Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 6, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free March report predicts intense pressure for immigration Ottawa up Canada must accept More immigrants or risk having its door battered Down by desperate people fleeing third world a report prepare Fror the immigration department population pressure on Canada from Les developed countries in the next Century is Likely to be says Morton a sociology professor at Mcgill University in Canadas comparatively empty political freedoms and High Standard of living will be Ever More attractive to Large numbers of new pension policy attacked Edmonton up the pro Vinces conservative government was told yesterday it will pay a political Price if it continues to pocket Federal pension benefits intended for disabled we Are being treated unfairly and its got to Roberta Devaul told a Public meeting held by disabilities a provincial advocacy Devaul urged about 100 members of the lobby group to write to Federal health minister Perrin Beatty to ask for Protection from this greedy she told reporters later she is tired of being stepped on by a govern ment that forces the disabled to live in perpetual disabled albertan such As Devaul qualify for a month in benefits under a provincial program called assured income for the severely additional Money but if a Federal disability pension increases a recipients combined Federal and provincial benefits to More than a the additional Money is subtracted from payments made under the pro said she May take the Alberta social services department to court to get Back the a month in Canadian pension plan disability benefits the province has docked since she said the Case would be argued under the Quality of life provisions in the charter of rights and Devaul suffers from Dia a heart condition and respiratory she said she is willing to meet any disabled group in the province be fore the March 20 provincial elec Tion to explain the provinces policy of withholding Federal pension Bene Alberta social services minister Connie Osterman was invited to yesterdays Devaul but did not overwhelmingly from the Les developed and they will make every Effort to get if immigration policy remains restrictive and Canada will have to increase the resources and military personnel used to patrol the air corridors and the Cana Many Les developed countries Are ruled and possibly into the by unstable regimes with varying degrees of hostility to the industrialized says the re obtained under Access Winfor mation a perceived Western insensitivity to their economic travails May Lead to a variety of retaliatory Mea sures of an political or military Weinfeld says the pressure on Western countries to help accommodate the third world population explosion May dominate International relations in the As do several other reports pre pared for the Wein Feld says a dramatic increase in immigration May be the key to economic Prosperity As Canadas population growth slows in the next the reports were submitted last year As department officials wrapped up a three year demo graphic expected to shape immigration policy for the the review is to be released March Public opinion polls indicate most canadians want immigration Levels to remain where they Are or a 1987 Gallup poll suggested Only 13 per cent favor an Chris of the immigration warns that the 1990s will be the last decade of Strong population growth unless immigration is increased or canadians Start having More decline in total population after 2020 can be prevented Only by very High Levels of immigration greater than higher Levels of Taylor says in a Between and Immi Grants Are expected to Settle in can Ada this year but about people will the 1986 census put Canadas population at about the number of births for Canadian women of childbearing age has dropped to from a High of in and there is no indication the Fertility rate is on its Way Weinfeld says modest growth that would bring the Canadian population to 40 million by the Middle of the next Century requires in creased Levels of immigration to begin As soon As forty million people concentrated in the 10 per cent to 11 per cent of habitable Canadian land would give Canada half the population density of Europe he world demography will change radically in the next 30 he the population of developed countries will increase by 200 million to about while developing countries will double their Popula Tion to Hydro customers Burn up phone lines to question Bills by Aldo Santin hundreds of Hydro customers called their utilities last week to find out whether they had been Over charged on their electrical heating spokesmen for the City and provincial utilities said their switch boards were flooded with Calls from homeowners after reports that some customers Are paying too much tax on their monthly our staff received More than 200 Barry a Winnipeg Hydro after we checked out each we found there want a single one that had been a Manitoba Hydro spokesman said the Utility also received numerous adding Only a couple of customers had been last the free press reported that some residents who had switched their heating systems to electricity had been assessed too much tax on their monthly electricity exempt 4t electricity and All fuels used for Home heating Are exempt from provincial and City taxes under Manitoba Hydro spokesmen said customers Are rarely overcharged because most homeowners use professional contractors when switching to elec when people hire legitimate