Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 11, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free february the Behrendt Helpa Rool Amsterdam Netherlands a Little Lime swi Itea Little Amala Foda Little a ut06 Israel Heisinger a Jeusnik Zagreb Yugoslavia Kirschen the nation Tel Aviv Israel the russians Are leaving but the problem remains Excenator Irvine Barrow was accused of taking kickbacks for Liberal a shocking verdict senator acquitted of influence peddling charges Halifax the trial had an tired Quality to it an aging his reputation sullied by nine years of wrangling in facing a jury once charged with conspiracy to peddle few of the details evinced were some of the in had to be read into the record from old trial transcripts because wit Nesses had died or were too ill to yet the subject matter was the Crown alleged that former senator Irvine bar who will turn 76 on wednes had peddled government con tracts in return for contributions to the Liberal party Between 1970 and while Gerald Regan was of the two men originally accused with him in one had pleaded and the other had been so had for that he had appealed the first conviction All the Way to the supreme court of Canada on a technicality involving jury Selec he had been out of earshot at one Point in the process and won a new when the jury brought in its verdict last the result was a stunning Barrow was declared innocent of the and one of his two lawyers de the system contracts received during the 20day Nova Scot ians were Given an extended look once again at How Money greased political life throughout the for dec Ades before companies which wanted to do business with the government were forced to con tribute to the party in if they withheld contributions from the party Trust Busi Ness dried to a contractor who depended on government con tracts for half his there was no the sums we rent always mod an engineering firm agreed to my to the a rats in return for contracts on a super port in the Strait of the Money represented two per cent of the firms it was a Fiat a common practice was toll Douglas Mackay in Nova Scotia companies which wanted their products carried in Nova Scotia liquor commission stores paid a toll of 50 cents a executives from major manufacturers All told the same Story Money had to be paid to the liberals to get the products William vice presi Dent of Hudson Bay testified at one he tried withholding the 50cent toll to see what would sales nor was the practice confined to the liberals under Gerald a former Gilbey Canada executive told the court that his company had previously paid the progressive conservatives while they were in Power under Robert trial told How Money greased political life in Nova Scotia the charges against Barrow Only concerned events Between 1970 and but according to the was thereafter no longer a common the liberals were and with the change of came a new egalitarian Era when the toll gating stopped in we could contribute to both we Coli Lent afford because of the payments to the Donald Mcnaught chairman of Schenley first trial in his first Barrow was convicted jointly with Charles then vice president of National sea products the other James pleaded this Barrow faced the court the defence was Able to show although he was chair Man of the Liberal party finance committee at the and Al though Macfadden and Simpson were also on the committee and acted As Barrow did not know what was going in his lawyers could admit a conspire but leave him out of tit format Only one a testified to a straight tit format with Austin one of Barrows two was successful in casting doubt on the witness and he was Able to have More damaging parts of it ruled inadmissible As hear Cooper portrayed Barrow As an upstanding member of Nova Scotia society at age a retired a Long time member of the Liberal party to whom Many Literals turned for a consummate insider and honest men dont commit crimes of his Austin Ilu jurors in a final in deafen Fiig an honest a Man of former Premier Regan was among the witnesses who appeared in Barrows As were former ministers Garnet Brown and Ralph Barrow was Cooper but influence with the Ern ment is not a lot of decent people have influence with the payments to political parties Are not whether its paid on the basis of 50 cents per Case or Throe per cent of a the Victory in Nova Scotia courts of a Rich and powerful Man inevitably raises co harasts with the experience of less Well to do Donald for sex David Barrows other was sited by a Csc interviewer this week if Suie Public oui int be concerned about Ewe Law for the and one for the Bright replied say they have noticing id say the justic system in Nova Scotia is first ant French feeling spreads Victoria the Cabi never Loath to Rush in where Angels fear to is about to embark on one of the most sensitive debates of recent its going to consider whether it and whether it make English the official language of the the debate has been sparked by the furore that arose in certain quarters of after the supreme court of Canada ruling on que becs Bill 101 More import the response of the Quebec government to that Headquarters Victoria appears to have become the unofficial Headquarters of ant French a group calling itself the association for the preservation of English in Canada has become More organized in recent weeks and began circulating a petition asking for the provincial government to take the step of declaring a unilingual in less than a it acquired More