Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 8, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free october 1985 Winnipeg free press 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 editorials no support for Farmers one of the surprises to come out of the annual meeting of the Canadian chamber of Commerce in Regina last Freek was the near unanimous rejection of three father innocent sounding resolutions asking Ottawa to take i items to ease the Load of farm the resolutions were ploughed under in the vote which strangely the Winnipeg chamber of Commerce follow the fired against anything that would give what is still the Rhain Industry of this province the help that its responsible representatives maintain is j the chamber vote contrasts sharply with the result of a recent questionnaire circulated to members of the Canadian federation of Independent business which demonstrated a much sounder understanding of the problems facing in answer to the question you Frior against action to assist with the 16ngterm financing of 51 per cent of the businessmen replied that they were fully in 17 per cent were undecided and Only 32 per cent expressed their explanations Are possible for the different the Canadian federation of Independent business is made up mostly of Small the chamber includes a wider segment of the business the federation is More Likely to hear from businessmen whose own livelihood depends on a healthy agriculture the chamber is More Likely to be a step or two removed from the initial connection Between agriculture and the chamber has made no Bones about Why it opposes any new government Aid to Winnipeg chamber president de Martens argues that one calling for compulsory debt amounted to inviting the government into the personal financial matters of individual Martens should realize that most of those individual businessmen in the farming business who have debt problems have them because of the counselling they received from their private sector and that it is possible that they May need additional counselling to get Martens opposes debt which was also because Banks would be less Likely to make Loans under such in this position he May be although Loans continue to be available in Saskatchewan despite that provinces debt deferment Martens rejection of the third proposal for farm that of the issuance of agricultural Bonds with special tax appears to have less than a firm Martens says Only that As they Are have been examined by government experts and if Martens thinks about he will quickly understand Why governments would object to such Bonds would mean that the government would get less and that govern ment would have to either by operating More efficiently or by raising taxes Martens should recognize that agriculture is still a major Canadian it is still the primary Industry of the Many Farmers face a debt problem because they were caught by the Peak of the interest chamber of Commerce members regularly endorse the restructuring of company finances in order to allow companies the time to get in shape to continue Busi time is what Many debt Ridden Farmers Are attempt ing to the approval of agr Bonds would not impose an immediate Burden on government or the such Bonds would simply provide an attractive invest not unlike that approved when the government sought to stimulate More housing in order to help a depressed construction before the Canadian chamber of Commerce rides off on a new with the Winnipeg chamber in its it should realize who provides the feed for its those worthless jobs two Points must be raised about mayor William Norries sudden concern that a million dollars a year is being wasted on overblown salaries in the cites Junior Nian gement ranks and on maintaining an unknown number of pointless jobs at the same the first is the turning of the and his Jim in raising the it happened right after the Council approved massive increases for its top who suffering at their former salaries shortly after the Council approved raises for its own members at a Rutte twice what it was prepared to give its Rankan file and not too Long after the Council put into place one of the most generous pension plans to be found again for its own second Point is Why one of the earliest problems of Tolje amalgamation of that of duplication of municipal has been allowed to simmer away unsolved for 13 years before being raised As an Issue involving so much Money and so Many when the Prospect of a unified City of Winnipeg was being sold by the provincial government at a series of Public meetings a decade and a half taxpayers were told that Money could be saved by shrinking the civil service needed to operate Only one government rather than it is interesting to note that some of the opponents of amalgamation argued that the number of civic employ would Only and that it would be in to maintain the pay differentials that had existed in the municipalities and cities due to the difference in size prior to when these areas became part of opponents Winnipeg pay Scales would and the Cost to the taxpayer would now mayor Norrie and Ernst inform us 13 years after a consultants report has shown that about 250 individuals in Junior management employees Are being paid More than their jobs Are it is presumed if the Council follows past these individuals will find their salaries Frozen until their colleagues catch the problem the mayor and City Council Are now screwing themselves up to Deal with was and was at the time of if action had been taken the duplications and unnecessary jobs could have been eliminated Over time in a relatively painless manner and the taxpayers could have been saving Money for All of those both mayor Norrie and Ernst have been around Council during those years of a full expected sometime Early next is expected to identify what the mayor has already described As pointless the and the 760 City employees whose jobs Are under will be left to speculate just who is being paid for one of