Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 25, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winti Peg free april Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights published seven Days a week at 300 Carlton 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 David Lee managing editor Winnipeg free press est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 the scandalous Campaign while the country slowly crumbles under the Leader ship of Brian Mulroney the party that is supposed to be destined to pick up the pieces is doing its Best to demonstrate that it is unfit to As the Liberal leadership race passed the Halfway it was looking More and More the tactics of Many supporters of the leading candidates had More in common with those of corrupt party machines than with those of Canadian the packing of Delegate selection meetings with busloads of instant liberals who Are told nothing but the name of the candidates they Are to vote for was an Early feature of the so was the breaking of party rules by buying memberships for the instant More the cheating has become More in one Toronto supporters of Paul Martin were accused of distributing fake slates of delegates for Jean Chretien in order to make Chretien supporters vote for the wrong in another Riding in the same Chretien supporters were accused of doing the same thing in in other people were accused of impersonating party in Ottawa and liberals have been Given false information about the time or place of a Delegate selection while cheating and packed meetings Are used to select the convention the Battle of ideas which was supposed to be the Centre of interest in the Campaign has faded the candidates debates have become both uninteresting and none of them has offered evidence that the Liberal under whichever Leader is chosen on june will be fit to unite the none shows much willingness or ability to confront the challenges of the of social policy and of Tough International about the Only ideas hiking heard around Delegate selection meetings these Days Are those of the anti abortionist candidates and they have Only Many including some who have Felt forced to play their share of dirty Are promising that the corruption that has marked the leadership Campaign must never be they Are proposing that the next time the party chooses a it must be done by a ballot of All established party members those who have been liberals for at least a Reform is essential but it will come too late if it is left until the next leadership the party could find itself entering the election Campaign with a distinctly Odd set of candidates if it does not initiate reforms before if the Mulroney governments popularity remains anywhere near As Low two years from now As it is then the liberals will win a landslide Victory in the next general in the they will win Many seats which have been conservative for some in the present House of there Are More than 200 seats not held by in a number of those the Liberal party organization is Small and any one of them could be hijacked by the tactics of Delegate stacking that have marked the leadership the new Liberal Leader could find himself marching into a Campaign at the head of a Motley Crew of instant single Issue candidates and local political that would pose a serious problem for the party and to the one of the first jobs of the party and its new Leader after june 23 must be to clean up the party if they fail to do scandal the problem with parole police officers and crime victims Are perfectly right in theory that a parolee who commits a crime while out on parole should not have been let anyone can agree with the hard part is knowing in Advance which ones to release and which ones to keep locked the glib answer is that no offender should be released from prison until the end of his is not a practical Canada and its provinces could never afford the prison building costs and operating costs to hold All those offenders behind the prison wardens Are Able to keep a modicum of order in the institutions because most inmates Hope Good behaviour will Lead to conditional the first weeks following if the offender is not Are Likely to bring him Back into the old criminal habits and there has to be supervision of the Type that can Only be exercised while the offender is still serving a All the offend ers except those who die in prison Are released sooner or for the Protection of that release should be that is what the parole service is the parole Board is pleased that Only about 13 per cent of its clients commit crimes Between the moment when they Are released and the moment their sentence a further 12 per cent fail to report to a police meet people they were supposed to avoid or in other ways violate the terms of their that leaves 75 per cent of parolees who finish their parole without How Many of them commit a new offence after parole is finished is something with which the parole Board does not concern in a batting average is a statistical rarity achieved Only in Brief streaks of exceptional in the conditional release Howe it is nothing to boast the parole Board and the corrections service should be trying to improve serious innovation and experimentation Are needed to find the methods and create the services that will ensure an orderly transition to Freedom for a larger proportion of for residents of Remote North Ern there Are virtually no social services in their Home communities and virtually no Chance of useful supervision once they have returned they therefore have great difficulty winning conditional re failure of native offenders to win parole is a Large Factor helping explain the High native proportion of the prison the poor Quality of services to supervise native offenders transition to Freedom Proba Bly helps explain a part of native solicitor general Pierre Cadieux has yet to decide where he Means to go with the parole act reforms proposed two years