Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 26, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg 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 weakening environment Law environment minister Lucien Bouchard will have to be very careful about the claims he makes for the new environmental assessment Law he has promised to bring before parliament this he cannot strengthen the Law with rhetoric and illusions of broadening the scope of existing weaken it with regulatory delays and a narrowing of Federal and still expect Public one version of a submission prepared for Cabinet approval of the new Bill shows that is what he wants to there is no doubt that Bouchard is in a difficult environmentalists who grew frustrated and angry by the governments failure to abide by its 1984 Cabinet order which Laid out the environmental assess ment review process Earp have taken the govern ment to the Federal court has confirmed that the process is binding on the now the govern ment is faced with demands for environmental reviews All Over the country and with sometimes project construction workers and provincial governments who contend that the rules have Bouchard might have avoided his difficulty if his predecessor had not breached the governments own the current environment minister might have contained his woe if he had determined More than a year ago either to uphold the Law or to quickly change he allowed successive court rulings to confirm what environmental advocates had the exist ing Law is very very Tough and allows for neither ministerial discretion nor the sort of exclusion in areas of Federal jurisdiction that his advisers said might now he is faced with a he can keep the governments pledge to strengthen the or he can Retreat from the court rulings which said the govern ment must go far beyond where the government wanted to he cannot do both and be the Cabinet submission suggests that he will take the path of it would result in fewer Public reviews by government appointed longer lists of projects excluded from the earliest stage of it would greatly reduce the sort of government regulatory authority which would prompt an the Federal court found in rulings on the Raffert Yala Meda and Oldman dam projects that Earp must be applied whenever a project rests on Federal is supported by the Federal or has a potential Impact on a Host of matters under Federal from fish in streams to flight paths of migratory Bouchard proposal would eliminate much of Only regulatory authority that can control an entire project would trigger an environmental the environment minister May believe that scores of panel reviews Are too costly and impose much too lengthy delays on projects or government policy or anything else the government wants to if that is the he should say so when he introduces his he should also give thought to re titling it will not be the sort of environmental assessment act his govern ment it will be an environmental accommodation our overworked fighters investigators looking into the cf18 losses should not be deterred from looking into problems presented by the governments decision to equip Canadas air Force with the latest in aircraft policy problems May be just As important factors in the crashes As training or Canada acquired 138 cf18 aircraft to and to do the work a much larger Fleet of cf104s and the number of aircraft purchased was a policy decision and resulted in the Fleet being spread much More thinly Over requirements than Good practice would Canada May have just too few aircraft to allow All its fighter pilots to accumulate what is known in aviation As recent an important element in avoiding unnecessary the Fleet at cold must serve a dual it must provide aircraft As part of the North american aerospace defence agreement As Well As machines to train new Canada puts More time on its cf18 aircraft than other partly because it has so few to cover so Many the policy decision to jump to the leading Edge of aviation technology has produced personnel always in demand because of their High the technicians who become proficient with the new technology Are often lured away by higher paying civilian so far there has been Little real Effort put into the retention of technical the shortage of pilots admitted by the armed forces is the tip of the personnel an equally serious problem exists at the technical investigators will be unlikely to find a Quick and easy reason for the the aircraft itself is at the same time simple and pilots see video screens rather than the older instrument and have the through to Call up 137 different bits of information to their the system often gives pilots a sense of Security that was missing in the older this sense of Security May be one reason Why pilots Are More hesitant to use their ejection seats than they were in one of the problems May be Canadian forces have a habit of pushing opening up new As the pilots it could be that the equipment and the personnel operating it have reached a Point where the envelopes should be the investigation must maintain a perspective re Garding military the machines have High performance and the people flying them Are considered to be among the Best in the the investigators should not eliminate the possibility that the recent crashes represent simply a run of bad a dangerous complacency no cheap Loans for taxpayers at 15 per cent unpaid Winnipeg realty taxes Are a mighty cheap the majority of taxpayers had not noticed this and naively paid their taxes when they fell people who do their arithmetic had noticed and that is Why the cites tax arrears Rose in step with rising Market interest rates to million at the end of last year from million at the end of the Council has now wisely raised the interest on realty tax arrears to four Points above the Banks prime the new rate will apply after this years taxes fall due at the end of june and will fluctuate As the Banks rates few Large property owners pay More than prime plus four for commercial delinquents will now be Wisest to increase their Bank Loans in order to reduce