Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 20, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press january Page 19 the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and the authors name will be used and letters Are subject to readers forum mentally ill people Arent More prone to violent acts Arthur in his december 16 letter to the free states that the killings in Montreal by Marc Lepine were a result of the scandal Ous neglect of the chronically men tally Gillman is Correct in saying that we have neglected people who Are chronically mentally he is wrong when he implies that people with chronic mental illness Are More prone to violent acts than any other segment of the research has definitively shown that people with mental illness Are no More or less Likely to do violence to another person than anyone else or any other group in my personal experience with peo ple who suffer from chronic mental illness is that they Are gentle and courageous in the face of great they carry on the struggle for life when one would expect the Bur Den to be too sometimes the Burden is too much and suicide becomes a individuals who suggest that peo ple with mental illness should be screened or registered so As to Monitor their propensity for violence do these disabled people a great Disser this kind of misinformation makes their lives much More difficult and increases the stigma and fear of mental illness in research tells us that the Only Way to predict whether someone will commit a violent act is if that individual has a history of this is relevant a history of mental illness is there is confusion in the Public mind Between a mental disorder and a mental health a mental disorder can be defined As a medical illness that results in a significant impairment of an individuals affective or relational a mental disorder can result from develop mental or psychosocial and in most instances can be managed using approaches comparable to those applied to physical a mental health on the other can be defined As disruption in the relationship Between an the and the in this disruption May re sult from factors within the i Dividu including physical or mental illness or inadequate coping it May also Spring from external causes such As the existence of harsh environmental unjust so Cial structures or tensions within the family and an effective response to mental health problems address a broader Range of we do not know very much about Marc there has been no evidence to indicate that he had a mental there is substantial evidence that he had a severe mental health newspaper reports mention that his father left him when he was a child and that he was subject to we As a society Are not Good enough at identifying and helping people like Marc Lepine to achieve mental we can do much to this i direct the readers attention to a recent health and welfare Canada policy paper entitled mental health for canadians striking a the paper suggests we must reduce increase prevention and enhance it further suggests that mechanisms to do this Are self Mutual Aid and healthy Environ the aboriginal people of North America have a slightly but perhaps approach to mental the native perspective describes mental health As the will to it is a positive vision that becomes a path towards protect growth and the native perspective teaches the importance of having respect for inner spiritual it further teaches there Are four aspects to our nature mental and spiritual and suggests that each of these aspects must be equally developed in a healthy Well balanced individual through the development and use of in our study of the tragedy in Montreal and our examination of Marc Pepines we must exam Ine our priorities As a do our social and spirit Ual institutions push us towards growth and wholeness in other do we have our priorities putting the question More is what Lepine did in Montreal a result of unclear and somewhat mis guided visions which relate to con greed and spiritual death by the largest proportion of violence in Canadian society is done by people who do not have a mental these Are people like you and who have a mental health each of us individually and collectively must adopt a goal of achieving mental to do this we have to examine carefully the kind of society that we want and work consistently towards that i propose that we need to pay attention to issues such As Equi Justice and achievement of goals if we Are going to achieve a better and less violent society for Bill Martin executive director Canadian mental health association Manitoba division ethanol Friendly fuel since the Celebration last october of the eighth birthday of the Mohawk ethanol Plant at weve had a number of inquiries about ethanol Why is it environmentally Friendly and Why should the gasoline tax on gasohol the blend be reduced by cents a litre similar questions were raised by one of your Phil in a letter which was published in your and we would appreciate it if you would publish our putting aside for the moment the question of environmental and just looking at the Short term the waive of tax on Grain sourced ethanol is a Well known and accepted method of pro Viding a Cash Market for of Grade or surplus Many of our neighbor states have followed this policy for and Canadian provinces Are now adopt ing combined Federal and state tax reductions on gasohol aver age something above cents a and have made possible the production and Sale of Large volumes of in states like Kansas and for one third of All motor fuel sold is in Nebraska this amounts to More than Gallons a which is a lot of How Long will these