Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 15, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba It free May Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion dec Quality 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 1672 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 editorials Lougheed crusade to is unusual for the Host at the annual gathering of Western provincial premiers to make the Kift of Public opening statement that was to Trade by Albertas Peter Lougheed at Grande Prairie this tradition the subject matters to be discussed Are kept within closed with Only the agreed port communique issued at the end of the this year the Alberta Premier attempted to get some Advance support for a bilateral free Trade agreement with the United he adopted this course because he cannot expect the same enthusiasm from Manitoba Howard Pawley that he got from Saskatchewan Grant Levine and British columbian Bill Lougheed aim is fresh from a ten Day visit to Washington and new he is in the process of preparing a report to Ottawa that will in no Uncertain that Canada has a six month window of Opportunity to Start the process that will result in a bilateral free Trade the report will say unless something is started before the 1985 Trade deficit figures become Public next the growing wave of protectionism within the Congress will close off any possibility of a bilateral Manitoba is unlikely to see the matter in Lough eeds Pawley has already stated that free Trade Between Canada and the should evolve sector by a process Lougheed describes As at tempting to separate the strawberries from the Lougheed free Trade crusade has a much More formidable obstacle than that is the Uncertain political situation in where there is no guarantee that Mulroney will be talking to a conservative Premier for Lougheed is prepared to Brush off the problems of persuading Ontario to allow its particular of to be at least for this As he attempts to get the Western premiers on the faced with the uncertainty in Ottawa May consider the Dis agreement Between Western premiers to be minor in free Trade Between Canada and the if it is to be an objective of the Mulroney will have to overcome the belief a belief Lougheed describes As an erroneous perception that Ontario would have the most to lose from the a Power the bands need it is reasonable for Indian bands to prescribe by Law limits on the use of alcohol in those different provinces have different liquor Laws and no one complains that those differences produce intolerable inequalities among Indian communities have sound special rooted in the patterns of Indian for regulating alcohol and other a court Challenge to the Indian acts rules on alcohol has exposed the fact that Indian bands do not have a Power of their own to regulate though they clearly need such a they have been making do with a patched together arrangement which sin danger of the Manitoba Queens Bench judgment overthrowing the Indian act rules should be pending the the old rules should continue to be enforced where band councils want them Indian leaders and the government in the prepare a new arrangement consistent with Equality rights of the constitutional charter and which will ensure that Indian bands can regulate intoxicants As they need to do and Are entitled to the Indian act now makes it illegal for anyone to possess alcohol or to be drunk on a it also allows a band to opt out of that thus White society Law Grants one level of alcohol Access to indians and another to which is inequality in Parlia ments treatment of the people subject to its but it is not really any of parliaments business what rules one Reserve or another makes for the regulation of parliament does not in reality run reserves and does not wish to run having taken All the Powers of self government from Indian communities generations parliament is stuck with exercising those it finds itself unable to exercise them in a Way that will be just by the principles of the charter and responsive to the needs of Indian if provincial judge Sid Cohan and Queens Bench judge Armand pure ult Are White society no longer wishes to make its Law enforcement Powers and services available to enforce liquor restrictions on if that is the then the band communities should exercise those Powers and command those services for the prevailing Legal doctrine holds that Indian band councils exercise Power delegated by parliament through the Indian act and that they have no other by the rival doctrine of some Indian Indian communities have never surrendered the Powers of self government and so still have an inherent Power to run their own without admitting the full claim for the dominant society should be willing to admit that an Indian Community has an inherent right to defend itself against the frightful damage which White society intoxicants have been seen to squaring that right with the metaphysics of White society theory of Indian bands place under the Law is White society the urgent matter is Indian communities one result May Well be variations in the liquor Laws from Reserve to Reserve and from Reserve to offre serve even greater than the existing variations from province to another might be the creation of Indian prosecutors and courts similar to the tribal courts on Many Indian As Long As the rules and mechanisms Are under authentic local the differences should not be considered intolerable inequalities under the of Tow m m this Church agricultural land threatened to midterm blues British prime minister Margaret Thatcher is facing the Normal midterm unpopularity of any including poor opinion poll disappointing results in no parliamentary elections and Frisky maps in her own majority party kicking Over the none of these events need greatly con Cern her because she does not need to Call a general election until combined in a certain they might be dangerous for her Hopes of a third term at ten Downing some recent opinion polls showing thatchers conservative party four Points behind the labor opposition have Given Rise to euphoria in labor Leader Neil who has demanded an Early general election so that he can take his rightful place in Downing four Points is a weak Reed on which to build such a Castle in the air