Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 1, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 free november 1 1987 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality civil flights published seven Days a week at 300 Carlton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 94393 1 Winnipeg free Oil Winnipeg Tribune 1890 Arthur Wood publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Mupray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller a member of the Manitoba press Council Peterson stays Home unlike Premier Robert Bourassa of who is prepared to Campaign across the country in support of free Trade with the United Ontario Premier David Peterson says he will not venture outside of is province to fight against the reasons for Petersons reticence Are if the people outside of Ontario understand Why he is against the they will understand Why they should be for within the the reasons for the Peterson governments opposition Are clearly stated Energy and the Auto Ontario wants to Combine the benefits of free Trade for its Auto Industry with the comforts of protectionism and it wants the continued right to get bargain basement Energy from those Canadian prov which produce there is nothing new in this throughout much of Canadian a certain part of the Ontario establishment has Clung to the notion that their pro Vince should be preserved forever As the heartland of Canadian Industry and that the rest of the country should be the perpetual hinterland supplier of cheap natural resources and the purchaser of expensive manufactured it is a shortsighted policy today because much of Ontario Industry is willing and Able to face the risks an opportunities of foreign it a deeply ingrained Ontario View of and i for the Canadian Economy ought to Western canadians in search of a doomsday scenario need not focus on the Prospect under the free Trade customers might have the right to pay fair Market prices for a share of the Energy they what ought to concern them is the Prospect of Ontario using its unrivalled clout in the Federal government to deprive Energy producing provinces of their Best markets and Force them to sell cheaply to tiie persuasive thing about that scenario is that it has already Manitoba should not feel exempt from that threat simply because the province produces Little exports of hydroelectric which Are becoming increasingly important to this could be every bit As much at risk As those of petrol Euni and natural it is not hard to imagine a future Federal govern ment adopting a new National Energy program which would Force Manitoba to sell cheap Hydro Power to if the present government of Manitoba has trouble understanding that the present government of Ontario has none at the rhetoric of their opposition to free Trade May rest heavily on the usual nationalist the Peterson governments real is thai a free Trade agreement would weaken their ability to rip off their Canadian Volcker gets it right Paul the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board put his Finger on the source of the current crisis of financial Confidence when he told a Montreal audience that reducing the Federal deficit is the key to avoiding further damage to the the Reagan administration says that it spent one trillion dollars in fiscal which ended september its revenues fell Short by is called a Success by president Ronald Reagan because it is less than the billion deficit of fiscal to most people outside these Fig irresponsible government by the Reagan administration and by the reagans spendthrift scarcely restrained by a compliant have tied a debt Millstone around the necks of americans yet it took two centuries for previous governments to create a National debt of one trillion it has taken Reagan and Congress just under seven years to multiply that by More than this tidal wave of debt was not needed to stimulate a lagging but has been growing in step with an economic Means that the debt represents sheer self indulgence by unrestrained by his equally guilty congressional Rea Gan was determined to overspend on pet mainly the Congress was too frightened of his political popularity to say Paul Volcker was right when he told his Montreal audience that a Market plunge was to be expected because too Many stocks had artificially inflated More important than the spectacular swings from Day to he pointed was the underlying signal from the markets that it is time to curb the spending and Trade deficits that threaten the Basic strength the Dollar and the since that Dollar and that Economy Are benchmarks for the currencies and economies of Canada and Many other As Well As for the world trading it is in everyone interest for them to be sound and those most guilty of allowing Confidence in the Economy to the Reagan administration and congressional now Are meeting in an eleventh hour attempt to negotiate a package of spending cuts and Revenue raising that they believe would restore conf so the Pace of discussions Lias been too the billion reduction target is too in order to convince the Consumers and their foreign trading partners that they Are serious about deficit they will have to act be bold and make it Clear that their goal is not a cosmetic Quick fix but a turn away from the ruinous path of uncontrolled the pleasures of depression Fiji turns to the soviets cold shouldered by shortsighted Commonwealth Lead ers at their Vancouver the new military regime in Fiji has come to the foreseeable conclusion that it should turn to the soviet Union and the Peoples Republic of China for recognition and Sitiveni Zabukas foreign Felipe also favors reducing Fiji commercial dependence on new zealand and both of which have been hostile to the he suggests that South Korea and Taiwan would make More reliable this is partly a Case of making a virtue of necessity since Trade unions in Australia and new zealand already have imposed economic sanctions by Banning any sea borne Trade with important As Australia and new zealand Are in the South their disapproval