Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 8, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free december 1982 officer acquitted of kidnapping up photo 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 i 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 on 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 officers who had been following the Case approached Daigle to congratulate but Daigle Only nodded and motioned for them to leave him phoned wife 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 of 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 in 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 left up in air by decision Daigle says he always believed he would be Lyon demands an election Call continued from Page 1 Striction land purchases and drainage As All desirable but nonessential spending slated for the remainder of the year will be cancelled unless it offers significant economic or social the finance minister Schroeder noted that despite the the government has been Able to keep its expenditures to within per cent of its original the government plans to spend a rec Ord billion this but a storming opposition Leader Sterling Lyon said he could find Little Consolation in the governments claim that it is successfully holding Down in a 15minute rebuke of the govern ments handling of the provinces of Lyon said it is hard to attach Ottawa tax Windfall slashed by revisions Ottawa up an extra billion the government planned 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 news conference he Hopes for Quick passage of the Legisla Tion to enable Revenue Canada to Start processing tax returns As usual in tax refunds cannot be legally made until the Bill is estimates sliced 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 during the last year and because the recession has pushed Down individual and corporate finance department officials re fused to make Public their revised estimates of the Revenue Impact of All the specific they provided totals which show the government now expects to reap an extra million in the 198283 fiscal year instead of billion estimated by in the 198384 fiscal the extra Revenue now is expected to total instead of billion Esti mated by in the 198485 fiscal the total drops to million from billion estimated by some of the Revenue loss is due to repeal of proposals such As Worth More than million to the govern to tax workers for health and dental plan contributions made on their behalf by and some of the loss is due to the for exam Maceachen plan to Cut capital Cost allowances for corporations was originally expected to provide an extra billion in tax Revenue to Ottawa this year but that has been scaled Down to about the allowance is a tax write off to corporations granted As the value of their assets the Revenue estimate has declined As faced with declining profits in the have been investing in less equipment and other assets used to claim the the Cut in capital Cost allowance in the legislation is one of a number of tax changes still opposed by the business Community and the progressive conservative but Lalonde has made Clear he does not intend to com Promise any further on the 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 other revenues also would be considerably less than 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 projection to Mil lion from the original million forecast 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 continued from Page 1 acrimonious debate and a tense 15mi Nute voting loud cheers and applause broke out among my opponents As the electronic House vote tally Board displayed the my Ronald Dellums who had spoken vehemently against the madness of the my leaped from his seat to embrace Thomas Downey another my the House action leaves billion in the defence Bill for research and development on the my missile and its Basing but million of that cannot be spent on the dense pack scheme until at least March 15 under the language of the the action leaves unclear the imme Diate Fate of the my missile which was to have been the Centrepiece of the Reagan administrations Strate Gic modernization and the major bargaining Chip in arms reduction talks with the soviet Senate May debate air Force officials said last week that if the procurement funds were they would not be Able to meet the initial deployment schedule that called for the first 10 my missiles to be operational in late the Senate May take up debate on the my later this week or Early next Senate opponents of the my claim to have sufficient votes to also kill procurement White House officials had also vowed bring the my proposal up for an other vote in the new which convenes in if the proposal was killed in the current Lam Duck Many observers How that the new members of con Gress elected last month will be even More hostile to the my we have won the but not the a jubilant Addabbo declared after he added that no one knows what the future holds for the but it is far from the House debate on the my missile proposal centred around the controversial dense pack Basing Many supporters of the my system conceded that dense pack might have technical but that denying funds for the missile itself would endanger National Security and make arms talks with the soviet Union More my critics carried the vote with arguments that procurement funds should be withheld until All questions about the Basing Mode have been ans auditor questions bailouts continued from Page 1 taxpayers pocket through which billion dropped last he millions of dollars also vanished in a tragic attempt by Ottawa to prop up an ailing computer firm and More than billion is at risk As Ottawa fights to keep its own aircraft manufacturers the government lost million in the failed consolidated computer and has risked billion in its sup port of Crow owned Canad air it is our View that billion will not be sufficient to maintain the com said echoing concerns expressed by opposition Dye also criticized Ottawa use of letters of through which More than billion in loan guarantees were obtained by the letters allowed Ottawa Guaran tee Loans to Canad air without obtaining parliamentary a practice which has the effect of making parliament into a Large rubber former Treasury Board president Donald Johnston admitted recently that it was wrong to use the letters and said their use has been More scrutiny is needed of Federal Aid to which totalled billion last added the monitoring of programs through which the Aid is funnelled is seriously inadequate to protect taxpayers inter Hambleton Good natured professor said he never was a As such continued from Page 1 he always came it never hed give us about four essay and three would appear on the describe changes in the cuban Economy after Fidel Castro seized one question would Hamb who often criticized communist pointed to that country troubled sugarcane Industry to argue that the Economy had been managed poorly under describe How Petroleum discoveries have affected the mexican we were also Hambleton used to slip dry jokes Between his rambling and once he told us one about americas Southern in there is Only one political its the revolutionary party and they change their leaders every seven like the other i took advantage of Hambleton generosity and prepared my answers in but Hambleton behaviour during the first examination infuriated he smiled and did nothing while Many students openly consulted each other and copied directly from note books spread across their pre Hambleton had agreed to let each of us bring one Sheet of statistics into the because he wanted us to Back up our arguments with but it was not an open Book refused to be ruffled i went with another student to con front Hambleton in his office after the but the professor reclined in his chair and refused to be the cheaters can get ahead Here and but always be caught in the he i was left but Carol now a sales assistant for Burns Fry in showed a Little More presence of he eyed an unruly stack of papers and books on Hambleton smiled mischievously and said i should leave you to your various Hambleton said nothing More about but gave us both Good Gagne laughed yesterday As he re called in an interview that he applied for a passport while at Laval and almost asked Hambleton to act As a character reference for that would have been pretty a soviet spy As my passport he the professor never volunteered in formation about his soviet connection during his but he remained Good natured when teased about during one a 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