Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 7, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Winnipeg free december 1982 it Foloto Mulroney endorsement boosts Clark leadership Montreal up Brian Mulroney gave Joe Clarks progressive conservative leadership a major boost yesterday by urging delegates to next months party convention to give Clark a Strong vote of although never an official challenger to whose Power base is in had clearly been testing the water with a Busy Cross country speaking schedule earlier in the at a news conference attended by nation both Mulroney said Clark must be reconfirmed in the january leadership review in Winnipeg if the party is to win the next Federal Clarks return As prime will be Good for he a Happy Clark described Mulroney As eminently qualified to serve in a future tory nip pledges fight to bolster Fira Ottawa up the new demo cratic party pledged yesterday to fight for a tougher foreign investment re View saying Ottawa has Crum pled too easily under pressure to weaken the Agency Powers after promising to strengthen nip Trade critic lome Nystrom said at a news conference the party 32 tember caucus has decided to filibuster any legislation aimed at weakening the Agency and wants to stir up Public opinion against foreign ownership and control of the he said the party feels canadians have been sold a Bill of goods in the last year As the the progressive conservative opposition and several premiers have become sympathetic to claims by the United states that the Agency is too Tough and is inhibiting foreign investment to the detriment of the tougher rules the nip believes tougher rules against foreign investment would improve the Economy As Canadia owned companies would tend to spend More funds on Domestic operations and import fewer goods than foreign owned thus providing More he said the nip statement was prompted by moves in the last year that amount to a reversal of prime minister 1980 election prom ise to expand and strengthen the Agen the Promise was repeated in a 1980 throne speech but shelved in the no Ottawa Backie called even further in the june streamlining the Agency investment review and eliminating deep scrutiny of All investors but the legislation to weaken the Agency further has been considered and Herb former Industry minister in charge of the was replaced last summer by de Lumley who is not the economic nationalist that Gray we think one of the reasons Canada is suffering More than most other industrialized countries during the re cession is that More of our Economy is foreign owned than any other industrialized Nystrom among examples Nystrom cited was that of the British owned Bowater Newfoundland the company announced plans last week to Lay off permanently 746 pulp and paper work ers in Comer Brook this Spring even though its financial statements show it has made million in profits in the last two allowing huge dividends to the Parent Nystrom said the Federal govern ment has caved in too easily to pressure from other particularly the United states righting administration determined to promote the interests of the multinationals on whom its political life pilots wage dispute grounds new plane Montreal up air Canada and its pilots locked horns yesterday in a salary dispute that grounded its newest and most sophisticated air plane on the Day it was supposed to Start carrying the Canadian air line pilots association says its members wont Fly the Boeing 767s until a salary scale is negotiated for flight Crews operating the state theart air Canada is buying 12 of the planes at an average Price of about plus inter eighteen pilots boycotted training sessions on the 767 yesterday and the company considers them to be on the Union will pay their salaries from to annually for the duration of the conflict via a special assessment of its air Canada the Public wont suffer since air Canada has plenty of surplus equip the 767s Are destined to replace aging so the latter will stay in service until the dispute is said air Canada spokesman Patrick the first of the new twin engine 7c7s was delivered in late it was scheduled to begin yesterday what the airline Calls ghost or occasional use As part of the Shakedown the first plane was supposed to enter regular service on but probably wont if the dispute int settled Daley said the airline wont Fly them with supervisory the dispute has been dragging on since july and Federal conciliation was tried without tack futile Guild on Hegood jut Manotte tie Tad can be just tie or they be handsome Piec of goad these at there in lot and yellow two even Alamo one a cultured Pearll one perfect gift from the top with with Square with irks one of those Defeated by Clark in the 1976 leadership defended his speaking and consultation tour As my privilege As a Canadian and my duty As a he said he returned from his travels with the conviction that canadians want a new government and the Best Way to ensure a conservative majority is to retain Clark As he tiptoed around the question