Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 9, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free april 1983 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published six Days a week at 300 Cariton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press 1872 Winnipeg Tribune 1890 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller editorials Why not apologize Premier Howard Pawley now agrees publicly that eco nomic development minister Muriel Smith and natural resources minister Al Mackling were naive and showed poor judgment when they joined in a protest at the consulate which ended with the burning of a that is a sensible deduction on his part and should Lead to some logical the head of a Normal Well run having that some of his ministers were behaving in a manner that displayed naivety and poor would find that fact since Pawley professes to head a Well run and since he presumably does applaud bad judgment on the part of his he must find the behaviour of Mackling and Smith and if he does find it Why cannot he say and say it to the offended the government of the United states the head of a Well run whose minis ters had displayed poor judgment would also ensure that it did not happen by All has taken Steps to see that it will not happen that being the Why cannot he say so and Why cannot he say it to the government if Pawley had taken the simple step two weeks ago of agreeing that the ministers action was regrettable and ensuring that it would not happen the ensuing Brouhaha would never have taken to have done so would not have caused any embarrassment to Manitoba or its it would not have implied any approval of policy in Central America or else in the it would simply have confirmed that Manitoba intends to behave towards a with whom we have extensive and important in the same courteous and civilized manner in which we would expect them to Deal with instead of following the logical Pawley has picked the authorities on the unknown masked Man who actually set the Flag alight at the As some reports that person is a refugee from latin he already has trouble enough without the full weight of Manitoba Law enforcement apparatus bearing Down on if Pawley truly feels compassion for the victims of oppression in latin he can demonstrate it close to Home by calling off the bloodhounds and accepting his own responsibility for the bad judgment of his minis a Chance for the nip Manitoban can expect to find provincial government offices Short staffed in late april and Early May As office holders head for the coast to earn their keep in the party the May 5 general election in will be the Best Chance the year will offer for the election of a new it is too Good an Opportunity to since the defeat of the Blakeney government in Saskatchewan a year Manitoba has been the Dps Only hold on the latest Gallup poll has been bad news for the the election of the first Ever new Democrat new Brunswick and the party avoidance of destruction in the conservative sweep of Alberta have been Token for the faithful to cheer the election is Chance for a real provincial electorates Over the last two years have been kind to governments and hard on premiers Davis of Levesque of Quebec and Buchanan of Nova Scotia were All handily returned in Manitoba Sterling was the Only Premier who managed to the year brought reelection for premiers Peckford in Lee in Prince Edward Hatfield in new Brunswick and Lougheed in All of them with increased Saskatchewan Allen Blakeney was the 1 years Only but if the times seen to favor the particular circumstances of British Columbia do Premier Bill Bennett has been hanging onto Power with a slender legislature majority of 31 so reds to 26 new his has been plagued with Small but Juicy scandals involving electoral dirty ministerial expense a and the like nothing big enough to bring Down a but enough to create an Aura of has suffered from the recession More acutely than most parts of the falling from a higher plateau of Prosperity and seeing its lumber Industry grind to a halt for Lack of House building in Canada and the recessions do not necessarily destroy or so it appears from the reelection of governments in seven out of nine provincial elections during the last two but the combination of accumulating High severe cutbacks in education and other government services plus an electorate that was never enthusiastically behind Bill Bennett makes his government highly Vulner opposition Leader Dave who played the Mouthy bad boy during his first crack at the premiership from 1972 to is trying to live Down the smart Alec reputation from those years and come across As a sober sided if he can keep a firm grip on himself for the next four he has a Good Prospect of winning the will then be Able to share with Manitoba the responsibility for sustaining the nip troops while they await the next Federal the custom of holding elections every three years instead of every together with the Bennett govern ments evident has kept the province on tenterhooks since last continuously expecting the the nine other provinces have held their elections leaving alone to Complete the the first nine have advanced the work of eliminating the Liberal party from provincial once the contest is out of the Way the parties will be Able to turn their full attention to the Federal Arena to the first Post Trudeau time to be reasonable the Canadian radio television and telecommunications has an in its dealing with Westman Media a Brando based Cable to demonstrate that it can be reasonable in regulating the television entertainment made available to customers in and under serviced it also has an if it to prove that it can be an unthinking Agency of Federal Westman Media has been ordered by the