Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 16, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba R u Winnipeg free january Mccrae seeks Legal advice on Lapel pins by Pauline Comeau Justice minister Jim Mccrae has assigned three senior prosecutors to advise him on what to do about the potential Sale of Lapel pins that have been denounced As Mccrae mid yesterday he expects to hear by the end of the week from senior prosecutors Stu George Dangerfield and Jack Montgomery on what Legal action can be the three have been studying a Winnipeg police report on the which were designed in Al Berta and recently ordered for Sale Here by a Winnipeg wholesale wholesaler Brian Macauley of said earlier this month he thought the pins were humorous and planned to sell despite he was out of town yesterday and no one in his office could say if the pins had arrived or if they were still on the pins depict a Semi clothed Black Man holding a a tur Bained sikh and an Oriental Fig ure in a chinese coolie hat staring Down at an anxious White Man in a business the pins message asks who is the minority in Canada representatives of the league for human rights of Bani brith the Manitoba association for rights and liberties and immigration lawyer David Matas met Mccrae yesterday to voice their aversion to the pins and offer suggestions on How to keep them out of the Matas described the pins Mes Sage As an example of the kind of arguments forwarded by White they Are an example of traditional hate he Matas said the pins leave the impression Whites Are being out numbered by what in Small groups of visible minorities in the Mccrae seeks opinion the pins advocate discrimination of immigration and advocate discrimination in employment by suggesting that too Many coloured people Are in prominent Posi he the three told Mccrae they favor action under a Section of the criminal code that would allow seizure of the pins once they Are in the before they Are allowed for a court must Rule they do not break hate literature or any other Lyle Mordin of Bani brith the Trio also stressed to Mccrae the need for an educational Campaign to combat the ideas portrayed by the pins Crea Peter a czech said he designed the pin after hearing several people complain that visible minorities were Tak ing their Mordin said Bani brith had developed a pin to be sold in Alberta to counter the Kouda the Bani brith pin shows four people standing in a Circle hold ing hands with the message proud to be canadians diver sity and tax picture shows slight improvement by Patrick Mckinley Manitoban once among the highest taxed people in Canada Are no longer quite so badly finance minister Clayton Man Ness tabled figures in the legislature yesterday showing that other prov inces Are catching up to Manitoba in the taxes they lot of work and while other provinces raised a Cut in personal income taxes has left Manitoba with the sixth highest Basic rate of per Sonal income tax among Canadian provinces and instead of the fifth highest As last but manness said yesterday he is not satisfied and hinted further tax cuts Are on the we have got an awful lot of work left to in he Manitoban Are saddled with the two percent tax on net income which the nip government imposed in its 1987 Bud that still gives us one of the higher rates of personal taxation in said who has repeatedly said he would like to get rid of the nip he noted business groups examine comparisons of tax rates in the Vari Ous once they see greater certainty about our commitment to reduce even More in positive they will look at this province even More closely As a place to invest capital and create he the tax comparison tables Man Ness released yesterday show smokers Are now relatively better off in Manitoba than a year with Canadas third highest tobacco tax rate instead of the but Manitoba 12percent tax on liquor a rate it shares with Ontario and Newfoundland remains the highest in the Manitoba top corporate income tax rate per cent among the highest in but its corporate rate has not increased raised its top rate to 17 per cent this Manitoba corporate capital tax compares More favor ably to the National average because of an increase in although retail sales tax rates in the various provinces have not Manitoba projected per capita Revenue from the tax the third lowest after Alberta which has no retail sales tax and Liberal Treasury Board critic Richard Kozak Transcona said in spite of somewhat lower Man Tobas Economy is not As Strong As in some other parts of study to sort out funding Justice minister Jim Mccrae has asked sex abuse counselling groups to be patient while the province sorts out its funding Mccrae said he Hopes to have a study in his hands later this month on the need for various services to crime the completed study will help the province to dispense Money he charging the Liberal opposition thinks Vrab lems can be solved just by throwing Money at Liberal la Gwen Charles Sel Kirk berated Mccrae yesterday for not dipping into the provinces Vic Tims assistance fund to allow a Sel Kirk service Agency to hire two counsellors a sexual abuse counsellor and a court the Nova has been seeking an answer since the Filmon government has dispensed few Grants from the which is collected from a surcharge on court fines and took in last Charles said women should not have to wait for funding when hundreds of thousands of dollars Are sitting health minister Don Orchard said the College of physic ians and surgeons of Manitoba is looking for ways to make sexual abuse assessments More readily available to women in Rural and Northern Nova House has complained that sexual abuse victims in Selkirk and the surrounding area must go to Winnipeg for the medical examinations As Well As for accused trafficker released on bail a Quebec Man charged in a Miami vice style drug bust in Winnipeg last week has been released on provincial court judge Charles Newcombe freed Pierre on his own Recagni the judge also ordered two sureties for the mans 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