Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 26, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 fam saturday v Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade i Quality 6f civil rights Liberty of fee Indian six says a a 3p6 Eart Tofi wingtip a r3c 361 by is Fadiah newspapers company limited 9439331 free press 1890 66nald John dae6i Murray feud of managing editor Ruby Rentrop g6hti6ll6f excesses in our name whatever Premier Howard Pawley May have told Consul general Lillian Cabinet ministers cannot shed their identities outside of office when economic development minister Muriel Smith and natural resources minister Al madding paraded about the consulate As part of a demonstration which included the burning of the they were not acting As they were insulting a Friendly neighbor in the name of the people of it is certain that the vast majority of the people of Manitoba do not wish to have that kind of insult extended in their the Point at Issue is As some government ministers have tried to one of honest disagreement with policy in Central if the Manitoba government wants to express its disagreement with actions of the government it has plenty of civilized channels through which to do it has no need to Send out its ministers to Lay siege to a neither is the Point at Issue whose Flag is As opposition Leader Sterling Lyon would have Lyon was proud to have been present at a demonstration where the Flag of the soviet Union was burned to protest repression in he May Well feel proud to set alight the Flag of the soviet Union whenever the Opportunity presents if he had done so while Premier of the he would have offended against standards of civilised behaviour Between there is More involved in the Issue than simple Good Manitoba ministers negotiate with other nations on matters of vital interest to the people of the they Are not going to be effective negotiators if they Send out signals in Advance that they regard those other countries with hatred and Manitoba ministers who take part in insulting demonstrations Are not establish ing a healthy climate for discussion when they travel to the United states to talk about electricity or the Garrison or any of the other issues involving this province and neighbouring the Price that is paid for that bad feeling is paid not by the individual minister but by All like it or when Cabinet ministers participate in Public events they Are doing so in our if they want to revive their Youthful Zeal by indulging in extra parliamentary political activity then they should first get out of government and return to private they have no right to involve the people of Manitoba in their personal political austerity for France after ten Days of presidential the other shoe has dropped in France and the noise is socialist president Francois Mitterrand has unveiled a harsh program of fiscal measures whose purpose is to reduce a Large Trade deficit that is pulling Down the franc in Money markets despite the recent Mitterrand Call for French people to buy Only French made goods and to take their vacations Only in France is an unfortunate theme to strike in a global Economy whose sickness is being exacerbated by exactly this kind of protectionist doubtless he would be shocked and enraged if other such As Frances main trading partner West were to do the same and thus damage Frances Export and tourist he is a Patriot any foreigner aping him would be a France is in this parlous condition because Mitter Rands soft option policies ensured that it would Given different world they might have they were the wrong policies for the time in which they were he could increase social spending despite Bare coffers because this was politically popular and because something would come something did High interest High heavy consumer spending on pressure on the that caused two devaluations and a huge Trade deficit of much of it with West a secret finance ministry report forecast the need for devaluations of eight per cent in Early 1983 and Early if existing policies were not the Wisdom on the Money markets in recent weeks was that the franc had to drop by nine per cent immediately to reflect its True Mitterrand created an alternative he blackmailed and bullied West Germany into agreeing to increase its Curren value by per cent so that the franc could be devalued by Only per then he fell silent for ten during which the franc came under new pressure and the Cabinet that is appointed by the president resigned and was replaced by the same old this illusion of activity was followed by the draconian which have become necessary because the mirrors act no longer a ten Point action program backs Mitterrand Appeal for stayathome vacations by making it virtually impossible to do French tourists now May spend abroad Little More than the Cost of a charter air fare to get to their every citizen must make a compulsory loan to the government of ten per cent of assessed income charges for train natural Gas and electricity All go up the government makes a Promise to repay the loan in terms that would produce a jail sentence for any individual trying it on if the giant external deficit of France is wiped out within three the Money will be handed Given the state of the european and French econ that is a very Safe bet for had Mitterrand been More realistic and less anxious to Curry electoral he would have started a gentle squeeze on the Economy soon after his 1981 election As there would have been pain but in manageable amounts and far less than now has happened because France would not have plunged so deeply into by wearing blinkers for so Mitterrand has now had to put his socialist ruled country under a harsher regime than obtains conservative ruled had he not allowed Drift for so he could have avoided the need for theatrical cries to voters to join a Battle to save France from economic he Felt the whiplash of voter discontent in recent National municipal if he learns nothing from this his next summons by the citizenry will be to the political foot out of the grave British labor party Leader Michael foot lives to fight another thanks to the slender Victory of the labor candidate in a by election in Northern England this treacherous National political currents were swirling through what normally would have been a routine Campaign in a City Best known As the Birthplace of the steam railway