commission to Stop showing its customers in 15 Manitoba communities the signals of three commercial the Cable company has been delivering the pending the availability of authorized for the past two the company has every reason to believe that these authorized As approved by the will be available on satellite in if they the company intends to abide by the strict letter of its i according to Avrum the general counsel for the Westman is putting its licence in jeopardy if it refuses to Black out the television screens of its customers in these communities for the next 60 to 90 Cohen says that when the crts orders a company to Stop doing something it Means what it Cohen is exhibiting a startling Lack of knowledge concerning the events that put Westman in its present when Westman was licenced by the the licence was based in part on the Assurance by the Manitoba system that buried Cable would be available to All communities covered by the licence within a reasonable time and at a reasonable this Cable would carry authorized the Assurance disappeared when the provincial Telephone system was unable to bludgeon Winnipeg Cable viewers into paying an arbitrary surcharge in order to enable it to distribute television signals through a horseman Carriage rather than employing More efficient and less expensive its did carry through in putting in place Cable distribution systems in the larger towns but leaving these systems unconnected to the source of approved then its applied a bit of pressure of its in for its had a Hal million Dollar Cable distribution system in but no signals Westman was in polite that if it did not Supply suitable its would find someone who Westman walked a thin it avoided the highly popular payt channels that were being pirated by unlicensed distributors and opted for the commercial superstitions in the belief that these were the closest thing to the network signals approved by the crts elsewhere in the for two chose to ignore West mans it can be presumed that it did so because it recognized that unlicensed Competition could be a greater threat to regulation than and that it was better to seek approved programming in the future than to risk Early this approved programming is now on the if things go As the regulatory infractions committed by Westman in its efforts to provide entertainment to its customers will disappear before this years Harvest the sensible thing for the crts is to do what it has done for the past two years and sit its alternative is to convince thousands of deprived television viewers that further regulation has no place in Canadian gallery Phil Mallette ski the tiniest tory candidate by Christopher Dafoe special to the free press it took a while to get but now the Rush to Challenge Joe Clark for the conservative party leadership seems to have moved into High new candidates Are coming Forward every Day and some political insiders Are now predicting that there will be at least 75 hats in the ring when new old tories and temporary tories gather in Ottawa in june to select a worthy successor to John names such As Cros Mulroney and Wilson have been bandied about by political pundits in recent but now that the crowd at the starting Gate has grown to mob proportions some of the More astute political observers Are turning their attention to the candidacy of dark horse hopeful Armand of who is expected to throw his cub Cap into the ring Early some commentators feel that when All the wheel double dealing and intricate manoeuvring is who passed with honors into Grade 4 last septem will emerge As the Only viable Compromise candidate with a Good Chance of defeating fellow que Becer Pierre Trudeau at the next Federal pundits Point out unlike Candi dates such As Crombie and Petit has no Politi Cal debts to it is also a fact at this he has no political he played no part in the Campaign to unseat Joe Clark and he has the Clear advantage of not having been born when Many tories still prominent in the party combined to destroy the Hopes of former prime minister John As Al Fotheringham remarked to Barbara Frum who remarked to Richard Gwyn the kid has nothing on his hands that a bit of soap and water wont Wash a newcomer to joined the conservatives As recently As last month during an unprecedented influx of younger members into the Quebec Wing of the a reawakening of Youthful enthusiasm and political commitment that was described by one backroom spokesman As an example of democracy in some observers have attempted to dismiss the Petit Challenge As a Mere publicity stunt engineered by the Young politicians Estelle a former Model and television but others Point out that new blood is essential to the survival of the grand old party and that the conservative party a party of youth and new free Enterprise backers of the Armand Petit Candi who refer to Young Armand As stress the fact that the diminutive leadership hopeful is an avowed free familiar to Many residents of Drummondville As an hardworking and scrupulous paper Luc the Petit Campaign manager and the candidates describes the would be Leader As the sort of no nonsense Young Busi Nessman the party and the country members of the Ottawa press Gal Many of whom have noted a groundswell of support for the Young Quebec feel that Petit has the sort of image that will recommend him to convention delegates when it be comes after the 50th that the convention is i see a Rush to says one press gallery he has the Hes he Speaks Hes Artic he has a wonderful Tonka car collection and his mom is the Best looking 42yearold Ive seen in hell grow into the just like Joe Petit himself has tended to be shy of the and Little is at this of his political views or his Campaign although it is known that he expects to be fully