Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 30, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free june Agency accepts need for minister says continued from Page 1 to their birth the report found that childcare workers who were told by the 14 year old she was being sexually assaulted thought the girl was having difficulty adjusting to Reserve the Agency has acknowledged their need for further worker training and i think Treyve been stunned by this particular Smith Wasis must work to prevent put Ting the parents and the Community ahead of the Childs Best she one recommendation notes the native Agency can have a conflict of interest acting As an advocate for parents and Indian bands looking to reclaim children sent for adoption out of and serving the custody Battle the called Amy in the had pleaded to leave the a court was told during a custody Battle earlier this returned in March to her Foster parents in was re moved from the Reserve in january in an out court custody settlement approved by a Winnipeg a medical examination showed she had venereal i dont have 100percent Confidence in the Smith said she the Agency is willing to Deal with the problems pointed out by the the report said Amy was removed from her natural parents As an in Fant by the Federal health depart ment for medical treatment in Lynn she was abandoned after being sent to the while Wasis assisted and advocated the girls return to her natural parents it did not consider itself responsible for the girl As she was never officially its the report As the Agency worker on the Reserve didst perform his or her duties and didst look into How Amy was it noting the worker has been the report advised the child and family services directorate to develop a procedures and program standards for returning any child to a Home in Manitoba when a child care Agency is Gerry Mercier an ardent critic of Community ser said the recommendation is an indictment of Smith As she is responsible for the depart ment and theres an old concept of ministerial responsibility that Doest mean much around amys removal was never recorded by the department As she was not taken into care by an Agency be cause 6f allegations of neglect or Smith she was returned to her natural parents because a judge found they should not have lost her in the first Smith said the Federal department of Indian affairs has supplied the province with a list of 79 children like were lost to their parents when taken away for medi Cal the directorate int monitoring any of the childcare agencies often enough and that role must be More clearly she the report recommended agencies must inform the directorate when Ever they Are involved with return ing children to natural parents or it said Wasis must set up special counselling for a child being re turned and ensure it supports the child in his or her new Wasis needs an experienced child welfare adviser on its Board As Well As sufficient funding from the Indian affairs it capital punishment How maps voted on Bill to abolish capital punishment july 14 yes 130 no 124 did not vote 10 total 264 How maps voted june 1987 did not vote 7 total 282 ministers absent for vote on closure continued from Page 1 contradictory on a matter of con but Domm pressed relentlessly to hold the preliminary vote before the end of when the commons takes its summer he feared that delaying the vote until the fall would make it impossible to get through the rest of the legislative process and pass a Bill before the next after the liberals and new democrats refused to agree to limit their debating time or otherwise Speed the matter to a Mazankowski finally resorted to closure to choke off the opening round of the closure which passed the House with a Handy tory majority of made yesterday the eighth and final Day of debate and set the 1 voting seven conservatives walked at the with four joining the liberals and new democrats to vote against closure while another three a most Cabinet ministers opposed to the death penalty were absent from the House for the closure two former Jack Murta and Suzanne opposed the move along with backbench ers Alan Redway and Claudy three other Joe Bill Tupper and David Daub were in the House but abstained on the closure several other tory maps who oppose the death penalty sided with the government on the Issue of blaming the opposition for refusing to reach a Deal that would have averted the parents lose Breaks under tax package continued from Page 1 the tax Reform proposals would Chip away at family allowances and tax Breaks for parents at the same time As they would Chip away at the child tax the Canadian press has disco Vered a quirk in the package that would slash tax Breaks for parents with children under 18 by a mini mum of million next financial Post contributing editor Arthur Drache said in a column published yesterday that other tax Reform proposals would reduce fam ily allowance benefits slightly for most parents and would make Siz Able cuts in benefits for some mid dle class and upper class in the commons nip Leader de Broadbent and Liberal finance critic Raymond Garneau both attacked the conservatives for reducing benefits for Broadbent said the tax Reform combined with changes in family benefits already enacted by the would Cost a typical family a year by Garneau said its unfair for the government to reduce the child tax credit for Middle class Junior finance minister Tom Hockin said most families with Chil Dren would still wind up better off after tax Reform than before because of other features in the the Federal government has three programs intended solely for parents with children under 18 the child tax credit for parents of Low and Middle a Universal system of family and an income tax exemption for parents that is to be converted to a tax credit under tax a second look at finance depart ment publications on tax Reform by the Canadian press revealed an unannounced change in government policy on the income tax exemption that would Cost parents and save the Federal Treasury least million in the conservatives originally promised parents an income tax exemption in 1988 of for every child under the government now proposes to reduce the exemption to one year ahead of the net loss to parents in 1988 would be a the latest available taxation statistics suggest that would amount to a total loss of million or Rabeto Mohamud and Hussen say they were badly beaten by bouncers in mercy pleas recalled continued from Page 1 apparent he was in serious Trou i kept saying please dont kill but that just got them mad and they came after Hussen people going by started screaming and begging them not to beat but they just kept doing one of the bouncers told this lady who asked them to Stop that he was doing his Mohamud said the beating continued until the arrival of who questioned the bouncers and witnesses and drove them to Hospi he said police returned to the Hospital nearly two hours later and asked him to sign a verbal state ment he had Given but he refused until he could speak to a Ray Johns said charges have yet to be Laid in the noting police cannot proceed with charges until the victim signs a statement of what which Mohamud would not All who recently emigrated from said they thought the attack May have been racially he added that neither himself nor either of his friends weighs More than 160 Kingra denied the incident occurred because the men were sex acts anger residents continued from Page 1 residents said their troubles began last fall when a Man and woman moved into the building and started one resident said the woman told her they were starting a the 2 parties that followed were tolerable until this when activities spilled into the streets and hot weather forced people to open their windows and their the owner of a Rooming House with a parking 16t on Mcgee said hookers work openly under her most of them Are but the Way they she while one at there Are four or five waiting in line they Are animals vulgar peo its a 77yearold woman said she has purchased a handheld shriek alarm for in they Are a Vul Gar group and there big people you look at the Power they have and you dont if you were Ever in their clutches they would Knock your head she said she became so angry Early sunday morning that she for got her fear and went out in the Yard and started i said Why dont you go Back to the i was so a neighbor said he started a Peti Tion sunday after yet another All night party kept the neighbourhood awake until 6 i phone the police All the time but they dont he we were told a petition might he said he believes the building is a Centre for drug one he two cars trunk to outside his they passed All these Little pack about 50 of them in Silver from one trunk to the he another woman said she has seen men accepting and turning Over packages in Silver its hard to she but when you see them All suck on one the residents say they have never been in the the windows of which Are boarded up from the in they say they have caught glimpses when a Side door is opened to admit some of whom Are turned away by bouncers after they admit they Are not one Man said he has seen a Van Load of Beer being moved into the building and another said he heard someone shouting one night that a Beer costs until two Doberman Pinchers prowled the Flat rooftop during the residents the buildings owner was fined plus in in bylaw court yesterday for a recent anti noise in he did not appear for the charge an was convicted in financing or rebates gift to first 50 shoppers 0 financing maximum 12 month term maximum amount we just want to be the Best at Chrysler Dodge 3oo Pembina 284665o Chrysler ;