those pointless it is possible by releasing this threatening information at this the mayor and members of the Council Are simply laying Down an opening Field of fire in preparation for the negotiations with the Union representatives of those in the opinion of Are or Are in jobs not Worth the same Council has seen fit to Point out that it was free to do anything it wanted with senior who Are not considering it decided Only to freeze the salaries of 22 of and to Grant substantial increases to the other it is unlikely that there would have been much even if a Union had been or if a vote had been called among the employees having Laid Down its opening the City Council can be expected to move toward negotiations with the 760 employees who hold such varied positions As minor supervisors and Heads of smaller City the councillors should not be surprised if they Are asked to during these Why no senior employees were found to be in pointless nor should there be any Surprise if a hard answer is demanded on Why a problem that could have been solved through attrition Over the past 13 years has now assumed the position of being the cites primary target for cos Cut our illiberal judicial system by Wilson special to the free press Ottawa the first jury acquittal in in the Morgentaler Case has been As much a Challenge to illiberal aspects of the Canadian judicial system As it has been to the country controversial Laws on in the Long the Legal aspects of this prolonged controversy Are probably the More one Way or the Law on abortion will be brought into conformity with prevailing Community standards when those Are finally less contradictory than they Are the question of the role of juries in our judicial system will continue to de Mand an a contest because Canadas colonial rulers in the Early part of the 19th and then our own politicians since have been frightened of some aspects of English common the Morgentaler Case has become Over the years a contest Between a doctor and a Legal at one stage in this the Legal system was modified to bring it into better conformity with common one of the Only two great Legal systems Man kind has developed in allies Long in the Home of com Mon it would be impossible for the Crown to Appeal a jury acquittal and that has Long been the the foundations for this lie in the words of sir Edward regarded by Many students As the greatest of All English in part for the Cour age with which he defied King James i and insisted upon the impartiality of judicial in 1607 he wrote words still Rele vant he said that when it was left to the Law to try the subjects of the the Law in return protected his majesty in safety and in Canadian the role of the Crown is merely that of politicians but because they have been unwilling to Trust the jury system their Imperial forebears were at the beginning of the 19th Century they have turned the Morgentaler Case into a Challenge to the jury a Man of Law at the beginning of the Appeal courts possessed the previously unusual Power to reverse a jury verdict not employed in can Ada until it was done then by the Quebec Appeal court and upheld by the supreme court of Canada but with a powerful dissent ing opinion from Bora then chief the action of the supreme court outraged die Fen a controversial politician but a Man of Law possessed in particular with the utmost respect for the com Mon he set out to secure change to a he did Parlia ment stripped the Appeal courts of their unprecedented Power to re verse jury it let itself be frightened away from the common Law tradition of denying Crown prosecutors All right to a peal jury Canada has always been an authority oriented rather than a citizen oriented coun because politicians were fearful of going the entire common Law they have brought the jury system in this country into the greatest ques Tion and it would be difficult to imagine a worse they have cast the Appeal courts and the jury system into an adversarial to which has never been permit Ted when the principles of com Mon Law Are followed with respect for Wisdom accumulated Over Many a Challenge Henry Morgentaler poses a Challenge to the present abortion Law at the very is not applied in an evenhanded Way across the country in its current application it is so highly discriminatory that it invites Challenge under the charter of not by his own but by the will of politicians whose respect for ancient principles of Law has not been he has become a Challenge As Well to the nature and integrity of our jury it is time for men like Justice minister John Crosbie to go Back and read Coke and Laskin again and Ponder the words of the Justice who wrote the majority decision in the 1975 Justice Louis Phil Lippe although writing of the procedures before they were partially constrained he wrote that there had been a major departure from the principles of common the constraints should now be rounded out by the social impacts your editorial a Little More much better free september 21 dealt with a Small aspect of Cable signal conditions in Manitoba that being technical the Solu satellite delivery of signals from appears to be in Evita my concern is that i have yet to see any consideration of the social Impact of using very Remote sources in place of the local Feather conditions from Detroit affect us Garrison is not a hot topic in Detroit weekend shop Ping and ski reports from Detroit do not mean much Here closing a Plant in North Dakota is More important to Mank bans than a closure in another aspect of Detroit signals i that the one hour time difference changes the problems of parental supervise in of childrens to some the local stations and Canadian devise their scheduling with appropriate viewing for the signals social Impact time of i am sure that with More information a substantial argument in favor of local signals could be Deve what distresses me is that the local benefits of the local stations have not been weighed against the technical advantage of the Satel Lite