Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 17, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free january 1987 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 o the Manitoba press Council editorials a Bone for Bristol the Bristol aerospace Union spokesman is absolutely Correct when he says that there will be no new technology involved in Over the next six or seven Canadas Fleet of cf5 aircraft and in turning them into sophisticated it will be exactly the kind of work Bristol has been doing on the older a flows for this is the task that is most Likely to be set by Ottawa for the Winnipeg aerospace Plant because of the previous decision to give the modern at much higher Cost to the Canadian to Canad air in no one should be surprised if Bristol reads a message in its cf5 conversion the message has been stated clearly enough Ottawa has decided that Canadas aerospace Industry will be concentrated in Montreal and As a matter of government policy and to fit Ottawa rather twisted perception of the Canadian National that this policy is More important than tax dollars became evident when the cf18 maintenance contract went to Montreal rather than although there was a valiant attempt to fudge the it quickly became Clear that the Federal government had added costs that were not applicable to Bristol tender to get the total to within million of that submitted to the thinking seemed to be that million was an acceptable difference within which National policy could be carried when the froth was blown it turned out that the Canad air bid was million or More higher than Bristol since the contract had already been an even this difference could be passed off As being part of the National interest having had enough of embarrassing the government decided to throw Bristol a a Consolation in the form of a 200job contract to refurbish the no tenders were it is just As because no one would suggest that Bristol would be Able to enter a competitive bid against a company that had built the aircraft in the first place and had maintained them through their period of Active ser the More frightening consequence of the second wrong committed in a vain attempt to do something right is that no potential aerospace manufacturer would consider locating anywhere in Canada other than in the area that Ottawa has designated for aerospace in no one should be surprised if existing aerospace Bristol begin looking favor ably on relocating to where the work will be sandbagging the minister if health and welfare minister Jake Epp is wondering what hit the answer is simple just about every feminist in if he is wondering the answer is equally Clear he was the victim of a classic journalistic he gave an answer to a theoretical question and saw it turned into a distorted version of government Epp was interviewed by the Toronto Globe and mail this week in Advance of a National conference on in the course of the he was apparently asked whether children were not better stimulated in daycare centres than at he replied while there Are some who would be better stimulated in a daycare i am enough of a traditionalist to believe that the Best people to do it Are the that View would appear to be mild and reasonable to anyone but fanatics who believe that All children should be turned Over to the state As soon As they Are despite the simple common sense of the ministers it brought the Wrath of the feminist establishment Down on his in a nationwide outpouring of muddled Epp was accused of setting out to destroy daycare and of putting tiny children at risk in unsafe and unhealthy none of the furore had anything to do with the real Issue of child there is a genuine need for an expanded daycare system in Canada for the simple reasons that Many families today have Only one Parent in Many of those which have both parents have chosen to work outside the there is a serious debate going on in the country about How much govern ments can afford to pay for about which level of government should contribute How about How the payments should be made and about How daycare services should be if the National action committee on the status of women wants to inject into that debate the argument that parents Are unfit to look after their children and that the Job should be turned Over to the then they have the grounds for a real Battle with the minister of National health and on the other they agree with him that the government should recognize a parents right to choose to stay Home and look after the then they should get off the poor mans Back and Start dealing with the real issues of Egypt vigilant president egyptian president Hosni Mubarak would not last very Long in Power if he lost the Confidence of the armed which is Why he is especially vigilant about its welfare and about its possible infiltration by religious fundamentalist religious led by an army assassinated Anwar Sadat in 1981 during a military Mubarak policy for avoiding sharing the Fate of his predecessor has included flexibility and a different presidential his personal style has been less lordly and less grating on the sensibilities of religious fundamentalists than was that of lacking the minimal Charisma of or the enormous Charisma of Sadat presidential Gamel Abdel he has go verned More technocratic ally and bureaucratically than his former career As an air Force general has conditioned his approach to government and Given him easy relations with the armed forces High pressure from religious mainly through the sunni moslem secret organization known As the moslem has a Long history in the particular focus alters but the Basic thrust