Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 16, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Wini Ripe free March 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 of the Manitoba press Council Why Overlook Churchill it is possible that the newly announced announced million Worth of Northern airstrips would have been needed even if Canada had bought a new fighter aircraft More suited to the Long Range patrols necessary to defend this country than is the whose design favors the tasks faced at Canadian bases in it can argued that an aircraft sitting on the ground As far North As possible has a better Chance to intercept a before it launches its cruise eliminating the need to Chase them the biggest Canada will have will be to find the aircraft to put on perhaps the should there be an will provide Forward deployment for other North american aerospace defence senior Canadian air Force officers certainly argue that it is not problems with the cf18s that dictated the decision to establish the new it is since construction of these Northern bases will not be finished until that no mention has been made of training for Forward deploy ment at where adequate fuel Stor and accommodation for training Crews already it is Likely this idea has been discussed at defence the reason it is not part of the plan is most Likely tied to the number of aircraft Canada could have had More aircraft at a bargain but chose not to obtain the Cost of the which will be shared with the is More than it would have Cost to have exercised the option Canada had to obtain additional cf18 aircraft at the original an option that would have worked to the advantage of Canada and to the disadvantage of the had this option been it would have made available Canadian aircraft for Forward without the additional Canada hag insufficient aircraft to fill its obligations in where Canadas nato contingent is stationed and to provide Protection for Northern regions at the same Canadian flying stationed at cold Are presently required not Only to train new and replacement pilots for the new but to respond to exercise and emergency requests issued by the North american aerospace defence the numbers ensure without More Canada will not be Able to allocate fighter aircraft to put on Alert when the airstrips Are there must be a better Way the exact salary level needed to attract competent lawyers to the Bench and keep them there is difficult to the real problem of not paying judges enough is More visible in the than in lawyers Are refusing appointments and appointed judges Are leaving the Bench for private High judicial salaries Are often difficult for the politicians to sell to the because the majority of people have no idea of How much Money is available to the same capable lawyers in private most canadians will find it difficult to understand Why someone already earning a year must be Given a retroactive raise of and two seven percent annual raises at a time when so Many wages Are the recommendations of a commission headed by Donald now in the hands of the commons Justice committee for clearly show the need for a More structured process by which the salary Levels Are Guthries if would increase retroactively the salaries of federally appointed judges by 17 per if the Guthrie recommendations Are the salary of a Justice sitting on the supreme court of Canada would increase to from its present level of just four years ago that same Justice was paid it is recommended that the salaries paid to All federally appointed judges increase As Well As increases in allowances for books and a commission headed by former Justice minister Otto Lang that reported in recommended that a supreme court judge be paid this salary level has been but no longer is the flaw in the system is that judges salaries seem to lurch upwards at irregular intervals As a result of a often commission it should be possible to devise a method by which smaller increases Are put in place at a More regular providing that the Economy of the country can afford it and that other wage Levels reflect these economic commissions should be reserved to Deal with unusual not used As a Means of regularly recommending higher judicial the current system is bad because it awards catchup increases that seem to Bear no relationship to general economic most people expect an increase in litigation on constitutional if this lawyers Are bound to unless the government can get some system of salary increases in place which is generally acceptable to those who will make Good the recent recommendations May soon look like Small potatoes Market distorting boards As a new Howard Hawleys concern Over the future of producer marketing boards in a free Trade agreement is what is More difficult to understand is How As Premier of can adopt the same the history of Supply management shows that it has worked More often to the detriment of Manitoba than to its Manitoba Consumers suffer the same High costs that result from inefficiency in suppl managed in Many Manitoban who would have been successful suppliers of turkeys and hogs have been denied the Opportunity to Benefit Canad an Consumers and enrich there is no room for them in the if Pawley needs evidence of he need Only visit where rows of empty buildings Are All that is left of a thriving egg Industry which existed before the Canadian egg marketing Agency began managing Canadas Supply of the Schreyer government went to court to hold on to the markets that were eventually wiped out by suppl management nevertheless Pawley told the legislature last week a great Many people in this province Are concerned by the recent press reports about just How firmly committed the Federal government is to preserving Supply management in reports which indicated that those few sectors which absolutely must have such As fruit and vegetable growers and food processors Are about to lose that having through Supply part of industries particularly suited to Pawley now talks of at whatever the orderly marketing of