and Boycott action will not be enough to Force the new Republic to its the regime is astute enough to play the diplomatic game in such a Way As not to alienate the United which does not belong to the common assurances Are being offered that Security inter ests in the South Pacific will not be harmed by the political change in this is a key Point for the which has watched with concern the surge of fishing agreements Between the soviets and Small Island republics in the South it also puts Fiji in a better Light with the Pentagon than new whose military relations with the United states Are in the deep freeze Over the Issue of new info Sal to allow port visits by warships carrying Fiji is under military Rule today bed use or a perception by Many of its original melanesia polynesian inhabitants that they were about to become politically subservient to the More numerous East Indian descen1 wants of indentured labourers brought into Fiji in the 19th Century by the British to work Rabuka was dissatisfied with Compromise arrange ments that were being worked out by the former he has promised a institution that will ensure political control by melanesia Polyne despite their minority population this clash Between democratic and an indigenous populations fear of permanent second class status requires creative solutions that the multiracial Commonwealth is Well placed to Commonwealth leaders would serve the interests of both of Fiji population groups and make their institutions seem More relevant if they were to invite the new Republic Back into membership for a Frank discussion about How Best to find a democratic solution to political All colors i would he to respond to the two letters under the heading living in the real world free october 10 by Henry i feel sorry for people like Kruger and the judge he mentions in his if we look at we see no where has the creator made things grow Only in one the Trees come in different so do the Flowers and grasses of the the rocks that make up our Hills and mountains and the soil All come in Many varied shades and so do peo As Thomas Canada did not Start out As a White coun Many of us spend a lot of time in the Sun or under a sunlamps to give our skin the Golden color our natives and Many of our immigrants Are born if our immigrant ancestors had varied shades not been so racist and selfish there would have been a much earlier influx of people of other Kruger wants to know if the White race does not have the right to keep a country for i do not believe that any race or religious group has the right to keep a country for that is called apartheid if we can think at we can see what a terrible Tiger the South african government is Only if we learn to live the different races and religions becoming can we Hope to live in peace in this As for the population of Canada being Large enough by that is what my parents were told when they came to this country in the the people were afraid of increased unemployment when some immigrants entered just before the big Canada has had Many Good years since if the population tripled in the near we would probably All Enns Winnipeg condescending i am appalled at the logic Dis played by Scott in the letter Volunteer work free octo Ber the condescending Over tones imply that women Are still second class citizens who must de fend their existence in the working what amazes me is that those who keep working even when they do not need the Money describes the typical politician or business of which the majority Are not perhaps Scott should also include men when he or she advises individuals to give up their jobs and Check into Volun Teer Drewniak writer panned from time to readers of the free press Are treated m the oped perforations of Lionel it seems Orlikov it 3thing of an expert in matters he is regularly invited to his Opin ions and does so at somewhere beyond his introductory i lose the Gist of what he is talking resolved to read his teachers Are too isolated free october 26 from beginning to to my i read the whole trying though it every one is entitled to express his or her however however poorly one would that an educational theorist and i presume that is what Orlikov is would be Able to express himself better than i think the Ardick had something to do with teacher 1 am not one of s or one of the ones he starts off is some people Are by nature suited to the once provided with initial rarely grow in teaching Eye trueness Over a 30year career is spite of most current attempts at it that Orlikov will be making Tho Point that we should not spend my Siors of dollars on teacher a Trien it is quite obvious Thuy cannot change Peoples that is nothing like the argument that Orlikov the rvs off lie idea of i services and upon a ram by Christopher Dafoe special to the free press will the Stock Market crash of october 1987 be followed by a major depression of the sort that made life interesting for millions after the great crash of 1929 will Many of us be lining up at soup kitchens a year from now will your Bank manager be Selling pencils in the Street will dad be heading for the West coast on top of a Box car will the Farmers of Western Canada hitch horses to their bricks not in the cards it All sounds like but Many of the so called experts Are already busily assuring us that a depression of 1930s proportions is simply not in the it could never happen they our economists Are too our government employs too Many highly paid civil everybody knows what to do about interest rates and the Money people would not stand for after it would probably spoil the win Ter olympics and make the Meech Lake Accord look the big crash of october we Are was a kind of Blip or a Mere the computers will sort it the Market will recover and High life will go on As if nothing had this is bad news to Many of us who were rather looking Forward to a people like to make out that depressions Are All hard they Lack any redeeming Fea life without Money becomes so a they would be particularly hard on yup the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to