Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 25, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press february 1989 pages 1926 Turner not part fixture by Joan Cohen Ottawa editor l Ottawa wait three or four said a senior if John Turner is going to choose to face a review of his leadership at the october party convention he has to Start mobilizing his forces this Effort would Start with aide Peter con and move outward from chairmen would quietly be set up in each of the word would go out to each of the that kind of thing gets if theres dead silence three weeks from i think you can assume Hes no one is pressing Turner to liberals Many calculate he will announce his plans this sum possibly by june and there Are rational arguments for but even these Are deeply concerned about the Brand of Leader ship he is rigid and still holding to yester Days codes with yesterdays fresh approach so Long As he is the liberals in despite their greater numbers and new stand Little Chance of showing any or Cap Turing the Public the caucus is racked with Dis the election has not changed a anyone watch ing the party unhappy performance in Newfoundland this where maps openly called Turners stand on Meech Lake and free Trade into where the Leader had to fall Back on jokes about knife wounds and errant will know John Turner has to there is a future waiting for the Liberal and Turners not part of senior liberals not in the Cau Cus acknowledge that Well Over half the caucus now opposes John Turners stand on the Meech Lake the debate on the Issue in Johns was probably free but you can have All the debate in the world in the National Liberal one such Liberal said this but the reality is you dont change divisive document Turner would shrug off arguments that the party press for Meech he would have this lib eral that a there is no mechanism for reopening the debate in Meech Lake in the Federal weve already had analysis the if Meech Lake is going to fall or be it can Only be done by new Brunswick or Mani Toba and b my advice to the National caucus is that it would be Foolhardy if the National Liberal party is seen to be the author of the demise of Meech but that reasoning from the Leader does not soothe liberals who see Meech Lake As a destruct divisive and want the party to stand firm against its Way of re jigging former my Don Johnston has travelled the country warning against what he Calls this two nation vision of dead end As canadians began to see this nothing is being thought through leadership can Paul Martin has publicly urged that Meech Lake be and called the party continuing Antior Estrade stance a dead another senior Lloyd has publicly and More gently distanced himself somewhat from the offi Cial one thing that bothers party members is that the in is Over the conservative Agenda not Over a lib eral Agenda and Liberal Don who split with Turner Early Over Meech Lake and eventually left the Liberal is one senior Liberal who will openly ask Why nothing has i t is not very healthy to the party has gone through an election and was rejected by the Canadian it seems to me its time to sit Back and of where did we go wrong All agree this kind of debate will not come while John Turner is and most agree that the party should be ready to in a the leadership race has quietly in some maps have begun to line up behind the current Jean Chretien and Paul including Sheila Copps and Brian Tobin Are assumed to be waiting in the All the Are being careful not to upstage the or appear to pose a Chal Lenge to Martin himself has probably Learned a lesson now about appearing too when and if Turner gives the and they do the debate can Frost warm on people Reserve struggle with aftermath of sex assaults by Heidi Graham As she walked along the Frozen streets of the Small Northern Reserve that had become her Amy must have heard the sound of the snowmobiles trailing a Friend was with but she knew that was no friends haunt been Able to Stop earlier attacks on the 15yearold girl in one had encouraged the the five Young teenagers following on snowmobiles and wearing ski called themselves the Young warriors after a favorite the about gang wars in new they had decided they were going to rape the painfully shy they knew a group of slightly older teenagers and Young men had done it several times before usually passing her along until they each had their turn with summer of 1986 Amy not her real name had been on the Lac Brochet Indian Reserve for Only a few months when the attacks began in the late summer of she haunt wanted to come to the Small accessible Only by the Reserve has a severe housing shortage Many Homes Are on room shacks with boarded windows and High dropout and unemployment the girl had wanted to stay with her White Foster parents of 14 years in their Middle class Alberta she missed her friends and Foster but the Wasis Agency of Northern Manitoba had forced her to return to the Home of her natural parents on the the native child welfare Agency was determined to right a decade old wrong when the girl was taken from the North lands band for medical reasons and never but when Amy was brought no one helped her to adjust to her new life or to learn Chippe Wayan the Only language of her