ago by his James that Reform package proposed keeping More people in prison which tended to in time for the 1988 Federal those who believe that criminals Are being coddled in this Cadieux should worry less about the Public instinctive reactions and More about the practical realities of protecting the Public and getting offenders safely Back into peaceful civilian keeping More people locked up May help in that but not very keeping closer track of those who Are working their Way out is Likely to accomplish a great Deal it looks like a subsidy the quickest Way to determine whether the Guaran teed income Cargill limited will receive from the Saskatchewan government for Selling fertilizer is a subsidy is to give it the Duck anything that looks like a waddles like a Duck and quacks like a Duck is most Likely to be a anything that looks like a has benefits like a subsidy and serves As a subsidy is most Likely to be a the Money is called a marketing it will according to opposition Between and a payable by the Saskatchewan government to for every tonne of fertilizer produced by the million join venture Plant to be built at Belle near Cargill president Kerry Hawkins says the Money is not a subsidy but simply a payment for services rendered and risks without the guaranteed the risks involved with the new Belle Plaine Plant would be considerably higher for in marketplace serious doubts have been raised about the new fertilizer is not in Short and the addition of a new Plant at this time May depress prices guaranteed payments to Cargill could insulate the company from Low just As a subsidy would opponents of the Plant complain that one the Saskatchewan will pay the other Between and a Day for every Day the Plant regardless of the Sale Price of the fertilizer or whether the production is if that is not a what is it peace and quiet at the Lake its a Good feeling going Back to the Lake after Winter and no discern Ible i am one of the summer people in the lexicon of the Perma nent but i share in the warmth of associations by Frozen Lake at the hotel for Coffee where the locals gather to Chat and a Friendly woman approaches our table and introduces herself in she runs the restaurant and this morning she acts As sole wait morning ritual the regulars go behind the counter to pour their own Coffee because it is that sort of place and because they want to lighten the Load for Dave joins our a Man approaching 75 and the Coffee is his morning ritual to enjoy the association of he resided in North Winnipeg for 50 once ran a food bar and five years ago decided to live the rest of his life in a Rural its the peace and explains he lives in a senior citizens Lodge at Winnipeg he recalls the reception when he returned after an operation two years when i got Back from the Hospi i had a stack of greeting cards this he holding his hand High above the Dave feels that people do care for him and that is a tonic in his retire q d d the Lake retains its Winter cover of ice and Snow despite the record heat wave Over the it is White and Blue in the reflections of the sky and the there is some melting in shallows by the in the distance is the narrow Chan Val Werier Nel of open visible because of the blocks of ice piled up in the lakes it is a characteristic of the Lake and this open water survives even in the depth of Winter when the ice May be four feet there is not a person in sight and i have the Lake to the silence is something to be soothing to the senses and the stillness is not a void it is a state of Tranquillity and there is no Din of the dominant sound of a Here nature has its own rhythm and it is spontaneous and four Kil Deer skitter by the gliding Over rocks in Swift 1 am 100 Yards away and they take off in haunting refrain the sound is the music of the plaintive Call of the mourning the Canada geese honking Low in the sky on their Way to the the haunting refrain of a Bird i do not the Chatterbox mag pies Are searching through the the Juncos flit about in swarms and some find sustenance in pecking in the a Blanket of cold air from the Lake sweeps onto the dependent on the wind it May be hot or d d d my Friend Harry is a retired Farmer and one of those Salty characters of the Interlake and i asked How he and his wife made out in my Winter went so he a lot of people say the Winter is so Long and not for i keep myself occupied repair ing Harry is an Eclectic he once repaired my electric Shaver with something he retrieved from an old smart Rabbit he crushes Sunflower seeds in an old meat grinder for his Bird a Jackrabbit would drop by to glean the spillover from the As a Harry left some store bought carrots for the he touch says Hes smarter than we the Jackrabbit did consume the carrots that come from his own Birds too Are he a Householder complained that Birds didst come to his go and look around to see who has a feeder with better seeds than he the Birds go around and see where there is a Good and youve got to fill the feeder every otherwise they to Heck with this Guys no he observes there Are few Gros beaks there is better feed up that what in now Hes thinking of the produce he will he shuns artificial prefers to enrich the soil with peat Moss and another couple of weeks ill be Busy with my Garden cab harrys looking Forward to sum taxi report there have been a number of articles and editorials in the free press lately about the taxi most of them have been very Nega there has been no mention of the positive aspects of the taxicab re port due to the strange conclusions Don Norquay Drew from his re operators taxis receive an average of two fares per whereas the capacity is stated to be four fares per hour the level of com plaints received by the Board re Garding service is very Small in relation to the number of rides provided in 80 per cent of the trips the cab arrived from four to 13 minutes from the time the Call was placed our taxis Are clean and our Drivers