endorsed by Rene Simard and dress there is also speculation among Media insiders in Ottawa that former Manitoba Premier Sterling Lyon could switch his support to Petit if no write in vote for him materializes at the con Petit who spoke briefly with a reporter from be journal de Mon Treal during a break in a hopscotch game last is keeping his cards close to his but he is known to have described Peter Pocklington As that left Winger and Joe Clark As an old late this candidate David Crombie is said to have objected vigorously to senator Duff Roblin and former tory Leader Robert Stanfield that Petite backers were distributing Campaign material referring to the Young Quebec tory As the tiny perfect who is at least three feet taller than his Young is said to feel that this sort of thing gives the conservative party a bad messers Roblin and Stan Field Are said to be looking into the Joe Clark was unavailable for seeking help for a child who need not die there is no greater anguish than the sight of a beloved one doomed to an Early i have experienced this in my life and know the agony and the feeling of utter helplessness and de so my heart goes out to Nicole and Roger whose 16month Nicole Sebilleau and Chantal old daughter Chantal will die unless the medical profession and the Community come to her Chantal was born with a defective liver unless she gets a she will not Chantal is a Beautiful baby with soft Brown an appealing Oval and Brown sad eyes eyes which Tell the Story of her misfortune since she was for the past six she has been in childrens attached to an intravenous dripping antibiotics to Ward off my daughters life is at says a handsome woman of she is tormented by the fact that her child will live if she can get a trans Plant but Pittsburgh and Minneapolis Are the Only two cities on the continent that perform this operation on children and any entree will depend on the priority Given operation Chantal was born with a condition known As biliary where the liver has no ducts to Drain the bile into the gallbladder and into the an operation was performed to provide the drainage except for a few Chantal did Well until last september when the liver and improvised ducts were it is a Persis Val Werier tent resistant to some of the antibiotics Chantall liver is so badly scarred that it does not have a Normal blood making it difficult to eradicate explains Bill de is that to perform a transplant the body defensive mechanism must be suppressed so that it does not reject the if the immune system is the infection will go and the minute Chantal is taken off the infection May return and interfere with the that is Why other patients who have no severe infection Are Given priority on the transplant but Nicole Points to the celebrated Case in Winnipeg of Corey Given a liver transplant in june at the age of a severe infection followed and the transplant he was Given Only two Days to live but fortunately in that time an other donors liver became available and a second transplant was per Corey is a Normal boy of Coreys infection was probably More serious than says de for it had spread into his abdominal the wondrous recovery of Corey and others has impelled Nicole and Roger to leave no Stone unturned to save their the couple Are from notre Dame de where they lived across the dated in High school and and were married 11 years Nicole taught school and Roger became a Constable in the stationed at their Devotion to their children is without when Chantal was admitted to childrens Nicole slept on a cot by her bed for five and on half on his Days Roger went to Winnipeg to relieve slept by her diapered and bathed his and played with in the Nicole would Rush Back to lunar to be with her three Earold son under the care of his grand having a secure and Well loved child that number one in my says i think everything Falls into place if you have that foundation Colin had to take a Back now that we Are living in i spend my time Between the two Chan tars alone at night a few weeks Roger asked for a compassionate Transfer and the very next Day inspector Pickell of the ramp authorized his Transfer to Winnipeg where he is on customs and immigration the communities of Eriksdale and lunar heard of their plight and opened their hearts to the they have created a Trust fund of to assist in a future they gathered the Money from several including Benefit hockey games with ramp jets the lunar rink rats who also gave up saved for team throughout All this says it makes such a differ ence that people the staff at childrens Hospital and the doctors have been the nurses Are just like aunts to so much Promise when Chantal was first admitted to Hospital in we thought shed be Home in 10 but since we realized the infection go and that its destroying her right now we Are living on borrowed time Shes so full of the she is so she hugs the she has so much so much its a sin for her to this John a surgeon from who per forms the happens to be in Winnipeg where he is on a speaking engagement at the health sciences de groot is taking the Opportunity of having Najarian meet Chantal and her were pinning our Hopes on the Chance that Minneapolis will have livers says de groot Minneapolis is not doing As Many operations As Denise the Mother of the boy who was Given a says we cant but help feel for the i understand what there going i would Hope they would get the same support that we the Community rallied behind Corey with radio stations crw and Job and the Lions club raising More than to help defray the costs of the of which medicare paid 75 per people from All Over Manito and from North and South Dakota gave their sympathy and the Community should also rally behind Little Chantal whose life can be saved if she is Given the oppor ;