products that would face stiff Competition without is Pawley standing up for the majority of Manitoban who consume these products does he want High prices Supply management has been around Long enough for comparisons to be the preliminary results of a study by the College of agricultural reported in the newsletter com pare the Dairy Industry in Southern Ontario and that in the state of new areas similar in All respects except the regulatory and marketing re searchers discovered new York fans have half the capital investment but produce 40 per cent More com pared with those in an Ontario farm labourer produces pounds a while the new York labourer produces in answer to the argument that Supply management is the Only Way to preserve an the report shows that the rate at which Dairy operations Are being reduced in new York state is almost identical to the rate in the main of is that free Market farms give Consumers a better a Ika amuck Waltzing around Petrovan by Wilson special to the free press Ottawa politicians Are tread ing warily As the controversy Over ownership of pet Ocanada brews up again because they All remember that Joe Clark burned himself badly by not knowing How to drop the when the now massive Oil company was Little More than an empty Shell he had announced that any future tory government would kill it by the time he briefly came to Power the liberals had used Large amounts of the taxpayers Money to put flesh on its Bare Public liked it the flesh had been but it turned out that the Canadian people liked being owners of a big Oil com Clark did not understand that an innocuous Issue had turned against now both Brian Mulroney and John Turner Are determined that it will Burn them so they Are Waltzing around the the firmest positions Are de Broad Bents ideological support for Public ownership and finance minister Michael Wilsons clearheaded state ment that pet Ocanada no longer has any Public policy the last Public policy role played by pet Ocanada was the real help it gave the extremely wealthy Paul Reichman in adding the parts of Gulf Canada he wanted to his Fame Lys multimillion Dollar Empire by buying the parts that did not interest that was scarcely the policy role the liberals were touting when they decided to found a stat owned Oil company to carry out the govern ments will and to be a window on the the company Aid to the Reich mans is not a Side Issue or a red herring when the future of Petro Canada is the Canadian people do not appear to object to that use of presumably because they Are so accustomed to politicians using their Money to help wealthy corporations and the men behind this is a serious part of the Petro Canada partly because it is so far from the stated purpose of the Oil company and partly because Paul Reichman skilfully out manoeuvred the prime min ister of Canada in getting Petro Canada into the role he the Energy minister of the Pat then insisted that it was Well within tory policy that the stat owned company should be Canadas biggest gasoline retailer a role it took on to oblige the Reich two questions in nothing of the sort was Ever within any Public policy of the conservative the opera Tion forces two questions d should a stat owned company be used to help one of the country wealthiest families put across their multimillion Dollar deals d Why should the government be a gasoline retailer a Strong argument can be made that Canadian governments have Al ways been too much the servants of great business corporations or of exceptionally skilled Paul Reichman is a citizen of value to this country but next time he is in the Middle of a multimillion Dollar Deal it would be better if he would not look to the taxpayers for Aid and if he would refrain from demonstrating that his skills include the ability to manipulate men like Brian Best Benchmark on the second the Best Benchmark for government participation in business is still that Laid Down half a Century ago by the late right Howe among other launched air Canada As Tran Canada hear Gued that the government should stay out of business and Industry except when the private sector could not or would not launch essential Only then should the government go into the right economic role for gov almost is to hold the ring by setting the rules others must by ensuring that the Strong do not unfairly dominate and oppress the by seeking where it can to strengthen the Only rarely should it become an Active economic it has other there is a mass of evidence that politicians and bureaucrats do not make Good Industry in there is no justification for the government to be running a big gasoline retailing be Tro Canadas other functions should be studied with an open Wilson May be right that the com Pany has no Public policy logic faulted just for a Nickel in the article facts about Cher Nobyl begin to emerge free March 6 Jovanovich persists in advocating the advantages to be gained from the technological adv cances made in nuclear his logic is he argues that since nuclear Power is part of technology and since technology has Given us longer and better therefore nuclear Power must be promoted to give us longer and better he should visit the scandinavian countries and speak to the la planders about Quality of Brav ing the harsh climate is no longer the most difficult aspect of their now it is finding Reindeer with radiation Levels Low enough that they Are Safe to he should also talk to the mothers of those chernobyl babies who were born with severe neurological defects due to iriadia Dave Taylor Winnipeg Laplander in trouble i weep for the children of today when i see How Quality of life is disappearing from today i despair when i read that the Winnipeg transit system con Dones the ejection of its passengers from its buses for want of a one of these ejected passengers was a for heavens who was made to walk six blocks in the midst of a frigid Winnipeg Winters How fortunate indeed for the bus Driver that the child did not die of the transit system should immediately review its