Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 7, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published six Days a week at 300 Carfoot r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 6439331 Winnipeg free press 1872 Winnipeg Tribune 1890 Donald it Cal publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller editorials Home plan bogs Down last Premier Howard Pawley predicted that his subsidized mortgages would Benefit More than Manitoba Albert the president of the Manitoba Home builders said the Industry was capable of gearing up to meet the programs original termination Date of december with less than three weeks remaining in the original program work has begun on Only 60 Homes and the provincial housing corporation is said to be hoping that another 200 applications can be approved before the end of the under these the province has taken the Only course available and has extended the the poor performance of the program is being blamed on the governments Lack of preparation before announcing its inability to gear up its bureaucracy at the Speed promised and on the failure of its guidelines to fit the needs of the Industry or the prospective two employees of the Manitoba housing and renewal corporation who criticized the program have been Dis it is unfortunate that a program appeared to have much going for it has become bogged As it was it overcame some of the criticisms that had been levelled at a similar plan in where Prospect Ive owners had to be Rich enough to qualify for regular mortgages before they could tap the provincial assistance that was being its failure to get off the ground As promised appears to result from the fact that the govern ments political needs took precedence Over sound it has now become obvious that the Fine intentions of the government were just and that the plan had been announced before the details were worked the objectionable details include the upper limit on the value of subsidized a value that prevents builders from constructing Homes that will sell on today the guidelines that were eventually approved for Homes that were to be renovated restricted assistance to the Point where anyone taking advantage of the program would be after with a Home that was out of place in its the Lack of sufficient preparation by the government persuaded the Bank of Montreal not to be in its the program would not attract the interest expected by the the figures available the moment would indicate that the Bank was now that the deadline for the program has been it is time for Premier and his housing Jerry to look to changes in regulations that will allow the program to a suitable upper limit should be established that will allow the program to serve both the Lowland the Middle income Manitoba families who need affordable the limits for renovation need to1 be broadened so that prospective owners do not need to spend nearly three quarters of the original Purchase Price fixing up their by the government has had time to do its the program will continue until the there should be no reason Why it cannot serve the province Well and still keep within the total Cost limits that were apparently picked out of the air last defending pure water the argument Over cottage development at Shoal Lake cannot be settled until the scientific and Legal issues Are the scientific Issue is what kind of human activity can be tolerated on land near the cites water intake without damage to the purity of the drinking the Legal Issue is what right the Federal government and the Shoal Lake Indian band As owners of that to develop the cites Mailin Coupon Survey of Winnipeg opinion has not helped resolve either of those Central it has not produced new information either about the pollution risk in development or about the Legal foundations of competing interests in the Indian Bay it has that two can play at the game of toying with Public anxieties Over pure drinking the Indian knowing full Well that Indian Bay is an exposed nerve ending of the has threatened to build beside the water intake unless the City pays it not to do the Federal and provincial governments have taken a variety of positions but both at one time or advised the City to pay the has steadily taken the More rational position that the scientific issues should be investigated it seems Likely that development beside the drinking water source cannot be tolerated and that the band therefore has no development rights to sell to the rather than confront the scientific Issue the Federal government continues to delay holding the Environ mental review it was formerly willing to Winni Eggers marking their Mailin coupons did not have the Benefit of presentations from the Indian the Federal government and the province outlining their whatever those views May be at the on what should be there was no attempt to ensure the fairness and honesty that surround a formal plebiscite or a reputable sampling of Public so the response to the Survey cannot be taken As proof that the cites position is corrector that Winni Eggers would under All circumstances endorse that the exercise remind the Manitoba and Federal cabinets that they Are playing a dangerous the cites Case can easily be presented As a defence of pure drinking which is an easy Case to argue and a cause behind which the people of Winnipeg can be counted on to rally pretty Well the mayor and Council can provoke demonstrations of that unanimity any Day of the if the Federal and provincial cabinets try to Back the City into a they will not just be taking on mayor Norrie they will be taking on the entire which is something no sane politician would an Alert provincial government would Long ago have recognized the explosive potential of the pure water Issue and made itself the firm frontline defender of the drinking the provincial government Manitoban Howe has taken a variety of obscure or equivocal positions which seem to reflect a desire to conciliate the Indian band and to punish the the Federal in its failure to conduct the environmental has shown a Matching indifference to the Quality of the Winnipeg drinking if the cites Mailin Survey impresses upon provincial and Federal authorities the Inadequacy of their it will have served a useful the verdict there Are no