their realty tax balance the City will enjoy a sudden spurt of Revenue this Winnipeg Banks will enjoy an increase in Loans to property owners and a Matching decrease in their Loans to the to the delinquent property tax the change will finally make Little their interest costs will be a Little higher and their debt will be distributed a Little the reduction in arrears will be a on shot Windfall for the those arrears finally do get some times because the property is seized for taxes and auctioned sometimes because the owner had the Money All along and pays up just before the seizure the reduction in arrears is therefore neither found Money nor increased Revenue for the beyond the slight saving in the cites borrowing it will make no difference to the Revenue and expense situation the Council will face at budget time next Ami president of Meg Developer Shel Ter corporation of Canada and Winnipeg tax delinquent to the tune of got to the heart of the he was refusing to pay on time because he Felt the City charged unfairly High realty tax rates on his others merely talk tax Arni Thorsteinson car Ries it by Wilson special to the free press Ottawa John Nunziata was using unrestrained language when he told a Liberal meeting in Halifax last weekend that people trying to break up the country Are his fellow contenders for the leadership of the Liberal party did not Challenge his harsh description in front of the delegates since he had been warmly applauded for at a press conference out of earshot of the they accused him of inflaming an already tense Semi hysterical that accusation will follow him around for a while and it will have a tendency to stick like shei la he has been too free in the past with inflammatory Copps has gained an unexpected amount of support in her quest for the party leadership and she would have won considerably More if it had not been for some Semi hysterical shouting in the there will be real offence among frenc Canadian nationalists at Nunziataa denunciation but it is entirely possible that his Lack of restraint will do More Good than one of the greatest dangers facing Canada today is the complacent As sumption by virtually All Quebec nationalists and separatists who speak out that they would be Able to negotiate virtually any sort of eco nomic Deal they might want after breaking up their comfortable Assumption of englis Canadian spineless Ness is rooted in the failure of every promo Symbol of Unity there is quite a lot of input about what is appropriate at the Forks i tend to agree that native canadians should have priority by virtue of the fact they were Here we Are All Here a multicultural representation should be this brings me to the German Issue which is unfortunately causing yes it is ludicrous to bring a big slab of the Berlin Wall to it was ludicrous that the stupid Wall was Ever built in the first the Forks and and will be a gathering place for i think that a Small chunk of the Berlin Wall should be exhibited in every City and town where people gather so they can be reminded that boundaries should come Down Between in a civilized world there is no room for boundaries which Stem a segment of Berlin from a civilized world accepts the differences of All humanity and learns and shares cultural thereby enriching All it seems evident every culture contributes something unique and different to the fabric of we should recognize and embrace the positive gifts found in All let us try to understand our differ when we learn where the differences came from and How they came they become inter sometimes even let a Little piece of that famous Wall be prominently displayed at our Forks and let it become for us All a Symbol of the Unity and acceptance we of Winnipeg will More openly display for each other regardless of our Wadephul Winnipeg student jobs your still jobs for Stu on april 11 was obviously not written by a working program Lead although it might perhaps have been the result of a reassuring inter View with a Middle level Bureau i can state unequivocally that in the Canada department of fisheries and Freshwater the withdrawal of Federal student Aid simply Means fewer students Are our research programs Are already Cut to the Bone and and the flexibility of hiring Stu dents from existing program funds simply does not a few of your tax dollars May be but the research you want int going to get done phone a few of the students registered with manpower those majoring in biology and see How Many got jobs in their chosen i can name a few that Harold Welch Freshwater Institute Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters rom writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to editing schooling i read with amazement the article entitled treks end in horror tales in the free press sports Section on March the article expressed the views of Alec head coach of the Bison track and Field on the merits of the College sys with specific comments about the University of Oklahoma and Rice As a scholarship athlete and Grad uate of Rice i take exception to his comments and the Overall impression he left and feel it is necessary to Correct the while it is True that some athletes have had less than satisfy ing academic or athletic experiences while on scholarship in the United that is not True of like consider them selves fortunate to have had the experience and would recommend it to in if More athletes took greater responsibility for their own academic and athletic Well being while attending american uni perhaps fewer would be and More one might surmise from Gar diners comments that All american including have lower academic standards than Ca Nadian of is not i need Only mention the International recognition of schools such As Mit and Yale to make my Rice in considered by Many to be amongst the top universities in the United news and world in their annual re View the Best National universities october selected along with the schools mentioned As amongst the top 10 universities in the my experience at Rice University exceeded my highest it is a Fine institution and