it is within the margin of Normal polling sadly for one poll shows no labor Lead at which could mean that he is really four Points More significant than straws in opinion poll winds is the evidence that Kin Nocks party is seen by voters As a permanent pub the relish with which left Wing extremists continue to tear at the innards of fellow party members who happen to be moderate shows that Kinlock has not achieved internal party infiltration of moribund constituency parties by zealots who then assume control and get rid of no zealot maps is preferred Over Normal political Competition with the this makes labor an electoral alternative Only if the conservatives fall Thatcher beat labor by 339 seats to 268 in 1979 and by 397 seats to 209 in that was a convincing message from the it should temper exaggerated opposition expectations of great results from thatchers current David Leader of the tiny social democratic feels no need to temper his he has indulged in exaggeration about the achievements of the so Liberal social democratic Alliance in this months county Council passing quickly Over the fact that the sep contribution to the Alliance gains was he has suggested imminent National conservative councillors did take a trouncing in England and Wales but the net result for the Alliance is that they now control one county the same one that they controlled before the in several conservative councillors lost Overall control of councils but remained the largest single this is a display of voter not of awesome Alliance it is also unrepresentative discontent because Only 40 per cent of eligible voters turned out and because these Countryside elections did not include major cities or the labor stronghold of who has swiftly transmogrified this Sand into the Cement of a serious parliamentary Challenge in also is building castles in the not much need be feared immediately from a group of 32 tory maps now getting together to vote against Thatcher in the House of commons on certain calling themselves conservative Centre they Are led by the languid Francis Pym has distaste for who fired him As foreign Secretary in because she is a self made Dynamo who snatched the party leadership in 1975 from the Limp fingers of establishment party figures like who regard the leadership As their Pym and Thatcher also have a fundamental disagreement on the appropriate strategy for continued conservative electoral Pym and his Little band shudder in horror at thatchers abrasive they prefer a More centrist policy of the Type common to successful conservative governments since the second world the dissenters could matter if they attracted twice As Many tory maps and if they voted with the opposition to bring Down the forcing an Early Low opinion polls and county Council election setbacks then could be Thatcher has not survived this Long by inattention to such her counter moves should not be Long in normally ministers of municipal affairs do not get involved directly in decisions concerning new housing subdivisions where they have Juris decisions Are delegated to the director of the planning but Andy minister of municipal is personally review ing a request to rezone agricultural land opposite la Barriere be cause it raises some fundamental one is the conversion of prime agricultural land into other particularly when so much marginal land is limited commodity prime is a limited commodity despite the dimension of the the environmental Council of Al for has suggested hefty fees be levied to prevent Industry taking agricultural land out of prod another Issue is Urban the Extension of developments into new areas which generate costly services to the a third concern is that a housing development would threaten the character of la Barriere a Lovely Retreat on the Banks of the la Salle the although owned by the is in the municipality of Rit John of Green Brier holdings has acres now in farm and has applied for rezoning of part of this would create 11 residential lots varying in size from two acres to facing the Park alongside the la Salle the application reveals that the bureaucratic system does have Safe guards and i am Happy to report that in this Case the civil servants display a concern for the Rit Chot Council has approved the Rezon despite opposition by the provincial planning the provincial department of Agricula the City department of Parks and the City department of environmental planning and the Macdonal Ritchot planning despite this unanimous show of Ritchot Council approved Val Werier the rezoning by a vote of three to Council had voted against the concept but somehow changed its mind Over the Reeve Raymond who did not vote because he Only casts a ballot in Case of a is vigorously opposed to using this first rate farm land for residential i dont see any necessity to build he we have alot of vacant lots in the the development along the la Salle would Saddle taxpayers with extra costs in travelling of Snow removal and school bus says Reeve it would also pave the Way for other people with parcels of land to sell their property to make More Money once the land is there Are abundant grounds for Anstett to deny the the department of agriculture says that it is a violation of provincial land use policy of encouraging the retention of prime land for crop and because this stretch Borders the it has a potential for High value irrigated Ripple effect the department is also concerned about the Ripple effect in adjacent it states that a major subdivision like this proposal can have a powerful influence on land use changes in the surrounding subdivision approving authorities May find it very difficult to turn Down subsequent requests in this immediate the conversion to Urban use raises the Price of land and encourages speculation in nearby creating an uncertainty in the farm Many problems arise for the residents when a major sub division is thrust into an agricultural such As dust and for the Farmers there Are prob lems because of damage to crops by roving dogs and children and Lehi Weed problems result from poorly maintained residential these lots often restrict the Farmers ability to Drain his in this a natural drainage route runs through the proposed sub Divi conflict says the department of agriculture some