Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 20, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press january paged Patrick City editor Ottawa hails year 1 of free Trade Carstairs claims political provincial ombudsman rules gag on files out of order by Patrick Mckinley finance minister Clayton manness should not have gagged information related to the proposed Sale of Manitoba data ombudsman Gordon Earle has Earle recommended yesterday that 12 government departments provide the Manitoba government employees association with lists of the kinds of information they store in die governments computer the Mega applied for the information last summer in Glen free press its fight against the proposed Sale of the1 computer service to the private the Union argues confidentiality of medi Cal and other records will be compromised if they fall into a private company Union president Peter Olfert said the Manitoba health services commission complied with the ombudsman ruling yesterday by releasing a list of 64 kinds of information it keeps in ads they include test results including aids tests As Well As general medical files and communicable disease Olfert said credit and farm cred it files Are among other types of information stored in the computer he said the possibilities for abuse of such information Are and the Mega wants Premier Gary Filmon to Block the but manness accused Olfert fear Mon he has chosen deliberately to try to conjure up the worst fears of Manitoban with respect to their health the minis Ter adding such fears Are he said that even if the computer service is the buyer would not have codes to gain Access to such Access codes would continue to be restricted to government and anyone breaking into the computer files without authorization could be detected within he manness said he will talk to his Cabinet colleagues next week about whether to coir ply with the ombudsman in general if the ombudsman has made recommendations we have wanted to abide by those he the government complied last year when Earle ruled a gag order on the government services department was manness said he does not know when a decision on the ads Sale will be he said negotiations Are underway with two City suggested As disposal site mayor backs councillors plan recruits inspected mayor Bill Norrie inspects the graduating class of among 800 have completed a year of Winnipeg police officers at the Minto armoires intensive training and will now be assigned to the 25 recruits of class chosen from duties in the uniform Filmon rebukes Norrie mayor Bill Norrie is wrong if he thinks Winnipeg financial troubles would be cured if Manitoba changed its stand on the Meech Lake Premier Gary Filmon he is facing a 15percent increase in taxes because he and his Council Are Choos ing to spend Money in various Filmon said and now he is saying that if we did not have an argument Over Meech that would solve his prob what is he suggesting that we approve Meech Lake to release him of his problems the Premier said he would not consider changing the provinces stance on such a fundamental Issue As the constitutional Accord to solve economic Filmon was responding to comments made by Norrie in his address the mayor said soured relations Between Ottawa and particularly Over Meech were interfering with Federal support for major joint such As the Core area the Forks development and improvements to North main Filmon agreed the province had taken some Tough stands against Ottawa during the last year on things like the proposed goods and services tax and Meech he the government had no evidence to suggest the opposition was the cause of any delays with Federal support of Manitoba tax grab like the get it is an obvious thesis that any observer could come up Filmon but it leaves aside the real and substantial prob lems that Ottawa itself Why Are we facing a tax grab like the get if it is not because they Are facing massive problems with the Norrie said yesterday he is not surprised provincial politicians disagree with him about the Impact Meech Lake is having on i dont think you Are obviously going to get Federal and provincial ministers admit Ting theres a he Why would they Norrie said he believes it is possible that negotiations he categorizes As Poi soned and violent Are perceived differently by Urban affairs minister Gerry do my conclusions Are As Are if theres a difference of that where it Norrie was criticized by Ducharne thurs Day after he said the City is suffering financially because of a difficulty negotiating Trievel agreements while Ottawa and Mani Toba scrap Over the said yesterday the problem will not have an Impact on the tax increases expected this year because the negotiations Are for future by Janet Mcfarland a City councillor wants Winnipeg to be come the Home of the hazardous waste disposal facility rejected by Rossburn earlier this Terry Duguid Miles an environmental said it is safer to put the disposal site in the Winnipeg area because the City produces 80 per cent of Manitoba hazardous Why truck this stuff 160 Miles to the Southwest of Manitoba when we can Deal with it Here where we produce it Duguid we have icy weve got theres Likely to be he said he believes residents of other municipalities considering the disposal such As Hamiota and will end up rejecting they dont see it As their Duguid they think Winni Eggers Are being very he said the Manitoba hazardous waste management will not begin working with any Community unless the Community first issues an invitation to do Duguid said he will introduce a motion at wednesdays Council meeting to get the Ball consultation process the proposal would Likely be sent to councils executive policy committee and to All Community committees for recommendations before a decision is he if a request is the provincial corporation would then enter a lengthy Consul tation process to find an appropriate Loca mayor Bill Norrie said yesterday he agrees with dug ids but added it will be difficult to sell to theres partly an emotional Norrie its a fear of the you saw the difficulty that occurred when the Royal Canadian mint site was consid ered for the virology the mayor said he agrees it would be better not to transport waste and Winnipeg could use a facility with potential for 30 anything that creates employment is Good for a he the disposal facility would also Benefit the City economically by attracting Large Indus Duguid for he a european pharmaceutical firm trying to decide where to build a Canadian Plant recently rejected Winnipeg because there was no Industrial waste disposal hazardous waste corporation president Rick Cooke said yesterday the province would be pleased to consider he said civic administrators have been discussing the idea with