con they get the necessary inspections carried out and were Noti fied that a change has Stevenson few Winnipeg Hydro residential users have electric he Glenn Schneider of Manitoba Hydro said most callers just wanted to be satisfied that they haunt been Stevenson said staff had to scram but the experience was Worth we proved to ourselves that were not doing a bad he a fort Garry family that had been overcharged on its monthly Manitoba Hydro Bill for 11 years finally had the Issue resolved this wrong meter Cecilia Yuthasastrko sol said the which had already Given her a rebate covering the years 1981 to planned to Issue a Cheque covering the first four years her family had lived in its Side by Side Hydro officials admitted last fall that they had been Reading the wrong assessing Power con sumption from the who operate a Home Day to the but Hydro records showed the family moved into the House in the family and its neighbors moved into the new subdivision in August 1977 when it was first put on the a complaint by the Yuth Sastra Osols to the free press prompted Hydro to review its Schneider said a rebate Cheque for will be Given to the adding the Yuthasastrko sols were Able to prove they had been living in the Home since the Yuthasastrko sols complained that their Hydro Bills were too but Utility officials initially ignored the k gambler9 checks out greenhouse up Call fornia Glitz met a Strong Newfoundland sales pitch country Singer Kenny Rogers rolled up to the beleaguered sprung greenhouse in a Black limousine to size up the Odds of growing cucumbers on this wind swept the grave voiced millionaire is part of a International consortium of businessmen interested in buy ing the giant greenhouse a joint venture of Calgary businessman Philip sprung and the provincial the which has invested Over is frantically try ing to sell the greenhouse after placing it in receivership emerging from a tour of the brightly lit the California Gambler was holding his cards close to the this is not a slam said the worse thing we could do is come in and make a Quick Deal and not be Able to but its possible in a couple of Days we could have an agreement to who performed in Johns on said his representatives will be part of talks on a final Deal Over the next couple of a tentative Deal to buy the operation for million was announced two weeks the consortium has brought in a management team from the Netherlands to operate the greenhouse and find out whether Money can be the group replaced sprung Man agers after they walked out Friday up photo country Singer Kenny Rogers talks to reporters after touring the sprung to demand Job Security under a new the local numbering about Are now threatening to sue the province for wrongful in hot put off by the Controvert said stroking his Sil ver that something that cant affect me i have no dog in that i think it can make a Fortune if properly handled but its a big Gamble at this the consortium Lon term goal is to gain the Legal rights to the technology and build similar Struc Tures around the to own a Cucumber farm just in Newfoundland is not the height of my admitted the greenhouse grows cucumbers in nutrient Rich water under a translucent the government continues to sink funds into the which was crippled by a crop fail ure last agriculture minister Rick Woodford said yesterday the government gave the greenhouse a loan two weeks the loan paid the february operating costs of and co Vered Worth of Bills from Small the remainder of the loan will pay off other debts plus new operating i just sit Back As a newfound Lander and see All those Little companies waiting for their said while its negotiating a final the government also faces the difficult task of settling with part owner Philip a Public rift Between sprung and Woodford sur faced after the Calgary business Man revealed the names of the interested the consortium consists of two businessmen from one from the an Ameri can oilman and Nova Scotia plans Independent prosecutor Halifax up Nova Scotia will establish an Independent office of Public prosecutions by the end of the attorney general Tom Mclnnis said on the this will be the first step in a series of Steps intended to restore Public Confidence in certain aspects of the Justice Mclnnis told a conference on sen the new director of Public prosecutions will make an annual report to the House of the office was promised by pre Mier John Buchanan during the provincial election Campaign last in last months throne the government pledged action on the Mclnnis told the conference his office has been under a magnifying Glass in the last year and a half during the Marshall inquiry and he will hold a series of Public meetings to gauge the mood of the prov i May come away a bit i believe the Justice sys tem will its time to put a new face on the Justice system in Nova the attorney general said he wants to see what recommendations the Marshall inquiry makes and May adapt some of them in setting up the Public prosecutors the a look into Why Donald a micmac spent 11 years in prison for a killing he did not is expected to hand Down its report this the inquiry has heard testimony suggesting the attorney generals department gave favourable treat ment to government members fac ing criminal opposition members have argued that an Independent prosecutor would ensure a single system of Mclnnis said he and Guy minister of Community have recommended to Cabinet that an advisory committee on 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