Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 10, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Jinotti Pelfree March Freedom of Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights published seven Days a week at 300 Carlton r3c 3c1 by newspapers division of Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 a member of the Manitoba press Council Arthur Wood publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller Winnipeg free press est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 editorials an earful from women Fillmo has was not just a figment of the socialist women and their children Are being beaten by their menfolk and they need somewhere to run the conservatives arrived in office last year with Little to say about demands of the women Gerry i f general in the Lyon government of the late had done a creditable Job modernizing family Law and helping separated women get the support payments due from their in the intervening the party fell into a reactionary habit of resisting nip feminist ideas pay easier Abor More Day care and ceased coming up with ideas of its u after taking Filmon sent his backbench supporter Gerrie Hammond Forth to travel the province and find out what women thought of the services and programs provided to them by their provincial she got an her report with its 94 recommendations should persuade the government and its legislature caucus that women needs deserve attention and i the main focus Hammond chose was Domestic despite publicity police More frequent prosecutions and stiffer sentences in recent Hammond Learned that the phenomenon is far from being dealt especially in Rural and Northern a woman fleeing from a violent husband is Apt to find that the nearest abused wife shelter is open Only during regular business women seeking restraining orders to keep abusive husbands away still find that courts Are slow to under stand the urgency and danger they Hammonds a Rush is Short on the women most obviously vulnerable to attack Are those in isolated communities where the dominant local figures May consider wife beating perfectly or at least if the neighbors will not help her and the nearest beaten wife shelter is a plane ride that abuse victim is Hammond is doubtless right that shelters should be kept open 24 hours a and financed solutions Are also needed for women who Are too terrorized even to think of looking for a Hammond heard the familiar complaints against local administration of Short term a few Rural municipality councils have insulted welfare granted them miserly allowances and searched carefully for grounds for cutting them this kind of conduct persuaded the former Pawley government that Short term welfare administration should be taken out of municipal hands and taken Over by the which already administers Lon term Hammond suggests that single Parent families applying for social assistance should be supported from the outset by the provincial welfare this would leave municipal authorities to Deal with applications from couples or from unattached adults with no children to such a distinction is difficult to a better Avenue for Reform is uniform social assistance proce rates and careful training of municipal officials in social assistance work and a continuing role for a local exercise of common sense in the granting of social Hammonds other proposals business development for compulsory teachers i service programs in no sexist considerate scheduling of court and much More Are scattered too wide to constitute a the great value of the report is its Choice of Domestic violence and financial subservience As the first women problems for the Filmon government to the government will not go wrong if it takes that absent without cause nip must shake off the past among a number of unusual decisions emanating from the department of external affairs recently should be counted the one that the Joe would not go to Vienna this week to attend the beginning of a negotiation vital to Canadian strategic the United states and the soviet Union sent their foreign so did most of the other attending Canada sent an associate defence minister with a few weeks experience in the negotiation is about reducing conventional forces in it is a fresh attempt to generate some movement after 15 failed years of the Mutual and balanced Force reduction talks that took place in Canada is one of the bes informed co umfries about this dreary negotiation because it was one of Only 11 countries that took part in the direct the mfr talks were held Between member states of the Warsaw pact and the North Atlantic treaty organi of which Canada is a founder they involved detailed work by Canadian diplomats that produced no results because political will was entirely lacking on the Warsaw pact former soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev knew that he had far More troops and weapons menacing Western Europe than could possibly be needed for he liked it that he wanted East europeans to be reminded each Day that what had been done to Hungary in and to Czechoslovakia in 1968 could be done he wanted natos european member states to know that he had the Power to invade and conquer them by conventional Means at any time of his his bullying regional posture was a continuation of an attitude cultivated by Nikita Khrushchev and Joseph Stalin before after the second world it is the reason Why Canada did the right thing in the late 1940s by joining natos Experiment in collective it is the reason Why Canadian troops have been stationed in Europe for Many the arrival in Power in 1985 of Mikhail Gorbachev has changed some things for the an agreement to scrap one category of Europe based nuclear weapons has been made with the United there is Hope of Progress in strategic nuclear weapon some of the nastier propaganda of yesteryear is no longer either from Moscow or Gorba Chev has talked of reducing the numbers of his troops and tanks As a contribution to it also will save him Money and resources for his planned rebuilding of the soviet so the promised conventional Force reductions Are just europeans still face the enor Mous concentration of Jet chemical weapons and other nonnuclear equipment