Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 18, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba I 1 i i 8 Winnipeg free january Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published six Days a week at 300 Carfon Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press Winnipeg Tribune 1890 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop cont Rofer a member of the Manitoba press Council editorials squeezing the City for the Brendan butter municipal services to the people of the Pawley government is providing exactly the same Grant support As it provided last that covers activities like putting out the finding and arresting the maintain ing the streets and keeping the libraries the increase from the province is just As finance minister Vic Schroeder said in october that it might have to but for the things new democrats especially believe additional Money can be new democrats believe in transit and they believe in the province has found some spare change lying around to sweeten its inducements to the City to keep the bus fares Down and to conduct the research and Public hearings that would Start producing development plans for each of the cites six Community the costs of goods and services continue to Rise modestly even when they Are not ones new democrats Are especially interested in the absence of increased provincial support for the greatest part of its the City Council must choose among reducing the raising the taxes and raising the user the Board of in its draft budget published this proposes spreading the pain around a Little bit off the a Little More on the realty a Little More on the bus fares and other user there is endless room to debate the merits of particular staff reductions and particular Price and rate but the general approach of spreading the Burden appears the proposed elimination of 24 positions from the fire department Calls for close the Board of commissioners argument is that those 24 people Are merely Drivers for the District fire chief Lloyd moist contends they do More than the vital question is whether their elimination will increase the departments response time or reduce the effectiveness of the firefighting talk of cutbacks in the fire department raises the spectre of increased property damage and personal injury to those who suffer fires and increased fire insurance premiums for everyone else the fire department is not exempt from financial but the Council has a duty to be very sure of 8 u reduces the the extra Nickel on the bus fares and extra five per cent on the realty taxes Are not Welcome coming on the heels of last years but the transit Market can probably Bear an the service is being improved in Small but noticeable ways with reorganized display of schedules at bus new and renovated the proposed increase in the realty taxes is Only a Little above the rate of general if the province had increased the current operating Grant to the City by the Standard two per then the realty tax increase would be four per the Pawley governments explanation for its refusal Praise the operating Grant is the famous the possible reduction in Federal Transfer payments of about million has limited the provinces ability to increase Grants in the government announcement of Grants for Winnipeg it must follow that any Success in the provinces Campaign for Relief from the million reduction will be immediately passed on to the the province does not nor could that an increase in the operating Grant to the City cannot be it does not pretend that the City has become too dependent on provincial it does not announce a policy of reducing the provincial Grants share of City of Winnipeg it does not argue that higher realty taxes and reductions of civic employment will improve conditions for the people of the sole reason offered for freezing the operating Grant is the million reduction in Federal Transfer unless the province is playing a dishonest game with the Manitoba the City can count on a supplementary Grant the minute Schroeder wins from Ottawa the better terms he ratepayers blubbering Well keel haul the fish stinking lot of pm Brazil tries democracy w Mulroney Luck deeply indebted with its raging 220percent has successfully emulated Argentina evolution from incompetent military dictatorship to elective democracy without this Welcome development has filled with Hope the millions of brazilians left out of the 21year dictator ships Loudl heralded economic the focus of their Hopes is the indirectly elected president taking office in a 74yearold Veteran centrist politician with modest leadership qualities but considerable mediation Tancredo Neves of the brazilian democratic move ment starts with an enormous Reservoir of Public although he was not elected by the brazilian this Paradox is equalled by the Paradox that the tiny group that did have a vote was dominated by members of the other candidates the third Paradox is that Neves was not even on the ballot it was to have been a contest Between two candidates of the military backed ruling social demo Public expressed last year in mass demonstrations demanding direct presidential made the pseudo election the Compromise that evolved was that the military did not Bow to Street demands for direct elections but did engage in the negotiations that produced the candidacy of his 50 years in including spells As a City councillor and a prime As Well As his Concilia tory gradually defined him As the Ideal first civilian president in the eyes of Many government party members As Well As the opposition the electoral College that decided the presi Dency picked Neves by better than it consists of Federal senators and deputies elected directly in with representatives of the party ruling in each of the country 23 if Neves keeps his the election at the end of his term will be the opposition presidential Candi Date and the governing social democratic party also promised direct presidential elections next time if democracy is an idea whose time has come again in the unpleasant corollary is that democrats now have the responsibility for the billion external debt that helped to remove from the dictators their taste for High enormous disparities in the distribution