of these problems May seem insignificant but lawsuits and conflicts Between Farmers and non Farmers Are becoming More com Mon and a major subdivision like the one in question certainly sets up the scenario for Many of these con none of the agencies asked to comment on the application have anything Good to say about the sub the City environmental planning department says the Small pockets of residential development in a Rural setting is contrary to Good planning it is also completely contrary to historical attitudes regarding appropriate land development in this the City Parks and recreation de supported by the Manitoba naturalists says it would Compromise the visual integ Rity of the natural setting adjacent to la Barriere it is Good to hear All the voices raised against an application that would play Loose with the Environ too often such considerations have been ignored in the planning of the the results Are clearly visible in ribbon developments stretching out of the City along the Rivers and clusters of housing on the outskirts of the it is costly to the taxpayer and injurious to our Anstett has plenty of ammunition to Stop the encroachment along la Barriere there must be greater respect for the a tax Holiday your article message from Mani Toba free april 26 on Mani Toban businessmen and the upcoming Federal budget was of particular interest to contrary to Don Vernon president of the Manitoba chamber of Commerce Asser salary increases to civil ser vants have been considerably less than those paid for comparable work in the private statistics com piled by labor Canada show with the exception of wage Michael Wilson increases in the Public sector have been lower on average than those in the private sector in every year since in a 1981 Federal department of finance document revealed that 68 per cent of workers in the Federal Public sector were earning less than private sector workers doing the same corporations receive More than billion annually in direct or in direct financial from the Federal government and billions More from the when Vernon complains about the size of Federal programs and the presumably he is not referring to All this tax Revenue lavished on Corpora Vernon wants the Federal government to provide new businesses with a five year tax Howe considering that 30 years ago corporate taxes provided 21 per cent of total government Revenue and today that share has dropped to six per it appears that a tax holi Day has been enjoyed for As we must choose the kind of society we reducing the Public sector will not create a society in which social needs Are More important than commercial Clint Hornby senior regional representative Public service Alliance of Canada Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to mind boggling i disagree entirely with the senti ments expressed in the letter by Hannman free april the writer states the Only Way to have peace is to prepare for i would ask everyone holding this View whether any of the Odd wars that have been fought in recorded history have settled any thing or made for lasting the Hundred years the wars of the the Napoleonic the two world the Vietnam War All have been followed by a period of uneasy while the victors assessed the spoils and the vanquished licked their wounds and planned i would ask Hannman Why he wants president Ronald Reagan thanked for fighting for does Hannman not realize How much the american Economy de pends on the Sale of arms i have Many relatives and friends in the Over a period of 30odd i have studied them at close quarters to find out what makes them think and act the Way they americans Are generous and hospitable people but collectively they can be stupid because they think they Are never having come into being in a spirit of rebel lion and being fairly recent in terms of they seem to feel no need to learn from the lessons of looking Back at past presi i do not see president Reagan in the image of Franklin Roose velt or John who at least had some pretensions to i see Reagan As a pleasant enough Complete with Cowboy spurs and Pearl handled Riding off on a Beautiful White horse into the Sun i am willing to concede that the is far ahead of All other even the in terms of invent Progress in Medicine and electronics and tremendous achieve ments in the space but these things do not give them the right to bully other countries into supporting their strategic defence initiative or Star the arms buildup can Only Lead to War on so massive and horrifying scale that it boggles the Corona smart ochre spinoff benefits your Core shells out to shift video store eight blocks free april 27 and Grant to video retailer fuels Core plan doubts free april 29 criticized the provision of Core area initiative funds to global video for its new location at 357 Ellice the articles left out a number of important they omitted to mention that the relocation enabled the firm to double the size of its premises and to create two new neither of Whitto would have been possible in its Origi Nal this expansion was the primary objective of the project and the relocation was Only a Means to this the relocation did create two important additional spinoff the relocation has allowed a deteriorated vacant building in the North of Portage area to be upgraded and this directly complements other efforts by both the Core area initiative and the North Portage development corporation to revitalize the North of Portage d it has made possible the redevelopment of the premises previously occupied by global video including an adjacent building which has been vacant for some construction has already commenced on this the departure of global video from its William Avenue Loca Tion will not have a negative Impact a positive All applications including global videos for assistance under the key site Small business assistance program must be approved by pro Gram and by a seven person committee of private business peo each one representing one of the key site areas in which the program is Active for Selkirk ave your articles May have inadvertently left the impression that these decisions Are taken without the considerable Bene fit of private sector Douglas Pearson manager Small business assistance program Winnipeg i thought you said this comb ;