offers an exemplary academic Challenge and athletic my undergraduate degree in economics and my mba from Rice have been a critical foundation for my career As a management in the Point of View cited in the article is not shared by All who have ventured to the United states on athletic for those athletes and their Canadian coaches who successfully manage the an athletic scholar ship to an american University can be athletically and academically re warding and Jennifer Westbury Winnipeg circus women 1 took a seven Earold Friend to see the shrine circus when it was in town this is a fun especially for we both enjoyed the circus very i had forgotten How scantily the women acrobats its too bad that they need to stuff their bodies in strings of material for the Sake of show Busi after a couple my Friend asked Why do the men Wear lots of and the ladies hardly Wear anything How sad it is that the men who run the circus impart their Dar Kages View of women upon even the children see the injustice of it Teresa Mayer Redpath Winnipeg nent politician in or out of Quebec to dont be so sure of think twice try to understand How angry and bitter canadians who care about this country Are going to be if you break this country there going to hate you for so no English speaking Feder Al politician has been prepared to say not from fear that his honesty would push separatists fur ther along their but because every one of them has feared that truthfulness might Cost his party votes in they have consistently put party interests ahead of concern for which is one of the More repellent aspects of these troubled Quebec separatists Are Compla cent about their future Deal making Powers after destroying Canada be cause the country politicians have gravely misled them by letting them believe that a National breakup would be an amiable affair with everyone prepared to give up their country and happily make a Busi Ness Deal monetary Union typical of the attitude that needs to be shaken by the cold water of reality is that of Bernard chairman of a que Bec paper he has said that Quebec should go for Independence and do it quickly to minimize investor then in a speech to Secole Des hates Etudes Commer Dales in Montreal we should adopt a new with political Independence and a monetary Union with the rest of the appropriate response from political leaders in never it easter message i wish to commend and to thank you for your meaningful portrayal of the easter message on the editorial Page april in this age of moral relativism it was refreshing to see a photo of the together with a Lily in full conveying in a forthright and Beautiful manner the eternal significance of christs Les Loewen Winnipeg minority hiring Gordon Sinclair column a White paper on hatred free april 6 is a timely and courageous expose of government policy at All Levels As it really pertains to minority and the attitude of no minority workers and the Public at the growing intolerance on the part of these workers in a direct result of the illusion created by governments that they Are hiring More minorities and that preference is Given to minorities in most not both the statistics provided by Sinclair and in a Story on the recent City of Winnipeg race relations report written by Janet april 5 suggest that of the relatively Small percentage of minorities the majority Are seasonal or temporary i graduated with a masters degree from a Canadian University in hundreds of Job applications later the Only jobs 1 have been allowed Are term and Par time Posi when i am usually the Token minority in the i leave when my term is up and the department reverts to its former status quo a former supervisor of mine often expressed her displeasure at her department being used As a dumping ground for affirmative action peo included were disabled work ers whom she considered Ina pro would have dont count on wed have something to say about Loyal canadians should be insulted by Lem Aires Calm Assumption that they would agree to any thing sought by Quebec if it were a foreign if they care about this country they should attempt to break Down that dangerous Compla not at any Price this is not an academic virtually every opinion poll taken in Quebec has shown exactly the same result for support for Independence has grown to a very High but not Independence at any when the support Levels Are the Independence concept is always linked to the idea of a very close continuing economic relation ship with separatist sup port plunges when the question is put As bar Bones the economic studies of Independence by business organizations some with close financial links to the Quebec government have All been based on the Assumption of close continuing economic ties with Cana they have that the Canadian free Trade Deal with the United states would automatically be extended to a foreign these complacent assumptions Are fuelling Quebec support for the proposition that Canada should be broken they should be challenged forcefully for that extreme As Nunziataa Lan Guage it May get through to some separatists that English Ana Diane May get very angry there Are already Many signs of that in private for her when minorities Are often the target of discriminatory re Marks and attitudes such As this and Are usually powerless to do anything about on the other govern ments at All Levels continue to pay lip service to affirmative action pro Job advertisements which state that preference or consideration would be Given to Minori political rhetoric on affirmative action policies and the mistaken belief that minorities Are hired on the basis of their visible status and not their education and Only serve to fuel resentments on the part of the general i know of Many capable people whose frustrations Are intensified by the knowledge that they Are systematically excluded from fair and equal Competition on no other basis than a declaration of their visible As the White paper on hatred reminds those in charge will ensure that we never forget where we King Winnipeg excuse me Evans wishes to see i think it concerns a Vage ;