Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 10, 1984, Winnipeg, Manitoba Of jul English club by Glen Mackenzie the head of a local British heritage club says the Federal government funds every Type of Manitoba ethnic group except her Eileen president of the re cent founded Winnipeg English said yesterday a Secretary of states department official told her last month she Likely would not get funding be cause her group is she said the Mario told her Ottawa gives multicultural Grants to groups of every background but English and French Canadas founding but the government also funds French groups leaving Only the British without she Roszel said her 95member group considered asking for Money to Start a clubroom and promote British including gaelic As spoken in a social development officer in said he would consider the but that his understanding of Federal rules is that a British group Federal would not be eligible for Audino said multicultural groups get Money because of their no English and French groups Here Are funded under the official languages which promotes French outside Quebec and English in that he said a local Irish group is promoting gaelic if Welsh gaelic is very different and no one else teaches an application could be Audino said he saw nothing wrong with promoting British a native of in who has lived Here nine said the government discriminates against the i cant see Why we cant have Money to promote the English Heri we have a lot to offer in sure they the Public would like to join us in celebrating As she said some British Resi dents have a Tough time adjusting Here because there is no British Organiza Tion for and As a result some return to Maclaine comes to terms with Cloudy tonight 5 Cloudy tomorrow 14 april 198 250 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Liberal leadership Munro donation raises stir by Gary Hunter Indian affairs minister John Munro sees no conflict of interest in a contribution to his leadership Campaign from a Manitoba Indian invest ment company owned by the Dakota ojibway tribal As far As i know its a corporation like any other and in not aware that it received any Federal Munro said in an interview in Winnipeg Munro said that to have rejected the contribution would have been a form of because its Indian its not As Good As other Money Munro tories attack transport minister Lloyd Axworthy was surprised when told of the Dona Tion while attending a meeting in Winnipeg last i am disturbed considering Doc deals with Indian i guess Well have to let Munro make an explanation of it the Dona he when asked if he was aware the tribal Council claimed to have Pur chased 10 tickets to his recent fund see pcs Page 4 busing error admitted by Pamela Fayerman it appears the province has for years Mist kingly funded the busing of Stu dents to French immersion schools in a government lawyer admitted in court according to Jame Assiniboia school division the total amount the government has provided in Grants Over 10 years could be As much As government lawyer Brian Squair made the admission during a hearing initiated by parents who want the court to find the James school division discriminates in the area of Justice Benjamin Hewak re served his discrimination parents John and Judy Bachmann say the division discriminates because it charges a busing fee of about excluding a to go to French schools not within walking Dis while there is no charge for students to go to English Squair said the apparent mistake May be due to a failure to scrutinize carefully the applications for Grants by the school he said the whole Grant Structure is being reviewed by the in the he said the Issue of the mistaken financing is irrelevant to the Bachmann lawyer Sid who represents the said the governments position is reprehensible and hypo Cri Here they Are trying to extend French language calling their opponents at the same see busing Page 4 Glenn free press sweating it out a student at the University of Manitoba East gymnasium tries to recall the right answer As he and thousands of undergraduates at the University write their final exams this air Canada role reviewed Axworthy hints airline could become a private firm by Ritchie Gage air Canada could be Cut Loose As a transport minister Lloyd Axworthy hinted during a speech last the minister told a meeting of the Alliance of Canadian travel associations in Winnipeg that a Little noticed Pilot project is under Way which could set the stage for privatization of air Axworthy said the government recently turned Northern transportation a Crow owned airline serving Northern into a Pri vate its a test Axworthy it has All the Steps one has to the minister said the changeover and survival of the Northern airline will give his department some answers on the role of air Canada in the new airline the minister said the airlines Board of directors has been asked to give him an opinion on its possible role under liberalization of regulations on fare structures and Axworthy said air which controls 64 per cent of the Canad an would be expected to fit into the new competitive Market which deregulation of fares Likely will a up air Vic Epresi told Canadian transport com Mission hearings on deregulation last week that if air Canada were broken up into three parts and made the airline would favor Axworthy said while air Canada has been operating without there is no doubt the commission has had a tendency to give preferred routing to the federally owned