Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 9, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba It Winnipeg free january 9 198 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 Donalt Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller a member of the Manitoba press Council Jim 1bjl i i sharing the deficit if congressional democrats get their Canada will make an involuntary contribution to reducing the annual deficit that president Ronald Reagan claims will be under billion in the next fiscal this is one of their less attractive responses to the skilful concoction produced this week by reagans office of management and the proposed budget pushes total government spending Over trillion for the first time neatly Matching reagans addition of trillion to the National before Reagan came to it had taken the combined efforts of every president since the founding of the Republic to bring the National debt up to his spectacular spending spree has doubled despite controlling the House of representatives throughout his presidency and despite having a substantial minority in the Senate until winning control in the november midterm the democratic party has lacked the courage to oppose effectively a spend Thrift record that would make a Manitoba socialist even with voting control of both the democrats Are too frightened of reagans manipulative Public relations skills to act this is where Canada comes the democrats fear paying the political Price for resisting reagans plan to give the Pentagon a three per cent real they will link the two themes of budget and Trade by trying to extort part of the Revenue shortfall from Canada and other trading the method will be to raise tariffs on imports and to apply temporary surcharges on William chairman of the budget committee of the House of blandly advanced this unfair and protectionist proposal As a democratic contribution to deficit unstated was the fact that it would punish foreigners for problems with a Trade deficit and a declining share of world markets that have been almost entirely created in the United a major reason for today huge Trade deficit is the former artificial strength of the pumped up by reagans keynesian spending that was insufficiently resisted by congressional this made exports too expensive abroad while simultaneously making Canadian and other imports reagans proposals for spending and income in the fiscal year that will begin next october show that he has no intention of starting to behave even at this late Date in his his administrations devious plan is to hide the shortfall by the equivalent of Selling the family Selling off the Navy Oil reserves and Selling performing government Loans at perhaps 50 cents on the Dollar or less with other asset give him another billion is to be raised by cutting funds available to struggling to to the the the hungry and Young families seeking government backed mortgage while the Pentagon walks off with these shortsighted and mean minded measures will squeeze savings from the weak to Cut the deficit to congressional democrats should have no difficulty in making principled and effective they should not include unjustified extra tariffs and sur charges on goods imported from development delayed when the Market is Ripe for residential conversion of Winnipeg Fine old warehouse developers will be lining up to get in on the the withdrawal of Cambridge Imperial developments from the Ashdown warehouse which was going to be the Pioneer residential project Between main Street and the red suggests that the Market is not yet eighteen months have passed since Cambridge Impe rial announced its intention to redevelop the Ashdown warehouse with of help from the Core area eight months have passed since related companies were placed in receivership and the Ashdown project was put on other candidates Are thinking about taking Over the developers but the clamor of bidders is less than even with Large Public it is a risky the experience of other cities shows that people do like living in imaginatively converted warehouse the rents they Are willing to depend on the state of the housing in land is still cheap and plentiful on the outskirts of the within easy commuting Range of heavily subsidized downtown apartment projects near Central Park and in the North development ensure that people interested in living downtown can find a place to the official proposal for housing units in the redeveloped Canadian National East Yard suggests there May soon be More than in these apartments in converted Exchange District warehouses face stiff the first such project Between main Street and the red River will be especially risky because the District cannot begin to have a residential character until the first residents move the City and the Core area initiative have helped improve and ornament the streets East of main the Riverbank has been several building have been refitted for restaurants and the area has great Charm and splendid which is sure to be fulfilled in due the Ashdown project can probably be launched quickly if enough Public Money is poured into but the gain will Only be one of rather than go begging for a new the City and its Core area partners should protect the improvements that have been made to the District so far and patiently await somebody Tell the minister someone Over at the Manitoba Public insurance corporation should Tell the minister John what is really going earlier this week Buck Laschuk told reporters that the corporations general insurance division was looking at ways of making up its those ways included reducing the discounts offered to senior citizens and increasing premiums by some 20 per he gave the same information on radio the same Day Buck Laschuk told the Csc that increases were being aut Opac agents throughout Winnipeg received their new rate books from the increases in premiums were Between 16 and 20 