of Meg projects swallowing Large resources while millions suffer in deepest poverty Are Neves unwelcome it is True that production and National wealth have been increasing that the Economy grew by four per cent in eroding memories of the food riots and supermarket looting that occurred in 1983 during the Depths of the economic part of the temporary improvement is due to the unique policy under which Brazil unquestioningly agreed to the usual International monetary fund harsh economic stabilization policy then did not carry much of it expanding the Money Supply four times faster than agreed with the if has improved Domestic conditions but at the Cost of the current High inflation brazils determined Export Boom and import curbs have strengthened the National earning enough to allow the country to plan for future debt repayments without seeking new Loans to do this is a valuable contribution to brazils International credit an increase in interest rates could add so much to brazils repayment Load that All the benefits of its economic manoeuvring might be this vulnerability is the Shadow on the euphoria with which brazilian businessmen and Slu dwellers alike have welcomed Nevers for it is enough that a civilian will soon be Back in the presiden tial Palace in by Leonard Shufrin special to the free press Ottawa political skills can come in but what successful politicians really need is Pierre Trudeau had it in historians May Well rank him with Mackenzie whose seemingly inexhaustible Supply of Good Fortune was the stuff legends Are made and it May be that Brian Mulroney also belongs in that trending Down i cant imagine even the most partisan of tories claiming last months Hal per cent drop in the unemployment rate was the result of anything the new government did in its first months in As the Economy has slowly the jobless rate has been gradually trending Down from its Peak of two years when it fell below 11 per cent for the first time since the Spring of Mulroney govern ment simply had the Good Luck to be this is the second time already that Mulroney and have gotten such a gift from the unemployment in August of this the jobless rate was per in october it was but in the month Mulroney took Over the Point from which his governments performance will be measured the rate inexplicably slipped up to per last months per cent jobless rate brings the 1984 average Down to per cent from the year that May be enough to bring the Mulroney government an other bit of statistical Good Luck when the 1984 poverty rate is report after two years of rising poverty pushed up by High unemployment among Young last years drop in joblessness May be enough to produce a drop in the poverty if the tories will get further help from one of the last acts of the Trudeau govern the liberals legislated a monthly increase in the supplement for Low income single pensioners starting last july and a further boost effective in those hikes will result in a lower senior citizen poverty which will help bring Down the Overall rate for drop in poverty whats because 1985 will be the first year that these seniors will be getting the extra for the full 12 it will Likely produce a drop in poverty this year As another bit of Good Luck for the new govern it has often been said that the Luck Iest thing Mackenzie King Ever did was to lose the 1930 that put Bennetts conservatives in office through the worst years of the and ensured Kings liberals a triumphant return five years later to launch a 22year by it was so Lucky that a whole generation of conservatives became convinced that the canny King had known what was coming and deliberately blown the 1930 if Brian Mulroney huge majority proves the Start of a new no doubt the legend will someday develop that he launched it by deliberately losing the 1976 leadership race to Joe More seats consider if he had in the 1979 the tories would have fared somewhat better than they that would have been particularly the Case in where they took Only two but also in English Canada where Clark suffered from the so called wimp instead of falling a Hal dozen seats Short of a As Clark the Mulroney de conservatives would have won a narrow majority in and they would have been in office for the great recession a couple of years after Bennett in the thirties and Diefenbaker in the next big the third tory govern ment in 50 years would have coincided with economic disaster once the notion that tory times Are hard times would again have been and Brian Mulroney would have lost last years election As overwhelmingly As Bennett was rejected in All of that Doest put Mulroney in the King or Trudeau class but All he needs is another dozen years or so of his present Lucky Streak and hell certainly clarification since recent articles in your publication regarding the intensive care unit at the childrens Hospital May have served to undermine Confidence in our childrens it is necessary to reassure and clarify several the drug errors that were sensationalized in your article must be put into in the vast majority of these Are minor errors consisting mainly of alteration in the timing of the As an if a child was ill and it was Felt in his Best interest to continue the nurse May not awaken this patient for his four Oclock medication give it at five Oclock when he has such an incident would be recorded As an As by in the Arti the Public might have a perception that the intensive care unit at the childrens Hospital is not up to As one who has utilized the expertise of this excellent team of physicians and nurses for seriously ill i can Only reassure the Public of Winnipeg and Manitoba that there is no ice anywhere that functions with More dedication and efficiency than the paediatric unit at the Winnipeg childrens although the architectural Struc Tural relationships Are not plans Are under Way for a new it must be emphasized Al though Structure is the most essential component of an ice is its staff and fortunately we Are blessed with a Superb group of individuals who function in a intense environment with cheerful Ness and my director paediatric surgical services childrens Hospital Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to for profit childrens