Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 29, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free january 1985 Filmon sees Little new in hold tight shuffle labor Welcome new ministers As sign of thaw in relationships Gerry free Fless by Fred Youngs arid Mary Ann Fitzgerald Premier Howard Pawley has produced a Stan Pat Cabinet shuffle whose Only effect will be to overwork some opposition Leader Gary Filmon said the tory Leader also said Pawley has failed to give his government a new image with the a hold tight situation because they Are preparing for the next he told reporters in a Call from Norway aside from Harry Hara the same people Are and i guess we Are not expecting any major performance the nip caucus chair was the Only Bac Bencher elevated to taking on the Northern affairs Filmon said he is surprised that Pawley has overloaded health min ister Larry Desjardins by giving him the Urban affairs portfolio when other ministers Are at the time of Mary Beth Dolins resignation As labor and Urban affairs Filmon suggested that housing minister John buckles environment minister Gerard Lecuyer and highways minister Jonn among didst Haile enough to eager to Start Riew posting continued from Page 1 Muriel Smith will take Over As min ister responsible for the status of another of Dolins along with Mackling is also minister responsible for the Manitoba Telephone system and telecommunications and the civil service Harapiak told reporters he is Happy with his promotion and is looking Forward to getting on with the the lauded his Storie and Treasury Board chairman Jay saying he wants to continue the direction they established in the Northern affairs he said his priorities will be economic and Community the shuffle comes about a month before the legislature is expected to resume Pawley said yester Day he Hopes to Call Las Back to the House by Early they have not been Given additional work from what i can he said perhaps they Are not capable of accepting any other by overworking one or the other of his portfolios May suf he the shift of Veteran new demo crat Ai Mackling into the labor seat May signal the government is going to Back off some of its More controversial labor Filmon at the same Pawley has removed Mackling from natural re where his emphasis on wilderness Parks at the expense of camping facilities and other policies have upset thaw the reviews of Hawleys new Cabi net were not All Deputy mayor Jim possibly signalling a thaw in province City heartily welcomed the appointment of Desjardins As Urban affairs Hawleys decision to pick one of the most experienced members of the Cabinet to take on Urban affairs bodes Well for the Ernst i dont think they could have made a better Ernst and Desjardins have worked together in the most notably on lengthy negotiations to keep the Winnipeg jets National hockey league franchise in the if anybody is aware of City concerns he should considering his Long Ernst he added that the appointment of Desjardins is recognition by Paw Ley that the City deserves different treatment than it has been Manitoba federation of labor president John Pullen praised the shuffle and the appointment of he seems to have a very Good track record on How he deals with Pullen Hes always willing to Pullen also said he has High expectations for we have to say it looks like some very fair he As far As labor is we would have to View it As very Gary president of the Mani Toba government employees Asso was pleased with the appointment of Mackling to steer both labor and civil i see Al As a experienced person in terms of the Public doer Hes a person we can work political Rookie Harry Harapiak has been named the new Northern affairs Zipper open on hat Fields bag continued from Page 1 on to the Royal but Blake said he noticed that the zippered pocket where the marijuana was later found was open when he moved the suitcase from one office to using a Black a replica of hat Fields Blue Nylon Blake indicated How far the Zipper was the horizontal Zipper was not secured properly and i said in effect that it should be he adding that his assistant subsequently closed the along with eight of the ramp officers on duty that said there were quite a number of people milling around outside the office where the suitcase was he said Media and employees families were Given special passes to the area so they could View the arrival of the Royal in later hat Fields Law Donald asked Tom who ordered the search of the premiers if proposals called backdoor tax the inspection was Standard proce Dure during a Royal Robertson said ramp officers were looking for any dangerous sub stances that could cause an explosion or fire on the Royal did you find any dangerous sub stances asked replied then Why seize it the marijuana at All Gillis Green substance Robertson said the marijuana was considered to be illegal and was seized under my ramp Eugene Hoffman said when hat Fields suitcase was a Brown envelope with a plastic bag containing a Green plan like substance was a subsequent analysis of the sub stance showed it to be Marijuan to testimony of All the Crown no one saw the suitcase in the personal Possession of the Premier or could guarantee that no one was near the Hoffman told Crown prosecutor David Hughes that besides the Enve Lope containing he found hat Fields personal a prayer card and a joke in other Waller said that he and chief Denis Ling visited hat Fields House three Days after the incident to Tell him they had found the marijuana in his lug Waller said Hatfield was nervous and there was a slight stutter to his he made no response when told of the ramps Waller when advised by Ling to seek Legal counsel before answering Waller said that Hatfield replied i it was not of i must seek Legal Waller said that Hatfield told the two ramp officers that he rarely unpacks his bags and that he left them unattended during recent trips to Toronto and the trial hotel project in limbo continued of Tom Page 1 Extension of Central Park South to Ellice