Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 3, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free july 19s7 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 Arthur publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller a Merber of the Manitoba press Council cancer and politics Jules former Vic president of the new demo cratic party association in vital electoral does not believe that his service to the party brought about his appointment to the Board of the Manitoba cancer treatment and research Legal is legals 31 years of service As a machinist employed by the devices to help cancer gave him a connection with the foundations he is on the Board partly to represent the employees of the As is Cheryl a clerk at the foundation and a Vic president of the Canadian Union of Public health minister Larry quite frankly admits to preferring new democrats Over others in the sudden wave of appointments to the cancer foundation when he called school principal and leukaemia patient Peter who ran for school Board on the nip he explained that he was looking for someone who was a user of the foundations service and also a Strong party Carney was tourism minister Maureen hemp Hills Riding association president in Beverley also a cancer filled the Bill equally it is a fact of political Desjardins that a ruling party does not appoint people of other beliefs to run institutions linked to the should be no complaint against cancer clerks and machinists sitting on the Board of the cancer the foundations advisory medical Board provides the medical expertise the foundation such a foundation should not be run solely by doctors but should reflect the views of patients and the insistence on appointing party shows a narrowness of mind and threatens to interfere in the foundations if it were merely a matter of making sure that everyone who has worked hard for the party gets some there must be enough honorific sinecure to go jobs where the incumbent is unlikely to do real the cancer foundation is too important to Manitoban afflicted with cancer to be used As a Means of rewarding Desjardins allusion to the beliefs of the appoint hints at Darker if the minister has one belief about cancer treatment while doctors in the Field have another what will be expected of the Loyal and enthusiastic new democrats on the cancer foundation Board what is the puppet expected to do when the puppeteer wants an Arm to be raised the cancer foundation like others of the same usually receives two or new members each year so that the presence of the other nine or ten assures a new Board member unfamiliar with the boards work needs a period of months to become Desjardins purge ensures that half the including the Are new the foundation is therefore thrown into a period of Uncertain in that a caucus of four disciplined partisans at the ministers service can exercise influence beyond its the foundation treats cancer patients and is paid by the health services commission for doing if the Misc were dissatisfied with the it has plenty of remedies there has been no that the foundation Board has mismanaged its affairs so As to require a massive turnover of the foundation also receives donations from Manito bans who have been touched by cancer and who wish to support research and the Board is exercising a Public Trust on behalf of those thousands of Manito cancer donors who believe that nip theories should govern cancer research and treatment will be reassured by the latest wave of others May seek another Means of supporting cancer Safe on for now a curious thing happens to new democrats when they Start threatening to win elections they Stop being socialists to their friends and Start being socialists to their nip Leader de Broadbent can expect to hear the word socialist tripping off the Tongue of prime minister Brian Mulroney More and More often As his party emerges in the polls As a threat to win the next Federal he can also expect to hear the prime minister demanding that he come clean with the Canad an Public about what his party really stands All this is perfectly legitimate if the Nup really has a Chance of running the country after the next then a lot of not Only will be keenly interested in what the party will do once it finds itself in the country be spared any More of the ranting which appeared in fundraising letters sent out by conservative National president William in this Day and nonsense about soviet style government is not going to convince any rational person to fear the new even Given the encouraging development of glasnost in the soviet Broad Bent still has a lot More in common with Brian Mulroney than he has with Mikhail he is Likely to have even More in common with Mulroney As the election the customary tactic of a politician who thinks he is about to win an election is to obliterate any features which once made him and his party the aim is to offer the voters All smooth surfaces and no rough Mulroney performed the act effectively before the last Broadbent is now trying to do the he is aided in his efforts by the fact that he has been Able to present a pleasing face to the Public while his chief opponents have the strongest thing going for Broadbent at the moment is the fact that he looks like a straightforward person who is not Brian Mulroney or John that May be enough for now it is unlikely to be enough to get him through an there is no guarantee that the healthy Lead his party now enjoys in some polls last until the next general his political opponents will not sit evidence of develop ing competence in government May yet be reflected in the the liberals May get themselves a coherent a new or some Loyal new democrats might Start wondering what has happened to the policies their party was once supposed to stand for and a lot of those Quebe cers who Are declaring themselves to be new democrats will be looking for evidence that the party they want to support is capable of putting together an effective organization and Fielding capable Broadbent greatest will be to persuade Canadian voters that they Are ready to accept everything his party stands before canadians