Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 3, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free december 1982 f corporations could be axed Regina economic direction of Saskatchewan is being charted be Hind closed away from prying eyes and open political a team of private accountants and tax experts is dissecting the entrails of Sas Katche wans Large Crown corporation even though on november the conservative government of Grant de Vine brought Down its first it is still too Early to get a firm fix on the the budget presented by finance minister Bob Andrew is Only a reworking of the ill fated reelection budget of the Allan Blakeney administration of last the first Complete tory budget will not come until next by the Wolfgang Wolff named after its will have completed its study of the provinces 25 Crown the seven member committee has been reviewing the operating object administrative Structure and financing arrangements of the corporations since last while its report will not be handed to Cabinet before the end of the it is Clear the Devine government at the a scale Down Public the unanswered question is whether the tries a wholesale dismantling of the Crown corporations or simply a less aggressive style in the economic for tunes of the the truth probably lies somewhere in already one of the corporations the Saskatchewan fur Market ing service has been Al though Active for 33 the company was among the employing Only 10 and its demise seemed to Surprise neither did it stir loud protests from the a party that in government was the architect of Saskatchewan massive Crown sector in has vigorously defended the Public Cor another ominous signal for the Crown corporations Are reviews being staged separate from the Wolff com attorney general Gary Lane is waiting for a report on sask a corporation that produces educational television programs and maintains a Large film Library for Public consume Lane indicated when he announced the that sask Media would be either done away or at the very have its role absorbed by exist ing government departments and rather than have govern ment involved in Media Lane said he would prefer to have private producers play a larger which is not unlike the proposal contained in the Federal Appl Baumher Bert report on Canadian culture that was recently Don Craik Dale Eisler in Saskatchewan in another Lane has also weakened Saskatchewan telecommunications grip on the Telephone this Consumers were allowed to begin purchasing Extension Tele phones from private pre All phones had to be rented from sask but under the new regulations householders must Only rent their first Telephone from the Crown the Devine government has also dipped into the ranks of the former Sterling Lyon government in its review of the Crown commissioned to do an analysis of the Crown investments corporation Cic wis Northwest consulting associates of assisting in the former Manitoba finance minister Don a principal of the consult ing but what All the reviews Are and where they will is the Issue of the Crown corporations was a critical element in the tories election Success last with the nip government Active in uranium and Oil development through the Public corporations during the Windfall years of the the image of Rich Crown corporations when the Public was feel ing the squeeze of inflation and recess Ion turned into an antigovernment tidal the Devine government knows it must move cautiously against the Crown they have been a of business life in Saskatchewan since the arrival of the Kcf in 1944 and remain a major economic Force in the for the Crown corporations employ people and have assets in excess of in the last five years they have paid More than million in provincial taxes and on top of that have been profits of the Devine government has shown every indication it is not pleased with the Public gone in the wave of firings that rooted 300 from the Public service since the have been the presidents of Saskatchewan government sask sask Oil and the Potash corporation of the head of sask who is nearing was moved to the much smaller Saskatchewan Utility computer the boards of directors of each corporation have also been with known tory supporters gaining most of the the Little news that has trickled out All Points to poor manage ment under the nip and a gloomy economic some of for is self serving political Rheto but it also sets the stage for sweeping changes in the Public sector operating in the pc government wants the Crown corporations to stay out of competitive the catch phrase under the tories has been Saskatchewan open for business and last month a splashy conference for Busi Ness executives from across Canada was staged in cosponsored by the the Threesie Jesuit business crowd was addressed by several Cabinet min including Devine using a government that will help business locate and thrive in the prov gone Are the Days when the Saskatchewan through Crown will compete for business How deeply that style will Cut into the corporations will not be fully known for general Kenan Evren accepts need for return to civilian Rule but will not permit resumption of