delivery Trueman Winnipeg the real head in a recent answers column free october 1 you mention that the governor general is the head of state of if anyone it would be her Queen Eliza Beth Queen of by the new Canadian Canada has no head of Canada has a Sovereign who is the the governor general is the Queens representative in our Queen is much More than a Mere head of since she is the source of legitimacy and authority in the con something Many monarchs Are head of state is primarily a Republican it is for this reason that monarchists wish the Queens picture on All postage Stamps and at Border they wish the role of the Crown to be taught in the schools and to new they wish a return to the symbols of the Crown consistent with the con they wish All canadians to take Pride in their with the increasing infusion of americanisms into Canada through television and Many canadians seem to know More about the american governmental system and terminology than they know of the pamphlets entitled lets get it and others Are available through the monarchist John Hendricks chairman monarchist league of Canada Manitoba Branch Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to vote of thanks a Ripoff Book amended it was pointless and irresponsible for Fred Cleverley in his column Book on childrens rights usurps parents role free septem Ber 30 to criticize several sections of the draft version of the Publica eighteen and under a guide to youth related Law and Community since this Booklet is being substantially the review committe of the Mani Toba association for rights and liberties Marl Board had decided weeks ago that several sections were inappropriate for this which is intended to be a guide for Young people on their Legal Marl does not necessarily object to the information in these which were added to the draft during the summer by a student worker employed at the University of Mani Toba by Public Legal education a plea has become a co sponsor of the we that some of this new material is not appropriate subject matter for publication and distribution by our in any publication is dependent on final approval by the when Cleverley wrote his col he had been told All of this both on the phone and in but he has chosen deliberately to misrepresent our intentions we therefore question his sense of journalistic the portions of the Book which do describe the Legal rights of Young on the other will in fact be published will assist Young people in understanding the legalities of their situation in the event that their parents divorce the penalties which they May incur for drug and alcohol abuse and their entitlements and rights if they become undoubtedly there Are persons in society who wish to keep Young people in ignorance of these but it is the business of organizations such As Marl to make the Laws known to those whom they were intended to Brent Stearns president Marl Winnipeg shameful my a longtime resident of Manitoba and at present covered by Manitoba had occasion to visit with my family and i in during her visit she became ill and was taken to a local physician for imagine the family frustration and embarrassment when our family physician refused to accept Moth ers Manitoba medicare card and demanded Cash apparently there is such an inordinate delay involved in Manitoba medicare pay ing its debts that some Alberta doctors can no longer be bothered dealing with the the family physic Ian referred Mother to a specialist once the medicare card was refused and Cash demanded before services would be for an nip government which rides High on social programs to cause its limited income senior Citi Zens to be treated so harshly when they Are out of province and require medical attention is to say the As a native Manitoban i am embarrassed and disappointed at the Low level to which the Manitoba medicare has i suggest the Manitoba government put its House in Lorna Jones there Are More than people in the province of Manitoba who Are affected by approximately of these Are dependent on Insu Lin just to stay everyone of these their families and owe a vote of thanks to the Many volunteers who came out on a cold and Windy Satur Day to tag for diabetes the Transcona Jayc ettes and the Alpha Gamma fraternity were on hand to help members of the Juve Nile diabetes Winnipeg these and All the generous people of Winnipeg who helped to fill our canisters deserve appreciation for their there is a and together we will find Lyn Thompson chapter president juvenile diabetes foundation Winnipeg keep it Gordon Sinclair has finally written an idea that is very intelligent and humane in his column first the now the Money free september Sinclair offers Kim Adriaens Sens a solution to the problem of what should be done with the she received from donors since her was Sinclair solution is simple and very keep if the donors had intended the Money to be Given to various Charity they would have sent the Money directly to the Charity of their i suggest that Adriaenssens do just As Gordon Sinclair take her daughter on a buy themselves something enjoyable and make a new Wilson the bailout of the Canadian com Mercial Bank with taxpayers especially the bailout of non insured depositors Over has got to be the Best example of the governments poor judgment of tax payers where else can you get an insurance or anyone to pay you for loss or damage that is not insured we shareholders of the defunct Bank and do not share in its so Why should we share in its losses Canadian taxpayers Are not an insurance company and do not receive Rich Premium so How can we be expected to pay off the Banks shareholders or its depositors i am not saying that the losing depositors should not be i am Only saying it must not be at taxpayers it is to be hoped that enough people express their opinion to prime minister Brian Mulroney or their member of parliament be fore this dangerous precedent is Gord Hillocks Winnipeg Why dont you wait and see if Canada wins the world series first ;