Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 17, 1984, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free april 1984 Winnipeg free press freed Fri of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published six Days a week at 300 Carlton Winnipeg r3c 3ct by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press 1872 Winnipeg Tribune Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller editorials the threat of the mines in supporting the mining of nicaraguan harbours by Reagan administration is proving a violation of International strengthening the position of the sandinista regime that it Kates and shooting itself in the foot at this sets a new Standard of incompetence for an administration notorious for policy president Ronald Reagan ought to end now the mining involvement of his government and of his regional Canada has a direct interest in stopping this Lawless behaviour because Canadian involved in the delivery of nonmilitary Aid to Are in danger of being the Aid consists of being delivered under a million line of credit extended by the Canadian International development it is a very practical of worthy of Public support in aimed at helping to move towards self sufficiency in food two Canadian ships Are moored off nicaraguan Pacific past ports the Alexander carrying is at pipe Ftp Sandino and the carrying is off puerto a third chartered the carrying a ammonium left new Brunswick Early tos is on the High seas and expected to arrive at Sandino april ships Are in danger because of the Reagan administrations misguided mining As can be the facts Are that Artisan guerrillas based on the Honduras Nicaragua Border Asci ded some ago to curtail nicaraguan imports of so As to curtail sandinista military operations Oil installations at these two ports atthe Atlantic port of Al Bluff were attacked and then Small mines were sown in the three harbours shipping half a dozen have been including a a soviet Petroleum Tanker that was set on fire in Ergo injuring five of its sandinista mine already used for one of the Canadian consists of two fishing boats towing a net Between them through the water to gather up although anti sandinista seem to be actually laying the Reagan is directly responsible because the group involved is equipped and trained by the which maintains a freighter Mother ship off Nicaragua Pacific storing and handing out the mines to these guerrillas sail Small boats carrying the mines into nicaraguan activate their simple mechanisms and drop them in the shipping by Extension hand mines in the path of Canadian and other International vessels is that of the president of the United states v in so Reagan is inter Feitig with the right innocent passage of All a right for which his delegates to the United nations Law of the fought like if Reagan were to follow his mining activities he would announce thai he Olonger believes that warships and trading vessels unrestricted right to pass through he will make no such announcement for it be country National he claims the right to endanger International shipping just because it is trading with a country whose current government he does not the fact that Canadian and other ships continue to sail to Nicaragua implies that the milling Campaign is a practical it certainly is a political failure has International opinion engendered new International sympathy for Nicaragua illiberal sandinista Junta and angered influential Reagan has cunning ways of he has now used special Powers Salvador despite congressional refusal to finance just As he evaded a Congress imposed 55adviserlimitin Al Salvador by parking extra advisers in neighbouring per haps he can also finesse new Money for the Cla controlled mining mayhem Campaign against he would be Wise to abandon his Clever tricks for circumventing the democratic controls on his Power placed in the Constitution by his country he Stop endangering Canadian and ships laying mines off Stop fomenting violence and Start supporting regional peace he can Best do this by imitating Canadas which is to give full support to the 21point Contador peace plan for a regional settlement by regional to Call for the withdrawal of All third party military advisers and military Aid and to offer nonlethal Canadas fertilizer May not be very glamorous but it is far More relevant to Central americas real needs than the guns being poured in by soviet and cuban the dead hand of the past options for the future Donald Macdonald Royal commission on Canadas eco nomic and political future has had trouble winning the kind and respect that though less ambitious exercises in National guidance it was appointed at a time when most canadians were More with the immediate economic problems brought on by the recession gazing ahead into the political and economic it was plagued by Public controversy Over the pay and supposed political ambitions of its there was widespread concern that its covering both the country economic future and its future constitutional was too Broad for useful with the publication of its interim those concerns have not All been put to the Issue of the chairman political ambitions been set the chief Impact of the Royal commission to Date has been Macdonald a Liberal leadership race Given the Quality of the he would have looked pretty but the fundamental question of whether the commission can come up with ideas that Are precise practical enough and acceptable enough to canadians to provide guidelines for governments Over the next decade or More remains no question that the commission travelled widely and heard an impressive number of briefs some More relevant than Over 57 Days of not the hearings produced a Large number of High minded self serving to the Public ser vice the essential Challenge facing government was to preserve jobs in the Public service to the Canadian association of universities and it was the under funding of the Council of National ethnic us Tural organizations wanted an increased number of ethnic canadians in the Senate while spokesmen for Small provinces wanted equal representation in the Senate with the big to the Canadian chamber of the great economic Issue facing the country was inflation and to most Union spokesmen it the new Brunswick advisory Council on the status of women saw the new technology As a threat to women at work which could create a social crisis while the chief executive officer of the Bank of Montreal saw it As a Means of liberating