Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 14, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 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 est 1890 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller a member of the Manitoba press Council my Mem my editorials peace and the schools education minister Maureen Twett Iphill Weed not worry about Public reaction to a curriculum unit Oil nuclear was and its no subject is too difficult Tot the school to tackle if it is done calmly and in keeping with the Best traditions of supplying factual information and encouraging critical but if Hemphill wants to expose Manitoba pupils to a hysterical bout of she will encounter stiff the yearning for peace tuns deep in a threatened societies polls show that peace is a Good Issue for the new democrats so Long As they keep it superficial and purely the cannot afford to be superficial or it must come to grips intellectually with the stemming from the second world War and that have produced the rival military alliances and governed their conduct toward each it must review past efforts at arms control and the successes they have achieved and their it must help students to find the ways of distinguishing among authoritative Idle speculation and cynical manipulation of Public widespread and thoughtless use in schools of a National film Board production about Helen Caldi Cotts views on nuclear War produced a wave of helplessness and despair among use of film in that Way is a scandalous abuse of families Trust in it is in the same to make and circulate extremely upsetting films about slaughterhouses or animal experiments and trigger a wave of vegetarian ism of among the Young Waves of emotion Are Good for carrying politicians into they Are hot what schools Are Hemphill finds from research she has seen that Yourg people feel anxious and helpless about the Poten tial for nuclear the she should bring them to confront their fears and come to grips with teachers need to be aware of what the students have in their minds when they arrive in but they should not be obliged to shift gears every time the minister reads another opinion the dynamics of superpower the recent history of arms control and Dinar the conduct of warfare in the nuclear Canadas role in contemporary International affairs All these Are Worth studying because they Are inherently important and not Only because the spillover from great Power propaganda and political debate has heightened Public when Manitoba Young people see their government reduced to futile gestures such As pretending the prov Ince is a nuclear free they May easily conclude that the Case is they deserve a Chance to get beyond passively absorbing horror stories and Start exploring the serious and fascinating the premiers barometer this years meeting of the four Western provincial premiers at Grande will provide a barometer of sorts on the performance of the new Federal it is the first of the premiers Only meetings to be held since Brian Mulroney led the conservative party to Power in a massive National sweep last at meetings of the four Western As at the annual meeting held by All provincial Federal representatives Are not one of the things that will produce the barometer at the current meeting is the presence of Manitoba Premier Howard the Only provincial Leader who is not a conservative or at least a seven of the ten provincial premiers Are declared and practising British columbian Bill Ben while calling himself a social is practising righting conservatism with a even Quebec Rene Levesque put his and his behind the Mulroney machine in the last Federal elec at Grande Pawley is helping to Hammer out a Western Canadian position on National and International matters together with two Saskatchewan Grant Albertas Peter Lough and with in statements issued before the conference suggested that Ottawa performance had been such so far that he fully expected the other premiers to put their provincial interests ahead of party the accuracy of Hawleys predictions will be found in the communiques that will be issued by the Western premiers when the conference winds up Tomor no one should be too surprised if the other premiers Are not As unhappy with Ottawa As is the Manitoba he has suggested that Saskatchewan demand for a discussion of the report on Federal cos cutting prepared under the direction of Deputy prime minister Erik Nielsen is an indication of dissatisfaction by that province with Saskatchewan delegates say the request was put Forward simply because the report deals with some matters that directly affect provincial poli initially at reports continued Good relations with the new government in who has been in the position of being Odd Man out at every Western and National premiers Confer ence he has May be simply looking for friends in the changed circumstances brought about by a new administration in whether he finds them at Grande Prairie will depend not Only on the degree to which the three conservative leaning members of the Western premiers club agree with his dissatisfaction with new Friendship and cooperation will depend too on the degree which Pawley is Able to adapt to the and Likely softer language that will be adopted by this first meeting of premiers toward that on the Federal provincial v aiming at no Tariff barriers racing for the pork barrel if the Federal government really As Premier Howard Pawley cutting its spending and invest ment in Manitoba to compensate for the loot that Lloyd Axworthy poured into this province during the last Days of the Liberal regime in then it is compensating for a there is no evidence to suggest that Federal spending in this province while the liberals were in Power was proportionately any greater than it was in any if the fiction it is one that Axworthy played a part in he was never during his Days As the chief wielder of Federal Power in the to make known his personal role in getting Federal Money spent if the total Federal spending was in no Way out of line with that in any other some of the individual items of that spending seemed to owe More to