they were stirred up by the Shock Waves spreading out from the surprising result in another recent in the rundown dockland District of Bermond in in six decades of uninterrupted labor party ownership of the House of commons seat were ended abruptly by the election of a Liberal representative of the social democratic this Alliance is largely made up of former labor party maps and supporters who bolted in disgust Over the rising influence of political extremists and the vacillating treatment of the problem by his succeeding policies of playing Headin theland then firm then Craven appeaser with respect to extremist infiltration convinced Many lifetime socialists that the time had come to get out and form a new party that had some relationship to the political culture of the country in which they hoped to be Bermondsey was a textbook example of foots wavering he then then embraced the political extremist who had cunningly obtained the official labor a so called real candidate ran and lost and the local party organization was left in it was a very special and feverish projections made about Darlington were proven entirely whose head was demanded by labor moderates after was painted As hanging by a Darlington spun that traditional labor constituency performed close to Normal and sent the official labor candidate to the social democratic Alliance hoped to ride the Bermondsey Boom to thus increasing the party slender legitimacy As a genuine candidate for government in the next general this Hope was the Alliance candidate came Well behind the perhaps the happiest party Leader about the outcome was conservative prime minister Margaret while foot can draw Only a temporary respite from the party Bac biters who want to Boot him Thatcher can revel in the fact that her candidate came close to winning this labor despite her governments share of responsibility for appalling unemployment Early polls suggested that her party was so unpopular in Darlington that a humiliating third place was that would have made it unwise for Thatcher to consider calling a general election much before her term ends in the creditable Darlington showing increases her suggesting that there May be sufficient conserva Tive support nationally to justify the risk of going to the country in june or october of this gallery Phil mall sets the Scourge of culture by Christopher Dafoe special to the free press is Winnipeg a Boondocks not but it will have a Good Chance of becoming one if the views of worthy councillor Alan Wade councillor Wade is Down on he cant see the need for unlike the late Hermann he does not exactly reach for his revolver every time culture is if he found an artist lying in the councillor Wade would probably reach Down and help him Back onto the As a member of the he always puts humanity he feels that the City of Winnipeg should not be handing out subsidies to cultural if he had his there would be no civic Money spent on culture at councillor Wade is not unique in Canadian every City has a Politi Cian who courts Public esteem by Tak ing a hard line against the in most a body of support usually forms around professional philistines of the councillor Wade it happens in Paris and Vienna so we should not feel All that surprised and ashamed to have our own scoff Art Here in councillor Wade is of the first Winnipeg civic politician to As sume an anti Art older citizens will remember the former Winnipeg Alderman who described members of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet As Gallop ing the thing that makes councillor Wade special is fact that he Hap pens to be chairman of the municipal committee that Doles out subsidies to the cites cultural this in a like having the Public Hangman preside Over a committee on prison councillor Wade has gone far beyond the primitive Nam calling of earlier civic politicians to whom galloping Galoost was the ultimate the More articulate councillor Wade has gone half a step further by calling the local arts groups welfare scrounge ers and a Bunch of things have improved mightily in the past 25 or have they the accomplishments of Winnipeg cultural organizations in every Field of the arts have certainly bringing respect and favourable Atten Tion to a City that has not much else to be proud of these Winnipeg May have Jost its position As the financial Hub of Western Cana it May be further away than Ever from being the Chicago of the but it continues to be even beyond the Borders of As an important Centre of famous As a wellspring of Talent and cultural not to impress councillor Wade does not care about that and to Tell the do most of our cultural organizations were not founded and maintained in order to impress people in Vancouver and new they were founded for the use and Benefit of All the people of Manitoba who care to make use of we Are occasionally pleased to share them with people outside the but their primary audience is a local the cultural organizations built up by Winni Eggers Over Many years Are not they never were and they never will the cultural organizations of London and new York Are not Rich they All come under the heading of nonprofit the Only profit that accrues is to those who attend them and it comes in the form of education and a better Quality of we can All guess where councillor wades concern comes of he is one of the remnant of those who once thought that the arts Are play things of the he has a vision of dowager parading into an opera swimming in Mink and Dia theatre to mince by in evening dress and top he cant afford those Classy clothes to go to All those you without even that he never goes otherwise he would know that the people from All walks of life who flock to the the the symphony and the gallery set no store by fancy if you turn up at the opera in overalls they will let you the cultural organizations have been struggling for years to keep ticket prices Low so that even the poor can subsidies from the various Levels of including the put tickets within the reach of even pensioners on fixed councillor Wade wants to Stop Why dont they raise the Price of their tickets for people who go he without most tickets to the the theatre and the Ballet would Cost Well Over at that they would become the cultural organizations of Winni Peg have taken years to develop to their current it is in our interest to keep them alive and even in hard if we lose them