is that Egypt should abandon its relatively easygoing ways and openness to Western returning to what the fundamentalists define As the purity of Early they express their frustration in vitriolic Pam invariably defined As seditious by the govern ment of the they plot ceaselessly against what they see As a Barbaric military nation state alien to islamic they indulge in violence from time to time spend much time in jail being senior military officers Are virulently condemned by the which is Why the 1981 assassination Leader was Only a lieutenant and Why the senior officers tend to identify their own interests with those of the incumbent it helps that All presidents since the declaration of the Republic have been this explains Why it was neither surprising nor particularly ominous when it was announced recently that four army officers of Junior rank had been charged with involvement in a conspiracy by religious fundamentalists to overthrow the they will go on trial with 29 religious bringing to 100 the number of religious extremists facing trial on similar charges for separate plots against the the four officers were recruited because they could help gain military Howe can be stolen from lax guarded military bases or bought from their is less than if they were colonels or Mubarak has sought to give military officers a stake in loyalty to the government by providing professional and economic military Aid has brought desired modern the army builds new apartments that officers can buy officers May import foreign automobiles and motorcycles More cheaply than they have subsidized clubs and they Are often sent on desirable foreign this policy has when Low paid conscripts serving in the Security police rioted simultaneously in several cities Early last year because of a false planted by religious that their period of service was to be the army stamped out the trouble swiftly and control was restored and maintained although Many of the soldiers shooting Down rioters were also Low paid conscripts of the kind that make up the bulk of Egypt had that episode been dealt with slowly or indecisive or had army conscripts joined the Security police Mubarak government would have beside such a dangerous irregular outbreaks of fundamentalist rioting in various parts of the Nile Valley shrink in Mubarak calculations to the level of an annoying background hum with which he must barring the misfortune of an assassins Mubarak can govern with comparative equanimity As Long As army complicity in plots is limited to Junior he need worry Only when he hears that colonels or generals Are conspiring with religious gallery Phil Mallette a Salute to mans beast mend by Christopher Dafoe special to the free press i do not suppose that anybody was really surprised to learn that a re cent Survey has revealed that Many britons prefer their pets to other anyone who has Ever visited the motherland will know that this is in Britain the pet is whether it be rat or Budgie it is Worth for that an organization for the Protection of animals was established in Britain some years before a similar organization was established for the Protection of seated at table Many tourists will recall seeing British dogs seated at tables in res eating off a animals in Britain often inherit Large sums of Money and it is no Accident that the animal rights movement has enjoyed a considerable degree of sup port in the land of Winnie the Pooh and Black other people Are such a British Matron once told but fru fru is a perfect fru fru was a bad tempered miniature dog with poppy eyes and no she resided for much of every Day in her mistress hand some of us would have gladly thrown her under the wheels of a but to her infatuated owner she was even nicer than the Queen Moth we can but i suppose that it would be easy enough to discover that Many canadians Are equally enthusiastic about their my own for is not universally loved and but i will not hear a word against him and woe betide anyone who has a harsh word to say to him in my my who appears to do nothing but sleep and also has my full and uncritical support for reasons that i cannot pets have this curious ability to make monkeys out of there of a lot to be said for animal after when did your Canary last let you Down when was the last time your dog disagreed with your political opinions when you sing in the Shower does your cat complain a goldfish cannot talk Many people Are convinced that animals make the Best it was once said of a Man that he had every attribute of a dog except that May be a bit hard on although we have to face the fact that there Are some things that dogs do that Are perfectly accept Able in the four footed and not at All agreeable in i will not go into you know what i am talking loyalty the matter of loyalty is very there May be a few disloyal dogs but i have never heard of everyone has heard of the watchdog who greeted the burglars with wagging Tail and lolling but this could easily be attributed to Mere stupidity rather than any Lack of such a dog is just As Likely to bite the archbishop when he Calls for there is nothing to be done about he is simply a poor judge of Strang any one of us could make a similar mistake and probably have once a dog has decided that you Are a wonderful he cannot be talked out of the your friends May get tired of your silly they May discuss your shortcomings behind your but if a dog likes you there is almost no Way that you can turn him against dogs have been known to bite their Mas but they Are usually heartily sorry for it a minute Sharp remark wives can be wonderful mine is almost perfect but they can occasionally