Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 12, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Witting go free january Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights published seven Days a week at 300 Cartton Winnipeg 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 some questions for Coop red lights were flashing in 1966 when the North Portage development corporation struck a Deal for construction of its apartment place prime the firm that was supposed to develop the North Portage housing was one corporate entity in a Maze of development some of which had just gone the kiwanis club of Winnipeg and Developer Martin Bergen were about to throw units into the downtown rental there was reason to wonder if the North Portage corporation was choosing the right partner and the right everyone is nervous about Jim general manager of the Core area said in that except Isadore president of the North Portage development who was advising his Board to go ahead and conclude an arrange ment with one of the development firms in the Imperial group of Coop was confident the project would despite the insolvency of some Imperial the housing will get under Coop its a viable the housing did get under but not because it was a viable it was not a viable As events have now the landlord this year was not Able to raise enough rental income from the property to continue the mortgage Canada mortgage and hous ing corporation has ordered Sale of the building to raise the Money to pay off the million mortgage which Chc Coop did not Tell Winni Eggers at the time what Steps he had to take to bring the project to a Simmance of now that the creditors Are moving the arrangements he made Are coming to Coop and Norpor played they loaned the Developer million toward the construction costs on shaky the Security included an interest in the rental an interest in the parking garage income and an interest in the leasehold improvements on ground floor retail Coop has now gradually and reluctantly disclosed that those interests Are wiped out if the building is sold to recover mortgage Coop As Security for the collateral which was Worth something until the project got in trouble and which then was Likely to Coop is an and by All accounts a talented he is not a an architect who is advising clients on a banking arrangement should have the humility to recognize his limitations and seek advice from people who know How to make when Chc and the Manitoba housing and renewal corporation Laid Down their terms for helping with place they were making Clear their doubts about the viability of the a banker might have noticed the care they were taking and considered it another flashing red is an one Way out now is for the North Portage develop ment corporation to throw More Money into the subsidizing it so As to pay the mortgage arrears and cancel the threat of Sale of the the Money Norpor would throw in is the Public Money earned by Public investment in expropriation of land and construction of the Portage place shopping it is not Money Coop and his associates Are free to throw around to redeem their own past As though it were their Jim Liberal member of the has led the research and questioning on the place promenade in not in the business of answering Jim Carrs Coop said this week when asked about Steps to recover the Public funds he had it is difficult to say what business Coop is As a servant who has ill served his he does need to explain if he cannot or will not answer Winni pegs questions about his Why should he be kept in office get together on taxes canadians face the Prospect a year from now of a bewildering Patchwork collection system for the Federal governments new goods and services it will make earlier warnings about the danger of a Patchwork Canada look if talks Between the Federal and provincial finance ministers Bear Manitoban will be paying their get to provincial tax collectors on goods that Are subject to the provincial sales once he gets the the provincial tax collector will pass it on to Ottawa i return for a modest on goods that Are not taxed provincially and on the Money will go directly to the Federal in people will pay to the provincial tax collector on a different set of goods subject to provincial sales tax and to Ottawa on the in they will pay All their goods and services taxes directly to the Federal government because the provincial government has no sales tax and professes not to believe in in other people May or May not pay a portion of the get to the depending on whether their provincial governments want to make a Deal with Ottawa and whether a mutually acceptable Deal can be getting the provinces to collect part of the Federal get will no doubt save the Federal government some Money and permit it to trim the Large bureaucracy which it plans to establish to administer the new if the provinces collect Only part of the that will not do much to reduce the Cost and inconvenience facing shopkeepers or purveyors of neither will it help to make the new Federal tax visible to those who will have to pay it is still possible that none of this will Manitoba has offered in general terms to help with the collection of the new Federal tax according to finance minister Clayton no negotiations to that end have even Ontario has made an offer to collect the Federal tax in areas where its own tax but that provinces finance Robert has pointed out that there Are vast areas where the Federal tax will apply and the provincial tax does in other parts of the country it appears that provincial governments have not even begun to consider the possibility of collecting taxes for manness says discussions of the proposal Are Likely to take which is not surprising Given the technical problems it the Effort will be worthwhile if it promises even modest savings in costs and it will be a lot More worthwhile if it sets Ottawa and the provinces on a path to an integrated goods and services tax which would raise Money for both Levels of a single tax would wipe out the heavy administrative costs which come with finance minister Michael Wil sons get it would eliminate most of