the but there has been nothing this is a rational kind of develop ment that should be considered by every Cooke he said a great Deal of Industrial Hazard Ous wastes such As waste gases and pesticides Are currently being dumped into the sewers or into Landfill Sites in positive features some companies Are recycling or storing but Many Are you cant expect people to Deal with this stuff properly if they have nothing to do with Cooke Toby project worker for the Manitoba said the the organization has not taken a position on where the storage facility should be but said there Are positive features about a Winnipeg for he there would have to be a collection depot built near Winnipeg for industries to drop off wastes even if they Are going to be transported to another Maloney said most problems occur during not ukrainian groups support Homeland Winnipeg ukrainian Community will hold a demonstration on the Steps of City Hall tomorrow to offer support to friends and family still in their the demonstration is scheduled to begin at and is being held in conjunction with ceremonies being held in Ottawa and in the Over half a million ukrainians Are expected to join hands to form a human Chain Between the capital of the and historically the capital of Western a similar event is to be staged in Ottawa around the eternal flame on parliament Lesia president of the Winnipeg Branch of the ukrainian Canadian said the local demonstration is intended to Send a message of Solidarity to people still in the with everything that is happening in Europe the message were trying to Send is that we were Independent once and we expect to be Independent apology insufficient after ill treatment Mitchell Ducharme wrote me recently to ask if i was interested in a Story he had to i sure let me Tell his and three kids one mentally another autistic deserve far better treatment than they this Young couples runaround from provincial welfare officers was it prompted the family services departments Janice to apologize for such inexcusable i dont think that whats needed Here is for family services minister Charlotte Oleson to get personally Start kicking warn staff that the next time she reads a column like Shes going to fire or demote those having got that off my heres the runaround the Ducharms were Given when they moved from Brandon to Winnipeg last judge for we Are trying to raise three Young children As Best As we Mitchell an unemployed construction wrote our children Are and Brian Jacquie is a Bright Young girl who is very mature when it comes to helping mom and dad with Paul and she does better than the average child in school and is an easygoing Paul is very Small for his he weighs about 15 kilograms and is a very weak he has a speech problem and is mentally two years younger than his he contracted meningitis when he was two Days the doctors told Marianne that there was Little Chance of him and even if he did his brain would be severely he has since impressed doctors such As Kenneth Mcrae of the Mike Ward childrens Hospital with his Brian is an autistic child who is Stocky and weighs about 20 we just found out this past summer that Brian is severely Brian has very Little skills and is very much like a Large he has tons of Energy and is one child who cannot be unsupervised for even one Ducharms letter went on to describe a Little of his sons boundless shaking and rattling his Hospital crib throughout the night jumping up and Down almost constantly ripping his mattress and trying to eat the stuffing Hes gone through seven mattresses in the past 12 the who himself suffers from diabetes and finds it difficult to hold Down a Job because of the tiredness and lethargy that goes with the said the family left Brandon leaving behind family and to get better treatment for their Brian want getting any physio or occupational therapy in Day cares were not willing to take him and the Brandon school division said they would not have to take him until he turned eight years when it became Ducharme had been at Home looking after the while his 30yearold wife worked Par time with provincial welfare in Brandon a mfg up the about half her monthly towards the end of after they had moved into Winnipeg regional Mitchell and Marianne Ducharme with Brian and provincial welfare told them they we rent eligible to receive further provincial assistance and would not get a Cheque for Nice you say m Arianne made a lot of phone the people at economic Security Southwest office would not talk to us any Marianne then tried calling government Doug Sexsmith assistant family services income Security was but Marianne did manage to talk to Louis Leclerc an economic Security officer who said that the people at Southwest have Cut us off without me first getting a physical done by a Winnipeg Ducharme went to see Christopher who said he be Able to return to work for an indefinite period of economic Security responded to Ebbitts medical report by paying the couple a Cheque for and telling them to go to City we were also told there May be another Way for us to remain on provincial Ducharme they said because we had two handicapped children that could be reason they told us that someone from sex Smiths probably and someone from Southwest would make a Home visit to see what our family situation was they never never instead we got our second letter of rejection after after talking with Ducharme i called staff at social allowances did make a commitment to this family to do a Home visit and and neglected to do she said after checking out the it was an error on our departments part not to have done it want followed through and have Little explained the Basic criteria visa is City and provincial its based on she the province covering people who cant work for medical or child caring and the City funding those actively seeking Marianne Ducharme continues to work currently with Perth dry cleaners As a Relief Mitchell looks after the its quite Clear the family should be on provincial of economic Security is insisting that because the wife works Par time the couple should be on City Southwest worker Linda Scott got Back to the couple yesterday to say the department had found they Are entitled to but refused to say what had changed their it was her and Agency executive John who Cut them off in the first no apology from in his Ducharme raises the question most people would Why not put Brian into care we want to keep we fear that nobody will give him the love and attention we give him at a lot of people have suggested to us to put in in an such As the Amant it As he pointed Cost taxpayers a we Are praying and hoping for times in the new his letter so am for All the Ducharms of victim of an injustice that bureaucracy wont write Mike heu look into ;