tax reductions be required there Are two the tax reductions can be phased out when the Cost of gasoline and the Cost of ethanol either be cause of rising Oil prices or efficiencies in ethanol production such As the drying and marketing of the protein byproduct dog As cattle the second answer is that the tax reductions will be phased out when gasohol is recognized As a better fuel and therefore brings a better Price than straight this is now beginning to these in will make gasohol a profitable fuel with out tax we thought this would happen in the Early but the Bottom fell out of Oil prices and the Cost of gasoline has stayed consistently Low Ever in Manitoba contribution to the farm and ethanol Industry by Way of tax reduction on the six million litres of ethanol used in the province was about in Manitoba got about Mil lion in Grain wages and other Mohawk is confident that the economics on ethanol production will be turned around in the Early the main reason will be that the world is coming to value ethanol As a More efficient and environmentally Friendly and is beginning to pay full value for the major environmental problem facing the world today is the in crease of Carbon in the atmosphere and the resultant greenhouse environment minister and Many of his want to reduce Carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent Over the next 10 years or gasohol can help achieve that reduction because ethanol makes no net addition of Carbon dioxide to the the reason for this is that the Quantity of Carbon dioxide emitted when ethanol is burned is fully absorbed by the Grain which is grown to produce the it is a closed if we All switched to gasohol we could reduce the net Carbon dioxide emissions from our cars by 10 per because motor vehicles Emit about half of All Fossil fuel this reduction would be a significant step towards Bouchard tar it is the younger generation which will have to live with the that Why Mohawk has adopted the for the drive Ethan Gordon Winter environmental and external affairs Mohawk Oil housing Gerry minister financially troubled promenade place project has sign advertising space for blocks failure no Surprise your recent articles about the failure of place promenade come As Small Surprise to the fact place promenade has a significantly higher vacancy rate than other apartment blocks of its age and category does not amaze me in the least bit since Ive been a tenant in the building for five i have had Many opportunities to talk with numer Ous fellow disgruntled the faults of the building and its operation Are including essential in the five months i have lived in the building Security has deteriorated in Many significant the South doors lock at leaving tenants to enter the poorly patrolled North doors late at this was implemented for the tenants Bene fit As a notice distributed to us unfortunately the Security office is in the South end of the where All the apartment buildings Are not near the separate North Enas compromising to our safety As this further breaches of Security the underground parking lot has been littered with broken Beer bottles on several and fellow tenants have informed me of incidences of vandalism to vehicles parked to add insult to injury the Security doors from the Parade to the apartments Are frequently Bro on two occasions a paper note affixed to the door from management informed us that the door was open and would not be re paired for a this ensuring that the same vandals that litter the have Access to the apartment Complex since repair of the they Are still frequently the result of fierce air currents that run through the maintenance is another Point of in the summer it was leaves and trash in front of the Southeast Entrance for most of this Winter it has been Snow this does not strike me As an entranceway fitting of a building advertised As luxury the Quality of the finish inside the suites also leaves something to be the air conditioner in Many suites is too Small for the number of Square feet it must if this was not Adverse in the draft of hot air whistling in around my door compounded a poor Situa the door had a three Centi metre space at the Bottom and Large gaps the windows Frost up As soon As the weather turns unless of course you opt to leave them open All the breakfast counter has a space Between it and the Wall beneath it through which you can see the next but enough about the buildings physical on to other equally serious management too is not without its the inhouse management has a severe attitude problem there contemptuous of the when i voiced my complaints about the inadequacies of the building they informed me that i was the Only tenant to complain about several ten ants that i have held dialogues with have received the same a in quite a Curt manner they in formed me that the apartments Are not the most expensive in the this is certainly but the building is one of the More expensive in the an apartment Complex that pretends to be a luxury Complex should at least treat its tenants with More Cour Tesy than the current manage ment i for one will show my disapproval of the building in the Only Way that management will under i will not renew my As Many other residents Are if an apartment Complex cant satisfy its current How can it expect to attract and main Tain new residents it so desperately needs Gillespie Winnipeg real people Power needed in Canada just As most of Eastern Europe is experiencing a peaceful revolution for Canada needs a peaceful revolution for some direct meaning Many canadians Are apathetic or cynical about our government be cause they feel it