bling Harangue about teachers what they Are and what they Are he has something telling to say about he ignores variations in Effort and Talent among what one is to make of this is beyond Why does the free press continue to give Orlikov the perfectly decent space opposite the editorial Page it is certain there Are others who could More capably argue and criticize the shortcomings of our educational Jim Mosher Winnipeg brotherhood All veterans who were honorable discharged from the military should be allowed on Parade and to place a Wreath at the Cenotaph on november to exclude the Viet Nam Era one would also have to exclude the hundreds of canadians for one reason or served in the american military during the second and korean i do not think the right or wrong of the fight is the rather the question Are these men genuine veterans of military service if they belong to the unique brother Hood of Universal soldiers and there fore have a right and responsibility to Honor and remember those who have gone before and sacrificed i ask my fellow veterans to come on Parade in proper dress military uniform or civilian clothes and Wear Only those decorations they have truly Jim Brennan former 2nd infantry division 8th army Korea Winnipeg who have never known any thing but Good old Volvo and fresh As a matter of a depression can be As Many of us who were on hand for the last one can As a matter of i did not arrive on the scene until the great depression was about half but i saw enough of it and its aftermath to know that it was not All bread lines and cabbage Young marrieds who Are in a state of Blind terror Over the possibility of having to get rid of the Var or cancel that trip to Maui will be relieved to hear that a fairly Chic lifestyle can be maintained during a depression by those who put their minds to not All dirty it is not True that everybody was Down and out during the so called dirty the books and films about the period May Tell a different but it remains a fact that All sorts of men got through the decade without Ever seeing the top or the inside of a Box entire families went right through the hard times without Ever dining on potato peelings and turnip top Many cars continued to operate without the assistance of a horse and thou Sands of families failed to set out on a trek to the coast with All their belongings piled onto a tin Lizzie that broke Down somewhere in the mid dle of the Deariest part of i am not saying that people who failed to participate fully in the More colourful activities of the 1930s were far from it but somebody had to stay at Home and keep the Home fires burning and there was Only so much room on top of a Box there Are people around today who Havu been dining out for years on tales of How Tough things were during the any old timer attempting to Shock the Young with stories of How he survived for two years of a kind of soup made of dandelion leaves will be outdone by another old timer with an even worse Story to we was so poor during the depression that we All had to Chew the same piece of so poor we was so poor during the depression that my brother and i Hod to Wear the same pair of dads pantu to go to he used one 1 used the there of another Side to the depression this is where the Good news comes even with reduced even if your stocks and shares Are not producing As they used it is possible to live graciously during a Sweet Are the uses of adversity during a prices invariably dip during the last depression it was possible to get beef tenderloin for less than 50 cents a a bottle of wine and a Baguette were yours for less than a it Cost nothing to stand around the piano singing buddy can you ref i dime Prosperity took All Vuk away from another depression could be a stroll Down memory Lane for a Happy introduction to the pleasures of Siiple life to let the Market unconscionable sexist comments now that the War crimes Bill c71 is canadians May be treated to a most unusual witnesses in their seventies and eight ies May be called to testify against defendants of similar age concern ing events that happened nearly a Hal Century anyone familiar with the Case of the polish Frank knows How unreliable eyewitness testimony can at his trial in Chicago a decade 12 holocaust survivors accused him of being the notorious beast of a Gestapo officer who terrorized the polish City during the nazi Walus was stripped of his american citizenship and ordered deported he was shunned and pilloried by the thereupon his lawyer went to Ger where he obtained both documentary evidence and eyewitness testimony that corroborated his clients Walus been too the wrong race and much too Short to be eligible for Gestapo he had spent the War years in not where the crimes allegedly of despite the testimony of the 12 the Case against him was dropped for Lack of experts in War crimes trials said the Case underscored the importance of documentary much of this is Only available in Kab anyone familiar with the Kobs disinformation apparatus knows How adept they can be in the Art of it is unconscionable that this manufactured evidence should be used to indict Canadian Bill c71 gave birth to a bad Law one making canadians vulnerable to a miscarriage of Slepokura i read Morley walkers profile of Sam Kalz in the article chutzpah free press october 24 and have once again been angered by his sexist comments about women several months in a feature Story the Blue bomber cheer Walker repeatedly referred to the women on the squad As a few weeks in a profile of Maureen he expressed his View that some people might wonder How a woman who was attractive could also be politic ally in listing the signs of Sam katzes he writes he owns a Tuxedo lives with a gorgeous drives a Chrysler Limo i would Point out to Walker that adult females Are referred to As women that there is no direct link bet top appearance and Intelli gence Ami that women Are not a sessions to be counted As Suais Anita Tiessen Winnipeg the Good old cows when it was letters in bottles pm i ;