the mass of extra paper work which Wilsons proposal it would open the door to making the tax completely a single Cash Register receipt could state both the Federal and the provincial that might even help inhibit governments at either level from using the get As a tax cow and generating huge amounts of Revenue by boosting it year after provincial for obvious want no part of the get at the it is deeply unpopular with according to one even the reduction in the rate from nine per cent to seven per cent has done Little to diminish Public no provincial government wants to be seen having anything to do with the Mulroney government is about As unpopular As its proposed no provincial not even tory want seen to be cooperating with Over the longer a broadly based goods and services tax has the same Appeal to provincial finance ministers As it has to the one in there is not much doubt some time in the the provinces will climb aboard the Federal tax there is Little Chance of them doing that before the Federal tax goes into effect a year from the discussions about provincial tax collections on behalf of Ottawa be the first Steps towards the development of an integrated despite the fury it generates a goods and services tax is Likely to look much less monstrous two or three years Down the at that provinces May Well feel inclined to share the if they Are they will take care to ensure that the tax sharing talks Over the next few months leave the door open for an eventual Federal provincial consumption foreign policy review essential by Wilson special to the free press Ottawa almost automatic Ca Nadian support for american actions in latin and South America is so Likely to cause this country serious embarrassment that the govern ment should immediately reassess the attitude behind its recent a that is Only the most urgently needed reappraisal of the govern ments Foreit policy few in number but unimpressive in real world a rigorous review of foreign policy has become essential to ensure that it is addressing the real world of the ending 20th Century and to safeguard this country International reputation against the widespread suspicion that it merely parrots american in addition to placing some Dis Tance Between ourselves and the americans on South american a review on a basis of ensure that the policy positions the Cabinet adopts towards Middle Eastern affairs in future pos sess and reflect Canadian too often in the past they have exposed this country to the conviction that its official attitudes on sensitive Middle Eastern questions come from either Washington or the inordinate slowness of prime minister Mulroney and his foreign Joe in recognizing the great significance of the changes in Eastern Europe emphasize How great is the need for fundamental they demonstrated As they watched the death of International communism in Europe that they had no idea until the last minute that events of enormous importance to the future of the world were under the failure of under standing was monumental in its even now there Are no evident signs in Ottawa that the government understands the developing role of Germany As the most powerful coun try in the germans do not have to drag about the Burden of useless weaponry of the sort that has crippled the soviet unions weak Economy and turned the United states into a debtor nation dependent upon Japa Nese investors to pick up about one third of its Domestic and internal International strength today is not measured in obsolete military terms but in meaningful economic Japan and Germany have not become additional super both of which have under mined their own their economies have brought them to the first rank of great today that gives them More importance than they could have secured through huge arsenals of nuclear weapons which cannot be controversy without taking time for any real Mulroney jumped to the support of the american invasion of now there is developing the unsettling controversy Over the number of innocent panamanian civilians killed in the american bom with serious suggestions that the total is Many times higher than the one that military authorities have put the extraordinarily High Dollar figure attached to the damage done in the Battle suggests some ruthlessness in this would not be new for the american army and air Force in Vietnam it was official not stated publicly but that the life of a a vietnamese was Worth much less than that of an Ameri drug Trade at great risk to its own the colombian government has for months been exhibiting exemplary determination to curb the drug cooperating with the United states to a degree that american presidents must sometimes dream about when they think of their country unsatisfactory relations with the nations of that the americans have offended the colombian government that cooperates with them at such risk by the plan to station a aircraft Carrier and other naval units the colombians Are particularly offended because Washington did not bother consulting them about the is it to support this sort of insensitivity that Mulroney dragged Canada into the Oas against the Wise precedents of All his predecessors As disturbing As anything else involving the governments foreign policy record is the failure to show any comprehension of the magnitude of the development that will take place in Europe in two years time when the Community will Complete its common Market and in a very few years that step will become so important to All trading for better or that it will be seen to rank with the death of european communism in import Snow lows on january 3 in the free press there was an article notifying the Public that transportation minister Albert Driedger would be placing a series of television ads warning Drivers not to tangle with Snow plows which was to go in effect As i am a Midnight shift i As Well As my fellow have often noticed How Sno plow As Well As the summer Street cleaning quite often abuse their authority in the opera Tion of a licenced when the approach a controlled intersection and the Light that they approach happens to be they often proceed through the Stop neglecting the