poised on the Warsaw pact Side of the Iron if every nuclear warhead on Earth were to be destroyed Europe would still stand in danger of being should Nice Gorbachev be replaced suddenly by a Nasty Moscow this is Why the new conventional Force reduction talks in Vienna Are important to Canada As a nato member and As an individual Clark and his department do not seem to understand the evidence is that Clark did not go to Vienna and that the department seems to have developed the kind of attitude to the talks that is most often observed in those about to buy swampland in an Anonymous member of its International Security and arms control Bureau has mused about the possibility of bringing Home part or All of Canadas tiny troop or its air Giddy about this weeks Forward looking proposals by soviet foreign minister Eduard this official even foresees the possibility of saving billion by not buying new main Battle Canadas elderly Leopard i tanks will this is a strange Way to open those who begin in this Way usually leave the room such attitudes in the Bureau specifically set up to think about Canadian arms control policy Are unhelpful to nato who face Tough soviet there is a time and a place for floating optional Canadian negotiating strategies or optional Canadian reactions to what could become radically altered Mili tary and political negotiation eve is not the Ottawa briefing rooms Are not the by Wilson special to the free press Ottawa if Pierre Trudeau was Correct in his Early View that National leaders usually make their real contribution in eight or ten years and should then depart it is equally True that the period of full constructive Ness is not much greater for other party there Are tru Deau himself proved that with the charter of introduced into the Constitution 14 years after he first became prime it does not seem that de Broadbent could have led the new democrats upwards from their Long term plateau of about 20 per cent of popular support even if he had stayed to fight another As with the the prob lems of the nip Are As much those of the party itself As with Leader ship but an incumbent who has been at the Helm for a dozen years is unlikely to provide the creative thrust that will prod a party into overcoming its old fashioned the reason the new democrats have failed to break through the 20per cent Barrier is not mysterious they impress too much of the electorate As old fashioned and out of rigidly conservative leftists in their refusal to the greatest number of those who do vote nip do so because they Are attracted to the party approaches to social not because its socialism is an electoral Broadbent himself sensed this Dur ing recent years and quietly tried to discard the party socialist which accurately reflects its eco nomic and rename it a social democratic Broadbent saw the problem accurately and he probably realized himself that it would not be enough to change labels without also Chang ing he was Only half successful in the first and totally unsuccessful in the More important modernize thinking the overwhelming need of the new democrats is to shake off the past and modernize their thinking about the end of the Century economic and economic related problems facing the party is Alert and in the Vanguard in such socially related problems As pollution of the although not particularly ahead of other groups who share that concern from different political the experience of All socialist countries has shown that few forms of economic organization Are More inefficient than great stat owned More because of the rejection of Competition than from the nature of the yet the nip stubbornly blinds itself to a Mountain of evidence and clings to socialist doctrines drawn from the 19th in the speech announcing his Deci Sion to retire Broadbent spoke of the need to take the next step to Ward building a exciting and compassionate that is a laudable goal but there was a strik ing omission from his statement it is essential to build As Well an efficient Canada for without that we cannot secure the rest of it in full the new democrats Are the last of the three parties any voter would associate with the goal of economic the nip is even suspicious of those words because too much of its thinking is locked into the Many party members associate such terms with 19th Century Industrial ruthlessness and the pain of the great depression of the Are not the prob lems Canada will face during the last decade of this Century and the first years of the next we Are approaching the 21st not emerging from the the new democrats Best Chance of a positive and important future lies in choosing a new Leader who will actively push them into becom ing True social democrats instead of acquiescing if they conservatively seek to continue As outmoded Socia i attractive social programs alone will not win the future for i them they must face economics As similar problems the liberals Are confronting very similar problems they too must modernize and come to grips with the new not those of the whichever faces the future most effectively will become the nations second major both should be constantly that today it is the progressive conservative party that has become the party of stalls for time in reply to Guyot letter on appeasement free february 24 regarding his condemnation of Neville chamberlains appeasement of hitlers foreign i would suggest that Guyot has failed to understand the mood of Europe of the a period of social High a Low Standard of living and Strong pacifist especially in the countries that had been involved in the first world treaties and no aggression pacts had been float ing around for years and didst mean very after Hitler gained Power in and with his eventual reclaiming of formally German or the democracies did not have the will to Stop Mussolini was consid ered the bad boy of rather than go into a Long Chain of if one studies the map of Europe of Neville Chamberlain you will observe that most countries and the Vatican sided with Hitler or admired him As a Cham Pion against he also had Many admirers in France and like the Duke of he had at that time a Good relationship with the people of the United states were completely