Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 27, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba August 2 1983 Winnipeg ree press of f fads Quality civil Liberty of f at Days a Sefc soft party Lff third 343333 1 free press 1872 Tribune 1 690 b9nalb Meol j5wfi Ruby controller i 14 Job for parliament tile of darts Case against Bryee Mackasey is not sub Stan a Monte acc judge has to be Worth a trial of Trie former Liberal minister on charges of corruption and dismissal of the charges at the sioft1 of the preliminary hearing comes As a great Relief to friends and admirers of Mackasey across the the commons committee on privileges and elections can Invof resume its separate started at Mackasey on the effect upon his position As a member of Paf lament resulting from the publication of part of the which was corrected and fleshed out in me preliminary some of the Liberal members of the committee wish to turf its proceedings into a trial of the Montreal newspaper can fairly be called upon to justify its decision to publish the information it though it cannot necessarily be faulted for not having All the details the court to extract from witnesses at the preliminary but there is far More at stake than the accuracy or fair Hess of a newspaper far More even than the reputation of one precious though that what is at stake is the integrity and Good reputation of i the trustworthiness of the institution that produces the Laws of each member of the privileges and committee should consider what kind of parliament it would be in which most members affairs were conducted in the Way Mackasey were they should consider what level of Public respect could be i accorded to a parliament that would uphold or condone dealings of that sort by its at the beginning of the series of Mackasey owed to the Bank of he was enabled to pay off of that amount when Les Ateliers Duvinage Hall a firm seeking Federal defence issued a note guaranteeing the Banks loan in that amount to Robert accountant to who used the proceeds of the loan to buy from Mackasey a securities portfolio whose value was about half that Mackasey mentioned the Hall firm to the minister of Supply and Jeanjacques and Blais visited the Hall Blais did not have the authority to choose the Hall firm and it did in get a the firms note held by the Bank became worthless in May 1982 when the firm became the Bank accepted a payment of from Mackasey to discharge the balance of the but that transaction was delayed until Mackasey had quit the commons banking which was conducting an inquiry on Bank Mackasey removal from the committee for reasons of health was announced in May Richard former press Secretary to prime minister f in his new capacity As Public affairs Vic president of the had brought the Mackasey loan to the attention of the affairs Vic president who conducted the Banks dealings with other canadians with Large Bank Loans May wish to know How can persuade a Lender to agree to such terms for the discharge of a Small businessmen who find themselves petitioned into homeowners who Are advised to move to a smaller consumer borrowers who Are advised to stretch out the monthly payments Over Many years will have difficulty understanding that the settlement Between Mackasey and the Bank was the kind of settlement any Borrower might Banks Are subject to intimate regulation by through the Bank and by the Federal through interpretation and enforcement their profit ability depends on the Fine details of Federal canadians who took at face value the inquiry of the commons banking committee into Bank profits should have been made aware that a member of the committee was in the midst of negotiating his Way out of a this was no Mere matter of shopping for a Quarter Point less on a mortgage on the family a member of the banking committee was deeply dependent on the Goodwill and understanding of one of the far More than the Ordinary Canadian or the Ordinary Bank the situation did not amount to a breach of the criminal but the Public cannot have Confidence in Federal policymaking conducted on that a reputation is a fragile Mackasey friends and colleagues will want to do All they can to restore his Good but they should take care in doing they do not lower the Public esteem for a rough Road to Ottawa gallery Phil Mallette when Robert Stanfield won the leadership of the Progress Ive conservative party 16 rears ago next his entry into parliament was smooth and within two a by election was held in a Nova Scotia neither the liberals nor be w democrats contested it and he won easily Over an ind Pei that used to be the a y things were but those gentlemanly when a opposition Leader was offered a gracious entry into the Are at least for the it is scratch ing and gouging All the the liberals Are not Only opposing Brian Mulroney in his attempt to win mondays like Lection in Central they Are going after him with everything they have a Parade of Cabinet ministers has m arched through the Riding attack ing personally the tory Leader As a know nothing and an Liberal campaigners have been promising the voters of Central Nova All the taxpayers Money that Allan Maceachen has already wished on his Riding if Only they will reject the aim is clearly to destroy Mulroney before he gets his career As opposition Leader Well under the Liberal strategy is to demonstrate that the conservative Leader is All Teeth