Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 31, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free tories Crow about by elections at freight rate hearing Alex Bunkley Fate Canadian press Ottawa maps were Long on talk and Short on action yesterday is a commons resumed study of a Bill to end the historic cows test pass freight leaving them with Only four Days to conclude their Deli the lengthy Bill must be reported to the commons when it returns to Busi Ness 12 and the Only remaining committee meetings Are scheduled for tomorrow and next wednesday and buoyed by the party double win in conservative maps devoted most of the morning session to trying to score political Points on the government and new transport minister Lloyd conservative grew spokesman Don Mazankowski said the government is trying to Force passage of the Bill without any significant amendments despite promises it would listen to suggestions from the tie was especially critical of the governments refusal to consider pay ing part of its annual Grain transportation subsidy to Farmers in Stead of handing it All to the rail Manitoba farm Bureau after considerable wrangling among tory and Liberal government officials agreed to study at least two proposals for splitting the transport payment with one eloped by the Alberta government and the other by the Manitoba farm the Bill would end the 86yeafold grow rate and double the present rate of a tonne by the present rate is to increase fivefold by in the government would 0 financing extended at Gladstone till on new 1984 Nissan trucks 36 Gladstone Wei Portage Dat Sun s Nissan no major upturn in Economy seen it Etna up canadians should not expect any major improvement in the economic picture for the next few Thomas chief economist for the conference Board of Canada said Maxwell said the Economy has reached a stalemate of with double digit unemployment and interest rates higher than the economic Boom of the 1960s and Maxwell told the annual meeting of the Institute of Public administration of Canada the problem is that interest rates do not appear Likely to drop much now of discourages it also discourages housing and interest sensitive consumer Pur he so its very unlikely that with this particular state of that were going to get a Strong whoop bang Economy for the next couple of Maxwell said even the most optimistic predictions Are forecasting a jobless rate of at least 10 per cent Over the next couple of he said the problem comes Down to slow economic growth at a time when there is a rising number of people entering the work that Means higher unemployment the reason behind that is quite simple it is deficient its not its not High tech displacing its just the Economy is not growing fast Maxwell said a simple tinkering with present economic for example the Federal governments six and five probably is not the he said it Likely will mean the need for a larger overhaul of present requiring some Tough economic pump billion into the Grain handling system in the next four the railways Are supposed to spend billion during the next decade expanding their ran Les the new democratic party transport said Serva Tive objections to the mainly show because the party wants to see the Crow rate the conservatives want to see this Bill passed so they wont have to do it end the Crow when they come to Benjamin during the afternoon a pie of clauses of the Bill were approved and several one change would give the Western Arm of the Canadian transport commission a greater role in overseeing changes to the Grain handling system that Are sup posed to flow from the higher freight the other would allow the Crow rate to apply to Grain crops being shipped either to Thunder Bay or Vancouver for shipment by any Mode of transport into the United the proposed by Saskatchewan conservative my Bill would help Barley malt company in that is trying to develop markets in Southeast Asia and has had to use the port of up rail had tried to Force the company to pay full freight on 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