Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 18, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press october 1989 Page 3 Patrick City editor lawyer Calls bylaw girl sought by police at chief local daycare protesters mob Filmon crowd chants by Ruth Teichroeb about angry daycare parents and children surged up the legislature Steps and shouted Down Premier Gary Fil Mon yesterday As he defended his decision not to give immediate raises to child care no More no More waiting the crowd screamed As demonstrators waved signs supporting the province wide walkout by daycare staff at More than half of the Manitoba child care associations 260 full time were committed to work with you to solve the Filmon tried to Tell the booing demonstrators amidst shouts of liar from the the Premier pleaded with association leaders to help find a Lon term solution to the but ignored their demand for a meeting to negotiate wage earlier in the family services minister Charlotte Oleson was also booed As she begged for More cooperation from association in Liberal Leader Sharon car stairs Drew loud cheers As she said Day care workers deserved More solution to crisis what youre doing today is not Only standing up for yourselves but for the kids of your Carstairs nip family services critic Judy Wasy lycia leis and several labor leaders also urged the government to find a solution to the but although Oleson and Filmon promised association president Carol Draper said the demonstration had Suc this has shown that the support were talking about from our members and from parents is Draper the next step is up to she it was unlikely that the associations members including 200 daycare workers would support an extended i dont see a Lon term withdrawal of Draper daycare workers probably cant afford to do Pauline a childcare worker at the said Shes willing to do whatever it takes to get wage we Are prepared to repeat this if it Doest make a difference this parents with babies in backpacks and strollers turned out in droves to show their support for yesterdays daycare protest at the although the province wide walkout of daycare staff left the parents of about children those at the demonstration said sending a message to the government was Worth the you have to pay daycare workers More if you want Quality Parent Andrew roster said As he held his 16monthold son its in my Childs interest to support the Koster said he didst mind taking time numb while most of the associations nonprofit daycare centres support the Dorothy executive director of the said Only 145 of the 260 centres closed it was not a sign of Lack of support Dudek some decided to handle it for she some centres in Rural communities afford to jeopardize their hard won acceptance by local about 84 per cent of association members turn off work to look after his i think its unfortunate that the govern ment let it come to a Union business in Koster and others said they support a Lon term walkout if Paulette Desaulnier Bernard said the government is trying to Force women Back into the Home by paying daycare workers so Little that Quality care is i feel its a sexist said de Saul who stayed Home from her Job doing promotion and publicity for a College to care for her Foury Earold these Are not there pro i think the government needs to reshuffle its Isabelle who took a Day off from her Job As a said daycare workers cant even support their own families on the wages they i think Filmon should go into Day care for a few Days and see How hard these women with her three Earold at her she said she knew of one woman who was babysitting 11 children yesterday to help out parents without other but some parents took their children to work to support the despite having other childcare i could have left her with her grandpa Filmon above is booed away from while below protesters brandish voted last week to join the walkout in the Hope that the government will boost a which average about a an additional 200 daycare centres Are privately operated in the for her Wasyly Ciales said tory plans to revamp the fee and funding Struc Ture will open the door to the destruction of the provinces daycare she said that if Oleson attempts to raise fees for higher income it will result in wealthy users turning to the private daycare system and leaving the Public system for the total destruction Well have a system for Low income and a system for the wealthy that can afford to pay she they Are talking about the total destruction of the Universal daycare sys she said the sudden emergence of the Issue of daycare fees appears to have two on one it is intended to break Down the Parent worker Alliance on the pay Issue by signalling that parents will have to pay through fees for worker she on the other she it signals the direction the government intends to go in supporting for profit Day its another step in their hidden Agenda to get government out of the daycare Field and to turn it Over to non government Day she Oleson said monday the tories Are considering fee and funding changes As part of a review of the daycare she refused to but said she has no hangups about whether Day care is provided by the private or Public she also said the system seems set up to Edge out private in the House Filmon said it is Clear that some people who Are using daycare services can afford to pay but the current funding the current Doest allow that to but i know not everyone can do Tammie a Community development worker and Mother of Foury Earold can i took her to work to show in behind the another Parent said she knew of people who had refused to fill in As babysitters yesterday to Force parents to stay Home from work or to take the children alone to the there showing their support for the walkout that Ruth a clerical worker and the Mother of she want surprised by parents Over whelming support for the Premier urges Council to reverse lab Choice by Patrick Mckinley Premier Gary Filmon says he Hopes the next City Council will reverse a decision to locate a virology Laboratory on the outskirts of the City instead of a site Filmon said yesterday that continued lobbying by residents who want the works Yard moved should drive Home to City councillors that the Yard is environmentally unacceptable in its present he said he hoped the new City to be elected will reconsider the previous councils decision not to move the Yards to make Way for the Federal the City is going to be