they Are Likely to want to know a number of things about Broadbent and his they will be curious about which of their contradictory defence policies they would follow after pulling Canada out of the North Atlantic treaty Organiza westerners will be curious to know whether their acquiescence in the Deal which sent the cf18 maintenance contract to the second est bidder in Quebec sums up their views on regional development and Tion of the Western old time supporters will wonder whether an nip government would continue handouts to corporate welfare bums along the lines of the gift they approved to general motors in Many canadians will wonder How the nip would propose to pay for social programs in Light of the serious would they behave like socialist parties in France and face fiscal reality and Cut Back spending once in Power like other successful politicians before might be reluctant to discuss his party stand on these and other political issues Over the next but if he Doest Tell the people what nip policy the liberals and tories Are sure to do it for time for closer look at nip by Wilson special to the free press Ottawa if the country Politi Cal sympathies develop during the next 18 months or so As they Are heading de Broadbent will probably be the next prime minister of Canada at the head of a new democratic party the present Odds seem to favor a minority government but that May not be the Case As More time goes even three or four months it was carrying forecasting As far As reason permitted to suggest that an nip minority government was pos sible with the qualification that a Liberal minority still seemed More we really do not know what the situation will be when the elec Tion probably but not necessarily next pressure group we do if we think about that we Are far Short of adequately understanding what a Broadbent government would do about a wide Range of National the country is accustomed to thinking of the new democrats As a useful pressure group that habitually prods Compla cent older parties in the direction of desirable social that exam Gerat Esthe Dps actual role since a great Deal of Canadian Reform was copied from British examples not from labor party ideas but those of the Liberal lord Bev this traditional View of the new democratic party As on the Side of the Angels without Power to make any Radical ideas dangerous or unacceptable has meant that they have never been exposed to the sort of critical scrutiny and analysis that is commonplace when liberals and conservatives Are the time has come for careful scrutiny of the democrats but comfortable old habits Are hard to a starting Point would be to ask what sort of efforts at leadership Broadbent has been making in Opp did for give any effective support to the valid proposition that the Meech Lake Accord should have been subjected to searching analysis through Public hearings during the period when its terms could have been changed the of is that he did while change was that is before fihe second he made no Effort to ensure that important changes to the Constitution were scrutinized by More than 11 Heads of that was grave dereliction of an opposition leaders duty to the first ministers meetings now involve a Radical Extension of executive Power in Canada without development of effective Means of controlling Chance gone they in an Extension of the old Royal prerogative and changes to the Constitution should have a better basis than now that Quebec has ratified the constitutional Broad Bent knows that approval by the Legislatures will be simply pro forma and that the practical Opportunity for change has slipped another test of Broadbent capacity for involves the War criminals Bill introduced on june 23 by Justice minister Ray he made a Back room Deal with Broadbent and Liberal Leader to let it slip through the House without opposition on second and third readings and then sent to the Senate for final approval before the session adjourns for the opposed this is an attempt to give Canadian criminal Law extra territorial a principle we have always strenuously opposed when the United states has attempted to enforce it Breaks new ground in Canadian criminal Law and is a Radical change in the criminal the question arises should it not be carefully examined debated by the members of the House of com Mons who Are asked to legislate it if what is function two conservative backbench ers were so offended by the Deal to slide such a Radical change in the Crimi Nal Law through silently and fast that they propose to Force who should ensure debate if not the opposition leaders where does Broadbent really stand on the great Canadian prob that our Public con sumption has been running so far ahead of our willingness to pay the Bills finance minister Michael Wil son has just slowed Down his party already slow moving Effort to come to grips with the turn or has abandoned stand that Canada must Cut its cloth according to its where does Broadbent stand where does he stand on nato membership on Bank nationalization Parks purpose in the article the rough life in Riding Mountain attracts few free june 8 Fred Cleverley accuses Parks Canada of discouraging visitors by restricting develop ment in the he seems to have missed the the consultants report to which he refers was not for the purpose of telling Riding Mountain officials How to attract visitors to the Park at any Riding Mountain could have lots of visitors if it were to be transformed into a Disneyland of the Complete with Yogi Bear automatons and mechanical Moose to thrill the children and Golf courses for their is not the purpose of our National there Are lots of areas out Side Parks where Golf courses and ski slopes can be developed by Pri vate wilderness is a nonrenewable re source and diminishing in Quantity at Riding Mountain Park and Quality All Over the our National Parks Are part of Canadas wilderness heritage and should be handed Down to future generations intact and wilderness does not tolerate Large numbers of human in the Federal Cabinet adopted a policy of including representative samples of each of Canadas 39 natural regions in the National