Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 25, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba E Winnipeg free january 1985 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published six Days a week at 300 Carlton 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 controller a member of the Manitoba press Council editorials the right to vote about people a year migrating from outside Canada take up residence in until they become Canadian which they cannot do until they have lived in the country three they Are prevented from voting in local government whether they live in Winnipeg or in another Manitoba Mario chairman of the Winnipeg school Board and a prominent member of the portuguese proposes that the residents of Winnipeg should be Able to vote in civic so Long As they have been in the City six irrespective of this Reform would give new political muscle in municipal affairs to the communities of recently arrived Immi Grants and to their it would be consistent with social reality and with the first principles of Winnipeg civic according to the Promise of the City of Winnipeg the corporate municipal body of Winnipeg is made up of the inhabitants of the territory the people who live Here irrespective of the taxes Are collected from the owners of property and indirectly from their tenants and the operators of businesses irrespective of the bylaws apply to All the people in the City irrespective of the errors and omissions of the City Council affect the lives of All the people irrespective of some immigrants wait Many years before acquiring Canadian especially those who Are already close to retirement when they move Here for the Benefit of their children and grandchildren and Are unwilling to sever their own links with the land of their they want to be Able to visit Back Home As a matter of right and not As visitors or they want to keep open the possibility of returning Home to live out their last younger people More often intend to build their lives and sink their roots in Canada and do apply for often at the earliest possible opening the municipal franchise to Noncitizen Resi dents would offer the vote to a Small number of people who have no deep roots Here and no intention of As the inter provincial migration figures a significant number of those born Here As soon As Greener Fields the Reform Santos proposes would offer the vote to a much larger number of people who have chosen a Manitoba municipality As their place of residence and not merely been thrust into it by an Accident of different considerations might apply to voting in Federal and provincial the Federal govern ment issues passports to its citizens and makes some Effort to defend their interests when they Are in other attachment to two states can create conflicts and invite but the work of the City of Winnipeg involves the people who live Here solely in their attach ment to this there is no contradiction Between citizenship in a foreign country and full participation in the municipal affairs of this Leaky defence system anyone who has watched the deterioration of equipment assigned to the air defence of North America before the most recent Senate committee that there were holes in the system Large enough to Fly squadrons of bombers the North american air defence system operated jointly by United states and has suffered because of its own and because of the Tail chasing exercise of1 attempting to keep up with because it has been so effective for so the urgency of its modernization has diminished and because it has tried meet changing situations without corresponding changes in its some parts of Norad have most of nomads first equipment was designed to provide a warning system against manned the threat then shifted to and Norad responded with satellites capable of detecting missile firings anywhere in the there is a widely held theory that the More recent emphasis on manned bombers in the soviet Union is partly due to the known deterioration of the equipment employed by Norad to detect such an the equipment being used on the Distant Early warning Dew line is less than and that in the secondary pin tree line is the Senate commit tee recommends a combination of airborne radar defences and More fighter the recommendations Are Likely to create the impression that the senators Are recommending that Canada become a Junior partner in the Star wars such an impression would be quite the committee senator Paul has gone on record that Canada will have to participate in the defence of North and have some say Over what defence measures Are being or risk having the take responsibility for the defence of the continent without consulting the has Practised some economies in air defence on its at times relying upon air traffic radar when its own military equipment needed it is not Likely that the will much longer put its Faith in radar stations that Are More than three decades at the moment Canada enjoys a control Over Norad that is disproportionate to its a Canadian is in command of Norad almost half the even though Canadian funds cover less than ten per cent of the systems Cost participation in Norad is in Canadas National and the More influence Canada can have within the system the better Canadian interests can be the Senate committees recommendation that Canada conclude an Early agreement with the concerning the modernization of Norad defences is More practical than the that Canada develop and operate its own air defence the recommendation becomes urgent because the future warning systems for air defence May not need to be located anywhere in and it would be comforting to know that canadians will continue to know As much about the Security of the country As they do mayday russians at 6 Oclock Polar bears Tut Senate with a Slingshot liberals forget the past Council crawls Back members of the Cherniack committee reviewing the City of Winnipeg act will kindly refrain from when councillors and officials of the City come crawling into the hearing room on their municipal people sometimes take Odd positions for reasons which Are