people from Drudgery which would not result in All the proposals were not of that predictably self serving the commission can cite examples of self criticism and can detect a thread of common concerns in the representations it whether that thread is Strong enough to hold together aset of recommendations to guide Public policy for the future will not be known until the commission presents its final report a year from what it has produced at the moment is an outline of the views it heard during the Public hearings plus a list of 50 somewhat vague and deliberately contradictory Macdonald had intended to take those options on another full scale round of Public now the plan is much More modest a series of five debates in cities across the country which will try to stimulate discussion Between various interest after the commission will turn to the extensive research it has under Way and try to come to a by the time the commission does present its final Canada May have a new government and will certainly have a new prime minister who will have prior commit ment to accepting its unless the report is compelling enough to have a powerful Impact on Public thinking about our economic and political it will be easy for the government to Brush it therein no doubt that Macdonald and his commissioners Are pursuing their Job with great if their recommendations Are to get the serious attention they they will have to be tempered into something much tougher and sharper than the rather woolly Seton options which were set out by Wilson special to the free press Ottawa it is perfectly Normal in our political system that Brian Mulroney tries his Best to torment the liberals Over leadership candidates who seek to escape the prison of the past and Lay out new directions for their madness it Blind madness for liberals themselves to play Mulroney game As John Jean Chretien and John Munro have been by seeking the Liberal leadership they make pretensions to National leadership that being they should Wake up and realize that hand of the past will Aid neither the country nor their the immediate target is Don John Ston who is under fire for such simple things As having said that he would like to see Petro Canadas service stations sold Back to the private sector and for having disagreed with the prime min ister on the question of compensation for the japanese canadians whose rights were so badly abused under the War measures act when it was in Force during the second world the Liberal party has lost its old National it is not a National party any longer but a regional one and that is the Paramount problem that every aspirant to its leadership should John Turner and Don John Ston seem to be aware of this but it is evident that Munro and Roberts have not come to grips with that if they Are Content with a regional based in Central Canada and dead in the water in the great area of Canada lying West of they May very Well be entitled to cling to the their aspirations and sense of duty to both party and nation should include the rebuilding of the Liberal its revitalization and they must throw off the main Mart that is freezing them a change of leadership is one of the occasions when political parties if they seize the renew the Ontario conservatives have probably been the most Success Ful Canadian party at they do not do it by clinging to the holdovers prime minister senator Keith Jim Coutts and some of the Cabinet ministers running for the leadership Are now the Liberal party old just As much As some of the holdovers from the Laurent Era were the old guard when Trudeau came to they have proven themselves unable to understand the needs and aspirations of much of this country and the new Leader of their party should be a Man who can re Spond to these pressing Turner has had continuing prob lems Over the language Issue but not because he misstated the constitutional his troubles arose because he brushed up against some Liberal party mythology that has nothing to do with the he also brushed up against an ingrained Liberal tendency to View the Constitution with some contempt whenever it would inhibit the party Johnston has brushed up against a funny sort of left Liberal when a National Oil company was launched in Donald Macdonald Day As Energy no one dreamed that its most conspicuous function would be to retail gasoline and it was seen then As a major Force in development and production of no production its most important How brought it no production whatever but some refineries and two chains of filling in part financed by a tax on canadians touted at the time by Marc Lalonde As temporary but now incorporated by the same minister into the permanent tax the fill ing stations have become to reimport Tant to the left liberals than the Origi Nal Johnston so far has done no More than suggest getting Petrovan Back to its original he May disagree with the policies of the corporations William but there is no sign that he disagrees with any real policy of the Trudeau the dead hand of the past could hardly be More evident than it was when speaking person ally and not As the result of any Cabinet discussion or rejected the idea of compensation for canadians of japanese origin whose rights were grossly by disagreeing with Johnston is speaking with a new voice that looks to the if the liberals have a future As More than a regional party they must have a Leader who looks to the who is not entrapped by the How not to in the Early 1900s Many articles and books published on How the West was won and of How various companies and govern ments used land Pur chases and treaties to work out agree ments suitable to All interested than 150 years after the West was we have a Man coming put of Quebec telling us How not to win the West Brian t Pierre Trudeau spent some Effort worked diligently to alienate him self and the Federal liberals from Vestern his Well known Why should i sell your Cou pled with unprintable French expressions and his Salmon Arm Salute to unemployed canadians lost him All credibility in the Western Western and Manitoban in will look on tru Deaus record As that of a Man who divided a Man who remained As prime minister for 16 years because of the ineffectual Robert Stan Field and the incompetent Joe or Trudeau has looked at Brian Mulroney As a threat to the Liberal Brian Mulroney party and has Mon i must set a snare and a trap for this boy from baie the French language entrenchment into the Constitution was