Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 6, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free May 1985 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights published seven Days a week at 300 Carlton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press est 1872 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 divorce and children about half the or so divorces that happen in Canada each year involve dependent adding about of them to the victims of marriage the pain caused to children by the divorce of the parents is fairly Well documented and they Are a party to a divorce though the Law gives them no quite As much As the adults who have decided to go their separate the new divorce act which the Mulroney government is asking parliament to adopt does not adequately protect their the new which closely follows the one which the Trudeau government proposed during its last months in would allow one by living apart from the other for a to establish that marriage breakdown has occurred and therefore oblige the court to Grant a even if there Are even if the other spouse does not agree that the marriage has permanently broken even if the other spouse does not agree there should be a the Mulroney divorce Rule would differ from the Trudeau divorce Rule in this Way that an immediate divorce could be sought by one spouse if the other spouse were guilty of cruelty or the financial interest of the children is covered after a when divorce is sought on grounds of one years the court May not Grant the the Bill if the divorce would pre judicially affect the making of reasonable arrangements for the support of any children of the the court does not have to be shown what those arrangements it does not have to have the positive Assurance that the children will be adequately provided All the court needs is some kind of indication from the parents that willingness to support the children will not be diminished by the granting of the if children were represented in the making of Canadian their representatives would never consent to such shabby treatment of their the provi Sion is a Way of shunting the children aside while the grownups Settle family matters solely in terms of the grownups parliament should not be so heed less of the damage which divorce does to children nor so willing to let adults trample on their when there Are no it makes sense that a married couple who to longer wish to be married should be freed from the obligations of uncontested divorces of childless people who both have the Means to provide for themselves should be completed quickly and easily without mudslinging and without litigation but marriages generally have one spouse who earns and another who is financially the financially dependent usually the should have More leverage than the proposed act offers to insist on adequate financial support before allowing the divorce to Canadian society relies on its families to provide the stable and Loving environment in which its children will be when adults who have formed a family and produced children propose to destroy that stable and Loving to the injury of the society has a right to Call them to account and insist that Good arrangements be made for the the Law should at least require the court to find out All about the provisions that have been made for the children arid see that they Are adequate before a divorce is that phantom policy it i quite understandable that Myma new democratic party representative in the legislature for would buy her insurance from the Manitoba Public insurance she should be More reluctant to accept pics word on the rules and practices of the insurance Phillips has been warned by her own government insurance company that she May be refused insurance because she is a bad the reasons is that she has been the target of burglars four times in two her claims have been relatively Between and in but she has been told by the government insurance Agency that risks in the Industry Are deter mined by and not by Phillips has rightly questioned Why becoming a victim should constitute becoming a bad risk at the same time and Why a series of Small claims is considered More damaging to the customer than one Large possibly without realizing Phillips has put her Finger on two separate areas of she could by asking other insurance that the Industry has no policy about the acceptability of each company sets its own pics refusal to insure Phillips is not because it has to follow Industry As it told but because it is following a Rule that it and As a member of the government controlling Phillips can rectify on her own behalf and on the behalf of others who Are refused insurance through no fault of their Phillips experience pinpoints the High Inci Dence of minor crime in this incidence has persuaded most insurance companies to raise the amounts of policy deductibles and to increase the value of no claims it illustrates the Lack of reasonably priced burglar Protection in the Phillips could help herself and others if she persuaded the Manitoba Telephone system to Stop attempting to be a monopoly in the provision of such the Manitoba Telephone system operate such a Protection service under the name fast fast action safety a subscriber to this service has burglar detection devices along with fire smoke and All Are connected to an its monitoring system which alerts police and fire the Only drawback with the its system is the expense connected to the system requires a substantial installation fee up to plus a monthly in other Canadian private Telephone companies Are forced to compete with Cable companies for the and the result is reasonable installation charges and quite Low monthly which bring with them reductions in insurance premiums because of reduced the Best advice that can be Given to Phillips to help her overcome her difficulties in obtaining insurance because of events beyond her control is to investigate what is available in the private sector she might be pleasantly if she uses her influence with her caucus it is possible that All Manitoban would be Able to Crosbie divorce reforms a week Seldom passes without further evidence that the Federal conservative Cabinet is adopting the