Park another 29 Marine regions have also been preservation of representative samples of these natural regions will provide a reference Point from which to gauge the Impact of human activity on the biosphere and ensure that future generations of canadians Are Able to enjoy our wilderness in provincial govern Manitoba among have not while it May be comforting to us in Manitoba to Point the Finger of at for its unwillingness to protect South the St Kine River and the Klutz Ermateen Val Manitoba record of cooperation in the Protection of natural heritage is equally Harvey Williams Winnipeg police cyclists As a cyclist concerned Over my Childs and my own and As a citizen supporting the Community approach to let me suggest that 20 of Winnipeg finest be As signed Mountain bikes to patrol their a Fleet of Topo theline two wheelers would be less expensive than a single squad would be More ecologically minded and re quire less and would make officers More approachable while providing extraordinary neigh boyhood a police presence on bicycles might also encourage a new respect toward us invisible cyclists from City Patrick Falconer letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to r where is Money i am enraged about some of our City leaders who lightly suggest other cities and provinces accept Winnipeg and Manitoba cancer patients for How Are the ill expected to travel and be Able to afford to Fly to other Points for cancer treatment do other cities and provinces have More equipment than we Are there More More More available or Are other provinces free of Citi Zens with cancer where is the Money we Supply through taxes where Are the Mil Lions taken in every week from the Many draws and marathons there was a significant purpose behind All these lot teries and have we for gotten what that Money was for 1 want to know How much of this Money goes to Supply our hospitals with essential medical i am sure someone has been hired to keep of the millions i would Welcome an article in the free press listing amounts taken in for All the amount earned by pm the amounts that winners receive and where the balance of this Money goes each we Are entitled to Stephenson Winnipeg risks the headline at a warned to advise teen of Pill risks free june 19 was untimely and unfortunately will further reinforce the mis Conception that the risks of birth control methods and especially the Pill Are greater than the risks of such be nationalization encourages poor contraceptive use and irresponsible sex Ual behaviour and Ai increase in unintended therapeutic abortion and complications of sexually transmitted the College of physicians and surgeons of Manitoba is Correct in encouraging physicians to review the risks of Oral contraceptives with As they should when prescribing any medication where informed consent is unfortunately the risks of taking the Pill were not presented in the proper perspex most teenagers using Oral contraceptives Are sexually Active and Are at the Peak of their there is a 10 to 25 per cent Chance of Concep Tion following one act of Intercourse in this age the Pill is almost 100 per cent effective in preventing such pregnancies if used properly and has Many no contraceptive benefits which ultimately improve reproductive health and the risks of a nonsmoking teen Ager dying from taking the Oral contraceptive is approximately per women per the risk of dying from a pregnancy in this age group is per women per 12 times there is no question that some women have developed serious complications and have even died using Oral con however these women Are usually Over at High risk and Are a death of a nonsmoking teenager is almost unheard smoking increases the risks of Oral contraceptives perhaps the headline should read ads warned to advise teens of risks of sexual activity and pregnancy or even ads suggest cigarettes should be Given out by prescription Richard Boroditsky director family planning services Heath sciences Centre t traded away recently the Winnipeg film a cooperative of Independent met with 37 other Cana Dian film and video including distributors and exhibitors from every province in we hammered out a joint statement calling on prime min ister Brian Mulroney to clarify his position on a cultural exemption in the current bilateral Trade negotiations with the United Mulroney has responded with a deafening he will not Tell us what is going on in the Neotia he will not inform the House of commons or the Public what is on the what is up for instead of we get bom instead of we get we find a scrap of news a leaked congressional memo from the the government assures us that the information it contains is Munfor they dont replace it with anything we All know it Calls the Auto pact into in this Short memo tells us that despite government Canadian and records Are on the the two sides Are currently arguing Over whether or not these things Are to the they Are simply on a Par with Bubble gum and Barbie the Ameri cans want them on the this is not an obscure struggle Over the negotiators Are haggling Over whether or not canadians will be allowed to create and watch Ann of Green the decline of the american Empire or the if the Ameri can negotiators have their we will not see Gordon Pinsent on not read Margaret at Woods and not hear the Parachute club on the All of these embody our dreams and speak with they Are the soul of our All of in one Way or Are supported by subs tax or we Are being told we must throw them the television pro writers and musicians of Canada Are proud of this we Are proud of the work we we know we Are David to the american that in at being David is but Simon Reisman is trading away our slings and our smooth we dont want to be sheltered and coddled we want to have a fighting Why will Reisman not explain what is being negotiated Why will Mulroney not Tell us where he stands unless pub Lishing and sound recording Are exempted from the none of this will be the Canad an voice will our nations soul will have been traded Bruce Duggan filmmaker executive director Winnipeg film group rec Okay so the drug causes but do you feel it will Stop you smoking ;