disinterested in the affairs of something which did not concern in View of this political Chamberlain did not stand a Chance and he knew he stalled for time which would seem a sensible thing to except for a powerful Britain was not prepared for her garrisons were spread All Over the the subsequent declaration of War on Germany by France and England compelled Hitler to swing a move he had not planned As his real goal was to attack and defeat the soviet there is no evidence that the germans had any hostile intent to wards France or Winston who succeeded Neville Chamberlain As prime min could have ended the War As late As june 1940 but rejected All peace Stalin called him a warmonger for continuing the ironically at the end of the War this same Man advised Field marshal Montgomery not to destroy German weapons in Case the russians advanced too far he also said on another we slaughtered the wrong Peter Bowes Winnipeg aggression mayor Bill Norrie thinks its a marvellous idea to name the cites Arena after Bobby Hull he even has the insensitivity to Call him a Model citizen and a great role unfortunately the Macho behaviour and known aggression of Bobby Hull and other real men is too often replayed on women in the City on a daily Mitchell Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to offensive i noticed with interest a display and in the free press weekly announcing that mayor Norrie had pro claimed the second week in february respect life the advertisement was sponsored by the league for and included a list of prolife organizations who had endorsed the in a recent editorial you denounced homosexual organizations who want mayor Norrie to proclaim the last week in june Gay and lesbian Pride saying that the mayor cannot be expected to Issue proclamations for causes that give abortion is probably the most explosive and divisive Issue confront ing Canadian society yet the mayor has not hesitated to Issue a proclamation on this the prolife cause is clearly offensive to All those canadians who believe that abortion should be a private matter Between a woman and her Rick North Winnipeg responsible i would like to clarify some Points Armand Ducharme made about a topic in his letter aut Opac rates free february Ducharme if aut Opac made a profit in Why Are rates still so High the fact aut Opac As noted by last years inde pendent aut Opac review commis Are among the lowest in can aut Opac premiums remain among the lowest in the country because 1989 Basic premiums for Over half the registered owners of vehicles in Manitoba either dropped slightly or remained the same As the year be the average Premium increase was Only per a significant drop in the number and Cost of claims and an increase in premiums earned did contribute to Auto acs net income of Over million for the 1988 fiscal the net income was used to eliminate an accumulated million this also allowed Pic to begin rebuilding the rate stabilization re serve fund to just under the Reserve is designed to help off set possible increases in insurance rates resulting from uncontrollable factors such As weather an aut Opac review commission recommendation stated Pic should build aut Opac Reserve Levels to 15 per cent of premiums or approximately Over the next few this will ensure aut Opac will continue to serve Mani to bans in a fiscally responsible Man Brian Geary Pic communications Pic worried we read the article and the two letters about the Blue Box recycling containers no pressure for City to get into free Jan uary 14 and we Are very disappointed and angry that our City is not doing anything to solve this prob though we Are Only in Grade we Are worried about the pollutants that Are destroying our precious since we Are interested in a recycling program in Manitoba Why cant we have those Blue boxes in stalled throughout the province we Hope that the problem will be solved Justin Legare Renee Taillefer Danielle la France Johanne Durocher and 19 other names Winnipeg Frances russells article tory language policy is simply anti free february 22 displays rather than Premier Lack of understanding of the constitutional reality and a com plete Lack of understanding of the recent political reality of the Lan Guage Issue in the situations in Manitoba and Quebec Are very including both Quebec and Manito is British and officially Section 133 of the a very insignificant Section buried in the miscellaneous provisions deep at the Back of the did nothing More than allow for the very limited use of the French language in an English country and in Quebec As an English Manitoba was British and officially Section 23 of the Manitoba act again simply allowed for the very limited use of the French Lan Guage in an English Nei ther of these sections or their respective acts creates a bilingual province both provinces Are British and officially everything that Quebec has done in the 25 years or so since the and commission declared its Mali Cious intent to rewrite Canadian his tory and Force the equal status of French in Canada has been More and More illegal and a Constitution Quebec and Premier Bourassa Are operating strictly anti English and what Manitoba and Premier Filmon Are doing is completely within the act and the Manitoba act and proc Ana Ken Douglas Winnipeg inaccurate As members of the Ellice area inter Agency group referred to in the article stayed charges called free february 27 we wish to clarify several inaccurate state although there Are several Resi dents groups in the the Ellice area inter Agency group is not one of it is a group made up of representatives from Day care centres and various local social As Well As residents we meet once a month to share information and resources on a Broad Range of Community issues rather than to keep children off the Street and out of although we recognize the serious Lack of resources for local youth in the Ellic Sherbrook our group is not at this Point trying to raise to build a drop in the Ellice area inter Agency group has no connection or involve ment with the incident involving Borden and vandalism at the bar Bara Anne Erika Wiebe Ingrid Wedlake Leslie nut bean on behalf of the Ellice area inter Agency group i think the dog wants to go ;