Well being of oncoming motorists As Well As any pedestrians who might plow must obey read be using the Cross walk at that particular i ask who is at fault if during one of the above mentioned incidents an Accident injuring a Motorist or pedestrian All Drivers Are taught to drive defend but when a Large Sno plow comes into Contact with a All the education and caution in the world wont prevent the Driver of a vehicle from becoming seriously Driedger mentions that most plows Are equipped with warning this Doest mean that these operators have the right Otway through a controlled especially when a Stop indicator is i suggest to Driedger that before the Drivers of licenced vehicles Are educated through this information that All operators of Snow lows Are educated Kevin Brown Winnipeg Downs Outing on december along with my two daughters and their grand Moth had the Opportunity to share breakfast with Santa Claus at Assiniboia the Outing was one which we will forever in addition to the breakfast there were cartoons for the a colouring books and hot dogs for those who stayed and pictures of the kids in a sulky with Good old Jolly Saint director of marketing for the Downs and her staff Are to be commended for a Job Well their politeness and patience was Gulyas May recognize me As the Man in the Grey leather and to that we wish her and the staff at the Downs a Nappy new Kris Anderson Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to editing misleading your headline rival Zulu groups fight Over killing 10 free press 2 is mislead the implication that this is inter tribal warfare for control of territory is just not the United democratic to Gether with 20 other Peoples organi was banned by the apart Heid regime in february nevertheless its Espousal of the Freedom its support for sanctions and its Call for the destruction of apartheid has won wide spread under the umbrella of the mass democratic movement its leaders continue to Lead the struggle for this is Why they have come in for attack by the govern ment and its surrogates in the form of vigilante groups Akin to latin american death inkatha is not so much a Moder ate political movement As an oppressive surrogate of using thugs and murderers it for several unleashed a reign of terror on the people of cowing them into paying their members and supporters of the United democratic front have been systematically Many murdered or forced to Resi dents of Natal Are largely Zulu speaking but this does not make it a fight Between Zulu nor is it a fight for control of it should Surprise no one that a government which brutally sent an army of occupation into Black town ships has not brought inkatha thugs to Many have been identified by at great personal As assassins but remain in some have been seen in the company of Security police evidence of the activities of police death squads has recently surfaced in South inkatha actions must be viewed in this Ahmod Vanderee Winnipeg sewer repair in the new year it is my Hope that the new civic administration will give its Earnest consideration to establishing a fund with support from the two other Levels of government to be used exclusively to implement the necessary repairs to our City sewers so that effluent is not Dis charged into storm As is the Case the River could once again be used for swimming and water sports As was the Case in the dim Garden produce watered with River water could again be safely purchased by the of even greater importance in my opinion is my Hope for City councils support for the Winnipeg water Protection mpg which is working for All Winni Eggers to protect the source of our drinking what is needed is a Federal Safe drinking water act to protect All i ask that those who feel strongly about this Issue to write to Perrin minister of health and Wel asking for the legislation which was promised in the throne no postage is Haffner Winnipeg unfair criticism while i recognize the Pic Gen and aut Opac Are fair game for reporters and editorial i believe the inadequate Auto insure free 23 goes beyond fair the most discouraging part of the editorial is the statement that Auto Pac has gone to court to prevent the Public utilities Board from obtain ing in it was the in its december 14 which first raised the possibility of taking court action in an Effort to resolve the question of jurisdiction Over the corporations rate stabilization the Basic aut Opac program is also portrayed As what is ignored is the fact that this package is one of the most comprehensive available in any the Basic third party liability limit is the highest in North America and the Standard far from offering inadequate As was stated in the this level is sufficient for More than 98 per cent of All third party claims in is it reasonable to Force All motorists to pay higher premiums to in crease this third party liability sufficiency figure from 98 to 99 per cent i submit that it is the risk of a Motorist causing damage in excess of the insurance he or she carries will always even if the Basic level is increased to million or the alter a a policy which offers unlimited is a very expensive and therefore unacceptable the question of aut Opac profits is raised in the aut Opac Extension business has been but the editorial twists this fact to make it sound As if something improper taking the fact is that aut Opac Extension coverage has subsidized the Basic aut Opac package to the tune of almost million since if this Money had not come from Extension the resulting million deficit would have had to be covered by higher Basic the free press Points out the private sector occasionally does offer better rates on Extension insure but this is Only part of the what is not stated is that the private sector is very selective about whom it motorists who Are under have had a or drive certain types of vehicles need not at we dont discriminate and that is As it should be for All insurance the current aut Opac package allows motorists the flexibility to choose the Levels of Protection that they feel Best meet their Bardua general manager Manitoba Public insurance corporation excuse youre in a nonsmoking ;