Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 4, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba G 4 Winnipeg free december 1982 of nip haste be h s3 f u p f h h s 8 i new look Vancouver Trade and convention Centre will give a new look to the Harbor when it is the million unveiled yesterday by prime minister is superimposed Here on a photograph of downtown mounties to testify at Hambleton trial continued from Page 1 and could not be increased much fur but it could in the United he an economist on the nato staff in Paris from 1956 to 1961 and a professor at Laval since is charged with spying for the soviet Union from 1956 to 1979 and photo graphing to secret nato in testimony he claimed that the documents he photographed were furnished by his control or Contact in the French counter spin nage a Man he said was named Jean and that they were doctored by r Hambleton at first walked when judge sir Henry Cro Mjohnson insisted he write Down the name and address of a Canadian intelligence agent he claimed was aware of his soviet contacts and told him to keep them he said ramp who arrested him in 1979 and questioned him forbade him to identify intelligence but when the judge he scribbled on a piece of paper which was handed to the he also testified that Canadian intelligence warned him British Intelli gence had not been put fully in the picture because of it was an apparent reference to the unmasking of soviet spies in the British intelligence services since the second world continued from Page 1 established because the government wanted of provide Money Only for modest with construction costs ranging be tween about and per Square the the governments limit conceivably includes new houses rang ing to Square the delay in development of the guidelines has forced builders to work in the Winter and absorb the extra costs of Winter companies also have to comply with stringent time limits on Homes that Are not builders were a partial re Prieve this week with news that the which was scheduled to end will continue along with Feder Al initiatives to the end of the province also found itself hav ing difficulties convincing lenders to administer the governments mortgage writ Down Don divisional mortgage Man Ager for the Bank of said the Bank did not become involved because it did not think there would be the kind of interest the government a spokesman for the Bank of Nova Scotia said the government still has not developed the the necessary drafting of the pro Gram want normally when you have a you know what you Are doing before you announce he criteria complicated the Buyan renovate component of the which was to encourage repair of inner City Homes and the creation of has not yet Marc staff Are still trying to explain the complicated criteria to realtors and construction Industry although the Manitoba Home builders association has had kind words for the housing construction pro executive director Alex Milton agreed its been bogged Down with administrative conservative housing critic Gary Filmon said the province could have simplified things by simply offering a to new Matching the Federal governments Storie said the Grant idea was Dis missed because the province wanted to give who were afraid of erotic interest a Chance at five years of i think that Many people have commented on the Success of the Manitoba government spokesmen conceded they never knew whether the Homes in Manitoba program would actually Cost million this there was no Way of knowing what kind of take up there would hous ing minister Jerry Storie it was necessary to vote some Marc planning and program development manager Saul Schubert Marc said this week it expects to allocate million by the end of the the corporation Hopes 200 applications for Home buyer mortgage Aid can be approved by the end of Decem in applications from builders for the development of 400 units have also been has begun on Only go the province also offers an income subsidy program to homeowners fac ing High interest costs when they renew their the program is virtually identical to a Federal but has attracted much More by Only applications had been approved for fed eral Aid compared to 630 for Provin Cial provincial spokesmen say they know their program is redundant but it was implemented two months before the Federal scheme was Filmon said the province should have known what Ottawa was they did it Only because they screamed so much about it during the election Filmon the nip set the course for its hous ing programs during last novembers election Campaign when it promised affordable housing for All Manito but As unemployment rates began to the fledgling administration began looking at housing As a Way of creating a Cabinet source said the difficulties in formulating the housing programs came from the cabinets Prohl erns in determining what it Stone said the government settled on current strategies because they would create jobs and build affordable Board dismissed program development was also hampered by the appointment of Throe different Cabinet minister to the hous ing the conservative Marc Board was also dismissed and with intone but both ministers and the Board deferred policy decisions to the eco nomic resource and investment com Mittee of Cabinet Eric senior planning staff at Marc spent months trying to appease the Pulifici cans but to no Marc general manager Alan Shade came up with a program that suited erics sources this is the paper they worked on from there and the politicians dont see now that something has gone an Marc employee a former Board member who did not want to be identified said responsibility for housing policies should Resi with be corporations he said the to Down decision Mak ing used to in veep the program did not sound like that is a process that a Berniot a Honky he to criticism from Marc during the course of the work on the programs government it needed More control Over i for one wanted to make sure there was someone who could give political former housing minister Al Michael clerk of the executive was assigned the task of a sessions with a View to centralizing work in a new although his report is one the government has shown its hand by naming Storie the minister of an As Yei Una waned housing the contempt on the Hill for this ship is said one Marc we Are a former government employee who did want to be named said then was hound to be friction Between politicians who have to read to Politi Cal pressure and civil servants who to on real rather than perceived fired Marc worker shortfalls in Plasmin continued from Page 1 Branch since has no re course for the abrupt termination of her work it like an attempt to quiet them said Mega president Gary just because someone Dis agrees with you is no reason to dismiss the firings come at a time when Marc has been under intense pressure to deliver housing programs hastily conceived by nip policy the future of the corporation is also sus due to a task Force review of operations headed