Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 26, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba The Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give name and the authors name will be used and letters Are subject to Winnipeg free press january Page 7 a is Ftp a different View of Canadian history the letter by Anderson Multi cultural free january 9 was full of puzzling chairman of the race relations says Canada was always a Multi ethnic he seems to have forgotten that when the first Immi Grants set foot on this land they became and were Active participants in the building of this they brought their individual but it was not until they started sharing them that multiculturalism came into it is this blending that has enriched our Canadian Anderson says we have to accept a change in the nature of Canada As More immigrants Why immigrants have always had to conform to the not vice to change that policy would be to destroy governments have a responsibility to help new Comers become therefore the influx of immigrants must be controlled so they immigrants do not get forgotten in the unless they get a working knowledge of the language they could remain on the Periphery of Canadian society the rest of their Anderson goes on to attack Douglas Toronto Sun Colum and Alan president of the Union of Manitoba municipal their stand on immigration and ethnic he claims that they belong to a dwindling that they want to reverse the irreversible and that they want to Stop a powerful if that reality is the Rise of ethnic Power in they would certainly have the sup port of most Fisher spoke at the convention of the Union of Manitoba municipal he said i think we can go too far in turning ourselves into unique and Lovely Little Terry chairman of inter cultural describes these re Marks As insensitive and insulting to All doubt if Many Manitoban upset at hearing the As Well As Many other have been More deeply insulted by newly formed ethnic associations that claim to represent All of us making a mockery of the loyalty and Devotion our immigrant forefathers held for this they left their not to cling tenaciously to their old but to help in the building of a new they Learned the shared their cultures and saw racial barriers begin to Many of their descendants no longer want to be mainstream they prefer to think of themselves As some minority or majority in order to lobby politicians for special rights with surprising never in our history were ethnic canadians a threat to the Unity of our we were just canadians like everyone with the same rights and this feel ing is not shared today by the organizers of such ethnic associations As Manitoba papal and the multiplicity of cultural councils and committees that keep it is our not the taxpayers to preserve our Anderson says that the meet ing of by overlooking ethnic created a we versus them concept that is whatever he is i gather it Means trouble in the Days to Martin Winnipeg Manitoban health care not endangered Fred Cleverley column doctors should be fighting to save extra Billing free january 21 was an excellent example of the Misin formed jumping to outlandish con he based his opinion on a news report about a single doctors meet ing a meeting he had no firsthand knowledge about and made absolutely no Effort to learn the other Side of the for the i Challenge every one of his ill conceived but in particular his statements As potential what will the Deal Cost us one of the prices we May have to pay is a reduction in excellence in the medical care we have if Cleverley really thinks that being extra billed by a doctor is somehow connected with the Quality of medical care Manito bans must be in big of doctors who have a full licence to practice Medicine in this Only 75 Are opted out of medicare and allowed to the Stan Dard of care provided by most opted out doctors is in my View very but most opted in doctors pro vide equally High Quality to insinuate As does is unfounded and he also recommends that doctors should fight to overturn the Canada health which Calls on provincial ban extra Billing or face financial what kind of a fight would he like to see armed combat Fischer letter to the arbitration free january 21 had much in common with Henry Rahns letter undemocratic free january both letters jumped to erroneous conclusions due to a misunderstanding of the facts at it is no coincidence that both these gentlemen Are who Are also known members of the association of Independent a splinter group which has As its Pri Mary objective the preservation of i wish to assure readers that the vast majority of Manitoba physic ians believe that High Quality medi Cal care is much More important than extracting extra dollars from As proof of my i predict that a majority of doctors will vote in favor of impartial bind ing arbitration to Settle fee disputes with the May i also state for the record that the Manitoba medical association Board of directors has recommended acceptance of the tentative agree ment with the province based on full disclosure of the the Board knew negotiations were taking place and approved this course of Derek my president Manitoba medical association Winnipeg chastened Winnipeg one school trustees got full blast of citizen anger after voting themselves huge shattering his illusions it took the editorial greed and incompetence free Jan uary 17 to shatter my Faith in now there is nothing first it was followed by elves and fairies a Short time then Paddy the Beaver became just another by Young the Wisdom of our Lead ers was put to the test and later everyone became but through it editors had a special if truth those whose Craft it was to arrange words into intricate and exquisite patterns of would expose that is not it now appears that editors can lose their can be misinformed and can act for the editorial devotes one paragraph to describe How Homes will be lost for nonpayment of taxes by the increase in trustees Honor aria for such Carastro the added Cost to the school division for such Honor aria is 28 cents per year on a House assessed at it is difficult to imagine anyone losing their Home for on Quarter of a if Homes Are chances Are that Price attributable to Cost re covery by advertisers using the Are considerably More significant in such the editorial also reveals that editors read their own a Fate Well deserved but a some what dangerous practice in the Pursuit of drawing conclusions from such readings can be downright in this a reporters version of a Small segment of one debate among Many extending Over sever Al weeks was used by the editor As a rationale for proclaiming the incompetence of the school the pomposity of the editor in believing that his or her remarks sol criterion for deciding appropriate Honorius for trustees is the reaction to an editorial of this Type is to leave it and to let it go away until it is realized that such writing is forever unless something is said about this Community deserves imputing Nam calling and derogatory comment Are hardly the stuff of Good to say that the current school Board is incompetent is like saying the Queen is neither is the Winnipeg school division is in sad need of much has been done during the past year and much remains to be the work is for a school system As Large As Winnipeg develops its own the four Tourone split on the Board demands careful planning and much fortunate unlike Many boards in the this Board can Cope with differences in backgrounds and ideologies without acrimony spill ing out on the