we May never get them Back the Wade vision of artists rolling in payola is far from being in the recent report of the Federal cultural policy review committee one of the few statements that leaps off the Page reads As follows the evidence is overwhelming that Canada does not provide an adequate living for most of its professional it is Clear to us that the largest subsidy to the cultural life of Canada comes not from govern corporations or other but from the artists through their unpaid or underpaid when creative activity is diminished because Many artists Are unable to earn a decent something is lost to us and our entire culture fails to fulfil us a Bunch of what Choice do they have with councillor Wade standing Over the Cash you begin to wonder what future the soul of Man has under colleagues Honor a great Canadian judge few individuals enjoy the enormous respect accorded chief Justice Samuel who retires from the Mani Toba court of Appeal on april along with the there is a great affection for the a rare attribute for a Man in his High Hes a truly beloved individual and there Are not too Many says one Jurist with deep like other the chief Justice will admit he has made errors in and that makes him All the More he is a great Canadian and so says the title of a Book just written by Cameron Fie has also been a progressive and humane Force in the Community at because of a Reliance on precedence and the Legal profession has been conservative in and judges often Remote from chief Justice Freedman brought some fresh air and a keen intellect to the Bench and kept in touch with the com he writes with great conciseness and in contrast to the convoluted and pretentious prose recorded by some he is a Newspaperman Delight and i feel honoured that his writings have graced the editorial Val Werler Page of the free he has never become a victim of the trappings of High Hitchhiker it May be stretching it a bit to Call the chief Justice of Manitoba a hitch hiker but he inadvertently became in any weather he would walk a Dis Tance from Home before taking the bus to the Law courts invariably a Motorist would give him a some would vie for his company for he has a sense of humor and a warm a Good Man to have along on a he is a most popular a dinner in his Honor is being sponsored by the Law society on april where tickets Are strictly limited to lawyers and one guest because organizers know there would be a Public demand that would be impossible to the tickets were snapped up two weeks people Are clamouring for chief Justice Freedman is a in the University of Winnipeg will be the 15th University to Grant him an honorary the hebrew University of Jerusalem has established a Law chair in his once asked lord the renowned British what he consid ered desirable qualities for a and he replied he should be he should be he must be a Well rounded he must have an open mind and he should not live in an Ivory he must he compassionate and understanding of the weaknesses of chief Justice Freedman has All these traits and lord Denning said of him he is a Man of my own he views cases he would be the master of precedents and not the ser vant of them an4 would bring to his discussions 3 wide humanity leading to a just Jack Dean of the Manitoba school says Samuel Freedman was one of the Early small1 Liberal judges who legitimized the sensitive and progressive approach to judicial rather than a Mere deference to Vestal interests and the status qafa Rainy ways he put Manitoba its judicial system on the National and International map because he is so Well recognized for his intellect and his his judgments have spoken out for decency and fair and the Protection of the in when he was a judge of the court of Queens prime minister Lester Pearson asked him to conduct an inquiry into the cars decision to eliminate railway Points with the Advent of faster diesel the move would have wiped out railway valid judgment Freedman so valid in today was that employees should have he right to negotiate on technological changes that will affect their working he declared the concept of labor As a commodity will not suffice it is at once wrong and hence there is a responsibility upon the entrepreneur who introduces technological change to see that it is not effected at the expense of the working his Mother was Happy with the Deci Sion for when he had been appointed to head the she said to him dont write a report that Wui make people lose their into the 1950s it bad been a practice i for Many years for the registrar of motor vehicles to suspend a Drivers licence without a he stopped this bureaucratic dispensation of the jaw when he declared such a Deci Sion cannot it does violence to a fundamental requirement that every person has a right to be heard before judgment is pronounced against today this Case is cited in All courses of administrative chief Justice Freedman has an impressive record of dissents in which his views were ultimately in one Case heard by the court of Queens Bench and the court of he alone ruled that two Girlie magazines were not he wrote in cases close to the tolerance is preferred to the supreme court of Canada was unanimously with him we agree with the reasons Given by Justice freed we wish to adopt these reasons in their entirety and do not find it Neces sary to add anything he too alone argued that indians were entitled to at any time for their own the supreme court then a provincial governing not department decided the indians would not be prosecuted if they f did so in a subsequent Freedman declared that the depart ment decision was a denial of even though he had disagreed with the such is his utter Devo Tion to the Rule of the Crown he May not by executive action dispense with he developed new As in the Protection of the the at the time was caveat let the buyer and it was too bad if the consumer got in one a team of High pressure salesmen would look up the engagement columns in the newspapers and sell future brides pots and pans at exorbitant Freedman took the Side of the consume and ruled considering All the the Deal was today such Protection is enshrined in consumer when he was sworn in first As a judge in chief Justice Williams stated i prophecy that when the time comes to assess his the verdict will be that no one Ever proved him self More worthy of appointment to Toje Bench than Justice the prophecy proved ably i ;