grounds for Surprise in the verdict of the supreme court of Canada that Quebec had no right of veto Over amendments to the Canadian while it could be argued convincingly that a convention existed which required at least some sort of provincial consensus to constitutional there was Little in our constitutional history to support the View either that unanimity was essential or that one province Quebec should have a Power of veto which was not available to the there Are few grounds for complaint about the although Quebec parti quebecois government is certain to denounce it As coming from a court appointed by the Federal that complaint is undermined by the fact that the supreme court verdict upholds a decision reached unanimously last Spring by Quebec own court of the immediate practical effect of the judgment is Likely to be it will confirm the right of several Hundred English speaking children to attend English language that is scarcely enough to permit the pm govern ment to convince the people of the province that it will pose a major threat to the survival of the French it is unlikely that most facing fiscal mismanagement on the part of the provincial strikes in the Public service and a severe economic slump will spare much time for worry about an imaginary threat to their As seems the provincial government fails to make the Constitution a major political there May be an Opportunity for quiet discussions in search of an Amend ing formula which better protects Quebec Lon term it Only hurts when in not Nobles her Cabinet by Macrae special to the free press London during the falklands War prime minister Margaret Thatcher was furious with the British foreign including her foreign Secretary Francis Pym who always seemed eager to explore every peace initiative before the fighting won cheers the one British Diplomat who won cheers from her was Britain then ambassador to the United sir Anthony with whom she was not previously Well sir Anthony delighted her at one stage by saying bluntly to her War Cabinet that All the peace negotiations at the United nations were Argentine delaying tac Parsons has now reached retire ment and Thatcher has persuaded him to take an advisory Post in 10 Downing Street this is raising an interesting Row in Britain on that old subject the formation of a prime ministers unlike american who have a huge staff in the White House and the executive office British prime ministers traditionally do not have any senior staff at at 10 Downing which serves As the prime ministers Home As Well As of there is a Garden room full of a press relations a scatter of an office for the Junior backbench my who serves As the prime ministers parliamentary private and generally offices for four or five aides some of them drawn from within the prime ministers political some of them Junior civil that is a prime minister in Britain is usually not supposed to work by initiating she Waits until policy papers Are put up by ministers and their departmental civil servants to the Cabinet or to Cabinet then she makes comments in the margin of those papers in thatchers Case often very rude comments if Cabinet or the Cabinet commit tee agrees with her criticism of some she Calls another meeting of senior ministers including the minis Ter and some senior civil servants from the department she has disagreed with and a policy is agreed departure to some Thatcher de parted from this system when she appointed professor Alan a righting academic economist with a special interest in Competition and the free As her economic adviser in it was expected that the trea sury would be furious about but As a matter of fact the Treasury now likes whereas Thatcher previously wrote rude and sometimes ill informed criticisms in the margin of the Cabinet Walters now writes More erudite and witty criticisms but still expressing the prime ministers the British Treasury is sufficiently sophisticated to enjoy furious the foreign office is furious about foreign office officials think sitting within 10 Down ing Parsons will diminish their they Are warning White Hall that Thatcher is preparing to recruit senior advisers on other mat ters to Nobble other if she those who lose Power will not be the those who lose Power will be the at if the Cabinet dislikes papers put up by the the Cabinet can throw them it frequently does when the prime minis Ter is on the Side of the henceforth there is a danger when the foreign office suggests some thing Thatcher Par sons will slip round to the foreign office at that and say the prime minister dislikes cant we reach a Compromise or consensus such then what will appear at Cabinet will be a consensus Between the depart ment and the prime already worked out behind the and that will make cabinets much less it May also make Britain less Democrat Justice asked the letter by Sylvia Haselkorn Vive be free november 18 shows How Little she knows about can Ada and French we Are not French people live in we All have friends who Are English Canad we do not Force anyone to speak Why should we All we want is the right to exist with our French is that too much to ask Haselkorn Calls herself a Canad yet she lives in the United states and dares to speak of Canada in this did she As a former que that up to unilingual English Quebe cers made More Money on average than the unilingual French and that in the same province bilingual English made More than bilingual French i wonder How Haselkorn can pass judgment on the province of Manitoba when she does not know anything of its history Francomano Tobins have As much right Here As English these rights Are Guaran teed by article 23 of the British North America now the Canada Monsieur Voyageur when the Manitoba act was passed in there were More French speaking citizens Here than in 1890 All rights of French canadians As an official people of Manitoba were these rights were returned in 1979 after a Long struggle for recognition by George Haselkorn absurd idea of the French speaking people taking Over because they ask for bilingual traffic tickets in Manitoba is an ignorant what French canadians ask for is Rene Marchildon regulation valid most readers will be sympathetic to Ben the Young epileptic As reported in the article epileptic loses Drivers then his after