the ministers whim to any rational judgment about the prudent use of the taxpayers but ministerial whim is not a sound or solid basis for the spending of government alms which Are passed out on the whim of one minister can be held Back at the whim of Axworthy now complains that the conservative ministers from Manitoba Are not doing enough to steer Federal funds into their he claims to have established a goal that the tory ministers should aim they should the sort of regional Competition for government handouts that Axworthy indulged in himself and now recommends to his successors is just what leads to the massive deficits which Burden the government and hamper economic it is a fact of political life that regional ministers who care about their political survival will strive to ensure that their regions get a fair share of government but ministers who care about More than looking after their own political friends and sweetening up the voters will take a broader they will come to realize that National policy has to be More than an accumulation of regional they will understand that a ministers True value is in taking sensible action in the National not in being first in the race to the pork by Wilson special to the free Ottaw whether Canada seeks a free Trade agreement with the United states is probably less important than whether it makes a wholehearted Effort to reduce non Tariff barriers to the expansion of Trade Between the two consultation Premier Peter Lougheed of Alber who has been seeing a Range of important american investment and political figures during a visit to Washington and new has come Down on the free Trade Given traditional Western attitudes on Trade that is far less surprising than the earlier support for this approach that came from Donald former Liberal finance minister and now chairman of a Royal commission studying eco nomic it May be More that the Alberta Premier has added his voice to those trying to Alert Canada to the existence of what May be a relatively Short lived period of Opportunity for fruitful discussions with the americans that if we approach the question boldly and not with the As a result of the Quebec Summit meeting Between prime minister Brian Mulroney and president Ronald has committed itself to exploring with the americans a mechanism for seeking ways to reduce Trade bar since that bilateral president Reagan has suffered the disappointment of the Bonn Summit of the big seven economic countries at which France blocked efforts to agree on a Date for a new round of multilateral Trade it is predictable that French intransigence will make the americans not receptive to deter mined efforts by its trading partners to get rid of some existing barriers to Trade expansion and to prevent the erection of new Canada by a considerable mar the most important trading partner the United states we Export More to the United states than Japan and take far More of that country own exports than the Japa Nese the americans buy More from us than from the european economic although the dec does import slightly More from them than we liberalization canadians with frequent jus that the United states tends to take this country for granted that has not been the on the current Trade on the it has been trying for months to Send us the same message that Premier Lougheed has picked up in Washington and new York that there is an important Opportunity right now and that it will not last the Short time scale arises from the american midterm congressional elections next the administration wants Progress towards Trade liberalization As a counter to the protectionist forces within Congress which will inevitably grow stronger As the elections draw the Mulroney government obviously is not indifferent to these american overtures but once again it is cautious almost to the Point of actual this situation shows none of the signs that would suggest that timidity will be the fruitful approach almost self Confidence and boldness will unrealistic some of the fears being expressed Over the possibility of Freer Trade with the United states Are unreal is when the Tariff cuts worked out during the Tokyo round of negotiations under the Gatt Are fully in far More than half our existing Trade will enter the United states duty about on third of All our economic activity stems from International Trade and 75 per cent of our exports go to the United we Are heavily dependent on the american Market and the extent of this increases year by year least on Quarter of our work Force is employed through sales to the american some of these sales Are vulnerable in spite of the liberality of the american administration on Trade the heavy discount of our currency in Dollar terms gives us a tremendous competitive advantage and in some cases such As softwood lumber exports there is Little doubt that we Are damaging anyone who cares about employ ment in Canada must want to see our entry to the Market maintained and if we fail in increased joblessness will be the Lebanon decay it is interesting to see the spontaneous decay of months of comparative Calm in Beirut into a vicious scrap the instant the israelis begin to depart the immediately before the israeli army arrived in Beirut was in a state of after shooting in the Back that departing army which gave Lebanon the Only period of relative peace in Many it is seen to descend once again into a state of barbarism when left to its own when will All this end it can end Only when All Arab people realize that the Demon is with them in the form of paranoia about such an illusion is encouraged by their leaders in an attempt to cover up their failure of Over years to transform the desert into an Oasis of this task was accomplished by their the in a period of less than 40 years and anathema to the they would Best serve themselves to learn from those who have succeeded in accomplishing those very without which a Good life in the desert is brutally the illusion that Prosper Ity can come instead from a Devotion to so Gary and As their communist puppeteers in Moscow would have them can Only mean that a Lon term solution