very so often expensive to the that were the targets of criticism when those now in Power were in the latest example is a flight in a government Jet taken by Energy minister Pat at a Cost of More than it would have Cost the taxpayers to Send her and her entourage by an available commercial Jet that would have arrived at its destination within 15 minutes of the ministers the excuse offered for this absolute waste of tax Dollar is that the minister needed privacy so that she could receive a briefing from officials in her the minister and three aides flew from Ottawa to during this portion of the trip the briefing must have taken place because two of the aides left at that Point while the minister and a single aide flew on to Vancou the four used air they would have arrived in Calgary ten minutes later than they and the minister would have arrived in Vancouver fifteen minutes later than she the government Jet returned to Ottawa the Cost of commercial fares for the four would have been less than Money which air Canada could have the Cost of using the governments challenger Jet was More than other ministers have taken similar pleading the Lack of commercial transportation available to fit their time the minister of Energy the need for could have been met at less Cost simply by booking two More seats and leaving them by Leonard Shufrin special to the free press Ottawa Justice minister John Crosbie newly unveiled form proposals go a Long Way t ird meeting the objections raise by women groups last year i Jie Trudeau governments the biggest thing wrong wit he Liberal Bill was that the Crite it set out for maintenance Otts stressed the goal of self Suff by for the in a a Ici Dence of a supreme i just before the Bill was made painfully Clear what the result of such criteria would fifty Earold women who had spent 20 years at Home raising children and had no marketable skills would be Given three or five years to vocationally rehabilitate them and after that their right to support would compensation the Crosbie in its proposed criteria for support instructs the courts to consider the length of time the spouses cohabited and the functions performed by and specifically to apportion Between the spouses any financial consequences arising from the care of any child of the in other if the husband has spent 20 years building his career while the wife was at Home raising their Chil the effects of that division of marital roles on their respective earning prospects is to be compensated a second objection women had to last years Bill was that it would have permitted support orders to be changed by the courts of a province where either espouse subsequently because divorced unencumbered by Are the most Mobile of women groups foresaw an a wife Nova being feed with the loss of her maintenance payments unless she could hire a lawyer to represent her in British under the Crosbie any variation ordered by the court would be provisional subject to confirmation or rejection by a Nova Scotia adequate support orders for sex wives and the children they Are still raising Are not Worth the paper they Are printed if they Are not two thirds of Ca Nadian support orders Are in de Crosbie proposes doing two things about that defaulters the first is making the information in two major Federal data Banks the unemployment departments record of unemployment insurance contributors and the health and Wel fare departments record of Canada pension plan contributors Avail Able for tracing the Sec Ond is to make Federal government payments owing to defaulters Seiz Able under court orders for arrears of these would include tax unemployment insurance and pension Canada Sav Ings Bond interest and agricultural stabilization that could put a big Dent in the number of support orders in default but it is by no Means certain that it provincial initiatives will be required in order to take full advantage of the new Federal the shining example of what can be done about collecting on maintenance is where the government operates the collection sys instead of leaving it for a wives to Chase a husbands for missing before the system was 75 per cent of Manitoba maintenance orders were in now 85 per cent Are being collect cos sharing although the Federal governments jurisdiction Over divorce probably Means it could set up that sort of automatic enforcement system on a National it refuses to consider such an it could do what the Federal government has done in the United states encourage the establishment of such sys tems by sharing in their administrative when Ottawa wanted to encourage the provinces to create medicare social leg Alaid schemes and so it offered to pay part of their it could do exactly the same thing for maintenance order enforcement South of the the government pays 75 per cent of the Cost of state most provincial in have shown no enthusiasm for creating automatic collection systems except for welfare recipients where the Money collected reduces provincial welfare failing to face up to that is the one conspicuous omission in the Crosbie divorce Reform pack Back to basics parents and taxpayers have thing to think about concerning what is right and what is wrong and How it is dealt with in our our social studies being piloted now and Home economics curricula in most of our schools in Mani Toba Are based on the humanistic philosophy there is no there is no life the Good life is achieved when we realize the human humanists believe in sex Ual Freedom regardless of equal distribution of the re Moval of free Enterprise and a world this is taken from the humanist the tool used in value is a method designed to convince the child that he has the right to develop his own personal values and morality free from authority of any including that of his parents and his techniques used come under the following situational death group by feeling self hypo alternate schools without just to name a this program was brought to my parents course attention this past i could not believe it was being taught in our we have two the younger being in Grade he is learning All about my special feelings and things i like to our older son is in Grade he and his class Are bused to a larger school in the division