than it held a rally on the lawns of the legislature with More than 100 people waving placards to protest the encroaching use of French in one of the main moving spirits behind the rally appeared to be Doug the Victoria based lawyer known across Canada for his defences of Ernest Zundel and Jim Keegstra on hat mongering he has also been the Leader of the Western Canada con a Small Rump party that at Barbara Mclintock in British Columbia one Point was promoting the Sepa ration of the four Western prov inces from the rest of the Christie didst speak at the rally and didst want any Public credit for but it was Clear to observers that he was very much the association didst get much attention at that a Cou ple of recent developments have raised the profile of the whole English French debate in the the first was the discovery that five of sue aldermen from the Victoria suburb of Esqui Mau were among the who had signed the English Only main Industry that was particularly surprising because the main Industry in the municipality is the Esquimalt naval base the second biggest naval base in the country and very much a bilingual Many of the sailors who come to Esqui Mau on rotation for periods of two to three years come from Quebec and Are bilingual or even unilingual Many of the restaurants and bars in Esqui Mau Cater mostly to base personnel and for Good eco nomic Welcome the que Beers along with their other Cus the next Day it was announced that would soon be prepared to give its citizens trials in the courts entirely in rather than just offering francophone an interpreter for their englishman Guage but at the same time the govern ment admitted that French cases formed far less than 10 per cent of All the trials in which interpreters Are far More common is the need for interpret ers for people who speak East Indian or the result was that the announcement brought a new blast of fury from citizens complaining about the waste of tax dollars take it to Cabinet now provincial Secretary Bill Reid has said hell take the name petition to Reid wont say whether he is personally in favor of a unilingual but he does think the idea is Worth looking attorney general Bud generally seen As one of the Coo lest Heads in int so be thinks the terms of Union under which joined confederation Are Quito Good but a lot of British columbian Are remembering that a decade ago Premier Bill Vander then a Cabinet was complaining and about the irritation Factor caused by French on cornflakes and musing that it make much difference to him if Quebec did separate from the rest of the Vander Zalm is due Back from a european business trip this it should make for an interesting Cabinet liberals Lack direction Toronto Ontario liberals must be in pretty bad shape when those who live off them feel compelled to say a consulting company set up by former Liberal which makes a living advising How to Deal with has said in a letter to clients that ministers and aides Are telling it privately the Peterson government has no direction or the insiders complain also the government has no forum or mechanism for setting reacts to rather than Heads off concentrates too much Power in the premiers office and leaves too much to this is largely what some not so Friendly to the Liberal government have been telling it for some the Liberal government came in with such High Hopes in after 42 years of and even shone brightly for a How has it fallen from Grace so quickly the Liberal government never really had its own Clear it was Given one by the Accord under which the new democratic party Eric Dowd in Ontario installed and maintained it in of fice on condition it implement More than a score of the liberals never needed a policy setting mechanism once the Accord was they attained a Giddy popularity too partly through the poli but the Novelty of change itself also was attractive and Petersons contemporary confident style and comforting Way with words received a bit More applause than they biggest majority the liberals Felt the Public loved them and an election in 1987 in which they won the biggest majority Ever confirmed the liberals thought they could do no they believed they could sit Back and not worry much about new they appeared to think anything they proposed would be embraced without question giving i parities the option to have sunday for although a majority of the Public clearly is against Peterson Felt he could take on anyone anytime and has embroiled himself in unnecessary or needlessly prolonged a prime example was his Battle against the Federal free Trade agreement which dragged on for three yearn and dissipated his energies when he should have been handling problems closer to Petersons office has made Deci Sions which suffered from Lack of wider consultation and deflated and disheartened his Cabinet and the prime example being on sunday Peterson also has been too free with such As saying he had a plan to bring Down Auto insurance costs when the Best he com i have hoped for was to slow Down Peterson has not shown a lot of concern about such mistakes in the maybe he will now his that old friends have warned the Winnipeg free press and Little merchant carriers strive excellent service your collection card shows you How to reach your Carrier lib feb 11 28 Mah n aft Winnipeg free press daily Hyk i Ucli i i May 20 oct Call your Carrier of your newspaper is not delivered when you cent Kwh your gel it circulation Ofhie hours sunday to monday to Foay 19 saturday to ;