to the Arab problem is Dutkevich Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to shocking overpaid one after a students of Jim Keegstra have taken the stand to testify about strange things which were going on in his if there is an atom of truth in these then How could such happen Ings be kept buried in a school with a stable teaching population in a Small town i am concerned with what the vast legions of school guidance and provincial department of Edu cation staff spend their teachers have Long been regarded As not professional enough to use their own judgment without having extensive supervision from qualified staff and members of the commune where was the school Board in the Keegstra incident where were the superintendents and their deputies As a result of this what changes have taken place in the educational system in Alberta or elsewhere in the last couple of years j Hope we do not react by contributing More overpaid who con Fer with each other most of the do we have a Large number of expensive people whose positions Are effectively nonfunctional and not Worth what salaries we pay them Harmatz Winnipeg safeguards i would Correct a wrong impress Ion which was undoubtedly left with readers As a result of a headline and the article officials fear abuse of jobs fund free May although the article was based on the Resolution of a Case of fraud committed by an employer against the former provincial governments private sector youth employment program in 1980 and your head line stated and your article implied that such cases Are a unresolved problem for current pro Grams sponsored by the Manitoba jobs this is not the since the provincial govern ment has put in place new administrative procedures to discourage fraudulent applications and claims to our wage assistance in addition to signed declaration from our programs now re quire signed declarations from employees prior to hiring and employee countersignature on All employer claims for this Means that the employee verifies information and claims submitted by the employ As the program staff pay visits to a random Sample of employ ers receiving wage assistance to discuss the effectiveness of the pro Gram and to ensure that All information provided about the employee and the nature of the Job is j believe that these practices have greatly reduced the possibility of fraudulent claims against our wage assistance program and i am concerned that your Story has left the opposite impression with the pub it is my understanding that information about our current program safeguards was provided to the free press by staff who were and it was a most unfortunate editorial decision to omit this information from your Story particularly when you gave it such prominence in your saturday Edi Len Evans minister employment services Winnipeg Best program the headline Day care fails to meet study reveals free october is one of the major reasons Why concerned Mani Toba teachers Felt it was their responsibility As educators to propose that a Nursery program be implemented in school statistics show that in Canada the Supply of Quality Day care is very in daycare Centre reforms in Effort to keep licence free april 14 this was made it is important to recognize and give credit to the Many daycare centres with qualified personnel who do spend 11 hours daily with Young sters and do have Good but at the same time we must also be concerned with those Day care centres which operate working parents need to feel the daycare Centre is a place where adults will attend to the physical and intellectual needs of the a preschool program would Best answer these it would be staffed by qualified within a learning environment which has had a Long history of Success in dealing with the needs of Evelyn lamaze kindergarten teacher Winnipeg disclosures at a recent murder trial have brought to Light just How shockingly bad the department of Community services and corrections is in handling people who have been placed in its there Are three components to the care of a Post mentally ill person psychiatric services provided by the support by trained social workers and supervised residential care provided by private operators All supervised by the department of Community each of these components is dread hospitals pump tranquillisers into the patient in Many he is a walking no attempt is made to treat the delusions which brought the patient in for care in the first As soon As the patient is quiet enough he is still believing that he is Jesus or the Devil or the drugs administered frequently have very severe Side of such As making a person Aller Gic to All cause liver it is no wonder that the discharged patient is sometimes reluctant to take his the patient is referred to a residential care such As the one i have been operas ing for the last eight the client is usually brought around by a social almost invariably that is the last time the worker will be the department pays More per Day for the care of this client than the City receives for the care of a dog in the most operators try to take in a Large number of clients in order to pay their there is one facility in the City that has 40 the private operators have no training one such Large facility is operated by a lady in her if any of the clients become Agi the operator can Only request that the client be if the client is sent to the Hospital on his own for emergency he will be if the operator takes the client to the hours will be wasted before the Doctorin training refuses to treat while most Post mentally ill clients Are not violent except to them selves the suicide rate of cured patients would Shock the there Are a number of actively paranoid a patients out there who have a history of continuing violent episodes up to and including Multi ple As Long As the department of Community services and corrections is permitted its present policy of paper shuffling in lieu of real innocent people will continue to die at the hands of exp tents who have Given Clear indications that they were going out of Richard Thorne Winnipeg wild life preservation or i still its not much ;