Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 19, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free january pm Oget proposal on Meech mutinied from Page 1 premiers considering his recent troubled political for Hie among other confers distinct society status on Quebec and compensates provinces that opt out of future Federal spend ing programs in provincial Juristic it also gives the provinces a say in the appointment of supreme court judges and immigration and gives All provinces a veto Over certain constitutional in Vancouver Vander Zalm talked of a proposal to resolve flaws in the Accord identified by new Brunswick and new Mulroney was expected to receive the proposal today and pass it on to provincial leaders Early next week before making its contents we have a proposal for the prime minister and and the other first ministers of the Vander Zalm told the proposal is really innovative and a very effective new framework which will bring All of the disagree ment with respect to Meech Lake weve heard a lot from people that want to tear Meech Lake apart do away with but we have an Opportunity Here to keep the country wednesday Vander Zalm on television the Accord was unacceptable to British Colum they insist that it must be he Vander Zalm is the first of the original Meech Lake signatories to publicly Rebuff the premiers of the three dissenting provinces new Bruns Wick and Newfoundland were elected after the pact was signed in but Mulroney appeared undeterred by Vander Palms Public of the which is intended to bring Quebec into the constitutional Man of Vander Zalm said last night that he is a Man of a Man of consistency and a Man of principle and i believe he Mulroney told he signed the Meech Lake a he spoke of it he introduced and caused it to be passed after reflection in his Assem Vander Zalm would not do anything inconsistent with what he he considered the Meech Lake Accord a fundamental principle of Canadian Mulroney has repeatedly said that Meech Lake cannot be but yesterday the prime minister would not Rule out any Mulroney attempted to shift the he said that As Meech lakes deadline canadians will begin focusing their attention on the con sequences of a failed its absence clearly would mean a different kind of Mulroney speaking on the eve of a meeting with Newfoundland pre Mier Clyde Wells in said Meech must be passed and then improved in future if Meech int it will be proof that we cant understand one Bourassa there will always be a new pre Mier elected somewhere in the coun try who will say he wants to change the the Quebec Premier avoided the Strong terms used by one contender for the Federal Liberal party Leader Paul Martin who denounced the opposition to Meech Bourassa also steered Clear of criticizing Jean another leadership who opposes the it seems to be a priority in the but i dont want to comment on Federal Bourassa is due next week to meet senator Lowell minister responsible for Federal provincial rela As Well As an association rep resenting francophone from outside Quebec who want to discuss questions related to the senator Michel Cogger was reportedly target of undercover ramp ramp bid to trap Cogger in Money laundering alleged Toronto up conserva Tive senator Michel Cogger was targeted by the ramp last year in an undercover operation to involve him with a suspected International Money laundering ring in Vancou Southam news reported it was a trap just to get Paul the Man hired to set the told the news any reason to get any just get the ramp aborted the opera Tion in after Vidosav had taped several Telephone conversations with a close Friend of prime minister Mulroney and co chairman of the conservatives 1988 election Southam reported that ramp commissioner Norman when asked about the said he had ordered a full investigation to determine the propriety of the activities of the members of the my Witch Hunt who has threatened to sue the mounties for ending his contract said he was told by his handlers in the special fed eral inquiries unit to get close to the Montreal lawyer and introduce him to a Vancouver Man suspected of laundering Southam said the operation was spawned by the suspicion of some mounties that politicians May be involved in offshore Money Laun the senator confirmed through lawyer Bruno Pateras that he had spoken to but Pateras said the senator had absolutely no idea Vidosav had been working for the Cogger resigned from the tory caucus late last year after the ramp and a special Senate com Mittee began investigating allegations that he had accepted Money to lobby and received payments from a government Agency after becoming a papers reveal die s dilemmas continued from Page 1 backbench maps grew Huffy at the prospects of not being introduced to the Royal Newfoundland rail Way workers wanted the Day off with she came to Johns and various corporations and hotels tried to Horn in on the some provinces wanted to name horse races in her others wanted to set up their own bursaries in her name and a Montreal hotel wanted her to sit for a most such entreaties were re but one Cabinet ministers com plaint that backbench ers would be embarrassed if not introduced to the Queen in front of the Home folks Drew prompt ministers were ordered to ensure Hometown maps were presented to her by Ottawa had Learned that the Ontario government planned a gift Worth so its own had to be Worth million when she arrived that june to open the Cabinet contemplated a fund for medical research and settled eventually on childrens the visit of cuban Leader Fidel Castro was greeted with much less it took considerable bickering be fore Cabinet agreed to foot the Bill for an informal Montreal luncheon in his Honor with the postmaster general As the paraphrased ver Sions of a ministers also say Diefenbaker was shocked to learn that 14yearold Steven tru Scott was sentenced to hang after Ming convicted in 1959 in adult court of murdering a 12yearold girl near Diefenbaker told Cabinet he could not understand Why the Case was not held in juvenile he said the Case would be reported around the world and reflect poorly on the Justice system and he ordered his Justice minister to consider an immediate it was decided to wait until appeals were but Truscott father was assured informally by a minister that the death sentence would never be carried the documents now always protested his innocence and was released on parole in 1969 after 10 years in my labels death accidental continued from Page 1 Peter Markesteyn