makes no differ ence which party is elected to office since they All seem to act in the same a few referendums on key issues at the same time As and with wording agreed to by opposing would give All voting canadians some real political the instead of staying in their rut of which canadians have consistently should officially abandon that failed philosophy and adopt something bold and such As regular they then would be a truly new democratic if they Are too timid or doctrinaire to then perhaps the new re form party could take up this Torch of new our Federal leaders have failed the country in too Many so the people should be Given the Chance to share real Power with Swit Zerland has had referendums on All issues for a Long time and she is one of the most prosperous and free countries in the Why Are we so afraid of real people Power in this country our parliamentary heritage May be Given As a but surely it int that if we truly love How can we be satisfied with any thing less John Craig Winnipeg Canadian democracy threatened by the Power of Money we dont want that Sonora Bitch on the the prominent Toronto businessman who gave that reason for refusing to donate to Winnipeg South Centre Liberal my Lloyd Axworthy leadership Campaign got his Money Money already owns the conservative party of As a worthy cancelled leadership bid Money is now Well on its Way to owning the Liberal but no one not even that prominent Toronto businessman is better no citizen in a democracy can Benefit when special interests stifle debate and silence Ever since the economic pie contracted in the late Canadian big business has assumed a much More interventionist role in this country before business was Content to fund the two so called free Enterprise parties in More or less equal expecting Only the usual largesse of contracts and Patron the Oil Price shocks of the the min depression of the Early 1980s and the continuing expansion of government drove business to seek a direct role in the political of is its but canadians have the right to ask whether the Power of Money is subverting their Democrat a Winnipeg who was involved in Axworthy Campaign but who wishes anonymity because of his relation says he is worried about the future of some of the corporate attitudes i enc Oun quite astounded he Combine that with what i sense is the Public apathy towards what is happening in Frances Russell this country and i am quite another businessman who was prepared to Back Axworthy leadership bid has similar i dont count myself As a close personal Friend of Lloyd in a Blue a righting i dont agree with Lloyds social but As a Winnipeg Ger and As a i was prepared to do my part to see that Lloyd got a Hes done things for this commune for this Hes earned at least the right to put his name in i found out because of a worthy position against the Canada free Trade agreement people we rent even prepared to discuss you the situation would be comic if it we rent so the business Community is paying a very High Price for the but big business wants and Small business who wants to be big business is afraid to break even though the the Are Only just begin this businessman warns that canadians should realize the Only individuals who will Benefit from the fat Are those who wont be living Here when Canada goes Down the they will have moved big business got Axworthy two it refused to fund him Richardson greenshields and greatest life president Kevin Kavanagh each gave him it As a result of the strings it already pulls with the Liberal party National exec created a leadership race which was the fiscal equivalent of the olympic Dewatha its important to Trace through How that happened and which of the contenders is now positioned to last the Federal Liberal caucus met and unanimously endorsed a proposal from Jacques Hebert that the party set a ceiling of on leadership campaigns and create a fund to finance delegates unable to afford the trip to a committee of the executive heard the submission and ruled that the ceiling would be million per candidate with 25 per cent going Back to the debt Ridden party and that delegates would each have to pay for airfare and registration unless local constituencies could raise cover their hotel and the elected at the time John Turner was confirmed As Leader in also ignored almost unanimous support within the caucus for a convention and decided instead to hold it in the exact Day that the Meech Lake constitutional Accord a lot of by no Means restricted to Axworthy believe the executives two decisions were biased towards the Only neophyte but wealthy candidate Montreal my Paul Martin has no track no a shaky delivery and few discernible Posi he needed All the time he could As a he could finance his race if a lot of liberals note the striking similarities Between Martin and another self made Brian who took the leadership of the tories by storm and Money in Martin is promising to renegotiate the but Back in Mulroney promised that social programs were a sacred Axworthy thinks about his he have tried a National he should have started giving time for grassroots he also thinks about what he would have he would have linked and opposed Meech Lake and the fat As fatal to i wanted to talk about How Mulroney has turned Canada into a nation of All kinds of canadians Arent part of the process any unless you have Money or you have no i have the like the Welsh that our country is being sucked away from beneath doonesbury by Garry Trudeau ihadau1alk amunpthbo7y you hat Traw in talking about Hun preps thou in to mention the 23 coffins of course a possibly Call a said it Jackpot i ;