political by Ralph Joseph special to the free press Ankara Turkey has now entered what some officials describe As perhaps the most difficult phase in the attempt by the military Junta to Reform the country political following the sweeping Success claimed by general Kenan Evren in the referendum on the new cons Titu with the Constitution and the general legally installed As the country president for the next seven the stage is set for the Emer gence of new political parties Evren will eventually take Over the country to ensure that history does not repeat and that the country does not return to the mess it was in prior to the 1980 coup Evren has imposed a 10year Blanket ban on participation for the entire leadership cadre of the old parties with one insignificant and a five year ban on All who held seats in the parliament before the but there Are no illusions in official circles that the old political parties have been completely officials acknowledge that they still May have the support of the bulk of turkeys and that even if new parties Are they May in fact embody the ideologies and political programs of the old this is precisely what happened after the 1960 Junta banned the conservative democratic party of Celal when the conservative Justice party emerged under the leadership of Suleyman most people saw it As the successor of the democratic embodying its Ide ology and attracting its old members and financial turkeys generals appear to be try ing to ensure that this does not Hap pen at least for the two main organizations the Justice party and the social democratic Republican Peoples the Junta has Al ready taken Steps to ensure that extremist parties of the right or the left or of a religious character do not reappear in Turkey under any the Constitution bans the Espousal of these extremist the groups that Are proposed to be totally banned in any form Are the the fascists and the islamic the communists have previously operated in Turkey in two main groups the turkish workers which aspired to seats in and the marxist Leninist youth Orga such As Dey Gene revolutionary youth Dev yol revolutionary they were opposed by the extreme right wingers known As the Grey who have generally been described As it was the armed clashes Between the marxist Leninist groups and the Grey that comprised the tur Moil in Turkey prior to the septem 1980 according to official an average of 20 people were being killed every Clay in the streets and student it May have seemed logical for the Junta to ban the extremist parties and to allow the major parties to reap Pear in their old but the Gener als blame the major parties for their inability to bring the armed clashes their ban is therefore being made to look like a punitive part of the problem arose from the inability of the two major parties to gain an absolute majority of seats in in the 1977 this in turn kept them preoccupied in parliamentary to stay in Power or to topple the party or parties in holding the balance be tween the two major parties was the Small islamic organization going by the name of the National salvation led by Necmettin he shifted sides in the Power play be tween the two main and is now banned for 10 years from taking part in committed an additional he had formed a party based on the ideology of thus violating one of the principles secularism on which Mustapha Kemal Ataturk founded the turkish Republic in thus not Only is Erb akan now personally under a but no new party will be permitted to emerge with the ideology that he having thus pushed aside All the existing political parties for one Rea son or what does the regime expect will emerge once the new political parties act has been formulated and passed one newspaper editor in Ankara told me that even though the bulk of the voters May still owe their loyalties to the old with those parties out of the the centrists from the Justice party and the Republican Peoples party May coalesce into one Large leaving the extreme of the Justice party and the extreme left Wing of the Republican Peoples party to form Small splinter if the splinter groups Are not Large they will gain no seats in the the new electoral Law to be drawn up shortly will see to the Hope therefore seems to be that a centrist party of National Unity will emerge to hold the country to Evren so it is will not head any new though he May give his blessings to a centrist National Unity if one does having eliminated Justice party chief Demirel and Republican peo Ples party chief Bulent whose personalities have dominated the turkish political scene for almost two the Junta will have to build up new political figures to head the new parties proposed to be set if the generals do not enter the Politi Cal Arena though Evren is already said to have opted his prime Bulent a retired Admiral in the May still be in the other names being mentioned Are those of Turgut Ozal and Kamran both former Justice party men who have apparently remained in the Good books of the Ozal is the economic wizard who masterminded turkeys economic re covery after the generals took a former undersecretary in the de Mirel he in fact applied an