impenetrable to the polite Way is to pretend not to it is clearly established now that the mayor and councillors cannot dictate to the government the membership of committees appointed by the the mystery is that they thought they could get a member kicked off the Cherniack committee after the government had made its Choice and when no sound reasons for a change were Alan Artinise will stay on the Cherniack committee even if the mayor and councillors do not like his the City will Send its representatives to meet the committee even though the mayor said they would the hearings to Date have been Well it is not in the nature of politicians and senior administrators to remain silent when their affairs Are being publicly debated in such a responsible the mayor owes an apology to City solicitor Frank Steele whom he sent Forth to explain the necessity for the Boycott shortly before the mayor and councillors abandoned the they have now Hung Steele out to dry with his strident complaints against Artinise and the Cherniack the things said during quarrels usually sound silly the mayor and councillors should at least conduct their own quarrels and avoid drawing the Board of commissioners and the cite solicitor into the by Wilson special to the free press Ottawa significantly Strong elements in the Liberal party have been freely scattering signs about that they May turn on their new Leader and destroy him if they As dissatisfied tories so often have done on their Side of the political it is a remarkable contrast to earlier patterns of behaviour in the particularly to those of just Over 20 years ago when an earlier party Leader was having great difficulty finding his feet in not outstanding John Turners Best political friends admit that so far he has not been an outstanding Leader of the yet he has not fumbled nearly As badly As former prime minister Lester Pearson did at the same stage of his political Ca had committed one Blunder so spectacular that it made him a laughing Stock for weeks proposal that Chetri ump Hant John Diefenbaker should step aside in favor of the vanquished yet Pearson had no dissatisfied liberals snapping at his heels while Turners career is visibly at his hold on the leadership even though old Pearson ians concede that he is doing better than their Man the difference does not seem to lie in the qualities of the two leaders but in the condition of the Liberal party it was far stronger and even after the 1958 defeat which left Only 48 liberals in the House of than it is Pearson inherited a Strong party from Louis Laurent where Turner took Over one that had been gravely weakened during the later stages of Pierre Trudeau Leader Many of the great Liberal Stal warts were still in harness then even after the 1958 defeat men like Jack Paul Lionel Chevrier and United in the determination to rebuild their party and harass the conservatives along the they were aided in the rebuilding by Strong new allies on the notably Mitchell Sharp and Walter they would not have tolerated efforts to undermine or destroy the new concentrating instead on helping flanks guarded the result was even when he was fumbling pearsons Back and flanks were always securely guarded by men of great political Turners vulnerability comes from the fact that he has no powerful party loyalists guarding the approaches to him his Back and flanks Are exposed to men and women with political Dag Gers Only Hal hidden in their very Early in his tenure As Leader of the Pearson invited Sharp to organize a major policy which was held in Kingston in it became the largest single Factor in the revitalization of the providing the social policy framework from which discrimination i have always been a proud Cana Dian Ever since i got my citizenship in but i am not sure i can remain so proud i never believed that racial discrimination was Practised in Cana supposedly a democratic country where there is Equality of civil until it happened to me on january 4 at the Winnipeg International i was returning from the United states after my Christmas i was subjected to the longest scrutiny of All the things i brought from my used underwear to the smallest piece of paper in my i do not know what the inspector was looking it took her a Long time to dig into All my looking at the labels on my old clothes and my visa in the she listed International Airport All the things Given me As wedding she charged me i am wondering what things were covered by my yearly exemption of what really bothers me is the racist feeling she projected towards All my co passengers were gone hours ahead of Many came from Hawaii with Luggage and their Luggage was not even opened nor subjected to scr was it because i am a coloured Canadian and they were White canadians i feel that racial discrimination is Practised at the Airport Cus so fellow coloured canadians when you go South or leave the Mary Rosario Winnipeg nonprofessional i am appalled and embarrassed to be a nurse after Reading the article Hsc nurses file complaint Over patient free january since when do nurses pick and choose whom they nurse this sounds like Case of i dont want you can have nurses have an obligation to care for All including those awaiting Transfer to other what is most unfortunate is that the Hospital leaders and Mona the nurses Union support this just As the patient who is bleeding is not always pleasant to work so the patient who is sexually acting out has a real i do not buy the argument that this patient was sexually the Man referred to in the article after a the nurses caring for him have More mobility than he voicing nurses legitimate con Cerns is one but condoning nurses failure to Deal with the genuine emotional needs of patients because of their discomfort or insecurity is supporting no profession Alisa in Wendy Raber Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes tellers from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to repulsive responsibility Cecil rosters report on the re search Grant and employment controversy at the University of Mani Toba free november while essentially requires