the trap and the Al party Resolution was the Mulroney fell for both trap and he is now caught in a dilemma from which Many believe he will not enter John almost As hand More not As smooth and not As beguiling As when he was asked about the language question he in that it was a provincial Mulroney has taken up tru Deaus this has undoubtedly delighted Trudeau to see the conservative Leader ready and if to administer most of the Trudeau on the other has seen that canadians in general have repudiated Trudeau policies and is prepared to make a change in direct i believe Turner to be a majority of the electorate in Mani Toba Are caught up in the they saw their Hope in Mulroney but in one Short speech in the House of commons their Hopes were before Manitoban pick their Federal candidates Liberal or nip they will ensure that their provincial interests will be i suspect they will choose the Dan Mcken Zies and pass by the the Manitoba political Field is no longer a conservative it is a political Field where no matter what their political will have to shape up or ship John Brooks editors note the letter demand feeding free april 6 was signed Howard director paediatric dental ser childrens the signature of Alan paediatric faculty of Den University of Manitoba should also have appeared on the editor letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to discrimination a Start shrill minority it would appear that some Manito bans Are objecting to the use of the terms bigot and redneck in relation to the language question in As if they did not exist in this these semantic and historical revisionists would like us to expunge these words from the much As francophone rights were arbitrarily dismissed in 1890 and i have not been Able to find euphemisms to describe the activities of some members of the complacent a secure in their own who Are devoting an inordinate amount of time and not in a positive Pur but in the negative Endeavor of suppressing the legitimate linguistic aspirations of a of whose like came to Canada As far Back As the 17th their Only wish is to live in their own what other words than bigot and redneck would you ascribe to the a Ogues who have disseminated the shameful distortions and misinformation that led 76 per cent of normally moderate Manitoban a Large number of whom not bigots to reject a reasonable com Promise which in no Way threatens their own status what would you Call those who have fostered such irrational emotions that a lady declares herself sick of being forced to read French nonfood labels and those who have aroused such unfounded fears in people that a Farmer can absurdly state that his occupation is in jeopardy because of of bilingualism such is the proud Handiwork of those who have awakened the prejudices of mistrust and ignorance that Are latent in the Darker Side of the human pay a there Are some real live bigots in the Macken Zies it Al Are a shrill minority doing great disservice to province and coun one can Only Hope that Manitoban will recognize them for what they Louis Prefontaine Power and glory i listened to the discussion of the recent meeting of the provincial conservatives and Brian Mulroney and his steeped in reaction and was thirsting for words of confirmation and encourage ment that Manitoba was an English regardless of what went on in that foreign the they did not get that confirmation and encouragement and i expect they will go Over to the acc or some other subversive organization there is always the Canadian intelligence which would draw and Quarter every socialist or the French question is a dilemma for both the conservatives and the the Only party that has no qualms about it is the it is interesting to watch the leaders in the conservative and Liberal parties huffing and trying to crowd As close As they can to the political Centre but still look their antics Are laughable but to them it is deadly that is where All the slops Are once they Are elected to i have listened to i listened to they both talk out of the Side of their it is not the improvement of the peo Ples lot they Are concerned with As much As the winning of Power and everything that goes with Mike Taczynski there was a time when people of Winnipeg had a certain respect for the police Over the last with numerous complaints of brutality and countless episodes re Garding infringement on Peoples it would appear that our Law enforce ment is being patterned after the satellite countries under russian the latest farce free March 28 involves people dealing in fashion trends studded it is too bad that our police cannot devote More time to conman and thieves not to mention murderers and than to constantly be harassing people who Are trying to earn an honest granted these belts could be used As Wear but so could Many other objects that Are not As Why dont the police go after the lumber where a hefty two by four or a few nails could be used to be stuck Between the or harass the which distribute Rolls of coins that Are a favorite there is no end to the articles which Are available and which could be used As Why discriminate Only in regard to studded belts Campbell Winnipeg Only canadians Many canadians today have toiled through the years in order to better this these same canadians exas is their to continue making a contribution to this but they cannot because of a Lack of there Are individuals who have just recently entered Canada and who enjoy the right of being employed Over Cana to redress this wrong done to its citizens Why Doest the Federal government allow Only canadians the right to work for the Federal civil service Denis Godin Winnipeg the article by Andy Blicq Wasslin free March 28 in general was a Fine but what took you so Long i agree with the opening statement that the daily press has not been fair to professional not Only but in newspapers across the although wrestling has not received much press coverage to it still has managed to please both Young and who consistently come out to see the wrestling matches in their local Why so Little cover age of such a popular event i have no quarrel with newspaper writers when extensive coverage is Given to sports such As hockey or but i feel it is wrong for them to virtually ignore the great sport of it is time that wrestling received the accurate and appropriate coverage it deserves As a recognized major league sporting thanks for a Fine article it is a Myron Kursewicz Winnipeg youll never guess who i just ran i ;