and wind and no fit match for the intellectual giants who occupy the Cabinet benches in it is a strategy which entails some Central Nova is a conservative Riding and Elmer the popular former has been campaigning hard for his new Mulroney is open to attack for vagueness on policy issues but that question is not Likely to Cut much ice in a by election where the main Issue is simply whether the new opposition Leader should have a seat in As observers on the scene seem to Mulroney wins a handsome the efforts of All those Cabinet ministers Are going to look embarrassingly from a Liberal it is probably a risk Worth if Only because the party has nothing to they Are so far behind in the polls that one More Small humiliation will not make much by some they can deflate the Mulroney balloon before it gets then the Gamble will have paid but both the liberals and conservatives know that Mulroney real test is Likely to not in the present by election Campaign but in the House of commons and in a general election against a new that is the time that canadians can really find out if he has the stuff to be prime that is when they will discover whether he can put Forward a set of policies which will meet the needs of the Why he missed the bus uncooperative debtors canadians have proven to be completely unpredictable when it comes to using As a All but one of the major Banks have instituted user fees for their credit Only the Bank of has announced that its master card holders will continue to get the use of the card provided they pay their Bills on when the Banks got into the credit card everyone was confident that like most other would carry sufficient balances in their accounts to provide the card raptors the Opportunity to make some Money on what the Banks discovered was that too Many canadians for their liking used the cards As a paying their accounts in full each month and depriving the Banks of any Opportunity to charge interest on to make up for the lost the with one Are instituting user fees to replace lost the prudent credit card customers should flock to the one card which has no such surveys carried out prior to the institution of the user fees indicate Only one in 14 canadians surveyed indicated a switch to a fee free a much higher percentage indicated a switch to american a card that has always carried with it a user fee but which is designed to avoid interest the surveys would indicate that canadians Are not nearly As smart As they should but surveys taken before Bank cards were introduced in the first place indicated that they would stay decently in by Christopher Dafoe special to the free press the Fine Art of political slug Gish at Best during recent sessions of the Manitoba reached new Heights of brilliance during last weeks vigorous attack on Premier Howard Pawley by members of the opposition Over reports of the premiers decision to ride in a limousine rather than in a bus during the recent first ministers conference in Silver tongued this fascinating Exchange of Repar tee and Bon so important to the people of reached its glitter ing Apex during the final hours of the session when Wally the Silvertongue conservative member for heaved himself to his feet and charged that the Premier had cast a slur on Manitoba bus manufacturers and workers by electing to ride to Ontario place in a the journey taking about 10 what a Golden Opportunity was wast according to the member for Rob during that 10minute bus ride the Premier could not Only have demonstrated his Solidarity with Ordi nary bus he could have done a Selling Job for the Manitoba bus Indus pointing out the superiority of the Manitoba product drawing attention to the softness of the seats offering a brisk sales pitch displaying his order Book pointing out that Manitoban need to of All this might seem like Mere Premier Pawley has said himself that it was not actually a limousine he Rode in but a More Ordinary sort of premiers Davis and both also went by Premier Davis kept off the bus for Security was the bus known to be unsafe were Davis bodyguards expecting a hijacking who Premier Lougheed was simply late getting to the bus when he got there the bus had it could happen to All is what Mckenzie was really try ing to one is that pre Mier As a Man of the in a Volu stuary and hedonist of the old clinging to the Perks of High office and scornful of mixing with the common Herd the common in this consist ing of premiers Lone new Democrat when you think about it is easy enough to understand Why the Premier of Manitoba elected to stay off that Pawley is now the sole new demo crat in what is virtually a conservative premiers it has been suggested that relations Between the tory and sacred premiers and the Odd Man out from Manitoba Are to say the it is easy enough to imagine just How frosty relations to hear some tories members of the nip if not actually to at least willing stooges of the red those who know him Well realize that Premier Pawley is a quiet and civilized Man who Proba Bly swat a Premier Ben Nett and some of the other righting premiers undoubtedly think that he carries a Molotov cocktail in his Brief provincial politics has become so especially in Western Cana that a Lone socialist at a gathering up of dedicated right wingers is Likely to feel like a Gate Crasher at a family dinner no place you can see him standing alone at the cocktail party or arriving at