Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 3, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free t May Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil flights published seven Days a week at 300 Carton Winnipeg r3c 3d by newspapers division of Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 a member of the Manitoba press Council Bruce l Rudd pub Teher John Dafoe editorial Page editor David Lee managing editor Winnipeg free press est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 Mihi mohawks deserve Protection Canadian governments should never hesitate to protect the lives of canadians who Are under attack in their own the Complex and violent situation on the Akwesasne Mohawk Indian which straddles the Borders of Ontario and new York dictated great to any simpler fears of trampling on local sensibilities should never get in the Way of protecting human native organizations across Canada Are arguing for a native Justice such a system is slow to take shape in part because few people Are sure what it might look everyone involved should quickly agree that it will not look like the orgy of assault and homicide that is destroying the Akwesasne out of respect for local self government and for the Large Arsenal of ak47s carried by members of the Warrior society new York governor Mario Cuomo refused for several Days to Send state troopers or the National guard into the new York Side of the Reserve to restore the chief and residents of the Canadian part of the were insistently appealing for police intervention As were some residents of the the killing of two Reserve residents on tuesday showed that their request was Ontario and Quebec provincial police backed by the Royal Canadian mounted police and the Canadian armed at last entered the Canadian Side of the Reserve yesterday while new York state troopers entered the Cuomo was saying last week that reports of violence on the Reserve were exaggerated by people seeking to Advance their own political the conflict he would be solved by negotiation and not by the use of the two killings showed had badly misjudged what was happening at one faction on the Reserve operates a string of highly lucrative gaming establishments beside the Highway through the new York state Section of the Mohawk those casinos draw heavy traffic of gamblers from Ottawa and upstate new some mainly in the Canadian part of the believe the casinos have promoted prostitution and drug abuse in the Community and wish them closed one Casino was burned last roadblocks were established to prevent gamblers reaching the the casinos have also been raided by the which considers that they violate new York state gaming the heavily armed Warrior society set about defending the destroying the roadblocks and intimidating those opposed to the if there is one thing the government always owes the people it is physical safety from criminal Gover nor Cuomo considered that the safety of residents was not at great he was anxious to avoid the bloodshed that might result from a needless police he later contended that earlier intervention by new York police would not have prevented the two homicides because they both appeared to have been committed in the Canadian the Canadian Felt they could not safely intervene on the Canadian Section unless the where the Warrior society is was under Matthew Pyke and Wilbert Edwards might be still alive if Cuomo had faced the facts and allowed earlier residents of the Side have a constitutional right to Bear fiercely defended by weapons manufacturers and residents of the Canadian Section have no such the murderous violence on the Reserve is part of the the earlier arson and roadblocks did not require ak47s and did not kill the Bingo Halls on reserves in Manitoba have never become the focus of comparable disorders and there is no reason to expect that they conflicts among Are As common in band communities As they Are in Small communities of other kinds and such conflicts can turn Canadian authorities should not adopt the Mario Cuomo when Peoples lives Are clearly at they should not wait for the first bodies to be Farmers lose in the Trade War bad judgment in highest court Western Canadian who have just been told that they will be paid initial delivery prices for their crop that Are the lowest since the Early got another message from grains minister Charles Mayer who announced the new Mayer is clearly one Federal Cabinet minister who fully understands that the responsibility for the Low prices which Are hurting Canadian Farmers can be found in the Trade War Between the european economic Community and the United the Farmers by have no Choice but to accept the prices announced by May wonder Why the same Clear understanding of their troubles appears to have escaped agriculture minister Don who controls Federal Aid to Mazankowski clings to his intention to Force provincial govern ments to Dollar for whatever part of his announced million in Federal Aid will be distribute Mayers announced prices underline just How important this Federal Aid will by cutting initial wheat prices by a a Cut far greater than anyone had Mayer has told Farmers that the Best they can expect when they deliver their crop this year is an initial payment sufficient to cover their seeding and cultivation As Mayer the final prices Are then Farmers will be Able to pay their own living costs As making any More Money remains a Remote Canadian Farmers did not ask for the Price War that is causing them so much if the War does succeed in eliminating Many of the unrealistic agricultural subsidies which have been introduced first by the dec and later matched by the United the Long term picture will be the trick will be to survive a War so shows no signs of Mayer had no Choice but to Cut the initial delivery Price of Grain crops this he cannot expose the Federal Treasury to unrealistic risks by betting that prices Are guaranteed to be As High this year As they were he is responsible for getting Farmers As High an initial Price As but he is also ultimately responsible if predictions prove wrong and the Burden is put on the Public what is really needed is a change in the thinking of he must be aware that provincial govern ments in the Grain growing Prairie Belt Are already putting As much Money As they can into they Are