said during an inquest into the death of Donald Mervin died on july while in an unattended seclusion room at the Selkirk mental health calling the death an accidental therapeutic Markesteyn told provincial court judge Ray Cramer the treatment pre scribed for traverse to control his aggressive behaviour inadvertently led to his he also said that some experts say the Antipsychotic drug lox Apine is not recommended for patients suf Fering from epilepsy or other convulsive disorders because it Lowers the threshold at which a seizure can be it is More commonly prescribed for Donald traverse was not a he had an organic brain disorder As a result of a motor vehicle Accident he had several years he he added that prior to his traverse was being prescribed doses of lox Apine that were far higher than amounts recommended in the compendium of pharmaceutical and used by doctors to help them prescribe on july traverse was taken off the drug Aldol and started on Loxa Pine at 50 milligrams three times a that was increased to 100 my three times a Day on july 19 and 150 my three times a Day on july the Day before he Markesteyn said the compendium does not recommend exceeding the maximum daily dosage beyond 250 in a couple of this Man received an amount of drugs contrary to recommended he but added that this is some thing regularly done by psychiatrists depending on the individual nurses had testified on the first Day of the inquest wednesday that traverse was acting violently to Ward other patients and staff had no Choice but to put him into Teclu staff records show he was checked through the window on his door every 15 but no staff Mem Ber actually went inside the two other drugs Walter the psychiatrist who treated said that while the compendium talks about recommended maximum there is other research that indicates much higher doses of the drug lox Apine can be he said the Clarke Institute of psychiatry in Toronto says in one of its journals that doses of 800 my daily could be who had come out of retirement that summer to help with a staff added that tra verse was also being Given two drugs As a preventive measure for control Ling epileptic seizures and the convulsions caused by the when asked what caused traverse to Nakielny said he didst but was sure it want related to the Cramer adjourned the inquest until traverses sitting through the said they want questions about their sons death no one told us anything when we tried to said Donald traverses stricter gun control Laws urged continued from Page 1 confident As Long As people Are two priests who counselled Jacek Marek the Man charged with second degree murder in wat sons said wednesday that Sobczyk had been depressed and suicidal for at least the past factors that should have prevented the troubled loner from getting a gun permit to buy a handgun last police have confirmed a Libre handgun was used to kill wat son As she got out of her car after returning Home from work at Boniface general All fac applicants Are supposed to be screened for a history of Crimi Nal activity and mental illness and Are usually turned Down if any but Winnipeg police chief Herb Stephen said police checks for men Tal illness Are Only cursory because police Are constrained by the confidentiality provisions of the Canada mental health we can Check for a criminal but we have no Access to the medical records and that the important thing were concerned Stephen wed Welcome any help the legislators would care to every loophole they close could prevent another the chief the top ramp officer in the prov Ince agreed the screening process is its hard to be satisfied if the system is giving certificates to peo ple who Are mentally assistant commissioner Dale Henry said in a Telephone interview from Lynn according to a 1988 per cent of fac applications were approved in Keith the provinces chief firearms control said Only a Small fraction of the 63 applications that were turned Down were for mental theres All sorts of things they can be refused on everything from criminal activity to mental illness to giving an officer a bad impression during the Duncan nip Justice critic Maureen Hera Phill Logan agreed police should be Given Access to the mental health records of gun permit but Ken registrar of the College of physicians and surgeons of said police a Cess to mental health records would set a dangerous Norm gun shop Man Ager at United army said he Doest care what form the changes take just so Long As there Are election timing depends on nip from Page 1 grassroots to get candidates Nomin ated and campaigning in Advance of a especially in the 33 constituencies the tories do not he said that by arming for a political the party risks Mak ing one when a party starts doing it can Speed the process until an elec Tion becomes a Cathcart but were not predicting a Date for an an election could be called As Early As next when the opposition parties will vote on the Filmon governments spending the who already have voted against the budget and who Are buoyed by a december poll that gave them a two Point Lead Over the tories province wide and a 10point Lead Over both the nip and tories in will vote against the Esti if nip Las join the 24 Jeraber minority government will be Defeated and the Campaign will be nip Leader Gary doer said he has not decided what he will there is no dramatic Issue voters would readily agree merits a he but that could change we Haven made our decision yet about this he but were not going to Force feed an most observers but cant be doer will support the if he the session will Likely drag on into meaning the tories will be Able to claim they do not have the four months tradition ally required to prepare a Spring budget will not have to recall the House before tory sources say that gives Fil Mon an Opportunity to recover from the bad news budget expected from the Federal government next it also Means he can avoid an election during the sunup to the Federal Liberal leadership contest in a race that will temporarily boost Liberal and it eliminates the possibility of an election before the deadline for ratifying the Meech Lake also in tories fear an election before the deadline would give ant Meech Cru Sader Liberal Leader Sharon car stairs a potent sources in All feel the nip will not support an other tory which Means that Filmon can either Call an election this or have one forced on him by bringing in a Cash in on the limited time offer til based on Basic 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