turn against you temporary if you keep your wife waiting for three she will probably have something Sharp to say to you when you finally such As i have just telephoned my lawyer or your dinner is ice keep a dog waiting for on the other and he will Greet you at the panting and leaping with a cat might Glare and give you the cold shoulder for an hour or a dog will fall panting at your everything it is often difficult to please human loved ones with the cry of its just what i wanted can frequently be translated into Why this piece of rubbish animals never do that to an unwanted gift presented to a dog More often than accepted with restraint and signs of the unwanted gift an unpleasing a morsel of Tough beef is usually carried discreetly from the room before being dropped and far be it from any dog to Hurt his masters goldfish Are far less affectionate than but even they can make agreeable they Are charmingly silent and when they As All pets do sooner or they can be disposed of without fuss or would that we could say the same about some of our nobody can put a Price tag on saving a life it is 3 and the sudden ring of the phone jolts the doctor out of a sound it is the Hospital calling for him to attend the birth of a half he stumbles into the cold starts his car and races to the it is an easy delivery like the he is exhilarated by the birth of the he sleeps Well after the blessed babies always seem to arrive in the Middle of the other births Are not so simple As in surgical the doctor has to sum Mon All his expertise and react instantaneously to unexpected devel a Short delay in applying Correct procedures could have fatal this is High drama and High a child is born alive and Well because of the skill and Dedica Tion of the doctor and attending the doctor gets Little sleep that night but must be in the office the next morning to meet Hospital and office a person in other pursuits would have the Day off to recuperate after such an arduous emergency Call and would be applauded for his exemplary ser we take this function of the doctor for a doctor has a Treen a Werier Dous responsibility and often per forms under considerable the demands can be physically and emotionally in View of All this i feel that the position on increases is not being presented How can one put a Price tag on the general practitioner who saves the life of a baby in the Middle of the night no one can equate it with dollars and but one can accept the argument that doctors deserve an income in some Way commensurate with their responsibility and work society has always accepted the idea that doctors receive higher in comes than less onerous but the Gap has closed in recent according to the report of the Manitoba health services commis Sion for the year ending March the average payment to physic ians in Manitoba was not included in this figure Are payments for workers compensation and fees from other which for most doctors Are not but the is a Gross something that is frequently Over it is estimated that the Over head of the average physician is 40 per for such costs As and on that basis the average was about for the average income was or a net of such incomes Are easily exceeded by peo ple in other professions and in government and private if a 55hour work week is accurate for the average then their hourly income is considerably to be doctors Are like other people and Are not All of the same some May place their Priori ties on such As two who last year were ordered to repay in they represent Only two of the health care has become an enor Mous Cost at eating up 31 per cent of the provincial the biggest Cost is for which account for 59 per cent of the health doctors fees account for Only 19 per cent so the chief Avenue being pursued by the government is to reduce the emphasis on institutional a fund of million has been proposals will be considered on february 15 to embark on a demonstration project to re Duce the need for Hospital the doctors themselves Are seek ing alternative methods of care and Are working to this end with a com Mittee of the Manitoba health ser vices says Jack president elect of the Manitoba medical As in any there Are abuses and undoubtedly there can be changes to improve the efficiency of service and reduce escalating the Universal Public still proves to be the most effective Way of controlling compared to the private system in the United says John associate professor of social and preventive Medicine at the University of figures for the latest Avail reveal that total expenditures on health care in the were per cent of the Gross National prod this compares to per cent in the Cost of health care in the As a basis of Gross National is almost 25 per cent higher than in the much higher Cost is recorded in the even though it has no Universal care system and millions Are not covered by Manitoba is in a tougher position than other provinces because of a smaller economic base and above average expenditure on Manitoba spends per capita per year compared to a National average of at the same Federal Grants Are being Manitoba is leading the pack on programs for the elder Home says Manitoba was among the first to introduce cover age for nursing now exceed ing the National average by 35 per and in Home care which exceeds the National Norm two and on half the desirable aim of Home care is to keep people out of institutions and Manitoba program has been praised by re As for individual they too have a Good even though the image of their organizations has i know Many doctors who Are a credit to our they deserve to be a Busy doctor checks up on one of his Hospital patients ;