Are polite and know How to take you where you want to there Hast been a complaint from our disabled customers in the last it is not the Job of the taxicab Board to trash existing cab operators in the press and to starve us out by denying rate increases for two Norquay has undermined the taxi Industry to the extent that those who have invested a great Deal of Money and Energy in the Industry feel there is no longer any future in the cab there is no indication in the taxi cab report that there is any need for More if our complaints Are our time Between Call and arrival is Good and our cabs Are operating at 50 per cent Why does Norgay continue to feel there Are serious problems in the taxi Industry Herbert and Lisa Hajer Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters trom writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to unfair no need for More i am writing to you on behalf of my organization regarding the article in the free press april 5 entitled racial storm brewing Orer Council in which City councillor Ernie Gilroy was accused of being a Gilroy is Well known within our Community and has always actively participated in our programs and at our he is seen As one of the few City councillors who we can relate to and who responds to our although he May not be our representative on coun despite what May have happened at City Hall Between Gilroy and we believe that it was unfair for Gilroy to be branded As Lance Brenna president Trinidad Tobago society of Winnipeg old ploy the Manitoba Telephone system has announced in accordance with government their vital phone Centre would be provid ing services in both official Lan the its bureaucrats have used an old ploy often used by govern ment bureaucrats when implement ing policy they disagree that implement the policy to the Point of stupidity As in this Case All employees to be sit wait for an Adverse Public and then we told you it would not work 1 agree with the provision of Bilin Gual services but not with the method used by which is strictly to stir up anti bilingual Pineau Winnipeg contradictions the purpose of Roberta gonyers letter in the free press entitled an anglophone in was to assure All those outside que Bec that anglophones were being fairly she said that Fred Cleverley article on the message from Ontario towns actually promotes fear of Quebec we Are assured that All is Well and that we outsiders should imitate the Justice of their she states that anglophones have control of their schools and can be heard in court in their Mother these Are two crucial yet one week Burgess wrote that her son and daughter in when they took up residence in were classified As Immi these were Canadian citizens being grouped with immigrants from All Over the it meant that their children would have to take their education in Gonyer May Call this being Well treated and having but i do it is More like a tyranny which would threaten the intimate communications within a at least in Manitoba it is a matter of free Choice for other canadians coming to our they could choose from a wide Range of pro Grams in the French and other including the immersion or Francais so where is the Justice for canadians moving into Quebec Quebec anglophones can be heard in court in their Mother Tongue but consider the Case of and Davis whose son was a Gold medal Winner in the olympics and who was killed under the most suspicious Cir when finally the reluctant Montre Al police were forced to hold an it was held in the French imagine the tragic feel Ings of the parents As they try to understand the facts of their sons death was it an Accident or was it vehicular homicide these two facts directly contradict gonyers claim of the fair treat ment anglophones get in either she is ignorant of the or has deliberately tried to distort in either her credibility is Downey Winnipeg Canadian culture in his letter to the free press april 12 Donald Cook implies that since his family has been Here for some seven generations that this should set the precedent for what is acceptable Canadian though he does not say it outright it is obvious that Cook is refer ring to the recent decision of letting sikhs in the who have not been Here seven Wear since indigenous Canadian natives have been Here for one thou Sand generations will Cook have any objection to natives upon enter ing the ramp wishing to Wear a braid Richard hirschf1eld ninth generation Canadian Winnipeg native Media the Mulroney government has announced the elimination of the entire budget which has financed aboriginal newspapers and Broad casting across some 25 years the govern ment conducted a seminar to advise and assist publishers of native in Dian newspapers in generating reve As advertising director of an Ottawa daily i was invited to the Revenue potential in their limited communities was so meagre that i doubt if i was Able to contribute very for meeting these people was an inspiring their quiet dignity and profound sense of responsibility in providing a voice for their people won my re Spect and on that i remember walking Home to his boarding place with Norval then almost unknown at least to but now the acknowledged Dean of Canadian in Dian As a conservative party supporter and constituency official for Many i accept the free Trade Deal although with some concern and the Meech Lake with the Reser vation that signed or que Bec will March to her own but i cannot accept any justification for the Complete and absolute elimination of financing for the native communications if millions can be found for third world indigent Peoples and sanctions in opposition to surely we can afford to share in the lives of our own first of course we but if might i believe that from the heart of our nations a hand might emerge to lift their Little Brothers should they falter if we have much to they have much to Thomas Johnstone the government must have released its newest environmentalist ;