Axworthy said the Price of flights originating in Canada is of vital import see Ottawa Page 4 High court language test starts june 11 staff up the supreme court of Canada will begin hearing two Manitoba French language cases june it decided Justice Brian Dickson ruled in Chambers that the court will first hear a Case referred to it by the Federal in the Federal the Validity of All Laws passed in Manitoba in English Only since 1890 will be the court will then hear the Roger Bilodeau in which the Validity of Manitoba summary convictions act and Highway traffic act is being questioned because they were passed in English the decision comes despite a Mani Toba government request that the supreme court delay hearing cases until the More time needed attorney general Roland Penner yesterday confirmed that the province would be seeking the despite the desire of the Federal government and Bilodeau Vaughan to proceed during the Spring session of the country highest i dont think that would give us enough time to prepare arguments on the Bilodeau Case and on the Federal Penner said in an inter View As he Manitoba would like to wait until a new chief Justice is named following the recent death of chief Justice Bora Laskin so the full could hear the language Baird said yesterday he wants the court to proceed As soon As possible but if a delay is what is requested by the government of we will agree to intervention a spokesman for Justice minister Marc Macguigan refused to say yesterday if the Federal government will agree to a Macguigan said last week Ottawa would ask the court to proceed before its summer Baird said he and his a Young Winnipeg Are considering the possibility of intervening before the court on the Federal As Well As hearing the Bilodeau which challenges the Validity of Mani Tobas unilingual highways traffic act and summary convictions the Federal government has asked the High court to decide whether All Laws passed in English Only since 1890 Are Penner said Ottawa has changed its position the Bilodeau Ottawa originally had argued that the Highway traffic act and the sum Mary convictions act were unconstitutional because they were passed in English Only in violation of 23 of the Manitoba act of but that they should be considered valid to avoid Legal in a statement issued at the Macguigan said the Federal position has changed because the provincial government was forced to abandon political action to fulfil its obligations under 23 of the Manitoba As he noted that French ver Sions of both the Highway traffic act and the summary convictions act Are now largely completed so they could be enacted in that language without Kostyra Job figures questioned a Federal employment official has questioned Industry minister Eugene Kostyra claim that the provincial jobs fund has created say ing the statistics being used Are mis Ive seen his it brought a smile to my is the Best Way to really put said Jim manager of economic services with the department of employment in Winni on Kostyra credited the jobs fund with reducing Manitoba unemployment rate to per cent from per he said statistics show the which was supposed to create was More successful than expected and had generated in contrast to Kostyra statistics Canada reported an increase of full time and Par time jobs Between March and March the vast majority of the jobs were created in the private the statistics Agency Treller said there were a number of problems with the methods used to calculate the number of jobs created by the which the government has touted in the past and is contemplating expanding in the he questioned whether it was acceptable for the jobs fund to Lake credit for creating jobs when it is the smallest contributor in a Trievel program involving the Federal and provincial governments and the private see Job Page 4 Canadian Arm retrieves malfunctioning satellite Axworthy vitality needed Cape a in a now never challengers astronauts used the shuttles Canad inbuilt robot Arm today to retrieve the malfunctioning solar Max satellite from weve got an were putting it in the commander Robert Crippen the astronauts scored when they guided challenger alongside the Crip slowly spinning satellite and astronaut Terry Hart reached out and grabbed it with the wire fingers of the ships 15metre operating from a Remote station in the he gingerly berthed solar Max on a stand in the cargo Success came on the Las ditch Effort to retrieve the which had eluded challenger on sunday when a space walking astronaut was unable to Hook on to if the Crew had been unable to Snag solar Max on two or three passes this there would not be another Chance because the shuttle is Low on commander Robert Crippen and Pilot Dick Scobee successfully fired challengers fuel shy jets three times in three hours today to rendezvous with the closing a Gap that had increased to almost 100 Kilometres since sundays aborted astronauts George Nelson and see robot Page 4 Gross injustice internment of japanes Canadian citizens was the grossest injustice a Canadian government has committed in modern Devil to pay can fight like the says a senior citizen who used his Youthful combat training to Corner a Back to work a shutdown of the pulp and paper Industry ends As Union leaders Bow to a backs work i hot Prospect some provinces would like to see me in health minister Monique begin says As new health act passes third Index Ann 28 21 31 45 31 29 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