by Cabinet clerk Michael both former civil servants say they were dismissed because they dared to disagree with senior Marc managers who were developing the provinces critical Home mortgage inter est rate and Homes in Manitoba they say Marc was permitted to carry on with poorly rationalized pro Grams left Over from the previous administration and to bring on new housing programs which Are not backed by research and Basic information needs of the corporation have been ignored while senior management have been permitted to repress constructive criticism from staff which might otherwise have served the government their Brief according to his notice of Termina Mundwiler was dismissed be cause he refused to take direction from his he circulated Marc material to the government and he refused to do a housing needs Survey commissioned by Energy minister Wil son a longtime nip passed on papers critical both of programs and management to several Las and to in one he voiced complaints about Saul his Boss and manager of planning and program in he urged contemplation of alternative housing such As develop ment of housing societies or organizations of Independent Standard of loyalty you have also continued to circulate materials critical of a pc pro Grams and policies outside the corporation which were not passed through your nor for which permission was received for their Cir said the dismissal notice from Marc general manager Alan it is always expected that Ati employee fulfil the tasks assigned to him and maintain an accepted Standard of loyalty to his another reason cited for Mundwiler dismissal was his refusal to conduct an investigation into the housing needs of senior citizens in this resulted in considerable embarrassment to the senior manage ment of the corporation in that they were unable to respond to the minis ters request for Transcona my a Wilson Parasiuk confirmed he had asked Marc offi Cial to look into the 1978 cancellation of a proposed senior citizens housing project in his the housing planned by All orthodox had been authorized by the former nip administration although a needs assessment had not been the conservative administration withdrew the plans after it assumed but promised it would consider the need for the Parasiuk raid lie thought the decision project was not based on he said he asked for the Survey to be done because he knew there a need for housing for the Mundwiler said he didst know who had directed the but he could i Complete the assignment because didst have the staff or the resources i had no idea that the request had come from on High until 1 got the dismissal i who had been responsible for Rural and Northern nonprofit housing and had supervised four was dismissed with two weeks notice and no months she had been told she would be As signed to a permanent staff Gray a Friend of Mundwiler and shared his both Schubert and Shade refused to comment on the dismissals because of Munc Wilers v City lawyer acquitted of 32 criminal charges continued from Page 1 Ter Day instructing the seven men and four women of the jury on the Law they should apply to the evidence they have at the conclusion of yesterdays Prober judge Hamilton warned the jurors it is a criminal offence to discuss their deliberations outside the Prober speculated the warning was sparked by a sports editor Steps Down Montreal up Pierre Gobeil stepped Down As sports editor of la Presse at his own request yesterday after admitting he was paid almost to help bring the 1980 sugar Ray Leonard Roberto Duran welterweight title fight to olympic he said he would remain at la Presse in another management an experienced local fight was paid by the Quebec governments olympic installations Board for advice on promotion and for establishing Contact with Leonard and his manag Premier Rene Levesque this week asked for a full report on the organization of the Levesque also said the Justice department was attempting to determine if there were any irregularities in the Case of Louis whom the Board paid to publicize the fight while he was employed by the governments executive or Cabinet recent incident in which jurors discussed their deliberations with defence counsel and the during the two week trial Over 60 witnesses took the including the defendant who testified for Over a As the court was cluttered with stacks of Over 450 most of them cheques and Legal Docu ments connected with syndicates Bass assembled to buy City apartment each juror has accumulated a file folder of copies of exhibits and flow charts of How Money the accused Trust accounts and were then used to pay his Crown attorney Phillip Schachter accused Bass of diverting clients Trust funds to pay off personal he the defendant also broke the Law by not informing his clients about his personal interest in the syndicates he was Prober countered by saying Bass had no criminal intent in dealing with his he said the accused gave people looking for investment opportunities poor advice but like most experts could not forecast the collapse in the real estate in 1980 he was disbarred by the Law society of Manitoba for breaching Bass testified he lost All his Money in the apartment Block deals As Well As of his he now lives with them at their which is also up for foreclosure because of his financial since he was disbarred he said he has earned less than working in a variety of jobs including managing a his counsel was appointed by Legal Aid to represent him in this Evans denies any attempt to use influence in firing continued from Page 1 also said he would sue the free press if it carried the de a former radio announcer in Dauphin and Winnipeg and a business consultant in admitted there were problems As he tried to carry out his Job of arranging for the coops expansion to 20 southwestern Manitoba there was nothing to indicate the company was not satisfied with his on de Jardin said the coops general Terry approached him and suggested it was his final Day on the there was nothing in my file indicating Dis Satis he As he claimed he want Given the required two weeks following his conversation with de Jardin said he heard about the Telephone Call from Evans to de Jardin met Evans last monday after ceremonies at the opening of the Extension to the Community College in and raised the matter of the Telephone de Jardin said Evans told him he was just interested in what was going on in the constituency and want really talking about his de Jardin said his conversation led him to believe Evans had made several Calls to Burgess said he received Only the one Evans told the free i have talked to Burgess Many times Over the he is a Evans said de in the gave him 24 hours to Call Burgess to reinstate de Jardin said Evans might have interpreted it that the Brandon Media committee has sent a letter to other Media committees suggesting new ton be Evans said his daughter has another for All to discuss the the cooperative play Hou 180 All members Are urged to attend this very important ;