per so was the to ten from 20 per in the discounts offered to senior As Pic has doubled from to the deductible on its policies to cover theft and other risks for Home the information received by agents was dated Decem Ber while Buck Laschuk was telling people that rate increases were Only under his bureaucracy had put those rate increases into the new rates Are an admission that the government has competed in the general insurance Field by under pricing its the division has racked up losses for several but has chosen to boast instead about its increased Market it is easy to get Market share when a product is offered at prices below Manitoban were put in a position if they chose to Purchase insurance at prices which reflected the True they would be acting against their own Short term self the government has done no service to its people by acting irresponsibly in the general insurance the province does not need political insurance rates added to its political phone and Hydro of Stavft my h new wok coir Canadian Trade faces threats by Wilson special to the free press Ottawa of the great volume of Trade on which the High Canadian Standard of living depends May be this country most serious single problem during the remaining 13 years of the 20th Cen the threats Are they come from rising protectionism the Trad ing practices of the european Community the Battle of the subsidies which Community tactics have touched off with the United and formidable Competition from the newly industrialized peril from the government is attempting to Deal with the first threat the danger that american protectionism will curb Access to our most important Export the one where we must sell a vast volume of goods and commodities to preserve our living the Prospect of congressional approval at the end of the negotiations now under Way is not Bright but it would be sheer defeatism to give up at this initiating these talks was the most positive single action this govern ment has but it is widely damned for the course it Many of the harshest critics offer Little better than Reliance on a status quo which will pull us Down if we do not move beyond when the treaty of Rome was signed in 1955 the Effort to unite Europe Western nations into a bloc with a Market comparable to americas seemed a great step the european economic Community makes that hard to re member because it is too prone to adopt ruthless Beggart neighbor approaches whenever it faces prob lems of this is especially True of the agricultural where the Battle of the subsidies was touched but it is not restricted to that economic the Community majority will not Bend to realistic members when destructive policies Are that unyielding attitude makes negotiated solutions to disputes unlike which drove the United states to its own counter subsidy program which May Batter commonsense into european but probably the Best Hope is that the european the Community executive will finally go bankrupt this year or that crash would do much to preserve a fairly Liberal trading environment by forcing fresh thought in european the Community is to Compromise just enough to Ward off the one development that would really voice muted despite Canadas importance As a trading nation its Small population size and Lack of a mass Market limit the effectiveness of its voice in International if Britain and the United states cannot alter destructive Community policies we cannot Hope to do we do not do better where solutions Are under our own treating Korea As under developed we give their car makers favored Access to the Canadian mar in Korea is a leading newly industrialized country with a sophisticated and growing Automo Tive one car manufacturer is Allied to another to general we Are helping a third build a Quebec Plant through a Large contribution of taxpayers this happens in the face of spreading realization that automotive capacity is being Over expanded in North America and that More Plant clo sures and layoffs will follow those general motors has already an answers needed these Are samples of the sort of problems that will fill the remainder of the 20th More will devel political legitimacy demands that parties seeking Power should have considered the issues facing the nation and the world before they present themselves to the they should be Able to As they ask for Power Over the rest of what general approaches they con Sider appropriate to the problems the conservatives Are ahead of the two other parties because they have faced the problem of maintain ing Access to the american they did not come to How with their present policy in they developed it in response to repeated informal invitations from the americans to make a proposal for wide ranging Trade talks As a counter to the protectionism every one could see the liberals and new democrats Are about where the tories were in insurance rates i take Issue with several state ments made by John minister responsible for he claims that motorcycle insurance is Low at an average of per on the face of things that is not a bad what the minister fails to mention is that this rate is not prorated like car instead it is front loaded so that by the end of August if a motorcyclist were to cancel his insurance there would be no refund due at these kind of rates i doubt seriously that motorcycle insurance is being subs when an automobile Driver insures his car he is automatically covered for Vandal ism and passenger Hazard for a motorcyclist these coverages Are very expensive options that must be purchased so not Only Are motorcyclists not subsidized in any Way but we Are actually discriminated against when it comes to purchasing the new democratic party has been mismanaging the finances of this province to the Point where we now have the largest deficit in our they have asked us to tighten our belts and Settle for wage increases at or below the Cost of living they have said we