floor to stymie the proceedings and As for editors who choose to Rise out of the weeds to take pot shots at anything that the Best advice is to enrol in a Hunting it is Only after such editors learn the difference Between Robins and ducks that serious Hunting should be Kowalchuk Winnipeg unjustified pay provincial appointment of school trustees to local school boards is needed to hold costs Down and to facilitate Community perhaps minister of education Maureen Hemphill should establish a prototype Board representation program parallel with that proposed by health minister Larry Desjardins for Hospital in this prototype composition could be 20 per cent govern ment appointees based on Board size and school the time has come for the minis Ter of education to seriously exam Ine the effectiveness of local school Board representation and its poli government appointments would place checks and balances to Deal with Lack of Public interest and attendance of Board meetings lighten Overall Board workload and introduce experienced knowledge Able trustees who would assist other trustees to be better ambassadors of some ratepayers Are expressing concerns about unjustified pay in creases from to by Winnipeg school trustees unjustified pay increases for local administration by last year per and which reflect an almost 10 per cent increase As opposed to the boards three per cent budget limit internal Board conflicts and Board manipulation by a the problems experienced with Community education Are not Only As a result of Board decisions and actions but mainly occur As a re sult of ratepayers sins of too often the general Public turns a deaf ear to what occurs at the Board level and Only reacts when something harsh occurs to their children or when one of their favor Ite teachers or principals is being As a ask yourself when you last attended a school Board meeting or when you last read the minutes of the school Board John Halabura Public silenced i am one of the three delegates who was refused permission to speak at the meeting of the Board of trustees of Winnipeg school division no 1 before they voted themselves a substantial increase in we were told according to the it was necessary to advise the Board of our intentions four Days in Advance of the meet having failed to observe this formality we were denied the Privi lege of expressing our in voting for Public officials in a we try to vote for the individual who Best represents our Here is a group of people who Are obviously not interested in listening to the they enlisted the support of a highly respected hoping that his re port would convince the Public that they Are entitled to this this seemed to be sufficient cause for the Board to prevent Public discussion or debate on an Issue which decides on the spending of Public in View of the fact that they Are spending the tax dollars of not Only one individual who was Given time to prepare a Brief containing his in their haste the Board failed to provide the Public at Large with equal time and Opportunity to question their accountability for this extravagant i question their sue Shklov Winnipeg the French have a succinct phrase for it plus Ca plus West la Mem the More things the More they stay the this Premier Howard Pawley and Energy minister Wilson Parasiuk announced the calling of tenders for the billion Limestone generating station on the Nelson the National Energy boards ruling on the proposed 12year Power Sale to Northern states Power of Minneapolis is a month the Asp contract is not until but Pawley said the tender Call is now required to ensure that Limestone can begin producing Power by Manitoba Hydro has estimated that the province will need Lime Stone itself by the government wants construction to Start this year to ensure the Utility can both meet Domestic requirements and have the capacity to Export by Pawsey claimed the two year and Vance could give Manitoba Hydro a million Benefit uninterruptible Power the opposition conservatives were not Why is the government taking a political decision going ahead two years before it is necessary for commitment to the Asp agree ment asked tory Leader Gary Filmon and his Energy Crit Harry said they fear mov ing up the Date could Saddle Hydro customers or the provinces taxpayers with interest costs running As High As for the two years Itic ians can change a position Frances Russell before the Asp Sale there is a much More but reason for the positions of the two the Pawley governments Man Date runs out in the time a major project takes to filter its spinoff benefits through the Economy is at least 12 to 18 at the All bets Are on a provincial for that Means a Limestone commencement no later than the summer of the tories Are fully aware of the political Agenda because they have one of their their big Lead Over the nip in the polls could evaporate with economic Good it is All highly reminiscent of the events of the fall of the difference the conservatives were in and under much greater political pressure than the new democrats Are they were a week into an election the tories had keyed their entire reelection strategy on the Catchy advertising slogan that Manitoban were sitting on a Gold the Mother lode in that Gold mine was the Prairie Power a 35year Exchange agreement with Saskatchewan and Alberta which also would have required the Start up of the Limestone the Grid had been taking the Lyon government and Manitoban on a political economic roller coaster ride for almost two As late As tory Energy minister Don Craik had said that unless agree ment could be reached by Decem the Grid would Likely the problem was the Price Mani Toba a major consideration since the province was not Only agreeing to tie its Power up for 35 but was also assuming the main Burden of construction the election was called on Craik and the Premier Sterling Lyon announced that the three provinces were close to signing a draft interim agreement on the the qualifiers draft and interim were sufficient to give the elect one Vered government despite the uncertainties As to when the package would be who was also Deputy said were asking Hydro now to go ahead with Confidence on the basis that the construction is under Way and to prepare their then opposition took a dim View of the tories a the governments announce he was an act of Desper ate it is further evidence that the conservative machine is As it turned the tories announcement was nothing More than a gust of electoral it died the next Day when Saskatchewan nip Premier Allan Blakeney said no interim agree ment has yet been reached by the three provincial governments and no such agreement is possible until the governments have had a full Opportunity to review the work of the ministers and officials to the Lyon government was Defeated in the november 17 the Gallup organization asked a representative Sample of canadians to rank institutions in order of their Confidence in political parties scored an Al time Low of 22 per the habit of saying one thing in opposition and doing the exact oppo site in Power has created consider Able cynicism about politicians in the the Dps signed contract with Asp is a great Deal More than the tories had with a close draft interim agreement on the Power if the nip is taking an economic risk by starting Limestone what were the tories doing in 1981 on the other a two year Advance on while per haps not is definitely the kind of politicking Pawley him self denounced three years 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