Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 30, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free october 1987 Winnipeg ree 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 Wood publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller a member of the Manitoba press Council i editorials challenging Filmon Gary Filmon looked behind him and did not like what he instead of marching proudly to Victory behind their members of his conservative Cau Cus were huddling and whispering in conspiratorial some of his Loyal followers were even reaching for their Hilmons experience is not unique among leaders of Canadian political in the conservative Sidney Spivak in Manitoba and Joe Clark in Ottawa went through the ordeal and shortly afterwards found them selves in the Liberal John Turner went through it twice and each in new Richard Hatfield went through it and survived to Lead his party to Hilmons Fate is not yet his demotion of Donald Orchard from his Post As Deputy Leader of the opposition is a shot across the bows of his it Means that the internal until now generally under is now out in the there is no doubt that perhaps a of the members of his caucus would like a new it is equally evident that no one in the caucus at the moment would do a better the great Challenge facing the Manitoba progressive conservative party is to turn itself into a plausible alternative to the present new democratic party gov that Means it must be More than the voice of regional More than the voice of the ideological right and More than a collection of efficient prosecutors exposing corruption and mismanagement in if it presumes to offer itself As an alternative govern ment of the conservative party must Demon Strate that it can offer progressive and effective government during what promises to be a period of economic it must demonstrate a commitment to fiscal it must demonstrate a dedication to the Broad interests of not just to a those of a single group or it must demonstrate its ability to attract new Foster economic growth and develop the economic potential of the recent models of the in office under Sterling Lyon and in opposition under have failed to prove themselves equal to this Filmon has not much time left to demonstrate that he is capable of working with his caucus and the grass roots in developing a broadly based for the the members of his caucus should put aside their personal ambitions and rally behind Over the next few he shows that he is not up to the then the party will have to Start thinking seriously about a new before they even think of dumping Manitoba tories should make sure they have someone better to take his casting an Eye Over his rivals in the tory caucus makes it Clear whatever his Gary Filmon at the moment is the Best Leader Treyve trouble for Rainbow stage Rainbow stage is a precious part of the Winnipeg the institution has entered a difficult period with the disclosure that its dominant Jack abused his authority Over the those who will next be responsible for keeping Rainbow stage going will need plenty of support Over the next couple of years financial and technical sup port and they should receive mayor Nome and culture minister Judy was lycia leis want inquiries into the administration of Rainbow stage and the granting bodies that supported and these May in time become a formal Public inquiry into arts finance in Manitoba should Howe be held just the first Point that must be settled is whether Laws have been the usual procedure of police investigation should be followed to establish whether there Are grounds for a criminal that procedure May Supply the answers to All the important if it does a More general sort of inquiry will be to keep the show on the the organization should be put under Public the existing Board was not Able to keep proper control of the after they knew the facts they sat on them for a month rather than levelling with the Community to which they owed a full and immediate since the organization was in practice run by one Man who is no longer it probably does not include people who know How to mount a season of the first Job for the minister of concurrent with the criminal is to round up a Board and a general manager who will be Able to present next seasons shows and prepare the following no general conclusions can yet be drawn from the Rainbow stage Case about the merits subsidizing theatre and other artistic arts groups Are prone to misappropriation of but then so Are Banks and so Are government there is certainly no occasion to erect a fresh set of bureaucratic barriers making it tougher for arts groups to get the Public funds they count the proper procedures of financial reporting and auditing seem to have been followed by Rainbow but they did not keep the Money where it belonged the Public assumes that the boards of directors and the auditors will spot attempts to misappropriate funds in an organization like Rainbow stage or the Ballet or the symphony but cannot always be counted the corporate donors who provide generous support to the High Cost arts groups have both the interest and the administrative knowhow to encourage careful management of the the major corporate sponsors should be invited to watch the Rainbow stage reconstruction and comment on the Way it is being All is not lost at customs the Union of Federal government customs officers is worried about free Trade with the United if people can bring things into Canada what will All those Blu uniformed people do at the Border Points and the Airport customs Halls if the tariffs Are the Borders Are going and so Are jobs for our Union president Mansel legacy told a group of 100 of duty customs officers at a protest demonstration in Ottawa last he estimated at the number of customs officers and other employees whose jobs were in legacy underestimates the ingenuity of civil disappearance of the need for a government department rarely reduces the size of the the Indian affairs department continues to grow from year to year