along Edmonton the land to be used for the Exten Sion is bounded by Quappelle ave Ellice and the Lane and does not include the site of the existing hotel or the Warwick both on the East Side of the we Are going to have to reevaluate our said Kushnier after the committee i think at this Point it the decision jeopardizes he said he will meet others involved in the proposed project be fore deciding what to arrangements while environment committee re fused to hold up the Park Exten councillors urged Kushnier to try to work out alternative arrange ments with officials from the Initia Tive and the North Portage develop ment Kushnier said he has had Little response from either body since informing them of the hotels interest in the mayor Bill Norrie said he would set up a meeting Between representatives of the Britanny inn and the he said he welcomed the hotels interest in redeveloping the area and hoped it would Beable to use other land Norrie defended the committee saying the City has Long believed Central Park must be extended South to provide needed Green space in the downtown he said the City could also face Legal difficulties if it sold the land to the hotel after expropriating it for Don Mitchelson chairman of the cites recreation and social services commit also urged the environment committee not to hold up the one Block Extension of the allowing the Brittany inn to acquire the land at Edmonton and Ellice would forever Block any Hope of extending the Park to Portage or he Bill Chornopyski opposed the Deci Sion to stick with the Park he said the provincial and Federal governments have repeatedly called for private investment to redevelop the downtown but when a local company was prepared to invest millions of dollars and went to City development officials with their they were kept in the dark and almost totally he continued from Page 1 for each child younger than 18 from the current level of the child tax credit would be increased to a maximum of a year for each child younger than 18 from with benefits declining As family income increased to More than the income tax exemption for dependent children younger than 18 would be Cut a child from the other package that the paper describes As less popular once All the facts Are known would eliminate the income tax exemption entirely and would raise the child tax credit to a maximum of a year for each the credit would be reduced proportionately after family income exceeded a summer Job cuts memo says continued from Page 1 for employment As soon As possible in order to give Job seekers time to apply for summer the self program Mccurdy was referring to was outlined in a memo dated 9 from Catherine director of summer to All regional directors and it stated that Macdonald had seen and agreed to the self Kerr could not immediately be reached Foi comment and a department spokesman said she did not know whether the self program had been Macdonald was not available to talk to report ers she said in the commons that a number of student Job programs were being considered and an announcement would be made in due lib the latest month for which figures Are the unemployment rate for those Between the Ages of 15 and 24 was 17 per compared with per cent for All age continued from Page 1 would say Only that they will support nothing until japanese canadians have been Given a fair Art president of the japanes Canadian said the stance taken by the two opposition parties has his group new Hope the tories will be forced to reopen Neotia association in Ottawa to mus Ter opposition to the governments unilateral met minister Jack Murta nip Leader de Broadbent said the conserva Tives once complained about Bank presidents making a year getting family allow but the options in the paper Are essentially an attack on the Middle this is not social Reform at he told what we have Here is a government that is going after Middle income canadians with the pretence that its concern is with the Liberal pensions critic Doug Frith said both packages would amount to a backdoor tax increase on Middle income they also would provide hundreds of millions of dollars More for provincial governments that include tory the government has invited comments directly from the Public on the discussion it also referred the paper to the commons commit tee on welfare and social affairs and asked for a report Back by March Epp said he still Hopes to finish the process of consultations in time to have changes ready to be announced in the april budget the two packages of proposals would redistribute a modest amount of income and release Money for other Federal and provincial pro under one families earning less than a year would get an additional annually on while families earning 000 or More would lose an average of some families with incomes As Low As would be worse off than under the current this package would save Ottawa some million a year in Revenue and provincial govern ments collectively would save under the second and presumably less Desir Able the poorest families would get a year More on average and the richest families would lose an average of reductions in current benefits would begin with families with incomes As Low As especially single Par ent Ottawa would save million a year under the second package and the provinces would save collectively optimistic earlier in the Day but Miki said they made no the minister called the meeting to explain the governments plan for not because he intended to resume Miki said the tories ended discussions with the association earlier this month after Only two an aide to Murta subsequently revealed plans to apologize for the internment of about japanese canadians during the War and to establish a million compensation build your Asp with More with a Royal Bank retirement savings you get All the options youre looking that gives you More if you want a guaranteed High interest rate we have if you want daily interest we have it if you want a term 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