for Industrial arts and Home to my he brought Home papers on which was evaluated by the i resent any one teaching values and morals to my children because the teachers values and morals May not be and mine not it is becoming More apparent that the educational system is taking Over my role As a i under stand there Are instances where some children need guidance in school but i do not think we need All this group it is my and my god Given to teach the effective method dealing with feel Ings and emotions to my the educational system should put More emphasis on cognitive learn ing and get Back to the Hanneson what area it was with great trepidation that i read your editorial Challenge to hypocrisy free april 24 wherein you magnanimously Sug Gest that it is a Good idea to allow prostitutes to operate from private dwelling the questions in my mind were in what area of the City would these establishments exist would the writer of the editorial be willing to accept such houses in his residential area i know 9 great number of people who live in various areas of toe not necessarily in the and i do not know of any who would want such houses foisted upon their Clysdale Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to to problems rights eroded put up after Reading your editorial publicity for hatred free april 25 i realize that the Public has been and is being brainwashed from More than one level into thinking if a hatemonger is prosecuted in our courts for Ernst Zundel that this will give him a platform from which to disseminate his views and therefore this would work to the advantage of the hate nothing could be farther from the truth than this glaring mis Concep which was proven when Zundel was taken to court and prosecuted under the criminal before his trial Only some people knew that Zundel was a purveyor of hate literature which was based on lies and and which he used in order to confuse unwary canadians and others so As to enlist and use them As pawns for his and other Neo nazis own nefarious since his All people who heard or read about thanks to its Learned that Zundel is a person who is not even a citizen of Canada but is a landed immigrant who has devoted himself to a premeditated criminal Campaign of deliberately and knowingly spreading false information Campaign that included atrocious lies vilifying masons and Bankers if believed by the would make Zundel proud of nazi the false information contained in Rundels documents were called scurrilous by presiding judge Hugh who also i Blued Zun Del to the world As a Neo nazi propagandist and danger to Canadian society and convicted him of pub Lishing the big opinions have been stated to Dis courage prosecution of hate Mon claiming they will find a convenient platform in courts from which to disseminate their Howe it is an obligation of the people of Canada that the platform and views of the hatemonger be let the hatemongers put up or shut up with their claims in Herman Winnipeg a great method if we Are to take tory health critic Don Orchard at face value when he says nip documents Are being leaked by overlooked civil servants in response to political then maybe we have found a method of doing away with All those patronage that it comes to us from Brethren least Likely to produce that kind of initiative Middle management civil servants perhaps bodes Well for the methods if inertia can Lodge itself in the civil perhaps this self protecting Back lash can now we read that since the nip health department report was made Public the idea is starting to catch let us Hope Premier Howard Pawley sees nothing but future retaliation and Embarrass ment on his patronage list of faithful lest Gary Filmon get those same civil servants hopefully will resent equally the efforts of another government to enlarge the Bank accounts of their own Friendly Hacks and i Hope the trend catches on and to those civil servants doing the backroom i keep it show them who Jankiewicz Winnipeg Canadian broadcasting companies Are increasingly airing the same programs at the same time As the american broadcasting this is called simultaneous substitution and is allowed by the crts As Long As the signals Are an increasing number of these american programs Are close captioned for the hearing impaired and this signal is not being rebroadcast by Canadian companies and not the identical Canadian broadcasters use this method of programming to obtain the maximum advertising Dollar from their even though it deprives the hearing impaired from watching the crts has a document that was to ensure that programs Are rebroadcast with the captioned ver Sion but unfortunately there is a Builtin loophole for the broadcasters that requires them Only to say we have tried to get the captioned version and could then they Are allowed to show the a captioned Canadian broadcasters have listed excuses such As delivery customs different soft Ware and distributor but none of these reasons can justify taking away the Opportunity the hearing impaired have of watching the hearing impaired have paid for Cable have paid 1350 for a captioned decoder and then Are prevented from using the crts should put a Stop to Fiese continuous violations by not allowing Canadian stations simultaneous substitution of captioned programs and then we would see How fast these broadcasters would solve their unfortunately the crts seems to be More on the Side of the broadcasters than on the Side of the Walter Morris Winnipeg i would like to know How one such As Gaillard in the article doctors is Medicine free april feels that he has the right to claim a Point of View of the Ordinary As one of those Ordinary disagree with the thrust of the entire i am tired of the average person always looking for a free i suggest that patient Load increase Over the past decade is related to patients abusing the system the since Only a Small percentage of physicians actually do extra Bill i suggest that the motive to maintain the right is and not just a Way for doctors to get More it is essential that physicians maintain this if they do it will Only be the first of Many choices to be taken away from the medical Nancy Coghill Winnipeg i Toft then he we right now he just crusts f ;