several comments of president Arnold Naimark errs when he characterizes the problems that arose during his tenure As Dean of Medicine As Mere misunderstand Ings and the med ical research Council Mac of Canada had allocated the research funds in after peer to specified individuals in specified amounts for specified the award was unambiguous and bind As Naimark himself has those individuals recruited by the univer for whose use the bulk of the award was were Misin formed As to both the nature and the amount of the with respect to Naimark knows that and not his program coordinator upon whom the blame seems to be de was specifically and exclusively responsible for the administration of the according to Mac the responsibility was his not Only because he was then Dean of the medical but also because he was the formal applicant of the although i accept at face value his written Assurance that neither he nor anyone else in the Deans office knew anything whatsoever of mis allocation of the Plain fact is that the budget ledgers of the Grant show that he shared at least formal responsibility with his subordinate on financial Naimark assertion that All the requirements with re Spect to the development Grant were met by the University cannot stand up to the close scrutiny of impartial a major requirement of eligibility to apply for the Grant was a commitment by the University to assume responsibility for the salaries of those recruited to the development program after a five year period of Federal Nai Marks written commitments Are on at least two Grant applications and his verbal commitments Are attested to by several Naimark now denies having made those claiming that everyone had misunderstood he alleges that he wrote a letter to the Mac in 1978 clarifying his that denying that he meant to make the commitments that a Mac review committee understood him to the Mac Roxburgh and Rolles ton denies having received this Piv Otal letter upon which four salaries Hung in the and the presi Dent acknowledges that he never received a response from the Mac nor Ever discussed with Mac officials its specific unless we Are to believe that ones obligations in an agreement involving Over million can be nullified unilaterally by unregistered let Ter despite no response from the party that had already completed its end of the Deal and that this Cru Cial letter was fortuitously lost in the sworn testimonies of a University president and a High Mac official Are j invite Naimark and his two colleagues at the Mac to join me in seeking an open and Public inquiry into this matter which concerns not Only but Polimeni department of physiology University of Manitoba Winnipeg remember what developers said when they proposed to stack up offices and instead of spreading them out they claimed that the High buildings would and even Green space for the ugly boxes go up and parking lots Are created around the result is a sterile and repulsive the same folks at City Hall who forced Winni Eggers under ground to spend Money in the shops of the main and Portage concourse Are considering a proposal to Wall in a Section of mands if mar West fancies a Creek running through its proposed apart ment then let it create a mands Creek should be left whispering Thunder ing waterfalls and cascading fountains can easily be created As evidenced in other our cites creeks Truro and Sturgeon and Rivers should be developed for year round recreational let us consider the Quality of life for All citizens for a commercial build Ings should not be erected Over mands Allan Jeffrey Winnipeg the Pearson government operated when Power was regained in Gordon had played an important role in stimulating the policy forma Tion any spare energies liberals had after the 1958 Slaughter were effectively directed into the renewal Turner has not been Idle since september he has visited Many Ridings and talked to All of the party Defeated an important step since it is upon them or Many of them that the party must rely in its attempts to he has taken any step comparable to pearsons in Call ing for organization of the Kingston lacks inspiration one of the complaints against Turner is that he lacks the inspirational qualities necessary to rally the political did or there is a great Deal More to than the ability to deliver a rousing Turners immediate could on occasion deliver both Good fighting speeches and moving he could deliver some of the flattest and dullest ones Ever heard in Canadian the most pressing of All the Chal Lenges facing the liberals is to find out where they stand on the great issues of the Day and of the rest of the until they do that the temptations of Mere expediency will always be upon it is the leaders Job to Start the process by which the party comes to grips with the problems of the Good project in the article province thwarts Gas station plans free Jan uary 7 Nick Deputy minister of natural states the Rea son for his reneging on the lease As being Lack of economic Benefit to the nearby and made him arrive at this conclusion the business people of the nearby communities need some compete and the people would Benefit because they would not be paying world prices for gasoline As they do i do not think Carter has bothered to look at the plans that were submitted to various govern ment departments with regard to this nor the plans submitted to Crown if he he would know that we would be creating jobs a supposed concern of the Why does not Carter come up North and speak to the people who the ones who have to go without a Job Bettyann Smith Cedar Grove service grand Boring Joe Borowskiy need to carry his crusade against abortion to the Point that my taxes will go to support him and his fanatics in jail cells is not he claims to be a reasonable it would be reasonable if he and his cohorts would spend their Money and energies to improve the Quality of life of the children who Are in need of clothing and Borowski has been putting himself in the Public Eye for Many years i lets retire him he has become Boldt Winnipeg maybe another country will want you for their Deputy t ;