the official dinner and finding that no place has been set for him at the when the wine is poured he discovers that they have forgotten to give him a when the group photograph is taken who finds himself hidden behind a potted at the conference table one chair is mysteriously missing and Only a Small Stool can be found for the Premier of so old Chap state ments to the press Are made while he is out at the the other pre Miers keep forgetting his to be referred to constantly As our filthy socialist colleague is no under the a bus ride with the boys was clearly out of the who can blame Premier i Pawley for going alone an awesome View from the worlds roof Jasper National Park a magnificent Retreat there is something awesome and spiritual sitting near the Crest of a Mountain and observing the Remote from the clamor of i Felt i was perched on top of the world when i relaxed on the a Mountain metres feet in Jasper National Clouds White As Snow were Drifting in the dispersing with the whims of the Mountain to reveal Lush the Green Miette the Gre White Athabasca Fin Gering through the beyond Are glaciers and ice Fields clinging to Distant we had taken the sky a Gondo la drawn by a High into the rising through the Clouds and into the then we started our climb to the Summit in the land above the the Alpine seemingly Barren from but along the Trail tiny plants like the Arctic White Mountain diminutive Flowers with blossoms like i Hung Back to enjoy the Solitude and the i sat Down and listened to the there is no void in nature and the stillness is a condition that does something for the the quiet reminded me of a walk on Frozen Lake Winnipeg one Day in where the stillness seemed so intense that it had a special Here on the it was a Calm free from rustling the mountains Are of so Many painted by the tinted by lichens and a Kaleidoscope manipulated by the they can be Orange and vat Werier on the top of the world in Jasper appear travellers from All Over the a re bearded scotsman and his wife from Carlisle came up on the his name was Jeremy a teacher by profession and an Ornithol of great he stopped and began snapping pictures of a group of Small rocks a few feet off the one of the rocks turned out to be a rare White tailed similar to a species in the scottish Ive been searching for the Ptarmigan for he said with taking photos All the the Grey mottled Bird was so Well camouflaged As to be indistinguishable from the absolutely he exit sure he thinks we cant see soon a couple from Yorkshire came then a family from and a 64yearold Man from Ger who had been a tank Driver in Africa during the second world was taken prisoner and sent to a Camp at he was Back to View the splendours of Canada in the Mountain is named the whistlers because of the a hoary rodent that frequents the slopes and has a Sharp we saw a motionless on the fat and Lazy and disinclined to he is most adaptable to Mountain he stuffs himself with grasses and Flowers in the four months of summer and sleeps for eight that is a hard record to but then Jasper National Park is also in a magnificent Retreat of Square one of the largest nation Al Parks in the it is also one of the most astride the parallel ranges of the Rocky the Park along the Albert British Colum Bia Border has 209 Kilometres of Moun lakes a startling streams that flow swiftly through we saw Mountain sheep Able to climb up a vertical slope and but not a Bear although they Are numerous in bears can be As one honeymoon couple discovered while in the Buff in a secluded they looked up to see a Bear observing they fled to their car and sat on for the keys were in their an urbane game Warden happened to come by later and asked is there anything i can do for you he fetched the there Are spectacular natural sights in the one the Athabasca Falls where the River by that name is channelled into a plunging into a vortex with tremendous there is a High protected walk Over the where one can observe the tempes mighty surge of the water through the the description is Apt on a nearby interpretive notice Here in the fury of sound and the Power of Roar ing Waters and a trembling Earth maligned Valley is another stupendous the longest in the Rock and one can View the spectacle on a path that follows along the Cross ing and crisscrossing by a series of the Canyon illustrates the mighty strength of the cutting 250 feet Down into narrow forming sculptures in the one afternoon we took a boat trip across maligned a Turquoise shaped like an hour and enclosed by it is fed by glaciers and in Midsummer the temperature of the water is degrees within this Lake is the world famous spirit a tiny with Only 36 consisting of Lodgepole Pine and Engelmann it is renowned because of the Beautiful backdrop of the Geoff told the Story of the name of the Peak called mount Mary an Early was travelling with her unruly Nephew and she promised she would Reward him if he and so the great Mountain with a Spiky Peak and Limestone Cliffs came to be mount visitors Are overwhelmed with the grandeur and magnificence of the one asked a guide How much do the mountains weigh the guide shot Back with or with out Trees George superintendent of tells the True Story of a woman from Texas who this summer Cut a Block of ice from the Columbia ice Fields to take Home As a after she though tit would last for the Columbia ice Fields have been thousands of years in the ;