All must do this i guess All does not include the if the nip is so interested in seeing All the rest of us Settle for Small or no wage increases Why Are government owned corporations exempt from tightening their belts Larry Tardiff Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to Hogwash John Buck Laschuk i am angered about a Case in which a rapist has been supposedly assessed to be a an Alco to also have been denied a masculine image because he had no and that he had to punish women i am angry at him and it seems that when anyone com mits a crime these Are some of the excuses used both by defence attorney and especially in sex Ual Hogwash such a Story suggests that All people who come from bad backgrounds related to booze Are potential sick someone has to take the but never will society or the judicial nor the victims Ever con cede to any act of perhaps that is Why we turn a Blind Eye on main who is really to blame some times i think doctors sit around dreaming up these stupid answers to take the Burden off our consciences in we Are All to we deserve what we Barry Marchand Winnipeg chief replies i am not surprised at the letter Indian claims from Mel Schwark of Manitoba free january i could hardly expect understanding or support from a member of the Community who pre judged the Long Plains band in their request to move next for Schwarke indians like myself also pay the same Telephone and Hydro rates whenever there is an we pay no land tax in lieu of land such As where Beausejour now stands which our forefathers so considerately As for the outstanding debt being if Schwark took the time to educate himself on a topic he so eagerly he will discover that the pegu is band is still owed acres since the signing of our treaty in years aside from the Peters Reserve in which we have proven was stolen from As for the struggle of Manitoban to make ends we indians Are Manitoban and statistics prove that our struggle is much probably because of people like Schwark who work in the tuberculosis is still a problem for indians in Manitoba in 1987 we cannot help it if we were seriously flooded five times and no government sees fit to provide fair As a result we have to borrow Money to pay our flood How fortunate for me that for every Mel Schwark there Are 100 other no indians who encourage us to fight the irony for who did not want to live next door to is that he will still have indians next door because most of the jails Are full of indians of Premier Howard Pawley returns the cf18 favor to Jake Epp and decides not to build the jail in chief Louis Stevenson pegu is Indian band youth confused Early in cd ctr decided not to allow Manitoba com Mittee on unplanned pregnancy to Purchase air time for its Media Campaign on responsible the committee has with the Aid of health and social service teens and advertising a series of 30second to ads which Are directed at asking them to act responsibly about the Csc refusal to air these ads because they Are too controversial is reflective of the very attitude which causes Youthful confusion about sexuality in the first information about responsible sexuality needs to be accessible to teens via the mass Media perhaps it will help counteract the unrealistic and often exploitive sexual attitudes and values currently portrayed in various information designed to help pre vent teen pregnancy should be judged by the same Standard As health promotion campaigns de signed to prevent other health prob lems such As drunk driving and wife there Are contentious aspects to All of these promotional yet the Csc does not deem ads on these subjects too controversial to Alison Kennedy chairman fort Garry family life information Centre teens insulted i would bring attention to a serious problem with today this problem is the mistreatment of teen agers in most being it concerns two friends and i were mistreated while browsing in a just As All experienced computer were about to touch one of the display an employee went out of his Way to Tell us dont touch that we Felt insulted and promptly left the although teenagers Are not Large Consumers of these Type of they have an influence on their parents decisions when buying i have experienced Many such Inci dents As i think society should change its views of teenagers As being destructive to store Merchan As the majority of teens Are not like i have also been in situations where i have known More about a product than the employees them it would be interesting for these companies to learn How Many customers they lose because of these Jason Fidelak Winnipeg chicanery at the Start of the new much reflecting is being especially in the political Many instances of chicanery were uncovered in Likely due to weaknesses of human nature and some politicians had the Good Grace to resign their portfolios pending an enquiry into their con duct and it comes to being responsible for the operation of a Public such As the under the strategy of the govern saturated with the Job Crea Tion and then squirming out of blame on the grounds that he knew nothing about what was Tran is a shirking of Respo Sibili an injustice to the five officials saddled with the the chickens have come Home to one of our prime ministers reasons for awarding the cf18 contract to Quebec was that provinces High unemployment the temporary nature of most of the nip makeshift employment has now and the provincial Defi Cit has soared to an astronomical so vast that i am unable to see my living offspring being Able to extricate themselves from this Load in their lifetime and i am a be if the minister in charge of Max at the time has the character requisite for the responsibilities of that elected he should resign now and insist on a commission of enquiry to include the level of instead of firing a group of officials without an adequate evaluation of their Vogel Winnipeg being of unsound Fred decided to take it with ;