Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 7, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free october 1985 tories lurch from goofs to mistakes by Edison Stewart the Canadian press Ottawa it must surely be a measure of just How embattled prime minister Mulroney year old government has become when questions about a ministers use of Public funds Are dismissed As Rac it must be All the More so when the source of the outburst is Deputy prime minister Erik an astute political Veteran normally so tight lipped Hes been nicknamed velcro each Day seems to bring some new controversy or goof and the rather than seeming to be in appears to be stumbling from one to the the latest disaster stems from a Southam news report that minister of state for transport Suzanne Blai Grenier took a european hol iday at Public expense last Spring during her controversial tenure in the environment the Rookie Quebec minister has denied the which Nielsen said Friday May have been aimed at arousing that pales in comparison to the resignation in one week last month of then fisheries minister John Fraser and then communications minister Marcel or to the collapse of two Western Banks at a Cost to taxpayers of perhaps billion or or to the monthlong june controversy Over the abandoned plan to Cut inflation Protection on the old age pension by three percentage Points direct violation of a conservative election Promise less than a year the government also fell into hot water this summer with the voyage through the Northwest passage by the icebreaker the Polar an event Many canadians viewed As violation of Canadian so perhaps most important is the damage that has almost certainly been done in the last few weeks to the prime ministers own Credi Bili that a weakness Mulroney polls highlighted As far Back As the 1983 conservative leadership race and if left could seriously threaten the government Over the Long the questions have been so in tense that Mulroney Felt compelled to put his own seat on the line if anyone could prove he has not been telling the first up was the storm Over erasers april 29 decision to Over Rule his fisheries inspectors and re lease for Sale canned tuna that his inspectors had declared unfit for human defending his said 20 the Issue was in the prime ministers office in detailed form at least some weeks Mulroney had said he first Learned of the problem from a Csc Public affairs program 17 and ordered the tuna off the shelves in Fraser withdrew the remark Sev eral hours reportedly under pressure from Mulroney and resigned three Days then conservative my Fred Mccain told the Canadian press he raised the Issue in caucus with Mulroney present months after talking to a Mulroney later said he must have been Mulroney maintained throughout that although officials in several departments and two of his own senior aides knew about the prob Lem months no one told that immediately prompted questions about the competence of his the second controversy concerned the ramp investigation into masses 1984 election sex conservative National director Jerry Lampert told the Canadian press and the Csc in separate tap recorded interviews 26 that he told senior Mulroney aides about the police investigation a few months Mulroney denied one week apologizing for the embarrassment he had Lampert said he had been mistaken both about the ramp investigation and about whom he had in he said he had Only told party officials about a routine elections Canada inquiry for fur ther earthquake shakes Community Edmonton up first the Kilometres Northwest of Frederic Pope almost showed up last then two of the ghost busters dropped in for Coffee last week As they scouted locations for a prospective movie about mounties who never get their and on saturday there was an the areas biggest in at least a its been quite a year for the residents of fort the Community lies about 100 kilo metres South of the epicentre of a saturday morning earthquake Mea Suring on the Richter it frightened residents of fort Simpson and of a Hamlet of about 150 people lying 80 Kilometres North of the the ground Waves from the quake spread out More than prompt ing reports of swaying High rises As far South As while fort Smith residents were gathering their wits about them sat there also was much shaking going on in new the quake there measured and struck in the Remote and sparsely populated Miramichi Highlands near the Small town of plaster 125 there were no reports of dam age or the major Shock in the Northwest territories quake came at there were no known and damage was limited to a few broken windows in places like Wrig Ley and Hay 400 kilo metres Southeast of the Violet owner of the fort Simpson said she was walking across her Coffee shop when she noticed her feet i noticed that All the bottles in the liquor storage were rattling and everyone just ran out of the Coffee it Felt like a giant was holding the building and shaking the excitement had pretty Well died Down by late Kidd said in a later 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