obliged to move those Yards at some Point in the notto Distant he referring to repeated concerns voiced by downtown Resi in not saying that legally at this Point in time we have any Way of forcing he adding he believes Public pressure alone will ultimately Force the City to move the Why not do it today he Filmon rejected Liberal Urban affairs critic Jim Carrs suggestion that the province consider financial Aid to help the City move the Filmon said the City should make the right decision because it is the right thing to do and not because it is move civic works Yard Ottawa announced the Laboratory Centre for disease control would be built near the Royal Canadian mint in Boniface after City Council refused to spend million moving the works the City decision came after a federally appointed panel of experts identified the works Yard the health sciences Centre and the University of Manitoba medical school As its preferred site for the new Federal health minister Perrin Filmon and mayor Bill Norrie have All said they also prefer the downtown site because of its proximity to other health if the new Council were to act quickly and make their decision Ottawa could probably respond Filmon Carr fort Rouge said yesterday that Hilmons comments gave him Hope the lab can still be built on the preferred he noted City officials Are reexamining the Cost of moving the Yards after receiving a presentation from area residents who pegged the Cost at million instead of Mil but Carr said Filmon has to do More than just voice support for the downtown Filmon could make a real difference by lobbying the Federal and civic he Carr suggests financial Aid commercial mover learns costly lesson c Ronti v a re to a in i of quilt f t n n Only Ron Howard had known a year ago what he knows today hed be a darn sight Richer and far How Many of us have expressed that same like websters the judgment of what should have been after the result is i can relate to Howard is now kicking himself for accepting the word of two aut Opac agents without having the foresight to Check further into government red tape requirements for the registration of trucks to be used for commercial Hes also now regretting not heeding sound advice from a government employee and myself to clean up his notwithstanding we recognized he was the victim of bureaucratic gobbledygook when it comes to defining whats commercial and what int websters says foresight is exercising prudent care for the int this what we pay big Bucks to bureaucrats to do they sure messed up their definition of whats commercial because howards problem has highlighted what i find is an astonishing state of affairs in the furniture moving the province has the Power to police the Industry where it involves Lon distance but has absolutely no control in the Mike Ward its All based on How bureaucracy interprets the word we All know what it they know what it without having to Check its definition in it is pertaining or engaged or accruing Plain and in howards foresight or having the Benefit of would have meant his now having an extra in his Bank account plus an untarnished business its because he didst give it a second anyone wanting to carry on a furniture moving business in Winnipeg obviously first had to obtain commercial trucking registration and Howard correctly assumed that taking Cash from people in return for moving their furniture and belongings was a commercial who i certainly the two aut Opac agents neither can be faulted for believing that to run a commercial trucking business you need commercial makes sense to it Cost Howard close to to Register and insure his iwo 2ton one in his own the other in the name of the new business he had As required by so its quite Clear to me that he wanted to do things but As it turned didst need commercial plates at All for the 300 Odd moving jobs Hes made in Winnipeg since being in All he had to do was buy Ordinary truck plates and the required Basic costing him about a in still left scratching my head Over this but it appears that provincial legislation Only requires businesses to obtain commercial plates when they Are moving their own like Safeway delivering its produce to stores or the free press dropping off newspaper just to confuse it some the owner of a vehicle carrying commercial truck plates can move other Peoples goods in towns and municipalities for but cant do so outside these jurisdictions unless they have a Public service vehicle certificate issued by the provinces motor transport after obtaining his commercial truck licenses and registering his Howard took out an and in the yellow covering almost two thirds of a emergency moving offered Low we save you 100 Manitoba owned and the which costs a solicited local and Long distance t Hose two Long caught the eyes of Flo they also led to howards current youll recall i recently wrote about the awful runaround Friesen and her were Given by emergency and make no mistake about they certainly not Only did it take five weeks to ship in their furniture from after they had foolishly paid half the Cost up but then emergency movers flatly refused to deliver their belongings until the couple paid a further because of a weight Howard and his company got some bad press As a and deservedly i knew he had broken the Law by not holding a Public service carriers licence and told him had he heeded my advice and that Given him by motor transport Board Art i have written about the runaround he was giving the both of whom Are physically and he have been ordered by the Board to repay the Fri Sens and about in Legal the Board ruled that the Money had been collected illegally As a condition of his not losing his commercial truck he had to repay the Money in four monthly instalments of on the surface a Tough penalty when this was his Only Lon distance i thought so until i discovered that the Board is powerless to do anything if Howard chooses to ignore the ruling and simply carry on business where the Board has no the who attended the boards show cause now feel sorry for Howard and feel he got a bad break by not being aware of the has assured me Hes going to repay the Money and Chalk everything up to not a bad attitude from someone i was dumping All Over a few weeks if youre moving within the City at the end of the Why not give him a Call the Fri Sens figure he deserves a so do victim of an injustice that bureaucracy wont remedy write Mike hell look into ;