though its work is supposedly being turned Over to band councils and tribal removal by finance minister Michael Wilson of the capital gains tax and the Petroleum and Gas Revenue far from simplifying tax has spawned much longer and More Complex forms on which the taxpayers must prove that they do not have to pay the repealed taxes whole new sections of the finance and Revenue departments to design the forms and supervise the forty years after the end of the second world it is More and More difficult to find veterans requiring the services of the veterans affairs department so diff that the department has to expand its establishment and set up new sections to get out there and find veterans who have escaped their after the last known Veteran the department will have to redouble its efforts and its legacy clearly does not think this will happen in the Case of customs and he May be no one should be to learn that a new Tariff repeal division has been established within the new procedure manuals will have to be written programs new forms will have to be designed on which returning travellers will have to prove to the government that the goods they Are bringing in come within the terms of the free Trade the completed forms will have to be scrutinized and a whole new department of government with at least employees May even have to be not to Public funds belong to no one by Wilson special to the free press Ottawa difficulty in maintaining reasonable control of the Way governments spend the Money they administer is rooted in the fact that the Public funds belong to every taxpayer in the land and hence to no Noone really feels that any of it is his to politicians and officials it is found Money without the problems that follow fill the reports of auditors general year after this years volume is thicker than Ever but the present Kenneth believes there is some improvement in handling a huge flow of his pages Are with Story after Story of income and thoroughly unscrupulous conduct at very High More lavish the problems stemming from the fact that no one has a proprietary interest in the Public funds is com pounded by the fact As govern ment has grown it has grown Sloppie and More giving with both hands As an official task Force described it two years the sense that this Money has no owners has been deliberately cultivated by in the Case of Canada primarily the Liberal ones of the past rather than the incumbent conservative the Payas Youvarn method of in come tax collection was introduced during the second world when rapidly rising income taxes were biting deeply into limited incomes to meet the costs of the politicians realized that the hard times of the 1930s had left few people with enough experience of financial management to be Able to meet heavy annual tax the British govern quickly followed by devised the system of regular deductions at source with the taxpayer receiving Only what taxes left people then regarded take Home pay As the Only part of their nominal income that was really their since they never saw the rest of at governments Felt taxpayers should be kept aware that their wages were paying for the Only about 85 per cent of tax was deduct leaving an annual Bill to be paid each deductions during the High spending Era from the 1960s Revenue ministers were seduced by the politically expedient Chance to keep tax payers from developing any sense of ownership towards the Money the government was taking from their pay packets or salary cheques that reduced complaints about politicians lavish deductions were gradually to take the whole tax at then to leaving the taxpayer entitled to an annual refund for which he feel grateful to the of it was his Money All along in addition to the political to the government had free use of As much As billion to which it had no politicians got what they All sense of ownership towards tax Money was eroded for the Large majority of the population who get their incomes in regular payments from self employed people pay their taxes in quarterly instalments and get regular jolts reminding them who owns the Public they Are a Nasty Story this is a Nasty Story because of the political deceit which is Central to is not its worst As the greater problems Are to be found Between the pages of the Audi Tor generals annual con for the grave erosion of ethical sense involved when the finance department and the Canada Deposit insurance Cooper ate to help a very Rich Bank avoid paying appropriately heavy taxes on a massive handout from the Federal the beneficiary was the Hong Kong which took Over the Bank of British helped along by a gift of million which normally would be its owner is an enormously wealthy Hong Kong the details of the scheme disclosed by the auditor Gen eral seem to put it in the category of tax rather than much of finance minister Michael Wilsons last was aimed at crippling tax avoidance his Junior Tom defends the Steps taken to try to keep the govern ment from collecting its share from the Hong Kong Revenue can Ada had not made a final ruling when Dye wrote his the report is a thick Docu the stories it contains con stantly raise doubt about the integrity of the government part of the erosion of ethical sense is a function of part of it was deliberately cultivated by Politi moral problems there Are moral problems sur rounding the aids but they have nothing to do with the gender or Quantity of anyone sexual part they Are problems such As the use of the aids virus to justify prejudice and hatred against a i or the inhumane classification of people with a medical Condi Tion into those who Are innocent victims of the condition and those who Are and the prejudice against these so called guilty per sons with there Are problems of deciding if it is too expensive to treat those who Are infected and of selfishly uninformed people refusing to take a negligible risk to care for those who Are sick and in aids victim protests these moral problems will be addressed Only by the governments continued funding