parents and Many others in the never learning How to fit in with the other youths or speak their she became a target for but she also was easy prey because neither the local Wasis worker nor band constables seemed interested in her pleas for the 15yearold complain to her parents because they didst speak her natural who did speak had helped her attackers during one luring her to six men three adults and three teenagers would be charged and convicted in the the last trial ended earlier this but by the time the men were Amy had endured at least 17 separate sexual contracted two venereal diseases and been hospitalized for several months with severe depression and number of attacks o sources close to the tragic Case say the number of attacks was higher by the time Amy was interviewed by she could no longer remember the names of All her assailants or even the details of the Amy want Well enough to be interviewed by police until six months after she was finally removed from the a source close to the investigation said officers knew the names of most of amys attackers by that but needed her identification to charge in the Young warriors the girl yelled and threatened to report the youths As they dragged her into some they left without raping her and were not charged because Amy didst mention the incident to she refer to it in a letter to her Foster and also there is boys called Young six boys and they gang bang All the they see me at investigation demanded As a result of that letter and several phone Calls from her Foster parents demanded Wasis investigate what was happening on the Reserve of about 400 430 Kilometres Northwest of their demand was apparently amys plight went unnoticed for several More months until a nurse discovered she had venereal disease and asked How she got bits of amys Story came tumbling out enough for the nurse to Send her to a Lynn Lake Hospital and have the ramp the courts Are now trying to determine through two civil suits whether anyone is liable for what happened to now reunited with her Foster and the Reserve is still trying to come to terms with the reputation it has gained As a result of the trials and chief Jerome Dene Cheshe says its unfair for his entire Community to be tarnished by the acts of a the Impact they Media stories it sounded like we were All being like the whole Community was he said were bitter about see boredom Page 23 Frost top notch by John Douglas Winnipeg free press Richard Frost acts like someone who has just been handed the Crown newly appointed As Winnipeg chief the 41year old Frost hardly can contain his excitement when he talks about his move from sout Central Ontario to the the people of Manitoba might not know it but Winnipeg is one of the Crown jewels of municipal government in he said from his i feel i am moving from the Best posting in Ontario to the Best in the the Bright and innovative City official is regarded As somewhat of a Whiz kid among municipal politicians in Southern he has been touted As a great communicator who has managed the Peel regional government through 10 years of massive expansion and intercity fights with out a there int enough you can say about Mississauga mayor Hazel Mccallion he has operated a first rate office that serves not Only the politicians Well but More importantly serves the Public Success with people the father of Frost Hopes to Start in Winnipeg on april he will be paid annually More than he did with the regional government that represented he credits his Success to dealing with if youre going to run into any challenges or difficulties in this Job its not because of the its because of the he you have to work with not fight people also Are at the Root of his enthusiasm for municipal govern local government affects everything that we do in our he you have a feeling that you can really affect things in your own have an effect on Peoples Quality of it was frosts reputation and management style that won him the Winnipeg it will be up to him to polish Winnipeg Diamondis through image into a sparkling City officials it was his communication skills and management style that we be Lieve will be very Good for the Deputy mayor Eric Stefan son he believes in a management style of the 80s a very open it will be up to him to manage the changes in the City Over the next few frosts greatest Challenge in that time be to keep Winni Eggers smiling while municipal belts Are tightened and services although some councillors have called for the City to fight tax in creases by contracting out More City services and privatizing cer Tain Stefanson said the new chief commissioners first priority will be to improve what he called sagging moral among City its not that the past commissioner did not do a Good he but Many believe that it is time for a new better communication and More interact i think that will be healthy for the but Stefanson said tackling the morale problem will be complicated with councils new priority to balance the level of services with he said Frost and a group of councillors will tackle the problem through a new economic develop ment Stefanson said this group will develop a strategy to prepare the City for the next Cen despite the challenges see changes Page 26 ;