passenger prac Tice manual to ensure that this Type of incident never occurs again to any member of the far paying Public and particularly not to i am ashamed for the guilty Par ties involved in this incident and the Winnipeg transit system should likewise be John wisely Casino opposed i protest against the presence of a gambling Casino at the convention Centre or at any other possible gambling is a vice that leads to All kinds of Money that should be spent on the necessities of life is used for gambling eventually leads to drunkenness and to ail kinds of i was proud of our Beautiful convention Centre but now i will try to avoid setting foot in the if i owned a business i would make every Effort to vacate the it is sad to think that Winnipeg has become a City where those who can least afford lose their hard earned Money and where we invite the presence of gangsters and und Esir we will have to Deal with a new criminal element and with out a is an outgrowth of a gambling Wiese Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to ethiopian Aid i would like to express my concern Over the assistance Given to Ethiopia by Canada and other Western nations Over the past two far from aiding the Relief the ethiopian regime is engaged in a massive resettlement program to depopulate the North of the food was used As a bait to lure thousands of people to so called re Lief Camps which in transit Camps from which starving people were forced into labor Camps in the food was distributed Only for the Benefit of visiting offi otherwise it was left to rot on docks and in while arms and construction materials were delivered from soviet the country spent million dollars a 10th anniversary Cele bration while millions of people in the North think of the Effort we mounted in terms of donations from individuals and huge Rock con certs were arranged and the proceeds added to the food How the ethiopian regime must laugh at How could we be so naive Don Mcdonald Lake Stark Choice in discussions about free no mention has been made of the Issue of regional regional Dis parity and the migration of the Hin Terland population to Central cities continues at an alarming if a free Trade agreement is reached with the United states it will Settle regional disparities once and for dooming the extremities of this nation to a virtual the result will be the centralization of Industry in a few massive Urban a population spread out across Canada is antithetical to free Trade because in order to be a successful partner is is essential to be lean and there is Little efficiency in a Small population spread out across Miles of with Industry scattered hither and there much that the smog filled eyes of the megalopolis Dweller never these Are such things As fresh sparkling streams and fish filled lakes that do not know the meaning of acid plus As a the deafening Lack of quite Are the choices available to we can develop option Sand initiatives for our Many diverse regions so that our Young people May have a future and the sure Hope of employment where they were born and the other Choice is to allow the Stampede to Central Canada to should we choose the latter free Trade will Likely be the let us say no to urbanization and let us make it Possi ble for Young people in Norway House and White horse to find fulfilling jobs at let us forget free Trade because free Trade and regional Equality appear at this time to be in Pompati Edward Price Winnipeg South Africa South Africa has been the victim of sensationalist reporting by the Western Many other african states Haye prisons packed with political Only in South Afri Ca can the Western press investigate and make an International Mahboob Winnipeg pornography i refer to the Story Penthouse handler cleared on charge free january before attorney general Roland Penner wastes any More of our Money pursuing an Appeal from Justice Gerard jewess ruling that the Issue of Penthouse is not of let us Hope he has the nerve to prosecute the distributors of the numerous periodicals that clearly fall within the criteria that Justice Jewers considers proof of obscene these magazines usually have covers showing a Man threatening a scantily Clad woman with a knife or the woman is often shown bound or handcuffed to a tree and in fear and these magazines Are pornographic by All of jus Tice Jewers what is Penner waiting for the trash is there and it is his Job to clean it Richard Dixon Winnipeg pharmacists regarding the article druggist shortage forces Rural pharmacies to close free press february i am disappointed to see that the pharmaceutical association is look ing to other countries for pharma i am a graduate of the University of Alberta and a pharmacist in Good standing with the Alberta pharmaceutical i have 12 years of experience As a pharma including managerial i do not have the phar Macy education Board of Canada certificate and to obtain this qualification would require returning to University for refresher courses at considerable a practice that does not seem justified since Only a Small portion of the exam pertains to the knowledge required in the Day today practice of Rural if the province is so desperate to obtain additional i would think they would be willing to at least accept the pharmacists with other Canadian Sharon Abrams Winnipeg real culprits if we object to a flood of Immi Grants coming to Canada from one area of this we Are termed racists and our forefathers came to this coun try with nothing but Hope and Strong backs to make this country one of the greatest havens on this the real culprits in this immigration fiasco Are the churches who admit they will break the Law to bring these unfortunate people across our i suggest the governor of North Dakota request funds from Church organizations to set up a refugee Camp in his state so that my taxes will not drive me into bankruptcy and Force me to emigrate to North Dakota and go on their welfare Robert Thalman Winnipeg is there a description of the hands of the dissidents to be released ;