economic recovery plan he had drawn up he simply stayed on the Job Tosee it through after the and was made a Deputy pre Mier by a grateful How recently resigned the some doubt that technocrats like Ozal can handle any group of rough Riding turkish centrists or Ralph Joseph in a freelance journalist boned in Wilson Parasiuk concern for accuracy Energy minister Wilson Parasiuk concern Over the accuracy of quotes would stand him in Good Stead if he Ever decides to quit politics and go into the newspaper As Long As he is a and not a newspaper it would seem reasonable for him to be most concerned about the loss of the Wester Power and its Manitoba Parasiuk seems most concerned whether the former head of the Saskatchewan Power corporation or did not say that his last offer on the Grid was a lot like the old Sterling Lyon the facts speak for apart from a difference in Price of one half of one per cent on the proposed Cost of the Limestone generating Sta Parasiuk last offer in his at tempt to Salvage the Grid that the conservatives had so patiently negotiated for All the same As the conservative proposal that had been negotiated eight months and agreed to by Saskatchewan and Alberta Power it simply came too what should concern if it does not concern Wilson is that jobs went into limb when he took and disappeared when he finished talking about the in he seems More interested in whether Robert the president of the Saskatchewan Power Corpora Tion under Allan Blakeney or did Fred Cleverley not when talking to Richard a reporter for the Toronto Globe and mail at of the last they came Back with one last proposal that was a lot like the old Sterling Lyon it was All very maybe they had concluded that what the tories had negotiated want so bad after although never admit that that is not the nature of the political in a letter to the free press this Parasiuk quoted from a letter he had received from Moncur in which the former sask Power official said i have never said your last proposal was a lot like the old Sterling Lyon it is not Parasiuk went on to say that he pointed out this denial to a free press but that the free press chose not to report these inac Cura the free press did not print Mon curs denial because it had at that printed his original that appeared in the Globe and it was not until i picked up the Toronto quote that it appeared in the free since i am in the newspaper Busi and not i decided to Check further on the to satisfy myself about Parasiuk accusation that it was astonishing that i had not done so my first Call was to Richard the Winnipeg based reporter for the Globe and he read his quote that i had and confirmed that Moncur said those exact in Cleroux he had a double Check on the quote because he had taped it during his original inter View before Moncur was and after he was dismissed had read the quote Back to Cleroux said that at no time did Moncur dispute the As Cleroux neither Mon cur nor Parasiuk had Ever asked the Globe and mail for a Cleroux said he had met several times with Parasiuk since the quote a and that the minister had never brought the matter what he had done was to Contact other report 1 checked with the free press re Porter and was told that Moncur did not precisely deny the he said it must have come from Cleroux and that while he had not used those exact words he had said there were some similarities Between the proposals put Forward by Lyon and but there were some differ mainly in the Price of the Lime Stone generating that is precisely what had written about the two Grid and about which Parasiuk had the original reporter stands by his of stands by the letter he received from at it should be pointed when the Saskatchewan Power official was looking for a Job and when Parasiuk just happened to have a top Power Job and while Parasiuk concerns about the accuracy of quotes is it does make me wonder just How the minister finds the time and Energy to be so responsive to it took him to get a letter off in reply to Saskatchewan Premier Grant Devines offt Decuff remark to the effect that the initiative in new Grid negotiations would be up to he delivered a Multi Page reply to my Grid to this within hours of the time he received his perhaps it is after when a new minister walks into the most important portfolio in a new government and manages to talk himself out of ail its major projects in a he must be As lonely As the Maytag repair there has been no word from Alcan since they decided to expand in que rather than build in the incoming Mailbox formerly allocated to the International minerals and its Manitoba Potash is As empty As the Dps election when the Only Bright spot on the Power front is the Mandan line project that will delay Nelson River not Speed it it would be Small wonder if the minister who has negotiated away All these projects is talking to if Only for instead of chasing Job creating Parasiuk busies himself hit Ting at the accuracy of newspaper from where i it looks like he missed that As doonesbury we am to to so in wait a its fif1j Pali a p06un this int you mat r Pofit this we knot take it Mam Youart in you b5avkao Altai axe my i ;