of deserving projects of groups working to end the immoral discrimination and prejudice against lesbians and Gay they will be solved when we conceive of the morality of a sexual act As having to do with the respect which the participants have for one another and express by practising safer they will be addressed when we address the moral Issue of the allocation of resources to health they Are being addressed when health care workers and rela Tives and friends of persons with aids make the Choice to give the help that is requested of them and to refuse to hide immorally behind the self imposed veil of ignorance that is the lie that no one really knows How transmissible aids Lynette Reid Winnipeg costly Survey As reported in the news item lob Ster taste probed free octo ber 21 the government is funding a study to find out Why lobster tastes so half the people in Canada could care less Why lobster tastes mainly because they have never been Able to afford to taste the taxpayers would rather see their tax dollars spent on something More constructive than a lobster our country is running a the politicians Tell us to tighten our but it seems to me that a few Are about to expand after All this research they Proba Bly will come to the conclusion that it is the clarified butter that makes lobster taste As Good As it we will have to have a study As to Why butter tastes so Jim Demontigny letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to challenges in response to your letters under the heading helping the Handi capped free october i am in full support of parents who say that Day programs Are not set up to meet the needs of the individuals who have to attend i am a Strong believer in integration for those individuals who will Benefit from the Howe not All individuals who Are la belled mentally handicapped fit into the same to meet the needs of these individuals who do not fit into a the government must have alternate Day god bless those who Are Able to work but what happens to those who cannot Cope with the pro Grams that Are offered they slide Between the cracks and stay How can we let this injustice go on How can we Force our people into these programs when they just do not fit one of the biggest problems when staff Are being hired to work in these programs is that they Are usually inexperienced people trying to Cope themselves who do not understand the challenges they will be faced it is our participants in these programs who really lose we need to have qualified staff running these educated people who Are trained to work with the mentally As it most workers Are hired on govern ment Grants and Job creation pro we must help parents of the Handi capped who Are living at Home then go for the Welcome Home pro we have to remember that these parents have had to Bear the responsibility alone for Many their Job does not end after eight hours a Day or 40 hours a those who work with the Handi capped May know some of the Chal but working with and living with Are two entirely different i Hope that enough parents get As mad As hell and Start to fight for what they need for their children and for what they have a right too Many times parents do not know what they Are entitled to nor the services that Are available because no one has told Edith Marshall developmental service worker Winnipeg a failure John barkers article concerning recycling free october 20 quotes Morrison of Manitoba soft drink recycling As de posit systems do not encourage peo ple to apparently Morrison went on to say that programs such As a sirs teach people to voluntarily i doubted the accuracy of barkers quotations until i heard Morrison make the same com ments on Csc radio two Days the Deposit system for Beer bottles produces an annual return rate of More than 95 per a sirs teaching process produces a return rate of 30 per a teaching process that produces a 70 per cent failure rate is obviously a failure Hugh Arklie the dark Side against a backdrop of Glamor and glitter the fur Industry has pro claimed october As fur an exhilarating Celebration of wealth and unlike the fur we believe there Are two sides to every Story and that the Best consumer is an informed that is Why our organization has launched an inter National Campaign of consumer and Public awareness to show people the Darker Side of the fur last year in Canada More than million animals were clubbed and electrocuted in the name of this is not a pretty Canada lacks any Federal endangered species legislation or formal mechanism to protect endangered it is left in the hands of government agencies with the result that at least two the Lynx and Are being threatened by the fur wearing fur is a moral we should encourage legitimate Public debate and give a fair hearing to All of those who wish to express a viewpoint on this controversial Michael Osullivan Field representative world society for the Protection of animals Toronto beloved tories in his column free octo ber 23 Fred Cleverley gives two reasons Why tories Are trailing in the May i suggest another big reason conservative views Are rejected the Content of Cleverley Arti love those tories Hilliard Smith Cost shifted in Manitoba there is a formulary of generic drugs and on it Are about 50 Competition among makers of these drugs appears to keep their Price lower than other what about the thousand other drugs that Are used drug compan ies have to return something to their otherwise they would get no funds to carry on the research for new so they have to raise the Price of no formulary drugs much higher seeing they cannot raise the Price of formulary Why Doest the government put All drugs on the formulary it is most of the the Market for these drugs is so Small that Only one company makes we have Smith taking a formulary drug at a lower Price and Jones taking a no formulary drug at a higher we have not saved any Money on the total drug we have just shifted the extra Cost from Smith to Dennis Mcmahon Winnipeg the fact that youre no longer quacking is a definite ;