one free no vember the fact that he was not driving when he had the seizure and that the loss of his License is depriving him of his Job makes one even More sympathetic toward Many of us also share his anger at the Light sentences meted out to numerous Drunken Drivers and the issuing to them of restricted there is Good unfortunately for those in his for the motor vehicles Branch regulation that de Prives epileptics of their licenses for at least a year after having a a few years a Young Man about Fisette who was also an was driving East on Highway 401 in Ontario when he blacked his car crossed the Boulevard and was in a Headon collision with a car travelling in the opposite the unsuspecting Driver of the oncoming car was the reason i feel strongly about the regulation is that the Driver killed in the Accident was my Fisette loss of his Drivers License would not be so serious if his Job were not dependent upon is there not some employer who could offer Fisette a Job that does not require driving Robert Ferguson Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to memories the article Carriage fit for Minia Ture free november 9 by Andy Blicq and featuring a picture of octave Blanchette with his recently completed Fisher body Carriage was very the memories the article brought Back were Many and my Young aged 15 at the worked night after night at the Kitchen table with Only Basic tools at plus his sensitive fingers to do the meticulous he won first prize in the Junior category in that the article and accompanying Pic Ture will go to my who cherishes the delicate Model made by my congratulations Blanchette for finishing your had you completed it at the appointed my brother might not have won his Joan Mcleod Winnipeg let them our government is on the verge of bankruptcy As a result of 14 years of financial the Finan Cial Load is becoming too heavy for those still working to support those not or those who do not want to the government could save at least billion a without tampering with family old age pension or Canada pension plan the answer is to drop the unemployment insurance program through those who have paid their premiums and Are entitled to benefits would get when the Benefit period was there would be no Extension and no More premiums to pay for that m still Unzem he would have to and be entitled to the majority who want to work and better themselves would soon find and again be contributors to the Well being of our society by paying their share of there must always be an incentive to and there is nothing like being a Little hungry to give it to there will always be those who Are satisfied with living at the poverty and Content to stay on when Pic is done away the workers will not have to contribute to the plan and the companies that have to pay double the individuals premi will have that extra capital to help them stay in or to expand to stay a lot of civil servants currently work ing in Pic could be used in the welfare branches to take care of the increased Load caused by the Lawrence Winnipeg pictorial history the historical museum of James Assiniboia is on the Hunt for old photo graphs pertaining to the history of this the museum would appreciate hearing from anyone having old snapshots or photographs of areas and events of earlier that could be loaned to the museum for a few weeks in order to get blowups made from it is the museums aim to acquire a pictorial history of James Assini Boia for display in the museum build ing at 3180 Portage people contributing will get proper anyone who would like to help in this Endeavor should Call James King any Day or evening at 8378513 or Call the museum during weekday afternoons at James King director the historical museum of Jame Assiniboia Winnipeg reason this letter among other in support of immigration minister Lloyd the Only Federal Liberal my to openly speak out in opposition to the proposed testing of the cruise missile in contrary to what nato the cruise is not a it is not simply another addition to the Ameri can nuclear it is an offensive first strike Wear deployment of the cruise will re move the world from our present mad mutually assured destruction position and will make the possibility of a thermonuclear Exchange rather than the proposed american action will Force Moscow to develop its own first strike strategy which will compel Al lied retaliation and escalate the race to even More unmanageable we must consider the american administrations or More specifically Caspar Weinberger plan for a six limited and winnable nuclear War into the cruise faced with we must seriously question whether president Ronald Reagan is operating and depending on reason or Adrian and Judy Kuryliw Winnipeg Cut speeds the writer of the editorial Seatbelt free november As do All those in favor of such a seems More concerned with saving Money by reducing the severity of injuries than of preventing we All agree on reducing the severity of but Why not have fewer accidents and less injuries accidents cause Seatbelt do not prevent a Small car involved in an travelling at 35 Miles per will be As Likely will the Passen Gers Seatbelt or there Are More and More lighter and smaller cars on the streets that Are Slippery about five months of the by reducing the Speed limit on City streets by five or ten Miles per Hourt there would be a lot fewer i doubt this action will be since there Are Many negative benefits such As hospitals might have to Lay off Bod shops would suf aut Opac might have to reduce premiums and people would be five minutes later getting Home for Happy Parrott nuclear freeze nuclear weapons Are neither moral nor immoral the men who promote them Are not Only they Are is it not time we put the blame where it belongs is it not time those who Are responsible for making decisions to manufacture and distribute such weapons were faced with the accusation our legislators in Ottawa must be under tremendous pressure to support weapons arms procurement and the training of our military forces in the use of nuclear it will take even greater pressure from All of us who want to prevent a third world War to counteract this lets make sure our maps know How we Harold Robson Winnipeg its a card from your Mother wishing you and the children a merry i ;