Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 8, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free december 1982 up photo a j Manitoba deficit to hit million backyard Pool heavy Rains in Southern British Columbia have left Many farm near warmer and drier weather in the areas under water in the past including James Yues past two Days is helping to Clear up the jury acquits ramp Constable Daigle weeps with Joy after verdict in Montreal trial for kidnapping Montreal up ramp Richard Daigle wept with Joy yester Day after a Quebec Superior court jury found him not guilty of kidnapping and unlawful confinement during the at tempted recruitment of an informer in i always thought id done my Job and 1 always thought id be Daigle told reporters after the i never thought of pleading Daigle was charged with kidnapping Andre now a Montreal Law during an attempt to persuade him to provide information in a leftist lawyers group with which he was Arti cling that defended members of the front de liberation do after the acquittal by the English speaking jury began Deli berating monday ramp officers who had been following the Case approached Daigle to congratulate but Daigle Only nodded and motioned for them to leave him he turned his Back to spectators in the courtroom and leaned on the railing of the prisoners Dock with his head he remained there for several minutes and wiping tears he went to phone his wife in new where he is when he had regained Daigle told reporters he had found the wait for the verdict to be very hard it was very Crown prosecutor Ronald Schachter said after the verdict that he could not comment on whether the decision will be an Appeal can be filed Only on grounds that the Justice Melvin made errors in Law while instructing the Daigle also is charged with arson in the burning of a barn in a Date for his trial is to be set 9 in four other mounties face the same including Ber Nard Blier faced charges of kidnapping and unlawfully confining Chamard along with but Blier pleaded guilty 19 to the unlawful confine ment three Days before Dai Gles trial Blier was granted an absolute Dis charge under an agreement Between the Crown and defence the Kidnap charge was a key witness in dangles Blier testified he was responsible for having Chamard picked up on a Montreal Street and driven to an isolated 50 Kilometres East the Daigle was assigned As pliers another ramp Laurent begins his trial 10 on charges of kidnapping and unlawful confinement of Andre Laforest in in an attempt to recruit him As an Hugo has chosen to be tried by judge alone in sessions Bernard Dubuc faces similar charges and is to have his trial Date set Daigle and Blier were members of the Security services g Section which was founded to fight terrorism and the Quebec Independence Daigle testified he was part of one of several g Section units devoted to finding innovative and aggressive methods of recruiting informers with in the Fly As a precautionary measure since the mounties Felt the 1970 october crisis had caught them by Blier said the ramp wanted to re Cruit Chamard because information had been obtained indicating he knew about a suspected plan by Fly prison ers to stage a mass escape from Mon Treal continued from Page 1 much credibility to anything the Paw Ley government says when it underestimated its deficit by More than he described the government As a Bunch of left Wing jokers through their have endangered the provinces Good credit rating and financial instead of limiting travel expenses and they should resign and Call an immediate the conserva Tive Leader Call an election and let others who Are capable get in and do the he but Schroeder maintained that most Manitoban will not be critical of the governments performance thus we believe most Manitoban recognize that in a period of severe recession an increased deficit is not Only unavoidable but in fact desirable to sustain and stimulate economic Active he the government has known since Early in the year that Federal Transfer payments would be Down sharply this by the time the first quarterly report was released in it was Clear that tax and revenues also would be considerably less than projection revised the government was anticipating it would collect about million in tax revenues and Mil lion on other revenues during the first three it received million in tax revenues and million in other the government re Vised its deficit projection to Mil lion the original million but in recent weeks the changing financial pictures in other provinces indicated that even that revised projection would be too six other provinces that released revised budget figures All reported lower the finance minister Drew howls from the opposition benches when he revealed the government has asked a University of Manitoba Clarence to examine the pro Vinces current system of presenting the provinces compare it with those of other and recommend if there Are ways to make it More informative and meaningful to both Las and Lyon accused the government of wanting to change the method of Book keeping so it can Cook the books and hide the size of the he demanded that the legislature resume sitting in rather than february As has been suggested by the because we want to keep track of you Revenue bonuses dwindle Ottawa up an extra billion the government planned1 to reap from taxpayers Over the next three years with reforms in the controversial budget has dwindled to less than finance department officials said the figure was obtained after finance minister Marc Lalonde introduced in the commons the emasculated final version of the tax Reform proposals made by his Allan in the budget More than a year Lalonde told a new conference he Hopes for Quick passage of the Legisla Tion to enable Revenue Canada to Start processing tax returns As usual in refunds cannot be legally made until the Bill is Maceachen original estimates of the extra Revenue Ottawa would reap have been sliced because the govern caving in to has re pealed Many of the proposals and be cause the recession has pushed Down finance department officials re fused to make Public their revised estimates of the Revenue Impact of All the specific but they provided totals which show the government now expects to reap an extra million in the 198283 fiscal year instead of billion estimated by convicted spy Hambleton held rank of soviet colonel continued from Page 1 trusted soviet the source but in lengthy interrogation by Cana Dian the professor used his expert training to deflect his interrogators from the it was Only after he was granted immunity in return for cooperation in 1980 a controversial decision that caused dismay throughout the Western Alliance that the talkative Hambleton decided to make a clean breast of things and Tell the canadians of his spying activities at he was an economics expert with nato in 195661 in the canadians passed the information along to the but Hamble showing a Strong Streak of arro decided to visit Britain in spite of having been told the British might arrest in he arrived in London with his son George while in route to his Holiday Home in diary shows demonstration had a russian connection Toronto up a diary belong ing to a peace activist shows a rus Sian connection with the group that demonstrated outside the Litton sys tems of Canada Plant last a provincial court trial was told yester Crown attorney Norman Matusiak made the statement during the trial of David of one of More than 60 people charged after the 11 Matusiak told provincial court judge Carter that the diary belonged to Ivan of who also was charged and will appear in court 13 to have a trial Date Matusiak said who he identified As a member of the cruise missile conversion went to Moscow on May 31 and made references his diary to the committee of youth the socialist Union of youth and the Litton builds guidance systems for cruise and when authorities went to see him by appointment the next the brag Gart professor again told of his years of giving away important nato secrets to the the source Western intelligence agencies Are not sure just what Hambleton gave away during and after his Days at but British intelligence is satisfied that with his Access to potentially devastating information while at he was a major he undermined the very fabric of nato for five another sources and even now is still causing dissent within the by his persistent claims that he was a double agent for French and Canad an he has seriously embarrassed both countries relations with other nato since each has agreed to preserve each others apart from Hambleton has been closely questioned by both Cana Dian and French and it is believed that Spain would also like to interview apart from his obvious Access to nato economic Hambleton is also believed to have Access to documents of vital military import municipality refuses to pay continued from Page 1 if people Are looking for i would say its at least the work could help them hard bread says he showed municipal welfare workers a doctors note in september saying he should not work for an indefinite As he said he has no Way of getting the 30 Kilometres to Portage each morning to Bill Secretary treasurer of the said yesterday municipal officials disagree that hard bread cant he also charged that the advisory committees hearing was undemocratic because no one was there to represent the the Rural municipal Council was to decide today whether to Challenge the provinces decision in the Manitoba court of councillor coldwell Galbraith said in an interview he Hopes Council will Appeal the i dont think we live in Russia Ireton said Portage officials would lose both because hard breads medical records show he is ill and because Portage officials re fused to come for the it want that they we rent Noti its that they refused to the she is out of her hands and it would be up to attorney general Roland Penner to for the hard breads whose Bills Are being paid by emergency Provin Cial welfare 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