Story juveniles in adult courts free november 22 was based on Manitoba probation service rec ords which do indeed show in 52 juvenile cases were raised to adult court and in 1981 this number increased to in responding to your reporters re quest for i was aware that she was attempting to establish the hypothesis that judges were con strained to Send More juveniles to provincial jails because they were denied Access to costly out province placements in the past i made it very Plain to your reporter in my there was no evidence of any significant connection Between the number of juveniles raised to adult court and the number of juveniles supported in out province institutions under the provincial welfare sys you can imagine my Surprise and Chagrin when the article attributed to the writer a statement to the effect that out province placements have been restricted in the past year leaves the court Little alternative but to Transfer Hardt handle juveniles to the adult this is the Complete opposite to what i did say and contrary to the information available to your it is the first time in More than 20 years of dealing with the free press that i have had reason to complain of this kind of deliberate according to the information published in the annual reports of the department of Community services and the number of children placed in out province institutions was 23 in j6 in in 1979 and 13 in for the figure is not a decrease but an although not yet this latter figure was provided to your from january 1 to september 1982 a total of 15 juveniles was admit Ted As sentenced inmates to provincial these included two Over the age of 16 the remainder were All Over 17 years of their sentences ranged from three months to two at the time of the interview these figures were not but we did inform your reporter As of november the Day she made her Only one person under 18 was being held As a sentenced inmate in any of our provincial correctional we have since determined that not any persons under 18 Are imprisoned at this time in either Stony Mountain or Rock the two Federal institutions in this reflects the fact that the trans Fer of a person under the age of 18 from the jurisdiction of a juvenile court to an adult court occurs most frequently in the Case of offenders who Are very close to their eighteenth that is the Day on according to Manitoba they become ineligible to be dealt with by the juvenile Justice Hans Schneider commissioner of corrections department of Community services and corrections Winnipeg an asset in spite of the courtroom remarks attributed to judge Harris As reported recently in the free i believe he is knowledge Able of the Law and most certainly an asset to the judicial Connie Metayer postal foul up recently there was a letter to the editor by complimenting the service of the postal sys tem and its efficiency in sending his parcel to it is Good to see the Post office is doing some Good i cannot say i have had the same i have just returned from France where i had a parcel sent to me and sent one to both parcels were sent but neither arrived at its a parcel Dis patched by which generally takes longer than by arrived safely and for less i do not know if the poor service took place in France or in or both or if it was through incompetence or dishonesty that the parcels were i Hope that with Christmas coming and More packages being sent that postal workers will Roll up their sleeves and apply themselves to doing their work properly and avoid disappointing Evelyn Neumann Winnipeg citizens rights the letter by Jack at free november 15 states that the free press published an article about two recent immigrants who Are receiving a month from the government to attend if that is then Why do canadians not get the same Opportunity i know manpower has but they last Only a maximum of 10 not the length of University there is student but it does not give an allowance of a University degree is to be coveted and like Many would like to attend but cannot afford i feel the government is discriminatory while it gives this advantage to nonce it disregards Canadian Citi Zens and denies them the same oppor i agree with Alsip that we should support our native canadians with the same programs and Stop immigration and foreign Aid until our Economy is stable enough that we can afford those our country is in and the Buck should Stop Brian Kleist Winnipeg future dim president am in Gemayel of Lebanon comes to Washington for what else and makes a shouting speech at the United he wants All for eign troops syrian and israeli out of but who made it possible for Gemayel to become president of Lebanon it was the israeli armed forces who swept the Plo Back it was the daily pounding and slow edging Forward in West Beirut that finally made the Plo give up and agree to leave the israeli army will evacuate Leba non and when it does can Gemayel bring peace to that country surely he knows he Lebanon is divided into Many warring Gemayel is not Strong enough to unite them and Lebanon will Eph Portigal Winnipeg Are you trying to Tell me that the girl Hes living with is his wife ;