facing a Tricky year which could bring with it a drought when there is no Reserve ground water left to draw no one expects the Federal government to match the foreign Canadian Farmers Export a much larger percentage of their crops than do the Farmers in the or even in the their exposure to the War is greater even though they Are not part of it would be legitimate to demand Cost sharing on farm Aid needed to meet natural it is not right to demand that provinces produce Money to trigger Federal Aid to meet a National Reform or abolish the Senate the political sideshow that has resumed in the Senate this week ought to remind canadians of an overdue and essential constitutional Reform the Senate should be thoroughly reformed or it should be it should not continue to be a forum for the kind of political games that Are being played again this Liberal senators Are doing their Best to hold up two important but controversial pieces of government legis the goods and services tax and changes to unemployment at the moment they Are delaying action not by indulging in vigorous debate but by exploiting their traditional somnolence taking Long holidays and moving very the Mulroney government is threatening to turn the Liberal Senate majority into a minority by filling All the vacancies by creating new ironical it can do that Only if the Meech Lake Accord if the Meech Lake Accord and As to a serious attempt at Senate the Aims of that Reform should be Clear a Senate that is that has limited Powers to delay and defeat legislation and that offers fair representation to All failing the aim should be no Senate at by Wilson special to the free press Ottawa Only the very High reputation chief Justice Brian Dick son has earned since he became chief judge of Canadas highest court will minimize the serious dam age caused by the courts ill consid ered decision to surround a mysterious Case with total a decision by the supreme court of Canada to hear a Case in camera at be highly controversial and Likely to impinge unfavourably on Public if the circumstances involved were extraordinary to a very High degree such a course might be justified but not without explanation so full and adequate As to be completely convincing to the even such a course would be undesirable because it could hardly fail to cause some degree of the actual decision was far More the supreme court of Canada unwisely decided to try to conceal the very existence of the suppressing not Only the identities of those the nature of the the past history of the proceedings but even the names of the lawyers taking in the Effort to preserve total secrecy the court held the crucial hearing on a according to the information that has leaked it then ordered All records utterly wrong the highest court in the land proceeded by stealth and that was utterly the court did change course after an Ottawa newspaper got wind of its exceptional activities and published everything it could glean about that was not a great Deal but it was sufficient taking the Long it was one of the most important news stories of this or Many other it caused an announcement from the chief Justice that for a fortnight the court will receive objections from anyone who wishes to Lodge one and then hold a showcase hearing to deter mine whether the veil of secrecy will be maintained or the courts secrecy will be challenged by the newspaper which pierced the Wall of secrecy and perhaps by cannot be erased the damage already done in this affair cannot be completely even if the court reverses its stand and retreats either to limiting the secrecy to the actual evidence or drops the secrecy Effort altogether the very bad judgment already involved will that May be the most unfortunate remaining Conse Quence of the whole affair this courts sole reason for existing is to exercise a very High level of judg ment on difficult no Canadian with any appreciation of the enormous value of this courts especially since the charter of rights came into could do anything but bemoan dam age to chief Justice Dickson High yet in this wretched affair his judgment is As much in question As that of the newest member of the the Only explanation forthcoming so far is the limited statement that the court Felt that the life or lives of some individual or persons might be in danger if identities were Dis just possibly that could justify an in camera hearing but it should not be forgotten that soviet defectors have been kept alive in Britain and the United states despite Kab efforts to murder Salman Rushdie still lives despite the determination of iranian fanatics to murder informers on the mafias activities in the United states have been successfully pro the Case for an in camera hearing by the supreme court on those grounds would have to be extremely powerful to justify such a even after a slight change of course by those at the top of the judicial we have no idea what those further Down in the sys tem May have been up unless this was a reference by a govern ment in which Case it is impossible for an outsider even to imagine How lives could be at risk other proceedings must have come Ordinary cases do not Start in the supreme As matters the country is left to wonder whether a provincial Appeal court has also proceeded in this Stealthy what of the trial court did it conceal even the existence of the As the supreme court unsuccessfully at tempted to do judges naive there is an entirely different Rea son for a substantial number of people must have known of this extraordinary affair the the court no doubt some the lawyers some of their backup people and so How could mature judges be so naive As to believe everyone would keep the secrecy nothing is Ever a secret if 20 people know about the judges of the supreme court of can Ada know that still standing permit me to comment on Fred Cleverley recent otherwise informative article on our need to re member our military history and its such As Andrew Mynar the Central one in the while rightly decrying our fail ure to remember our military his tory and its such As your writer seems Uncer Tain if the named after this still to quote if it is still the Andrew Mynarski school May contain the Only students in Manitoba Andrew Mynarski school does stand should ones memory of the pres ent be so Uncertain Are there not Good reasons