Hospital 4 i in the article c of c chief hits whiners free december 29 Sam president of the Cana Dian chamber of Commerce com Plains about those who whine about the governments attempts to reduce the deficit by cutting spending and said they should begin to put the country welfare before their i wonder Why Hughes does not go after his own kind of salaried people who Are inthe six and seven numeral bracket and some of whom get away without paying any income tax All people like Hughes think of is High a few years heating Gas companies were crying that there was a shortage of As soon As the Price of Gas went sky High there was a surplus of Gas and now it is being piped to the United states for and what about the Oil companies and Many other corporations it is the same thing of crying shortage and when prices go there is a Romas Winnipeg a dangerous game faced with its worst trading year in a satiated consumer mar Ket occasionally fanned by income tax a near uncontrolled printing of new Money Supply and credit notes along with High interest rates to attract conversion of foreign Money to near worthless Dol the appears to be playing a very dangerous game at the expense of other Western to add a Subtle Arthur exp resident of the fed eral Reserve and architect of the expanding printed Money now ambassador to recently lectured the turkish govern ment on the necessity for wage maximum Export and minimum import in order to reduce its total deficit of this has been the general theme of orders to debtor countries such As Argentina and at the same Burns informed these countries that the massive deficit billion was beneficial to their econ the soaring bogus Dollar has driven the Price of Gold to such extreme lows that our Canadian Gold mines 3 pro Ducer in the world Are closing at the present fir Sale Price of the is the largest direct and indirect purchaser of All Gold offered for Sale in the world and is accumulating a Mas Sive Stock along with control of for eign Gold and Platinum mines also at fir Sale this acquisition also includes the occasional Sale of Small amounts of the the Only near immutable Standard of control of has in bulk shifted from Middle russian and other sources to the which is literally unable to compete in world Industrial Commerce except through cheap labor foreign it is obvious that a devaluation of the known Dollar is imminent in foreign and that a new Dollar is required with a Proba ble ratio of two old dollars to one partially Cooper Winnipeg adoption one Hopes that the tragic death of the Young native Cathy in a House fire on the Lake Manitoba will not be turned into a political Issue by the Progress Ive conservatives free de Cember this together with other highlight the near third world conditions Many of our native people live the solution is not to Foster out native children to the More affluent amongst efforts must be made to improve the lot of natives so that they can offer their children the same degree of Security and Opportunity the rest of us can to Canada is an affluent and thinly populated she can afford to be As generous to her own native people As she has been to the starving and oppressed Seshiah Winnipeg cringing listener congratulations to the free press for the editorial tasteless free january along i am Many radio i continue to cringe when i think of the persistent and harried probing of the this Hap pens All too Ruth Winkler birthdays sister Elizabeth Kassian of Sis ter servants of Mary Winnipeg born january Mary Winnipeg born South Jan uary not factual the letter by Anderson multicultural free january 9 in regard to the Union of Manitoba municipalities convention held in Winnipeg november 26 to november makes a number of insinuations and suggestions that Are i do not know if Anderson was at our if he he was not and if he was not he should get More reliable inform Anderson lumps together some of the things i said in my with quotes from Douglas Fishers the statements attributed to both of us Are taken out of context and Are not i stated in my i believe there should be a climate created in Mani Toba where any cultural or ethnic group can i do not believe it should be done at the expense of the i believe the time has come when certainly we should be proud of our heritage and but we should be canadians anarchistic Fisher in his address gave us some facts about what was prize ing in he did not condemn or condone any ethnic or cultural but gave delegates a thought provoking i heard Many compliments on his address and not one derogatory ten minutes into the new a bomb exploded outside a Washington abortion the 25th such Inci Dent in the last 12 the District of Columbia police stated that it was miraculous that no one was killed or seriously the mayor of the capital stated that such an act was the work of an organization such As the Kun flux klan or the this Little bit of terrorism was committed by the antiabortion and the problem is not limited to the Leader of the Manitoba anti Choice crusade has advocated the use of violence in the Pursuit of the Zero abortion rate the Ontario Chap ter of the same antiabortion move ment has resorted to arson As a Way of resolving the for wish to Register my protest against such anarchistic and immoral nothing any ethical value will be achieved by Means of such my Winnipeg there Are a number of ethnic groups represented in the Union of Manitoba municipalities member they have done much to improve the Quality of life in Manitoba and in most cases i preserved their culture through their own i think it is sad when a person who is chairman of a race relations Mittee writes a letter Suh As the one in i can Only presume it was written in ignorance of what took place at our convention worse that it was written in an attempt to inflame Public opinion to justify the existence of Ander sons Alan Beachell president Union of Manitoba municipalities Portage la for his efforts to Stop govern men instituted racial segregation in South Bishop Tutu has been awarded the Nobel peace it would appear for his efforts to Stop the trend toward government instigated racial segregation Grant Russell has been Pat Maltman Winnipeg its if he agrees to our arms can he come to the party ;