of whether he was giving up leadership aspirations for quoting Clarks jibe of a few months ago that he would make Van attractive candidate lot Leader 10 or 15 asked if he intended to run for parliament in the next yes Strong tone seemed to say More than his words when prime minister Trudeau issues the please come and see ill have something to Clark loyalists rejoice Clark said Mulroney gesture plus his most recent contacts with tory premiers make him optimistic about the leadership although i dont expect to win 100 per in Clark loyalists in the tory were while some maps who want a leadership convention were that pretty admitted Nova Scotia my Pat one of those who wants a Mulroney endorsement will be a Moretha psychological boost to Clark and encourage including some to jump on the party Unity Nowlan former Cabinet minister Jake a Clark said the statement clears up lingering questions about Mulroney As an alternative to Clark and sends Strong signals that Unity is the party main Alberta my Jim another Clark said Mulroney must have got the message that grassroots tories Are angry with continuing uncertainty Over the the Battle Between Clark and Mulroney Camps has been particularly bitter in where both groups were running slates of convention Dele Gates at the Riding association both sides claimed Victory although no official figures have been party Headquarters ordered three Quebec Ridings to select new delegates after Clark loyalists charged Mulroney backers had enlisted goons to intimidate party Mulroney said he didst expect a Large Quebec delegation at the Conven Given the High costs of the he said the differences Between him and Clark have been angry Levesque says ruling shows Quebec is Mere housing starts jump to Ottawa up housing starts jumped to a seasonally adjusted an Nual rate of units in Canada mortgage and housing said the rate is the highest since april and reflects a major turnaround in the demand for new housing starts plummeted to a modern Day Low of units in september and Reco Vered slightly to units in octo most forecasters now Are predicting actual housing starts in All of 1982 will be about that Low by Industry but the experts say the resurgence of building activity that was apparent last month will increase during the latest figures from the Federal housing Agency show buyer interest in single family Homes is up but rental housing remains actual starts on detached Homes in Urban areas alone in no vember were up 93 per cent from the comparable figure for falling mortgage rates and a Host of Federal and provincial housing pro Grams Are credited for the renewed starts on multiple unit including were Down 14 per cent on the although the need for rental housing remains most investors Are reluctant to get involved with apartment projects because of High rents needed to turn a even Federal officials concede that few apartments will be built in the coming months aside from those that qualify for special incentives provided by Canada mortgage and housing Xebec veto scuttled Quebec up the supreme court of Canadas verdict that Quebec has no constitutional veto confirms that the province is a Colony within says Premier Rene Leves in a unanimous decision the High court scuttled Quebec at tempt to torpedo an agreement last year Between Ottawa and the nine other provinces that led to the new we Are nothing More than an inter Nal Colony that lives at the will of another an enraged Levesque this englis Canadian govern ment in Ottawa is trying to realize the dream of the most centralized for 115 he Quebec had been under the illusion confederation was a contract Between French and English canadians with Guaran tees for quite we were he in a not Uncertain the supreme court tells us that was for the the appealing a Quebec court of Appeal had argued before the nine supreme court justices the principle of duality meant the Constitution could not be altered with out its while the supreme court agreed the principle is widely it noted Quebec did not quote a single state ment from either Ottawa or the prov inces to show that what Quebec claimed was a constitutional Conven Tion Ever or was recognized by anyone else except it also dismissed As contradictory Quebec two chief arguments that unanimous approval by All provinces was required for amendments and that Quebec had a the Rule of unanimity is predicated on the fundamental Equality of All the provinces As it would give a Power of whereas an exclusive Power of veto for Quebec negates the Rule of unanimity As Well As the principle of fundamental the court ruled last year unanimous provincial consent was not needed to change the Constitution and since the new Constitution is now in the whole Issue is moot Federal Energy minister Jean care who As Justice minister shepherded the Constitution said in Ottawa he was not surprised by the ruling everyone knew what it would Chretien said Levesque signed away any Hope of ensuring Quebec constitutional veto when 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