that ones memory of our past conflicts and their heroes become All the More Uncertain As to other Winnipeg such Andrew Mynarski As Laura Secord and Isaac commemorating the deeds of our past War Are still alive and indeed Faith Ful to the ones after whom they Are Phillips Winnipeg Meech Challenge on april the free press published a letter written by Herbert Schulz expressing approval for the position taken by Premier Wells of Newfoundland on the Meech Lake Accord and says his position is sup ported by most it is interesting that recent polls indicate that 75 per cent of the people of Manitoba Are opposed to the Meech Lake when a plebiscite was held seek ing the opinion of Manitoban on the French language legislation pro posed by the nip government the returns showed that about 80 per cent of those who voted opposed the at that time the free the Csc and the Eastern Media attributed the results to bigot ant French it does not require a mathematical Genius to deduce that most of the same people who opposed the French language legislation must now oppose the Meech yet neither free press columnists nor the Csc attack these people As racists or rather they attribute to them a sober consideration for National Unity and enlightened constitutional Schulz challenged the coordinator of Manitoban for Meech Lake to a i am not a proponent of Meech Lake but 1 gladly accept Schulz i will say Newfoundland and Manitoba Are wrong about Meech Lake and would leave it to Schulz to argue that they Are Sidney Green Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to Katyn massacre a recent article in the free press gives me the Opportunity to speak out about the Katyn massacre 45 years after the one of the first articles i read in your paper Back in 1953 was about the mass Graves of polish officers found in the Forest of Katyn after the it said the thousands of bodies had apparently been the official russian version was the invading German army had executed them in the prisoner Camp the retreating russian army had left Katyn is in the Region Russia had taken from Poland according to the secret agreement Stalin made with the germans before the the russians had occupied the area for two years until the invading Ger Man army drove them i was with the invading German army and happened to be close to this area in a Small town in the Privet where we established our Field besides fighting malaria i had the order to collect wounded russian soldiers the retreating russian army had left behind in the local people had led the German troops to the Graves in the from every army unit As Small As a company two persons were ordered to see the Graves and we were invited we could see thousands of partly decomposed bodies in their uniforms of polish officers in the Sandy it was evident the corpses had been in their Graves for More than one still readable diaries were found which stopped in april the germans invaded this area in september red Cross people from Switzer land and Sweden were called in by the they saw the diaries and interviewed local people As wit the swedes had two ambulance cars with them and helped me to transport the severely wounded russian soldiers to our Hospital where As a surgeon i cared for the estimate of the number in the made by the was which was the size of the entire polish officers execution was by machine gun while some corpses which were dated later showed the signs of the customary execution method by the shot in the Back of the despite the thousands of wit the world believed the rus Russia was the ally of the americans in the although the americans soon realized what kind of ally they had when they had to pay for the Berlin the Story of the prison Camp exe cution must have been suspicious 10 years after the first article in the free press in 19531 still could read it is still not out who did the Mas i myself kept silent As at that time nobody would have believed there being a Strong Antigen Man it is a shame the Neutral swedish red Cross kept is our polish friends Here always knew who was to your recent appearing late in is the first Docu mentation that the russians committed the when Gorba Chev was in Poland last nothing was Schludermann Winnipeg meditation i was quite pleased to see Robert Days letter on transcendental meditation in the easter edition of the free Day Points out some Little known facts about this move facts that will hopefully give potential adherents pause before shelling out their i would like to add an it is Nice to know that to organizations have made fraudulent claims and that their research documentation is this particular can be easily rejected on the grounds of common mentally repeating a word Over and Over is a Well known Means of in none of the to research is there any control group that utilizes any word chosen at the results would not be conducive to the financial Well being of the to the technique of repetition is available to All for a grand Cost of Zero signing up with to to learn at a Cost that can escalate is on the same level As pet go and find what is available to everyone for Pat Murtagh Winnipeg proud of jets i am angered Over a letter you printed from a Jacquie Williams in the sports Section on april am proud of what the jets have accomplished this year and i cannot believe that you would print a letter which basically says that they Are whining pansies the jets seem to have a horrible self image because of people like miss Williams and so called sup porting Hometown papers who would print such a the jets Are Gutsy and totally pro at the end of the playoff with they also proved that they have unlike the oilers who were determined to get into a mudslinging the jets were eliminated but they came very close to defeating the oilers and that is nothing to scoff Jennifer Hamilton Winnipeg football coverage i have to question the free press coverage of the Blue and Gold foot Ball game at the Winnipeg stadium on april first of out of 90 student some of them coming from As far away As the picture on the sports front Page had to mention bomber pm Cal Murphys choosing to omit any of the other players in the the article by Steve Lyons did nothing in regard to interviewing the Amateur coaches and the these people Are the up an coming athletes of tomorrow that should be featured Kristen Fleming Winnipeg ;